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Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox; Robert Barat

; FED 101D; 3 for Statics/Dynamics and 41 for ChE courses) [ABET minimum is 48] General Education total credits: 26 (24 credits in HSS + 2 in PE) Elective total credits: 9 (9 for “concentration” courses) Total credits: 132 Planned Concentration Areas (Need 3 Related Electives): Pre-Medical (Organic Chem II, Biology II, BioTransport) Polymers (Polymer Sci, Polymer Engg, Polymer Processing) Pharmaceuticals (Biochem, Biotransport, Pharmaceutical Engg) “Proceedings of the 2004

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Wentzheimer; Jennifer VanAntwerp; Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

levelcourses in each concentration, 3) continued strong senior design project courses. We have metgoals two and three as of this school year. Three of five lower level courses now have a designproject with plans to have a design project in the other two courses within two years.Ethics and integrity of design are critical elements for the education of the engineeringprofessional. We address these areas through seven design norms. Presented starting in the firstyear, they culminate as a key component of the senior design project. Design norms are generalprinciples that relate how design “ought” to be done, or moral guidelines. Normative designattempts to balance design trade-offs not only among technical/economic constraints but alsoamong ethical and

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed Crowley; Susan Miertschin

achievements. An artifact is any object/item thatcan represent a student’s accomplishments and qualities in tangible form.14 Artifacts should berelevant to the audience and supportive of the portfolio. Artifacts used by students includeprogramming projects, project plans to demonstrate knowledge of project managementprinciples, data base projects, analysis related to case studies from other classes. Artifacts mustbe converted to digital media. Since students are in their junior year, they are advised to build aportfolio that can be extended to accommodate future projects.During the preplanning phase, the course defines specific online portfolio development tools,technologies, and resources. Students are required to use W3C standard technologies that

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Harris

disadvantages, develop aphased implementation plan that provides appropriate assimilation time for both students andfaculty before subsequent phases are implemented.EpilogPreparation for this paper included online literature searches of First Search, ERIC, First Article, Page 8.1101.14and Wilson Select Plus for materials that others have published on university uses of laptop“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”computers in conjunction with course management software. To the author’s surprise, nodirectly relevant articles were

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roli Varma

should be difficult enough to make students think but notso difficult to take too much of their time. Further, instructions need to increase on debuggingtools and techniques to decrease students’ frustration with code preparation.One major problem for the CS and CE majors is the lengths of time it takes to complete anundergraduate degree. It is expected that the degrees will be earned in 4 years. However, approx.10% of students finish their undergraduate degree in 4 years; 5 is a more realistic timeline. Thisleaves many minority students experiencing a financial aid crisis after 4 years. Advisors couldplay an important role in planning the whole curriculum. Effective counseling and guidance areimportant to all undergraduate students, but

Conference Session

Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Polly Piergiovanni; S. Scott Moor

morecontrol of their learning experience.The use of multi-experiment kits is helpful in presenting a unified and efficient set of activelearning experiences in the classroom. The key example of our work in this area is thedevelopment of flexible kits for process control experiments. These kits can be used in anyclassroom as long as 110 volt power and personal computers are available. They allow students todesign, construct and test both the simple process and their control systems.To take full advantage of these process control kits we are redesigning the time structure androom set up for this course. Setting up a room with work groups instead of rows and planning alonger class period allows both laboratory and classroom experiences to be completed

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo

of Materials 24% of the students expressed a desire to have more design problems included in the class, nostudent expressed a desire to have the design problem eliminated85% of the students expressed a desire to have a closer link between the lab class and the lectureclassFuture PlansWhile the utilization of the swing design is considered as a marginal success at best, the responseof the students in both the lecture and lab class was such that the experiment will be attemptedagain during the Fall 2003 semester. With a longer planning horizon, hopefully the mechanicaldifficulties will no longer be a problem. The lessons learned from the utilization of the reverseengineering will be more fully developed and extended to other design problems

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker

, they find their jobchallenging and rewarding. One respondent said, “ I love engineering. I get to see what Idesign and know that I am helping a community.” Another replied, “I get to do a lot ofcool stuff, like design test plans for huge engines. My work is constantly changing,keeping things exciting.” A third woman replied that the aspect of her work that sheenjoyed the most was “A sense of accomplishment when the part of the project I directgets done on schedule or when we find clever ways to solve problems. Work is a big partof my happiness and who I am.”We also found that respondents, when asked “What do you enjoy most about your job,”each listed several aspects, often completing lists with three or more items. The responsesare the same as

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

Page 8.784.6 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education”a car are requested. The students are also required to identify their skills in writing, graphics,leadership, teamwork, analysis, drafting, planning and research/library, as well as their strengthsand weaknesses. This information is then used to assign the teams12, which consist of 4-6 teammembers. Teams are balanced using the following criteria: major13, background, academicperformance, gender and ethnicity14, and access to transportation off campus to purchasematerials for the construction of the project. The team application also requires the

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps

team.Special ChallengesSeveral different advanced challenges have been planned. Collection of objects from thesechallenging locations will earn extra points. Some of the challenges could include retrieving anobject from a platform, climbing stairs to retrieve and object, etc.MultiplierIf this object is dropped into your goal it would act as a multiplier on every object dropped inyour goal thereafter. Example: A “multiply by 2” is dropped into the goal. An object normallyworth 10 points is now worth 20 points when it is dropped into the goal. The multiplier remainsactive from the time it is dropped into the goal until the end of play. Page 8.223.7

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Fenton; H. Russell Kunz; Suzanne Fenton

courseconsists of two 4-hour labs per week during which groups of 3 to 4 students perform experimentson five different unit operations throughout the semester (e.g. distillation, heat exchanger, gasabsorption, batch reactor, etc.). Each unit is studied for either one or two weeks, depending onthe complexity and scale of the equipment. Given only general goals for each experiment,students are required to define their own objectives, develop an experimental plan, give a pre-labreport including a discussion of safety considerations, perform the experiments, analyze the dataand prepare group or individual written and/or oral reports. Due to their similar nature and focus(generation of performance/characteristic curves and analysis of efficiency at various

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Krogmeier; Mustafa Kamasak; Maribel Figuera; Luis Torres; Jan Allebach; George Chiu; Edward Delp; Charles Bouman; Catherine Rosenberg; Lynne Slivovsky

section that meets weekly for 1hr. and 50 min. with their designated faculty member.The laboratory (Figure 1) is well-equipped with servers, PCs, printers and reference material.There is a conference table for team meetings and workstations for each team. Each student isissued a key to the lab for the semester. The lecture topics are listed in Table 1 and cover a wide Figure 1: Plans of the course laboratory. Page 8.218.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sallie Townsend; Natalie Segal

v2 0 a2 –9.00 ft/s2 ∆x = v0t t2At this point the question is "Now what do I do?" We must establish a plan of action. Theproblem asks for the reaction time. Consequently, we must find ∆xR since tR = ∆xR/v1 and there isno occurrence of reaction time other than in the left-hand table. This tells us to find ∆x2 in theright-hand table since the two displacements add to 200 feet. We don't care about t2. The finaltable pair with formulas entered to remind us what we are doing is Reacting Braking ∆xR = 200 − ∆ x2 (second) ∆ x2 ← (first

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Parsek; Chris Riesbeck; Gulnur Birol; Ann McKenna

the problem solving process. Theyprovided support in helping students to generate ideas, correct for misunderstandings, monitorprogress, and keep to a work plan. Page 8.348.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 2 summarizes the aspects of the course we implemented to align with the HPL framework.Each of these aspects was new to the course and represent the activities developed as a result ofour cross-disciplinary collaboration. HPL Guideline Course activity

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Herrick; J. Michael Jacob; Jeffrey Richardson

, American Society for Engineering Education”The change from the traditional curriculum of (DC Circuits, AC Circuits, Electronics I orElectronic Devices, Electronics II or Electronic Circuits) to an integrated spiral analog curriculumbegan in the fall of 1995. It was then phased in, as those students moved through their plan ofstudy. This transition is shown by the vertical dotted line. It is suggested the reason thedepartment retention appears to exceed the university retention that semester is that studentstransferring into ECET that semester were required to begin with the very first course. So theywere counted as retained by the department, but were counted by the university as retainedelsewhere. In both previous and subsequent semesters, most

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development and Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Beenfeldt; John Field; Eric Beenfeldt; Edward Williams

interface board. The differences are in theaddress locations and what signal is returned (high or low) when a switch is pressed. Initially itwas felt this was a good thing because it allowed us to assign a program for the actual hardwareand then a subsequent one for the simulator. We felt a well-documented program should be easyto modify and this would serve as an example of writing maintainable code. However, manystudents were struggling with understanding the instructions used, e.g., BRCLR, as well as thesimulator so this didn’t work as well as hoped. We are planning to modify the simulator so that itmore closely reflects the actual hardware.The simulator also supports a “Console IO” window that allows exercises using serial IO. Whenthe Console

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hemminger; Ralph Ford

ofdeveloping a solid foundation in engineering principles by the time of graduation. All studentsare required to take a core set of courses, which introduce DSP concepts, including applicationswhere DSP is not typically employed. The level of complexity is increased as students progressthrough the curriculum, culminating in technical electives that extend their knowledge in aparticular area of interest. The objectives of the sequence are realized through the employmentof simulation tools and real-time hardware. This project is part of a plan to blend state-of-the-arttechnology with real world applications for the purpose of enhancing the undergraduateexperience.IntroductionFor many years there has been a move to include discrete-time as well as

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

and asked to evaluate it. Does thisproduct meet specifications? Is this device useful for measuring SO2? How do the in-house labresults for water phosphate concentration compare to those of an independent lab? Propose anexperimental plan for determining the density of a liquid to a specified level of uncertainty. Thequestions are broad enough that more than one statistical technique could be acceptably appliedand complex enough that more than one technique or more than one step is probably required.Solutions with differing degrees of thoroughness are quite likely. The solution format is always“a memo to your boss”. Mechanical performance of a calculation will not lead to a passinggrade on these problems. The students practice selecting

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Lansey; Jeff Goldberg

the block saying "what am I supposed to do for this class?" were also common. Most ofthese problems have been solved by extensive communication processes between the TAs andthe students. Emails to students every few days, announcements to the class before the semesterstarts, an emailed syllabus and navigation write-up before the first day of classes, and direct linksto the class site from the University catalog are necessary to ensure that students have theinformation needed to be successful in the class. We schedule each block 2 months before thestart of the semester and this includes the modules to be offered, the homework due date, and thefinal exam date. Advanced planning helps our faculty and our students.During the first course

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

are being asked to the class as part of the feedback process.Like all assessment processes, this process has several disadvantages too. To name a few:• There is usually a high turnaround time. From the time the initial set of questions is mailed to the QM to the time the compiled results are received; it can be a week or even more depending on the schedule and commitment of the QM. In a term of 10 weeks, this can be a significant amount.• It requires some planning and time commitment on part of the instructor and the QM.• There are no special rewards for the QM for their effort and commitment. This might be a roadblock for students who might be interested but are swamped with other commitments.• The quality of the recommendations is

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dyani Saxby; Saeed Foroudastan

amounts of hazardous materials. 10 The number of deaths as a result of shippinghazardous materials on highways and interstates is unacceptable.“Trains are ten times less likely than trucks to have accidents involving hazardous materials.” 11Nevertheless, The Associate of American Railroad’s Hazardous Materials Emergency ResponseTraining Center has provided training to deal with hazardous materials emergencies to over10,000 emergency responders including firefighters, public safety agencies, chemical shippers,trucking companies, and of course railroads. The AAR works in collaboration with theTransportation Community Awareness and Emergency Response Program to assist communitiesin developing emergency response plans nation wide. 12 CSXT, a leader

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Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Reynolds; Macy Reynolds

support the claim are listed in this section. Studentnames, email subject line, greeting and closing were omitted to both save time and allow foranonymity; however, grammar and spelling errors were left in the samples to demonstrate acontinuing need for writing practice.1. The instructor is alerted that several students did not grasp a concept from the previouslesson. Knowing the problems the students had before the next class helped the instructor plan areview or example as part of the next lesson. At other times, sending a group email with more Page 8.1035.2information on the issue helped all the students find success with homework that might

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Poldrack; Richard Hoge; Randy Gollub; Mark Vangel; Ian Lai; Douglas Greve; Julie Greenberg

to support biomedical education on topics related to BIRN’s researchefforts, an ideal place for dissemination of this module.We plan to use this module in conjunction with an fMRI statistics workshop that will be offeredduring the summer of 2003 at the MGH/MIT/HMS Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.This two-week long workshop will meet for two-hour sessions three times per week. Participantswill attend a series of lectures as well as lab sessions that utilize this module. We will collectspecific feedback on various aspects of the simulation and tutorial from the participants. Thisinput will inform future revisions of the module.V. SummaryThis paper describes an instructional module on the topic of fMRI data analysis. The goal is

Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

courses. Most recently she developed, coordinated and taught a summer workshop,“Introduction to Engineering for High School Teachers and Counselors.”CLAUDIA MORRELL, Director of Planning and Grants for the Center for Women and Information Technology atUMBC, joined the University in August of 2001. In both this and her previous position at CCBC, she becamefamiliar with and has worked to address the issues related to the lack of participation of girls and women in STEMprograms. Her skills as a collaborator have been instrumental in building bridges between the two institutions. Page 8.774.11 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Juliano; Ronald Rockland; George Gonzalez; Joel Bloom

, Dillon,”New Jersey: Strength in Numbers”, Site Selection, vol43, Feb/March 1998, p.117-1232. Farmer, Edgar I., Honeycutt, F. Diane, “Community College Administrators and Faculty Opinions of Tech Prep”, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, v 23, no. 8, December 1999, p. 717-253. Pucel, David J., Sundre, Sandra K., “Tech prep articulation: is it working?”, vol. 37, no. 1, Fall 1999, p 26-374. Scambilis, Nicholas A., “Developing an Environmental Engineering Technology Program”, St. Louis, MO, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, June 2000.5. Jacobs, Jim, “Tech Prep: The Middle Plan”, Techniques, v75, no. 4, April 2000, p. 526. Kate, Nancy T., “Job Training that Works”, American Demographics, v16, July 1994, p. 477. http

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Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tricia Varvel; Stephanie Adams

preference). The third preference dimension, thinking vs. feeling, indicatesthe way people make their decisions. People with a thinking type preference tend to make theirdecisions based on logic, facts and fairness, while feeling types tend to focus on the effect thattheir decisions will have on the people involved. The last preference dimension addresses theway that people prefer to organize their world. People who have a judging preference areorganized, punctual, and like to plan ahead, while people with a perceiving preference areusually spontaneous, adaptable, and open to new ideas9. The most important concept of this type of information is that there is no right or wrongpreference. According to the theory, all eight preference poles

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Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Robinson; Fred Denny

were discussed insome detail.Video tapes obtained from the Wisconsin Lobbying Association were used to introduce thesubject of lobbying and how lobbyists function. The students were asked to locate a web sitelisting all Louisiana lobbyists and another web site showing funds provided for lobbying at thenational level. The instructor explained how trade associations apply the “four C’s” in retaininglobbyist services and managing issues: o Identifying Critical Issues o Building Consensus o Developing Communications Plans o Coordinating with Allied Groups and Supporters Page 8.1130.7Some class time was spent in

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Bell; Scott Fogler

compatibility in our experience, and in general the strong interest andsupport that VRML enjoyed for a few years has died down. The automatic VRML generatorstend to produce overly complex wasteful code, which may be less of an issue as computers havegotten faster, but which is still very difficult to maintain manually. Although we have notabandoned this platform, there are no current development activities or plans for it either.Always Store Chemicals Properly ( WorldToolKit and Half-Life )This safety rule states that all chemicals should be stored in proper locations when not in use.There are special storage locations for flammable and radioactive materials; acids and basesshould not be stored together, and of course, chemicals should not be left

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hanna Lee; Sven Bilen; Robert Pangborn

team is an E-Team, which is sponsored by the NCIIA. E-teams work on later-stage development of an idea and a plan for its commercialization. They mayinclude engineering students as well as students from business and other majors, and each teammust have a faculty advisor. E-Teams may form as part of a course or on the independentinitiative of students, faculty, or other representatives of member institutions.17Volunteers Student design projects generally contain a large cast of volunteers, which are perhapsbest harnessed via active involvement by the faculty advisor(s) or industry/government mentors.This group includes students who work on a project without receiving academic credit or

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Huggans; Steve Watkins; Halvard E. Nystrom

learning for students with differing or opposing learning styles. In addition, theseasynchronous learning modules can provide a rich learning environment when developedwith due deliberation and planning. The purpose of this study was to test whether learning environments designed to favorspecific learning styles enhance learning for students with those learning styles, andwhether it impacts their satisfaction with the experience.2 Tutorial resource modules weredeveloped and tested in a graduate/senior-level elective engineering electrical engineeringcourse. Versions of the modules were designed for sequential and global learners.Sequential users prefer to process information linearly, and global users prefer to obtaininformation holistically or