Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Kremer

assessment purposes, reducing time wasted by individual faculty thinkingabout the assessment process and allowing them to focus their time and creative energy on thedesign of the overall curriculum and the learning activities within the courses that will best helpstudents to achieve the program outcomes. Use of a standardized backward course designprocess based on program and course outcomes can be very useful here. One example ofoutcomes-based course planning is given in “Understanding by Design. 1” Even with a goodoutcomes-based course design instructors still have to evaluate student performance on theassessment activities for each outcome, but they get to spend most of their time on activitiesdirectly related to improving student learning rather

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Doherty; Gerald Gannod

Session 3460 Using a Product Line Approach to Develop Course Projects£ Gerald C. GannodÝÞ and John J. Doherty Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Arizona State University Box 875406, Tempe, AZ 85287-5406 E-mail: gannod,doherty.j @asu.edu AbstractProduct Line and Product Family approaches are development techniques that take advantage of common-alities that exist among a set of current or planned products. The use of a product line approach allowsfor speedier integration of new

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stephan; Vedaraman Sriraman

and control systems now play roles inmanufacturing that are on average as important as traditional mechanical-engineering-basedsubjects. In this paper, we report results of the first step of a two-step redesign of a DigitalElectronics course and plans for a new course in Control Systems and Instrumentation. Studentresponse to the use of new computer hardware and MultiSim® software in the Digital Electronicscourse is positive, as measured by an independent evaluation.Introduction Manufacturing engineering is one of the most interdisciplinary of engineering disciplines,drawing content from mechanical and electrical engineering, industrial engineering, andmanagement, among other subjects. In the rapidly changing manufacturing environment

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonid Preiser

planning, identifying majorbusiness functions, justifying business processes, selecting business opportunities, andaugmenting process reengineering - would be linked with environmental interacting components,such as International Standards Organization, International Telecommunications Union,telecommunications carriers, regulatory agencies, vendors, manufacturers, business customers, Page 8.291.1and legislative bodies. In a similar way, the PKA set for the networking project layer utilizes the Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shruti Mehta; Amanda Knudson; David Kanter; Suzanne Olds

have benefited students in ways notoriginally anticipated. When asked to comment on how they have benefited from the project, theengineering students indicated that they have had to reflect upon their own learning process inorder to devise this teaching unit in their specific field of interest:“There is great satisfaction in knowing that you aided in the educational development of a youngstudents. You also develop yourself in the process. The on-going development of this project notonly allows us to teach kids about the design process but it also allows us to improve the designprocess and learn it in a way that can be applied to BME and our other projects.”Many of the engineering students have found that in order to devise the lesson plan

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid

problem, as her responsibilities had to be assumed by other participants. We also hadmore trouble than originally anticipated using students to run the line during deployments, finding onlytwo students who stayed with the project for months at a time. Some points to consider when lookingat a similar project include:Plan on a worst-case scenario during project developmentWhat would happen to the plan that you are working on if a key participant leaves? If your projectrequires specific students, or students with special skills, what happens if those students are notavailable? These questions were two that we did not discuss during the development of the project -how could such a thing ever actually happen? Unfortunately, it did happen, and it would

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Speakman; Joel Perlin; Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

began during the fall 2002 semester and will continue to the end of the spring 2003semester. During the fall semester, the student was responsible for creating a preliminary designof the robot along with plans and schedules to integrate, implement, and test each unit toconstruct a final integrated system. The goal of the project is to create a flying robot that can liftand land safely, maintain level flight, and follow a simple straight line flight pattern while avoidingobstacles. As of this writing, a prototype machine has been designed and built. The actualimplementation and testing of the electronic hardware design and control algorithms are currentlybeing performed. (We plan to share our findings on implementation and testing tasks at

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian West

awards • service awards • letters from students • student evaluations and assessments • research grant awardsThe Teaching Portfolio provides a structured opportunity to reflect on what has been done in thepast, to develop a plan for the future, and to communicate these plans to the T & P committee.The self-analysis required to write a Teaching Portfolio forces one to focus on the desiredoutcomes of ones’ teaching, research, service, and publishing efforts. Developing a TeachingPortfolio also forces one to elucidate current motives, to determine if the current methodologybeing used will elicit the desired outcomes, and to correct any deficiencies. In essence, theTeaching Portfolio will highlight good teaching, as well as

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

Calumet for a visit under the new criteriain fall, 2005. This paper will point out sources of information on how to prepare for anaccreditation visit and will discuss preparations at Purdue University Calumet to meet the TC2Kcriteria. Thus far, a continuous improvement culture has been cultivated with several measuresthat will be mentioned in the paper. Ten new tools for assessment have been developed that fitwithin a continuous improvement paradigm and meet strategic planning needs at the school,department, and program levels. Course embedded assessment measures to collect studentoutcomes data are being implemented. And finally, curriculum adjustments to accommodatenew TC2K requirements are considered.I. BackgroundThe change from accreditation

Conference Session

Publicity Elements of Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Staggers; Lynne Slivovsky

in detail and discuss plans for enhancing the cross-disciplinarycollaboration between technical writers and engineering students on future projects. Page 8.72.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationII. Engineering Projects In Community ServiceEPICS2 provides a unique course structure for students in that it is composed of verticallyintegrated, multidisciplinary teams. The current pilot semester, EPICS involved students fromfreshman to senior, from 20 departments, on 24 different

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Bill Elmore

do. Once these two crucial tasks have beendone, we develop strategies for increasing the significance of a young professor’s teaching andresearch. This involves setting realistic goals and using good time management techniques toobtain them. We suggest methods whereby a professor can accomplish more than one task at thesame time. Examples include how to combine teaching and research, how to combine consultingand teaching, and how to combine personal and professional activities. There are other strategiesthat will be described in this paper that can help to increase a professor’s significance. Thispaper will help assistant professors develop a plan to increase their significance while stillgetting tenure.Rationale for paperOur basic rationale

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Veretta Sabb; Clarence Hill; Antonio Gonzalez; Freya Toledo; Didier Valdes-Diaz

the careers related to thetransportation field. Besides achieving its main objective, the NSTI has also been beneficial at many otherlevels including the opportunity to present the students a diverse group of transportationeducators and professionals, the optimization of expertise and available resources to meetadequately the goals of NSTI, and the excellent opportunity for high school students to learnabout university life in all its manifestations. This paper includes a description of the program, the experiences in the last 10 years andthe plans for the future to continue generating the benefits for many potential minority engineeringand science students.I. History The first Summer Transportation Institute (STI) was

Conference Session

Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell; Kevin Dahm

performance inproject-based team settings. Faced with the complexity of trying to assess the attainment oflearning outcomes for each individual on a team based on an unclear blend of technical merit,communication, project planning, data analysis, and teaming behaviors, faculty members andstudents both fall short. It is unreasonable to expect students to achieve specific learningobjectives from a series of courses, when the faculty members themselves are unclear about whatthe learning objectives are and how to measure themAs a first effort to address the assessment of team performance in project-based researchexperiences, the faculty of the Chemical Engineering Department, as a pilot study, developed fourprimary areas of importance for assessment

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Roe

htmlnavigation. This allows the instructor to access the materials as if they were browsing onlinecontent via a fast connection. Additionally, the module includes an entire section, separate from Page 8.319.4the educational content materials, devoted to the use of the module. This section includes“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”suggestions on how to integrate the module into the classroom, educational standards,assessment tools, contact information, and lesson plans. Aside from the background informationprovided, the

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Bernstein

attempt to excel at their course work, or will they settle for merelygraduating?It is planned to study the positive and negative effects of internships starting with theConstruction Systems students at the University of Nebraska and eventually including students inconstruction related departments across the country. A survey will elicit responses on theirhistory and opinions of their internships and their academics. The study should eventually includeexit interviews with graduating seniors. In addition, alumni should be interviewed to elicit theiropinions on the effect of their internships and their education on their careers.IntroductionThis paper was intended to discover whether student internships have a positive or negative effecton the

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Krohn

laboratoryexperiments/demonstrations, and 8 hours of facility tours.Grading for the course was based on laboratory reports, class participation, development of twoclassroom activity/lesson plans, and a class portfolio which included a daily journal of activities,impressions and reflections on lessons learned.While the primary instructors for the course came from the mechanical engineering faculty,every effort was made to keep the course at a level appropriate for the students, most of whomhad taken college algebra (sometimes several years ago!) as their highest level mathematicscourse. The class lectures were kept as informal as possible with lots of encouragement forquestions and discussions during the class.ContentA copy of the course syllabus/schedule for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacie Swingle Nunes

until shortly before the bridge programwould have been scheduled to run. In 1993 - 94, when the annual funding for the program wasconfirmed only two weeks before the bridge program should have started the director requestedpermission from the New York State Department of Education to use the funds allocated to thesummer bridge program to fund a summer research experience for returning students instead.The advantage to this being that the program could be offered in May and June at the end of thefiscal year rather than in July and August at the beginning. In this way there would be sufficienttime to plan a quality experience once the funding was certain. Although the target audiencewould be returning students rather than entering students the

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Sean Brophy; Stacy Klein-Gardner

originally tested in thesenior high school physics course. Thirteen (N=13) students registered for this course.This course organized the instruction around a grand challenge and the three challengesdescribed earlier. A summary of the major learning activities is described in the nextsection.Learning Activity Structures. Both instructors met several times to plan out the courseand define specific learning activities and metrics that they could share. The secondinstructor was new to the course and its objectives. In the first meetings the originalinstructor explained the goals and objectives of the course and then described a number ofsuccessful learning activities used in prior years. In addition, they wanted to share similarfield trips. Therefore

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cassel

20years to replace 35% of the firms in the Fortune 500; in 1999, it took only 3-4 years. The stableemployment opportunity once provided by the nation’s large corporations has weakened. Todaymore than two-thirds of the new jobs in America are provided by small businesses.10Also of growing concern to America’s engineers and scientists is the recent trend to offshoresourcing of low-cost engineering talent by multinational high-tech firms. A recent article inForbes describes Motorola’s opening of a facility and hiring 1,000 engineers and researchers inChina, with plans to increase this number to 5,000 within four years. Microsoft, Intel, and Sonyhave similar plans. The cost to these companies of qualified engineers and scientists isreportedly one

Conference Session

Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

entrepreneurship through new productdevelopment. Lehigh’s Integrated Product Development (IPD) program provides a campus focusfor cross-disciplinary collaboration. With top-level administrative support, additional degreeprograms are under development. These include Integrated Business and Engineering, ComputerScience and Engineering, Design Arts, Masters of Business Administration and Engineering andan entrepreneurial ventures track in the MBA program. Through planning, trial and error and(now) a formal comprehensive assessment process, the IPD faculty team has developed basiclessons learned from this curricula development experience. These lessons and the skills neededto succeed closely mimics those learned in any new venture process, with the caveat

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Emanuel

departmental design teams. For a complete presentation of the integration of communicationskills into the design course, see Emanuel, Kerns and Kumpf (2002). “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”BenefitsThe benefits of the project recommendations to local industry include the following examples. 1. The design of a production scheduling system that reduced the order filling time from an average of 3 weeks to 3 days. Estimated savings included the $1.5 million allocated for a planned building expansion that was not needed as a result of the project. 2. A plan for changing the way a

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dustin Swanger; Guy Johnson

system. Thirteen affiliated universities have joined in a partnership to supportthis mission across the country. Plans to expand this network to include 2-year colleges andteacher education universities are described.The ProblemThere is a critical shortage of engineers and technologists entering the field at a time whentechnology is reinventing itself every few years. The accelerating pace of technological changein computer technology and communications has increased the demand for skilled workers infields already suffering from declining interest. In a report published by the Educational TestingService, Barton (2002), based on extensive job data from the Occupational Outlook Handbook,states that “employment in computer specialist occupations

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Annette George; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

options. The new Agreement has been expanded to include the following: • Faculty fellowships • Training and site visits to EPA facilities by MSU faculty and students • Supply of surplus equipment from EPA to MSU, to help meet the needs of current and planned education, research, and training programs • Seminars on opportunities for research grants, minority graduate/undergraduate fellowships, • How to partner with small business and other institutions.IntroductionMorgan State University (MSU) is one of the one hundred and fourteen (114) historically blackcolleges and Universities (HBCU) in the country. It is the designated urban university inMaryland charged with the mission of providing a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson

Criteria now requires that program constituentsare involved in the strategic planning process. In the Self-Study Questionnaire, the ABETdefinition of well-defined processes necessary to administer engineering programs is: “Processes for all elements of criteria are quantitatively understood and controlled; clearly tied to mission, program objectives, and constituent needs; seen as benchmarks by other institutions.”Using the current ABET Criteria, a program emphasis should now reflect participation byprogram constituents. Typical differences in constituents include, but are not limited to: • Number and interests of the faculty. • Amount and type of research. • Number and academic preparation of students

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Beaman; Philip Schmidt

formulation and teaching of project-centered curriculum materials. • Incorporation of computation, teamwork, and communication as common elements of courses to more accurately reflect the real environment of engineering practice.The PROCEED initiative is being implemented over a five-year timeline, as illustrated in Figure 2. Phase 1 Team-Building & Planning Phase 2 Pilot Project Definition Phase 3 Pilot Implementation Phase 4 Evaluation Phase 5 Curriculum Implementation

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Zuckerman; Nathaniel Bowe; LaMarr Taylor; Kyle Smith; Dan Moore

qualification procedure, those deemedto have potential are then given project resources including student project teams, prototypingsupport, work space, Intellectual Property support, and project management to help develop theiridea. Engenius Solutions also provides financial, marketing, and business insight to assist theirclients (students, faculty, staff) in taking ideas from concept to market. Future plans includeaccepting clients from outside the Rose-Hulman community. The program is driven by a coremanagement team of four undergraduate students managing the program with limited oversightprovided by a Board of Governors. The board consists of faculty and staff from multipledisciplines across the campus.This paper will present an overview of the

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Rennels

examination results in terms of correlation with overall grade pointaverages and time to degree completion.BackgroundThe Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (TAC/ABET) recently revised the accreditation requirements for engineeringtechnology programs1. The revised requirements are identified as Engineering TechnologyCriteria 2000 (ET2K). The ET2K criteria will continue the present policy of mandating thedevelopment and implementation of a continuous improvement plan. The ET2K criterion hasadded the requirement of “student outcomes assessment”. Each institution is left to determine themethods that it uses to demonstrate achievements for each of its programs. The Associate ofScience and Bachelor

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Duda

other field work 2. A curriculum leading to a Bachelor of Science degree in basicengineering fundamentals has been proposed to meet both of these needs.The proposed program would include a core curriculum taken by both the students who plan tobe science teachers at the secondary level as well as those who plan to complete the engineeringdegree. Initially, the secondary teachers who teach in both the public schools and private schoolswill be targeted for science/engineering post secondary training. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 8.20.1

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

Conference andExposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2530chemists. The engineering design process includes at least 5 steps [3]: (a) problemdefinition, (b) invention, (c) analysis, (d) decision, and (e) implementation. Middle schoolstudents will learn about the essential engineering functions: design, build, analyze, test,and measure. ETKs will also include real-world constraints: budget, cost, time, risk,reliability, safety; and meeting customer needs and demands.Each ETK will include a student guide explaining key concepts and methods, a teacher’sguide, plans for demonstrations and experiments, and, where appropriate, a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmo D'Cruz

focuses on theproduct features, customer demands, competitive offerings and standards compliance.The Boston Consulting Group's Product Portfolio MatrixThe Boston Consulting Group’s Product Portfolio Matrix is a well known tool for the high techentrepreneur. It was developed as an approach to product portfolio planning. It has two Page 8.1031.1controlling aspects namely relative market share (relative to competition) and market growth. 1,2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and ExpositionCopyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationTo use this tool, you would look at each individual