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Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Smith; Kevin Craig; Pamela Theroux

powerful computing technology and team-centered, interactive learning, Rensselaer pioneered the use of studio classroom environmentsthat are collaborative, learner-focused, supported with sophisticated technology, and directlyanalogous to career work and learning. In the NSF-sponsored and award-winning (2001 ASMECurriculum Innovation Award, 2000 NEEDS Premier Award for Excellence in EngineeringEducation) Project Links - Mathematics and its Applications in Engineering and Science,modules were created that integrated mathematics, science, and engineering. We are building onboth previous successes and on-going work in undergraduate engineering education atRensselaer. Rensselaer is determined to maintain its leadership role in undergraduateengineering

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

R. William Graff; Paul Leiffer

Student Observations over the Last 25 Years R. William Graff, Paul R. Leiffer LeTourneau UniversityAbstractMost engineering faculty who have taught for over ten years have raised a question atsome point: “Is it me, or have students changed since I began teaching?”Using input from university statistics, faculty, staff, and student surveys, publishedliterature, and course grade records over twenty-five years, the authors have identifiedtwelve trends and observations regarding current students that impact student success andpreparation for engineering careers. While many of these trends are positive and shouldbe encouraged, a few are disturbing and should be

Conference Session

Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacqueline Isaacs

of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”EvaluationUnder the direction of Eric Heller, Ed.D., the Research and Evaluation Group of the University ofMassachusetts’ Donahue Institute will conduct the evaluation of the courses. The evaluation will beorganized around the questions of the extent to which the education activities of the CHN increase publicawareness of the importance of science and technology to society and prepare undergraduate and graduatestudents in the participating institutions for careers in research as well as manufacturing related tonanotechnology. The assessment will be addressed from both an

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

learning: 95% SL versus 77% CL • Knowledge is structured around major concepts/principles: 100% SL versus 46% CL • Learning is shaped by the context in which it appears: 53% SL versus 0% CLIt was very apparent that while the CL students were aware that they were doing something, theSL students were more aware that they were learning and of how that learning impacted theirengineering career. It is likely that the SL first-year students have created a better understandingof the major concepts that create the structure for learning engineering because of theirinteraction with the upperclassmen and mentors.Attitude Toward ExperienceThe last element we considered in our comparison was the attitude of the students toward theexperience. Cronbach

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Livesay; Kay C Dee

the change observed in the same student population between the testand retest administrations of the ILS. Overall, students reported the same general preference forthe visual learning, but were less active, more sensing, and less global in the retest as comparedwith the test. It seems expected that learning style preferences of engineering students mightchange to some degree throughout a college career, since as faculty we would expect studentexperiences and skills (e.g. problem solving, etc.) to develop with time (we hope!). However,for test-retest administrations within the same semester, large changes in the learning stylepreferences would likely not be expected. At the same time, the 1st administration in the presentwork was conducted on

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

resources mature. The stated goal of thismodel is to allow undergraduate majors in Information Systems and Computer Science toassume positions in careers that evolve through technical knowledge areas and into management Page 10.215.4of information security. The resulting curriculum draft defines programs of one to four coursesand presents a linear spectrum of options that has in one extreme the single-course approach and “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”the track approach in the other. The

Conference Session

Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sonia Sanchez; S. Khalid Latif; Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler; Kazem Kazerounian

date. These content areas are dynamic in nature and will evolve astechnology itself evolves.In the second section, Engineering Tools, its focus is to address the necessary tools required toimplement the Content Standards. As stated, the goals outlined in the Engineering Toolssection consist of the following statements. “Engineering tools are essential in the simplification, management, and communication of complex tasks ranging from academic inquiry to personal application. Due to the complexity of these content standards, many of these tools are required for their meaningful exploration. Proficiency with these tools is expected to be acquired cumulatively over the tenure of a high school career.”It is important

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education 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 individuals which do better in their performance on these deliverables are always a combination of bright, excited and diligent. This also is a fair description of the student entrepreneurs in the classes

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; P.K. Imbrie; Tamara Moore

exposure to nanotechnology, including innovations implemented at University of NotreDame (NSF 0304089), California Institute of Technology (NSF 0304713), and Ohio StateUniversity (NSF 0304469). The NSF Nanotechnology in Undergraduate Education (NUE)program continues to support the development of first-year course innovations.With the support of a 2003 NSF NUE, a nano-themed seminar was implemented in the PurdueUniversity First-Year Engineering (FYE) Program to raise first-year engineering students’awareness of nanotechnology and related educational and career opportunities. The developmentof this nanotechnology theme across all of the introductory engineering discipline seminars alsoserved the purpose of providing a model for the introduction of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Robert Hinks; Mark Henderson; Chen-Yaun Kuo; Chell Roberts; Darryl Morrell; Robert Grondin

. Courses are delivered not as lengthyexercises in theory but as integrated opportunities to apply knowledge in real-world projects. The Page 10.429.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Table 2. Student Objectives and OutcomesStudent Objective AGraduates will successfully transition into a broad range of flexible career options, including industry, government,and graduate engineering and professional education.Student Objective BGraduates will apply their strong

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Davari; Amir Rezaei

decadeof the 80’s and the first half of the 90’s brought changes in the service region, including changesin the mix of business and industry employing graduates and major changes in the technology,mainly in computer technologies found in the workplace. As a relatively small state-assistedinstitution with an open admission policy, WVU Tech provides access to higher education forthe citizens of the nation, state and its local region who seek careers in engineering, engineeringtechnologies, sciences, business, general education and health professions. Graduates,particularly in engineering have been very successful in their careers and the alumni support isvery strong and widespread. The rigorous curricula and the dedicated faculty at WVU Tech

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela J. Théroux; Gary Gabriele; Brad Lister; Deborah Kaminski

student characteristics influence which successful learningoutcomes, and how. Yet, the sheer weight of evidence acknowledging that learners bring amultitude of approaches to learning compels the educator to be responsive to learner needs.According to Felder & Silverman (1988), receiving an education that is mismatched to theirlearning style can hinder an engineering student’s performance in the classroom as well as theirattitude toward engineering as a field of study and career. Armed with the information that acertain percentage of students learn in a manner often ill-served by the traditional engineeringclassroom and curriculum, this study carefully examined evidence of a link between studentlearning characteristics and student academic

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melanie Thom; James Thom; Dennis Depew

graduates successful in industrial careers. These “sub-professional skills”were instead what provided engineers with the potential to be successful professionals.Academic Acceptance From the 1960s through today the question of the value of technology andapplication-based education in the university setting has been raised. Grinter suggested that theapplication-based content belonged in the Technical Institutes as opposed to the traditional four- Page 10.560.5year university program. It has been suggested that engineering is intrinsically better than “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Erekson; Kurt Becker; Maurice Thomas; Christine Hailey

fellowships. The fellows begin the programin stages: 12 fellows starting in Fall semester 2005 (three at each institution), four fellowsbeginning in Fall semester 2007 (one at each institution), and similarly, four fellows beginning inFall semester 2008. The 12 fellows beginning in 2005 are expected to mentor students admittedin 2007 and 2008.Doctoral fellows will be awarded based on the following criteria. First, each doctoral universitywill utilize their own admission standards for initial consideration as a doctoral fellow. Second,doctoral candidates will be asked to submit a 1-3 page statement of their career goals, why theydesire to participate with the Center, and their level of commitment/availability to the Center.NCETE will consider the

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Ward; Robert Busch; Abhaya Datye; David Kauffman

students.The idea of offering BSChE degrees in specialty areas is not new. Most of us have been doing itfor many decades, but by default we usually offered only one specialty area: the traditionalchemical and petrochemical industry characterized by large-scale continuous processes. We dothis because it’s the way most of us learned, whether or not our current interests are in thosefields, and because most textbooks are structured with this type of curriculum in mind. The jobmarket, however, is much broader, and our students’ interests follow their perceptions of the jobmarket as well as their own views of productive, interesting careers. If we want to continueattracting students to chemical engineering programs, we must accommodate these

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Joseph Herkert

arrive at satisfactory solutions.” “True engineering considers not only what we can do, but also what we should do. Today's engineer must understand the social, political, and environmental impacts of technology to achieve true progress.” “Books by Volti and Teich: $32. Alarm clock to wake up for service activities: $4. Extra coffee for Capstone all-nighters: $6. Earning the right to call oneself a Franklin Scholar: Priceless.” “Being able to approach a problem from two directions is a feat in itself, but being surrounded by such an amazing group of people for five years is beyond compare.”Franklin Scholars have gone on to careers in engineering and management consulting in suchareas as

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Solt; Ashbjorn Osland; Anuradha Basu

Competition The SJSU Silicon Valley Business Plan Competition (SVBPC) spans the academic year andculminates with the final round of judging each year in June on the SJSU campus. The primarypurpose of the SVBPC is to create start ups. This creates a real world emphasis that encouragesstudents to think about entrepreneurship as their career of choice as opposed to seeking thesecurity of a salaried position. The SVBPC also encourages innovation on the SJSU campus, rewards student participationin new venture creation, and increases recognition of SJSU’s contribution to entrepreneurship inthe greater San Jose metropolitan area. As such, the SVBPC is a regional competition, and each team submitting a business planmust have at least one SJSU currently

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Powell

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”elapsed before high school graduates got a chance to use whatever advanced skills they mighthave learned in school. Wherever education is inadequate, it has been noted that:1 Students know little about work. Students have no clear idea about what they must do to enter a particular career or occupation. Students do not know what might be expected of them at work since the teaching environment bears little to no resemblance to the engineering environment found in industrial companies. Schools do not teach the attitudes and maturity needed on the job. Schools isolate

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Nation; Leah Jamieson; Jill Heinzen; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes; Joy Krueger

their high school careers. The intent of thisprogram is to provide credit for the students; however it is currently an extra-curricular, after-school activity.The first project was to design and develop a device to help people with neurological disordersthat do not have the automatic swallow reflex to remember to swallow. OLJMG Joint Services,the special education branch of North Lawrence Community Schools, is the community partnerfor the project. It is estimated that there are at least 20 people in the service area that wouldbenefit from this project. In particular, an elementary school student with cerebral palsy willhave the opportunity to be more fully integrated into a normal classroom because of this project.Even though this engineering

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kofi Nyamekye; Yildirim Omurtag

: Page 10.66.7 • engineering“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” • technology • mathematics/statistics • hard natural sciences • computer science • operations research and other similar fields.Designing a Ph.D. program in engineering that meets all the above needs, requires the programbe discipline-focused independent and be agile to respond to changes in future needs. Thus, thePh.D. program prepares the students for career advancement in technical and engineeringenterprises, and career options in academe and in government services, as well in emergingdisciplines

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

: Page 10.98.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationProgram Program Numberabbreviation of awardsCAREER Faculty Early Career Development 27Coll.Res. Collaborative Research/ Americas Program 15 Controls, Networks, and Computational IntelligenceCNCI Integrative Systems

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Cutbirth; Brett Hughes; Sundararajan Madihally

modeling. The chief disadvantage of this method is the time requirement; thisexperiment will require four to six weeks. The long timeframe minimizes the number ofexperiments that may be performed. The project-oriented style will require a greatercommitment from faculty members and less dependence on teaching assistants in the laboratory.However, short experiments tend to become modular and lack integration of comprehensiveconcepts. The advantage of this method is that it integrates concepts such as fluid flow, transportissues, physiology, reactor design, statistical analysis, differential equations and numericalmethods. In summary, this multi-level experiment demonstrated the integration of variousconcepts and trains the students seeking a career

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

departments. • In a world of rapidly changing technology, the basics are constant. That gives Page 10.1467.1 comfort to some, especially when allied to the more subtle desire to preserve a measure of elitism in a mass education market. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education • Any group of practicing engineers will readily admit that in their entire careers they have used only a very small proportion of their math skills.Each of these points has enough validity to guarantee endless

Conference Session

Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

, Television, microwave,telephony, etc) [8].In 2004, the first class has ended the program, the new engineers have provided a feedback aboutthe Program, and their comments and suggestions ended as a parameter for next newexperiences. In general, the Program has been suitable for them in a way that they had morecontact with other careers approaches for the same problems. The possibility of having courses atdistance increased the number of students that made this choice because they could study in thecomfort of their houses at the time they wanted.8. ConclusionThe creation and the application of this program were possible thanks to the new laws andperspectives that have been changed during the last years. The more flexibility in the creation of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Dick

Microsoft Visual Studio. Page 10.1091.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAs the motivation for instruction in programming shifted from application problemsolving to preparation for embedded systems design, students perceived a lack ofrelevance in the introductory course. Many of the problems addressed in typical“Introduction to C Programming” text were not sort that an EET student would expect tosee later in his career. The problem solving focus of the text seemed to focus onproblems that, in many cases

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Zhang; John Chen; Bernard Pietrucha

-actuated system, robotics and automation, and engineering education.BERNARD PIETRUCHA has been a member of the Rowan Engineering faculty since September 2001. Hereceived his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology and The PhD fromRutgers University. Prior to coming to Rowan, he was employed by Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies and itsparent, AT&T, for 22 years. He also served for 19 years as a member of the adjunct faculty at NJIT.JOHN CHEN is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He has been a faculty member since 1994,when he began his career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NorthCarolina A&T State University. He joined Rowan University in his current

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Kurpius; Dale Baker; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

but wanted it integrated into other subject matter15.Research on teachers trained to use DET concepts, however, has shown that DET has a positiveimpact on students. For example, The Materials Technology Institute project provided teachersin Singapore with the background and curriculum needed to create a high school course inMaterials Science and DET16. Students reported the courses: a) made them more interested in ascience career; b) increased enjoyment of laboratory activities; and c) helped develop skills forworking with equipment and in the lab, and 96% said they would recommend the class to theirpeers.PurposeThis study documented the effect of a course designed to help teachers integrate Design,Engineering, and Technology (DET) into their

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

WDM interface, SONET andGigabit Ethernet and analog electronic systems. He is the author of a Textbook in Power Electronics, published byPrentice-Hall. His professional career is equally divided in academia and industry. He has authored several researchpapers in IEEE journals and conferences.OMER FAROOK is a member of the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department atPurdue University Calumet. Professor Farook received the Diploma of Licentiate in Mechanical Engineering andBSME in 1970and 1972 respectively. He further received BSEE and MSEE in 1978 and 1983 respectively fromIllinois Institute of Technology. Professor Farook’s current interests are in the areas of Embedded System Design,Hardware – Software

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

McDaniel William; Ferguson Chip; Aaron Ball; Phillip Sanger; Wesley Stone

. Adams, Stephanie G., “Building Successful Student Teams in the Engineering Classroom”, Journal of STEM Education, 4/3&4, July-December 2003.Biographical InformationPHILLIP A. SANGERPhillip Sanger is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Technology and serves as the Director of the Center forIntegrated Technologies at Western Carolina University. He holds a B.A. in Physics from Saint Louis Universityand earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Technologydevelopment including MRI magnets and SiC power devices plus economic development has been his career foci.AARON K. BALLAaron K. Ball is an Associate Professor and serves as the Graduate Program Director in Engineering andTechnology at

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Boehm; Brackley Frayer; Joe Aldridge

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationneed for this course leads an active professional career with many on-the-job time demands.Additionally, the instructor should be able to demonstrate to the students actual systems of thetype being discussed. In general we do not have cutting-edge versions of this equipment at theUniversity, so we depend greatly upon the ability to visit commercial venues where these aremore likely to be available. In this regard, our location in Las Vegas is extremely valuable. C) AnimatronicsAnimatronics is a term that was made famous through Walt Disney’s Imagineering efforts.Included in this is the development of machines able to perform lifelike actions. A combinationof mechanisms, dynamic