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Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

K Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; Dee Fink; Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Carolyn Ahern; Kurt Gramoll

the quantitative responses and a discussion of the themes that emerged inthe “reasons for your answer” responses.5. Evaluation Results5.1 Student Questionnaires1. Course ObjectivesOverview: The most important finding about the Course Objectives has been that most of thestudents agree that these objectives had been met in Sooner City courses. These major conceptsare at the heart of Sooner City and appear in some form in the questionnaires of all Sooner Citycourses. They reflect the goal of producing engineering graduates who: a. Have developed strong design skills through repeated practice, beginning in the freshman year b. Can perform critical thinking and know how to go about solving complex, open-ended

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Loock; Joan Dannenhoffer

decisions.In a recent interview, Tinto identified “the lack of personal connection with others as one of themost significant predictors of leaving” [6]. A student’s ability to make personal contacts is centralto his model. The model also provides a systems-analysis approach that can be used to analyzethe impact of programs on student retention and how retention programs will interact with otherprograms at an institution. For example, Alan Seidman has used Tinto’s model as the frameworkof his retention formula [1]. The formula includes early identification of at-risk students followedby early, intensive, and continuous intervention. The formula is the basis for designing a

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie McBride

capabilities; • To facilitate communication and sharing of best practices information among education organizations and among organizations of all types; • To foster the development of partnerships involving schools, businesses, human service agencies, and other organizations via related criteria; and • To serve as a working tool for understanding and improving organizational performance, and guiding planning and training.The Criteria are designed to help organizations enhance their educational performance throughfocus on dual, results-oriented goals: • Delivery of ever-improving value to students and other stakeholders, contributing to improved education quality; and

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Teaching Styles and Peer Review

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

from Engineering Criteria 2000 and NSF-initiated Engineering Education Coalitionsprograms are having an impact on curricula and faculty development 10, 36, 37. There is also agrowing understanding that the societal attitudes about engineering need to change as well. Atthe 2001 Deans’ Summit on Education for a Technological World in Baltimore, MD, much ofthe discussion concentrated on fostering collaborations and community outreach that wouldexcite the public about engineering, and on issues of improving the teaching of it by usingeducation methods and research developed in education schools38. Positive examples of system-wide changes and innovative programs also exist in Australia39 and the U.K.28, 40, 41.However, similar efforts in Canada are

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amro Taibah; Mohammed Haque

Relative Impacts of Various Sizes of Shopping Centers on the Values of Surrounding Residential Properties, Journal of Real Estate Research, 1994, Fall, 9:4, 487-505.3. Sharkawy, A., A Physical-Financial Model for Design Economy Trade-Offs, Real Estate Research Issues: Essays in Honor of James A. Graaskamp, Delisle, J., Ed., American Real Estate Society, Madison, Wisconsin, 1994.4. Chester, M., Neural Networks: A Tutorial, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993.5. Obermeier, K. and Barron, J., Time to Get Fried Up, BYTE, 1989, 14(8), 227-233.6. Haque, M.E., and Sudhakar, K.V., Prediction of Corrosion-Fatigue behavior of DP Steel through Artificial Neural Network, International Journal of Fatigue, Vol. 23 (1), 2001, pp. 1-4.7. Haque

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Billy Koen

Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationspecialized case studies. These cases use the norm of best engineering practice to encourage theengineer to generalize and discriminate his or her behavior and to act on this knowledge. Thefocus of this paper is on how you teach ethical behavior, given a reasonable standard of whatethical behavior is. With the renewed interest in ethics shown by ABET and the assumption thatethical engineers are what ABET wants, the responsible professor, chairman, and dean isobligated to develop sound strategies based on theory to teach it.2. Developing ethical engineersDesigning a strategy to produce more ethical engineers is no different from designing a bridge.The engineering method applies to both. A

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Bartus; Snehamay Khasnabis

University specializing in the Transportation area. He is also the regular instructor for anundergraduate Engineering Economy Course for the College of Engineering, and has often used economicanalysis as an evaluation tool in his research in transportation.JOSEPH BARTUS is a graduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering currently working onhis Masters Degree (Transportation Major) at Wayne State University. He has served as a GraduateResearch Assistant in the department, and has participated in a number of transportation research projectsat Wayne State University, in the areas of transit fleet management, fare media technology, and assetallocation

Conference Session

Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

IPD program.The process involves the following: 1) development of an implementation team, 2) planning, 3)developing alternative program designs, 4) selecting the best design that fit our needs, 5)developing pilots to prove the concept and legitimize costs, 6) developing a plan to ramp up, 7)secure resources to implement the ramp up, 8) starting the full-blown program, measuring resultsand continuously improving it. For this overall process and for each of these steps there arelessons learned as well as strategies developed, tried, refined, retried and retried again until theyworked within our unique and often changing educational environment.Developing a cross-disciplinary faculty teamAt various stages of development Lehigh’s IPD have been

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

student-faculty relationships within the students' departments. Additionally, the project served to initiate the students' professional development in issues of project and time management, writing proposals, and adapting to multiple engineering design changes.§ Engineering panel discussions – Participants included a practicing engineer, a faculty member, an undergraduate student, and a graduate student. The reason for having such diversity was so students can gain insight into the characteristics of the various stages and career paths within each field of engineering. The practicing engineer participants were chosen among alumni (when possible) who expressed an interest in the undergraduate experience. After brief

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

thatrequire the systematic and efficient solution of technological problems. It first describes thecategories of programs offered, along with descriptive examples, and then focuses on a uniqueprogram offered at Bucknell University. The strengths of these programs are highlighted andsuggestions for improvement are given for developing the most effective program.1.0 IntroductionThe business world has become increasingly technology-dependent, and with that has come newexpectations for college graduates. Employers look for graduates with strong leadership andcommunication skills and experience in both engineering/technology and business management.In order to obtain and excel in managerial positions, graduates must have a firm understanding ofthe

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Deisenroth

Instructional Objectives, 3rd Edition. Atlanta: The Center for Effective Performance.14. Nichols, J.O. (1995). The Departmental Guide and Record Book for Student Outcomes Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness. New York: Agathon Press.15. Perry, W.G. (1968). Forms of intellectual and ethical development in the college years. New York: Rinehart and Winston, Inc.16. Soundarajan, Neelam. (2002). Preparing for accreditation under EC 2000: An experience report. Journal of Engineering Education. V91, n1, p.117(7).17. Stice, J.E. (1976). A first step toward improved teaching. Journal of Engineering Education. V66, n5, p.394(5).18. Yoshino, Karen Fukagawa. (2001). Design and assessment: theory and practice. International

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala; Mary Clare Robbins

: Dimension on teamwork: Outcome met if the average of 2.5 or higher on this dimension. 2. By the end of the Design process -Grading Rubric for written paper to (b) Graduates have semester, students will taught. Each team assess how well they applied the design an ability to design be able to apply a will solve one process to the project. Outcome met if and conduct structured design problem by end of the average of 2.5 or higher on each experiments, as well process in solving course. dimension of rubric. as to analyze and engineering problems

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

-Universities and Knowledge Media: Technology Strategies for Higher Education," London, Kogan Page, 1998.5. Ssemakula, M.E.: 'Transforming a Traditional Course into a Long Distance Course.' 1999 Frontiers in Education Conference, Nov. 10 -13, 1999, San Juan, Puerto Rico.6. Osterndorf, V.A., "The Two-Way Video Classroom," 1996. (Workshop Manual).Biographical SketchMUKASA E. SSEMAKULA graduated from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology,UK, with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1984. He joined the Wayne State University in 1993 and is currentlyteaching courses in Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering Technology. His has research interests and has publishedwidely in the areas of Manufacturing Systems and Computer

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Alan Rudnitsky; Borjana Mikic

a structure that is faithful to the disciplinary structure of the content, and they must integratethe content into their existing cognitive structure (i.e., knowledge).Stepping back from this extremely brief overview of meaningful learning, it is evident that theinstructional role of the teacher is very important but perhaps more important is the role of thelearner. For no matter what the instructor does, if the learner lacks the prior knowledge, theintention, and/or the skills to accomplish meaningful learning; it simply will not take place.This is not to diminish the challenges of designing effective pedagogical practices. Assessingstudent’s existing knowledge, providing content of a high level and structured so that it ispotentially

Conference Session

Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

programs mustdemonstrate that their graduates have…” and presents a list of eleven specific outcomes, nowwell known as ABET (a-k) Outcomes4. At Iowa State, we decided that the ABET (a-k)Outcomes are too complex to measure directly.Accordingly, we identified fourteen unique “ISU Competencies” as necessary and sufficient tomeasure the ABET (a-k) Outcomes.5, 6 The fourteen ISU Competencies have been mapped tothe ABET (a-k) Outcomes that we adopted for the ABE program and validated throughengagement with contributing constituents (Table 1). Each of the ABET-aligned Competencieshas an independent set of observable and measurable Key Actions (Table 2). A web-basedassessment tool for the Competencies and related Key Actions is now in use for students

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

H. David Smith; Cara Rieger; David Kanter; Robert Linsenmeier; Ann McKenna

SESSION 2230 Inquiry-based Laboratory Instruction Throws Out the “Cookbook” and Improves Learning David E. Kanter 1,2, H. David Smith 3, Ann McKenna 1,2, Cara Rieger 1, Robert A. Linsenmeier 1,4 1 Biomedical Engineering Department / 2 School of Education and Social Policy / 3 Searle Center for Teaching Excellence / 4 Department of Neurobiology and Physiology Northwestern University, Evanston, IL1.0 AbstractWe designed an inquiry-based pre-laboratory on energy metabolism, applying research on howpeople learn, toward

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sullivan; Lawrence Ambs; Julia Sullivan; John Dixon; Janis Terpenny

cash flows. For instance, t=1 is the end ofperiod 1 or the beginning of period 2. Similarly, t=2 is the end of period 2 or the beginning ofperiod 3, and so on.Discount Rate. The rate that money earns interest or the rate that money is discounted into thefuture. Usually this rate is the best opportunity rate. For an individual this may be the rate that ispaid by the bank for money kept in a savings account. For a company it may be the rate that thecompany can borrow from a bank or from investors.Equivalent Cash Flows. Two cash flows occurring at different time periods are said to beequivalent when, based on the discount rate used, they are of equal value to an investor whencompared at a common time period.Net Cash Flow. In many cases in

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Kander

limitations suggest a long-term targetgraduation rate of approximately 150 per year (on average) from the BS program with anadditional 20 graduates per year (on average) from the MS program. These numbers represent abalance between graduating enough students to penetrate the market and increase recognition ofthe program, and keeping the job and graduate school placement rates acceptably high.The Faculty: The most precious resource in developing and sustaining a unique, interdisciplinaryprogram like ISAT is the faculty. There are more than 40 faculty in the ISAT department, mostwith some practical experience in industry, government, or other agencies. The breadth ofexperience brought together to design and implement this curriculum is best

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gadalla; Kamal Shahrabi

UsersThe best approach to design these programs is to team the academia, industry and softwarecompanies to design the appropriate program. As a start, the following is a list of topics that canbe used at the area of design and machining. - Solid modeling - Surface modeling - Benefits of hybrid Modeling - Constraints & Limitations - Clean modeling practice - Modeling parameters control - Benefits of macro and customization - Intensive study on tool path generation - Intensive study on manual programming - Intensive study on GUI and software comparison and testing - Process Planning for CAD modeling

Conference Session

Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Rebecca Bates

Educationhaving a set agenda for each discussion meeting. Additionally, more time could be spentexploring current research to build experience connecting available research findings withteaching practice.V. Example Active Learning Modules Developed by StudentsThe following is a list of some of the modules developed by students in the course. Theplanning of these modules typically took less than 5 hours. • Role-playing to learn about transportation safety. Roles included: urban planner, bicyclists, drivers, environmentalists, construction contractors and historians, with the "teacher" playing the expert role of transportation engineer. While senior design students may practice their skills on this type of problem, role

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Figliola; Beth Daniell; Art Young; David Moline

and we suspect that we arenot alone. The first task deals with communicating effectively. This task focuses on articulatingthrough format, structure, grammar and syntax. Writing specialists are best trained in teachingthis practice. The other task deals with communicating technically. This task focuses ontechnical substance, technical analysis and interpretation, and the overall use of engineeringprinciples and concepts to explain and to conclude an answer to a posed question. Technical Page 8.818.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Rosenkrantz

bank of 2-5 questions was created from which WebCT would randomly choose onefor the quiz. This produced unique quizzes for each student and reduced the impact of cheating(note: the topic of cheating is discussed in the "Conclusions and Recommendations" section at theend). Each quiz covered approximately two chapters of material from the book. Students wereallowed to drop their lowest quiz.Each quiz was preceded with a "practice" quiz option. The practice quizzes are important becausethe students need to get familiar with the quiz tool in WebCT and prepare for the types ofcalculations that will be thrown at them on the quiz. Prior to WebCT, the quizzes were almostalways the same format as the homework problems. For on-line courses this

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Perry Deess; Clarisa Gonzalez-Lenahan; Vladimir Briller; Raymond Calluori; John Carpinelli

academic performance.Using this information, NJIT developed a program that would utilize these best practices inconcert with one another. Through the Educational Opportunity Program, the EducationalLearning Assistants (ELAs) provided structured group study sessions in the residence hall forresidence students and in the University Learning Center for commuters. ELAs also worked inclose collaboration with the academic departments, as well as with the Dean of Student Servicesoffice, the Counseling Center, the University Learning Center, the office of Residence Life and theStudent Support Services Program to meet the ELA Pilot Program objectives

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

Session 2438 Dynamic Modeling with Constraint-based CAD in Introductory Engineering Graphics Eric N. Wiebe, Ted J. Branoff, and Nathan W. Hartman NC State University, Raleigh, NCABSTRACT: This presentation is part of an ongoing research project by the authors looking athow constraint-based 3D modeling can be used as a vehicle for rethinking instructionalapproaches to engineering design graphics. A particular goal is moving from a mode ofinstruction based on the crafting by students and assessment by instructors of static 2D drawingsand 3D models. Instead, an

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

programs span five academic years and include an average of six co-opquarters for a typical baccalaureate degree and our graduates are highly sought by employers.However, both the American Society of Civil Engineering and the National Academy ofEngineering have advocated a Master’s degree as the first professional degree for practicingengineers. With this in mind, in 2002-2003 the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering at the University of Cincinnati initiated a combined five-year BS and MS degreeprogram in Environmental Engineering (the Accelerated Engineering Degree (ACCEND)Program) with cooperative and research experiences integrated with the education. The BScomponent of the degree will be in Civil Engineering, and the MS component

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

education beyond the BS degree. The call for additionaleducation has in many ways shifted the focus away from what the policy is intended toaccomplish: building a new curriculum from the ground up. The committee in charge ofimplementing Policy Statement 465 is approaching the plan by addressing the body ofknowledge necessary for practice for the next generation of professional civil engineers. Thisincludes an undergraduate base and advanced graduate-level courses, not necessarily leading toan advanced degree. The focus is on acquiring a body of knowledge, whether through a practice-oriented MS or an approved set of advanced courses that do not lead to an advanced degree. For

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Eskicioglu

access to the right technologies in classroom and lab, and 24/7, “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” • have easy access to best practices in their disciple and to effective tools for accessing the impact of technologies on student learning.In a section on the issues about teacher learning, the study “How people learn: Brain, mind,experience and school”30 shows evidence that the introduction of new technologies to classroomshas offered new insights about the roles of teachers in promoting learning. These new roleswould allow the teachers to experiment and tinker, providing a stimulation to think about

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

their own experience, and which of the reflective practices they have continued to use.We report elsewhere16 on the reflective practices that students found valuable and continued touse after the class.When we designed the course, we did not anticipate writing these papers, and so did not organizethe course in order to do research; our goal was to teach effectively. Thus, we only haveanecdotal evidence about the causes for student learning or the impact of conflict in particular ontheir learning.Comparing our course with previous instances of it is difficult because we taught it in a verydifferent way. We used many “unusual” techniques, including reflective techniques, 2-hourclass sessions, teaching with our mouths shut, devoting almost one

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Balik; Nachiappan Nagappan; Laurie Williams; Julie Petlick; Carol Miller; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe

Session 2230 Pair Programming in Introductory Programming Labs Eric N. Wiebe, Laurie Williams, Julie Petlick, Nachiappan Nagappan, Suzanne Balik, Carol Miller and Miriam Ferzli NC State University, Raleigh, NCABSTRACT: This project looks at the practice of pair programming as a vehicle for improving thelearning environment in introductory computer science labs, a nearly universal course for all engineeringstudents. Pair programming is a practice in which two programmers work collaboratively at onecomputer, on the same design, algorithm, or code. Prior research indicates

Conference Session

Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claire Lynne McCullough

Area Career Center, 3M, andKOMU-TV. The Newton Academy is a ten day residential summer workshop for girls in grades9-11, and integrates Physics, Chemistry, Math, and Engineering to aid the girls in constructing aworking polymer ball factory. The 30 or more girls who participate in this program each yearexplore such practical issues as economics and patents, as well as the technical areas ofpolymers, spectrophotometry, system design, electrical systems, gearing, and graphical solutionof the problem of generating the optimal mix.To aid middle school science teachers in both technical knowledge and gender equityconsiderations, the program includes a course in gender equity, designed for practicing teachers,and a series of three-week summer