Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thompson; Terri Fiez; Larry Flick; Edith Gummer

curriculum and locally developed hardwarein 2000. About that time, the primary author was asked to assist EECS with evaluation of theplatform for learning. Since then, graduate students and faculty from the Department of Scienceand Mathematics Education (SMED) at OSU have been involved in evaluation research relatedto the curriculum reform.17An essential aspect of educational design research is the development of theory. Moretraditional approaches to curriculum development and implementation only apply theories ofinstruction and learning to new settings. A curriculum that incorporates cooperative learning isevaluated for the effect on student learning. The evaluation usually does not shed light on howcooperative learning functions to improve student

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Tammy VanDeGrift; Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationOur initial step has been to design the program and conduct a formal study of how twoindependent groups experienced the program. We are currently using the data to gain insight onthe impact of the program and learn how to improve it. In this paper, we will a) describe theprogram and concurrent research study, b) present case studies for a sample of the participants,with a focus on characterizing their experiences, and c) identify implications for continuousimprovement.Background and Motivation for Focusing on Engineering Graduate StudentsThere are strong reasons to focus on helping graduate students become more effective educators.Here we

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

build stronger socialrelationships within the distributed teams.As a learning experience, the pilot VSX effort provided many insights – both expected andsurprising – on the implementation of international teaming in design courses. With therevisions and enhancements outlined above, we expect the Spring 2004 follow-up pilot to yieldtighter collaboration and a solid basis for expanding VSX-support to other courses in the future.2.3 International InternshipsAs at most American universities, internship experience (international or otherwise) at NAU fallsoutside of the core curriculum: internships are encouraged but not required for graduation with aB.S. in Engineering. Approximately half of all students complete at least one internship, usuallywith

Conference Session

Collaborative Programs and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scogtt Magids; Sarah Djamshidi; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

increasing mutually productive interactions between facultyand students of the Clark School and companies in Maryland. The first programs thatbegan operations were: a consulting service to strengthen Maryland manufacturers, anon-campus incubator for technically-oriented start-up companies, and a biotechnologyprogram to help biotech companies through training and productivity enhancement and toscale up processes from research lab levels to commercial scales. In 1987 a technologytransfer program was started which facilitates faculty and graduate students performingcommercially-oriented R&D for Maryland companies. While these programs are notpurely entrepreneurship, the experience gained from interacting with small and startupcompanies laid the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Case Studies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Manion; Eli Fromm; Jay Bhatt

assisting these team-based projects, we found thatthe students enjoyed and benefited from both individual and group consultations with thelibrarians.4 The design project requires in-depth research on the topic that the students havechosen for their group project. Students work in groups of four to six, collaborating on variousfacets of the project topic.Because of the complex nature of the freshman design projects, students consult manyinformation resources available from the library to find what they are looking for. They often felta need to consult with the librarians in order to utilize the available resources more efficiently.During such consultations, librarians and students explore fundamental engineering resources,such as encyclopedias

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

Institute of Technology 7 /Western Carolina University 8 AbstractThis is the fourth paper in the special panel session of the National Collaborative Task Force onEngineering Graduate Education Reform to ensure a strong U.S. engineering workforce forcompetitiveness. Whereas research cultures have been built into the nation’s schools of engineering toenhance the educational experience of research-oriented graduate students, it is now evident that acomplementary but different culture is needed also to make professionally oriented engineering graduateeducation more relevant to the needs of industry and to further the advanced professional education of themajority of the nation’s engineers who are pursuing

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

practices that might result in specific undergraduate student learningoutcomes. The search was not limited to engineering student outcomes. Our search revealed acombination of anecdotal evidence, reports on the results of “trial and error”, multiple calls forchange, and a little research evidence. In particular, six published sources 50-55of effectiveteaching and learning practices were uncovered that explored alternative methods for education;only one 51 of these was specific to engineering education. We consider these reports Page 9.873.3foundational because they present practical recommendations; other findings of the

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tord Dennis; Robert Fulton

land. The 3-student teamat UMD was responsible for researching and developing/redesigning the engine, power train and fueland air systems of the Gator for the new mission. Figure 9. eMeeting in HorizonLiveVirtual meetings were crucial to the success of the project. The team leaders from each of the schoolsand two project managers (one from GT and one from John Deere) met weekly to discuss design issuesrelating to the interfaces between the team subsystems. This was accomplished using HorizonLive toshare a virtual desktop or ProductView to collaborate on a virtual CAD model. The entire team alsomet weekly to handle general administrative tasks such as learning the basics of PDM or how to useskeletons in ProE

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

context involves achieving goals that maybe categorized as educational, humanitarian, and spiritual. The focus here is on educational andhumanitarian objectives; spiritual aspects are discussed in a parallel paper to appear in the 2004CEE conference [12].Methodology for Developing an IH Project ModelOur educational research seeks to present guidance for the successful implementation of IHprojects in engineering curricula. The research approach to address this goal includes thefollowing steps: (1) selecting four exemplary projects, (2) reviewing design reports, publicityarticles, and student responses, (3) compiling a summary of each project, (4) reviewing theproject summaries and identifying a list of “key elements” thought to be instrumental to

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

internationalization. This is vital to maintain “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”leadership of the United States in this interdependent global economy. The goal is to develop andpromote peaceful and fruitful cooperation and collaboration within and across boarders1. Today’sengineers and technologists are expected to be an integral part of a much boarder society. Alsounderstanding of teamwork in terms of inter-human relations when executing projects isnecessary. Only 4% of all engineering and technology students participated in a study abroadexperience during 2000-2001 as a part of internationalization of

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

2001.5 Even with this strongrecord, we strive to attract more minorities into our engineering programs.Retention is a key issue related to graduation rates. Science and engineering fields report thelowest retention rates among all academic disciplines. Approximately 50% of students enteringhigher education in the sciences or engineering change majors in the first two years. Moreover,women and underrepresented minorities leave science and engineering programs at a higher ratethan men and non-minority students.6 For the 2002-2003 academic year at UT’s College ofEngineering, first year retention of women (69.4%) and minorities (69.4%) was lower thanretention of all engineering students (74.3%). In year two, women fared better with a retentionrate

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; John Demel; Richard Freuler

Mathematicsinstruction and the Engineering instruction. Under the leadership of Alan Van Heuvelen thesections for the FEH students incorporated active learning in large (~72 students) sections andcollaborative learning in the recitations and laboratory exercises (~24 students).22-23 Thelaboratory exercises are set up for experiential learning. The students are organized intoLearning Teams for the collaborative work including taking 12 percent of their midterm examsas a team. This part of their examinations consists of a complex problem that the team mustbreak into parts, solve the parts, and then assemble the partial solutions to solve the problemposed. On nationally normed exams these students have produced test results that are among thetop in the USA

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Daubert; Steven Peretti; Paula Berardinelli; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard

workshop setting. The consultation sessions emphasize theimportance of developing and implementing a systematic writing and editing team process.Often the consultant facilitates the integration of the collaborative writing, presenting, andediting skills that students were exposed to in the module by helping them apply these skills tocreating the reports and presentations required by the laboratory portion of the course. Teams of 3-4 members each were selected based on the day of the week each team wasscheduled for the course. TWS was taught Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and not onThursday or Friday. Subsequent analysis of the average GPA for each team in both groupsindicated no significant differences between the two groups. Non-TWS students

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Zemke; Donald Elger

sessions were recorded of graduatestudents tutoring undergraduates in research methods. Twenty-two one-hour sessions wererecorded of high school students tutoring junior high school students in algebra. One centralfinding of the analysis was a five-step dialogue pattern, shown in Table 1, which commonlyappeared in many tutoring sessions.Graesser, et al. describe the dialogue between the tutor and student as collaborative. The tutorbegins by asking a question, the student responds and the tutor gives some sort of feedback onthe student’s response. The feedback is not necessarily even correct. For example the studentmay give a vague or incorrect response and the tutor may say something like, “good.” Following

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

other science, technology, andmathematics disciplines, graduates of engineering programs typically enter a work environmentthat immediately requires team and interpersonal process skills. From the perspective ofeducation, positive team project experiences can motivate students to perform at higher levels.Well-functioning teams have been shown to improve learning and retention in non-engineeringfields, especially for members of underrepresented groups3,4,5,6,7.Previous research suggests that while most engineering faculty are committed to using projectteams in their classrooms, they have little or no formal training on how to work with studentteams or how to teach team members to work well together8. Focused on their discipline and onpedagogy

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stani Vlasseva; Valentin Razmov

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationlearn from it – they were also the most time consuming for instructors. On average, we§ spentabout 15 minutes per essay, reading it and writing comments – usually providing anotherperspective and asking a couple of questions to prompt students to explore in more depth someidea that they have written about. This may put a limit on the frequency or effectiveness of thisexercise for classes over a certain size.Nevertheless, reflective essays were responsible for some of the most rewarding interactions wehave had with our students. After the last session of one course, 4 students came to thank one ofus for the written feedback, saying they had

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Stern

anaerodynamics course at Howard. The evaluation and research plan (created in collaboration witha third party program evaluation center at the University of Iowa) is described, which focuses onexact descriptions of the implementations of the new interface at partner sites, especially asexperienced by the students, including preliminary data on immediate student outcomes asdocumented from site testing for Fall 2003. Also discussed are conclusions and future work. Page 9.450.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

at the sociallevel. The use of chat rooms for non-academic purposes during class time is becoming an issuein the university.The concept of using chat rooms for an environment where students cooperate to solve academicproblems is quite new at Zayed University. It needs to be further explored as it has the potentialto facilitate discussion for learning. On the other hand faculty members can play a critical role asadvisors and mentors in this environment. However, experience has shown that most facultymembers are not interested in participating in chat room sessions for a number of reasons,including being cautious and having time constraints. Faculty members actually prefer

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malika Moutawakkil; Lisa Hunter; J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

© 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFunding for the Akamai Program is provided by the National Science Foundation Science andTechnology Center for Adaptive Optics, managed by the University ofCalifornia at Santa Cruz under cooperative agreement No. AST – 9876783, and an NSFResearch Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement to the Center grant. The Maui EconomicDevelopment Board, Inc. Women in Technology Project is funded by the U.S. Department ofLabor as a pilot and demonstration workforce development project.Thanks to: graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and educators at the CfAO, especiallyAndy Sheinis, Jenny Patience, and Fernando Romero; John Pye, Mark Hoffman and WallettePellegrino of Maui Community College; Doris Ash

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

contexts. By the end of thesemester students are expected to be able to: (a) utilize the internet as a valuable tool inconducting research; (b) construct mind-maps as an effective tool to organizeinformation; (c) set short-term and long-term goals and strategies; (d) take effectivenotes; (e) describe the different engineering disciplines; (f) solve technical problemsusing an effective problem-solving technique; (g) use an engineering design problem-solving schema for open ended design problems; (h) describe the value-laden nature ofthe engineering profession; (i) define and describe moral reasoning theories used inengineering contexts; (j) develop writing skills required to argue for an ethical position orperspective; (k) use effectively standard

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

”which emphasizes extrinsic rewards like getting good grades, or having objective goals like getting into graduate school.(4) These students aspire for close working relationship with the instructor; they value learning through collaboration and discussion and tend to reject the “culture of competition”, normally associated with exams and obtaining good grades. It is imperative that instructors take into consideration students’ concerns when establishing the grading policy. Students need clarity and specificity in this regard; it is an important component of the course and should be properly addressed at the start. The course grading policy should take into consideration some likely questions such as: How often are tests given

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei Zheng; Dong Young Jang; Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

design course. The capstone course is a summary and reflection ofthe whole undergraduate curriculum. Therefore, internationalizing this course has special significance.The effort on this course will serve as the basis for discussion and exploration for internationalizing othercourses. In addition, it is reasonable to assume that engineering schools in different countries have somecommon requirements and expectations for graduating mechanical engineers, and some common practiceto achieve these requirements. There are some common practices in this course, including centering ofthe course around a capstone design project, organization of the students into design teams, and therequirement for team presentation and defense of their design at the end

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Smith; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

. Nonetheless, at Northwestern University, with support from the Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas- Harvard/MIT (VaNTH) Engineering Research Center, we have piloted a way to integrate team-based writing instruction into a junior course on neural systems physiology, targeting specific aspects of writing with which juniors seem to have difficulty. This article describes how writing was added to the course without diminishing the emphasis on content, plus the theory that underlies this instructional intervention. Also discussed are the results of a formal assessment to measure student gains in collaborative writing and implications for future interventions in this and other engineering courses.ABET EC2000

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kim Covington; Jeff Froyd

changing faculty) is being explored in an NSF-supported project “Changing Faculty throughLearning Communities.” The project employs four mechanisms to promote change in facultymembers: speakers, workshops, faculty learning communities (FLC), and matching grants tosupport women students. Specifically, the project aims to catalyze changes in the way facultythink about four concepts that are tightly linked to the concept of gender diversity: 1) mentalmodels, 2) development and invitation, 3) personal vision and commitment, and 4) the culture ofengineering and science. The following paper describes change mechanisms, highlighting FLC,and four changes that learning community participants report. Participants a) shifted fromsearching for external

Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

cooperation and collaboration between engineers, life scientists, andmedical doctors required to forge a successful biomedical engineering program. Part of thisproject involves a collaboration of life scientists and engineers at the University to create a newintroductory experience for all science and engineering students.The Biomedical Engineering program is to be associated with the College of Engineering andwill offer baccalaureate degrees in Biomedical Engineering. Because Biomedical Engineering issuch a demanding field of study, a traditional four-year degree program will not, in all cases,provide enough time for students to attain the engineering excellence that is expected of Cal Polygraduates. Therefore, the program will have a strong

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Wo; Pei-Fen Chang

projects inindustry require group efforts. That is the main reason why employers are concerned thatalthough these new engineers may have good technical skills, they may lack other knowledgeskills necessary for success. For instance, life-long learning habits in the students,communications skills, and the cultivation of good ethics and perception toward theirprofession are all important.3. Cooperative learning: theoretical bases and implementation issues Jordan and Le Matais described four general theoretical perspectives that explain thebeneficial effects of cooperative learning on performance [8]. One perspective involvesmotivation, and the second is the social cohesion perspective, while the third and fourthperspectives are the cognitive

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Rajappa; Steve Watkins; Ray Luechtefeld

functioneffectively in a team is even a requirement for accreditation, as stated in ABET’s 2003-2004General Criteria: Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have…an abilityto function on multidisciplinary teams (I.3.d). However, while engineering students aregenerally given a great deal of direction and instruction in the technical aspects of their work,they are often thrown into teams without ample guidance to lead them through the complexitiesof team dynamics. These experiences often do not prepare students for the obstacles thatmultidisciplinary teams meet in industry, research and academia. Good team skills are notlearned merely by placing students in teams 2.The technical problems faced by engineering graduates are complex and often

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Engineering”, we now seekto address the questions: "What more needs to be done to improve female students’ interest andpersistence in engineering?" and "How can we better understand the reasons that female studentsleave engineering despite good academic performance?" Our aim is to (1) incorporateinnovations into engineering education that may be more supportive of women students and (2)research the implementation of these innovations in the education environment that is present infoundational undergraduate engineering courses. This dual focus has provided a unique way ofapproaching issues of gender inequity for female students in the Purdue Engineering program.The innovation that we are implementing consists of small technical team, realistic

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Grommes

program in the Northern Cheyenne community. The results to date throughPhase 2 activities include: increased communication and understanding between the tribal andacademic communities; the definition of clear working relationships and shared organizationalgoals; increased tribal interest in sustainable building technologies; annual sustainableconstruction projects; and the conclusions from targeted and applied research performed byfaculty and graduate students. Page 9.849.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Balances Introduction to computing tools for engineering: MatLabFigure 1: Examples of linkages across courses in three programsThe cooperative relationship among faculty is an important aspect of curricular reform, andshould enhance the potential for institutionalizing the reform efforts. By taking the pairwise-linkage approach to reform using computational skills as the learning stream (vertical slice), thelearning outcomes of individual classes also become more connected in process, knowledge, andapplication for the students. The curriculum becomes less a set of courses and more an integratedset of learning experiences. It is also important that institutional leaders are supportive early inthe change process18 in order to