Conference Session

Innovative K-12 Engineering Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Summer Dann Johnson; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University; Brenda Nixon, Louisiana State University; Daivon Craft, Louisiana State University; Cheryle Peters, Louisiana State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

College of Basic Sciences both provide a residentialeducational program for high school students. The minority engineering program within theCollege of Engineering has offered an induction program, Recruit into Engineering of HighAbility Minority Students (REHAMS), for approximately 8 years. Each summer approximately35 to 40 high school students reside on the university campus for 3 weeks for an intensiveacademic “boot camp” to prepare students for the challenges of university life. Students arerequired to take a math course, either calculus or college algebra, physics and chemistry.Students are also introduced to resume and portfolio writing, study skills, and the academicentrance policies. Participants tour several engineering labs and

Conference Session

MentorNet

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Jo Wellenstein, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Susannah Sandrin, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; Karen Showers, Wisconsin Technical College System; Leslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development Board; Jennifer Chou-Green, MentorNet; Carol Muller, MentorNet; Laurie Mayberry, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ann Bloor, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Isla Yap, Maui Economic Development Board

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Women in Engineering

student, Mandy Plumley, has been active in MentorNet forfour years. She appreciated the informality of communicating with the mentor; i.e., not puttingon a professional demeanor that she perceived a face-to-face contact would include; therefore, “Ican be more myself.” Especially during her first two years of school when she did not have aprofessor who she knew well enough to ask personal questions, Plumley valued the support andinfluence of her mentors. At times that meant help with homework, resume writing, andinterpersonal situations. She valued hearing about the reasons behind her mentors’ decisions tochange positions or to go back to school. Her first three mentors felt like “an experienced peer”;females who were flexible with communicating

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Engineering Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelley Racicot, Washington State University; Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University

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Educational Research and Methods

percentageincrease [18]. Network structures, like those used in distance education and online networks, ifadapted for face-to-face and blended learning environments, hold promise for solvingassessment, workload, and scalability problems in higher education.2.2 The Capstone Industrial Design ClinicProject-based engineering design has been part of this ABET-certified mechanical engineeringprogram for more than a decade. In its current form in the School of Mechanical and MaterialsEngineering at Washington State University, student groups work on industry-sponsoredengineering projects ($80-$120,000 annually) for one semester. Students are responsible forevery aspect of project management, from specification writing to delivery, including budget,travel, and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terrance Boult, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Jeremy Haefner, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

21 Credits (Choice from 1-3 cores) General education courses to meet requirements of the appropriate college.The Innovation Core is 27 Credits, geared toward innovation and entrepreneurship; a keycomponent is the multi-disciplinary, long-term team activities over the sophomore, junior andsenior years. Teams are expected to include students from all years, possibly including graduatestudents. The teams will have dynamic membership and the roles of team members will changeon a regular basis. The innovation core also includes an overview course of innovation, acourse on entrepreneurship, a variation on the technical writing course focused on proposalpreparation, a course

Conference Session

Experiential and Service Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

academic quarters (22 weeks). The MSD experience is a studio course in that it adopts ageneral approach to student interaction that is hands-on, instructor facilitated, and student-centered [1]. Refer to companion paper by Walter et al, 2007 [2]for more details on the overallMSD program at RIT. Like its peer institutions, RIT strives to continuously improve curriculumstructure, integration, and assessment. The MSD course sequence is particularly crucial to thisongoing improvement due to its culminating nature. Accordingly, the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) Criterion 3 Program Outcomes and Assessment states thatengineering programs must demonstrate that their students attain the following set of attributesupon graduation

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

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New Engineering Educators

writing the requirements and specs would take too long. So that part is missing unless you put the framework around it. So if we make this sort of a convincing little iPod, then what I'm hoping they'll do is if there's an ambiguity in the requirements either that I've put it in intentionally or unintentionally, and both are in there, they'll figure out what would be the answer that makes the better end product, and they'll shape the requirements according to some understanding of the end goal…” (SD107, Full professor) Page 12.441.10The third example shows how an instructor based decisions about delivering content on

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Günter Bischof, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Department of Automotive Engineering,; Emilia Bratschitsch, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Department of Automotive; Annette Casey, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Department of Automotive Engineering,; Domagoj Rubesa, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Department of Automotive Engineering,

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Mathematics

-processingalgorithms, data evaluation and modeling. The fact that they were entrusted with thegeneration of a tool facilitating a recently developed method in nuclear solid state physicsproved to be highly motivating.Based on the demand to educate the students to high academic standards, the results of ascientific project have to be properly disseminated. In order to provide students with aplatform for scientific publications several journals for undergraduate researchers werefounded in the last decade. These journals comply with the same directions and qualitystandards as conventional scientific journals, as for instance a peer review system. In this waystudents become familiar with scientific writing in early stages of their academic education.Moreover

Conference Session

Student Teams and Project-Based Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Daniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Rachel Wasserman, Illinois Institute of Technology IPRO Program

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Educational Research and Methods

information confidential; they would not betray a confidence for personal gain. 17. Students on this team openly admit and take responsibility for the mistakes they have made. 18. Students are willing to give and receive constructive feedback from each other without getting defensive. Page 12.266.7 19. Students on this team are open to considering new ideas or trying new methods. 20. Students seek the input of their peers in attempting to solve problems. Cognitive/ Declarative Knowledge about Teamwork: We have developed a body ofknowledge and question banks designed to tap familiarity with key constructs in each of

Conference Session

Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carsten Ahrens, F.H. OOW

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Civil Engineering

practice7. Capacity for generating new ideas (creativity)8. Capacity to adapt to new situations9. Capacity to learn10. Critical and self-critical abilities11. Decision-making12. Elementary computing skills (word processing, database, other utilities)13. Ethical commitment14. Interpersonal skills15. Knowledge of a second language16. Oral and written communication in your native language17. Research skillsPlease rank below the five most important competences according to your opinion. Please write the number of the itemwithin the box. Mark on the first box the most important, on the second box the second most important and so on.Table 3: Questionnaire concerning generic competences for employers, societies, academicsThe results have been very

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne McClain, University of Alabama-Birmingham; Dale Feldman, University of Alabama-Birmingham; Lee Meadows, University of Alabama Birmingham

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Mathematics

to solve mathematical problems. Inquiry and reflection includesuse of inquiry-based activities and reflecting on learning experiences individually, in groups, oras a class. Communication includes the ability to articulate one’s mathematical ideas verballyand in writing to peers, teachers, parents, and others.GBMP’s professional development curriculum for teachers involves a sequence of sevenintensive mathematics content courses taught or co-taught by MEC staff each summer. Themathematics content consists of the "big mathematical ideas" of numerical reasoning, algebra,geometry, probability, and data analysis as identified in NCTM’s Principles and Standards forSchool Mathematics [5]. Each course models the attributes of challenging courses and

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso; Arunkumar Pennathur, University of Texas-El Paso

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Mechanical Engineering

Dynamics Course throughMulti-Intelligence Methods and Peer Facilitation, in ASEE Annual Conference.2005, ASEE: Portland, Oregon.3. Bransford, J.D., How people learn: brain, mind, experience, and school 2000,Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.4. Savery, J.R. and T.M. Duffy, Problem Based Learning: An instructionalmodel and its constructivist framework, in Constructivist Learning Environments:Case Studies in Instructional Design, B. Wilson, Editor. 1996, Englewood Cliffs,Educational Technology Publications.5. Linsey, J., et al., Methodology and tools for developing hands-on activelearning activities, in 2006 ASEE Annual Conference. 2006, ASEE: Chicago.6. Lefebvre, B., A constructivist experiment in particle settling andcentrifugation, in

Conference Session

New Models for Teaching and Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Morozov, University of Washington; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Cynthia Atman, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

contentcategories, particularly those not highlighted in the VPA, but also to trace the logic or structureunderlying the respondent’s answer.A. Participants Page 12.321.4 3The expert data used for this study came from a subset of four responses (n=4) purposefullyselected from a pre-existing pool of responses of 19 experienced engineers. The original 19 areexperienced practicing professional engineers who were identified by their peers at work asexpert designers. All participants initially completed a screening survey, indicating theireducation and employment

Conference Session

NAFP Panel Discussion

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso; Paul Racette, NASA; Scott Askew, NASA; Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Belay Demoz; Paul Mogan, NASA

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Minorities in Engineering

Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, and a NASA Adminstrator's Fellow. Dr. Demoz has published more than 50 peer reviewed papers and numerous conference papers and reports. He still serves on student committees and advises graduate and undergraduate students continues to lecture in Cloud Physics, Atmospheric Instrumentation, and Aerosols fr graduate students.Paul Mogan, NASA Paul A. Mogan is a Project Manager at NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Earlier in his career with NASA Mr. Mogan was an instrumentation systems design engineer and managed a lab that developed instrumentation technology. He began his NAFP tenure in 2005 during which he developed and taught a course in Biomedical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gypsy Denzine, Northern Arizona University

understanding how college students’ achievement goalsrelate to such outcomes as academic self-regulation, affect, task value, interest, self-efficacy,learning, and achievement. In my preliminary review of the STEM literature I found littleattention given to the topic of goal theory. Although there are various models, in general, most educational psychologist distinguishtwo major types of achievement goals39,42,45,82,83,85; performance goals and learning goals.Students with performance goals strive for competence in order to demonstrate their abilities toothers. A performance goal orientation frequently involves normatively based standards andstudents may appear competitive as they strive to outperform their peers. In contrast, studentswho adopt

Conference Session

Marketing Engineering to Minority Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Minorities in Engineering

found to impact positively: tolerance for diversity,personal development, interpersonal development, and community-to-college connections.Students reported working harder, being more curious, connecting learning to personalexperience, and demonstrated deeper understanding of subject matter. The quality of placementsin the community and the degree of structured reflection were found to be important inenhancing the positive effects, significantly so for critical thinking increases. They found thatthe "students who participated in service-learning differed significantly from those who did notparticipate on almost every outcome we measured." 26 They summed up effective S-L principlesin: connection (students, peers, community, faculty; experience

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland

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Women in Engineering

mathematics and computing, particularly by authors writing from outsideengineering such as Hacker17, did not take account of the role and contexts in whichmathematics and computing were used. It is suggested as more helpful to look forexplanations in linking concepts of separate and connected knowing18, 19with the disciplines.The much quoted Belenky et al.19 hypothesised that more women than men may be“connected knowers” (where the relationship between the self and the knowledge is important– being able to link topics to personal experience) and that more men than women operated as“separate knowers”. Separate knowing, they suggested, was more like the traditional,objective, rule-seeking ways of evaluating, proving or disproving truth – reflected in

Conference Session

Issues of Diversity

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fonda Swimmer, Northern Arizona University; Karen Jarratt-Ziemski, Ft. Lewis College

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Women in Engineering

STEM disciplines. Her other interests include, Native American Self-Determination, Native Peoples, and Native Americans and Higher Education. Ms. Swimmer is a member of the Navajo Nation.Karen Jarratt-Ziemski, Ft. Lewis College Karen Jarratt-Ziemski received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Arizona University. She is currently a visiting faculty member of the American Indian Studies Program at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Dr. Jarratt-Ziemski is also the advisor to the Fort Lewis Chapter of AISES, and writes and works on many American Indian issues, including American Indian Self-Determination and Environmental Justice and Native Peoples. Dr. Jarratt-Ziemski is also

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wendy James, Oklahoma State University; Stacee Harmon, Oklahoma State University; Richard Bryant, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

into causing particular classes to be a part of degreerequirements or lead to inclusion of topics in a course’s content goals. On the micro level,instructors’ plans are influenced by the decisions at the macro level, but they still make thechoices of specific lesson plans, contents of daily/weekly/monthly instructional objectives,activities for students, methods of instruction, and forms of evaluating students.4 In analyzingcurriculum planning, Colin J. Marsh and George Willis write Teachers are, of course, the final planners, and, in practice, many daily lesson plans are not written out but remain in the heads of experienced teachers. In fact, many of the numerous decisions made daily by classroom teachers are the

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Part 2

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, University Of Minnesota; Karl Smith, University of Minnesota

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Educational Research and Methods

the general education program Ø A student body that values altruism and social activismFactors Negatively Associated with Positive Student Outcomes Ø Hours spent watching television Ø Institutional size Ø Use of teaching assistants Ø Full-time employment Ø Lack of community among students Ø Living at home and commuting Ø Participating in inter-collegiate athletics Ø Peers oriented toward materialismIn short, Astin4,5 said it appeared that how students approach their general education and how thefaculty actually deliver the curriculum are far more important that the formal curricular structure.More specifically, the findings strongly support a growing body of research suggesting that oneof the crucial factors in the

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science for the 21st Century

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Kitto, Western Washington University

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Materials

Page 12.1469.15student is so engaged in a course that they spontaneously do a mini-research project. Sevenstudents have volunteered to work on undergraduate research projects in this area. Ten to fifteenpercent of the students in the class write about some aspect of materials and music for theirrequired research papers. This is only a three percentage points lower than the students whowrite about materials used in cars. The approach described here seems to reach out to a differentand wider student population.Perhaps the most surprising outcome of the active and conceptual learning modifications to thecourse was that the students are able to successfully complete a much more difficult designproblem on the second mid-term and on the final exam

Conference Session

FPD5 -- Placement & Early Success

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; Susan Freeman, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

Indicator on incoming collegestudents. These results show that 60% of the students have a practical rather than theoreticalorientation toward learning, and that this percentage is growing. Other research has shown thatstudents prefer concrete active learning activities to abstract reflective learning by a ratio of 5 to112. The general conclusion is that active modes of teaching and learning create the best matchfor today’s students. These can include: small-group discussions and projects, in-classpresentations and debates, experiential exercises, field experiences, simulations, and case studies.Silberman also discusses the social side of learning, “[Students] tend to become more engaged inlearning because they are doing it with their peers. Once

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Marlin, McMaster University

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Chemical Engineering

• Report writing • Good design requires a cost estimating • Oral presentation mastery of chemical engineering sciencesThe profession has nearly unanimous agreement that these learning goals are important andshould be achieved by performing a project within the undergraduate chemical engineeringcurriculum. Examples of design projects are available in many textbooks and from CACHE2. Page 12.1366.32.2 Learning Goals for Operability This paper presents an argument for an enhancement in the curriculum by providingadditional operability topics to achieve the following learning goals