Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder

)Biographical InformationDARIA KOTYS-SCHWARTZ is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and an NSF K-12 Fellow for the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She earnedBS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include thedesign and processing of polymer gears, traditional manufacturing processes and engineering education.MALINDA 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, as well as a former National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellow, she received

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Griffin; Julie Swann; Robert Kirkman; Matthew Drake

provide recommendations for improving ethics in engineeringeducation, such as an integrative approach delivered at multiple points in the curriculum andincorporating discipline-specific context.IntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology requires that engineering programsintroduce students to ethical issues that arise from the practice of engineering [1]. As a result,many engineering departments have recently worked to incorporate ethics into their alreadycrowded curriculum. In this paper, we compare two general approaches to teachingprofessional ethics to undergraduate students, with a particular focus on the effectiveness ofeach mode in improving moral judgment.The College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Carroll; Nael Barakat

a majority of the students,(interestingly, an identical number of students cited each one). These are: 1. honesty and integrity, and 2. safety and concern for the public welfare.Under the first universal, descriptions of this value varied widely in emphasis. Somestudents emphasized the importance of delivering a product according to specifications,not falsifying test data, and other considerations that insure that the customer really doesreceive the product advertised and expected. Others focused more on the submission onone’s own work. These students were more concerned about plagiarism and the stealingand copying of proprietary designs. Among all listing this concern, a slightly largernumber cited the “no lies” aspect mentioned

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John McMasters

computer programs for design optimization required students to be organized into largerteams. However, the efficiency of such teams in the learning process remains a big questiontoday. Radical efforts have included a single design project vertically integrated through the 4-year curriculum, but generally, faculty have tried to address this concern outside the regularcurriculum through “Design-Build-Fly”10 or research-design team experiences.Systems EngineeringThere is huge apparent demand for people with “Systems” training, but no clear consensus hasemerged regarding the balance between core fundamentals and systems engineering in theundergraduate curriculum. At the same time, Systems education has blossomed at the graduatelevel with many tools

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Singer

/tooling. Communitycollege and undergraduate faculty will have the opportunity to receive an immersive “hands on”look at applying this “out of the box” collaborative design or rapid prototyping curriculumbeginning August 2005 at the campuses of Sinclair community College and Ventura College.This weeklong training program will provide an in depth look at how to integrate collaborativedesign into a curriculum, provide training in parametric design software and collaborative tools,and participate in a collaborative design process during the weeklong event. There is also astipend available to help offset travel expenses.Beginning in the summer of 2005 a network of community college design programs will start adesign resource bartering network focused

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Evans; Shekar Viswanathan

engineers design the systems that organizations use toproduce goods and services. In addition to working in manufacturing industries, IEs are vitallinks to quality and productivity in places such as medical centers, communication companies,food service organizations, education systems, government, transportation companies, banks,urban planning departments and an array of consulting firms. IE's educate and direct thesegroups in the implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) principles. Especially"hot areas" include manufacturing, health care, occupational safety, and environmentalmanagement.Supply Chain Management and eLogistics: From small companies to giant global institutions, the concept of integration withinbusiness and between

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Young; John Fernandez

perspective on how a training program might be set up usingreal-world experiences in HCI. Seffah & Metzker18 discuss why HCI training should becomepart of the core curriculum in computer science; they also suggest that training in both fieldsshould be part of hiring managers’ employment criteria for software engineers.Integrating the Software Development TeamsFor a truly integrated process there needs to be an integration of software engineering and HCIfrom start to finish. For example, the requirements gathering process needs to be accomplishedby team members with expertise from both disciplines, continuing through planning, modeling,coding, testing, and deployment. Those with usability expertise will most likely focus on theuser interface

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverlee Kissick; Alysia Starkey; Jung Oh; Judith Collins

withthe emerging, technology-embedded literacies of the future? A small group of faculty andlibrarians have been meeting regularly at our college to consider this question.The IL Group: collaborative course innovationThe IL Group at Kansas State University-Salina College of Technology and Aviation is a groupof four: two librarians and two faculty (English and Chemistry committed to developing a matrixof instructional activities to enlarge the role of IL in the "life of the curriculum”12.Kissick and Alysia Starkey, Library Technology Specialist, had launched an online tutorial oflibrary services the previous year, wanted to make contact with faculty to learn more about therole of the tutorials in student learning, which have been shown to support

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Wiedenman

of the United States Military Academy8. “As the sole institution of higher education inthe nation whose primary responsibility is to educate cadets for career service as professionalArmy officers, West Point incorporates a dynamic, challenging, and integrated curriculum,organized around a set of interdisciplinary goals drawn directly from Army needs.” Further, theUSMA Dean of the Academic Board, Brigadier General Daniel Kaufman, states in his Vision forthe Academic Program that he envisions an academic curriculum that is “dynamic,interdisciplinary, and integrated”9. Within the ME and EE programs, a mechatronics tracksatisfies all of these requirements. Perhaps most important of all the reasons for teaching mechatronics, however, was

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Masciadrelli; Nicholas Massa; Gary Mullett

a pedagogical framework for restructuringengineering technician education. Using an interdisciplinary systems engineering approachgrounded in active learning, real-world problem solving, and metacognitive development, wepresent key strategies for developing and enhancing learner proficiency in engineering technicianeducation.IntroductionEngineering technicians play a critical role in the high tech industries that drives this nation’seconomy. Working side-by-side with engineers and scientists, engineering technicians are the“hands-on” people, responsible for building, testing and troubleshooting simple devices andcomponents to complex integrated systems. Engineering technicians design experiments, buildprototypes, analyze and interpret data

Conference Session

Sustainability Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Bosscher; Jeffrey Russell

understand their role in sustainability.This paper explores one way in which engineers can to be educated in sustainability—service-oriented learning.BACKGROUNDSustainability is slowly but surely finding its way into university curricula. An overview of theprogress from 1992 to 1997 is contained in the report The Engineer’s Response to SustainableDevelopment, dated February 1997, and published by World Federation of EngineeringOrganizations (WFEO). In the US many engineering colleges have developed extensiveprograms with special courses on the environment and sustainable technologies. Internationally,other institutions have also integrated these concepts into their courses.In 1999, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) approved a

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitchell Neilsen

critical.Design and implementation of embedded systems requires a broad knowledge in areastraditionally not covered in any one discipline. These areas include electrical and computerengineering, computing sciences, mechanical engineering, and other engineering disciplines. Asa result, it is very difficult to train students and engineers within a single discipline to effectivelydesign and implement complex real-time embedded systems. Thus, we felt that it was importantto first establish an interdisciplinary framework of structured courses for education in real-timeembedded system design [5]. One of the major goals of this new curriculum is to expose studentsto industrial and commercial quality implementations and bridge the gap between

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Barrett; Marion Usselman

mathematics students will be exposed to an example of a real world scientific example of the importance of data analysis. A GIFT teacher placed in a corporate industrial engineering department spent her summer consolidating and organizing time-study data. She also created databases, executed queries, ran audits and created graphs. From her needs assessment she wrote “I want to place special emphasis on critical thinking and technology because many students fall greatly short in these areas, and they must be proficient in both to be contributing employees.” She expressed a desire to implement a curriculum that is more real world oriented and planed to expose her mathematics students to MS Access

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Kidd; P. Paxton Marshall

the final shows $1000.00 Allocations for Drama Department $3,290.75 Total Project CostsDesign Methodology and Context: Technical instruction was integrated into an introduction to a structured designmethodology using the text Engineering Design by Dym and Little [Dym, 2004]. Teamsengaged in exercises addressing problem definition, establishing objectives and user-requirements, identifying constraints, establishing design functions and specifications,generating design alternatives, preliminary design and test, final design, documentation,and design presentation. Final reports and presentations are available online at:www.seas.virginia.edu/academic/insidethebox/ Class discussion topics included: adjusting to college

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

, intellectual property protection, etc., serving as the focusthrough both weekly faculty-led discussions and an outside speaker seminar. Courseenrollment has been almost entirely engineers. Student teams must organize their ownsemester calendar to produce written reports (progress) as well as oral reports; these arethe basis for grades, as no exams are given. The inclusion of speakers from the start-upworld provides not only factual information but also illustration of the local heroes ofsuch enterprises(4). Vertical integration allows inclusion of sophomores and juniors in this senior-ledformat. These earlier undergraduates agree to contracts (for modest team tasks) with theseniors, who in turn are responsible to faculty advisors. This

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Bradley Jenkins; Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

educational resource for manufacturing related curriculum, content and activities.combined federal, state, and Goal 2: Create for statewide implementation an educational deliverylocal funds in place, the Center System that contains curriculum, content, and technicalis well positioned to meet its programs to support high performance manufacturing withinobjectives. the region. Goal 3: Adapt and/or create needed regional related manufacturing curriculum, content, activities and/or services that cannot be FL-ATE has already

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Johnson; Jason Lynch; Michael Butkus

Teaching Non-Engineers the Engineering Thought Process with Environmental Engineering as the Instrument Jason C. Lynch, Michael A. Butkus, and Marie C. Johnson Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996Abstract Environmental engineering is a broad discipline with seven areas of specialty asidentified by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. Based on application of theenvironmental engineering program criteria, an ABET accredited program’s curriculum requiresstudents to have familiarity with each of these specialty areas. The challenge in anundergraduate program is to provide this

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

sequence are being tested via “gateway exams”. These assessments will providean indication of critical background knowledge deficiencies prior to the sequence andidentifiable subject matter that is not being assimilated by students during the sequence. Thedata can be used by faculty and Peer Master Teachers [PMTs] to provide the foundationnecessary to succeed in the BE curriculum and an indication of where improvements are neededin the subject matter and in the presentation of subject matter. The assessment also identifiesstudents that may need assistance in the transition to the Upper Division. These students arebeing offered a series of tutoring workshops, led by peer master teachers. These mentors arechosen for their ability to impart knowledge

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Radha Balamuralikrishna; Kurt Rosentrater

into engineering technology programs. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition, Session 1348.15. Alford, E. and T. Ward. 1999. Integrating ethics into the freshman curriculum: an interdisciplinary approach. Proceedings of the 1999 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition. Session 2561.16. Marshall, J. and J. Marshall. 2003. Integrating ethics education into the engineering curriculum. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition. Session 1675.17. Davis, M. 1992. Integrating ethics into technical courses: IIT’s experiment in its second year. 1992 ASEE Frontiers in Education

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Rosenstein; Jeffery Donnell; Christina Bourgeois

years (2000-04). In an attempt to find ways to meet the ABET EC 2000requirement, ECE has utilized the two most prevalent pedagogical models of writing instructioncurrently available:• the genre-driven, stand-alone technical writing course offered through the English department, and• the integrated, discipline-specific approach based on Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (WAC) and Writing-in-the-Disciplines (WID) philosophies.Early on, ECE students were required to take a two-credit technical writing course intended togive them the requisite skills needed for the types of discourse they will practice in their majorcourses. This genre-driven, stand-alone course was offered through Georgia Tech’s School ofLiterature, Communication, and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster; Mohan Krishnan; Shuvra Das; Sandra Yost

interplay between mechanical and electrical principles that apply to agrowing number of industrial products and processes. Despite the importance of thisinterdisciplinary area, many of today’s engineering graduates are unprepared to functioncompetently in environments that require them to integrate electrical and mechanical knowledgeareas. In addition, engineers with better communication and teamwork skills are needed toensure U.S. competitiveness in today’s global economy.In order to address this competency gap a team of faculty members (consisting of faculty fromboth ME and EE departments) started work in the mid-nineties to integrate mechatronics-basedactivities at all levels of the undergraduate engineering curriculum at University of

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ficken; Subha Kumpaty

the positive influence of employing laboratorydemonstrations on student learning of System Dynamics concepts. Out of 120 students (in sixsections of 20) that have been introduced to mechanical, electrical and thermal systems vialaboratory demonstrations by the authors and their colleagues in Spring 2004, all contained onlypositive comments. Several commented that the course must be given an official laboratorycredit. It can be safely stated that the incorporation of laboratory demonstrations will continue toenhance student learning of System Dynamics at MSOE. The authors envision a follow-uppaper on the student reaction/feedback and the integration/implementation updates upon teachingthe class several times and assessing the overall impact in

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Hebrank; Glenda Kelly; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

comprehensive inquiry-based lesson plans much earlier thisacademic year (within one month of classroom placement). Mid-year fellow surveys alsoreinforced the value of the hands-on demonstrations early in fellows’ training as well as the highpriority fellows placed on continuing to share and brainstorm lesson plans with other fellowsafforded by the supervised structure of the bi-weekly training meetings, suggesting theimportance of ongoing, year-long training.SummaryInquiry-based instruction has been found to be an important instructional modality for successfulteaching of technology, science and math integrated into all areas of curriculum sincedemonstrated impacts include reductions in gaps between advantaged and disadvantagedstudents in math and

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

ofengineering graphics.Developing the new curriculum from scratch allowed a fresh examination of engineeringgraphics education in the context of today’s computer driven society. One advantage wasavoiding the “we’ve always done it this way” mantra. An additional advantage was theopportunity to examine today’s computer based drawing, modeling, and design tools, and to plana curriculum around them, rather than integrating them into an existing course sequence.Significant thought and planning went into the effort, and included input from several sources.Major decisions were made on several key issues such as: Should any work be done with manualinstruments on the board? Is hand sketching an appropriate topic? Should some level of handwork (board or

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

) program [Ref 2 and 3], the Design Arts (DA)curriculum [Ref 4], the Integrated Business and Engineering (IBE) major [Ref 5] and thecampus-wide entrepreneurship minor [Ref 6-9].B. Focus on standardsAligning curriculum with the Pennsylvania State Academic Standards [Ref 10-13]continues to be the focus of an intensive curriculum review process that includesrepresentatives of all stakeholder groups at Northwestern Lehigh. Futures II [Ref 14] wasoriginally developed to solve the challenge of assuring that all students would meet thestate graduation standards in Career Education and Work, Family and Consumer Science,and Technology Education. Previous to its implementation, student enrollments incourses related to these academic standards were entirely

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pierre Larochelle

Tech was initiated. The purpose of this overhaul was to develop an experiencethat would serve to: (1) prepare students for the ME curriculum, (2) motivate students tocomplete their studies, (3) provide students with academic success skills, and (4)introduce students to the engineering profession. The format chosen to realize this goal isa yearlong sequence of two courses that freshmen take entitled Introduction toMechanical Engineering I (MAE1022 Fall, 2 credits) and II (MAE1023 Spring, 1 credit).This sequence is a project-motivated experience inspired by traditional capstone designcourses. In the fall students are taught basic academic success skills such as timemanagement, study skills, working in study groups, self-motivation, and goal

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Jeff Jackson

the development of nationally competitive grant proposals. Withmany components required for a successful grant proposal, it is important for a potential granteeto develop a set of best practices when undertaking grant proposal writing efforts.The author of this paper has written a successful NSF Adaptation and Implementation grantproposal [1] entitled “An Integrated Internet-Accessible Embedded Systems Laboratory” and asuccessful NSF Department Level Reform grant proposal [2] entitled “Developing a ModernComputer Engineering Curriculum Focusing on Embedded Systems.” The goal of this paper is tosuggest best practices for proposals for people considering writing similar grant proposals.Considerations include properly addressing program

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler

, especially at the high school level, should focus on a curriculum thatlends to practicing the decision-making heurist in the context of any of these attributes. Axis &Allies by Milton Bradley is used as an example to apply the decision-making heurist.Introduction The National Science Foundation funded grant titled, de Vinci Ambassadors in theClassroom, the Galileo Project (NSF Project #DGE-0139307), at the University of Connecticut,aims to bring engineering education and experiences to high school level classrooms andcurriculum. Central to this goal, several curriculum units, termed modules, have been developedand deployed to participating high schools throughout the state of Connecticut. These modulesattempt to integrate some examples of

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark French

offered in response to requests by both students and outsideorganizations. Our students tend to be very interested in cars and often come us with abackground in modifying, racing and even building them. The potential for outsidesupport offered the possibility of creating an appealing course that would link a variety ofsubjects in a rigorous way. The student response was enthusiastic, so we think this is agood venue for highlighting how working with a complex system integrates subjectmatter from the entire curriculum1.Basic Structure of CourseThe course was developed with 12 distinct modules: 1. The Role of Automotive Motorsports in the Undergraduate Curriculum 2. History of Automotive Motorsports

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Rene Reitsma; Martha Cyr; Nancy Shaw; Michael Mooney; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Paul Klenk

should be acomponent of basic literacy? Are you convinced thatengineering can be used as a vehicle for integrating scienceand math in K-12 settings, inspiring today’s youth to be theinnovators of tomorrow? Do you want to incorporateadvances in engineering and technology to spice up thelearning of science fundamentals? Are you and yourengineering students compelled to engage in K-12engineering yet don’t know where to start? Truth be told, doyou dream of a searchable, online collection of classroom-tested K-12 engineering lessons and hands-on activities thatexplore science and math in an age-appropriate, appliedfashion relevant to the lives of youth? If you do not knowfor which math or science that fourth- or eighth-grade