Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Yates; Maura Borrego

engineering remains a problem.In this paper, we describe development of a seminar course to address other ABETCriterion 3 outcomes in the freshman year, particularly global and societal context (h),contemporary issues (j), and lifelong learning (i). Objectives-based course design wasused to develop activities directed toward these outcomes. Assessments of both the pilotand the full program involving all USC engineering freshmen are presented.Improvements made and future plans will also be discussed.IntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) EC 2000 Criterion 3mandates 11 program outcomes common to all engineering degree programs seekingaccreditation to ensure that engineering graduates have the nontechnical skills

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Whalen; Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger

students time to plan their answers, and therewas no defined element of presentation of their final solutions.In the mid 1990s there was a concerted movement in education to research, identify, andincorporate effective methods of authentic assessment. This effort was supported and funded bythe US Department of Education (Kerka, 1995). The results were as expected: Authenticassessment methods that incorporate a wide variety of techniques designed to correspond asclosely as possible to 'real world' student experiences are most effective and representative(Custer 1994; Rudner and Boston 1994). Further research has shown that projects and workbased on authentic assessment have longer-lasting influences on students’ confidence andmarketability

Conference Session

New Endeavors

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vivian Bergel; Jean Fullerton; Troy McBride

required to give practice presentations to the professors. One week later (followingThanksgiving break) a final presentation was made (open to the public) showcasing the projects.The final presentation required photographs of the product, as well as design, materials, andbudget information. Additionally, a final paper was required summarizing the project andproviding essential data such as budget information. A more detailed assignment list is providedin the Appendix.5. Gener al concer nsAn initial concern of ours was that the students would need substantial supervision in the processof contacting the customer and completing the project, requiring much travel and time on ourpart. While it was important for us to discuss design plans and maintain

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bertini; Christopher Monsere

GPS receivers tends to be somewhat inflexible.• Association of features with geographic locations. By recording electronically where in space different characteristics were observed these data could later be accessed with a geographic information system (GIS) either alone or in comparison with other archived data for interpretation and analysis. This is of particular interest in places like Portland, Oregon, where large amounts of transportation and planning related data are already available in GIS formats for use by engineers and planners.• Recording the occurrence of individual events over time at a specific point. Some of the more common applications in this case include tabulating turns at intersections or determining

Conference Session

Accreditation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Brannan; Kevin Bower

involvement both within their own group and across disciplines Future plans for research and improvements in the environmental engineering capstone classLiterature Review/ Course DevelopmentThere were two motivating factors which resulted in the change in the course pedagogy. First,the authors were looking for a better way to incorporate some of the key ABET outcome criteriainto the capstone class structure. As part of the department’s improvements in the ABETassessment process5, the department determined that the ABET program outcomes identified inTable 1 would be addressed by all of the capstone classes. So, the question at hand was howdoes the literature on PBL measure up to the ABET program outcome criteria? In the

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mei-yi Lau; Ming-yin Chan

sense of commitment and personal responsibility for the task.(2) Projects give students practice in learning to learn by undertaking a piece of personal research involving activities such as planning the work schedule, monitoring the work progress, searching for resources, collecting material, selecting and deciding on ways of presentation.(3) Projects enable students to experience the satisfaction of working on a complex task over a period of time with the possibility of producing a result of permanent value and interests to the work involved. Page 10.699.1 “Proceedings of the

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rorrer; Richard Sanders; Daniel Knight

about running amusic recording business and the technical aspects of music recording. In this course the projectis focused on recording bands and then sweetening the original tracks into finished CD tracks.There are other courses planned that would appeal to a wider student demographic.One goal of the program is to tailor courses to the students and their interests, not tailor thestudents to the courses. Additionally, we want to show students that their interests can be turnedto an academic path and also future careers, albeit not necessarily as lead guitarists in deathmetal bands! Often as academicians, whether at the secondary or post-secondary level, weinherently push career paths that can be labeled traditional, as opposed to the myriad of

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Smith; Kevin Craig; Pamela Theroux

. Page 10.354.5 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”⇒ Assessment Plan We will develop and implement an assessment plan consistent with the ABET EC 2000 outcomes-based criteria, which will serve the first-year engineering program, including the science, mathematics, and social science components, and the engineering departments during the upper-division courses through the capstone experience. • This will allow us to better attract to the engineering profession a more intellectually diverse and greater number of students, to better retain students once enrolled in the engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Uwakweh Benjamin; Richard Miller; Bryan Dansberry; Kettil Cedercreutz; Cheryl Cates

impact ofchanges in curricular design upon student work performance; d) piloting and contrasting projects in both different academic fields and at differentcolleges; and e) developing a set of best practices to be used for further refinement and dissemination of the process. Initial collaborators includeUniversity of Cincinnati (UC) academic units as follows: the Department of Architecture (College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning);the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (College of Engineering); the Department of Civil and Construction Management(College of Applied Science); the College of Business Administration; and the Division of Professional Practice. The assessment data will beanalyzed by the UC Evaluation Services

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Moore; Mary Raber

-development processes and the implications and consequences of team-based decisions.We are still working to strike a balance in choices of texts – case studies, stages of teamdevelopment, and team communication strategies – with the time needed for teams to plan,discuss, and implement projects. We’ve moved away from textbooks to more industry-basedreports and studies, and choose strategic planning documents that teams can use to support theirefforts during the actual problem-solving projects. Our plan for the 2005 iteration of theprofessional-development workshop is to provide more digital versions of texts, especially thosethat allow annotating, editing, and collaborative text attributes such as PDFs and via CD-ROM.IV. Sample Workshop Curricula

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap

for responsible leadership of continuous technology development & innovation at project level.5. Drawing the Right Conclusion: A Work in Progress in Implementing the U.S. Innovation Agenda for CompetitivenessThere is a strong need for the vast majority of the nation’s domestic engineering graduates, in all statesacross the nation, to have the opportunity to pursue high-quality postgraduate professional education inorder to further their development as leaders of U.S. technology development & innovation to enhancecompetitiveness. A major aim of the National Collaborative Task Force is to provide this opportunitythrough planned educational change. The National Collaborative Task Force is on-target and steadyprogress is

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Carlson

, studentsinvolved in PBL are required to seek out the information they need to solve one to severalwell planned problems presented to them. PBL is commonly used for medical schooleducation and for chemical engineering education at McMaster(http://chemeng.mcmaster.ca/pbl) and is being promoted by the National ScienceFoundation at the University of Delaware (http://www.udel.edu/pbl) and SamfordUniversity (http://www.samford.edu/pbl). Currently there are only a limited number ofreports of using PBL for chemical engineering education, though Bucknell University hasused the method for at least several years. There are numerous websites touting the use of Page

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Tao; W Bao; R Moreno; Marc Zampino; Yiding Cao

engineering to thermal-fluid systemsdesign, that the students can have a platform to practice teamwork, professional and ethicalresponsibility, and that the reformed curriculum contributes to an increase in student’s interestsin thermal/fluid subjects, better retention rate, and more attraction to prospective students.Finally, the developed process ensures a favorable cooperative learning environment with astrong sense of accomplishment for the underrepresented student population. This presentationfocuses on the progress of the project in the following areas: (1) Planned activities, (2) studentdesign team’s efforts, and (3) pre-project evaluation serving as a benchmark for projectimplementation evaluation

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes

credits each semester. The credit structureis designed to encourage long-term participation, and allows multi-year projects of significantscope and impact to be undertaken by the teams.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care ofadministrative matters, do project planning and tracking, and work on their project. All studentsalso attend a common one-hour lecture each week. A majority of the lectures are by guestexperts, and have covered a wide range of topics related to engineering design, communication,and community service. The long-term nature of the program has required some innovation inthe lecture series since

Conference Session

Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein; William Janna

system performance; and writing a report about the design of the system.Table 2 is an example of a task planning sheet for the Fireplace Heat Recovery Project. The planshows a completion date selected for each task. By the end of the fifth week of the semester, forexample, a CAD model is to be developed. Also included in the task planner (although not shownin Table 2) is the name/initials of the individual responsible for completing the task.Each group member maintains a notebook or diary of all tasks completed for the project. The diarycontains any and all details of the work done by that particular member on the project. This wouldinclude something as short as a phone call, or as detailed as calculations to predict when a pumpwill cavitate.The

Conference Session

Engaging Upper Level Classes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch

• Clear written and verbal communication • High degree of contact with students • Physical models and demonstrations Enthusiasm Positive Rapport with Students Frequent Assessment of Student Learning • Classroom assessment techniques • Out-of-class homework and projects Appropriate Use of TechnologyII. Daily Classroom ActivitiesSuccess in any endeavor requires proper organization, preparation, practice, and rapport. This isespecially true in higher education. Without an organized plan for teaching preparation

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Satyajit Verma

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Jane Parmentier; Rajeswari Sundararajan

522 Strategic Multi-Model Transportation Planning 3CommerceITM 540 International Management 3AGB 552 International agricultural Policy 3AGB 494 E-Commerce and Trade 3GTD 598 Area Studies Courses 3Sustainable DevelopmentETM 526 Current Environmental Technology Issues 3ETM 428 International Environmental Management 3EET 598 Introduction to Green Technology 3GPH 405 Energy and Environment 3Core SeminarsThe following two core seminars form the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Orono; Stephen Ekwaro-Osire

practice to concernthemselves with the practices of research and manufacturing, such as environmental concernsand cost.Step 4: Disassemble, measure, and analyze data Disassembly is the step commonly considered when thinking of reverse engineering.However, to be effective, this step must be coordinated with measurements and experimentation.Two documents should be created during the disassembly of the trimmer: the disassembly plan(to be converted to assembly manual) and a summary Bill of Materials. The disassembly plandocuments when the trimmer was disassembled, who disassembled it, and a step-by-step plan fordisassembly. The plan should include a number of entries, including the step number, a

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Kurpius; Dale Baker; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

actions and knowledge about their current practice. Consequently,we used four analytical themes (Reflections on Practice, Changes in Practice, Intentions toChange Practice, and Change in Knowledge) to examine the likelihood that what teachersencountered in the course would transfer to their classrooms. Three graduate students allowed usto gather data over a semester to develop in-depth cases. The teachers were Alice, an elementaryteacher; Denise, who taught at a Science Center; and Dana, a high school chemistry teacher.Alice intended to change, or changed things, such as teaching the design process explicitly,learning the science behind engineering concepts, developing activities for young children, usingeveryday contexts, and planning a model

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Richter

the same pre-planned experiment as all the other students, often notunderstanding or caring why he/she was doing the experiment in the first place. The paperfurther relates the experience and lessons learned in using this new method of laboratoryexperimentation at the undergraduate level.IntroductionThe traditional way that undergraduate laboratory experiments are implemented does not provideinstruction that is “student centered” and challenging to the individual student. The traditionalmethod of delivery of these courses may not be the most efficient for student educationallearning [2,3]. Students are typically instructed to perform pre-planned experiments that havebeen very carefully crafted to demonstrate a specific concept or theory. All

Conference Session

Building New Communities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Smith; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

project),• Learning scientists (specifically the Education in the Professions Division of the American Educational Research Association [10]), and• Faculty developers in higher education (the Professional and Organizational (POD) Network in Higher Education.[11])During the RREE workshop, participants work on a research question and research plan. Thedeliverable of the workshop is a draft of a small-scale research plan. This plan is to be refinedand carried out (with the help of a research mentor) during the following academic year. Formore detailed information about the content of the workshop please see the project webpage [4].This project is aimed at strengthening the base on the cyclic model of the relationship betweenknowledge

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Charu Sharma; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

and charts demonstrating impact of a particular activity or overall activitiesTrack Activities Create and maintain records Document activity plan including for activity planning and objectives, organization REPORTS: Easily retrieve documented implementation information about activitiy organization and Document assessment plan, implementation Document activity objectives, storage of data, and data

Conference Session

New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

education needs facing the next generation of civil engineerscannot be satisfied with a four-year baccalaureate degree. The necessary professional Page 10.529.2skills must be integrated in various courses throughout the curriculum, and must extendbeyond the traditional bachelor’s degree.Civil Engineering Education Reform – and the Body of KnowledgeToday’s world is fundamentally challenging the way civil engineering is practiced.Complexity arises in every aspect of projects, from pre-project planning with variedstakeholders to building with minimum environmental and community disturbance.Addressing this increased complexity will require understanding and

Conference Session

Women in IT Fields

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven P. Thomas

History of Study ParticipantsTo address the area of work history the study participants were asked questions related to positionsheld; acquisition of current position; and job responsibilities.Job Positions HeldStudy participants were asked to identify the positions they have held throughout theirprofessional careers, starting with their current position title and department/area. The resultsincluded the following partial list of current position titles: Senior Vice-President and GeneralManager of Industry Standard Servers; Senior Vice-President and Chief Information Officer;Director of IT Strategic Partnerships and Planning; Vice-President of Revenue Systems; Directorof Research and Development (R&D) of Information Systems; Senior Vice

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

.Another report by Australian Government report “Learning for the knowledge society:An education and training action plan for the information economy” noted theimportance of universities ensuring that graduates enter the workforce with therequired competencies 29 .Within the computer networking courses the practical hands-on assessment is gainingin popularity and Murphy notes: That practical ‘hands on’ skills and knowledge is Page 10.1298.4fundamental to conceptual understanding. That knowledge is more transferable to Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lehman; David Stone; Mary Raber

specifically, to attend a specific college or university. • MTU: An index of how much the program(s) introduced and familiarized participants Page 10.1242.7 with various attributes of Michigan Tech in particular. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”MTU Youth Programs and the Engineering Enterprise organizers are already planning severalother precollege Enterprise workshops for the summer of 2005. Successful program componentsfrom Tech PrEP are being documented (based on the results of

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Hayden Griffin

, providing additional jobopportunities, both on and off campus.In 1999, faculty teaching the freshman engineering courses began to push for a laptoprequirement. At that time, however, the reality was that laptops were still somewhat fragile,generally less powerful, more expensive to purchase, and more expensive and difficult toupgrade than desktop computers. The time was not right for a mandate, but there was strongindication that, at some point the advantages of laptops would outweigh their deficiencies.In Spring 2001, five students enrolled in ISE 5694, Macroergonomics, advised by Dr. TonyaSmith-Jackson of ISE, conducted a well-planned and executed survey of 763 students in thesecond freshman engineering course regarding their opinions of laptops

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

, the Office of Technology Transfer, and the Ben FranklinTechnology Partners. In the spring 2005 semester, the first and third entrepreneurshipcourses will be piloted, while numbers two and four begin fall 2005. This paper is areport on a work in progress. It describes the background, benchmarks, design andplanned implementation of the entrepreneurship minor and how it is integrated intoLehigh’s undergraduate curricula. We plan to follow up with additional papers in thefuture with details on the implementation, assessment metrics and lessons learned.Backgr oundIn 2003 Lehigh University received a grant from the Pennsylvania Department ofCommunity and Economic Development to improve the Lehigh University infrastructurein support of

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht; Jennifer Gale

roles. Norming Phase During the norming phase, curriculum highlighted a balanced analysis of 1) individualsystems, 2) system components, and 3) systems integration. The timing coincided with the startof the implementation phase of the project, when teams addressed design issues associated withsubsystems. The Atomic Popcorn exercise reinforced values of integrating individual skills intothe team’s design strategy. Teams not only planned but also used their unique skills to meet thegoal of the exercise. The exercise, however, required a great deal of harmony and gate keepingworking the ropes and elastic band necessary to transfer the popcorn. Team dynamics changed as teams 0.3settled into