Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George F. List; Stacy Eisenman

Session 3215 The Undergraduate Research Advantage: The Split Perspective Stacy Eisenman Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Maryland and George List Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteAbstractUndergraduate Research Projects (URP’s) are unique opportunities. They can provide studentswith wonderful learning experiences and faculty with

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Briller; John Carpinelli

sciences (CIS) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and considers factorsrelating to the students preparedness for the distance learning course; level of communicationwith the instructor; teaching and course materials; technology issues; student courseexpectations; student participation in the class; and the learning environment. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. The research questions and research designare presented next, followed by a description of the data collection and analysis procedures. Page 9.1046.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina

Session 2533 Incorporating ABET “Soft Skills” into Energy Conversion Courses Timothy L. Skvarenina School of Technology, Purdue UniversityAbstractBoth the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) and the Technology Accreditation Commission(TAC) of ABET have adopted outcome-based evaluation criteria. The EAC began the process withearly visits in 1997. TAC began later with the adoption of its Technology Criteria 2000, or TC2K, andconducted its pilot visits in 2001, with full implementation in 2004. In both

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Zemke; Donald Elger

her understanding appears to be fundamental to mentee learning. 2. Collecting, processing, and incorporating self and observer feedback appears to enable our mentors to quickly and effectively develop their skills. 3. Maintaining the level of challenge and the development of healthy rapport appear to be synergistic with exploring what a mentee knows and enabling the mentee to refine his or her understanding. Page 9.649.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

Session 3155 Guidelines for the Industry-Academic Transition Sigurd L. Lillevik Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Portland Portland, OR 97223AbstractRecently, practicing professionals with several years of industry experience have joined theacademic ranks. This experienced, but new faculty member faces many of the same challenges asthe recent Ph.D. hire plus one additional issue: his colleagues assume that he knows what he isdoing and how to teach. This may or may not be

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Srinivas Chakravarthy

students to procrastinate doing their work. Finding a balance is very important!Acknowledgment: This work is partially supported by a travel grant from Kettering University’sCenter for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.4. Reference[1] Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., and Cocking, R.R. (2000). Eds., How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, andSchool, National Academy Press, Washington.Srinivas R. Chakravarthy Dr. Chakravarthy is a Professor of Operations Research and Statistics in the Department of Industrial andManufacturing Engineering and Business at Kettering University. His areas of research interests include appliedprobability and stochastic modeling. He received Kettering University Alumni’s Outstanding Teacher Awards (1990

Collection

2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John Mirth

What are They Thinking? – Assessment and the Questions Students Ask John A. Mirth, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Wisconsin – Platteville Platteville, WI 53818 608.342.1642 mirth@uwplatt.eduAbstract This paper presents an assessment method whereby an instructor can gain insight into howa student is thinking about a project. The method relies upon the submission of a series ofindividual progress reports during the course of a semester. Each progress report is submittedas the set of questions that the student has

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

educational enterprise.To keep engineering courses relevant, faculty often bring in current topics to their undergraduateclasses. In the ideal world (or department), faculty engaged in research will teach undergraduatecourses in the same discipline area. Bringing in research work performed by undergraduatestudents into undergraduate courses has the important benefit that the coursework is still fresh inthe undergraduate student's mind. The key benefit a faculty member has when integratingresearch results from undergraduate students is by observing how the undergraduate researchstudents learn the necessary research material based on the foundation concepts originally usedin the classroom. From these observations, the faculty mentor can determine the

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Bowman; Cliff Goodwin

archived lectures and chats. The wordsflowed poetically from his department chairman’s mouth, Twigg recalled later. Heseemed impressed with himself. Twigg was impressed too. After all, chairman Lunts’expertise was in mechanical engineering and not in computer technology. Twigg had noidea what Lunts was talking about. Twigg’s intellectual curiosity finally got the better ofhim and he exclaimed,“What in the world are you talking about Bruce? I don’t have a clue about anything youjust said. What in the name of Sir Isaac is streaming video?”Lunts looked at Twigg, forming a wry smile, he replied: “Man Twigg, to tell the truth,I’m not altogether sure,” and he paused. He then asked Twigg if he knew that campusadministration was extremely motivated to