Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yifat Kolikant; Bugrahan Yalvac; Ann McKenna

, the faculty werenot so clear about how to integrate the challenge assignment into the course. LS providedguidance and practical suggestions for creating an HPL environment throughout the challengeassignment and entire course. For example, the LS negotiated for challenge first and assessmentfirst that became principles of our collaborative instructional design.“I was thinking of coming at it a slightly different way, introducing the challenge a little later inthe sequence of activities than I actually wound up doing... And in one meeting with [LS1] shesaid, well, just give them the challenge right up front. That was sort of a key meeting.” [quotefrom faculty 2]By challenge first, we mean that the challenge was posed to the students in the

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Manhire

dominant orthodoxies. Failure to display reason, analysis, objective consideration of evidence, and distance is much less used as an explanation for poor grades, as these keystones of modern science are themselves shown to be biased in favor of certain, but not other, views, and are hence no more valid than any other method 29 of arriving at conclusions.Johnson aptly describes this turgid nonsense as “bizarre.”29 It’s a prime example of what Leocalls pomobabble31and it’s Bogus Sophistry (BS) that’s unlikely to instill confidence in, andrespect for, academic standards in higher education.32From a political perspective, in the past, the (political) Left’s overall impact on the

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tze-Chi Hsu; N. Yu

advantages into oursociety through cooperation. As mentioned earlier, the activities of international cooperation can be classified into three categories: personalexchanges, holding seminars/participating conferences, and conducting research projects. Although these activitiesdon’t necessarily act in any sequence, coordinating these activities closely improves the dissemination of the resultsof international cooperation. Building up individual connection through personnel exchange and then progressinginto cooperation of researchers to reach consensus for further collaboration is the most common collaborative modelfor most researchers. However, for an integrated proposal in which more researchers like to participate, a seminarwhich aims to

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

Everyday Problem Solving in Engineering: Lessons for Educators1 David Jonassen, Johannes Strobel, Chwee Beng Lee University of Missouri/Concordia University/Nanyang Technology University Many engineering programs have integrated problem-based learning (PBL) into their instruction. Quite often, the problems that are solved in PBL programs are not authentic. In order to develop more authentic problems that are required to prepare engineering graduates to solve complex, ill-structured workplace problems, we developed a case library of engineering problems as described by practicing engineers. The qualitative analysis of those stories showed that workplace problems are ill

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein; William Janna

their work. The first thing to work on is thetask planning sheet. Tasks must be identified and the individual responsible for finishing each taskis assigned.A series of two courses were introduced into the Mechanical Engineering curriculum at theUniversity of Memphis beginning with the Fall 1998 semester. Among other things, these coursesserve as an introduction to Mechanical Engineering and will hopefully aid our retention efforts.One of the ideas tried in Fall 2001 and carried through to Fall 2004 was to get the freshmeninvolved with the seniors. Seniors can provide valuable insights to the freshmen and provide themwith a perspective about the University that faculty cannot provide. The seemingly ideal way to dothis was to have the senior

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

: energy resources, energy conversion systems,energy conservation, and environmental pollution. During the course, exercises and teamprojects were assigned to design renewable and traditional energy conversion systems. Thispaper describes the assignments and projects used in the course to enhance the design experienceof the students. Detailed descriptions of each design project and the student design solution weregiven.Introduction Energy affects the lives of everyone in so many ways, economically, technically, andenvironmentally. Thus, integration of energy and its many aspects such as energy conservationtechnologies and environmental impacts of energy generation, in the educational curriculum ofscience, technology, and engineering

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhongming Liang

Session 3548 MiniTab in Assessment of the Dynamics Course Zhongming Liang Purdue University Fort WayneAbstract For better interpretation of assessment data, the author uses MiniTab, a statistical analysissoftware package, for evaluating students’ learning outcomes with multiple statistical measuresin several his courses in the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program, such as thedynamics course discussed in this paper as an example. The better assessment and follow-upactions have indeed led to improvement of students’ learning and satisfaction

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Guidera

architecture.” In contrast to skill-focused teaching, a positionstatement by eCAADia 2001 proposed that there should be an integration of CAAD educationinto architectural curriculum and that CAD education should be taught during the whole span ofarchitectural education [5]. Similarly, a white paper by the Association for Computer AidedDesign in Architecture (ACADIA) stated that “students need to use digital techniques throughoutthe curriculum” and that “a digital design sensibility must pervade the school culture” [8]. Given the predominance use of discrete courses to deliver content related to CAD inmany architecture curriculums, an alternative approach to integrating digital skills may be toutilize the discrete CAD courses as a mechanism for

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Jane Parmentier; Rajeswari Sundararajan

foundation of the GTD curriculum. Together with theresearch sequence they are the common courses that all students take. Designed to integrate theprogram and provide a solid basis for approaching issues in development, these seminars are takenduring the first two semesters, in either order, to allow flexibility on when students may enter theprogram.GTD 501 Introduction to Global Technology and Development 2GTD 503 Technology and the International Political System 2The first seminar, GTD 501 Introduction to Global Technology and Development, introduces themajor approaches to economic, social and political development, seeking to expose students to thetheoretical heritage that integrates these aspects

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; Barbara Masi; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

criteria were not met, faculty were understandablymuch less enthusiastic. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationTherefore, as part of a planning process to develop an infrastructure and curriculum for thebroader integration of service learning in the mechanical engineering department, we sought tobetter understand faculty knowledge of, enthusiasm for, and concerns about service learning. Inpart, we needed this information to create a tailored educational workshop on service learning forthe faculty. To this end, structured interviews were conducted to gain insight into MITmechanical engineering

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Hole; Day Radebaugh; Kurt Soschinske

mechanical engineering curriculums a class in engineering ethics is a required part ofthe course of study. This training is essential for engineering professional development. Thefirst engineering fundamentals examination for professional licensure includes questions onethics based on lessons learned in class, while the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) lists training in ethics as an expected and measurable engineering programoutcome2. Concepts discussed in this academic context include professional responsibility andintegrity issues, conflict of interest, consulting and research ethics issues, as well as associatedengineering ethics issues dealing with the environmental and international perspectives.To continue the thread of

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

females.IntroductionThe VaNTH Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies isfunded by the National Science Foundation (NSF EEC 9876363) as one of the severalengineering research centers. While its focus is primarily at the undergraduate and graduatelevel of college education, a significant outreach program to the high school level exists. As partof a NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) supplement, an interdisciplinary group ofsecondary teachers and college faculty have come together to develop and field test newmaterials for secondary school science classrooms.The design utilized in the curriculum modules makes use of a strong contextually based“Challenge” followed by a sequence of instruction where students would attempt to

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Allameh; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

andinnovative teaching, the responsibility for student employment, and the responsibility tosociety, the transition to the development mode is still at its infancy. 4 The profoundchanges in societies and recent technological developments have had relatively littleeffect on the curricular structure of the EE. Most of the current EE organizations andprograms have been implemented in slowly changing organizations. The current EEmodel is based on the education structure and the curriculum implemented in the U.S. inthe late 1940s. The emphasis of the present EE must be on quantity, aiming to includeeverything an EE student needs during his/her career. “This way of doing things has ledto overloading, incoherence and the lack of the ability to combine

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Christine Masters; Judith Todd

INNOVATIONS IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING PROGRAMS: FOCUS ON MULTILEVEL COMMUNICATION SKILLS Judith A. Todd, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, and Christine B. Masters Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802-6812AbstractMultidisciplinary engineering programs are uniquely positioned to integrate new educational andresearch initiatives into their curricula. In this paper, we describe an integrated series ofcontinuing innovations in the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department, College ofEngineering at The Pennsylvania State University. These

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Robert Choate

the springsemester of their senior year. The DBT project is coordinated through the ME program Designof Experiments Plan and further supports the ME program's Professional Component Plan byrequiring the use of engineering design with open-ended problems, integration of professionaltools, and demonstration of professional communications 1, 2.The ability of ME graduates to successfully design, conduct and analyze experiments isintegrated across the ME curriculum. Beginning in the freshman year, students are providedwith opportunities to acquire experimental, analytical and modeling tools and skills, and todevelop effective means of communicating the results of their work. In an analogous fashion tothe capstone design project providing a measure

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeid Motavalli; Helen Zong; Farnaz Ganjeizadeh; David Bowen

Bay Area professionals andclass offerings. We utilize the strengths of the university to develop a balancedcurriculum including courses from Engineering, Management, Finance, and Statistics.Special considerations are given to admission requirements, prerequisite structure, andcourse offerings such that we can create a large pool of qualified applicants for theprogram.MotivationCalifornia State University, East Bay (CSUEB) began an engineering program in 1997,starting with a single offering in Industrial Engineering at the undergraduate level. Theoriginal vision was to slowly grow the program to a sustainable critical mass byintroducing other engineering disciplines and degree options over time

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joon Kim; Daniel Biezad

Course into the CurriculumIt is one thing to be lucky enough for a “perfect storm” of funding, expertise, and studentinterest, and quite another to integrate the resulting course into the curriculum on an ongoingbasis. The first step is to obtain special status for this course so that a student can takedifferent subtopics for credit under the same course number and title, as described in sectionII above. The next step is to allow special credit at either undergraduate or graduate level forspecialized, experienced students who will help you train newcomers and assist on finalprojects. At Cal Poly a senior project is required. This is a two-course sequence that must bedefined by the student. These projects are ideally suited to the ongoing

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lennard Lema; Zbigniew Prusak; Peter Baumann

objectives and learning outcomes, while based upon the specific program mission, allowdata collection, metrics for assessment and evaluation to be focused upon in-common corecourses. Certain aspects of the mission, goals, outcomes and objectives will differ betweenprograms. The assessment of the differences within each discipline is conducted withinspecialization courses with separate assessment methods. The final evaluation of data and theassessment of each program curriculum becomes a discipline dependent process with theanalysis and evaluation of data, and the program recommendations conducted as an independentfunction by specialization faculty and members of the program industrial advisory board.The University adopted an assessment plan for all

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

McDaniel William; Ferguson Chip; Aaron Ball; Phillip Sanger; Wesley Stone

of group processes were introduced in theclass. By semester’s end, the students were expected to complete a complex design projectwhere parts are designed and integrated in a team effort. This final project, which Johnson et al4describes as “formal” cooperative learning, required the team to complete an assembly fromseveral individual component parts. The teams were selected by the instructor to ensurediversity of talent, culture, and performance level. Each team of four was assigned a number ofsmall component parts of an assembly, varying in difficulty. The team structure allowed forgroup roles to be self-assigned, therefore each group leader had the opportunity to distributeassignments according to ability. Upon completion of the project

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wang

curriculum should be equally divided between liberal studies, engineering, and architecture theory and practice, allowing students hands-on experience in architecture within the context of other studies that integrate the technical and management aspects of practice with considerations of how their practice fits into the values and aesthetic contexts of community.3. Unique Challenges and Opportunities of Architectural Education in Taiwan Social change refers to any changes in social processes or structures, including changes inpolitical and economic systems and human relationships (Erman et al., 2004:52; Hindle &Rwelamila, 1998:151). People form affiliations within a larger social structure. When basicsocial structures

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmad R. Sarfaraz; Tarek Shraibati

textbooks limits them to relativelysimple problems that fail to show students the larger picture when it comes to economic analysis.The use of personal finances similar to those identified by Martinazzi and Lavelle3 has beenfound to increase interest in a subject that many students find dry and confusing. By usingpractical common sense problems, faculty is able to impress the applicability of engineeringeconomy on the individual student.Bibliography1. Hartman, J.C., “Engineering Economy: Suggestions to Update a Stagnant Course Curriculum,” American Societyfor Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, 1998.2. Wells, W.E., “Economics for Engineers: An Integrated Approach,” American Society for Engineering EducationAnnual Conference

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Sebern

surprised when unit test was completed in half a day. They said they had done a prototype of this code before the project started and it took 1.5 weeks to get it to work well enough to see any results. They have found only two defects since the code has been integrated with the rest of the software.” • “Our project increased its delivered quality by 10 times and reduced its effort by 20 percent compared to a previous project.” • “This is the hardest, most enjoyable, personally rewarding thing I have done outside of growing a family.” PSP and TSP in an Undergraduate Software Engineering Program The undergraduate software engineering (BSSE) program at the

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Cutbirth; Brett Hughes; Sundararajan Madihally

to connect the abstract concepts of the Page 10.822.5classroom with the real world.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 5Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Paper # 854 Through an experiment of this type, undergraduates can integrate a number of conceptslearned in the engineering curriculum and get a feel for the variety of aspects of biomedicalengineering including transport processes, bioelectrical phenomena, osmotic pressure, proteinassay, and

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas MacIntosh; Susan Conry

arrive at the best solutions and that confusion and uncertainty are clarified through questioning and discussion that differences and conflicts occur, that they must be acknowledged, and the best way to deal with them is constructively and openly.Engineering curricula today are packed with technical content. Increasingly, there is so much forstudents to learn about their chosen discipline that there is little space in the curriculum forcoursework that deals directly with these kinds of issues. It is hard to find space in the typicalengineering curriculum for a course in teamwork skills. The theme of this paper is that strategiesfor guiding students in their acquisition of teamwork skills can be integrated in their

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mei-yi Lau; Ming-yin Chan

teacher assumes as an adviser. Students work in groups to solve challenging problems that are original,curriculum-based, and often interdisciplinary. Students take the active role to decide how totackle a problem and what activities to pursue. Students gather information from a variety ofsources and synthesize, analyze, and derive knowledge from it. Their learning is inherentlyvaluable because it is connected to something real and involves liaison skills such ascollaboration and mediation. The most important element is reflection. Students candemonstrate their newly acquired knowledge in the final report. Students are judged by thepresentation and peer assessment. The role of teachers, unlike traditional classroom teaching,is to provide

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Ellzey; Ted Aanstoos, The University of Texas, Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

diversity awareness as desirable traits of new-hireengineers. Similar goals appear in the ABET 2000 criteria. The Mechanical EngineeringDepartment at The University of Texas at Austin is developing an International EngineeeringProgram with the goal of increasing the number of undergraduate students with internationalexperience. A pilot six-week summer program in 2004 involved nine students earning six credithours in Grenoble, France. The program consisted of an upper-division technical elective“Engineering Standards and Industrial Policy in a Global Environment” and an American historycourse, “American Foreign Policy.” Student performance and feedback from this pilot semesteryielded positive results, and based on this success two additional

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rainer Fink

benefitindustry by exposing future employees and/or customers to their technology, but can also have majorimpacts on the relevancy of the curriculum in an academic program.The Electronics Engineering Technology faculty at Texas A&M University is collaborating with severalmajor companies (Texas Instruments Inc., Freescale Inc., National Instruments Inc., IBM Inc. andTeradyne Inc.) to address a strong industrial concern at the lack of entry-level engineers who are preparedto do semiconductor testing. Concepts such as the real life performance of devices are not addressed in atraditional Electrical Engineering curriculum in favor of the more predictable ideal performance whichcan be easily modeled. Thus, students graduating are unaware that performance

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xianfgu Zong; Marcia Fischer; Malgorzata Chranowska-Jeske; James Morris; Fu Li; Cynthia Brown; Agnes Hoffman

member, and active in student advising,academic policy, and international issues on campus.JIM MORRIS is an IEEE Fellow and 22-year ASEE member, and has served as EE/ECE Department Chair atboth SUNY-Binghamton and Portland State. His research interests lie in electronics packaging, andnanoelectronics/thin films. He is actively committed to the development of international work/studyexperiences for engineering students. Page 10.1072.8FU LI is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at PSU. He is a senior member of IEEE, withresearch interests in the areas of digital signal/image processing , computer systems integration, and

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

work professionally.Bibliography• Bean, John C. Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking and Active Learning in the Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000• Dyment, Janet & O'Connell Timothy. "Journal Writing in Experiential Education: Possibilities, Problems, and Recommendations." ERIC Digest.• Gale, Xin Liu. "Theory Writing as Becoming: Past Experiences Thrice-Lived." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English Conference on College Composition and Communication (49th, Chicago, IL, April 1-4, 1998).• Lester, Nanct, et al. " Writing across the Curriculum: A College Snapshot." Urban Education v38 n1 p5-34 Jan 2003• Monroe, Jonathan

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Schildgen; Jon Duff

, American Society for Engineering Educationeducation and knowledge relevant to the specific field of study. Further, the question ofaccountability requires that culminating work be regularly peer reviewed in the context ofaccreditation. 1By far, the literature answers the question: Is it advisable to include a senior capstone experiencein engineering and technology programs? It is advisable. The only questions remaining are: Howcan senior projects be efficiently implemented as a curriculum requirement, be validated byindustry, and meet regional and professional accreditation guidelines?An extensive 1995 review of capstone projects at nearly 300 engineering departments in 173schools 2 brought Todd and his fellow authors to conclude: “This type of