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Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

, No.4 October 1993, pp. 311-323. Peer commentary on Peer Review: A Case Study in Scientific Quality Control, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982 Iris M.Tiedt, Writing: From topic to Evaluation, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1989CRAIG JAMES GUNNCraig James Gunn is Director of the Communication Program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering atMichigan State University. In this role he directs the integrated communication program in mechanical engineeringwhile providing help to the cooperative engineering education division of the College of Engineering. He serves aseditor for the CED Newsbriefs and MCCE Co-op Courier

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

satisfactory submission is accepted by thetechnical writing grader. Final approval of the technical writing grader is worth a certain amountof points on these class assignments to motivate student completion. The same could be donewith oral presentations, standardized forms are developed for evaluation by the faculty and peers,the evaluation results are dated and posted to the CMM management tool, a video tape of thepresentation can also be digitized and posted to the tool for later comparison. Also posted to themanagement tool would be designated team project design reports and assessments of theindividual’s team leadership and collaboration skills by the faculty and team members. This willdocument improvements in communications, team and leadership

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Elizabeth DeBartolo

theirinterests.Since a common response on the feedback forms was a desire to try more things themselves,next year’s Graduate Seminar will include a Technical Writing session where students swapthesis proposals and peer edit, as well as quarterly opportunities for students to do brief (10-15minute) presentations on their own thesis progress to get peer feedback. More student working Page 9.44.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Camille George

. Student led lecture and discussion: Addresses the issues arising in new technologies; helps gain knowledge of where to get information, develops the ability to write effectively; and to give an oral presentation. B. Design of a Thought Experiment: Demonstrates the ability to apply a limited knowledge base to an open ended problem; develops the capability of analyzing a question and writing a rational plan to answer the question; develops the ability to write effectively. C. Laboratory Notebooks: Demonstrates that the student understands experimental data gathering and is able to analyze a question and work with a partner. D. Solving fuel

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack; John Farris

, and the ‘last-minute’ habits of some of the juniors. - The juniors needed to manage their time more carefully to work with the freshmen, who had different schedules. - The freshmen obtained a sense of belonging that was only starting to develop among their freshmen peers. - The students saw math, writing, programming and other topics in use. We hope this will pro- vide more motivation when they are taking fundamental courses. - Some freshmen worked ahead of the EGR 101 schedule to learn topics such as dimensioning and assembly drawings in order to satisfy the demands of the juniors. - In a few cases the juniors helped the freshmen use materials other than plastic

Conference Session

Technology and Tools for IE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Sokol; Garlie Forehand; Beverly Sutley-Fish; Judith Norback

opportunity for enhancing students’ writing and presentingskills because of the communication required between student teams, their clients, and theirprofessors. At the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech, jobcommunicative analysis, a systematic approach to identifying the writing and presentingdemands of jobs, has been used to provide the basis for workplace communication instruction.During workplace interviews with practicing industrial engineers, supervisors, and CEOs,information and workplace examples have been collected. The information has been used todevelop a list of criteria for communication excellence: the basis for developing workplacecommunication instruction to integrate with Senior Design. This article

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

material. The activities help students to: -discover and explore problems and solutions -learn new concepts in thinking -become more creative/inventive -become more open-minded and learn how to avoid mental blocks -appreciate diversity and discover self -use intuition and common sense in problem solving -experience design basics and exercise the “more than one solution” approach -deal with peer pressure -enjoy learning. In addition, the activities help to: -boost teaming skills -increase interaction and cooperation -improve communication between students Some of the activities are well known, but others are new. They help a great deal to achieve the goals of the course. Observations of students “in

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

activities include in-class exercises, weekly status,approval meetings, team meetings, technical documents, program reviews, web sites, changecontrol, prototyping, and final presentations. Assessment data from the students, faculty advisors,and industry representatives indicate that the course structure improves writing, presentation,interpersonal, professional, and higher-level thinking skills.IntroductionStudent-centered learning paradigms and, specifically, cooperative learning activities haveproven to be very effective teaching methods. This paper reports on applying cooperativelearning techniques to a yearlong capstone design sequence. Using these methods, instructorswho teach or whom are planning to teach a capstone design sequence, will

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

are peer-managed, and like theirreal world counterparts some projects are better managed than others. And like industry projects,resources are also constrained.The focus of the first lessons in CS407A is to understand system requirements. By the end of thethird week of the semester, instructors have covered the theory of information gathering andsystems analysis and have paired student teams with their clients so that they can immediatelyapply their newly acquired knowledge to their recently assigned research project. Instructorscheck their progress in an informal review, and then let students finish writing their requirementsspecification.Soon after being assigned to a project team, each student team is asked to identify severaltechnologies

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

Developing Metacognitive Engineering Teams: Preliminary Results James Newell1, Kevin Dahm1, Roberta Harvey2, and Heidi Newell1 1 Department of Chemical Engineering and 2College of Communications Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028AbstractStudent awareness and understanding of their learning own skills, performance,preferences, and barriers is referred to as metacognition. This paper describes efforts toinstill metacognition in engineering students at Rowan University, through writing andteam-building exercises. This study examines teams of students doing open

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hur Koser; Dennis Freeman; Alexander Aranyosi; Aleem Siddiqui

drafts were used to give the studentsfeedback about both the technical and writing content to allow them to improve the final version.These drafts were circulated among the course staff and writing instructors. Students were alsorequired to peer-review another group's report. To ensure that these peer reviews were valuable,the reviews were themselves examined and counted toward the final grade. Both sets of reviews Page 9.64.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwere returned to the students

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marybeth Lima

state Board of Regents or other local/state source. Likewise, it is worth more to your dossier. Federal funding is almost a must for getting tenure in engineering colleges at Research I institutions. • A (not all, but “a,” as in one) Research I College of Engineering will say (unofficially of course) that to be in “safe” territory regarding promotion and tenure, you should have 1-2 refereed journal articles per year and $100,000 of funding per year.5. Stay positive around and about your colleagues and peers (don’t make enemies). • Corollary: Remember that e-mail is not secure. • Corollary 2: Remember that you can make enemies simply by drawing breath, even if you are positive around and

Conference Session

Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifton Kussmaul

market analysis and financial plan. These proposals also allow teams to revise their plans for the remainder of the term. 9. Each team reviews the other product proposals. 10. Finally, students submit a final product proposal and make a final presentation.The initial stages of the product proposal have been adapted as an extended project in a non-majors’ course19, and have been proposed as a framework for a first-year writing seminar.Having each student develop a product concept has several advantages. First, all students havethe experience of developing an idea. Second, there is a larger pool of potential ideas, fromwhich the instructor can select those most appropriate and feasible in terms of scope, cost, etc.Third, team assignments

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Needler; Ken Jr. Jannotta; William Lin; Richard Pfile

outlines for industrial networks What is the purpose of an Industrial Network? Distributed I/O Mount I/O on the machine to simplify the wiring Distributed Control Parallel processing – many CPUs to do one large task Global Data Peer to Peer Master Slave Controller Supervisory Download, upload, monitor, debug Data Logging HMI – Human – Machine Interface PC or Embedded solution to display Data / Accept User inputs General Physical Interfaces Wiring Characteristic Impedance Capacitance

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

responded to thechallenges of ABET EC2000, we have elected to take a slightly different approach withthe focus on projects but with additional emphasis on developing the critical and creativethinking skills that will enable our students to stay enrolled in engineering and besuccessful in the upper-level required discipline specific engineering courses. An integrated approach similar in some respects to the present work has beendescribed by Watret and Martin [1]. They sought to connect mathematics and physics,incorporate common technology into each course, incorporate integrated exams thatrequire the use of mathematics and physics to solve engineering problems andincorporate more writing and presentations by students in class. Results from

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

format for the class allowed us to successfully addressfour issues: to establish and achieve higher expectations for the teams, to improve eachteam’s understanding of the fundamental engineering and science of its project, toencourage and increase the interactions between the teams, and to help the students tobetter “think through” the writing process which in turn helps them to better understandthe organization of their project.IntroductionThe multidisciplinary capstone design course at the University of Houston, taken by thestudents in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), IndustrialEngineering (IE) and Mechanical Engineering (ME), has been described previously 1.This course is a one semester, three-hour credit course

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Christopher Byrne; Joel Lenoir; Robert Choate

defined measures to quantify and assess Extra-Curricular experiencesin the ME program. This has resulted in the formulation of the following plans: • Engineering Design Plan (teaching and practicing of design skills) • Professional Communications Plan (conveying designs and interacting with peers) • Computer Skills Plan (teaching and implementing of design tools) • Engineering Ethics Plan (evaluating and practicing appropriate professional behavior)The development of these plans serves several purposes. None of the desired studentprofessional outcomes are completely provided within a single course. It is necessary tocoordinate the efforts of multiple faculty members across all four years of the curriculum toassure that

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

change in the pedagogy ofteaching management has been broadly accepted in the academy. The professor found a new lifein writing about the pedagogy and influencing peers as they struggled to teach managementcourses. As a result of this reengagement, this professor has become the guiding light for newfaculty as they begin their writing careers, by serving as a mentor to those looking for help. Thistransformation of a professor, who had given up on professional development when consultingwas ruled out, reflects the life that the Boyer model has given to the teaching faculty in manycolleges and universities.ConclusionsConsulting is an excellent way to maintain technical currency as long as the consulting istechnically challenging. Consulting that is

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Monte Tull; Gerald Crain

Articulation of the Requirement Functional Block Diagram Work Breakdown Structure Lab Notebooks (first time) Peer Assessments 7 PDR Action Items List of Actions resulting from review of the PDR videotapes 8 Design Description Thematic Sentences Document (DDD) Outline Figure and Table List Page Budgets Writing

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis

) Locating relevant literature – searching out seminal sources Identifying missing knowledge – determining gaps in community understanding Stating research questions – asking empirically answerable questions Estimating research significance – forecasting value/impact to community Writing measurable outcomes – specifying deliverables from researchObtaining Evidence (to support research) Designing experiments – specifying observable parameters and sampling Selecting methods – determining research procedures Extracting results – analyzing data to produce quality characterizations Replicating results – duplicating experiments and findingsDiscovering (to expand knowledge) Testing hypotheses – discerning significant effects

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Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Les Kinsler; Thomas Mertz; Troy Harding

.Bruner’s writings on constructivism7,8 provide the practical framework for using real-worldprojects to improve learning and develop useful professional skills: (a) students have apredisposition toward learning; (b) instruction should be designed to fill in the gaps; and (c) Page 9.279.1instruction should to take advantage of students’ experiences and previous knowledge. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationJonassen, Peck, and Wilson9, described five attributes necessary to create the

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Baaba Andam

to the classroom are engaged2, we begin the coursewith the activity shown in Figure 1. In this activity students attempt to answer a variety ofquestions related to philosophy of the mind and AI, and then share and debate them with theirclassmates. Many students are surprised that there are not simple answers to each question thatcan be memorized, but that instead each question requires further study to understand the issuesrelated to each.Two assignments in this unit are of particular importance. In the first assignment studentsexplore web-pages and a variety of readings on Alan Turing in preparation for writing a paper onhis role in the history of artificial intelligence and the debate over machine consciousness. In thesecond assignment

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Blat

credibility and support, as evidenced bythe fact that it is fully institutionalized within the College of Engineering. The latter isparticularly important as 2001-02 was the last year of NSF SUCCEED funding.MAPS offers peer mentoring, Supplemental Instruction (SI) for gateway courses, tutoring, studygroups, skill development workshops, professional development activities, and a technical andprofessional development resource library. MAPS is also intricately integrated with academicadvising, the freshman engineering curriculum, and the junior/senior professional developmentcourses. Continuous improvement is driven by assessment results including, but not limited to,demographics, academic performance, percent of students earning a D or an F or

Conference Session

Diversity: Women and Minorities in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Kuyath

also want those whoare not involved in the writing, speaking, and research to learn more about engineering andengineering technology, so we have the students present their papers to the other club members.Teachers will then submit the papers to professors at the university for assessment. The authorsof the seven best papers will be invited to the university to present their papers. In this way,many more students will hear speeches by their peers – one of the groups they listen to whendeciding what kind of career they will pursue8.According to Campbell, et. Al8, parents are one of the sources to which students will listen whentrying to make career and college decisions. So, we are organizing and conducting communityseminars for parents. If

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

reports to sponsors andso on. What is then appropriate for Engineering Technology? We cannot establish ourselves asan independent discipline if we don’t have our own set of best practices in dissemination ofscholarship but continue following what our colleague s in other areas, mainly engineering do.Engineering has used publication in peer reviewed journals and in conference proceedings as thetraditional methods to disseminate the scholarship in their discipline. Is Engineering Technologyfollowing the steps of Engineering? Should we consider the same dissemination procedures? Orshould we consider –and accept- other methods of dissemination? If we are accepting differentdissemination methods, will all have the same value? Or will we weight

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert McLaughlan

theirexperiences and discuss the application and implications of the experience. The finalreflective process occurs over 12 days as students write up their report on the activity. In thisreport they are required to present arguments which both support and refute those made bytheir persona. This stage requires the students to step outside of the position they had in theForum and consider other perspectives. Page 9.353.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationExample of the design of the Telecommunications Forum

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

classrooms. While thebenefits of active learning are clear, simply breaking students into small groups to work onproblems during class does not automatically address the pervading issue of student motivation.Biggs and Moore (2) classify four primary types of motivation: 1. Intrinsic – learning because of natural curiosity or interest in the activity itself 2. Social – learning to please the professor or their peers 3. Achievement – learning to enhance your position relative to others 4. Instrumental – learning to gain rewards beyond the activity itself (better grades, increased likelihood of getting a high paying job etc.)As such, an active learning activity that addressed all four of these motivational categories wouldbe useful

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Kashef; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

with committees at the University and national level,grant/proposal writing for external funding, and legal issues.In reality, the department head/chair must be an effective leader to make a difference. Havingthe title of department head doesn’t qualify one as a good leader. He/she needs to activelydemonstrate leadership skills to motivate a group of individuals to work together toward acommon goal. He/she needs to actively demonstrate leadership skills in support of youngacademics in the tenure process. Faculty needs the department head support especially in theareas of teaching, research, and service. If the department operates smoothly and efficiently, itwill be an optimal service to its students, college, university and community. The

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stevens; Sharon Schlossberg; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

bearing each student’s name.Advantages of clustering students in groups have been discussed by Landis14 and others.Advantages of a cohort group are summarized nicely in the paper by Gloria Murray15. Drawingupon the works of others, she writes: “The rationale for cohort structures comes from cognitivelearning theory which suggests that learning is a profoundly social process that depends ondialogue, language and group processing. Additionally, cohort formats enhance student self-esteem, provide peer support, and furnish networking opportunities. It appears that leadershippractices that are transforming emphasize social interaction and group processing, the veryelements that describe cohort structures”. Interestingly, these are precisely the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Gill; William Haering

leads to observation #2 – Compose your T&L portfolio to highlightthe most positive aspects of your teaching. Since you have considerable flexibility in how youformulate your T&L portfolio, use that flexibility to your advantage.As with creating any document, you always want to consider your audience carefully. YourT&L portfolio has many potential audiences, many knowing little about the specific details ofyour discipline. This means that how well written and organized the portfolio is will be moreimportant to many of the audiences than the content. In my case, I realized that I was anengineer writing a document that would be reviewed by individuals for whom writing was theirdiscipline. Given the greater length of the document