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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tapas Das; Project Fellows; Louis Martin-Vega; Liz Hunnicutt; Grisslle Centeno; Geoffery Okogbaa; Cheriese Edwards; Ashok Kumar; Rajesh Ganesan

Education Statistics, "The Nation's Report Card: Science Highlights 2000", NationalAssessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Pub, NCES 2002452, November 2001.[3] School District of Hillsborough County, "Elementary School Key Data", Available URL:http://apps.sdhc.k12.fl.us/public/mainindex/information/Keydata.asp.[4] National Science Foundation, "NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12)", Division ofGraduate Education, Available URL:http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/dge/programs/gk12/.[5] University of South Florida, "STARS", Available URL: http://stars.eng.usf.edu.[6] Centeno, G, Clayton, L, Zekri, S, Otero, L, D, "Innovative modules to introduce advance science andengineering concepts - Phase I", Presentation paper at FIE conference, Savannah

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Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joon Kim; Daniel Biezad

in the Classroom, 1999, The Free Press, New York, New York.2. Feisel, L.D., and G.D. Peterson, “A Colloquy on Learning Objectives for Engineering EducationLaboratories,” Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, 2002, ASEE, San Diego.3. Florman, S. C., The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, 2nd Edition, 1976, St. Martin’s Press, New York,New York.4. Petrosky, H., To Engineer Is Human : The Role of Failure in Successful Design, 1st Vintage BooksEdition, 1992.5. Karp, W. and L. Lapham, Buried Alive: Essays on Our Endangered Republic, Franklin Square PressJanuary, 2003.6. Percy, W. and P. H. Samway, Signposts in a Strange Land, Picador Press, 1992.7. Kettering, M. L., and D. J

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Thompson

2004-05potential for expansion ofthe program to additionalsites around Wisconsin. Year However, asFigure 2 shows, the earlieroptimism about Figure 2. Enrollment over timeenrollment has not been borne out in practice. Since the early 1990's enrollment has droppedfrom a peak of more than 300 to about 200 this past winter. The decline seems to have leveledoff recently, but has left the program overextended: too many classes in too many locations,leading either to cancellations or uneconomical class sizes. Currently efforts are being made to bring the number of classes into line with theenrollment. For example, one

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kerry Kinney; Tricia Berry

GLUE: Sticking with Engineering through Undergraduate Research Ms. Tricia S. Berry, Dr. Kerry A. Kinney The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) isin the third year of developing, managing and expanding a hands-on, seminar-basedundergraduate research program, Graduates Linked with Undergraduates in Engineering(GLUE). GLUE undergraduate student participants are matched by major and interest area witha graduate student for the spring semester. The undergraduate participant works with thegraduate student on a research project three to five hours per

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

effective for certain people but ineffective forothers.”(16) Other models of learning style preferences have been described. The most prominentones are: the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI),(17) the Felder-Silverman Learning StyleModel,(18) and the Dun and Dun Learning Style Model.(19)The MBTI, based on Jung’s theory, has been popular in explaining differences in learning fornormal people. The dimension of most interest for learning is sensing(S) versus intuitive (N)type.(20) The sensing person prefers a straightforward, logical, step-by-step approach to learning.The sensing person often learns by solving problems, and tends to find theory difficult. Theintuitive individual, on the other hand, will skip steps and follow hunches. He/she learns

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Mosborg; Robin Adams; Rebecca Kim; Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman; Jennifer Turns

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt; Jeannie Brown Leonard; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

of Negro Education,59 (3): 463.4. Smith, K. A., & Waller, A. A. (1997). Cooperative learning for new college teachers. In W. E. Campbell & K. A.Smith (Eds.) New Paradigms for College Teaching (p. 185-309). Edina, MN: International Book Company.5. Wankat, P. C., & Oreovicz, F. S. (1993). Teaching engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill.6. Lent, R., Schmidt, J., Schmidt, L., Glouster, C., & Mouring, S. (2004). Relation of collective efficacy beliefs togroup cohesion and performance in student project teams. Paper presented at the American Society of EngineeringEducation (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT.7. Slivovsky, L. A., DeRego, F. R., Zolotowski, C.B., Jamieson, L. H., & Oakes, W. C. (2004). An

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hjorth; Barb Eichler; John Morello; Ahmed Khan

Brain-Based and Constructivist Strategies for Teaching a “Science, Technology, and Society (STS)” Course Ahmed S. Khan Barbara Eichler Linda Hjorth John Morello DeVry University Addison, Illinois, 60101AbstractThis paper describes the application of brain-based and constructivist learning strategies forteaching a “Science, Technology, and Society (STS)” course. Four professors who teach a“Science, Technology, and Society” course at DeVry University have combined

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mia Markey; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

statistics. The discussion board aspect of BlackBoard® was not effectively utilized in BME 335 in fall2004. Using BlackBoard®’s bulletin board feature can facilitate students writing and theirreviewing of peer’s efforts. The inclusion of more opportunities for the students work on writing Page 10.435.15in their discipline would improve BME 335 and strengthen our curriculum. This kind of writingcan help not only writing skills, but writing for learning. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

engineering practice and education.Bibliography[1] Williams, R. Chronicle of Higher Education, January 24, 2003.[2] Olds, Barbara and Ronald Miller, “The Effect of a First-Year Integrated Engineering Curriculum on Graduation Rates and Student Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study,” in Journal of Engineering Education, January 2004.[3] Starrett, S. and M. M. Morcos, “Hands-On, Minds-On Electric Power Education”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No. 1, pp 93-99, January 2001.[4] Higley, K. A. and C. M. Marianno, “Making Engineering Education Fun,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No.1, pp 105-107, January 2001.[5] Seymour, E. & Hewitt. N. Talking About Leaving: Factors Contributing to High Attrition Rates Among Science

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachelle Heller; H. David Snyder; Catherine Mavriplis; Charlene Sorensen

rating of the activities and the entire workshop experience has been verypositive. Several months after the workshop, participants report increased confidence andnetworking, aiding them in their career development.1. IntroductionThe National Science Foundation (NSF)’s ADVANCE program seeks to “increase theparticipation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increasedrepresentation and advancement of women in academic science and engineeringcareers.”1 With this goal in mind, we developed the “FORWARD to Professorship”workshop to address unmet needs of women seeking, interested in or occupying tenure-track assistant professor positions in science, engineering and mathematics (SEM). Thisworkshop was developed from a

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

R. William Graff; Paul Leiffer

polynomials perform as their parameters are varied. Thephenomenon can be illustrated by asking the question: do artists learn to draw by lookingat pictures, or by trying to draw them?8. Technical experienceStudents, in general, have less previous hands-on experience when they enter asfreshmen. In comparison with students of the 1970’s very few have worked on a carengine or taken apart a radio. There are, of course, exceptions, but as the first author,(RWG), asks for a show of hands of how many students have siphoned gasoline orwater, each succeeding year the response is more meager. The authors spend a largeamount of time interacting with students on a one-to-one basis, and have seen a generaldecrease of experience with physical interactions with the

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Bilodeau

frequency w set to 6140 rad/s , the crest field Bset to 10 uT and coil cross section area A set to 4.9 cm^2 ( i.e. the cross sectional area of thewood dowel ) , and the computed result was approximately 500 turns. The students thenwound the solenoid search coil with 500 turns of AWG 30 magnet wire (enamel insulated).The 500 turns encompassed a linear distance of 5 cm, with two layers of overlapping turns.The stray capacitance of this solenoid coil resonated with its winding inductance to yielda resonant frequency in the 250 to 400 kHz band that was measured by the studentswhen first calibrating the B-dot probe ( i.e. a total of 8 probes were made, and all hadresonance somewhere in the 250 – 400 kHz range ). This parasitic resonance was

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole May; Marguerite Mohan; Marco Castaldi; Nada Assaf-Anid

, 2002, p 4593-4600.3. Farley, Earl T. Ernest, David L., Application of power generation modeling and simulation to enhance student interest in thermodynamics, Modeling and Simulation, Proceedings of the Annual Pittsburgh Conference, v 21, n pt part 3, Computers, Computer Architecture and Microprocessors in Education, 1990, p 1275-12794. Cengel, Y.A. “Intuitive and unified approach to teaching thermodynamics” Proceedings of the ASME Advanced Energy Systems Division, 36, 251 (1996).5. Lombardo, S., “Open-ended estimation design project for thermodynamics students”, Chem. Eng. Ed., 34(2),154 (2000)6. Tsatsaronis, George, Moran, Michael; Bejan, Adrian eds. Education in Thermodynamics and Energy Systems, American Society of Mechanical

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

., “Lessons from using TQM in the Classroom”, Journal of Engineering Education, April 1996, pp. 151-156.2. Felder, R.M. and Stice, J.E., “National Effective Teaching Institute Manual”, Proceedings ASEE Conference New Orleans, June 20-22, 1991.3. Anson, C.M., Bernold, L.E., Crossland, C., Spurlin, J., McDermott, M.A., Weiss, S., “Empowerment to Learn in Engineering: Preparation for an Urgently-Needed Paradigm Shift” Global Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 145-155.4. Seldin, P., Changing Practices in Faculty Evaluation, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1984.5. Mizuno, S. and Akao, Y., QFD: The Customer-Driven Approach to Quality Planning and Deployment. Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization, 1994.6. ReVelle, J.B., Moran, J.W

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela Maass; Kesa Black; Heather Storace; Anne Ranes; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

year, 568 (3.5%) women earned Master’sdegrees in engineering out of the 16, 045 total.1 And, 55 brave women (1.9%) were among the2,838 students who earned Ph.D.’s in engineering that year.1 In the Ira A. Fulton School ofEngineering, then known as the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 129 total women(8.5%) were enrolled in the School of Engineering as undergraduates and 32 (4.9%) were Page 10.1263.1enrolled as graduate students that same fall.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

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Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Henderson; Gerald Gannod; Barbara Gannod

6 VIII. Embedded Systems 6 IX. Compilers 5 X. S/W practices 5 XI. Analysis 3 XII. Licensing/Copyright 2 XIII. Project management 2 XIV. IT 2 XV. Technical communication 0 XVI. Business 0 XVII. International

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Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Neal Ninteman; John Natzke

MATLAB are utilized to aid in design. The students learn to enter data directly or program generating equations to create the graphs. By adjusting parameters they can quickly interpret the changes to max and min values, intercepts and trends, etc. to complete the design problem at hand. The skills learned are also applicable to their upcoming lab courses in physics and engineering. For example, one assignment involves using Excel or MATLAB to model a projectile’s path as a function of the initial parameters of launch velocity and angle, and analyzing and manipulating the graph(s) to achieve specified path conditions. • Computer Programming — The programming language of MATLAB is used

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith; Adrienne Minerick

Bacon, Boston, (ISBN: 0-205- 28159-1), 2000.16. Chesler, N.C., P.B. Single, and B. Mikic, "On Belay: Peer-Mentoring and Adventure Education for Women Faculty in Engineering." Journal of Engineering Education, 92(3), 257-262, 2003.17. Glazer-Raymo, J., "Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe." The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, (ISBN: 0-8018-6641-3), 1999.18. Babcock, L., and S. Laschever, "Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide." Princeton University Press, Princeton, (ISBN: 0-691-08940-X), 2003.19. McIlwee, J.S., and J.G. Robinson, "Women in Engineering: Gender, Power, and Workplace Culture." State University of New York Press, (ISBN: 0-7914-0870-1), 1992.20. Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists

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

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

Student in ME – U of M – ERC/RMS2003 - Betsabe Rodriguez – Applied IOE U or M2003 – Leonard Lightfoot – Applied EE – U of M2003 – Deandre Cole – Applied EECS – U of M2003 – Shaton Sanderson – MS Student in Info Sys – U of MThere are no reported recruitment statistics available from other REU programs.However, the SROP program in which our students participate has had impressiveresults. Of the 9,331 students who have participated in CIC summer programs (whichincludes the ERC/RMS Research Experience for Undergraduates students), 952 haveearned graduate degrees. 100 have Ph.D.’s, 625 have measter’s degrees and 227 haveprofessional degrees. You can see from Figure 3 the increase in participation that

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lagace; Earll Murman

. architecture led to evolution in enemy air defense suppression and 50 yrs for other countries manufacturing and design other missions. • Product has been cost effective, reliable, & effective.* Development time defined as program go-ahead to initial operational capability of first model.Case studies from MIT Course 16.885J Aircraft Systems Engineering1. Barter, G, Jonker, K., Poon, A., Tan, D., Weiss, K., “The B-52 Stratofortress: A Case Study”, Dec, 20032. Atherton, M., Klima, K., Plas, A., “DC-9: A Case Study”, Dec, 20043. MacKenzie, S., Parker, D., Patel, S

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Whelan; Sharon Jones

.” One receives “enough technical experience to allow [him/her] to use technology and enough diverse learning to prepare [him/her] for the business world.” The program “provide[s] a good deal of flexibility [allowing one] to tailor [his/her] course of study to [his/her] career interests.” “The non-engineering classes provide a broader education, creating a more well-rounded college experience.” The program also affords the opportunity to double major making a graduate “more marketable in many ways because [he/she will be] perceived as having better than average communication skills. Engineers and scientists often ‘pigeon-hole’ themselves by becoming too specialized and not

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Cynthia Finelli

interplay of psychological, moral and situational factors on Page 10.301.11the ethical decision making of students and professionals alike. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1 Bowers, W.J. Student Dishonesty and its Control in College. Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University, New York, NY. 1964.2 McCabe, D.L. “Classroom cheating among natural science and engineering majors.” Science and Engineering Ethics. 3:433-445. 1997.3 Nonis, S., and C.O. Swift. “An examination

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

. Fuller, S., Philosophy, Rhetoric and the End of Knowledge. 1993, Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.3. Drexler, K.E., C. Peterson, and G. Pergamit, Unbounding the Future : The Nanotechnology Revolution. 1st Quill ed. 1991, New York: Quill. 304 p.4. Dyson, F.J., , and Imagined Worlds. 1997, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 216 p.notesa See 2. Fuller, S., Philosophy, Rhetoric and the End of Knowledge. 1993, Madison: The University ofWisconsin Press., for discussion on the role of rhetoric in Fuller’s approach to the social epistemology ofscience.b For further, detailed explanation see,Introduction to Grounded Theory by Steve Borgatti, available athttp://www.analytictech.com/mb870

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

the needed knowledge and devising ways to answer those questions. • There are multiple levels of discourse and collaboration. • Teacher must recognize the need and readiness for students to move to a higher level of understanding and take advantage often by teaching a benchmark lesson. • Students get to assess the level of their knowledge by tackling the consequential task(s).This study describes a unit devised following the guidelines suggested above. Engineeringserves as the source and inspiration for the context and thinking about the design of thisinstructional environment. That is to say, a major contribution of engineering is in how theteacher thinks about the unit. This study seeks to explore whether this

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

the needed knowledge and devising ways to answer those questions. • There are multiple levels of discourse and collaboration. • Teacher must recognize the need and readiness for students to move to a higher level of understanding and take advantage often by teaching a benchmark lesson. • Students get to assess the level of their knowledge by tackling the consequential task(s).This study describes a unit devised following the guidelines suggested above. Engineeringserves as the source and inspiration for the context and thinking about the design of thisinstructional environment. That is to say, a major contribution of engineering is in how theteacher thinks about the unit. This study seeks to explore whether this

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Whalen; Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger; Bala Maheswaran

Zone” has been designated as a project staging area with tools, materials, and work benches. The Coordinators ensure that the inventory of tools and supplies are stocked, and that a technician is there for assistance when needed. Other facilities responsibilities involve planning for design classes to be held in rooms with tables which may be used in active learning exercises as opposed to rooms with attached desks. Also, any hardware problems in the computer classrooms such as non-functioning computers, projectors not working or other equipment problems are handled by the coordinators• Training the “New Guy(s)” – Each semester, there are two to five additional engineering faculty that are asked to teach one or two

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Armstrong; Donna Riley

of one semester ending and another yet to begin, we decided to give ourvery different classes a chance to develop their disciplinary expertise alongside another’s. Wehoped the questions we heard each other asking would also spur the students to think morebroadly in their research. We hoped by working alongside each other we could develop aneducated respect for disciplines that so rarely talk to each other, even in the tools and skills theyemphasize: Women’ s Studies and Engineering. We saw our classes’ research projects as ameans to develop multi-disciplinary skills rather than inter-disciplinary ones. Despite her enthusiasm, it seemed to Riley initially that the structured demands of a first

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Podlasek

rather than teamcreativity and innovation. In this model, the university, to a large extent, conducts academicexploration independent of the economic constraints imposed by a market economy. That is,universities were isolated from the market forces of supply and demand, price competition andthe process of creative destruction.In the 1990’s, many firms in both the production-of-goods and the service sectors realized thatknowledge was an asset much like capital equipment. Moreover, firms found that sharing and/ormanaging interdisciplinary knowledge was a distinctive competitive advantage in the innovationprocess; thus the term Knowledge Management (KM) was coined, although the management ofwhat one knows has been a human activity since the