Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

.At the national level, several formal and informal curriculum revision activities are taking placeto address the need for integration of constraint-based CAD into the curriculum 7,1,8,9. Along withtraditional topics, such as visualization skills and standards, 3D constraint-based solid modelingis being considered an important topic. In addition, applied and theoretical knowledge ofengineering graphics are also being emphasized. Even with the onset of these new developmentsin curriculum integration, how are these tools being used? Is there an emphasis on menuselections or comprehensive strategies? Duff 10 suggested that engineering graphics could betaught as a body of knowledge independent of specific tools. The tools that existed within

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

Session 1353 Module-based Freshman Engineering Course Development Christopher J. Rowe, Anita Mahadevan-Jansen Vanderbilt UniversityAbstractThe freshman year of engineering continues to be one of the most critical components ofundergraduate curriculum development for engineering schools. There is an ongoing challenge indeveloping an introductory engineering course that meets the needs of the school/college as wellas the students in an effective manner. A major complaint of students is that there is no formalmechanism that helps students make an informed decision on their choice

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thorndyke; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

assembly are available, and the fields presently included in the database are includedlater.1-3 The database is a unique resource that has been studied extensively.1,2,4-17 Highlights ofpublications related to the present work include • studies of retention and performance of students in a number of special programs implemented in the SUCCEED Coalition, including various freshman programs, integrated curricula, an entrepreneurship program, minority engineering programs, Page 9.1244.1 • descriptive studies comparing the characteristics of engineering students with each other and with non-engineering students

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Elaine Millam

our program making a difference?” This discussion of assessmentalso ranged into a discussion of the definition of leadership and professionalism.Built on the ideas expressed in our Mission, Program Objectives and definition ofleadership, a draft of an approach was created in 2000 and reviewed by faculty. In early2002, we also undertook a benchmarking initiative of six other universities, searching forbest practices that might assist in this process. These benchmarking visits provided ideasthat we incorporated into our plan for a new approach to assessing the effectiveness ofour MSTM program.After considerable discussion, revision and refinement, a proposal was submitted to ourGraduate Curriculum Committee in 2002 fro a new three-part course

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

and hopefully value the diversity within their teams before addressing diversity issues in the larger population. • Giving some open-ended problems allowing students to discuss alternate design solutions to transportation problems. This also sent a message on the importance of having a vision of flexibility and acceptance of diverse technical solutions and diverse perspectives.In order for the change or transformation to succeed, the instructor has made every effort not tomake diversity an independent topic in the course but rather gradually integrated diversity issuesin the course as they naturally relate to the different technical topics. For example, diversityissues were not emphasized in class the way they

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

There is real value, however, in papers and information that describe the processand issues related to electronic portfolios. At Stanford, for example, the Folio ThinkingProject is a collaborative effort of six research groups at three universities: the RoyalInstitute of Technology (KTH), Uppsala University, and Stanford University. Theirefforts are based on the premise that “the reflective practice of creating portfolios enablesstudents to document and track their learning; develop an integrated, coherent picture oftheir learning experiences; and enhance their self-understanding.” 14 In January of 2003,the Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) 15 was founded to lead the way in providingopen source electronic portfolio software and to promote

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

highschool “shop.” Thus, many young engineers never have the opportunity to participate in any ofthese manufacturing processes.ME 101 is the first in a series of four integrated ME design courses at WKU attempting to dealwith emerging issues such as these. The course is not a shop course, nor is it a theoretical coursein manufacturing engineering. It is an integrated experience where students spend part of thesemester focusing on improving their innate design abilities with practice in basic mechanicalsketching and the production of a “proof-of-concept” prototype.The prototype expected from each student is a small steam engine, blending well with concurrentseminar discussions about the historical use of steam and the rise of the ASME. Each student

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

characterized construction work inthe past in several respects and that we need to be cognizant of what may be coming so thatwe respond to the expectations in due time in terms of graduating the constructionengineering and management graduates of the future. Expected changes in construction workput an onerous responsibility on construction educators, administrators, advisory boards, andother entities involved with curriculum design, development, and integration to think aboutthe future of construction work and new construction technologies and chart an active path.No longer can we passively react to what is transpiring. Construction education must bemodified appropriately to respond to impending changes in a timely manner. It is my hopethat this paper

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Lau

. • Develop economic approaches that recognize natural resources and our environment as capital assets. • Move beyond their disciplines to evaluate alternatives and to effect policy changes toward sustainable development. • Develop project teams with other design professionals, economists, and physical scientists to arrive at sustainable solutions. • Adopt and apply an integrated systems approach for project decisions in which costs, benefits, and effects on sustainability are considered for the whole lifetime and enduring effects of the project. • Work cooperatively with other trade and professional organizations that are

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

). • Creating an industrial style two-day creativity and innovation-training event at the end of each summer to enhance student expectations of themselves and to rapidly integrate new students into the microEP community (Summer Camp). • Scheduling of routine external socialization events for continuing enhancement of the natural workgroup community. • Introducing entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial skills through the creation of a specific course (MGMT 5383 Intra/entrepreneurism of Technology). • Practicing entrepreneurial skills through application of theoretical knowledge in assessing current research for commercialization potential. • Creating and/or improving student interpersonal

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Hadgraft; Mike Xie

havebeen:• Identification of graduate capabilities as the focus of student learning.• A focus on the whole lifecycle of an infrastructure facility, rather than on detailed design.• Use of sustainability principles as key to decision making for civil engineers.• Creation of a stream of Engineering Practice courses to provide integration of the content in each semester.• Recognition of team teaching as an essential ingredient in integrating the curriculum around the Engineering Practice courses.• Use of team-based, project-based learning plus year themes as means to develop graduate Page 9.306.7 capabilities in a staged approach

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

been seen by the Civil Engineering faculty as a way of improving thestudents’ skills in logical reasoning, application of technical knowledge, and quantitativeproblem solving. But teaching programming in the “Introduction to Civil Engineering” coursehas always posed a dilemma for the faculty. A primary objective of this course is to retainexisting Civil students and attract other students who have yet to choose an engineering major,yet many of these students find traditional programming instruction to be dry, boring, andirrelevant to Civil Engineering. In an effort to make programming instruction more relevant,interesting, and engaging, students now write MATLAB programs as an integral part of astructural design project where groups of

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

delivery, although it is influenced by the learning theory to which the instructorsubscribes. Examples might include cooperative learning, direct instruction or lecturing,advanced organizers, or project-based learning. In addition, instructional strategies may not beapplicable to all learning environments. They are dependent on subject area, grade level, age, andclassroom setting, while learning theories are independent of these variables 2. A learning theoryis “a systematic integrated outlook in regard to the nature of the process whereby people relate totheir environments in such a way as to enhance their ability to use both themselves and theirenvironments in a most effective way” 3.Several authors have expounded on the necessity of curriculum

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

commonspreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel, is the starting point to teach such topics asdescriptive statistics, regression, interpolation, integration and solving sets of algebraic,differential and finite difference equations. Students are also introduced to programmingfundamentals in the Visual Basic for Applications environment as they create the algorithmsneeded for the analysis. In this programming environment students gain an understanding ofbasic programming concepts, such as data types, assignment and conditional statements, logicaland numerical functions, program flow control, passing parameters/returning values withfunctions and working with arrays.EAS 112 is a stop along the Multidisciplinary Engineering Foundation Spiral1 in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Enger; Sudhir Mehta

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationGoalsOur goals are to integrate learning communities, problem-based learning, and leadershipdevelopment in the first year curriculum. • Learning Communities Since education is a social process deeply rooted in the understanding of community and democracy, learning communities will address both the social and academic needs of students. Faculty and staff at NDSU will create collaborative and cohesive learning environments whereby students may develop a sense of place and form small communities within the larger university context. Research has shown that attrition diminishes in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Greta Zenner; Amy Payne; Aura Gimm; Wendy Crone

100,000 times. Through theactivity, students learn about the scale of nanotechnology while reviewing the metric system,ratios, and conversions.Nanotechnology and Society: NanoCommunitiesThe goals for this activity included introducing the basic concepts of nanotechnology to middle-school students and encouraging them to think critically about the integration of nanotechnology,and technology more broadly, into society. The interns created a classroom activity thatillustrates the connections between technology and communities within society. In the activity,students explore how different communities use technologies differently. After a briefintroduction to nanotechnology and to community usages of current and past technology,students design an

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar

Session 1793 Sophomore Introduction to Civil Engineering Systems Thomas Edgar, P.E., Ph.D. Associate Professor in Civil Engineering Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071Abstract A sophomore level course is described which provides an introduction to the fieldCivil Engineering and Civil Engineering practice. It uses the area of Land Developmentas a model which naturally encompasses Surveying, Environmental, Transportation,Geotechnical and Water Resources Engineering and some aspects of

Conference Session

Applications in Mechanical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chen Lin; Cheng Lin

2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference& Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsimulation and project documentation software package for automation and fluid powersystems design. Based on a sound and proven concept that has gained a worldwideacceptance in the fields of engineering and training, Automation Studio is a modularpackage that integrates all the necessary features for elaborating systems, from small tolarge. It is intended to be used by engineers and instructors in a wide variety of relatedfields5.3.1 A Student ProjectA student project is given to perform the following tasks using this simulation software: 1. An NO push button (which will be immediately opened when

Conference Session

Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elton Graves

The Impact of Calculus Reform as Seen by Engineering Seniors Elton Graves Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractDuring the academic years of 2001-2003 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology participated in aNSF sponsored project to determine The Impact of Calculus Reform on Long-term StudentPerformance. The project was broken down into three major components. The first componentwas to compare registrar data for students who had taken a traditional calculus curriculum withthose who had taken calculus in a “reformed” curriculum. The second component was aquestionnaire to discover the views of graduating seniors to the use of

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Moody

tailoring theexplanation to match their style. Many times in fluid mechanics, words or even drawings on theboard could not adequately explain a topic to a student. What was more effective for the visuallearner was a physical model. Engineering experience from the Army often helped the globallearner see how their classroom experience prepares them for their future. Integrating leadership and real world examples into the lessons help enable learning onseveral levels. Examples of engineering leadership help put what would otherwise be genericexamples into proper context. This helps the global learner link what they are learning in thelesson to what they will do as a leader and as an engineer. To help stimulate the student’sleadership

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chean-Chin Ngo; Kurt Gramoll

., “Improving Undergraduate Fluid Mechanics across the Curriculum,” Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (CD-ROM), 2001.9. Kulacki, F. A., Sakamoto, H., and Swope, J. L., “Implementation of an On Line Course on Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics,” Proceedings of the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2002.10. White, F. M., Fluid Mechanics, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1979.11. St. Clair, S. W. and Baker, N. C., “Pedagogy and Technology in Statics,” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (CD-ROM), 2003.BiographyC. C. NGOC. C. Ngo is currently a doctoral student in the School of Aerospace and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Beheler; Wayne Jones

focus of a typical engineering technology curriculum isaimed at developing skills for students in particular areas. While we do focus on building criticalthinking skills, we often have a “silo” approach to technology education that primarilyemphasizes discipline specific knowledge opposed to integrated learning across curricula. Wemust do more to give the student experience that is relevant to the complex problems they willface in the real world. This paper explores the use of problem-based case studies to help solvethis problem.Collin County Community College has begun using a problem-based case study approach to givestudents experience solving real-world problems in the new Convergence Lab. Students workin teams to design and implement

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Caswell; Clifton Johnston

for Engineering Education Session 1793designer lie more in synthesis (bringing together different points of view) than in analysis, yetthe training of the engineer is primarily in the area of analysis.Therefore, the difficulty in developing adequate design skills is due in part to the failure tointroduce both the skills of synthesis and the associated technical knowledge base3 into theengineering curriculum. This is an easy statement to make and many engineering educatorshave gone to great lengths to develop methods for teaching synthesis within the currentframework. However, the problem remains that the background of most engineeringresearchers and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay Howell; Ann Wittbrodt; Alfred Moye

targetedmaterial, the context in which learning will occur, and any practical considerations thatlimit what can be done. One way to organize a systematic program of this sort is toconstruct an overriding model or framework that lays out all of the pertinent variablesand the manner in which they are related. Using such a model would provide researcherswith a common framework in which to conceptualize their studies and make it easier tosee how individual studies (i.e., the specific variables and context being tested) fit intothe larger picture. In addition, a common framework will allow research results to bemore effectively integrated across factors, and gaps in understanding to be identified.The research tasks identified in the Instructional Design

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Meade

spread it across the curriculum.At the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) we in civil engineering have chosen to spreadthe ethics components throughout the curriculum. The purpose of this paper is to describe howethics was introduced into a foundation design course and the benefit of this particular approachfor the students.Why a design course?Design is about making decisions. A design course is an ideal place to discuss ethics because thedesign process includes many ethical decisions and practices. The students learning the designprocess face these decisions and use these practices although they may not recognize the ethicalcomponents. The practice of foundation design has many ethical features embedded in theprocedures. Many of these

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tulio Sulbaran; Chad Marcum

Preliminary Study on the Characteristics of Virtual Environments for Reaching New Heights in Education Tulio Sulbaran, Ph.D., Chad Marcum University of Southern MississippiAbstractIn researching virtual environments for educational purposes, it has been found that there are noset characteristic guidelines to develop educational material using virtual environments.Recognizing this fact, this paper is an attempt at listing and defining key characteristics forvirtual environments for education. The approach that was used to identify these characteristicswas a combination of literature reviews and experimental exploration of virtual reality over theInternet

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lumsdaine Arnold; Jack Waserman; J. A. M. Boulet

is one ready to try integrating funda-mental ideas from various subjects to attack a realistic problem.) How then to help studentsmanage this transition? The logical path is to review the fundamental material. There are many situations in which it is helpful to review a subject, and one would hope thateach review would lead to deeper understanding. In fact, one purpose for review is to preparefor an activity (such as a higher level class or a new work assignment) in which the understand-ing gained in a first course is not sufficient. Other purposes for review are preparation for teach-ing a course for the first time and preparation for the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination.Although repeating the first course would surely provide an

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Farid Tranjan; Catherine Blat; Patricia Tolley; Deborah Sharer

students and faculty of bothinstitutions. Program objectives are being accomplished by offering a variety of academic andprofessional experiences, described below, that challenge students to learn and grow in amentored community. According to Astin3, peer communities have the significant impact onwhether or not college students are retained. Thus, it was important to the success of SFS toestablish an integrated peer community of underrepresented minority student researchers fromboth institutions.Year 1 of SFSInitial program activities primarily focused on identifying qualified undergraduate students whohad already expressed an interest in graduate school or who had the potential to succeed ingraduate school based on their cumulative GPA. Students

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjan Zadnik

Departments.The planning cycle is integrated with Curtin University’s Management for ContinuousImprovement and Growth process, which requires every academic staff member to developan individual Work Development Plan on an annual basis. Page 9.1184.6One of the critical strategies in managing the change process is mapping the successesDepartments are achieving in improving the quality of their teaching. Figure 4 illustrates Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationidentified success indicators for the

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jensen

Academy as well as the financial support of the Dean’s Assessment FundingProgram.6. References1. Aglan, H.A. and Ali, S.F., “Hands-on Experiences: An Integral Part of Engineering Curriculum Reform,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 327-330, Oct., 1996.2. Bonwell, C.C., “Active Learning and Learning Styles,” Active Learning Workshops Conference, Content available at http://www.active-learning-site.com/vark.htm, 1998.3. Bridge, J., “Incorporating Active Learning in an Engineering Materials Science Course,” Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2001.4. Carlson, L.E., “First Year Engineering Projects: An Interdisciplinary, Hands-on Introduction to Engineering,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition