Conference Session

Retention Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

peer-to-peer instruction. The PMT students will receive training in teaching strategies and methodsand the role of actively engaging peers. The process, training and methods used will bedocumented and will form the basis for dissemination to other courses, including but not limitedto the Mechanics I and Mechanics II courses mentioned above. The project is seen as a catalystfor change whereby “gate-keeper” courses become new “gate-ways” to success. It is planned toincorporate a variety of pedagogical approaches – strategies and approaches that have provensuccessful in many engineering education environments8. These include collaborative learningarrangements, team teaching and an emphasis on reflective observation, abstractconceptualization and

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bertini; Steven Hansen

means of assessing performance of transportation Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationsystems. While these metrics are familiar to planners, engineers, policy makers and evencitizens, many of them were developed more than 50 years ago, do not necessarily reflect localconditions and are not extensively validated. The use of these simple qualitative (A-F) measuresbegan in response to the lack of data available to create “actual” quantitative metrics.It has been said that “if you cannot tell how your system performed yesterday, you cannot hopeto manage your system today.”1 With this in mind

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Baughn

, McGraw HillBiographicalProfessor James W. Baughn is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (B.S.) and of Stanford University(M.S. and PhD) in Mechanical Engineering. He spent eight years in the Aerospace Industry and has served as afaculty member at the University of California, Davis since 1973. He is a Fellow of the American Society ofMechanical Engineering, a recipient of the UCDavis Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award and theauthor of numerous publications. He is currently on assignment to the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs as the2004-2005 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Aeronautics.DisclaimerThe views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the US Air Force

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brij Agrawal

of 300 km. The payloadfor the spacecraft is designed with 8.5 m x 55 m reflector, 0.3 m x 50 m phased array and 8 mfocal length. The peak payload power is 5 kW and 200 minutes operations in orbit. As shown in Fig. 7, two reflector configurations were evaluated for reflector structures.In the large circular reflector, only part of the reflector area is used for a signal reflection. It wassimple to build and deploy, but its mass was too high and therefore was not selected. Figure 8shows the selected deployed configuration. It is a three-axis-stabilized spacecraft with controlmoment gyros (CMGs) as actuators. Because of the large inertia of the spacecraft, CMGs arenecessary to provide fast slew maneuvers. It is a 12 satellite

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arne Weigold; M. P. Sharma; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

, 13, and 14 in Appendix B) asked participants to listcomprehension strategies that they could apply when faced with difficultiescomprehending their textbooks, lecture notes, and CD materials. Table 2 summarizes thefrequencies of participants’ responses. Overall, participants suggested somewhat morestrategies for textbook difficulties, perhaps reflecting greater familiarity and facility with Page 10.1169.8those materials. One noteworthy difference was in the Make Notes strategy, whichparticipants suggested frequently for textbook difficulties but not for CD materials, Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

New Learning Models

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

emphasized the need for clear communications among engineers, a themethat is reflected in recommendations from the engineers (next theme). One engineer Page 10.598.7summarized this theme of unanticipated problems quite well: Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference& Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education For a project that size, it's my experience that you're always going to have things come up that you don't anticipate.8. Engineers rarely recommend more engineering in engineering curricula. Mostengineers felt well prepared for core

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald; Scott Starks

possible that Year 3 students spend more time reflecting on college and career choices thanthe younger students in Years 1 and 2.Since the origin of the TexPREP Program in 1979, over 20,000 students have completed at leastone summer component at one of the eleven sites around the State of Texas9. Of the 11,033former participants who are of college age, 5,380 responded to a survey in 2002. This surveyrevealed that: • 99.9% graduated from high school. • 88% are college students (2,661) or university graduates (2,059). • 76% of the college graduates are members of minority groups. • 51% of the college graduates earned degrees in science, mathematics or engineering. • 71% of the science, mathematics and engineering are members of

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie McCarther; Linda Garavalia; David Renz; Deborah O'Bannon

leadership inventory assesses five leadership practices with ratings by the individual aswell as several observers. Comparisons between Self rating and those of the Observers indicatedthat participants, as a group, rated themselves lower on Model the way, Inspire a shared vision,and Challenge the process. In contrast, participants rated themselves higher on average thanobservers on Encourage the heart, and Enable others to act. This last finding suggests that thesewomen faculty in STEM disciplines perceive their interpersonal leadership to be more positiveor effective than do others. Participants reported that reflections such as these were interestingand helpful.Overall, participants’ evaluation of the leadership institute was very positive

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ji Yeon Hong; Charla Triplett; Jenefer Husman

quantitative data, male engineering students were much more likelyto use the male pronouns to describe their fictional engineer, or take on the first person in theirnarrative. Females often used they or “he/she” as pronouns. Interestingly, one female reflectedthe male engineering stereotype in her response to Situation 1, “Read newspaper with wife attable, get ready for work, feel like it is just another day.” This particular students feelings aboutengineering work were reflected as well in Situation 2 “Cubicle, meetings, bored, lookingforward to the time to leave, sick of upper management” Those feelings of hating the job werecommon among the responses for the engineering students, but nonexistent for the educationmajors.DiscussionThere is a need for

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherra Kerns; Edwin Jones; John Weese

in 2002 and thecombined organization’s official name has become ABET, Inc. A new Computing AccreditationCommission (CAC) encompassed the accreditation activities of CSAB. Concurrently, but for Page 10.222.21 The seven Founder Societies, by their present names, are: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical &Petroleum Engineers; AIChE; ASCE; ASME; IEEE; NCEES; and ASEE.Weese, Jones, and Kerns, ASEE & ABET Collaboration Page 3unrelated reasons, the RAC was renamed the Applied Science Accreditation Commission(ASAC) to more accurately reflect the nature of its programs.Assessment of ASEE Capabilities

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Conrad Newberry

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams

implications andlimitations of the experiment as well as other effects that may have influenced the experimentalresults. This may reflect a lack of comprehension of the experiment on the part of the students.The juniors, like the freshmen, seemed quick to attribute discrepant results to human error or toresistor tolerances without a supporting rationale.The criteria for evaluation of style, format, and organization were as follows: • How well is the introduction written? • How well is the theory written? • How well were equations and mathematics presented? • How effectively were figures used? (This criterion includes both clarity of the figures and the quality of the

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

integration” isonly peripherally reflected in the NAE’s list. The “good understanding of design andmanufacturing processes” and “profound understanding of the importance of teamwork”important to industry are absent or muted on the NAE’s list.Table 1: Comparison between the Attributes of the Engineer from the mid-90s, and the 2004NAE vision of the attributes of the Engineer of 2020Boeing: Desired Attributes of the Engineer,15 NAE1 Attributes of the Engineer of 20201. A good understanding of engineering science 1. Strong Analytical Skills fundamentals: Mathematics (including statistics) , Physical 2. Practical Ingenuity and life sciences, and Information technology (far more 3. Creativity

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

(Fall 2003); (2) Replace existing individual cesspools and septic systems in the community of Guadalupe, CO (Fall 2002); (3) Provide reliable water and sanitation for a primary school in Jalapa, Nicaragua (Fall 2002); (4) Provide treatment to achieve safely potable water for San Pablo, Belize (Fall 2001); (5) Provide treatment of animal manure to safely use as a soil amendment for growing human food crops in Mayapan, Belize (Fall 2001). Prof. Bielefeldt received a grant from the CU Service Learning Program to expand SL in this course. Of particular importance is having the students reflect on their experiences5,6. Future plans include expanding the multi-disciplinary nature of the course

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

staying focused on problem solving.The IS elective introduces students to object-oriented programming using COBOL, an alternativeprogramming language. In total, students will spend 30 semester hours between their freshmanand junior years learning problem solving and critical thinking. Figure 1 shows the adoptedsequence of courses4 from the first to the third year. The levels in problem solving and criticalthinking increase with the course content and this is reflected by the change in color in thediagram that lists the sequence. Page 10.1411.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Smith; Kevin Craig; Pamela Theroux

, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. A considerable body of research has shown that learning is significantly enhanced when students engage all of these cognitive processes5,7.Background on RensselaerRensselaer’s commitment to student-centered learning and its innovation in undergraduateengineering education is well known. Between 1993 and 1998, Rensselaer won the Pew Awardfor the Renewal of Undergraduate Education, the Boeing Outstanding Education Award, and theTheodore Hesburgh Award for Faculty Development, the only technological university to win allthree of these prestigious honors. Crossing low walls between schools, and combining thetraditional laboratory-centered education with

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Van Wie; Kristin Wood; Robert Stone; Julie Linsey; Matthew Green

current procedure of measuring novelty only at the concept level is not adequate. Noveltymust be measured at both the concept and the functional level, because important novelty at onelevel is not necessarily reflected at the other. A particular solution to a single function can benovel without producing a novel concept, and conversely a novel arrangement of low-noveltyfunctional solutions can result in a concept with high novelty. A revision of the novelty scaleand procedure is anticipated. A deeper understanding of what is meant by novelty is needed.6. Conclusions and Future WorkThis paper provides an important initial starting point for understanding the effects of functionalmodeling on the design process. An experiment was preformed to

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Willette; Larry White; Garry White

student whatchanges the working world requires. For this method, the premise is that good technical writingis a skill best learned by practice (29).This method is not overly time consuming for me. Each draft takes less than 5 minutes to editand the final submission is about a half page. The grade is given only to the final submissionwith no reflection on how many times it was submitted and corrected. Hence, if a student workshard enough he/she will get a “100” on the e-mail portion of the assignment.Most of the editing is to remove unnecessary words and replace with simple words. Wholestatements are removed that “go without saying” or contain information the addressee (as statedin the scenario) already knows. Also removed are excessive details

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Brainard; Sheila Edwards Lange; Elizabeth Litzler

experiencesoutside the classroom, graduate student experiences and the academic workplace for femalefaculty and administrators[11-13]. A chilly climate is defined by the isolation, subtlediscrimination and persistent micro-inequities experienced by women and underrepresentedgroups in academic settings. Hall and Sandler identified behaviors that overlook, ignore,discount or single out women, and reflect preconceived ideas about the ability of women tosucceed in academic settings[13].Numerous reports and research studies have shown that the paucity of women in STEM coupledwith the culture of science can create a climate that surpasses chilly to be frigid for women inthose disciplines[6, 14-18]. The climate in science departments continues to be based

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Rosalind Hale; Renee Akbar; Ramona Travis; John Fulwiler

Administration. All Rights Reserved. This manuscript is a joint work of employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and employees of Xavier University of Louisiana and Louisiana TechUniversity under Contract/Grant No. NNS04AB58Aservice teachers toured Stennis’ facilities, interacted with NASA scientists, and utilized theSpace Center’s Educational Resource Center in the development of the problem-based lessons.The CurriculumEach PSTI offers a curriculum that is reflective of their Center’s mission. Stennis Space Centeris responsible for NASA’s rocket propulsion testing and for applied sciences related to geospatialtechnologies, which served as the framework for the Institute’s curriculum. The curriculum wasdesigned to provide pre

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

, procedures, conclusions • Graphics: important diagrams of lab work • Show and tell: tools, parts, functioning of parts- in short, any demonstration that may help us to understand machine better • Calculations: choose 3 problems and explain calculations and significance of problemWritten work to be handed in the day of oral presentation- all members of group • Notebook with diagrams and procedures- in Spanish if possible • Calculations • Short essay on cultural importance of this technology: how technology reflects time, place, and people Students were encouraged to be creative in demonstrations and graphicspresentations. Vocabulary explanations and handouts were always

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiu Choi

4.30effectivelyI found this class to be 4.73 4.21 4.21 4.24challengingThe first survey question in the table measures the enthusiasm about the course content. Thesecond question includes the evaluation of practical design examples. The third question reflectsthe coverage of complex concepts and ideas. The fourth question includes the students’ opinionson MATLAB, which is the major instructional tool in that course. The last question reflects thelevel of difficulty of this course. The evaluation for this course is better than those of theDepartment’s, the College’s and the University’s. The evaluation was actually among the highestin that semester. This infers that a course with complex concepts can generate high

Conference Session

Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacqueline Isaacs

the vocabulary (jargon) of the other disciplines • Judge potential environmental impacts of nanomanufacturing • Consider the regulatory issues that may affect nanomanufacturing • Reflect on the ethical ramifications that may result from the applications of nanotechnologiesBased on the current response, the seminar course will be offered again in spring 2007.Graduate-level Courses: Round IIA three-credit senior elective/graduate course, “Introduction to Nanomanufacturing,” has been scheduledas for fall 2005. The course will be offered jointly between the three universities, with one-fourth of thecontent assigned to each institution and the remaining fourth allotted for societal impact issues. Table 4presents the preliminary content

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Nicola Ferralis; Leanne Avery; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

activity in language and terms that schoolstudents can grasp. These changes in representational practice are reflected in the use ofa variety of social and artifactual communicative resources. Here the authors aresuggesting that gains in these areas are not simply indicated by the results of surveys orshort answers, but are demonstrated in practice by school students and by graduatescience students.For both indicators given above (evaluation of project activity areas in reference to thecommunity of practice of participants and evaluation of changes in the quality ofrepresentational practice of school and graduate science students in the areas impacted bya STEM outreach project) the fine-grained methods of qualitative evaluation work to anadvantage

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Simoneau; Mary deManbey; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 1Copyright ÆÉ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Advanced Technology, the Office of Workforce Competiveness and educational institutions thatinclude the technical high schools and four year colleges and universities in New England.The ultimate goal of the initial NSF ATE grant was to develop educational leadership throughthese activities so that educators not only gained additional knowledge, but that they could affectpermanent change in the classroom which reflected current workplace practices. This report willshow what succeeded and what could have been done differently as the grant evolved. Thelessons learned from this process can

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

respective project.How First-Year Students LearnedThe final objective of our study was to compare differences in how the SL and CL students learn.We performed a content analysis of the reflective journals submitted during the latter weeks ofthe semester and after the completion of the team projects. We categorized the responses basedon five elements from the NRC report, How People Learn8 including 1) Learner’s beliefs abouttheir ability to learn, 2) Learning can be strengthened through collaboration, 3) Awareness andself-monitoring of learning, 4) Knowledge is structured around major concepts and principlesand 5) Learning is shaped by the context in which it appears. In evaluating their journalresponses we looked for instances in which the students

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Wildman; Kumar Mallikarjunan; Mark Sanders; Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

, the VTeP was integrated into the in fall 2004 first semester EngineeringExploration (EngE1024) course with the goals of helping the students see the relevance of allengineering coursework, providing a foundation for life-long learning through reflection, andsetting the stage for the thoughtful collection of artifacts to support both student learning andprogram assessment. We believe this to be the largest single application of e-portfolios inengineering instruction. A companion paper gives details of e-portfolio experiences in fall ‘045.Engineering Education New Student SurveyThe Engineering Education New Student Survey is a locally-developed, on-going study ofstudents’ academic backgrounds prior to enrolling at Virginia Tech as well as the

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhiyong Zhao; Joe Hagerty; J. P. Mohsen

cases. Some presenters were given high scores for educational quality but somewhat lowerscores for quality of presentation. Apparently, not everyone has mastered all of the audiovisuals arts. Overall scoresdo not reflect an average of scores in the other aspects, in most cases. Totals of scores were compiled for eachaspect column for each case, as shown. Average ratings have been tabulated in the results at the bottoms of theaspect columns, and ranks have been established for the cases, as shown.Case L of I True to f Educ Q Qaul P overall Case L of I True to f Educ Q Qaul P overall1 10 10 10 9 10 2 6 8 7 8 8

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Moore; Mary Raber

engineers andscientists to (re)present their design, communication, and collaborative experiences in academicand professional contexts. For the purposes of this class, your Enterprise Professional Portfoliooption will include these process steps: Selection, Design, Reflection, Assessment andPresentationSelectionThis is where you decide what to include in your Enterprise Professional Portfolio. Since alleffective professional documents are audience-based, you’ll need to decide first who yourprimary and secondary readers are going to be, and all subsequent decisions will be based on theneeds and expectations of those particular audiences. In general, you might consider a range ofexamples that showcase oral, written, visual, technological, and design

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer; Madara Ogot

100 course and instructor for thepast eight semesters since the introduction of industry-sponsored projects into the first-yearcurriculum. These data are averaged across eight instructors who teach a total of 14 sectionseach semester between fall 2000 and spring 2004. Although the instructor ratings for thiscourse are higher than the course ratings, both follow the same general pattern and revealsignificant variability across semesters. Because students work on the industry-sponsoredproject for a full half of the class duration and because this work accounts for a large part ofthe course grade (25%), it can be assumed that the variability across ratings reflects, in part,variability in student perceptions of the industry-sponsored project