Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Tracy; Jin Yoo; Jason Immekus; Brian French; Susan Maller; William Oakes

EPICS teamworkscale is partly based on the adaptation of the scale used by Campion et al.6. Some of thesub-domains of interest were not measured. The additional teamwork sub-domains wesought to measure were researched in other literature to form a theoretical base for theitems developed. By adapting pre-existing instruments and incorporating additional sub-domains that matched our goals, we were able to develop a scale that reflects the aspectsof teamwork students are exposed to in EPICS. The use or adaptation of pre-existing measures may not be an option for theassessment of engineering program outcomes for several reasons. For example, a scalemay be published but not available without a fee. In the event that a complete scale needsto

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy Carter; Paula Leventman; Katherine Ziemer

, American Society for Engineering EducationThe goals of The Great Orange Squeeze module are to: • involve student interest in an enjoyable and equitable way, • build a connection between engineering careers and helping society, • illustrate as many engineering framework criteria as possible, • illustrate both the differences between Science and Engineering and their interdependence in solving technical problems that benefit society, and • incorporate active learning, experience-oriented tasks and inquiry-based design.These goals reflect the benefits to student learning by incorporating active learning and inquiry-based design into activities.3 They incorporate the findings that female students are likely to beinterested in

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Janet L. Yowell; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan; Lawrence E. Carlson

ScheduleDay one of the workshop focused on curricularcomponents of lesson plans and engineeringcontent. In later workshops, teambuilding andengineering design (with reflection on each) wereadded. Engineering faculty experts helped teachersdelve into the curricular content by leading contentlectures and hands-on activities related to the topic.Workshops also addressed current trends inassessment, both in classroom and in educationalresearch. Late in day one, teachers split into same-grade level pairs to become familiar with the “Up, Up and Away” participant teachers explorecontents of a specific lesson from the curricular drag, thrust and lift as they relate to flight.unit.On day two, teacher pairs team-taught their lesson

Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Ward; Richard Howell; Debby Knotts; Deborah Fisher; Jerald Rounds; Jennifer Scott

CAI group in reformatting the classes into a web-based format to be delivered throughout the state, and then marketing the program to fill theclasses.This paper chronicles the evolution of the CAI certificate program from inception to fulloperation. It will start by describing how the program was conceived and how the partnershipcame together. It will then address the initial study and design of the curriculum. Next it willchronicle the development of the program to be fully web-based and the continuing evolution ofthe courses. Finally, conclusions will be drawn about the process and the value of deliveringasynchronous learning opportunities to practicing professionals.A companion paper entitled Reflections on Evaluating Web-based Courses: A

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Watkins; Joel Esposito; Matthew Feemster

response and compare it to a simulation produced using the same initial conditions. 6. Reflect on the accuracy of your model, and any causes of error. Return to step 1 if the results were not satisfactory.The midshipmen were also provided with a sheet describing how to collect data from the Quanserinterface system. Connection and configuration of the data acquisition equipment and software wasdone in advance of the laboratory period by the instructors in order to keep the focus of the studentson the modeling exercise.Remark #1 Step 1 required significant instructor assistance since there are several ways to modelthe flexible joint system that are not obvious. The instructors recommended that the students modelthe two linear springs

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

will examine use of peer review in the context of first year architectural design. Theimmediate goal is to propose ways to improve the learning process in this course. The broadergoal of this paper is to promote the value of peer review in a creative learning environment.BackgroundPeer Review DefinedAny discussion of peer review must start with a basic definition. A peer is a person who hasequal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age.1 Ideally, a peer group iscomposed of similarly identifiable individuals but within any definable peer group realdifferences exist between individuals. These differences reflect the level of social status,personality, experience or specialized knowledge each individual has within the peer group

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mathew Hyre; James Squire

the goal of the “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”symposium is to educate students (and often advisors) on the process of reporting and presentingscholarly work, presentation cancellations should not be made painless. Both the students andadvisors should be aware that their names will be listed in the conference program, and that afailure to present will reflect badly on everyone. Obviously, there may be some emergencies thatarise which simply make it impossible for a student to present. This can be explained at thesymposium during the affected time slot. However, lack of preparation should

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Pawley

influenced or affected by them cannot pay?With respect to the current content of our engineering classes, we could ask ourselves: • Why have we selected these topics to “cover” and discuss? Is it because they have been traditionally included, and if so, by whom, for whom, and for what purpose? • How has the field changed? • What are now the hot topics in our field, and why? • What is important for our students to leave their university experience knowing, and why?In this spate of questions that I am suggesting for our own and our students' reflection, there is nomention of gender. However, Scott's8 definition of gender flows through each one, as the studyof gender is fundamentally organized around studying relationships of

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emilia Hodge; Chang-Yu Wu; Anne Donnelly

in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Engineering Research Center (ERC) for ParticleScience and Technology at the University of Florida, The National Science Foundation (NSF) (Grant EEC-94-02989), and the Industrial Partners of the ERC for support of this research. Page 9.67.11 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andre Sayles

Understand Differences Accept Differences Figure 1. Leading Diversity Process ModelDiversity has been defined many different ways, ranging from broad to narrow, depending on thecontext. The definition of diversity associated with the LDPM is differences in people that canhave an impact on the effectiveness of an organization. The impact can be either positive ornegative, depending on the organization, the nature of the difference, and how the difference isperceived. Differences come in many forms, are derived from many sources, and are reflected inlanguage, behavior patterns, thought processes, biases, beliefs, preferences, and perceptions. It isimportant to have a means of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chell Roberts

-Rudman Commission), Washington DC, 2001. http://www.nssg.gov/Reports/reports.htm 3. Fujimoto, R., 2000. “Principles for M&S Education,” Simulation and Technology Magazine http://www.sisostds.org/webletter/siso/iss_61/art_299.htm 4. M&SPCC, 2003, The Modeling and Simulation Professional Certification Commission (M&SPCC), URL: http://www.simprofessional.org/ 5. Nance, R.E. and Balci, O., 2001. “Thoughts and Musings on Simulation Education,” Proceedings of the 2001 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 1567 – 1570 6. Nance, R.E., 2000. “Simulation Education: Past Reflections and Future Directions,” Proceedings of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference, J. A. Joines, R. R. Barton, K

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wesley Bliven; Elizabeth Eschenbach

and magnetism and how basic principles can be used tounderstand the operation of many common devices that have motors or speakers.Electricity and Magnetism is primarily covered in the fourth grade California ScienceStandards2. The Electricity and Magnetism course website6 outlines relevant statescience standards as well as related text readings and websites.The order of presentation, which is typical for modules in the class, is an assignedreading from the text, a series of introductory demonstrations, a brief lecture as a primerto a discussion of the station activities, a review discussion driven by the teachers’questions in their minute papers and finally a reflection in small groups on how teacherscan use this material in their own

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Price

following constraints: • Community college attendance greater than 25 percent • AFDC recipients less than 20 percent • Stanford 9 (2002 math/reading scores) greater than 57/47 percent with the percentile ranking reflecting the typical student’s performance at the school or district compared to students in a 1995 norming groupThese variables were selected based on quantitative analysis of each variable. For example, the20 percent AFDC factor was selected since it was determined that high school graduation ratesfor districts with AFDC recipients greater than 20 percent were substantially lower (e.g., 82% vs.92%) than for districts with AFDC recipients less than 20 percent. For the Stanford 9 math andreading scores, an average

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

contains the integrationof each team member’s weeklies over the past month. Some of the question and answer sectionsbecome quite lively. The monthly granularity provides the team an opportunity to both reflect onthe past and plan for the future. The student presenter receives a critique from the instructorusing an evaluation form from the Speech Department.Each team creates, publishes, and maintains a project web site. The instructor provides a“starter” web that uses a standard theme and page hierarchy. Teams are encouraged not tocustomize the web, a time sink, or use it for other purposes. It contains a home parent-page andchild-pages for documents, meeting minutes, presentations, schedule, and other information.Each team can only publish their

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Per Andersson

- Page 9.1223.4sider when discussing possible activities for the hi-tech employees of tomorrow. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright À 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationWhat are the possible methods and activities at hand when it comes to bringing Engineeringand Technology into the K-6 classrooms? The activities should give the pupils an under-standing that reflects what it means to work in engineering and with technology. From theindustries point of view it is important to present opportunities for the pupils to discover theirlatent abilities in this line of work, and experiences that may be eye openers into engineeringas a future

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

participants and give every cadet, “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright À2004, American Society for Engineering Education”regardless of their major, an opportunity to contribute to the program. This approachbetter reflects how technical programs in the Air Force are conducted, involvingengineers, scientists, managers, technical writers and other experts from a variety offields. Teaming scientists with a keen interest in designing space experiments withengineers who want to build missions, provided great synergy to the program. TheCHAWS-LD experiment flown on FS-1 was conceived and built by faculty and studentsfrom

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

has always included computerprogramming is a reflection of the value attributed to the instruction by the faculty. Even thoughthe faculty recognize that few Civil Engineers go on to careers in programming, they nonethelessbelieve that teaching programming provides tangible benefits in improving the students’ logicalreasoning and problem solving skills. Up until recently the programming language taught wasFortran, but since the beginning of the 2001-2002 academic year we have taught Civil Engineersprogramming as part of instruction in the MATLAB5 modeling language. Adoption ofMATLAB as a high-level language for teaching programming has occurred at a number ofschools lately6,7. In each case MATLAB is valued for its ease of use, its powerful set

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

individualpattern. A pattern sequence may include changes such as: enlargements, contractions, reflections,rotations, and pattern inversions. This may be a further aid to recognition of diagrams viacharacter representations with multiple pattern representations. Such a representation is possiblewith the DPS system although this entails using sequences of characters to simulate such effects.7. Diagram Recognition by the Blind or Partially SightedIn addition to the textual presentation problem there is also the problem of interpretation ofdiagrams by the partially sighted. Mereu and Kazman have used sounds to indicate position in a3D environment for use by visually impaired users. This was achieved by using different types ofsound to indicate the x, y and z

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

staff involved in the CIM unit need to be proactive in respect tohazard awareness. Veal and Maj note that:“Unlike traditional, standard computer science tutors, laboratory CIM workshop tutors mustalso be aware of potential safety hazards and legal requirements. They need to pay particularattention to other potential safety hazards elsewhere in the laboratory even though they may beengaged in dealing with the problems of a particular student” 11.Bell uses virtual reality to simulate potential accidents: “not so much to teach new information orto test students’ knowledge, but rather to stimulate reflective thoughts and discussion” 1. Butrejdraws on case studies of accidents to enhance safety awareness 3.It might be thought that a 5V line inside a

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Winzer

Industrial Advisory Committee5.0 EET shall maintain an industrial advisory committee to serve as program advisors and torepresent industry constituent input to the management process. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.225.7 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education5.1 The EET Industrial Advisory Committee shall maintain its own charter and procedures.5.2 The Advisory Committee membership shall reflect the regional industrial constituentsthat hire program graduates. Committee size shall not be reduced below ten members

Conference Session

Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lerzan Özkale; Fatma Küskü; Gülsün Saglamer

succeeded to continuously improve the quality of its educationand research [11]. Facts that are reflected in the motto used by the present rector, GülsünSağlamer: “pioneer through the ages”. This statement is verified in education by the fact that 12departments got substantial equivalency from ABET (Accreditation Board of Engineering andTechnology), 8 others being in the process; and in research by the fact that ITU is the one of thetop two Turkish universities in SCI publications. This is why the behavior of ITU students can berepresentative of Turkish engineering community.Studies in “women in engineering” are generally conducted with female students [1,3].or womenengineers [12,7]. However this paper aims to study the place of women in

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Orr; Richard Vaz

noted many program strengths, but did indicate one problem area:discrete mathematics. Review of the course material had not demonstrated sufficient amounts of Page 9.594.8discrete mathematics in the computer engineering courses. Upon review and reflection, the ECE Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session xxxxfaculty agreed with that conclusion. In spite of good intentions, the desired discrete

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Williams

never equal.From another perspective, student feedback indicates that the module described in this paper iswell-received. The motivation and challenge provided by an interesting project of progressiveintensity in an appropriately-paced group-learning environment is reflected in positive studentcomments. If only for that reason, the use of this module is believed to be of significantinstructional value. Retaining students in the program is directly linked to retaining their interest,and by their own evaluations, this module accomplishes that goal. Similar progressive modulesin other engineering and computer science-related topics are currently being developed andevaluated for future dissemination.Bibliography1. D. Egbert, G. Bebis, and D

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Wentzheimer; Jennifer VanAntwerp; Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

schools followed a trend of ever increasing focus on thedetails of one particular sub-discipline of engineering. Our program emphasizes breadth not onlyacross engineering disciplines, but also uses a solid foundation in the liberal arts that provides thebroad worldview on which effective leadership arises. Our outcome-based assessment of recentyears appears to reflect an industry need for more breadth and thus less depth. While depthprovides good preparation for entry level positions and the first five years or so of a career,contextualization better supports the full career span, which requires continual self-learning andoften has leadership opportunities in technical and non-technical areas.While engineering analytical skills are important

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abul Azad

for Engineering Education5. Student responseThe first version of the SCEFMAS is in use with the Automatic Control and SystemsEngineering Department of University of Sheffield (UK). This package is used as a supportingtool to deliver a module of a M.Sc. program with the department. Although, there is no formalassessment for the effectiveness of this environment as a leaning tool, but students has expressedtheir opinion during the module end questioners. These opinions reflect that the softwareenvironment enables the students to understand the behaviour of a flexible manipulator systemand also the effect of parameter variations. The learning process could be much difficult withoutthis package. In addition to this, student can test the

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ever Barbero; Larry Banta

surveys using a questionnaire designed differently for each college, in our case for the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources (CEMR). The exit survey is given to graduating seniors at the end of the fall and spring semesters. In years past, the questions did not match properly with the outcomes, but lately modifications were introduced to the survey to reflect the outcomes pursued by most engineering disciplines within the college. We have historically achieved about 60% response from graduating seniors, but recent directives from the administration “encourage” faculty to allow class time for completion of the survey in an attempt to improve the return rate.2. Alumni Surveys. The department mails alumni surveys to recent

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

langauges In addition, a national digital library that contains the information-technology oriented casestudies would be of interest and use to engineering educators and students. That would make itpossible for educators to tap into a rich source of real-world problems when explaining complexengineering concepts and theories in the classroom.AcknowledgmentsThis research was based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantsNo. DUE# 9752353, DUE# 9950514, DUE#0001454 and DUE#0089036. Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of theauthor(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Weappreciate the help of Randy Bradley in performing the

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Muci-Kuchler; Jonathan Weaver

listened to the designer and was first to marketwith the now popular minivan. Interestingly enough, Ford made a similar mistake later, optingnot to pursue a driver’s-side sliding door on their minivans until well after the competitionintroduced that hugely popular feature. There are also examples of “technology-push” products which reflect that, even in thosecases, satisfying existing needs is a key factor for success. For example, when Percy Spencer, aRaytheon engineer working on radar systems, noticed that a candy bar melted during a radarsystem test, that ultimately led to the development of the microwave oven, which in today’ssociety has essentially become a requirement of every kitchen. While no customer ever said“please give me an

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Houdeshell

activities inorder to reflect macrocontexts found in their own learning communities. While the instructionalsystem design model/template specifies the task complexity through the specified competencies,it currently does not provide guidelines for the problem abstractness or problem structuredness.A second issue is that the instructional design does not provide for a specific scaffoldingtechnique to enhance the transfer of the student’s problem solving skills to a new context. Inorder to improve the quality of the NCME instructional materials and to aid in the adoption ofthe materials by potential customers, these questions and concerns were addressed in the study.Purpose of the StudyThis research investigation answers the primary question: What

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Davis

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education3.1 Knowledge and Skills from Prior Program ExperienceStudents write a short essay that addresses how their co-op experiences and previouscourse work have prepared them to undertake their senior design project. The assignmentis loosely specified (2 paragraphs, 6 sentence minimum addressing the impact of co-opand course work), thus allowing for greater freedom of expression and creativity than astructured survey. As a result, students give highly individualized and candid answers,but do not necessarily address all outcomes that would be of interest to us. However, itgives students the opportunity to reflect on the course