Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Inglert; Kathleen Ossman

of an architect, a humanitiesprofessor, and four engineers with expertise in construction, electrical, and mechanicalengineering technologies developed the course. The faculty team's initial question was "what isan effective learning strategy to encourage a deeper level understanding and a holistic integrationof historical and technological concepts?" Problem Based Learning (PBL), with its emphasis onsynthetic understanding and developing meaning over mere fact collection and recall, was anatural choice during course design.1 This paper is written as a case study that records howlearners, using the action-oriented learning attitude implicit in PBL, engaged in the process ofmaking sense of open-ended problems, reports on their successes and

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

, technology and sciences directions.Its very active members has already a history of participations in scientific events in educationand technology, also sponsoring conferences and developing projects since 1994, with the goalof enhancing discussions about education, technology and science congregating specialists of thefive continents.3. The Region VocationScience has developed itself in a kind of knowledge fragmentation, generating the superspecialties, divorced from the global context that they are part, atrophying the ability ofintegrating and evaluating the issue in its context. The New World order demands a new kind ofprofessional, capable to think global without loosing the dimension of local and vice-versa. Thefishing engineers that this

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gregg

process. Green engineering might be considered environmentallyconscious attitudes, values and principles combined with sound science, technology andengineering practice. Green engineering is, inherently, inter- and cross-disciplinary in nature.Each department within the College of Engineering includes this information to a greater orlesser degree as an imbedded and generally non-specific part of its curricula.This paper examines the potential of green engineering in a multidisciplinary environment. Notonly is green content appropriate for most, if not all, disciplines within engineering, but it is alsoappropriate for non-engineering majors. “A technically literate society must be educated onwhat issues to evaluate, or be resigned to being the

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

Deconstructing Engineering Design Steven H. VanderLeest Department of Engineering, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI1 AbstractPostmodernism has swept through disciplines from literature to philosophy, from politics tosociology. But what does postmodernism have to do with engineering or more specifically,engineering education? Postmodernism may be the cure to several common ills, such asstudents becoming overly reliant on engineering models or computer simulations, lack ofdiversity (both in design teams and in the designs themselves), and lack of accountability due toa belief that technology is ethically neutral. However, postmodernism also presents some

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jake Ingman; Camille Schroeder

increaseengineering exposure for these students to enhance their science, math, and engineering interestsand engage them in learner-driven activities that can entice them to consider a career inengineering. One such activity is FIRST LEGO League (FLL).First LEGO LeagueFLL is a LEGO robotics competition for children ages 9-14 created by a partnership between theLEGO Company and non-profit organization FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition ofTechnology). FIRST has a mission of providing a means for young people to pursueopportunities in engineering and technology. There are currently over 60,000 children involved Page 10.841.1in FLL across with the world in

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder

hand, students begin tosee how engineering ingenuity and inventions touch and shape their everyday lives.Teaching engineering to high school students has many benefits. Providing early exposure toengineering and technology has the potential to open up new lifelong pursuits. It affords studentsthe opportunity to make informed career choices rather than relying on high school guidancecounselors or teachers to suggest engineering as an educational path because a studentdemonstrates strong interest or capability in math and science. A high school engineering coursecements students’ science and math knowledge while allowing them to seek creative solutions tocomplex problems and appreciate the overarching engineering concept of creating things for

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica Dark; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

encourage thedevelopment of specific learning skills. Thus, modules will deliberately highlight connectionsbetween the content of multiple courses. This will be achieved by such mechanisms as solvingtwo closely related problems using material from two different courses and using the output of amodule from one class as an input to a different module. This type of integration would bedifficult to achieve without the use of the technology.The fact that we are using information technology to achieve this integration of the curriculumalso enhances a student's ability to solve engineering problems. In the past, and continuing tosome extent for traditional engineering disciplines, foundational knowledge in mathematics andengineering sciences helped to

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht; Jennifer Gale

Session 1615 BUILDING AN ENGINEERING TEAM: PEER ASSESSMENT PROVES A USEFUL INSTRUMENT TO GAUGE PROGRESS Robert Knecht & Jennifer Gale Colorado School of Mines Abstract – Successful team operations rely on several functions that team members assumethroughout the life of a project. The National Training Laboratory in Group Developmentdeveloped a method describing team success based on task and team functions. At the 2004ASEE Conference, we presented findings indicating that undergraduate teams spent the entiresemester developing both a

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Goedert; E. Terence Foster

Construction Engineering: an Integrative Branch of Engineering E. Terence Foster, Ph.D., P.E., C.P.C., James D. Goedert, Ph.D., P.E. University of Nebraska, Department of Construction SystemsAbstractConstruction engineering is a separate and distinct branch of engineering recognized bythe Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (EAC-ABET). The specific case of the developing constructionengineering program at the University of Nebraska provides examples supporting thegeneral conclusions of this discussion.Construction engineering is an integrative branch of engineering that draws upon thebasic branches, such as civil, mechanical, and electrical. The relationship

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Jones; Karen Berger; Tamara Knott

benefits to the participants, volunteers, and the university.IntroductionFirst Lego League (FLL)1 is an international program for 9-14 year olds designed to foster apositive view of science and technology through creative problem solving in a team-basedcompetition. More than 45,000 students worldwide participated in the program in 2003. In2004, in the state of Virginia alone, there were over 200 registered teams of up to ten children Page 10.616.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationeach. The

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rickie Miller; Elisa Barney Smith

develop or seek out on their own andwhether they integrate the science and engineering more often into their daily classroomactivities than teachers who have not had such a course. Page 10.549.9 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliographic Information[1] Massachusetts’s Department of Education. (May, 2001). Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Framework. http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/scitech/2001/0501.pdf[2] “Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwich

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Moshe Hartman; Harriet Hartman

fouryear program.The basic features of the Rowan program directly address a number of the institutional factorscited as diminishing persistence in the engineering field, and are considered cutting edge forundergraduate engineering education. The interdisciplinary teamwork and holistic projectexperiences, for example, exemplify the kind of learning experience which Rosser18 andMargolis & Fisher13have suggested as necessary to increase the retention of women in science,engineering, and technological fields--and which the 1995 NSF Workshop on RestructuringEngineering Education recommended for all engineering learning environments15. Theimpersonality of traditional engineering school climates is replaced by a strong faculty-studentmentoring and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi; Dan Dimitriu

UTSA. The coursecontains special features designed to enhance the educational quality at the freshmen level,improve student retention, and provide design experience. It is a first course in preparingstudents for future engineering practice. An assessment process is in place to evaluate theeffectiveness in meeting course objectives. This paper will describe in detail the course contentand present the assessment results.IntroductionIt is widely known that engineers are essential to both the private and public sectors in order tomaintain a strong economy, and that it is in the national interest to vigorously pursue thedevelopment of domestic science, technology, and engineering workers from all ethnic andgender groups. If the United States is

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theo Brower; Meredith Knight; Chris Rogers

undergraduate students. In addition, theacademy would address current weaknesses in engineering curriculum8 and satisfy anumber of requirements set by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET)9. This research program was created to mimic the real-world design process,where not everyone on the design team is an engineer. Students’ learning is motivated bythe goal of solving a real world problem. This helps to show the applicability of theresearch, something that is found to encourage different types of learners, especiallywomen. In this new project-based learning environment, students of each discipline will Page 10.1369.2learn to teach

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

AC 2005-307: DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING GRADUATE PROGRAMS INENGINEERING EDUCATIONAlex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityHassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityHayden Griffin,Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityJean Kampe, Michigan Technological UniversityJenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityMarie Paretti, Virginia TechMark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityMichael Alley,Richard Goff,Susan Magliaro,Thomas Walker,Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Page 10.422.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Johnson; Jason Lynch; Michael Butkus

are a part of the program.Figure 2. Enrollment History by Engineering Sequence (sequence in graph matches legend) 5 To provide strategic guidance for the Academic Program, the Academy publishedEducating Future Army Officers for a Changing World. Stated in this document is theoverarching goal of the Academic Program; “to enable graduates to anticipate and respondeffectively to the uncertainties of a changing technological, social, political, and economicworld.” Ten specific program goals are used as indices of attainment of the overarching goal.Proficiency in the Engineering and Technology (E&T) domain of knowledge is one of thesespecific program goals. To “ensure that cadets studying engineering in different disciplinarydomains

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

Boulder (CU). As part of the program, an EDC option in theEnvironmental Engineering (EVEN) B.S. degree is being proposed. Given the success of theEngineers Without Borders (EWB) outreach and service program, it is expected that studentinterest in the EDC option will be significant. At a workshop on “Integrating Appropriate-Sustainable Technology and Service-Learning in Engineering Education” held at CU onSeptember 27-29, 2004, participants were surveyed on existing courses and programs at theiruniversities that are relevant to EDC. A description of the proposed curriculum, option coursesand technical electives for the proposed EDC emphasis in EVEN are provided. Relevant socialscience and humanistic electives are recommended. The information will

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Shaw; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

offeredpioneering, innovative courses in Engineering Entrepreneurship, Technical Marketing, HighTech Product Strategy, and Technology Commercialization strategies. In these case studycourses, students develop real world marketing and business plans for commercializinginnovative new products and technologies.1 Some of the innovative product development andtechnology commercialization ideas have won accolades at regional business idea pitchingcompetitions.While meeting the increasing demand for holistic, interdisciplinary education, these innovativecourses have greatly enriched the students’ educational experience, broadened their perspectives,significantly enhanced their career prospects, served as community outreach/networking forumsand integrated

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hauser; Robert Spall

groups of faculty members, typically at the department level. This workaddresses one of what we consider to be the more important of the recommendations of the BoyerCommission in the context of our Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department – the useof information technology in education. This recommendation from the Boyer Commission isalso consistent with recent emphasis from the National Science Foundation in the broad areas thatencompass information technology research and education.In particular, we address advances in science and engineering by introducing students to the fieldof computational engineering, a subset of information technology. With the emergence of low-cost, parallel supercomputers such as PC-based Beowulf clusters, a

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yvonne Ng

Taste of Engineering INTEGRATING ENGINEERING INTO A LIBERAL ARTS INSTITUTION Yvonne Ng Mathematical Sciences and Faculty co-Leader of Centers of Excellence for Women, Science and Technology College of St. CatherineAbstractStudies show that exposing students to engineering early in their college career increases their retentionin engineering programs. But how can such an experience be created at a liberal arts partner institutionthat has no engineering department? The College of St. Catherine, the largest Catholic women’sinstitution in the US, is the liberal

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Fouad; Tarek Rizk; Fouad Fouad

conception and the plan of design. As such, some formal construction training isneeded to provide our graduates with the necessary tools for successful practice.However, adding coursework on construction to the undergraduate curriculum is not a simpletask. Civil engineering undergraduate programs are constantly encouraged to reduce credit hoursand to increase emphasis on liberal arts and social sciences. At the same time, technology isadvancing at an exponential rate, which is requiring the civil engineer to be knowledgeable ofnew techniques and tools such as GIS, GPS, computational mechanics, modeling, etc. Whilefive-year programs or a master’s degree have been suggested by ASCE and others, it is felt thatsome basic training in construction at the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Carroll

utilize the technical knowledge available to themeffectively, but they also must understand foundations of the social settings in which they wish toapply that technology. Engineering, by its nature, is a multidisciplinary endeavor requiring skillsand knowledge from a variety of backgrounds.In a recent accreditation review of engineering programs at the University of Minnesota Duluth(UMD), the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) visitors suggested that away be found to instill in students a more complete appreciation for this “ProfessionalComponent” of engineering. According to ABET criteria, students should understand howengineering relates to activities in • Economics, • Environment

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad; Thomas Hilburn

(CoAS). On the other hand, there is group that argues that SE should bepart of the College of Engineering (CoE); the main argument this group uses is the fact thatengineering is used as part of the degree name. Finally, there is a group which argues thatsoftware engineering, computer science, information technology, information systems, and othercomputing related degrees should all be grouped together and offered by a college which isspecialized in computing, for example a college of computer and information science. Ofcourse, each of these proposals has its own advantages and disadvantages. In this section wediscuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of being part of the college of Engineering.There are number of advantages in having

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erick Jones

“Using Industrial Engineering Tools to Improve Engineering Student Attrition” Erick C. Jones, Satish S. Oswal, Ann Koopman, Brandy Keithley University of Nebraska-LincolnABSTRACT Bright students are leaving Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) programs.In the landmark study, “Talking About Leaving'', Seymour and Hewitt suggest that eachinstitution should examine its own set of factors as to why students leave these programs, andthen take appropriate action. Previous research has identified multiple reasons for the studentretention problem including attitudes toward the engineering field, student’s self-confidencelevels, quality of instructor interactions, and robustness of

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carpenter

develop teamwork skills. They also develop bettercommunication skills through writing questions and responses for the ECC game,preparing PowerPoint presentations, writing memos, and giving oral presentations.Bibliographic Information1 ABET Engineering Criteria 2000. Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore, Md. (1995).2 The Ethics Challenge, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Office of Ethics and Business Conduct, 310 North Westlake Blvd., Suite 200, Westlake, Village, CA 91362 (1997).3 Harris, C.E., Pritchard, M.S., and M.J. Rabins, Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases 2nd ed., Wadsworth, Belmont, California (2000

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

Session # 2560 Engineering and the Millennium Development Goals Dato’ Ir Lee Yee-Cheong, President World Federation of Engineering Organizations Russel C. Jones, Chairman WFEO Committee on Capacity BuildingAbstractThis paper outlines elements of a global action program to apply science, technology andinnovation (STI) to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). For purposesof the report, STI is used to mean the generation, use and diffusion of all forms of usefulknowledge as well as the evolution of associated institutional arrangements. The MDGsinclude

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

engineering and engineering education – in order to promote technicalcapacity building for economic development in developing countries. A major proposalon how to mount an enhanced engineering program, entitled “Engineering for a BetterWorld”, has been developed by the US engineering community and UNESCO’sengineering staff and submitted to UNESCO for consideration.The overall objectives of the “Engineering for a Better World” proposal are to strengthenhuman and institutional technical capacity in developing countries, to promoteengineering to young people, and to provide an interactive and catalytic role for theapplication of engineering and technological resources to sustainable economic and socialdevelopment and poverty eradication. There is

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

Session XX10 K12 Engineering Education Field Experience Lawrence J. Genalo, Celeste E. Ogren Iowa State UniversityAbstractEngineering faculty have offered an engineering literacy course entitled Toying WithTechnologySM to elementary and secondary education majors for eight years. Studies haveshown that students form many of their overall career and educational attitudes as early aselementary school. Schoolteachers who have an appreciation for technology will likely conveythat appreciation to their students. This will, in turn, broaden the horizons of their

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi; Wael Ibrahim

Online Engineering Education: A Comprehensive Review Wael Ibrahim, Rasha Morsi ECPI College of Technology/Norfolk State UniversityAbstractDevelopment and assessment of synchronous and asynchronous distance learning curricula is anever growing research due to the new emerging virtual universities. Recent reports confirm thefast growth in online education at an even higher rate than anticipated by educational institutions.The suitability of online learning to engineering disciplines however has been questioned. Thispaper researches online degree granting institutions and attempts to gain an insight in the growthof online education and its correlation with engineering

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

in economy, technology, culture, and sciences.Contrary to several other places in the developing world, Latin America and theCaribbean have already established several nuclei of technical excellence, which may beeasily observed by several cultural and technological achievements, which include theexistence of leading universities and several very good schools of engineering. Thesenuclei of modern culture are important seeds to bridge the knowledge divide, and, inparticular considering the schools of engineering, these nuclei may play an important andleading role in the process of fostering a high-tech industry led economic and socialdevelopment.The Hemisphere of the Americas is now being challenged by the need for a morehomogeneous economic