Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Physics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James McNeil

, machine shop, optical design, instrumentation, and computers. Taken in the summerbetween the sophomore and junior years, the field session runs for six weeks. Once through thisintensive training, the students have the necessary skills to be useful in research labs and oftenfind employment in research labs. Another principal benefit of the summer field session is thehigh level of camaraderie developed and friendships formed among the students. After thisintensive experience, the students have bonded into a cohort physics class. These relationshipshelp sustain the students through the challenging junior year curriculum. The other notable curricular feature is the senior design capstone experience. Whilewell-known to any ABET-accredited

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Land

commercial systems designed to support web-based collection of assessment data.[6,7]Most of these systems are designed to support portfolio development or to permit individualfaculty members to establish and monitor student performance against self-specified courseobjectives. When looking at the needs of the Penn State programs and circumstances, thesesystems and approaches either did not offer the flexibility that was desired, were focused oncollecting fundamentally different information than was planned at Penn State, or involved much Page 10.867.4more expense than was felt feasible. Instead, a project was undertaken to develop an in-house

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

Engineering and will soon complete his Ph.D. research in thearea of internet agent support for electronic commerce. Mr. Eskil has been instrumental in developments in theCollege of Engineering freshman gateway course in computational tools.An academic specialist in the MSU Mechanical Engineering Department, Timothy Hinds teaches undergraduatecourses in machine design and statics as well as advises senior engineering student teams working onindustrially sponsored capstone design projects. He also teaches a senior-level undergraduate internationaldesign project course and has taught graduate-level courses in innovation and technology management.Mark Urban-Lurain is Director of Instructional Technology Research and Development in the Division ofScience

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Pangborn; Renata Engel

third of the programs reported thatmeasuring achievement of general education goals is attempted as part of the assessment activity.The kinds of assessment methods included a wide variety of student, alumni and employersurveys and interviews, and to a lesser extent, portfolios, capstone projects and practica, andstandardized testing. The survey also found substantial variability in the extent to which Page 10.193.2program outcomes were mapped to course goals and outcomes. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverlee Kissick; Alysia Starkey; Jung Oh; Judith Collins

. Page 10.1305.2 meet regularly to discuss, evaluate, revise, and reimplement our collaborative project. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ASEE 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1661Review of literatureInformation literacy can be defined as a set of capabilities; however, it is also an instructionaland intellectual movement13, similar to cross-curricular writing programs that emerged in thelate 1960s with the writing-process movement. Instruction in IL is now viewed as an array ofactivities in an institutional, collaborative

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Theodore Djaferis; Paul Dobosh; Orin Hoffman

use the popularHandyboard robotic platform developed by Martin [10]. Some courses take the form ofmini-capstone courses, requiring several pre-requisite courses in electronics and/orprogramming [5]. Other courses are purely introductory, requiring no pre-requisites.Especially at liberal arts institutions, most of these courses have used the roboticplatforms as means to introduce the “big ideas” of engineering: iterative design, idealversus real world designs, design tradeoffs, and handling complexity [4].However, while students leaving these courses have had a broad exposure to bothhardware and software as well as a hands on introductions to some of the “big ideas”,they still lack certain engineering strategies and intuitions. Our experience

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberta Berry; Jonathan Olinger; Paul Benkeser

different implications for the allocation ofpublic and private resources, a matter of concern in a world still characterized by scarcity inmeeting the basic needs of many. There may be widely held values concerning the environmentand sustainability that are separate from health and safety concerns. The twenty-first-centuryengineer must be aware of and competent to address these sorts of ethical and social issues—andthis imposes new demands on educational programs for engineers.11,12 As ABET recognizes incriterion 3(f), students must understand their “professional and ethical responsibility” [emphasisadded] and, in criterion 3(c), students must be able to design a project to meet “desired needswithin realistic constraints such as economic

Conference Session

Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Bern; Brian Steward; Amy Kaleita-Forbes; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

• active learning techniques • academic dishonesty • ABET accreditation • electronic portfolios • capstone design projects • competencies • advisingThe response by faculty, staff and graduate students to the ABE Learning Circle has been good.There is a core group of eight to ten faculty members that regularly attend. Many others haveindicated that they would like to attend, but schedule conflicts don’t allow them. And of course,having donuts available never hurts attendance.The ABE Learning Circle allows us to foster an interest in the scholarship of teaching within ourfaculty. It gives us an informal and non-threatening venue to explore new ideas and to

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xianfgu Zong; Marcia Fischer; Malgorzata Chranowska-Jeske; James Morris; Fu Li; Cynthia Brown; Agnes Hoffman

, including its focus on service learning,community partnerships, internships and capstone experiences. The Maseeh College ofEngineering and Computer Science, one of seven PSU schools and colleges, offers B.S.,M.S., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in a range of engineering and computer sciencedisciplines. Students in engineering and computer science at PSU benefit from closeinvolvement with local high-tech industry, including companies such as Intel, IDT, LSILogic, Credence, Electro-Scientific Industries, InFocus, Maxim, Mentor Graphics,Flextronics, Tektronix, Triquint Semiconductor, Siltronic, and others.PSU has a climate which supports international initiatives, led by President Dan Bernstine,who has identified internationalization of the campus and the

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

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

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Eric Davishahl; Denny Davis; Jim Lyons; Kenneth Gentili

and Director of the TransferableIntegrated Design Engineering Education (TIDEE) project, a Pacific Northwest consortium of institutionsdeveloping improved curriculum and assessments for engineering design education. Dr. Davis teaches and assessesstudent learning in multidisciplinary capstone design courses. He is a Fellow of ASEE.STEVEN BEYERLEINSteven Beyerlein is professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Idaho, where he coordinates thecapstone design program and regularly participates in ongoing program assessment activities. For these efforts hewon the UI Outstanding Teaching Award in 2001. He received a Ph.D. in M.E. from Washington State Universityin 1987. His research interests include catalytic combustion systems

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hjorth; Barb Eichler; John Morello; Ahmed Khan

multi-media, group exercises,Internet exercises, and group lab projects to enhance and support direct instruction. Educatorscan enhance student learning by conducting lectures in a friendly manner, so that nobody feelsstress or is afraid to ask a question. No learning can take place in a tense environment.IV. Technology, Society and Culture Objectives and MethodologiesStudents at DeVry University are given the challenge and opportunity to guide and direct theirtechnological knowledge into responsible awareness and choices for local/global solutions ofproblems and 21st Century urgent issues. All DeVry students must pass a senior-level inter-disciplinary capstone Humanities course entitled “Technology, Society and Culture”. Thiscourse challenges

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Brannan; Phillip Wankat

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Constantin Chassapis; Hamid Hadim; Kishore Pochiraju; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard; David Vaccari

, - Projects, ME Program Committee Select Student Work to represent Outcomes - Laboratory, etc. proposes changes to - Courses or Program, - Program Outcomes, or - Assessment Process Students Complete Course Survey via the Compile Information into Web SPAD Form

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Radha Balamuralikrishna; Kurt Rosentrater

that this discipline has gained its rightful place in the company ofengineering and engineering technology. This new level of partnership and collaboration betweenengineering and technology programs promises to be a step in the right direction for society at large.Engineering and technology majors both supplement and complement each other’s knowledge andskills and it is crucial for educators to build bridges of active interaction. This paper takes aim atone specific as well as basic need in teamwork and interdisciplinary projects – ethics and itsimplications for professional practice. The primary focus here is to promote ethics education amonga wider audience that includes industrial technologists.A preliminary study suggests that students

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

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

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

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

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shyi-Jeng Tsai; Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

though the objects discussed in the course (e.g. gear or linkage Mechanisms) are very concrete. Especially the symbolic representation of mechanisms is meaningless to most students if they cannot establish the mapping relation between abstract symbols and realistic mechanisms in mind.(2) There is no close relation between the individual course contents. It is not necessary, for example, the chapter “Cam Mechanisms” and “Gear Mechanisms” in a given order to teach. As a result, the students are not capable of integrating the diverse knowledge from the course to solve practical kinematic problems later by their project or capstone design.(3) Only by the chapter “Cam Mechanisms”, the students can acquire design ability

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Nowak; Barry Shoop; Lisa Shay

DELIBERATE LONGITUDINAL CURRICULAR INTEGRATION: TOPICAL LINKAGES AND CONCEPT REINFORCEMENT Barry L. Shoop, George A. Nowak, and Lisa A. Shay United States Military Academy, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, West Point, New York, 10996 U.S.A. email: Barry.Shoop@usma.eduAbstract. Students in many engineering programs feel that their educational experience consists of a series of isolated courses that build expertise in discrete topical areas. The only time these discrete topics are integrated is in a capstone engineering project during their senior year. Understanding how topics covered in one