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What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Silliman Stephen; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; Catherine Pieronek

offers this course within an overall academic structure at Notre Dame that imposes anumber of constraints. Notre Dame engages in an "intent-blind" admissions process. Whilestudents might indicate a proposed major on their applications, the Admissions Office bases itsdecisions on student credentials, with no consideration of any proposed major. Further, theCollege of Engineering has no control over whether individual students may enroll in the collegebeginning in their sophomore year. First-year students begin their academic careers within andreceive all first-year academic advising through the First Year of Studies, an academic unitdesigned to assist students in the transition from high school to college. All first-year studentsmust complete

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Thompson; William Riffe; Laura Rust; Brenda Lemke; B. Lee Tuttle; Henry Kowalski; Douglas Melton; Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

non-engineers [Goff, 2001]2. No reference was found to interdisciplinary freshman courses involvingconcurrent exposure to manufacturing processes. Although one reference involved a upper levelmanufacturing class fabricating designs from a previous semester’s mechanical engineeringdesign class [Scheller,2001]6. Such attempts involving design in mechanical, electrical andcomputer engineering are found at senior levels [Stone, et al., 2002]9 [Driver, et. al.,2002][Pearson, 1999]5. The GMI heritage of Kettering University emphasizes hands-onexperience to reinforce the students’ learning process. All students hold co-operative positionsin reputable companies throughout their academic career. In 2001, Kettering embarked on acurriculum reform. A

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Matthew Eliot; Angela Linse; Jennifer Turns

context (the challenges encountered whenworking with students and technology), and the career context (the specific needs of engineeringfaculty regarding career development). In addition, we have completed a preliminary review ofseveral online resources for engineering educators. This review was conducted to more fullyunderstand the current state of internet-based resources for our targeted audience.Results: Phase OneThe phase one research has given us preliminary insights related to each of our four researchquestions (i.e., teaching concerns, preferred information types, preferred language, and effectiveinstructional development processes). These preliminary results are discussed below.What are unique concerns of engineering faculty regarding

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram AlRawi; Faouzi Bouslama

that students need to acquire in order to be successful in gainingemployment. Special courses are used to support and assist students in their understanding of thelearning outcomes. Furthermore, we show how the use of technology can facilitate the learningand assessment process. Students develop an electronic portfolio to document and reflect on theirlearning experiences. Assessment and feedback are used to make the learning outcomescomponent work effectively in the students’ learning experiences. This new academic model mayhelp address issues on curricular design for successful career placement, and producing graduateswith the skills and abilities needed for the job market.1. IntroductionA college degree has in many ways become what a high

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Turso; David Johnson; Shannon Sweeney

educator since 1992 with a career focus in applied finite element analysis (FEA).JAMES TURSO, Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State Erie. He holds M.S. andPh. D. degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. He has 10 years of industrialexperience with a career focus on robust process/vibration control and model-based diagnostic system development. Page 8.418.8“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; Stefani A. Bjorklund; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

preparing students for lifelong learning is new, thesignificance attached to lifelong learning, and in particular continuing education, within theengineering profession is not.Lifelong learning in engineering has been recognized as critical for decades. The Final Report ofthe Goals Committee on Engineering Education, written in 1968, contained a discussion of theimportance of lifelong learning.1 In 1978, the theme of the ASEE Annual Conference was“Career Management – Lifelong Learning.” Over the years there have been a number of studies toinvestigate the types of activities involved in lifelong learning, their frequency of use, the types ofsupport systems required for lifelong learning, barriers to lifelong learning, and impact of lifelonglearning

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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S. Michael Kilbey; Richard Rice; Scott Husson; Graham Harrison; Douglas Hirt; David Bruce; Charles Gooding; Debi Switzer

Orientation. Educational and Psychological Measurement 1994, 54, 1013-1021.BiographiesDAVID A. BRUCEDr. Bruce is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clemson University. He received bachelor's degreesin chemistry and chemical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1991 and 1992 and his doctoral degree in chemistryfrom Georgia Tech in 1994. Dr. Bruce is the recipient of the 2000 NSF Career Award. He has been an activemember of ASEE since 1998.CHARLES H. GOODINGDr. Gooding is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clemson University. He received his bachelor's and master'sdegrees in chemical engineering from Clemson University in 1970 and 1972 and his doctoral degree in chemicalengineering from North Carolina State University in 1979. He has

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert LaFarge; Chaouki Abdallah

guestspeakers; Robert LaFarge, Director of the Diversity Programs, was responsible for the studentrecruitment and the fiscal aspects. The program was funded by NSF through the MinorityGraduate Education at Mountain States Alliance (MGE@MSA), at Arizona State University.BackgroundThere’s no question that the face of the American workforce is changing. The minoritypopulation in the United States, primarily the Hispanic population, is growing. The populationchanges from 1990 to 1999 include an increase of 13.4% for American Indians, 30.1% for AsianAmerican, 12.1% for African Americans, 28.0% for Hispanics and only 6.9% for Whites. 4Although minorities have broadened their career choices in the past few years, they have notincreased their numbers in

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Murphy; G. Lineberry

home state to continuetheir careers. After an extended political battle regarding what institution would be the providerof engineering education in western Kentucky, the state legislature charged the University ofKentucky with establishing engineering programs in chemical and mechanical engineering inPaducah. The university was required to collaborate with Paducah Community College andMurray State University in the delivery of these programs.II. Program Structure Although the history of this program has been previously documented 1,2,3, a bit of theprogram organization and the chronology of its development will be given here to establish theimportance placed on program accreditation from the very earliest discussions. The University

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

studentswith technical design experience for appropriate careers through systematic exercising ofdesign projects in a carefully controlled academic environment. Students are encouragedto collaborate on design projects with industry, government agencies, universitydepartments, or community institutions. The scope and level of the course is set by thefollowing course descriptions: EET 490 – Senior Design Project, Phase I Credit 1, hours arranged Prerequisite: 12 credit hours of EET electives with a grade of C or better. An extensive individual design and/or analytical project performed in consultation with one or more faculty advisors. Collaboration with representatives of industry, government agencies, or community

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sundiata Jangha; Richard Peltier; Pamela Reid; F. Scott Cowan; Christal Gordon; David Woessner; Douglas Edwards; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

Educationschools) and percent of students scoring 3 or higher on the Advanced Placement exams (between11% and 15%) are substantially below the state averages of 991 (SAT) and 52% (A.P. passingrate), making them low performers in a low performing state3.This low academic performance level effectively closes off the opportunity for most of thesestudents to pursue careers in science and engineering. Georgia Tech is the premier engineeringinstitution in the southeast United States, and is a leader in educating minority engineers.However of the over 7,500 applications received for admission to the university in 1997, only 34came from these three local high schools, with the majority (23) submitted by students from aMathematics and Science Magnet Program

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hanna Lee; Sven Bilen; Robert Pangborn

natural benefits, however. One of the benefits is thatstudents learn from other students. The more advanced students often are the leaders andmentors of the students at earlier stages of engineering study; as students advance, theysubsequently take on the role of mentor to the “new recruits.” Hence, the more senior studentsobtain experience in realistic management situations and the understudies benefit from thementoring as well as gain a preview of what is to come in academics and careers. 5 This is verysimilar to what the students will see in engineering practice as they move from subordinate tosupervisory roles. The College of Engineering at Penn State has seen a surge in interest in student projectsand a corresponding increase in

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wagdy Mahmoud; Tom Timmermann; Bonita Barger; Ahmed Elsawy

Session 1931 Managing Virtual Teams in Senior Industrial Projects Ahmed ElSawy*, Bonita Barger**, Tom Timmerman**, and Wagdy Mahmoud* *College of Engineering/**College of Business Administration Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505-0001AbstractThe Industrial Projects course at Tennessee Technological University represents the practicalexecution of the technological skills and knowledge the students gained from all sourcesthroughout their college career, work experience, and life. This course is the capstone experiencethat requires both teamwork and individual skills in

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

/30 & E” model, and any requirements will incorporate maximum flexibility, including distance-learning delivery of courses. v We believe that practical on-the-job experience and life- long learning are not important. The committees firmly believe in the importance of experience and life-long learning to develop the body of knowledge over a career. As such, the committees advocate Page 8.235.5 mandatory experience as part of licensure. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra

sound welldefined, but the ways in which WIE programs work to accomplish these outcomes varytremendously.Recruitment happens at multiple phases and levels. In the community of scholars and practitionersthat address women in engineering, there exists a high level of awareness and research that showsthe importance of starting recruitment efforts at an early age. WIE programs with Girl Scouts, forexample, are designed to help maintain an interest in math and science and raise awareness ofengineering as a career path for these girls4,5. Recruitment efforts for older students include "openhouse" days held on college and university campuses and summer engineering camps. Suchprograms involve significant follow-up with participants as directors work to

Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Robinson; Demetris Geddis; Adam Austin; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

” that negatively affects theperformance of students[2] and effectively bars them from entering careers that require a firmknowledge of mathematics. To counter this anxiety and improve student achievement, AlanGreenspan encourages “a deeper interaction with numbers and their manipulation to a point atwhich students are confident and proud of their level of skills.”[3]To emphasize the interrelated nature of STEM concepts, the National Council of Teachers ofMathematics calls for a “shift in emphasis from a curriculum dominated by memorization of Page 8.683.1isolated facts and procedures and by proficiency with paper-and-pencils skills to one

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

ramp up the partner school’s instructional staff’sknowledge of telecommunications technology. The team concept also seemed to be successfulwith many career and guidance counselors attending the workshop to gain first hand knowledgeabout the fast growing telecommunications industry. The intern program was again held duringthe summer and again proved to be highly successful. The Co-PIs continued work on thedevelopment of a 2+2+2 telecommunications curriculum, easily replicable low cost laboratoryexperiences, distance-learning technologies, and an accompanying on-line competency profile forthe developing telecommunications curriculum.Year three of the grant (1999-2000) was again similar to the first two years of the grant withrespect to partner

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Doherty; Gerald Gannod

maintaining course projects in an engineering curriculum. In treating acourse as a targeted product market domain we have been able to apply the same techniques usedin software product line development to course development. At Arizona State University we are currently developing a concentration track in embeddedsystems1. As part of the curriculum we are creating a course in Embedded Systems Engineering £ This research supported in part by NSF Experimental and Integrative Activities Grant EIA-0122600. Ý This author supported in part by NSF CAREER Grant CCR-0133956. Þ Contact Author. Page 8.1237.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American

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ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Norman Anderson; Mani Mina

classes. Due to theemphasis on using computational software, students will become familiar with numerical andmathematical tools and will be able to use them for their careers in engineering as well as otherclasses. Finally, because of the freedom in learning and variety of examples and learningopportunities, we will see more conceptual thinking rather than manipulation to get the answers.All in all, we believe students will become more satisfied with their EM education and becomebetter engineers for it.5.4. General areas of concernMany instructors and programs are not comfortable with this method of teaching and, if not doneright, with a large-scale perspective it will not be very useful. Most instructors confusemathematical rigor with

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Agnew; Ka C Cheok; Jerry Lane; Ernie Hall; David Ahlgren

IGVC on a yearlybasis. The relevancy of the IGVC challenges orients participating students toward careers in theunmanned systems technology area. Page 8.760.8The Society of Automotive Engineers' Interest in the IGVCProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe SAE, as a supporter of the automotive industry, is primarily concerned withautomotive vehicles such as passenger cars, trucks, busses, and off-road vehicles, aswell as the features that can enhance their use. Safety is a major concern

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wiley; Hamid Khan

. His major isIndustrial Education with a minor in Construction. He has also completed coursework towards a Master of Scienceand Technology degree, from the same institution, and will graduate in June 2003. Mr. Wiley is a former trainer,with the 20-20 Group, of sales force automation software and currently Program Development Manager for theAssociation for Facilities Engineering (http://www.afe.org). In addition, he is a member of the Golden Key NationalHonor Society and is presently working on a draft of his first book entitled, the Soul of Business. During hisundergraduate college career, he was elected to the Scholar, Dean and Honors lists at Northern Kentucky University.His Honors appointment came while working full time with a local

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

and frequently from one continent to another. As a result,the trend towards smaller, more independent collaborative development teams over the last twodecades of modern engineering practice has rapidly evolved into international collaborativeteaming. Any recent engineering graduate can expect to work, at some point in his or her career,on teams with members from varied cultural and linguistic backgrounds, geographicallydistributed across several international locations.Although international programs for engineering students have had some success, their impacton engineering education as a whole has remained curiously limited and peripheral; the numberof student participants remains relatively small. Even the relatively successful

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Bebis; Dwight Egbert; Dave Williams

helped them with the basic course contentwhich was one of our main goals. Future plans also include working more with communitycollege instructors and assessing their requirements.Computer vision systems are already becoming commonplace, and vision technology will soonbe applied across a broad range of business and consumer products. This means that there will bestrong industry demand for computer vision scientists and engineers, for people who understandcomputer vision technology and know how to apply it in real-world problems. As a result of ourintegrating computer vision research experiences throughout our curriculum, many students mayconsider pursuing careers in computer vision. Likewise, the use of the computer vision modulesby community

Conference Session

Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

Session #3454 Program Evaluation Vision Goals Components Mechanisms § Coordina te with Iacocca To develop a pre Institute to lay ground work o Document the num ber of college outreach for programs applications, participants program for high- § Implement a Career in CAP and eventual quality Awareness Programs (CAP

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karthik Ramani; Anderson David; Alexander Lee

parameters of the mechanismwere tested and adjusted before the final design was submitted for rapid prototyping. Page 8.1325.10 Figure 5: Virtual model of single cylinder engine and rapid prototyped model Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationStudents continue to remember ME444 throughout their careers and in specific work situationswhen their work benefits from their learning. They even bring their parents to the school to showoff their project creations. It creates a relationship of the students to the school and

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

. Its mission is “To educate, train, and inspire the Corpsof Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values ofDuty, Honor, Country; professional growth throughout a career as an officer in the United StatesArmy; and a lifetime of selfless service to the nation.”1 There are approximately 4,000 students called cadets at the USMA. The USMA annuallyscreens approximately 10,000 applicants for grades, athletics, extra-curricular activities, andphysical fitness. Applicants must also receive a nomination from one of their state’s congressmen.This lengthy process results in about 1,300 cadets being admitted to the USMA each year,however, the graduating class size is typically less than 1000 by the end

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Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

, communication, delegation, personality types, networking, leadership, the socio-political process, and effecting change. Page 8.236.7“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education” • Professional development can, in addition to the preceding, include career management, increasing discipline knowledge, understanding business fundamentals, contributing to the profession, considering self

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Thiede; James Hereford

physics. With the increased possibilities provided by the internet, many young peoplesaw themselves trying to cash in on their abilities to write web pages, rather than sufferingthrough a rigorous science curriculum. Now with the outbreak of peace and the threat of bio-terrorism, the biological and medical sciences are currently seen as promising careers. With theincreased power of modern calculators and computers, many students question the reasons forlearning algebra and calculus. All these reasons, and more, have caused faculty in physicsdepartments at smaller institutions to re-evaluate the direction of their programs. One approach that is being taken to maintain the relevance of the physics department is tochange the curriculum into a more

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Muratore; Jeannette Russ

internet. • Get to know your new colleagues. • Stay in touch with friends who are on a parallel path. • Establish relationships with engineering faculty at other schools in the region.Long-range PlanningWith hopes of having a long, enjoyable career as a college professor, it is never too early to startplanning for the future. This section briefly covers a few ideas that might make academic lifeeasier down the road.Keep good records on your class notes! If an idea works well, make a note of it and plan to dosomething similar that next time you teach that class. If an idea doesn’t work well, make a noteof it and plan to improve it next time around. Discipline yourself to spend less than five minutesmaking these notes right after each class

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Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-hung Chang; Skip Rochefort; Shoichi Kimura; Milo Koretsky

Operations Laboratory that has begun during the 2000-2001academic year. A newly created Endowed Chair, the Linus Pauling Engineer, was hired fromindustry to identify and incorporate the highest priority professional practices to senior lab. Sheserves as “project director” for this class to help new graduates become immediately prepared forindustrial practice. Thus the unit operations lab provides students with the array of skills theywill need to perform effectively in industry. The ChE Unit Operations Laboratory inMicroelectronics Processing is targeted at undergraduate students who are interested in careers asprocess engineers in microelectronics and related industries. The students will both develop anin-depth understanding of the underlying