Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

groups in engineering, students who left engineering for other majors, aswell as engineers in the workforce. As stated by a senior student, “this kind of course[is] tryingto get you to see all aspects…from concept to design to implementation and manufacturing…Ithink a grade in this course, to me, is more reflective of how you are as an engineer than a lot ofthe other courses that you take.” Comprehensive project based courses are more predictive of Page 9.85.10who will be a successful practicing engineer than courses on theory. The learning potential of “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Richards; Daniel Pack; David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

possess. Hence, the project selectionshould be determined based-on well-established criteria that reflect the senior design projectobjectives of a particular institution. A variety of robotics projects give faculty members theflexibilities desired to meet the objectives of an individual program.Administrative Issues: We now briefly discuss the administrative portion of senior designprojects. We present the method developed at USAFA in this section and share the lessonslearned in the Discussion section. At USAFA, the senior design course for the electricalengineering and the computer engineering students is a one-year, two-semester long, course. Westart the first semester with lessons to teach students hardware skills necessary to implement

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoAnn Lighty; Holly Moore; David Richardson; Nick Safai

institution of highereducation in Utah. (See Table 1) The data in Table 1 reflect credit bearingclasses. Table 1 STUDENTBODY PROFILE (Based on Fall Semester 2002 for SLCC* and Fall 2003 for UofU) Salt Lake Community University of College Utah Student Headcount 23,154 28,437 Male/Female 52/48% 55/45% Utah Residents 94% 90.4% Undergraduate/Graduate N/A 78.8/21.1% Percentage of White students

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ming-Sung Koh; Mick Brzoska; William Loendorf

will be able to independently solve complex realworld problems in Software Engineering Technology as demonstrated in their senior projects.Conclusions, Reflections and the FutureThe SET Program at Eastern Washington University has been implemented and is now up andrunning. Information gathered through surveys and site visits was utilized to create an innovativeand state of the art SET Program. By using an experience-based service learning model, workingclosely with industry and the community, and applying a new recruitment and retention modelfor underrepresented students the program is poised for success. Page 9.692.13 Proceedings of the

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Carlson

covering the same volume of material. Instead of “covering” severalgrowth models for cells, the cluster approach allows the students to explore only one or “Proceeding of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”two. Design tends to become focused on scheduling and sequencing issues, nottheoretical considerations of the design process or use of design software. Overallstudents learn to find “a” way and not to hear about “all the ways” of accomplishingsomething. I am convinced that the students’ comments that there was “not enoughlecture” reflected the lack of what I call the “feeling of efficiency” in learning that

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Ross; Patrick Giordano; James Blanck; Dona Johnson; Peter Jansson

payback of 3.2 years. Whenconverting the incandescent lights to fluorescent T8’s, there would be an annual savings of$1,519 with an investment cost of $170 and a payback of only 0.1 years. The T8 fluorescentbulbs are the newest generation of lighting. Previously the most efficient method of lighting wasthe T12. The declaration of T8 and T12 reflects the overall size of the fluorescent tube. The T12is a larger physical tube compared to the T8 tube; this decrease in size contributes to the overallenergy efficiency of the lighting. The proposed lighting changes are cost effective, fairly simpleto implement and provide a considerably short-term payback. In reviewing the water usage of theTeam House, it was discovered that the current water consuming

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

they can also be worth nothing. When youadd in bonuses, the total compensation in industry contains several factors and this is not byaccident. The theory is that when times are good your compensation increases and when timesare bad it decreases. This way, a company does not have to lay off employees in bad times andrehire-retrain them when times rebound. Academic salaries are on the other side and often table-or formula-driven. Some department heads adjust salary increases to reflect merit but many justuse a percentage based on their new budget.Your performance metric in industry is focused on results (technologies transitioned, productsshipped, etc.) and measures what you accomplished and how you contributed to the company’smission. At the

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cullinane; Baris Yanmaz; Ronald Perry

and WRA categories. Variables fromthe former categories might be influenced by the educational process and the individual, whilethose from the latter categories strongly reflect work experience. This suggests that there may becomparatively little that the education process can do to influence migration to IT as opposed toexperience in the industry -- more on this in Section 5. Since gender was not selected as a predictor variable but there is strong feeling that itshould matter, the sample was split by gender and SPSS was offered the same sets of "final" pre-dictor variables to produce a "male" and a "female" equation for each outcome measure. The re-sulting equations are shown in Table 4. The R2 values are generally in excess of 0.90

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Alam

Education9. Concluding remarksIn the above, we have attempted to show how a modern electrical and computer engineeringdegree program must reflect, in a balanced fashion, the wishes and aspirations of its majorconstituencies. In order to achieve this, there must be well-defined goals and carefully specifiedoutcomes showing that those goals have been achieved. Part and parcel of this is an effective setof assessment tools, the results of which must be carefully analyzed to ensure effective remedyof weaknesses. Finally, at all times, all engineering programs, large and small, must try toinculcate, by whatever means, a personal interest in the welfare of the individual student.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank faculty members of the

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Blat

SI. It is interesting to note that the demographicsof the students who attend SI are reflective of the demographics of general population of thecollege. Page 9.897.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 4: SI* vs. Non-SI Gender 100% 90% 80% 70%% of Students 60

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

reflects its usage by many disciplines (civil,electrical, environmental, mechanical, petroleum, and metallurgical engineering students).The new combined course would reduce credits hours for all these disciplines, whileproviding opportunities for students to enroll in specialized discipline-specific courses. Forexample, electrical engineering students could omit further applications courses related tofluids entirely. The fundamentals course should provide them with essential knowledge forthe Fundamental of Engineering (FE) exam. Civil and environmental engineering studentsmay elect to take the applications course in open channel flow and ground-water flow, whilemechanical engineering students might elect to take applications courses in computation

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

shown by the dot pattern, to and beyond Level 3 (ability) via post-licensure experience and/or education. 7. The dot pattern also indicates that additional outcomes (beyond 15) are probable after fulfilling the pre-licensure BOK.AttitudesAs stated earlier, the BOK is defined as “the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to becomea licensed professional engineer.” Knowledge, skills and attitudes are the essential componentsof the what dimension of the BOK. Individual experiences and review of studies8,10 prompted theBOK Committee to include attitudes in the BOK.By attitudes, the Committee means ways in which one thinks and feels in response to a fact orsituation. Attitudes reflect an individual’s values. A person’s

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

clarified to indicate that it refers to modeling of a design before building it (as opposed to “testing” a built final design). 2. Because the rubric did not fit all student responses well, it needed to be updated to better reflect a measure of a student’s design knowledge. For instance, initially students received 2 points for indicating that more documentation was needed for the pretest. After scoring the pilot tests, the points were split such that indicating that documentation is needed throughout the design process receives 2 points whereas merely indicating that the time spent in documentation needs to be lengthened (a less specific answer) only receives 1 point. This bottom-up adjustment was needed

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt DeGoede

them) physics concepts to situations notexplicitly covered in class or in the text. This was reflected as well in student comments whenasked about what aspects of the course they would like to see changed. Many commented thatthe exams were too difficult and indeed many did struggle on the exams. Many exam problemswere at the application level. Despite these struggles and the fact that no students receivedhigher than an A- in the course and the average grade was a B-, overall the students gave very Page 9.1145.14 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Marionneaux; Michael Edmondson; Matthew McDaniel; Jay Daly; Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

, and the iterative nature of the design experience are all reflected in these survey responses. • The students’ misconceptions suggest areas for future improvement of the software.The survey completed by the four teachers was intended primarily to provide general feedbackabout the conduct of the contest. We did, however, ask about three specific issues:What did your students learn from using the WPBD software? The teachers’ responsesgenerally paralleled those of their students, except that the teachers added three new (and equallyvaluable) learning outcomes: • Students learned the importance of teamwork. • Students gained confidence in their ability as self-directed learners. • Students gained comfort with the use of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus L. Carter; Amy G. Yuhasz; Misty Loughry; Matthew Ohland

critical to effective team functioning.35,36Management researchers who specialize in human resources have studied a personality traitcalled conscientiousness to predict employee performance. Conscientiousness reflects a tendencyto be careful, dependable, responsible and achievement-oriented. Conscientiousness does notsuffer from the race-based differences that plague other selection tools that are frequently used topredict performance. Conscientiousness has a small amount of predictive value for taskperformance and training proficiency.37,38 Conscientiousness is more strongly associated withcontextual performance,39 which is also called organizational citizenship behavior.40,41

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shuhui Li; Rajab Challoo

the assumption of steady-stateconditions. Students usually thought that the course was old-fashioned and boring, which greatlylimited student’s ability to understand wide control applications of electric machines. However,modern electric machines are widely interacted with power electronics, DSP and digital controltechnology. These technology changes are not reflected in traditional teaching structures of thecourse. This paper gives the restructuring of the course at TAMUK through an integrativeteaching approach and computer assisted teaching methodologies so as to provide students acomplete view of an electric drive system that consists of electric machines, power electronics,controllers, power supply systems, and mechanical loads

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

fallThe views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of theUnited States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or the United States Page 9.933.1Government. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsemester; CS408A is taken the following spring semester. CS407A emphasizes softwareengineering and design principles. Students are assigned to project teams and determine specificproject

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

mathematical and scientific tools of analysis,experimentation and design on which the practice of engineering is built. There were a total of11 Technical learning outcomes. The Social learning outcomes category neither means “hard tocharacterize” nor “non-essential but a good idea anyway.” These outcomes reflect the very realneed for engineers to have “soft” people skills in addition to the traditional “hard”cognitive/technical skills. The new global market place demands engineers that are ambassadorsfor the profession and who are able to convincingly communicate to diverse and non-technicalaudiences. “An understanding and experience dealing with engineering practices and principleswill only get you so far” comments Kerry Hannon in The Graduate

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Orth Wright; David Robinson; Carol Mullenax

blackboard has, but all in one place and easier to decipher.85. More information in general86. The grades section should be more accurate, half the time when I would look at them the points would change or not reflect my proper grade.87. No changes.88. No it's a good website - maybe more photos of professors.89. I thoought that the TIDES website was very thourough and easy to use. no additions are needed in my opinion.90. More food related classes91. Maybe I just missed it, but I didn't see where stuff was due easily posted on the website.92. Make sure it works when using an apple computer and the internet explorer web browser.93. I would like to see more guest speakers.94. nothing.95. The website was easy to use; I

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

one would receive additional technical trainingas well as practice/business training in order to meet the demands of IT industry.Ongoing professional education maintains or improves workers' knowledge and skillsafter they begin professional practice. It also proves that an IT profession has to maintainhis knowledge and skills at the current level and understand the most advancedtechnology in his field. After a professional's initial education and skills development arecomplete, ongoing education requirements help to assure a minimum competency levelthroughout the professional's career. The fact is that some college degree and non degreecomputer related programs do not even reflect the current technology.One aspect of professional development

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Georgiopoulos

interested in ML?In review, students seemed to find the module very hard, and this reflected negatively on howmuch they liked it. Strangely enough, they did grade the module well in terms of its relationshipwith machine learning and about a third of the class demonstrated interest in learning more aboutthe subject.Modifications were applied to the module to try to make it more palatable to the students for thesummer of 2003. The original module specification was broken down into 3 sections: 1. A theoretical neural networks handout. 2. A detailed explanation of the perceptron learning and pocket algorithm. 3. A module handout specifying grading and deliverables.Originally (in Spring 2003) all these sections were lumped together and the students

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Reed Stevens; Lorraine Fleming; Cynthia Atman; Sheri Sheppard; Theresa Barker; Ruth Streveler

fornon-SME majors, or persisting in SME majors despite challenges and setbacks. Her researchaimed to derive a set of testable hypotheses from student reflections. This study’s findingsinclude a number of factors specific to engineering, as well as science and math majors: 1) Students who chose to discontinue an SME major were not “different kinds of people” from those who succeeded in an SME major.11 Those who switched out of SME majors were not necessarily less qualified to master the necessary technical concepts, but their evaluation of the SME-major academic experience was highly dissatisfactory, either due to a perceived lack of success, or to a dissatisfaction with the way courses were taught. 2) Both

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Criswell

proportion of the design engineer’s time and it was properly given a greatdeal of attention in the analysis-oriented classes. The designer is increasingly being a managerand user of software for these computationally-intensive tasks. This should provide the designerwith more available time for the higher-level creative tasks of conceptual and preliminary designand with large-scale error detection, critiquing and validation of software results being vital stepswhich must be carried out before the final design is accepted. The content of engineeringeducational programs is slowing changing to reflect this changing role of the typical designengineer regarding how and by what/whom the computational task is conducted

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhilasha Tibrewal; Tarek Sobh

accreditation visit in the fall of 2003. One goal of the paper is to present thecomprehensive, measurable and flexible educational objectives and outcomes as well astheir systematic evaluation process.Another goal of the paper is to describe a new technique for presentation of assessmentmaterial for accreditation by ABET and CSAB Criteria for Engineering and ComputerScience programs. The e-assessment presentation system is highly integrated anddeployed throughout the CS and CpE programs and clearly driven by the School ofEngineering outcomes and objectives.The developed system is to be systematically reviewed and updated to ensure a completeand realistic reflection of the quality of education in the CS and CpE programs of theSchool of Engineering. It

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

practical hands-onexperience (internship). The program seems to touch on all of the skill sets that employers value.However, like any educational tool, the ILTM program needs to be continuously refined. In thedecade since ILTM was instituted, there have been notable changes in the business world, andthe program must change to reflect those changes. Today, globalization is often an assumedaspect of business, with many companies having plants or offices overseas. It is still importantof course to understand the dynamic of running a multinational corporation and serving foreignclients, but the way that the topic is covered needs to be updated, as several ILTM graduatessuggested. Other topics have become more prominent – over the past few years, with

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Butkus

in 2002 and 2003.8 Students were required to communicate with their customers, anillustrator, and tradesmen, three forms of communications that are necessarily quite differentfrom traditional student-professor exchanges. Students were required to design under resourceconstraints that included: time to complete the project, a limited budget to purchase materials andlabor, availability of materials, and constructability. The students also designed an experiment totest the product, conducted the tests, and analyzed the results. These students continued workingon the same designs as part of their senior design course. Because the students worked onprojects in both their junior and senior years, there was both a reflective period and an

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tsung-juang Wang

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Srinivas Chakravarthy

’ writings reflect more of “casual” (like informal talking) thinking rather than real report writing skills. Reading habits have gone down significantly. Some students tend not to read the book or the notes (neither before the lecture nor after the lecture). When I started my teaching career I noticed students spending significant amount of time going through worked out examples from the book. I always make it a point to solve problems that are not worked out in the book. This way the students have opportunities to see variety of problem solving skills. The number of opportunities available makes it convenient in one aspect; however, this also inhibits a lack of drive on the part of

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyler Cummings-Bond; Robin Adams