Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Pinkham; Cathryne Jordan; Lisa Peterson

student is placed in a math workshop. Two levels of math are offered, and students areassigned to the workshops based on their University of Washington math placement test scores.The math workshops prepare students for calculus on this campus, and much of Treisman’s16research work is incorporated into the design of these workshops. As other schools have noted,it is key that these workshops not be remedial10. They are challenging, group-oriented, and sinceclass size is small (max=8), there is plenty of room for individual attention. At the end of thesummer students retake the placement exam and typically jump up one course level, andcontinue to do well in their math courses throughout their college career. The paid instructorsare a combination of

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

include small devices created especially for e-mail and Web surfing, as well as such diverse products as personal digital assistants (PDAs), smart phones, Web TV, and Web-enabled refrigerators and microwaves.Mississippi State University’s has recently revised its undergraduate computer engineering(CPE) program with input from alumni and advisory employers. The CPE program will have afocus on embedded computer systems. Embedded systems form a rich application sourcethrough which the CPE education can be made relevant. Embedded computer systems are atimely subject that is immediately useful to students in their senior design projects. Furthermore,a large number of our CPE graduates currently use or design embedded computer systems intheir

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt

senior year caps off most undergraduate engineeringcurriculum. Per the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) therequirements for design are: “Students must be prepared for engineering practice through thecurriculum culminating in a major design experience based on the knowledge and skills acquiredin earlier course work and incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints thatinclude most of the following considerations: economic, environmental, sustainability, …ethical, health and safety, social, and political.”1 Content related to a number of other ABETcriteria for engineering curricula can also be incorporated within a capstone design course,including abilities to work on multi-disciplinary teams, communicate

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozgur Eris; Tori Bailey; Helen L. Chen

students’ intentions to pursue an engineering degree over thecourse of their undergraduate career, and upon graduation, to practice engineering as aprofession. The design of the survey entails development of conceptual variables and surveyquestions generated from a review of engineering education literature and national surveys onundergraduate education, piloting of the survey, and internal consistency analyses. Currently inits second year, the instrument is being administered with 160 students selected from fouracademic campuses.In this paper, we present the variables that are guiding the design of the PIE survey, and discusseach variable in depth by providing its rationale. In addition, we discuss how the data collectedduring the first year–and

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Young; John Fernandez

courses in software engineering and HCI and assign studentsto community projects where students practice the principles they are learning and completeworthwhile products for real-world clients. This paper presents some of these experiences andcompares the interaction design and software engineering methodologies. The conclusionsreached by the authors provide a basis for further study of the integration of these two paradigmsand a preliminary integrated model of the two methodologies.INTRODUCTIONIn San Jose, California, in June of 2004, the San Jose Police department began using a newmobile dispatch system in every patrol car. Police officers commented that, “the system is socomplex and difficult to use that it is jeopardizing their ability to do

Conference Session

Security

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hua Xu; Ronald Glotzbach; Nathan Hartman

effort. It shouldbe an ongoing process integrated into the application development lifecycle. Security, like otherWeb application components, is best managed if planned at the initial phase of the applicationlifecycle. This strategy will help project managers and security professionals establish securitypolicies, conduct risk assessment, and address potential risks in a cost-effective manner. It Page 10.23.1ensures system architects design secure application infrastructure. It makes sure application Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Erekson; Kurt Becker; Maurice Thomas; Christine Hailey

requisite engineering design and analytical knowledge andskills? How are clinical experiences for technology teachers best configured? What are theeffective means for delivering ongoing professional development for teachers?Research Theme 3 – Assessment and EvaluationIn order to know what students have learned as a result of instruction, and to learn about programquality and effectiveness, we need to know more about assessment and evaluation. Thus, thethird NCETE research theme is to conduct research regarding assessment and evaluation. Thisincludes assessing and evaluating Center activities and will include research questions such as:What are the effective assessment and evaluation strategies of learning and teaching engineeringconcepts to K-12

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Hvid Nielsen

work is carried out in teams: whereresearch, education and communication are carried out in integrated interaction with industry. Page 10.850.1“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”There will always be an academic debate to whether product development and design should betaught primarily by establishing a foundation of theory, or by engaging students in looselysupervised practice. For a broader activity of product design and development, both approaches arerejected at Aalborg

Conference Session

Issues of Building Diversity

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Isadore Davis; Eugene DeLoatch; Sherra Kerns; Carla Purdy; Lueny Morell

legal obligations, but also on our core values of respecting one another, fostering teamwork and collaboration.”Two years ago the ASEE Corporate Member Council also adopted diversity as one of its coreinitiatives. The CMC published the Industry Speaks with One Voice: A Message for Collegesand Universities Report, which identifies important key activities and groups for increasingdiversity in engineering: • Graduate School Enrollment - “People Of Color & Women” • Pipeline Outreach • Professional OrganizationsRecently, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted that 68 percent of people entering thenational labor force by 2005 will be members of ethnic groups and women. That statistic hasfar-reaching

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Melton; Michael Micci; Deborah Levin; Charles Croskey; David Spencer; Sven Bilen

educationalprogramming available to students of diverse backgrounds and academic interests. Oureducational goal is to prepare students at the undergraduate and graduate levels for productivecareers in technical and nontechnical fields relating to space systems and science. The LionSatmission introduces relevant hands-on opportunities to students through design problems, sciencequestions, case studies, research investigations, leadership experiences, organizational issues,etc. LionSat introduces meaningful and realistic project examples into the classroom andlaboratory, which enhance student learning. The LionSat mission was selected as a participant in the University Nanosat-3 (NS-3)program, which is a joint program between the American Institute of

Conference Session

Exploring Trends in CPD

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Llewellyn Mann; David Radcliffe

changing the students’ understandings and acceptance of the need for continuousprofessional development. The students also felt that the knowledge, values and skills theydeveloped would be beneficial for their future careers, as they were developed within thecontext of their own professional development, rather than to just get through the course.IntroductionProfessional development is a major part of all practicing engineers’ working lives. It is vitalto be up to date with best practice, learning new techniques and knowledge, developing newskills and furthering their understanding of their responsibilities as engineers. What engineerslearn at university in their undergraduate program will not give them all the knowledge,values and skills they

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Head

Page 10.1112.4commonly encountered trial-and-error (or “junkyard wars”) methodology. The strategy we useis to limit the scope of the project, simplify the problem, and provide the basic information that is “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”just enough to solve the simplified problem. In fact, this is another practice we wanted thestudents to experience and appreciate. That is, for a preliminary design, it is often best tosimplify the problem, and grasp the main thread to give a close approximation before spendingtime and energy to solve the full scale question.At the beginning of the

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes

professional expertise can be used tomeet those needs. This awareness of the community comes as a natural byproduct of fullyunderstanding their customer, a critical piece of the design process.The multi-semester EPICS model has provided a rich learning environment for the students andthe kind of long-term partnerships community and educational organizations need. It has,however, provided challenges in managing designs spanning multiple semesters and involvingmany students. The continuity of the EPICS Program typically ensures that part of each designteam returns on each project, but not all. It is not unusual for the students who begin a largeproject will have graduated and before it is delivered to their community partner.12, 13EPICS at Purdue has

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Davis; Craig Hoff

sufficient time for extensive, hands-on work. Theintroduction of engineering practice into these courses would be very limited. Forexample, students can be given assignments which require them to study professionalstandards.Laboratory experiments are often combined into specific laboratory courses wherestudents tend to be given detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to use the laboratoryequipment and calculate the results. This approach is not the best way to learn thematerial, since (a) the lecture and the lab are not presented at similar times and (b) it doesnot accurately reflect the reality of professional engineering practice. Further, thelaboratory experiments used in these courses often are intended simply to illustratefundamental

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tonya Peeples; Julie Jessop

educational mandate in the University of Iowa College of Engineering (UICoE) as expressed by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET): “Eachgraduate will have an education that is supportive of a broad awareness of the diversity of theworld and its cultures, and that provides an understanding of the impact of engineering practicein the global/societal context.”9 This paper provides an overview of the lectures, materials andactivities that comprise the Emergency/Homeless Shelter Design Project that we give our Page 10.555.2students as a capstone design project in our EPSI project sections. Proceedings of the 2005 American

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

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

represented the experiences of a small number (N < 6) of undergraduates andgraduate students within the context of this program.In this paper, we will first describe the background for this project. Secondly, we will provide anoverview of the undergraduate Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program (ETPP) which includesa description of the context in which we piloted this newly developed undergraduate version ofthe ETPP curriculum and the process we used to adapt the curriculum materials that wepreviously developed for an advanced graduate student audience to the undergraduate level.Third, we will present the design of the research study linked with this pilot offering and discussthe results and their implications of the formative evaluation of the

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

, teamwork and cross-disciplinary learning must be addressed. Emphasis must shift from measuring “teaching” to“learning”, “applying” and “innovating”. Examples of modern “best-practices” are used to layout some of the essential elements for the new aerospace engineering education.IntroductionCurricular innovations started today will influence corporate leadership when the Classes of2005 – 2009 are some ten years beyond graduation. We use present assumptions to develop twoexample scenarios aimed to straddle the reality of 2016. This paper was inspired by ourexperience this summer as Boeing A.D. Welliver Fellows, when we were able to compareperspectives from academia, U.S. industry and the global marketplace. The paper is condensedfrom one of the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Tillison; David Hand

Hands-On Learning of Water Treatment Design Naomi L. Tillison, David W. Hand Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractThe Environmental Process and Simulation Center (EPSC) was created at MichiganTechnological University (MTU) with the aim of enhancing understanding of physical, chemical,and biological processes used in environmental engineering applications. In 2004, a hands-ondesign course for undergraduate environmental engineering students was offered for the firsttime utilizing MTU’s EPSC; the goal of this course was to provide students with valuableexperiences of designing, operating, and

Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

T.M. Wildman; M. L. Wolfe; Jr., O.Hayden Griffin, O.Hayden Griffin,; J. Muffo; G.T. Adel; G.V. Loganathan; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tamara Knott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

1: Reasons given by students for choosing a specific design project to include in their ePortfolioPersonal reasons “I played a huge part in design and testing of the project.” “I learned the most from this project.” “Solution was mostly mine.” “It was my design and I enjoyed making it the most.” “I made the greatest impact on the project and was responsible for the overall concept and design of the game.” “The project was related to my intended major.” “I did majority of programming.” “The project matched my interest in hands on work.”Team-based reasons “The solution best reflected the strength and character of the team.” “Teamwork on this project was superb.” “Ideas

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ferruzza

tasks and the time required for tackling them. This reducesthe effects of students bagging the handout and looking at it too close to the submission deadline. 2. Motivation can be added if the exercise is presented as a playground to experiencemulti-tasking projects very common in “real-life” post graduation jobs or in graduate researchprojects. 3. The students should be made aware of the enlarged educational goals of this exercise,beyond probing Newton’s laws and testing the capabilities of spreadsheet implementation. Theneed to be alert to time management and to plan a common team strategy and timetable shouldbe stressed. The need to check partial results at all stages has to be emphasized. The need toprepare a clear

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yin Chen; John Sharon; Constantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

uncertainty is often very difficult even for experienced professionals, itremains an important part of decision making and design, especially for students who go on tobecome management level engineers. Their decisions can impact the success of their projects,their departments and perhaps even their companies. As a result of their responsibilities, theseengineers must not only be able to choose the best option but also to defend their choices.Management curricula have included decision making for quite some time.5 It is imperative thatengineering curricula expand to also include this very important topic. In addition, it provides acommon language between the two disciplines. Although no decision making method isinfallible, standard approaches and

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Joslyn

USAFA graduates as many of them will be put inthe position of program manager as young Air Force officers.The Critical Design Review (CDR) is a formal, briefing lasting about 4 hours and Page 10.1151.5targeted to reviewing experts from outside of the Air Force Academy (typically engineersfrom Air Force Research Lab who funds the program). The objective of the CDR is to “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”spot problems with the design and gain permission to proceed

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Andrew Clark

activities, and the opportunity to keep the best business concepts and students at home.Step 2: Identify Risk Mitigation Plans. Conduct a benchmarking study to identify major risksand best practices for avoiding these risks. For state universities, the loss of sovereign immunityafforded to State entities is often a major concern. This concern is further exacerbated for bio-technology and other high technology incubators. However, universities are generally willing toshare their best practices for mitigating these and other risks.Step 3: Establish a University Research Foundation. Once a consensus has been establishedand plans for mitigating major risks have been outlined, establishing a university researchfoundation becomes the fundamental enabler

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Light, Lewis-Clark State College

one where “outcomes (student characteristics after exposureto college) are thought to be influenced by both inputs (pre-college characteristics) andenvironments (the various programs, policies, relationships with faculty and peers, and othereducational experiences that impact students).”19 A survey instrument was developed to identifyinputs, the environment, and outcomes, and was administered to over 23,000 respondents in 34colleges and universities. Researchers sought to reduce bias and internal validity threats byidentifying and accounting for differences in “inputs.” Doing this, researchers assert this studyprovides an assessment methodology for multi-institutional and like-program comparison.Measures and outcomes for program

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

and the follower(F3 to 4 in Figure 4b) and is termed the “ transmission angle” of the four bar linkage. Thecomponent F3 to 4 sin(µ) is responsible for the motion of the follower. Therefore, a goodfour bar linkage design tries to keep the angle µ as high as possible (at least 45 degrees)throughout the rotation of the crank.After completing the first phase of the four bar mechanism design purely from kinematicconsiderations, two more solutions involving different link lengths that would satisfiedthe Grashof condition as well as the rocking angle of 45 degree were sought andobtained. Participants, then, used EXCEL and fundamental trigonometry to analyze thethree different solutions and identify the best solution using kinetic

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Barbara Oakley

independent rather than risk another downsizing.Of particular interest during interviews with Kumon franchisees was their obvioussatisfaction in finding a new career path that allowed them to give back to society.Involvement in the K-12 arena allows engineers to work directly with potential futureengineers, and assist these students in successful preparation for academic class work inhigh school and college. Engineering franchises are able to retain a connection withengineering through practical application of the core of their discipline, mathematics,with their students. Showing potential future engineers the connection between the realworld and mathematics, as perhaps engineering Kumon instructors can do best, is one ofthe finest applications of an

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Radha Balamuralikrishna; Kurt Rosentrater

loyalty vs. whistle blowingGlobal Issues International business International corporations and economics Technology transfer International values and practices International rights Human rights Environmental Ethics Status of the environment Stewardship vs. corporations and industry Stewardship vs. government Stewardship vs. society Stewardship vs. economics and costsProfessional Codes of Ethicsas professionals upon graduation. Sixth, with globalization becoming ubiquitous in the professionalworld, the student should be aware of the broad impacts that industrial technology can have,including international business concepts, as well as environmental consequences as a result

Conference Session

Advice for Dual-Career Couples

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce; Lori Bruce

members for awards. Do you nominate your spouse?Do you participate in the discussion of their case? In these situations, we have found it best tosay as little as possible. In most situations, trying to argue in favor of our spouse tends to onlyturn others against them. On the contrary, saying very little leaves room for others to feel free tohonestly share their opinions. And if it comes to a vote, we abstain. Consider another example,where one spouse is serving on a Graduate Committee, and a student of the other spouse hasappealed for readmission into the program after being terminated for poor academicperformance. Do we take part in the discussion of the case? Do we vote on the case? Insituations where the impact on the spouse is minimal, we

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodor Richardson; Jed Lyons

Montague; every effort was made to ensure that the characters would still beinteresting to the students in the older grade levels as well. Screen shots of the final MMOsoftware product can be seen in Figure 1 below. This paper discusses the development cycle,analyzes its effectiveness, and suggests a set of best practices called the Educational SoftwareDevelopment and Analysis Toolkit (ESDAT).Figure 1. Screen captures of the Math with Montague Online software demonstrating the software environment(addressing the engaging content quality attribute of the system) and various problem types: (a) counting with thecomplete browser environment for student users, (b) addition, (c) counting money, (d) multiplication, and (e) longdivision.2. MethodThe