Conference Session

Knowing Our Students II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Queensland; David Radcliffe, University of Queensland

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Educational Research and Methods

complex system with a number offormal constraints. This is embedded in the social context of the particular university systemand gives the student the chance to succeed by building personal relations and gatherinformation through others. However, it should be noted that other effects, such as traditionallearning, might have contributed to the acquisition of the stated competencies. Due to thelimitations of the data the proportions of the respective contributions can not be evaluated atthis stage.Quote 2 (from the transcript of the discussion of focus group No. 2) “During my degree I gave up asking questions. It just was not encouraged. Today when I work on interdisciplinary projects I encountered situations where it would have

Conference Session

Intersdisciplinary Courses and Environmental Undergraduate Research

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helene Hilger, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Francis De Los Reyes, North Carolina State University; Warren DiBiase, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Len Holmes, University of North Carolina - Pembroke; Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Siva Mandjiny, University of North Carolina - Pembroke; Todd Steck, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Keith Schimmel, North Carolina A&T State University; Chuang Wang, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Environmental Engineering

Professor of Educational Research at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte. Dr. Wang teaches educational research and statistics courses. Dr. Wang received a master of applied statistics degree and a PhD degree in educational research from The Ohio State University. Page 12.1083.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 MULTI-CAMPUS DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PROBLEM-BASED-LEARNING COURSES IN ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY WITH INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNINGIntroductionThe project described here began with a civil engineering and biology laboratory

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer-Verlag, 2003). Page 11.778.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Integrating a Sentence-Headline Design of Teaching Slides With Active-Learning Measures in a Large ClassAbstract In large classes, instructors often project and then post presentation slides tocommunicate important information. As recently shown, using teaching slides that have asuccinct sentence headline supported by visual evidence, rather than the traditional phraseheadline supported by a bullet list, has led to

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS; Radha Balamuralikrishna, Northern Illinois University

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International

Shewhart [73, 74], which have founduniversal appeal in traditional global manufacturing. Due to the inherent nature of the presenceof a number of variables and possible varied levels of their existence involved in bio-basedmanufacturing, quality techniques such as the design of experiments and Taguchi studies [75]become highly relevant for process innovation and improvement. Knowledge in these and otherbasic quality principles is a prerequisite in most engineering and technology degree programs, soextending these concepts to include bio-based manufacturing can be accomplished with relativeease.Management/business concepts such as strategic project planning, project scheduling, andproject management are indispensable in the operation of successful

Conference Session

TC2K Methods and Models

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Wise, Pennsylvania State University; Dhaneshwar Lall, Pennsylvania State University; Dhushy Sathianathan, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, i.e. specific homework problem or specific lab project. (Figure 1.) The evidence section is most critical to effective assessment, as it controls against a “Lake Woebegone” effect in which all of the students are seen as “above average”. Faculty are required to provide justification for their ratings.Figure 1. Faculty Assessment of Student Performance 2. Faculty Perception. Faculty are presented with a list of the course-level outcomes for their course, and asked to rate the overall effectiveness of the course in helping the students to meet the outcomes. They are given the opportunity to reflect on successes and shortcomings, identify equipment needs and constraints, and otherwise record their

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

requires students to make oral presentations as well as towrite laboratory reports, business letters, résumés, and technical research papers. Written reportsand oral presentations are required in mid-level courses, and the senior-level two-semestercapstone design sequence, a joint effort of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering,requires students to write project proposals, progress reports, updates, and final reports as well asmake an oral presentation in each semester. Dr. Niiler, founding director of UT-Tyler’s WritingCenter, has extensive experience working with students from across the disciplines on subject-specific writing projects. He has contributed to the Electrical Engineering Laboratory Reportstyle guide, and regularly

Conference Session

Energy Resources, Efficiency, and Conservation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarma Pisupati, Pennsylvania State University; Wendy Mahen, PennSylvania State University; Mark Deluca, Pennsylvania State University; Martin Gutowski, Pennsylvania State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

work. On this page, PHP scripts duplicate the students'calculations to help graders find the student's errors and give customized feedback. Thereare form fields on this page so graders can grade the assignment and make comments. Assoon as this occurs, students can see their grades and comments online.All the graded items in the class, not just the online assignments, are included on thestudent's 'grades page.' Their final course grade is also automatically projected, with anaccompanying letter grade.For some graded items, quizzes for example, the lowest two scores of ten may bedropped when the final course grade is calculated. The 'grades page' counts all of thequizzes until nine are graded, then the lowest grades are dropped. For example, one

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso; Arunkumar Pennathur, University of Texas-El Paso

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Mechanical Engineering

Cincinnati, with specialization in human factors engineering. Dr. Pennathur's interests are in the science of learning in engineering education. Dr. Pennathur has considerable expertise in human behavioral research methods. He has developed human behavior and performance models in personnel skills and training for advanced electromechanical troubleshooting and fault-finding tasks, disability models in older adults (work funded by NIH), and modeling physical and mental workload for soldier safety and performance (work funded by the US Army Research Laboratory jointly with Fort Bliss and William Beaumont Army Medical Center). These projects have all included extensive instrumentation, calibration, and

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Shawn Addington, Virginia Military Institute

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-245: SIX YEARS AND THOUSANDS OF ASSIGNMENTS LATER: WHATHAVE THEY LEARNED, AND WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?J. Shawn Addington, Virginia Military Institute J. Shawn Addington is the Jamison-Payne Institute Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Virginia Military Institute. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He teaches courses, laboratories, and undergraduate research projects in the microelectronics and semiconductor fabrication areas; and, he remains active in curriculum development and engineering assessment. He is a registered professional engineer in the

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Rogers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Recep Goktas, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ulas Tezel, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

Programs” 2 for the 2007-08accreditation cycle stipulating that an engineering master’s degree graduate should satisfybaccalaureate curriculum criteria and demonstrate mastery of a particular subject and a high levelof communication through completion of an engineering project or a research activity.(Common ABET baccalaureate curriculum criteria include proficiencies in performing statistics,conducting experiments, and critically analyzing data.) It is implied that an engineering doctoraldegree graduate should satisfy the master’s-level criteria and demonstrate expertise in a subjectthrough an advanced research activity. Considering the growing necessity of graduate-levelengineering education and, subsequently, the research aspect of graduate

Conference Session

BME Assessment and the VaNTH ERC

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Blanchard, Florida Gulf Coast University; James Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Biomedical

TOTAL 30 20 10 Page 12.1210.2 0 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 2000-2006 2000-2009 Projected Table 1: Recently Accredited Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering Programs2 Next General Year Review (NGR) Accredited University

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Said Abubakr, Western Michigan University; Dewei Qi, Western Michigan University

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International

, engineering Page 12.534.3seminars, engineering field trips, student presentation and final written report and exam.All lectures, seminar, field trips, presentations and exam should be carried out at thehosting universities. A course Pack focused on the culture and language was developedand required reading by participants during pre-visit orientation.20 students participated in the program last year and we are planning to attract 20 WMU studentsto participate in this program in 2007.The program itinerary is given below.ImpactThis project will certainly enhance the international reputation of WMU in engineering teaching,learning and research. WMU

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M Robertson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; Robert John Bowman, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Douglas A Mercer, Analog Devices Inc.

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Electrical and Computer

functionally replace the traditional fixed lab workstation and also establishentirely new modes of educational delivery10. Systematic evaluation of the impact on learningand the learner indicated that there were many opportunities to extend the student experience indesign/synthesis, experimental homework and curiosity-driven learning11. The availability of thenew Analog Discovery hardware is timely because it opens up opportunities for the wholeacademic community to build on the exploratory work described above.Over the last 20 years, all Engineering programs have steadily strengthened their project andcapstone courses to develop team-working and cross-disciplinary problem solving skills. Theoutcomes can be seen in many ASEE presentations and in the

Conference Session

Accreditation, Program Evaluation, and Education Resource's Impact in Latin America

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmundo Tovar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, CIF Q2818015F; Jorge A. Lopez-Vargas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja; Nelson O Piedra, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja; Janneth Alexandra Chicaiza, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja

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International

Computer Science UTPL. He is a member of Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Web and Knowledge Based Systems of UTPL, and director of thesis projects third level (related to Semantic Web Services, Web 2.0 and Social Network Analysis). He has conducted research in Open Educational Resources Online, Knowledge Representation Models and Social Network Analysis. Lopez-Vargas is a scholarship holder of the National Secretariat of Sci- ence and Technology (SENESCYT). In the Projects Unit and Systems UPSI - UTPL, he was an Analyst / Programmer Academic Management System, until 2004.Mr. Nelson O Piedra, Universidad Tecnica Particular de LojaProf. Janneth Alexandra Chicaiza, Universidad T´ecnica Particular de Loja

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dominic M. Halsmer PE, Oral Roberts University; Peter Wesley Odom, Oral Roberts University; Jessica Fitzgerald, Oral Roberts University; Taylor Gipson Tryon, Oral Roberts University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the “big picture” of engineering.6 One such effort integrates theintroduction to engineering course and the engineering graphics course around a reverseengineering project, making use of 3-D computer modeling and rapid prototyping of thedisassembled parts for reengineering considerations.7 Another study compares eight differentmethods for teaching design to first-year students and concludes that a reverse engineeringmodel is preferred.8An attempt to increase student interest is made by creating a game whereby students are awardedachievement levels for gaining particular insights during reverse engineering activities.9 Oneengineering educator went so far as to report that reverse engineering has “proven to be theinstructor’s fire keg that

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Poster Session & Unit Operations Lab Bazaar

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur Felse, Northwestern University

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Chemical Engineering

knowledge in the areas regulatory affairs, and safety which are becomingmainstream capabilities for engineers. To meet the demands for a rapidly changing, technology-driven workforce, the industry and educational advisory bodies have recommended thatacademic instruction should include industry practice training2. Many programs and universitieshave accomplished industry practice training through co-operative education, industry fellowsprograms, guest lectures, capstone projects, courses co-taught with the industry, and field trips3,4. This poster describes an effort to translate some industry practices into classroomeducation. Experiential laboratory, design projects, classroom lectures or seminars can be used toinclude industry practice

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan T. Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey S. Bryan; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

analysis for ongoing CETL projects. His master’s thesis is an analysis of choice and player narratives in video game storytelling.Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Ph.D. is faculty and the Director of Workplace and Academic Communication in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has developed and provided instruction for students in industrial engineering and biomedical engineering and has advised on oral communication instruction at many other universities. The Workplace Communica- tion Lab she founded in 2003 has had over 19,000 student visits. As of Spring 2013, she has shared her instructional materials with

Conference Session

Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Leadership CommunicationThe focus on communication has been a part of the Rose-Hulman Leadership Academy since itsinception. Recently we have adopted the “difficult conversations” approach as a way to givestudents’ development in leadership communication special attention. Specifically we saw thatwe had an opportunity in the Leadership Academy to move students beyond the communicationtasks and projects that are a part of our two required writing courses (Rhetoric andComposition—for first year students, Professional and Technical Communication—for third yearstudents). We wanted to provide to students concrete strategies they could use as they negotiated“difficult conversations” that are often a feature of leadership interactions.The book Difficult

Conference Session

Beyond Students: Issues of Underrepresentation among Parents and Professionals

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University, San Marcos

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

an opportunity to show my son how I totally trust his common sense today. The project today, I could have figured it out, but I really did not want to do that. So I said you’re smart enough, you can do it yourself and he did it. So I was able to instill that confidence in him, and when I peeked over he had it. Parent 18: Se me hace muy divertido compar el trabajo con mi niña; le gusta mucho explorar con el agua (I find it really fun to share the work with my daughter, [we] explore much with water)DiscussionA report from the National Research Council (NRC) reveals that informal scienceenvironments and experiences play a crucial role in learning. 34 The Committee onScience and Learning in Informal Environments, which contributed to

Conference Session

Beyond Students: Issues of Underrepresentation among Parents and Professionals

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Golf Coast University; Gerardo Javier Pinzon PE, Texas A&M International University; Anju Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

workshop consisted of 5 full days. Three of the days were dedicated to the three fields ofengineering, chemical, electrical and systems engineering. Each engineering day consisted ofthree parts. The first was an introduction to the field including salary expectations, the type ofwork they do and any other pertinent information the presenter finds valuable. The second partincluded a short presentation of some of the fundamental concepts in that field. The last partincluded a hands-on project where the participants got to perform some actual engineering work.The rest of this paper includes the details of the three engineering parts of the workshop.The workshop consisted of the following. In day 1 the participants were introduced to the generalfield

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos R Morales, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Perry Lucas Cox; Matthew John Farrenkopf; Robert Eric Knorr, Purdue University; Erick Morales; Christopher Gaeta; Martin Jerome Durchholz

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Computing & Information Technology

servers. See figure 1 for an overview. Page 23.420.2 Figure 1. System overviewOn the production end of the pipeline, the team used a Blackmagic ATEM/2 switcher connectedto a document camera and a Panasonic AG-AF100 via HD-SDI at 1080p. This set up made atremendous impact on both the visual quality of the videos and increased the efficiency duringthe encoding and streaming phase of the project. The resolution of the videos (1920 x 1080)provided ample resolution for showing details.To maximize the quality of the encoding, the team insured the video produced at this stagewould be uncompressed and sampled at 4:2:2. This

Conference Session

Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Chingnam Goh, University of Southern Queensland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

; factors affecting innovation and technology transfer(I&TT) in regional micro-manufacturers, and describes an intervening investigationinto the I&TT process in the SME sector within a University-Industry collaborationcontext. The research initially focused on the manufacturing factors such as increasingproductivity through work study and work-flow analysis, and introducing semi-automation and flexible manufacturing methodology. As the project progressed,however, several non-manufacturing factors were identified as major influences in theI&TT process within the targeted micro-manufacturer. The ability for firms to progressin improving the manufacturing factors is often dependent on these factors, which arecategorized as very personal

Conference Session

Minority Student Success

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terrell Lamont Strayhorn, Ohio State University; Leroy L. Long III, Ohio State University; Joseph A Kitchen, Ohio State University; Michael Steven Williams, Ohio State University; Meg E. Stentz, Ohio State University

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Minorities in Engineering

Teaching Associate with the First-Year Engineering Program and continues to work on research projects in the Movement Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also currently the Vice President of the OSU American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Student Chapter. His research interests include diversity, inclusion, retention and success with a particular focus on students in STEM fields.Mr. Joseph A Kitchen, Ohio State University An Ohio native, Joseph ”Joey” Kitchen earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology (minor in International Studies) as well as a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Ohio State University. He is now a doctoral student in the Higher Education and Student Affairs

Conference Session

Materials Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay, Georgia Southern University

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Materials

intensityfactor range (the so-called Paris Law), and use this to analytically estimate the number of loadcycles required to grow an existing crack from an initial size to a final size. The students aremade aware of the fact that Paris Law is applicable for stress intensity factor range higher thanthe threshold value ΔK th, a material parameter that is available in literature [1, 2] Page 23.193.2As a complementary exercise to the rotating beam fatigue test, an analytical activity has beenintroduced as a lab project to obtain the S-N curves for typical steels. In this activity thestudents construct S-N curve analytically using the crack propagation

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

toobtain higher percentages of both bachelor and engineering degrees over other minoritygroups; the next-generation of college students; the projected future populations; andsome possible solutions to increasing the numbers of women minority students to benefitengineering.Literature SearchA great deal of information has been written on minority females in education.Unfortunately, much of this information is inaccurate or misleading. Most often, minoritygroups are not differentiated. Therefore, all minority females are combined and while theoverall increase in engineering for the entire group may look promising, the increases inthe specific racial groups are not. NSF1, for example, states, “While overall undergraduateengineering enrollment has been

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Broderick Boxley; Chris Kobus; Barbara Oakley

Pontiac and Related Programs Elsewhere In early 2001, faculty from Oakland University approached Dr. Walter Burt, theSuperintendent of the Pontiac School District, with the proposal that the district considerusing Kumon in their classrooms. Dr. Burt was not only willing—he immediatelysuggested a number of different ways in which the program might be experimentallyintroduced. Eventually, it was decided to try a twenty-week Kumon pilot projectinvolving 120 students at two elementary schools, which could be operated as part ofPontiac’s after-school Synergy program. Project Synergy is a voluntary after schoolprogram, scheduled in ten week sessions, that includes four content areas: tutoring,enrichment, dinner type meal and homework help. Kumon

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Dokachev; John Carpinelli

; Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationPartial funding for this project was provided by the National Science Foundation through theGateway Engineering Education Coalition.Bibliography1. Wallace, C. S. “A Suggestion for a Fast Multiplier,” IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computing, vol. EC-13, no. 2, Feb. 1964, pp. 14-17.2. Carpinelli, John D. Computer Systems Organization and Architecture. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley (2001).3. Carpinelli, John D. “The Relatively Simple CPU Simulator,” ASEE Computers in Education Journal, April-June 2002, pp. 20-26.4. Carpinelli, John D. “The Very Simple CPU Simulator,” Proceedings of the IEEE/ASEE 2002 Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA, November

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Baty; Erdogan Sener

life-cycle (7, 12). According to Yudelson (15), several hundredbuildings have been registered for LEED certification and so far 20 projects have receivedcertification representing about 6 % of the total commercial and institutional buildings in 2001. It isexpected that a comprehensive energy strategy could save $ 100 billion annually in energy bills forbuildings by doubling energy efficiency and cut the carbon emissions in half in the process (7).Awareness of local and federal programs will assist building operators and owners to maximize theirsavings. Federal and state governments also promote green design. The EnergyStar program, fundedby the Department of Energy (DOE), provides initiatives for buildings displaying efficienttechnologies like

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Kremer

will be addressed in some detail since they are very important to the usefulness of thetemplates.Prior to assessing student achievement of an outcome, students should have experienced multiplelearning activities related to the outcome (in previous courses and/or in multiple points within thecourse where the outcome is actually assessed). Learning activities are the instructionaltechniques and activities that are use to help the students master a certain topic or skill. Commonlearning activities include readings, lectures, discussions, demonstrations, active learningexercises, homework exercises, and even projects for which sufficient formative feedback isgiven. Pedagogical research has shown that mastery learning techniques that use lots

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

D.J. Marshall

Page 8.1205.2instructor at IPFW and assistant curator of the Museum of Fort Wayne. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3260Greg Pierceall is a professor of Landscape Architecture at Purdue University in West LafayetteAssessmentsBecause students were going to receive college credit for this program, a number of projects wereestablished in order to place some empirical validity on their grade. The most effective way toaccomplish this, without unduly compromising the unique experience of actually