Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University

, letters, short reports, long reports, oral reports, briefings?2. What are some of your reasons for communicating in these tasks and who is your audience?3. How much time per week do you spend planning, writing, and editing documents?4. How much time per week do you spend planning, creating, and presenting oral presentations, either formal or informal?5. How important are communication tasks to your success at work?6. Have you had any formal training or courses in technical communication, speech, or writing?7. What do you wish you had known about communication tasks before you began your career?8. What advice do you have for prospective engineers?After analyzing the sample questionnaires, each group designed their own. Some groupsdesigned

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Siegenthaler

Conference & Exposition Copyright À2004, American Society of Engineering Education”Hexadecimal Math, Random Variables, Gaussian Math, Fourier Tansforms, LinearAlgebra, Logic, Linear Systems, Bessel Functions, Decision Theory, Discrete Theory,Sampling Theory, Laplace Transforms, and Fourier Math[6,7].All of that is in addition to the rudimentary math used everyday. The study ofmathematics is probably a life’s work. The Dean at the Colorado School of Mines hassaid he expects the average graduate to have seven careers in their lifetime. NOT sevenjobs with different companies, seven different careers. Therefore, the emphasis at theColorado School of Mines is on a very solid foundation in mathematics, physics,chemistry, and good

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tremayne Waller; Bevlee Watford

Virginia Tech. Students have the opportunity to become familiar with theseresources such as career services and the cooperative education program, the Center forAcademic Enrichment and Excellence, academic advising and course registration and studentorganizations. Additionally, guest speakers from the local area discuss their leadership skills andwhat company’s expect from college graduates.The students meet weekly with academic advisors. In these weekly meetings, students discusstheir performance in ASPIRE. In this manner, students are pro-actively learning self-disciplinewith respect to accomplishing the requirements of the program. This particular activity wasimplemented following the first year of ASPIRE. It was determined then that unless

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

credit-hour senior year project in the major field. Called the Major Qualifying Project (MQP), this finalproject serves as ECE students’ capstone design experience.The ECE Design course was originally motivated by assessment5 indicating the need to improvestudents’ understanding of the process of design in preparation for the MQP. A second objectivefor the ECE Design course is to assure that students, who typically take the course at the end ofthe second year, are able to apply the fundamentals of ECE in the context of an independent,team-based design project. The course takes place roughly midway through ECE students’undergraduate careers, and is intentionally a formative design experience, rather than asummative capstone design project. At the

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sid Wang; Kenneth Roberts; Joseph Monroe; Ajit Kelkar; Devdas Pai

trained and instructed by faculty mentors on NASA-sponsored Page 9.781.1 1research projects during 8 weeks in the summer. Students were encouraged to pursue advancedtechnical careers via professional development and mentoring activities.NASA PAIR PROGRAM GOALS AND OBJECTIVESGoals:1. To increase the participation of underrepresented minorities and women in MSET disciplines2. To foster the integration of NASA-sponsored research into undergraduate education and promote undergraduate research training3. To increase quality of graduates through enhancement of core courses with research-based learning

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

-engineeringtechnology curriculum for slightly under-prepared students. The Technology Gateway integratesthe study of mathematics, communications, and technology (three courses) around industry-typeproblems, providing relevant, hands-on learning experiences, and addressing career exploration.Curriculum products and evaluation data may be found at www.scate.org.IntroductionStudents often fail to make the connections among the various courses within the engineeringtechnology curriculum. Particular difficulty arises with the general education courses of physics, Page 9.478.1mathematics, and communications (English and speech). An engineering technology

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in BAE

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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

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

countries around the world. In Western Australia, vendor-based curricula, such as the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) program, the CiscoCertified Network Professional (CCNP) program and the Microsoft Certified SystemsEngineer (MCSE) program are offered for credit in TAFE Engineering and InformationTechnology (IT) Diplomas and in Bachelor and/or Masters Degrees in three of the fiveuniversities based in the State. In this paper we seek to examine the reasons why studentsenroll in the courses, and what career benefits they believe will accrue as a result of theirstudies. The paper will conclude with an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses ofoffering curriculum over which universities and college have no control of content

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Kavetsky

led to the establishment of ONR’s NationalNaval Responsibility (NNR) Program in undersea weaponry to address S&T topics of uniqueinterest to this community. As part of the NNR in Undersea Weapons a University/LaboratoryInitiative (ULI) was established. The objective of this initiative is to develop a consortium thatwill attract, develop, and retain highly capable individuals in career fields that support sciencecritical to undersea weapons technologies. A secondary objective is to build confidence thatwithin the universities, where the Navy has had historical success in hiring new employees, thereare departments with students well suited to pursue research in areas aligned with topics germaneto the ONR undersea weapons NNR program.This

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Satyajit Verma

Dimensional Pictorials (Oblique and Isometric)Throughout the semester, the students work in groups of two to four students to prepare finaldesign drawings and reports on their projects. Typically, the students write one final report perteam during the semester. In some case the students may also build a prototype.Outline of the TSGC Design Challenge ProgramThe Texas Space Grant Consortium (TSGC) administers the Design Challenge Program4sponsored by NASA. It is intended to provide the student teams with an opportunity to engage inscientific research, hands-on design, meeting presentations, career opportunities with NASA, andeducational / public outreach activities. It provides the undergraduate students with a uniqueopportunity to choose projects from

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Farid Tranjan; Catherine Blat; Patricia Tolley; Deborah Sharer

who had completed their freshmanand sophomore year curriculum were especially recruited for the program. The purpose ofengaging students in SFS early in their undergraduate career was to ensure that they hadsufficient time prior to graduation to engage in relevant and challenging research, becomecomfortable with the College’s procedures, and begin to define a focus of interest for theirgraduate studies.Based on discussions with prospective participants, all of whom were underrepresented minorityengineering students, most of them were not aware of the benefits and opportunities of agraduate degree. None of them were knowledgeable of the requirements and process foradmission, including admission to the College’s early-entry master’s programs

Conference Session

Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Zainulabeddin; Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Ashfaq Ahmed; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

employing. This approach to curriculum bridges the gapthat exists between the classroom practices and industrial practices. This unifiedapproach would deliver students with career-bound knowledge essential for the industry.I. IntroductionIn the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) department of PurdueUniversity Calumet (PUC), the faculty by choice have taken upon themselves to makethe changes, the essence of which is reflected in this paper. After a lot of deliberation thecurriculum committee agreed to make the changes to the curriculum that essentially,prepares the student to function in the market place as the System Designer. It wasrealized that the ECET curriculum should impart to the graduating student enoughexposure to pursue

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Showkat Chowdhury

assessment tools. Black engineering students are highly under-representedwith respect to all engineering students and percentage of their population. It is shownthat, frequent faculty-student contact in and out of class, expressing faculty concern aboutthe students problems, especially those who miss class frequently, trying to help withtheir studies, sharing experiences and attitudes with the students, help these students toget through their rough or difficult times and move forward to achieve their career goals.The percentage increase of student overall learning performance due to personal contact,measured using the above outcome assessment tools, in turn demonstrates the percentageincrease in satisfying the ABET criteria, the desired goal

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; M. Sami Fadali; Ann-Marie Vollstedt; Eric Wang

teachers and given engineering presentations to thestudents that answered the following questions: What is an engineer? Who are some famousengineers? Why are engineers important? What is the difference between an engineer and ascientist? What are the different types of engineering? Why become an engineer? How do youbecome an engineer? In addition they talked to the students in detail about mechanical, electrical,civil, and computer science engineers since those are the main fields offered in most engineeringprograms. As a result of the presentation, the students know a lot more about engineers and havea clearer sense of how to prepare for a career in engineering. As might be expected from middleschool students, some of them liked the idea of

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Joseph Hoffman; Gary Pertmer; Chandra Thamire

year. The final year is devoted to a significant design experience and anumber of technical electives that can be arranged to permit the students to shape their educationso as to provide an entry to a number of different career opportunities.The curriculum consists of the following curricular areas (Fig. 1): Page 9.83.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationA.1. Basic SciencesThis component primarily consists of 15 credit hours of mathematics (three calculus courses andone differential

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George F. List; Stacy Eisenman

experiences give undergraduates a chance toparticipate in discovery-based education. Students can see if a research-based career is of interestand if a graduate school is something to pursue. Students can be integrated into a research projectand given duties and responsibilities that otherwise might be given to a graduate student; andthrough this experience, they can assist in advancing the frontier of knowledge. While thisdescription of a URP experience does not fit all cases, it typifies what this faculty member hasobserved and seems typical of what academics describe [13].Given this sense of a URP, the authors see issues that should be addressed, especially from the

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Jayant Rajgopal; Bryan Norman; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

 2004, American Society for Engineering Education • “Prepare students for a broad range of careers and lifelong learning … feature multidisciplinary, collaborative, active learning and take into account students’ varied learning styles,” 1 • “Include early exposure to ‘real’ engineering and more extensive exposure to interdisciplinary, hands-on, industrial practice aspects, team work, systems thinking and creative design” 2, and • “Create an intellectual environment where students can develop an awareness of the impact of emerging technologies, an appreciation of engineering as an integral process of societal change, and an acceptance of responsibility for civilization’s progress.” 3More

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Avitabile; Charles Goodman; Jeffrey Hodgkins

approach the latter part of the undergraduateeducational career. Professor, why didn’t you tell us that the material covered at the beginning of the semester was going to be really important for the work we needed to do ? Student views material Professor clearly sees in a disjointed fashion how pieces fit together Figure 1 – Professor vs. Student View of Material PresentedThis is especially true in a senior level Dynamic Systems course where

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

. WEP and EOE will leverage several of the existing programs they offer toinform pre-college students about engineering careers and attract women and minorities to UT’sCollege of Engineering. Programs such as Girl Day, Un Sabado Gigante, Minority Introductionto Engineering (MITE), World of Engineering, Consider Every Option, and Your Opportunitiesare Unlimited (YOU@UT) give students the opportunity to interact with industry representativesand engineering faculty and students. WEP and EOE report that students from the target schoolshave participated minimally in these programs in the past. The additional AIM funding allowsWEP and EOE to direct a concerted recruiting effort toward the target schools. The extra fundingwill also be used to provide

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Knox; K. Muraleetharan; G. Miller; D. Sabatini; Randall Kolar

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationachieved excellence in engineering education.Selected Educational Awards to Members of the Project Team: • 3 NSF CAREER Awards (integrating research and education) • ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) Fred Merryfield Design Award • 3 ASEE Dow Outstanding New Faculty Awards • NSPE (National Society of Professional Engineers) Design in Education Award • 6 OU teaching and research awardsRegional Awards: • Oklahoma Regents Instructional Technology Excellence Award (1999) • Oklahoma Williams Faculty Innovator Award (2000)Other Project

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ming-Sung Koh; Mick Brzoska; William Loendorf

provide appropriate technologies, such as wireless Internet access, a high-tech classroom, and a computer lab. On-site support and programming will include a dedicated Academic Advisor/Career Counselor, tutors and cluster classes, where students from all over campus can come to take classes. Housing Scholarships will be offered to students who demonstrate academic potential and financial need.The ETMD Departmental level activities include: • Identifying industry mentors and establishing culturally relevant internships for underrepresented students (i.e., minority owned businesses, businesses located in the student’s home community, etc.); • Expanding traditional recruitment activities such as site visits

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Newberry; James Farison

littledifference but realize others outside think there is” and “similar to other programs” to “findprogram challenging and rigorous in comparison to others” and “students remain attracted byinterdisciplinary approach.”A9c). Respondents reported that alumni views of the program ranged from “see little differenceand liked the degree they received” and “positive” to “passionately in favor of the general natureof the program” and “strongly believe program gives them an advantage in their career.”A9d). Respondents reported that employers’ views of the program ranged from “prefertraditional degrees but see little difference with our grads” “generally favorable” to “employersreturn to hire more of our grads, appreciate their skills” and “with gratitude for a

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Blat

students may stay in the program their entire academic career. Most otherretention programs typically invite or require students to participate during their first year only.Third, the program was developed with significant input from students and is still operated,assessed, and continuously improved by students with faculty oversight. This approach hasproven to have other benefits besides optimizing use of resources. Students involved in theprogram have assumed ownership for its success. They also have the opportunity to developnon-technical skills highly valued by employers, such as leadership, project management,communication, and teamwork skills. Fourth, the program recognizes and addresses criticaltransition stages experienced by students

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

indicative of their knowledge and skills. Current digitaltechnologies enable the storage and presentation of such materials in an easy to createand easy to access format. At the University of Texas at Austin, we are developing aweb-based tool for undergraduate engineering students that provides an environment forthem to display and reflect on their engineering accomplishments. The electronicportfolio system (http://pf.engr.utexas.edu) is now available to all students in the Collegeas a result of three years of development. While we are confident that the portfolio system will enrich our students’university experiences and prepare them for a career in engineering, we have faced anumber of challenges that we would like to share in this paper

Conference Session

Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

career. At you will find links topapers that provide extensive information on the Felder-Silverman model, includingcharacteristics of students with different styles, teaching methods that address each style,suggestions for achieving the desired balance, and an on-line instrument to assess preferences oneach of the four dimensions of the model. Other papers on the same site provide information onother learning style models and cite references to their applications to engineering education.Active LearningDuring a traditional lecture, the only one who is active is the lecturer—talking, writing on theboard, showing transparencies, asking questions and often supplying the answers when there isno response from the class. The students are

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bruno; Alistair Greig; Robert Mayer; Jennifer Waters

Shipbuilding.The mission of ACCeSS is establishing an international design environment where thedisciplines associated with hull, machinery, weapon and control system design can be broughttogether within the context of the total ship system design, thereby facilitating the creativeknowledge development, educational changes and discipline integration required for trueinnovation. Secondly, ACCeSS seeks to utilise this unique education and research environmentin the recruiting, training and long-term career development of the best and brightest youngengineers in the US (and UK). The latter initiative is expected to contribute to countering thecontinued downward trend in recruitment and retention in the marine industry being experiencedin both countries.1.1

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

the “Other” category do not fit strictlywithin the Boyer model but are still potentially valuable sources of improvement. For example,Chickering’s recommendation 55to “Advise students about career opportunities in theirmajor/field of study” is not describing an innovative application of knowledge, the developmentof new knowledge, the synthesis of different strands of knowledge, or teaching new knowledge;however, it may be categorized in our remaining dimensions as “Encouraging faculty-studentcontact” for the purpose of “changing the environment,” with the intended goal of enhancingcommunity.3. Category: PurposeThree major categories divide the practices into their purposes: improving teaching, redesigningcourses, and changing learning

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

+0.8One surprising result of the evaluation questions at the end of the report were the popularity oftechnical report projects in the course. A large number of students reported that the courserelated directly to their major and their career goals because they predicted that they would haveto engage in a great deal of communication in their careers. A sizeable number also mentionedthat what they learned from the course was that engineers needed to write much more than theyhad ever imagined, and they did not know that there were so many different kinds of technicalcommunication. Clearly, one of the aspects of the course elucidated by this survey was the extentto which we can be perceived to be a valuable part of their education. As students who

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Easton; John Stratton

education to prepare graduates for a successful career in business and industry.Customarily, instruction was conducted on the central campus in classroom and laboratorysettings. This mode of instruction was suitable for many years and met the needs of theRochester, NY community.Beyond the HorizonWhile RIT has long had a part-time evening program to accommodate adult learners, thisprogram was operated in a fashion similar to the full-time day program. In the 1970’s it becameapparent that there was a potential to expand instructional offerings to other geographical areas, Page 9.469.1especially the programs offered in the School of Engineering

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Jalkio; Christopher Greene

Vocabulary of Basic and General Terms, 2nd edition,ISO Switzerland, 1993CHRISTOPHER S. GREENEChris Greene received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)and proceeded to a 25 year career in industry. At Honeywell, he did research on adaptive control and navigationsystems before becoming Program Manager for several large aerospace programs. At Horton and Nexen, he. wasresponsible for the development of industrial control products. In 2002, Dr. Greene joined the engineeringdepartment at the University of St. Thomas where he currently teaches classes in signals and systems, controls anddigital design.JEFFREY A. JALKIOJeff Jalkio received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota