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Robert Floersheim; Stephen Ressler; Margaret Bailey

Session 2793 Course Assessment Plan: A Tool for Integrated Curriculum Management R. Bruce Floersheim, Margaret Bailey and Stephen J. Ressler United States Military Academy at West PointAbstractAs we enter the 21st Century in engineering education, a common desire exists toimprove curriculum structure, integration and assessment. Much has been written anddiscussed in workshops and professional journals concerning the top-down process forassessing and/or revising a program curriculum. Institutions are finally realizing theycannot afford to rely solely upon the senior capstone design experience to be theintegrator of all

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Karim Nasr; Basem Alzahabi

Session 2793 Development and Implementation of a Course-Level Assessment Plan Karim J. Nasr, Basem Alzahabi Mechanical Engineering Department/Kettering UniversityAbstractCourse-level assessment in the spirit of continuous improvement is key to successful evaluationof an engineering program. The assessment process involves stating proper educationalobjectives and specific course outcomes, forming performance criteria and metrics, and assessingthe achievement of the stated outcomes. This paper presents the development of a coursesyllabus and associated performance criteria and metrics and the

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

Session 2793 Developing and Implementing a Facilities Plan for a Freshman Engineering Course Sequence Robert J. Gustafson, John A. Merrill, Audeen W. Fentiman, Richard J. Freuler, John T. Demel The Ohio State University1. IntroductionThe College of Engineering at The Ohio State University has recently implemented newfreshman engineering course sequences for all engineering freshman. Facilities for twotracks of the freshman engineering courses need to accommodate approximately 1,100students per year. Approximately three-fourths of the honors qualified students(0.75

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Mehdi Shadaram; Lourdes Sanchez-Contreras

Session 2793A Plan to Increase Graduate Enrollment at Science, Mathematics and Engineering Disciplines Lourdes Sánchez–Contreras, Mehdi Shadaram The University of Texas at El PasoAbstractThe number of science, engineering, and mathematics (SEM) students who have attendedgraduate school has dropped considerably over the past few years. The graduateenrollment at both Colleges of Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at ElPaso (UTEP) has decreased steadily by about 30% from 1993-1997. The drop in theCollege of Engineering is due to the aggressive recruiting by corporations who

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Saeed Foroudastan

Session 2347 Retention and Recruitment Plan for Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies at Middle Tennessee State University Saeed D. Foroudastan, Ph.D., Associate Professor Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Department Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstract With the many problems facing universities today, recruitment and retention are high onthe list needing attention. Steps or goals to develop recruitment plans need to be implementedand continually improved upon to keep pace with today’s

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Thomas S. Kuhaneck; Frank Noonan

MSO Business Planning • Establishing Port/Waterway Management Priorities • Establishing Monitoring and Surveillance Plans • Establishing Prevention Controls for Specific Activities Inspection Planning • Prioritizing Targets for Inspection • Planning Inspection Processes for Specific Targets • Process Planning for Port/Waterway Operations Contingency Planning • Establishing Response Priorities • Establishing Specific Response Plans • Planning Investigations Special Studies • Determining Equivalency Among Different

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A. R. Zaghloul

experience. This model depends on the three domains of human behavior;cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. It also draws on the information-processing model of education. This three-domain model (TDM) helps identify theeducational elements comprising the lab work. Therefore, it leads to a properly structuredassessment plan. Lab skills including safety, breadboard techniques, equipments handlingtechniques, measurement techniques, analysis and logical development of student work,notebook reporting, and formal reporting are some of the identified elements of theeducational lab experience. According to the identified elements, an assessment plan isdevised and implemented. It leads to a very well structured method with maximumobjectivity and

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Martin Morris; Fred Fry

business plan that could be used to solicit funding for developing a newbusiness based on manufacturing these cars. An important result of the project is that both theengineering and the entrepreneurship students developed an understanding of both the technicaland business challenges of starting a new company. This required development of effectivecross-disciplinary communication skills and learning to function in a setting similar to one thatmight be found in a manufacturing industry.IntroductionCombining engineering teams with entrepreneurship teams is an innovative method ofentrepreneurship education. It provides a more realistic environment for developing businessplans and exposes both engineers and business students to the language and

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Donna Summers

Session # 1475 Practical Methods for Keeping Project Courses on Track Donna C.S. Summers University of DaytonAbstract“The term project, clear milestones and objectives, the course was well thought-out and presented.” A major project, I learned a lot of information and skills without stress or loads of pointless homework.” “Previous professors were not as good at communicating and teaching the course objectives.” “The plan the professor used and followed made the class easily

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David W. Elizandro; Jessica Matson

Session 2457 Industrial Engineering Program Management in the ABET 2000 Environment David W. Elizandro, Jessica O. Matson Tennessee Technological UniversityAbstractThe ABET 2000 Criteria have had a major effect on the approach to Industrial EngineeringProgram Management. Integral components of programs that are necessary to satisfy ABET2000 Criteria include formulating goals and objectives; developing and working a strategic planto accomplish stated goals and objectives; and assessing the effectiveness of the plan and relatedactivities to accomplish

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Lorcan Folan; Gunter Georgi

: Word/Excel/PowerPoint AutoCAD/MS Project Hardware Tests Hardware Analysis/ Reverse Engineering Boom Construction Competition LabView 1 LabView 2 / Sensors and Robot Programming Thermal Insulation Competition Microphone Filters Communication Page 6.661.2 Digital LogicIV. Semester Design ProjectsStudents of EG1004 must complete a semester-long design project. This is a 12-weekteam project done by groups of two or three students. It requires selection of one of the(currently) two projects, presentation of a preliminary design, planning the projectschedule, making periodic progress reports

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Lynn Mayo; Eric Hansberry

decision about their future careers.The registered professional engineer (P.E.) assumes a working and legal responsibility for thetechnical correctness of a device or design as represented by the engineering graphic language.It is vital that universities prepare their students for the great variation of problems that they willencounter. The design effort is frequently hampered by the inability of an engineer to read theplans of his design or to read the interfacing plans of other engineering disciplines. This graphicilliteracy creates a schism in engineering not only between applied and research engineers, butalso between engineers of different disciplines. A general knowledge and appreciation of thefocus of each specialty is vital efficient

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Vincent Gallogly

business finance, market cap, accounting, law, intellectual property, etc.,without turning the motivated student off while instilling an entrepreneurial mind set inthe researcher are the tasks of the teacher of entrepreneurial studies.To meet these challenges, at Cooper Union we are drawing on the talents of ourengineering alumni, friends and members of our extended family to deliver to studentstheir first round of education in developing an entrepreneurial venture and anentrepreneurial outlook on activities. Participants in the entrepreneurship course arerequired to form teams of not less than three nor more than five members and develop abusiness plan for a product or service of their choice. This development of a plan is amodel that has long

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Steven O'Hara; Suzanne D. Bilbeisi

share five of these architectural designstudio courses along with an additional three architectural engineering design courses within theten semester plan. The entire architectural engineering curriculum is shown in Appendix 1.The commonality of the architectural design and architectural engineering curriculums exhibitsour fundamental belief in the required cooperative effort of various professionals to createarchitecture. As Mario Salvadori observes, “Lucky is the client whose architect understandsstructure and whose structural engineer appreciates the aesthetics of architecture”2A unique element of both curricula occurs at the fifth year level of the professional School ofArchitecture. Over twenty years ago, a capstone “Architectural Design

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Sema Alptekin; Reza Pouraghabagher; Patricia McQuaid; Daniel Waldorf

makes use of state-of-the-art industrial grade production equipment, computerhardware and software in the form of the following two systems: 1) a functioning "real" factoryhardware environment, and 2) a Production Planning and Control Center.The overall objectives of the Teaching Factory are:• to graduate better professionals by providing leading edge concepts in modern manufacturing, enabling them to effectively compete in today's industry• to enhance the current curriculum that will focus on modern manufacturing concepts• to demonstrate viable solutions to the dynamics of technological challenges across the entire integrated business enterprise• to transfer technology and information from and to partner companies as well as local

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Raymond Thompson

whole in 1999, the university began an assessment initiative that wouldinclude all academic programs. The university established a series of student learning outcomesfor each school. AT is part of the School of Technology (SOT). The SOT established whatlearning outcomes its graduates should have and the SOT Assessment Committee created aneight step assessment framework that all departments would use as a guide for their individualassessment plans. The assessment process in Aviation Technology began by examining where assessmentinformation was currently being gathered. Over eight sources were identified, but there was nocentral organization or structure in place to utilize the results. The first iteration of the ATAssessment Program

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Robert Baum; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

entrepreneurialendeavors.While a number of leading universities and colleges have entrepreneurship programs andactivities, most are aimed at graduate students.1 Common activities offered within theseprograms include courses in entrepreneurship, e-clubs and business plan competitions. TheCEOs Program is unique in that it is exclusively for undergraduate students, who live together asa community within the University. Page 6.257.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIt has been shown that students demonstrate

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Mark Rajai; Mel Mendelson

importantto introduce this into the classroom, because virtual interactions are becoming increasinglyimportant as separated teams jointly develop and market products.In this project, teams from Loyola Marymount University (LMU) collaborated with teams fromEast Tennessee Sate University (ETSU) on joint projects. The ipTeamSuite software was usedfor data exchange, information sharing, messaging, group scheduling and design documentation3.This paper focuses on one special project to design and market a sophisticated global monitoringsystem to monitor location of children, Alzheimer patients and other valuable items. This projectwas funded by a grant from the Lemelson Foundation4. The purpose of this paper is to write asuccessful business plan to be

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Mohamad Ahmadian

. This paper introduces a senior seminar course that provides studentsand faculty with a means of measurement for evaluation of students’ technical presentation,written, oral, and graphical communication skills throughout the course. Furthermore, this courseprovides engineering technology programs with quantitative and qualitative measures that may beincorporated as one component of a plan for assessment of student academic achievement.1. Introduction Accountability has become a national concern in higher education. In response,accrediting agencies require the development and implementation of academic assessment modelsdesigned to assure and enhance institutional improvement. As part of the accreditation reviewprocess, each baccalaureate

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Robert Montgomery

Session Number 3575 So You’re Going on Sabbatical? Be Sure to Take an Open Mind Robert E. Montgomery Department of Freshman Engineering, Purdue UniversityAbstract This paper is about the process of making the transition from attempting to controleverything about the sabbatical leave experience to learning to simply benefit from it, wherever,within reason, it took me. Numerous "substitutions" took place in my plans for self-renewal,with some of my original objectives becoming completely out of reach. As a result of theunplanned nature of many of my sabbatical activities, I learned a lot about

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Paul King

various aspectsof the design process as envisioned fifteen years from now. Briefly stated, design supportapplications are evolving toward environments that may or may not involve face-to-faceinteraction, such as Internet-related technologies and applications such as remote visualization.While the report was written primarily at the request of NASA and therefore has primary impacton NASA and Aerospace Industry planning efforts, the report (and interpretations of it) will haveimplications for Biomedical Engineering design efforts and plans. This paper will briefly reviewthe National Academy Report, and then will consider current and related future design thrustsand applications in Biomedical Engineering.1. Advanced Engineering Environments, Phase 2

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Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein; Sheryl Sorby

inswitching from one major without loss of credits or time, and 2) students would get a “taste” ofengineering in their first year at Michigan Tech. Further discussions throughout the 1997-98 aca-demic year focused on the content of the program. During the spring term of 1998, meetingsbetween Sorby, the deans, and the curriculum committees of each department in the college wereconducted to gather input regarding the desired characteristics of the first-year engineering pro-gram. At about this same time, Plichta and Sorby teamed to write a successful grant proposalunder the NSF Action Agenda program with a portion of the grant dedicated to the implementa-tion of the first year engineering program.Step 3: Developing the Plan. During the summer of 1998 a

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R. Williams; F. Edwards; E. Egemen; Adrian Hanson

paper revisits this design experience andshares some thoughts regarding introduction of a consulting engineering environment into the classroomsetting for capstone design experience. Issues of interest are team selection, project load distribution withinteams, personal billable time, engineer/manufacturer interaction, permit procurement, client interactions,understanding plans, specifications, and contract documents, and presentation of the final product to theclient.IntroductionThe goal of capstone courses is to have students experience the overall design process as a whole andrealize the different components of an engineering design project. In general, the design process is aninteractive process with the client and regulatory agencies to

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Thomas Salem

next step is to organize yourself –develop a detailed action plan, wisely choose how and when to invest your time, and work withyour strengths while correcting areas of weakness. The final step is to manage yourself – don’trely upon a boss or a colleague to lead you to success, develop mentoring relationships, and keepthese activities alive and ongoing.Personal well beingLife is a delicate balancing act among a wide variety of competing demands for your time andpersonal resources. A well-balanced life will promote inner peace and health, while a life livedon the ragged edge can be quite damaging.1 Successful people regardless of their professions arecontinually challenged to define and strive toward this healthy balance.2 One thing is certain

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Winston F. Erevelles

facility.The Learning Factory provides the framework for all experiential learning in EngineeringSciences and Engineering through the integration of computation, production, verificationequipment, enterprise planning and control systems, and software into a full production system.When complete, this scaled, industrial-grade, production system will allow students to take aproduct from concept through design and manufacture in a manner consistent with moderntechnology driven enterprise practices. The Learning Factory will support all engineeringcourses and will also support business, science, and mathematics courses in order to presentstudents with a fully integrated engineering curriculum. The facility will support programs inManufacturing Engineering

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Paul Chinowsky

eachindustry faces unique concerns, a common thread for success is evident throughout, combiningthe elements of preparation and the knowledge to respond. The first of these elements,preparation, is the need to have strategic plans in place that address the future of theorganization in a number of changing business environment scenarios. Each organizationselects a unique path through the changing economy; a strategic plan provides a map for theseorganizations to follow as the path introduces unexpected turns along the journey. The secondelement, the knowledge to respond, is the primary focus of this piece. The ability of an industryto foster and promote the development of new knowledge by its workforce is the fundamental

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Michael Vislocky; Cecil Beeson

Session 2586 Let’s Build a College Level Technology Club Cecil E. Beeson, Dr. Michael Vislocky University of Cincinnati ClermontI. Introduction This paper covers the history of and planning for the formation a Technology Club at the University of Cincinnati Clermont. The idea for such a project was hatched during discussions about existing high technology programs at the college. A club to eventually serve technological inquiry and experimentation across the various curricula was a natural extension of offerings at the college. This project, currently in an early stage of

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Edward Fisher; Anton Pintar; Kirk Schulz

, chemical engineeringstudents at Michigan Technological University (MTU) are required to take two one-semestercapstone chemical engineering laboratory courses: Unit Operations Laboratory and PlantOperations Laboratory. In many ways the Unit Operations Laboratory course would beconsidered traditional. However, there are some features that make it unique. The PlantOperations Laboratory course is built around the MTU Process Simulation and Control Center(PSCC) and is a new course that was developed in conjunction with the switch to semesters.The objectives of the Unit Operations Laboratory course are to develop (1) a constant awarenessof safety in the laboratory; (2) the ability to plan and carry out experimental investigations oflarge-scale processes

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Sanjay Joshi; Richard Wysk; D.J. Medeiros; Amine Lehtihet; Timothy Simpson

working on a student-run newspaper. The course integrates thetraditional capstone design experience with hands-on experience in volume production andmanufacturing; students must consider all aspects of manufacturing – including processplanning, tooling, assembly, outsourcing, and final costs – so that they can produceapproximately 100 units using the new Factory for Advanced Manufacturing Education. Thecourse also focuses on creating an environment that promotes self-directed learning, problemsolving, teamwork, project planning, communication, and presentation skills. Assessmentstrategies for evaluating team performance and the impact on students’ learning readiness arediscussed. In particular, design notebooks and frequent design reviews are

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Terry Armstrong; Paul Rousseau; Katharine Fulcher; Carlo Felicione; Steve Beyerlein; Donald Elger

science courses.The PDM process uses seven basic elements: affirmation, define the situation, state the goal,generate ideas, prepare a plan, take action, and review. Within each element, thinking skills aredescribed using a small number of heuristics. The amount of detail is purposefully limited sothat the complete model may be implemented in an engineering science course.To assess the PDM process, we examined three types of data acquired during a recentimplementation in a fluid mechanics course. These data support the hypothesis that the PDMmodel as described herein (a) promotes effective problem solving, (b) appeals to users, (c) buildsskills for professional practice, and (d) promotes communication.IntroductionLandis (1995) presents a working