Conference Session

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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Educational Research and Methods

Education, 2006 Community Building and Identity Development Through Graduate Coursework in Engineering EducationAbstractThe new engineering education graduate degree program at Purdue University is a pipeline foreducating future engineering faculty and professionals interested in pursuing careers that supportresearch-based engineering education reform. The first cohort of doctoral seeking students wasadmitted in Fall 2005. Two courses were developed to address community building and identitydevelopment in this new field of study. Emphasis was placed on these two ideas as the field iscurrently not well defined and the research community is relatively small and fragmented. Suchemphasis is also intended to circumvent common

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Asli Sahin, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Timothy Simpson, Pennsylvania State University; Steven Shooter, Bucknell University; Robert Stone, University of Missouri-Rolla

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Design in Engineering Education

2006-1647: A METHOD TO EVALUATE RELATIVE INSTRUCTIONALEFFICIENCIES OF DESIGN ACTIVITIES FOR PRODUCT PLATFORMPLANNINGAsli Sahin, Virginia Tech Asli Sahin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. Her research interests focus on developing modeling systems that help designers to integrate engineering and management principles into conceptual design of products and systems. She received her M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech in December of 2005. She has experience and interest in adapting and developing computer-based visualization instruction models for education and training purposes. She is currently a member of

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wells, North Dakota State University

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Graduate Studies

best focused in the coursework. The researchshould be guided with a looser rein.Intellectual Character of Graduate Study: Increasingly, engineering work in both industryand in academic preparation is undertaken in project form, most often through multi-disciplinaryteams. In the graduate education context, engineering students are traditionally expected toundertake, complete and document an independent project of significant scope. The ‘significantscope’ dimension often clashes with ‘independence’, as many of the relevant problems incurrent-day engineering are multi-disciplinary, or at least multi-dimensional, and are bestaddressed by teams.The graduate disquisition is intended to be a substantive intellectual product. The project nature,as

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Rogers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeremy Noonan, Purdue University; Jaemeen Baek, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sangil Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ulas Tezel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Grant Michalski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Chia-Hung Hou, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He served on DAEC from the formation of the committee in August 2004 to June 2005. Page 11.130.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Successful Student-Initiated Assessment Method for an Environmental Engineering Graduate ProgramAbstractObstacles in assessing academic conditions can include generating interest in assessment effortsin order to achieve high response rates, transcending communication barriers, preservingconfidentiality, minimizing biases from numerous sources, and conducting meaningful statisticalanalyses. A graduate

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Freeman, Valparaiso University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Electrical and Computer

Engineering at Valparaiso University. Dr. Freeman joined the faculty in 2003. As a graduate student and Lecturer at Iowa State University, Dr. Freeman worked with three engineering-oriented learning communities. Dr. Freeman is currently the Vice-Chair of the Calumet Section of IEEE. Page 11.105.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION TOOLFOR AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING LEARNING COMMUNITY Page 11.105.2IntroductionIn the changing technological environment of the early 21st century, all technical and non-technical

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Methods and Practice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Walden, Northern Kentucky University; Rose Shumba, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Page 11.792.9would like to apply more security tools to the development process. Code reviews could be en-hanced through the assistance of better static analysis tools with more instructor assistance. Thereare also a wide variety of web application security scanners, which offer features beyond the proxyand custom perl tools used in previous versions of the course. To address the issue of time constraints, we are creating a graduate class in secure softwareengineering. This class has both software engineering and information security prerequisites, al-lowing us to build upon a foundation of both security and software development skills. Graduatestudents also typically have a stronger mathematical background than undergraduates, opening

Conference Session

Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Hailey, Utah State University

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Women in Engineering

studentfeedback and instructor reflection. ‚ Provide clear information to the seminar speakers about the backgrounds of the freshmen students. Several speakers’ presentations were at a highly technical level that made it difficult for the freshmen to follow. ‚ Invite junior- and senior-level female students into the class to talk about their experiences in addition to graduated engineers and faculty members. ‚ Include at least one more “hands on” session. We spent one session talking about engineering design and building paper towers from index cards. The students wanted more sessions like this one. ‚ Include at least one more community-building session where we spent time talking about classes and freshmen

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Tawni Hoeglund, Colorado School of Mines; Ruth Streveler, Colorado School of Mines; Kimberley Breaux

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Educational Research and Methods

Research Associate Professor in Academic Affairs. Dr. Streveler holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Master of Science in Zoology from the Ohio State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Indiana University at Bloomington. She is co-principle investigator of three NSF-sponsored projects: Developing an Outcomes Assessment Instrument for Identifying Engineering Student Misconceptions in Thermal and Transport Sciences (DUE - 0127806), Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (ESI-0227558), and Rigorous Research in Engineering Education: Creating a Community of Practice (DUE-0341127).Kimberley Breaux, KIMBERLEY R. BREAUX

Conference Session

New ET Curriculum and Teaching Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Strangeway, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Edward Chandler, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Roger Brown, Chippewa Valley Technical College; Kenneth Exworthy, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (retired); Jeffrey Fancher, Western Wisconsin Technical College; Walter Hedges, Fox Valley Technical College; Terry Fleischman, Fox Valley Technical College; Patrick Hoppe, Gateway Technical College; Richard Lokken, Milwaukee Area Technical College; Thomas Martin, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College; Daniel Merkel, Milwaukee Area Technical College (retired); Michael O'Donnell, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Terry O'Laughlin, Madison Area Technical College; Mark Porubsky, Milwaukee Area Technical College; Robert Steker, Waukesha County Technical College; Timothy Tewalt, Chippewa Valley Technical College

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Engineering Technology

in AAS Electronics Technology programs and a BS-EET program inWisconsin was reversed through the development and implementation of statewide transferagreements in Electrical Engineering Technology. The 2+2 transfer agreements removed the“terminal degree” perception at the AAS level, the major difficulty to healthy WisconsinTechnical College System Electronics Technology enrollments. Adoption of core electronicscompetencies among the various districts of the WTCS was instrumental to transfer agreementformation on a statewide basis. Despite different curricula, the eight AAS-EET programs in theWTCS all completely fulfill the transfer requirements of the BS-EET program at MSOE. AAS-EET graduates from the WTCS transfer to the +2 BS-EET program

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Ciocci, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg

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Environmental Engineering

Technology and Society Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Page 11.1226.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Teaching Sustainable Engineering Ten Years Later: What’s Worked & What’s Next?AbstractTeaching environmentally related courses in environmental engineering and mechanicalengineering technology curricula at two institutions has generated a wealth of experiences.Design for the Environment at the associate level, Design for Society at the senior level, andSustainable Engineering at the graduate level are similar, complementary courses. Topics ineach include

Conference Session

Assessment & TC2K Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Robert Lawrence, DeVry University

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Engineering Technology

2006-2369: USE OF RUBRICS FOR ASSESSMENT OF A SENIOR PROJECTDESIGN COURSEAhmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison Ahmed S. Khan, Ph.D. is a senior Professor in the EET dept. at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. He received his M.Sc (applied physics) from University of Karachi, an MSEE from Michigan Technological University, and an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management. He received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University. His research interests are in the areas of Fiber Optics Communications, faculty development, and outcomes assessment, and, Internet and distance education. He is author of “The Telecommunications Fact Book” and co-author of “Technology and Society: Crossroads to the 21st

Conference Session

Approaches to K -12 Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Jerry Hamann, University of Wyoming; Dennis Coon, University of Wyoming; Paul Crips, Laramie Middle School; John Pierre, University of Wyoming

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Page 11.1128.10‚ Interestingly, we have seen some students take HSI, then ESP, declare electrical or computer engineering, and then help teach both courses as student assistants.‚ Two students attending ESP had previously attended HSI. They asked for permission to work a different, challenging laboratory project rather than the laboratory exercises they had previously completed in HSI. There assignment was to build a 24 hour clock using information provided in laboratory 7 as a guide. With no assistance from the instructor they were able to successfully complete the design task.‚ Paul Crips, a middle school educator, attended Thinking and Doing Mathematics workshop and then adapted some of the coursework for his use in

Conference Session

FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carrie Slater, Virginia Tech; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech; Jean Kampe, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

. Chickering’s Theory of Identity Development suggests thatstudents develop their own personal identity by moving across seven vectors that include 1)developing competence, 2) managing emotions, 3) moving through autonomy and towardinterdependence, 4) developing mature interpersonal relationships, 5) establishing identity, 6)developing purpose, and 7) developing integrity.6 The mentors provide needed assistance as theirmentees negotiate these vectors. As they support their mentees’ development, the mentors willalso be aided in their own journeys along these vectors. “Meaningful friendships and diversestudent communities in which shared interests exist and significant interactions occur encouragedevelopment along all seven vectors.” (p. 41)6Building on