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Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

the freshmen year experience with faculty from mathematics and the sciencesand linkage with the Binghamton Success Program, a federally funded effort to supportstudents from underrepresented groups in engineering. Each of the four elements will bedescribed with attention paid to assessment and planned future directions anddevelopments. The program has changed dramatically over the course of the last twoyears and has witnessed both successes, and to a lesser extent, several failures.Introduction One of the innovative features of undergraduate engineering education at the StateUniversity of New York at Binghamton is the common freshman year program,administered by the Division of Engineering Discovery and Design. Students are notrequired to

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Hirleman

attend classes at Purdue during the Spring Semester 2004.The Karlsruhe students will return to Karlsruhe at the beginning of May for the Karlsruhesummer semester.Preparation of Participants: After the selection process is completed, a number of orientationactivities are conducted to prepare the students for their work and study in Germany and China.A Foreign Languages and Literature faculty member meets with each selected student to furtherevaluate language and culture skills. An individual plan of action is developed to ensure thestudent has a working knowledge of the target language prior to departure. Some students arealso asked to prepare a 20-minute presentation in German or Chinese about their ownbackground to introduce themselves to an

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Duesing; David Baumann; David McDonald

that are the result of the review. Figure 2 shows a blockdiagram of the design review process.Students are given instructions on the philosophy and mechanics of conducting design reviews. Itis emphasized that the review is a semiformal meeting with a carefully planned agenda. A keyaspect of the agenda is a list of the specific outcomes and decisions that are expected as a resultof the review. Student teams are instructed to select a meeting facilitator, individuals to discussand present each topic/design, and individuals to take notes and provide summaries at key pointsin the review. In addition to providing a lecture on the design review meeting process, sample“mock” design reviews are given to the students. Faculty members play the roles of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shivram Sankar; Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

, Tallassee, AL. Mr. Clay Hamblen documented the use of thesematerials in a physics classroom for his Honors undergraduate thesis. In addition, a specialworkshop was held for 4-H students (ages ranging from nine to fourteen) in Birmingham, AL.These studies show that high school students get excited about science once they are able towork with case study CD-ROMs that use STEM extensionsFindings from Using a Case Study at a High School Level A physics teacher at a High School included the Della Steam Plant Case Study in his Page 9.1194.8lesson plan during the Fall semester of 2001. An example of how the case is incorporated intoProceedings of the

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Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emilia Hodge; Chang-Yu Wu; Anne Donnelly

in St. Louis, Environmental Engineering Science Program, St. Louis, MO 63130/4University of Florida, Office of Academic Technology, Gainesville, FL 32611AbstractA comprehensive evaluation program was developed as part of an NSF Course Curriculum, andLaboratory Improvement grant to develop three undergraduate computer simulation modules.Aerosol science and technology is generally taught at the graduate level and the goal of thisprogram was to develop materials that would bring this subject to the undergraduate level. Toachieve this goal, an evaluation plan was developed that included formative and summative, andcognitive and affective measures. This was a collaboration between content and

Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Jacobson

hard time getting students. The four courses were already being taught viadistance education and had off campus enrollments ranging from 10 to 40. Advanced ComputerNetworking has been taught to off campus students since the course was created in 1980.Information System Security and Information Warfare have been taught to off campus studentssince they were created in 1995. Our first few students who enrolled in the certificate programhad already taken one or more of the courses and were planning on taking most of the coursesanyway. We tried several different things to get interest including making presentations atseveral regional business meetings. Iowa State University also issued a press release which waspicked up in several

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

development”. For this paper, sustainable development will be defined as,“The acting out of cultural and economic programs that would allow the currentpopulation to live off of the resource interest provided by environmental, economic, andsocial plans, concepts, projects, and innovations without lowering the value of resourcesfor the following generations.”It is obvious that the clear goal of business is to make money, but responsibility should bespread among international and national businesses that are contributing to the problemof pollution and anti-sustainability. Too many penalties for pollution are less than thecost for cleaning the problem, so often that the option of paying penalties is chosen overfixing the problem. For some companies

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thompson; Terri Fiez; Larry Flick; Edith Gummer

Page 9.562.1problem and the desire for simplicity in a solution. A study of curriculum reform in theFoundation Coalition illustrates this very issue.2 The initial model for curriculum change usedby institutions in the coalition involved implementation and evaluation of small pilot projectsfollowed by adoption. The model became increasingly complex over time as the realities ofscale and institutional differences were factored into adoption plans. Simple pilot projects didnot address the diversity among faculty and students at the larger scale and so curriculum had tobe modified from the original concept. The Foundation Coalition adapted to the complexitiesconfronting its institutions. Addressing complexity as the Foundation Coalition did

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Orr; Richard Vaz

appropriate now and for the foreseeable future. It also describes the new ECEcurriculum with the inevitable depth vs. breadth tradeoffs, the transition plan from EE to ECE,the preparations for the initial accreditation visit, and the results of the visit.2. BackgroundWhen the decision was made in 2001 to move to the ECE major, only four US universitiesoffered accredited majors in ECE. However, since that time it appears that a small trend hasemerged; at present the ABET web site lists accredited ECE programs at 12 universities(including WPI). The following universities offer only ECE (not EE, computer engineering, orsimilarly-named programs) as their accredited major: • Baylor University • Carnegie Mellon University • University of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Elizabeth DeBartolo

developing a plan of action. The long-term goal is to use the GraduateSeminar course as a way to help entering BS/MS students to learn the soft skills needed tosucceed from upperclassmen and build a support network among these students.BackgroundRIT’s Mechanical Engineering department has a primarily undergraduate focus, and it is a co-opinstitution, where ME students are required to complete five co-op blocks beginning in their thirdyear. RIT also offers an MS or MEng degree, depending on whether or not the student wants topursue thesis research. There are two options for pursuing a master’s-level degree: the studentmay enter as a full- or part-time student who has already completed the bachelor’s degree, or thestudent may apply for a dual BS

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

with some consultants to help to developthe new material, but their input into this course is in evaluating, not planning. A betterintegration of the consultants into the development plan should be included.” (3) “The proposal is a good start towards developing a means of providing atechnical education for non-engineers but it is weak on implementation.” (4) “We are concerned that students will not learn much about engineering”. (5) “This course doesn’t build anything — what references do they leave theclass with, how will they teach themselves in the future.” (6) “There is some concern that this will be a course without an audience. Thereis no indication that students would want to enroll, and no plan on how to

Conference Session

Library Instruction Forum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Derby; Bruce Reid

, Page 9.1113.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education● providing a list of freely accessible digital spatial database centers such as the Pennsylvania Spatial Data center (PASDA), Federal Geospatial Data Center (FGDC), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Geodetic Surveys (NGS) and many others, and● planning system maintenance protocols.Most of these issues are administrative in nature. Major administrative decisions regarding theacquisition and dissemination of geospatial data had to be handled at senior levels within thelibrary system. Other decisions such as hardware configuration

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid; Elaine Cooney

havetraditionally been measured by engineering technology faculty the same way they are evaluatedin the workplace: “I know it when I see it.” While this method may lead to a letter grade (“Thatpresentation was pretty good – I’ll give it a B”), this is not truly assessing the student, thepresentation or the degree program. Meaningful assessment of the student or of the presentationshould include constructive feedback, and assessment of the degree program should includequalitative measurement of the necessary characteristics of a good presentation. Goodassessment practices also recommend that data be “triangulated”, or measured in more than oneway.Gloria Rogers1 has recommended a variety of assessment techniques for a comprehensiveassessment plan. All

Conference Session

Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacqueline Mozrall; Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

their project. By the end of the DPM course, team leaders have produced apreliminary needs assessment and project plan that will guide the team through 22 weeks ofwork. Most students completing the DPM course go on to become team leaders. However,some elect to become chief engineer instead. Chief engineers focus on the more technical aspectsof problem definition, concept development, concept selection, and performance validation,while team leaders focus on project management.In the DPM course, and throughout the program, a multi-facetted paradigm is used to teach basicconcepts in product and process development. These are (1) Needs Assessment, (2) ConceptDevelopment, (3) Feasibility Assessment, (4) Specifications and Objectives, (5) Analysis

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Schumack

Problem 1 9 Exam 3 Problem 2 5 Problem 3 10 Table 3. Linkages among class assignments and outcomesIdeally, the course outcomes, developed while the course is being planned, should drive theassignments. In practice, some of the assignments or exam problems were first given to thestudents, with the outcome assignment being done after students handed in their work. Thus,some of the outcomes were assessed heavily while others were addressed just once. It may bethat the resulting coverage is appropriate, but the coverage for each outcome should bedetermined prior to designing assignments, not after the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yaakov Varol; William Sparkman; Walt Johnson; Nancy LaTourrette; Jesse Adams; Jeffrey LaCombe; Gary Norris; Ellen Jacobson; Norma Velasquez-Bryant; John Kleppe; Pamela Cantrell; Eric Wang; Ted Batchman

theteaching scholars in residence. The course is based on the NSF New Century Scholars workshop[6]. Faculty at University of Nevada, Reno, who participated in the NCS workshops are beingfunded to assist with development and delivery of this program. We plan to replicate this NCSexperience insofar as possible, using the same PBL-methodology for this educational program.Our version of the NCS workshop will include: balancing teaching/service/research, knowing thelearner, assessment strategies, active/PBL activities, and practice lectures. This workshop willalso be taken by our graduate teaching assistants and undergraduate coaches. This experiencewill be directly applicable to the PBL course delivery for which they are subsequentlyresponsible.4

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Tricamo; Dennis Depew

, perhaps from a funded proposal or by solid commitments form industry to provide funding. Solicited letters of support from industry that do not contain specific commitments, such as funding or sponsorship of students to enroll in the program, are useless. - Prepare a brief business plan for the new program which includes a review of the potential market, similar programs now available, existing and potential sponsors from the public and private sector, what the administrative structure of the program will be, how the program will be integrated into the university structure, a projection of start-up costs and potential enrollment, and income projected over a five-year time frame

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Coleman; Jennifer Craig

between poor written communication and poor design performance.Moreover, a correlation between poor teamwork and poor design performance has beennoted. This paper reviews that work and proposes a model that explicitly teachesteamwork skills and uses written communication to develop team dialog around thoseskills. This model uses team communication deliverables to identify poorly functioningteams early in the process and suggests strategies to intervene with those teams whenidentified. Assessment plans for this model are described.Introduction:This paper presents work done in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in monitoring the effectiveness ofundergraduate student design projects

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hassan Hassan

. Ego; having a strong ego identity with a particular belief leads to defending this belief if it was wrong. Demands for quick production of results; deadlines often cause stress and reduction of creativity and good planning is the answer. Harsh words from others may destroy one’s creativity; the instructor must be careful what he/she says to students. Routines and setting specific ways of doing things generate a rigid mind. Continuous exercise to human brains is necessary for creativity an innovation. Self-criticism; negative thinking and self-criticism are also limiting factors of one’s creativity. Rigid rules and barriers limit creativity. Freedom is great for positive thinking

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Dimitris Lagoudas

plan tofacilitate learning of the new material, based upon the successful teaching and learningexperiences in the pilot. The second challenge is regularly confronted and many curricular pilotprojects have produced and shared instructional materials for the new material that the projectteams have introduced into their curricula. However, fewer resources have been generated forthe first challenge. This paper describes a curriculum innovation project that intended toincorporate so-called smart materials and intelligent systems into undergraduate engineeringcurricula at Texas A&M University (TAMU). In addition to describing the curricularinnovations, the goal of the paper is to present two concept inventory assessment instrumentsthat have been

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Ali Imre Aydeniz; Ismail Fidan

potential combination of the “Gallery Method”with modern communication tools, and analyze if the on-line Gallery Method is suitable fordesign projects, which their team members are located in different places. There are plans toestablish a course about collaborative product design in both countries Turkey and USA.Solution Findings Methodologies and the Gallery MethodSolution methodologies can be divided as classical methods, intuitive methods, and discursive5.The Gallery Method is one of the intuitive methods. The other intuitive methods can be listed asbrainstorming, 635 methods, Delphi Method, and Synectics. The Gallery Method was developedby Hellfritz6, it combines individual work with group work, and it is particularly designed forembodiment

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Devenport; Terry Wildman; Glenda Scales

personal philosophies for success Engineering in teaching. Technology in the classroom and learning styles (how to use technology in consideration of learning styles to best Electrical and Computer enhance learning) Engineering Engaging and motivating students to participate and utilize educational tools available to them Engineering Planning a core course for non engineering majors Fundamentals Engineering Science and Delivery of Statics and Dynamics Courses in the ESM Mechanics

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Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Adam McGough; Coral Nocton; Ken Patton; Ismail Fidan

equipment beyond a token handful of CNC machines. Therefore, implementing RP was planned to fill the gap between CAD/CAM andprovide TTU students with the opportunity to practice high tech prototyping practices.Finally, TTU received a NSF DUE CCLI A&I Grant, 0311586 to establish the state’sfirst educational RP Laboratory funded by NSF in Summer 20034.A Generic Overview of RP RP consists of various manufacturing processes by which a solid physical modelof a part is made directly from 3D model data, without any special tooling. CAD datamay be generated by 3D CAD modelers or model data created by 3D digitizing systems5.Charles Hull is given credit with bringing the first commercial RP machine to market in1987 with SLA-16,7. His

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg; Jim Lampe; David Stanley

and money remained to rebuildthe engine in the allotted time, and the project was terminated at that point. Page 9.316.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Although the end result was not as planned, many things were learned as a result of these efforts,some of which are detailed below.Student motivation: This is a quality that is difficult to evaluate, particularly without baselinemeasurements for comparison. Student surveys conducted indicated that nearly all studentsthought that it

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vance Poteat; Abdullatif Bagegni

processorstudents, both from ECE and Computer Science, are planned to have remote access to the lab andwill be encouraged to help with the development via laboratory assignments.An Introduction to Power Quality and the Power Quality Problems in the Mendel ScienceBuildingIt is the objective of the electric utility to supply its customers with a sinusoidal voltage ofrelatively constant magnitude. The generators that produce the electric power generate a veryclose approximation to a sinusoidal signal. However, there are loads and devices on the systemthat have linear and nonlinear characteristics and result in voltage sag, voltage spikes, voltage Page

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Seals

program officer to discuss your idea; this often helps you to refine your idea and may prevent you from applying to the wrong program • Subscribe to Custom News Services at NSF –http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/To be competitive, the proposal must: • Be based on original and/or sound ideas • Have a clearly defined scope of work and set of measurable outcome objectives • Have a focused project plan in sufficient detail • Require a realistic amount of work within budget constraints • Be cost effective with evidence of potential high impact • Demonstrate the likelihood that the project will be sustained • Include a solid assessment and evaluation plan linked to project objectivesIn writing a proposal

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Berliner-Heyman; Nicole Koppel; Rosa Cano; Siobhan Gibbons; Howard Kimmel

upon a protocol developed through theCenter’s professional development activities15. The protocol links the state sciencecontent standards and the specific knowledge and skills students are expected to acquirewith the learning expectations of the students by the teachers. The program instructorsplan standards-based lessons that include the learning expectations of the standards, andassessment of student work in relation to the expectations of the standards. Theprocedure allows the instructors to write and implement standards-based lesson plans thatinclude the assessment and documentation of students’ achievement of the standards inthese lessons. Program instructors develop rubric assessment instruments to evaluate theextent to which their

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Herz

transitions and much was gained with the enhanced capabilities of the new tools.Some of the recent additions to the scripting language are commands that implementcommunication over the Internet. The Reactor Lab recently evolved from a standalone programinto an "Internet application" which provides lab modules on demand and updates whenavailable, and enables communication between students and instructors.The following sections describe the current version of the Lab, plans for the future, andrecommendations to educators interested in developing their own simulations.Student interaction with the LabStudents download the Lab from ReactorLab.net, expand a compressed archive file, and thenopen the Lab. Installation in local school labs can also be

Conference Session

Technology and Tools for IE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Sokol; Garlie Forehand; Beverly Sutley-Fish; Judith Norback

Science Foundation is underway to integrateworkplace communication instruction into the Technical Communication course.Bibliography1 “2000-2001 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology,Baltimore, 2000.2 Rogers, Dick, Jr.; M.J. Stratton; and R.E. King. “Manufacturing Education Plan: 1999 Critical CompetencyGaps—Industry Updates Competency Gaps Among Newly Hired Engineering Graduates,” Society ofManufacturing Engineers, 19993 Pinelli, T.E.; R.O. Barclay; and J. M. Kennedy. “Workplace Communication Skills and Value of Communicationsand Information UseSkills Instruction—Engineering Students’ Perspectives.” Proceedings of the IEEE Int’lCommunication Conference, 1995: 161-165

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Writing and Communication I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa McNair; Garlie Forehand; Beverly Sutley-Fish; Michael Laughter; Judith Norback

Carol J. Romanowski. “A Message from Recent Engineering Graduates in the Workplace:Results of a Survey on Technical Communication Skills,” Journal of Engineering Education, v90 n4 (October2001): 685-693.2 “2000-2001 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology,Baltimore, 2000.3 Rogers, Dick, Jr.; M.J. Stratton; and R.E. King. “Manufacturing Education Plan: 1999 Critical CompetencyGaps—Industry Updates Competency Gaps Among Newly Hired Engineering Graduates,” Society ofManufacturing Engineers, 1999.4 Walker, Mirabelle. “Enhancing Students’ Learning While Developing Their Communication Skills.” EngineeringScience and Education Journal, v8 n5 (1999): 201-205.5 Pinelli, T.E.; R.O. Barclay