Conference Session

Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Horvath; Cecilia Lucero

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBullis and Bach found 14 turning points to be pivotal in graduate student socialization. Theseare outlined below, in order based on frequency of reports (with those marked by asterisksindicating a tie in frequency of reports). 1. Sense of community (an overall sense of identification with the department) 2. Approaching formal hurdles (completing courses, jumping through “hoops”) 3. Socializing (informal conversations with graduate students or faculty outside the classroom) 4. * Disappointment (when organization or its members were less than perfect than originally perceived) 5

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Eugene Audette

and experienced faculty. (6 cr.) Total = 10 credits 4. Collateral Engineering Coursework This component would encourage the veteran engineer, with guidance and consent of the advisor, to refresh or deepen the candidate’s current engineering background or pursuit of a new specialty to broaden one’s cognate background. • graduate engineering courses (6 -12 credits) 5. Applied Research: the dissertation The Ed.D. dissertation experience challenges the degree candidates to contribute to the body of knowledge and practice in engineering education and thereby demonstrate their potential as contributing researchers and future faculty members in higher education. • writing the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Caswell; Clifton Johnston

. Goel, V., “A Comparison of Design and Nondesign Problem Spaces”, Artifical Intelligence in Engineering, 9 (1), 1994, pp. 53-72 5. Hui, Zou. “From Foucault’s Concept of Discourse to Building as Comparison”, Design Methods: Theories, Research, Education and Practice, Vol, 33 No. 4 (Dec. 1999), pp: 2909-2917 6. Mansour, Y. “Researching Design: Conceptual Framework” Design Methods: Theories, Research, Education and Practice, Vol. 33 No. 2, 1999 pp: 2825-2836 7. Khisty, C.J., Leleur S. “Citizen Participation Through Communicative Action: Towards a New Framework and Synthesis”, Journal of Advanced Transportation 31 (2), 1997, pp. 119-137. 8. Sterberg, E. “An Integrative Theory of Urban Design”, Journal of the

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 2. Be able to identify necessary known and unknown information towards a solution and the process to be followed to arrive at a solution. 3. Work effectively in small groups through well-developed problem solving skills and be able to organize the group to optimize performance and results.During the course of this learning process, we anticipate the affect of the redirection of thecourse to be that students will be able to: 1. Identify with what it means to be an Engineer and being a part of the engineering community (at Vanderbilt) through exposure to practicing

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

Engineering EducationIntr oductionAt the 2003 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education Dr. ShirleyAnn Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, delivered the main plenary speech.Dr. Jackson outlined the themes which must be addressed by the engineering educationcommunity to prepare our graduates for today’s challenges. Among her comments was theobservation that breakthroughs in technology today are driven by the convergence of multiplefields, thus requiring that engineers develop a multidisciplinary perspective. The engineeringeducation community is challenged to increase breadth without sacrificing disciplinary depth.Dr. Jackson asked whether the time has come to seriously consider designating the master’s

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Knight; Christine Cunningham

Session 2530unstable, and can vary widely depending on what the current headlines say aboutemerging technologies. The image of engineering is also negatively affected by its close association withscience [4]. Thus, it is useful to look at the research in science for information onpotential reactions to engineering. Girls and boys develop ideas about science and who isqualified to be a scientist early in their education, often based largely on messages theyreceive outside of the school walls [6]. In order to effectively address students’ ideasabout science, it is important to understand the nature of those ideas [7, 8, 9]. Similarly,in order to address students’ ideas about engineering, it is important to understand whatideas students have

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret P. Battin; Gordon B. Mower; Angela R. Harris; JoAnn Lighty

© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 2004-995 “… (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility, … (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context,… (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues.”Presently, the College has a two-semester freshman course taught through Undergraduate Studies(UGS), entitled “Community as Idea and Experience: American Perspectives” (humanitiesdesignation) and “Community as Idea and Experience: Engineering Ethics” (social sciencedesignation). The College and faculty involved in ABET felt that a new course should

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Baladi; P. David Fisher

9.522.10As a specification of the system is developed, the pieces of hardware in hardware specificationlanguage can be packaged as reusable IP blocks21. Different manufacturers can reuse these Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationblocks in different designs. Sometimes IP blocks are called virtual components or cores22. Onechallenge when working with cores is interfacing between them when the cores are written indifferent specification languages. This demonstrates further the need for organization in thedesign process to minimize communication errors between software packages.To further aid in