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Pedagogical Best Practices

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell Guillaume; Crist Khachikian

course or the duration of a student’s academic career? 4. Does previous performance in school affect students’ attitudes and, in turn, their future grade?The current study was undertaken to address the last three questions. A recent study by Petr 2shows that a student’s performance on an exam is related to his or her confidence whenanswering each question on the exam. Another study reported in Angelo and Cross3 shows thatby surveying the students’ self-confidence in a class and making them aware of the results canhelp build self-confidence and competence in the classroom, although the competence was nottied specifically to performance. This work examines the correlation between the student’soverall attitudes in a single class to his

Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

increasingly more important as students compete for positions in the real world.Early in every student’s academic career the thought of breezing through assignment uponassignment has been short circuited by the amazingly easy process of simply failing to read andfollow the instructions given in that assignment. This is compounded when the assignmentsbecome more critical for one’s grade or the test that is being taken veers away from the objectivebecause the test taker has failed to follow numbers 1, 5, and 8 in the list of steps to accomplishthe task. We see on a daily basis student after student who arrive at one’s office hours trying toargue for a “better” grade because they failed to read the single line that said either “documentyour work” or

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

publications4 . In first place, it is necessary to stress tothose faculty members who believe they do not need to create scholarly publications that although itmay not be necessary to stay on their current positions, they may help them at the time of seekingpromotion within their institutions at the same time that they will add to their mobility betweeninstitutions. In second place, it is necessary to revisit the concept of publishing scholarly work tomake it more integrative of the various disciplines that comprise the engineering and engineeringtechnology careers. We need to dispel the myth that publishing equals to writing basic researchpapers available only to faculty in research-oriented institutions.What is scholarly work?One of the first

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melinda Gallagher; Lawrence Genalo

per year in the undergraduate course and 20 inservice teachers in the graduatecourse. In addition about 1000 K-12 students per year experience a one to two hourworkshop and others, who are in classes taught by teachers who have been in thesecourses in previous years, get a longer, more in-depth experience. The Toying WithTechnologySM Program maintains a web site at http://www.eng.iastate.edu/twt/. Thistechnology literacy course provides students with an appreciation for the technologicalinnovations that surround them. Studies have shown that students form many of theiroverall career and educational attitudes as early as elementary school7. Elementary (andeven secondary) schoolteachers who have an appreciation for technology will likelyconvey

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Zhang; Jennifer Kadlowec

school and their future Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationengineering career. The topics include review of high school mathematics and unitconversions, use of the spreadsheet like Microsoft Excel to analyze data and drawfigures, and practice of writing reports and making presentations. The format for coveringthese topics fits into a one-hour lecture at each Monday for the whole semester. The other part of the clinic is to introduce different disciplines of engineering to thefreshmen. There are four departments in Rowan Engineering: Mechanical Engineering(ME), Electrical and Computer Engineering

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg

provided by the US Air Force for similar jobs in the armedforces, we learned that, for instance, about 10% of the aircraft mechanics in the Air Force areAfrican-American.It is the opinion of the authors that people from all demographic backgrounds have talents andskills important to the aviation industry. Sound information on race, ethnic background, andgender is very helpful as efforts are made to understand the statistical disparity that exists for thisindustry. As we attempt to interest young people in an aviation career, it is a worthy goal to reachacross the boundaries of race, ethnicity, and gender and extend to these groups the opportunitiesthat are available. It is time to increase the pool of potential interested students.IV. Aviation

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Spencer; Amy Bell

differences in performance, stereotype threat may also illuminate thelower retention rates of women in math-related fields. Researchers have argued that thestereotype threat that women experience in math-related domains may cause them to“disidentify” with the domain. 1,11 In other words, women may drop out of engineering in orderto avoid the evaluative threat that they sometimes feel in this domain. Indeed, one studyindicated that women expressed less interest in pursuing academic majors and careers involvinghigh levels of mathematics after watching stereotypic TV commercials. 13In the present research we describe a preliminary experiment that indicates that stereotype threatmay undermine women’s performance on engineering exams. Specifically, we

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Wood; David Shallcross

degree will enhance their career prospects. Many students feel that a second degree will permit them to apply for a greater range of jobs outside one narrow profession. Many feel that prospective employers will favour graduates who have completed diverse studies. While this is true in some cases, in others a second non-engineering degree is of little relevance to prospective employers.2) When the times comes to select a course to undertake at university many students are uncertain as to the career they wish to pursue. By enrolling in one of the combined degree programs the students are able to get a better appreciation of what is involved in more than one career. After two or three years of the program some

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Qianjin Yue; Peifung Guo; Hung Tao Shen; Hayley Shen

Ocean University of Qingdao, Qingdao, China 266003IntroductionScientific research and technological enterprise are increasingly global. It is important to provideopportunities for engineers and scientists to develop the international experience and capabilitiesat early stages in their careers. This paper presents the experience from a NSF-REU (ResearchExperience for Undergraduates) Program on Marine Science and Engineering in China. Thisprogram is the first REU Program in China sponsored by the NSF Division of InternationalPrograms. Over 30 students from different universities across the United States participated inthis Program in the last two years. The students spent 10 weeks during the summer in China toconduct research projects under the

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Session 1354 Exploring Entrepreneurship through Product Development: A Hands-on Approach Lawrence E. Carlson, Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Co-Directors Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractEngineering students of all disciplines typically engage in at least one open-ended designexperience during their undergraduate careers. Through hands-on design and build projects, theylearn

Conference Session

New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Oguz Soysal

(ECSEL) program, to "renovateundergraduate engineering education through the infusion of design experiences acrossthe curriculum and to increase the diversity of the profession1”. ENES 100 took place inthe FSU catalogue in 1997, when the institution started to offer electrical and mechanicalengineering programs in collaboration with UMCP. In 1998-1999 academic year, ENES100 was added to the degree requirements for physics majors.The goal of the course is to improve the students’ creativity and provide an activelearning environment where students can acquire teamwork experience and practicalskills they will need during their engineering study and career. This goal is achieved bymeeting the following general course objectives: • Learning

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wheatland

history of oppression, unequaleducation, and unequal career opportunities. 2 However, as the United States moves into thetwenty-first century, industry leaders recognize that this country must develop all of its technicaltalent if it is to remain competitive in the global economy. Since the early 1970s many government and private initiatives have focused onincreasing the number of SEM college graduates from underrepresented groups. 3 One of thestrategies encouraged in these initiatives is the use of summer bridge or transition programsdesigned to help students successfully make the transition from high school to college. 4 Formore than ten years Morgan State University (MSU) has offered summer bridge programs.MSU is one of several

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Wild; Michael Ryan

first year – before their academicrecord and confidence have been seriously damaged. The first set of conditions is strictlyacademic: students are required to take appropriate remedial courses and to achieve at aparticular level in these courses. They are also required to use selected support resources.Even so, a high attrition rate is expected among this group, and so a second set ofconditions constitutes a “safe-exit” process. Participation is required in: · A two phase career planning activity developed specifically for this group. Students first meet in small groups with university career planning and advisement professionals to explore their own personal motivational connection to engineering. In accord with the needs

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

George Havener

(ethics, sociological, health and safety). The teammanager was responsible for organization, maintaining schedules, and the written and oral t eamreports that were the products of the team. The task teams were responsible for educating theentire project team on the fundamentals of their respective task.Why the Mars Mission PBL-Problem – USAF graduates are Air Force Officers who, duringtheir careers, participate in and have responsibility for a variety of systems -programs. Suchprograms often present interdisciplinary ill-defined problems requiring expertise in engineering,economics, politics, sociology, medicine, psychology, and law. So in addition to device-orientedproblems, USAFA cadets need school-experiences working on multifaceted

Conference Session

Learning Styles of Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Scott; J. Elaine Seat; J. Roger Parsons

database to show the MBTI distribution for students at ouruniversity, compare this information to existing engineering student data available in theliterature, explore graduation rates for different learning styles, and explore gender and minoritydifferences in learning style and graduation rate.We also have given the MBTI to our engineering faculty and have data to demonstrate theteaching /learning style differences that a typical engineering student faces in his or her classes.We compare this information with MBTI data for educators from kindergarten through highschool to show how this situation has changed for a typical student as they have progressedthrough their educational career. We also compare this information with existing data

Conference Session

Technology Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Markham; Russell Thomas; Roger Debo; Angus Kingon

business schools.This paper discusses some differences between the current teaching of entrepreneurship inengineering versus business schools, and also adds the dimension of “high technologyentrepreneurship.” The work has been motivated by a strong desire to provide the optimumeducation content to our own entrepreneurial students at NCSU, in both the Colleges ofEngineering and of Management. The ultimate objective is to ensure that we are providing aneducational experience supportive of student career aspirations and perceived employer needs.The outline of the paper is as follows. Firstly, we provide some background comments thatprovide context and definitions for the categories of entrepreneurship that we discuss in the paper.Next, we compare

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Bernard White

a softening ofrequirements relative to our other rigorous IT&E programs, while othersquestioned the extent to which the BS IT program would prepare students for life-long learning. As always, there were questions regarding the potential diversionof resources away from existing IT&E programs. As the BS IT program proposalneared maturity, it was generally the consensus that the new program will helpachieve our goal, which is to produce more graduates who understand informationtechnology and who can use it effectively.V.1. Career Opportunities for GraduatesLots of discussion centered on the degree to which the BS IT degree will enhancestudents’ abilities to find work as IT professionals. The working group addressedthese concerns by

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Gowen; Alisha Waller

training in high-status careers. One line of inquiry that is used to justifywomen’s self-selection into lower status jobs is research on early gender-role socialization. Inthis line of research, women are often described as choosing to leave engineering because itconflicts with the traditional gender roles that they have assumed from early childhood familyand educational experiences.Gender socialization research looks at the attributes that women and men bring with them toeducation and the workplace. There is a growing body of literature that reports on the role of thefamily and the schools in shaping children’s perceptions of work as “male” or “female” and ofthe various traits considered essential for success in each type of occupation. “[M] ale

Conference Session

Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Willis; Duane Dunlap

pointed out, one of the distinguishing attributes indeveloping and sustaining high quality professional graduate programs for workingprofessionals is that of employing part-time adjunct professors who work full-time asprofessionals in the non-university workplace as well as full-time faculty who have spentpart of their professional careers in non-university work settings.Whereas a primary strength of research-based graduate engineering education resideswithin the academic research faculty, a primary strength of professionally-orientedgraduate education resides within the professional-oriented faculty. But they are twodifferent types of faculty, with two different types of missions and scholarly pursuits. Inengineering practice (which

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manoj Patankar

: Faculty workload at a public comprehensive university8 Public Comprehensive Tenured On Track Not on Track Number of Career Publications 25.0 12.6 7.2 Number of Recent Publications 6.9 6.0 2.8 Number of Committees 2.8 2.3 1.1 Number of Graduate Committees 2.1 1.4 0.7 Number of Undergraduate Committees 0.7 0.9 0.4 Number of Classes 3.4 3.4 3.6 Weekly Scheduled Office Hours 6.4 6.4 6.4

Conference Session

The Modern ChE Laboratory

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Brazel

diversity in thechemical engineering curriculum prepares students for a career that may include one of theseindustries. The course is taught as a 3-credit lecture class, and with funds awarded by the Camilleand Henry Dreyfus Foundation, four laboratory experiments were developed to involve thestudents in active learning and allow them to work directly with biological compounds and cells.The experiments emphasize some of the main points taught in lectures, namely in the areas ofenzyme kinetics, fermentations, cell growth/nutrient supply, and bioseparations. Each of thestudent teams give one presentation on theory as the subject fits into the regularly scheduledlectures, and complete experiments before submitting a final report and giving a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Iken; Mahima Ashok; J.C. Lu; Alexander Quinn; Amy Pritchett; George Nickles

the user’s needs when searching for the database. Forexample, students can search for examples of related topics to a concept introduced in lecture,and professionals can search for definition and description of terms and theories that they havebeen asked to apply in their careers. When uploading topics to the system, the instructors areasked to provide information about them. This information is added to the topic database and isused to determine related topics, proceeding and succeeding topics, to highlight related materialwhen viewing a topic, and to support topic searches based on format, method of instruction, etc.The search function, concept maps, and hyperlinks on the topic information pages will provideinterfaces into the topic

Conference Session

New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Klawunder; Blace Albert; Ozer Arnas

; professional growth throughout a career as anofficer in the United States Army; and a lifetime of selfless service to the nation.”1 In order toaccomplish this mission, USMA puts their cadets through a 47-month program that includeseight academic semesters. Upon graduation, the cadets receive a Bachelor of Science degree andare commissioned as officers in the United States Army. A very unique aspect of the academic program at USMA is that each cadet is required to takea minimum of five engineering classes regardless of their major or field of study. This meansthat about 500 cadets will have taken the one-semester course in thermodynamics. Thethermodynamics course taught at USMA is different from others throughout the country. Withinevery class

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo

Society for Engineering EducationSenior Design, the capstone Mechanical Engineering course - and in their future careers. Thiscan be best done by introducing engineering design earlier in the curriculum in a comprehensivecourse that presents the different components of the design process in one complete package.Based on the feedback gathered and presented above, the objectives of offering a newIntroduction to Mechanical Engineering Design course are then: • to deliver the existing three courses worth of material to the students in a more effective manner, without sacrificing too much content, • to expose students earlier in their educational careers to the types of challenges that they will confront later in classes, on co-op, and in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Singli Garcia-Otero; Isaac Crumbly

cooperative program between FVSUand private and governmental sectors of the nation’s energy industry that focuses on therecruitment and placement of academically talented minorities and females into professionallevel careers in the energy industry. The CDEP program established 3+2 dual-degrees inmathematics/engineering and mathematics/health physics with the University of Nevada, LasVegas (1992) and mathematics/engineering with Georgia Institute of Technology (2000). CDEP Page 7.843.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society

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Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Rasmussen; Matt Smith; David Gattie

rated the course as one of the most enjoyable learningexperiences of their college careers. They report benefits to their learning experience that comefrom the diversity of the students and instructors, the hands-on nature of the course, and the rareopportunity to watch and participate as instructors from different disciplines disagree (generallywith good humor) about the causes, interpretations, and significance of various observations. Atypical comment from student evaluations is “The practical applications of course materials to real world examples are invaluable. The combination of instructors was very helpful in understanding the various principles covered well. Besides being a great educational experience it is

Conference Session

Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Henning

project funded by the National Science Foundation under its GK-12 (Graduate-K-12) program to enhance science, math, engineering, and technology skills and career choices.The Penn State side of the partnership involves graduate and undergraduate science andengineering students at Penn State who are involved with researching and developing HEV(hybrid electric vehicle) technology. On the K-12 side of the partnership are two middle schoolsand one high school in Pennsylvania.The three anchors of this joint National Science Foundation-University-School partnership arementoring, motivation, and manipulatives or M3. The M3 approach was developed by the lateDr. Donald Streit, Penn State. Graduate students from Penn State’s Graduate AutomotiveTechnology

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Resit Unal; Charles Keating; Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

president of theAmerican Society for Engineering Management.PAUL KAUFFMANNPaul J. Kauffmann is Professor and Chair in the Department of Engineering Technology at Old DominionUniversity. His previous position at ODU was in the Department of Engineering Management. Prior to hisacademic career, he worked in industry where he held positions as Plant Manager and Engineering Director. Dr.Kauffmann received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and MENG in Mechanical Engineering from VirginiaTech. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State and is a registered Professional Engineer.CHARLES KEATINGDr. Keating is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director for Engineering Management at Old DominionUniversity. Dr. Keating's

Conference Session

New Information ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy Morse; Jack Selter

to market the new program are notrevolutionary, but are quite ordinary. Yet, in the context of the traditional educational model,this model involves leaving the office and meeting potential program users (customers) fact-to-face. Having an idea of whom those customers are and how to reach them can be very helpfultools in this process.Some strategies that might be used include: · Work with local and regional IST employers to define and describe internships and career paths for two and four year IST degree holders. · Work with local and regional IST employers to determine improved corporate performance and capacity through the use of four-year IST degree holders.Evaluate and improve.Following the process described in

Conference Session

New MET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Slade Gellin

engineer with the information that that engineer may request; and he can effectively communicate the results to management and the customer.While it is recognized that a mechanical engineering technologist could become proficientenough in finite element analysis to possibly make a career move in that direction, the rolesdescribed above assume that finite element analysis knowledge is another tool in the toolbox of acareer engineering technologist.Course ObjectivesIn recognition of the above roles of the mechanical engineering technologist, the followingcourse objectives were established: · To understand the purposes and uses of the finite element analysis process in industry and the possible roles of the mechanical