Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

appreciation forinterpersonal and presentation skills, leadership, professional ethics, organizationaldynamics, product development, and statistical quality control; 2) Knowledge 2- InSpring, students attend alumni-led workshops on career development; 3) Experience- InSummer, students complete 12 weeks of employment where they will be able to realizeUPOP’s educational objectives; 4) Reflection 1- During the summer, students complete astructured journal that permits exploration of engineering teamwork, communication, andorganization; 5) Reflection 2- In Fall, students meet to discuss their experiences withother students and faculty. Assessment and evaluation of the new program includedactivity feedback surveys completed by students, ability self

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dona Johnson; Harriet Hartman; Beena Sukumaran

socialization factors play a more major role in the decision of boys to pursue engineering as a career rather than their abilities in the science and math.• Cultural Differences: Women students in Kerala do not face the same pressures as their Western counterparts in the social sphere because of an absence of peer pressure to date or socialize. Kerala is still a traditional society, where arranged marriages are the norm rather than the exception.• Economic factors: The economics of the region can also be a major factor that is contributing to the higher percentages of women in engineering. As mentioned earlier, unemployment is very high at 20% and as a consequence future employment opportunities weigh heavily on the

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George F. List; Stacy Eisenman

thebox” from a student perspective, because students are unaccustomed to thinking about peoplethey know having colleagues on an international level, or that the person with whom they areworking might have only a handful of peers in the world.The professor author of the paper thinks faculty members sometimes see URP students as highlyeffective low-cost labor. They are very intelligent, highly motivated people, and capable of doingvery good work if carefully guided. Professors have to guard against this perspective. The URPparticipants need to have experiences that “inspire” them to take an interest in research work, toconsider graduate school, and to contemplate a career in research. “Gopher” treatment will notmake that happen.It is important for

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

the CityEngineer, and justify their decisions based on knowledge of the ASCE Code of Ethics.E-Portfolio Assessment ResultsThe RoseE-Portfolio is a computerized portfolio system for Rose-Hulman students to archivesamples of their best college work. It is also an assessment tool used by Rose-Hulman tomeasure our success in meeting student learning outcomes. It represents the culmination of overfive years of work by the Commission on the Assessment of Student Outcomes (CASO) and ourTechnical Services Center. CASO is made up of faculty, students, and staff members whoworked in teams to develop, institute, and modify the on-line portfolio system.Our first institute-wide round of assessments was completed last summer. For the purposes ofthis paper

Conference Session

NEE Potpourri

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

concerned attitude, time, experience and seeking advice.Always exhibit a positive, exciting and enthusiastic attitude. The passion for the subjectdisplayed by the teacher is contagious and the students will be interested, stimulated andmotivated by it. Granted for some subjects that may be difficult but even the dullest material cangain life when presented in an entertaining manner. It is more likely that the students will getenthused about a subject if they sense that the instructor is. Utilize the classroom as a stage withan audience full of eager students needing a gentle nudge to peak their interest.Make the most of the expertise and experience of other faculty members’, remember they havegone through this before. Don’t be afraid to ask them

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in BAE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Christy

inventions as well as his paintings. Many engineering students think thatany time spent on non-technical subjects is not beneficial to their future careers. Over two years,the author assigned essays specifically inviting students to reflect on these attitudes. Fewer thanhalf expressed an appreciation for the value of their general education courses, especially in artsand humanities. This goal of this project was to explore Renaissance learning within a biologicaland agricultural engineering (BAE) program. The primary methods included weekly essayassignments and an annual departmental poetry contest. As a component of regularly assignedhomework, weekly essays were assigned to BAE seniors to give students the opportunity toreflect on various

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

during the workshop: • An introduction to the broad field of engineering • Student panel discussion on what it takes to be an engineering student • Overview of the freshman Introduction to Engineering course at UMBC • High school preparation for an engineering career, including math and science • Future Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA) program overview and competition • Tour of local engineering facilities at Northrop Grumman • Engineering faculty panel discussion on various engineering disciplines • Opportunities and rewards of an engineering career • Use of the Internet to learn about engineering • ‘Hands-on’ projects to help introduce high school students to engineering • Engineering alumni panel

Conference Session

Leadership in the Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University

owncontribution to the team as well as team functioning. Leadership associated items are shown inTable 2. For instance, in the personal evaluation sheet, a student responds to how often theywere “an active participant, listened to everyone on my team, encouraged and praised others onmy team, helped someone who didn’t understand, and asked for clarification.” Note how thiscompares favorably to the ASME1 description of what leader must be able to do. The teamevaluation sheet provides categories for team effectiveness in areas of “use of time, development Page 9.843.3of ideas, decision making, and productivity.” Proceedings of the 2004

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Case Studies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Manion; Eli Fromm; Jay Bhatt

for an integrated lower-division engineering curriculum. Oneaspect of engineering education proposed in this curriculum was “addressing ethics in thecontext of an engineering issue”. To accomplish this goal, courses were designed withengineering ethics topics embedded within the syllabus.In parallel, the past decade has seen extensive growth in the number of electronic journals suchas those from the IEEE, and electronic books available as subscription based library electronicresources. Along with the web, this has created an information overload that is now a majorsource of confusion among students. This paper discusses an effort to integrate these resourcesinto coursework, as collaborative partnerships among the faculty, the library and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Society” isto present a framework of ethical theory to the students and interweave that theory in variouspresentations of case studies in engineering. The case studies are presented by engineeringprofessors and industry colleagues. In this fashion students learn to recognize ethical aspects ofvarious decisions and what ethical dilemmas they may face as engineers. In addition, a goal is tohave one of the two teaching assistants work on modules for placing in other engineering classesin the sophomore and senior year, to ensure coverage of ethics in the entire curriculum.The paper will cover the structure and content of the course, the population of students within thecourse, and student feedback. In addition, several faculty members from

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joni Spurlin; Susan Grant; Jo-Ann Cohen; Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley; Sarah Rajala

Session 3192university engineering, mathematics and science faculty discussing career growth andmanagement as well as balancing their personal and professional lives. Through panels such asthese, student participants are exposed to the idea of research careers in academia, as well as abroad spectrum of ways to practically apply their profession. The WISE director plans topics forpresentation with input from the program participants. The goal of this series is not only toinform, but to begin to create an understanding of networking and issues and decisions that willaffect these students throughout their careers, without being discouraging. We expect that someof these presentations will result in continued interaction between WISE students and

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Gomez; Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

Career grant with a faculty member. Another hasbeen asked to facilitate the educational discussion sessions. The investigators anticipatewidespread interest in program participation for this year as well.Biographical InformationANGIE HILL PRICE, Ph. D. is an Associate Professor in the Manufacturing and Mechanical EngineeringTechnology program at Texas A&M University. She serves as Co-PI on the NSF Research Experiences forTeachers. Her research interests are quality of weldments and thermal grinding damage of gear steels.KAREN BUTLER-PURRY, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Assistant Dean ofEngineering at Texas A&M University. She is PI on the NSF Research Experiences for Teachers. Her interestsare in the areas

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Susannah Howe; Donna Riley

different rationales. The first rationalerelates to preparation for professional decision-making, an ability to recognize ethical problemswhen they arise, an ability to practice “defensive” [preventive] ethics, and familiarity withprofessional standards for ethics. Students who raised this rationale also articulated theimportance of being in a practice of ethical problem solving. A second rationale raised by onestudent is that teaching ethics is “a way for the engineering department to be sure that we receivemore of a liberal education than solely a technical education.” Two students raised a thirdrationale, the personal development afforded by an education in ethics.B. Essential ElementsElements that students saw as essential parts of an ethics

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Long

FloorFigure 4 shows that during this particular session, the undergraduates had the floor for themajority of the time, followed by their near-peer graduate mentors and then the faculty. The factthat the students control the floor for substantial periods of time is consistent with the nature ofthe RCS. This differs greatly from usual classroom instruction, in which the instructortraditionally dominates the floor. In the studio, the undergraduates play a more active role intheir own development. However, note that there are more undergraduates than mentors, andmore mentors than faculty, so on a per person basis these numbers still indicate that the facultyand mentors play an active role in driving the discussion.The role activity analysis can be

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Turns Jennifer; Atman Cindy; Angela Linse; Karl Smith

, andhow they remember. We agree and these questions are central to our research efforts. In theScholarship on Teaching program we are focusing on faculty decision making. Understandingfaculty decision making seems to be central to an effective approach to change. We also focus onpreparing graduate students (future faculty) for an entry into the professorate that is informedabout learning and teaching. Finally, in the Engineering Education Institutes program we are Page 9.539.11 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Predecki; Albert Rosa; George Edwards

the fact that all DU graduates, no matter their major, leave here having completed University Undergraduate Requirements courses designed to provide a broad education.”The course described herein is part of that Core curriculum. But even at DU the course isconsidered part of the Natural Sciences requirement not a separate area of study.No matter how well intentioned and designed most Core curricula fall short of providing a trueliberal education by limiting the exposure of non-engineering students to technology – not somuch in using technology as understanding its impact on society and the role of the graduate inmaking smart decisions concerning it. In this paper we present a different way of looking atliberal education – a new paradigm

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Joan Gosink

engineering groups. Second, the development of internship guidelines and handbooks willensure that interns meet the learning and service objectives of the program, especially theobjective that calls for continuously seeking and making explicit the relationship betweenengineering practice and humanitarian engineering. Students will be able to recognize thisrelationship, and hopefully act on it, later in their careers. Third, we will develop a trainingseminar and materials for internship advisors, who might come from CSM graduate students inInternational Political Economy and/or CSM faculty, to ensure that advisors provide studentswith high quality advising after the grant expires. Fourth, we will develop a handbook for hostorganizations to help them

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Richards; Daniel Pack; David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

technology, science, and humanities is unlimited.Robotics is an especially effective medium for engineering education for many reasons,including the following: • Engineering students acquire a holistic “mechatronic” view of electrical, mechanical and computer engineering, which enhances personal inclinations in these professional areas. • Students acquire knowledge and experience that is important for their success in more advanced engineering courses and professional jobs after graduation. • Students become involved in self-directed learning, interdisciplinary design, teamwork, professional communication, technical invention, and research

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Elzey; Dan Bauer; Paxton Marshall; Kathryn Neeley

the early 1930’s.Students may draw on the work they do for the Engineering in Context program as the basis foran undergraduate thesis. An undergraduate thesis project may involve either engineeringresearch or design and should give the student who undertakes it the opportunity to synthesizethe various elements of his or her undergraduate education. Each thesis is jointly advised by a Page 9.555.4faculty member from STS and a faculty member, usually from the student’s major department, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

Session 2003-1190 NEW MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WITHIN THE AALBORG PROJECT BASED LEARNING MODEL Sven Hvid Nielsen, Associate professor Department of Production Aalborg University, Denmark e-mail: i9shn@iprod.auc.dkABSTRACT: Aalborg University’s thirty years of experience with project-organised andproblem-oriented studies has proved by continuous assessment to be an important innovationin higher education. The curriculum in engineering as well as in natural science is project-organised from the day the freshman arrives until graduation. In the design-oriented projectwork the students deal with some

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Seals

STEMeducators with their efforts in both teaching and research. Further, STEM students canbenefit from the resources available via the portal.Curriculum Development Programs Advanced Technological Education (ATE). Jointly managed by the Division ofUndergraduate Education (DUE) and the Division of Elementary, Secondary, andInformal Education (ESIE), the ATE program promotes improvement in technologicaleducation at the undergraduate and secondary school levels by supporting curriculumdevelopment; the preparation and professional development of college faculty andsecondary school teachers; internships and field experiences for faculty, teachers, andstudents; and other activities. With an emphasis on two-year colleges, the programfocuses on the

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

o Graduate students o Occasionally, team members from o Post-doctoral assistants outside engineering o Laboratories, computers, o Occasionally, graduate students or analysis software undergraduates o UndergraduatesSubject of o Inanimate objects o Students, faculty, & administratorsinquiry o Curricula o Pedagogies o Teaching/learning processes