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ERM Potpourri

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Lovitts, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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Educational Research and Methods

worksheet. Major category First-order subcategoriesIntervention Teaching and learning Educational technology Communication and information technology Development of professional skills Student assessment Student retentionSubject/content area Engineering major Engineering fundamentals Design Laboratory & laboratory courses Basic sciences

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Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Pangborn, Pennsylvania State University; David Wormley, Pennsylvania State University

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-scale sail planes. Over thecourse of ECSEL program, the sailplane project eventually became integrated into thecurriculum in such a way that students receive up to 11 credits toward their degree requirementsif they complete four years in the program, which involves 20 credits of effort.7 In ElectricalEngineering the changes included creation of a laboratory course on micro-controllers thateventually became a required course and redesign of laboratories to be fully integrated withlectures in two other courses, Circuits & Devices8 and Electronic Circuit Design I. The CivilEngineering project integrated industrial design cases into the entry level structural design class.9The Chemical Engineering project entailed the creation of two detailed

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Faculty Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Brent, Education Designs Inc.; Richard Felder, North Carolina State University; Sarah Rajala, North Carolina State University

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, reviews assessment data for eachelement, and offers recommendations to engineering schools wishing to establish their ownprograms for new and future faculty members.I. IntroductionThe default preparation for a faculty career is none at all. Graduate students may get sometraining on tutoring, grading papers, the importance of laboratory safety, and the undesirability ofsexual harassment, and new faculty members may hear about their benefit options, theimportance of laboratory safety, and the undesirability of sexual harassment, but that’s about itfor academic career preparation at most universities. This is an unhealthy state of affairs. Being a college professor requires doing a numberof things that graduate school does not teach you to do

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Student Misconceptions and Problem Solving Abiltiy

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Prince, Bucknell University; Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University

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even more dramaticresults using active-engagement methods coupled with inquiry-based laboratory modules. Themeaning of “inquiry-based” has many slightly different definitions [8], all of which share the keycharacteristic that students pose and answer questions through physical experience and directobservation rather than by listening to lecture or following a highly prescribed laboratoryprocedure. In this work, we define inquiry-based learning to be that which incorporates thedefining features shown in Table 1 [6]. Table 1: Elements of Inquiry-Based Activity Modules [6] (a) Use peer instruction and collaborative work (b) Use activity-based guided-inquiry curricular materials (c) Use

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Use of Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Alley, Virginia Tech; Madeline Schreiber, Virginia Tech; Katrina Ramsdell, Virginia Tech; John Muffo, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

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question then arises: Issuch a design the most effective at having the audience retain the main assertion of theslide? According to Robert Perry of Hughes Aircraft and Larry Gottlieb [2] of LawrenceLivermore National Laboratory, the answer is “no.” Since the 1960s, Perry has argued fora succinct sentence headline on presentation slides. Following Perry’s lead, Gottlieb hascome to the same conclusion at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Although the sentence-headline design is the standard at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, the design is seldomused outside of that laboratory. In The Craft of Scientific Presentations, Alley [3]presented an argument for using succinct sentence headlines. More recently, Jean-lucDoumont [4] and Cliff Atkinson [5

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Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cristina Pomales-Garcia, University of Michigan; Yili Liu, University of Michigan; Virginia Soto, University of Michigan

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’ skillsand knowledge will be directed. From the perspective of faculty, Fromm 3 defines a detailed listof characteristics which future engineering graduates should possess to become leaders of theprofession, including a strong foundation in basic sciences, math and engineering fundamentals,the capacity to apply these fundamentals to a variety of problems, among others.The Millennium Project 4 at the University of Michigan is a research laboratory designed for thestudy of the future of the American universities. The mission of this project is to “provide anenvironment in which creative students and faculty can join with colleagues from beyond thecampus to develop and test new paradigms of the university”. The Millennium Project proposessome key

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Building Communities for Engineering Education Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robin Adams, Purdue University; Philip Bell, University of Washington; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Larry Leifer, Stanford University; Lorraine Fleming, Howard University; Bayta Maring, University of Washington; Dawn Williams, Howard University

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engineering, reviewing informationcharacterizing the infrastructure and culture of the institution (including demographics of thestudents and faculty), and assessing the interest in engineering education scholarship.As summarized in Table 1, local needs play a major role in defining the organizing theme,recruitment strategies and pathways, the nature of the culminating event, and the focus ofScholars’ studies. For example, each ISEE adopted a theme of investigating learningenvironments as research laboratories, but differed in scope and intent. The benefit of this “lab”theme is that it promotes a view that all learning environments are laboratories for understandinglearners and the learning process. For the first ISEE, the theme was “class as

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Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Banzaert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; David Wallace, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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60 systems for communication, lighting, vaccine refrigeration, and water supply and purification in remote areas of the Peruvian Andes.David Wallace, Massachusetts Institute of Technology DAVID R. WALLACE is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and is the co-director of the MIT Computer-aided Design Laboratory. He works actively to expand service learning work in engineering at MIT. Having a background in both industrial design and mechanical engineering, he teaches graduate and undergraduate product design courses, including 2.009 Product Engineering Processes, 2.744 Product Design, and 2.670 Mechanical Engineering Tools

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Factors Affecting Student Performance

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado-Boulder; Lawrence Carlson, University of Colorado-Boulder; Derek Reamon, University of Colorado

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2006-1264: EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF INTERACTIVITY ON STUDENTPERFORMANCEDaria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado-Boulder DARIA KOTYS-SCHWARTZ is a doctoral candidate and instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include polymer processing, development of student assessment measures, gender disparity in engineering and innovative instructional methodology.Lawrence Carlson, University of Colorado-Boulder LAWRENCE E. CARLSON is a founding co-director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program, as

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Building Communities for Engineering Education Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sally Fincher, University of Kent at Canterbury; Josh Tenenberg, University of Washington-Tacoma

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programming. Most recently, his research is in Computer Science Education, where he is investigating student software design and metacognition.Sally Fincher, University of Kent at Canterbury Sally Fincher is a lecturer in the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent where she leads the Computing Education Research Group. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy & Computer Science (University of Kent, UK) and an M.A. in English (Georgetown University, Washington DC). She is Editor of the journal Computer Science Education, jointly with Renée McCauley. Her principal research areas are Computer Science Education and patterns and pattern languages, especially patterns for interaction design

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Building Communities for Engineering Education Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University; Robin Adams, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Deborah Follman, Purdue University

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. Then new teams, inwhich each team member had expertise regarding a different learning activity, were formed andcharged to rank the five activities from least- to best-aligned with formal cooperative learningprinciples. In a separate learning activity, student teams postulated the values and philosophy ofan engineering instructor who incorporates cooperative learning in his/her classes.Student teaching and research philosophies and their elevator speeches went through at least oneiteration cycle, with students receiving feedback from classmates, the course instructors, and, inthe case of the teaching philosophies, peers from the Laboratory for User-Centered EngineeringEducation (LUCEE8) at the University of Washington (LUCEE is devoted to

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Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yvonne Ng, College of St. Catherine; Lori Maxfield, College of St. Catherine

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toincorporate the Curriculum of Connections, but it is not the only one and may not be the mosteffective one for a given institution’s system.PCM provides a language to describe how educational objectives, instructional strategies, andassessment relate back to the overarching criteria required by a system. For example, thetraditional engineering program can be described and analyzed as follows: The Core and Practice curriculums are taught in the first years with science, math and computer science requirements. Engineering Core and Practice are introduced in the sophomore year through introductory courses and laboratories. Design classes and co- ops, which students attend in the last years, provide environments that require

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Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Todd Johnson, Washington State University; Reid Miller, Washington State University

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ways.For the field of engineering education, there has not been an embracement in the use of onlineeducation. Following an extensive review of engineering online programs, Bourne, Harris, &Mayadas31-32 found that a large number of them were available for master’s level, but there werefew bachelor’s degrees. A reason often noted to not developing engineering courses online is thechallenge of replicating hands-on laboratories over the internet, even though a great deal ofmodule development has been done in this area31-32. For these same engineering educationresearchers, they recommend that field of engineering learn more about methods for blendedlearning (in-class and online), different pedagogies for teaching and learning in onlineengineering

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Knowing Our Students II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

. Page 11.1346.12AcknowledgementsThis work has been supported by the National Science Foundation through grant REC-0238392,Using portfolios to promote knowledge integration in engineering education. The authors wishto thank all members of the Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education for theinsightful reviews and comments that helped to shape this paper.References1. Lappenbusch, S., & Turns, J. (2005). Finding their place in TC: using a community of practice model to research emerging TC professionals. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Professional Communication, Limerick, Ireland.2. Guan, Z., Yellin, J.M., Turns, J., and Kumar, V. (2005). User-centered design of course-based portfolios for mechanical engineering

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Student Teams and Design Skills

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tamara Moore, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University; P.K. Imbrie, Purdue University

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in Table 1. The MEA wascompleted in a computer laboratory setting with the students working both individually and inteams of 3 to 4 students. The students had twenty minutes to do the individual portion and onehour to complete the team portion of the MEA. The students begin by reading the entire MEAindividually. When students work this problem, the individual warm-up activity (the last sectionof Table 1) requires that the students think about the problem and provides the students time toorganize their thoughts before setting out to solve the problem with their team members. Thestudent teams then re-read the problem statement and develop the model for their procedure. Table 1. Factory Layout MEA

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Student Teams and Design Skills

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University; Madara Ogot, Pennsylvania State University; Girish Rao, SPRINT

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. Moreover, thiswas an analysis of design activities in actual practice, unlike laboratory experiments whichmight alter designer behavior and strategies.During stage I, students were required to analyze the current offerings in the market andredesign an electric toothbrush that will better meet needs of the targeted population. Theywere expected to begin with a customer needs assessment, complete a literature search,product dissection and benchmarking, generate and select a viable concept, and end withdetailed design specifications. The deliverables included a progress report four weeks into theproject, and a final design document and presentation at the end of the seven week period.The design documentations of the eight design teams were reviewed

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ERM Potpourri

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadia Kellam, University of South Carolina; Veronica Addison, University of South Carolina; Michelle Maher, University of South Carolina; Mann Llewellyn, University of Queensland; David Radcliffe, University of Queensland; Walter Peters, University of South Carolina

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2006-103: THE FACULTY PERSPECTIVE ON THE STATE OF COMPLEXSYSTEMS IN AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGPROGRAMSNadia Kellam, University of South Carolina NADIA KELLAM is currently conducting research in the Laboratory for Sustainable Solutions while completing her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. Her research interests include engineering education, sustainable design, and complex systems science. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship and institutional support from the University of South Carolina.Veronica Addison, University of South Carolina VERONICA ADDISON is a PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering conducting research in the