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Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhongming Liang

. Assessment tools versus learning outcomes matrix for the dynamics course Course Learning Outcomes Assessment Tools 1 2 3 4 5 6 Homework 1 X Test 1 X Test 2 X Test 3 X Homework 2 X Computer Project X X Final Exam X X X X Based on assessment of learning outcomes in the fall 2003 semester, more

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eduardo B. Fernandez; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

to correlate thelayer to its lower layer, in particular which mechanisms of the lower layer are required to supportthose in the higher layer.Applying such a methodology requires catalogs of security patterns18. We have developedpatterns for authorization models22, for operating systems security23, for authentication24, forfirewalls25, and for other security mechanisms. Some of these are being collected in a book 19.The undergraduate version of the course emphasizes the use and design of secure systems, whilethe graduate version puts emphasis on design and research aspects. In the undergraduate version Page 10.1435.4the project is fixed for

Conference Session

Innovative Practices in NRE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Miller; Gayla Neumeyer; Matthew Schmidt; David Jonassen

PBL engineering program in Denmark perceived that they had higher levelsof skills in communication, ability to define engineering problems, ability to carry out aproject, ability to carry out technical research and development, cooperating with differentpeople22. An evaluation of 25 years of experience with PBL in engineering shows in veryclear terms the superiority of problem based learning compared to more traditional learningstrategies23. There are several justifications for designing and developing PBL programs innuclear engineering. First, we were unable to find any reports of any effort to implementPBL in nuclear engineering. Second, few of the PBL projects in engineering education haveever reported any research related to their

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carpenter

ofProfessionalism and Ethics in Engineering that are worth mentioning.To familiarize students with various aspects of professionalism and ethics, a number ofguest speakers were invited to talk to the class. Talks that were presented are listedbelow (the numbers in parenthesis were the number of 75 minute class periods allocatedto the topic): o Professional Regulation (1) o Marketing Professional Services (2) o Project Management (2) o Company Organizational Structure (2) o Total Quality Management (1) o Legal Aspects of Engineering (1) o Ethics in Transportation (1) o Contract Law (2) o Construction Management (3) o Elements of Moral Philosophy (2

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ehsan Sheybani, Virginia State University; Giti Javidi, VSU

post-test score, follow-up scores, attitude scores and laboratory completion time scores.The post-test was made up of problem-oriented type of items and a few multiple-choicequestions.Research Questions The main research question for this research project is: “Can simulation-basedlaboratory replace physical laboratory methods?” Specifically, 1. In terms of student conceptual learning, how do simulation-based laboratory experiences compare to physical laboratory experiences? 2. How does the students’ attitude toward the use of the simulation affect their post-test score? 3. How does the simulation group attitude toward the laboratory experience differ from the physical group? 4. In terms of completion time

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

Ethicsand Character Education curriculums, including the Character Counts! Coalition (1993),the Child Development Project (1981), and the Positive Action Model (1998). Inaddition, a presentation of a senior research paper on Character Education highlighted thenational call for educators to address this arena in classrooms.Students were actually relieved to be able to openly discuss these issues and garnerresponses to thoughts and questions from peers and faculty. They left that day feelingrefreshed by the honesty in their own personal evaluation of morals, values, and ethics.Students also felt energized by having taken this first step in understanding the role ofEthics and Character Education in today’s public school classrooms.Due to this positive

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Landaeta; Bryan Magary; William Peterson

paradigm, the emphasis seems to naturally shift from thecalculation to the generation of the cash flow – arguably where the practicing engineer addsvalue to the process – elements (the costs, the benefits, and the horizon). Additionally, the annualcash flow no longer needs to take on (unrealistically) rigid patterns to accommodate our abilityto process them. Cash flows can be flat, irregular, and geometric gradients (in lieu of generallyunrealistic arithmetic gradients) and can be made of the many elements found in a typical “real”project. The problem becomes more of choosing the appropriate model and less of numbermanipulation.An added benefit to this approach could include either a shorter course, in programs desperatelyseeking ways to include

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Smith

enhance visual realism.Stereo viewing capability provides depth cues, which carry information concerning spatialrelationships between the parts in a complex assembly, and, thus, provides better visual feedbackto users than traditional 2D projection techniques.VR-CAD viewer The proposed VR interface consists of two parts: a visualization component and a 3Dinteraction component. For enhancing visualization, real-time stereo viewing is provided. Acomputer monitor and a pair of LCD shutter glasses are used to create a virtual world. In order tomake the interface more intuitive, CAD model interaction is provided using hand gestures. LCD Shutter

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Powers; Mary Fran Desrochers

and file I/O 9 7 Analysis, Curve Fit, FFT 11 8 Review as necessary 9 Sample Data Collection 10 Penny Counter Program 11 Temperature Control 12 Temperature Control 13 Project 14 ProjectDuring the first part of the term all students are at their own computer with the instructor using aprojector screen and a computer. Since each student is able to follow along and build their ownprograms it seems to help them learn the material better. In the second portion students

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

Science (BS) entry-level engineers7. Educators must shift the focus from teaching-centered approach to learning-centered. This necessitates the assessment of the industrial use of the materials that are learnedin the classroom.The co-op program is vital in such assessment using the following 3 methods:1. Student feedback: IPFW cooperative education students are required to submit an academicwritten report as well as an evaluation survey for every semester they worked. The feedback isan important way of understanding the value of the co-op experience and the results can be usedas indirect assessment measures.The students write a 3-5 page technical report in which they summarize the tasks, plan, project

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Jeanine Casler; Bugrahan Yalvac; H. David Smith; Gulnur Birol; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

engineering courseor interfering with an engineering faculty members’ priorities? That is the question we intend topose to our faculty as we develop the writing standards website and related resources.AcknowledgmentsWe are grateful for the funding we have received from the Engineering Research Centers Program of the National ScienceFoundation under Award Number EEC-9876363 (the VaNTH-ERC) to partially support this project and also for a WalterP. Murphy grant for undergraduate education from Northwestern University. We also wish to thank Dean StephenCarr of the McCormick School Administration for his generous support.References1. Merriam, B. S. (1998). Qualitative research and case study applications in education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leo Benegas; Rick Covington

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

board and overhead lighting to improve student observation of theprofessor during active learning. If a professor desires to conduct in-class small group exercises,an auditorium probably is not the best choice. Either individual student desks or large tableswith multiple chairs may be more suitable. The equipment in the room to include the amount of Page 10.1222.5chalkboard space, projection systems, etc. may limit how course material is presented. Is theclassroom close to a laboratory or is there classroom space in the laboratory if experiments are Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Skylar Stewart; Linda Ramsey; Julie DuBois; Jorge Roldan; David Mills

the ACT Assessment. News Release September 29, 1999. Retrieved from < http://www.act.org/news/releases/1999/09-29-99.html> 8. Dean, A and Voss, D. Design and Analysis of Experiments. Springer-Verlage New York, Inc., 1999.BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONJORGE E. ROLDAN is a graduate student in Molecular Science and Nanotechnology at Louisiana TechUniversity. His current research involves applications of nanotechnology for drug delivery and cartilage tissueengineering. This is Jorge’s second year with the GK-12 Program and assisting in teaching high-school mathematicsand science at Weston High School.SKYLAR S. STEWART is a graduate student in Biomedical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University. Her mostcurrent research project

Conference Session

Information Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

be accredited by ABET. They provide a detailed description of 30 semester hours plus a 3semester hours of prerequisite. These 33 semester hours are listed below:0- Personal Productivity with IS Technology1- Fundamentals of Information Systems2- Electronic Business Strategy, Architecture and Design3- Information Systems Theory and Practice4- Information Technology Hardware and System Software5- Programming, Data, File and Object Structures6- Networks and Telecommunication7- Analysis and Logical Design8- Physical Design and Implementation with DBMS9- Physical Design and Implementation in Emerging Environments10- Project Management and PracticeA typical Bachelor degree in IS includes: • 39 hours of general education • 9 hours of

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Quinn

from computer science.Related WorkMany efforts have been made to enhance computer science education through the use ofanimation and interactive software. In this section we briefly describe some of the projects thatare most closely related to our work.More than two decades ago, Ronald Baecker at the University of Toronto released the videoSorting out Sorting, which used animation to compare nine internal sorting algorithms.2 Sincethen, three studies have concluded that passive viewing of animations is not sufficient to improvestudent understanding.3,4,5 Instead, algorithm animations must be part of an active learningenvironment to be successful. Human explanations need to accompany the animations. Allowingstudents to create the data input to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Martin

following: It sounds easy and inexpensive when first discussing and analyzing. It ends up consuming you, and depleting department funds on the order of many thousands of dollars.The University of Regina in Canada reported orally at the 2004 Cooperative Education &Internship Association Conference that they spent approximately $500,000 by the time Page 10.391.14they completed such a system. Endless additional examples exist across the country. 14One hundred percent of those who have done this will report that they either spentcountless hours and excessive funding on the project, and/or they

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Milo Koretsky

straightforward for them to apply it to any other package as well.The learning objective for this activity is listed in the syllabus as follows: “The student willdemonstrate the ability to: design, implement, and analyze experiments to measure therepeatability and reproducibility of a gauge; perform ANOVA analysis to estimate the variancecomponents from different sources.” In addition to the homework and lab project, twoassessments were used to measure the learning outcomes from this exercise. Students weregiven a quiz in class. The average score was 79%. This compares to 82% for the other quizzes inthe class, which covered non statistics-based topics. Thus, the numerical score was roughlyequivalent. The quiz scores were also categorized by those

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chrysanthe Demetry

they forgot to take oneof these daily assessments.The Classroom Performance SystemTM (CPS) wireless response technology was used in the samemanner in the Spring and Fall offerings. Each student signed out a response pad (“clicker”) at thestart of the course. In each class period, I would typically pose two to three multiple choicequestions or problems intended to reveal common misconceptions, often in a “think-pair-share”format and, whenever possible, focusing around a demonstration. The system records studentresponses and projects them onto the screen in the form of a histogram. Students were graded ontheir participation, not whether their answer was correct. This participation in “in-classproblems” contributed 10% toward the overall course

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Susan Magliaro; Michael Alley; Hassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hayden Griffin; Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

learning, instruction, andevaluation and how to properly implement those theories in an engineering classroom. TheMEngE program is a non-thesis degree, which will require a minimum of 30 credits, includingthree to six credits for a project report.The proposed minimum entrance requirement for these two programs is a Bachelor of Science(BS) degree in engineering, physics, mathematics or any of the natural sciences and a 3.0 GPA inthe last 60 hours of the undergraduate program. Other applicants will have to meet specifiedrequired mathematics and science courses. Typical courses for these degrees include: Preparingfor the Engineering Professoriate (3 credits), Design in Engineering Education and Practice (3credits), Foundations of Engineering

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lars Håkansson; Ingvar Gustavsson; Henrik Åkesson

becarried out in order to use this instrument in a larger scale. Also implementation of the unusedfunctions on signal analyzer is necessary to get an apprehension of a complete instrument.AcknowledgmentThe project is sponsored by The Foundation for Knowledge and Competence Development. Page 10.1073.12 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationREFERENCES 1. J.S. Bendat and A.G. Piersol. Random Data Analysis And Measurement Procedures. John Wiley & Sons, third edition, 2000. 2. D. J. Ewins. Modal Testing

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell

worry about itsimplementation.Java provides a mechanism for incorporating DBC information from source code through the useof Javadoc3, a utility program distributed with the Java SDK that builds API documentation inthe form of HTML files from specially embedded comments contained within the source code ofthe classes that constitute the project. Javadoc has been used to generate the vast majority of APIdocumentation; in many cases, it constitutes the only documentation for a class. As it is part ofthe source code, responsibility for proper documentation rests with the programmer4;accordingly, it is incumbent upon the instructor to discuss the need for proper documentation, asbad documentation is just as severe an affront to software engineering

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Barbara Oakley

franchises.and tend towards starting servicebusinesses. It has been projected that in 2010 more than half of all business owners willbe female- or minority-owned. 3 This is already a reality with the Kumon Franchisees(Fig. 3). Presently, 87% of Kumon franchisees in the United States and Canada areowned by women. Women in general cite three common reasons for becoming entrepreneurs. Theprimarily motivation, cited by 46% of women, is a desire to set their own hours.4Another major factor is frustration with the “glass ceiling” at big companies (23%).Additionally, a number of women say they saw a lucrative niche and decided to fill it(24%). Certainly, all of three of these common motivation for an entrepreneurial careerare satisfied with the Kumon

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

as course content revisions, curriculum modifications, modernization of capstone design project requirements, and updating of laboratories. Always keep in mind that the reviewers are going to be specifically looking at the process of program improvement, and the documentation must show that the programs are improving.4. Find an ABET champion and reward him/her Although the entire faculty in the department should be involved in preparing for ABET accreditation, there should be one individual that is responsible for preparing Page 10.1145.7 the ABET self-study report. This individual should be conversant with the latest

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Trev Harmon; C. Richard Helps; Michael Bailey

be done to reduce the size of the resulting TIFF, itgreatly impairs readability and usability for the student.While MHTML is defined in IETF RFC 2557, which is currently classified as StandardsTrack,5,8 it was originally intended for use only in email. Since then Microsoft has expanded itsuse into its other Office products. However, due to this and the fact that Microsoft requires thatOutlook be installed on the system with its Inetcomm.dll,6,7 several students had a difficult timeaccessing these documents.Anecdotal Experiences Page 10.522.8One of the authors used tablet PCs for all homework and project report grading for a

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe; Stacy Klein-Gardner

. Page 10.224.13 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationSTACY S. KLEIN teaches high school physics courses at University School of Nashville, TN, and undergraduateengineering courses at Vanderbilt University. An active developer of new high school and undergraduate curriculathrough the VaNTH ERC, she is co-PI of the NSF-sponsored projects, "Biomedical Imaging Education: Safe,Inexpensive Hands-On Learning" and the Vanderbilt BME RET Site Program.ANITA MAHADEVAN-JANSEN received her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Physics from theUniversity of Bombay, Bombay, India, her Master and Doctoral

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Jones; Karen Berger; Tamara Knott

arrive the day before the competition. Coaches and mentorstraveling with the team are anxious to find activities to keep the students occupied prior to thetournament. Since the state competition has been held in Blacksburg, home of Virginia Tech(VT), for each of the four years the FLL program has existed in Virginia, it is natural to takeadvantage of the strong presence of the VT College of Engineering and offer the FLLparticipants an opportunity to learn more about engineering. For the past four years FLLparticipants have had the opportunity to visit the WARELab2, a facility where the studentengineering competition teams have space to work on their projects, and/or attend a talk onrobotics in engineering delivered by Dr. Charles Reinholtz, a

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Martinazzi

., “Reinventing the Teaching of Statics”, 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. 5. ABC News Primetime Live Video Collection, Segment Two, February 11, 1998.ROBERT MARTINAZZIProfessor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. B.S. AerospaceEngineering from the University of Pittsburgh, M.S. Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.Registered professional engineer. Interests include engineering economics, management and leadershipdevelopment. Worked as project engineer for Armstrong World Industries, does engineering management andleadership consulting work and presents seminars on effectiveness and leadership at both the individual andcorporate

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Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Yasuhara

high school system. In Proceedings of SIGCSE’05: the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education.[11] National Center for Education Statistics. Digest of education statistics. http://nces.ed.gov/ pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005025, 2003.[12] Irene F. Goodman, Christine M. Cunningham, Cathy Lachapelle, Meredith Thompson, Katherine Bittinger, Robert T. Brennan, and Mario Delci. Final report of the women’s experiences in college engineering (WECE) project, April 2002.[13] Denise G¨urer and Tracy Camp. Investigating the incredible shrinking pipeline for women in computer science. http://women.acm.org/documents/finalreport.pdf, June 2002.[14] Andrea Jepson and Teri Perl. Priming the pipeline. SIGCSE

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Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Holles

articles and extract criticalinformation. Finally, the faculty state that students have shown an improved understanding ofthe research process allowing them to get organized and more quickly proceed through thebackground research of their project. In line with the course goals, the students also state that the class has improved theirpresentation skills. The students also demonstrate enthusiasm for the lectures on copyrights,patents, and ethics. Finally, the students have indicated that the assignment they like the mostand learn the most from is the critical journal article review (assignment 7). Most students alsocite this assignment as most useful when performing future research.Conclusion Although this class has evolved in many