Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Applied Science offers the First-Year Engineering ProjectsDesign-Build Course (FYEP). Initiated in 1994, this course is a three-credit, one-semester coursethat now serves approximately 350 students per year. The course is required by the mechanical,aerospace, and environmental engineering majors and is an elective for the rest of the college’sdepartments. In contrast to large, impersonal math and science courses, each FYEP section islimited to 30 students. Instruction and enrollment are interdisciplinary; sections are staffed withinstructors from a variety of engineering departments. The goals of the course are to introducestudents to the excitement of engineering as a career and the practical considerations of thedesign process, experimental

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Bradley Golish; Phil Weilerstein; Harvey Wolfe

program). Results were veryencouraging. Survey respondents indicated that over 30% of these alumni were actively pursuingan entrepreneur-like career. These students had either formed their own company or hadcommercialized their product. This result illustrates great strides towards the promotion ofentrepreneurial activities. Seventeen percent of the students were pursuing a more traditionalavenue of entrepreneurial activities, such as working for a start-up company, worked in the areaof design, continued their E-team idea via graduate work, or were studying patent law. Further,over nine percent of the students who had an E-team experience were filing a patent for theirwork or had one approved. Twenty-six percent of the students had pursued a

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCaul; Earl Whitlatch; Robert J. Gustafson

: Cost and time constraints(n = 37); Supervisor/employer attitude, values and behavior (n = 37); Personal beliefs and attributes (n = 22); Page 8.176.1 Lack of training or knowledge (n = 18); Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Money and personal greed (n = 11); Career advancement and job security (n = 10); Communications (n= 7); Laws, regulations and design codes (n = 7

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hesham Shaalan

. __________________________________________ Figure 1. Tour Evaluation FormIn addition to playing a significant role in achieving the course objectives, field trips can help theengineering technology programs as follows: increase exposure of the program, strengthenrelationships with industry, help faculty gain new technical knowledge, and keep faculty familiarwith job opportunities.ConclusionIndustrial field trips can enhance student learning particularly in an introductory course.Therefore, field trips have been integrated into the Introduction to Process Industry course atTexas A&M University-Corpus Christi. An additional benefit of field trips is that companyengineers and managers inform students about career opportunities as well as what they look forwhen they hire an employee

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tonya Smith-Jackson; Chang Soo Nam; Chanel Thomas

to the learning styles of Type A individuals and designingWeb pages targeted towards individuals using search engines will support information literacy inEngineering Students. Future implications include researching the effects of Behavior Type onparticular areas of study such as Engineering and Mathematics vs. English and History.Introduction Information literacy refers to a “person's ability to access and understand a variety ofinformation resources (Lenox and Walker, 1993; p. 314) 2.” Information literacy in Engineering isimportant for both academic and career success. Web and database searches are common activitiesassociated with information retrieval, and information literacy reflects an individual’s knowledge andskills

Conference Session

REU at VaNTH & Graduate Programs in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Quint

found that the studentsentering through this mechanism are on par with the students entering through the competitiveadmissions process from other institutions. Over the 14-year span of this program, all of the 5-year Master's degree students have completed the degree, or are actively enrolled.References[1] IEEE Spectrum, Education (September, 2001), “Teaching from a Clean Slate”.http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/careers/careerstemplate.jsp?ArticleId=e090301Stephen R. Quint, PhD Stephen R. Quint received his BS in Electrical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1970 and PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 1977. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, and Associate Chair of

Conference Session

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

theeducational community.Selected Educational Awards to Members of the Project Team: • 3 NSF CAREER Awards (integrating research and education) • 3 ASEE Dow Outstanding New Faculty Awards • 4 OU teaching and research awardsAwards for the Sooner City Project • NSF Course and Curriculum Development Award (seed money for concept) • NSF Action Agenda for Systemic Engineering Education Reform (major funding source) • Oklahoma Regents Instructional Technology Excellence Award (1999) • Oklahoma's Williams Faculty Innovator Award (2000)Other Project/Individual Recognition • 5 Invited Presentations at National Conferences (1998 and 1999 ASEE/NSF Project Showcase, 1998 and 2002 ASCE

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

Page 8.243.6“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”in the design, construction and competition. Both teams strive to give every student anopportunity to lead a subgroup assigned to a specific task. Whether it is acquiring material forthe steel bridge or constructing the canoe mold, every task is critical to the successful completionof the project. Completing tasks correctly and on time enable the students to develop confidencein their abilities to lead a team.Project management is a prominent career track for civil engineers. Therefore, it is importantthat students acquire some project management skills and experience

Conference Session

Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Rebecca Bates

engineering students titled "Active Learning inEngineering Education." The objective of the course was to provide engineering graduatestudents with information about the learning process and resources on teaching and academia tohelp them make informed decisions about teaching as a career and to help them be betterteachers. We believe this course is unique because it provides a curriculum taught to graduatestudents by a graduate student. This work was funded by a Huckabay Teaching Fellowship, aprogram that provides support for teaching projects conducted by graduate students paired withmentors.1I. IntroductionPreparing engineering graduate students for a future in academia should include providingmethods and support for teaching as well as guidance in

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Abushagur; Harvey J. Palmer

sciences“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”and engineering which should prepare the student for a successful career. RochesterInstitute of Technology offers a unique educational and research program that leads to aPh.D. in Microsystems Engineering. This multi-disciplinary program builds on thestrengths in microelectronic fabrications, photonics, imaging and micro-power researchprograms at the institute. The program is designed to be application oriented withoutsacrificing the scientific and engineering fundamentals. Students will be involved incutting edge research and have access to modern facility, the largest of its

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

, entitled Women and Men of theEngineering Path: A Model Analyses of Undergraduate Careers. This study confirms therelative scarcity of liberal arts courses in the undergraduate experience: “only four coursesoutside of science, mathematics, and technology—introduction to economics, Englishcomposition, general psychology, and introduction to management—turn up frequently ontranscripts” (Adelman 1998). The authors’ study confirms these findings, except the presence ofa psychology course, of which only two civil engineering schools specifically require. This islikely a difference between civil and other branches of engineering. The USDE study went on toreport that although “all branches [of engineering] encounter problems brimming withambiguities and

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Lugowski

, understanding of the basics, and oftenhard work. That’s why many students avoid it. History is full of examples of scientists,researchers, and engineers who avoided critical thinking in their careers. Those who did applycritical thinking, contributed to the progress in their disciplines. It may seem that lack of criticalthinking occurred only in the past. We often are so deeply engaged in solving problems that weoverlook that there often is another possible approach to a problem. In the bibliography1-9, severalreferences are given to publications that deal with critical thinking as a way of living. In thispaper, only limited experiences are presented that relate to a few courses in the MechanicalEngineering Technology Department at Purdue University.2

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Earley; Dave Lennig; Dave Campbell; Suguna Bommaraju

variouscontexts and reflect on their actions throughout the project. 3-5At Miami University, the senior design project course is also used to establish bridges with localhigh schools by participating in FIRST robotics comeptition. Started in the year 2001, this coursehas been successful in collaborating with local high schools participating in the competition. TheFIRST robotics competition 6 engages university students in a challenging 'design-build-and test'project, while working side by side with industrial engineers and high school students. Throughthe competition, university students complete a demanding engineering project and motivate anew cadre of students to follow their career footsteps.After a brief description of FIRST competition, the paper

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

AProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Page 8.749.1 Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education@well.A. Design experiences in first-year courses. Design courses in this category have three main goals:to introduce the concept of design; to give hands-on experiences in design early in theundergraduate careers of students; and to motivate students to study engineering, thereby,enhancing their retention and persistence in that major. A sample of references to papers thatillustrate these ideas is: Richards & Carlson

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationBecause of the dynamic nature of machining, the manufacturing laboratory is a popular stop forhigh school students, teachers, and counselors. Each year, several groups of interested studentsfrom local high schools are given tours of the lab where the CNC machines manufacture analuminum pen holder as shown in Figure 2. These holders are raffled off to the students in returnfor filling out an evaluation sheet. In addition, local high school teachers and counselors visit thelab in the summer to learn more about careers in engineering and technology. Finally, theuniversity hosts a minority engineering

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Bickart; Pam Newberry; Douglas Gorham

set of standards could lead to change in fundamental components of the educationalsystem.Comparing Engineering Criteria 2000 and Standards for Technological LiteracyTables 1 and 2 compare and contrast the concepts and principles that are recommendedfor technology education courses for grades K-12 in STL with outcomes specified inCriterion 3 Program Outcomes and Assessment of EC2000.Potential Impact of STL on Engineering EducationAs pre-college schools and districts adopt and implement STL, increased numbers ofstudents will take technologically oriented coursework, and will be exposed to manyaspects of engineering. These experiences will likely result in more studentsunderstanding engineering principles and selecting engineering as a career

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chow Michael; Barry Farbrother

Comments from the studentsAn opportunity is provided here for five of the present EiR program students to share their experiences. Student #1, Shiloh Archer : Senior - Civil EngineeringWith a strong interest in Structural Engineering and since Ohio Northern University’s Engineering college does not offer aspecialization in this area of Civil Engineering, the opportunity to work as a Structural Coop with MAP has had atremendous impact on my education and future career. Over the past thirteen weeks with MAP, I have been able to applythe following classes to my structural engineering projects: Structures I & II, Reinforced Concrete, Steel Design and ProjectManagement.My initial project with MAP was to

Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cairns; Donna Farrior; Shirley Pomeranz

Towers Twin Towers Twin Towers 6:00 p.m. Orientation KEP Lego Robots Career Panel: Meet some Bowling Dinner, KEP Swimming at Mabee Pool Bellovich/Harrington women from industry Riverlanes Bowling Name Game. (7:00-9:00 p.m.) (6:00-8:00 p.m.) Faculty Study, McFarlin Library

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

highway by-pass and large dam in particular. Students then watched a video onlarge dams and were assigned to write about the social and economic issues associated with largedams. In addition they were asked to discuss the social and economic issues of a local project oftheir choice. After the assignment, class discussion was used to highlight some of the social andeconomic issues encountered in each project. Student feedback on this learning experience wasalso obtained.IntroductionCivil engineering technology students prepare for technical careers in a profession in which thesocial and economic implications of a project are often as important as the technical aspects. Assuch, their education should not only include learning the technical aspects

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

different cohort. Engineering students who have taken theHOD class have enjoyed it, and have greatly enhanced the learning environment for other HODstudents. 2) Freshman Engineering Entrepreneurship Seminar. The professor who has taught theentrepreneurship courses in the School of Education and Human Development agreed to teach acourse in entrepreneurship for engineers. The concept related to this course is to capture theattention of the engineering student early in his or her career and to illustrate how newinnovation can be taken to the marketplace. HOD students have been invited to participate inthis seminar series. This has been an effective model, but limited in terms of student interactions.(The Education Professor also has a

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthey do have diverse backgrounds, learning styles, and career objectives.Moreover, courses presenting architectural drafting basic concepts are, most of the time,offered as introductory courses in many engineering or technology curricula. They arepresented to freshmen students who most probably are not yet oriented, or certain enoughabout their abilities or even their interest in those disciplines. Unfortunately, this couldturn-off some students, leading them to become less motivated or enthusiastic. If theirstamina is not strong enough to help them survive this frustrating period

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amanda Young; Richard Brow

. Thedemonstrations are meant to foster classroom discussions of ceramic materials that promoteinquiry-based learning. The experiments will provide the students with hands-on learningopportunities while the kits will provide the resources and background materials necessary to set-up and understand the experiments. Further, the finished AGPMA kits will contain aninteractive DVD that will provide explicit instructions for using the kits along with explanationsof the science behind the experiments. The DVD will also contain information on educationalopportunities and descriptions of careers in Ceramic Engineering. Prior to delivery to AGPMA,the kits will be tested by UMR. Testing of the kits will proceed in two steps. The initial phaseof testing has included

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Stanley; Paul Kauffmann; Gary Crossman

. However, there is no clear evidence thatwould suggest that either approach is superior to the other since much depends on thedirection an individual follows in his or her career path.For quite a few years, Old Dominion University engineering technology students havehad some of both approaches. Since a significant portion of our students enter as transferstudents at the junior level, the freshman enrollments do not justify special courses.Instead students take fairly conventional basic Precalculus courses and, in the past, havetaken two three-credit Introductory Calculus courses. This was followed by a junior-levelmathematics course developed by the Mathematics Department consisting of specialtopics suited for engineering technology students. This

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laurie Cormier; Kelly Clark; Emily Ryan

are also doing a great service to the community inreaching out to young students. By getting undergraduates involved in engineering outreach, theywill be more likely to continue doing outreach later in their careers. Interacting with both facultyand graduate students at Tufts, and local industry people, undergraduates learn how to continueoutreach past the undergraduate level. Page 8.1218.3Engineering outreach also introduces undergraduates to the application of their engineering “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wheeler

SPIRIT students– and interest on the part of NASA.Unplanned student-initiated additions to SPIRIT Project payloads have increased the sense of“ownership”. They were significant sources of pride even for students who were not involved instudent-initiated projects themselves. The program should remain flexible as long as possible, inorder to include such ideas9.Project lengthThe duration of a SPIRIT project was set at three years because of the guidelines set for theoriginal funding opportunity. This length of time coincides with an undergraduate career so theopportunity is there for students to grow with the payload. By this model, students would join assophomores and would be developing their design skills as the payload takes shape. It is

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schemmel

. While positive feedback continues to be received it has becomeapparent that there remains a need for other educational resources. These resources can be usedin the K8 classroom, at a Career Day presentation, as a Boy/Girl Scout activity, and the like.Given this feedback, the decision was made to create a selection of lesson plans, again, ageappropriate and focused on Civil Engineering.One motivating factor for creating these lesson plans was a need to provide the end user aselection of self-contained educational units which introduce children, and young adults, to theprofession of Civil Engineering. Forty-five lesson plans have been created where each lessonutilizes only readily available materials, each requires little or no cost for materials

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linards Stradins; Richard Rothaupt

both sexes may securesuch instruction and training in industrial and related lines of educational effort as will enablethem to become efficient industrial, social, and economic units within their environment.” UW-Stout has transformed over the years from a vocational training and teachers college into auniversity that provides many specialized professional degrees for careers in business, industryand education. The principle of ‘learning by doing’ is expressed in UW-Stout's philosophy of a‘hands-on, minds-on’ education and has been an integral part of undergraduate and graduateeducation since the school’s inception. This ‘hands-on, minds-on’ philosophy has beenincorporated wholly into the curriculum of Stout’s recently ABET accredited

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Brader; Jed Lyons

-school activities with two different populations of students and theirdevelopment and implementation of the GK-12 Summer Institute for Teachers. Data from acomprehensive assessment process has been used for both formative and summative assessmentof the program.II. Program DescriptionThe first cohort of GK-12 Fellows at the University of South Carolina included four PhD, fiveMS and two BS/MS students from the disciplines of mechanical, chemical, civil andenvironmental engineering. Student selection criteria included U.S. citizenship, admission to agraduate program in the College of Engineering and Information Technology, disciplinaryknowledge as evidenced by the student's resume and GPA, and a personal statementdescribing teaching and career

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

communitiescitizens in the city.1. IntroductionEngineering education in Brazil has been widely discussed because it has been facing a largedecrease in the number of students in engineering programs. Not only because it is one of themost difficult program but also because it is not a so appealing career like marketing, medicineor marine biology (so up to date presently). All these aspects added to the loss of status thatengineer has suffered [01]. The importance of engineering can be observed in developedcountries that have achieved such a social and economical level thanks to the technologydevelopment policies. These policies leaded to the achievement of the best schools and centers oftechnology that receive huge financial aids from the government and

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

P.S. Lankeu Ngankeu; Michael Sexton

academic interests outside of regular course work * To help students clarify their career goals * To prepare students for graduate study and professional careers * To give students exposure to all parts of the research process * To sharpen critical thinking and creative problem solving skills * To expose students to research in a variety of disciplinesIn an effort to meet these goals the SURI funded research teams that were comprised of one VMIcadet and one VMI faculty mentor, with the cadet being the principal investigator. Cadets andmentors participating in the program each received a stipend. Each project concluded with thecadet writing a research paper that was presented by the cadet at the concluding