Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sadie Miller; Donna Riley

involved project is the product of collaboration among faculty who teach courses Page 9.643.5in global development engineering at several schools. The project was developed last summer at Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringa workshop hosted by MIT. Students are asked to design a crutch for a 12-year old child who haslost part of a limb in a land mine accident. Design and societal/individual considerations here aremore inter-related. For example, the

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Etheredge; Glenn Ellis; Thomas Gralinski; Domenico Grasso; Baaba Andam

discussed the curriculum content of the workshop through his orher own disciplinary filter; therefore, students were able to consider a multiplicity ofperspectives and understandings as presented by the faculty team. We believe that thisset a climate of intellectual openness and honesty during the workshop sessions; modeledrisk-taking and interdisciplinary thinking and doing; and invited students to move beyondtheir own academic comfort zones and supported them in their explorations.3. The engineering education workshop was required for all the graduate studentspursuing the EdM and MAT degrees at Smith. The workshop was a part of their firstsemester in the graduate program. The required nature of the workshop and its placementduring the beginning

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in BAE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Fisher; Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

ever had in the past. Suddenly, therewas a reason for learning what Dave was teaching them. The textbook Dave used in the coursebecame a reference where they could look for clues about how to solve the problems theyencountered, rather than a burdensome tome they were forced to confront in chapter-by-chapterfashion.Assessing OmegaThe research for this article is an exploratory study and comes out of our experiences teachingwith the case simulation in the linked technical communication course. For this article, AnthonyEllertson met with three different groups of students (14 students totally) drawn from bothsections, as well observed the classrooms during the course of the semester. Focus groups werechosen randomly before any work was begun on

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET7) stress thevalue of innovation and individual development of engineering objectives. There is particularconcern related to the expansion of curriculum, specifically, the perceived need to includemore and more topics into an already overloaded schedule. If new topics are to be introduced,it is clear that some topics will have to be eliminated. At both a state and school level, therehas also been a push to reduce the total number of credits required for graduation. Strategiesfor eliminating topics gives rise to this project.Models for streamlining the curriculumWe investigated several models for streamlining the curriculum to compare their pedagogicalvalue and proven success in improving student learning

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Carlson; Renato Pacheco; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco; Walter Antonio Bazzo

9.1085.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineeringmotives of the “self”. They argue that survival motives are those based on physiologicalneeds or any other condition that affects the survival of the individual. Among those, theymention the informative stimulation. This motivational factor is a sensorial stimulation and,they assert, the preference is the variable sensorial stimulation, that is, individuals becometired of the same set of stimuli and look for new ones. This need is observed very early inchildren, when the baby explores meticulously the objects with his/her fingers and mouth, butin sequence, he

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyler Cummings-Bond; Robin Adams

education community is well aware of the challenges of such a pursuit1. Ofmajor concern are hiring, tenure, and promotion policies for the collection of graduate students,post-doctoral students and tenure-track faculty who are actively contributing to the scholarship ofengineering education.A critical element in the design of the Institutes is identifying the challenges and necessaryresources for supporting future leaders in engineering education. There is a broad research baseto draw from on faculty issues in higher education [1] and a growing number of studies on thecareer paths of Ph.D.’s [2]. As an example, there is a special issue of New Directions forInstitutional Research devoted to issues of evaluating faculty performance and the promotion

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Elzey; Dan Bauer; Paxton Marshall; Kathryn Neeley

, and is designed to help students “contemplatetheir work in the larger context” that includes “economic, political, social, and ethicalcomponents.” This initiative, called “Engineering in Context” (EIC), addresses the concern thatengineering graduates are frequently ill equipped for the interdisciplinary, collaborative, andcost-driven environment of the professional engineer.The EIC program also responds to the ABET Criterion 4 requirement, which states that“Students must be prepared for engineering practice through the curriculum culminating in amajor design experience based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work andincorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints that include most of the