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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox

invest the significant amount of effort required to learnall the nuances of the curriculum, to discover how financial aid works, to become familiar with theavailable campus resources, or to follow up on student actions and inquiries. The first changeinstituted was thus to establish the practice of having a single advisor for all undergraduates, withconcomitant release time. This person is available regularly throughout the semester to discussany issue that a student wishes. As registration time approaches, he/she maintains an extensiveschedule for registration advisement appointments. Each student receives careful, detailed,personalized advising that includes multi-year plans if needed or desired. Through experience,many potential problems are

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Egarievwe

assignments cover topics from the regular class sessions. The use of the CS laboratory and introduction to one or more programming languages are also included in the laboratory work. 4. Group projects. Students are assigned group projects to encourage and introduce them into working in groups. The group work takes about 15% of the course. Students from different disciplines are assigned to one group to foster interdisciplinary experience. 5. Field Trips. Students go on one or more field trips, depending on availability of funds. This accounts for about 5% of the course. Before the trip, students are shown videos that describe the industrial sector for the planned visit and the applications of computational

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Bellamy; Barry McNeill; Veronica Burrows

must waitfor return of graded materials. We propose that too much of the assessment of faculty bystudents (and of students by faculty) is based on affective elements (behavior, attitude) rather thancognitive elements (teaching and learning effectiveness).We have proposed in earlier work methods for assessing both affective2 and cognitive3 elementsof student performance, and for incorporating both of these aspects into course grading. In thiswork, we present a preliminary study of a method use to assist faculty with course planning, andbetter faculty self-assessment of teaching effectiveness, as well as for better student assessment ofthe learning effectiveness of faculty activity.Starting Point AssumptionsBefore presenting the assessment

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Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

Session 2475 Simple Advice: Get a Mentor and Learn to Teach Jerry W. Samples University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractNew faculty members, especially those in their first tenure stream assignment, enter the processneeding assistance in the development of research plans, professional development plans andteaching methods. Most have been exposed to the rigors of tenure and the demands of theposition; it is not until they are in the tenure race that they find it to be “difficult”.The “difficulty” of the process can be partially alleviated by developing a positive

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Scheff

to share experiencesand concerns regarding diversity in our programs. Together we will identify important,common, unresolved problems associated with this issue, as well as identify collaborative effortsto resolve these problems and the “deliverables” resulting from our efforts. This alliance,entitled the “Diversity Program Alliance”, in its infant stage right now, is plagued by manysocietal influences unique to the South. The University of Kentucky, a large public land grantuniversity, and a member of this alliance, plans to look into how women in engineeringprogramming is handled at other SEC campuses, and work toward collaborative programswhich will enhance all SEC campuses.Overview/Related Literature:Women are entering colleges and

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Curriculum Issues in Graphics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Kelley

understanding ofmanufacturing enterprises and computer systems. From the mechanical engineering technology(MET) department students are required to take courses in materials, statics, dynamics, strengthof materials, and manufacturing processes. A significant amount of programming isincorporated into the curriculum with courses in C++ and Visual Basic. Students also have theoption of taking two courses in computer graphics programming. An additional course indatabase development is also required.IV. Future Developments Design projects are a significant requirement in several computer graphics technologycourses. Currently, each design project is limited to students within one particular lab section.The plan is to expand the design project in CGT

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

AIAD, I saw how important funding and prior planning are to a project, both of with cannot be as appreciated in the classroom as in real life. The AIAD was an experience that I could apply in both a military and civilian environment. The following comments are from the two USMA students that participated in the US Air Force Academy’s Field Engineering and Readiness Laboratory (FERL) program at the USAFA during the summer of 2002. o The FERL program was definitely beneficial to my major. It shows students how much fun civil engineering is when it is put to use. It was mostly a hands-on course with a little classroom instruction. It confirmed that I had chosen the right major for me and it let me

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Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Brown; Mel Mendelson

. Page 8.701.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”The purpose of this paper is to describe the collaboration between LMU and industry, thecooperation within LMU, and the planning that led to the new program. The benchmarkingof other comparable programs, our proposed curriculum, and the sources and qualificationsof prospective students are discussed.II. Benchmarking Successful ProgramsA number of university graduate programs, integrating engineering and business wereexamined, and their systems engineering content determined. While many universities offersystems engineering graduate studies, only four universities

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Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lloyd J. Griffiths; Anne J. Marchant; E. Bernard White

Telecommunications (3) IT 341 Network and Operating System Essential (3) IT 443 IT Resource Planning (3) CS 305 Ethics and Law for the Computing Professional (3) MSOM 302 Managing Information (3) MSOM 303 Marketing in a Digital World (3)Students who plan to pursue advanced degrees are encouraged to take IT 208 (follow-onto IT 108) or comparable course in Data Structures. Additional programming andscripting is incorporated in other courses as well, e.g., INFS 311 (which incorporatesVisual Basis) and IT 431 (the advanced web design course that incorporates and evaluatesthe uses of JavaScript, PERL, and CGI). IT 221 (a security course) is a core course, andsecurity will also be a component of all of the upper

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackie Sullivan; Daniel Knight

specific machine to become available. Many students pointed out howcrowded it became around the few focus machines. And, some students wanted fewer participantsin the workshops. Most of these suggestions for improvement can be met by using a scaled-downstudent project that requires less time at each machine and is easier to assemble. Also, theparticipants will be asked to first develop a more detailed machining plan. Having the plan beforestarting to machine will help participants to better understand the sequence of steps to beaccomplished and lead to less time waiting for instruction.Some women who were invited to participate had schedule conflicts, noting that the times or daysfor the WMW overlapped with courses and other commitments. To meet

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vivian Chang; Sonya Havens; Kathryn Clifton; John Lendvay; Eliot Metzger

watershed council currently being developed. The expectation is thatthis data will be used by the community to develop:• A community-based watershed planning process and design of a restoration and managementplan for the Yosemite Slough watershed, informed by the results of the assessment; and• A much-needed watershed management perspective and baseline data to inform on-goingredevelopment plans and water infrastructure investments.AcknowledgementsThis work is supported by CALFED grant, contract number 4600001725. Additional fundingwas provided by the Lily Drake Fund for Cancer Research and the University of San FranciscoFaculty Development Fund. The authors wish to thank Ms. Colleen Stevens (USF) for hereditorial comments.Bibliography1. U.S

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Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Walter

liability • Risk assessment • Hazard analysis and mitigation • Needs analysis/specifications • Feasibility studies • Patents • Decision making • Project planning/scheduling/tracking • Product testing • Ergonomics • Memo and report writing • Engineering presentationsThe junior students work largely in teams of 4-5. Recent assignments have been as diverse asdeveloping a fault-tree analysis for a fiber telemetry link, performing hazard-analyses andsubsequently developing safe-operating-procedures for handling steel gas pressure cylinders,performing feasibility studies to neutralize a well-defended, hardened, deeply-buried facilitywithin an unfriendly country, performing a work-breakdown

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Tuana; John Wisw; John Christman; Andy Lau; Thomas Litzinger

as theyformulated plans for integrating ethics into their curricula, e.g., IIT 1, Towson State2 and OregonInstitute of Technology.3) It became clear that if departments were to be successful in integratingethics into engineering courses, some form of development would be required for most facultymembers.Shortly after the need for a faculty development activity became clear, the College of Engineeringand the College of the Liberal Arts received a gift from an Alumnus to start joint activitiesinvolving engineering and ethics. This gift explicitly linked the Douglas and Julie Rock EthicsInstitute in Liberal Arts and the Leonhard Center. When the Directors of the Institute and Centermet to discuss possible joint projects, they quickly decided

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthis project but also to build relationships for other opportunities for collaboration to benefitstudents. The faculty will determine during the curriculum planning phase when it is appropriateto combine two-year and four-year students for learning and when it is best to provide separateclasses. Faculty will be encouraged to break out of the traditional lecture mode and findinnovative, applications-based learning opportunities for students using high-tech labs andemerging technologies. This will allow for an enrichment experience for the entire faculty andan appreciation

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ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Sauer; Mark Moore; Amin ul Karim; Ahmed Khan

Module Title Acronym1 RT-RFT Radio RF Theory Transmission2 RT-RFTT Radio RF Troubleshooting Techniques Transmission3 RT-RFA Radio RF Antenna Transmission4 RT-RFP Radio RF Propagation Transmission5 RT-RFSP Radio RF System Planning Transmission6 S-BDC Switch Basic Data Communications7 S-BSS1 Switch Basic Switching Systems 18 S-BSS2 Switch Basic Switching Systems 2 – Digital Switching9

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Contemporary Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mary Jo Cartwright; Allie Knowlton; Donald Falkenburg

magnetic forces and fields, inductance, capacitance, superposition and power transfer. Transient circuits and sinusoidal steady state analysis are also examined. (Estimated to be available by 04/30/03) Entrepreneurship This course covers the knowledge set and skills for learners to become effective entrepreneurs. Furthermore, principles of creativity, innovation and personal leadership styles will be applied. Issues of business planning, resource identification and organization building will be addressed. (Estimated to be available by 04/30/03) Facilities Design This course provides an introduction to plant location theory and analysis of models of facilities design, determining plant size and time

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The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Natela Ostrovskaya; Jan Rinehart; Susan Metz

) writing down a formal plan for studentresearch; and 5) giving students at least one teaching experience (strategies 4 and 5 were also tiedin the ranking)., “Why these experiences are so important,” respondents particularly put importance on technicalconferences by reporting: “Technical conferences let students practice skills, with some guidance and some backup,before they are expected to do them on their own. Prospective faculty members must be able toprovide their own motivation and feedback. Gives insight into academia.” “Technical conferences are the heart and soul of research in academia. An understandingof how they work, what is expected, the networking experience is invaluable.” “Students must understand expectations. Students

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shan Barkataki; Bolton Tom

successful approach, providing a win-wingame plan for all parties involved. Students are excited by the prospect of working on “realprojects,” with “real engineers.” This type of work merits as professional experience in theresume. The industry partner is pleased to have a channel to influence the training andeducation of its potential employees and have the opportunity to recruit “job ready” graduates. Itworks for the university, because such collaboration aligns well with two of its goals—providing students with professional experience, and serving the local industrial community.Finally, faculty benefits by being able to interact with their industrial colleagues and from theopportunities for professional development.Fair Compensation for Students

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Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ratna Babu Chinnam; Joe Nguyen; Jenny Wang-Chavez; Hemalatha Sathya

, American Society for Engineering EducationThe OM course primarily focuses on the production and operations management functions thatinvolve the planning, coordination, and execution of activities directly related to production ofgoods and services. This paper will use the development of this OM course as an example todemonstrate the efforts made by Greenfield Coalition (GC) to meet the needs of the current globalmarketplace. The paper will detail the steps taken to develop the course, the instructionalstrategies and activities used to engage students in the active problem-solving process, and theefforts made by the team to ensure the practical value of the course.Greenfield Coalition Course StructureGreenfield Coalition courses are structured into

Conference Session

Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadine Macauley; Edward Golovatch; Annita Alting; Ardie Walser

both quantitative and qualitative approaches. As an urban institutionof higher learning, one of the School’s missions is to provide education to a highly diversestudent body, including traditionally underrepresented minorities, women, workingadults, and immigrants in the greater New York metropolitan area. The first objective ofimplementing a plan to meet ABET 2000 criteria is to gather accurate and reliableinformation, both in scope and in depth, about the School’s present situation and itsstudents’ unique needs. One method being used is a manual requisite check by theSchool’s Accreditation Advisors of the College’s automated registration system. Themanual requisite check was first performed to identify and correct possible errors in

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ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marty Frisbee; Deborah Sharer

additional planning and effort required in communicatingquestions, problems or concerns must be recognized and addressed to allow the IADE student tosuccessfully complete course requirements. In spite of these obstacles, distance education is avaluable tool that allows students, who would not otherwise be able to avail themselves of theopportunity, to attend classes and receive an accredited degree.Additional difficulties arise for technically oriented courses, particularly in the engineeringdisciplines. Engineering courses are often computationally intensive and require the ability togenerate graphic representations at various levels of problem abstraction. These courses, whichare considered difficult for traditional, on-campus instruction, must

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ioannis Miaoulis; Erik Rushton; Brian Gravel

resistance. The fellow continued to work with that teacherand the other math teachers in the middle school. For the second year, the fellow worked withonly two of the math teachers and did not work with the third teacher. That teacher did not try tointegrate any of the lesson plans that had been developed during the previous year. There was Page 8.1047.4friction between the fellow and the teacher resulting in a very poor program outcome.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationHowever sometimes the format is better when the

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Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

couple of years to establishoutcomes assessment processes to meet ABET requirements.3,10,12 Principles that guided thedevelopment and implementation of the OA processes were to • Involve faculty at each step in the development process • Have a non-administrative faculty champion have a key role in the development • Page 8.1257.2 Make it sustainable so the plan will operate continuously and not fall apart after the ABET visit Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering

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Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell Massie

equipment. Unfortunately, savings are often based on faulty assumptions or from computer simulations.Lack of a Measurement and Verification (M&V) plan may leave many institutions at risk ofunrealized savings. Campus plant managers often either lack the technical experience to verifyEnergy Service Performance Contract (ESPC) calculations (because state-of-the-art has changedsince they were students) or are busy performing other administrative functions and do not verifycost avoidance savings. To effectively evaluate these contracts, there must be a M&V program,complete with detailed thermodynamic and economic analysis. Measurement and verification costs can consume a significant portion of the entire project

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International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberto Montoya

qualityreached so far, and to the plans for improvement that result from the self-evaluation process. Thisdynamic dimension provides the CNA with evaluation elements to recommend the Ministry ofEducation on the term for which the accreditation should be issued. The minimum term is threeyears and the maximum is ten years. When accreditation is not recommended, the CNA advisesthe Ministry of Education on recommendations to be made to the institution to improve theprogram that was submitted for accreditation.The accreditation process takes place according to the following procedure, which requirescompliance with certain Initial Conditions the institution must fulfill before proceeding tosubsequent stages:1. The Self-Evaluation each institution that wishes

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Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Silvanus Udoka; Paul Stanfield

grades in the coursewith the virtual space usage statistics.Key success factors include an exciting project, planning that enables an early start in thesemester, proactive scheduling of the classes for convenient meeting times, and on-goingorientation on the utility of the virtual workspace.Despite the problems encountered, the students and faculty and project manager viewed the IVTproduct realization project as a success. The students consistently indicated that they thought thatthe project workload was too heavy. We are planning to implement a similar project in the Spring2003 semester, taking into account the lessons from the first offering, and are looking forward toanother exciting collaborative effort. This second implementation will use

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Philips; John Hochstein; William Janna

to convey a specific fluid; sizing and selecting a pump; selecting a heat exchanger; predictingsystem performance; and writing a report about the design of the system.When the tasks are identified, a completion date is selected for each one. By the end of the fifthweek of the semester, for instance, a pipe material and size will be selected. The tasks and targetcompletion dates are summarized in the form of a task planning sheet, an example of which is inTable 2. Also included on the task planner is the name/initials of the individual responsible forcompleting the task.Each group member keeps and maintains a notebook or diary of all tasks completed for the project.The diary contains any and all details of the work done by that particular

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Philips; John Hochstein; William Janna

to convey a specific fluid; sizing and selecting a pump; selecting a heat exchanger; predictingsystem performance; and writing a report about the design of the system.When the tasks are identified, a completion date is selected for each one. By the end of the fifthweek of the semester, for instance, a pipe material and size will be selected. The tasks and targetcompletion dates are summarized in the form of a task planning sheet, an example of which is inTable 2. Also included on the task planner is the name/initials of the individual responsible forcompleting the task.Each group member keeps and maintains a notebook or diary of all tasks completed for the project.The diary contains any and all details of the work done by that particular

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

require 128 semester hours. • There shall be a set of common core courses that enables students to enroll in engineering with an undeclared major and to change majors without loss of credit through the end of the third semester. • To ensure education beyond technology, provide flexibility for students to develop thematic options, and complement the technical content of the curriculum, all programs shall have a pool of 36 semester hours of elective courses. The student’s portfolio and plan of study guide the selection of appropriate electives. The electives are used to fulfill two College Page 8.45.2

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Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claire Lynne McCullough

events for the Summer LeadershipAcademy, including presentation of award certificates, exhibition of the web pages which theteams designed describing their summer activities, a “brain-bowl” quiz, and a competition testingthe bridges which the girls had built. Also included was a luncheon, and presentation of eachgirl with a $300 stipend for participation. The second method used to raise parental awarenesswas the hosting of two family “E-Days” at the Museum. The girls, their parents, and theSECME RISE teachers were all invited to half-day sessions, including hands-on designs, femaleengineers as guest speakers, career planning information, and discussions of how to bestencourage the girls’ interest in science, mathematics, and technology.In