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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Gender Equitable Curricula in High School Science and Engineering Stacy S. Klein1, 2, 3,4, Robert D. Sherwood, 4 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 2University School, Nashville, TN / 3Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 4Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TNAbstractAs part of a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) supplement to the VaNTH EngineeringResearch Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies (www.vanth.org), aninterdisciplinary group of secondary teachers and college faculty have

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ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wally Peters; Michelle Maher; Nadia Craig; Veronica Addison

engineers have a great deal to learn from the perfected complex systems of life. A striking example is found on page 92: ‘Ancient bacteria mastered nanotechnology. Already miniaturized, bacteria control specific molecules in ways of which human engineers can only dream. Far more complex than any computer or robot…’ The author then goes on to describe the flagella of bacteria that are made of ‘rings, tiny bearings, and rotors’ and that spin about ’15,000 rpm.’ Today in the 21st century with all of the extensive advanced technology available, humans have not come close to designing something so complex, so miniaturized as bacteria. In fact the search is on for a living computer chip. This example

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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Kahn; Marina Bers

introduce children to engineering in thefirst grade, and as such, it is important to understand the teaching methods that lead to successfulunderstanding of engineering and the design process. Project Inter-Actions at Tufts Universityprovided the opportunity to explore engineering teaching and explorations in a containedenvironment. It is our belief that young students can engage in thoughtful engineering pursuitsby exploring personal powerful ideas, and benefit the most from the opportunity to think throughvarious problems with one on one interaction. The Massachusetts State Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Framework1 isto allow children to draw upon the specific skills that these disciplines require as they conductlives in

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Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kofi Nyamekye; Yildirim Omurtag

surveyconducted by Deloitte Research1showed that about 2 million jobs and $356 billion in operationswould be moved to overseas within the next five years. Forrester Research1 study concurs withthe previous studies. They forecast that by 2015 about 3.3 million high-tech and service-industry jobs would be outsourced offshore. Forrester Research points out that such jobsamount to about $136 billion in wages. Meta Group Inc.2 estimates that offshore spending ininformation technology by U.S. businesses will reach about $10 billion this year and that the useof offshore information technology services will grow about 20% annually through 2008. Thetrend in outsourcing of jobs does not stop with jobs related to computer engineering alone. Arecent report by

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Thomson; Donald Orlich; Richard Zollars

technology. Dr. Maring used this technology in a project (co-TEACH) Page 10.899.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationwhere graduate students and faculty in the Department of Teaching and Learning were able tomentor teachers and students at a number of schools scattered around the Northwest. We arecurrently developing the equipment to do this and more. While Dr. Maring’s equipment waslargely stationary (everyone had to go to a fixed location to make use of the technology) ourequipment will be

Conference Session

Issues of Building Diversity

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carla Purdy; Mara Wasburn

the Congressional Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering,and Technology Development, September 2000, http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02121/nsf02121.htm#TOC, p. 6.4. M. MacDonnell-Laeser, B.M. Moskal, R. Knecht, and D. Lasich, The engineering process: examining male andfemale contributions. Frontiers in Education Conference, Reno, NV, October 2001, p. 1.5. WEPAN data sets, http://www.wepan.org.6. American Council on Education, http://www.acenet.edu/hena/readArticle.cfm?articleID=503.7. N. Horvath and C. Lucero, Graduate student socialization in science and engineering: a study of underrepresentedminorities’ experiences. Proceedings 2004 ASEE Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2004.8. S. S. Swinton

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Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Griffin; Julie Swann; Robert Kirkman; Matthew Drake

Engineering Ethical Curricula: Assessment of Two Approaches and Recommendations Matthew J. Drake*, Paul M. Griffin*, Robert Kirkman+, Julie L. Swann* *School of Industrial & Systems Engineering + School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0205AbstractIn this paper, we assess two approaches for delivery of engineering ethics: a full semesterethics course and an engineering course that includes a discipline-specific ethics module. Weuse the second edition of the Defining Issues Test (DIT) to measure moral

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberta Berry; Jonathan Olinger; Paul Benkeser

Challenges and Opportunities in Ethics Education in Biomedical Engineering Paul J. Benkeser1, Roberta M. Berry2 and Jonathan D. Olinger3 Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University1 / Schools of Public Policy2 and Aerospace Engineering3, Georgia Institute of TechnologyI. IntroductionThe challenges of interdisciplinarity—integrating bioscience, biomedical, and bioengineeringknowledge and skills—are well known to biomedical engineering (BME) educators.Undergraduate BME engineering educators face the additional challenge of preparing theirstudents for diverse professional career paths in a

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

criticalobjectives are to increase retention of undergraduate students to graduation and to decrease thetime to graduation. The project described in this paper is focused on these two objectives. Page 10.1346.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The CircLES ProgramIn 1995 the National Science Foundation funded UTEP and five other minority-servinginstitutions as Model Institutions for Excellence in an effort to develop models for undergraduatescience, technology, engineering, and

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thanassis Rikakis; Jiping He; Hari Sundaram; Andreas Spanias

digital media technologies (the engineers) are not trained in thecreation of content. Similarly the creators of content (the artists) are not trained in thecreation and exploration of digital technologies and do not have a fundamentalunderstanding of the computational models driving these technologies.AME was formed to address this problem. AME was created by the engineering, arts and Page 10.189.2science disciplines at Arizona State University. These programs contribute to the AMEgraduate education and research program. The education component of this programconsists of formalized graduate concentrations within existing degrees that allow facultyand

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Morgan; Beverly Davis

critical for future success. If millennials value “parallel career” educators will need to promote engineering and science parallel career opportunities. Educators will need to demonstrate the value of engineering and science careers as careers that will require lifelong learning and training. 2. Educators must be willing to present information and design education so to appeal to millennial learning styles. Communicating cross-generationally means packaging the message in several ways so that every hearer understands [7]. Technology must be employed in the classroom and utilized to offer courses differently. If millennials do not see state-of-the-art technology in the classroom and

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; George Bodner; William Oakes

organizations that lack the technical staffs and/or resources to take fulladvantage of current technology. The potential benefits of service learning have motivated theDepartment of Engineering Education at Purdue to begin implementing service learning into thefirst-year engineering courses. 143 students participated in a service-learning experience atPurdue University in the Fall semester of 2003. Student and community partner evaluationshave shown initial success A detailed qualitative investigation has been conducted to fully understand the impact ofthe experience on the student participants. Specifically, one hour interviews were conductedwith 20 first-year students, 10 male, 10 female and five underrepresented students. This paperwill

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap

/ Arizona State University East 3 Morgan State University 4 / California Polytechnic State University 5 / Purdue University 6 New Jersey Institute of Technology 7 / Rochester Institute of Technology 8 Raytheon Missile Systems 9 / Lockheed-Martin Company 19 Boeing Company 11 / Engineering Partnership-Arizona12 Hewlett-Packard 13/ Rolls-Royce Corporation 14 AbstractThis is the second of four papers prepared for a special panel session of the National Collaborative TaskForce on Engineering Graduate Education Reform. The paper formulates a creative approach andframework for postgraduate professional education that fosters continuous

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Morrow

Session 1532Creating a Realistic Embedded Systems Design Experience for Computer Engineers Michael G. Morrow Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI Abstract This paper chronicles the author’s experiences in designing and implementing a capstone computer engineering design course to incorporate state of the art technology. Often, these design courses are forced to one of two extremes - one, using simpler technologies to facili- tate

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Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Frances Stewart; Malgorzata Zywno

Learning Styles of Engineering Students, Online Learning Objects and Achievement Malgorzata S. Zywno and M. F. (Frankie) Stewart Ryerson UniversityAbstractThis paper presents the results of a research project investigating the effectiveness of an onlinelearning object and identifying behavior patterns of engineering students with different learningstyles that may affect their learning. Traditional instruction methods support only a narrow rangeof student learning styles. Instructional technology has a potential to expand the range of teachingstrategies. The authors have been using multimedia in their teaching to enhance active

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Zeytinci; Philip Brach

accreditation.Job market Page 10.1267.2Modern advances in technology have changed much of the way in which problems of the urbaninfrastructure are addressed. For example, the computer has revolutionized the control of traffic “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”in the urban centers. Wireless communication has changed the way gas and electric meters aremonitored. But one still needs to control traffic and to determine the consumption of energy forbilling purposes. These are just a few examples of how the

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Magun-Jackson

educators have been challenged with the difficult task ofpreparing professionals who are technically competent and ethically aware, one of the first stepsin ethics education.1The need to integrate ethics into an engineering curriculum is well documented. TheAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has incorporated “anunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibility” as part of the general criteria forevaluating undergraduate engineering curriculum.2 The ASEE website also states that “becauseengineering has a large and growing impact on society, engineers must be equipped by theireducation to fulfill their ethical obligations to the public at large, to their profession, and to theirclients and employers.”3 This has led to

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenda Kelly; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

of Technology in Everyday Life sponsored by the BurroughsWellcome Fund’s Student Science Enrichment Program[9-11] . This paper examines the impactson Engineering Teaching Fellows of participating in these three programs.From 1999-2003, the Duke-NCSU GK-12 Engineering Teaching Fellows Program placed Page 10.853.1graduate and undergraduate teaching Fellows in 7 schools in 4 counties. Fellows providedProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationassistance and expertise for teachers in the design and delivery

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International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacie Edington; Melissa Eljamal; Stella Pang

Gaining International Competence: A Multi-Faceted Approach to International Engineering Education M. B. Eljamal, S. W. Pang, and S. J. Edington College of Engineering The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109AbstractIn direct alignment with Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology criteria totrain engineers who should be globally competent, the International Programs inEngineering office in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan hascreated a broad palette of international program activities that

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Quevedo-Camacho; Juan Manuel Ramírez-Cortés; Mario Gomez-Mejia

. Technologicaldevelopment is one of the primary detonators of this globalization, and engineering has been themain drive behind technological development. This situation has caused engineering professionalsfrom all over the world to seek to identify themselves, as collaborative projects between engineers ofdifferent nationalities become more and more common.For several years, American and Iberian-American countries have been carrying out studiesexploring this topic. In the ASEE and ASIBEI, one of the primary tasks has been to establishdefinitions of the American and the Iberian-American engineer.AntecedentsAmerica and Iberia-America have many aspects in common; when one speaks of America, it isusually understood as a reference to all American (Western Hemisphere

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Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; William Oakes

2004. One of the partners that did not repeat,Trinity Mission, will be back in 2005. Page 10.773.7 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education"Table 2 Community Projects for 2003 and 2004Organization Tasks in 2003 Tasks in 2004Community and Tutor head start students and report on how Tutor head start students and report on howFamily Resource technology can be used to enhance the technology can be used to enhance theCenter/ Head

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Cherith Moore; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

longitudinal responses fromundergraduate women studying engineering at four institutions: Penn State University (PSU),Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech), University of Texas – Austin (UT Austin) andRensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).The data were analyzed to examine the following questions. Page 10.1475.1 1. Did students’ responses change longitudinally from early spring 2003 to fall 2003? 2. Do students’ responses vary longitudinally from one institution to another?Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society

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BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Curry; Eugene Eckstein

the gait challengeProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationinto our first-year course, we feel that we are giving the students an application of their acquireddata analysis skills that is more highly motivating than a canned exercise.AcknowledgementsThe authors thank Drs. John Hochstein and Teong Tan for partnering in course instruction andDr. Deborah Lowther for assisting in the development of the challenge-based module andassessments. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH) Engineering Research Center for BioengineeringEducational Technologies (EEC9876363

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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

engineering technical elective and an American historycourse (satisfying institutional requirements). The engineering course “ME379M EngineeringStandards and Industrial Policy in a Global Environment” included topics such as national andinternational standards organization, ISO 9000, ISO 14000, environmental policy and regulation,engineering disasters and corporate responsibility, worldwide energy usage, and the relationshipbetween society and technology. Several lectures were given by visiting faculty or industrialrepresentatives. The instructor translated articles from Le Monde, the centrist Parisiannewspaper, related to business and technology in order to prompt discussion about varying viewson technical and political issues related to technology

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth A. Stephan; Benjamin L. Sill; Matthew Ohland

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationand non-sensor versions. The third lab module presented is a significant departure from thosethat can be developed in a parallel format. Some of the greatest gains of new classroomtechnology may be found in activities that cannot be reproduced without the technology. A bookchapter is in press that discusses much more extensively the expectations and evaluation oftechnology in the classroom.3Beam stiffness laboratoryThis laboratory allows students to continue their investigation of stiffness using force and motionsensors begun with the springs laboratory described in our earlier work. After confirming that thecantilever

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Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

of writing iscurrently emphasized in this discipline pedagogically? Two, are there significant writing styledifferences in the discipline that that require faculty in the discipline to guide the student thoughtand writing process? The current emphasis in engineering and engineering technology programsis placed on highly formatted technical and scientific laboratory reports.1 The problem with thistype of technical writing in the discipline is that it doesn't really prepare students to communicate1 It is interesting to note that students have had a difficult time writing the conclusions in their laboratory reports. Page

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Carlson

Learning from a Wizard: Lessons from Nikola Tesla for Engineering Students W. Bernard Carlson Department of Science, Technology, and Society School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Virginia One of the most flamboyant characters in the history of technology is the electricalinventor, Nikola Tesla (1856-1943). The inventor of the alternating current (AC) motorand an early pioneer in radio, Tesla was a highly talented rival of Edison who became acelebrity in the 1890s. During his heyday, the newspapers presented Tesla as a wizardwho tamed electricity by means of mystical and

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Voigt; Nathan Shenck; Delores Etter; Thomas Salem; Samara Firebaugh

all Navy or Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society of Engineering EducationMarine Corps officers in a military that is as technologically complex as it ever has been. It iswith this in mind that the Naval Academy has endeavored to become one of the bestundergraduate engineering schools in the country. The facilities, the faculty, and the focus onundergraduate education are keys to the success of the institution. In addition, the NavalAcademy is the primary source of engineering majors for the Navy and Marine Corps.Our students enter the Naval Academy as undesignated majors. As such, all of them, no matterwhich major

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

entrepreneurship mapsPA standards for career pathways onto the divisions of the startup company including a)arts and humanities mapped to design and marketing, b) business and communication tomarketing and finance, c) engineering and industrial technology to production, and d)health and human services to human resources, safety, health and legal issues. Studentsform their own companies with president, division heads and team members. They searchout product ideas; perform market research, product research and development. Theyidentify their customers and market their products and /or services through the school’smorning TV show and fliers throughout the school and surrounding community. Thecompany’s board of directors must pitch the idea to the faculty and

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Pennell; Peter Avitabile; John White

courses to courses in their majors orto their careers. Consequently, their motivation to learn the material in mathematics courses islow, and their retention of this material is poor.This paper describes an interdisciplinary, multisemester project designed to lead students toappreciate the relevance and importance of basic STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering andMathematics) material. Starting in the sophomore level differential equations course andcontinuing in junior and senior level engineering courses, students analyze dynamic systemsfrom various points of view, including mathematical modeling. This paper describes the projectand the modules being developed to implement it.IntroductionMathematicians teaching service courses for engineering