Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susanne Green; Michele Auzenne; Chris Burnham; Ricardo Jacquez

Building a Foundation for Pre-Calculus Engineering Freshmen Through an Integrated Learning Community Ricardo B. Jacquez, Michele Auzenne, Susanne Green, Chris Burnham New Mexico State University/University of Texas at El PasoAbstractBeginning in February 2003 the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation funded a five-yearproject designed to address retention of freshmen engineering students at New Mexico StateUniversity. The freshman engineering integrated learning community (ILC) is a cluster of first-semester students who are beginning their engineering studies below the Calculus I level. Thestudents are enrolled in algebra, freshman composition, a freshman engineering seminar

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela Maass; Kesa Black; Heather Storace; Anne Ranes; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 1592 THE BUILDING OF THE TOP NATIONAL MID-SIZE SWE STUDENT SECTION Heather Storace, Pamela Maass, Kesa Black, Anne Ranes, Mary Anderson-Rowland, Dana Newell Arizona State UniversityAbstractThe Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Student Section, established in 1976 at Arizona StateUniversity (ASU), struggled for most of its history. The strength of the organization fluctuatedgreatly with the strength of the student leaders that would come and go. During the last severalyears, however, the Section has developed a strong management system

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozgur Eris; Tori Bailey; Helen L. Chen

decisions about further participation in engineering after graduation? • EDUCATION: What elements of students’ engineering educations contribute to the changes observed in questions one and two? What do students find difficult and how do they deal with the difficulties they face? • WORKPLACE: What skills do early-career engineers need as they enter the workplace? Where did they obtain these skills? Are there any missing skills? How are people’s identities transformed in moving from school to work?The APS consists of four cohorts. Cohort 1 is a longitudinal study of student participants at fouracademic institutions. The same individuals are being studied from their first through third yearsin college

Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Cahill; Joshua Peschel

methods, such as Fourier analysis, very difficult oroften impossible to perform; wavelets provide a solution to this problem. While wavelets are anextension along the general ideas of Fourier analysis, they do represent a new area of research inthe field of engineering education. As such, teaching methods have not been developed, nor domany of the mainstream textbooks present wavelet theory and applications in a tractable mannerfor students without an advanced mathematical background.Objectives This paper presents the development of an instructional framework to introduce and assessstudent (learner) understanding of wavelet-based problem solving techniques within an advancedundergraduate- and graduate-level civil engineering course at Texas A

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Dunn

Page 10.431.1program requires all graduating seniors to participate in a senior capstone course that highlightsProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationthe major areas within the curriculum. This paper will discuss the development of the semesterlong 2004 capstone course and the four phases used for student assignments.BackgroundThe overall development of the 2004 capstone course was founded in several TC2K/ABETcriterion 2 objectives. Each objective provided guidance in both the overall format of the courseand the specific assignments used in the phases that were implemented. The following ABETobjectives

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ward; Tonya Emerson

and egg-bungee and catapults in the second course. Courseobjectives include the development of skills in written and oral communication, teaming, projectplanning, idea generation, determining appropriate problem specifications, basicexperimentation, and performance prediction. The two six-unit courses replace separate first-year engineering, computer graphics, and physics courses seen in typical engineeringcurriculums and integrates them into the described two course active-learning series. Thecourses also include homework laboratories where students perform simple experiments toreinforce fundamental scientific ideas. Finally, sophomore through senior students act asfacilitators for first-year teams to assist them in their transition to

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Panhans; Joseph Musto; William Howard

colleges and four-year institutions that are mutually established through open communication concerning specific course content and expectations.” • “Increase the number of partnerships between two-year colleges and four-year institutions”.3The rationale for increasing transfer options from two-year colleges is based on the data thatlow-income students are more likely to start at a two year college than are higher-incomestudents. The College Board reports that 40% of students from families in the lowest quartile of Page 10.1294.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Yates; Maura Borrego

thinking.The final list of course objectives developed for the engineering and society freshmanseminar is listed in Table 2. For clarity, the learning objectives are grouped into fourcategories, with an additional category of retention through community-building tocapture the goals of increased mentoring and peer interaction among the students.After high-quality learning objectives are defined, assessments and activities arerelatively easy to select. In fact, the Teaching Goals Inventory in Classroom AssessmentTechniques3 is designed to point the reader to specific assessments based on thoseobjectives scored as highest priority. This was the method used for the course describedhere. For example, some of the ethics activities were altered to draw

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Kramer

the social structures in which they lead their professional lives. Faculty behaviors and attitudes undoubtedly have a significant impact on nontraditionalengineering students’ decisions to remain or leave. An expanding literature details the kinds ofacademic settings and experiences associated with a positive student outcome28. Teaching andadvising obviously affect a student's experience, while curricular development and revision havea less direct impact. Faculty figure as teachers, advisors, and curriculum designers in discussions of influenceson undergraduate retention30,20. Leading critics of engineering education agree that the“weeding” impact of traditional curriculum and pedagogical approaches of engineering courseshas a

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Everly

, K. (2005). "Enhancing the Education of Engineering Technology Students through an Honors Program." Proceedings of ASEE 2005 Annual Conference," Session 0000, Portland, Oregon, June 2005.[3] Kortge, J. (2002)."Precision Variable Crystal Oscillator "No. 9, QRP Homebrewed, November, pp. 3-11.[4] Hardcastle, J. (2002)."Quartz Crystal Parameter Measurement." QEX, January/February, pp. 7-11.[5] Adams, C. (2003)."Manhattan-Style Building Techniques." Part 2, No. 2, Homebrewer Magazine, Fall, pp. 35- 37.[6] Mouser Electronics, Retrieved January 2, 2005, from the World Wide Web: http://www.mouser.com.[7] Carver, B. (1993)."High-Performance Crystal Filter Design." Communications Quarterly, Winter, pp. 11-17.[8] L/C Meter IIB, Almost All Digital

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Brannan; Phillip Wankat

, and tutoring indicates: Page 10.1188.9 • First-year engineering programs currently exist in a variety of forms. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education • While there are many common elements among first-year programs at many institutions, individual programs have been tailored to help students build solid foundations, make well-informed choices, and find the right kind of assistance as they progress through the programs. • In addition to persons