Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jo Howze; Jefferey Froyd; Kristi Shryock; Arun Srinivasa

that design projects must followto help students build tighter connections among the three subjects. A comprehensiveassessment and evaluation plan has also been designed and implemented. This paper willdescribe the integration mechanisms, project specifications, and systems to address study skills,as well as data that has been collected and analyzed to date. Future assessment plans andstrategies for expanding the program for more students and extending it to two additional first-year engineering tracks will also be described.IntroductionFirst-year engineering curricula have been identified as significant opportunities to improve four-year engineering curricula, and many institutions have addressed the opportunity in differentways. At Texas A

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wang

competitive strength is itsassurance that it will be able to meet these challenges, but it cannot stand still. Withoutcontinuing progress, the nation will suffer setbacks that might have been avoided had moreprofessionals possessed the requisite knowledge to understand larger issues and contexts. TheMinistry of Education (MOE) of Taiwan, in response to the challenges of the new century, hasproposed new directions for the development of higher education to serve as the basis for theadministration of higher education. Among these initiatives, the arts and the humanities havebeen re-emphasized in universities’ planning and development processes (MOE, 1998). Because Taiwan faces unprecedented challenges of economic and social transition and aclear need

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; P.K. Imbrie; Tamara Moore

% (57%) 7% (8%) disciplines. I have talked with someone or have seen a presentation (or show) that has 3% (4%) 13% (8%) 22% (27%) 45% (44%) 17% (17%) captured my imagination about the engineering discipline I have chosen. For the engineering field I am currently planning to pursue, I believe I will have 35% (28%) 43% (41%) 14% (21%) 5% (8%) 3% (3%) little interaction with people from other engineering disciplines. I believe to be a successful practicing engineer I will have to know a little 3% (3%) 9% (9%) 24% (33%) 40% (39%) 24% (16%) about a lot of things rather than a

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Muci; Jonathan Weaver

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationstudents need to have a good understanding of the process, methodologies, and tools commonlyused in industry to design and develop products, good written and oral communication skills, theability to work in an effective and efficient fashion in multidisciplinary teams, good planning andtime management skills, an understanding of ethical and societal issues, and the list goes on.Also, they must be exposed to meaningful practical experiences that closely resemble the “realworld” practice of the engineering profession. In this regard, two approaches that have beenwidely used to provide undergraduate

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael E. Hay; Recayi Pecen

mechanical improvements included; better propeller shaft alignment, a new motor mount andusing a new propeller shaft with more efficient sealed bearings.The team planned activities through a Gantt chart schedule that required testing to start severalmonths in advance of the competition. This was to assure adequate time to find systemweaknesses and address them with time to spare prior to the June event.Details for Meeting these ChallengesThe lighter the boat and its’ contents, the less water it displaces. This displaced water equates todrag in moving the boat through the water. Therefore, it follows that a lighter boat has less drag.The motor mount, steering bracket and control panel were rebuilt out of aluminum. This savedseveral kilograms. The

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Rohrback; Donald Carpenter; Lisa Anneberg; Andrew Gerhart

through expanded K-12 outreach events. This issue was addressed atLawrence Technological University by hosting “exploration days” on campus. The premisebehind these events is to give high school students the opportunity to explore engineering on ourcampus, thereby bringing them to “engineering” instead of taking engineering to them.Currently, there are two types of exploration days at Lawrence Tech, a general EngineeringExploration Day and focused program exploration days (for example, Civil EngineeringExploration Day). These events are joint partnerships between the College of Engineering andthe Office of Admissions. Engineering faculty plan and conduct the hands-on technical sessionsassociated with the events, while the Office of Admissions

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

teaching and learning when it is integrated with other subject matter?" and "what are someimportant things to consider when attempting this sort of integration?" The evidence needed toanswer these questions is ultimately to be found in student learning outcomes. This, however, isnot the only source of evidence. How the integration of engineering into other content areasaffects teacher thinking and behavior also speaks to these questions. The planning and teachingof a novice teacher, as told in her own words, is the focus of this paper. The teacher is workingin the subject area of science, more specifically she is teaching ideas about scientific reasoning tomiddle school students. The instructional approach she follows relies on ideas from

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

teaching and learning when it is integrated with other subject matter?" and "what are someimportant things to consider when attempting this sort of integration?" The evidence needed toanswer these questions is ultimately to be found in student learning outcomes. This, however, isnot the only source of evidence. How the integration of engineering into other content areasaffects teacher thinking and behavior also speaks to these questions. The planning and teachingof a novice teacher, as told in her own words, is the focus of this paper. The teacher is workingin the subject area of science, more specifically she is teaching ideas about scientific reasoning tomiddle school students. The instructional approach she follows relies on ideas from

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Laura Wesson; Bill Elmore; Norm Pumphrey; Kelly Crittenden

, strain and somecommon modes of failure of structures such as buckling. To demonstrate these concepts, basictrusses and evaluation methods for these trusses were discussed. In addition, the students wereguided through the construction of several simple trusses. During the discussion of forces andequilibrium, the concept of X and Y components of forces was discussed. The students showed abasic understanding of equal and opposite reactions, but were not comfortable with determiningX and Y components of a force using trigonometry.After the introduction to structures, the class built and tested a variety of small trusses. Thetrusses were built from to-scale plans distributed by the instructor. The students were dividedinto teams of four and each team

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

their current plan of study; if allstudents were required to participate in the programming of their robots, then these students wouldhave an opportunity to learn as well.In the student post-class surveys, it was also becoming evident that the 21-person divisions allowedfor significant non-participation by many students as the semester progressed. Though theparticipation of the students were measured with an anonymous student-generated “peer review,” theproblem persisted. Not only were students managing to go through the class with less contributionthan other students, but the outstanding students were becoming discouraged by their less-performing teammates. It was also noted that not all the non-performers were lazy or uninspired;many were

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Pezeshki

outsourcing is a businessstrategy, which may or may not be successful in the long-term. He added emphasis thatthere would be no way that successful employers could completely expect universities todo the type of education necessary for training young engineers in global techniques.Employers would still have to shoulder the majority of the burden.Joe Hoffman, Corporate Vice President in charge of Strategic Planning for L-3Communications, had a different perspective regarding outsourcing in general, and the Page 10.1011.2Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education 2005 Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

and economic agents of community.The council plans to accomplish its goals through:-Currents Conferences;-Planning segmented and united actions among schools for the development of projects ofinternal and external community interests;-Interchange programs; Projects e researches of supporting;-To work for the creation of conditions and the means for updating, development and thepermanent re-qualification of professionals of the several areas of human knowledge;-And other means appointed by the Council or by an authorized organ.It is a council, which works have the goal to enhance and to maintain relations betweenuniversities, institutions of education, enterprises and the society of the several countries for thediscussion of education

Conference Session

IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter; David Elizandro

Page 10.185.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 3. Integrated Project Assignments. Course Focus Assignment Reverse engineering, value engineering, Identify component parts and find value engineering and engineering opportunities. Order parts if needed. economy Develop an operations process chart and plan for Charting product assembly and inspection

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Westbrook

below.Attribute 1, Goals - 1Attribute 2, Support - 1Attribute 3, Peer Support - 3Attribute 4, Access to Technology - 3Attribute 5, Support of “Godfathers” - 1Success Environment Measure – 9Conclusion: low probability for success.Case 2In the early 1990’s, the Industrial Engineering Department of Central South University wasstruggling to survive. Enrollment was declining. Two of the ten full time faculty members had left.Contracts and grants were lower than other departments and were declining. There was talk of mergingthe department with Mechanical Engineering, which both departmental faculties were against, or closingdown the department entirely. The Dean agreed to a plan developed by the IE Department. The planincluded hiring a new faculty member with

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erin Cejka; Chris Rogers

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”of engineering, it is quite possible that the way teachers will most effectively learn aboutengineering is quite different from the methods that have proved successful with students.Teachers and DesignThough there has been much research done about students engaging in open-ended engineeringdesign problems 46,47,48,49 and some research about preservice teachers 50,51, there seems to be noresearch about inservice teachers in this area. Campbell McRobbie, Sarah Stein, and Ian Ginns’research with preservice teachers provides the most useful insights for the proposed research.Preservice teachers defined their tasks and stuck with their general plan throughout the activity52.This is in contrast

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sanders; Sanju Patro

differences, exchange of scholastic and business experiences, andcommunication skills must be considered.We plan to capture the students’ experiences from different countries and use it as a marketingtool for recruiting new engineering students. The project experience will also provide graduatingengineering students a unique advantage in demonstration their exposure to global teamenvironments to potential hiring organizations. Finally, we will provide a clear process forcreating this opportunity at Kettering University by special assistance from WebEx Corporationand Cordys Corporation through the use of their communication and business collaborationplatform technologies, respectively[1].The Global Collaboration InfluenceThe inevitable evolution of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Lynn Alpert; Jacqueline Isaacs

plan tooffer a new course focusing on worker health, safety, and regulatory issues to undergraduates inthe physical sciences and engineering; faculty teaching a course on engineering ethics havestarted to incorporate nanotechnology cases; a faculty member in English has even added acritical review of nanotech science fiction dystopias to his popular course, "Monsters, Apes, andNightmares.”Secondary School Education in an Emerging Nanotech World"We must educate people on what nobody knew yesterday and prepare people in our schools forwhat no one knows yet, but what some people must know tomorrow." - Margaret MeadThe crunch in university engineering curricula would be relieved of course if students werebetter prepared going in. We have already

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Masciadrelli; Nicholas Massa; Gary Mullett

learningstrategies, metacognition deals with knowledge about one’s self as a learner, the task at hand,and the most effective learning strategies for a particular situation (i.e., metacognitiveknowledge), as well as how learning is monitored, organized, and reflected upon as the processcontinues9, 33 (i.e., self-regulation). Researchers34, 35 argue that metacognitive learners are morestrategic in their learning and perform better than learners who do not employ metacognitiveprocesses. Metacognitive ability is responsible for how individuals plan, sequence, and monitortheir learning in a way that directly improves performance9. Bransford8 et al. cite numerous

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Murray

comparedifferences in attitudes, behaviors, and academic results. Comparisons are also made toother sections of the same course in previous years.Introduction In the movie Mona Lisa Smiles, Julia Roberts portrays a new art history instructorat a private women’s college. She begins her first lecture in an introductory class and isshocked that the students already know all of the works of art she planned to present thatday. As she becomes more and more flustered, one of the students reveals that they havealready read the entire textbook. At first, this sends Julia’s character into a tailspin, butshe recovers and develops a richer course that she and the students both enjoy and learnfrom. Many of us would argue that this is Hollywood fantasy, not any

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

aregiven a “plan of attack”, where a set of prescribed experiments are given, data collection isrequired, and results are compared to the theoretical standard to determine how accurate orprecise students were with respect to the “right” or theoretical answer. The second type oflaboratory experience is the design. Students are given a design goal or objectives, and little orno supporting information on how to design. This is almost equivalent to dropping students inthe deep end of the pool without teaching them how to swim.There is currently a large gap between these two types of laboratory experiences. In the firstexperience, students are focused on how to get the equipment to give them the answer that mostclosely resembles the lecture material or

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janice Duy; Scott Dunning

Windows system planned as the web server. This seemed to be themost logical choice at the time since multiple simultaneous requests to the server wereanticipated. By using applets, which run entirely on the client machine, the processingpower of the server would not be needed to perform the calculations required inprocessing user data; processing would be done on the client computer. This also madethe program platform- and browser-independent, since all that was needed was a Java-enabled browser.The application was built and installed on an internal server, then tested in accordancewith the goals outlined above. Figure 2 below is a screen shot of one of therecommendations from the Workbook

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

S. C. York; Tamara Knott

describes annual EDGD freshman design challenge, details Virginia Tech’sparticipation and success in the event and encourages more participation by our sisterinstitutions. The role of the ASEE contest within the Virginia Tech first-year engineeringprogram is discussed. Details of the planning, implementation, and costs for the constructionworkshops are provided and tips for conducting similar workshops requiring only limitedfacilities and funds are provided. Finally, the success of the workshop is evaluated via a studentsurvey.BackgroundDesign projects are commonly used at all levels of undergraduate engineering education to teachengineering design, graphics communication, and teamwork. Projects offer an opportunity to putinto practice the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry O'Connor; Dan Dimitriu

Session 2005-229A STRATEGY FOR SUCCESS: THE EDGE PROGRAM IN THE SECOND YEARDan G. Dimitriu, Jerry O’ConnorPhysics, Engineering, and Architecture DepartmentSan Antonio CollegeThis paper presents the results and the lessons learned from the second iteration of the EDGESummer Program that was initiated in 2003[1]. This project was funded by the AlamoCommunity College District Foundation and the National Science Foundation, with additionalsupport from the ENLACE Foundation. Plans for the next program in Summer 2005 are alsooutlined.Recruiting and retaining students is a persistent challenge for engineering educators in almostevery engineering program. Many universities and colleges have been using a broad range ofoutreach programs to introduce

Conference Session

Issues of Building Diversity

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carla Purdy; Mara Wasburn

Diversity in Engineering Education--What Are the Perceived Issues? Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati (carla.purdy@uc.edu) Mara Wasburn, Purdue University (mwasburn@purdue.edu)AbstractAt the Annual ASEE Conference in June 2004, three ASEE divisions--the Graduate Division,Women in Engineering, and Minorities in Engineering--co-sponsored a panel session on"Recruiting and Building Diversity". In this paper we summarize the issues raised by the panelmembers and by members of the audience in June 2004 as an introduction to a further discussionof diversity, along with a plan for action, by leading engineering educators. Issues of concern atthe 2004 session

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University

truss configurations and analysis results. Structural material was standard manila filefolder; connection strength was provided by wood glue. Span length was 25 cm; service-levelstrength was associated with a mid-span application of 6 kg, and the minimum factor-of-safetyfor design was 2.Figure 3: Experimental Strength Determination. Figure 4: A successful bridge.By the end of the project, students were expected to be able to: • Conduct experiments, collect and analyze data to develop empirically-based design models for structural members. • Design a model truss bridge to meet a set of design requirements. • Construct a model truss bridge, consistent with their set of plans and specifications. • Analyze and Assess

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

informedpurchasing decisions for their program and institution.Follow-up surveys from fifteen of the twenty-one educational institutions represented atRF Plasma Technology workshops in 2003 and 2004 provided the following information • Fifty-five students at three institutions used the materials during Fall term/semester of 2004. • Three workshop participants are not teaching during the current academic year. • Eight of the institutions will be using some or all of the materials during Winter term or Spring term. • Two institutions do not include plasma technology in their curriculum, nor have future plans to incorporate material on plasma

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

effective it must have clearvisions. Assessment is a key part of this vision. The good teachers constantly assess how theirstudents are performing, gather evidence of the progress and problems, and adjust theirinstructional plans accordingly. The students in the construction courses continuously participatein group assessment, giving the instructor an opportunity to adjust the goals and instructionmethodology. For example, in Construction Methods and Materials course, repeated referencesto lack of adequacy of the textbook promoted the instructor to provide additional handouts andincrease frequency of short lectures and subsequently change the text in the following semester.So assessment in true sense is not only the evaluation of performance of the

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Youakim Kalaani

Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIII. Design of the ProjectA plan of procedure including approximate dates of implementation is given in Table 1 below. Date Course Curriculum and Project developments affected February TECH175/175A 2005 Introducing a chapter about renewable energy technologies and student activities to identify various system components and learn how to collect data and perform/read instrumentations. March TECH270/270A Student Projects to collect real-time data streams via the Internet. Students will be 2005 asked to examine and analyze on-line

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Stuart

credit options.Students would need to approach the instructor and inquire about potential project extensionsthat would provide them with their extra credit points. The class discussion focused on the factthat many of the CE students were interested in areas other than the environmental field and thatI would like this project to have some applicability to them. Students interested in structuralengineering could design plant buildings and foundations, students interested in constructionmanagement could do materials planning and project scheduling, and the environmentalengineers could still design sludge treatment units or do advanced wastewater treatment.The most recent class to complete the course was in the summer of 2004, where 5 teams of

Conference Session

New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson

safety equipment consistent withcurrent OSHA standards, and documenting the entire machine. In addition the students were required tocontrol all functions of the machine, except for the Emergency Stop, through a PLC.One of the problems encountered in planning capstone courses is too decide how complex the projectmay be and still allow completion in a one semester time frame, while challenging the students andsimulating the type of work that one will encounter in industry. In addition it is desirable to have theproject incorporate some of the more mundane tasks involved in implementing a project in industry suchas wiring and mounting of components. It may be argued that these tasks do not contribute to the bodyof knowledge needed by an engineer