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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malika Moutawakkil; Lisa Hunter; J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

educators, whenthese transfer students do make the transition from the two-year college to a four-year school,they are successful.11 Of persons who earned STEM bachelor’s degrees in 1995 and 1996, 14%of women and 13% of men had earned associate’s degrees.10 Eighteen percent of physicalscience students attending four-year schools in 1994 had previously attended a two-year college,and 15% of those earning a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences in 1994 had also earnedassociate degrees.5 About 14% of 1998 STEM bachelor’s degree recipients in 1998 hadpreviously earned an associate’s degree.5The two-year college, with its diverse student population, is an integral player in advancingwomen and URM involvement in STEM.1 Two-year colleges enroll close to

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Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

La Verne Harris; Mary Sadowski

forced to be entrepreneurial to survive. These higher education institutionsare searching for alternative means of funding through external agents, and have moved from“an agency model to an enterprise model of investment.”4 Many Research I universities havelooked toward technology transfer, industrial collaboration, and federal grants, as a means ofrevenue production. This organizational survival and adaptation behavior can be explained by the resourcedependency theory,5 which is an organizational theory that justifies changes in academic labor.It is particularly valuable in informing our understanding of higher education organizations inthe midst of budget cuts and strategic reorganization. The resource dependency theory, which isa

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BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Brelin-Fornari; Betsy Homsher; Laura Sullivan

to the learning process. In some areas,students present project posters at the end of the two-week period. Overall, the studentsparticipate in an interactive curriculum that shows them firsthand how they can applybioengineering to societal concerns.Benefits to the high school students are both perceived and measured. The students have achance to interact with female professors who are balancing family and work, therefore showingfirst hand that women can achieve professional and personal aspirations. The undergraduateswho serve as LITE mentors demonstrate collegiate success. Both faculty and coeds are positiverole models for the high school women. A post-program assessment of the LITE participantsindicates that after attending the two-week

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TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Granlund

existing product, material or process. Students were askedto describe their idea in a business letter and forward it to industry for evaluation. Insome instances a response from industry was actually received by the students concerningthe feasibility of their ideas. We feel this contact with industry so early in theireducational career was very exciting for the students and may aide in student retention inthe major.The paper also briefly describes an instructional module entitled Design for Manufacturethat was also used in ED&G 100. This module was used in teaching studentsfundamentals of engineering design and design for manufacture. The module wasdeveloped by The New York State Curriculum for Advanced Technology Education(NYSCATE). In this

Conference Session

Provocative Presentations & Lunch

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kleppe

topics, or even courses that would promote an understanding of these topics. • State science standards do not recognize invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship topics as something that should be taught by K-12 science and mathematics teachers. • There are few textbooks written that include information on the principles of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. In fact even at the college level, it is difficult to find a textbook that integrates these subjects into a traditional curriculum context. Some comments from the high school teachers do an excellent job of describing the currentsituation: • "Teaching innovation in the schools calls for an innovative teacher. Unfortunately, teachers

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Z. Carpenter; J. C. Diaz; G. R. Kane

rovers were integrated into theintroductory computer science class for engineers to involve students with practicalapplications of physics and math. The curriculum and projects were designed to provide ahands-on technical problem solving experience in a programming class in order toincrease the retention of the concepts taught. This paper provides an overview of therovers and our experiences when they are deployed in the classroom.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section ConferenceIntroduction:At the time that NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers walked around the surface ofMars, TU engineering students were programming the Tulsa rovers learning theintricacies of autonomous robotics.A fleet of rovers

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Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Friedman; Jerri Drakes

learning environment and a springboard to the articulation and growth of learning inmore holistic senses as well. During the fall semester of 2003, the preliminary project team compiled the list andsequence of learning activities tied to the core curriculum standards for K-8 students in NewJersey in order to prepare building the four components to the software: Back in the Day, wherevisitors select a year between 1850 and 1950 to reveal the most prominent baseball facts andfigures of that year, juxtaposed to historical facts that set the activities of the Negro Leagues intoa broader context; Talking Baseball, which provides visitors with a roster of the Negro Leagues’Hall of Famers in which each name is hyperlinked to an original video

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

discussion on the future needs of industry • Engineering research projects • Success strategies students might use in pursuit of an engineering career • Overview of engineering education, including curriculum, facilities, resources and opportunities for studentsThe approach taken in presenting many of the topics was to provide fun ‘hands on’ activities,during which the participants competed for a variety of ‘prizes,’ including UMBC t-shirts,key chains, and gift certificates. Pre- and post-surveys were conducted to assess the knowledge,abilities, and understanding of engineering, career opportunities, high school preparation, successstrategies, incorporating projects to introduce high school students to engineering and advisingstudents

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Duesing; David Baumann; David McDonald

”, MIT Press DEMOP –0-2622-54115-7, 19862. Peters, Waterman, “In Search of Excellence”, Warner Books Inc. ISBN 0-446-38507-7, 19823. Tom Peters Training Videos, http://trainingabc.com/xcart/customer/home.php?cat=2924. Przirembel, “Integrating the Product Realization Process (PRP) into the Undergraduate Curriculum”, ASME International, New York, (ISBN 0-7918-0126-8), 19955. Amon, Finger, Siewiorek, Smailagic, “Integrating Design Education, Research and Practice at Carnegie Mellon: A Multidisciplinary Course in Wearable Computers”, Journal of Engineering Education, October 19966. Tryggvason, Thouless, Dutta, Ceccio, Tilbury, “The New Mechanical Engineering Curriculum at the University of Michigan” Journal of Engineering Education, July

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

Page 9.988.9PreK-12 classrooms and technology in teacher education.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÆÉ 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationMELANIE SCHILTZis a senior in elementary education from Manilla, Iowa. She works in the Toying With TechnologySM Laboratory asan undergraduate teaching/laboratory assistant. Her interests include integrating engineering concepts into theelementary education curriculum. Page 9.988.10Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÆÉ 2004, American

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

two lists ultimately merged and became a fairly comprehensive list of programoutcomes. Additionally, this same program also chose to restructure their outcomes inaccordance with B. S. Bloom’s taxonomy of education objectives that defines six majorcategories of the cognitive domain. This was an effective drill for the faculty within theprogram since it produced a set of outcomes that they could not only more readily relateto, but also one that clearly bore their “stamp of ownership.” With program outcomes in hand, Phase 2 of the plan continues with the programsauditing their curriculum in order to cross reference the program outcomes with courselearning objectives. The resulting matrix has provided a number of intriguing insightswith some

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

efforts to recruit and retain students,many engineering educators reinforce this belief by arguing that the undergraduateengineering curriculum provides credentialing that leads to higher paying jobs anddevelops enhanced cognitive skills that prepare the student to perform that job [2]. Whilethis viewpoint has merit, emphasizing salary may trivialize other, more significantbenefits of the higher education process. Behavioral scientists classify thought processes into cognitive and affective domains[2]. The cognitive domain includes higher order thought processes such as logic andreasoning and is the primary (and in many cases, the only) target of engineering curricula.The affective domain includes attitudes, values, and self-concept

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ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Healy

Session 3461 A Handbook to Address ABET Criterion Four Issues Tim Healy Santa Clara UniversityIntroductionThe School of Engineering at Santa Clara University has developed an EngineeringHandbook to address a number of issues that have often not been treated in engineeringprograms. These include the eight issues specified by ABET under Criterion Four, aswell as three additional issues that are of particular interest to Santa Clara University. InABET’s words1:“Students must be prepared for engineering practice through the curriculum culminatingin a major design experience based

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Driscoll

become the students’ bestadvisor. The faculty are more intimately involved with the students than is generally the case in adepartmental structure. From these meetings all the faculty have a better understanding of theprogram and the integration of the students’ education. The faculty also has a betterunderstanding of all the courses a student takes and how each contributes to the whole program.Furthermore, the continuous dialogue at the meetings has made us realize that we are in factaccomplishing an ongoing assessment process, not only for student issues but also for the overallprogram.Recommendations and SummaryWe believe that implementation of multidiscipline engineering programs and curriculum reform,started in response to requests by

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

Session 1725 Assessing Individual Per for mance Within a Team Using Peer Evaluations J er r y M. Hatfield and J ohn T. Tester Nor ther n Ar izona Univer sityIntr oductionWorking in teams is an integral part of the engineering process, and team assignments andactivities have become widespread in engineering education. The challenges of assessing teamperformance and the contributions of individual team members increase rapidly as the numberand size of the teams increase. The process can be even more difficult when the teams containstudents

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey LaCombe; Eric Wang; Chris Rogers

presented or simply the desire torevise an existing laboratory course, many universities are attempting to modernizeundergraduate laboratory experiences. Coupled with diminishing budgets and increasedaccountability for expenditures, many universities are turning to on-line, virtual laboratories.Virtual laboratories are often cited as being cost effective and having high availability to thestudents. This method does not give students the hands-on experience, however. Our solution toaddress the issue of modernization bounded by economics is through using LEGO® bricks. Wepresent several examples in this paper of how the LEGO® RCX programmable brick can be usedto teach traditional engineering laboratory experiments.These popular interlocking bricks are

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

outcome-based capstone courses which isnot only satisfying the TC2k criteria and but also allowing the seamlessly integration ofcourse-level and program-level assessment. The course is intended to enable EETstudents to succeed as an entry-level technologist and/or engineer in industry, and toestablish an important feedback mechanism for overall program evaluation. A usefulframework for accomplishing educational performance excellence and an assessmentmanagement process for course and program outcomes assessments is also presented.This paper also presented the experience of one program and some the lessons learned forsatisfying ABET TC2K criteria requirements. It is our hope that this paper will provide auseful resource to professors in

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TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Burt; Shih-Liang (Sid) Wang

relative to specific principles of major mechanical andelectrical systems.For example, to help visualize the cam in motion, like the one shown in Figure 3, computersimulation using Working Model 2D [5] was developed, as shown in Figure 5. Anothersimulation, as shown in Figure 6, was also developed for the 4-dwell cam as shown in Figure 2.Courseware on motors and sensors are also being developed. This type of learning modules isnecessary as kinematics is an elective course in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum, and notall students have exposures of cams and linkages.DiscussionThis paper reports on the benefits to the capstone design courses as an outcome of the Gillette /North Carolina A&T State University partnership. Within the framework

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Solt Michael; Malu Roldan; Burton Dean; Asbjorn Osland

Session 1754 Description and Assessment of a Business Plan Competition and New Venture Fair at San José State University By Malu Roldan, Ph.D., Asbjorn Osland, Ph.D., Michael Solt, D.B.A., & Burton V. Dean, Ph.D. College of Business, San Jose State University Abstract: After the first business plan competition, in May 2003, San José State University (SJSU) faculty and community entrepreneurs serving on the university’s Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship (SVCE) concluded that the process should be spread over an academic year. Hence, the New Venture Fair (NVF) was born, which was held Dec. 16, 2003. The feedback from all sources has been very

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stephan

customized survey. Results of the survey for the Fall 2002offering will be presented later in comparison with results from an identical survey administeredduring the Fall 2003 offering. The evaluations were generally positive for the initial (2002)offering, especially with regard to learning how to work in project teams. But the instructor feltthat the conventional approach he followed during this initial offering allowed little opportunityfor the students to integrate their knowledge and apply it to a real-world project related to thestudents' majors. The revised course offering in Fall 2003 addressed this problem.Revised Offering, Fall 2003 Over the summer and fall of 2003, we used CCLI project funds to develop and buildhardware and

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Suzanna Long; David G. Spurlock

, those with varying ethnic backgrounds, and mid-career changers. In thedecade from 1986 to 1996, the percentage of engineering students that were both white and maledeclined by an average of 6%. Examining total enrollments in the late 1990s, a significantminority (approximately 25%) falls into various ethnic categories, are women or are older thantwenty-five. Interestingly, completion rates for female students and offers insight into studentretention issues.12 These insights may prove applicable to retention issues with all minorityenrollees. Research suggests that it is not enough to raise awareness of engineering programs; rather, itis essential that requirements of engineering curriculum be stressed and deficiencies overcomeprior to

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Frenzel

colleges continue to teach the “history of electronics” andoften fail to include critical modern technology subjects that technicians need to know tobe successful in today’s electronics job market. Surveys of industry, colleges andtextbook publishers indicate that community colleges do a good job of teaching thefundamentals, but much of the curriculum is still based on technology and job skills thatare no longer relevant and valuable to employers. Furthermore, the subjects taught andthe contexts in which they are presented do not appear to be aligned with current industryneeds. The evidence that electronics curricula lags behind industry job skill needs andthe advancement of new technology is discussed in more detail in a recent publication 1and

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ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Westrom

. Technology is changing so rapidlythat children and teachers are unaware of university research and workforce needs. The need isgrowing exponentially and it will take an integrated effort of the entire community to meet the21st century needs. In California, and many other states, this challenge can only be met byincluding a much higher proportion of groups currently under represented in technology:specifically women and minorities.Hands-onHands-on activities are acknowledged by almost everyone as superior to lecture or reading.Figure 14 indicates how powerful hands-on experience is in retention of things learned. Doingscience however has many other even more powerful benefits. Discovery, where a completestep-by-step procedure is not provided, is one

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

tools. 2. The application of the project management tools using Excel was found to be easy. 3. The importance of the project management for design projects was understood. 4. The introduction of the topics was effective and timely. 5. The impact of the project management tools’ application on the design performance and time efficiency was recognized. 6. The instruction was effective.Overall, these results indicate that integration of project management tools using Excel issuccessful. In fact, one student stated that “Good time management will help me throughall my work, all through life so will the group skills that I learned.” This statement is sopowerful in that it captures the true intent of this curriculum

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Azemi

require programming, but mayrequire problem solving, should also justify the use of Matlab in engineering programmingcourses. Moreover, since Matlab is an integrated part of many advanced engineering courses andtextbooks, an early exposure to this software is beneficial.VII. Our proposed planBased on the presented discussion, and the fact that currently there are only limited resourcesavailable to teach Matlab as a general-purpose language [23]-[25], and there may be somedepartments that would like their students to be exposed to C++ or FORTRAN, we propose toteach the course, as a pilot project, by reversing the time spent on C++ and Matlab: namely

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chell Roberts

offer complete ASU bachelorsdegrees, featuring small classes, an integrated curriculum, and cost savings for students.A Chandler-Gilbert Community College is collocated on the campus. Page 9.398.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The Futon School of Engineering, with an undergraduate enrollment of 4700 students, islocated on the ASU Tempe Campus. The Fulton School offers traditional disciplinespecific engineering degrees in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, civilengineering, chemical

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray Walter

andthen transfer to Marquette University to complete their bachelors degree. Since 1995, over 50engineering-related students have already successfully transferred from WCTC to MarquetteUniversity to complete their bachelors degrees in engineering.project objectives The project goal is to increase the number of underserved individuals who persist tocompletion of an engineering degree. Capitalizing on the existing relationship between WCTCand Marquette University, the following objectives were developed: 1. Establish Advisory Committees to advise and develop strategies and resources to assist with recruitment, support, and retention of underserved students for transfer engineering programs. 2. Integrate program curricula to optimize

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiu Choi

solution of algebraic Riccati equationsThe electrical engineering faculty at the University of North Florida also desired to provide hands-on controls laboratory experience to the students. A one credit-hour controls laboratory course(EEL4657L) was added into the curriculum as an elective in fall 2000. The prerequisite for thecontrols laboratory course was the first controls course. The controls laboratory course covered theapplications of proportional, PD, PI, and PID controllers in position and speed control of dc motors.The theory of designing these controllers can be found in many controls textbooks [6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15].A controls laboratory was developed to support the controls laboratory course. There were eightstations of equipment in

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IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

inquiry-based teaching and learning in higher education. Journal of Higher Education Research & Development, Vol.22, No.1, 3-18, 20032. Boyer, E. Scholarship revisited Priorities for the professoriate. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, University of Princeton, NJ.1990.3. Bullen, F., Beasley and Payothornsiri, S. Integration of student project work into academic research: An Australian/Thailand perspective. Proc.4th UICEE Conference, Thailand 227-231, 2001.4. Grotheim, K. and WELCH, B. J., “Aluminium Smelter Technology”, Second Edition, Aluminium-Verlag, Page 9.1122.10 Dusseldorf

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lopez; Roger Gonzalez; Paul Leiffer

participation. The research team structure is based ona business model of modular components. Students and professors are both an integral part ofthis modular structure, with students involved at various levels, including management. Eachcomponent is treated as an individual hierarchy with its own set of goals, yet responsible to theoverall management structure and research objectives. The challenges that are naturally inherentto using only undergraduate students for research are addressed in this paper via a description ofboth the team structure and multi-level student participation. Dissemination of results is a criticalportion of the research process, with requirements for external publication an integral part of theobjectives set for the team