Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

competitiveness during the last four decades and the nation’s professionally orientedfaculty at the nation’s schools of engineering and technology have been undervalued, under rewarded, andunderdeveloped as well. This situation will continue, in all probability, unless corrective change ispurposefully planned and put into action. Although the advancement of fundamental scientific research,the training of future academic researchers, and the development of research-oriented faculty is crucial tothe nation’s scientific strength, so is the advancement of creative engineering practice, the furtherprofessional education of the U.S. engineering workforce for leadership of creative technologydevelopment and innovation in industry, and the development of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

identified in the ARET Department's TAC-ABET Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP),program outcomes have been devised to describe what graduates of a degree program will beable to demonstrate and know when they graduate. The skills and abilities identified in theprogram outcomes are measures of the quality of the program and can have a significant impacton the validity of the degree. Professional experience through an internship program, whetherconducted in an office or through a program such as this, can enhance a student's understandingof the career field and practice, ultimately creating a better quality student. The process ofobtaining professional internships in a rural area is significantly more difficult than in largerurban areas. Economic

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Rufe; Tracy Tillman; Bob Lahidji

and sells theproduct. Students in each class form a small business, select job functions, and performthe responsibilities of those respective job functions.MFG 316 students generate original product concepts. The products developed mustcontain at least five discrete components. The class votes on the "best" concept and theremainder of the semester is spent developing a prototype, bill of materials, tooling, etc.The MFG 316 class forwards its concept to MFG 421 Manufacturing EngineeringAnalysis. MFG 421, further develops the product forwarded from the previous MFG 316classes. Students in MFG 421 form a small business and select job functions such asdesign engineering, marketing, finance, sales, production planning, packaging, quality,and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones

project explores a license plate recognition system (LPRS) to monitorthe presence of mini-buses at TU stations as a way to automatically maintain a database withrecords on their quality of service. The database can also be used for other administration orplanning purposes. The other project described consists in the development of a prototype for amulti-modal automatic route planner. The route planner will use real-time information from GPSequipped vehicles. In addition historical data and heuristics will help users plan their trips byefficiently combining buses, rapid transit and walking.Program DescriptionTren Urbano (TU) is a heavy rail transit system currently under construction in the San JuanMetropolitan Area of Puerto Rico. The first phase

Conference Session

Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Pauline Sexton; Monique Wade; Bevlee Watford

engineering. • It was helpful exposure to engineering as a discipline. It helped me look in that direction (Architecture). I plan to apply to VT.ConclusionsThe focus of the camp is to introduce middle school students to engineering in a fun and excitingmanner. Even if campers chose not to pursue an engineering career, the camp accomplished itsgoal by exposing the students to engineering at a young age.Overall, there does appear to be a connection between the campers’ experience and theirdecisions in higher education. Even though campers may decide against a career in engineering,they still have a working knowledge of what engineering is and the opportunities that it offers.This allows campers to return to their schools and communities and

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Taylor

Educationteam projects. At the Idea Fair, select companies are invited to present ideas for products orservices that may have commercial value. For those that generate significant student interest,interdisciplinary student teams are formed to develop the product or service. The participatingcompanies provide materials, guidance, and encouragement. The projects also provide credit fordesign or technical elective classes. Students may also form teams around their own entrepreneurialideas. A business plan competition is held each year with a small cash award. Vision of the Jack Hatcher Engineering Entrepreneurship Program • The engineering student who is in business can receive the education and experience to pursue a technical/business

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole DeJong Okamoto

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education • A Comprehensive Plan to Improve Mineral Science Instruction Using Project-Based Learning and XRD Analysis • Collaborative Research: Adapting and Evaluating Online Materials for Undergraduate Statistics Using LON-CAPA Technology • Developing a Research-Rich Introductory Biology Curriculum • Towards an Integrated Polymer Education: Development of Biodegradable Polymer Laboratory Unit • Adaptive Online Laboratory in Computer Science Education • Bug Power: Fueling our Future with Microorganisms • Remotely Accessed Energy Laboratory

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

Session 2548 Sophomore Project/Capstone Course Glenn R. Blackwell ECET - Purdue University West Lafayette, IN blackwell@purdue.eduabstract:This paper describes a new project course in ECET at Purdue University. It is a course taken bystudents in their 4th semester of the 2+2 ECET program, and may be considered a capstonecourse for the AS degree. In it the students must work with a time plan, and must follow adesign guide that has them combine both analog and digital

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rex Ramsier; H Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

and some ideas forfuture improvement.Effective TeamworkA team is a synergistic group that uses an agreed upon process to reach an agreed upon goal.The critical aspects of this definition are consensus and synergy. Our definition is consistent withthat of Katzenbach and Smith (1993), whose work was cited by Levi and Slem (1995). In orderto reach consensus a team must establish an effective communication plan, a task that is moredifficult when team members are not at the same location. Furthermore, the communicationbetween team members must be based on openness, trust, and fairness. As a result, there shouldbe little or no criticism of people on the team. Synergy is achieved by identifying the strengths ofeach team member and then capitalizing

Conference Session

Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Miller

written of these projects. This paper presentsthe details of five courses using this approach in the Naval Architecture and Ocean EngineeringDepartment (NAOE) at the United States Naval Academy (USNA). The first course is themajor’s introductory course for sophomores where after seven weeks each student submits thespecification, calculations, lines plan and construction drawings for a towing tank model. Theseplans are then turned over to another student to build and test. The second course is a junior-levelstructures course focusing on ship structures. The students design a full midship section. Thefinal three courses are at the senior-level and include an elective in marine fabrication methodsand two capstone design courses. In the fabrication

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Stephen Tricamo; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

8.614.3Creating an environment which brings together engagement in professional education and research “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”produces desirable results. New enterprises are created and economic opportunities for all involved in theengagement partnership benefit.Some Questions for TransformationDuring the planning process for this transformation many questions will develop that need to be addressed.The authors of this paper do not presume to know all of the possible questions or answers, which will ariseduring the journey. However, as a beginning point, some of the questions that university

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko

Improvement. The assessor should try to provide a plan for theimprovement rather than just observations. The last part is the assessment is Insights. Theassessor may be able to generalize the something they have seen to a wider range of applications.The use of this format provides a very positive environment, which gives a much strongerprobability for improvement.The results of using the various methods, based on both instructor and student comments, will beprovided.BackgroundThe students in this course had all successfully completed the foundation courses of static,particle dynamics, rigid-body dynamics, strength of materials, and fluid mechanics. The initialset of statics problems revealed that a relatively small percentage could solve the classic

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anne Beddingfield; A. Wayne Bennett

changeand looking for new opportunities. The strategic planning process began in 1996 with anEngineering Leadership for the 21 st Century initiative. As a part of Leadership 21, with agenerous grant from the Robert Hearin Foundation of Jackson, Mississippi, five enhancementswere developed for undergraduate students: 1) improve communication skills, 2) expand theintegration of computers in the educational process, 3) develop cross-discipline leadership-teamwork skills, 4) improve entrepreneurial thinking and 5) expand global awareness. Four of theprograms have been endowed and special facilities have been created to enhance student accessand opportunities. A number of special programs have been developed to achieve the enhancements

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Davis; Steve Stafford; Elsa Villa

Engineering Day was established, ideas were brainstormed on aneffective implementation plan. From the perspective of the high school student, the followingquestions were developed by the EPO student coordinators to assist them in establishing a plan: • What type of information would be beneficial for us once we’re in college? • What financial aid is available for us? • What do engineers do? • What can I do in high school to prepare for college and engineering? • What opportunities are available for me as a high school student? • Why choose UTEP over another university? • How does engineering compare to other careers? • How does UTEP prepare its engineers? • What could I

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh; Mulchand Rathod

, (2) developing and implementing animation,simulation and visualization components to enhance student learning of electric machine, (3) configuringcourse to cover relevant theory while reducing topics to achieve effectiveness without credit hours ortime change. This paper describes the planning steps and the development procedures of this project.The new course structure and laboratory experiments will be discussed.I. IntroductionThough the traditional “Energy conversion course’ had remained almost unchanged for several decades,a redesigned structure has been proposed by several references over the last decade [1-2]. Types ofmotor drives worthy of addressing in undergraduate curricula are discussed [3]. Recently, LabView hasbeen utilized in

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard A. Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

guise of TQM (Total Quality Management), a company based quality plan, or even theInternational Standards Organization standards set forth as ISO 9000 and 14000. Regardless ofthe name that frames the plan, the implementation of a quality management plan transforms thework environment in any organization or facility significantly.These new expectations put additional requirements on manufacturing technicians andtechnologists working in a plant. Not only are technical skills required, but skills that reflectplant worker responsibility for the smooth operation of a manufacturing process as well as thequality of the product and process. Under quality manufacturing plans, plant workers arerequired to keep and report their own quality control data

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Sappington; Rebecca K. Toghiani

Engineering Page 5.537.1began formalizing plans for the K-6 program, familiarity of the authors with the ‘Extended Plus’program provided the solution to logistics questions that arose. Questions such as how topublicize the SEE program, how to identify participants, siting the program, meals, snacks, etc.,were all conveniently solved by the existence of the Extended Plus program. As a result, ourefforts focused on design and implementation of activities that could be used to expose thechildren in the program to engineering. Approximately 120 children participated in the three mornings of engineering activities.The children were divided into 3

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

degree program.The second challenge in assessing outreach programs is to enumerate expected outcomes that aremeasurable. A goal such as encouraging underrepresented students to consider STEM careerscan be difficult to assess in terms of outcome. A focused longitudinal study of career choicesmade by students who have attended an outreach event at the K-5, or even the 6-12 level, isdifficult. So how can one determine whether an outreach program is having a desired impact?To establish a comprehensive plan for assessing outreach, the College of Engineering outreachoffice at NC State analyzed the goals of their outreach activities. The following table summarizessome of the various types of programs and the outreach goals established for each. Some

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Nava

%1. This low rate of successful completion is due to yearly attrition between20 and 40% of the class. In order to increase this low rate of success, institutions must look fornovel methods to encourage students to persist in their pursuit of a degree. One method thatengages students academically and socially is the undergraduate research experience.Undergraduate research activities are known to promote goal setting and planning beyondgraduation, thus affecting student retention.2The affinity group model, being implemented at the University of Texas at El Paso’s Departmentof Electrical and Computer Engineering, is more far-reaching than the usual research group. TheNeuro-Fuzzy Systems Research Group seeks to engage students, develop them

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Reardon

plan, andsupplementary notes, classwork exercises, and homework assignments. The web page isdesigned so that it can be projected onto a screen in the classroom and can be downloaded by thestudents at home. Although the use of the Internet in teaching has many advantages, one problemis the amount of time required to prepare the web pages. Since the students like to download thenotes, one must also be careful that the web pages print properly. Student reactions to the use ofthe Internet have been uniformly favorable. They say that it is very helpful in helping them tolearn what is generally acknowledged to be a difficult subject.IntroductionThermodynamics is a complex subject. The study of thermodynamics involves grasping newconcepts, learning

Conference Session

Outreach Along the K-12 Pathways to Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly B Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University; Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; David E. Hall, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

project. Each of these lessons containslesson plans, master notes, and homework assignments. Additionally, MS PowerPoint, MSExcel, and other additional files have been added as the curriculum continues to evolve. Thethree following figures are selected examples of the lesson plans, master notes, and homework Page 23.2.7assignments. Figure 8, Figure 9, and Figure 10 show examples of portions of the Lesson Plans,Master Notes, and Homework assignments respectively. The entire physics curriculum, alongwith curricula covering other subjects, is hosted at www.NICERC.org and is accessible toregistered users. Figure 8

Conference Session

How Are We Preparing Our Students for the 21st Century Workforce?

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard P. Coe, Thomas Edison State College

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

institutions, is also transferrable.Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) is available for students who have learnedcollege level knowledge outside the traditional classroom.When a potential student applies for nuclear engineering or other technologydegree the credit is automatically applied along with any other college level study.The result is a technical degree plan with the outstanding courses needed tocomplete the program.The entire degree is on-line and more easily achievable than traditional degrees.Most of the students are full time working adults who find that this virtual optionbest fits their busy professional and family schedules. Page 25.324.3

Conference Session

How Are We Preparing Our Students for the 21st Century Workforce?

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Lee Gutenson, Western Kentucky University; Jana Fattic, Western Kentucky University; Andrew N.S. Ernest, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

passed, the would-be operator stilldoes not hold the knowledge needed to pass the certification exam. This presents a well-definedproblem when attempting to establish a succession plan for future employment needs, an issuecurrently plaguing the water industry. A resolution of this issue will involve a training programthat seeks to model a mix of educational and experiential components which will produceprofessionals that have attained sufficient academic and operational expertise. This will requirefacilitators on each wavelength, academic and industrial, to cooperate in order to achieve thedesired outcome.One such program that is currently pursuing such a venture is the Water Training Institute(WTI). Created by funds garnered from the Advanced

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin L. Devine, Illinois State University; Corinne Zimmerman, Illinois State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

completed a briefjournaling activity that asked them to describe what they learned about robots. Page 25.61.2Description of outreach activityThe outreach activity was designed to introduce the elementary school students to industrialrobotics and various topics related to programming industrial robots. As part of the outreachactivity, the research team visited the elementary school on two occasions spaced one weekapart. Before the students were told about the planned visit of the research team, they wereasked to complete their first DART assessment.The initial visit was broken into three 40 minute sessions. During the first session, two classes

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Iem H. Heng, New York City College of Technology; Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, presented a study which indicates that students learn well inteams, in project based activities, and in collaborative environments3. The hands-on projectbased activities will also strengthen students’ skills in critical thinking, communication,collaboration, and creativity/innovation. These skills have been identified by top U.S. companiesas priorities for employee development, talent management and succession planning. It is onlynatural for STEM education to incorporate hands-on practical applications at every stage of astudent’s education. This connection should be made earlier during a student’s high school yearsand be reinforced every semester during student’s college years so as to allow the student toreach a level of maturity expected by

Conference Session

Panel Session: Case Study Teaching in Computing Curricula

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Salamah Salamah, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Thomas B. Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

, anddevelop problem solving skills. Although the use of case studies in education has shown success in theabove mentioned disciplines, it is yet to be adopted in any significant way in the computing education.Although many computing and engineering textbooks provide case studies to illustrate concepts andtechniques, and there are various case study websites (e.g., http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/,http://www.afit.edu/cse/cases.cfm), they often lack the following:• Realistic artifacts (often space or intellectual property concerns do not allow one to provide a complete engineering artifact such as a design document or a project plan)• Completeness (most are focused on some part of engineering practice, or on a single course)• Ability to

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Lewandowski; Carla Purdy

techniques, and cultural differences which could affect learning. Aweb site was constructed for maintaining the teaching manual and sharing other information6.In the third quarter of the first year, students were matched with teaching mentors and madeindividual plans for their second year activities. These plans included not only teachingopportunities but also attendance at faculty and committee meetings and arrangements formentoring an undergraduate working on a research or senior project, if possible.Participants have also attended several local and national meetings where academic careers andteaching are discussed. These include the annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium and an annualPFF conference held each June. In addition, speakers on topics such

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William J. Daughton

theBaldrige assessment methodology are shown in Table 1. Table 1. Baldrige National Quality Award Performance Categories and Their Weightings Baldrige Categories Relative Weighting Leadership 12.5% Strategic Planning 8.5% Customer and Market Focus 8.5% Information and Analysis 8.5% Human Resource Focus 8.5% Process Management 8.5% Business Results 45.0% 100.0%The first sessions of the course are devoted to a course introduction

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Hart; Ronald Welch

% 65% IPR 100% Functional & Finalized functional Review progress Finalized drawings Aesthetic and aesthetic rom 35% toward including site, floor, requirements requirements 00%. and elevations, floor Architectural Finalized floor, site, Expect about half of framing, roof Adjacencies drawing and elevation esign work to be framing, and lateral drawings ompleted load systems. Floor plans Written structural Desk side brief with Site drainage plan scheme with eview of calculations with watershed

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Hill

defined as pay for performance above and beyond those rewardsthat are commonly referred to as across-the-board raises or cost-of-living raises (COLA). Meritraises are also separate from raises given on some campuses for the purposes of reducinginequities such as those due to gender or discipline. Merit pay raises are usually given formeritorious performance as a way to reward people whose performance during the latest reviewperiod was exceptional. In some instances, it is believed that such raises may instead be a wayto motivate people to improve their performance.There are actually several different kinds of merit pay plans in existence. One is a pure meritsystem where any increases in one’s salary are based entirely upon meritorious performance