Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

results of three main questions for study: 1) whetherstudents’ perceptions of their ability in various engineering skills changed over the course of theclass, 2) whether students’ perceptions of career goals changed over time, and 3) whetherstudents’ interest in community service changed over the course of the class. Results indicatethat students perceived learning gains in key product design areas such as ability to design newproducts, creativity, and problem solving, and some differential effects were found for women.Students, particularly minorities, also increased their orientation toward a service approach,changing their professional aspirations away from consulting and medicine to more innovativeproduct development work and graduate

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

Design Projects Math and Applications of Math & Sciences Applications of Math & Sciences Sciences in Senior Projects in Senior Projects electronics Applications of Electronics Applications of Electronics in Senior Design Projects in Senior Design Projects General Lumped & Distributed Systems Techniques of Engineering System Simulation Career Development Seminar Network Communications Frontier in Profession Seminar Situational Bus Control technology Practical Lumped & Distributed

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Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Holles

. Alternatives include students working for a few years andthen returning to graduate school, mid- or late-career professionals now seeking advanceddegrees, and international students from numerous different countries. In addition, manytraditional graduate students have their bachelor degrees in different disciplines. Many positivescan result from this situation including a vibrant multi-generational and multi-cultural graduateprogram. However, it is also not without its shortcomings. Perhaps one of the most importantissues to deal with is that a wide range of students can also result in a wide range of student Page 10.1342.1concepts of and

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Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

assigned to assist with the development of thepayload operations. Space Science and Technology (AERSP/STS 055)—This General Education course is forstudents in nontechnical majors who have an interest in the means and uses of space science andtechnology. Its ultimate goal is to help prepare students whose careers may eventually impactthe direction of space policy, funding of NASA, and other aspects of public support for spaceresearch and exploitation. Since the course devotes several weeks to satellite hardware, theLionSat mission has provided new opportunities to inject timely examples of satellite design,measurement concepts and applications, and societal issues regarding public funding of spaceprojects. Satellite Communications (EE

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Penny Hirsch; Ann McKenna

explore howstudents define persuasion and effective communication, and what they think is involved inperforming these abilities. Even though the ratings may appear high, they may be internallyconsistent with students’ notions of what it means to persuade and communicate, but inconsistentwith faculty notions of persuasion and effective communication. Exploring these questions inmore detail would uncover students’ initial and post understanding and could better determinehow they align or disconnect with the goals of EDC.The survey also contained three items that asked students to rate the likelihood of pursuing adegree in engineering, completing the requirements of an engineering degree, and confidencethat engineering is the right career choice

Conference Session

Visualization

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Charlesworth; Thomas Drummer; Kedmon Hungwe; Sheryl Sorby

Developing 3-D Spatial Visualization Skills for Non-Engineering Students Sheryl A. Sorby, Thomas Drummer, Kedmon Hungwe, Paul Charlesworth Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractThe ability to visualize objects and situations in one’s mind and to manipulate thoseimages is a cognitive skill vital to many career fields, especially those requiring workwith graphical images. Unfortunately, of all cognitive processes that have beeninvestigated, spatial cognition shows some of the most robust gender differences favoringmales, especially in the ability to mentally rotate 3-dimensional objects. This has obviousimplications for our attempts to encourage gender equity in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel

processor.Although fundamental concepts are explored in laboratory exercises, the emphasis often remainson the mechanics of hardware implementation. Thus, topics are not presented in the context ofrealistic applications. While such an approach may be ideal for preparing motivated upper-levelstudents for future careers in signal processing, it is not suitable for students with no priorexperience in the field. The signal processing laboratory being developed at Duke University ismodeled, in part, after existing successful signal processing laboratories, but introduces twoinnovative features. First, the new laboratory will be integrated into multiple courses from thesophomore to senior level, rather than a single course. Second, the laboratory exercises will

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lennard Lema; Zbigniew Prusak; Peter Baumann

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThere are many commonalities in the missions for the three programs in EngineeringTechnology: Mechanical, Manufacturing and Civil. Each program prepares graduates forprofessional careers as engineering technologists. The students acquire a knowledge base inmathematics, physical sciences, mechanics, fluids, manufacturing or construction processes,materials, testing, engineering design, computer-aided engineering graphics, computerprogramming, engineering standards, project planning and cost analysis. The students developwriting, communication, engineering problem solving and teamwork skills applicable to design,testing and fabrication of components

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Marcus

projects" and I have been a reviewer of papers on this topic.I have visited many of the local high schools and given presentations during career days and alsopresented at our campus during open house activities, but I was looking for a different approach.Many of the projects such as "Project Lead the Way"1 are great but they are quite involved andtake a significant commitment. What I describe in this paper is a simple project that I usedinvolving teachers and their students that I thought was quite successful. This project was easilymanageable for a faculty member acting alone or with a few other faculty members.Some of the teachers and students involved in the project were from schools with large minoritypopulations and as a result of this a

Conference Session

Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

undergraduates must complete three significantprojects, including a third-year interdisciplinary research project called the "InteractiveQualifying Project", or IQP. The IQP is not directly related to the students' major areas of study.Instead, by working on multidisciplinary teams to address problems related to technology,society, and human needs, students come to understand how their careers in technology willimpact, and be affected by, societal structures and values. A central learning outcome of thisproject is an understanding of the social and cultural contexts of technology and science. The Page 10.1065.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Judith Miller; Paula Quinn; Jill Rulfs; John Orr

project, this paper reports the lessons learned in managing this rather large andcomplex project which brings together two quite different educational institutions. The results todate have been quite positive.IntroductionIn 2003 WPI began a three-year project, "K-6 Gets a Piece of the PIEE (PartnershipsImplementing Engineering Education)." This project is funded by the NSF Graduate TeachingFellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) program, the goal of which is to involve engineeringgraduate students with K-12 science and engineering education. Some small number of thesegraduate students will decide to pursue careers in K-12 education, but for most, the intenseexposure provided by the Fellowship program should lead to increased involvement with K

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Williamson; Carol Considine; Paul Kauffmann; Tarek Abdel-Salam

Session 3542 Privatization Initiatives: A Source for Engineering Economy Case Studies Paul Kauffmann Tarek Abdel-Salam Keith Williamson East Carolina University, Greenville, NC Carol Considine Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VAIntroductionUndergraduate courses in engineering economy provide the opportunity to cover many topicsthat are essential for the career success of practicing engineers. Primary among these areknowledge of cost

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cathcart; Shanti Bhushan; Sandun Fernando

those with traditional engineeringdegrees. One argument is that agricultural engineers could get the required expertise in a graduateprogram. However, many of students from developing countries neither have the financialbacking nor the assurance for better career opportunities to justify a graduate program in theircountries.Many AE programs in developing countries have agricultural machinery/precision agriculture, Page 10.139.1soil and water resources engineering, and food engineering as the core areas in the curriculum. 2They place very little

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Harris; M. Bramhall; Ian Robinson; David Hick

the student as evidence that graduates could undertake tasks in a “compliant, dutiful andreliable manner” [2]. However, in the context of the changing nature of the engineering industry,the graduates of the new millennium are required to be equipped with skills to accommodatethese changes. Indeed graduates will have: “increasingly flexible and truncated careers. Hence graduates have to be more ‘flexible’ in theirattitudes towards work and more ‘adaptive’ in their behaviour in the labour market. They requirea broader portfolio of technical, social and personal skills than...were emphasised in the past.”[2].Therefore, the type of graduates we need to produce are those, not only with engineering skillsbut ones that are business-aware, with good

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Dunlap; M.L. Meier

spreadsheet thestudents were able to build on to it when preparing budgets for the experiments that followed. Indiscussions with the students the diversity of experience in budget matters became clear, as wasthe fact that we were teaching budgeting skills to people who don’t balance their own checkbooks. Several students had had careers in industry and described a completely differentapproach where the budgets were based on very loose and generalized estimates of the overallcost.At the time of this writing the materials characterization course is still being taught. While classsize is larger, 25 students, the class meets in the lab in smaller groups. During the first week thestudents had to be walked through the process of establishing their basics

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Bogue

used theelements of the initial camp but eliminated as many of the extraneous (and distracting) activitiesas possible.The interdisciplinary hands on engineering modules developed for the original camp wereoffered as daily activities—girls could choose to go to as few or as many as they registered for.Each module features an active learning experience, exposure to strong role models andengineering career information related to the module. The modules are all interdisciplinary,introducing girls to engineering through interdisciplinary laboratory experiences. This approachaddresses many of the issues that girls face in understanding engineering contextually. (1)Accordingly, MTM aims to prepare girls to succeed through cross-cultural

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Barbara Bogue

fullyin developing and testing assessment instruments with large numbers of students, documentationand career development tools.This paper will look at the rewards and challenges of coalitions in general and, using initialassessment of the AWE experience as a example, identify ways that PIs and grant sub-contractors can be engaged successfully in a productive and mutually rewarding process; howfull participation of collaborators can be realized; what organizational tools and processes help toachieve collaborator ownership of the overall project; and how to document process.Coalitions—Benefits and DrawbacksCoalitions became a familiar feature of engineering education in the late 80’s when the NSFlaunched the Engineering Education Coalitions, an

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Reaveley; Nick Safai

two-year program,have the opportunity to seamlessly transfer to the UoU Civil Engineering Department and most Page 10.1377.1students are able to complete their four year, ABET, accredited BSCE degree from the UoU inan additional four semesters. The SLCC Engineering Department offers an Associate Degreein civil engineering.The greatest success is that students are able to plan out their academic careers with assurancethat they are not going to waste any time and precious tuition dollars. By the time a studenttransfers to the UoU, they already know the Chair of the Civil & Environmental Engineeringdepartment and the other members of the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

relevant local industries and the students’ learning styles. We havedeliberately focused on building a new curriculum centered on the need for successful practicingengineers while not attempting to simply replicate existing engineering programs from otherschools. Project-based learning model was adopted for this purpose2. Project-based learning isgaining more support in the American undergraduate engineering education3,4. Our ElectricalEngineering program has strong emphasis on the implementation of design experiences at alllevels of the curriculum. The program is committed to producing graduates who are wellprepared for the start of productive, successful careers as practicing engineers. An engineeringprogram is a living entity, not just a list

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Koren Aragaki; Daniel M. Ferguson; Margaret Huyck

designed to providestudents with much-needed practical experience in a way that reinforces their theoreticalknowledge through applications within a multidisciplinary exploratory project-learninga As the term is applied at IIT, interprofessional signifies the linking of professional disciplines in the educational process -- a linking thatfosters greater understanding of the complex, multifunctional problems faced by tomorrow's professionals, tomorrow’s leaders, in careers that are Page 10.615.1swept by waves of change in information technology, science, engineering, and organizational structure, and are

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Kramer

culturally conservative than faculty in other disciplines. Engineering professors in the United States have generally chosen teaching rather than amore lucrative career path. Doctoral candidates have often spent time in engineering practicebefore returning to school and then joining faculty ranks. Part-time consulting is one way thatfaculty shrink the economic gap between these paths. Faculty also host corporate visitors whoare recruiting future graduates, sponsoring the study of some of their own employees, orcollaborating on some aspect of an academically-based project. Most successful engineeringstudents (at every degree level) will go into private sector employment. And many (or most)successful engineers are promoted into managerial

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John King; Dae-Wook Kim; Tom Stoebe

connection between manufacturingtechnology education, student career goals, and private sector demand. The goal of thePSCME has been to develop an enhanced manufacturing curriculum for manufacturingtechnology programs in high schools and in two-year institutions. PSCME works withhigh schools and community/technical colleges in Washington State to gather and reviewexisting manufacturing curricula, and to communicate with local industry leaders toclarify regionally developed industry skill standards and curriculum needs. This paperwill discuss this deliberate cooperation and the resulting development of a new,modularized curriculum model. Based on the curriculum research, 19 modules weredeveloped: Interpersonal Effectiveness, Introduction to

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Waugaman; Brian Self

A New Biomedical Engineering Course Based on Aerospace Applications Brian P. Self and William A. Waugaman United States Air Force Academy, ColoradoAbstractEngineering students at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) have an extremely fullcourse load. Because of this, creating a new course that can fulfill an elective option and berelevant to their future Air Force careers is quite challenging. In order to accomplish this, amechanics professor and electrical engineering professor teamed to create a new Introduction toBiomedical Engineering course, open to all senior level engineering students. The first block ofthe course

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeid Motavalli; Helen Zong; Farnaz Ganjeizadeh; David Bowen

service industriesto advance their careers by preparing for management positions. Also, professionals inmanagement positions will benefit from this curriculum by obtaining a formal educationin engineering management. The San Francisco Bay Area is a prime location for offeringsuch a degree because of the large concentration of high tech engineering, manufacturingand service industries.This paper details the development of the M.S. Degree program. We discuss the resourceconstraints that had to be overcome by developing a curriculum that pulls resources fromvarious departments on campus. The designed curriculum allows us to offer the programwithout requesting additional faculty positions.Other considerations include issues such as specific needs of

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdinc Acar; Faruk Taban; Ismail Fidan

, momentum, inertia,equilibrium, structural stability, sensors, etc. were covered. In addition, some club membersworked on other aspects of the competition like writing a research paper, presentation,fundraising, web design, etc.3. FIRST Robotics Competition for High School StudentsThe FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, multinational competition that teams,professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense andcompetitive way. The program is a life-changing, career-molding experience and a lot of fun. In2004, the competition has reached more than 20,000 students on over 900 teams in 27competitions. The teams come from Canada, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Great Britain, and almostevery U.S. state. The competitions

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehria Saffi; Mariana Alvaro; Diana Mejia; David Bowen

isunlikely to be feasible for most faculty to accomplish given time constraints [3].Mentoring is the long term guidance and counsel between (typically) less experienced and moreexperienced individuals. It is usually between two that are following a similar career path, butare at different stages of their careers. Mentoring of all undergraduates in an academic setting isdifficult to accomplish beyond a certain level due to student faculty ratios. In a professionalsetting a mentor may have one or two, or at most a handful of mentees. In an academic settingthe reality is that for each student to have a mentor, each faculty member would have scores ofmentees. While mentoring is common between faculty and graduate students, it is much lesscommon at the

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Davis; Craig Hoff

2005-2130 The Integration of Hands-on Team Projects into an Engineering Course to Help Students Make the Transition from Student to Professional Engineer Craig J. Hoff, and Gregory W. Davis, Kettering UniversityThere is considerable concern that current engineering education practices do notadequately prepare students for the practice of engineering. This statement goes farbeyond the often stated requirements that to be successful in their careers engineeringgraduates must have good communication skills, must be able to work inmultidisciplinary teams, etc. There

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

Session 1370 Capturing Young MINDS with MITE – A Pre-College Residential Program Generating Results Andrea M. Ogilvie The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Minority Introduction to Engineering (MITE) program at The University of Texas at Austin(UT Austin) is a five-day summer residential program designed to spark students’ interest inengineering as an exciting career choice. MITE offers 100 high school juniors and seniors theopportunity to discover engineering through hands-on experience and interaction withengineering students, faculty

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marc Garland; Abdel Bayoumi; Travis Knight

participate in and contribute to new and growing national research initiatives innuclear engineering. The program covers a broad spectrum of academic interests through therecruitment of faculty with differing research backgrounds and interests and the strategic use ofadjunct faculty from the surrounding professional nuclear community. Both internal andexternal funding is leveraged to provide support for the hiring of tenure-track faculty, adjunctfaculty, and graduate student assistants. A dynamic and innovative distance educationcomponent is built into the program enabling students to enroll in classes and obtain degreeswithout having to relocate. This serves well those nuclear professionals seeking post-graduatedegrees to further their career goals

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pierre Larochelle

Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career” [21]. • NSF Sponsored Chautauqua Short Course by Prof. Landis (May 1998). Goal: “To develop and document an Introduction to Engineering course designed to enhance student success by addressing five primary themes: community building; professional development; academic success strategies; personal development; and orientation to the university and the engineering program.”These themes have lead to the development of a curriculum that is based upon providinga foundation cornerstone design experience to first year students. This cornerstoneexperience lays the foundation for the engineering sciences and the capstone designexperience of mechanical engineering students