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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ameya A. Chandelkar; Deepak G. Bhat

, Jerusalem (1969), pp. 255-342. Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 11AMEYA CHANDELKAR is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering. He obtained his Bachelors degree inProduction Engineering from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India in 2000. His research has been supported by theGiffels Chair Endowment Research Fund. Mr. Chandelkar will graduate with MSME in Fall 2005.PROF. DEEPAK BHAT is Giffels Chair Professor of Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He holds a Ph.D.from University of Southern California (1978). His professional career spans 25+ years of

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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A. Lambert; D. J. Russomanno; P. Palazolo; S. Ivey

receiving critiques more typical of “real- world” engineering than of traditional assessment. • High-school students’ participation in undergraduate work with engineering students provides an opportunity for the high school students to connect course content to real-world problems, which may motivate them to consider a career in engineering or science.Example 3: First-Semester Retention Rates and Student Learning StylesProject Summary: This project also involves a multi-disciplinary team, yet this team iscomposed of five faculty members from two universities representing five different sub-disciplines of engineering with the goal of learning more about first-semester studentretention issues.Specifically, the project

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Jason Weiss; Farshad Rajabipour; Thomas Schmit; Sebastian Fait

7interested in the more chemical and theoretical aspects of materials. An increased use of studentsurveys will be conducted. The course will shift from the use of the H-ITT personal responsesystem to the E-Instruction system simply because these tools have been implemented campus-wide at Purdue and it will enable the students to use the remote controls in more than one class,thereby making them more economic for students.AcknowledgementsThe material presented in this paper is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation throughGrant No. 0134272: a CAREER AWARD granted to the first author. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Crossley; Melanie Thom; James Thom

traditionally educated engineers butwere required to have been out of school and in career a minimum of five years. They had to becurrently involved in design activities, managers who had performed engineering designactivities in the past, or individuals currently leading design teams. Participants were selectedbased on input from academic and professional experts, chain sampling during the interviewsand personal experience. A total of eleven practitioners participated in the survey. Each surveywas a minimum of 60 minutes long.Each of the participants was questioned on their own perceptions of what skills an individualparticipating in design activities needed to possess to be successful. The participants were notpermitted to stop at broad or vague

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Dees; Megan Perkey; Karen Davis; Nicholas Harth

Instructional Planning). In doing so, I met people with career paths that were entirely different from my own. Still, they taught me about the very deliberate actions that teachers can take to be effective. I also found that I was expected to teach material that I had not seen myself in several years. I did quite a bit of research in areas such as plate tectonics and chemical bonding. While learning these things myself, I discovered a new appreciation for the entire process which influenced my planning strategies greatly. Throughout the year, I learned about how the engineering process can be applied in many different ways. I was able to gather data from students, analyze that data, draw

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shane Brown

what they told me to take, and so advising was a big issue for me. Similar to experiences with faculty during office hours, students reported both positiveand negative experiences with advisors. It appears that early in the students’ careers they hadpoor experiences with their advisors, but as time wore on the experiences improved. Male Political Science Switcher: I was having some problems freshman term and I went in and talked with him and thought he was really helpful giving me advice. Male Mechanical Engineer: I've had a horrible experience with counselors until right now. This last counselor visit was the first time the counselor was nice to me and actually cared that I was there

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Tillison; David Hand

EPSC course structure wasmodified for the 2005 term as described below: • The first class session consisted of a course overview, a pre-test assessment activity, and laboratory safety training. The pre-test assessment activity will provide a basis to measure the change in student skill, knowledge, and behavior as a result of their experiences in the EPSC course. • The next ten class periods will occur in the laboratory setting with the students split into teams of two or three; every team will spend two weeks on each of the unit processes, which include adsorption, air stripping, ion exchange, jar testing, and SBRs. Since students will be faced with open-ended problems in future careers, a real-world

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Teresa Mayes; John Bennett

); Page 10.114.8 c) Performing quality control (e.g., reviewing all self-studies); Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education d) Coordinating with other organizations to obtain/evaluate data (e.g., Career Services, centralized campus assessment office); e) Investigating possible assessment tools; and f) Coordinating/organizing/helping programs get ready.Q. 4 Consistent Approach to AccreditationWhen asked if they employed a consistent approach to accreditation across their programs,twenty respondents indicated that they did not – that departments and programs were free to dowhatever they wanted

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Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Feick; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

students), perceptions (of students), and extrapolations (of what the future wouldbe). This three-pronged data collection would involve US academics, industry executives andstudents soliciting information in each country from engineers and managers, workers andacademics as shown in Figure 4. As shown in the Figure, while we would be collecting datafrom our counterparts in industry and academia, we also wanted to encourage an informationexchange among all the entities. In addition, participating students kept journals that enabledthem to reflect upon their changing career and voyage expectations as the progressed around thePacific Rim. At the end of the voyage they were encouraged to reassess their professionalexpectations and further reflect on

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Brannan; Phillip Wankat

with respect toteaching/advising/tutoring freshman engineering students.” Information on advising servicesprovided in first-year programs compiled from these open-ended questions is summarized inTables 5 and 6. Respondents often listed more than one comment. Course schedule planningand career planning were the types of advising services most often mentioned, as shown in Table5. Respondents’ comments on how advising is handled are shown in Table 6. The mostfrequently mentioned advising method was department-specific advising. Interestingly, over halfthe department-specific comments were generated in Categories II, III, and VI. Page

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

goodclass. We will focus on the key points necessary to kick-start a teaching career or to begin toimmediately improve a career. Over 300 workshop participants from over 170 CE programs havebeen touched by the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Teaching Workshops1999-2003, the ExcEEd 2004 (Excellence in Engineering Education) Teaching Workshop, andthe NSF funded predecessor “Teaching Teachers To Teach Engineering” (T4E) TeachingWorkshops 1996-1998. This does not include the Mechanical, Electrical, and Chemical facultymembers who have participated in T4E and ExcEEd. Five years of long term assessment datawill be summarized to demonstrate the effectiveness and benefit of these pedagogical basics tothe participants.I. IntroductionThe

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Richard Keltie

Step#1 of the intervention process. Using the form the advisor takes notes and fills out part of Step#1, and then at the end of the meeting makes a copy of the completed form for the student.Appendix 5 (2 pages) is a blank copy of this form.The goal in Step #1 of the intervention process is to get the student to openly discuss “what”might be contributing to their underperformance. This brings ownership to the student. The backof the form delineates several categories or “reasons” for underperformance. These includeAcademic, Decision Making, Life Situational, Medical, Disability Related, Career/Major. Ineach category, example “symptoms” have been suggested to prompt student-advisor discussion.During the meeting, the elements of this discussion

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

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Martin Whalley; Harriet Svec; Harvey Svec; Teresa Hall

Engineering Field Experience: Industrial Archaeology Studies in England Harriet Svec, Harvey Svec, Teresa Hall, William Martin Whalley South Dakota State University / Manchester Metropolitan UniversityThe practice of engineering could be described as a nascent profession when contrasted withmedicine, law, academia, politics or the clergy. Engineering as a career emerged as recentlyas the 1800s as an outcome of newly created industry-based economies. Today theengineering profession is well established, respected, and contributes to the greater benefit ofsociety. Bringing science, technology and creativity together, engineers conceive solutionsto problems, develop new

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Young; John Fernandez

techniques are expensiveand time consuming, although there are approaches that decrease the cost13. Many softwareengineers recognize (at least off the record), that many of the HCI techniques are useful andappropriate for projects that have user interaction as a major component. Integration betweenthese two disciplines is certainly possible and probably required as software developmentbecomes a more user-centered activity.When potential computer professionals begin training, they start by learning to program in one ormore computer languages. It is not until later in their education that they learn thatprogramming, as interesting as it is, is not the focus of computer science. After graduation, theywill probably spend more of their working career

Conference Session

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

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2005 Annual Conference

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Skylar Stewart; Linda Ramsey; Julie DuBois; Jorge Roldan; David Mills

that participants developed an improved confidence in their ability to score well on thescience portion of the ACT. Finally, the course participants were not the only ones impacted; thegraduate students responsible for the design and implementation of the course indicated that theirinvolvement was personally and professionally rewarding.INTRODUCTIONThe ACTAs any college admissions advisor will tell you, a student’s ACT (American College Test) scorecan have a profound impact on their college career. While an ACT score can not definitivelyindicate how well a student will perform in a college classroom, a good score can open manydoors for success that a poor score cannot. ACT scores are used to determine college admissions,scholarship eligibility

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Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt

distributed in December 2004 contained additional questions on the level of mentorinvolvement with the students, service learning, and projects with the University of Colorado (atotal of 31 questions). This survey was emailed to the Fall 2003 students and given out in-classto the Fall 2004 students. The advantages of surveying students a longer period of time afterthey have taken the class is the retrospective they have and a real appreciation for what was mostbeneficial as they are starting their careers as practicing engineers. However, the response ratefrom these former students is generally much lower. To avoid double counting feedback from asingle individual since the surveys may be returned anonymously, groups that were previouslysurveyed (2002

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Mavriplis

engineeringfeats helped to keep the interest of a large percentage of the students and provided astructure from which students could explore their own interests in their chosen field ofstudy. These reading assignments and other reflective teaching techniques, non-traditional to engineering, helped to students to develop self-confidence and take a moreactive part in their career plan.AcknowledgementsMany of the ideas for this course, particularly in the self-guided inquiry method were developed by theauthor and her colleague Rachelle Heller, a professor of Computer Science at the George WashingtonUniversity, when they designed and co-taught an Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering ScienceSeminar reported in Ref. 17. That seminar development was funded

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Schildgen; Jon Duff

2004 accreditation standards that define learning goals and measure theachievement of those goals (standards 16, 18, 19, and 21) address using external guidance forsetting these goals for degree programs. The AACSB guidelines state, “External constituenciescan inject expertise and perspectives into the process that will be unavailable if the facultyoperates alone.” The study reported in this paper follows the AACSB suggestion that externalconstituencies (in this case, advisory board members) be included. It is critical to survey industryfor current trends and issues that may provide a more practical application of the capstone seniorproject, and ultimately assist in securing career employment for students. The AACSB furtheraddresses an

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kedmon Hungwe; Seyed Zekavat; Sheryl Sorby

their future career, we needed to gather enough information from all non-EE communities,including undergraduate and graduate students, members of faculty and industry. To do that, weneeded to create a survey that covered all possible required topics in EE for all non-EE fields.Hence, we formed a group consisting of faculty members from all engineering areas (EE andnon-EE) at Michigan Tech. The group also consisted of faculty from the Education Departmentand some EE graduate students. We conducted regular weekly meetings out of which we Page 10.196.4identified the main topics and sub-topics in Electrical

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Quinn

experience. Wepresent evidence that the use of these animations has significantly improved the performance ofstudents on exam questions.IntroductionComputer science majors at Oregon State University take a course called Computer ScienceOrientation during the first term of their freshman year. The class meets for about four hours perweek: three 50-minute lectures and one 80-minute recitation. The primary goal of the ten-weekcourse is to introduce students to some of the major concepts in computer science. In this respectit resembles CS100B in Computing Curricula 2001.1 However, the course also has secondarygoals of teaching basic university survival skills, introducing career options, and giving studentssome experience solving problems as members of

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

SMET majors were: 1) non-technical majors offered a better education, 2) loss of interest in science (engineering notmentioned), 3) rejection of technical careers, 4) poor teaching, 5) ineffective faculty3. Severalcharacteristics of lower level courses were identified which drive away SMET majors, large andimpersonal classes, failure to stimulate and engage students, emphasis on lower levels ofBloom’s Taxonomy1 particularly memorization (knowledge and comprehension) with noemphasis on the higher levels of learning (analysis, synthesis, critical reasoning or evaluation),fragmented course offerings where there is no indication of engineering relevance or relation toeach other4. The National Science Foundation and others have identified several

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver; Donna Evanecky

Management,16, 2. Emerald Group Publishing, Ltd..,186-204(19)24. Turk, W. (September-October 2004). Management fad of the month: can they all work? Defense A T & L. http://www.dau.mil/pubs/dam/09_10_2004/tur-so04.pdf retrieved on December 23, 2004.DONNA EVANECKYDonna Evanecky started teaching as an assistant professor for Purdue University School of Technology in 2001 afteran eight-year career in the field of quality management. She teaches Organizational Behavior, Managing Change,Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Occupational Health and Safety and Team Development for the Department ofOrganizational Leadership and Supervision at the Kokomo campus.JODELL STEUVERJoDell K. Steuver is an Associate Professor in the Department of Organizational

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

with a group where you can contribute but notbe totally in charge. In charge means more work (see Grants below). Look for Career Awardsand other developmental awards that require less technical, so that expertise can be ramped up.Proposals take time, have suspense dates and can be very discouraging when they don’t work.Hook up with a mentor to get things started. Submit proposals for modest amounts, unless youhave some unbelievable talents, or your university requires a fixed number of dollars per year.Finally, work with your thesis advisor when you can to continue a relationship that has worked.Grants: Once you get money from a proposal there is a lot to do. Meetings to decide ondirection and reports to keep the funding agency informed. You

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec; Dexter Whittinghill; John Chen

Engineering and Science, Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics, New York, 1989.4. Mazur, E. Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997.5. Mehta, S.I., “A Method for Instant Assessment and Active Learning,” J. of Engr. Educ., 84:295 (1995).Biographic InformationJOHN 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 North CarolinaA&T State University. He joined Rowan University in his current position in 1998.JENNIFER KADLOWEC is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University. She began asan Assistant Professor in 1999 after

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Jason Thrun

be pre-service teachers, their experiencesin this introductory course could potentially affect their future teaching. Moreover, through theirexperiences in the course, these future teachers could gain some insights into the engineeringprofession that could help them advise their future students who might be interested inengineering. In this sense, this project has the potential to: • further develop the pre-service teacher’s technology literacy and therefore the technology literacy of their future students and • further develop the pre-service teacher’s understanding of engineering as a profession and thereby promote engineering as a desirable career for their future students.This project also has some significant

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kishore Sirvole; Jennifer Mullins; Jeff Kaeli; Jason Snook; Hayden Griffin; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

engineering courses and careers. Over the past severalyears, the first-semester engineering course has evolved from a somewhat traditional problemsolving, graphics, and programming course to a format that emphasizes early design andrealization, collaborative learning, and highly interactive classroom environments [9-12]. One oflearning objectives of EngE 1024 is to develop and implement algorithms that focus on objectoriented approaches. As indicated earlier, due to joining of Computer Science department,computer science bound students are now required to enroll in EngE 1024 starting Fall 2004.This event transformed how programming is taught in EngE 1024, switching from MATLAB toan object-oriented language (Alice). The primary problem with the

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Pastirik; Michael Robertson; William Singhose; Joshua Vaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

for your future career, you will develop a machinethat performs some of the basic functions of such a spacecraft. Figure A1 shows the simulatedspace environment in which your device will perform. The area is a hexagon divided into threezones, one of which will be assigned to your team. Each zone consists partly of a home zone andpartly of a gravity zone. At the center is Mars. It rotates along with its two moons, Deimos andPhobos. These orbiting moons are a menace to your device. If you come into contact with them,they will likely take your machine along with them. Your device should try to perform thefollowing four tasks: 1. Collect Mars Samples. On the surface of Mars will be various pieces of Mars®. Your machine should collect

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tobia Steyn

of the students which covers the full term of theiracademic careers. The data in Figure 6 shows, by year of entry into the 5YSP: • the number of graduates; • the number of re-registrants in 2004 and • the number of students that registered for the first time.Of the 117 students who registered for the 5YSP in 2000, 54% re-registered in 2004. Of the 2000POC students, 70% re-registered in 2004 whereas 34% of the other 5YSP students re-registered.These figures show that the POC students have a significantly higher retention rate than the other5YSP students.At time of writing, final data on the performance of the 4YSP and other 5YSP students whoenrolled in 2000 is not available. Only preliminary data of the POC students is available

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aminul Karim; Yakov Cherner; Ahmed Khan

buildon these skills students’ knowledgebase. But in this day and age, the exponential growth oftechnology has imposed new demands on students and educators. To achieve success in learningand in pursuing a successful career, a student in the 21st century needs to attain proficiency inscience, technology, and culture, in addition to the reading, writing and calculating skills. TheDigital-age literacy requires students to gain understanding of information in all its forms: basic Page 10.802.1literacy, scientific literacy, economic literacy, technological literacy, visual literacy, informationliteracy, multicultural literacy, and global awareness

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Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell

importance of documentationOne of the major concepts to be conveyed to students is that program development is usually notperformed in isolation. Due to their size and complexity, modern applications require teams ofdevelopers; accordingly, classes have to be written such that they can be understood by variousconstituencies: those who write the class, those who use the class, those who extend the class,and those who maintain the class. Additionally, students need to be aware that, upon entry intotheir first job, their place will be on the lowest rung on the career ladder, and in that position theywill often be asked to implement, not design, functionality for a portion of an application. It iswithin this context that the topics of Design by Contract