Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shane Brown

to develop collaborative study groups. Weed out cultures are characterized bystudent perceptions that a class or curriculum is designed to fail a portion of students that are notacademically fit to survive. Tobias found similar results from students who claimed that therewas no sense of community in the classroom and that students were not interested in formingstudy groups due to competitive grading schemes [13]. Astin proposes that students who havecontrasting values and beliefs than the peers in their major are likely to leave that peer group infavor of one that has similar values and beliefs [4]. Referring to Table 1, this is an example of alow trust environment that is fostered by the social norms put in place through the

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

outweighed by an obligation to expose (other) unethical activity?To what extent is this action similar to a student viewing someone else’s unprotected computercode and then submitting it as his/her own work? Or suppose the student just viewed it, but didnot submit it; would that still be unethical? This case can serve as interesting, current, case studyin privacy rights in a computer network.1. IntroductionThe ACM/IEEE-CS Computing Curricula 2001 [1], in its Social and Professional issues area,lists seven “core” units that should be a part of any curriculum. Unit SP7 is “Privacy and civilliberties.” Students need to understand the importance of placing appropriate access restrictionson sensitive information, and of not breaching the confidentiality

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Guoping Wang

amount of time on the debugging and troubleshooting. This two-phase lab practicehelps students to learn both the hands-on troubleshooting techniques and basic principles ofdigital systems. Using VHDL in the teaching students can get confused with its usage becausethe instructor has to focus on the features of VHDL language. In contrast, the author’s approachbetter helps the students to learn and understand the principles and practices of digital logicsystems.Conclusion Teaching digital systems with bread-board and Xilinx schematic CAD tools andFPGA/CPLD board represents an integrated approach to introducing digital system principles,processes and implementation. It is more effective in the teaching of digital logic systems thanthe

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

J. L. Kimball, “The Portfolio As a Tool to Evaluate and Assess the Effectivenessof a First-Year Integrated Engineering Curriculum,” Frontiers in Education Conference, 1997. 27th AnnualConference. 'Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change'. Proceedings. Volume 2, page 1114. Retrieved 12December 2004 fromhttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel3/5004/13772/00636049.pdf?isNumber=13772&prod=CNF&arnumber=636049&arSt=1114+vol.2&ared=&arAuthor=Gunn%2C+D.W.%3B+Corleto%2C+C.R.%3B+Kimball%2C+J.L.12. M. C. Paretti, “Work In Progress: Using E-Portfolios to Assess Communication Skills,” 34th ASEE/IEEEFrontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, available on CD and at http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2004/.MARIE C. PARETTI, Ph.D.Marie C

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John-David Yoder; Juliet Hurtig

projects which require multidisciplinary teams in order to be successful. Manysuch programs have been initiated, including those discussed in [8][9].This effort described here differs from some of the above work in two major ways. First, theprojects varied considerably, including an industry-sponsored project, a national competition,and an internally-funded research project. Secondly, this was not done through the developmentof a new course. Rather, the multidisciplinary projects were simply some of the projects fromwhich students could choose as part of the standard capstone course. It is hoped that the lessonslearned from these initial teams will allow smooth integration of further multidisciplinaryprojects in the future.Design Teams:Four

Conference Session

Accreditation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Painter

available in an engineering curriculum. At TSUenvironmental justice is presented to students in the context of how these issues caninfluence the ethical practice of Environmental Engineering with regard to the design andsiting of hazardous and solid waste facilities. Two class assignments based onhypothetical scenarios demonstrate the nature of environmental injustice and how theseoccurrences impact decisions regarding waste facilities. A third assignment based on acase study presents a series of ethical failures leading to harm to human health and theenvironment and emphasizes the role of environmental justice concerns in precipitatingthe ethical failures. The assignments are briefly described below. The actual assignmentsare accompanied with a

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker

Element Software for Enhancing a Vibration Analysis Curriculum”,Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society forEngineering Education, (2004).5Graham, L., and Khan, M., “Use of ANSYS and MATLAB in an Introductory Finite Element Page 10.206.6Course”, Computers in Education Journal, Vol. XII, No. 1, pp. 32-37, (2002). “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”6 Baker, J., Capece, V., and Lee, R., “Integration of Finite Element Software in UndergraduateEngineering

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman

Frontiers in Education Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 1995. 4. Aorshas, S, Verner, I. M., and Berman, A., “Calculus for Engineers: An Applications Approach,” Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Engineering Education, ICEE-2003, Paper No. 4607, Valencia, Spain, 2003. 5. McKenna, A., McMartin, F. and Agogino, A., “What Students Say About Learning Physics, Math and Engineering,” Proceedings of the 2000 Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, 2000, p T1F-9. 6. Anderson, C. W., Bryan, K. M., Froyd, J. E., Hatten, D. L., Kiaer, C. L., Moore, N. E., Mueller, M. R., Mottel, E. A. and Wagner, J. F., “Competency Matrix Assessment in an Integrated, First Year Curriculum in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University

AC 2005-862: AUTHENTIC ENGINEERING DESIGN IN A FRESHMAN“TRANSITION TO COLLEGE” COURSEDoug Schmucker, Trine University Page 10.241.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005 Authentic Engineering Design in a Freshman “Transition to College” Course Douglas G. Schmucker Western Kentucky UniversitySummaryThrough a series of three hands-on, learn-by-doing projects, students prepare to enter a civilengineering program in this first-semester course. This paper documents these three projects anddescribes how the course is integrated with university criteria for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Smith

Page 10.1436.9VR models seemed to have a purpose, and was not just an add-on to the lessons. Students seemed Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationmore engaged in collaborative groups formed to solve problems during the lessons. Primary suggestions made by the instructors from the Curriculum and Instruction Departmentincluded providing opportunities for students to have more hands-on experiences with the VRtools, increasing student group activity, increasing opportunities for student to manipulate the VRmodels, and increasing student engagement during class sessions. Evaluation results

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Blake

be found in allengineering disciplines.The use of this sort of information can be generalized. Through the generalized form, atechnique useful across engineering disciplines can be taught to students. One must understandthe meaning of the value, relate this to a mathematical expression, and solve for the desiredunknown. This understanding may come from intuition, a formal definition, or fromexamination of the units. With experience, using this type of information becomes astraightforward task. Often, it is not straightforward for new students. Exposing student to thissort of problem helps to prepare them for other courses, projects, and for employment.For several years, the author has included an engineering computation module based on rates

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Carl Eger

-learning, students become involved in a project that meets specific educational objectives Page 10.216.1while providing a needed service to the community. Service-learning can range from a singleProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcollege course where the students are required to do some community service to multi-year,service projects that are fully integrated into the curriculum. Service-learning has been found tohelp students develop technical and non-technical skills, make connections

Conference Session

Exploring Trends in CPD

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Zoghi

, isdescribed along with students’ assessment in the context of their reflections.IntroductionThe integration of community service projects in undergraduate engineering curricula, to provideexperiential learning, has created a great deal of interest among educators in recent years. Tsang(2000) stipulates that the notion of combining service with engineering design projects is notnew considering that many senior design projects have provided assistive technology to meet theneeds of people with disabilities. Tsang (2000) further discusses the many benefits of service-learning, coupled with design-across-the-curriculum, and the significance of integrating design atall stages of a student’s academic development in a meaningful context. Evidently

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Sheyman; Mulchand Rathod

broughtto public attention the need for a comprehensive energy strategy to ensure a sustainable supplyof energy for our nation. Alternative energy sources to support our infrastructure are becomingmore and more significant as we look towards the future. Establishment of the NextEnergyCenter in Michigan is an important step in that direction; and to prepare technical workforce foralternative energy area would be an important milestone in taking forward our nation towardsthe future. In this paper, the necessary curriculum, courses, and degree program were explored toaddress the alternative energy technology workforce needs. Also, various avenues with the prosand cons were explored, identified, and recommended. The project work done dealt with

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

discipline. Itcompares the present-day BOK with the BOK of the future for construction engineeringstudents. It puts the construction engineering students at a level comparable to the levelof a civil engineering student. It defines the need for an integrated constructioncurriculum, and an integrated BOK for the future construction engineering students.Present-Day Body of Knowledge Taught in a BS-Level ConstructionEngineering/Technology DegreeConstruction professionals are builders. In recent years, the term constructor has beenused to define individuals who are builders, yet their expertise goes beyond that of homeor commercial builders. Constructors are essentially contractors who know how to buildunlike engineers who know ‘Why’ that goes with

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Bower; Timothy Mays

Conference and Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, 2003.11. Niemi, E.E., “Development of an Ocean Engineering Course as a Technical Elective for Mechanical Engineers,” Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, 2004.12. Tsinker, G.P., Handbook of Port and Harbor Engineering, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1997.13. Wilczynski, V., and Douglas, S.M., “Integrating Design Across the Engineering Curriculum: A Report from the Trenches,” Journal of Engineering Education, American Society for Engineering Education, July, 1995.Author InformationTIMOTHY W. MAYSDr. Mays, PE is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder

Educational Technology Standards for Students. Accessed December 28, 2004. < http://cnets.iste.org/students/s_stands.html >.Biographical InformationMALINDA SCHAEFER ZARSKE is the curriculum outreach coordinator for the Integrated Teaching and LearningProgram’s K-12 Engineering Initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A former middle and high schoolmath and science teacher, she received her MAT in secondary science from Johns Hopkins University and her MS incivil engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.DARIA KOTYS-SCHWARTZ is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and an NSFGK-12 Outreach Fellow for the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.She

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozlem Arisoy; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

. For an engineering study abroad or semester at sea course to work, it is critical that the coursework be adapted to the new country or countries visited. The authors found that students related especially well to lectures where they were able to integrate their classroom learning with their in-country experiences. For example cellular manufacturing concepts that originated in Japan were first discussed. Then, students witnessed the Japanese obsession to detail and time during a Mitsubishi Electric plant visit, and also in taking a shinkansen (bullet train) or in a grocery Page 10.124.6 store where individual tomatoes and

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sukesh Aghara; Irvin Osborn-Lee

recent hiring of a new faculty member with anuclear engineering background dedicated specifically to the development of the programit is expected to boost student enrollment in courses offered at PVAMU campus and theTTVN classes. Also a national recognition by numerous DOE laboratories of the need toincrease minority enrollments at such institutions is expected to influence students at theuniversities to consider nuclear engineering as a prospective career option. The uniqueness of the PVAMU program comes from the way it is setup. It isbased in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the NASA Center for AppliedRadiation Research (CARR) is an integral part of the program. The course curriculum isdesired to include specific topics

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

which service learning can beintegrated into an academic class. While a common model is one wherestudents perform community service by directly volunteering or workingwithin a community agency, that integration method does not often matchthe curriculum of an engineering class. Hence, in 2.009, students take aproject model approach in which they work on solving an appliedengineering problem that community clients have targeted as a key need.All teams have the same general task of working with a client to create aworking prototype, but teams working on a service learning projectprovide community service by delivering a product prototype that has aclear service benefit to an identified under-served community group.While all teams communicate and

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Stockman

restructuring along ITlines and have designed new majors and curriculum. Two cases of special note are Indiana [1]and RPI [2], both of which have made IT or “informatics” pervasive in their curricula. Welldeveloped program proposals for Information Technology and Information Systems majors werepresented at ASEE2004[3].In order to meet demands of students and employers, Michigan State University introduced an ITSpecialization for students from three of its Colleges [4]: the Specialization is a set of coursesdesigned to supplement the programs of students enrolled in bachelor’s degree programs in theEli Broad College of Business, the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, and theCollege of Engineering. Students completing the specialization should

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Maldonado; Christenson John; Eugene Rutz

the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ASEE 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”2. Brief Description of the MNE-ACCEND ProgramAs previously noted, “MNE-ACCEND” is an acronym for the University of Cincinnati (UC)Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering ACCelerated ENgineering Degree Program. MNE-ACCEND isan integrated 5-year academic program leading to a BS degree in mechanical engineering and an MSdegree in nuclear engineering. The combination of two degrees in a compact time frame, coupled withthe experience gained through cooperative education has been a strong selling point for the MNE-ACCEND program. The MNE-ACCEND Program has the following goals

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

recently worked on a scholarly project with the author.The author concludes that embedding scholarship in the ET curriculum is very desirable andsuggests some ways and means to facilitate and nurture student scholarship in ET.IntroductionSeveral institutions with Engineering and Engineering Technology (ET) programs now requirescholarship of their faculty,1, 2, 3 including those institutions for which teaching has always beentheir primary focus. Since many of these institutions have mostly undergraduate programs, theyalso now require that faculty scholarship involve undergraduate students and be integrated intothe student learning experiences in order for the scholarship to be meaningful. An example ofthis trend appears in the 2004 Rochester

Conference Session

Innovative Practices in NRE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Monty Smith; Jerome Davis; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

Session 0000 Building a Reactor Simulator as a Senior Project By Mitty C. Plummer, Monty Smith, Jerome J Davis, Charles C. Bittle University of North TexasI. Introduction.The Senior Design Project is intended to provide an “integrated educational experience”or capstone, for the engineering technology curriculum. As administered at the Universityof North Texas, the capstone “Senior Projects “ is a two credit hour, one semester course.The course concludes with a presentation of the students’ projects in which faculty,family members, business leaders, and other

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Bertozzi

-Build-Test-Based Project Courses (2004)4 theauthors conclude, “Data describing a large number of design-build-test experiences has beencompiled, enabling comparisons and constituting an idea catalogue. The data indicates that theseexperiences do indeed motivate students, integrate different engineering disciplines, train systemdevelopment and non-technical skills such as teamwork and communication, and thus play a keypart in engineering education. These educational experiences further receive very positiveevaluations from students, faculty and industry stakeholders.”The opportunity for engineering students to have early and frequent hands-on design experiencesis critical both for learning and retention. This paper describes the evolution of the

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

was discovered that the students in thisteacher’s classroom were highly involved in integrating technology across the curriculum andalso worked with a Fellow who was majoring in computer science. Both of these factors werebelieved to have an impact on students’ perceptions of the ways that engineers use computers intheir work.These results show students’ post-drawings focused less on tools used to construct buildings,bridges and cars. They also show fewer students referenced building when describing what the Page 10.92.7engineers were doing. Both of these changes were found across all groups of student. Proceedings of the 2005 American

Conference Session

Innovative Practices in NRE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Miller; Gayla Neumeyer; Matthew Schmidt; David Jonassen

-enabled, problem-based learning environment(PBLE) is being developed (http://ne2201.missouri.edu). The UNES PBLE is based on aPrecursor-Action-Results-Interpretation (PARI) method. Under the PARI method, subjectmatter experts are consulted in order to identify real-world, complex problems and generateviable solutions to these problems. Instruction is then developed based on these problems andexpert solutions. The PARI method is intended to provide both breadth and depth of learning,and it engages learners in tasks that require learners to integrate and utilize their system,procedural and strategic knowledge25.Based on an analysis of nuclear engineering practice, we identified five common applicationsof nuclear science. These problem domains

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

of systems containing varioustypes of sensors and actuators; these systems can be programmed in a number of differentlanguages, including Robolab (based on the industry standard LabView data acquisition andcontrol software) and an adaptation of C, called Not Quite C or NQC [1]. The microprocessorbased LEGO RCX provides three multipurpose output ports, three multipurpose input ports, anda two-way infrared communications port [2]. The RCX is also known as the “Brick” because ofits shape and for its ability to be integrated into the physical structure of the system being built.The LEGO system is quite robust and allows students with wide ranging skill levels to buildeven complex systems and have them operational in a very short time and with a

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Schulz; Adrienne Minerick

Additional handout • Electrophoretic mobility o Example / Class ActivityThe biographical highlight of Meredith Gourdine is an effective way to draw attention to arenowned and accomplished minority in an area related to the experiment16. It also serves as atransition into talking about the many possible paths one takes to success in life. Some of theindustrial applications described in Farrell's "Exploring The Potential of Electrodialysis" arediscussed in lecture and explored by students in the preassignment19. In addition, the authorshope to continue to integrate such electrical separations modules throughout the MSUcurriculum. Next, the lecture reviews some fundamental chemistry and we talk about applyingthis

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Kowalski; Luke Campagnola; Frank Kowalski

acknowledges that when students write about content, theyunderstand it better and remember it longer. This connection between writing and successfullearning strategies has served as the basis of widespread educational reform movements suchWriting Across the Curriculum, Writing to Learn, Writing in the Disciplines, and others. Thesereforms have positively impacted engineering education across the country, including at ourinstitution11. Although one of the great strengths of clicker technology is that it actively engagesstudents with their learning, formulating an original, written response requires an even higherlevel of engagement with the material. Furthermore, multiple-choice questions do little to helpstudents attain an ability to communicate