Conference Session

Assessing Perceptions of Engineers and Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston; Cathy Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston; Anna Lindgren-Streicher, Museum of Science, Boston

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Science Education from Cornell University.Cathy Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston Dr. Cathy Lachapelle has worked on a number of research and evaluation projects related to K-16 science and engineering education. Cathy received her S.B. in cognitive science from MIT, and her Ph.D. in Psychological Studies in Education from Stanford.Anna Lindgren-Streicher, Museum of Science, Boston Anna Lindgren-Streicher is a Senior Curriculum and Research Assistant at the Museum of Science, Boston. Anna received a B.A. in Psychology from Tufts University and has worked for two years with K-12 teacher professional development programs related to engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Darryl Morrell, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Robert Grondin, Arizona State University; Chen-Yuan Kuo, Arizona State University; Robert Hinks, Arizona State University; Mark Henderson, Arizona State University; Thomas Sugar, Arizona State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University

: • EGR 101–Introduction to Engineering (offered as EGR 194) • EGR 103–Technology and Society (offered as EGR 194) • EGR 294–Applied Project (A one credit-hour class to support a renewable energy project conducted with the Hopi Nation) Page 11.270.9The outcomes were used most extensively in EGR 101; they structured much of the student work,and some data on their effectiveness was collected. tion Rubric Written Communication: Employs the writing process

Conference Session

FPD5 -- Placement & Early Success

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Callahan; John Gardner, Boise State University; Amy Moll, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University

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First-Year Programs

from University of Illinois, Urbana. Her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering from University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and 1994. Following graduate school, Amy worked for Hewlett Packard in San Jose, CA and in Colorado Springs, CO. Amy’s research interests include microelectronic packaging, particularly 3-D integration and ceramic MEMS devices.Pat Pyke, Boise State University Patricia Pyke is Director of Special Programs for the College of Engineering at Boise State University. She oversees projects in freshman curriculum development, retention, math support, mentoring, and women’s programs. She earned a B.S.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from

Conference Session

Faculty Development Toolkit

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Jordan, Baylor University; Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University; Walter Bradley, Baylor University

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New Engineering Educators

in the project as investigators. They could be paid with money out of the project (if it is externally funded). They could also be paid with a grade in a special topics or independent study type class.• Have some of your research be educational, where the research project is the creation, teaching, and assessment of the class.The first two authors followed this up in 2003 with a paper that dealt with the broader issue ofhow to balance personal and professional life1. A number of strategies were developed. As withany effort to balance the many activities in life, it is important to differentiate between needs andwants. Of course, this will vary from person to person. The key is to understand thisdifferentiation and to ensure that

Conference Session

ChE: Innovation in Existing Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barry Barkel, University of Michigan; Peter Woolf, University of Michigan

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Chemical Engineering

suggested a number of suchmechanisms that could potentially be applied to non-biological control problems [1].For the course we introduced two case studies related to biological systems: bloodglucose control and bacterial chemotaxis. Throughout the semester we introduced theproblem of glucose control via insulin in the human body. Initially, we introduced thephysiology of the problem and used a simple pharmacokinetic model of insulin as analternative example for a logical controller. This model was extended to the BergmanMinimal Model [2, 3], to provide a more accurate differential equation model for glucoseregulation. Students were assigned a team project to design an insulin injection schedulefor a diabetic patient. For this project, students

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Hill, University of Michigan; Dawn Tilbury, University of Michigan

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Mechanical Engineering

implementeddigitally. Although the typical undergraduate curriculum is crowded enough as it is, and studentshave the ability to learn how to deal with these difficulties through elective courses and graduatestudy, it is important that the students come away knowing that these subtleties exist and thatthere are techniques out there for dealing with them. Much of the advancement taking place incontrols education seeks to address these deficiencies through laboratory work and project-basedlearning.1 2 A specific area of control system design and analysis that even many advanced graduatestudents are unaware of is that of discrete event system (DES) control. Discrete event control isoften confused with digital control. Whereas digital control systems

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Larry Bland, John Brown University

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Electrical and Computer

demanded results that required usage of the information, then thestudent had to take control of their learning in order to perform the tasks that were required ofthem. Finally, it was recognized that urgency of real-world needs could be quickly addressedby proper assignment of homework, presentations, designs, and tests. The career world createsstructure to task performance through project schedules and contractual requirements andmilestones. The learning interventions within those task structures occur in a less structuredprocess. For our students, we were not willing to give up on some of our structure. Forexample, in our Electrical Systems course, Ohm’s Law must be understood prior to Kirchhoff’sLaws, then Thevenin and Norton equivalent

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum & non-Technical Skills

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Hata, Portland Community College; Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College

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Engineering Technology

] describe a project initiated by Texas A&MUniversity to address issues in manufacturing at the nanoscale. The project will introducenanotechnology concepts throughout the undergraduate engineering curriculum. The curricularchange introduced by this project has four components corresponding to the four years ofundergraduate engineering curricula. At each level, concepts related to manufacturing at thenanoscale are introduced at the appropriate technical level.Alpert, Isaacs, Barry, Miller, and Busnaina [4] describe various nanotechnology educationinitiatives undertaken by University of Massachusetts, Lowell. One of the initiatives consists ofstarting a cross disciplinary graduate certificate in nanotechnology and nanoscience in Fall 2005.This

Conference Session

Engineering Without Borders Programs Involving Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Johnson, Valparaiso University; Sarah DeMaris, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

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International

minoritystudents than is average for engineering. Page 11.1052.2URI takes a linguistically-integrated approach to the international experience, but manyinternational experiences, usually with a smaller linguistic component, are offered by institutionsacross the country. Some of these include exchange trips to visit industries, tour academicfacilities and hear lectures by local faculty [3][4]; design projects involving students workingtogether from the U.S. and abroad [5]; study-abroad programs that focus on engineering studentstaking classes through international institutions [6][7][8]; and internships for engineers to workfor an extended period of time

Conference Session

Feedback and IT: Improving Student Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Ledlie Klosky; Decker Hains, U.S. Military Academy; Jason A. Evers, U.S. Military Academy; Jared B. Erickson, U.S. Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

inexpensive webcam out of herbackpack and plugs it into the machine. She clicks on the icon for her design team member whois working the dead afternoon shift at the student union and is on wirelessly. They chat briefly,with live video, about the objectives for that evening’s design, exchanging ideas verbally,nonverbally and with sketches. They shut down the video but not the text chat window and workon two aspects of the project, text chatting when needed and otherwise ignoring that the chatfunction is even open. A snag occurs and they are not sure how to proceed. Checking, they seethat the instructor is logged in (he is not always on, but they are in luck) and they ask a quickquestion. Using video, the professor explains to both students at the same

Conference Session

Assessing K - 12 Engineering Education Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dava Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kristen Wendell

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

theInternational Technology Education Association (ITEA) and the National Science Foundationpublished the Technology for All Americans Project, A Rationale and Structure for the Study ofTechnology 1. Specific recommendations about the content of technology education were made in Page 11.224.22000, when the National Research Council joined with the ITEA to establish national standardsfor technological literacy 2. Two years later, the National Research Council published two studiesthat convincingly make the argument for K-12 engineering education. These studies are RaisingPublic Awareness of Engineering, and Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to

Conference Session

Hurricane Katrina

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clay Bolton, University of South Carolina; Charles Pierce, University of South Carolina

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Ocean and Marine

Carolina Commission onHigher Education defines service learning as follows: Service learning is college student learning at any level and in any situation that is linked in a direct, hands-on fashion to the resolution of a problem or concern in a target community outside the institution.During this trip, the students of the University of South Carolina fulfilled this definition throughthe use of their hands and their hearts to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coastregion. With the aid and logistical support of the Salvation Army, this project was a true servicelearning collaboration with a non-profit organization and a major research university. Workingwith Salvation Army volunteers, students provided on-the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Mountain, University of Texas-Tyler; David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler

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Manufacturing

. Page 11.1060.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Rapid Prototyping of Printed-Circuit Boards with an Engraving LaserAbstractLack of a good system for rapid prototyping of printed circuit boards has been a major bottleneckin Senior Design at the University of Texas at Tyler. A simple method using artwork printed ontoner-transfer paper and transferred through heat and pressure to copper-clad circuit-board stockhad been successfully applied to simple designs but showed itself to be unsuited to thecomplexity of printed circuit boards developed for senior design projects. This unsuitability wasdue to two factors; low density (due to inability to accurately control line widths) and

Conference Session

Reforming the Industrial Engineering Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharon Johnson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Diane Strong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Jamshed Mistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Industrial Engineering

, taken primarily by industrial Page 11.783.2engineering majors. This study is a prototype for a larger project addressing ERP-baseddecision-making, which involves creating learning modules for a variety of undergraduateengineering and management courses. Each module focuses on a decision-making problem thatis traditionally part of a functional course (e.g., production planning), and presents it in thecontext of a major business process, e.g., product development or supply chain and orderfulfillment. The process focus allows students to explore the impact of their decision on otherparts of the organization as well as its customers, suppliers, and

Conference Session

Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Meyer, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

2006-161: STRATEGIES FOR ASSESSING COURSE-SPECIFIC OUTCOMESDavid Meyer, Purdue University David G. Meyer has been very active in curriculum development, learning outcome assessment, design education, and use of instructional technology. He is currently responsible for creating, maintaining, and teaching the core ECE digital systems course sequence: ECE 270 (Introduction to Digital System Design), ECE 362 (Microprocessor System Design and Interfacing), and ECE 477 (Digital Systems Senior Design Project). He has written numerous papers on innovative uses of technology in education; more recent research contributions include papers on learning outcome assessment in both lower-division “content

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Collaborations and Interactions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shi (Stan) Lan, DeVry University-Chicago; Yaqing Mao, Beijing Normal University, China

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International

, catching up projects, etc.?(2c) Was there an interaction of students in either country (China versus the United States) andtheir gender difference (female versus male) in regard to the average number of hours they spendweekly studying outside the classroom on reading, researching, doing homework, catching upprojects, etc.?(2d) For each gender group studied in this research, was there a statistically significant differencebetween students in China and students in the United States in regard to the average number ofhours they spent weekly studying outside the classroom on reading, researching, doinghomework, catching up projects, etc.? Page

Conference Session

Progress on Raising the Bar

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

, because many engineering disciplines prefer not to require that master’s degree recipients in their disciplines also satisfy their Basic Level Program Criteria. • BOK Outcomes 1 through 11 are logically addressed in the basic level criteria, because of their direct association with ABET Criteria 3(a) through 3(k). BOK Outcome 12 is logically addressed in the advanced level criteria, because it requires advanced, specialized knowledge. BOK Outcomes 13 through 15, however, might reasonably be addressed at either the basic or advanced level. These professional practice topics— project management, construction management, asset management, business, public policy and administration, and leadership

Conference Session

Topics in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erich Schneider, University of Texas-Austin; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas-Austin; Steven Biegalski, University of Texas-Austin

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Nuclear and Radiological

. Radiation and Radiation Protection (3 hr) d. Radiation and Radiation Protection Laboratory (3 hr) e. Radioactive Waste Management (3 hr)Research topic classes worth three hours of credit were also offered to interested students.Once the pipeline of students was established from the undergraduate program we wereable to fill our graduate program with well qualified graduate students. We furthermoreoffered various undergraduate research assistants to students who showed a keen interestin graduate school. Through this mechanism we were able to identify the students whowere most qualified to then attend the national laboratories either as summer interns or onfunded M.S. and Ph.D. projects. To satisfy the need of the national

Conference Session

FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Light, University of Washington; Laura Girardeau, Washington State University; Jennifer Beller, Washington State University; Greg Crouch, Washington State University

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First-Year Programs

“worth it” overall but not freshmen seminar class. Page 11.1404.8 Content analysis ‚ worked with peers in study groups and projects; from reflective ‚ made friends; reports ‚ perceived Teniwe as helping them make the transition to college primarily through friends and ready-made study groups; 5 ‚ majority of students in dualistic phase as categorized by Perry

Conference Session

ECET Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine Cooney, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology

engage studentsin practical and interesting projects, and equip students to work in an industry that has highgrowth.References 1. Texas Instruments, Inc. “Radio Frequency Identification.” (2006) http://www.ti.com/rfid/docs/products/transponders/RI-I02-114A-01.shtml 2. Morrison, Jim. "Help Wanted." RFID Journal. (2005) Vol. 2, No. 2, pp 13-20 3. The Computing Technology Industry Association. “Industry Support Grows for CompTIA RFID Certification Initiative.” (2005) http://www.comptia.org/pressroom/get_pr.aspx?prid=591 Page 11.1098.5

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Jones, Southwest Tennessee Community College; James M. Northern, Southwest Tennessee Community College

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Computers in Education

2006-730: USING WIRELESS TABLET PERSONAL COMPUTERS TO EXTENDENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CLASSROOMS AND ENHANCE LEARNINGLisa Jones, Southwest Tennessee Community College Lisa G. Jones is currently Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering Technology at Southwest Tennessee Community College in Memphis, Tennessee. She joined Southwest in 2002 after 20 years of working as a design engineer and project manager in the electronics industry including Bell Labs, AT&T, Truevision, and Thomson Consumer Electronics. Ms. Jones earned her BSEE degree from Memphis State University in 1980 and her MSEE degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1981.James M. Northern, Southwest Tennessee Community

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Queensland; David Radcliffe, University of Queensland

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Educational Research and Methods

complex system with a number offormal constraints. This is embedded in the social context of the particular university systemand gives the student the chance to succeed by building personal relations and gatherinformation through others. However, it should be noted that other effects, such as traditionallearning, might have contributed to the acquisition of the stated competencies. Due to thelimitations of the data the proportions of the respective contributions can not be evaluated atthis stage.Quote 2 (from the transcript of the discussion of focus group No. 2) “During my degree I gave up asking questions. It just was not encouraged. Today when I work on interdisciplinary projects I encountered situations where it would have

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katrina Ramsdell, Virginia Tech; Madeline Schreiber, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech; Michael Alley, Virginia Tech

Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer-Verlag, 2003). Page 11.778.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Integrating a Sentence-Headline Design of Teaching Slides With Active-Learning Measures in a Large ClassAbstract In large classes, instructors often project and then post presentation slides tocommunicate important information. As recently shown, using teaching slides that have asuccinct sentence headline supported by visual evidence, rather than the traditional phraseheadline supported by a bullet list, has led to

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS; Radha Balamuralikrishna, Northern Illinois University

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International

Shewhart [73, 74], which have founduniversal appeal in traditional global manufacturing. Due to the inherent nature of the presenceof a number of variables and possible varied levels of their existence involved in bio-basedmanufacturing, quality techniques such as the design of experiments and Taguchi studies [75]become highly relevant for process innovation and improvement. Knowledge in these and otherbasic quality principles is a prerequisite in most engineering and technology degree programs, soextending these concepts to include bio-based manufacturing can be accomplished with relativeease.Management/business concepts such as strategic project planning, project scheduling, andproject management are indispensable in the operation of successful

Conference Session

TC2K Methods and Models

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Wise, Pennsylvania State University; Dhaneshwar Lall, Pennsylvania State University; Dhushy Sathianathan, Pennsylvania State University

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Engineering Technology

, i.e. specific homework problem or specific lab project. (Figure 1.) The evidence section is most critical to effective assessment, as it controls against a “Lake Woebegone” effect in which all of the students are seen as “above average”. Faculty are required to provide justification for their ratings.Figure 1. Faculty Assessment of Student Performance 2. Faculty Perception. Faculty are presented with a list of the course-level outcomes for their course, and asked to rate the overall effectiveness of the course in helping the students to meet the outcomes. They are given the opportunity to reflect on successes and shortcomings, identify equipment needs and constraints, and otherwise record their

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler

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Liberal Education

requires students to make oral presentations as well as towrite laboratory reports, business letters, résumés, and technical research papers. Written reportsand oral presentations are required in mid-level courses, and the senior-level two-semestercapstone design sequence, a joint effort of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering,requires students to write project proposals, progress reports, updates, and final reports as well asmake an oral presentation in each semester. Dr. Niiler, founding director of UT-Tyler’s WritingCenter, has extensive experience working with students from across the disciplines on subject-specific writing projects. He has contributed to the Electrical Engineering Laboratory Reportstyle guide, and regularly

Conference Session

Energy Resources, Efficiency, and Conservation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarma Pisupati, Pennsylvania State University; Wendy Mahen, PennSylvania State University; Mark Deluca, Pennsylvania State University; Martin Gutowski, Pennsylvania State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

work. On this page, PHP scripts duplicate the students'calculations to help graders find the student's errors and give customized feedback. Thereare form fields on this page so graders can grade the assignment and make comments. Assoon as this occurs, students can see their grades and comments online.All the graded items in the class, not just the online assignments, are included on thestudent's 'grades page.' Their final course grade is also automatically projected, with anaccompanying letter grade.For some graded items, quizzes for example, the lowest two scores of ten may bedropped when the final course grade is calculated. The 'grades page' counts all of thequizzes until nine are graded, then the lowest grades are dropped. For example, one

Conference Session

Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton

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Biomedical

External Fluid Fluid Dynamics Dynamics Final Exam: Art Project Complete Analysis of Turbulent Low a Plant or Flows Reynolds Animal Number Flows Animals Plants Figure 1. Mind-map of Topics

Conference Session

EM Program Trend and Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Westbrook, University of Alabama-Huntsville

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Engineering Management

discipline and to develop standards thatmember schools could use to guide academic program development and content. Once standards(shown in Exhibit 1) were developed, ASEM decided to develop a certification effort to identifythose programs that met the standards. The certification process was developed to be similar toan ABET model, including a self-study and a site visit by an assessment team.The plan for certifying master’s programs was presented at the 2002 ASEM National Conferencein Tampa, FL. The ASEM Board of Directors studied the plan for one year. In October of 2003,at its National Conference in St. Louis, MO, ASEM authorized a pilot project to use theproposed certification standards on some of the better-known EM programs in the country

Conference Session

Assessment & TC2K Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Crossman, Old Dominion University; Alok Verma, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Project Assessment CAP/Coop Supervisor X X X X X X X X Ratings Employer Surveys Used to assess program objectives Exit Exam of Writing X Proficiency Senior Surveys –Dept. X X X X X X X X X X X Senior Surveys –Univ. X X X X X X X X X X X The two shaded rows in the table above indicate tools that are used every three Page 11.176.4years to collect assessment data. The remaining tools are used on an annual basis. Theclassification of these tools into direct