Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

Calibrated Peer Review: A Tool for Assessing the Process as Well as the Product in Learning Outcomes Patricia A. Carlson† and Frederick C. Berry†† † Humanities and Social Science Department †† Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IndianaAbstract: For about two decades now, engineering education has been in the process of re-inventing itself. ABET’s revised requirements, changing realities of the workplace, and thegrowing awareness of

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Jason Thrun

Successfully Building Bridges Between Education and Engineering Programs at a 4-year Comprehensive University Jason Thrun and Philip Parker University of Wisconsin-PlattevilleAbstractSix faculty members (three from engineering, one from mathematics, and two from education)teamed up to plan and implement an innovative project. During the fall semester of 2004, ninepre-service teachers in secondary- and middle-level mathematics education enrolled in anexperimental section of GE 1030 – Introduction to Engineering Projects, an existing 1-credithour class that is required for all engineering majors, and is typically taken in the freshman year.The project

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

without committingto being one; (2) make students aware of what it means and how it feels to think and act like adesign engineer; and (3) allow faculty, advisors, and potential employers to see individualsmature from having relatively undifferentiated intelligence into professional minds withdocumented skills and experience, some becoming design engineers, but all understanding wheredesign thinking fits into our everyday lives. Thus, the course emphasizes direct experience,practical design thinking, and the building of real product prototypes. No prior design experienceor fabrication skills are required. The ideas developed in the course are grounded in the students’collective background life experiences and observations of "human needs

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Mosborg; Robin Adams; Rebecca Kim; Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman; Jennifer Turns

Conceptions of the Engineering Design Process: An Expert Study of Advanced Practicing Professionals Susan Mosborg, Robin Adams, Rebecca Kim, Cynthia J. Atman, Jennifer Turns, and Monica Cardella Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching, University of WashingtonAbstract. Published models of the engineering design process are widely available and oftenillustrated for students with a block diagram showing design as sequential and iterative. Here weexamine experts’ conceptions of the design process in relation to a model synthesized fromseveral introductory engineering textbooks. How do experts’ conceptions compare? What mightthey see as alternative accounts? We

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Bodner; Deborah Follman; Mica Hutchison

ranking their confidence and to briefly describe them. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005. American Society for Engineering Education”They were encouraged to report everything that came to mind. After listing all of the factorsthey considered, students were asked to rank the factors from most to least influential.Analysis Due to the large number of students enrolled in ENGR 106, smaller sample populationswere selected for analysis using stratified random sampling. The population of men and womenwere each stratified by ethnicity (Table 1) and randomly sampled based on a 95% confidencelevel and a confidence interval of 5. Sample

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhifeng Kou; Sudhir Mehta

Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program and the EducationalMaterials Development (EMD) Track. The authors also thank Dr. Richard Shaw and hiscolleagues in the Center for Writers at North Dakota State University for their help in thepreparation of this manuscript.References1. NRC. (1996). “From Analysis to Action: Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology,” A report from NRC, http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9128.html, accessed March 30, 2001.2. NRC. (2000). How people learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (expanded edition). National Research Council’s Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Developments in the Science of Learning and Learning Research and Educational Practice. National

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leo Benegas; Rick Covington

A Cognitive-Based Approach for Teaching Programming to Computer Science and Engineering Students Covington, R. and Benegas, L. California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, 913301. IntroductionAn issue receiving attention in the undergraduate Computer Science curriculum over the pastfew years has been the high failure rate in the freshman programming course. This coursegenerally corresponds to the ACM/IEEE course designation CS1. It is normally an introductorybut fast-paced and challenging course for students who have not previously studied computerprogramming (programming novices), but who do have a minimum level of mathematicalmaturity (students who are

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

, social, and educational objectives in mind. The analysis of the three main questionspresented here (changes in professional aspirations, perceptions of own skills, and interest incommunity service) revealed that over the course of the semester, students perceived learninggains and increased their orientation toward a service approach. First, students changed theirprofessional aspirations toward engineering/product development and further education andaway from management consulting and medicine. Second, the perception of their own skillsincreased in key product design areas such as ability to design new products, creativity, andproblem solving. Third, 2.009 students’ attitude became more service-oriented.In summary, the goal of integrating

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gillian Saunders-Smits

specialist and the scientist are grouped together in one career track asindividual contributors as that seems to be the common accepted definition in literature (See for Page 10.1322.1instance Landis2 and Covert4). It might be worthwhile to also keep in mind the definition from Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationSpurgeon5 who distinguishes between managers and individual contributors, which can be usedas a definitive decision maker in cases of doubt to which group an engineer belongs

Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberley R. Breaux; Heidi Loshbaugh; Ruth Streveler

, so we contacted participants individually. Furthermore, interview protocols were stillbeing refined as CSM’s academic year drew to a close. When protocols were complete, CSMhad only four weeks between Spring Break and Final Exams to schedule forty-eight interviewsone-and-one-half hours, each. When a student had to reschedule or missed an appointment, the Page 10.1074.6entire schedule was under even greater pressure.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationResearchers must be mindful of the participant’s value

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

(even if it means going to some bad movies or sitting through somepoor TV programs), bring them into the classroom to be dealt with face-to-face and re-engineer the problem by correctly applying physical laws to expose the physical fallacies.The good news is that the Instructor can count on the fact that a majority of the studentshave already seen the illusions and have had their attention focused on the “problem”even if subliminally, for one or two hours (depending upon the length of the movie orTV). Thus there is some level of recall by the students of their favorite movie or TV1 The author remembers fondly the ‘60’s movie “Flubber’ staring Fred Mac Murray as the absent minded

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler

move may commence. Realistically, as the amountof unknown and imprecise information becomes increasingly larger, it becomes more difficult toplan out contingency plans for the later stages of the game. The best decisions will also be those Page 10.1283.11that provide the greatest longevity of the units. Keep in mind that even the best plans often failbecause either there are too many unknown variables or the opposing plans are better strategies.“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Students should

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bardo; Gary Bertoline; Eugene DeLoatch; Duane Dunlap; Albert McHenry; T.G. Stanford; S.J. Tricamo; P.Y. Lee; H.J. Palmer; Michael Dyrenfurth; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

., Science: The Endless Frontier, Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1945.2. Ferguson, E.S., Engineering and the Minds Eye, MIT Press, 1993.3. Boyd, W., The History of Western Education, Eighth Edition, Barnes & Noble, Inc. 1966.4. Boyer, E.L., Selected Speeches, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1997.5. Dewey, J., Democracy and Education, 1916.6. Whitehead, A. N., The Aims of Education, Macmillan, 1929.7. Grinter Report, Report of the Committee on Evaluation of Engineering Education, Journal of Engineering Education 46, September 19558. Walker, E.A., Teaching Research Isn’t Teaching Engineering, ASEE, 1969.9. Boyer, E.L., Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert McHenry

psychology of the child. New York: Basic Books11. Vygotsky, L. (1978). Mind in society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press12. Harnad, S. (1982) Neoconstructivism: A unifying theme for the cognitive sciences. In T.13. Jonassen, D. H. (1991) Objectivism versus constructivism: do we need a new philosophical paradigm? Educational Technology Research and Development, 39 (3), 5-14. . . . . Page 10.348.6 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Fraser

Wayne State University, • History of technology at the University of South Florida, • Business law at Milwaukee School of Engineering, • Team leadership and facilitation at North Carolina ATSU and Milwaukee School of Engineering, • Reliability at Cal State Hayward, • Cognitive engineering at Ohio State University, • Fuzzy logic at SUNY-Binghamton, and • Entrepreneurship at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.ConclusionsAs a faculty member, I sometimes feel that the field is dominated by large research baseddepartments. I believe we should keep in mind that only 66% of the IE programs are indepartments that grant the Ph.D., and over half of IE faculty members are in departments thathave 14 or fewer faculty

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Fraser

Wayne State University, • History of technology at the University of South Florida, • Business law at Milwaukee School of Engineering, • Team leadership and facilitation at North Carolina ATSU and Milwaukee School of Engineering, • Reliability at Cal State Hayward, • Cognitive engineering at Ohio State University, • Fuzzy logic at SUNY-Binghamton, and • Entrepreneurship at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.ConclusionsAs a faculty member, I sometimes feel that the field is dominated by large research baseddepartments. I believe we should keep in mind that only 66% of the IE programs are indepartments that grant the Ph.D., and over half of IE faculty members are in departments thathave 14 or fewer faculty

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

La Verne Abe Harris; Judy Birchman; Mary Sadowski

participants were university graphics instructors with a variety of academic andindustrial backgrounds.I. IntroductionMuch research has been done to assess how the human mind operates, how it perceives and Page 10.153.1processes information. These individual learning differences are referred to as “learning styles” “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”(Butler, 1987). As a result, many learning models have been developed by which an individual’sstyle of learning can be assessed. Educators can begin

Conference Session

IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Palmer; Terri Lynch-Caris; Laura Sullivan

disciplines, acquiring the analytical skills and methods of each, theyexperience themselves as investigators and search for truths that cut across the interests andbiases that lie within a single disciplinary perspective.” (1997, p. 140) Collaborative ability, in addition to design skills and technical intelligence, is of growingimportance for today’s engineering graduates. Engineers of the future must not only becomfortable with technology outside of their own discipline, they must also be experienced withcollaborative problem solving tools. A spirit of cooperation, rather than a spirit of competitionwill drive innovation. As Sally Helgesen writes in The Female Advantage, Fearlessness, a thirst for combat, single-minded devotion to an

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Feodoroff

Original Quarter One Projects Utilizing Rapid Prototyping Bruce A. Feodoroff New England Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper describes the success New England Institute of Technology (NEIT) is experiencing ingrabbing hold of the first quarter students’ creative energy and motivating them to succeed inMechanical Engineering Technology. The introduction and use of a rapid prototype machine hassignificantly impacted not only the quality of the resulting original project models or prototypesbut has greatly enhanced the learning experience for quarter one (freshmen) students. This hashelped in sustaining the students’ interest in Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder

open their minds to an alternative future career option. By theirvery nature, elementary students are observant and curious about the world around them andwant to know how everything works and fits together — a perfect match for engineering.Malinda refined her prior experiences with teaching and writing to create curricular units onmotion (mechanical engineering), energy and environmental engineering. Each unit adhered tostate and national science and math standards, and included hands-on student activities. Meetingthe educational content standards, and providing clear curricular documentation was important ifteachers were going to find her engineering lessons useful enough to implement in future classes.Students were immersed in intriguing

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sivand Lakmazaheri

starts before expanding outward to methods and theories, and theirapplications in engineering disciplines.PerspectiveLearning does not take place when the student is exposed to new information by reading notesand books or listening to lectures. Rather, learning takes place when the student internalizes thatinformation—when the mind constructs meaning from the information and retains it byassociating it with existing knowledge.Even during the process of learning it is all too common for students to construct inaccurateand/or incomplete meaning from the information presented to them. Therefore, for meaningfullearning to take place, it is important that misconceptions and inaccuracies are identified andremedied while the student is actively engaged

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Hanneman; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

and not assessed separately.This has at least two important implications for engineering educators at ISU. First, we must re-examine how we use the classroom in educating future engineers, broadening our focus toinclude competency development. Second, these results confirm our belief that experientialeducation (internships) is critical to students becoming successful in the engineering workplace.With all this in mind, we identified the workplace competencies most important to ourstakeholders to the practice of engineering at the professional level, how those competencies Page 10.1271.2“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

Conference Session

New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

restructured to meet the growingglobal competition and to keep pace with the changes in the field.”5As PS465 suggests, ASCE believes that the engineer of two decades hence will need anew skill set and a new mind set. The fundamentals of science and mathematics willcontinue to be the foundation for engineering. But engineering will have additionaldimensions. It will be information and molecular based using new and differentmaterials. Moreover, it will be an interactive global enterprise. The future engineer mustunderstand project/activity management, how businesses function, and the social contextof engineering practice. The design space has expanded, and now includes social,economic, and policy-related consequences.In short, ASCE believes the

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus; Kenneth Reid

social good of engineering and demonstrating how it is relevant to the real world 2. Interdisciplinary approach: Add a technological component to all subjects and lessons, and implement writing guidelines in math and science courses 3. Standards: Involve engineering in K-12 lessons that map to state standards for math and science. Further, states should follow Massachusetts and enact state standards for engineering 4. Use/Improve K-12 Teachers: Engage more K-12 teachers in outreach efforts and curriculum writing, and increase teacher salaries to attract the best technological Page 10.219.1 minds to teaching

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

Session xxxx Can ASCE Cover the “E” in the MOE? Robert J. Houghtalen, P.E. Department of Civil Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology John A. Casazza Department of Continuing Education, ASCEAbstractThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is beginning to move the profession in thedirection of requiring a certain body of knowledge (BOK) for professional licensure. This BOKwould be obtained through a baccalaureate (BS) degree, work experience, and a master’s degreeor equivalent (MOE). The “or

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jung Oh

Connecting Learning with Students’ Interests and Daily Lives with Project Assignment: “It is My Project.” Jung Oh Kansas State University-SalinaAbstractThe General Chemistry course is a required or elective science course for engineeringtechnology programs at Kansas State University at Salina. A hands-on ‘Periodic Table’project in the General Chemistry course was assigned (1) to respect a variety of learningstyles, (2) to foster connection between the basic science and engineering technologyprogram courses, and (3) to connect student learning to personal interests and to havethem enjoy an “ownership” of learning. The outcomes of this non-traditional

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lennard Lema; Zbigniew Prusak; Peter Baumann

Session 3649 In-common Methodology for Objective- and Outcome-based Programs Assessment Lennard F. Lema, Peter F. Baumann and Zbigniew Prusak Central Connecticut State UniversityAbstractThis paper reviews the development of continuous quality improvement plans for three closelyaligned engineering technology programs at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU).Many of the goals for the three programs are similar thus allowing for the development ofcommon learning objectives and learning outcomes which may be assessed simultaneously. Thelearning

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Bertoline; Dennis Depew

? How can it be helpful to individuals as well asinstitutions?' " and further " 'Can social problems themselves define an agenda for scholarlyinvestigation?' " He goes on "...the term itself may be misleading if it suggests that knowledge isfirst 'discovered' and then 'applied.' The process we have in mind is far more dynamic. Newintellectual understandings can arise out of the very act of application" (p. 23).This comes as nosurprise to those working at a more applied level. It is precisely the richness of understandingfrom application of ideas to real problems that attracts us to work in engineering and technology.Our colleagues find joy in the scholarship of discovery and we find satisfaction in the insightfrom application.Boyer goes on to

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Jouny

demonstrated by inputfrom hundreds of graduates. Furthermore, small programs should be mindful of the valueof the relationship between them and their graduates, and the significant impact it mayhave on the determination whether PEO’s are being achieved.Lesson’s LearnedMost of the evaluation tools listed above in addition to few other creative methods wereattempted at Lafayette College, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Page 10.594.4Surveys returned by graduates and employers were not equal in number, and feedback Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Somerton

An Ethical Puzzle for University Administrators Craig W. Somerton Michigan State UniversityAbstractIt has long been recognized that ethical behavior is an essential element of an engineer.Considerable attention has been given to ethics in engineering education. Some programsinclude a full course in ethics, while others integrate ethical issues throughout their curriculum;but all programs need to create a culture where ethical behavior is prized and unethical behavioris not accepted. This culture must be grounded in the behavior of the faculty and administrators.With rampant student cheating and plagiarism, the faculty and administration must set