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International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tim Mizen; Robert Baldwin; Ronald Miller

operate thePetroleum Institute (PI), a world-class educational institution dedicated to educating engineers forthe oil and gas industry. The PI will offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in five engineeringprograms related to ADNOC operations. A Foundation Program is also offered to help studentsmake the transition from their high school preparation to the entry requirements for thebaccalaureate curricula, especially in the area of English proficiency.The Petroleum Institute is a unique enterprise that represents a collaboration between academia inthe United States and the private sector in the Middle East. The academic programs at thePetroleum Institute involve intensive interaction with industry and four industrial partners (BP-Amoco, JODCO

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sandra Courter; Rebecca Cors; Pat Eagan

building models differ from organizational development models for many reasons, and especially because they aim to address agendas of the various organizations involved. While employees (ideally) collaborate toward the organizations' mission, stakeholders generally have different organizational missions and often have very different reasons for collaborating on any given effort. Researchers concur that the first step in cultivating collaboration among government, business, environmental advocates, and affected communities is to acknowledge and respect distinct, and sometimes contradictory, attitudes, beliefs, and values among these groups14,15. Many studies offer models and lessons for effective

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Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Budny Dan; Teresa Larkin

research on adultlearners suggests that increased learning gains can be achieved when instruction is designed withstudents’ learning styles in mind [1]-[6]. In addition, several practitioners within the domain ofphysics, as well as engineering education, have noted the importance of teaching with learningstyles in mind [7]-[14]. Furthermore, attention to learning styles and learner diversity has beenshown to increase student interest and motivation to learn. The particular population of students that encompasses the focus of this paper is non-sciencemajors taking introductory physics at American University. Most students take this introductorycourse to satisfy the university’s General Education requirements for graduation. Because thebackgrounds

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rose Marra

attaining the cooperation of pilot subjects usually stem from perceived lack of time for this “extra” activity in already-busy class and activity schedules. • Lack of ability to see assessment process through to its implementation, data reporting and potential to affect meaningful change. Basically, we often don’t have the time or resources to do anything beyond the instrument development.Our PartnershipThis section describes the full context for the collaborative partnership and explores the specificsynergistic benefits to both parties with a particular focus on how this collaborative relationshiphelps to solve difficulties encountered by both professions. The partnership developed in thecontext of a proposal for an NSF

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Jeff Williams; Beth Milligan; Andrew DuBuisson; Robert Drew; Karl Rink; Edwin Odom

. Instructors place the students in 3-4 personteams for each project. Every team receives a graduate student mentor. A Capstone Designteam’s first step toward project success is the generation of questions for the project’s clientregarding project deliverables, objectives, constraints, and deadlines. After the teams and clientsmeet in the client interview, the teams have gained enough information to begin designingsolutions to the problem. The teams brainstorm ideas and sketch them with the assistance ofgraphics packages such as SolidWorks. After the teams fully explore the design space and gatherall pertinent information about their individual designs (such as cost estimates, productionfeasibility and ease of implementation) they present their ideas

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Kithcart; Legunchim Emmanwori; G. Van Ness Burbach; Dominic Clemence; Caesar Jackson; Guoqing Tang

to students, and to increasestudents’ interest and participation in geophysical science as an option for STEM careerdevelopment. Students normally begin the program with preparatory academic year researchtraining, and then proceed to undertake research projects and write project reports through anintensive summer REU program. Students are encouraged to present their research results atregional and national undergraduate research conferences. Currently, there are six undergraduatestudents and one graduate student participating in our geophysical research training program.The program is expected to grow.The paper is organized as follows. We discuss some of pedagogical issues and challenges relatedto the development of such a program in Section

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The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Jarosz; Ilene Busch-Vishniac

introduced a series of application-focused courses into its Computer Scienceprogram. The Computer Science undergraduate student body is now 42% female.Smith College advocates the inclusion of socially relevant design projects throughout thecurriculum, and projects of social relevance are assigned even in freshman year. The courseDesigning the Future, for example, is a collaboration with the Institute for Women andTechnology. Students develop toys with universal gender appeal, because research shows thatmany competitive, militaristic toys alienate girls. The Smith course includes a workshop for highschoolers called Introduce a Girl to Engineering.13The NSF PROMISE project at University of Nevada, Las Vegas offers an undergraduate coursedesigned to

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Yell Inverso; Rachelle Heller; Dave Snyder; Charlene Sorenson; Catherine Mavriplis

undergraduate and graduate studies in SEMfields. We have developed activities designed to encourage women and students of otherunderrepresented groups to consider graduate studies, apply to graduate school and, oncein, stay in and complete advanced degrees. The project has five activities: a workshop forsophomores and juniors considering graduate school, the interdisciplinary seminar coursedescribed here (A Walk on the Moon), a summer research competition for first year1 Under-represented minorities include ethnic minorities and students with disabilities. Page 8.140.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Andrew Otieno; Abul Azad; Radha Balamuralikrishna

alignedwith needs of the industry; this was the primary motivating force urging the authors tocollaborate and conceive an interdisciplinary project. The successful experiences of otherpioneers in this area were without question, another encouraging factor.Student ProjectsStudents enrolled in selected courses that the collaborating faculty members offered during theFall 2002 semester were challenged to work cooperatively on a project of their choice. Thestipulated requirement for the project was that it had to contain at least one major component thatwould require utilization of skills derived from each of the three courses taken. Table 1 showsthe dispersion of student enrollment for each of the targeted course. Table 1. Student Enrollment

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A Focus on Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tara Gallus; Phil Laplante; Peter Wiesner

socialresponsibility and sustainability.The IEEE, the IEE and other organizations are steadily gaining experience in the use ofthe tools provided by virtual communities software that includes the ability to post, share,discuss, and review information. The National Science Foundation is already usingvirtual communities for collaboration and is also greatly interested in their use tofacilitate the dissemination of funded projects.At this time, IEEE has a dozen communities, the most active one being the community onPower and Energy. Dozens of communities areplanned and under development, several in cooperation with other professionalassociations. This paper focuses on the costs, issues, opportunities, and challenges basedon the experience of IEEE and other

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Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Surendra Gupta

five hardened tool steel specimens.The instructor may choose to use a single specimen or to compare several specimens. Guideddata analysis with appropriate contextual questions is provided for exploring graphs, descriptivestatistics, population models, and statistical inference. The instructor may use any parts of themodule individually or together.The analysis begins with an examination of the data. Students create histograms and/or boxplotsand use these for an initial assessment of typical value, variability, unusual observations, anddistributional shape. Next, descriptive statistics (mean, median, standard deviation, etc.) areobtained. Students must choose the “best” measure of center and spread among those obtained.A histogram of the

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Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paulette Beatty; Jackie Revuelto; Dianne Kraft; Carolyn Clark

-term groups; informal ad-hoc short-term groups,and long-term base groups lasting possibly for a year. Certainly, inventories of strategiesand practical guides for cooperative learning have enriched the literature base on learningcommunities. [17]In a similar vein, team work and small group learning both set the stage for theestablishment of a community of learning among students. The criticality of thiscommunity becomes increasingly evident as one considers the diversity in the workplaceand the necessity for graduates to be prepared to interact professionally with others quitedifferent from themselves. Team work and small group learning also set the stage for therecognition of different types of assets which individuals bring to the table

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Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tim Anderson; Marc Hoit; Richard M. Felder; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

engineeringproblems, on the other hand, invariably involve information and skills associated with a variety ofengineering, mathematics, and physical science courses. When students do not understand theinterrelations between different subjects, they tend to be less motivated to learn new subjectmatter and consequently less able to solve realistic problems. Recognizing this problem, the pastdecade has seen several universities develop first-year engineering curricula that includemultidisciplinary integration.1,2 A previous paper from a multi-coalition collaboration provides acomprehensive review of the pros and cons of curriculum integration.3The NSF-funded Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education(SUCCEED) was formed in 1992 by

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Surya Mallapragada; Maureen Griffin; Mary Huba; Jacqueline Shanks; Kevin Saunders; Charles Glatz

measurements needed, analyze the fluxdistribution, assess areas of reaction network for genetic modification, and determine whethermore tools are needed for future characterization.The plant protein recovery module allowed for exploration of alternative separation sequencesfor recovery of a recombinant protein from transgenic corn. The research aspect was enlivened bythe result being sent to the company planning to commercialize the process. The resulting student-selected experimental effort included selective extraction, precipitation, ultrafiltration, ionexchange and hydrophobic interaction chromatography for purification of the protein productfrom the corn extract. The project provided opportunities to consider both process (columnoperation) and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mary Huba; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

scenarios. Emphasize relationships between previously isolated parts of the curriculum. Help develop both students’ cognitive ability to structure schemas in industrial engineering knowledge domains and their metacognition. Increase active learning and collaborative learning.The remainder of the paper describes how these objectives are addressed in the engineeringeconomy module and the broader design for a learning environment, and is organized as follows.In Section 2 we discuss the engineering economy module that serves as the initial prototype forthe learning environment, and in Section 3 we describe how metacognitive skill development isincorporated into this module. In Section 4 we present the results from a pilot study conductedusing

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Teaching Styles and Peer Review

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2003 Annual Conference

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Malgorzata Zywno

% of the total) have beenhired since 1996, with FEAS accounting for almost 40% of that number17. FEAS facultycomprises 33% of all RFA members. FEAS has established a highly visible profile within theUniversity with respect to the number of research grants, graduate programs, publications, etc.However, the same cannot be said for participation in educational professional development orinstructional technology use. Benchmarks for these are provided by a look at the activities of theLearning & Teaching Office (LTO) at Ryerson (http://www.ryerson.ca/lt/about/index.htm) andof the Digital Media Projects (DMP) (http://www.ryerson.ca/dmp/). The former provides supportand resources to faculty in their teaching, in close collaboration with the

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Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sageev Pneena; Kathy Bernard; Carol Romanowski

engineers at one research and development facility estimated “bench”“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”engineers were devoting more than a third of their time to written and oral communication tasks(e.g., reports, presentations).13 In 1999 the Society for Manufacturing Engineers named the “lackof communication skills” among the top “competency gaps” in engineers’ education.14 Ourresearch, begun at Battelle Memorial Institute nearly 20 years ago, culminated in our recentsurvey of UB engineering graduates. This work reveals that while many engineers work in a lab,on the “bench”, or alone at a computer, many work primarily in

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ahmet Eskicioglu

implementationprocess that includes sustained, large-scale, simultaneous innovations in curriculum, pedagogy,assessment, professional development, administration, organizational structures, strategies forequity, and partnerships for learning among schools, businesses, homes and communities.In the National Research Council’s study on how people learn, the chapter titled “Technology toSupport Learning” reports on several groups who have reviewed the literature on technology andlearning and concluded that it has great potential to enhance student achievement and teacherlearning.30 The chapter explores how new technologies can be used in five ways: • bringing exciting curricula based on real-world problems into the classroom, • providing scaffolds and

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Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mary Anderson-Rowland

all engineering studentsenrolled were women, the percentages of women were higher among the underrepresentedminority groups. Among African American engineering students, 33.3% were women, 23.3% ofHispanic engineering students were women, and 24.9% of American Indian engineering studentsare women. 2 Therefore, the renewal of an Office of Minority Engineering Programs (OMEP) in1993 has also helped to recruit, to retain, and to graduate more women engineers. Page 8.1310.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Timothy Wheeler

project for a number of reasons, including: • Schedule conflicts with required departmental courses • Graduation • Preference for job experience and/or co-op experience to the “club” atmosphere of SPIRIT. • Completion of the particular portion of the payload the student is working on. • Loss of interest in the objectives of the projectThose who stay are generally responding to: • Commitment to a particular project • Varied opportunities for hands-on experience in a space-related field • Opportunities for responsibility and leadership that seniority brings. • Professional and personal relationships that grow in the context of SPIRIT work.This data has led us to consider the ideal length of a project-based

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Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

agriculture, engineering, and technology, and let students explore the issuesthrough writing essays. Before starting of spring semester 2002, the coordinators for the ABELearning Community and the English 105 instructor met and discussed our goals for the course,and how we would collaborate throughout the semester to monitor progress and make changes. Page 8.1246.2“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”We decided that the freshmen needed an experience that would challenge their views on theworld, agriculture, and

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Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

Annual Conference & Exposition, Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationsuch as critical problem solving, problem formulation, defensible judgment, and facility inmaking connections among divergent bodies of knowledge and their application outside of class.The American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) joined with the American CollegePersonnel Association and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators inissuing a major 1998 report 4 on student learning. Drawing from pedagogic research and practice,the joint report lays out major principles about learning and how to strengthen it. It concludesthat rich learning environments require students to, among other things:• connect

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Edward Gehringer

Ramachandran,who wrote the Web-based program that collected the reports on students’ perceptions of theirpartners, as well as Dr. Laurie Williams, their supervisor. Nagappan was funded by NSF DUECCLI grant #0088178. Ramachandran was funded by the Center for Advanced Computing andCommunication (CACC), a membership-based industry/university cooperative research centerco-located at North Carolina State University and Duke University. The statistical analyses wereperformed by Janet L. Bartz, a graduate student in statistics, under the supervision of Dr.Christopher Basten.Bibliography[1] L. A. Williams, “Pair programming,” http://www4.ncsu.edu/~lawilli3/PP/PairProgramming.pdf[2] L. A. Williams, “The Collaborative Software Process PhD Dissertation

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen Peretti; Paula Berardinelli; Naomi Kleid; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard; Dave Kmiec

future research could not only impact the ways inwhich multidisciplinary teaming is taught and assessed, but also the ways in which studentstransition into industry and work within organizations that demand multidisciplinary teamingskills.1 E.M. Olson, O.C. Walker, R.W. Reukert, and J.M. Bonner. “Patterns of cooperation during new productdevelopment among marketing, operations and R&D: implications for project performance,” The Journal ofProduct Innovation Management, 18, 258-271(2001).2 M. Klein. “Managing Knowledge drives key decisions,” National Underwriter, 103, 17-19 (1999).3 B. Olds and R. Miller, “An Assessment Matrix for Evaluating Engineering Programs,” Journal of EngineeringEducation, 173-178 (1998).4 R.G. Quinn, “Drexel’s E 4

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Doherty; Gerald Gannod

requirements and capabilities to account for product variation without thetimely process of reorganizing and reengineering an entire product. While the product line approach is anemerging paradigm in the software development research and industrial communities, little attention hasbeen placed on its use as a methodology for developing and maintaining course projects in an engineeringcurriculum. As part of an Embedded Systems concentration at Arizona State University we are creatinga course in Embedded Systems Engineering that focuses on systems integration and applications develop-ment. For this course we are developing a home automation product line. By using a product line approach,students can gain exposure to new technologies in successive