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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wigal

functions; create objective tree; create 3 levels of implementations of a device. functional block diagrams; present in reports Technical Writing Formatting for readability; eliminating vagueness, Create a report on device research and findings sexist language, wordiness; ensuring parallel construction Ethics and Professional Context Recognizing ethical situations Complete survey on “Professionalism Indicators” Oral Presentations Types of oral presentations; planning and Present research and findings on device organizing

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

and Mathematics Education at Michigan State University. He is responsible for providing vision,direction, planning and implementation for using technology mathematics and science education and developedseveral introductory computer science courses for non-computer science students serving 2000 students. Page 10.951.11 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Eisenbarth; Kenneth Van Treuren

10.164.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe highly ranked engineering program at Harvey Mudd College18 has a very unique approach tohumanities and liberal arts core. Beginning with a two-course sequence (seven semester hours)in "Introduction to the Humanities and Social Sciences", all students must complete thirtyadditional semester hours in "a coherent program planned with the approval of their humanitiesand social science advisor" and a three semester hour integrative experience "that explores theinteraction between science, technology, and society."18 The selection of approved humanitiesand

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terence Weigel

number of other (heavier) angles on the project have been selected and thedesigner wishes to minimize the variation in angle size used on the project. In any case, the pre-processor can permit the student to proceed with a less than optimal choice, but it should explainthe ramifications of doing so. For example, if the student chooses to connect the short leg of theangle, a window such as shown in Figure 5 should popup, and the student could decide to changehis / her choice based on the information provided.Grader Extensions Plans for extensions of the grading systems include the following: • For design problems, add the capability to consider sections that might not be the lightest acceptable section, but could

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

bothworlds! Some sessions are thus held in a traditional lab routine, including preparation, prelabwork, calculation and design, prolonged circuit building and measurement in the lab, and post-lab final report with simulations and analysis. Sometimes the more advanced labs are allotted afull session of three hours, more so in the schedule of the “Electronics” course.The third decision point, which I’ll discuss only briefly, is the offering of a single course “CircuitAnalysis”, at a level fit for electrical engineers, for all engineering students at ElizabethtownCollege. This means that students who plan to graduate in any non-EE engineering disciplineprobably get a course at a substantially higher level than needed or required. We see this

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Barbara Oakley

potential to learn andgrow. The goal of the Kumon Method is to provide eachindividual child with the tools, plans and guidance toachieve their true potential. Kumon uses a highly Fig. 1: Mr. Toru Kumon, Founderindividualized program that allows students to progress at Page 10.150.1 of Kumon Institute of Educationtheir own pace, working at their individual achievement Company, LTD. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

constituencies • Incomplete process to achieving objectives (links to curriculum are not clear) • Incomplete process-oriented approach to evaluating achievement of objectives • Evidence of program improvement based on ad hoc processesPossible Issues for Criterion 3 • No evidence demonstrating one or more outcomes • Outcomes not assessed objectively • Anecdotal versus measured results • Reliance on course grades as assessment of outcomes • Over-reliance on self-assessment (e.g. surveys) • No systematic assessment process • No process or process not documented • Plans developed but not implemented • Little or no faculty support for the process • No evidence that assessment results are being applied to improve program • Changes

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Resnick

process is true for programming. The programmer needsto experiment, to step back and look at the program, and then make improvements. It takes aminimum of three rewrites to make a program near perfect. Plan schedules accordingly.ShortcutsDo not worry about language shortcuts. For experienced programmers, the shortcuts are aconvenience and may provide for truly elegant expression. Newbie’s should record the shortcutin their notebook, and proceed with a style that provides the most comprehension. Page 10.1235.10 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

areas such as publicadministration, engineering management, planning, and architecture combined with a B.S.degree from an ABET accredited program may meet the definition of specialization and satisfy Page 10.415.6 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationthe formal education component of the BOK.[1] Therefore, the acceptance of management /entrepreneurship courses to fulfill the specialization outcome of the BOK is not certain. Astudent completing the BOK compliant tract could earn an environmental

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jameson Wetmore

that shorter female drivers were especially at risk because they often sat close to thesteering wheel. At the same time, NHTSA called for parents to put all children age twelve andunder in the back seat, rather than just those infants in rear-facing safety seats. By the spring of1997, auto safety researchers had found that air bags took the lives of 3.5 children for every onethat they saved (12). The media jumped on the story and there was widespread outrage. Therewere calls for air bags to be ripped out of automobiles.Most engineers were frightened by this plan, however. They were certainly concerned about thefatalities, but they believed that air bags were saving many lives and that to abandon thetechnology would be a mistake. But there was

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charla Triplett; Eugene Eckstein

Alliance adds significantly to this process by developing and sharing provenstandards that are readily transferred among the members and used by their students.Experienced coordinators share their expertise in creating resumes specifically for biomedicalengineering students, marketing materials targeted to industry, and best practices for internshipprograms.New coordinators learn which background courses must be in place for successful placementsand strong educational experiences; in part, they learn and share this information by discussionof what has worked for other campuses. These services are specific for the field of BME and areavailable only in a generic form from the typical “career-planning” office.Great returns come from the stronger

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

innovation and technology management.MARK URBAN-LURAIN is Director of Instructional Technology Research and Development in the Division ofScience and Mathematics Education at Michigan State University. He is responsible for providing vision, direction,planning and implementation for using technology mathematics and science education and developed severalintroductory computer science courses for non-computer science students serving 2000 students per semester.JON STICKLEN is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at MichiganState University. He has had a strong research record in computer science research, specifically in knowledge-basedsystems. His main contributions have been in the theory and application of

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Mattei

scientific and engineering advances. Theworkshops were held in Washington D.C. (Arlington, VA), most recently at the NSF Stafford IIConference Center adjacent to the NSF headquarters. The first workshop was held in the fall of1995. Subsequent workshops occurred every other year, with the next one planned for Septemberof 2005.The paper will first explore one reason why it is important to have a diverse engineering faculty.The general program for all workshops will then be outlined. Following this discussion are theresults of the pre-workshop and post-workshop surveys of the 2003 participants. The surveys’questions were selected to probe the participants about their knowledge of issues critical to theirsuccess as engineering educators. Comparison of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Ismail Orabi; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

taken by engineering students in the new curriculum in which students areintroduced to engineering concepts using projects and hands-on-activities. Non-engineeringmajors have the option to take the project-based course or the more traditional version of thiscourse. When the project-based course was introduced into the curriculum, there was concern asto how non-engineering students would respond to the new format of the course.Background: Use of SurveysThe value of using surveys of engineering attitudes to help institutions evaluate their freshmanengineering programs has been documented3,4. Surveys provide the advantage of gatheringfeedback from a large number of students in a relatively easy manner. The assessment plan forthe first year of the

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationengines. One can always remove alternate four ignition wires in the firing order and do themeasurement using four cylinders at a time.Educational Value of the Project 1. Using it as a Tool in Experiments: The old (ASYST based) data acquisition system is still being used in Strength of Materials and Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning experiments. The plan is to gradually convert old programs or rewrite new ones so that the most up to date hardware and software are used in all experiments. 2. Teaching Data Acquisition Techniques in an Instrumentation Courses: New data

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Mark Gunty; Leo McWilliams; Carrie Graf; John Uhran; Catherine Pieronek

conclusion that, because the two groups possess similar entry-level skillsand perform similarly well in class, other, less tangible factors impact retention. Adding thethree in-class surveys has allowed us to identify a number of areas of statistically significantdifferences between these two groups, including: their motivations for considering the study ofengineering; their pre-college engineering-related experiences; their initial post-graduate plans;and their concerns over roadblocks to completing the engineering degree.In developing and assessing retention efforts, these data help us to go beyond simply counting Page 10.945.1

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

tomeasure and increase the performance of students in the public school system. At the universitylevel, tests given by independent professional organization such as the FE examination areutilized as a critical measure of performance. By law, each state school with an engineeringprogram must yearly report their pass rate on the FE exam to the Texas State Legislative BudgetBoard6. If the results do not meet a specific target, the reasons must be explained and plans mustbe developed involving the various steps that will be taken to achieve the target in future years. Itis recognized that the results on the FE examination only measure those graduates who attemptthe test. Nevertheless, it is utilized by the state as an indicator of the effectiveness of

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Hug; Jason FitzSimmons

project. The first group of students usedthe web module as review and assistance with the completion of their first homeworkassignment. The second group of students accessed the web module, but only looked at andnever used it for review or completing their homework assignment. The third group of studentsneither looked at nor used the web module during the study. The authors planned on using thisthird group as a “control group by choice” because the students decided not to participate in theweb module part of the study. The data collected during the pilot study is shown below in Table1. Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) will be used in this paper to analyze thedata from the research study. This is due to the fact the nature of

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Yang; Andrew Bennett; Steve Warren

curriculum, and long-term retention can be more of a factor forsome students than for others. This makes aggregate assessments of mathematics knowledgeretention difficult. This situation is exacerbated by the fact that student learning in LinearSystems is not simply a result of how much mathematical knowledge students retain: it alsodepends on the interpersonal dynamics between students and faculty and the resultant learningenvironment that these foster.To understand semester-to-semester retention of mathematics knowledge, improvements areneeded in two areas: (1) tracking systems for both homework and exams that offer bettergranularity than current systems and (2) formalized, consensus-based plans for how these datawill be acquired and stored so

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarangi Parikh; Joel Esposito; Robert DeMoyer; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

of this kind of assignment is that it not only brings together many engineering concepts, but italso truly promotes lifelong learning by pointing students to available resources. This was readilyobserved through the enthusiasm displayed by the students when they were presenting the paper theychose to the rest of their classmates.6 Survey and conclusionIn this section we discuss the result of student opinion surveys and discuss plans for future changes.6.1 Survey resultsAnonymous student evaluation surveys were administered to 80 students. Question Mean Std. (out

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

, Antares Group Inc., ReportSS, Sewage SludgeBS, Bio-SolidsACKNOWLEDGEMENTThe data provided by Mr. Jeff Chorlog, Mr. Albert Krause, and Mr. Charles Fender, at the UFphysical plant planning is valuable and their assistance and cooperations are highly appreciated.REFERENCES1. A.E.Green editor,Proc. International.Conf. on Co – Utilization of Domestic Fuels (CDF), Ed. Gainesville, Fl. Feb. 2004, published in the International Journal of Power and Energy Systems, 24, No.3, pgs,152 – 250.2. Green, A., E., Smith, Wayne. Hermansen-Baez, Annie., Hodges, Alan., Feng, Jie., Rockwood., Langholtz, Mathew., Najafi, Fazil., and Toros, Ulas . “Multidisciplinary Academic Demonstration of Biomass Alliance

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Head

beenlearned to this point and as the semester proceeds they become more adept at writing, working inteams, analyzing various versions of their crane design, and planning for the finalimplementation. One of the most unique aspects is that we will not allow the students to simplydesign crane structures until they hit upon one that works or over-design so that there is nopossibility of failure. Instead, their success depends on working with a limited supply ofmaterials and optimizing the design to lift the maximum amount of weight to a certain height in aset amount of time, using the lowest cost materials which have the least detrimental impact onthe environment.AssignmentThis is a complicated challenge for engineering students in the first semester of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Throne

the response of our model are shown.We were trying to have the second cart match a one cm step input. Page 10.643.16 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”AssessmentAt the conclusion of the course, the thirteen students taking the class were asked to completequestionaires designed by Rose-Hulman's Office of Institutional Research, Planning, andAssessment. These questionaires had two types of questions: survey questions and questionsabout the level of knowledge and confidence in various course

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brett Hamlin; Gretchen Hein

favorable experience, but ata lower rate than the women.The Department of Engineering Fundamentals plans on continuing this survey to see if the trendschange over time. This research will continue to seek out the qualitative and quantitative factorsthat effect and/or enhance the success of women engineering students.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the ENG1101 and ENG1102 students who voluntarily completethe optional questions each semester. They thank the Department of Engineering Fundamentalsfaculty for asking their students to complete the survey. Without the students and the facultyinput, this study would not have been possible

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

not have the data necessary for a longitudinal analysis of this type. Work in this areais planned for the future.Assessing “Soft” Skills with Formative Assessments Page 10.230.5Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2150Soft skills, such as communication, teamwork, and diversity, have been assessed in a variety ofways. Part of the assessment includes traditional methods such as quizzes, tests andassignments. The

Conference Session

Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

purpose of assessing our learningcommunity initiative.Surveys. We have found surveys to be an easy, efficient, and effective way to gatherinformation from our learning community participants. A combination of forced answerLikert-type questions combined with open-ended questions provides us an opportunity toassess our target objectives and to gather meaningful reflective comments from thestudents. The data is useful for program planning on a semester-by-semester basis. Inaddition, we have maintained continuity in the survey tools, which has allowed us tocompare data from year to year.Focus Groups. We began using focus groups in the Fall 2000 semester as a method toaugment our survey data. Focus groups are a qualitative research method which

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

counterparts. Those who do enroll are far less likely toremain.12 Historically, some reasons that have been cited are lack of confidence in their mathand science abilities, and lower levels of self confidence and self-efficacy, resulting at least inpart from their lack of technological experience in college compared to men.18Students often fail to consider career-relevant decisions until shortly before they graduate. Thewomen students in this course are encouraged to create a personal road map to careerdevelopment and planning by which they can better navigate their subsequent semesters of workand study at Purdue.ProceduresThe following section describes the initial efforts of a study that we conducted to gauge theeffectiveness of our freshman seminar

Conference Session

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

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nalini Bhushan; Glenn Ellis; Eleanor Ory

education. Their use is based onthe theory that meaningful learning is an effortful process involving the construction ofrelationships between the learner’s existing knowledge and new knowledge. They have beenused in a wide variety of ways including for assessment11, 12, 13, 14, as planning tools15, 16 and forproblem solving17, 18. Figure 1 illustrates a procedure reported by Ellis et al18. for using teacher-generated concept maps to organize ideas in engineering curricula. Based upon this approach wehave developed a concept map for philosophy of the mind that is useful for structuring AIknowledge and is developmentally appropriate for the high school classroom. The map wascreated by an interdisciplinary team of engineers, educators and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hilary Lackritz, Purdue University; Laura Demsetz, College of San Mateo; Olivia Graeve, University of Nevada-Reno; Amy Moll, Boise State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University

objectives and assessment tools createdalong with the lab exercises. Page 10.473.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe overall goal is to develop a diverse set of modules such that faculty could choose themodules based on the learning objectives appropriate to their class and the technologies ofinterest to their students. Development work began in the summer of 2004. This paper willexplain the full plan for the three year project as well as provide detail on the development

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

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