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2004 GSW

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J. Rasty; J. F. Crdenas-Garcva

even teaching awards, withoutneeding to be cognizant of the factors relevant to the validity and reliability of studentevaluations. Faculty, especially beginning faculty, want a tool that helps them to learn theropes of effectively conveying information relevant to the coursework under study,without having to be held accountable for their lack of training in teaching, their othercompeting responsibilities, their need to get salary raises, or even the fact that studentevaluations might be a means for administrators to make them accountable for thepreparation, motivation and work habits of the student population. There is a cleardifference reflected in teaching evaluations of freshman and sophomore level (larger?)classes as opposed to upper

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2004 GSW

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Eyad Masad; Dan Zollinger

the theory espoused by Kolb2 describingfour modes of learning as: • Concrete experience • Reflective observation • Abstract conceptualization, and • Active experimentation 2Masad and Zollinger 2004 ASEE Annual Conference-Gulf Southwest SectionEvery student possesses portions of each learning mode but actually has a preferred or adominant learning style and typically consists of 2 modes of learning. However, Kolbstates that the most effective learning takes place when the student learns from each modeof learning.Concrete experience can provide the student a personnel

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2004 GSW

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Stephan Wright; Amit Thakkar

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Conclusion The IEEE Mentoring Office has helped recruit aspiring electrical engineeringstudents and helped retain the ones that began the journey. The success of the IEEEMentoring Office has been in gaining the support and trust of the UTA faculty and staff.This vital support helped us to acquire the funds to hire and train mentors, acquirecomputers and software programs, and establish a fully functional lab and workshopsection. Our success is further reflected in the advice we provide to other departmentswithin the university and other universities such as UNT and Tarleton State University,who aspire to create student supervised mentoring

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2004 GSW

Authors

Mario G. Beruvides

appreciation of the role thatmanagement will play in their long-term careers. Management studies that are not presented inan engineering context will only prolong this ignorance, (p.8).” 2Several approaches have been attempted and researched to incorporate practical applications,class participation, and active learning for engineering students. Significant educationalinstruction and research attempting, to address these issues have been done by courses designedto build engineering entrepreneurship. 3,4 The reasoning behind this is simple, “Engineeringstudents typically go through school completing assignments that are generated by academiciansand quite often this either cannot or does not reflect the commercial world.” 5 The desire toincorporate real

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2004 GSW

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Charlotte Welch Smith; Bonita Butner; James Gregory

tool designed for assisting in careerguidance. The career-mapping tool aids students by offering career and learning styleassessments. The advising tool was designed by the College of Engineering at TexasTech University to provide assistance in career decision-making for students in theCollege. However, this guidance inventory can be effectively used by students in othercolleges and by high school and junior high school students. ObjectiveThis paper does not reflect research as is common in most journals but gives an accountof and evaluates the usefulness of E-COACH for high school students and high schoolcounselors. This paper has three objectives: 1. To report the results of the use of E-COACH

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2004 GSW

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Kenneth Van Treuren

understand how this topic was integrated into thecurriculum. Some students commented it depended on the class. Other comments aboutadding more “real world” experiences were also given by the students. This is clearly anarea in which the curriculum can improve. EGO 10 covers a similar topic, contemporaryissues. The students commented that exposure to this topic should be increased in thecurriculum. They also said some professors are doing a better job than others. The sureycould identify an opportunity to learn from faculty that are already incorporatingcontemporary issues into their classes. EGOs 11 and 12 generally reflect the confidenceand exposure to situations that the students experienced. The comments centered onpossible software packages that

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2004 GSW

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Ms. LaQuasha M. Morgan; Ms. Faye Moore,; Dr. David A. Kirkpatrick

. Our goal is to provide the correct information in many forms such asactivities, lectures, and achievements. The past and present experiences are the reason why the members of Tau AlphaPi are working on this presentation to reflect the needs and what we would like to see inthe future. Faculty and students’ future expectations include better equipment,enrollment increases, and participation in organizations. We, as an organization, have also taken the time to develop not only ourengineering technology program but also other engineering technology programs insurrounding areas. We have researched what makes other engineering technologyprograms successful and problems that occur within their discipline. The success of mostof the

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2004 GSW

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Mario G. Beruvides; Terry R. Collins; Elliot J. Montes

research and some graduate courses focus onareas of specialty which reflect the needs of their constituent liaison organizations. This is selfreinforcing since over a span of many years, many of the graduates of an EM program are nowtop level managers in these same liaison organizations. Again, this is not necessarily unique toEM programs, nor it is necessarily a bad thing. But it does create for a challenging educationalenvironment that struggles with educating and not simply training,3,4 and whose researchavenues as we will see later, may at times be quite limited.Finally, most EM programs have yet another influencing factor, that of the media or platform inwhich the product is delivered. Most all EM programs have a distance education (Internet

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2004 GSW

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Luciana R. Barroso; Jim Morgan

Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education • “The projects were the heart of my interest for the class. Without civil application I could care less about dynamics.”Mid-term and final course evaluations for this class reflect that, though students find the coursechallenging, they indicate that this course is one where they see how the material relates to thepractice of civil engineering. The results from three questions in the final course evaluationsfrom the Fall 2003 are presented in Table 1. Students were asked to rate the followingstatements on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 indicating strong

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2004 GSW

Authors

Jennifer Spurrier; Charlotte Welch Smith; Bonita Butner; James Gregory

areas.The 71 surveys were entered into E-COACH using alphabetical identifiers for eachquestionnaire. The first set of survey questions are geared toward student career mapping. Thesecond set reflects learning style preference for assessment. The final set is indicative ofteaching area preference/interest. This study presents some descriptive statistics (arithmeticmean and percentages) as a basis for evaluating the study groups.Career Mapping/AssessmentED DOCTOR career mapping uses an interest questioning process to determine an individual’spossible area for career match. Questions are based on interest in things, people, data, and ideas.The process is related to the Myers Briggs Type Instrument excluding the introvert and extroverttyping. It also

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2004 GSW

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Jim Farison

within ASEE. "b. The group is willing to have assessment of institutional fees to support some activities.”2002 Meeting - MontrealThe notes of the initial meeting in 2001 included the statement, “This meeting is to initiate thedevelopment of a forum for the department heads of ‘non-traditional programs.’” Similarly, anApril 2002 email announcement for the second meeting, to be held at the 2002 ASEE AnnualConference in Montreal, reflected this theme with the statement, “Currently, each of the major societies … has active department heads groups that forward the interests of their respective programs. Our objective is to create a similar supportive activity. For example, at the first meting, we discussed the benefits of having ASEE serve

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2004 GSW

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Roman Taraban; Arne Weigold; Edward E. Anderson; M. P. Sharma

. Table 2 summarizes thefrequencies of participants’ responses. Overall, participants suggested somewhat morestrategies for textbook difficulties, perhaps reflecting greater familiarity and facility withthose materials. One noteworthy difference was in the Make Notes strategy, whichparticipants suggested frequently for textbook difficulties but not for CD materials,pointing to a qualitative difference when processing the two kinds of materials, and apotential limitation to the CD format. The CD materials also may have been perceived assomewhat incomplete, compared to the textbook, as evidenced by higher frequencies forthe strategy of Using Other Sources to Understand. DiscussionWe have shown that verbal

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2004 GSW

Authors

Ronald Barr; Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Barbara Austin

forms.Since the Mid-Outcomes survey was administered right after the VBL module, it is not a surprisethat experimental, computing, and communication (graphical) outcomes rose noticeably from thePre-Outcome experiences. Also, the last four outcomes (7, 8, 9, 10) seem to decrease linearly ingoing from the Pre- to Mid- to Post-Outcomes surveys. These latter outcomes (teamwork, life-long learning, professional issues, and societal issues) are softer engineering skills that were notaddressed in the course, and the student’s reflected this fact with their rankings. Outcomes Survey 5.00 4.50 4.00 3.50

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2004 GSW

Authors

Alison Reed; Kenneth Van Treuren

tunnel are the only lights used. The position of the lights minimizes themaximum amount of reflection of the lights on the exterior of the wind tunnel, allowingthe camera setup to capture the true color in the images under the same conditions forboth calibration and experimentation.A Variac controller and fan are set at a speed to pull air through the test section while anupstream mesh heater provides as a constant heat source. As air flows through the testsection, the arc welder heats a stainless steel mesh which evenly distributes energy intothe air. As the surface heats, the liquid crystal changes color. Once the plate reaches41°C (as measured by the surface thermocouple), the upper limit for the particular crystalused, the heater and fan are