Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie Potter, Iowa State University; John Jackman, Iowa State University; K. Jo Min, Iowa State University; Matthew Search, Iowa State University

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Liberal Education

AC 2008-1477: A NEW ENGINEERING COMMUNICATIONS COURSE BASEDON A PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONS PROCESSLeslie Potter, Iowa State University Leslie Potter is a Lecturer in the department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University. She has extensive professional engineering experience, including seven years with Deere & Company in various engineering and supervision capacities. She received her M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University prior to joining the IMSE department at ISU. She is currently teaching her eighth year of the IE capstone design course. Her research interests include capstone design course effectiveness, engineering and

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New Ideas for ChEs I (aka ChE Potpourri)

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Kelly, Oregon State University; Edith Gummer, Northwest Regional Education Laboratory; Philip Harding, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

Laboratory Edith Gummer is the Director of the Classroom-Focused Research and Evaluation Program for the Center for Classroom Teaching and Learning at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. She coordinated the structure of the research design and the data collection and analysis processes of the project. She has been faculty in science and mathematics education quantitative and qualitative research design courses at the doctoral level. She has been involved in the development of innovative mathematics curricular activities and formative assessment in mathematics problem solving.Philip Harding, Oregon State University Philip Harding holds the Linus Pauling Chair in the School of

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ERM Potpourri

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Miller, University of Pittsburgh -Johnstown

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Educational Research and Methods

exposure to problem solving which may entail more than one course topic. Often the onlyexposure that students have to cross-course problems is during capstone projects. It is felt thatthere is a “disconnect” between theory in the course and the reality of implementing classmaterial. Due to this disconnect, students are often struggle to implementing the knowledge infollow-on design courses such as capstone courses1. In reality, the practicing engineer cannotcount on the compartmentalization of material. Projects or designs may require a mixture ofinformation learned from multiple courses. Professors can aid in the preparation of students byassigning projects that expose students to mixed content.The latest ABET criteria suggests the need for

Conference Session

Issues of Cooperative Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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ROBERT GRAY, Penn State Erie

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

learning and the opportunities that may be available for additional career development after graduation. 6. Organize and effectively manage an industrially-based project a) Students, in a team environment, demonstrate that their system design meets specification requirements. b) Students demonstrate that their system was completed within budgetary constraints. c) Students submit a final written report and oral presentation that detail overall requirements, design, implementation, and results for their capstone design project. Page 13.1135.4On-Campus and Off-Campus Learning TopicsThe course

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FPD4 - Teaching Methods for First Year Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Haungs, California Polytechnic State University; John Clements, California Polytechnic State University; David Janzen, California Polytechnic State University

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First-Year Programs

skills as opposed to directly lecturing about them. Over 60% of the students in ourclass had no prior programming experience, yet all of the student teams were successful indeveloping engaging Flash-based games. Student surveys revealed that nearly all studentscharacterize computer science as collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and creative. We believe ourclass can serve as a model to create other discipline-specific introductory courses.1.0 IntroductionProject-Based Learning (PBL) has been shown to improve student retention, increase long-terminterest, and improve performance in future design courses.2, 6, 9, 12 Capstone and cornerstone3courses are a common home for PBL in many universities. Capstone courses are well-known andcornerstone courses

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Assessment Issues in Environmental Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Bower, The Citadel; William Davis, The Citadel

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Environmental Engineering

Capstone Projects X X X X X X Project• Consistent with the pervious observation, a lower level class provides the necessary foundation for higher levels of cognitive performance within a Program Outcome. In cases where no course appears at lower levels, the student is obtaining necessary knowledge foundation from somewhere else within the curriculum. This creates a learning environment in which student understanding of the multidisciplinary nature of engineering and is consistent with the department’s philosophy on the need for a broad based education.• Table 3 illustrates that Environmental Engineering Capstone provides the most

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Accreditation and Assessment Concerns in Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Jeffrey Russell

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Civil Engineering

, R.W. and S.D. Hart (2001). USMA CE Model for Client-Based Multidiscipline Capstones. In ASEE National Conference and Exposition. Albuquerque, NM.30. Rabb, R.J. and R.W. Welch (2002). Projects Day: Completion of the Engineering Capstone Design. In ASEE National Conference and Exposition. Montreal, Canada.31. Welch, R.W. and M.D. Evans (2004). Undergraduate Independent Study Research Projects. In ASEE Page 13.1209.12 National Conference and Exposition. Salt Lake City, UT.

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Assessment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Maura Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Educational Research and Methods

questions about the strengths and weaknesses of the undergraduate research experience, and (d) general questions about the team, demographics, etc.More details about NESLOS, including a list of some of the outcomes, are included in a previousASEE publication, in which NESLOS was employed to assess students’ learning outcomesduring capstone design projects 7. During this previous effort, both students and faculty wereadministered NESLOS and results revealed a strong correlation (75%) between students’ self- Page 13.231.4ratings and faculty ratings of their students’ learning. This finding revealed that NESLOS isvalid as a self-assessment

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

. • Plan a multidisciplinary capstone senior design project course for all departments in the College of Engineering to engage computing intensive disciplines with other engineering disciplines. • Create a junior year multidisciplinary project that relies on extensive collaboration with computing intensive disciplines. • Initiate formal computing concentrations in select engineering departments.In addition, a primary thrust of Year 3 will be on summarizing the results of the first two years ofthe project and preparing for an undergraduate computing education transformation plan. Effortsof the community that are successfully implemented at this university will be integrated intomodels that can be replicated at other

Conference Session

Contemporary Instrumentation Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mustafa Guvench, University of Southern Maine; Joshua Ward, Fairchild Semiconductor; Robert N. MacKinnon, Yarmouth Water District

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Instrumentation

programming was done as a part of senior electricalengineering capstone project at the University of Southern Maine. It has been used in thecharacterization of MEMS Resonator Gas Sensors under different temperature and gascompositions. It is currently being improved by incorporating USB based data acquisition boardsto replace some of the expensive GPIB interfaced instruments to reduce the overall cost of thesystem, and make the system compact and portable. It is the hope of the authors that this systemwill lend itself to be reproduced and adapted for other uses in laboratories and applicationsrequiring an inexpensive and portable means of computer controlled test systems

Conference Session

Been There/Done That: Advice for NEEs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Somerton, Michigan State University; Laura Genik, Michigan State University

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New Engineering Educators

AC 2008-314: ADVISING STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS: THE CHALLENGES(AND REWARDS?) FOR NEW ENGINEERING FACULTYCraig Somerton, Michigan State University CRAIG W. SOMERTON Craig W. Somerton is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Undergraduate Program for Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. He teaches in the area of thermal engineering including thermodynamics, heat transfer, and thermal design. He also teaches the capstone design course for the department. Dr. Somerton has research interests in computer design of thermal systems, transport phenomena in porous media, and application of continuous quality improvement principles to engineering education. He received

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education Initiatives

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Alex Friess; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University

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International

. Collaborative research projects in the Americas i. Thesis and dissertations ii. Industry and government driven research projects3. Multinational Projects a. Capstone and design projects (course and student competition related) b. Service learning projects i. Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)7 ii. Engineering Without Borders (EWB)8 iii. Engineering for a Sustainable World (ESW)9Any initiative independent of its size and nature should be evaluated to obtain information,assess its impact and identify opportunities for improvement. In analyzing the global educationinitiatives described in the above, it is found an ample variety of programs and tasks that havebeen

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Kornecki, ERAU; Thomas Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott; Wojciech Grega, AGH; Jean-Marc Thririet, LAG; Miroslav Sveda, BUT

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International

safety, etc.5. Networking‚ Basic Level: data communication, network topology, analysis and design, information security, algorithms, encryption, bus architectures, wireless, etc.The discussion strongly suggests that there shall be an obligatory capstone team project to bringtogether the knowledge and skills acquired during the course of studies.The consortium of four universities discussed the institutions’ curricula, which are dedicated topreparation of specialists to work in similar RSIC domains. The discussion exhibited significantdifferences (Table 2). The undergraduate programs could be completed between six and eightsemesters. The number of weeks in semesters ranged from 13 to 16. The number of hours/weekranged from 18 to 30 (considering

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Judith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Nicoleta Serban, Georgia Institute of Technology; Nagi Gebraeel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Garlie Forehand, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

U.S. and Canadian Programs.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Oct 2004. 18(4): p. 252-290. 10. Ford, J.D., and Riley, L.A., “Integrating communication and engineering education: A look at curricula, courses, and support systems.” Journal of Engineering Education, 2003. 92(4): p. 325-328. 11. Brinkman, G.W., and van der Geest, T., Assessment of Communication Competencies in Engineering Design Projects. Technical Communication Quarterly, 2003. 12(1): p.67-81. Page 13.304.8 712. McKenzie, K. J., et al., Capstone

Conference Session

Engineering in High Schools

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Natalie Tran, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Allen Phelps, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Amy Prevost, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2008-2566: THE STRUCTURE OF HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMIC ANDPRE-ENGINEERING CURRICULA: MATHEMATICSMitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin - MadisonNatalie Tran, University of Wisconsin - MadisonAllen Phelps, University of Wisconsin - MadisonAmy Prevost, University of Wisconsin - Madison Page 13.1268.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 The Structure of High School Academic and Pre-engineering Curricula: MathematicsAbstractOur curriculum content analysis examines how the pre-engineering curriculum Project Lead TheWay as compared to the academic curricula focus high school students’ understanding ofmathematics that would prepare them for

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Theis, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; patricia watkins, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Library; Mary Angela Beck, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Engineering Ethics

, capstone projects, and real-worldexperiences. In addition, other benefits would accrue: • Real world skills and attitudes that reflect the importance of sustainability in engineering; • A critical awareness of the emerging new role for the contemporary engineer in society and the world; and • An evolving, critical, and professional self-reflection for envisioning future environments.However, will administration, faculty, and staff at our university be amenable to the introductionof sustainability in their courses and into the curriculum? What do students want in theireducation and courses that address sustainability? How might critical resources, such as ourlibrary staff, aid us in curricular development? What might be the

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K12 Teachers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian Howell, Western Carolina University; Robert Houghton, Western Carolina University; Elaine Franklin, Western Carolina University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

concepts to existing curriculum and standard course of study 5. Set a week long goal of having a robot “Fair” to show off to each other the capstone projects, selected by the teachers working in small groups. 6. At the end of the day, hold a brief feedback session including daily +/- feedback to the instructors on weaknesses, frustration, and strengths for quick adjustments to the curriculum. 7. Provide opportunity for role reversal for participants to be “students”, showing off to “teachers” who were real middle school students.As part of the senior engineering technology students’ project, they were required to prepare afive day curriculum6 for teaching the elements of robotics, data collection, analysis, and

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Potpourri

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vukica Jovanovic, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mileta Tomovic, Purdue University

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Design in Engineering Education

realization team.C.7. Effective communication by written, oral and visual means;C.8. Demonstration of commitment to continuous improvement and education through independent experiences;C.9. Ability to capture customer requirements and generate appropriate design specifications based on market needs and constraints;C.10. Application of program objectives to collaboratively develop design solutions in a capstone environment;C.11. Validation of compliance to design specification through prototyping and testing;C.12. Integration of project management best practices throughout all phases of product design and development.The following modules will be developed to remove the existing gap in the area incomprehensive Product Design and

Conference Session

Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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International

Table 1in order to provide ideas for other faculty members and students.Table 1. Courses with S-L projects for the VE programYr Course Cr Course Title Faculty Activities # S-L # of students studentsSo 16.208 3 Basic EE Lab II Alan Rux LED analysis for headlamp design for 36 36 Peru Page 13.1385.8Sr 16.499 3 EE Capstone II John Duffy Transfer of emails and files via 3 3

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arthur Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology; Devanandham Henry, Stevens Institute of Technology; Richard Turner, Stevens Institute of Technology; Kahina Lasfer, Stevens Institute of Technology; Lawrence Bernstein, Stevens Institute of Technology; Kristen Baldwin, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, Logistics)

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

which are required or semi-required. • Capstone practicums and projects are frequently required. While most programs offer a thesis option, students generally preferred the practicum or project.Developing the CurriculumIn the first meeting of the EST in August 2007, the team heard presentations on the SWEBOK,the Software Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum SE2004, SEIs 1991 Report on GraduateSwE Education, and the INCOSE Systems Engineering Graduate Curriculum Framework7 . Fromthese presentations and the initial results of the survey of existing graduate programs, the teamagreed to an outline for the curriculum document (Shown in Figure 2) and established four teamsto develop the main parts of the document – Guidance and

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dale Buechler, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Electrical and Computer

Pedagogical and Andragogical Validity of Capstone Projects,” http://www.asee.org/acPapers/20476.pdf. 4. S. Brookfiel, “Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning,” San Francisco, CA. Jossey-Bass, 1986. 5. R. Zemke, “In Search of Self-Directed Learners” Training, May 1998. 6. J.E. Stice, “A First Step Toward Improved Teaching,” Engineering Education, 1976 7. W. Ibrahim, R. Morsi, “Online Engineering Education: A Comprehensive Review,” Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference 8. L.D. Feisel, A. J. Rosa, “The role of the laboratory in undergraduate engineering education,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, No. 1, January 2005. 9. N.Y. Bengiamin, A. Johnson, M. Zidon, D. Moen, D., and D.K. Ludlow, “The

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent Nelson, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

domains. This trio will be referred to as ‘the facilitators’. Page 13.253.3The goal of the course was to give the students the opportunity to practice BID, so the primaryassignment for the class was a semester-long design project, constituting 65% of the students’course grade. Students were given complete freedom to choose the topic, with the onlyrequirement being that their project had to utilize principles taken from some biological source.The teams gave a proposal presentation in the middle of the semester on their project topic, andthis allowed an opportunity to give guidance and a preliminary assessment to the students. Thefinal product

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Cavicchi, Grove City College

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2008-3: INTEGRATION OF PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERPROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE INTO CONTROL SYSTEMS COURSESThomas Cavicchi, Grove City College Thomas J. Cavicchi received the B. S. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1982, and the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1984 and 1988, respectively. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Grove City College, Grove City, PA, where he teaches year-long courses on digital communication systems, digital and analog control systems, and the senior labs (including co-teaching the senior capstone design projects). He also has recently taught

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard McGinnis, Bucknell University; Alexandra Coleman, Bucknell University; Jacqueline Denning, Bucknell University; Joseph Smith, Bucknell University

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International

study-abroad experience. However, we stillhave 70% of our engineering students who do not have a study-abroad experience.A few universities have used foreign internships and research projects to give their engineeringstudents global exposure. Some of these programs are connected with academic course workeither before or after the work/research activity. Georgia Tech has been a leader in this area, andin 2005 developed the International Plan. This program is aimed at developing a deeper globalcompetency and includes four main components: 1) foreign language competency, 2) globally-focused courses, 3) an oversea experience of at least six months, and 4) a capstone course.8Purdue University and several foreign universities have developed the GEARE

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan McGaughey, Carnegie Mellon University; Jeremy Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

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Engineering Technology

-scaleheat transfer, and a graduate course in quantitative modeling for product development.4.1 Undergraduate project-based course experienceIn the mechanical engineering senior capstone design course, students used the wiki inteams to collaboratively write design project reports, including pictures and videos todocument use and functionality. The course website,13 contains links to notes on many ofthe course topics as well as a history of prior student design reports that new students canuse as references. The course involved a design project that began by students formingteams and selecting a mechanical system of interest to dissect and study. Following in-class activities, students formed teams based on member skills, diversity, and

Conference Session

Continuous Improvement & Assessment of ET Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmal Das, Georgia Southern University

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Engineering Technology

Southern University: A. Assessment of Program Outcomes 1. Course assignments (Homework/ Quizzes) 2. Exams 3. Comprehensive final exams 4. Laboratory reports 5. Oral presentations 6. Field-work 7. Capstone projects 8. Course exit survey 9. Teaching portfolios 10. Exit Survey of graduating seniors 11. Industrial Advisory Board Review B. Assessment of Program Educational Objectives 1. Survey of alumni 2. Survey of employers 3. Industrial Advisory Board reviewsIn the list of assessment methods pertaining to program outcomes (list A), the focus ofthis paper, the first seven methods constitute direct measures, while the remaining

Conference Session

Accreditation Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University

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Mechanical Engineering

world news. More specifically, if contemporary issues pertain to thediscipline of engineering, students will do little to maintain their knowledge apart from what isdiscussed in the classroom context. In reality, this topic must be more intentionally interjectedinto the curriculum to show application of engineering principles.Two categories of courses come to mind that should adequately support “soft” outcomes. Onesuch course would be a senior capstone design course. Berg and Nasr discuss such a course.1 Itis true that the capstone design course should be the pinnacle of an engineering program, wherestudents are able to integrate all aspects of their education into a challenging project. It is anatural place to discuss topics in the

Conference Session

Accreditation Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver

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Mechanical Engineering

studentperformance in meeting a specific outcome. Although the ABET criteria do not specify anyassessment methods, using direct measures provides stronger evidence of student learningattributed to the program effectiveness2. Typical direct measure opportunities include end-of-course assessment, targeted assignments, capstone experience, capstone examination andportfolios3-9.The mechanical engineering program at Washington State University Vancouver hasimplemented an ABET assessment system where course outcomes are tied to program outcomesthrough a set of program-level performance criteria. Performance criteria (PC) are measurableattributes identifying the performance required to meet an outcome and are confirmable throughevidence. A mapping of these PCs to

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Jorge Alvarado, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; John Poston, Texas A&M University; Kenneth Peddicord, Texas A&M University; John Crenshaw, STP Nuclear Operating Company

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Engineering Technology

Electronics and Mechanical/ManufacturingPrograms were chosen for the new program. By using existing courses to the extent possible, thedepartment was able to control the cost associated with creating a new program. Through thisselection process, most of the requested topics were covered with the exception of PowerSystems, Thermal Systems and Nuclear Power Topics. To address these missing elements, thenew curriculum proposed that: • the circuits sequence be modified to include power, • a new thermal systems course be added, the inspection methods class be modified to include power generation plant topics, • four technical electives with a nuclear power focus be added, • and the capstone design sequence feature projects related to power generation

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Smith, University of Southern Maine

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Mechanical Engineering

manufacturing cell. • One department of engineering housing both programs with flexible faculty, some teaching both mechanical and electrical engineering courses, as appropriate. • The existing faculty teach the foundational courses. In the implementation stage a number of the upper-level and elective courses are taught by adjuncts. This allows the program to develop and to be “tweaked” before commitments are made to full-time, tenure-track faculty. • The new program focuses on just two areas, materials and electromechanical systems. These two areas aligned well both with the existing skill sets in the department and with the needs of local industry. • The senior design project, the capstone project