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Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ryan

functions related to statistical and Fourier analysis of data. While othersoftware can also be used for this purpose, the flexibility of VBA and the familiarity of the Excelinterface make it a good choice for this application. The design of the Excel worksheets will Page 7.1231.12 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcontinue to evolve. Improvements to the worksheet user interface (e.g. provide a graphic of sometype of instrument rather than a plain button) are planned to provide a more realistic

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ram Mohan; Steven Parks; Krisnamurthy Jayaraman; Edward Evans; Siamack Shirazi; Ovadia Shoham; Mei Zhuang; Marilyn Amey; Keith Wisecarver; George Chase; Charles Petty; Andre Benard

included a discussion on the state-of-the-art of CFD software, itslimitations, and interpretation of results. These discussions were provided by AEA Technology Inc.and by Fluent Inc. At the end of the bootcamp, each of the design teams presented their plan on howthey were going to solve the problems proposed by the industrial mentors. The students were given Page 7.890.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationinstruction on how to interact through e-mail and a bulletin board supported by the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Schreiner

of Internet medium prior to thisfreshmen class shows that efforts of high schools to incorporate Internet communication toolsinto the curriculum are reaching many students. Unfortunately, we do not know the exact type ofsoftware used and we plan to survey the students for this detail next year.The students unitized Manhattan to increase communication with the professor more than withtheir peers. A majority (53%) strongly agreed that communication with the professor increaseddue to Manhattan while 17% were in weak agreement, disagreed, or had no opinion on the matter(see “statements about communication” in the Appendix). Only 15% strongly agreed thatcommunication with their peers increased as a result of Manhattan, while 71% were in

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2001 Annual Conference

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Cynthia Mitchell; Anna Carew

. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe sophisticated group consistently rated those attributes which referred to natural, social andeconomic systems as more relevant to future career than students in the intermediate group(p=<0.05). Students in these two groups may have different career plans or perceptions of theengineering profession. Alternatively, the students could be mirroring the strong focus onsystems thinking as a pivotal part of sustainability within their Department of ChemicalEngineering.The ratings shown in Figures 1 and 2 give us an indication of what component parts

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2001 Annual Conference

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Sallie Townsend; Natalie Segal

it and evaluating it, telling readers why what was new in Western Europe in the sixteenth century is important to us. Lab reports, incident reports, and the like are knowledge-based writing problems. D. Open-Ended The open-ended writing problem is the problem met as a thesis topic or on the job. Typically, it is ill-formulated, lacking facts, perhaps not even suggesting a possible direction. You must narrow the topic and seek information before even attempting to write. The written response must be logical and end in a synthesis and evaluation. Business plans and grant requests are open-ended writing problems.Difficulties in Solving Writing Problems The obvious

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jacques; Mark Shields; John O'Connell; Matthew Mehalik

your mind when you read each of the following words/phrases: Quality; Customer; Communication; Division of Labor; Performance; Individual Responsibility; Team Responsibility; Productivity; Pay for Performance2. Write a 2-page reflection paper on your experience from the simulation exercise. If you discuss ideas that are already covered in a previous section of this follow-up exercise, cover them briefly unless you plan on using these ideas as a means to discussing a deeper level of reflection. Turn this in to your professor at the beginning of next class.It was particularly interesting to see how the level of voices and individual motion went from theinitial run’s quiet, interrupted by occasional outbursts, to the

Conference Session

Assessing the Humanities in Engr. Educ.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lee

-graduation lives. 8 In another study, engineering students werespecifically studied. 9 The investigators reported that 63% of the respondents felt that humanitiesand social sciences (H&SS) courses were meaningful to their engineering education; 57% feltthat this meaningfulness extended to their future professional careers. Furthermore, 67% felt thatH&SS courses did develop their critical thinking skills and 69% thought that such courses madethem more aware of social issues. They also found that 46% of the students planned to furtherstudy an area of the H&SS while still in school.In this paper, the term “humanities” is taken to be the summation of literature, philosophy, art,music, religion, and language. This is consistent with the

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multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

science, such as vectors, forces, dynamics, stress, and strain. The focus areasfor the program, in the junior and senior years, are telecommunications and computersystems. Once these areas have been fully developed by May 2003, a control systemstrack is planned. Students have the flexibility to take several junior and senior levelelective courses to either broaden their exposure or to attain depth in a specific area.Systems engineering is an emerging discipline with international significance. 1 Systemsengineers must not only design complex systems, they must also deploy and managethese systems throughout the global community.Hendrix College has a program in which students can complete three years towards a BSin Physics at Hendrix and undertake

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

different goals. It is clear even from thesample in this study that there is considerable variation among programs that identify themselvesas summer bridge programs. Plans to take the study in this direction are already underway. Inimplementing this new approach, the focus will shift to identifying a more complete set ofinformation about a more exhaustive list of programs, but focusing on a more limited number ofschools. Page 7.337.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Table 1. Programs

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Capstone Experiences in OME Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Consi

. There are no tests, the onlyassignments are readings, and the course is graded pass/fail based on the student’s performancein the lab as judged by the instructor. A simple format is followed for the course; it meets onceper week in the laboratory for a two-hour session. Each session opens with a summary of thestate of the class – what the class has done, what will be done today, what is planned for the Page 7.751.2future. That is followed by a brief discussion of the ocean engineering web site of the week. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Ressler

Decking)Cedar is a highly rot-resistant wood and the decking is available in 4 ft x 4 ft sections that slidein and out of the aluminum rails for easy replacement. Additionally, the frame has leg socketsthat extend approximately 5 inches above and below the decking. The upper sockets connect toan aluminum railing system for pedestrian safety. The bottom sockets would normally connectto aluminum posts; however, the students planned to connect to a flotation system at thesepoints.Through their Internet research, Elliot and Hilton also discovered two suitable devices to use forthe bridge floatation system—a flat bottom boat and polyethylene floatation modules.Historically, flat bottom boats have been used as pontoons for floatation. The Landau

Conference Session

Visualization and Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Baxter

be stored as a new data file. The two-way communication of the database allowedfor students to seek help outside of class time. At present, PDM/Works has been fullyimplemented in EG&CAD and the sophomore design course, Introduction to EngineeringDesign (IED). Other design courses plan to start using PDM/Works in the comingsemesters.New Grading CriteriaFrom the analysis of the course done after the Fall 2000 semester, it was decided toprovide more uniformity in the grading of the laboratory assignments[5]. Instructors andteaching assistants normally grade the laboratory assignments in class, providingsuggestions to the students until the assignment is completed. Thus, if a student asks forhelp and submits the work during the laboratory

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Buchal

synchronization/reconciliation (establishing common purpose and goals) · Developing shared meaning and shared memories · Negotiation · Communication of data, knowledge and information · Planning and management of activities, tasks, methodologiesMany of the existing instructional technology tools have been developed to support content-delivery, and support for collaboration is weak. Curtis and Lawson 7 analysed student use of on-line technologies for evidence of collaborative behavior. Their study showed evidence ofcollaboration, but they speculated that the crude collaboration tools available to students probablyaffected the quality of collaboration. Chin and Carroll8 identified different modes of collaborationsuitable for

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Dixon

times of semesters and schedules at differentuniversities make scheduling of the multi-university capstone activity more difficult. Differencesin the curriculum at various universities as to when the capstone course is offered, the duration ofthe course, and the course credit are more difficult to overcome in multi-university designactivities. Technology, such as computer conferencing, can be difficult to use when crossinginstitutional boundaries. These difficulties are a result of differences in, or the lack of, systems atthe various institutions. Another difficulty in developing a multi-university design program isthe cost, which includes extensive faculty time in planning and coordinating the activity, the costof travel, the cost of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Keat; James Hedrick; Christine LaPlante; Richard Wilk; Cherrice Traver; Frank Wicks

. • Faculty team assessment of the course • Presentation to the Engineering and Computer Science Division and solicitation of feedbackThe significant change to the assessment process over previous years is the introductionof the EnableOA software and the presentation of the course to the Engineering andComputer Science Division. The EnableOA software is used for assessment basedprimarily on student experiences, entered by the students themselves, and supplementedwith actual student work. The software allows students to develop a software portfolio oftheir work, and does an automatic accounting of the number of experiences entered forparticular course and program outcomes. Faculty also enter course plans into the softwareto define the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCombs; Camille F. DeYong

project, whichrequires the students to choose between buying/leasing a car, a pickup and a sport utilityvehicle. One of the costs that the students must estimate in this project is the maintenancecost for the vehicle over the planning horizon.Students working in teams are asked to develop maintenance cost estimates without anyguidance from the instructor. Results and sources for data are discussed, and studentsare asked how confident they are in their estimates. Since they are bright, enterprisingengineering students, they are generally quite sure of their results, although they areunable to provide more than an intuitive measure.The instructor spends some time discussing the use of pessimistic, optimistic and mostlikely estimates when no data is

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wang Chien Ming; Mohamad Ridwan; Ang Kok Keng

first year common course for allengineering students as well as some cross-faculty students in the first semester. Besides thepush by the government to develop “thinking” students and the general consensus by employerson the weakness of analytical, evaluating and planning skills shown by fresh graduates, somechanges were carried out in this module in order to make a shift in the teaching paradigm fromthat of transferring information to that of processing information. In addition to thedocumentation of the specific techniques and details with regards to these advances, this paperwill further provide an analysis of the feedback by students and staff, which shows the variousmerits in employing the techniques concerned and how they can be further

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Bridge

each class that is generally followed for each non-lab class. Actual time allotteddoes vary; quizzes may not occur each lesson though the students are expected to plan for one.The interactive learning and problem solving activities are broken out individually; though, in Page 6.571.3 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationmany classes are intertwined. Overwhelming student response indicates the importance ofproblem solving during the in-class lesson. 1. Quiz covering past and current

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2001 Annual Conference

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Jan Rinehart; Jim Morgan; Jeffrey Froyd

maintained?There is an administrative staff person who spends approximately 25 percent of her time workingwith the Learning Communities. The College covers her salary. She is responsible formaintaining industry interfaces, soliciting new industries, raising funds to support interfaces,planning evaluations on industry interfaces, and supervising a half time graduate student. Thegraduate student is paid from funding raised through agency grants. She is responsible forcoordinating industry visits, arranging calendars, evaluating each case study, distributing casestudies to faculty, and corresponding with industry and faculty. Other incidentals incurred byindustry visits to the College like lunch, thank you gifts, snacks, etc. are provided by

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shlomo Waks; C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw; Barry Lunt

active (hands on) learning applied to technology.SHLOMO WAKSShlomo Waks is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education in Technology and Science at the Technion,Haifa, Israel. He gained BSc. (1962) and M.Sc. (1973) degrees in electrical engineering, and also has an M.Sc. inscience education and a Ph.D. (1973) in curriculum design (Technion and MSU). Dr. Waks has worked oninternational and national technology and education planning, implementation and evaluation as well as humanresources development and updating in high-tech industries. He has published 58 scientific papers, 15 researchreports, and 48 textbooks in technology and a scientific book on curriculum design. He has recently completed ayear as a visiting professor at BYU

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2001 Annual Conference

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Russell Barton; Mary Frecker; Joseph Goldberg; Gary Stump; Britt Holewinski; Timothy Simpson

trialdesign quality and reduced time to complete the design task. Students appeared to have a betterunderstanding of resolving tradeoffs during design after using the graphical design interface. Asa result, we intend to include graphical design tools in our graduate and undergraduate courses toenhance student learning about design.These preliminary results encourage us to expand our investigation of the benefits of graphicaldesign environments for multiobjective design and optimization. We plan to conduct additionalexperiments using the I-beam design exercise as well as other exercises, including design of apressure vessel and a desk lamp. Future experiments will also take into account the learningeffect that we observed in this experiment. Currently

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Qiuli Sun; Kurt Gramoll

provides automation support forcollaborative engineering design [5]. The discourse model treats interactions between designersas a process of discourse.The second category tries to implement the idea of distributed collaborative design in a practicalway. Lee, Kim, and Han proposed a prototype to implement web-enabled feature-basedmodeling in a distributed environment [6]. Cybercut is one of first web-based design systems forfabrication, which was developed at the University of California at Berkeley [7]. Currently, itprovides Internet-based services such as design-for-manufacturing CAD, Computer AidedProcess Planning (CAPP), and access to an open architecture machine tool for fabrication ofmechanical parts. Toshiki Mori and Mark Cutkosky proposed

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Bina Ramamurthy; Pratibha Gopalam; Alexander N. Cartwright

genericpatterns and techniques that are necessary in the development of any application independent ofthe targeted academic discipline. We are planning to adopt the software component technologyusing JavaBeans™ to further enhance the developed framework. Finally, this paper representsour preliminary attempt to standardize the development of user configurable virtual laboratory Page 6.665.10environments to serve as supplementary educational resources for various science and Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Dimiduk, Cornell University; Rajesh Bhaskaran, Cornell University; Haolin Zhu, Cornell University; Yingxin Gao, Cornell University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

engineering problems. By integratingsimulations across several sequential required courses in the mechanical engineering curriculum,we plan to increase students’ ability to use FEA-based simulations effectively and improve theirunderstanding of the concepts developed in these courses. Cognitive research has shown that people’s understanding lies in a spectrum from“novice” to “expert” 3. Conventional learning materials tend to relegate beginners to “novicethinking” by presenting simulation exercises as recipes handed down by authorities. Wieman’sgroup has shown that interactive simulations, when designed using a rigorous scientificapproach, are much more effective in helping physics students develop an expert cognitivestructure than lectures

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University; Amber C. Spolarich, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

; Revise stage, students are asked torevise their original ideas based on new information they have found via readings, lectures, orwebsites. They develop the skills necessary to find the needed information then analyze, discuss,and present their revised ideas.8 At this point, the Test Your Mettle phase provides a formativeassessment, reinforcing the previous instruction and allowing the teacher to modify and adapt tofit the learners’ needs, providing remediation as needed. Finally, the Go Public phase presentsstudents with a hands-on version of a summative assessment, allowing them to work together ingroups to plan, design, implement, and report a final project that answers the challenge question. Upon completing twenty-three days

Conference Session

Active and Project-Based Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David H. Jonassen, University of Missouri, Columbia; Sanjeev K. Khanna, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

right with the x-ray machine.""This sounds good. I will make a project plan for our team to complete the work.Management wants a proposal for the redesign by Monday. I need you to let me knowright away if you are going to have trouble meeting your deadlines for your tasks. Let'smeet the day after tomorrow and talk about what we've found.""So you'll write the proposal, Alex?" asks Jocelyn."I'll prepare the final version," Alex responds, "but we all need to contribute to theproposal. We will need to explain our material choice, along with other designconsiderations such as the thickness we'll propose, and demonstrate that our new designwill result in a lighter cassette that works with the existing equipment and produces nogreater exposure to

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Best Zone Paper Competition

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Andrew Petersen, University of Toronto Mississauga

Tagged Topics

Council of Sections

, or worry that they cannot take the time to do this without losing content coverage. Ratherthan spend the same amount of time going over the exam, a team test allows students to discover,justify and own the answers. By having students spend time working through the exam with eachother, the students become teachers, participating in reciprocal learning.For planning teacher-to-classroom feedback, the group exams give a better picture of whichconcepts were globally missed or were difficult. As with any exam, this can be useful feedback* The Web-based Interactive Science and Engineering Learning Tool at Oregon State University Page 22.822.5

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory W. Davis, Kettering University; Craig J. Hoff, Kettering University; William J. Riffe, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

”Engineering Creativity” that was designed to bring out the creative side of engineering and business students. Well over 1000 students passed through this course. Because of this background, he was selected to be part of a team to teach the ”Innovations and New Ventures” class on entrepreneurship that began in the summer of 2006, with him concentrating on the innovation side of the course. To date, over one hundred and eighty students have learned how to develop a product and put together a basic business plan. He led a team to develop ”Entrepreneurship Across the Curriculum” at Kettering University where faculty members attended workshops designed to help put innovation projects into their classrooms. This effort resulted

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph J. Rencis, University of Arkansas; Hartley T. Grandin Jr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

proposed approach has been used for small design homework problemsand the design projects discussed in this paper. The proposed approach can also be used infollow up design and non-design courses that includes advanced mechanics of materials,machine design, structural analysis, structural design, etc. The first author and other instructorshave observed that students who have used the proposed approach are more prepared to solvemore complex design problems than previously considered in the follow up machine designcourse than students who were not exposed to the proposed approach. Future research willassess how successful the proposed approach compares to the previous approach in terms ofstudent learning. Furthermore, we plan to assess how the

Conference Session

Incorporating Innovative Technologies into the Curriculum

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Chen, Iowa State University; Ye Li, Bradley University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

and Automation, CAD/CAM and its Methodology applied in Medical Treatment Planning, and Compu- tational Geometry. Page 22.909.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Integrating Internal and External Customer Voices to Improve Manufacturing Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum Using QFDAbstractQuality Function Deployment (QFD) has been widely used in a variety of industry withthe goal to achieve quality improvement and cost reduction. QFD is one of the tools toidentify the strategy of taking into account the voices from customers and prioritize theefforts and/or recourses in