Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Predecki; Albert Rosa; George Edwards

, local companiesand non-profits advocates to provide key lectures. Who we invite depends on the Issue. Oneperson we always invited was the Head of freshmen English who reminded students themechanics of how to write good policy papers. There are two teaching assistants assigned perquarter to help with the various duties especially setting up the laboratories and observing in theseminars.V. Course ContentThe following section outlines the content and syllabus for each module. Since the content ofthe first three modules remains mostly constant the following represents what has been deliveredthroughout the various yearly offerings. The Issue module varies greatly and what is describedrepresents a general philosophy of what is typically covered. A

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sedki Riad; Mostafa Kamel

1973/74 1998/99 % Increase Number of state universities 7 12 71 Number of colleges 94 256 172 Number of faculty members 4,688 29,363 526 Number of teaching assistants 7,064 17,493 148 Number of freshman students 58,402 221,530 279 Number of undergraduate students 239,339 1,159,093 384 Number of graduates 32,030 216,226 575 Number of

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

basic civil engineering skills to prepare graduates for immediate productivity upon graduation. • A background in management skills as they relate to working with financial matters as well as with people from diverse backgrounds. • The ability to communicate ideas, processes, and designs effectively.”“The teaching philosophy of this program will focus on project based learning. This will beachieved by placing competent, practicing engineers in the classroom as professors, engagingstudents in the practice of civil engineering through hands-on class projects, and involvingstudents in faculty consulting and applied research activities.”Development of the CurriculumExpression of the mission for the CE program established a

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt DeGoede

(flashlight, tape recorder), Light (lasers, paint), or Optics (cameras, telescopes, microscopes). The course will include a two-hour laboratory component each week.The text How Things Work by Louis Bloomfield covers each of these topics and numerousothers and was selected for the course2. The text was well received by the students: they enjoyedreading it and found most of the explanations easy to follow. The text contains numerousexercises for developing the lower three levels of Blooms Taxonomy: knowledge,comprehension, and application. Many of the exercises and case studies require the students toapply material in both presented and new situations. For example, lift is explained in the fluidmechanics chapter through discussion of

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

Handbook for College Teachers, 4th edition ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1993.[10] R. A. Guzzo and M. W. Dickson, "Teams in organizations: recent research on performance and effectiveness," Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 47, pp. 307, 1996.[11] J. R. Katzenbach and D. K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High Performance Organization. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.[12] J. S. Byrd and J. L. Hudgkins, "Teaming in the design laboratory," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 84, pp. 335, 1995.[13] E. Seat and S. M. Lord, "Enabling effective engineering teams: a program for teaching interaction skills," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, pp. 385, 1999

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Barron; Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Robert Pangborn; Thomas Litzinger

Teach Self New Skills Create a Budget Work on International Projects

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Elizabeth DeBartolo

compared with a class project. 7. Students do not know how to start and carry out a literature search. 8. Students must often learn new skills (programming, analysis software, laboratory equipment) that are beyond the scope of their completed coursework, and they do not know what resources are available to them.The first problem is one that is only solved by reducing the number of BS/MS students orincreasing the number of faculty advisors. Both solutions are beyond the students’ control, sothey are beyond the scope of topics for a Graduate Seminar. Numbers 2-5 are systemic – wecannot change anything about these issues, and the students know they will pose challenges totheir dual degree completion, but we may be able to provide ideas

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Yellamaraju; Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

project was funded by the U.S. Department of Education Fund for theImprovement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), and was carried out over the last four years.The assessment was carried out under the auspices of UMR’s Laboratory for InformationTechnology Evaluation (LITE), and guided by the LITE model for evaluation of learningtechnologies. The fundamental premise of the model is that evaluation should consist of thetriangulation of multiple research methodologies and measurement tools. Five representativeevaluation studies, consisting of eight experiments, are presented here. The studies range frominitial research consisting of basic experimentation and usability testing; to applied researchconducted within the class room; to a large multi

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

develop and implementprocesses for the evaluation, assessment, and continuing improvement of the program, itseducational objectives and outcomes. The overall competence of the faculty is judged by suchfactors as education, diversity of backgrounds, engineering experience, teaching experience,ability to communicate, enthusiasm for developing more effective programs, level of scholarship,participation in professional societies, and registration as Professional Engineers [1, 3].FacilitiesClassrooms, laboratories, and associated equipment must be adequate to accomplish the programobjectives and provide an atmosphere conducive to learning. Appropriate facilities must beavailable to foster faculty-student interaction and to create a climate that

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dilip Mirchandani; Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran; John Chen; Yusuf Mehta

21st century. One ofthe hallmarks of the program is the truly multidisciplinary curriculum in which laboratory/designcourses are offered simultaneously to engineering students in all four disciplines. Indeed, thehallmark of the engineering program at Rowan University is the multidisciplinary, project-oriented, Engineering Clinic sequence. Every engineering student at Rowan University takes theEngineering Clinics each semester. In the Engineering Clinic, which is based on the medicalschool model, students and faculty from all four engineering departments work side-by-side onlaboratory experiments, real world design projects and research. The solutions of these problemsrequire not only proficiency in the technical principles, but, as importantly

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Patterson; C. Richard Helps

Session 2249 Evaluation of Cooperative Competition as an Educational Strategy in Project-Oriented Technology Education Richard Helps, Mark Patterson Brigham Young University/University of DaytonAbstractCompetitions can create an effective learning environment by engaging students in active andcooperative learning. And while competition and cooperation are usually considered byeducational researchers to be opposites, they can be used in conjunction to support learning. Thisstudy discusses the results of teaching upper-division and graduate-level technology courses

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Rennels; Stephen Hundley; Patricia Fox

laboratories, etc. In this section, the survey did not change considerably from the 1999survey. In 2003 of the 37 four-year schools that responded, 79% reported that they are known asa university. Interestingly, 79% of the respondents in 1999 also said they were called auniversity. The next most used name is college at 13%. Table 1. Type of Institution for Four-Year Schools 1999 and 2003. 60 79% 50 40 79% 30 20 10

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Erbe; F. Wilhelm Bruns

collaboration styles have also to beconsidered regarding curricula, courseware and teaching methods.Computers are now used in the classroom as multimedia tools to provide alternative sources oflearning material, to provide interactive learning situations and to provide simulation of systemsthat cannot for reasons of cost, size or safety be used in reality. The use of the Internet is rapidlyincreasing and is being seen by some people as the greatest source of knowledge available forlearning. The use of simulation tools has a number of benefits to education. The learner is notexposed to the hazards of the real world. The learner is able to explore a range of possiblesolutions easily and quickly. The learner is able to use the tools that will be available

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

of blackboardwork, homework problem solutions, a mid-term exam and a final exam. The resulting gradeswere typical of the standard fluids and electrical classes.Content and Removed Materials from the Fundamentals CourseThe Fundamentals course was taught by two authors of this paper (JG and CS) withexperience teaching Fluids and Circuits, respectively, but with limited knowledge of the othercourse materials. Both faculty attended all classes and learned the new materials with thestudents, asking questions when uncertain of new concepts. This reinforced an informalatmosphere that encouraged student participation and confidence. With the compressedformat and timing, our challenge was to present fundamental materials from both thetraditional

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nirmal Das

can utilize their alreadyacquired knowledge of shearing force and bending moment to determine a beam’s slope anddeflection.An approach to teaching this important method of structural analysis that complements thetraditional lecturing through inclusion of a powerful, versatile and user-friendly computationaltool, is discussed in this paper. Students will learn how to utilize Mathcad to perform a varietyof calculations in a sequence and to verify the accuracy of their manual solutions. A Mathcadprogram is developed for this purpose and examples to illustrate the computer program are alsoincluded in this paper. The integration of Mathcad will enhance students’ problem-solvingskills, as it will allow them to focus on analysis while the software

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

the effect of slightchanges in variables can be considered as part of the design process. For consolidationsettlements, students should learn and practice using equations. Other software15 can also beused to estimate consolidation settlements under embankment loads.Seepage Problems and Flow Nets. Two-dimensional seepage problems in undergraduategeotechnical engineering courses typically have been solved using flow nets. In engineeringpractice, seepage problems are typically solved using commercially available seepage programs.Educators still need to use flow nets to teach basic principles of seepage through porous media.The value of teaching students how to draw a flow net, however, may not be as important asteaching basic seepage concepts

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Shull; John Wise

simple measurements: Howmany credits of math were required, what laboratory space was available, the qualifications ofthe faculty, etc. Recent changes introduced by ABET have shifted the focus considerably in thatprograms now must identify and measure student outcomes and provide a feedback cycle tocontinuously improve the educational program.1 To be effective, evidence of attainment shouldbe collected from faculty, students, and industry partners. Multiple collection points allowfindings to be compared and compiled in order to give the most complete picture possible. Mostpractitioners agree that this is the end goal for any program assessment system. A question thatmust be answered, however, is where to start? Penn State Altoona decided to

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Study

Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationscience related courses. Hands on experiences, field observations, use of graphing calculators,and science laboratory equipment increased opportunities for the students to create mentalmodels which they could then relate to different academic areas and to daily life [16].Nevertheless, many high school students in the U.S. receive only superficial preparation in mathand science courses and the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the21st Century deems this unacceptable. Additionally, in schools with the highest minorityenrollments, students have less than a 50% chance of having science or mathematics teacherswho hold a license or degree in the subject being taught

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zuhdi Aljobeh; Aaron Jennings

undergraduate institution (PUI) in Valparaiso, Indiana.These two universities are experimenting with a unique teaching/research partnership thatrepresents a new model for how National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience forUndergraduates (REU) programs can be designed. The program builds on the strengths ofpartner universities to expand the research opportunities for undergraduate students who mightotherwise not be aware of these possibilities and extends research activities to predominantlyundergraduate institutions. This manuscript describes the design of this program’s prototypeEnvironmental Engineering course titled “Heavy Metal Contamination in the UrbanEnvironment” (CE 490 B) that is being offered at Valparaiso University in the spring

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malika Moutawakkil; Lisa Hunter; J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

students a basis for further work in STEM fields at some later date, therebyexpanding student options rather than closing them off.4Other recommendations for reform of the undergraduate STEM curriculum focus oninvestigative learning, technology, laboratory experience, and collaborative work. Programs thathave provided students an opportunity to engage in hands-on, real-world projects have beensuccessful in increasing female enrollment and retention.1 Establishing the relevance and socialvalue of these fields is another effective retention strategy. Smith College, Rensselaer Page 9.294.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Pawley

Session 3692 The feminist engineering classroom: a vision for future educational innovations Alice L. Pawley The Delta Program for Research, Teaching and Learning University of Wisconsin-MadisonAbstractIn the quest for the gender equalization of the engineering profession, a variety of strategies arebeing developed and used in daily engineering education practice. Colleges and universities arerecruiting girls and women in increasing numbers into the so-called “engineering pipeline” byusing camps, special

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

Engineering Education Reform”, The Bridge, 28, 1998. 12. Wulf, W.A., “Diversity in Engineering”, The Bridge, 28, 1998. 13. Rosser, S.V., Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Science, mathematics, and Engineering, Columbia University, New York, 1995. 14. Campbell, J.R., C.M. Hombo and J. Mazzeo, NAEP 19999 Trends in Academic Progress: Three Decades of Student Performance, 2000. 15. Burkham, D.T., V.E. Lee and B.A. Smerdon, “Gender and Science Learning Early in High School subject Matter and Laboratory Experiences”, American Educational Research Journal, 24, 297- 331, 1997. 16. Campbell, P.B. and K. Steinbrueck, Striving

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gad-el-hak; Judy Richardson; John Speich; James McLeskey

laboratories usedin traditional engineering courses.Many of the examples currently used in Engineering curricula seem better suited to the "GreatestGeneration" than to the students in school today. While some of these examples are stilleducationally sound, twenty-first century students need twenty-first century examples. Ourexperiments are intended to promote learning through guided inquiry. There is a constant battlein educational circles between traditional explicit instruction where students are told what theyneed to know and then expected to know it and discovery learning where students are given afew parameters and then given the chance to “play” and figure out the way things work. Theformer seems more expedient and most engineering faculty seem

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

educational enterprise.To keep engineering courses relevant, faculty often bring in current topics to their undergraduateclasses. In the ideal world (or department), faculty engaged in research will teach undergraduatecourses in the same discipline area. Bringing in research work performed by undergraduatestudents into undergraduate courses has the important benefit that the coursework is still fresh inthe undergraduate student's mind. The key benefit a faculty member has when integratingresearch results from undergraduate students is by observing how the undergraduate researchstudents learn the necessary research material based on the foundation concepts originally usedin the classroom. From these observations, the faculty mentor can determine the

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

of all teams focused directly on the undergraduate Page 9.123.4program. Experience with this mode of operation has resulted in some teams being subsumed by Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationothers while entirely new teams were been created to fill gaps in the original team structure. Thecurrent structure is composed of ten teams; Undergraduate Curriculum Improvement,Laboratory Improvement, Design in the Curriculum, Innovation in Teaching, Overall CurriculumContent, External Data

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Brockway; Greg Spaulding

technology, aviation (including professional pilot), and business. Theacademic programs are designed to directly prepare participants for the world of work,and the programs are very application oriented and laboratory intensive. KSU-Salinastudents learn by doing. Over the last five years, the college has placed 96% of itsgraduates, and each year several employers actively recruit on campus.With the size of the campus, the diversity of study, and the large number of activeentrepreneurs in the local community, this campus provides the ideal environment forimplementation of a broad-based entrepreneurial transformation. With very little fanfare,this transformation has already begun and will continue to be implemented, untilentrepreneurship permeates

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

, communications, etc. in the form of a course. Teaching these skills in isolation of theprofessional practice of engineering has been shown to be a less-than-ideal approach. In contrast,the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and EmoryUniversity has chosen to develop an approach in which these skills are developed in the studentsthrough the use of problem-based learning (PBL) experiences infused throughout the curriculum.Separate problem-based learning courses are positioned in the first and second years. PBLexperiences are incorporated into instructional laboratories associated with third-year systemsphysiology and biomedical sensors courses. The curriculum culminates with a two-semestersenior design course sequence

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

address these issues. TheWPI ECE Department instituted a sophomore-level course entitled “ECE Design” with thespecific intent of better preparing students for their senior capstone design projects, both byreinforcing fundamental concepts and by leading the students through a formal design processwith emphasis on the process itself. The course is run as a simulated business, with facultyserving as “Engineering Managers” who teach the process of design and manage the learningexperience. The students are placed in 3-person design teams reporting to undergraduate “SeniorEngineers”, who help guide them through an open-ended design of a useful product, from marketresearch to demonstration of a working prototype. The students are given a working budget

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Al Post; Bradley Rogers

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 3. Details of the Membrane Electrode AssemblyManufacturing IssuesReliable, functional fuel cell systems can be built and installed today; in fact, the SolarPhotovoltaic Laboratory building at ASU-East is powered by a prototype fuel cell system thathas produced over 12 MW-hrs in the past 6 months, with no maintenance. The main issue inusing fuel cells is cost. A fuel cell stack, without the 'balance of plant', today costs about $2000-$3000/kw. To become competitive in the marketplace for more general use, complete stationarysystems with

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas O'Neal; Carmo D'Cruz

Session 3654 Turning Engineers into Entrepreneurs – And Transforming a Region Carmo D’Cruz, Tom O’Neal University of Central FloridaAbstractEngineers are excellent sources of high-growth potential entrepreneurial ventures with theircreative product and technology ideas, in various disciplines. However, academia in general hasnot effectively developed this resource.This paper reviews contemporary literature on teaching of entrepreneurship and describes aninnovative, holistic Engineering Entrepreneurship program backed by the resources and activitiesof a technology incubator