Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Young

the workspace from the start, let space evolve Provide room for group meetings and discussions Involve students in the designing, building and later operating and developing the workspace.- allow for management and control by studentsEquipment Within funding constraints, install equipments that have clear relevance to professional as well to curricular applications Include exhibits that reflect the education’s content The workspace should be totally wired, or wireless Integrate with other assets Establish collaborations with external workshops for specialized manufacturing processes

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Dennis

practice of civilengineering at the professional level.”[2] In addition to adopting Policy 465 ASCE created theTask Committee on Academic Preparation for Professional Practice (TCAP3) and charged it to“…develop, organize and execute a detailed plan for full realization of the ASCE PolicyStatement 465.” This committee, which was later made a board level standing committee(CAP3), formulated the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK) which was formallyreleased in January of 2004. As a result of the CAP3 report on the BOK, ASCE’s PolicyStatement 465 was revised in October 2004 to reflect the work of the committee. It now states inpart that “ASCE…supports the attainment of a Body of Knowledge for entry into the practice ofcivil engineering at the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Mattei

doctorates through 1998 largely reflected an increase in the number offoreign U. S. doctorate degree recipients. In fact, foreign-born engineers and scientists make upmore than one fourth of the engineering and science doctorate holders doing research in bothacademia and industry. Page 10.929.2As result of the September 11 terrorism, the United States may permit immigration at only a verycarefully monitored trickle. This could seriously depress the supply of foreign students and “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Martinazzi

traditional way of being taught.As a side note, it was necessary several times during the semester to remind the students of thechoice they made regarding being taught this new way. They were asked to reflect on thePrimetime Live program and encouraged to act as responsible and mature adults especially sincetheir future livelihood and success in the engineering profession are directly related to how wellthey can solve problems.Third, the students are given some very minor examples of how the concept will be implementedso they understand the model and how it will be used throughout the term. This step is criticalsince it begins to illustrate how they will encounter unfamiliar material and how the“T.H.I.N.K.” concept must be used to begin solving the

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

building an academic ”pyrimad” in science, engineering, and technologydisciplines. Consequently, the E&T curricula design reflects this philosophy in E&T education. Another aspect crucial to gain a good understanding of Chinese E&T education is thatuniversity curricula have been historically administered by the Ministry of Education. Individualuniversity had limited freedom to change its curriculum. The centralization provides a uniformlydistributed basic requirements for E&T schools across the country to ensure education quality.Even though the trend of decentralization has been observed due to the emergence of localgovernments and privately administered universities, however, the baseline requirements set bythe Chinese Ministry

Conference Session

Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Yasuhara

programmers.More in keeping with expectations, the gender gap in extracurricular and other programming expe-rience might reflect the lower rate of home computer ownership/access 3,9,14,15,19,22 or less comfort Page 10.303.7or confidence with computing among women. 15,24 Avoiding extracurricular programming might Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationalso be a reaction to the associated “geek” stereotype and gender socialization. 15,16The prominence of programming in students’ definitions of CS is

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

courses, modification of courses, andthe introduction of new courses requires approval by appropriate committees withindepartments and the College. The ERC worked diligently with those committees toimplement the appropriate curriculum changes.The new ERC courses and the modified ERC courses have utilized the concept of Page 10.1140.2education modules, reflecting a just-in-time approach that is recognized in industry as thekey to life-long learning (that is, “exactly the education needed, exactly when needed.”). Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Mark Gunty; Leo McWilliams; Carrie Graf; John Uhran; Catherine Pieronek

on understanding how various groups of female students differ from each other.We now have data that describes our female students not as a one-dimensional monolith, but as amosaic – a whole made of many different parts who come to Notre Dame with differentexperiences and different levels of interest in engineering. We have adapted our support systemsto reflect these differences, and have made course changes that work to bridge the differencesamong the groups and, consequently, have seen a dramatic improvement in the retention ofwomen.References1. Brockman, J.B., Fuja, T.E, Batill, S.M., “A Multidisciplinary Course Sequence for First-Year EngineeringStudents,” 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2002.2

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brecca Berman; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

0231904. For more details on this research, “Alternative Approaches to Evaluating STEMEducation Partnerships: A Review of Evaluation Methods and Application of an Interorganizational Model,” pleasevisit the project website at http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gk18/STEM Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationuniversity-K-12 partnerships using the Georgia Tech’s Student and Teacher EnhancementPartnership (STEP) GK-12 program as a case study, and reflect on the ramifications forpartnership evaluations.Conceptualizing PartnershipsDuring the course of this research we have come to conceptualize the STEM

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alvin Lester; Bruce Mutter

Portfolio Average 94 75 Final Class Average 80 75The results imply that the students taking the in-class course do not enter with the same level orhave the same comfort level with computer skills and web technologies as students deciding totake a web-delivered course. This is reflected in the higher scores on assignments and theportfolio. The test scores have been relatively even. The web course randomly generates a newtest for each student from the database that the instructor created. The in-class test is one of therandomly generated tests given during a traditional class meeting. The web-delivered coursegenerates

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa Eljamal; Matthew Mayhew; Eric Dey; Stella Pang

Accreditation Commission. (2004). “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Effective for Evaluations During the 2005-2006 Accreditation Cycle.” p.6. Taken from Website: http://www.abet.org/criteria.html (November 17, 2004).Biographical InformationMATTHEW J. MAYHEWDr. Mayhew is Director of Student Life Assessment at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He receivedhis Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Michigan in 2004. Research interests includeunderstanding how college impacts student learning, including outcomes related to intercultural sensitivity, moralreasoning, and reflective judgment.MELISSA B. ELJAMALMs. Eljamal is Director of International Programs in the College of Engineering at the

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Stockman

averaging. Othersquestions are essay/reflective; for example, students are expected to be able to give a technicaldiscussion of the characteristics of rotating memory, and to discuss the impact of networking onenterprise computing.Problems encountered:Choosing a textbook for a uniquely defined course is a problem. With both textbooks [6] and [7],auxiliary information was critical, particularly with respect to the topics of algorithms, images,and CAD/CAM/CAE. Some students had trouble learning from sources other than the text. Ofcourse, the new course is also a problem for instructor preparation. Materials, exercises, softwaretools, etc. have to be identified and collected by a person who probably is not familiar with sometopics. The first offering

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Keith Stanfill

requirements. • Keep CEO informed of all team activities. Meet with CEO as a business team or as a company team at a frequency directed by the CEO. • Participate as a company in all major design reviews.Engineering Development TeamThe engineering team is comprised of students registered in the IPPD program. One way theengineering development team members are motivated to succeed in the ITV program is thattheir efforts are reflected on their permanent transcript—in other words they earn a grade andthree credits each for the fall and spring semesters.Pilot ITV program experiencesThere was difficulty in establishing a responsive attitude between the engineering team and theCEOs. Since it was clear that the CTO assigned the grades, the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Hladysz; Robert Corey; JASON ASH; Glen Stone; Dale Skillman; Charles Kliche; Larry Stetler; David Dixon; Larry Simonson; Stuart Kellogg

in Education Conference, Boulder, CO, November 2003. Page 10.1033.11[13] Slivovsky, L. A., F. R. Derego Jr., L. H. Hamieson, and W. C. Oakes, “ Developing the Reflection Component in the EPICS Model of Engineering Service Learning,” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Boulder, CO, November 2003. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education[14] Catalano, G. D., “The Freshman Engineering Program at the State University of New York at Binghamton

Conference Session

Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

purpose of assessing our learningcommunity initiative.Surveys. We have found surveys to be an easy, efficient, and effective way to gatherinformation from our learning community participants. A combination of forced answerLikert-type questions combined with open-ended questions provides us an opportunity toassess our target objectives and to gather meaningful reflective comments from thestudents. The data is useful for program planning on a semester-by-semester basis. Inaddition, we have maintained continuity in the survey tools, which has allowed us tocompare data from year to year.Focus Groups. We began using focus groups in the Fall 2000 semester as a method toaugment our survey data. Focus groups are a qualitative research method which

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

improving the existing outreach programs and creating newones. Now that the existing programs have all been run at least once, our participant surveys canstart to shift focus from the “what did you think of the program?” and “how can we improvethis?” questions that help WE@RIT to plan events to the “what did you know about engineeringwhen you came here?” and “what did you learn?” questions that help the students reflect on whatthey’ve gained. One that may be helpful is based on the Draw an Engineer Test described by Page 10.28.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Improving Statics Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul S. Steif; Anna Dollar

overview of connections appearing frequently inmechanical and structural systems, describe their various roles, and familiarize students withcommonly used terms. It is emphasized that most joints permit some relative motion betweenthe connected members, but prevent other motions. Students are shown digital images of a widevariety of systems with actual connections (fig. 1), and then are asked to reflect on the permittedand prohibited motions, for example, through in-class multiple choice questions (fig. 2).There are a number of distinct types of connections, termed, for example, pin, roller, rigid.Sometimes we refer to connections as supports. The term support (for example, pin support), isused when only the forces on the supported body are of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Farison

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

vaccines, wireless internet distribution and access, or using Global PositioningSystem (GPS) technology for farming or fishing, they are all faced with the challenge ofkeeping up with increasingly stringent global regulatory environments.In the pharmaceutical industry, for example, this may be reflected in food and regulatoryrules and certification for manufacturing facilities and output quality that may beadministered differently by market and by new trading rules and WTO guidelines. In theinformation technology and telecommunications industry, this may be pressure fromnetwork externalities and the need to tie in to critical mass usage of a certain system orstandard. Thus, neither innovation alone, nor even cutting edge technology, determinesthe

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Drummer; James Frendewey; Sheryl Sorby; Kris Mattila; John Sutherland; Leonard Bohmann

serviceindustries must improve their productivity in order to remain competitive.In May of 2004 the National Academy of Engineering unveiled its report “The Engineer of2020”.7 In this report the need for engineers to be involved in solving the problems of theservice sector industries is clearly articulated. However, even though NSF and the NAErecognize the need for engineers to work within the service sector, present-day engineeringcurricula are inadequately suited to meet the needs of the sector. The curricula reflect a focus ondesigning and building better machines, instruments, and other devices or manufacturingprocesses. Major design experiences are geared towards solving problems in the manufacturingand construction industries. Thus, if we are to

Conference Session

Visualization

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Charlesworth; Thomas Drummer; Kedmon Hungwe; Sheryl Sorby

practice should help learners to reflect on theirlearning and become more metacognitively aware of their learning process. These skillsare important in the overall development of learners.There have been several studies examining what type of pre-college activities tend to bepresent in students who have well developed spatial skills (Deno, 1995, Leopold, Sorby,& Gorska 1996, and Medina, Gerson, & Sorby, 1998). Activities that require eye-to-handcoordination are particularly useful in developing these skills such as: 1) playing withconstruction toys (e.g., Legos) as a young child, 2) participating in classes such as shop,drafting, or mechanics as a middle school or secondary student, 3) playing 3-dimensionalcomputer games, 4) participating

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Wild; Constance Holden; Karen Horton

education and electrical engineering technology studentsused PhotoShop and PTGui to develop the photographic skins to apply to the models.The forestry student developed the model of the terrain from the survey and GPS data.Outcomes were assessed relative to the project goals through a review of the finalproducts and their written documentation.The travel and internship in the Park were not part of MET220, so no related learningoutcomes were assessed.Student PerceptionsComments reflecting student perceptions regarding the benefits of the project are taken from aletter, course evaluations, and an interview for an article.One MET220 student who did not work as an intern found student management and learning thetechnical skills a valuable experience

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Newcomer

theychoose tasks that are likely to have risk factors as it makes the assignment more interesting.What they discover, however, is that it is often easier to identify a problem than it is to come upwith a reasonable solution, which in turn gives them more appreciation for the challenges ofimplementing an ergonomic program. Overall the assignment serves its purpose as anintroduction to ergonomic assessment, and differences in grades are more of a reflection ofstudents’ ability to clearly and concisely express ideas than in the quality of their assessments.Lifting AssessmentFor the lifting assessment assignment, students are required to analyze a lifting task using both

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rickie Miller; Elisa Barney Smith

the educationmajors had in their individual math and science skills. They realized that if they could do thesame math and science based projects that engineering students do, they must have some ability.If the students had been separated, there would be a lingering feeling that it reflected on theirability.The education majors enrolling in this course are juniors and seniors based on the prerequisiteswe have set for this course. We have found that this gives them a greater maturity level than thefreshman engineering students. This maturity advantage has allowed them to lead better andmore than makes up for their weaker math skills and the lack of confidence that comes with that.We have also found that while we don’t announce to the

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Adams; William Manion

Page 10.1469.5and economy (COPE). Clarity means to write in unambiguous, easily understood style.Organization refers to the structure of the document, attachments and content. Precision refers to Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education.the ability to present appropriate and reasonable numbers, rationale and conclusions, and to usedescriptive language and modifiers with great care. Economy means to work and writeefficiently, without unnecessary language. These COPE emphases, as well as the use of memos,also reflect the concerns and priorities mentioned in the surveys (see Attachment 2).Fall

Conference Session

Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Pezeshki

personal reflection, and several iterations, I settled on the current philosophy of theclass. It is based on the principle called “The Circle of Treats,” a somewhat humorous Page 10.912.3phrase I coined in order to explain how the class would be structured from a meta-level Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education 2005 Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2005 American Society for Engineering Educationmanagement structure. All decisions about modification of the class must fit into thisphilosophy. In short, the philosophy is one of enlightened self-interest between allparties involved in the clinic

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Feemster

, respectively). Thoughthe score of PCs (1e) and (1f) are not poor, these lower scores are believed to reflect the fact thatthese two performance criteria represent a more comprehensive understanding of system modeling(i.e., performance prediction and model feasibility) rather than simple analysis. Since this projectmay be their first exposure to a complete control design cycle, the lower scores in the more synthesisoriented criteria are not surprising.As with outcome (1), the students performed well in the more analysis oriented outcomeperformance criteria (2d) scoring a 2.8 out of 3.0. Within PC (2d), the students were required toutilize simulation models in order to evaluate their controller design against design objectives. Thestudents tended to

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamal Shahrabi; Feng Huang; Ali Setoodehnia; Hong Li

typical wireless broadcasting scenario where thereare multi-path channels (i.e. the transmitted signals arrive at the receiver using variouspaths of different length due to signal reflection from barrier materials). It becomes veryhard to extract the original information because of multiple versions of signal interferewith each other. Wide applications of OFDM in the European market as the Digital AudioBroadcasting (DAB) standard, in ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) standard andWireless Local Area Networks and the outlines of using OFDM in the 5.8-GHz band asin IEEE 802.11a, has stimulated the search for the optical realization of such technique.The ISI has become an issue in today’s DWDM system. However, the amplitude onlymodulation

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Schinnel Small; Alicia Davis; Solomon Alao; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke; Pamela Leigh-Mack

students construct meaning. An important aspect ofacquiring and integrating declarative knowledge is constructing meaning. Students draw uponprior knowledge and then link it to new knowledge during the declarative knowledge integrationprocess. Most note taking research has been directed at understanding the roles of encoding andexternal storage. Encoding serves to increase the learner’s attention and external storage servesto improve memory retention4. We use the Tablet PC and specialized note taking software tofacilitate the three minute pause technique and summarizing5. This allows the student to shiftfrom listening to reflecting and talking. The pause exercise is done in an active learningenvironment and serves as a formative assessment for the

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Education” Session #1649in this program reflect the world of work that the Verizon employees encounter. Besides using aninnovative curriculum, this program places a heavy emphasis on employee soft skills. Integratedwithin the curriculum are numerous projects and assignments designed to increase the student’scommunication skills, leadership qualities, problem solving ability, and other soft skills.VIII. ConclusionWhat about today’s electronics engineering technology teaching fraternity? Will they be quick toembrace change? I think the answer to that question is, most likely not