Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

Page 9.558.2factors, albeit at a more detailed level, in her model for self-directed learning. 11 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationCandy, in his extensive review of self-directed learning, summarizes the characteristics of theself-directed learner from many sources. 12 These characteristics fall into two sets, personalattributes and skills, that are analogous to Flammer’s “will do” and can do.” Candy’s lists are: “Will do” Attributes: curious/motivated, methodical/disciplined, logical/analytical, reflective/self-aware, flexible, interdependent/interpersonally competent

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Mark Pullen

facilities as well. Little extra effort is required to teachthe online students, although their added numbers are reflected in grading and mentoring effortsjust as much as if they were physically present in class. Most importantly, synchronous Internetcourse delivery opens up availability of higher education to a whole new sector of our societyand correspondingly opens up a whole new market to the university. Furthermore, the studentpopulation reached, and the corresponding market, becomes even larger when asynchronousoffering of recorded synchronous courses is considered. However, these gains have not beenachieved without some pains.The authors have supported experimental synchronous Internet access to courses at GMU forseveral years, starting with

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

great deal from one another; collaboration, if harnessed appropriately, is apowerful tool in learning. Finally, for many subjects in the sciences or technologies, physicalreferents or manipulatives can serve to enhance learning. Instructional methods which drawtogether many of these techniques have recently been introduced in Statics3.Implications of Conceptual Difficulties Associated with StaticsWhile the techniques alluded to above can be valuable, how should Statics instruction reflect theconceptual difficulties which are peculiar to Statics? Statics instruction faces the followingdilemma. There are a significant number of concepts, which go beyond those addressed infreshman physics, which students must learn and use, in combinations, to

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Charles Winton

Botball KitThe Botball kit has been a work in progress since the early 90’s when KISS Institute for PracticalRobotics (KIPR), a non-profit organization focusing on learning and skills development throughthe application of technology, particularly robotics, was founded. In its current form, the kitincludes the Handy Board [14] (with charger and serial interface), LEGO RCX (with serialinterface), DC motors (both LEGO and modified servo motors), servo motors, touch sensors (3types), light sensors (general, break beam, and reflectance), proximity sensors (both optical andSONAR), a modified CMUcam and over 1900 pieces of LEGO, mostly LEGO Technic. Crosscompatibility between the Handy Board and RCX environment is maintained where reasonable(e.g., at

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stoian Petrescu; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant; Daniel Cavanagh

skills” (4.1/5), “I used graphics” (4.0/5), and “Thisproject made clear the relevance of economic considerations” (4.2/5). Student commentsgenerally reflect that the project was a positive experience and that they felt they had learnedboth about engineering and about the ADA and issues facing those in wheelchairs. Field Hockey Field

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

innovation (along with building faculty reward systems that predominantly reward federallyfunded scientific research), it has become extremely difficult for many university faculty andadministrators to undergo required change and to reflect the modern process of purposeful, systematicengineering innovation for needs-driven technology development. As Barwise and Perry have noted:“Different organisms can rip the same reality apart in different ways, ways that are appropriate to theirown needs, their own perceptual abilities and their own capacities for action.”53. The Concept of CultureJuran noted that understanding the concept of different cultural patterns is extremely important inimplementing effective breakthrough innovations and creating change

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stevens; Sharon Schlossberg; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNo. 9987066. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. Page 9.1132.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationunder-representation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in this workforce –issues addressed by the STEP project - remain areas of concern. See, e.g

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

)provide opportunities for students to develop communication and team skills; and (e)provide support in academic success strategies. Where the present effort differs from these successful freshman-engineeringprograms at other universities is, in my view, a significantly increased emphasis onengineering ethics, a significant focus on the societal and global implications of theengineering profession today and careful study and reflection upon the profound impactengineers have upon the natural world. In addition, the Watson program has, in manyways, fully integrated the freshman program with our minority-engineering program. Thedistinction between these two efforts often seems non-existent.Freshman Courses The focus of the freshman year

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Smith

not used as a criterion in selecting students for this scholarship. Should two studentshave identical credentials and need but differ only in non-merit aspects, we certainly hope thatwe will be able to find support for both. The more diverse demographics perhaps reflect needand interest distributions. The lower percentage of women students in CSEMS should be viewedwith the fact that the university statistics are for the overall institute, not the subset of the moremale-dominated CSEMS colleges.Table 1. FAST demographics compared to overall GIT US citizen/resident undergrads. African- Asian- Caucasian Hispanic- Native- Women American American

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David McStravick; Marcia O'Malley

noted,though, that Rice University has a site license for LabVIEW, allowing broad distribution of thesoftware across campus computers, if necessary.Virtual Labs Developed 1. Pre-Lab for Wave Tank II Experiment The VL for this experiment is a simulation of a boat’s motion with incident beam waves. A second order differential equation of a system with a forcing function is used in the Page 9.1403.3 experimental analysis and the VL simulation to model the boat’s response to the generated waves. The student solves several cases that reflect different values of natural Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Inside the Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori M. Bruce; J.W. Bruce

accountable for doing their part and mastery of the material.• face-to-face interaction Some or all group members must work together to achieve the group’s goals.• appropriate use of interpersonal skills Group members learn and practice teaming, communication, conflict management and leadership skills.• regular self-assessment of group functioning. Groups periodically reflect and evaluate their performance and identify ways to improve that performance.Correctly applied, cooperative learning techniques increase the students’ motivation to learn,material retention, depth of understanding, and teamwork/communication skills [18] by forcingstudents to work in the more effective (lower) levels in Figure 2.Cooperative learning techniques may be the

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Duesing; David Baumann; David McDonald

build and test their product orprototype.The outcome of the design review will be decisions that set the direction of the project and astatus for the team. The decisions made will be firm and must be reevaluated by all partiesbefore any changes can be made. Upon completion of the design review, the status for the teamwill be red, yellow, or green.Red status means that the team’s design review and possibly the design has serious problems.Key information is missing or serious errors were made in the design/decision process. If a teamreceives this status they are to put the current design on hold and complete the required tasks thatwill provide them with the needed information to continue with their project. A red statustypically reflects

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

Planning Grant on the topic of “Information Technology in theIntegrated Civil Engineering Curriculum”, and this paper reflects findings from this effort. Theprimary emphasis of this paper is on the utilization of Information Technology within the civilengineering profession and in the large-scale products and systems the civil engineeringprofession provides, operates and maintains. Instructional technology, both general and IT isnoted more as a part of implementing changes within the educational environment.Information technology as utilized in CE can be placed into four general categories. (1) personalIT/computing tools – which all graduates and civil engineers need at a fairly high level ofproficiency, (2) civil engineering systems tools such

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

will also examine some of the issues and impediments confronting TechnologyEducation in this process of change.IntroductionThe shift from Industrial Arts to Technology Education in the public secondary education systemseems to be superficial. The name change more accurately reflects a shift from the industrialtools used in a wood or metal shop to that of a more current and identifiable technology. Theissue here is real change that must also include the type of knowledge used and the role it playsin the learning process. This paper will discuss the use of Design Competitions, developed inacademia, as a tool for change in secondary (9-12) Technology Education as a regional casestudy. The paper will outline the types of knowledge and the role it

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Artigue; Mark Anklam; David Miller; Dan Coronell; Atanas Serbezov; Sharon Sauer; Alfred Carlson

students’ overall learning in laboratory so as to better prepare themfor industry and/or graduate research, we have (1) created a new lecture course on engineeringexperimentation to accompany the laboratory, (2) increased the emphasis on experimentalplanning and data analysis for each lab project, (3) implemented a peer-review and reportrevision procedure, (4) require students to follow industry standards for recording data inlaboratory notebooks, and (5) completely revised the department’s Lab Manual to reflect thesechanges in emphasis. This paper describes the organization and effectiveness of our revisedlaboratory sequence in comparison with our previous approach.IntroductionThe unit operations laboratory is generally regarded as an ideal

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

’ attention on the engineering aspects of their assignments.1. Asking students to reflect on the projects they completed had a definite impact. Students in the assessment sections were able to identify more types of scientific communication at the end of the semester, by a factor of 2 or 3. Section E3 Section D Control Exit survey # types 1.9 2.6 1.6 Entry survey # types 1.0 0.8 1.2 Average change 0.9 1.8 0.42. All students showed significant learning in the sections of a lab report. The writing consultant program in general effectively

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Hollis; Namas Chandra; Chiang Shih

establishing appreciation of theteacher’s perspective. Students who were taught by their fellow students can also learn from thisexperience through a process of observation, self-reflection and peer judgment.Our Prior LTT ExperienceThe LTT concept was first adopted by Shih and Hollis in an NSF-sponsored project for thecreation of a dynamics system laboratory. It was used as a cost-effective way to train students toprovide assistance to their fellow students in the laboratory. Students working in a group wereasked to be responsible for the complete set up and operation of only one out of a set ofexperiments so that they could gain valuable experience by fully mastering one experiment. Theresponsible students were then asked to serve as teaching

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

) Correlation between personal evaluation and team evaluation: The results show the correlation between the 10-question Personal Evaluation Questionnaireand the 4-questions Team Evaluation Questionnaire. It was found that some students participatemore actively in their teams when they feel comfortable working with the team and feelingcomfortable with their role. Another deduction may be that students seems become moreopen-minded as well as enjoy/appreciate teamworkQualitative results: Abilities learned from the courseOverall, the top three abilities students gained were:(1) Effective use of time to reach consensus(2) Growth of problem-solving ability(3) Development of teamwork strategiesStudents’ Reflections on Team’s effectiveness Next, we

Conference Session

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

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Koichi Iwasaki; Kazuo Morita; Chi Thai

socialization processes start from elementary to middle school, shifting from familyattachments to peer groups and teacher-centered learning. In the "intense years" of high school(Fukuzawa and LeTendre8), learning techniques shift to small-group discussions, cooperativeprojects and self-reflective criticism preparing students for the university and for work in theadult world. At Kagoshima University, most subjects has only one 90 minute lecture per weekwith the professor (with minimal inquiries originating from students during class), afterwardsstudents are pretty much on their own if they need further help, so it was assumed that Japanesestudents would be better prepared to learn on their own via Distance Education than studentsfrom USA. Ironically

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Carlson

: Page 9.135.5 6 •How do groups use technological artifacts to illustrate and reify their worldview? •How do artifacts reflect a group's views about the place of humans in the universe? How do artifacts reflect notions of time and space? •What do artifacts reveal about how a group addressed and tried to resolve central puzzles or traumas? Let me offer two brief examples of the relationship between technology andcultural meaning. First, in writing about the Egyptians, I made the point that thepyramids served no economic purpose--in fact, their construction took significantnumbers of workers away from agriculture. Instead

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tadeusz Majewski; sudhakar vadiraja

concept taught in each lecture on specialtytopics like biomaterials. It also promotes cooperative learning among the students as well asallows them to relate to and reflect instantly on what they have just learned. Page 9.1158.4 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering"2.4 Learning outside the classroom (especially for learning failure analysis approaches)Many scholars program modules offer students opportunities to learn outside the classroom,apply theoretical concepts learnt in class, and have these

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Truax

of peer knowledge, to action-based learning, andfinally to the use of work-integrated learning in which students are asked to reflect on theory interms of their experience.5Integral to this process is an effort to provide a learning experience that meets the educationalneeds of the student from a technical perspective. In fact, this author contends that the laboratorydesign can address several of the accreditation process mandates. Specifically, accreditedprograms must demonstrate that their graduates have: • an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (ABET Criterion 3a), • an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data (ABET Criterion 3b

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Rowe; Tim Mulroy

thealternate full-time program of study. The amount of academic credit offered for the successfulcompletion of the placement varies between institutions1 but the title of the degree the studentachieves reflects the successful completion of the sandwich element. Page 9.92.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationDegree programs that include an internship element have a long history, and are claimed tohave numerous advantages over full time programs. As a result, universities have encouragedstudents to

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Cox; Janice Bordeaux; David Caprette; Beth Beason; Ann Saterbak

reflected that without coordination, it is nearly impossible to “raise thebar” as students progress through the science and engineering curricula. Without relevantcontext, students cannot appreciate the value of the generic skills that they are being taught andare unaware if or how they will use them in the future. We also acknowledged that grading ofour laboratory courses could lead students to focus on content-specific goals (e.g. steriletechnique for maintaining mammalian cells, operating a mass spectrometer) rather than genericcapabilities (e.g. attention to detail, trouble-shooting complex equipment). The incorporation ofmany laboratory courses into a "parent" lecture course (especially freshman courses), to whichthe laboratory grade makes a

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; William Oakes

Seminars. Bringing the community partners to campus for theirfirst meeting with the students was a significant benefit to the program. It allowed all of thestudents to hear first hand about the community partner and their expectations. Some of thecommunity partners used this class time for orientations, such as Head Start. Reflection on the projects and experiences was done through written reflections as part oftheir final reports in ENGR 106 and through the English and Communications classes. In theEnglish classes, this took the form of essays and class discussions. In the Communicationsclasses, this took the form of classroom discussions and a poster session where studentspresented their work and discussed with visitors the implications

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dara O'Neil; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationother. Thus, each partnership will have to be classified as high (negative) or high (positive) interms of embeddedness. In Table 1, low levels of embeddedness may signify that the twoorganizations have little history of working together. Similarly, all organizations have strategicneeds. The issue in this model is whether those needs are 1) strategically related to the objectivesof the partnership, and 2) congruent or complementary.Just because partnerships fall outside of quadrant IV does not predict that they will be a failure interm of process and performance outcomes. But it does indicate that the nature of partnershipneeds to be adapted to reflect these conditions. For example

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

team. [This is evaluated by performance as part of a group while solving the semester long design project.] First Four Competency Areas sa a ad d sd a. These competencies were made clear to me at the beginning of the semester.b. I was tested on these competencies with straightforward exams. c. I had ample opportunity through multiple exams to demonstrate that I had successfully mastered each competency.d. My grades on the competency exams accurately reflect the knowledge I gained in each area. e. These competencies matched with what was taught in the course

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Harth; Matthew Barber; Andrew Spurgeon

9.840.1laboratory exercises, individual and group projects, and field experiences to enable 1451middle and high school students to directly experience authentic learning practices thatrequire them to use higher-order thinking skills; encourage creative problem-solvingskills that require collaborative learning, teamwork, writing, and presentation; cultivatean interest in service learning in which students are active participants, achieve outcomesthat show a perceptible impact, and engage in evaluative reflection; and better motivateand prepare secondary school students for advanced education. The Fellows have beentrained to create and implement these activities by taking

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Predecki; Albert Rosa; George Edwards

very complexissue. Then once they made their decision they had to “sell” their solution to others who might Page 9.1214.5have arrived at a very different solution. The issue is changed yearly to reflect a current nationaltechnological concern and to help avoid the “borrowing” of data from previous offerings. Thecourse description and outlines of each module are appended. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIV. Course MechanicsThe course extends over three-quarters for four credit hours per

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joni Spurlin; Susan Grant; Jo-Ann Cohen; Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley; Sarah Rajala