Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Showkat Chowdhury

assessment requires that graduates must havedemonstrated abilities (ABET Criteria 3, a-k [1]), in mathematics, science, engineering,design, data analysis, teamwork, ethics, communications, and life-long learning. Inaddition to ABET 3(a-k) requirements, the Mechanical Engineering program at AAMUwas designed to meet the additional requirements of the American Society of MechanicalEngineers, such as (l) an ability to apply advanced mathematics through multivariatecalculus and differential equations, (m) a familiarity with statistics, linear algebra andreliability, (n) an ability to work professionally in both thermal and mechanical systemsareas including the design and analysis of such systems, (o) a knowledge ofcontemporary analytical, computational

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

and environment aspects into the curriculum.Additionally all engineering students must have an understanding of professional and ethicalresponsibility. Students must demonstrate the broad education necessary to understand theimpact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context. Programs must have a majordesign experience incorporates engineering standards and realistic constraints that include mostof the following considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability;ethical; health and safety; social; and political [5]. Major chemical companies [6] such as DuPont [7], BP [8], Dow [9], Merck [10], Rohm& Haas [11] have adopted a green approach to move toward a sustainable future. In addition

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Richards; Daniel Pack; David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

acomplex project, such as design and manufacturing skills for custom designed boards with VLSI,LSI, MSI, and SSI devices, not covered in other required courses. Once hardware skills areacquired, students then learn skills to break down a big project in to multiple sub-tasks, tomanage project progress, and to plan project activities from the start to the finish. They alsohave lessons on engineering ethics using case studies. Faculty members propose a variety ofprojects and students apply for projects of their interests. The project selection occurs in themiddle of the first semester.Once the project selection is determined, students are required to present a formal systemrequirement briefing based on the project description provided by faculty

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

required 2-credit hour coursefor all freshman engineering students at Purdue University. This course is designed to givestudents an appreciation for what the pursuit of an engineering degree entails. The courselearning objectives are such that students successfully completing the course are able to:• Develop a logical problem solving process which includes sequential structures, conditional structures, and repetition structures for fundamental engineering problems,• Translate a written problem statement into a mathematical model,• Solve fundamental engineering problems using computer tools,• Perform basic file management tasks using an appropriate computer tool,• Work effectively and ethically as a member of a technical team, and• Develop a

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Norton

design project, and the technical content is usually motivated by the engineering needs of the design project. Integrated into this general class theme are additional themes of ethical and environmental responsibility. Differences between the Ford SEI course and the UM CoE course There are differences between the Ford SEI course and the UM CoE course. The Ford SEI course has between 20 to 25 students that meet daily for 6 weeks, while the UM CoE course has 100 students that have full lecture twice a week, has a small group discussion once a week with 20 to 25 students, and extends for 14 weeks. The Ford SEI keeps the students quite busy, with almost 90 percent of the standard 45 hour work week devoted to scheduled activities, while the

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

outcomes, and 2) to characterize and categorize teaching andlearning practices. Desired student learning outcomes identified in published sources mirroredtwelve of the engineering accreditation criteria supplemented by five additional outcomes notexplicitly addressed within current accreditation criteria: a) multidisciplinary systems thinking,b) business aspects of engineering practice, c) appreciation for diversity, d) good work ethic andcommitment to continuous quality improvement, and e) logical thought process. Sixty-onepercent (11) of the learning outcomes are categorized as Technical, and 39% (7) are categorizedas Social.With respect to teaching and learning practices, an initial investigation uncovered six publishedsources that collectively

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Butkus

, dataanalysis, design, learning from failure, creativity, communications, teamwork, and ethics. One ofthe eight USMA Environmental Engineering Program Outcomes states that graduates willdevelop the skills necessary to plan, design, execute, and critically interpret results fromexperiments. Students in the USMA Environmental Engineering Program have lab experiencesin many courses in the curriculum. These iterative and comprehensive laboratory experiencesfoster sound skills and knowledge in this area. For example, in Physical Geology students work in pairs completing ten scheduled labs.These labs provide hands-on practice identifying minerals and rocks and creating student flow-charts to distinguish one from another on the basis of physical

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ghanashyam Joshi

a “B” grade.III. SAP Curriculum PlanSUBR strategy is to implement SAP R/3 into the curriculum for the College of Business andCollege of Engineering. The college of engineering plan is to introduce business issues inengineering curriculum in selected relevant courses as follows:MEEN 120 : Introduction to Engineering and Technology - Introduction to Universityorganization and procedures; engineering and ethics; engineering graphics including introductionto computer-aided design; and the engineering design process and its applications to practicalproblems. Introduction to SAP/R3 applications will be provided to high school students(Engineering Summer Institute) and freshman engineering students through demonstrationapplications. Prerequisite

Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko

to evaluate alternative designs and select the particular design bestmeeting the stated objectives. Students must learn how to build, test and optimize Page 9.967.1prototypes. They must know how to present their design effectively to "management" Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationboth orally and in written reports. Finally, students must be familiar with engineeringstandards and be able to assess the particular manufacturability, ethical, health and safety

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Will; Wesley Stone

presented several times each semester to all six sections. • Each faculty member delivers one or two lectures for the large group session, including topics such as sustainability, hazard analysis, project planning, testing and verification, engineering ethics, patents, entrepreneurship, and professional licensure. • Weekly advisor meetings (WAMs) are held with all six faculty in attendance to address administrative and creative issues.The exemplary materials developed as resources for each instructor include electronic copies ofthe following: • Course syllabus, schedule, and grading format • A handout detailing each assignment on the proposed schedule • Example assignments, as appropriate • Suggested grade sheets

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peggie Weeks; Maryanne Weiss; Mark Pagano

current knowledge and adapt to emerging applications of mathematics, science, engineering and technology, c. an ability to conduct, analyze and interpret experiments and apply experimental results to improve processes, d. an ability to apply creativity in the design of systems, components or processes appropriate to program objectives, e. an ability to function effectively on teams, f. an ability to identify, analyze and solve technical problems g. an ability to communicate effectively, h. a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in lifelong learning, i. an ability to understand professional, ethical and social responsibilities, j. a respect for diversity and a knowledge of contemporary professional

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay

teams were also involved in mock-up situationsrequiring the application of engineering ethics. As a part of instruction the student teamswere assigned to present specific case histories covering different aspects of designprocess. This consisted of engineering successes as well as failures from the accounts ofcase histories [1]. These realistic situations from the case histories were used to illustrateand reinforce the interdisciplinary nature of engineering design. The student teamswould come prepared and present before the class the case histories and what were thelessons learned from them. The entire class participated in asking questions andcritiquing the presentations. Prior to the student team presentations, the instructor wouldoutline

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul McCright; Joanne Larsen

, and works as a research associate atthe V.A. Patient Safety Research Center in Tampa. His areas of research include scarce resource allocation, barriersto implementing patient safety interventions, and the learning styles of engineering students. He teaches a variety ofcourses at USF including engineering economy, manufacturing processes, and engineering ethics. Page 9.343.5“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education”

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Nelson

division writinginstruction. However, since this convention is closely tied to ethical professionalism, it should beremediated, in my opinion. While poor grammar and punctuation skills may reflect poorly on astudent’s credibility once he or she reaches the workplace, failing to give proper credit foranother’s ideas could get him or her fired.Recommended Teaching ApproachesIn general, I believe that three pedagogical approaches can bring significant improvements to thewriting products produced by engineering students.First, consider group-written assignments aimed at an audience of professional peers, rather thanwritten for the teacher. The most successful set of documents I reviewed belonged to the civilengineering students, who worked in groups

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Elaine Millam

series, critical features for the process and expected outcomes for each of thecourses. We used a set of critical design assumptions as our guide for development.These assumptions were based on adult learning theory as well as motivational theory.Furthermore, we felt the student should take personal responsibility to be activelyinvolved in their learning agenda, shape a vision for his/her leadership and learning thatwould guide their planning process while they deliberately focused on increasing theirself-awareness and understanding of a leader’s social/ethical responsibilities.The three-course series would begin with a thorough base-line assessment of theindividual graduate student’s competencies, personal values, learning style

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Enger; Sudhir Mehta

project manager. • Becoming a national model for a reconsidered role of higher education in society.OutcomesThe specific outcomes of the project are listed below. • Increase student retention rate by 10% by the third year of the project. • Increased overall grade point average (assumed to be among the project participants compared to control group students). • Increased student abilities to define problems, participate in the overall learning experience, and solve problems. • Increased student college level reading, critical thinking, writing, and mathematics. • Increased student understanding of self, sense of personal ethics, and clarity of personal values. • Increased student

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Lewis; Carol Considine

skills,environmental impact, and ethics. The second course is an exploration of engineering andengineering technology disciplines with an emphasis on projects.The purpose of these courses is to engage the students in the application of engineering early intheir course of study with the hope that their interest will be reinforced and the likelihood of theirbeing retained as students will increase. The courses are divided into three five-week modulesthat are distributed among departments within the college. The Engineering Technologydepartment is responsible for two of the five-week modules in the second, projects-based course.One module is comprised of the civil, mechanical and electrical engineering technology curriculaand the other module is

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

, 2003, from http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf03312/c2/c2s7.htm.13. Dyrud, Marilyn A. (compiler). A1997 Engineering Technology Bibliography.@ Journal of EngineeringTechnology 15, no. 2 (Fall 1998): 18-34.14. Dyrud, Marilyn A. (compiler). A1999 Engineering Technology Bibliography.@ Journal of EngineeringTechnology 17, no. 2 (Fall 2000): 38-51.Marilyn A. Dyrud is a full professor in the Communications Department at Oregon Institute of Technology andteaches classes in technical and business writing, public speaking, and professional ethics, and is part of the facultyteam for the civil engineering integrated senior project. She has been active is ASEE for 20 years. She is also activein the Association for Business Communication and the Association for

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Prathivadi Ravikumar

enhance content quality and/or quantity more easily.5. Adapting multi-media course content to the on-line environment Limitations of on-line course offering and management software to handle multi-media course content must be overcome (by alternative means if required) to ensure that such multi-media content is provided on-line just as it is done in regular classroom situations.6. Conforming with copyright issues It is of course necessary ethically and legally to comply with copyright and confidentiality protocols. This can be quite a challenge given that students are in various geographic locations with access to information from various sources not only in the public domain but also in the

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Camille George

Laboratory, LA-UR-99- 3231 (1999).6. Meyer, R., “Introduction to Basic Design of Experiments Concepts”, © Meyer Group, Inc., (2001)7. UST, Bush Grant, www.stthomas.edu/bushgrantBiographical InformationCAMILLE GEORGECamille George is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of St. Thomas. She teachesThermodynamics, Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics. She received a B.A. from the University of Chicago, a B.S.and M.S. from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. She workedseveral years as an engineer for Ingersoll-Rand and Martin-Marietta before obtaining her doctorate. Her currentinterests are in the areas of fuel cells, ethics and humanitarian engineering

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; William Oakes

engineering.These issues include: professional and ethical responsibility, the impact of engineering solutionsin a global and societal context, and a knowledge of contemporary issues. While recognizing itsimportance within the engineering curriculum, many departments find it difficult to effectivelyintegrate experiences that include the full spectrum of professional, or “soft” skills, that simulate Page 9.784.1current industrial practices (Hughes, 2001). “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

BME Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Harris; David Gatchell; Robert Linsenmeier

” by the time they graduate with Bachelor of Sciencedegrees. We also feel that there are a set of “core competencies” (e.g., communications,teamwork, ethics, etc.) with which BMEs should be familiar, if not able to masterfullydemonstrate. Though of equal importance to the “key content” knowledge described above, ourpresent focus is on determining the key elements of biomedical engineering domain knowledgeand disseminating these elements to our colleagues in academia and industry (other members ofVaNTH are actively developing a consensus set of “core competencies” in collaboration with theCDIO7 initiative at MIT). Page 9.258.1 “Proceedings

Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Okechi Egekwu

of business interactions and linkages. Criticalbusiness data must be accessible to authorized users (comprising suppliers, employees,distributors, retailers, customers, etc.) within the value chain in a timely and controlledmanner. Corporations store confidential and/or proprietary information belonging to otherfirms as well as their own. Compromising proprietary information has severe business,ethical and legal repercussions for an enterprise. The Computer Security Institute incooperation with the San Francisco FBI office conducts an annual survey of computercrime and losses – it reports that in 2003, survey respondents stated that proprietaryinformation theft contributed to the most financial loss and averaged $2.7 million perincident. [2

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nolan Van Gaalen; Kristin Wood; Carl Erikson; Frank Duda; Matthew Green; Steven VanderLeest

worldreligions (as indicated by their international outreach). It is not surprising, therefore, thati “As a Professional Engineer, I dedicate my professional knowledge and skill to the advancement and betterment of Page 9.1091.1human welfare …” (NSPE Code of Ethics for Engineers) Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2625engineering departments at faith-based institutions place a high value

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Segalewitz

all students to purchase notebook computers. All Engineering Technology students enroll inthe course during their first semester at the University. This one-credit course meets for one 75-minute class period per week, and is graded on a pass/no credit (P/NC) basis. Because of thisgrading scheme, some students realize that attendance and a minimum amount of work are allthat are required to obtain credit for the course. As such, engaging students in each area of studyis the best way to maintain their interest in the subject area.Areas of study in the beginning of the course involve discussion and activities related to ethics,diversity, study skills, time management, University policies & procedures, and the designprocess. Four weeks of the

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

of a 45-minute discussion followed by one hour of open lab time for students to work on the final designproject. The class discussions during the final five weeks provide an adequate coverage of topicssuch as ethics in engineering, ergonomics, and intellectual property. Page 9.783.4 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Students’ CommentsDuring Spring 2003 semester, a questionnaire was administered to ED&G 100 students at theAltoona College of Penn State University. The objective of

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

countries at that institution. 2. UM-D students would be exposed to and learn social, cultural, ethical, political and economic aspects of student life and of the profession, in general, in the host country. 3. UM-D students would interact with host and international students at the institution. 4. Upon their return, the participants would discuss and/or make presentation on program benefits and their learning experience to other interested students, program staff and advisors.Institutions and ProgramsAfter a series of discussions and exchange of information, the College developed international Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Daughton

include quality function deployment, statistical process control, and design of experiments.EMEN 5050 Provides working engineers a background in leadership andLeadership and Management management theory and enables them to develop practical skills in leading and managing. Topics include managerial styles, organizational factors, communications, ethics, change management, and conflict resolution.EMEN 5300 Explores how research and development contribute toManagement of R&D technological innovation and they are conducted and managed

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Prathivadi Ravikumar

issues It is of course necessary ethically and legally to comply with copyright and confidentiality protocols. This can be quite a challenge given that students are in various geographic locations with access to information from various sources not only in the public domain but also in the private domain such as their workplaces. It is important to make use of administrative support that is often available to address such issues.7. Offering useful on-line teaching/learning tools On-line group discussion forums, e-mail correspondence, on-line announcements, digital drop boxes for assignment and submission of tasks, and on-line quiz / exams are some of the on-line tools that must support the core

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

as: • DFT topics that would be used in much larger projects in industry • Automated testing techniques used in industry • failure analysis techniques used in industryOther industry-oriented topics include: • The formal prototype development process such as that used by a contract PCB design house • SMT automated assembly and test issues • Secondary source considerations for parts • Timing of semiconductor manufacturing • Professional ethics • International nature of industryWhile this course results from the faculty’s desire to improve the ECET curriculum at Purdue’smain campus, the author feels it would serve equally well as a capstone course for an AS