Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hartmann

“output” from a diverseset of originating sources. Such “sources” can be the “general workforce,” direct accession fromhigh school, or graduates of higher education engineering programs.As the source for granting degrees to industrial engineering undergraduate and graduate-levelstudents, engineering higher education is motivated to adapt to the manufacturing and serviceconsumer’s changing requirements for an educated engineering employee. This motivation maybe partially based on institutional and departmental-level accreditations, a critically importantconcern for stakeholders in institutions and the institutions’ engineering departments. While anaccreditation is alone significant and requires an institution/department to plan, collect, archive

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Turner; Lisa Marshall

NorthCarolina State University Department of Nuclear Engineering which has resulted in an averageincrease enrolment of 28% in the undergraduate program, 43% in the graduate program and astabilization of student enrolment near targeted 120 and 50 respectively. First, SEM is described as the cradle to grave approach within higher education. It is theprocess by which relations are forged, providing all concern with identifiable benefits. Adding tothe typical components, we include outreach and recruitment, retention and career services alongwith graduation and alumni development. It is a comprehensive plan that involves academic andnon-academic components. Realistic goal setting and implementation must be continuinglyrevised and sustained. Some of

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Denny Davis

the engineering profile is stable. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering Profile DevelopmentThe development of a profile for a top quality engineer began in late 2002 with leadership fromfaculty associated with the NSF-sponsored “Transferable Integrated Design EngineeringEducation” (TIDEE) project14. The engineer profile was planned to reflect attributes desired atthe time of graduation or during the first five years following graduation with a baccalaureatedegree in engineering. Performance during this 5-year window was judged important for aprofile because it is indicative of both

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rusk Masih

COOPERATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND CORPORATIONS Rusk Masih The University of Connecticut, Avery Point Campus, Groton Email r_masih@yahoo.comAbstract This paper treats the role that can be played by both the universities and the industrytogether in shaping continuous engineering education, nationally and internationally. Itrecommends forming a joint committee from the industry and academia to define the plan toenhance the cooperation between the universities and corporations, and the execution of suchplan. It also treats the interest of each

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed; Lucy King; Matthew Sanders; Jacqueline El-Sayed

number of cross-functionalactivities. Effective and efficient communication skills and team dynamics are essential. Theywill work on one product, separating the engineering challenge into modules of various tasks indesign, manufacturing, facilities planning and business functions, each task managed by a sub-team. A case study will be presented. As a result, students not only synthesize what they havelearned but also apply what they have gained: teamwork experience, collaborative finesse,ability to comprehend the global picture of engineering, the urgency to be innovative, and thedrive to become effective leaders. The university gains a better reputation and strengthenedbonds among departments.IntroductionToday’s work environment demands that

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Richard Keltie

in all hours taken in courses in their “major.” Major courses are those that are offered by degree department and are required or allowed as electives in the student’s degree plan. Some academic departments include courses from other departments in their “major” GPA calculations.Cohort Study Results: In order to investigate factors associated with student success inengineering, we collected data on all first-time engineering college freshmen admitted in theyears 1996 through 2000. From a previous study, we had learned that “students who matriculatewill graduate” in engineering at a rate of 85%. Thus, in this study we wanted to find out whatfactors were associated with matriculation. For

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Luks

Tar Creek to sample the waterand test the samples in a series of experiments of their own design. The students thenevaluate remediation methods and propose their plan to correct the problems that theyfound through the experimental testing. This project gives the students a practicalappreciation of safety and the environment and an opportunity to apply their skills to areal-life problem. As a result of this project, student retention was improved and studentsgained a lasting sense of responsibility for the global environment.Background Tar Creek has received national attention since it was established as a top priorityby the EPA Superfund in 1983. As such, it is an appropriate topic for an introductorycourse in chemical engineering that

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Carriere

Page 10.984.2play critical roles in academe by integrating research, education, diversity, outreach, and “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society For Engineering Education”industrial collaboration, NSF views ERCs as change agents for academic engineering programsand the engineering community at large.2. Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education (DLR) - providesan opportunity for institutions to compete for planning and implementation grants to assistdepartmental and larger units in engaging faculty in the scholarship of learning and teaching ona department wide basis, in developing, implementing

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Ostheimer

department also hired a writing expert todesign, develop and teach the communication component of these classes; thus alleviating theneed for ECE faculty to direct and formatively assess student writing. After ten years ofemphasizing writing, at least in the senior year of the ECE curriculum, and in response to theABET 2000 requirement that program outcomes be measured, the department, in 1999, begandeveloping plans to design an assessment process capable of evaluating how well the ECEcurriculum was actually preparing our graduates to write for their future careers. In this paper,we will describe first the series of steps that led to the establishment of the assessment design,then present and discuss our observations from five years of this

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

identified in the ARET Department's TAC-ABET Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP),program outcomes have been devised to describe what graduates of a degree program will beable to demonstrate and know when they graduate. The skills and abilities identified in theprogram outcomes are measures of the quality of the program and can have a significant impacton the validity of the degree. Professional experience through an internship program, whetherconducted in an office or through a program such as this, can enhance a student's understandingof the career field and practice, ultimately creating a better quality student. The process ofobtaining professional internships in a rural area is significantly more difficult than in largerurban areas. Economic

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

. This, while there are similarities, thescale of the class size can magnify teaching problems.Preparation, structure, procedures and rulesPlain and simply, large classes require more preparation. Planning needs to begin well beforethe term starts and includes both technical competence with the material presented andorganization of every class. Lecture preparation requires that every moment be carefully andtotally planned. Even breaks in the lecture need to be scripted to ensure that students do notnotice any discontinuity in the lecture.Handouts, notes, homework assignments and examinations need to be developed early andprinted on a schedule so that there are no last minute requirements. Large amounts of classroommaterial can not be printed in

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

combustion engines, fuel systems, exhaust emissions, fuelcells and energy systems.This paper describes structure of research projects, expectations on the part of faculty advisorsand students, preparation of student participants for subsequent research career or advanceddegree and the extent to which project objectives have been met. Tracking of the past REUstudent participants has shown that several of them are pursuing advanced degree programswhile a similar number is planning to pursue research and development career in industry.IntroductionThere has been an increased interest in providing research opportunities to undergraduates at manyinstitutions. While major research universities and some well-known liberal arts colleges have

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christine Kelly

systems.4. Develop regulatory documentation (standard operating procedure and batch record)for a given process.5. Develop and critique a peer’s written validation plan for a given process and carry outthe plan in the laboratory. Synthesize the results into a final validation document.6. Define the roles and describe the differences between Quality Assurance and QualityControl groups. Select analytical methods and quality tools appropriate for qualitycontrol of a biopharmaceutical process or medical devices manufacturing process andexplain the fundamental basis for the methods.7. Describe the purpose and components control strategies, including change controlsystems, process deviations, and quality investigations.Table 2. Required readingsParts of

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sukesh Aghara; Irvin Osborn-Lee

covering radiation environments and radiation detectionas applicable to space. The program is geared towards a non-power related nuclearengineering instruction. The program is expected to evolve in the areas of radiationbiology, health physics, radiation environment characterization and radiochemistry. Acourse titled “Introduction to Nuclear Engineering I” was developed and taught atPVAMU for the Fall 2004 semester, for the spring semester same course is offered againalong with a second course titled “Introduction to Nuclear Engineering II”. The syllabusof these courses will be discussed along with the future plans of the courses beingplanned at PVAMU. This paper will not discuss the development of the Texaspartnership program or the sharing of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

curriculum.A recruiting and retention plan is also being developed as part of the new curriculum design. Thedevelopment of this plan is considered to be a crucial and fundamental component of the overallEE program. One of the biggest concerns is the recruitment and retention of underrepresentedgroups in the engineering field.This paper describes the planning and development of the new Electrical Engineering program atEWU including the significance, infrastructure, goals, objectives, laboratory needs, programrequirements, and curriculum.IntroductionThe EE program was conceived on the basis of three factors: industrial demand within the regionand state, the small number of qualified graduates available to enter the workforce, and theincreasing pool of

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Krumholz; Robert Martello; Jonathan Stolk

readings, discussions, and self-designed projects, students explore materials science concepts alongside the social, cultural, andenvironmental factors that shaped technological and scientific history. Although some formal in-class activities are planned, many class sessions are flexible, allowing students to engage inindividualized learning approaches. The projects are loosely framed, enabling students todevelop key competencies while investigating topics of personal interest and controlling projectfocus and direction. In this paper, we discuss the processes and motivating factors that led to theinitial design and continued development of the Paul Revere: Tough as Nails course block. Wedescribe the philosophical and practical benefits of the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Katie Sullivan

needs of the community and meet instructional objectives using action andcritical reflection to prepare students for careers and to become meaning members of a justand democratic society”. 2 The interdisciplinary aspect of the course is carefully planned out. There are 12college students in the course. Six of these students are from Chemical engineering, andthe others are from multiple disciplines such as biology, communication, geology andgeophysics. The multi-leveled nature of the course is due to the partnership of theAcademy of Math, science and Engineering (AMES) and the 12 high school students whoattend the class for college credit. AMES draws students from grades 9-12 from two different school districts. It isaligned with

Conference Session

Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Crystal Hoyer; Crystal Eney

learned during our first threeofferings of the course, and how we plan to improve upon our experience in the future. We willshow how we developed creative solutions to support women in technology with minimaldepartment resources.IntroductionThe University of Washington is a large research institution with nearly 40,000 students, 28,000of whom are undergraduates. The university is just over 50% women but the Computer Scienceand Engineering (CSE) Department has held steady with roughly 17% women for the pastseveral years. High achieving women are going into fields such as bioengineering, chemistry,math, business, and biological science, but not computer science. Research by Jepson and Perlshow that the misperception of computer science and the lack

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Scott

, experience, and custom. Theiterative process of engineering design is characterized by a series of distinct functions: identifyingneeds, defining options, making decisions, gathering data, preparing a plan, and implementing aplan. Demonstrating these functions, along with introducing the students to open-ended problemsolving, produced both universal and culturally distinctive results. This paper will demonstrate various cultural distinctions affecting the progress and success ofadapting an engineering model to a Middle Eastern culture. In a sense, this paper reflects the Page 10.125.2colonization of a Western academic community in the Middle

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

experience inpresentation related to three areas in BME. The initial area is cell and tissue engineeringwith a focus on determining the best area for a planned corporate research. The secondarea is biomechanics. This area is will combine statistic, statics, and particle dynamicsfor the solution of simple problems. Based on group measurements, the range of valuesfor joint loading will be assessed. The last part of the course will involve a combinationof instrumentation and imaging. The added aspects are the considerations of A/Dconversion, Fourier Analysis, and systems modeling. Page 10.498.1Methods Lectures are seldom effective to provide student

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Young

projects.Working from engineering sketches, digital models, or blueprints, students typically produceengineering devices that challenge the students’ abilities to use manufacturing equipmentranging in complexity from simple hand tools to CNC machine shop equipment. Projectcomplexity can range from fairly simple first-year introductory projects to large-scale multi-disciplinary projects such as the Solar Powered Aircraft or the Waterbike projects (Figure 2)undertaken at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. From a workspace perspective, the Implementationphase places a premium on preparatory planning for efficient use, adequate construction space tosupport a multi-disciplinary curriculum, and tools and manufacturing machinery that are goodmatches to engineering students

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mara Wasburn

future success. It responds to the tradition of action research, a deficit model thatviews organizations as having problems in need of solution, and proposes the development of anaction plan to correct the problems that are identified (22). Appreciative Inquiry rejects thepositivist view that social knowledge is derived from objective observation, in favor of the socialconstructionist paradigm that sees reality as constructed through our social interactions (23). Page 10.1139.7 The Appreciate Inquiry process reflects a set of principles drawn from current theory andresearch in the human and social sciences (24). 1. The

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

provide thecritiques. Ultimately, the participant who taught the class provides a self-assessment. Eachparticipant receives a videotape containing all of his or her classes and critiques recorded forfuture reference.Social Events: While much of the evening time is spent in class preparation, social events weredeliberately planned to promote interaction, collaboration and the sharing of ideas. Anintroductory banquet, a Hudson River cruise, morning/afternoon snack breaks and lunches aredesigned as important learning activities.While the laboratory exercises and the demonstration classes are consistently rated as the mostvaluable activities, there are two seminar topics that standout in both the immediate and longterm workshop critiques

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

ProgramsPrior to 2004, there were three opportunities for girls in 11th and 12th grade to come onto the RITcampus and learn about engineering at the institute. These three programs have been heldprimarily as recruitment/retention tools for RIT and are discussed belowSWE SleepoverThe SWE (Society of Women) Sleepover is an annual program, held each spring, for 11th gradewomen. The program has been in existence for a number of years, and is planned and run almostentirely by RIT’s Society of Women Engineers student section. Since it is mainly used as arecruitment tool to demonstrate RIT’s engineering programs to young women in high schoolsaround the Northeast, it is centered around providing an RIT experience. Attendees spend a fullday on campus, where

Conference Session

Innovative Practices in NRE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Davis; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

own desired outcomes and develop methods for continuouslymeasuring the extent to which these outcomes were being met. Each program had todevelop and implement a plan for measuring attainment of program objectives andmethods for assessing results to make program improvement. This paper is based on theexperience in this process of the University of North Texas (UNT) Nuclear EngineeringTechnology (NUET) program.The NUET program was started in 1990 for delivery to the Comanche Peak SteamElectric Station. In part, this program was responsible for converting a Department ofIndustrial Technology to a Department of Engineering Technology. A new departmentchair, who had some experience with an ABET accredited program, was hired in 1993 toseek

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Jacquelyn Sullivan

anddevelop teamwork, community involvement and citizenship skills. Service learning also offersstudents the opportunity to gain contextual knowledge and solve real-world problems that couldnot be formulated in a textbook. For instance, students engaged in the National EngineeringProjects in Community Service (EPICS) projects rate the impact of their ability to work in teamsas the highest outcome of their service-learning experience, followed by enhancement ofcommunication skills.3 Students also report honing other skills that are components of the ABETcriteria4, which are customarily hard to teach in conventional engineering courses. Those skillsinclude communication, project planning and leadership. Of the students who participated in theEPICS

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Murphy

Page 10.1012.1of study and is representative of a course that I would probably be assigned to teach immediatelyafter obtaining a faculty position. There were approximately 100 undergraduate students Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Student Paperenrolled in the class. Prior to participating in this project, I took a class on pedagogy called“ENGIN 580 – Teaching Engineering” taught by Dr. Susan Montgomery1 at the University ofMichigan. It was decided that I would be responsible for planning and

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Marcus

and financial information for college. Funding for this project came from alocal entrepreneur fund, and a Penn State University Equal Opportunity Planning Committee2(EOPC) fund. Page 10.86.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Educators Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducatorsPart I - Professional Development Workshop for TeachersSecondary school technology and science teachers were invited to participate in a workshop onteam problem solving. With the help of the Director of Continuing Education, the teachersreceived “Act 48”3 credit

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suketu Shah; Gaurav Agarwal; Mohammed Haque

element Design of a Single Family Interactive Web Site House 3D Conversion in Preparation of 2D Rendering of 3D Animation/VRML of Architectural Drawings model in 3D Max 3D Model Desktop Plans Interiors Interiors Interiors Site plan Exterior Exterior Exterior

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dean Schroeder; Doug Tougaw

examples, requiring working students to write a technology plan and an environmental management plan for their company, or full-time students to draft such plans for a selected local company. Since the MBA program is run on seven-week terms, most students will see all three of these courses within their first six months as part of the program. They are first introduced to new ideas and new ways of thinking about these issues (MBA 601), then they are given the theoretical tools to understand these issues (MBA 602), and finally they are asked to apply those tools in order to create specific and useful plans for a real-world company Page 10.319.2 (MBA 603