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A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Calvert; Michael Shannon

master the subject. Another challenge within the core physics program is how to instruct the same coursematerial to 850+ students that are split into 64 sections taught by 16 different instructors. Cadetclass standing is an immensely important aspect of the cadet experience at West Point. Itimpacts the cadet’s choice of military specialty and first duty assignment upon graduation, andwill continue to follow the cadet throughout their military career. Therefore, consistent gradingacross the board is imperative. To overcome this challenge, the Department of Physics hasdeveloped and implemented a pedagogy that is adhered to by all faculty and a well-definedgrading rubric in which standards for performance are clearly defined and understood

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gearold Johnson; Thomas Siller

the engineeringcurriculum.Globalization of engineering careers also places new demands on social knowledge. Becauseengineering graduates now compete for jobs around the world and with graduates frominstitutions in many other countries, all of our graduates must have basic knowledge of foreigncultures and languages.The launch of the Sputnik satellite by the Russians in December 1957 was a ‘defining moment’for U.S. engineering schools and its curricula. This event was externally supplied and resulted inthe change of engineering curricula to be based almost entirely on analysis courses. Insubsequent years, the various stakeholders of the curricula have chipped away at individualcomponents without consideration of overall integration or a

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Henry; James Bandstra

careers at CTC aswell as other industry and engineering organizations. Thus was born this unique opportunity forUPJ to leverage local resources to develop the planned materials and manufacturing laboratorycourse.Organizational Roles and ExperienceUPJ faculty determined the types of laboratory experiments that were germane to the materialsand manufacturing laboratory course. For each of these experiments, the educational objectiveswere defined paying particular attention to the aspect of materials technology that would beuseful to the engineering graduate. For example, a basic tenet of the materials course it to teachthe student that the engineering properties of a given material are dependent on the internalstructure of that material - and

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Sheardown; Donald Woods

is about performance and not aboutyou as a personM Assessment is based on evidence and not on gutfeelings or wishful thinking Table 2 is given to the students to help them monitor progress in the development of the skill. (Similar tables of target skills have been developed for the other skills in the MPS program.) Now consider more details of the four to six hour workshop used in the sophomore course to develop the skill. The workshop has the following set of activities: define, provide rationale, pretest awareness and skill (using the test in Table 1), read over objectives and target skills (using the material in Tables 1 and 2), consider where self assessment fits in with other career, or higher order skills, address misconceptions

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taz Daughtrey; Edgar Sibley; Anne Marchant

attack and defense exercises. We therefore intend to graduate students capableof excelling in careers as information security engineers or as computer science graduates with aspecialization in computer and network security and, by collaborating and integrating work fromother institutions, reduce costs in duplication of curricula.3. Security Lab ArchitectureA considerable amount of energy has gone into the design of a security lab to support thecapstone cyberdefense exercises. We are studying both the IWAR6 (Information WarfareAnalysis and Research) laboratory at the US Military Academy at West Point and the PEN4(Portable Educational Network) at George Washington University. While our plans continue toevolve, certain elements are clear: • Since

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret P. Battin; Gordon B. Mower; Angela R. Harris; JoAnn Lighty

communication skills. In addition, part of the goalfor getting students to participate in the project of exploring an ethical dilemma and arguing forone course of action over another was to prepare them for the kinds of experiences they arelikely to encounter when they go to work as an engineer, and the grading criteria were intendedto promote the skills they will need when faced with difficult situations. During the course of Page 9.550.4their career they will almost certainly find themselves in situations where they disagree with the Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Julia Morse; Jung Oh

. Furthermore, anecdotal evidence is highly susceptible to the interpretation of theone sharing the information. When a Promotion and Tenure committee must share anecdotalexperience, this testimony may not be documented for the candidate to later review for accuracyor to clarify the interpretation with background information. For this reason (and also to avoidother biases), the P&T procedures at some universities require that P&T decisions can only bebased on information included in the P&T document.c We do not accept anecdotal evidence asconclusive in our research; we should not be comfortable using anecdotal evidence to basedecisions which affects the careers and lives of faculty members. Nor is it wise for candidatesforce reviewers to

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy

. 5, September/October 2003, pp. 1529 - 1540.[26]. V. G. Gudise, G. K. Venayagamoorthy, “Comparison of particle swarm optimization and backpropagation as training algorithms for neural networks”, IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Indianapolis, IN, USA, April 24 -26, 2003, pp.110 - 117.AcknowledgmentThe support from the National Science Foundation under CAREER Grant: ECS # 0348221 and the University ofMissouri Research Board is gratefully acknowledged for this work.BiographyGanesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy received the B.Eng. (Honors) degree with a first class in electrical andelectronics engineering from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria, and the M.Sc.Eng. andPh.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

needs-driven technology development. Among the issues that William Wulf,president of the National Academy of Engineering, pointed out in the main plenary address to the 2002ASEE – Annual Conference at Montreal, is the need for reform of faculty reward systems at the nation’sschools of engineering and technology to better reflect the modern practice of engineering.As Wulf pointed out in his address: “I don’t especially want to engage in the teaching vs. research debate. I suspect, like most of you, I believe that teaching and research complement each other. And, by and large, there is a high correlation between good teaching and good research. Good people are good! In my admittedly idiosyncratic career, the number of cases of genuinely

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Amin Karim; Ahmed Khan

and curriculum), and organizational development (focus onstructure and process) [10].Faculty in purely teaching institutions (non-research environment) especially thoseteaching in technology-based and career-oriented programs, generally lag behind the paceof technological change in terms of their professional development activities due to theirnon-association with research activities. They face two major challenges: how toincorporate and teach new applications of new technologies in the curriculums they teachand how to maintain their professional currency.Therefore, in summary, the rapid pace of technological change mandates that facultyremain current in their technical areas of specialization as technology leapfrogs and newdomains of

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Predecki; Albert Rosa; George Edwards

9.1214.4 for a new Core course that would fit in the technology quadrant. We set up several challenges so that when students had completed the course they would have gained some of the knowledge and Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationexperience to help them in making smart choices about technology – for their career and forthemselves. We wanted students to know what questions to ask about such things as costs,power, safety, reliability, ethics, usefulness and consequences of the technology theyrecommended or purchased. The course had to be seen as clearly useful to each student. In sum,we

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

were composed of both ME and IE students. In 1991 after retiring from Shell (anda career as a drilling engineer and with many years experience working in Shell’s internaltraining programs), Ross Kastor was hired as a lecturer to teach the class. Five years agothe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) added the course as adegree requirement for all students entering in the fall 1998 and thereafter. Since thensome ECE students have taken the course as an elective. That number has grown over the Page 9.805.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Case Studies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Manion; Eli Fromm; Jay Bhatt

reasoning.Teaching social and political responsibilities increases awareness of the complex waystechnology impacts society, both positively and negatively. It increases the professional’s senseof empowerment with respect to the choice of engineering as a potential career. Students becomeaware that, as engineers, they have the potential to do both great social benefit, but also to dograve social harm.The first quarter of the ethics component in the sophomore year introduces the students to theconcepts of professionalism, engineering codes of ethics, code-based reasoning, and case-based Page 9.552.3reasoning strategies. Many micro-case studies are referenced

Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Cecil

areasincluding Anthony in Texas. The first phase of this outreach approach involved (a)introducing students in grades 4 – 12 to virtual reality technology through miniworkshops (duration: four to eight hours) and use it as a vehicle to kindle their interest inengineering careers, (b) introducing teachers in middle and high schools to cutting edgesoftware technologies and train / educate them in virtual engineering so that they can inturn train/educate their colleagues and students.As part of Soaring Eagle, a collaborative partnership is being undertaken between theVirtual Enterprise Engineering Laboratory at NMSU and the Mescalero Apache Schoolsin the Mescalero Apache Reservation. While Native American students from otherreservations have also

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Gabriele

educate students for careers innew product invention and development with a sense for both the technical and social issues.PDI is a dual major program satisfying the requirements for the Bachelor of Science programs inMechanical Engineering, and Science, Technology and Society (STS). PDI prepares students tobecome innovative designers who can integrate contemporary technologies with changing socialcontexts for a new generation of advanced product designs.PDI aims to balance the traditional approaches of Architectural/Industrial Design andEngineering Design - often governed by the aesthetic and the technical - with the approach ofScience and Technology Studies (STS) - the social. Students develop a set of general engineeringskills through meeting

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

a wide variety of careers in related fields. 2. The program will provide training at the individual topic, individual course, and certificate level for individuals interested in learning mechanical engineering technology topics regardless of a traditional degree goal. 3. The program will provide technical assistance in mechanical engineering technology related areas to local businesses.Note that this mission supports METS Department goals 1 and 2 listed previously.Moving further down the support structure, one of the MET program educationalobjectives with a specific linked outcome that supports the MET mission items 1 and 2above is shown in Table 1 below

Conference Session

Support and Partnership Opportunities

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

sustained funding (see sectionbelow), faculty from Marketing and Management, Computer Science, MechanicalEngineering, Economics, Sociology and Design Arts have formed a team to developproposals for research in the economic, social and technical aspects of entrepreneurshipand the development of enabling technologies that assist globally dispersed productdevelopment teams.Educational outreach: The Integrated Product Development program has teamed withLehigh’s Iacocca Institute for Global Entrepreneurship (www.iacocca-lehigh.org/cap/) tosponsor Career Awareness Programs (CAP) for highly qualified, underrepresented highschool students. The focus of these one-week summer programs included business,engineering and design arts, all with a technical

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiu Choi

fortheir future career or graduate study in control engineering.II. Equipment used in the controls laboratory courseIn this section we list the equipment used in the controls laboratory. The purpose is to inform thereaders what equipment was available to the students.There had been eight stations of equipment housed in the controls laboratory. In spring 2004, thelab was moved into a bigger room in the new engineering building. There are now thirteen stationsof equipment in the new laboratory. Each station consists of the following:1. one Feedback Mechanical Unit, model # 33-100 [1]2. one Axiom M68HC912B32 microcontroller evaluation board, model # CME12B/BC [2]3. one Feedback Analog Board, model # 33-110 [1]4. one oscilloscope (either Tiepie

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

mission is to educate our students for careers of service, leadership anddistinction in biomedical engineering or other fields by using a participatory, learn by doing,“hands-on” laboratory, project and design centered approach.The program will accomplish this goal by building on the historic strengths of the college at thebachelors level and the individual strengths of participating faculty. The application ofengineering to medicine and biology underpins a strong and growing segment of the industrialsector, is the basis for a number of federal conversion efforts and continues to be an area ofinherent interest to students. The need for well educated professionals in this interdisciplinaryarea has become more acute as the technology being applied

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Stroud Rossmann; Clive Dym

mechanics.This course is well positioned to demonstrate the connections between solid and fluid mechanics,as well as the larger mathematical issues shared by both fields, to students who have not yettaken courses in fluid mechanics and/or strength of materials. The context and foundationprovided by this course are available to students as they specialize (by choosing electives, byselecting career paths, or by going to graduate school) in either solid or fluid mechanics, orspecialize in the connections themselves by returning to a deeper study of the overarching field ofcontinuum mechanics.Over four academic years, we have had success in introducing this subject at such an early pointin the curriculum. Such a course could replace statics and first

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

venue.An example of a project completed by a recent graduate is given to support this thesis.Foundational NeedsStudents, at all levels, acquire concepts more easily by putting in a sufficient amount of time inthe art of practice. This idea may seem trivial, but many experts have said that continued practiceis a major contributor to being successful in any field. Students can be made proficient in this artif they are required to present technical ideas in professionally prepared reports.Industrial experience has proven that communication skills will be the largest contributor toenhancing a student’s technical career and advancement. Instilling this concept into studentsearly on should be a top priority. In order for students to prepare properly

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

they are not at the beginning of their careers, they may have invested wisely and donot feel that salary is as important as it once was. Further, improved flexibility and/or less stressmay now be very important. But each individual’s situation is unique and a decision can be madefor a wide range of reasons. The point here is that the experienced new faculty may be lookingmore for intrinsic rewards then extrinsic (remuneration) rewards.Table 1 contains a synopsis of the primary differences between industry and academia across alarge number of attributes. The higher the attribute in the table, roughly the greater thedifference. So, mission is at the top. In industry, it is very clear why you are there and that is tomake money for the company. At

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports; Carolyn Fausnaugh; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

delivered. In the product-to-market sense, they represent the documentation generally developed for the principal gates of a traditional stage-gate system, and are relevant to what entrepreneurs must consider, formally or informally, as they bring their new products to market. There are two caveats: 1) The senior design sequence of courses are core courses and must be taken by all undergraduate engineering students, regardless of their career interests or abilities and 2) Even on entrepreneurial teams, not all team members are intending to follow an entrepreneurial path after graduation The authors observe that the teams and

Conference Session

Sustainability and the Environment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Olivia Dees; Saeed Foroudastan

muchneeded to confront these problems. An alternative to the damaging effects of monocultureis intercropping.A number of solutions can be implemented in order to combine different areas of interestfor a common goal. Engineering advances, through the use of even the most basicformulas, may brighten our socioecological future with a confident sense of economics.It is highly important that current engineering students are introduced to the methods ofagricultural and biological engineering that are described in this paper. The world’spopulation grows rapidly while its resources deplete just as quickly. If engineeringstudents are introduced to innovative methods of agricultural and biological engineeringearly on, some may decide to pursue a career in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

(CSM) offers a design-oriented,interdisciplinary, accredited non-traditional undergraduate program in engineering withspecialization in a branch of civil, electrical, environmental, or mechanical engineering. In theDivision, we have a tradition of innovation with respect to interdisciplinary curriculum, a Page 9.616.1young and dynamic faculty (currently five NSF Career awardees), and relative freedom from Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringState control on credit allocations. This provides us with

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

understanding of and competence in goal setting, personal time management, communication, delegation, personality types, networking, leadership, the socio-political process, and effecting change. Page 9.624.8 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education” In addition to the preceding, professional development can, include career management, increasing discipline knowledge, understanding business fundamentals, contributing to the

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Marionneaux; Michael Edmondson; Matthew McDaniel; Jay Daly; Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

of the engineering workforce, we must look to the elementary and secondarygrades.Though much attention has justifiably been focused on elementary and secondary students’proficiency in math and science, there is also a compelling need to increase their awareness ofengineering as a career path and their interest in engineering as an academic program of study.In responding to these challenges, we must also address the common student misperception thatengineering is appropriate only for the “technically elite.”4There is no single best answer to this challenge. In the absence of a well-coordinated nationalprogram, engineers and educators have responded with a variety of creative grass-rootsapproaches.5,6 We propose another such approach

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Krause

Page 9.397.3all researchers come to a consensus. The next to last step was to pilot test the rubric with data. In Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationorder to examine how well the rubric captured the data, we selected two students for preliminaryevaluation. One of the selected students was a male and the other one was a female. We analyzedtheir data using the scoring rubric. As a result of this evaluation, we added two subcategoriesunder the transfer to the classroom category, engineering as a career and critical perspectives.The final rubric included 46 specific categories for the six

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Reed Stevens; Lorraine Fleming; Cynthia Atman; Sheri Sheppard; Theresa Barker; Ruth Streveler

’ perspective.The Academic Pathways Study draws on previous research on how students learn, as well aswhat factors influence attrition in science, math and engineering majors. However, this studyextends previous research in a number of fundamental ways: Page 9.1133.3 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” 1) It is a longitudinal study, following the same students from freshman through junior years, and other students in career transition into engineering practice. 2) It is specific to engineering

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ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhilasha Tibrewal; Tarek Sobh

but no limited to humanities and social sciences. [ABET criteria h, j] 13. Students will be able to function competently in a related entry-level career. [ABET criteria i, f] 14. Students will show the desire and ability to keep learning throughout life. [ABET criterion i] Page 9.173.17 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education” 15. Students will develop the cognitive and analytical skills needed to succeed in graduate programs