Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John L. Falconer; Janet deGrazia; Al Weimer

The Use of Clickers in Engineering Classrooms Janet deGrazia, John L. Falconer and Al Weimer Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0424 As emphasized by many studies, cooperative learning can improve engineering education(1,2). One form this has taken in Physics and Chemistry departments is in-class ConcepTests (3,4).These are multiple-choice conceptual questions posed to the class. After all the students respondwith an answer, they are asked to discuss the answers amongst themselves (peer instruction), andthen given the opportunity to

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Schneider

historically focused on learning thesyntax for a single programming language instead of the skills of logical and algorithmicthinking and the processes for software development. This paper presents a stepped process forintroducing software programming to engineering technology students.1 IntroductionWorking as a contract engineer for numerous companies has allowed me to interact with bothyoung and veteran engineers developing software systems for a myriad of industries. Thisexperience made evident the shortcomings of my software programming education as well asthat of many of my peers. While I was competent with the syntax and structure of programming,I was ill prepared to tackle large problems or complex systems. My deficiency was inunderstanding the

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

to, case studies, development of design aids, and laboratory testing. Students would typically be required to prepare and submit a proposal to the faculty mentor and the department chair for approval. Independent study projects could be used as an elective course. Students could be required to present a seminar to faculty and peers and prepare a scholarly paper on their work. 12 To provide greater publicity for the projects, faculty should be encouraged to publish a list of potential projects and scholarly works for undergraduate students at the beginning of the fall term. Page

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lehman; David Stone; Mary Raber

: 1. Use of hands-on learning, making K-12 science curricula less theory-based and more context-based by emphasizing the social good of engineering and demonstrating how it is relevant to the real world 2. Use of an interdisciplinary approach by adding a technological component to all subjects and lessons 3. Involvement of engineering in K-12 lessons that map to state standards for math and science 4. Engaging more K-12 teachers in outreach efforts and curriculum writing 5. Making engineering “cool” by outreaching to urban schools and females more aggressively 6. Creating better incentives for all interested parties to engage in K-12 outreach (especially higher

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pierre Larochelle

engineeringproject report, (8) understand the concept of features based solid models, (9) canconceptualize, create, and build simple 3D geometries with a focus on mechanical partsand assemblies, (10) have a working knowledge of and ability to perform basic machinetool manufacturing operations (e.g. drilling, milling, turning, finishing), and (11) have anunderstanding of the relationship between detailed drawings and manufacturingprocesses. The course is structured as a project motivated learning experience modeledafter traditional capstone design courses. Students are assigned to teams, write projectproposals, generate design concepts, perform analyses, generate detailed productiondrawings, attend design reviews, and manufacture functioning physical

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Green; Barbara Quintiliano; Andrea Welker

active and collective, their information literacyskills can improve dramatically.Typically, students respond well to hands-on computer laboratories in which they search variousdatabases and retrieve electronic information. McGuigan (2001) notes that the Web is often thefirst source students explore when researching a topic. Davis (2003) also reports that students areusing fewer scholarly references, but that this trend can be reversed with properly constructedassignments.Active and peer learning are strategies often employed to teach a variety of topics. Theeffectiveness of these strategies is especially important because Manuel (2002) reports that thestudents at California State University viewed the “words of caution said by the instructor

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Silverstein

their company’s proposed focus. Students not attending theconference collected information from library, vendor, and internet sources. Each studentwas responsible for topics relevant to their role in the company as defined by thechemical engineering courses in which they were enrolled. Upon their return, the teamsprepared reports summarizing their proposal and findings. The graded reports counted ashomework assignments in each participating course, and the team report writing time wascredited to all students to make up for one of the class periods missed during theconference.Assessment data collected to date indicates students developed a familiarity withemerging areas in chemical engineering (biotechnology and nanotechnology) wellbeyond what

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

. What are the downfalls and are there easily self-taught solutions? Are theresimilarities in both teaching and research situations?Pitfalls in the tenure processThere are a lot of distractions, situations and attention issues that cause professors to not stay ontask to tenure. The list below is mixed: some are distractions, some are situations and some arecaused due to lack of attention – some fit more than one category. Some of the more importantissues, such as teaching and proposal writing can be handled efficiently or inefficiently – thustheir inclusion in this section. Each issue is followed by a brief explanation. Once the issues areon the table, possible solutions will be presented for streamlining the process. What does thishave to do

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

arrangement of entries such that the latest entry appears at the top of the web page 3. Easy upload and editing of entries and artifacts through a web browser 4. Outside commenting on entries from peers, coaches, teaching team, and others at a distance 5. Informal environment with easy and low barriers to posting due to student familiarity with social blogs such as the commercial Xanga, LiveJournal, and Blogger communitiesWikis 1. A group of interlinked pages, each with a unique name 2. Can support both individual and team work 3. Each page editable by a number of people, often a team or the whole community, 4. Use of a simple set of markup punctuation and other non-alphabet character patterns that can be translated

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Noah Salzman; Christopher Emery; Kevin Kloesel; Sandra Cruz Pol; Omnia El-Hakim; Kathleen Rubin

tracking and prediction. Over the course ofthe week, the teachers learned about electronics, networking, radar, meteorology, and complexengineered systems. They also learned about diversity and grant writing, and gained familiaritywith the Massachusetts science frameworks, one of the first state frameworks in the country toinclude engineering as a core focus. The summer content institute was sponsored by CASA, theNational Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensingof the Atmosphere. CASA is developing a distributed network of small, low-cost radars andother sensors designed to observe weather phenomena in the lower part of the atmosphere. Thisnew sensing system will allow for better observation, tracking, and

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

: Responsibility and Ethical Dilemmas in Academia • June 10 o GRE Class 2 • June 11 o Friday Meeting o REU/ERC-All Barbeque • June 15 o GRE Class 3 • June 16 o Seminar #4: Writing Your Graduate School Application Essay • June 17 o GRE Class 4 • June 18 o Friday Meeting o Engineering Ethics Workshop • June 22 o GRE Class 5 • June 24 o GRE Class 6 o Seminar #5: Developing Your Abstract-Writing and Presentation Skills • June 29 o GRE Class 7 Page 10.1176.9 • June 30 o Seminar #6: Basic Components of the Graduate School Application Process“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

. Ultimately, the GUIDE program will increase the number of technologicallyprepared workers to meet the increasing demands of American industry.The GUIDE ProgramGUIDE’s major goal is to have students in underrepresented groups succeed academically intheir first two years of study by providing financial aid and personal support. To meet thisobjective, the program provides students with: • a mentor team, • weekly engingeering seminars, • weekly career development workshops, • opportunity to participate in end-of-semester and end-of-year reviews, and • annual scholarship of $2,500 for two years.Below is a short description of the peer mentor teams, student demographics, engineeringseminars, career development workshops, and the review

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Sauser

Company/Organizational Structure BLS Research around the World Project Management Past/Future NASA Exploration Missions Group Interactions/Crew Dynamics Exercise Mission Scenarios for Exploration of Mars Proposal and Business Plan Writing The Moon and Mars How to Make a Good Presentation Robotics for Space Exploration Time Management Gravitational and Space Biology Leadership Styles Why Grow Plants in Space? Evolution of Food Systems for Space Food Nutrition and Processing for Space Waste Processing and Resource Recovery Systems Studies and Modeling Engineering Design BasicsThe proposal would have to support the design of

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Lessard; Jacques Beneat

fourth laboratory, the DCS network is established. The classical Master TerminalUnit (MTU) and Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) model as presented in Boyer9 is used to guide thestudent in their design using the Allen-Bradley DH+ communications network. Here“survivability” issues are discussed. The DH+ is a proprietary protocol and is often though to besecure because it is assumed to be a company secret. However this is no longer true today whenmuch information regarding popular proprietary protocols can be found over the Internet. On thepositive side, DH+ is robust, reliable and simple to implement and allows data to be sharedamong peer level machines. The PLC-based MTU and each RTU are programmed to interactwith the appropriate data items which are

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

roles are critical to smooth team operation and engineers need to be proficient inperforming such process roles. Page 10.837.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Engineering educators have overlooked team roles specific to engineering student project teams.These are roles related to the accomplishment of the assigned project and require specificfunctional skills such as design (Design Specialist), construction (Builder), report writing(Technical Writer), computational expertise (Computer

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Kurpius; Dale Baker; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

building unit. Denise changed her practice by attendingto gender, integrating the design process and tinkering into lessons, and adding technologydiscussions. She helped the museum staff examine their program activities. Her unit indicatedgreater awareness of the time needed for hands-on exploration and discussion. Dana exhibitedthe most changes. She had students write about science and technology to determine priorknowledge. They designed labs as well as the lab instruments e.g. calorimeter. As departmentchair, she helped other science teachers incorporate DET into instruction. In creating her unit,she used the design process and her evaluation (including a delayed post test) which indicatedthat the students had learned everything

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

teaching loads and the lack of graduateresearch assistants available for such a faculty member.I – IntroductionFor tenure-track faculty the publication of papers, either technical or pedagogical, oftendetermines whether tenure is granted. As a result, understanding how the process of conductingresearch, writing and publishing the associated papers, and producing other scholarly works indifferent university environments is important to many new and perspective faculty. This paperwill discuss this process based on the author’s experience in a small teaching-oriented campusenvironment.The paper will be presented in four major sections. First, an overview of typical major and non-major research locations is provided. Second, the challenges that must

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Hickey; Raluca Rosca

Engineers, Gainesville Student branch and supported by the Dean ofGraduate Studies in the College of Engineering. The first offering of ETP-UF took place duringthe last half of the Fall 2004 semester, and a second offering is advertised for Spring 2005.IntroductionThe general objectives of the Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program (ETP), as well as theoutcomes of the first offering were presented at the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference 1 by itsdesigners at the NSF-funded Center for Advancement of Engineering Education at University ofWashington. In short the program strives to better prepare graduate students in engineering forthe teaching component of an academic career, by offering an eight week, step-by-step approachto writing a teaching statement

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Krahe

discussed the need for using formal design methods in engineering courses.However, simply using such methods do not particularly facilitate students buying into acomplex problem. Experience has shown that it is not uncommon for students to misinterpret anassignment, to solve the wrong problem, to write programs that contain errors and give theincorrect answers, and then blame everything and everyone other than themselves for themistakes.This condition is not unique to the education environment. Numerous examples could be givenof lengthy product development projects that yielded defective products; products that didn'tmeet the customer need, and worse yet, programs that performed a miscalculation and causeddamage to equipment, and resulted in human

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Pinkham; Cathryne Jordan; Lisa Peterson

capabilities,creativity, writing ability, and student interest in exploring engineering fields. Page 10.146.2 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Notification. All applicants are notified of their decision with either an acceptance orrejection letter. Those students who are accepted then go through another round of selectionwith the corporate partners and are placed as closely as possible to their stated interests. Program launch. The program begins with an initial orientation at each

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

training go hand inhand because students are required to manage “projects” that they must complete during thequarter. They are introduced to the concept of team roles, agendas, minutes, listening, decisionmaking, peer evaluation, and scheduling. In their sophomore year, students are given training inpeer evaluation that is reinforced in the junior year. In the junior year student laboratory groupsare required to complete open ended laboratory projects. These groups are responsible forscheduling their work and performing peer evaluations. During the senior Systems Designcourse, students are given more in depth training on team motivation and interaction. They areintroduced to scheduling concepts and are required to use Microsoft Project to complete

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Edwards; Hussein Vastani; Manuel Perez-Quinones

test data. Virginia Tech is actively exploring an alternativeapproach where students write their own test cases and are graded in part on the quality of theirown testing efforts. As a result, we have designed and implemented a general-purposeautomated grading tool and incorporated it into Web-CAT, the Web-based Center for AutomatedTesting5.Web-CAT is a web-based application implemented using Apple’s WebObjects framework21. Itis designed to be language independent, and is currently used for grading program submissionsin six languages, including Java and C++. For Java, it uses open-source tools such asCheckstyle2 and PMD14 to perform static analysis of coding and commenting style and to spotpotential coding issues, and uses the commercial tool

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christine Kelly

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Table 1. Course learning objectivesBy the end of the course, students must demonstrate ability to…1. In writing, explain the drug and medical device approval process in the United States.The explanation should include a description of the structure of the regulatory agency,important regulatory documents, the sequence of events, applications necessary, and theplayers involved.2. Define, obtain the regulatory codes, and describe the FDA’s guidance strategy forCurrent Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP).3. Draw a process flow diagram for a variety of biopharmaceutical manufacturingprocess and describe the operation and purpose of each unit, including water

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Leiffer

the engineering curriculum.Most engineering graduates employed in industry will work in collaborative teams. Currentprojects, particularly those in aerospace, defense, and vehicle design, are of such magnitude thatthe involvement of multiple disciplines becomes essential. Separation of disciplines essentiallydisappears in much of modern industry.1Some of the advantages of project teams include: • Teams provide the most efficient use of workers’ skills. • Employees are able to pool knowledge and ideas to arrive at better and more creative problem solutions.2 • Teamwork based on coordinated tasks and peer leadership permits removal of layers of hierarchy.3 • Teams benefit from the combination of people with diverse

Conference Session

BME Research and Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ka-yiu San

improve their communication skills. Inthe Fall semester, the students are required to a make an oral presentation of their projects totheir fellow classmates. Whereas in the Spring semester, the students are required to participatein the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium (RURS) poster competition. The results fromthese presentations will be counted as a portion of their final course grade.Further Improvements. Two additional modules are planned for future implementation. Onemodule deals with scientific research ethics. Topics in this module may include experimentaltechniques and the treatment of data, conflict of interest, publication and openness, fair use ofsources. The second module is targeted to improve the students’ scientific writing

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara MacAlpine

databases we could provide them. By the fall of 2003, after a number of months ofdiscussion and encouragement, the instructor for the first design class was convinced that hisstudents needed help. One of their assignments was to identify a problem on campus (typicallyrelated to life in the dormitories) and develop a solution as part of a mini-design project. Therequired steps in the process included researching the literature for relevant information.Frequently the instructor only saw results from Google searches, whereas journal articles andpatent descriptions might have been more helpful. He was also interested in having the studentslearn more about the communication process in engineering, particularly in terms of differenttypes of writing. He

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Amrine; Caroline Kayser; James Swanson

of the experience.A new trend in education is to implement a peer-to-peer learning network wherein informationand lecture materials are distributed in real-time to each participant during the lecture. Mostoften, this format is tailored to the use of presentations created in PowerPoint or similarpackages. The primary difference between this technology and those mentioned previously isthat there is no need for the students to transcribe the information being presented as it isautomatically saved on their PCs. One of these packages is Silicon Chalk.3. Silicon Chalk:Silicon Chalk is a software package that allows real-time streaming of lecture materials from theinstructor’s PC to students’ computers. Although it was obviously created with

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Krumholz; Robert Martello; Jonathan Stolk

, andContemporary Materials Technologies, an intermediate level arts, humanities and social scienceselective course, and (iii) Foundation Project III, a hands-on project course intended to integratetechnical and non-technical content. Although Professor Stolk nominally taught the first andthird portions of the course and Professor Martello officially ran the second part, in reality bothprofessors sat in on each others’ courses and collaborated on the writing and assessment of allassignments. Twenty-two enrolled students earned 10 credits in the course block (120 requiredfor graduation) and were expected to spend approximately 30 hours per week on course-relatedactivities, including in-class time.Although Paul Revere’s metallurgical work served as a

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ji Yeon Hong; Charla Triplett; Jenefer Husman

would likeideally to possess, that is, their ultimate goals for their life. Participants responded to the itemsusing it 7-point Likert scale ranging from 1 to 7 (1= does not describe you at all, 4 = sort ofdescribes you, and 7 = describe you extremely well). A self-discrepancy score for individualswas obtained by subtracting the rating of each adjective for ideal self from the rating of theadjective for actual self and used the absolute difference.Priming activity. In order to make participant’s career choice more salient, immediately prior toobtaining the “career self” scale, participants were asked to write down their chosen career, andthen imagine about themselves in that career. Participants were then asked to describethemselves: 1) Getting

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

BB CPS PP MATLAB 1. Prior experience in-class -0.21 0.36 -0.07 0.29 2. Prior experience out-of-class -0.15 -0.29 -0.29 0.14 3. Prior comfort 0.21 0.21 0.14 -0.21 4. Communication with instructors 0.07 -0.21 0.50 0.14 5. Communication with peers -0.64 0.29 0.36 0.86 6. On-going feedback 0.86 0.00 -0.57 0.14 7. Reviewing course material outside of class