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Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Holsapple, University of Michigan; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Janel Sutkus, Carnegie Mellon University; Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Kelley Walczak, University of Michigan; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University

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AC 2010-1615: UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FACULTYAND ADMINISTRATOR GOALS AND STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES WITHETHICS EDUCATIONMatthew Holsapple, University of Michigan Matthew A. Holsapple is a doctoral candidate at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at U-M. His research interests include the impact of educational experiences on student moral development and personal and social responsibility, professional ethics education, college student outcomes assessment, and quasi-experimental research design in higher education. He is currently a member of the American Education Research Association, Association for the Study of Higher Education, and NASPA-Student Affairs

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New Learning Paradigms I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nora Siewiorek, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Kara Santelli, University of Pittsburgh

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Dean for Academics and Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on improving the engineering educational experience with an emphasis on assessment of design and problem solving, and the study of the ethical behavior of engineers and engineering managers. A former senior editor of the Journal of Engineering Education, Dr. Shuman is the founding editor of Advances in Engineering Education. He has published widely in the engineering education literature, and is co-author of Engineering Ethics: Balancing Cost, Schedule and Risk - Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle (Cambridge University Press). He received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Chris Groscurth, University of Michigan

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their familiarity with the term"Millennial Generation." Finally, we followed up with focus groups to explore their initialthoughts on teaching Millennial students in the context of others to determine how these ideasare extended (or amended) during the group interaction.In this paper, we summarize how future faculty members define the Millennial generation andtheir perspectives on teaching Millennial engineering students technical knowledge and skills(e.g., science, math, problem solving, etc.) and profession skills (e.g., ethics andcommunication). We contrast these findings with the literature on “best practices” in teaching,ABET criteria, and attributes for the Engineer of 2020. Implications for teaching, learning, andfuture faculty

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Special Session: Next Generation Problem-Solving

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Tamara Moore, University of Minnesota; John Christ; Eric Hamilton, Pepperdine University; Barbara Olds, Colorado School of Mines; Heidi Diefes-Dux

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AC 2010-1756: SPECIAL SESSION: NEXT GENERATION PROBLEM-SOLVING:RESULTS TO DATE - MODELS AND MODELING USING MEASLarry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh Larry J. Shuman is Senior Associate Dean for Academics and Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on improving the engineering educational experience with an emphasis on assessment of design and problem solving, and the study of the ethical behavior of engineers and engineering managers. A former senior editor of the Journal of Engineering Education, Dr. Shuman is the founding editor of Advances in Engineering Education. He has published widely in the engineering education literature, and is co-author

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Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Pereira, Michigan Technological University; Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University; William Helton, Michigan Technological University; Leonard Bohmann, Michigan Technological University; Chris VanArsdale, Michigan Technological University

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males.IntroductionAn important consideration for curriculum change and improvement is to identify the desirableattributes of a graduating engineer. While calling for significant reforms in engineeringeducation, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) recommends the Engineer of 2020have: strong analytical skills; practical ingenuity; creativity; communication; business andmanagement knowledge; leadership; high ethical standards and professionalism; dynamism,agility, resilience, and flexibility; and the habit of lifelong learning1. Other organizations havedeveloped similar lists. For example, in a study pertaining to computer science majors,employers and teaching staff rated the following attributes as highly important: analysis skills,application of

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Modeling Student Data

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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engineering and business foci. This paper presents the pilot comparativeresearch results from implementation of the two domain specific indices. Methodologically, theengineering global preparedness index (EGPI) was designed, reliability and validity tested firstand then from these results the instrument was adapted a second time to reflect business-focuseditems. The following seven subscales were utilized in creation of the two global preparednessindices. Ethic of Responsibility: Deep personal and care concern for people in all parts of the world; sees moral responsibility to improve conditions and take action. Cultural Pluralism: Appreciation of diversity of cultures and dispositions: belief that all have

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Measurement Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia Ralston, University of Louisville; Cathy Bays, University of Louisville

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mathematics, science, and engineering, (b) an ability to design andconduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data,(c) an ability to design a system,component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic,environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability,(d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams, (e) an ability to identify, formulate, andsolve engineering problems, (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility, (g)an ability to communicate effectively, (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impactof engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context, (i) arecognition of the need for

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Innovative Teaching and Assessment Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl Willis, University of Houston; Susan Miertschin, University of Houston

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faculty mightconsider for instructional improvement.References[1] Canary, H., & Jennings, M. (2008). Principles and influence in Codes of Ethics: A centering resonance analysis comparing pre- and post-Sarbanes-Oxley codes of ethics. Journal of Business Ethics , 80, 263-278.[2] Carley, K. (1997). Extracting team mental models through textual analysis. Journal of Organizational Behavior , 533-558.[3] Corman, S., Kuhn, T., McPhee, R., & Dooley, K. (2002). Studying complex discursive systems: Centering resonance analysis of communication. Human Communication Research , 28, 157-206.[4] Crawdad Technologies, L. (2005). Crawdad Text Analysis System version 1.2. Chandler, AZ.[5] Grosz, B., Weinstein, S., & Joshi, A. (1995). Centering

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Educational Research

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Terry Brumback, University of Alabama; Randal Schumacker, The University of Alabama; Daniel Fonseca, The University of Alabama

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level in engineeringtechnologies. Engineering education is typically comprised of multiple disciplines such asindustrial, mechanical, civil, electrical, and other specialties. Program graduates in applicabledisiplines are eligible to sit for the Professional Engineer (PE) exam after completing the Bachelorof Science degree and ive years of verified field experience.Engineering education has taken on additional meaning as an engineering iscipline with the establishmentof departments such as Freshman Engineering Programs and the less common Engineering Education, inmany schools across the country. This move defines the widening responsibility felt by engineering schoolsto conduct research in areas such as social responsibility, ethics, learning

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Educational Research

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ruth Streveler, Purdue Universtiy; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Karl Smith, University of Minnesota; Tameka Clarke Douglas, Purdue University

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science.Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alejandra J. Magana is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Network for Computational Nanotechnology and the School of Engineering Education, at Purdue University West Lafayette. Alejandra's research interests center on how scientists and engineers reason with computing and computational thinking to understand complex phenomena. She is also interested in investigating how scientists and engineers perceive and experience the societal and ethical implications of nanotechnology. Based on her findings her goal is to identify and develop the necessary instructional changes to provide educational frameworks for educators of formal and informal

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Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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serving communities in need.The history of service-learning shows it embraced by early adopters as more than just apedagogy, but as a philosophy as well. In service-learning there is an underlying belief that thecommunity deserves to be served and that it is the role of colleges and universities to assist inserving them. This ethic is especially strong in attention to underserved communities. Thereforeservice-learning philosophy is the best fit with institutions, departments, and/or individuals whobelieve in this attitude of mission.2.3 Definition of service-learningThere have been many definitions for service-learning in the literature over the years [e.g.,(Jacoby, 1996), (Bringle, Hatcher, & Games, 1997), (Stanton, Giles, & Cruz, 1999

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New Learning Paradigms I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Thomas McGlamery, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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approaches his/her work. Vincenti describes“normal” engineering as a social interaction that serves practical needs9. Public safety standardsand client desires must factor into the thinking of the engineer. Similarly, Davis finds thatengineering work is rooted in ethics10. Engineers have to weigh options, give reasons to pick oneoption and explain the reasoning for that option. Ethical questions critically factor into thisanalysis. Will this be safe? Will it be of high enough quality? Does it meet standards? But, asmentioned above, it’s not a simple analysis as organization factors of budgets and timeconstraints come into play. It’s an interplay of technical, organizational and public constraints.Furthermore, Bucciarelli notes that design engineers

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Special Session: Next Generation Problem-Solving

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Tamara Moore, University of Minnesota; Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; Andrew Kean, California Polytechnic State University; Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota; Jack Patzer, University of Pittsburgh

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research Page 15.1080.3involves the following active areas of expanding the utility of MEAs: development of studentreflection tools; implementation of learning technologies; detection and repair ofmisconceptions; development of engineering students’ ethical frameworks; and development ofadvanced curriculum (Hamilton, Lesh, Lester, & Brilleslyper, 2008).An MEA has to be carefully constructed on six design principles that assure the MEA willprovide the student and instructor with the learning experience desired. The MEA frameworkpresents opportunities to address the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) criteria, especially the

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Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tuba Yildirim, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

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Page 15.1050.6particular situation; i.e., it must be capable of being used by other students in similar situations,and robust enough to be used repeatedly as a tool for some purpose.Effective prototype: The solution to an MEA provides a useful prototype, or metaphor, forinterpreting other situations. The activity needs to encourage the students to create simplemodels for complex situations. The underlying concepts must be important ideas. Studentsshould be able to think back on a given MEA when they encounter other, structurally similarsituations.We are using these six principles to improve an engineering student’s understanding ofengineering concepts, problem solving skills, as well as ethical reasoning and the ability ofworking in teams. The

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy Atwood, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Allen Phelps, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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the make up of students who select to enroll in pre-collegeengineering classes. To deny (or even delay) access to suit research faces serious ethical barriers,since it denies students and parents their preferences, and could impose serious damage to theirscholastic progress and even later academic and workplace opportunities. In a somewhat similarmanner, teachers opt to participate in or avoid engineering instruction and manipulating thisselection for research purposes faces serious professional and ethic issues. With limited ability inpublic schools to assign teachers to their classes, there is a need to document inherent differencesthat may exist among teachers and to interpret the impact of training and teaching experiences

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New Learning Paradigms II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

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technical curriculum. Ibelieve that we need to do more to connect how we understand technology to the world’smost pressing challenges, and I attempt to emphasize this in my own teaching.Through this proposed research, I am working in a relatively new area that isn’t well-defined by existing theory and methodology formed in higher education. Although thereis a body of research on the teaching of engineering ethics and the integration of thesocial sciences with engineering, and that is certainly relevant to examining thetechnology/society interface, I am examining faculty beliefs and processes aroundcurriculum choice with respect to contextualizing science and technology curriculum.After some early reviews of existing literature, I decided that the

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Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Lynne Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University; Nina Truch, California Polytechnic State University

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AC 2010-878: SPECIAL SESSION: ASSESSING MORALITY, IDENTITY, ANDMOTIVATION IN A FIRST-YEAR MATERIALS ENGINEERING SERVICELEARNING COURSETrevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University Trevor Harding, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Materials Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, where he teaches courses in engineering design from a materials perspective. His research is focused on the educational outcomes associated with service learning and project-based learning with a particular focus on ethics education. He is also PI on several projects investigating the degradation of biomedical materials in physiological environments. Dr. Harding serves as Associate Editor of the

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Measurement Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adam Carberry, Tufts University; Matthew Ohland, Purdue University; Chris Swan, Tufts University

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engineering education. in ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference. 2008. Saratoga Springs, NY.11. Royal Academy of Engineering. Abstracts, Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering. 2008. Last viewed November 2009; http://www.raeng.org.uk/societygov/phislophyofeng/pdf/abstract_papers.pdf.12. Hofer, B.K. and P.R. Pintrich, The development of epistemological theories: Beliefs about knowledge and knowing and their relation to learning. Review of Educational Research, 1997. 67(1): p. 88-140.13. Piaget, J., Introduction a l'epistemologie genetique. 1950, Paris, France: University of France Press.14. Perry, W.G., Forms of intellectual and ethical development in the college years: A scheme. 1970, New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart

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Educational Research

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; David Knight, The Pennsylvania State University

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are strong analyticalskills, practical ingenuity, creativity, communication competencies, lifelong learning, agility,flexibility, resilience, high ethical standards, professionalism, business and management skills,and leadership skills. Discussions of these attributes strongly suggest that the engineer of thefuture must be able to work effectively with others on projects that require interdisciplinarythinking and skills.The goal of the P360 study is to identify and analyze the curricular, pedagogical, cultural, andorganizational features that support engineering education that appear to be aligned with thegoals of the Engineer of 2020. The study concentrates on three attributes that appear to becentral to the goals of the engineer of 2020

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Modeling Student Data

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University

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. Should theuniversity instead not engage in the debate and attempt to influence and moderate the wayuniversities are compared and consequently ranked?The authors argue strongly that universities must attempt to ensure that they are measured andcompared against a set of meaningful measures that captures the full extent of what theycontribute. This is particularly true for engineering and technology education because of thegrowing awareness of importance of the social and ethical dimensions to engineering andtechnology education.Typical Critiques of University Rankings and ComparisonsClearly there have been many well-intentioned attempts at ranking and comparisons. But, it isalso true that other approaches exist that seem to be weak in their