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Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

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Harry Koehnemann; Brian Blake; Gerald Gannod; Kevin Gary

systems. He is a recipient of a 2002 NSF CAREER Award.Harry Koehnemann is an Associate Professor in the Division of Computing Studies at ASU where he performsresearch and teaching in the areas of distributed software systems, software process, and network-enabled embeddeddevices. Before joining ASU in January of 2001, Harry worked for over ten years as a software developer andconsultant. Dr. Koehnemann earned his Ph.D. from ASU in 1994.M. Brian Blake received the B.S. and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technologyand Mercer University respectively and a Ph.D degree in software engineering from George Mason University.Currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, he has published

Conference Session

Mathematics Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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Andrew Grossfield

ASEEAnnual Conference2. Grossfield, Andrew “What is College Algebra?” Proceedings of the Fall 1998 ASEE Middle Atlantic SectionConference3. Grossfield, Andrew “Mathematical Forms and Strategies” Proceedings of the 1999 ASEE Annual Conference4. Grossfield, Andrew “Mathematical Definitions: What is this thing?” Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE AnnualConferenceBiographical InformationThroughout his career Dr. Grossfield, has combined an interest in engineering design and mathematics. He earned aBSEE at the City College of New York. During the early sixties, he obtained an M.S. degree in mathematics at nightwhile working full time during the day, designing circuitry for aerospace/avionics companies. He is licensed in NewYork as a Professional Engineer

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Krueger; Ted Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

criteria1. Criterion 2 states that engineering degree programs must define a set ofeducational objectives, promote those objectives to external interests, and have in place amechanism to evaluate the success of their objectives. Although ABET was reluctant at first todefine what was meant by educational objectives, recent agreement has resulted in the followingdefinition: Educational Objectives are broad statements that describe the career and professionalaccomplishments that the program is preparing graduates to achieve several years after Page 10.130.1matriculation from the BS degree. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering

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Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

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Linda Scherr; Bevlee Watford

unfamiliar with the process and who want startingpoints.A third workshop, “Forward to Professorship” presented by Catherine Mavripilis (an associateprofessor) and Rachel Heller (a professor and associate dean) was aimed at women who arecurrently or intend to become tenure-track assistant professors in science, engineering ormathematics. Topics of discussion included how to apply and negotiate for a position, makeeffective use of time to tenure, navigate the tenure-track process, secure research funding, get themost out of teaching and achieve a career and home balance in life.The proceedings of each annual conference provide a publication forum for papers. Manywomen faculty engage in gender related research and activities resulting in publications

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tony Keller; Jeff Frolik

). Table 1. Topics for Lecture ComponentWeek Topic Week Topic 1 Course Format / Intro to WebCT 8 Guest Speaker: Engineering Design Process, Brief History of Engineering Case Studies Electromechanical Systems 2 Engineering Design Criteria 9 EE and ME subdisciplines, career opportunities and student organizations 3 CricketSat design and demonstration 10 ASME regional student conference demo 4 Data collection, analysis and 11 Guest Speaker: WSN Applications presentation 5 CAD packages for electrical and 12

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Perrin

from pursuing careers in scienceand engineering.1 Most introductory engineering classes are taught in large, impersonal lecturehalls and rely on the recitation or laboratory portion of the course to fill the gaps in students’conceptual understanding of the subject. The lecture portion usually involves passiveparticipation of the student, spending most of the time mindlessly note-taking without activelyengaging in the material being presented. The emphasis is on memorizing irrelevant coursecontent with no attention to the processes of scientific investigation – prediction, analysis,synthesis, or critical reasoning. Studies have shown that laboratory activities significantlyenhance a student’s conceptual understanding, but there is often a

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Miller; Joyce Pittman; Virginia Elkins; Max Rabiee; Eugene Rutz

University ofCincinnati. He holds a BS in Nuclear Engineering, an MS in Mechanical Engineering and a PE License from theState of Ohio. Mr. Rutz has 10 years of industry experience and 15 years of university-related experience. He hastaught courses in a traditional classroom setting, using interactive video and asynchronously via the web.VIRGINIA ELKINS is currently Academic Director for the College of Applied Science and teaches GenderCommunications, Group Communication and Problem Solving, Psychology of Women and senior Capstoneseminars. Dr. Elkins area of expertise is leadership and career development with special interests in gendercommunications and human development.JOYCE PITTMAN earned her Ph.D. in Education from the University of Iowa. Dr

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Tackett; Cheng-Hsin Liu; Ken Patton

. in Industrial Engineering from Auburn University. Dr. Liu has astrong background in Manufacturing Processes, Automation, Statistical Quality Control, VirtualReality, and others. He is a member of SME, ASQ, and IEEE. He is Certified ManufacturingEngineer (CMfgE) by SME, and Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) by ASQ.Edward Tackett began his career in 1983 with the U.S. Navy, working on several specialprojects for the Chief of Naval Operations including counter-terrorism intelligence. He joinedthe CACT-SD in 1994, specializing in CIM/CIE/IT technologies. Mr. Tackett has demonstratedexpertise in multi-platform network integration, shop floor control systems, CAD/CAMsoftware, Internet/Intranet development, technology planning, and new

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Lawrence Aronhime

inventors willing to work with students 3. Supervise student projects closely to ensure high quality 4. Showcase end of semester presentations 5. Place students in internships at tech transfer offices and companies such as Foresight 6. For student agencies, obtain the support (or at least the benign neglect) of university personnel in career counseling, student life, student employment, legal, accounting, purchasing, risk management 7. Invite members of the local business community to become involved as mentors or advisory board members 8. Strengthen relationships with area incubators 9. Show some success wherever you can, for example from increased student participation in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Charles Dolan

one of the more popular aspects of the firstsemester freshman experience. It has evolved from a “fun activity” to an engineering designendeavor. The paper explores the history of the design challenge and how the challenges aredeveloped. The philosophy of creative problem solving and development of skills associatedwith engineering design are discussed. There are over a dozen sections of the class and teamsare made of students from all disciplines in the college plus non engineering majors. Therefore,students are introduced to multidisciplinary activities early in their career. Assessment activitiesthat are used to judge the effectiveness of the program are presented and the role ofundergraduate peer assistants is explained.IntroductionThe

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry Dupen

spreadsheet computer program.The greatest benefit of these handouts may arise after graduation, when the engineer attempts tosolve a similar problem at work, several years after completing the relevant course. In the future, students will be invited to critique these problem-solving handouts, andrecommend improvements. The experience of editing other people’s work may help the studentsin their future careers in engineering and management.References1. Lawrence Wolf, Statics and Strength of Materials: A Parallel Approach to Understanding Structures. Merrill, 1988, p. 316.2. Ferdinand Beer, Russell Johnston, & Elliot Eisenberg, Vector Mechanics for Engineers, 7th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2004, p. 488.3. R.C. Hibbeler, Statics and Mechanics

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Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

coursework and applications R Responsive As in MR above and presents multiple examples of coursework and clear evidence of applications to the discipline, job, hobby, or later courses HR Highly As in R above and presents many detailed examples Responsive of coursework and applications in career or other activitiesELEC 495 Course EvaluationA course evaluation template is provided to students in each on-line course for courseevaluation. The template consists of 27 questions. Twenty four of these questions employa rating scale ranging from 1 to 7. A rating of 1 denotes “strongly disagree” while a

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

decision making. If students can't articulate these ideas thenthey will be limited in their professional careers. There are also differences, diversity, andheterogeneity that are emphasized in writing in each discipline (Monroe 2003). We shouldprepare students to use this discipline specific type of shorthand and thought process forprofessional writing. We can conclude that faculty outside the discipline can't effectivelycritique the content and discussion within the discipline because of these differences. Faculty inthe discipline should also emphasize the non-technical and open-ended aspects of writing in thediscipline.The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) movementwere both developed to improve student

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Crossley; Melanie Thom; James Thom

traditionally educated engineers butwere required to have been out of school and in career a minimum of five years. They had to becurrently involved in design activities, managers who had performed engineering designactivities in the past, or individuals currently leading design teams. Participants were selectedbased on input from academic and professional experts, chain sampling during the interviewsand personal experience. A total of eleven practitioners participated in the survey. Each surveywas a minimum of 60 minutes long.Each of the participants was questioned on their own perceptions of what skills an individualparticipating in design activities needed to possess to be successful. The participants were notpermitted to stop at broad or vague

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Dees; Megan Perkey; Karen Davis; Nicholas Harth

Instructional Planning). In doing so, I met people with career paths that were entirely different from my own. Still, they taught me about the very deliberate actions that teachers can take to be effective. I also found that I was expected to teach material that I had not seen myself in several years. I did quite a bit of research in areas such as plate tectonics and chemical bonding. While learning these things myself, I discovered a new appreciation for the entire process which influenced my planning strategies greatly. Throughout the year, I learned about how the engineering process can be applied in many different ways. I was able to gather data from students, analyze that data, draw

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shane Brown

what they told me to take, and so advising was a big issue for me. Similar to experiences with faculty during office hours, students reported both positiveand negative experiences with advisors. It appears that early in the students’ careers they hadpoor experiences with their advisors, but as time wore on the experiences improved. Male Political Science Switcher: I was having some problems freshman term and I went in and talked with him and thought he was really helpful giving me advice. Male Mechanical Engineer: I've had a horrible experience with counselors until right now. This last counselor visit was the first time the counselor was nice to me and actually cared that I was there

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

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Naomi Tillison; David Hand

EPSC course structure wasmodified for the 2005 term as described below: • The first class session consisted of a course overview, a pre-test assessment activity, and laboratory safety training. The pre-test assessment activity will provide a basis to measure the change in student skill, knowledge, and behavior as a result of their experiences in the EPSC course. • The next ten class periods will occur in the laboratory setting with the students split into teams of two or three; every team will spend two weeks on each of the unit processes, which include adsorption, air stripping, ion exchange, jar testing, and SBRs. Since students will be faced with open-ended problems in future careers, a real-world

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Teresa Mayes; John Bennett

); Page 10.114.8 c) Performing quality control (e.g., reviewing all self-studies); Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education d) Coordinating with other organizations to obtain/evaluate data (e.g., Career Services, centralized campus assessment office); e) Investigating possible assessment tools; and f) Coordinating/organizing/helping programs get ready.Q. 4 Consistent Approach to AccreditationWhen asked if they employed a consistent approach to accreditation across their programs,twenty respondents indicated that they did not – that departments and programs were free to dowhatever they wanted

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Feick; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

students), perceptions (of students), and extrapolations (of what the future wouldbe). This three-pronged data collection would involve US academics, industry executives andstudents soliciting information in each country from engineers and managers, workers andacademics as shown in Figure 4. As shown in the Figure, while we would be collecting datafrom our counterparts in industry and academia, we also wanted to encourage an informationexchange among all the entities. In addition, participating students kept journals that enabledthem to reflect upon their changing career and voyage expectations as the progressed around thePacific Rim. At the end of the voyage they were encouraged to reassess their professionalexpectations and further reflect on

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Brannan; Phillip Wankat

with respect toteaching/advising/tutoring freshman engineering students.” Information on advising servicesprovided in first-year programs compiled from these open-ended questions is summarized inTables 5 and 6. Respondents often listed more than one comment. Course schedule planningand career planning were the types of advising services most often mentioned, as shown in Table5. Respondents’ comments on how advising is handled are shown in Table 6. The mostfrequently mentioned advising method was department-specific advising. Interestingly, over halfthe department-specific comments were generated in Categories II, III, and VI. Page

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

goodclass. We will focus on the key points necessary to kick-start a teaching career or to begin toimmediately improve a career. Over 300 workshop participants from over 170 CE programs havebeen touched by the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Teaching Workshops1999-2003, the ExcEEd 2004 (Excellence in Engineering Education) Teaching Workshop, andthe NSF funded predecessor “Teaching Teachers To Teach Engineering” (T4E) TeachingWorkshops 1996-1998. This does not include the Mechanical, Electrical, and Chemical facultymembers who have participated in T4E and ExcEEd. Five years of long term assessment datawill be summarized to demonstrate the effectiveness and benefit of these pedagogical basics tothe participants.I. IntroductionThe

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jerome Lavelle; Richard Keltie

Step#1 of the intervention process. Using the form the advisor takes notes and fills out part of Step#1, and then at the end of the meeting makes a copy of the completed form for the student.Appendix 5 (2 pages) is a blank copy of this form.The goal in Step #1 of the intervention process is to get the student to openly discuss “what”might be contributing to their underperformance. This brings ownership to the student. The backof the form delineates several categories or “reasons” for underperformance. These includeAcademic, Decision Making, Life Situational, Medical, Disability Related, Career/Major. Ineach category, example “symptoms” have been suggested to prompt student-advisor discussion.During the meeting, the elements of this discussion

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Whalley; Harriet Svec; Harvey Svec; Teresa Hall

Engineering Field Experience: Industrial Archaeology Studies in England Harriet Svec, Harvey Svec, Teresa Hall, William Martin Whalley South Dakota State University / Manchester Metropolitan UniversityThe practice of engineering could be described as a nascent profession when contrasted withmedicine, law, academia, politics or the clergy. Engineering as a career emerged as recentlyas the 1800s as an outcome of newly created industry-based economies. Today theengineering profession is well established, respected, and contributes to the greater benefit ofsociety. Bringing science, technology and creativity together, engineers conceive solutionsto problems, develop new

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Young; John Fernandez

techniques are expensiveand time consuming, although there are approaches that decrease the cost13. Many softwareengineers recognize (at least off the record), that many of the HCI techniques are useful andappropriate for projects that have user interaction as a major component. Integration betweenthese two disciplines is certainly possible and probably required as software developmentbecomes a more user-centered activity.When potential computer professionals begin training, they start by learning to program in one ormore computer languages. It is not until later in their education that they learn thatprogramming, as interesting as it is, is not the focus of computer science. After graduation, theywill probably spend more of their working career

Conference Session

Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Skylar Stewart; Linda Ramsey; Julie DuBois; Jorge Roldan; David Mills

that participants developed an improved confidence in their ability to score well on thescience portion of the ACT. Finally, the course participants were not the only ones impacted; thegraduate students responsible for the design and implementation of the course indicated that theirinvolvement was personally and professionally rewarding.INTRODUCTIONThe ACTAs any college admissions advisor will tell you, a student’s ACT (American College Test) scorecan have a profound impact on their college career. While an ACT score can not definitivelyindicate how well a student will perform in a college classroom, a good score can open manydoors for success that a poor score cannot. ACT scores are used to determine college admissions,scholarship eligibility

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt

distributed in December 2004 contained additional questions on the level of mentorinvolvement with the students, service learning, and projects with the University of Colorado (atotal of 31 questions). This survey was emailed to the Fall 2003 students and given out in-classto the Fall 2004 students. The advantages of surveying students a longer period of time afterthey have taken the class is the retrospective they have and a real appreciation for what was mostbeneficial as they are starting their careers as practicing engineers. However, the response ratefrom these former students is generally much lower. To avoid double counting feedback from asingle individual since the surveys may be returned anonymously, groups that were previouslysurveyed (2002

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Mavriplis

engineeringfeats helped to keep the interest of a large percentage of the students and provided astructure from which students could explore their own interests in their chosen field ofstudy. These reading assignments and other reflective teaching techniques, non-traditional to engineering, helped to students to develop self-confidence and take a moreactive part in their career plan.AcknowledgementsMany of the ideas for this course, particularly in the self-guided inquiry method were developed by theauthor and her colleague Rachelle Heller, a professor of Computer Science at the George WashingtonUniversity, when they designed and co-taught an Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering ScienceSeminar reported in Ref. 17. That seminar development was funded

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Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Schildgen; Jon Duff

2004 accreditation standards that define learning goals and measure theachievement of those goals (standards 16, 18, 19, and 21) address using external guidance forsetting these goals for degree programs. The AACSB guidelines state, “External constituenciescan inject expertise and perspectives into the process that will be unavailable if the facultyoperates alone.” The study reported in this paper follows the AACSB suggestion that externalconstituencies (in this case, advisory board members) be included. It is critical to survey industryfor current trends and issues that may provide a more practical application of the capstone seniorproject, and ultimately assist in securing career employment for students. The AACSB furtheraddresses an

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kedmon Hungwe; Seyed Zekavat; Sheryl Sorby

their future career, we needed to gather enough information from all non-EE communities,including undergraduate and graduate students, members of faculty and industry. To do that, weneeded to create a survey that covered all possible required topics in EE for all non-EE fields.Hence, we formed a group consisting of faculty members from all engineering areas (EE andnon-EE) at Michigan Tech. The group also consisted of faculty from the Education Departmentand some EE graduate students. We conducted regular weekly meetings out of which we Page 10.196.4identified the main topics and sub-topics in Electrical

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Quinn

experience. Wepresent evidence that the use of these animations has significantly improved the performance ofstudents on exam questions.IntroductionComputer science majors at Oregon State University take a course called Computer ScienceOrientation during the first term of their freshman year. The class meets for about four hours perweek: three 50-minute lectures and one 80-minute recitation. The primary goal of the ten-weekcourse is to introduce students to some of the major concepts in computer science. In this respectit resembles CS100B in Computing Curricula 2001.1 However, the course also has secondarygoals of teaching basic university survival skills, introducing career options, and giving studentssome experience solving problems as members of