Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Kurpius; Dale Baker; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

actions and knowledge about their current practice. Consequently,we used four analytical themes (Reflections on Practice, Changes in Practice, Intentions toChange Practice, and Change in Knowledge) to examine the likelihood that what teachersencountered in the course would transfer to their classrooms. Three graduate students allowed usto gather data over a semester to develop in-depth cases. The teachers were Alice, an elementaryteacher; Denise, who taught at a Science Center; and Dana, a high school chemistry teacher.Alice intended to change, or changed things, such as teaching the design process explicitly,learning the science behind engineering concepts, developing activities for young children, usingeveryday contexts, and planning a model

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Richter

the same pre-planned experiment as all the other students, often notunderstanding or caring why he/she was doing the experiment in the first place. The paperfurther relates the experience and lessons learned in using this new method of laboratoryexperimentation at the undergraduate level.IntroductionThe traditional way that undergraduate laboratory experiments are implemented does not provideinstruction that is “student centered” and challenging to the individual student. The traditionalmethod of delivery of these courses may not be the most efficient for student educationallearning [2,3]. Students are typically instructed to perform pre-planned experiments that havebeen very carefully crafted to demonstrate a specific concept or theory. All

Conference Session

Building New Communities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Smith; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

project),• Learning scientists (specifically the Education in the Professions Division of the American Educational Research Association [10]), and• Faculty developers in higher education (the Professional and Organizational (POD) Network in Higher Education.[11])During the RREE workshop, participants work on a research question and research plan. Thedeliverable of the workshop is a draft of a small-scale research plan. This plan is to be refinedand carried out (with the help of a research mentor) during the following academic year. Formore detailed information about the content of the workshop please see the project webpage [4].This project is aimed at strengthening the base on the cyclic model of the relationship betweenknowledge

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Charu Sharma; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

and charts demonstrating impact of a particular activity or overall activitiesTrack Activities Create and maintain records Document activity plan including for activity planning and objectives, organization REPORTS: Easily retrieve documented implementation information about activitiy organization and Document assessment plan, implementation Document activity objectives, storage of data, and data

Conference Session

New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

education needs facing the next generation of civil engineerscannot be satisfied with a four-year baccalaureate degree. The necessary professional Page 10.529.2skills must be integrated in various courses throughout the curriculum, and must extendbeyond the traditional bachelor’s degree.Civil Engineering Education Reform – and the Body of KnowledgeToday’s world is fundamentally challenging the way civil engineering is practiced.Complexity arises in every aspect of projects, from pre-project planning with variedstakeholders to building with minimum environmental and community disturbance.Addressing this increased complexity will require understanding and

Conference Session

Women in IT Fields

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven P. Thomas

History of Study ParticipantsTo address the area of work history the study participants were asked questions related to positionsheld; acquisition of current position; and job responsibilities.Job Positions HeldStudy participants were asked to identify the positions they have held throughout theirprofessional careers, starting with their current position title and department/area. The resultsincluded the following partial list of current position titles: Senior Vice-President and GeneralManager of Industry Standard Servers; Senior Vice-President and Chief Information Officer;Director of IT Strategic Partnerships and Planning; Vice-President of Revenue Systems; Directorof Research and Development (R&D) of Information Systems; Senior Vice

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

.Another report by Australian Government report “Learning for the knowledge society:An education and training action plan for the information economy” noted theimportance of universities ensuring that graduates enter the workforce with therequired competencies 29 .Within the computer networking courses the practical hands-on assessment is gainingin popularity and Murphy notes: That practical ‘hands on’ skills and knowledge is Page 10.1298.4fundamental to conceptual understanding. That knowledge is more transferable to Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lehman; David Stone; Mary Raber

specifically, to attend a specific college or university. • MTU: An index of how much the program(s) introduced and familiarized participants Page 10.1242.7 with various attributes of Michigan Tech in particular. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”MTU Youth Programs and the Engineering Enterprise organizers are already planning severalother precollege Enterprise workshops for the summer of 2005. Successful program componentsfrom Tech PrEP are being documented (based on the results of

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Hayden Griffin

, providing additional jobopportunities, both on and off campus.In 1999, faculty teaching the freshman engineering courses began to push for a laptoprequirement. At that time, however, the reality was that laptops were still somewhat fragile,generally less powerful, more expensive to purchase, and more expensive and difficult toupgrade than desktop computers. The time was not right for a mandate, but there was strongindication that, at some point the advantages of laptops would outweigh their deficiencies.In Spring 2001, five students enrolled in ISE 5694, Macroergonomics, advised by Dr. TonyaSmith-Jackson of ISE, conducted a well-planned and executed survey of 763 students in thesecond freshman engineering course regarding their opinions of laptops

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

, the Office of Technology Transfer, and the Ben FranklinTechnology Partners. In the spring 2005 semester, the first and third entrepreneurshipcourses will be piloted, while numbers two and four begin fall 2005. This paper is areport on a work in progress. It describes the background, benchmarks, design andplanned implementation of the entrepreneurship minor and how it is integrated intoLehigh’s undergraduate curricula. We plan to follow up with additional papers in thefuture with details on the implementation, assessment metrics and lessons learned.Backgr oundIn 2003 Lehigh University received a grant from the Pennsylvania Department ofCommunity and Economic Development to improve the Lehigh University infrastructurein support of

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht; Jennifer Gale

roles. Norming Phase During the norming phase, curriculum highlighted a balanced analysis of 1) individualsystems, 2) system components, and 3) systems integration. The timing coincided with the startof the implementation phase of the project, when teams addressed design issues associated withsubsystems. The Atomic Popcorn exercise reinforced values of integrating individual skills intothe team’s design strategy. Teams not only planned but also used their unique skills to meet thegoal of the exercise. The exercise, however, required a great deal of harmony and gate keepingworking the ropes and elastic band necessary to transfer the popcorn. Team dynamics changed as teams 0.3settled into

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Dupont; Mary Feng; Hailey Christine

lives, and strengthen working relationships within departments. The modelgoes beyond work/personal life to make the workplace more equitable and improve the quality ofworking people’s lives. This approach has been successful in business organizations such asXerox and is modeled to work for other organizations. ADVANCE is experimenting with themodel for the first time in a university setting.The method of the Dual Agenda model is designed to uncover gendered assumptions, such asthose about competence and commitment, which underlie work practices that are bothinequitable and ineffective. Once found and analyzed, action plans can be put into place. Theunderlying approach to the method is to focus on joint inquiry, collaboration, and commitment

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted M. Stilgenbauer; Thomas Nicholas; Anthony Brizendine

was established as the initial target rate for each MCO. With regard to thecontinuous improvement aspect of the course, each MCO class average would be assessedagainst the 65 percent. Those not meeting the 65 percent average would have an action plan forimprovement created by the faculty. The plan for improvement would address the MCO whichdid not meet the defined goal, identify issues arising from the student evaluations, failures in theskill sets identification, and recommend an alternative or innovative approach for presenting theMCO to the class. Measurable Course Outcomes Reevaluation of Course Delivery

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Forsberg

presented. Plans for future work areoutlined.In summary, this paper describes a heat transfer experiment to illustrate the topic ofdimensional analysis. The experiment should greatly increase the students’ interest in thetopic and their comprehension of the use of dimensional analysis in the planning ofexperimental programs and the correlation of experimental data.I. ObjectivesThe main objective was to design and construct a heat transfer experiment to illustrate theconcept and usefulness of dimensional analysis. An accompanying benefit of the effortwas the addition of an experiment to the mechanical engineering laboratories.II. Experimental ApparatusThe apparatus has been designed to be low cost, relatively easy to construct by

Conference Session

Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kari Clase

for competentindividuals to develop and manufacture biological (life science-based) products on an Page 10.385.2industrial scale. In addition, higher order learning with action-based research and“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”curriculum will increase analytical skills and better prepare students for real world jobsby enabling them to transfer curriculum-based research experiences into thebiotechnology industry.Connection between Purdue University’s College of Technology Strategic Plan andthe Biotechnology Program

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bryan Laffitte; David Ollis

engineering lab assistants in both the device lab and the industrial designstudio facilitated achievement of desired, multidisciplinary design proposals. Thus, theaddition of a “device dissection” engineering lab experience to an existing IndustrialDesign studio course demonstrated an enhancement in student performance. Plans fornext year’s collaboration are presented.Introduction Ten years ago, the College of Engineering created a Product and ProcessEngineering Laboratory, within which engineering students could deepen theirunderstanding, and satisfy their curiosity, by taking apart and re-assembling devices intheir everyday lives. Early examples were light-driven devices included bar codescanners, CD players, FAX machines, and video cameras

Conference Session

Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker

An Elective Course on Computational Techniques in Structural Mechanics with a Balance in Theory and Application John R. Baker Department of Mechanical Engineering University of KentuckyWith ever increasing readily available computer power, and more sophisticatedcommercial structural analysis software, it seems that mechanical engineering graduateswho plan to do design work will be much better prepared for the workplace if they have agood background in both theory and application of modern computer-based structuralanalysis techniques. Various universities offer courses which focus on numericaltechniques, which may be applied to

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Goodarz Ahmadi

the description of particleinteraction with laminar flow, Brownian motion process, and particle deposition bydiffusion, interception and impaction. The sections on interaction of particles with turbulence and turbulent depositionthat are normally taught in the second course. Computational modeling of turbulentflows was discussed, and classical models of turbulent deposition were described. Inaddition the process of aerosol charging and transport under the action of electrical forcesand turbulence were discussed. We have added a number of computational modules to make the coursepresentations of the materials more interactive. The plan is to have sufficient number ofcalculation modules for the student to experiment with. As a

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Farison

to contribute to the cost of ABET fees and visitor training, ASEE may not support such a proposal. It was emphasized that the constituent committee has other agenda items as well, such as providing a focal point for communications between members and being a contact point for discussions on issues like ABET accreditation. ABET is discussing the issue of blurring the traditional programs, and input from this group may be helpful."A petition to become a Constituent Committee of ASEE, prepared by Dr. Gosink, was edited andthen signed by 17 attendees. The group decided to plan a program, with both a technical sessionand a business meeting, for the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference scheduled for Nashville, TN.Two areas of focus for technical

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Srikanth Pidugu

) Strategic Plan (2003-08) setsout five goals—Clean Air, Clean and Safe Water, Protect and Restore the Land, HealthCommunities and Ecosystems, and Compliance and Environmental Stewardship. The draftoutlines the work the EPA plans to do over the next five years towards achieving the goals [1].Community awareness of environmental issues is vital to the success of such a strategic plan, andthis project, as small as it is, can make a fundamental statement on the importance of maintainingclean air and a clean environment by employing appropriate technologies. Fuel cell technology isone such element where emissions are contained to zero-level and enhance the quality of air webreathe. This project began with high school students to increase their awareness

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

-DLR) one-year planning grant, asub-group of participants met for several hours to help develop new Engineering for DevelopingCommunities tracks within the Civil Engineering and the Environmental Engineering B.S.programs and incorporate Earth Systems Engineering and sustainability ideas throughout thecurriculum within the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering(CEAE) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Once designed, the new curriculum will bethe basis for an NSF-DLR three-year implementation grant proposal.Speakers presented a variety of options to integrate appropriate/sustainable technology conceptsinto the engineering curriculum. Those options ranged from adding pre-developed modules

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andre' Butler; William Moses

experiment for twoweeks. During the first week, students familiarize themselves with all relevant equipment anddetermine a procedure for conducting the experiment that they will execute the following week.Groups are required to submit a lab plan prior to the week 2 activities. Groups rotate among thethree labs until all have been completed.This lab draws heavily from two of its quarter predecessors, i.e., EGR 222L (OJL) and MAE Page 10.827.2403L. In EGR 222L (OJL), students conducted six to eight prescribed mechanics exercises, Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

learningenvironment, and that the team work experiences reflect this foundation. The essential elementsof team development should be firmly established as early in the engineering education aspossible and continuously exercised and reinforced throughout the remaining years. Earlyanalysis of the graduates of this program seems to indicate that they are measurably betterprepared for engineering leadership and management positions. PLANNING THE PROJECT 1. Evaluate the feasibility of conducting the project with regard to its required finances, human resources, equipment, facilities, deadline for completion, etc. 2. Recruit members that their interpersonal and intellectual skills complement each other. 3. Set

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joel Barnett; Donald Kinser; Andrew Dozier

which will permit you to navigate the shoals of product liability+ 2.89 3.04 ability to plan a product test+ 2.87 3.05 ability to plan my career+ 2.74 3.11 ability to integrate rapid prototyping into the design process* 2.72 n.a. n.a. indicates that the topic was not applicable * indicates new lecture, + indicates repeat lecturer and topicDiscussion: The level of understanding, based on student perceptions, did not fare aswell as in the 2003 class. All but one element was judged less valuable in terms of thelearning experience by this year’s

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

arisenin virtually all major infrastructure projects. The recently released report of the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21stCentury: Preparing the Civil Engineer for the Future (1) states, “Today’s world isfundamentally challenging the way civil engineering is practiced. Complexity arises inevery aspect of projects, from pre-project planning with varied stakeholders to buildingwith minimum environmental and community disturbance.” Aware of these problems ofincreased complexity of modern-day civil engineering practice, and inadequate academicpreparation of BS-degreed civil engineering graduates due to reductions in credit hoursrequired for graduation at colleges and universities, it was

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Johnson; Jason Lynch; Michael Butkus

Page 10.1220.3Problem Definition step. The course focuses on using science to define the reason behind anddegree of importance of environmental problems environmental engineers are asked to solve. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Environment: Plan of Technological Action Economic Alternatives Political Generation Social Information

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Craig

writing that we learn to articulate ourthoughts clearly; our critical thinking is strengthened and clarified by our expression of itin writing. Page 10.1480.2 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Second, successful complex documents are iterative, building in successive stages.Successful writing begins with a planning, focus, and organization stage in which thewriter spends time defining the scope of the writing, organizing his/her thoughts, andobtaining the necessary information about which s/he wants to

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Stuart Bernstein

theirclass. These can be planned or impromptu. It is important at the end of each presentation tohave the student audience discuss whether they were motivated, what worked, and why.Service Learning ProjectA service project occurs when a group of people get together to accomplish something useful forthe community. A service learning project is where students work on a community projectapplying the specific skills they are studying in the classroom. The service learning project is themost valuable experiential learning tool available, because it allows the student the opportunityto test the theories and methods they are studying, while giving back to the community. This isespecially important at colleges and universities which have pledged community

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

funding, teacher rewards and promotion,paperwork requirements, regulations, work expectations, improvement plans, and evenreal estate values. However, modest and initial gains in the results of high-stakesaccountability assessments may accompany trends toward instruction that is more forprocedural rather than for conceptual knowledge and increasingly traditional rather thanreform-oriented [4].Pressure on local districts to recruit and retain qualified teachers comes at the same timeas critical and well-documented shortages of mathematics teachers. Traditionalmathematics teacher education programs that require mathematics content coursesgenerally taught in mathematics departments supplemented by professional educationcourses have failed to prepare

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leo Benegas; Rick Covington

early on to the teaching of problem solving and solutionapproaches, saving discussion of language syntax specifics until much later. In Section 4, weoffer some examples of how to apply this approach to the teaching of iterations and decisions.Finally, in Section 5, some directions for future work are outlined, including plans for evaluatingthe effectiveness of the approach with an assessment of student progress for CS1 students.2. BackgroundWe claim that the approach currently used to teach CS1 suffers from a lack of attention to well-known results from cognitive psychology on how students learn. In this section, we review someof the relevant models of learning in general and then focus on research that addresses learningcomputer programming in