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Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

Page 10.1104.6 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationtechnology, and its goal is to develop leaders who can start high tech companies and make themsucceed.Florida TechStart is designed to be the principal portal in and out of the university for all thosewith high tech entrepreneurial interests. Its deliverables and services include: • Networking, workshops and seminars • Synergistic sponsored programs • Student internship, research and placement support • Linkage to entrepreneurial senior capstone design projects • Regional partnerships for networking and leverage • A

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Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Eric Davishahl; Denny Davis; Jim Lyons; Kenneth Gentili

impact of using this tool is increasing their understanding of theirlearning with respect to the intended learning outcomes. As such, the Team Design SkillsGrowth Survey can support efforts to increase students’ self-confidence in engineering, leadingto better retention of engineering students. For faculty, the greatest impact of using this tool ismeasuring the value-added of different activities in introductory engineering design classes,which can be used to improve course design, provide insight to class management issues, anddetermine the appropriateness of performance indicators. This paper also addresses best practicesfor implementing and expanding the Team Design Skills Growth Survey and extending it toother disciplines.IntroductionThe

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Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Goff; Jeffrey Connor; Jean Kampe

Society for Engineering EducationExercise # 4: On reverse engineering, Toaster Design and Reverse EngineeringTypically used during Lesson 15 of 29Description: In this exercise, students partially disassemble a very familiar electromechanicaldevise, a toaster. In the toaster design we chose to use, control is based on temperature via theresponse of a bimetallic strip designed to change shape (curve) as the strip is heated. Certainly,this is not the best of toaster designs, but toasters so made are relatively inexpensive and do offera wealth of opportunity in terms of design discussion. The understanding of bimetallic stripdesign for use in toaster control mechanisms is also complimentary to a graphing problem weuse on shape memory alloys. Students

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DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein

novice designers.Axiomatic Design is attractive because of its criteria for evaluating designs, its standard formatfor recording design decisions, and its ability to promote team-based discussion about designrequirements and associated design parameters. The case study approach we adopted to answerthe research question that had three main aspects: 1. analysis of completion dates for different phases of the design process by previous senior design teams, 2. distilling key axiomatic design ideas in a toolkit that could benefit capstone design projects, and 3. piloting the toolkit with several senior design teams to see how this impacted behavior during conceptual design and system integration.Through the pilot projects we

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Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2005 Annual Conference

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Theo Brower; Meredith Knight; Chris Rogers

research questions are answered using information gathered as part of theongoing program evaluation of the Robotics Academy. The evaluation is composed ofsurveys given to students throughout their participation in the Robotics Academy as wellas interviews with participants and advising professors. Thus far, the surveys have beentailored to the specific goals of the program rather than being based on standardizedmeasures. While this prohibits comparability with other programs, this allows us to bettergauge the impact of the Robotics Academy experience on the individuals involved. The program has been in place for two years, with excellent reviews from theparticipants. Many cite it as the best experience they had at Tufts specifically because

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First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Scott Moor

are several examples in the literature of wind chimes being used in introductory physicscourses. Baxter and Hagenbuch7 provide a brief but complete discussion of using wind chimesin an introductory physics class. They include most of the important background theory. Theirfocus is to understand standing waves in a context other than the simple vibrating string. Harris8describes a simple set of experiments used in a high school physics class where students examinethe best place to hold a simple chime and the relationship between length and frequency. Oliver9provides a set of instructions for making a full octave set of wind chimes from electrical conduit.This paper outlines the use of wind chimes as a design project in an Introduction to

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Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tori Bailey; Jonathan Gabrio; David Cannon; Helen L. Chen; George Toye; Larry Leifer

Using Wikis and Weblogs to Support Reflective Learning in an Introductory Engineering Design Course Helen L. Chen1, David Cannon2, Jonathan Gabrio, Larry Leifer2, George Toye2, and Tori Bailey2 Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning1/Center for Design Research2 Stanford University, USAAbstract An observation and a pedagogical challenge often found in project-based design coursesis that students see what they have produced but they do not see what they have learned. Thispaper presents preliminary findings from an NSF-sponsored research project which experimentswith the use of weblogs and wiki environments, two

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

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Melanie Thom; James Thom; Dennis Depew

graduates from thetwo programs were considered by industry to be essentially equivalent and therefore theperception of professionalism was essentially equivalent as well. As the emphasis onengineering research science grew, the applied content was frequently moved to technologyinstitutes and programs. This did not diminish the relevance of the applied skills. The appliedtechnology skills were valued by industry as being important to the design success.It is important for technology administrators and educators to understand the negative impact ofengineering education’s inability to reconcile their roles and desires. By pursuing a perceptionof professionalism, engineering programs removed the education of many of the skills whichmade engineering

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International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

ethical responsibility;5. Students are able to engage in life-long learning necessary to advance professionally through continuing education and training;6. Students can succeed in graduate studies in mechanical engineering or a related field if pursued.Some of these objectives may be emphasized to different degrees depending on the program,for example, the importance in an undergraduate program to prepare its undergraduate studentsfor graduate study. However, all of these qualities are obviously desirable for graduating studentengineers to have. The authors will first examine current practices that may be helpful orproblematic for achieving these educational objectives. Potential solutions will be presentedwith each identified problem.In

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International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

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A.K.M. Abdul Quader; Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

in Environmental Remediation under the AirForce FAST Center and are also a part of the 20 million dollar NSF Science & TechnologyCenter on Environmentally Benign CO2 Solvents and Processes. Drs. Ilias and Schimmel aredesignated Lucent Tech Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellow for their work on membrane-basedseparations in pollution prevention and waste reduction. Since 1997, the department has offeredan undergraduate/graduate elective in pollution prevention. Thus, it is logical for NCA&TSU touse its faculty experience in helping BUET with faculty development in the area of pollutionprevention and collaborative research in pollution prevention.III. Partnership AchievementsThe two-year project to establish a linkage program in

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K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patricia Pyke; John Gardner; Amy Moll

engineering professors will often tell a student, “You HAVETO be superior at math to be an engineer.” This statement also implies that you have totake advanced placement math and AP Calculus in high school to succeed in anengineering college. Are these statements really true? And what impact do they have onthe student’s career choice?The authors suggest that it is a myth that students HAVE TO be excellent at math to bean engineer. Clearly math is a very important tool for engineers. All engineers musthave some level of competency at math. However, once students are no longer takingclasses at a university, the amount of math used in engineering positions varies widely.For many B.S. level engineers in the workplace, advanced math is not a regularly

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

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sonia Sanchez; S. Khalid Latif; Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler; Kazem Kazerounian

fundamental subject matter as opposed to merely existing as a tool [11].Principle Aim and Direction for the Engineering Education FrameworksAs stated in the principle aim of EEF, it is our goal “to produce a technically literate society proficient with state-of-the-art engineering tools. To accomplish this end, it is necessary for students in grades 9-12 to develop sophisticated and systematic methods for the exploration, understanding, and improvement of technology. This is accomplished by providing a rich experience in multidisciplinary research, decision making and problem solving which unifies mathematical, scientific, socioeconomic and ethical principles to practical applications.”Since

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Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kemi Ladeji-Osias

, 88(4): 485-500. 9. Mertler, C. A., “Designing Scoring Rubrics for your Classroom.” Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2001, 7(25). 10. Prince, M., Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research. Journal of Engineering Education. 2004, 93(3):223-231. 11. Wankat, P. C., and F. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGrawHill Inc., New York, 1993, https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/News_and_Events/Publications/teaching_engineering/index.html Accessed January 1, 2005.JUMOKE O. LADEJI-OSIASJumoke (Kemi) Ladeji-Osias has been an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Morgan State Universitysince 2001. She received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University in 2000. She

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Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Brunell

students with first hand exposure of real industryprojects, practices and regulations.Additional benefits of this program include the continual interaction between students andpractitioners. Schedules are established and must be adhered to, technical writing and oralcommunication skills are honed while the students become responsible to an outside consultant.This relationship in many cases has facilitated job placement for the graduates of the program.Introduction:With the implementation of ABET 2000 several changes had to be made within the engineeringcurriculum at Stevens Institute of Technology. One of the major changes included revising thecapstone design to accomplish some of the goals set forth in ABET Criteria a through k and meetthe

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Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sheila Edwards Lange; Joyce Yen

collection of best practices for retaining faculty across all ranks. In this paper, preliminary findings from search data, and interviews with department chairs and search committees about their experiences utilizing the recruitment toolkit are presented. The paper focuses on the impact that the recruitment toolkit has had on university searches, reviews the elements of the companion retention toolkit and explores implications for future uses of both on other campuses.IntroductionGiven the changing demographics of the nation, the need to diversify the faculty is wellunderstood by academic administrators.[1, 2] How to recruit and retain a diverse faculty,however, is still an issue struggled with on many college and

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Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gul Okudan Kremer; Madara Ogot

environment to industry by providing designproblems originating from industry, and a setting for graduating engineers to work in designteams. Industry-sponsored projects not only provide a link between practicing engineers andgraduating students, but also give students a deeper understanding for how they will use theirdiscipline specific knowledge and skills in industry. Thus, although a few concerns areraised 11-12, there is overwhelming evidence for the success of capstone design courses thatemploy industry-sponsored design projects 2-10. Page 10.25.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Schildgen; Jon Duff

department’s initial course design: “The senior project is intended to be a culminating scholastic effort or capstone experience. The objectives are to refine skills in communication, research and information retrieval, critical analysis and criticism, and to demonstrate technical competence in each student’s area of study. The senior project is evidence of potential for outstanding performance at the advanced level and is characterized by experimental, theoretical, or developmental work leading to meaningful results presented as a final paper and oral report at the end of the semester.” 5This definition was created as a baseline for gathering attitudinal data concerning senior projectperceptions from three

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Boyer; Taryn Bayles

University ofMaryland Baltimore County. In addition to developing and teaching the WORTHY summer bridge program, he hasbeen a Teaching Fellow for the Introduction to Engineering Design ENES 101 course at UMBC. He is a Meyerhoffscholar at UMBC and has conducted fermentation research with Dr. Mark Marten for the last three years.TARYN MELKUS BAYLES is a Professor of the Practice in the Chemical and Biochemical EngineeringDepartment at UMBC. She has taught Introduction to Engineering Design at UMBC over the last 5 years. Withinthe last two years she has received over $3M of National Science Foundation funding in Engineering Education andOutreach. She has been recognized by her students and peers with several teaching and mentoring awards

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Carter; Catherine Brawner; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe

graduate teaching assistants. Since 2000, LabWrite materials havebeen piloted in institutions ranging from Research I universities to community colleges. Ourexperiences and research have demonstrated the importance of lab reports in undergraduateeducation but have also pointed up the difficulties in successfully integrating lab reports backinto courses.IntroductionCommunicating scientific, engineering, and technical knowledge with clarity and understandingis a critical skill all future engineers need to have. To be able to do so is a literacy benchmarkinstructors strive to have all undergraduate and graduate engineering students meet. Perhaps themost important means for developing this literacy is the writing of lab reports. However, labreports

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasuhisa Komura; Tien-I Liu; Stefan Setiadharma; Akihiko Kumagai

the projectsgenerated so far have been mechatronics in nature including technical elements such as design,prototype fabrication and testing. After having a series of meetings with a possible sponsoringcompany to identify technical needs, the team of faculty members and students submits aproposal to the company. Typically a proposal specifies technical objectives, technical approach,deliverables, schedule, and a request for funds. We are careful to avoid projects which maycritically affect the company’s future business status. We prefer to focus on the type of projectwhich offers the potential to give a reasonable positive impact but no significant business risk tothe company. With regard to the funding, a proposal is usually based upon the

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Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

short answerresponses indicates that both experiences generate a positive attitude toward engineering but thatSL first-year students engaged in higher levels of metacognition and acquired a more completeperception of effective teams.PurposeEducators must fully prepare students in the best practices and attributes of teams. Our graduateswill be expected to contribute in a collaborative environment such that their efforts yield successeither for a competitive advantage or in civic engagement2. Engineering students must acquirethese skills in addition to discipline-specific technical expertise. Unfortunately, a typical studentexperiences a learning environment with high rewards for individual achievement and little or noemphasis on critical skills

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Keller; Jeff Frolik

2004. The key objectives of this course were to: 1. Provide students with a better understanding of the electrical and mechanical engineering disciplines. This objective is key for UVM has historically had ~40% of its entering engineering freshman classified as “Undecided Engineering”. 2. Provide students with an appreciation for the interdisciplinary nature of engineering, while stressing the importance of structured problem solving. 3. Provide students with an opportunity to develop practical skills through self-motivating, hands-on, team-based design activities. These skills are the same as those required by

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Katie Sullivan

of highschool, college and graduate students. The researchers will (1) examine team-membersexperiences in this course to determine if and how the course design can be improved and(2) quantify high school students’ perceptions of college, specifically the University ofUtah and the College of Engineering. ChE is a pilot interdisciplinary service-learning seminar on hydrogen sustainability.It includes 12 University f Utah college students (six from Chemical Engineering and sixfrom other disciplines) and 12 advanced high school students who will be taking the coursefor college credit. The “pilot” nature of this course requires that research be conducted toassess the impact of the course. Currently, the seminar will be evaluated for both

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

Page 10.392.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAlternative solutions come about when brainstorming about potential methods of solving aspecified problem. This task is a concrete application in divergent thinking. Finding realalternatives (not simply strawmen) allows the engineer to contrast and compare various possibleapproaches to a problem in order to select the best tradeoff between various design selectioncriteria and constraints. The existence of valid alternative solutions emphasizes the postmodernidea that there are different, yet equally valid perspectives on the same

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First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Owen; Robert Knecht; Abel Feltes

inversions, during which air aloft is warmer than air at groundsurface, are common in Colorado valleys. An urban heat island, an example of human impact onclimatic conditions, is also well documented for the Denver metropolitan area (Hansen et al).Colorado’s extreme climatic variation and long-term climate change need to be better understoodfor improving land use, urban planning and incorporation into decision making processes acrossthe state. The theme of the Spring 2004 EPICS Challenge was“A Versatile Weather Station.” Over 60 first-year teams Weather Station Design (EPICS) Iin the EPICS program researched and developed thepotential to install weather stations in

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Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Plesha; Gary Gray; Francesco Costanzo

: 1. balance laws (e.g., momentum,∗ angular momentum, energy, etc.); 2. constitutive equations (e.g., friction laws, drag laws, etc.); and 3. kinematics or constraints. On the other hand, it is new in the sense that we are applying it in freshman and sophomore-level mechanics courses. We will close with several examples from statics and dynamics for which we use our approach.IntroductionEngineering courses in mechanics differ from their companion courses offered by physicsdepartments in that, in engineering, there is a strong emphasis on issues concerningengineering standards and design on the one hand and on the acquisition of effectiveproblem solving techniques, on the other. In this paper we focus

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Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hamilton

Interactive Pathway Design for Learning through Agent and Library Augmented Shared Knowledge Areas (ALASKA) Eric Hamilton US Air Force AcademyAbstractThis paper outlines a recently funded NSF-funded effort to integrate three learning technologies(perceptual agents; collaborative workspaces; and digital libraries). Each has emerged andmatured over the past decade and each has presented compelling and oftentimes movingopportunities to alter educational practice and to render learning more effective. The projectseeks a novel way to blend these technologies and to create and test a new model for human-machine partnership in learning settings

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

of two consecutive semesters of senior design classes: MEEN 4310 IntegratedSystems Design and MEEN 4316 Senior Design Project. The first course deals with the designprocess culminating in the paper design with complete engineering drawings and partsspecifications. For the second course, the students actually build and test their designs developedin the first course. Similar two-semester sequence of senior design classes can be found inMichigan Tech1 and Georgia Tech2.MEEN 4310 Integrated Systems Design This is the first course in the two-semester sequence of the capstone design class. Theclass is a three credit hour course with two one-hour lectures and one three-hour lab session perweek. Typically, senior students graduating in

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The Citizen Engineer

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Isadore Davis; barbara waugh; Charles Pezeshki; Lueny Morell; Tom Roberts

engineering programs from a different perspective. That is,ABET EC 2000 was designed to employ the philosophy and practice of continuousquality improvement to engineering programs. Engineering Criteria 2000 call for eachengineering program to identify its constituencies and, based upon their feedback, toformulate the services that each program will provide. The first step is the developmentof program educational objectives – statements describing expected achievements ofgraduates in the early years of their careers after graduation as a result of theireducational preparation. Usually, educational objectives are expectations of graduates’performance after they have left the school and been in the workforce for three to fiveyears. Subsequently, the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University

thisinstitution. The available sample size is small (about 20 students per incoming class) and theprograms are new (first cohort graduate in the 2003-04 academic year). Hence, clear andsubstantive data is not yet available regarding longitudinal impacts of the approach. From priorexperience implementing the bridge-associated projects at another university, it is anticipatedthat there will be significant impacts in both retention of students and of knowledge5.For future implementations, specific budgetary and geometric constraints for the bridge projectswill be adjusted. In the case of the West Point Bridge Design project, some students clearlyspent little or no effort in satisfying the budget. A more exhaustive examination of designoptions will be needed