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Professional Practice in CE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Enno Koehn

instrument which was distributed to graduate and undergraduate students enrolled incourses taught by the Department of Civil Engineering at Lamar University. Respondents wererequested to indicate whether (and at what specific level) various design activities and academicsubjects have been enhanced by attendance at and/or participation in class field trips in additionto lectures and seminars presented by practicing professional engineers. The subjects chosen arethose that have been included in the criteria that has been adopted by the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) and must be satisfied for a program to be accredited 3

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Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Shell; Ali Houshmand

, University of Cincinnati, will, demonstrate that its graduates meeteleven ABET outcomes: a. Ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering b. Ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data c. Ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs d. Ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams e. Ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems f. Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility g. Ability to communicate effectively h. Broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context i. Recognition of the need for and the ability to engage in life-long

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Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett

is actually practiced. “Sales is a board room topic … yet, all too often, sales forces are populated by disputed Willy Lomans and managed by short-term oriented and narrow perspective executives” (Slywotsky and Doyle). The ideas of relationship selling or consultative selling have been Page 7.994.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002,American Society for Engineering Education around for some time, yet experts estimate that only 20% of companies have adopted these ideas (Cummings). Experience, and the literature

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Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Alejandro Scalise; Dan Budny; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

sample size for this model was also smaller. Thoughvery much in their infancy, these models suggest that it is possible to identify those outcomesthat contribute the most to the students’ academic achievement. Clearly, the student’s academicability and achievement upon entering as measured by high school class rank and Math SATscore are the two most important predictors of graduating GPA.Estimating OutcomesEfforts were made to estimate the achievement of the 11 EC-2000 outcomes as a function ofstudents’ attitudes as obtained from the Senior Exit SurveyÓ. At best, these models onlyexplained between 9 and 36 percent of the variation in the data. Table 5 provides for outcome“k” – an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

and graduated due to a program. However, even thesesimple examples require a word of caution. When looking at graduation rates, one cannot simplycompare the number of graduating students this year with the number of freshmen four yearsbefore. In those four years, students have transferred in and because they are working, some ofthe students will graduate in five, six, or seven years. A set group of students must be selectedand those particular students must be followed for several years to ascertain if they havegraduated, are still in school, or have left the institution. The graduation rates of a particularcohort can best be reported by the percentage that have graduated at the end of four years alongwith how many are still in school, then

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

to provide the context for teaching and learning.What is Service Learning?Service-learning is a form of experiential learning in which community service provides thecontext for learning1. Service-learning has been used by engineering educators to provide thecontext for students to learn and practice engineering design. Service-learning design projectsdiffer from traditional engineering design projects in the following ways: · Service-learning projects are sponsored by community organizations while traditional design projects are sponsored by industries, professional societies, or by faculty. · Students interact with persons outside of their socioeconomic group with little knowledge of engineering in service-learning

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Rivest

students electing to specialize in Aerospace Production atÉcole de technologie superieure, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. These students previouslyreceived formal training on basic Computer Aided Design (CAD) topics such as graphicssystems, transformations, curves, surfaces and solid modeling, viewing and rendering, graphicexchanges standards, and so on. Thus, this optional CAD course departs from traditional basicCAD courses by focusing on practical aspects of design tools usage and implementation. Moststudents have limited or no prior knowledge of the aerospace field. The structure of this advancedone-semester course rests on three poles: formal teaching hours, labs and a project. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer; Sven Bilen; Richard Devon

important source of the best jobs. Usinginformation technology, it is very easy to form (but perhaps not necessarily operate) cross-national student teams and to use faculty in other countries to give lectures and lead discussions.We have actually done this in one course for the last five years and are planning expansion tomulti-point teams. In this course, half of the industry design projects come from industries inFrance, and on one occasion we were able to have an A-V conference between the French andAmerican students and a representative of the French industry. In doing this we can enhance theknowledge of the participating students of the global economy and of engineering practice inother national economies. We can also improve the ability of

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Madara Ogot

, is more open-ended. It does not lay out the dissection steps norprovide detailed background materials on the devices or systems under investigation. Based ontheir research, the R&D teams themselves determine the associated theoretical foundation, therationale behind the design and the best dissection steps necessary to determine how the deviceswork. This approach allows the students to directly apply their classroom knowledge and theresults of their own research to solving the problem. At the end of the academic year, each R&Dteam will have developed, on CD-ROM, a multimedia presentation with accompanyingpresentation notes for a mechanical device/system. This approach to reverse engineering is more'research-oriented' than the

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Jennifer Turns

Minstrell citation)NRC (1995). Engineering Education: Designing an Adaptive System. Washington, D.C., National Academy Press.NRC (1999). How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice. Washington, D.C., National Academy Press.NSF (1995). Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus on Change. Washington, D.C., Division of Undergraduate Education, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation.NSPE (1992). Engineering education issues: Report on surveys of opinions by engineering deans and employers of engineering graduates on the first professional degree (3059). Alexandria, VA: NSPE.Summers, E. (1984). "A Review and Applications of Citation Analysis Methodology to Reading Research Journal Literature

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Hallacher

engineering staff, at one of the nation’s premier universities to strengthen educationalprograms at community colleges and other institutions in an emerging technology ofstrategic economic importance. The NMT Partnership is a proven success. Associatedegree program graduates are receiving as many as seven offers for employment each,and salaries as high as $52,000! The recent designation of the NMT Partnership as aNSF Center for Manufacturing Education in Nanofabrication will support continuedexpansion and improvement of this model program, and greater dissemination ofinformation about its effectiveness to other educational institutions and regions of thecountry

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Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilson Barnes; Gouranga Banik

by conducting research to solve some of the burningproblems. The research focus may be in advanced information and communications technology,environmental-friendly construction, innovative construction technologies and innovativeconstruction business processes. Research into innovative materials, novel constructiontechnologies, advanced analysis and design of facilities, collaboration, client satisfaction,constructability, TQM, knowledge management, innovative procurement practices, organization,value engineering, IT integration, energy conservation, pollution control and reuse/recycling ofconstruction material will have a significant impact on minimizing potential threats from bothhuman and national forces

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Jan Rinehart; Ahmer Inam; Ann Kenimer; Carolyn Clark; Jim Morgan

withwhat they need to attain a job, then they are unlikely to have the motivation to participateactively in learning, or even to stay in school.” 20 Students believe that engineering is building abridge, designing a computer chip, or creating new solutions to societal problems. Yet in thetypical first year classroom, students study derivatives, integrals, Newton’s Laws of Motion andother topics that, for many students, appear to at best tangentially related to their mental picturesof engineering practice. Therefore, the COE decided helping students improve theirunderstanding of engineering practice and the relevance of introductory mathematics, scienceand engineering to success as an engineer would positively impact retention and student

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ottis Hoskins; Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala

have data related to student’s“ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineeringpractice” (EC 2000 Criterion 3k). Larger institutions may have a center for survey research,which may have data from multiple surveys over a number of years. The campus committeeleading a regional accreditation self-study may also be a good resource for understanding thelocation of data.Information about the StudentThis data can be used for outcomes or even program objectives related to retention of students,issues related to students transferring from one engineering program to another and/or issuesrelated to understanding who is entering into and graduating from the program. These data alsorelate to EC 2000 Criterion 1

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Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John M. Sankovic; Dmitri Kourennyi

students upon graduation o be aware of real-life contemporary biomedical problems o be sensitive to biomedical ethical issues.General Preparatory LecturesIn the fall semester, students are offered a set of lectures on basics of data analysis, statisticalevaluations of data, and error analysis. The students are expected to prepare their laboratoryreports in the style of a scientific journal publication. For many students this is a completely newexperience. To assist in the development of paper writing skills, the students are provided with alecture dedicated specifically to the topic and with the opportunity to perform a practice lab – the

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David W. Miller; Doris Brodeur

for Engineering Educationtheir research with a larger labor force, Departmental support, and extended exposure to thecapabilities of potential graduate students. What has been learned as a result of this experience isthat undergraduates are capable and highly motivated partners in research projects and in theconception, design, implementation, and operation of complex aerospace systems.ConclusionsThe CDIO capstone innovation represented one of the first efforts of the Department ofAeronautics and Astronautics to develop an aerospace product from concept to operation in thefield with a group of undergraduates working within the framework of a formal course. Theinnovation had some clear successes. Team interaction clearly evolved from a faculty

Conference Session

Teaching Tools for Humanities and Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christene Moore; Hillary Hart

create a set of pedagogical objectives that would clearlyoutline the goals of the material. For instance, on the topic of research ethics we establishedearly in the process that our primary goals were two-fold. First, we wanted students tounderstand the importance of their ethical obligation to credit the work of others. Always anecessary issue to address in writing courses, the problem of plagiarism is compounded by theunprecedented volume of material readily available to students. Second, we wanted to foster ourstudents' ability to distinguish credible sources from others, another challenge that is intensifiedby the vast resources on the Internet. Both of these goals are imbedded in the practical goal ofteaching students to research and write

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To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Owino; Ronald Goulet

, SC, April, 2001.5 Wigal, C., Bailey, R., Goulet, R., “Senior Design”, ASEE Southeastern Meeting, Charleston, SC, April, 2001 .6 The Power of Problem-Based Learning A Practical "How To" for Teaching Undergraduate Courses in AnyDiscipline Edited by Barbara J Duch, Susan E Groh, Deborah E Allen, Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2001.7 Claxton, C. and P. Murrell. Learning Styles: Implications for Improving Educational Practices. ASHE-ERICHigher Education Report No. 4., Washington, D.C.,1987.8 Mourtos, N.J., “The Nuts and Bolts of Cooperative Learning in Engineering”, Journal of Engineering Education,ASEE, January 1997, pp. 35-37.RON GOULET, assistant professor mechanical engineering, joined the UTC engineering faculty in 1998 with over20 years of

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Satish Mahajan; Joe Biernacki; Glenn Cunningham; Jeff Frolik

MicromachinedTransducers Sourcebook by Kovacs 5 was used as a primary source/text in Spring 2000 and 2001and was supplemented with material from a three-day MEMS short course6. Since then severalnew teaching texts have been introduced including MEMS and Microsystems: Design andManufacture by Hsu 7, which was adopted for Spring 2002. Other lecture materials are largelydeveloped from the research literature.Student Projects The main vehicle, however, for learning in this course is the student design project. Toaccomplish this task, students work in teams that are diversified in terms of both discipline andexperience (i.e., a mix of seniors and first-year graduate students). As such, the course addressesABET 2000’s Criterion 3d, that students will demonstrate

Conference Session

Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Nasr; Raymond Berg

outcomes L-S based onprofessional societies input and departmental requirements. In preparing for this new curriculumand related assessment practices, the senior-level M. E. capstone design course “Plant andFacilities Design” was selected in October 2000 as a pilot course, for the development of thestudent capstone portfolio concept and the capstone outcomes assessment process.In particular, the M. E. Department wished to determine best methods of demonstratingachievement of seven “difficult” or “non-traditional” program educational outcomes which havenot classically been “taught” as part of the M. E. curriculum. These include: 1) an ability tofunction on multidisciplinary teams; 2) an understanding of professional and ethicalresponsibility; 3

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Matsumoto

for local engineering firms, where new design projects are always on-going andwhere new approaches and fresh ideas are emerging. Students begin by contacting engineers attheir workplace to discuss ideas. They usually look for current or recently completed projectsthat appear interesting and involve application of structural concrete in design (including analysis),construction, materials, and/or research. Students are permitted and encouraged to use an actualproject as a basis for their design project. For example, students may conduct an independentdesign review of part of a structure, design a simplified version of a structure, or use an actualproject as a practical application for a topic such as high performance concrete

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Smith; Denny Mahoney

associated with collaborationbetween PD21schools, suggest a number of benefits. Companies are able to develop leadersfrom within their organizations in a shortened timeframe, educated leaders for the growthengine of the firm. As mentioned above, PD21 provides a forum for sharing acrosscompanies and industries. Students gain access to the latest thinking and practices in systemsdesign and product development, for both immediate and long-term impact on job andbusiness performance. Universities, in addition to benefiting from state-of-the-art courses,have the opportunity to build research partnerships, to leverage tools and metrics across theconsortium, and to build brand recognition. Likewise, faculty have an established mechanismto improve their

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Khalid El Gaidi; Diane H. Soderholm; Doris Brodeur; Dava Newman

operations.Concurrent with its curriculum reform, the department has embarked upon severalinitiatives to improve teaching, learning, and assessment practices. Within courses, facultyare using traditional and newly designed tools to assess student achievement of courselearning objectives. Beginning in Fall 2002, a portfolio assessment system will be used toget a more complete measure of overall student achievement of the 16 program objectivesand to evaluate the effectiveness of the department’s educational reforms. Page 7.1267.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Subha Kumpaty

, laboratory activities and the effective utilizationof the software/courseware are presented.IntroductionMilwaukee School Of Engineering is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. Thegoal of the undergraduate curriculum is to produce well-rounded engineers, which is achievedthrough strong emphasis in a) excellent technical preparation, b) strong laboratory orientationwith faculty teaching labs in small size sections and c) required Senior Design projects.Accordingly, MSOE graduates are highly sought by industry (over 99% placement). Themechanical engineering students receive a rigorous treatment of Thermodynamics in a three-quarter sequence. Typically, in the fall quarter, they learn to apply the First Law for controlmasses and control

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

System of Georgia, implemented SummerScape: Gender Equitable Science forStudents and Teachers. SummerScape was a 2-week “Teaching and Learning” program thatconsisted of a summer camp for middle school students and a professional developmentexperience for teachers. It was designed to help all students experience confidence and successin science and engineering and to provide teachers with in-depth professional developmentcovering gender equitable science pedagogy and teaching practices. An important component ofthis teacher experience was the opportunity to practice new teaching strategies immediatelyfollowing each in-service workshop in a low-risk summer camp environment. This paper willpresent this “Teaching and Learning Camp” model of teacher

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Fuja; Stephen Batill; Jay Brockman

tocomplement the existing emphasis on disciplinary depth.To this end, the College of Engineering began efforts to integrate the student-centered activitiesin those parts of the curriculum where they could provide the greatest benefit. The first majoreffort was to restructure the first year curriculum for all students who intend to enter the Collegeof Engineering in their second year. This included the development of a new two-coursesequence entitled “Introduction to Engineering Systems.” (These courses are designated asEG111/112 and will be referred to as such in this paper.) These multidisciplinary coursesintroduce engineering students to the role of engineers in society, and illustrate how engineersdesign systems and solve problems. This is done in

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

newengineering programs are brought up on-line in Huntsville, Alabama, a highly focused regiondedicated to world class advanced space systems, communications and manufacturingtechnologies.This paper describes examples of collaboration between Alabama A&M University andindustry. Collaborative efforts have aimed at: accreditation issues under the ABET criteria2000, technical information exchange, promotion of internships, company tours, studentscholarships, engineering laboratory development, implementation of industry best practices forproject development, research contracts and grants.Industry and Government Agencies seek partnerships and alliances with universities andresearch institutes to benefit from key know-how expertise found in university’s

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Innovative Courses for ChE Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Colin Grant; Brian Dickson

: Model of Education over timeHowever, James Thurber, the humorist suggests, “In times of change the learner shall inherit the earth, while the learned will be equipped for a world that no longer exists.”As a result, the practice of life-time learning, is suggested as much more the way forward inmanagement education and in many industries. A “re-learn, or atrophy and die” could now bethe policy, i.e. our Best Model.Regretfully none of these two models are actually the prevalent ones and it is reasonable tosuggest that the Reality Model is a quick burst to first degree and then IChemE accreditation toChartered status, then not much else, as a common approach amongst Chemical Engineers in theUK

Conference Session

Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Pavelich; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

Kitchener’s Reflective Judgment (RJ)Model 3. These models measure students’ positions along a hierarchical construct of stagesrepresenting increasingly more sophisticated ways of understanding knowledge and solvingcomplex, open-ended problems. The standard method for evaluating students' stage ofdevelopment is the structured, hour-long interview, conducted by an expert. The interview istranscribed and then studied and rated by a second expert. Thus gathering data is timeconsuming, requires experts in the models, and is costly. In attempts to circumvent these disadvantages, several researchers over the years havedeveloped paper-and-pencil (P&P) instruments to assess a person's position on the RJ or Perrymodels. These instruments have been

Conference Session

Issues in Physics and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Probst

components are addressed, although not enough to beconsidered significant. It is addressed by content in that during the introductory weeks prior tothe case studies, the instructor will discuss issues of valuing that arise in problems similar to theone for the course. Topics discussed would include developing criteria for deciding what theoptimal solution to the problem is and what the various trade offs might be when consideringcompeting solutions. Issues such as intrinsic merit, costs, and impact of proposed solutionswould be discussed. The teaching strategies would again include lecture and the use of casestudies in which students would have to develop decision criteria and apply a rubric to make adecision as to which solution was the best. As