Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny

. Terpenny is the Co-Director of the NSF e-Design Center and has extensive teaching,advising and research experience in the field of engineering design. Dr. Goff has extensiveexperience with early design and teaching/advising design for engineering and industrial designstudents. He has won numerous awards for teaching excellence. Both instructors bring a wealthof industry experience and enthusiasm to invention, innovative teaching methods and learning tothe classroom.Outside guest lecturers from industry and a variety of academic partners provided valuable inputand an experience base to inform and expand the course on topics, including: • How to develop and implement partnerships with small companies for real-world design projects taken on

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Eliot; Jennifer Turns

identify best practices,” Proceedings of the 2003 Frontiers in Education Conference, Denver, CO, November 2003.14. Eliot, M., Neal, R., and Turns, J. (accepted). “Recognizing need: The analysis of qualitative data to inform web site design,” To appear in Proceedings of the 2005 International Professional Communicator’s Conference, Limerick, Ireland, July 2005.15. Turns, J., Atman, C.A., Adams, R.S., and Barker, T. (2005). “Research on Engineering Student Knowing: Trends and Opportunities,” Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), pp. 27-40.JENNIFER TURNS is an assistant professor of Technical Communication at the University ofWashington and the head of the Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education (LUCEE).Dr. Turns

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Erekson; Kurt Becker; Maurice Thomas; Christine Hailey

requisite engineering design and analytical knowledge andskills? How are clinical experiences for technology teachers best configured? What are theeffective means for delivering ongoing professional development for teachers?Research Theme 3 – Assessment and EvaluationIn order to know what students have learned as a result of instruction, and to learn about programquality and effectiveness, we need to know more about assessment and evaluation. Thus, thethird NCETE research theme is to conduct research regarding assessment and evaluation. Thisincludes assessing and evaluating Center activities and will include research questions such as:What are the effective assessment and evaluation strategies of learning and teaching engineeringconcepts to K-12

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

projects. They enjoy figuring out how something works and insist on practical objectives for assignments. Confluent learners have a strong desire for creativity and innovation. They are not afraid of risks or failure and prefer unique, unconventional approaches.Depending on the interaction of an individual’s patterns, strong preferences associatedwith one pattern may coincide with strong avoidances of another pattern. For example,the sequential learner’s preference for order and consistency may be evidenced as adesire for predictability, and, therefore, as a corresponding avoidance of the risk andopenness to chaos that is a characteristic of the confluent learner. In each case,knowledge of this profile provides extremely

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lagace; Earll Murman

team involving allparts of these programs -- students, industry members, and faculty. Another factor is that thestrong linkages with industry in developing and delivering the curriculum naturally lead tointeractions between teaching, practice, and research. Identified gaps of knowledge lead toideas for new research studies, and this and the overall work help set priorities for future work.The background of students the authors have taught in some of the subjects listed earlier differssubstantially from those found in a traditional aerospace engineering graduate program centeredon research degree tracks. On one end of the spectrum have been students who have justreceived a bachelors degree, many of whom have no industrial design experience, and

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

Conference & ExpositionCopyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Engineering Ethics Workshop: The ERC offers a very popular workshop onengineering ethics to provide the students with resources for understanding andaddressing ethically significant problems that arise in their research and their work asprofessional engineers.Communications Workshop: The communications workshop offered to the REUstudents each year includes communication skills involving poster making andpresentations, writing abstracts and papers, resume and cover letter writing. The mostpopular portion of the workshop is a segment on best practices for presenting scientificmaterial to various audiences.Engineering Graduate School Seminar: At the beginning of the

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy L. Mahan; Martin J. Gutowski; Brian H. Victor; Mark Deluca; Sarma Pisupati

-on experimentation and plenty of out-of-classroom activity –Flash was the natural choice to allow students to have the same type of experiences in anonline environment. The activities allowed students to do everything from exploringrooms in a ‘virtual home’ in order to gain energy-usage information for commonhousehold appliances/devices, to conducting a ‘virtual experiment’ in order to determinethe best insulation method, to visiting a ‘virtual home improvement center’ in order tocompare prices and R-values of various insulation materials.The challenge from a design perspective was to capture the fun, hands-on essence of theclassroom course while keeping students engaged and focused on the learning at hand. Asmentioned previously, plenty of

Conference Session

Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

La Verne Abe Harris

the class. The stipulation was that it had to look like the sameinformation designer created each molecular structure. The professor had to take the complexacademic content and intentionally construct meaning from the experience. In order for theexperience to be learner-centered, the students determined what actions must be taken in order toreach the significant goals. The professor had to assist by giving no answers –– only questions.This prompted the students to be self-regulated, assume responsibility for their actions, and todepend on each other in order to get their part done.Forming a TeamThe team project included opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, enrolled inArizona State University’s graphic information technology

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Schultz; Arnold Johnson

have designed, built, tested, and launched include Scorpio Alpha, an instrumentationpayload designed for flight using weather balloons; AEROCam, a three-band, one-meter spatialresolution imaging sensor designed for flight by UND Aviation small aircraft; AgCam, a two-band, ten-meter spatial resolution imaging sensor to be installed in the International SpaceStation for capturing precision agriculture data; and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, a radio-controlled airplane with a three-meter wingspan, capable of flying scientific payloads with amass of up to four kilograms. Generally, teams consist of master’s-level graduate studentsconducting thesis research and undergraduates enrolled in the two-semester capstone seniordesign sequence. Primarily

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bardo; Gary Bertoline; Eugene DeLoatch; Duane Dunlap; Albert McHenry; T.G. Stanford; S.J. Tricamo; P.Y. Lee; H.J. Palmer; Michael Dyrenfurth; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

development & innovation as contrasted with the mentoring role of research-oriented faculty and graduate students for scientific discovery • Task 2: To define the mentoring attributes that promote growth of working professionals in industry for the development and innovation of new/improved/breakthrough technology • Task 3: To define the role of faculty as mentors in the experiential learning process • Task 4: To use new concepts of how creative engineers learn, grow, and develop as creative professionals and leaders of technology development in industry • Task 5: To share best practice for educating working professionals • Task 6: To define the role of faculty mentors in project-based (problem-centered) innovation

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Shooter; Soundar Kumara; Robert Stone; Timothy Simpson; Janis Terpenny

from the traditional productdevelopment process, which focuses on optimized designs for individual products. Productfamily planning places a much higher demand on management of information of multiple typesand from multiple sources. In response, researchers at four universities are collaborating on thedevelopment of an information technology infrastructure to support product platform planning.This is a relatively new development in engineering design that is typically not part of theundergraduate education; therefore, we see an intrinsic relationship between the need forintegrating the development of research directly with educational enhancements to teach studentsabout these concepts. This paper describes an undergraduate research/learning

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stefani A. Bjorklund; Norman Fortenberry

graduate also ought to demonstrate 1) ability to manage a project (including afamiliarity with business, market-related, and financial matters), 2) a multidisciplinary systemsperspective, 3) an understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of students, faculty, staff,colleagues, and customers, and 4) a strong work ethic. During Phase II of this project, weidentified several assessment instruments that might measure those outcomes and begansearching for instructional “best practices” thought to promote the 15 desired learningoutcomes. This paper, based on Phase III of the project, provides empirical evidence from andidentifies the gaps in higher education and engineering education journal articles that linkinstructional best practices with

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John McMasters

resulted in curriculum compression – sometimes to extreme levels.Faced with pressure to add material, reduce time, and satisfy the demands of the (sometimesarchaic) industry hiring practices, academe too often resorted to a balkanization approach incurriculum development.One possible solution to our overall dilemma is to make the entry level requirement forprofessional practice a 5- or 6-year program. This is at best only a partial solution to theproblem. While science and mathematics provide the engineer much of the basic tool andknowledge suite needed for practice, it is design, and more recently its abstraction into systemsengineering, that is the essence of our profession. In educating engineers for our future, we needto think in terms of a

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Pasek

Winston8. Baker, E. H, Paulson, S. K., 2004, Experiential Exercises in Organization Theory and Design, Thomson Learning9. Films for Humanities & Science website http://www.films.com10. Oakley, B., R.M. Felder, R. Brent, and I. Elhajj. "Turning Student Groups into Effective Teams." Journal of Student Centered Learning. Vol. 2, No. 1, 2004, pp 9 –34BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONZBIGNIEW J. PASEKDr. Pasek is the operations manager and an assistant research scientist in the NSF Engineering Research Center forReconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, College of Engineering, University of Michigan. His research interestsinclude systems engineering, manufacturing automation, global product development, and informal technologyeducation. He is a member of

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

. Retrieved March 1, 2004, from ABET website: http://www.abet.org9. Ariely, D., Kamenica, E., & Prelec, D. (2004). Man’s Search for Meaning: The Case of Legos. (Working Paper).Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology .Biographical InformationSUMI ARIELY is Research and Assessment Coordinator for the MIT Public Service Center and senior lecturer atthe Sloan School of Management. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in1999.AMY BANZAERT is a graduate student in MIT's mechanical engineering department. Previously, she worked forthree years as MIT's service learning coordinator, developing the program from its early beginnings. She has alsoworked as a design and manufacturing engineer for Texas

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Christine Masters; Judith Todd

innovations include: the introductionof undergraduate student portfolios; the adoption of a new perspective on “Design” for the ABETprogram criteria; enhancement of the senior research and design project through incorporation ofthe ABET professional components; incorporation of non-technical abstracts in bothundergraduate and graduate theses; professional development seminars for both undergraduateand graduate students; the introduction of an informal education seminar to prepare PhD studentswishing to pursue academic careers; and introduction of new courses to support the department’sstrategic plan. With an underlying focus on the development of multilevel communication skills,the aim of these initiatives is to foster an interdisciplinary and

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

. Urban-Lurain M, Weinshank DJ. Attendance and outcomes in a large, collaborative learning, performance assessment course. http://www.cse.msu.edu/rgroups/cse101/AERA2000/attendance.htm; 2000.8. Urban-Lurain M, Weinshank DJ. Mastering computing technology: A new approach for non-computer science majors. 1999 April 20, 1999; Montreal, CA. American Educational Research Association.Author BiographiesTIMOTHY HINDS is an Academic Specialist in the Michigan State University Department of MechanicalEngineering. He teaches undergraduate courses in machine design, manufacturing processes and mechanics. He alsoteaches a senior-level undergraduate international design project course and has taught graduate-level courses inengineering

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein

novice designers.Axiomatic Design is attractive because of its criteria for evaluating designs, its standard formatfor recording design decisions, and its ability to promote team-based discussion about designrequirements and associated design parameters. The case study approach we adopted to answerthe research question that had three main aspects: 1. analysis of completion dates for different phases of the design process by previous senior design teams, 2. distilling key axiomatic design ideas in a toolkit that could benefit capstone design projects, and 3. piloting the toolkit with several senior design teams to see how this impacted behavior during conceptual design and system integration.Through the pilot projects we

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theo Brower; Meredith Knight; Chris Rogers

: TheAutomation of Fruit Fly Larvae Genetic Research. This project is in collaboration withgenetic researchers at the New England Medical Center (NEMC) in Boston. The goal isto design a system to automate the measurement of food intake by genetically engineeredfruit fly larvae in order to identify genetic influences on obesity and type II diabetes.Currently, to test the amount of food eaten by a fruit fly larva is a very slow and labor-intensive process that is currently done by hand. With the current process, it would takeyears to test all the genetic lines with the potential to influence obesity and type IIdiabetes. The challenge for the Robotics Academy team was to make a high throughputsystem that would enable the testing to be done in a much shorter

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Smith; Kevin Craig; Pamela Theroux

, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. A considerable body of research has shown that learning is significantly enhanced when students engage all of these cognitive processes5,7.Background on RensselaerRensselaer’s commitment to student-centered learning and its innovation in undergraduateengineering education is well known. Between 1993 and 1998, Rensselaer won the Pew Awardfor the Renewal of Undergraduate Education, the Boeing Outstanding Education Award, and theTheodore Hesburgh Award for Faculty Development, the only technological university to win allthree of these prestigious honors. Crossing low walls between schools, and combining thetraditional laboratory-centered education with

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Feick; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

,participation in a virtual design experience, or extensive study abroad opportunity. While thetraditional study abroad experience has centered on an immersion type program, we propose thata global studies experience can be equally valuable, and, if designed appropriately, may be morevaluable to the engineering student.We describe a ten-week global studies experience that we have designed and taught forengineering and business students as part of the summer Semester at Sea Program. In particular,we describe how an engineering topic - manufacturing and the global supply chain - can best bestudied if classroom work is combined with truly multidisciplinary team projects and well-designed field visits at each country on the itinerary. Further, if

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Brunell

students with first hand exposure of real industryprojects, practices and regulations.Additional benefits of this program include the continual interaction between students andpractitioners. Schedules are established and must be adhered to, technical writing and oralcommunication skills are honed while the students become responsible to an outside consultant.This relationship in many cases has facilitated job placement for the graduates of the program.Introduction:With the implementation of ABET 2000 several changes had to be made within the engineeringcurriculum at Stevens Institute of Technology. One of the major changes included revising thecapstone design to accomplish some of the goals set forth in ABET Criteria a through k and meetthe

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Carter; Catherine Brawner; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe

. BRAWNERCatherine E. Brawner is president of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She specializesin evaluation of distance education, educational innovation, and technology use in the classroom.She is currently the principal evaluator for LabWrite and has previously been the principalevaluator of and advisor to the SUCCEED Engineering Education CoalitionMICHAEL CARTER, Ph.D.Dr. Carter is a Professor of English at NC State University where he teaches writing in thesciences at both graduate and undergraduate levels. He has published widely in rhetoric andwriting, including his recent book, Where Writing Begins. Page 10.1306.8 Proceedings of the

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Ward; Robert Busch; Abhaya Datye; David Kauffman

of more importance in design of traditional process equipment and facilities and in environmental fields. Probability analysis is very important in health and safety fields. Each field has its own specific “industrial strength” computer program packages used for design, analysis and operations. Students should gain experience using the ones in their fields. • Design, economics, process control and laboratory: These are all topics that have close ties to industrial and/or research laboratory practices. They can be very different, however, depending on what industry or research area they are tied to. The design process for a large-scale, continuous petrochemical

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Katie Sullivan

of highschool, college and graduate students. The researchers will (1) examine team-membersexperiences in this course to determine if and how the course design can be improved and(2) quantify high school students’ perceptions of college, specifically the University ofUtah and the College of Engineering. ChE is a pilot interdisciplinary service-learning seminar on hydrogen sustainability.It includes 12 University f Utah college students (six from Chemical Engineering and sixfrom other disciplines) and 12 advanced high school students who will be taking the coursefor college credit. The “pilot” nature of this course requires that research be conducted toassess the impact of the course. Currently, the seminar will be evaluated for both

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tori Bailey; Jonathan Gabrio; David Cannon; Helen L. Chen; George Toye; Larry Leifer

Using Wikis and Weblogs to Support Reflective Learning in an Introductory Engineering Design Course Helen L. Chen1, David Cannon2, Jonathan Gabrio, Larry Leifer2, George Toye2, and Tori Bailey2 Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning1/Center for Design Research2 Stanford University, USAAbstract An observation and a pedagogical challenge often found in project-based design coursesis that students see what they have produced but they do not see what they have learned. Thispaper presents preliminary findings from an NSF-sponsored research project which experimentswith the use of weblogs and wiki environments, two

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Russomanno; Anna Lambert

Tips, Traps, and Troubleshooting: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Multiple Modes of Mentoring for Success in the Fields of Computer Science, Engineering, Math, and Technology A. Phillips-Lambert, D. J. Russomanno, R. Hairston The University of MemphisAbstractIf educators are going to be successful in guiding, advising, and mentoring studentsmajoring in the fields of computer science, math, technology, and engineering, it isessential to develop a complementary approach to the leadership team. While we oftentell our students that teamwork skills are essential for success at school and at work, wedo not always practice what we preach.This research presents our attempts at

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

represented the experiences of a small number (N < 6) of undergraduates andgraduate students within the context of this program.In this paper, we will first describe the background for this project. Secondly, we will provide anoverview of the undergraduate Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program (ETPP) which includesa description of the context in which we piloted this newly developed undergraduate version ofthe ETPP curriculum and the process we used to adapt the curriculum materials that wepreviously developed for an advanced graduate student audience to the undergraduate level.Third, we will present the design of the research study linked with this pilot offering and discussthe results and their implications of the formative evaluation of the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

engineering management curriculum offers innovative courses in technicalmarketing, high tech product strategy, fast cycle time product development & launch, andengineering entrepreneurship. In these case study courses, students develop real world marketingand business plans for commercializing innovative new products and technologies. Some of theinnovative product development and technology commercialization ideas have won accolades atregional business idea pitching competitions.All students in the Florida Tech College of Engineering must participate in a senior designprogram. The intensive undergraduate engineering programs at the university have resulted in anumber of outstanding crossfunctional Senior Design Projects. The Senior Design program

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

, teamwork and cross-disciplinary learning must be addressed. Emphasis must shift from measuring “teaching” to“learning”, “applying” and “innovating”. Examples of modern “best-practices” are used to layout some of the essential elements for the new aerospace engineering education.IntroductionCurricular innovations started today will influence corporate leadership when the Classes of2005 – 2009 are some ten years beyond graduation. We use present assumptions to develop twoexample scenarios aimed to straddle the reality of 2016. This paper was inspired by ourexperience this summer as Boeing A.D. Welliver Fellows, when we were able to compareperspectives from academia, U.S. industry and the global marketplace. The paper is condensedfrom one of the