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Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Allameh; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”international collaborative teams.1 Students graduating from an engineering program canexpect to work at some point in their career, on teams with individuals from differentcultural and linguistic backgrounds from various locations in different continents.Doerry1 explains that international programs for engineering students have had limitedimpact on engineering education as a whole. These programs have remained curiouslyperipheral; students participating in these programs remain relatively small. Tounderstand the reason why so few students choose to gain “international experience

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Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Shaeiwitz

engineer and are responsiblefor completing the work within their groups. The initial assignment to the class is deliberatelyvague and open ended. The goal is to force students to define their own work statement, withinput from faculty members, and to learn material not normally taught in class. The exact topicsstudents must learn are a function of the project. It is less important what they learn year to year.The goal is to make students realize that they will have to continue learning new materialthroughout their careers and that they have the ability to do so.AssessmentTwo assessment measures were used. In one, the two instructors use a rubric to evaluate,separately, all aspects of the final design report and oral presentation submitted by the

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

where their teaching load is increased. Compound this with “mission creep”, a trendat institutions across all Carnegie classifications toward increasing demands for research, and thenew faculty hire may indeed serve two masters.2 Although programs like Preparing FutureFaculty address this concern, such programs are not available at most universities3.Misalignment between a new hire’s research/teaching preconceptions and departmentalexpectations negatively impacts all stakeholders. Tenure is often lost because research andteaching duties are mismanaged. Career goals are stalled and resources invested in those facultymembers are lost. Accurate prior knowledge of the research/teaching balance and the requisiteactivities would facilitate a fast

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

Operations, required in their Associate in AppliedScience degree programs. They are from a variety of career fields, including marketing,accounting, management, computer systems and information systems, which allows themakeup of the "companies" to be representative of an industry. Integrating students fromvarious disciplines not only fulfills the technical needs of the student teams but also providesvaluable interaction and communication opportunities. Acting on the advice of the advisorycommittees for their career programs and utilizing a list of essential workplace skills1endorsed by the area Tech Prep consortium, the instructors who organize the project make thedevelopment of teamwork and communication skills a major focus. In their technical

Conference Session

Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kari Clase

professionals currently employed within various realms of the field of biotechnologyBibliography1. Miller, Thomas P., and Associates for Indiana Health and Industries Forum. (2002). The Indiana HealthIndustries Workforce Study. Retrieved October 6, 2004, from http://www.ihif.org/industryinfo.aspx2. Kling, Jim. Careers in Biotech Manufacturing. Science’s Next Wave, April 23, 2004. RetrievedJanuary 5, 2005 from http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/3. Cliff Mintz, CEO of the training and staff search firm BioInsights Inc. quoted by Jim Kling. Careers inBiotech Manufacturing. Science’s Next Wave, April 23, 2004. Retrieved January 5, 2005 fromhttp://nextwave.sciencemag.org/4. Louet, Sabine. Get Ready to Scale Up. Science’s Next Wave, March 21, 2003

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Bolick; Richard Drushel; John Gallagher

matriculated engineering students entertaining and engaging educationalexperiences that give them early experience with the kinds of open ended design problems theywill face in their professional careers. By their nature, however, these classes often require someprior computer programming experience – which raises the threshold of entry to the very earlycareer students who might most benefit from the extra motivation and depth provided by dealingwith open-ended problems. In previous work we discussed minimizing dollar cost andmaximizing physical access to a robot by creating a WWW/web cam based infrastructure andsupporting open sourced robot simulation software. In this work, we will focus on additionalwork that addresses more fundamental pedagogical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cheryl Willis; Susan Miertschin

assignments. Eachearlier assignment focused on the presentation of information about a career interest of thestudent. One assignment asked the students to present information in the form of a report,another assignment asked the student to present information in the form a presentation slides,and the third assignment asked the student to present information as a web site. The groupdevelops a qualitative evaluation report for the nine items.In Fall 2004 a survey was administered to gauge the students’ former experience with electroniccollaboration and to learn what they thought of using the the MSPS in support of their groupproject. The survey items and results are in Table 1. Interesting results from the survey include: • Most students knew

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

A “Basis Set” for Multidisciplinary Design Courses David F. Ollis Department of Chemical Engineering Raleigh NC 27695-7905 North Carolina State University ollis@eos.ncsu.eduAbstract We describe a variety of multidisciplinary design course formats developed andinstalled during the lifetime of the NSF–sponsored SUCCEED engineering educationconsortium. These formats provide design approaches to meeting the ABET/EC 2000criterion mandating that all graduating students will have “a multidisciplinaryexperience” during their undergraduate careers in engineering

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ranjith Munasinghe

the material in the sequel to theclass? Undergraduate projects are for the capable students interested in penetrating thisunfortunate boundary.3. Many upper classmen, specially the students we would select for research projects, entertainthe idea of going to graduate school. Introduction to research by an undergraduate project canhelp them make this important career decision.4. Obviously, research projects promote team work and writing project reports and presentationsimprove communication skills.5. We must not forget the most fundamental goal of any research project. We conduct research tofind new ideas and invent new things. In fact, undergraduate researchers have a uniqueadvantage that sometimes could help them invent revolutionary

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Johnson; Andrew Jackson

3D Engineering Drawing tools 2) Excel and MiniTAB 3) Full integration of the Microsoft Office Suite, including: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Publisher, and an Introduction to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Programming.Conclusion Students in the Industrial Engineering program at Texas A&M University-Commerce arebeing introduced to tools and techniques that will be used throughout their academic programand throughout their chosen careers. The IE faculty team at Texas A&M University-Commerceis attempting to break the cycle of courses that often appear to be isolated, in the eyes of thestudents. The contents of the course must continue to meet the

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patric McElwain; James Helbling; Angela Beck

campus is located inDaytona Beach, Florida, while the other is located in Prescott, Arizona.The Prescott Campus has approximately 1,800 students. In addition to flight-related degreeprograms, the Prescott Campus has other degree programs—Aerospace Engineering, ElectricalEngineering, Global Security and Intelligence Studies, Aviation Business Administration, toname a few—including several not offered at the other two campuses.Unlike many universities, where students take a variety of courses from different disciplines inorder to find a career focus that suits their talents best, the ERAU student typically enters theUniversity having already decided on a specific career path. In addition, while ERAU is auniversity in every sense of the word

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

internationalscale, as reported over the past four years in the International Engineering EducationDigest, and attempts to connect them in ways that reveal megatrends in engineeringeducation. From the rush of universities to get into for-profit distance education ventures,to the worldwide drive toward harmonization of degrees and their quality assurancemechanisms, to downturns in engineering enrollments due to student disenchantment Page 10.933.1with the profession, to career disruptions due to outsourcing, the topics repeated in the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Primus Tillman; Keith Johnson

it isdeveloped.To fulfill the EDG vision, current ETSU President Paul Stanton saw the need to obtain additionalspace and facilities to accommodate and house the growing technology and the expanding bodyof students who exhibited an increasing desire to purse digital media studies. ETUS partneredwith several industries to obtain hardware and software resources at minimal cost that enabledthe transformation of a basic print facility into an advanced visualization laboratory. ETSU’srapid response to the increased demand and the acquisition of adequate resources enabled itsdigital media program to continue growing and expanding.Digital media expertise contributes significantly to highly technical careers and economicdevelopment. For example

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

-party vendors.At no time in the history of medicine has the growth in knowledge and technology been soprofound.5 The consequences for those seeking entry into the fastest growing job markets willgenerally be more than the median level of education.4 Already the opportunities foremployment and the quality of employment are most likely limited for the least skilled and areand will most likely be expanded among the more highly educated. The reward for beingtechnologically literate is strong career fields that typically provide steady employment, trainingopportunities, fringe benefits, and promotional opportunities. Page 10.1471.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Green; Barbara Quintiliano; Andrea Welker

falseinformation; that they are experts at searching the Web; and that the large numbers of people thatuse the Web will make detection of falsehoods more likely (Thompson 2003, Profeta andKendrick 2002, Davis Herring 2001, Calvert 1999, and Tolppanen 1999). Manuel (2002) reportsthat 28% of freshman at California State University agreed that a “central internet authorityreviewed all Web information for its accuracy.” Furthermore, many students also have themistaken belief that the Web will provide all the information they may need in the course of theircollege career. Investigating their college library’s resources, whether print or electronic, neveroccurs to them. To them, it’s all on the Web, it’s all worthwhile, and it’s all free.These findings indicate

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Sherick

students in this summer’s program has donevery well in his Calculus II class, and he believes that the math prep sessions we offeredwere a big part of getting the student refreshed on Calculus so that he was able to get agood start in math.Student ContractAt the beginning of each semester, students participating in DOC sign a contract definingexpectations. The program was created to support, guide, and encourage NativeAmerican students to successfully achieve academic goals, foster career goals, developpersonal life skills, and attain leadership skills.1 Students in the DOC program arerequired to attend campus orientation, meet with their instructors, meet with theiracademic advisors, meet with the DOC staff, attend professional

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

Session XX10 K12 Engineering Education Field Experience Lawrence J. Genalo, Celeste E. Ogren Iowa State UniversityAbstractEngineering faculty have offered an engineering literacy course entitled Toying WithTechnologySM to elementary and secondary education majors for eight years. Studies haveshown that students form many of their overall career and educational attitudes as early aselementary school. Schoolteachers who have an appreciation for technology will likely conveythat appreciation to their students. This will, in turn, broaden the horizons of their

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Pennell; Peter Avitabile; John White

we needed to do ? Student views material Professor clearly sees in a disjointed fashion how pieces fit together Figure 1 – Professor vs. Student View of Material PresentedIn order for STEM material to become an integral part of the student’s learning processthroughout their entire educational and professional careers, the students must, in essence, “livethe material” every day and in every course [1-5]. To make this happen, one important step is tostop presenting information in a disjointed fashion.Engineering problems are never solved by “looking up answers at the back of the book”.However, this is the exact way many engineering courses are

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

objective writing.IntroductionEngineers and scientists are called upon throughout their careers to write persuasively. Theyfrequently have to sell the reader on some idea by outlining a convincing solution to a problem.In EG 1004, Introduction to Engineering and Design, the preparation of lab reports is thefeatured writing assignment. The mastery of this rhetorical exercise is critical to our student'ssuccess, but what about the persuasive writing situation? The lab reports they write arecompletely objective documents, even constructed in the passive voice to de-emphasize theperson executing the experiment and focus on the action taken.The introduction of persuasive writing skills into the technical writing component of EG 1004has been accomplished

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Kicher; Frank Adamo; Dale Flowers

in the DFMA process will have on manufacturingoperations and the management of same. That is a constant and recurring theme throughout thesecond semester of the course. In addition, many engineers will run plants or manufacturingdivisions or even companies during their career. The second part of the course provides asignificant exposure to state of the art practices for these career experiences.The primary text for this part of the course is the Vollmann et al.6, while the software supportcomes from Emmons, et al.5. In addition, there is an extensive course pack of readings fromcurrent engineering and business publications that relate to the specific topics being studied inthe course. The purpose of these supplemental readings is to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Heenan; Hector Estrada

will subscribe to the following mission statement: The mission of the undergraduate program in architectural engineering is to prepare students to undertake the necessary design experience in the building industry to become registered engineers with a specialization in Building Architectural Engineering, and to instill in them the importance of lifelong learning, including pursuing advanced studies leading to graduate degrees.Program Educational Objectives The program will emphasize the following educational objectives: • To provide graduates with the necessary engineering skills to engage in lifelong careers as practicing professional architectural engineers who are ethical and socially

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Gonzales; Stephen Renshaw

8examples of computing skill competency over-time. Those students who considerengineering as a career would have an opportunity to develop necessary skills in advanceof their University experience. It would seem that preparedness in any career fieldwould provide the strongest possible alliance to facilitate a successful learningexperience. Existing curriculum development has focused on relative performance acrossacademic content areas. This experiment represents a comparison between six computingcontent area categories and four grade levels of student proficiency. It was expected thatthe progress of computing skill proficiencies will be demonstrated in a positively linearcurve with a rapid slope in the later years of computing proficiency

Conference Session

Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnold Peskin; Walter Buchanan

Excelsior is predominantly an assessment-oriented school, thisorientation in the accreditation process is a welcome advance. 6. ConclusionThe ‘typical’ undergraduate college student, one who enters college straight out of highschool, attends for four years, graduates and then begins his or her professional career, isa shrinking percentage of the population. That student is increasingly being displaced bythose with more complicated life histories that may make it difficult for them to realizetheir full potential in a traditional learning environment. One of the major challenges ofthe twenty-first century for colleges is to provide the kind of support that ensures thatsuch prospective students are not disenfranchised by the hurdles of their life

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Millard

. Bored grammar school students have difficultyretaining focus in math and science classrooms, resulting in fewer high school graduates thatchoose to pursue technical careers. Unfortunately, today’s products call for advanced skills inscience, math, engineering and technology, yet the number of graduating engineers in the U.S. isdeclining in comparison to other countries such as China and India. This issue is clearly ofconcern to the competitive outlook for U.S. industry and, consequently, U.S. citizens.We need to use technology to help us address the declining number of U.S. students entering Page 10.1111.1STEM oriented fields by utilizing

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

. Page 10.359.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session ####In addition, all of the engineering women faculty actively support WE@RIT through directinvolvement in the design and administration of college-level outreach, retention, andrecruitment efforts.RIT’s Women Engineering program (also known as WE@RIT) has been in existence since 1996.The program is designed to help students achieve career goals by offering activities aimed atfostering a positive community for women within the college. As a

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carpenter

, and which speakers to use in the nextclass offerings of the course were based on these student evaluations. The questionsasked about the speakers were: • Did you think the speaker’s topic was appropriate for this class? Definitely keep the topic Keep it for now but look for something better to offer Definitely get rid of this topic • Was the speaker’s coverage appropriate? More coverage (how may sessions) Keep the same Less coverage (how many sessions) • Did you think this speaker/topic will have an impact on your life/career? Definitely Probably yes Perhaps but it is hard to say Probably no

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

ethics “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationeducation in an ongoing and proactive manner: “The active learning exercise should bechosen so that, over the course of their undergraduate career, students engage indeveloping a full range of ethical skills.Sample topics that should be considered for an engineering ethics curriculum includesappropriate behavior (Whitbeck, 2004) related to: recruitment; employment; termination;guidelines for raising ethical concerns; commission payment under a marketingagreement; gifts to foreign officials; and writing a letter of recommendation. Discussionson these types of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Powers; Mary Fran Desrochers

about instruments, programming, and data collection and analysis than if the labs were offered as canned labs • LabVIEW™ has the ability to talk with just about anything (instruments and devices)EET needs:Many Electrical Engineering Technology students will be involved with data acquisition andcontrol systems during their careers. Therefore, a strong preparation in a variety of sensors isrequired. The basic physics behind transducers for temperature, position, and force sensingelements is covered both in theory and in the lab.In addition, EET students need to work with and understand basic signal conditioning techniquesin order to make effective use of various sensors. Prior coursework that is introduced ininstrumentation

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Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Blust; David Myszka

project. Student learning occurs through these activities. • Students are evaluated solely based on their performance related to the project.The benefits of capstone design courses have been well documented4,5, 6. The mostimportant are that they prepare a technical professional for the creative solution toconstrained problems that will be come the trademark of their career. These capstoneexperiences with open-ended tasks allow entry-level graduates to “hit the groundrunning”.CompetitionCompetition is most often associated with an athletic contest. However, in generalcompetition is any opportunity, in which an individual, team or organization striveagainst others to achieve a goal, such as a victory1. Competition makes people stronger

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

10.1181.3S = Significantly Improved I = Improved N = Not at all Improved U = Uncertain Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe level of achievement can be used as a classroom and program assessment. The majority ofthe above co-op learning concepts can be mapped to the program’s outcomes. Hence, it can beused as a measure of preparing the student to have a successful career.2. Employer evaluation: In order for the student to receive a passing grade in his/her co-opassignment, the employer evaluation must be returned. A program assessment by anindependent engineer is a frank