Conference Session

The New Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK2)

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Gerry Galloway, University of Maryland; Thomas Lenox, ASCE; James O'Brien

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Civil Engineering

and practitioners in the civil engineering community in theUnited States have been calling for reform of civil engineering education. The AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has been working since 1995 on the concept ofadditional education to practice at the professional level in the future. ASCE’s Board-level committee, the Committee on Academic Prerequisites for Professional Practice(CAP^3) currently has five different constituent committees actively working across thevarious domains related to engineering educational reform. The purpose of this paper isto discuss ASCE’s current plan for implementing these actions including its release of thesecond edition of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK), modifiedaccreditation

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Donal McHale, Dublin Institute of Technology; Richard Hayes, Dublin Institute of Technology; Robert Herrick, Purdue University; Heinz Schmidt-Walter, Hochschule Darmstadt; Dhushy Sathianathan, Pennsylvania State University; Eugeue Coyle, Dublin Institute of Technology; Robert Simpson, Dublin Institute of Technology

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International

1 Engineering Pennsylvania State University School of Industrial and Engineering 1 1 TechnologiesTable 2.0: DETECT Project Full Semester Accredited Student Exchange Planning Numbers (Year 1)While Year 1 of the project concludes on December 1st 2008, the consortium are ‘on-track’ todeliver on the Year 1 overall numerical exchange goals agreed above.The key developments milestones in full semester accredited student exchange on course to beachieved in Year 1 are as follows

Conference Session

Design for Society and the Environment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Callaway, CH2M HILL; Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

topics, and many programs are under pressure toreduce the number of courses and credits required for graduation. For these reasons, the civilengineering faculty at Oregon Institute of Technology decided to introduce the topic ofsustainability at the senior-level in the capstone design course.Senior Design at Oregon TechIn order to address concerns related to insufficient team skills, lack of multidisciplinaryexperience, and poor communication abilities, a unique capstone design course was developed atOregon Tech8. This year-long, three term course sequence was designed to allow students toparticipate in the complete design and development process of a civil engineering project, frominitial conceptual plans to final engineering designs. The

Conference Session

Continuous Improvement & Assessment of ET Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cottrell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

communications, engineering economy, and construction planning, scheduling, estimating, and management. Page 13.1138.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008Page 13.1138.2conclusion of each block of instruction provided the primary vehicle for evaluatingstudent skills. The paper presents some specific examples of outcomes that were linkedto a variety of assessment methods including graded exercises and exams. Final courseassessments were performed through both objective and subjective means with finalexam problems providing final objective assessments on critical learning objectives andstudent questionnaires yielding the medium for

Conference Session

Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

familiarize themselves with Clarity and CVC before the in-class casepresentation by visiting http://www.csr.com/products/cvc.htm.A handout the students are given in preparation for the case study is provided as Appendix A.Ray Gunn Case: Course IntegrationThe nature of the technical content in this case relates closely with content we normally cover ina Mechanical Measurements course (although many institutions refer to their similar course asInstrumentation). Our Mechanical Measurements course covers a variety of transducers andsignal processing techniques used to analyze the resulting data, making for a good discussion asto how this case study relates to the course content. In addition, we are planning to add a labdemonstration of the directional

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Carolyn Wood, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

and analytical perspectives, 5 and improve teamwork ,communication , and project management skills . IPRO Projects are based on realproblems, often involving sponsors that reflect the diversity of the workplace: corporations,entrepreneurial ventures, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. Theprojects cover a broad range of topics and include service learning, research, design,process improvement and business planning assignments.Every undergraduate student is required to take two IPROs. A majority of IPRO studentsare majoring in engineering, architecture and computer science, but the program alsoinvolves undergraduate students

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Dolan, University of Wyoming; Ovid Plumb, University of Wyoming

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Education, 2008 Interdisciplinary Capstone Design Program A Case StudyAbstractTo advance interdisciplinary engineering, an all college multi-disciplinary senior design programwas initiated. The initial project was a two year effort to design an automated transit system forthe campus. The first semester was a planning stage to establish vehicle, route and infrastructureparameters. The planning semester was followed by three semesters of sequential design.Students enter the program at various stages of development and must complete defined portionsof the overall project. The program places emphasis on documenting work, picking up workinitiated by others and communicating design objectives

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention in ET Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raju Dandu, Kansas State University at Salina; John DeLeon, Kansas State University at Salina

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

scholar. Thus, ELITE scholars will comprise freshmen, transfer or current K-Statestudents.Specifically, the ELITE program will provide financial assistance to a cluster of 15-25 studentsover a period of four years beginning fall 2007. Budget for the program is estimated at $500,000with $28,000 earmarked for program administration and $32,000 for student support services.Included in the total are initial start-up funds that will be utilized to carry out planning for theELITE project and to put administrative and support structures in place. The S-STEM grantallows a maximum award of $500,000 in total or $125,000 per year for up to four years, with anoptional initial period of up to one year for planning. The maximum scholarship amount is up to

Conference Session

STEM Pipeline: Pre-College to Post-Baccalaureate

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Venetia Dover, Howard University; Lorraine Fleming, Howard University; Dawn Williams, Howard University; Viara Quinones, Howard University

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Educational Research and Methods

a multi method longitudinal study conducted at a Historically BlackCollege/University (HBCU) in fall 2006 and spring 2007 using a sample of 51 high achieving(GPA > 3.0) Black STEM students. The Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) was used as atheoretical framework to provide insight regarding factors influencing the post baccalaureatedecisions of high achieving Black STEM students. Survey findings revealed a statisticallysignificant association between STEM discipline and post baccalaureate plans. Qualitative datafrom a focus group will shed light on factors influencing the aforementioned finding.IntroductionThe literature indicates that the representation of minority science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM

Conference Session

Teaching Engineering and Public Policy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Dunn, University of Maine; Kenneth Nichols, University of Maine

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Engineering and Public Policy

administration and civil engineering fields are alwaysworking together in practice. Public administration professionals are decision makers whoprovide the long-term plan and vision for development within federal, state, and local levels. Asdecision makers, these professionals decide which projects are viable. Engineering professionalsdesign, analyze, and execute planned projects. These professionals take the vision to a realitythat ultimately the public uses and the public administration professional needs to maintain. Though public administration and engineering professionals work together, they oftenmisunderstand one another’s roles. The public administration professional works within a publicpolicymaking process and regulatory sphere that

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

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International

relationships,communications, and English proficiency regarding reading, writing, and speech. Projectmanagement, planning, team work, time and budget management are integrated intoprojects in American engineering curricula. Such an approach obviously makes goodsense to address issues like lack of training on problem solving skills, ability to deal withconflicts, team organization, and engineering way to organization, project development,finance awareness, and software for project management through a variety of academicactivities.The main goal of this enhancement is to help Chinese students to broaden their viewsfrom narrowly designed technical background, develop their critical thinking skills inproblem solving and prepare them for their future growth

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Ehlig-Economides, Texas A&M University; Cathy Mariotti Ezrailson, University of South Dakota; Ramesh Talreja, Texas A&M University

-E project funding includes support for an assistant professor and a PhD level graduatestudent from the College of Education and Human Resources. These two project participantshave drafted a training program for the UPTs and GTAs to be held prior to each semester, andthey convene the instructional team on a weekly basis to share experiences, share additionallearning resources and discuss plans for the following week. They assist the engineeringprofessors in charge of the course to incorporate student-centered learning strategies in line withdesign principles of the How People Learn 1 framework. They also conduct research on thecourse design and its effectiveness in achieving learning goals, emphasizing critical thinking,effective

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Clifton, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

and plans, broken down by phase and/oractivity. It allows time logging, both manually and via punch-in/punch-out. It allows a studentto retrieve files in a group’s repository, which is useful when the student does not have access tothe version control client. It also has some limited reporting capabilities, such as viewing groupsummary statistics broken down by individual.BackgroundThe University of Wisconsin – Platteville has had a BS-SE degree since fall 1999. All of oursoftware engineering courses have a group project component and many require individualprojects. For most of the courses, students are required to log time spent on the project, brokendown by phase and/or activity. For many courses, students are required to provide time

Conference Session

LabVIEW and Mindstorms Based Experiments

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suxia Cui, Prairie View A&M University; Yonghui Wang, Prairie View A&M University; Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University; Cajetan Akujuobi, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, Microcontroller Lab, and DSPlab. Through such a plan, all the students will receive enough training on the latest innovativeequipment. Also the undergraduate curriculum of Engineering Technology department atPVAMU will be strengthened by the according lab courses.I. BackgroundFor the past decade, computer and electrical technology has been one of the most fast growingareas in engineering territory. New equipments have come into being, new products haveappeared in the market, and new theories have been applied to the existing devices. All of theabove give new expectations to current engineers and technologies. At the same time, theychallenge our education of modern technologists.1. Industry Demand

Conference Session

Design: Content and Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University; Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

approach forms the basis of course design. This approach enables the incorporation of the opinions as well as the preferences of various constituencies such as potential employers, accreditation boards, parents, state and national professional regulation boards etc. This step utilizes the four stage ‘House of Quality’ approach to quantify priorities. 1. Course Planning: This step incorporates the voice of end users (employers, accreditation board, professional development societies etc). This step is akin to asking the question: ‘What outcome do you expect out of this course?’ Once these opinions are ascertained, they are prioritized in arrange from highest priority to lowest priority 2. Component Deployment: This step

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University; James Nelson, Louisiana Tech University; Galen Turner, Louisiana Tech University; Alicia Boudreaux, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

structural research facilities. Future plans for this project include developing “smart” bridges by incorporating student-built strain gages.The Fuel Cell Future – The ultimate goal of The Fuel Cell Future project is for each team tobuild a small model car powered by a fuel cell. To place this project in context, we discuss andmathematically model global population growth and world-wide energy sources. A preliminarydesign competition is used to introduce creative problem solving and teamwork. Thispreliminary competition is to build and race a small battery-powered car from a box of assorteditems (similar to a scene in the movie Apollo 13.) The students are then introduced to fuel

Conference Session

Diversity and K-12 Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Mohamad Mustafa, Savannah State University; Hope Cranford, Savannah State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

white institutions5.SSU received a grant from the US Army Research Office to conduct the Junior Engineering andTechnology Summer program (JETS). This program was supplemented by SSU’s UpwardBound program funded by the Department of Education. The program serves as model forrecruiting minority students in engineering programs at a minority institution. The followingparagraphs will list the best practices that promote recruitment and retention of minoritystudents. The remainder of this paper will present the goals, curriculum, student activities,evaluation of student learning, and future plans. Page 13.1319.3Best Practices for Recruitment and

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Smith, U. of St. Thomas - St. Paul

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Information Systems

and, in somecases, advanced math courses. This was not the introductory course we wanted to teach.We decided to plan a course with the following properties: • Prerequisites limited to introductory programming and a college math course • Course work would promote higher order thinking skills according to Bloom’s taxonomy of cognitive learning levels4. • Content would teach students practical information security skills: skills that would help students analyze real-world security situationsIn our search for support of this alternate course model, we examined numerous textbooks. Atthe high end are books like Bishop1 that focus on a mathematical treatment of the subject. Othertexts, like Whitman and Mattord 11 do not

Conference Session

Design Project Based Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Choate, Western Kentucky University; Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University; Joel Lenoir, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Page 13.282.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Centrifugal Pump Test Bed: A Senior Capstone ProjectAbstractA centrifugal pump test bed was designed, built and tested for the undergraduate mechanicalengineering thermal fluids laboratory at Western Kentucky University. This project was fundedthrough the Undergraduate Senior Project Grant Program sponsored by the American Society ofHeating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) and is primarilyintended for instructional situations.The project was executed over a two-semester Mechanical Engineering Senior Project designsequence, with a three-member student team planning the project design during the fall semesterand executing the project

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Two

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Himes, United States Military Academy; Jakob Bruhl, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

designing structuralmembers from common construction materials (wood, masonry, and concrete). This coursetakes the fundamentals developed in CE300 and applies them in the context of design codes.Understanding analysis procedures and current design codes, CE450 serves as an opportunity forthe students to put their knowledge to use in a broader context.CE450 focuses on the engineering design process (see Figure 2). While this process isintroduced in CE300 and reinforced in CE350, it is not until the third course that students areable to apply their knowledge to a large engineering problem. This paper focuses on thesemester-long Engineering Design Project (EDP) in CE450. In this project, students are requiredto design and develop a construction plan

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Ruhala, University of Southern Indiana; Laura Ruhala, University of Southern Indiana; Eric Sprouls, University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

not enrolled in engineering courses their first year. This wasidentified as a reason that more than half of the incoming freshman left engineering after the firstyear. It was anticipated that this problem could worsen since the mathematics and sciencerequirements are more rigorous in the upcoming engineering program. One engineering programin the United States indicated that a reason for low success among the pre-calculus engineeringuvwfgpv"rqrwncvkqp"ku"vjcv"vjg{"Ðncem"gctn{"gzrquwtg"vq"gpikpggtkpi"cpf."vjgtghqtg."ncem"uqekcnk|cvkqp"ykvjkp"vjgkt"fgenctgf"gpikpggtkpi"rtqitcouÑ3. The 5-year plan of study at USIexposes students to engineering their first year in class sizes normally less than 30 students,which should facilitate socialization

Conference Session

Money and People; Resource Management for Recruitment and Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

the school’s research program opportunities for which thescholars are encouraged to apply.The students are given assignments throughout the semester as a part of the CIRC program. Atthe beginning of each semester the students send a copy of their course schedule and mustdevelop a detailed time management schedule of all 168 hours of the week which include themain building blocks of the 4.0 Plan: bullet point reading, bullet point notes, homework, bulletpoint concepts, and professor office hours for each class, as well as the their class and worktimes. There are a few more assignments designed to help the student stay on task with theirtime management plan. The students are given a checklist to help them with their timemanagement plan.5 An

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Craig, North Carolina State University; Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; Jeff Joines, North Carolina State University; Tom Miller, North Carolina State University; Carolyn Miller, North Carolina State University; Dianne Raubenheimer; George Rouskas, North Carolina State University; Larry Silverberg, North Carolina State University; Eric Wiebe, North Carolina State University

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Computers in Education

integral part of the ongoing activities. One research and assessment method beingemployed is the Delphi method. This formal communication process will be used to gatherconsensus among faculty, industry leaders and students in an effort to identify sets ofcomputational skills vital for engineering professionals. Descriptions and reflections of the firstyear of project activities will be presented as well as plans for future activities. Preliminaryassessment data will also be available.1. IntroductionTwo decades ago to say that an engineering graduate was highly competent in computing meantthat he or she had mastered the FORTRAN programming language. A decade later it meant, inaddition, mastering basic skills in a few key discipline-specific

Conference Session

Foster Excellence

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Gonzalez-Barreto, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Antonio Gonzalez-Quevedo, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Sonia Bartolomei-Suarez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

AC 2008-1469: FEEDBACK THROUGH CRITICAL INDICATORS OF STUDENTPERFORMANCE: CONTRIBUTING TO THE ASSESSMENT OF HIGH SCHOOLEDUCATIONDavid Gonzalez-Barreto, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez GONZÁLEZ-BARRETO, DAVID R., PhD. He is Professor of Industrial Engineering and Coordinator of Institutional Research of the Office of Institutional Research and Planning of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. He is interested in institutional research, specifically in the areas of admissions, student access for underrepresented groups and student success.Antonio Gonzalez-Quevedo, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez GONZÁLEZ-QUEVEDO, ANTONIO A., PhD. He is Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the

Conference Session

Web-Based Learning in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmal Das, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

expectationsand plans for future evaluation of any positive results.IntroductionA lack of understanding of the basic principles of Mechanics of deformable bodies is frequentlyobserved among several Engineering Technology majors. These include concepts of free-bodydiagrams, stress, deformation, and shear and moment diagrams under different loadings. Sincethese constitute the foundation for the upper-level courses such as Structural Analysis andStructural design (Steel/ Reinforced Concrete), it is essential for the students to have a soundcomprehension of all these concepts so they can apply them properly.These students are juniors or seniors, and have already taken at least two courses in Mechanics:Statics and Strength of Materials. While dedicating class

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Knud Holm Hansen, Copenhagen University College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

International

commercial problems2. Critically adopt new knowledge in relevant areas of engineering, commerce, and language/culture, and understand and include intercultural issues3. Independently carry out export engineering assignments that arise from integrating technical disciplines with finance and international marketing4. Plan, realise, and manage projects, technical and technological plants and be able to include social, financial, environmental, and health and safety consequences in the resolution of Page 13.1077.2 technical problems5. Enter into co-operation and management functions and contexts at a qualified level with people who have a

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Virendra Varma, Missouri Western State University; Tina Varma, University of Central Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

growing in popularity in colleges anduniversities across the nation. E-portfolios have been incorporated in higher education tofacilitate many aspects of education such as student learning, student achievement, and programassessment. This paper provides a direct insight into the value of e-portfolios in the overallhigher educational process including program assessment. What is an e-portfolio, and how doesit differ from the more traditional paper-based portfolio? E-portfolios go far beyond collection ofartifacts, and are seen as a dynamic tool for constructive learning and future planning such ascareer goals. Development of the e-portfolios starts early during the educational process andmay require evaluation at different stages of the E

Conference Session

Innovative Programs - Structure, Delivery, Evaluation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Joseph Tidwell, Arizona State University; Ronald Thomas, Raytheon; William Charlton, Boeing

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

Prototype New plan New steady state scenario Evaluate Figure 1. Process to manage changeThe requirements for change come from the need for improved products or ways toimplement new technology to deliver them. In either case, the process to define andevaluate exactly what has to be changed is invariably organized as a project. Projectsshould be like children’s stories. They have a beginning, middle and end and have Page 13.1056.2simple, clear content. At least, that’s the intent. Since projects determine the time ittakes

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer; Alison McKay, University of Leeds; Mark Henderson, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Alan de Pennington, University of Leeds

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

produced during the protocol. A key characteristic of the product design teamswas their use of drawings at every stage of the design process; in contrast the freshmanengineering teams carried out more detailed information gathering activities. These differencesbetween senior product and freshman engineering teams reflected the emphasis areas in theircurriculum. All four teams frequently iterated between the different stages of the design processand project planning was a neglected area for all teams. Further research is needed to increasethe number of team studies to explore the role of design drawings in supporting teamcommunication, team information gathering and use processes, and the role of team diversity insupporting innovative design

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Johnson, University of Cincinnati / Engineering; Mary Beth Privitera, University of Cincinnati; Daria Narmoneva, University of Cincinnati; Balakrishna Haridas, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

two-course, team-based, experimental research capstone sequence. The goal of thedevice design capstone is to advance intellectual property while providing a multidisciplinarydesign experience. In the first course of the sequence, the teams are presented with a clinicalproblem and are expected to conceive, design, prototype and evaluate devices with innovativesolutions. The course emphasizes information gathering, establishing requirements, conceptdevelopment, and evaluation. In the second course in the sequence, a verification plan isgenerated and implemented. The goal of the experimental research capstone sequence is tointroduce students to the design and conduct of a pilot study involving human subjects. To thisend, students develop a