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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

are required to develop an electronic portfolio that includessamples of their most important learning experiences, which may be projects, term papers,extracurricular experiences, and internship reports. The electronic portfolio is reviewed andassessed by faculty members on a regular basis to monitor student progress. During their finalsemester, students finalize their electronic portfolio and present their achievements to a facultypanel. The electronic portfolios allow students to document and reflect on their learningexperiences. Integrating learning outcomes into the curriculum provides a mean for faculty toassess the effectiveness of the academic programs.1. IntroductionUniversities in the USA and worldwide are taking a critical look at

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gene Liao

gives an overview of FEA courses or projects that have been implemented inundergraduate curriculum at several universities and colleges. A brief background of theEngineering Technology (ET) Division in Wayne State University is also described.2.1 Overview of FEA Course/Project in Undergraduate CurriculumFEA courses, including theory and software application, have been regularly delivered inengineering graduate curriculum for decades. In undergraduate curriculum, two approaches havebeen adopted in introducing FEA to students: 1) integration with other appropriate courses, and2) term project-based. Since the real benefit in introducing the students to the FEA technology isthe ability to solve more interesting, physically realistic problems in a

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Georgios Anagnostopoulos

programentitled Course, Curriculum and Laboratories Improvement (CCLI-EMD). Thetitle of the grant is “PROJECT EMD-MLR: Educational Materials Developmentthrough the Integration of Machine Learning Research into Senior DesignProjects”. The project partners are two major universities in Central Florida,Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in Melbourne and the University of CentralFlorida (UCF) in Orlando. In addition to the two universities, there are two 2-yearCentral Florida colleges, Seminole Community College (SCC) in Oviedo andBrevard Community College (BCC) in Palm Bay.Project EMD-MLR is a “proof-of-concept” project focused on Machine Learning(ML), whose immediate objectives are i) the development of educational materialin the form of software

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi; Dan Dimitriu

students for an engineeringeducation. The new curriculum was implemented in Fall 2000.EGR 1303 –Exploring the Engineering ProfessionA brief review of previously reported attempts to develop successful programs to attract andretain students in the engineering field shows that a primary objective must involve improvingthe curriculum. The new curriculum should be the primary tool to recruit new students andretain those enrolled beyond their first academic year. One of the studies provided clearindications that freshman and sophomore classes are critical in retaining students in the field ofengineering.[4] Early hands-on projects which involve active learning and student participationappear to be very promising. Many engineering schools introduced

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Dudevoir; Carl Fossa

not normally teach some of thetopics necessary to successfully design less well-defined, “real world” projects. This paperdescribes the evolution of the integrative senior design course in the Electrical EngineeringProgram at the United States Military Academy (USMA). In the early 1980’s the senior designproject in the Electrical Engineering Program at USMA was an individual project completed atthe end of the final electronics course. The design project has since evolved into a two-semesterdesign course with interdisciplinary group projects. Throughout the two-semester course,students work with a dedicated faculty advisor to develop a written project proposal, several in-progress reviews, a prototype demonstration, and a final report. The

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Bazzoli; Blair Rowley

was a three hour per quarter, two quarter course. It had a fall-winter, winter-spring structure. Each first quarter had one 2-hour lecture and two, 1-hourlaboratories per week. The curriculum the first quarter had two teaming events, basics ofengineering drawing, an introduction to instrumentation, resistive circuits involving Ohms andKirchoff’s laws, and integrated circuits used for timers, flip-flops, counters, and an introductionto two of the college programs. In addition the students learned to use HTML to design their ownweb sites and MatLab and Excel to solve statistical problems involving normal distributions.The second quarter had one, 2-hour lecture and one, 1-hour laboratory, and one teaming event.The students were introduced to

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sam Geonetta

programmaticcontext, the standards that provide its foundation, and the content of the course, including keythemes, supporting resources, and activities.Programmatic Context5 The College of Applied Science’s program focuses on IT in its broadest senseencompassing all aspects of computing technology. IT, as an academic discipline, focuses onmeeting the needs of users within an organizational and societal context through the selection,creation, application, integration and administration of computing technologies. IT is anacademic discipline distinct from computer engineering, computer science and management ofinformation systems. IT encompasses software engineering and development, computernetworking and communications, Web technologies, computer

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Constantin Chassapis; Hamid Hadim; Kishore Pochiraju; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard; David Vaccari

Page 10.930.14change related to experimentation which shows the importance of developing the span of each Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationoutcome in the curriculum as illustrated in Figure 4 and Table 7. Additional examples ofprogram changes based on assessment results from a combination of various tools are shown. Table 8: An example of Program changes based on outcomes assessmentSemester/Year Issue Reason Initiated Solution Expanded space, seven

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

thecommittee is: Find as much as possible for each area, e.g., computers, what type of material is being tested. Compare this material against the one present in our curriculum to see if there is a match or mismatch. Page 10.1181.7 Analyze our students’ performance in the FE exam. This should include an inspection of their transcripts to determine which courses they took and when they took them. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Report their findings and

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International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhifeng Kou; Sudhir Mehta

partnershipscan prove beneficial to everyone involved and to the global society as a whole.Inspiration, innovation, empowerment, inquiry, and life-long learning should be an integral partof a curriculum design. Such pedagogies are absolutely essential in the global economy, becausethey prepare students who can start contributing quickly at their work places, as well as insociety. One such program that has been initiated at NDSU is described below.Need for Bringing Global Perspectives in Higher EducationThe National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) formed atask force of 20 scholars, educators, and policy makers, which included university presidents,chancellors, and provosts, to study an internationalization aspect of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Hladysz; Robert Corey; JASON ASH; Glen Stone; Dale Skillman; Charles Kliche; Larry Stetler; David Dixon; Larry Simonson; Stuart Kellogg

rigorousassessment process has been used since 2003 to drive curricular changes and to asses theeffectiveness of the program objectives [18-19].GES 115 curriculum has also been incorporated into a larger campus initiative aimed atimprovement in both student learning and retention beyond the 1st year. Each fall, 2 of the GES115 sections has been linked to 2 English 101 sections. Although links between these courseshas not yet been achieved at the curricular level, it has been viewed by students as a positiveexperience. Attendance is almost perfect in both courses throughout the semester (in itself ananomaly) and student teams from GES 115 (which is required) remain seated together in English101 (which is not required). In addition, GES 115 is an integral

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Keith Stanfill

Paper 2005-2287 Expectation Management: Lessons Learned in Establishing a Start-up Multidisciplinary Technology Entrepreneurship Program* R. Keith Stanfill University of Florida Department of Industrial and Systems EngineeringAbstractThe University of Florida Integrated Technology Ventures (ITV) program is designed to provideengineering and business students with an intense, immersive entrepreneurial experience.Participating students learn the entrepreneurial process as members of a virtual company led by aserial entrepreneur who acts as a volunteer CEO. The company is composed of a CEO

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Panhans; Joseph Musto; William Howard

likely well covered in most accredited undergraduate mechanical engineering programs, thejudicious selection and application of such tools, the critical interpretation and verification ofresults, and the proper documentation of the procedures used are important topics that must beintegrated into programs. Perhaps the biggest challenge facing the inclusion of computationaltools and information technology within an undergraduate program is integration. The era of thestand-alone “computational methods” class and the assigned “computer project” is waning;students must be expected to recognize the need for computational methods in all courses acrossthe curriculum, and select and apply computational tools wherever and whenever appropriate.Student

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald; Scott Starks

, student became familiarized with the various components(resistors, capacitors, inductors, integrated circuits, etc.) that comprise the electronic device. Theexercise strengthened laboratory skill of students such as reading and understanding electronicschematics, determining resistor values, and soldering components on a printed circuit board.Lastly students gained an appreciation in how empirical data is recorded, analyzed and modeled.3.3 Protein Crystal Growth ExperimentBiotechnology is an area whose importance in addressing problems in health, agriculture, and theenvironment is expected to increase in the future. For several years, the Texas Space GrantConsortium has sponsored a State-wide Protein Crystal Growth Experiment as a means

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Anthony; C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

measure the outcomes a new disciplineachieves with its graduates? Many programs have been and still are in transition. How do youobtain credible feedback as to whether the program meets the defined objectives especially if thestandards are still evolving? How does a program use this feedback to modify the program andthe objectives so that changes add value to future graduates?CAC programs have traditionally also had a “model curriculum” which, while not officially partof the accreditation criteria, creates expectations for computer-oriented programs.This paper will discuss how these key issues are related and present organizational mechanismsfor completing these requirements.1. Introduction Assessment is an ongoing process aimed at

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Head

engineering education. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Jennifer Courtney is an Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at Rowan University and received herPhD from Purdue University. Her interests include gender and communication and information literacy.Kevin Dahm is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his Ph.D. fromMIT and his B.S. from WPI. Among his areas of interest are computing and process simulation in the curriculum,and integrating economics and design throughout the curriculum. He has received the 2003 Joseph J. Martin Awardand the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell; Joseph Cecere

thehigh school to college. Although similar arrangements may be common between othercolleges and high schools, this program is unique in that the Penn State Harrisburgcourses are taught at the high school during the day and integrated into the student’s classschedule. This allows a senior to complete their high school requirements and attendPenn State Harrisburg as a college student at the same time. Typically, over 25 Hersheystudents per year, start their college experience at Penn State University. This programgives these students an early opportunity to start their Penn State course work while stillcompleting high school. However, the program is not just for students bound for PennState. If the high school student chooses to go to another

Conference Session

Systems Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Widmann

involves the design, testand construction of a solution to an industrial sponsored problem. In their SeniorCapstone Experience the students will also be working in teams. As taught by the author, the ten weeks of laboratory experience focus on thecompletion of two team-based projects: one involving the design, building and testing ofa small electric-powered machine and the other a “paper” design of a complex systemrequiring the integration of sub-systems designed by different teams. The use of teams isconsidered essential not only to the successful solution of the problem at hand, but to givestudents experience working on teams to create successful designs. It is widelyrecognized that teaming skills and experience are desired by the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Carter; Catherine Brawner; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe

demonstrating the importance of lab reports to the undergraduatescience and engineering lab experience, instructors are likely to minimize their use. Lab reportshave been replaced with fill in the blank labs, reports that are worth only a token number ofpoints towards a final grade, or excluded altogether. The LabWrite project has been developingonline support materials to promote and support undergraduate lab report writing. A NSF-CCLIfunded project, LabWrite is a web-based tool containing both static pages and an interactive tutordesigned to support the lab report writing experience from before the student enters the labthrough reviewing the graded lab report. Integral to LabWrite is a set of training materials for labinstructors, both faculty and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Robert Poth, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Robin Little, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

, andimprove the use of mathematics and the understanding of science among its students byintegrating mathematics, science, and engineering design within every subject and across eachgrade level at Jamerson Elementary.D.L. Jamerson’s overarching goal is to present required standards-based curriculum as a learningadventure that is enriched by applying engineering skills (integrated knowledge of mathematics,science, language, history, and the arts) for problem solving and higher order thinking at theappropriate level in all classrooms and subjects. The execution of its curriculum is not theproduction of a collection of miniature things like pyramids or volcanoes. Nor are Jamersonstudents in the gadget, robot, widget, and/or thing-a-majig creation

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

D'Arcy Randall; Hillary Hart

class, perhaps, instead of simply online as an e-mailthread. For some lessons the path through these stages would branch in different directions,depending what the instructor felt would be most helpful to students.Developing the lessons as web-based stages convinced us also to add an instructor-based “side” Page 10.1470.3to all the modules. Since the goal of the project is to create an undergraduate curriculum inengineering ethics, we wanted to make the lessons as usable as possible for different styles ofProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright©2005, American Society for

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Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Atanas Serbezov

project.Heat and mass integration help the students better understand the systems level interactions in aprocess as well as providing a framework for analyzing and improving processes. Students areexpected to apply these tools in their project work as appropriate. Finally, a module on batchdesign process addresses challenge 3 and lays the groundwork for interested students to furtherpursue a grassroots project in this area.Concurrently, the students are working on a large, open-ended process improvement project. Theproject begins as an exercise to review capital costing methods from the previous course andintegrate that with economic analysis. The students are then informed that based on theirrecommendation, the plant has been built, and they should

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cheryl Willis; Susan Miertschin

Xanga to createtheir own blog. Then they join a blog ring that the instructor sets up for a particular‘controversial’ current issue. Each student posts commentary to their own blog and reacts topostings made by other students. This activity is information sharing, but it is not collaborationthat is directed toward the achievement of a goal.As early adopters of an emerging technology, the Tablet PC (TPC), Information SystemsTechnology faculty began to integrate Tablet PCs into the undergraduate curriculum as early asFall 2003. The College supported the establishment of the mLearning Lab, a powered carthousing 30 Toshiba Tablet PCs. In the freshman information literacy course, the mLearning Labis used to help students develop skills required of

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

outcomes arerealized within the curriculum, and thus the mapping from the program outcomes and ultimatelyto the program curriculum becomes important. An effective assessment of the program outcomesincludes an analysis of the correlation of the program outcomes to the minimum course set thatcomprise the program curriculum.At Gannon University, we correlate the individual course objectives of all required electricalengineering courses to the program outcomes. With this correlation of each course’s objectivesto the program outcomes in place, we have a plan for how the program objectives will be met Page 10.1429.2within the curriculum. Thus, one

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

begin choosing their electivesfrom different specialization areas.The Bachelor of Science in Computer Science program was one of the first Bachelor of Scienceprograms implemented at UVSC in 1993. The program’s goal has been to provide a qualityprogram that meets accreditation standards while providing the students with a skill set thatallows them to succeed in computing careers.2 Since our school does not offer a stand alone fouryears engineering program, the computer science department curriculum contains an area ofspecialization in computer engineering.Computing Curriculum – Computer Engineering draft 20043 specifies eighteen knowledge areas;sixteen of which relates directly to Computer Engineering and two relate to mathematics(probability

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John R. Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

there is more freedom to incorporate their own knowledge and experience into the solution. Engineering has been a huge motivator for the students to put forth an effort with TAKS so they may participate in these other activities. TAKS scores on the science tests across the state are extremely low. Science has usually always taken a back seat to reading and math. Looking more closely at the scores, it is also apparent that the physical science strand is the worst performed. Teachers typically stick to the areas that they are comfortable teaching. Life science is where most of the curriculums start so these areas are covered before the crunch of test time approaches. Earth sciences are fun and the

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dean Schroeder; Doug Tougaw

-based leadership • Environmental stewardship • Managing with technology As a result of these emphases, the Valpo MBA program has been very successful at attracting engineering graduates to the program, with as many as half of the students in many classes having an engineering or technical background. The MBA curriculum is broken into three sections. Up to 14 credits of foundation courses are required for students without a business background, followed by 26 credits of core courses taken by every students in the program, and finally 12 credits of electives chosen to complement the particular student’s interests and career needs. The following three courses provide an introduction to values-based leadership, environmental stewardship

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Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sudepta Shabhag; Martha Cyr; Bonniejean Boettcher; Bree Carlson

school and high school educators need to increase their technicalbackground in engineering and ability to integrate the engineering design process into theirclassrooms. This need is driven by the statewide curricula [2] and a high stakes testing systemimplemented throughout the Massachusetts public pre-college educational system [3]. Thetesting system assesses student knowledge in various areas of the state based curriculumframeworks and is known as the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS).The MCAS tests include a technology/engineering section that is presently assessed for studentsin grades 5, 8 and 10.In an effort to support this need, a program entitled Pre-college Engineering for Teachers wasstarted in 2002 by Tufts

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacklyn Wheeler; Carolyn Parker; Julia Ross; Taryn Bayles

, the curriculum is flexible andcould be implemented across several courses or integrated into a single design-oriented course.Each interactive learning module will focus on engineering decision-making while exposingstudents to “real world” engineering problems and applications. The modules integrate hands-onactivities with an inquiry-based approach that concentrates on critical thinking, problem-solvingand conceptual understanding.A total of five modules will be developed: Engineering in Health Care, Engineering in Flight,Engineering and the Environment, Engineering in Communications and InformationTechnology, and Engineering Energy Solutions. Each module will follow a similar “template”,beginning with a short video of practicing engineers

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins; Ambrose Barry; Nan Byars

. Electronic submission of work was also utilized, again with no problemsexperienced. Portions of assignments frequently required accessing a website and downloadingfiles, which also wasn’t an issue for this group.A final disturbing development was the numerous cases of academic integrity violations. This isa larger issue that deserves additional study and comment beyond the scope of this paper.Delivery Options – What Worked and What Didn’tThe class was scheduled in a computer laboratory with workstations for each student. It wasequipped with a white board and an instructor’s workstation that was mirrored on monitorsthroughout the room. Numerous delivery techniques were attempted with varying degrees ofsuccess.Initially, faculty would lecture at the