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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Carol Gattis

to improve their advising skills, but don’t know how. This workshop will be an interactive session with video segments and discussion, using the professionally developed Noel-Levitz advisor development program “Academic Advising for Student Success and Retention”. You will walk away with tools to improve advising, with the goal of improving student retention and student satisfaction. Topics will include specific sections on advising freshmen, meeting needs of students of color, ethical implications and practices of advising, accessing campus resources, as well as specifics of how to conduct a quality advising session with students.

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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K. Madhavan

Engaging Students in an Undergraduate Civil Engineering Course K. Madhavan, Ph.D., P.E., Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering 650 East Parkway South Memphis, TN 38104-5581AbstractThe components of the undergraduate course in Design of Foundations in the Civil andEnvironmental Engineering Department (CEE) at Christian Brothers University (CBU)are discussed. The course consists of the following: classroom lectures, project casestudies, failure case studies, ethical case studies and open-ended design problems.Examples of case studies with discussion questions are provided in this paper.Undergraduate CEE Program

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Karen S. Hays

oflaboratory health and safety, and it describes the necessity of such training as it pertains to notonly OSHA Compliance but also to the ethical obligation to provide a safe and healthy learningand working environment for the faculty and students. This paper defines the process ofevaluating necessary training topics using OSHA guidelines.IntroductionAccording to Prudent Practices in the Laboratory, a new culture of safety consciousness,accountability, organization and education has developed in the laboratories of the chemicalindustry, government and academia. So drastic is this new climate toward “safety first” in thelaboratory that it could scarcely have been imagined 25 years ago. This new culture of safetyconsciousness nurtures basic attitudes

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kathy Vratil Brockway

of the American Society for Engineering Education 5These guests could discuss tax issues with the students, thereby providing an even greater “real-world” experience for the students.Several related extensions could come from this tax study project. In future semesters, a tax casefor various forms of business entities, such as a partnership, could be created. Additionally, thetopic of income taxes could lead to discussions of ethical behavior in a business setting, withpossible development of a class project on ethics. From a broader standpoint, the income taxreturn project could be a springboard for discussion on the role of U.S. taxpayers

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Judith Collins; Alysia Starkey; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh

3most basic aspect of IL). The nearly even spread between computer literacy and criticalthinking is an expected result; however, library instruction, lifelong learning, andcommunication were close seconds relative to the far-distant ethics. The Association ofCollege and Research Libraries definition of IL, however, includes A through F. Ourinformal poll illustrates three challenges for faculty/librarian partnerships. (a) Librariansmust educate students and faculty about the full meaning of competent information-seeking. (b) The difference between a Google search result (where there are no controlson search returns) and a library subscription database result (where peer-reviewedjournals can be specified) must be explained, and (c) Plagiarism

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Larry N. Bland

constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability; • An ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems; • An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.The current professional skills include: • An ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams; • An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility; • An ability to communicate effectively; • The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context; • A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ken French

,small size or emergency cooling applications. Further, the broad spectrum of explanations of the physical phenomenainteracting in the flow makes a rich environment for learning. The experience bringsforth a curiosity about the strange anomalies of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics8,9.Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering EducationContext At JBU the second Concepts and Design Class is taught spring semester freshmanyear as two 90-minute weekly meetings. To support preparation to design, the materialcovered is a light taste of economics, ethics, probability distribution, toleranceing,professional information, device logic, mechanical concepts and electrical concepts.Experiential

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stephanie G. Adams; Jeffrey W. Rieske

finished the summer with a sense of excitement about graduate educationand careers in academia. Throughout the program, the faculty coordinator, spent time talkingwith the students about career choices after completing the Ph.D., the graduate school process,research ethics and other relevant topics that appear to have had an impact on them. Thisprogram created a thoroughly positive experience for the student participants, faculty advisorsand student hosts. It is the first step in more undergraduate U.S. students going to graduateschool and to more students from Venezuela considering coming to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to pursue graduate degreesAcknowledgementsProceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society of

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Julia L. Morse

,projects, presentations, and other class assignments already being evaluated as part of thestudent’s graded course work. ∗While it is true that this information is already being collected and evaluated, usually studentwork combines several learning outcomes; the overall score provides little information towardassessment. For example, an exam may have only one or two questions that capture student“ability to practice professional ethics and social responsibility,” or this outcome may beembedded within a design problem. In such cases, the overall exam or assignment scores do notrepresent student performance of the one particular outcome in question. Unless the exam wasautomated through a scan form system or submitted electronically, someone must

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Norman D. Dennis

student evaluations of teaching are reliable and valid.1718 In light of all the negative publicity attributed to engineering education in the later part of the19 20th century, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), through its Committee for20 Education Activities Committee (EdAC), formally recognized the need to support the21 development of Civil Engineering faculty as effective teachers in 1998. Members of the22 committee reasoned that students perceive engineering faculty as representatives of the23 profession and, in many cases, it is engineering faculty that are the students first contact with the24 profession. As a result, faculty should be the front line in displaying a professional,25 knowledgeable and ethical