Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Rossi; Herbert Ingley; Erik Sander; Dow Whitney; Marc Hoit; R. Keith Stanfill

Business Team. Concurrently, the Business Team will work with the Technology Team to produce collateral information such as a market analysis, business plan, and investor presentation to present in the annual UF Howard J. Leonhardt Business Plan Competition and similar investor forums. The net result of the project is a team of Engineering and Business students working collaboratively with “real world experience” in a truly entrepreneurial environment.Major pedagogical componentsContent and team formationThe IPPD program teaches the student participants the structured, top-down developmentprocess through two weekly just-in-time lectures with generic deliverable content, a trainingmanual with generic deliverable requirements

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

independentof time. The result is either right or wrong. This is not the case with solutions to projects.A project, however, deals with the future stated or explored. Projecting is to “throw some-thing forward” (Project from Latin, Pro- (forward) + iare (throw)) [10]. The demands to aproject solution always include requirements from the future in which the solution shall becarried out by manufacturing or implementing processes. The demands include requirementsalso from that future in which the solution is expected to be useful. The projects themselvesinclude the future again also even if the whole work is made in the laboratory of the univer-sity.However, about the future nobody knows except by forecasts, by hypotheses, in the form oftheories

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Riggins; Bruce Mutter

to implementing this applied research robotics project in the ELET492 Senior Design course, where student teams build robotics for our defense agency clients,was realized with their success in the annual International Ground Robotics VehicleCompetition. This program became a definite benefit to motivating our students as well assatisfying our clients.ELET 492 is a two credit hour course with a one hour meeting and three laboratory hours eachweek to include the design and fabrication of a project in the field of engineering technologyunder the supervision of an instructor, culminating in a written report and an oral defense of theselected project before a select faculty committee and other invited guests. Successful projectshave resulted in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Johnson; Martin Morris; Arnold Ness; Richard Deller; Julie Reyer

rocket flight. The theory was covered along withhands-on experiences. The following sections describe the camp’s use of robotics for geometryand spatial coordinate systems, elevators for Newton’s Laws, and paper airplanes for center ofgravity/center of pressure stability discussions.Robotics The robotics session exposed campers to robotic applications ranging frommanufacturing robots to space robots to nanorobots. Following this discussion the campers wereintroduced to the robots in Bradley’s Robotic Laboratory using a six-axis industrial robot, a four-axis industrial robot and various small robot kits. The campers were taught the concepts of robotcontrol with both programs and teach-pendent movements. In the hands-on component

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Dockter; Carol Muller

during the last decade, juxtaposed to aprogram intervention approach has been approaches for “systemic change.” Many have suggested that the questionto be addressed instead of “How do these women need to change?” ought to be “What needs to be changed in thesefields, disciplines, and institutions so that more women will be attracted to them?” Within this framework, greaterattention is paid to institutional and related features of the fields of study, modes of instruction, organizationalpolicies, cultural practices, and structural elements that may impede women’s full participation and success. Underconsideration, for example, are admissions policies, teaching practices, faculty rewards and incentives, and otherforms of assessment, curricular

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus L. Carter; Amy G. Yuhasz; Misty Loughry; Matthew Ohland

term “multi-disciplinary,” the ability to function on ateam is central to this outcome.Though an effort to achieve this ABET outcome is sufficient motivation for many instructors toevaluate teamwork in some way, peer evaluation that assesses each individual’s contributions toa team has the additional objective of promoting a productive cooperative learning environment.Cooperative learning (CL) is an instructional paradigm wherein teams of students work onstructured tasks (e.g., homework assignments, laboratory experiments, or design projects) underconditions that meet five criteria: positive interdependence, individual accountability, face-to-face interaction, appropriate use of collaborative skills, and regular self-assessment of

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

partner university. An important side benefit in this age of dwindlingeducational resources is that students will have access to the full array of specialized electivetopics, laboratory equipment and practical experiences available at any partner university.From a practical perspective, the Global Engineering College (GEC) model consists of four keyelements that interact in complementary fashion to provide a wide range of internationalexperience and training opportunities: Curriculum Internationalization. International perspectives can be integrated into existing engineering course curricula by replacing generic, context-free assignments and projects with “scenario-based” challenges, in which the same pedagogic exercises are situated

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George F. List; Stacy Eisenman

fruit of her work. This is the single most rewarding part of advising seniors: the fundamental reciprocity of the learning-teaching experience." • "[My advisee] addressed…topics that I had considered, taught, and written about before. But our year of cooperation gave me ideas I had not had before - and by that I mean not only that I had new thoughts; I also mean that I found myself correcting errors I had made, changing my mind, realizing that issues I had not thought significant actually counted, and questions I had thought important might be well left aside." • "Because her angle on the material was so fresh, [her] thesis taught me a great deal about two authors I had already known

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kim Covington; Jeff Froyd

. Valian’s visit, a FacultyLearning Community on Mental Models was initiated and is described below.The second speaker was Dr. Debra Rolison, head of Advanced Electrochemical Materials,Surface Chemistry Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. Since she is anoutstanding chemist and a knowledgeable promoter for gender equity the project team thoughtshe would be an effective advocate for change in the Colleges of Science and Engineering. Dr.Rolison visited the TAMU campus in February 2003 as a prelude to the WISE Conference. Sheinteracted with approximately fifty members of the A&M faculty and staff during an openlecture and several small group sessions. Dr. Rolison delivered a powerful message, “Time toThrive, Not Just Survive

Conference Session

Collaborative Programs and Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scogtt Magids; Sarah Djamshidi; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

are acceptable unless there is some reason, such as environmentalissues, that prohibits them from being on campus. Biotech companies tend to stay thefull four years, and IT companies tend to stay for a much shorter time. Once admitted,companies enjoy increased credibility due to the rigorous admittance process. TAPservices and dynamic atmosphere create an environment where entrepreneurs flourish,with flexible, furnished office and laboratory space, modern IT and biotechnologyinfrastructures, in-house business support, and convenient office facilities. As the firsttechnology business incubator facility in Maryland, TAP has refined its services soentrepreneurs can focus less on administrative details and more on growing theircompanies.Companies

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Harper

,collaboration, and teamwork under the systems engineering (SE) rubric, and grounded in theprinciple Ciulla5 asserts that “[t]eamwork without tolerance of difference in opinion, gender,racial, or cultural background is unacceptable.” In developing the workshops, we adapted the methods of Problem-Based Learning(PBL), imported from medical education and adapted to undergraduate teaching and learning byDuch, Groh, and Allen and their colleagues at the University of Delaware.9 The preparatory andbackground materials were compiled and synthesized from SE textbooks, scientific studies,journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, and materials from numerousinformational and interactive websites. We drew the problem statements directly

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Gerhart

. All of these activities are relatively dangerous, are perhaps shocking toobserve, and would likely get many 12 year olds into trouble by their parent(s). Yet this scenariois one of the tools used by many youth organizations to recruit, retain, and teach middle to highschool students. The youth organizations that use these tactics successfully include the BoyScouts, Girl Scouts, Venturing, Learning for Life, Campfire Boys/Girls, the YMCA, and theYWCA. The World Organization of the Scout Movement (including all forms of Scouting forboys and girls) is the single most successful youth organization in the world (based onenrollment of nearly 29,000,000 members), and it is commonly known within the Boy Scouts ofAmerica community (which includes male

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary A. Nelson; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

work) and air in the rigid vessel does not. (Correct answer = d) Table 3: Alpha Version of Question 6.AThe Alpha TestingIn the fall of 2003 we administered an alpha version of the concept inventory consistingof 11 multiple choice questions to 93 students in two classes at the Colorado School ofMines—39 students in a senior-level chemical engineering course in TransportPhenomena and 54 students in a senior-level integrated laboratory course designed forstudents with a specialty in mechanical engineering. The alpha version of the test can befound in Appendix A. All of the students were seniors who had taken at least one coursein thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluids.Several of the questions had two parts (1, 2, 7a

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Norton

, and math applications that are utilized throughout their undergraduate experience.They learn about the various computing platforms on campus, learn to use the University’selectronic messaging system, and are introduced to C++ programming.The Introduction to Engineering course is modeled after the College’s Engineering 100 course,which is required for all engineering students. Students are presented with an engineeringproblem, then plan a strategy, gather information, analyze data, and produce a formalpresentation of their team solution. The course places a heavy emphasis on technicalcommunication skills and teamwork skills and teaches students basic project planningtechniques. This paper focuses on a detailed description of one version of

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Ross; Patrick Giordano; James Blanck; Dona Johnson; Peter Jansson

industrial and commercial energy conservationtechniques as part of this innovative laboratory experience. The results they have generated arecreating motivation for a broader introduction of these concepts into the engineering curriculum.Background As our university's enrollment grows, new buildings are constructed and we increase ouruse of technology, we create a significant increase in our use of energy. In 2001 our universityadministration joined 46 other colleges and universities across New Jersey in endorsing aSustainability Greenhouse Gas Action Plan for the state that calls for a 3.5% reduction ingreenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 20053. This commitment as well as ongoing