Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kathy Brockway; Greg Spaulding

promise of being a successful and enduring venture.Greg and Kathy plan to build on their previous successes and continue to promote agradual entrepreneurial transformation in the College of Technology and Aviationthrough a multi-component approach. • Create an entrepreneurial advisory board. • Develop and support the newly formed student entrepreneurial club. • Incorporate entrepreneurship across the curriculum.Entrepreneurial Advisory BoardOf the three components, the Entrepreneurial Advisory Board is pivotal to long termsuccess. The planned entrepreneurial board will consist of accomplished entrepreneurs,dedicated to advancing entrepreneurship across the KSU-Salina campus. The board willbe both directly and indirectly involved in each

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virgil Cox; Stephen Kuyath

to the trebuchets 77.8% 22.2% 0.0%I plan to enter the writing/speaking competition 13.3% 32.2% 54.4%I will be in the club next year1 82.5% 15.9% 1.6%1 Responses from Freshman, Sophomore, and Juniors onlyNinety-four percent of the club members have enjoyed being a part of the club. This indicatesthat there are high school students that are looking for this type of activity in which to beinvolved. Ninety-five percent of the club members have enjoyed working with the robots. Onlyforty-four percent enjoyed preparing for the TEAM+S competition (97 students participated inthe

Conference Session

Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeannette Russ

productdesign, a manufacturing plan, and a marketing plan – all of which must meet a tight timeschedule and a specified budget. Second, we require our engineering students to work withmarketing and accounting students from a business policy class, creating a multi-disciplinaryteam with the task of developing a solution that is technically feasible, financially viable, andappealing to the target market.This course structure exposes students to problem-solving techniques in real-world situations,while also providing a natural platform for relevant classroom discussions. In terms of real-world exposure, the case study is based upon events that occurred in the writing instrumentindustry during the World War II era, giving students an opportunity to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

high school through university.The origin of the MIMIC conceptIn 1995, the engineering design instructor and a business instructor at Illinois ValleyCommunity College developed a creative plan to provide their students with workplaceexperiences. As a project in one of their courses, the instructors integrated their students intoteams to develop, produce and sell a product. The design and business courses were scheduledto allow the student teams, called “companies,” a common meeting time and to facilitatespecial training in such areas as group dynamics and communication. Student teams simulatedan industrial environment not only by designing, producing and marketing a product, but alsoby participating in the types of communication situations

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Daniel Frey; Marisa Wolsky

Scienceand Math Content Directors, Content Manager, and working group of advisors, she oversees theprocess of transforming kids' ideas into educationally rich science and math segments. She isalso a producer on the NSF-funded preschool science series, PEEP AND THE BIG WIDE WORLD.A first step of the WGBH team was to secure a planning grant from the National ScienceFoundation. The goals under the planning grant were to: establish a board of advisors; identify acontent director; develop ways that viewers can become involved with LAZYBONES activitiesthrough outreach and Web; write the series curriculum; design the game; test the engineeringchallenges with kids; develop evaluation plans; and create a business model.To complement the skills of the WGBH

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

OverviewThe Professional Component of the ABET assessment plan for the ME program at WKU has astrong emphasis on design, as documented in the program’s Design Plan.1 The Design Plandeveloped by the Mechanical Engineering faculty recognizes that the Engineering design processmust be integrated into the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum as a continuous process from thefirst year to the final semester. This is necessary to provide students with the opportunity toacquire design tools and skills, as well as competency in mathematical and technical analysis,and communication.2The Mechanical Engineering faculty accepts the following as a representative statement of theattributes of Engineering Design taught in this department: • Engineering design is

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Cluett; Peter Weiss; Kim Woodhouse; David Bagley; Susan McCahan

part,through a seminar style approach. Overall, the resulting course is a departure from a typicaldesign course.Course OutlineThe course plan can be roughly broken down into four parts. The major material introduced ineach part is as follows: Part 1. Introduction to design, team skills, professional writing, and reverse engineering Part 2. Human, social, and environmental issues in the design process; Introduction to oral communication, and critical reading Part 3. Project management and project planning Page 9.1171.1 Part 4. Major design project“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yoram Koren; Nazmi Cem Dincer; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

start a project involving a simple product from the concept anddesign phase, and take it through the manufacturing stage. Throughout the program, the studentswork in groups of two, and this helps them to develop their problem solving and teamwork skills.The Portable Manufacturing System Project was initiated in September 2001. Upon it’simplementation in February 2002, the PMSP has worked directly with all of the six middleschools and one of the three high schools in the Ann Arbor Public School District. This programhas introduced manufacturing engineering to over 950 students and is planning to impact 500students in the Ann Arbor school district annually

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leann Yoder; Stephen Kuyath

principals required in manyengineering technology programs. The students enjoyed watching the robot competitions as theycheered their team (Figure 2b).Trebuchets:Were you aware that you trebuchet kits are available on the Internet? They are available with asimulator (see Figure 3) that helps the students understand the physics behind the fun. There iseven a kit that will “toss a human” (this is not the one we plan on using with the high schools). Figure 3: Sample Trebuchet Simulator (from Trebuchet.com)Figures 4 and 5 show some example trebuchet kits. These can be purchased for relatively little Page 9.476.6money and built by high school

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Watts; Theodor Richardson

, is to provide classroom teaching experience, with an emphasis on learner-centeredteaching methods, to future engineering educators.Those engineering graduate students interested in an academic career have limited options whenit comes to preparing to teach the next generation of engineers. These options can includeteaching assistantships (TAs) which can be accompanied with a teaching workshop, teachingseminars, and under rare circumstances a graduate course on engineering education that canincorporates lesson-planning and learning theory1. The GK-12 fellowship program provides Page 9.601.1USC’s engineering graduate students experience

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary Ellen Litzinger; Barbara Bogue

9.1418.1Program that female students consistently fail to connect wellness issues with their ability toperform well. Finally, kinesiology research points to the fact that exercise and physical activity Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationcan lead to improved self esteem, thus providing a sound platform for addressing theengineering-related factors. (Kinesiology is the study of movement). We hypothesized that (1) Abetter awareness of career opportunities and planning tools would encourage female students todevelop more effective success and stress management strategies; that (2) women who developeda

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; John Demel; Richard Freuler

MechanicalEngineering course (Mech. Eng. H210) that covers statics instead of the third course in thephysics sequence, Physics 133I. In this statics course students are placed in study groups forsolving the assigned homework problem sets.4. Key Features of the Engineering Design/Build ProjectIn Engineering H193 the students are formed into teams and then given the scenario for the robotcompetition. They learn about team formation and teamwork, project planning, management anddocumentation. One of the teams' first tasks is to develop a team working agreement thatspecifies the expectations for each member, how decisions will be made, and what happens if ateam member does not do her/his share of the work. The second task is to look at when thecompetition is held

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Ezzell; Paul Gordy

as a planning team member for an NSF sponsored grant on engineering education. Similar contacts led to Gordy’s participation in reviewing grants for NSF on two occasions. • Ezzell now participates in board meetings for the local NSPE chapter and was voted as 1999 Engineering of the Year. • Gordy was voted 2002 Professor of the Year at TCC.Integrating Team Projects into the Engineering CurriculumTCC’s involvement in competitions has been highly beneficial to the program, but not allstudents have been directly affected as participation has been primarily on a volunteer basis.Gordy and Ezzell feel that the next step is to provide similar opportunities to all TCCEngineering students by integrating design projects and competitions into

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Veronica Dark; Mary Huba; Kevin Saunders; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationenterprises. A common IT-based environment can be used to integrate these courses. As anotherexample, such an environment can also be used to encourage the development of specificlearning skills. In traditional educational environments, it is difficult to monitor and encouragestudents’ higher-order cognitive activities, such as planning how to learn a given task,monitoring comprehension of the task, and evaluate the progress towards completing the task.On the other hand, such metacognition has been found to be important to learning and we believean IT-based environment can

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Semahat Siddika Demir

GraduateBiomedical Engineering Program of University of Memphis (UM) and University of Tennessee(UT). The major goals of our mentoring program are peer-mentoring and community building.We achieve our goals by providing (1) a support and discussion group, and environment duringthe transition time of the graduate studies, (2) career and study planning, and (3) professionaldevelopment for the women in our graduate biomedical engineering program. Higher percentages of female students and tenured/tenured-track faculty in our BMEprogram provide us with a great potential for role models, thus our future goal is to expandmentoring to female students in our engineering school.Mentoring In her book [2], Dr. Emily M. Wadsworth, former Administrator for Women

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

of the terms thathave been evolving in the educational quality culture are terms such as goals, objectives,outcomes and assessment. These terms are frequently used in the new TC2Kaccreditation criteria. In addition to learning new terms, new ways of doing things must Page 9.1279.1be developed and documented as plans, processes and procedures. These plans,processes and procedures then aid an organization in developing their new qualityProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationculture. Requirements such as

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peggie Weeks; Maryanne Weiss; Mark Pagano

subtle—and sometimes not so subtle—changes in philosophy. For example,the popular Six Sigma methodology5 being used by many industries today has at its coreDMAIC: Define, measure, analyze, improve and control. This is in many ways similar to theoriginal CQI PDCA cycle: Plan, Do, Check, Act. At the heart of philosophies like Six Sigma iscontinuous improvement: a systematic pursuit of excellence and satisfaction of the needs ofconstituencies in a dynamic and competitive environment.It is easy to count the number of courses taught, list how many faculty are professionalengineers, how many have PhDs, etc. It is even relatively easy to list topics “covered” in eachcourse. And it is a straightforward task to list a program’s equipment, and how many

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Johnson; Mary Vollaro

developmentopportunities for faculty and students, effective educational and outreach programs, andindustry/academia collaborations.ASEE Materials Division EffortsIn order to create a record of the activities of the Materials Division, the session information forthe last five years has been tabulated below 3,4,5,6. From this data, assessment efforts can berefined, trends in our technical field as well as within our membership may be identified, andbetter planning by the Materials Division officers and members for future conferences may befacilitated.Session # ASEE 1999 DESCRIPTION3: # PAPERS (25 abstracts total)0564 NEW Experiments 71364 Matl’s Eng. In the Real World 31464

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

competitiveness during the last four decades and the nation’s professionally orientedfaculty at the nation’s schools of engineering and technology have been undervalued, under rewarded, andunderdeveloped as well. This situation will continue, in all probability, unless corrective change ispurposefully planned and put into action. Although the advancement of fundamental scientific research,the training of future academic researchers, and the development of research-oriented faculty is crucial tothe nation’s scientific strength, so is the advancement of creative engineering practice, the furtherprofessional education of the U.S. engineering workforce for leadership of creative technologydevelopment and innovation in industry, and the development of

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Rufe; Tracy Tillman; Bob Lahidji

and sells theproduct. Students in each class form a small business, select job functions, and performthe responsibilities of those respective job functions.MFG 316 students generate original product concepts. The products developed mustcontain at least five discrete components. The class votes on the "best" concept and theremainder of the semester is spent developing a prototype, bill of materials, tooling, etc.The MFG 316 class forwards its concept to MFG 421 Manufacturing EngineeringAnalysis. MFG 421, further develops the product forwarded from the previous MFG 316classes. Students in MFG 421 form a small business and select job functions such asdesign engineering, marketing, finance, sales, production planning, packaging, quality,and

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole DeJong Okamoto

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education • A Comprehensive Plan to Improve Mineral Science Instruction Using Project-Based Learning and XRD Analysis • Collaborative Research: Adapting and Evaluating Online Materials for Undergraduate Statistics Using LON-CAPA Technology • Developing a Research-Rich Introductory Biology Curriculum • Towards an Integrated Polymer Education: Development of Biodegradable Polymer Laboratory Unit • Adaptive Online Laboratory in Computer Science Education • Bug Power: Fueling our Future with Microorganisms • Remotely Accessed Energy Laboratory

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

Session 2548 Sophomore Project/Capstone Course Glenn R. Blackwell ECET - Purdue University West Lafayette, IN blackwell@purdue.eduabstract:This paper describes a new project course in ECET at Purdue University. It is a course taken bystudents in their 4th semester of the 2+2 ECET program, and may be considered a capstonecourse for the AS degree. In it the students must work with a time plan, and must follow adesign guide that has them combine both analog and digital

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

products and project.The First Three ETKs:In our initial Senior Design class, six teams undertook projects aimed at developingETKs. Three were ultimately successful; our criterion for success was that the lessonplans were actually used in a middle school classroom. Three other teams achievedacceptable lesson plans, but failed to develop a meaningful Design Challenge. The twodefining attributes of engineering teaching kits are: (1) they realize the guided inquiryapproach to teaching science and math, 6, 7, 8 and (2) they teach the engineering designapproach to problem solving. 5, 9, 10 Page 9.222.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

offered ageneral technical writing course, but never on a regular basis. The College of Technologycontinues to offer a technical communications course, but because it is geared toward anothercollege’s majors, and based on their curriculum, it is considered inadequate for engineeringstudents. Technical communications training in the College of Engineering has been more or lessthe task of individual faculty members in discrete courses. Laboratory courses usually requirewritten and sometimes oral lab reports. Typically, design classes have a reporting component:students develop, manage, and execute the work of a project, writing periodic documents thatboth aid in the planning process and model reporting to clients. In both cases it is the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

possible, the teams are composed of four students each. Informational andtechnical support for each team is provided by a client or “engineer-in-charge” (whoproposed and financially supports the project) and a faculty consultant (a faculty memberwho volunteers to provide technical assistance, sometimes an instructor for the capstonecourse). The instructor’s official role is that of a team facilitator. (The instructors alsohandle all the organizing, planning and grading for the class as well as serving in the roleof the client and consultant as needed.) In the current course the instructor can expect tobe “responsible” for about twelve teams each year working on ten or eleven differentprojects. For example, in 2003 (spring and fall semester

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Harth; Matthew Barber; Andrew Spurgeon

an educational methods course,an advanced course in instructional technology, and by serving as teaching assistants andtutors in guiding summer academies for middle and high school students. Project STEPis also receiving partial support from the Directorate for Engineering.This paper seeks to discuss in detail one activity developed by Fellows in Project STEP.It is hoped that by detailing the planning, implementation, and success of the project,other educators may use it to help teach specific science and social science conceptsrelated to the community effects of power generation to their own classes. Because theproject was designed for one specific high school program, but was implemented in two,a qualitative comparison between the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Min Huang; Michael Trevisan

evaluator provided focused assistance by facilitating thedevelopment of a student assessment system. This work included the construction of a variety ofassessments for engineering design, development of scoring criteria to evaluate student work,and evaluation of technical characteristics of the assessment, such as inter-rater reliability.For the opto-electronics and IGERT projects, an eclectic evaluation strategy was employed,strategically applying a variety of quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. Theevaluations for these projects differed as the evaluation plans responded to unique programcomponents and outcomes in each project. All stages of the opto-electronics project wereevaluated, including planning and implementation phases

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Carlson

Session # 3613 Making Memories The Penn State Bioprocessing Cluster Program 2000-2002 Alfred Carlson Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractAs part of a larger National Science Foundation grant to Penn State, I ran a special hands-on, “real life” educational program in bioprocessing for senior chemical engineers. Thestudents took all of their courses for the spring semester, senior year, from a singleinstructor and pooled them into a seamless laboratory project to produce a recombinantprotein at pilot plant scale. The students were able to learn how to design experiments,plan and execute runs, and operate a

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Fredericks Volkwein; Linda Strauss; Lisa Lattuca; Patrick Terenzini

200 programs – in 40participating institutions – responded to surveys in fall 2003. Approximately 11,500 graduatingseniors (anticipated degree date of Spring 2004) and approximately 9,000 alumni (who graduatedin 1993-94) from those same programs are being surveyed in early 2004. Telephone interviewsof deans and a survey of employers will be conducted in summer 2004.This paper presents information about the research design of the EC2000 Study, describing thesampling plan, instrument development process, survey administration, data collection andmanagement, and planned analyses. It also provides information about the anticipated uses of thefindings of the EC2000 Study.IntroductionIn the early 1990s, the Accreditation Board of Engineering

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch

. Planning and preparation often occur long before studentsreturn from their winter leave to ensure that adequate time and resources are available tosuccessfully complete the project before graduation in May. There are essentially three basicgenres of senior capstone projects: research-based, competition-based, and service-based. TheMotor Pool Bridge project fell into the most sought after form of project in the department—theservice-based project. The three seniors selected for this project expressed a strong desire todevelop the need of the motor pool staff into a well-articulated plan, and finally construct aphysical product allowing employees convenient access to their break area across the stream.The project began by meeting with motor pool