Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Sun; Ralph A. Dusseau; Douglas Gabauer; Beena Sukumaran; Douglas Cleary

they are used, and how each component of the bridge affects one another. Forreasons of this nature, research was performed on the steel truss bridge in areas such asthe finite element analysis, seismic analysis, strength and stiffness, damping effects, andvibration. Moreover, ductility of steel truss members plays an important factor in seismicanalysis. The ductility of a bridge plays an important factor in how the bridge can reactor respond in an earthquake with various types of ground motion.While the research was being compiled, steps were taken to understand the plans of TheBetsy Ross Bridge. The bridge was redrawn using AutoCAD 2000 and imported intoSAP 2000. SAP 2000 is a program that can perform finite element analysis and willshow the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Pam Newberry; Constantine Anagnostopoulos; Chalmers Sechrist; Barbara Stoler; Douglas Gorham

student graduating.What Role Can Engineering Play?Schools and school districts are not mandated to adopt and implement the standards fortechnological literacy. The engineering community can serve as a catalyst by supportingand encouraging schools and school districts to embrace the standards for technologicalliteracy.Individual engineers working or retired, can assist in this venture in a variety of waysincluding: a) Serve as a member of a school/district technology committee. As technological literacy becomes increasingly important to our pre-college education systems the need for schools/districts to plan for technology purchases and training will be crucial to the academic progress of students in

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Kelso; John D. Enderle; Kristina Ropella

curriculum createsfrustration for the student, particularly for the freshman or sophomore undergraduate who lacksthe experience to draw a connection between theory and practice. Upon graduation, thebiomedical engineer is suddenly confronted with real-world problems and design that require ateam of experts, project planning and execution, regulatory and quality control, financial supportand a satisfied customer. Too often, graduates are unprepared for this transition to real worldengineering.In designing a curriculum to prepare students for future challenges, we continually ask, “What isthe "best practice?" A good design engineer would ask, "how do we measure success?" Do weuse metrics like starting salaries? Employer rankings of alums? Alumni

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Yarrow Nelson; Charles Tritt

metal hydroxide)* Energizer/Eveready distinguishes between Zn/MnO2 batteries with NH4Cl and ZnClelectrolytes while IEC does not. Energizer/Eveready considers Carbon Zinc to be ageneric term that describes both systems. They use the term LeClanche for batterieshaving a slightly acidic electrolyte of NH4Cl and ZnCl in water. They use the term ZincChloride for batteries having a slightly acidic electrolyte consisting mainly of ZnCl inwater. Duracell produces only alkali metal (specifically potassium) hydroxide cells.Suggested Procedures (Hypothesis 3 – Service Life)These procedures will have to be conducted over multiple days and will take a little overan hour each day. Your team should plan accordingly.The service life is defined as the time (in

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Floyd LeCureux

the other hand, many students do well in this section and benefit from theextra flexibility. We do give weekly quizzes that are posted on the web. The questionsare a bit more involved than the quick questions given to on-campus sections. We do nottry to verify, who answers the quiz questions on their own, but the associated points arerelatively small and cheating on the quizzes has not appeared to be a problem.VI. Conclusions and RecommendationsTeaching large enrollment classes can be a challenge and one that most faculty prefer toavoid. However, I have found that with a carefully planned approach and the selection ofgood student assistants, large enrollment classes can be successful and provide a valuableservice to the University and to the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazal Chaudhry; Elisabete Castellano

environmental education of schoolchildren as well as in planning environmental science courses for engineering degree students.IntroductionAlthough one may argue that industrial production and technological progress have broughtabout the present day environmental crisis, it is the lack of social awareness and moralconsciousness with regard to the environment which hold the clue. The resolution ofenvironmental questions involves not only direct measures of political, social, scientific andtechnological nature but also actions dealing with the ethical and moral attitudes ofindividuals and the society as a whole. Environmental education is considered as an essentialinstrument towards creating a new universal ethic and consciousness in favor of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Smith

to completed cases of products on their packaging assembly lines.The Champion “Print&Apply” system runs under Windows NT on a data collection server thatlinks plant data collection terminals, printers, and alarm systems to an AS/400 host system whereproduction planning and inventory management data is maintained. The data collection serversare located at two plants in southern Illinois, one plant in South Carolina, and one plant inMexico. The plants are all connected over a WAN supported by the Champion IT organization.The data collection server software and “Print&Apply” application are supported by a consultingorganization located in southwest Michigan.Support for these processes is handled remotely using pcAnywhere remote-control

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Wolf

in order to put the various design problems in perspective. Asurvey of several real system designs also helps to frame the course material for the students.Students are grouped into lab teams of two or three students. The teams spend the first half of thesemester on a series of labs that familiarize themselves with the equipment. They spend the sec-ond half of the semester on a project of their own choice. I meet briefly with each team to be suretheir project is feasible. They present an initial plan for their project in an in-class design review.Each team maintains a Web site that provides the project requirements, specification, architecture,and implementation details.6 ConclusionsEmbedded systems have been around for quite some time, but

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William L. Call; Saleh M. Sbenaty

developed.IV. Field Testing and AssessmentFor the purpose of constructive assessment of the SEATEC approach to curriculumdevelopment, the Learning Technology Center (LTC) http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/ctrs/ltc/ atVanderbilt University was contracted to assess the effectiveness of the case study approach in thetechnology curriculum. The plan includes a literature survey, a procedure for evaluating casestudies, assessing the progress in case study model development and, ultimately, assessing theeffectiveness of this approach. The twenty-five cases developed under the previous TEFATEgrant were posted on the web and also printed for dissemination. Each SEATEC team identifiedthe courses where field-testing will be conducted and formal assessments are being

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard A. Gilbert; Mark Maughmer; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

audience. This, in turn, amplifies theperception of difficulty of the lecture material.Of course, the other major impediment to identifying a difficult lecture is to actually recognizethat the topic is intrinsically difficult. In general, it should be expected that lectures that dealwith integrated topics are going to be difficult for students. This is true no matter how wellprepared the students happen to be. It is simply difficult for students to synthesize informationfrom their various courses. Lectures that demand recall of previous knowledge and/or differentskills to understand the current lecture topic are always demanding of the student. Therefore, thelecturer must recognize this difficulty level and not only be prepared to, but plan to

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul I-Hai Lin; Hal Broberg

scheme. The connector is attached tothe cable and the jack is the device that the connector plugs into, whether it is in the wall,the network interface card in the computer, or the hub. The lab activities include • Cable planning • Making cables for Ethernet 10BaseT networks • Making cables for connecting two PCsLab 7- Understanding Network Server and LAN (performed in the ECET lab): An Ethernet local area network set up for this lab is prepared. In this lab, a student isboth a system administrator and a PC client user. It allows students to practice networkoperating system commands and Windows NT system administrative tools for addingnew computers and new user accounts. This lab familiarizes students with some tasksperformed by a

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

M. David Burghardt

, homes for snails, rain forestplants and animals. In creating the models, students will need to understand and apply theirknowledge of say, the rain forest, its structure and the various plants and animals that live atdifferent levels. The design itself may require scaling a 150-foot tree to 15 inches, or ananthropoid from ten centimeters to thirty centimeters. "Skills required for mathematicalreasoning are also fundamental to the design and construction process. Estimating, computing,using formulas are examples of skills that can be meaningfully incorporated in the planning andtesting of a design" (Dunn and Larson, 1990, p. 28).The design and analysis of the product, the artifact, are components in which only part of thelearning occurs. It

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi A. Diefes

provided different amounts of detail in theirlist of the course topics and practices. Second, the faculty used inconsistent language in thecourse learning objectives. Third, there was varying interpretations of Bloom’s Taxonomy and atendency towards over-estimating achievement of perfomance criteria.It is felt that the compilation of the course profiles will provide a wealth of information about thestate of the ABE programs. However, the challenges encountered will necessitate a number ofiterations of course profile development as the faculty becomes more accustomed to theassessment process.Bibliography1. Aldridge, M.D and Benefield, L.D. A Model Assessment Plan. Prism. 7(9) (1998)2. The Two Loops of EC 2000. . Published by the Accreditation

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Debbie T. Brown; Masoud Rais-Rohani

JavaScript programminglanguages.VII. Preliminary Assessment and Future WorkVLSM is currently being evaluated by students and instructors in multiple sections of Statics andMechanics of Materials courses at Mississippi State University. We plan to improve the qualityand efficiency of existing as well as future modules based on the feedback we receive from ourconstituency. The anecdotal information we have collected so far indicates that the design andanalysis tools and the test-your-knowledge exercises are the most liked and utilized features ofVLSM.Despite our goal of developing a Web based tool that would not be platform specific, the currenttechnology has prevented us from achieving this goal. We are particularly disappointed by theinability of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

John H. Ristroph

. Delightfully curious individuals can consult references in the bibliogra-phy to learn more about simulation [1, 2] or about some of the inner workings of Econsim, aspresented for an earlier version of the system [3]. Table 9. Lesson Plan for Brief Coverage 1. Display the uniform and normal density functions, and explain how they describe the relative chances of observing different cash flows. 2. Use Figure 3 to present distribution functions. 3. Summarize random number generation by showing how the inverse distribution func- tion in Figure 4 maps a randomly chosen percentage onto its percentile. 4. Observe out that Econsim provides random percentages, and they are assigned the names Pct1

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Arpita Gupte; Patricia F. Mead; Marjorieanne Natishan; James Greenberg; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt

developed by the BESTEAMS Partnership are also distributed. These include a taskdelegation form to facilitate proactive planning, time management and human resourcemanagement.Also, evaluation forms to assess the team and the individual team membersagainst several critical behaviors that impact team effectiveness.The Kolb learning style handout and the Felder article on learning styles in engineeringeducation reinforce the workshop activities that focus on differences in approach thatoften correlate to learning style preference. The Learning in Teams: A Student Guidemanual, written by Gibbs gives an overview of critical roles that occur in teams. Themanual also outlines several strategies for team management and running team meetings.Also, useful

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Vernon W. Lewis

. Page 5.292.4Often in a new endeavor, the process does not run exactly as planned. This class was noexception. The main problem is that the students had difficulty understanding how to proceed.Although the information was readily available, students were calling long after the start ofclasses and asking if they needed a text. The most likely cause of this lack of information is thatthe students are not familiar with the asynchronous mode. Time will cure this problem, asstudents become more familiar with the virtual laboratory procedure. Since the asynchronousmode has not been used since that time, this question can not be answered until the next use,which is scheduled in the summer of 2000.Although the videotaped presentation seemed to work

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

James C. Sherman

registration process, they may add to the student’s frustration and are likely to call the College with questions.Online student services, such as web-based registration, are of great interest in highereducation. According to a recent AACRAO survey of 334 higher education institutions,about 63 percent provide online class schedules and 71 percent provide online catalog Page 5.92.7information. However, only 30 percent offer online registration and 29 percent offeronline schedule planning services.5 The number of public and private higher educationinstitutions that will implement an online registration system is likely to increasesignificantly

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jagdish T. Gajjar

very stable and showed some hysteresis. This led to overall frustration with theexperimental part of the laboratory.The instrumentation module required a considerable amount of planning effort. The lowcost data acquisition modules were limited in scope and required a considerable amountof experimentation. The software supplied was limited to slow computers and would notwork at first with higher speed processors. The manufacturers developed a softwarepatch that helped somewhat. Automatic triggering of the data acquisition would notwork and we had to implement hardware triggers to initiate data acquisition. All in althe effort was very useful and while not all students grasped most of the material, manylearned the methodology of making

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Benson; Paul Berke; Nathaniel Bair; Matthew Scholtens; Kristen Lantz; David Woessner; Daniel Lappenga; Dale Corlew; John Krupczak

LANTZKristen Lantz is a physics major at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. She contributed to this project whileparticipating in an NSF-sponsored Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at Hope College.DANIEL LAPPENGADan Lappenga is a physics and education major at Hope College. He plans a career as a secondary school physicsand mathematics teacher. He participated in the work described here through an NSF Award for the Integration ofResearch and Education.MATTHEW SCHOLTENSMatthew Scholtens is currently pursuing an MS degree in rehabilitation engineering at the University of Michigan.He was formerly and engineering-physics major at Hope College. Matthew’s work as a research assistant at HopeCollege led to numerous improvements in the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

James E. Fuller

architecture, as a profession, must continually address.”2Bibliography1. Blau, Judith, Architects and Firms: A Sociological Perspective on Architectural Practice, Cambridge, MITPress, 19842. Boyer, Ernest L.; Mitgang, Lee D., Building Community: A New Future for Architecture Education andPractice,Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 19963. Gropius, Walter, Scope of Total Architecture, New York, Harper and Brothers, 19554. Haviland, David S., “Some Shifts in Building Design and Their Implications for Design Practices andManagement”, Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Vol. 3, No. 1, Chicago, Locke Science PublishingCo, Inc., 19965. Johnson, Paul-Alan, The Theory of Architecture, Concepts, Themes and Practices, New

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Nicholas Delgass; Phillip C. Wankat; Frank S. Oreovicz

preparing students for engineering practice. Almost 40% of thegraduates participate in the five-year coop program. A smaller number (31% in the 1994survey) participate in at least one summer internship. These experiences are not requiredsince some students plan to use a ChE degree as a background for other careers, and sinceit is impossible to guarantee industrial employment when the economy is down.IV. Surveys of Graduates and EmployersTo assess the ability of our graduates to compete in industry, we have surveyed ourgraduates at irregular intervals. Before ABET 2000 the most recent survey was done in1994 of graduates from the 1989 to 1993 graduation classes. This survey did notspecifically ask about all of the current ABET soft criteria. The

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmood Nahvi

, decision, and computational processes involved in this type ofinteraction have been discussed previously 3, 4. For more details of man-machine interfacing seereferences 5 and 6. Figure 3 shows a simplified schematic diagram of such a man-computerinteraction loop. Each side of the loop has three segments: a) input interface, b) output interface,and c) processing (computation/modeling/decision making). Sensory Input Output Display Processing, Simulation, Decision Making, Evaluation, Action Planning Computations Motor Output Input Interface

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Qiuli Sun; Kevin Stubblefield; Kurt Gramoll

construct 3D virtual objects is essentially free, similar to actual webpages. It is planned that more complex worlds will be built by engineering students inthe future as this program develops and more simulation modules are implemented inother engineering courses. Currently, the transportation and steel building modulesconstruct different objects in the Virtual City.SummaryInternet-based education or e-learning has potential advantages compared to traditionaleducation since it is less expensive, easy-to-access, easy-to-update and platform-independent. The two multimedia modules and the Virtual City discussed in this paperare examples of how to conduct internet-based engineering education over the Internet.The virtual cities are being built when

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy L. Chandler; John A. Petersen; Janet M. Sharp

the vectors and how they found the force vectors) • correctly find forces using right triangles • accurately explain a reasonable defense for how they selected the most cost- effective beam(s)It is important to note that Mr. Petersen has maintained the integrity of his school district’scurriculum, which he is responsible to teach. Vectors are a standard benchmark of Geometrystudied from an Algebraic Perspective. Right triangles are a standard benchmark ofTrigonometry. These two content strands are also clearly outlined by the National Council ofTeachers of Mathematics as important topics to be learned by any high school student12.However, Mr. Petersen successfully planned an innovative approach that

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

John W. Nicklow

communication skills. After all, grading assignments that are not exclusive to theinstructor’s field of expertise represents a learning process as well. Chronbach1 points out thatextensive differences in critical thinking abilities and in the clarity of writing make comparativeevaluations a subjective task that is vulnerable to distortion. To minimize subjectivity, papers weregraded blind to authorship. Furthermore, the task of reading papers was completed in short periods,with significant breaks in between, in order to maintain a fresh frame of reference. It should benoted that in implementing any such writing assignment, the instructor must plan to invest a largeamount of time if it is to be worthwhile for the student.To be effective in improving

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

States. British Journal of Management, 1994, Vol. 5, pp. 85-100.4. Kirton, M. J. Adaptors and Innovators: A Description and Measure. Journal of Applied Psychology, 1976, Vol. 61, No. 5, pp. 622-629.5. Kirton, M. J. Adaptors and Innovators: The Way People Approach Problems. Planned Innovation, 1980, Vol. 3, pp. 51-54.6. Kirton, M. J. A Theory of Cognitive Style. In Adaptors and Innovators: Styles of Creativity and Problem Solving (Ed.), 1994, Routledge, New York, pp. 1-33.7. Kirton, M. J. KAI Advanced Feedback Booklet, 1998, Occupational Research Centre: Hertfordshire, UK.8. Kirton, M. J. Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI) Manual (3rd Edition), 1998, Occupational Research Centre: Hertfordshire, UK.9. Treffinger, D. J

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William G. Fahrenholtz; Mohamed N Rahaman

Laboratories to the Lecture CoursesFirst semester juniors are commonly enrolled in three Ceramic Engineering lecture courses to goalong with the laboratory class described above. One is a thermal processing course in whichdiffusion, defect chemistry and diffusion-controlled processes such as solid state reaction,sintering and grain growth are considered. The second course is devoted to phase diagrams.Together, these two courses provide a firm basis for understanding how microstructures developand how microstructural development is controlled by material and processing parameters. Thethird course is devoted to the basic elements of the engineering design process and covers topicssuch as planning and design of experiments, materials selection

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis J. Plebani; Joseph C. Hartman

systemavailable to all educators, without requiring that they have computer expertise. Page 5.703.5Bibliography1. Bonwell C. C. and J.A. Eison, Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom. Washington, DC: George Washington University, 1991.2. Brooks, J. G., and M.G. Brooks, The case for constructivist classrooms, Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1993.3. Johnson, L.A., and D.C. Montgomery, Operations Research in Production Planning, Scheduling, and Inventory Control, John Wiley and Sons, 1974.LOUIS J. PLEBANI is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Weese

eligible totake the Principles and Practices Examination may seem excessive, the path is there for thosededicated to earning the license to practice as a Professional Engineer.Having access to the FE examination helps establish the quality of a BSET program. It helpsrecruit better students. It also is a factor for recruiting good faculty. It definitely helps recruitfaculty who are PEs.The fraction of seniors actually electing to take the FE is usually modest, being the order of 15%or less. The FE examination is perceived as a significant challenge and there are someemployers to whom it is unimportant whether their engineers are PEs. Traditionally, ET facultymembers have taken steps to ensure that ET seniors planning to take the FE