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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

Curriculum Enrichment and Development – While the Texas Essential Knowledge Skills (TEKS) provide a nationally recognized example of a results-oriented standard for improving STEM content in K-12 education, there are only a few courses at the high school level in the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) inventory that can be viewed as having any substantive engineering emphasis or content. This lack of approved engineering curriculum discourages schools from developing and offering individual courses or magnet programs with an engineering orientation because they are largely restricted to awarding local credit for these offerings–––which may not always be transferable. In addition, there is confusion as to what teacher

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

Engineering EducationFollowing is a description of the major activities of the WISE Office and the OMEP and howthey are helping to increase the number of women engineers in this nation, based on the researchthat has been reviewed.IV. Recruitment Efforts in the CEASThe Dean of the CEAS and the Dean of the College of Education are working together innational meetings and locally to try to solve the education gap between teachers and engineering.Engineering faculty are working with education faculty to enrich the pre-service and the in-service teacher’s curriculum with an integration of mathematics, science, and engineering.5 Thiscollaboration is a bold and new positive step to help get engineering into the K-12.In the meantime, the WISE Investments

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Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack McGourty

Session # 1354 Using Multisource Assessment and Feedback Processes to Develop Entrepreneurial Skills in Engineering Students* Jack McGourty, James Reynolds, Columbia University Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Larry Shuman, Harvey Wolfe, University of PittsburghThis paper describes initial efforts to link, evaluate, and further develop specific innovation-related skill sets among students working in an engineering design context. By integrating twoareas of research - innovation-related skills and multi-source assessment processes - the authorspresent efforts at Columbia University and the

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy

AssessmentConsistent with the mission of the University and College, the essential building blocksare: Active Constituency, Educational Objectives, Learning Outcomes, EvaluationProcesses, and Continuous Quality Improvement1.In general, an assessment system should be constituency-consulted and faculty-driven. Atypical constituency should include: Students, Alumni, Faculty, and Employers (SAFE).The constituents should actively participate and have a high degree of involvement indefining objectives, outcomes, assessment, and improvement cycles. An Industrial (orConstituent) Advisory Committee should be created to seek input on curriculum andassessment methods2. Also, this committee is a valuable source for advice oncontemporary issues, life-long learning

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laila Guessous

softwarepackages, such as Fluent, Star-CD, and Flow-3D, attests to the growing use of CFDin industry. This is in large part due to its usefulness in the design process. CFD analysiscan provide insight and foresight into the operation and design of fluid systems, whilereducing the “test-and-build” cycle by evaluating multiple designs cost-effectively. Inacademia, CFD methods have traditionally been taught at the graduate level. However,CFD computer programs and packages are also increasingly being integrated into theundergraduate curriculum, serving as “virtual fluids laboratories” to teach and reinforceconcepts from fluid mechanics and heat transfer 1, or incorporated into senior-levelengineering course electives 2, 3.With the prevailing perception of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Hallacher

acrossPennsylvania. The key feature of the NMT Partnership that enables the communitycolleges to offer associate degree programs in nanofabrication is a suite of sixnanofabrication courses taught three times per year (fall and spring semesters andsummer session) at the Penn State Nanofabrication Facility. The NanofabricationFacility staff teaches these six nanofabrication courses, called the “capstone semester,”for the community colleges and other partner institutions. To date, 173 students from 16different institutions have completed the NMT capstone semester. In July 2001, the National Science Foundation designated the Pennsylvania NMTPartnership as an Advanced Technology Education (ATE) Center for NanofabricationManufacturing Education. This

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra

, monitor overall student progress and to plan and improve curriculum andteaching. As such, an educational assessment professional engages in the following tasks: 1. Working with subject matter experts in the area targeted for assessment to determine the goals, objectives and outcomes of the intervention that is to be assessed; 2. Develop valid assessment tools (whether traditional or rubrics) to measure desired outcomes; 3. Alternatively, helping to choose already-existing assessment instruments that are relevant to the intervention’s intended outcomes; 4. Implement finalized instruments for the desired program or intervention; 5. Report assessment data; and 6. Help to interpret

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Rossetti

cooperative learning can be especially effective in a first-year engineering curriculum.Smith (1993) describes the development of an introductory engineering course that emphasizesactive and cooperative learning. The course is centered on model building as a process thatstudents can and should be actively engaged in. The course is supported by a text, Starfield et al.(1994), that emphasizes the active learning of modeling. LeBanc (1998) indicates that problemsolving is an acquired skill; the more students practice it, the better they get. A good alternativefor including problem-solving skills in the curriculum is to incorporate it in an introductoryengineering course for freshmen. References [2, 11, 15] all discuss the need for an

Conference Session

Manufacturing Competitiveness

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Johnson; John Fesler; Kenneth Stier

-sizedmanufacturing companies and delivered in-depth project services to 250 companies7.These companies consider IMEC an extension of their own operations and routinely callon the specialists to help them: meet the quality registration demands of their largercustomers, contain operating costs and increase profits, improve production output andtime to market, integrate advanced manufacturing technologies and business practices,solve specific problems, reverse negative business situations such as sales decreases, lossof market share, and cost increases, and diversify their customer base8. Services that IMEC offers include Lean Manufacturing training andimplementation assistance. The training and implementation assistance helps tominimize waste in both

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Shooter; Micheal Hanyak; Matt Higgins; Marie Wagner; Ed Mastascusa; Dan Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Bill Snyder; Michael Prince

inengineering education by integrating instructional design techniques, transforming theclassroom into a cooperative learning environment, and incorporating the use ofinformation technology in the teaching/learning process. One of the major outcomes ofthat work is a conceptual framework for assisting faculty in transitioning from moretraditional instructional modes to more collaborative modes of instruction. Drawingheavily on a typical engineering process, this framework maps concepts readilyunderstood in the engineering design world to the development of instructionalexperiences. This paper outlines that framework and discusses our efforts to export thisframework to faculty beyond Bucknell through a pair of national workshops conductedlast summer

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen High; Cynthia Mann

engineering as a creative field of study. Students see engineering asmath, as an abstraction, as disconnected from reality. Freshmen often look at the dauntingcurriculum and see an abundance of work with little or no reward. What is not apparent in theunderclass-engineering curriculum is the amount of creativity that is necessary to solve industrialproblems1. This becomes more apparent in advanced courses, such as senior design, but we mustbe able to retain students until that level. Page 8.95.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American

Conference Session

The Use of Technology in Teaching Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

freshmen and sophomores. For one semester, he was also a visitingprofessor at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE where he helped set up an innovativeintroductory engineering curriculum. Dr. Tanyel received his B. S. degree in electrical engineering from BoğaziçiUniversity, Istanbul, Turkey in 1981, his M. S. degree in electrical engin eering from Bucknell University,Lewisburg, PA in 1985 and his Ph. D. in biomedical engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA in1990. Page 8.649.13 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

designs.Materials Development The development of the materials produced for this project was part of a larger multi-university project, the VaNTH Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering EducationalTechnologies (VaNTH ERC). The VaNTH ERC is a multi-year, multi-institutional programwith the aim “… to integrate learning science, learning technologies, and the domains ofbioengineering in order to develop effective educational resources to prepare for the future ofbioengineering.” An overall description of the VaNTH ERC may be found at its website(www.vanth.org). The National Science Foundation funds supplementary grants to NSF grantees that wantto involve classroom teachers in their research through the Research Experiences for Teachers(RET

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Brougham; Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger

driver, watching for defects, thinking of on programming assignments when working in pairs.alternatives, consulting resources, and considering Also, improved retention rates have been attributed tostrategic implications of the work. The team members team programming techniques (McDowell et al., 2002).are not to break the assignment into parts and integrate They found that an appreciably higher percentage ofit later. Partners are expected to schedule time together students in the partnered class took the final exam asfor the purpose of completing programming work. compared with the solo students. Yet, they found no significant difference between

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gadalla; Kamal Shahrabi

Page 8.547.1the importance of the CAD/CAM systems to the future of their companies. Tremendous effortProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwas done and still is being done to design, implement, and integrate computer systems specificallyCAD/CAM into almost every company’s backbone structure.The Impact of the continuous development of CAD/CAM hardware and software had a greatimpact on the characteristic of the users. In the early CAD/CAM systems the user was self-trained. Nowadays users have to go through specialized certificate programs that can go as longas 12 months to allow them to be CAD or CAM specialists [1

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Barrett; Steve Kuennen

engineering programs have employed similarhands-on activities as part of reinforced concrete design courses (Schemmel 1998), the concretebeam activity is conducted prior to formal coursework. This promotes familiarity with thebasics of reinforced concrete beam design, as well as detailed insight on actual constructionmethods and beam behavior under loading before to the students’ formal instruction.Furthermore, the exposure to construction methods supplements construction managementcourses within the curriculum, including our capstone course. The capstone course is aconstruction management class that brings together the technical design courses throughmanagement topics in areas of cost estimating, contracting methods, and scheduling.The Concrete Beam

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eswara Venugopal, University of Detroit Mercy; Robert Ross, University of Detroit Mercy

surveys.IntroductionThe past several years have seen a renewed enthusiasm for the development of new instructionalmaterials and approaches in introductory physics education at the college level1 . At the core ofthese efforts is a shift away from a traditional physics curriculum that emphasized textbookproblem-solving, descriptive knowledge, deductive reasoning and a top-down approach toinstruction. Physics education research has been instrumental in the move towards a student-oriented approach that recognizes that students learn better when they are actively engaged in thelearning process itself. In particular, the pioneering works of Arnold Arons and LillianMcDermott have provided an excellent framework for systematically modifying the traditionalmethod of

Conference Session

Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claire Lynne McCullough

engineering design challenges,technology training, field trips, and opportunities to interact with women engineers.” Theengineering design projects included such items as basswood bridge building, an “egg drop”activity, and an introduction to robotics using the Lego Robolab materials (a special,educationally oriented, version of the popular Lego Mindstorms products). The sixth andseventh grade girls for the academy were selected by teachers at participating middle schools.The teachers who performed the selection were primarily those who were themselvesparticipating in the series of in-service workshops offered by SECME RISE staff in the areas ofhands-on engineering projects, strategies for gender equity, and integration of technology in thecurriculum

Conference Session

Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

materials, such as those developed by Seymour Papert atMIT,20 Ellen Frye at Dartmouth,21 Martha Cyr at Tufts, 22 and Richard Drushel at Case Western,23to name just a few, are adapted for use in the TWT Program and its partner schools. Othermaterials that are developed are based on constructivist principles espoused by Papert.24The following example shows how engineering context can be used to meet national standards.Since engineering is an integrative discipline, many different national standards can be addressedand various grade levels targeted by the same engineering experience. Beginning with nationalstandards for science (NSES)3, mathematics (NCTM)4, and technology (STL)25 education, anengineering experience in robotics using LEGO® Mindstorms

Conference Session

Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Polly Piergiovanni; S. Scott Moor

these kits in the classroom allows for a range of contemporary learning approaches to beapplied including inductive learning approaches, Kolb’s experiential learning cycle and problem-based learning.IntroductionIn most engineering courses and curriculum the classroom and the laboratory are separated inboth time and space. Even when the laboratory is part of an individual course, it is still generallyseparate from the classroom portion of the class. This separation is usually necessary due to thedifference in resources and time required for the various laboratory vs. classroom courseactivities. In addition, this separation has often resulted in excellent classes and laboratories.However an opportunity is being missed. As many of us seek to teach

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Bill Elmore

University’s undergraduate engineering program has been significantly modifiedduring the past several years. Emphasis has been placed on creating an integrated (college-wide)program for freshmen and sophomores. A key part of this program is a three-course sequence inthe freshman year that largely deals with engineering problem solving.It is our belief that part of the problem with K-12 science education is that teachers do not knowhow to relate the science they are teaching to real world experiences. To deal with that issue, weincorporated what we have learned in developing our freshman engineering course sequence as abasis to create a new three-hour course in engineering problem solving. This course isspecifically designed for education majors. They

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Sarma; Massood Atashbar; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

engineeringapplications.It is the authors’ belief that one of the most common areas between EE and CS encompassesdigital data acquisition, signal processing, communication and control. Coincidentally, these turnout to be some of industry's major needs as well. At the same time, students need to be exposedto a reasonable amount of high-level software engineering practices that are engineering based.However, there is no way that an undergraduate CE program can accommodate each of thesecourses in an already crowded curriculum. The solution to this problem, that has beenimplemented at Western Michigan University (WMU), is to create a junior level course thatteaches high-level software engineering best practices using Visual Basic that is applied to dataacquisition

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Bruning

Session 3531 ESTABLISHING PURPOSEFUL K-12, COLLEGIATE, & INDUSTRIAL EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS IN MATH, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY American Society for Engineering Education 2003 Annual Conference Paper Monica J. Bruning - Iowa State University Barbara Kruthoff – Wall Lake View Auburn School DistrictAbstractThe challenge of an education befitting a technologically knowledgeable workforce involves twofundamental components. It involves the preparedness of students implying a suitable educationand the preparedness of the teacher. In order for teachers to keep pace with knowledge and skillsakin to a

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

support. From the educator’s point of view,after an initial time-consuming effort, pioneers who use web-based support intensively for theirteaching appreciate being able to: § “Obtain high-quality and well-structured pedagogic material; § Integrate online references that enrich and update their own material; § Facilitate self-learning tasks that help students become actors in their education rather than simple consumers; § Support student collaboration and extended work groups involving foreign students and experts from industry; § Provide ‘learning by doing tools’ such as simulation, virtual laboratories and remote laboratories.” (7)At the international level with open distance learning, each university may

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Edwards; Lawrence Hochreiter; Laura L. Pauley

school students, a more favorable impression of nuclear power as a viableProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationlong range energy source for the nation, and the initiation of an MNE concurrent majorsprogram at PSU, which grants two separate, but integrated, BS degrees in nuclear andmechanical engineering.Multiple Majors ProgramWith the merger, the faculty of both the Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Programs closelyexamined the individual programs, in detail, for commonality. It was found that there wassignificant overlap between the two programs and the same detailed material was being taughtin both programs but sometimes

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Earley; Dave Lennig; Dave Campbell; Suguna Bommaraju

Annual conference of the American Society for Engineering Education.9. Carol Geary Schneider and Robert Shoenberg. “Contemporary understanding of Liberal education,” Published by AAC&U, 199810. “Challenge of connecting learning; Liberal learning and the arts and sciences major”, Vol 1, published by AAC&U, 199111. Hergert D, “Report on ENT497/498 to Liberal Education Council”, 200212. “Integrity in the college curriculum”, published by the Association of American Colleges, 1985 Page 8.7.12Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003

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Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Cheung; Rex Ramsier; Ed Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

question is not identified. In thisway we hope to alleviate the apprehension that some students feel in asking questions,and also to demonstrate to the entire class that many students are struggling with thesame concepts and problems. This may help to develop a learning communityatmosphere, at least for those students that are not on campus often enough to participatein the study groups that some students self-organize. Regular office hours are maintainedand the instructor has a completely open-door policy, and usually several students persemester choose to routinely use this option in addition to e-mail. (Goal 7)6. Negotiation. This is an integral part of the course although it is not strictly part of theassessment. Negotiation provides students

Conference Session

EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Cheng-Hsin Liu; S. Gary Teng

industrialprojects in an engineering curriculum. This paper focused on one of the major burdens in offeringindustrial project experience to engineering students, the handling of communications amongproject teams, industrial partners, and supervising faculty. In this paper, the approach of usingcollaborative environments is proposed for the reduction of some communication relatedproblems in industrial project implementation process. WebCT and a low cost web-basedcollaborative environment are the tools suggested for managing industrial projects. The purposeis to use available tools for managing projects that can reduce the complexity involved inmonitoring industrial projects.IntroductionToday’s engineers and managers often are in charge of various engineering

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

included tailoring the curricula to attract a more diverse group of students,integrating the curricula to present a unified rather than compartmentalized view of engineeringscience and practice, and broadening the curricula to include an emphasis on the additionalprofessional skills needed to practice engineering.4-5 One area in which these changes have beenimplemented is in the introduction of entry-level engineering courses. A wide variety of modelsexist, ranging from a one-credit, voluntary introduction to engineering course at the University ofFlorida6 to fully integrated first-year curricula such as the 12-credit IFYCSEM program at theRose-Hulman Institute of Technology.6First-Year Engineering Projects CourseCU’s College of Engineering and

Conference Session

Value Added Collection Management

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Grigg

collaboration betweenteaching faculty and librarians, and critical evaluation of the students’ informationcompetencies.” 10 In an environment where library instruction is sporadic and random,most assignments and bibliographic instruction are by necessity basic in nature. Librariansusing the curriculum-integrated instruction model, however, can add patent searchingassignments to junior and senior level courses, so that students can build on thecompetencies gained in freshman and sophomore assignments.VIII. Role as TrainerAs the patent and trademark librarian serves multiple roles within an organization, greateropportunities exist for all reference staff to encounter patent and trademark referencequestions. This means that patent librarians must place a