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Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Merino

sequence of the questions was changed. Afterthese six tutorials, an online test covering all the material was conducted. Theonline/summary test had different questions than tutorial but the format remained thesame. The students finished three tutorials in first lab/week of the semester and rest threetutorials in second lab/week. The summary test is taken in second lab of EngineeringEconomics.There were three types of questions format – true/false, multiple choice and matchingcolumns. The students see the scores of the pre - post test after the submission of posttest.Sample size of this survey is 129, junior and senior undergraduate engineering studentsfrom Stevens Institute of Technology. Numerical data was thus collected six times at theend of

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Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Cecil

undergraduate and graduate curriculum in INBM.In today’s evolving global manufacturing environment, there is a need to educateengineering students in emerging Information Technology (IT) concepts andtechnologies, which are revolutionizing product development practices. The emergenceof the Internet as a powerful communication vehicle has catalyzed the adoption of virtualengineering methods, which in turn have enabled organizations to become more agile. Inthis context, engineering students need to be knowledgeable in topics such as informationmodeling, distributed manufacturing and Internet based engineering. At New MexicoState University, several course modules dealing with these subjects have beenintroduced at the undergraduate senior and graduate

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TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray Walter

credit course work from a two-year technical or communitycollege to a four-year institution has historically been difficult for students. Engineering courseswith high levels of mathematics (Calculus) and science preparation often result in denial ofcourse credit transfers resulting in extended times to complete a baccalaureate degree.Individuals transferring from two-year to four-year institutions may be required to start theirengineering education over from the beginning. Transfer agreements designed to make it easy for students to transfer credits have existedbetween WCTC and Marquette University since 1995. The current agreement allows students tocomplete their first two years of electrical or mechanical engineering technology at WCTC

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Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

engineers.Although these numbers are very disheartening, they do indicate an opportunity. Specifically, ifprepared appropriately, we can increase the number of low income and underrepresented groupspursuing degrees in engineering or technology. For this effort the target group is students in theGrand Rapids Public School System, which includes a disproportionately large percentage of lowincome and underrepresented groups. Page 9.722.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationOur target employer base is local

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramana Pidaparti

Session 1725 The Art of Engineering in Capstone Design Ramana M. Pidaparti Department of Mechanical Engineering Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Indianapolis, IN 46202 Email: rpidapa2@iupui.eduAbstract It is the author’s strong belief that engineering students should seek creative designs fromarts as well as other perspectives to understand multidisciplinary design

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

experience at Northern Arizona University (NAU) has been similar: the College ofEngineering and Technology (CET) at NAU has developed student exchanges with internationalpartners, provided lectures by international visitors, and has offered courses taught byinternational faculty. Student interest in these initiatives has been excellent; more students arenow participating in international exchanges, from an average of 1/year in 1990-1994 to anaverage of 5/year in 1995-2002. Despite these strong efforts, however, fewer than 2% ofgraduating CET engineers receive significant international training.A detailed investigation of why more students are not participating revealed that student interestin international engineering education is stifled by a

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IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica Dark; Mary Huba; Kevin Saunders; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

Session 1657 Implementation and Assessment of Industrial Engineering Curriculum Reform Sigurdur Olafsson, Kevin Saunders, John Jackman, Frank Peters, Sarah Ryan, Veronica Dark, and Mary Huba Iowa State UniversityAbstractWe describe a curriculum reform project that aims to improve the industrial engineeringcurriculum through a web-based learning environment that engages students in active andcollaborative learning. This environment focuses on engineering problems solving, increasedinformation technology content, and the higher order cognitive skills

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Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Lynch

American higher education. So there is much atstake in contemplating our roles in the large.A few facts about engineering are familiar and useful. There are about 1.5 million Americanengineers; it is the most popular occupation among American males. About half or these areemployed in the manufacturing industries; 12% are in government service, 3% are self-employed. About 65,000 students earn the BS yearly. 20% of these are female, 24% Americanminorities, and 7% foreign nationals. Most engineers are employed in corporate life; a verysmall percentage are officially licensed as professionals, and that percentage is concentratedaway from the high-technology and high-profit areas today.Among Engineering Colleges, the accredited curricula are

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gearold Johnson; Thomas Siller

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004 American Society for Engineering Education” Page 9.366.2curricula. The ubiquitous use of technology both in the teaching and practice of engineering alsoplays an important role in curriculum but usually not at the highest level. Rather, technologydiscussions should enter when individual courses are planned and the technology can be matchedto the course outcomes.Description of IssueThere are many ways for defining the components of the curriculum. The most commonapproach is to focus on the discipline aspects. For example, the

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ghanashyam Joshi

engineeringmanagement course will be described in this paper. The future plan of utilizing SAP softwaremodules1 in the graduate level engineering management course and in the selected undergraduatelevel engineering courses will be described. This plan is based on collaboration between thecollege of engineering and the college of business at Southern University in association with theSAP university alliance program.I. IntroductionA desirable attribute of engineers is an understanding of business issues including management.The rapid changes in technology and globalization of trade require engineers to be astutemanagers. They must be able to integrate business knowledge into the engineering design-manufacturing process. College of engineering at SUBR is

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Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sedki Riad; Mostafa Kamel

theinstitutions. Comparison between the curriculum in the 60s, 70s, and 2000s show the changeswith time and developing technology. Finally, the authors’ assessment of engineering educationin Egypt is given based on data available, as well as personal experiences and vision.Suggestions to improve the quality of engineering education in Egypt are given as well.An Over view of Higher Education in EgyptEgypt, as well as other Middle Eastern countries, realizes the need for top quality highereducation as a means of bridging the widening technology and economic gaps that developed inthe last three decades of the Twentieth Century. As the world enters the Twenty-First Century, achange in paradigm occurred that emphasizes Information Technology and

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ELD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mellinger Margaret

entrepreneurship endeavors.Austin Entrepreneurship Program at Oregon State UniversityOregon State University (OSU) is a land, sea, and space grant institution with a studentpopulation of around 20,000. It is one of four universities in the Northwest to be granted aranking of Carnegie Doctoral/Research-Extensive. There were over 3,000 undergraduatestudents in engineering and over 2,000 undergraduates in business as of Fall term, 2002.1 In2003, the university completed a strategic plan emphasizing five multidisciplinary themes. Oneof the thematic areas is “optimizing enterprise, technological change and innovation.” 2 Tocapitalize on this theme, university administrators are looking at greater levels of collaborationacross disciplines, departments and

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

student leadership. This paper will outline suggestedstrategies for implementation by engineering educators ready to serve as leaders at diversifyingengineering.Overview of the Under Representation of Women and Minorities in Quantitative FieldsIt is estimated that over the next ten years, the U.S. will need an additional 1.9 million workers inscience, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).1 Traditionally, the STEM workforce hasconsisted of mostly white, non-Hispanic men, who made up 70% of the STEM workforce in1997.2 In the same year, underrepresented minorities - African-Americans, Hispanics, andAmerican Indians - comprised just over 6% of the general STEM workforce.2 This reliance on a

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Vance; Michael Cornachione; Harriet Cornachione

. Page 9.12.1Introduction Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) is a public institution focused on undergraduateeducation with limited graduate offerings. The main campus is located in southernOregon on the high desert, eastern Cascades region, approximately 300 miles south ofPortland, Oregon and 350 miles northeast of San Francisco, California. Programs arealso offered at a Portland campus and in Seattle, Washington. The civil engineering degree program is the only engineering program currentlyoffered at OIT and is limited to the Klamath Falls campus. The department also offers adegree in geomatics and maintains a student population of about 130-150 students, with100-120 majoring in civil engineering. Other engineering-related programs

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

reflectthe breadth of scholarly activity that occurs under the engineering education umbrella. Thesescholarly activities include but are not limited to:• Quantitative and qualitative research on student learning and learning environments focusing on the abilities and skills engineering and pre-engineering students need to develop to be successful at each stage of their academic careers and beyond.• Development, implementation, and assessment of new instructional models, materials, and learning environments.• Dissemination of research results to a wide variety of audiences including engineering colleagues; math, science, and technology educators; and policy makers.• Preparation of the next generation of faculty and professionals

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Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Study

are also addressedincluding previous academic achievement, scores on standardized tests, and entry requirementsof the different institutions the subjects attend.Introduction In recent years, there has been considerable effort put into increasing the numbers ofminorities in the academic fields of engineering, science, and technology. Despite the increasedrecruitment efforts, and the larger numbers of minorities actually beginning studies in the fieldsof engineering, science, and technology, the numbers of minorities in these fields not completingtheir studies remains at a higher rate than those of the non-minority population. The overallnational average college graduation rate for black students is 38 percent, compared to 60 percentfor

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Tront

through digitallibraries. Faculty members attempting to create materials for collections of engineeringeducation content in a digital library face several challenges. Lack of training in soundpedagogical practices, a shortage of training in the effective use of educational technology, shortsupply of required development resources and time to produce completed and tested works, anda lack of emphasis on improving teaching in the university faculty rewards systems are the majorobstacles to materials development. To remedy this situation, this project endeavors to create anactive, engaged, and sustained virtual community of engineering educators who energeticallycontribute to and share materials from a common collection of courseware.New members of

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 5. Basic electronics laboratory.Teachers are very enthused about the hands-on nature of these laboratories, and they provide agood springboard to more advanced sensor research on bioengineering applications – for thisyear, the focus was on variable-rate technology and biosensors. Below is a list of the ten labscompleted during the first two weeks of the summer program:Basic Electronics Labs: 1. Introduction to safety features of the real-time instrumentation laboratory 2. Digital multimeter usage and functions a. Measuring voltage, current, and resistance b. Build and prototype a simple circuit 3. Resistors and thermistors

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Cherith Moore; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

a survey instrument designed to measure self-efficacyin engineering, feelings of inclusion and outcomes expectations, and collected responses fromundergraduate women studying engineering at four institutions: Penn State University (PSU),Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech), University of Texas – Austin (UT Austin) andRensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).The paper describes the development process for ensuring reliability and validity and also reportsthe preliminary results of the analysis to answer the following research questions. 1. Do students’ feelings of self-efficacy vary from one institution to another? 2. Do students with different year-standings answer the module items differently regardless of institution? 3

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anne Spence

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Standard Content CD applicationKnowledge of Students will describe, Students will be able to demonstrate aNumber represent, and apply numbers knowledge of number relationships andRelationships and their relationships and will computation in conjunction with theand Computation estimate and compute using process standards: problem solving,(6.0) mental strategies, paper/pencil, communication, reasoning, and and technology. connections.Process of

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004 American Society for Engineering Educationbring about a systemic change in the perception that people in the northeast quadrant ofLubbock have about Texas Tech University, we focus our attention on servicing andpartnering with schools in the northeast quadrant. Traditionally, those economicallydisadvantaged and those from underrepresented populations, especially African-American and Hispanic, view higher education to be beyond their reach. Under theauspices of the Community of Learner, Educators, and Researchers (CLEAR) and theCenter for Partnerships in Science and Technology (CPST), we are developing hands-onprograms for students in order to establish of pipeline of

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yuko Hoshino; Masakatsu Matsuishi; Wayne Sanders

Session 1660 Evolution of Engineering Design Education at KIT - Technical and Cultural Aspects of Concept Transfer and Translation - Masakatsu Matsuishi, Yuko Hoshino, Wayne Sanders Kanazawa Institute of Technology Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractIn 1996, Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) became the first university in Japan to offercourses in Engineering Design. Starting in the Fall and Winter quarters, Engineering Design I(EDI) and Engineering Design II (EDII) were taught respectively to approximately two thousandsophomore

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Maria Tahamont; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

healthcare industry, but also dueto its influence on other engineering and technology industries. U.S. Dept. of Labor estimatesthat the job market for biomedical engineers will increase by 31.4%, faster than the average of alloccupations, through 2010. This is double the overall job growth rate of 15.2% and more thanthree times the overall growth rate of 9.4% for all engineering jobs1,2. However, BME educationhas not kept pace with this rapid growth and development. There are fewer than 90 institutions inthe US offering some form of a BME program, mostly at the graduate level3. In fact, only 28 ofthese institutions offer an accredited undergraduate BME degree program4 . As we look at the number of degrees conferred, the situation is not looking

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Merredith Portsmore; Kaitlyn Conroy; Melissa Pickering; Emily Ryan; Brian Gravel

classroom environment. Tufts University offers this opportunitythrough the Center for Engineering Educational Outreach, and in the following paper, theparticipating female engineers account their enhanced leadership, communication, and technicalskills as a direct result of outreach.IntroductionAs technology becomes increasingly important in the global community, there is an evergrowing need for technological literacy amongst the population. Integrating engineering witheducation on the K-12 level will foster the development of students’ technological literacy; avaluable skill in becoming a global citizen. Engineering outreach is, thus, required in all societiesto educate all people on the importance of engineering and the role it plays in society. A

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heresh Shahani; Harish Pallila; Musoke Sendaula; Saroj Biswas

knowledge management systems, suchas, Blackboard [1], and WebCT [2], as well as the distance education systems developed atvarious academic institutions [3-14]. A majority of e-Learning systems concentrate mainly ondelivery of course contents over the Internet with little or no room for interactivity. Interactivity Page 9.192.11 This research is supported by National Science Foundation s Science, Technology, Engineering, and MathematicsTalent Expansion Program under grant #0230425. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American

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Writing and Communication I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa McNair; Garlie Forehand; Beverly Sutley-Fish; Michael Laughter; Judith Norback

technically-prepared graduates also be prepared for the communication needs of various jobs, enabling themto get good jobs and move up the career ladder. Examples of workplace materials and curriculabased on the Criteria of Communication Excellence will be provided in the presentation alongwith specific steps for replication. Results will be provided for use by other undergraduateprograms teaching Technical Communication courses.I. IntroductionRecent research has demonstrated that engineers entering the workplace need to acquire moreproficient communication skills in order to excel in their jobs.1 Although the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET) has recently passed criteria that include written and* This work was supported by

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

instructional practice. Online portfolio systems are aculmination of technological advances and current curriculum reform efforts. While adictionary definition of portfolios still describes a paper-based tool (A portable case forholding material, such as loose papers, photographs, or drawings.) 1 many of today’sportfolios are electronic and can store a variety of multimedia files. Lankes defineselectronic portfolios as a “purposeful collection of student work that exhibits thestudents’ efforts, progress, and achievements.” 2 Portfolios have been in use for a longtime in disciplines such as art or photography and in K-12 education, yet they are stillrelatively new in other disciplines such as engineering and in higher education. ABET2000’s Criteria 33

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

Session 2530 Assessing Engineering Teaching Kits for Middle School Students Larry G. Richards, Jesseca Flaherty, Jennifer Cunningham University of Virginia/the Rochester Institute of Technology/Charlottesville High SchoolAbstractAt the University of Virginia (UVA), we have been developing engineering teaching kits(ETKs) to introduce engineering design to middle school students. This paper describesour strategies for assessing these ETKs and evaluating our entire program. So far, wehave three sources of assessment information: classroom observations, teachers’ reactionsto these materials including their willingness to use ETKs, and formal

Conference Session

TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Carr; J. Steven Brown

students did not have any prior knowledge orexperience with engineering. With minor modifications and simple upgrades the device can beused throughout a typical undergraduate engineering curriculum.First, we present material to motivate students to the importance of the study of internalcombustion engines. This material is not complete or exhaustive. Its purpose is to give a sketchyoverview of why the study of internal combustion engines is anything but a dead, unneededundertaking. In addition, the material helps to address ABET Outcomes (h) and (j)1 by placingthe study of internal combustion engines within a societal context and by addressing the majorissues associated with this technology. We then describe the engine itself and some upgradesthat

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Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Sinha; Randolph Thomas; John Kulka

act upon,6. ability to speak and write in a way that is logical, complete, consistent, and clear, and that can recognize potential objections to one’s position,7. ability to recognize the historical importance to our society of previous ethical decisions made in relation to engineering and technology,8. ability to recognize actions that expose oneself to legal liability,9. ability to use basic risk assessment techniques in engineering decision-making,10. ability to recognize the regional and global consequences of engineering decisions.This list is based on the belief that there is significant overlap in criteria and thus, they should beconsidered together. Most construction engineering educators are unsure how to include thiselement in