Conference Session

ET Capstone Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Behbood Zoghi; Joseph Morgan

, evaluate potential project opportunities, arrange for faculty andindustry support and sponsorship, and prepare the written documentation and technical presentationsthat culminates in a formal technical proposal. Using the Project Management Institute (PMI) Body ofKnowledge, the students plan the work they will accomplish in their capstone senior design course.I. IntroductionAs part of an overall strategic planning function, numerous faculty members of the Electronics andTelecommunications Engineering Technology (EET/TET) Programs at Texas A&M University met withrepresentatives from a wide range of industries during the Spring and Summer 2001 semesters. Thesemeetings were attended by representatives from the semiconductor, semiconductor

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

involved would also work as a team to provide amultidimensional educational experience.This paper describes the planning process, implementation, assessment methodology, challenges,and future plans. While this project certainly fulfills most of the EC2000 program outcomescriteria, our project vision extends further: to underscore the symbiotic relationship betweenengineering and communication and to afford students a realistic glimpse into their chosenprofession.Planning ProcessPlanning began approximately one year before the initial course offering in fall term, 2001. Priorto this class, the civil senior project consisted of a series of loosely related courses, designed togive students an greater understanding of the many sub-fields of the

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

, and civil engineering). During theSpring Semester of 1998, a single overall departmental capstone course was created. The intent wasto provide a true “capstone” experience, where students in each degree program could combine theirskills to achieve the successful completion of a project. The primary objective of the capstoneexperience is to combine all aspects of the planning, design, and construction phases of a project intomeaningful education experience which mimics “real-world” design and construction practices.Students are required to use all of the knowledge and skills that they have acquired throughout theireducational experience to develop the documentation required for actual project construction (designdrawings, cost estimates

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bonnie McCormick; Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

mathematics.Because many of the characteristics of industrial engineering and engineering managementgraduates that are desirable in industry also apply to mathematics and science program graduates,it seems reasonable that the ABET 2000 Criteria can be applied directly to mathematics andnatural science degree programs.This paper presents results of implementing the ABET 2000 Criteria in a School of Mathemat ics,Science, and Engineering in a small, liberal arts based institution. The implementation is in thecontext of developing an industrial engineering program and long range plans for engineeringmanagement at the graduate level.IntroductionThe University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) is a small, predominately Hispanic, Catholicinstitution in San Antonio, Texas

Conference Session

ET ABET Pilot Visits Using TC2K

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Hefley; James Lookadoo; Randy Winzer

these curriculum changes, finding temporaryinstructors for existing courses, and conducting a search for a new permanent faculty member.In addition to all of this, we knew that we were scheduled for an accreditation visit in 2001. Atthis time, our group was vaguely aware that TAC of ABET was planning a major shift inaccreditation style. We were also aware that EAC of ABET had already undergone such change.As all our energies were focused on our immediate challenges, we were not very attentive toTC2K. However, that was about to change. Page 7.978.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ottis Hoskins; Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala

its outcome assessment plans. Assessment plans documenthow programs will gather data, interpret the findings, and use the results to make improvementsin programs, curricula, and resources. The ABET team at North Carolina State University(faculty from each engineering discipline along with assessment-knowledgeable personnel) hasdeveloped a model that academic programs within the College of Engineering use to determinewhat data to gather, where to obtain the data, and what criteria may be most appropriate wheninterpreting the data.This paper presents the model and the processes by which our programs collect data, examineprocesses already in place at the institution, and determine redundancies as well as omissions inthose processes, methods, and

Conference Session

Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor; Jon Marvel

assembly and detail drawings were evaluated and compared to thefinal product. Additionally, process plans and cost estimates of the final assembly andfabrication were required. Process plans were evaluated based on the initial process plan and theprocess plan for the as-built mechanism. During the project presentation, team members wererequired to explain and provide rationale for deviation from the initial process plans. There wasa combination of fabricated and purchased parts based on the qualifications of the team memberson different equipment. The fabricated parts were generated utilizing available equipment in themanufacturing processes lab including standard manual lathes and mills, welding equipment, andinspection equipment.The project

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kisha Johnson; Grace Mack; John Wheatland

powerful role models forengineering freshmen. This assumption formed the basis for development of a freshmanretention program, "Fast Track to Achievement." The primary strategy of Fast Track is to engageteams of upperclassmen in dialogue with groups of freshmen in a series of workshops focusingon three themes -"Mastering Mathematics," "Making It in Engineering," and "Planning toGraduate." The goal of the program is to expose the greatest number of freshmen to successfulengineering undergraduates who can speak from experience on how to adjust to the rigors of theengineering curriculum, earn the best grades, and make the freshman year a good foundation forachievement in engineering. This paper describes the training, implementation, and evaluationof

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manoj Patankar

, and service potential/record. Ideally, a universityshould not hire anyone who is not likely to achieve tenure.Institutional workshops and periodic reminders of a candidate’s weaknesses are not sufficient toensure success on the tenure track. The candidate needs to be guided along a set of measurablecriteria so that he/she is absolutely certain about his/her performance, and so that the university’sexpectations are met. A senior faculty member who is intimately familiar with the tenure processand the department’s needs must be assigned as a mentor to the candidate immediately afterhis/her appointment. The mentor and the candidate should then develop a plan that should beapproved by the department and the dean. Once such a plan is developed and

Conference Session

Pedagogical Best Practices

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip McCreanor

balances, detention pondsThe following section presents the project as it was distributed to the students2.1 Introductory StatementA small development project has been planned near Savannah, Georgia and may be permitted in Page 7.949.2an area adjacent to a protected wetlands and estuary, Figure 1. The area to be developed “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”currently consists of forested, light brush, and grassed areas. A significant portion of this landdrains to the protected area

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

separate capstone courses for eachdegree program (construction engineering, construction management, and civil engineering).During the Spring Semester of 1998, a single overall departmental capstone course was created.The intent was to provide a true “capstone” experience, where students in each degree programcould combine their skills to achieve the successful completion of a project. The primaryobjective of the capstone experience is to combine all aspects of the planning, design, andconstruction phases of a project into meaningful education experience which mimics “real-world”design and construction practices. Students are required to use all of the knowledge and skillsthat they have acquired throughout their educational experience to develop

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Prathivadi Ravikumar

followed by anin-depth look at the engineering management content that is covered. Teaching / learningstrategies adopted in covering the content and assessment strategies used in evaluating theeffectiveness are addressed. Non-engineering management faculty planning to introduceengineering management in some of their courses may find some of the material in this paperuseful. Faculty who focus on engineering management may find the paper providing some insightand hence ideas of their own as to how engineering faculty approach or must approach the subjectof engineering management.OBJECTIVES OF THE SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT COURSEThe Senior Design Project Course (ME4930) in Mechanical Engineering at the University ofWisconsin-Platteville is offered to

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sören Östlund; Johan Malmqvist; Ingemar Ingemarsson; Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

plans for thenext three years.IntroductionWith support from the Wallenberg Foundation, four universities (Chalmers University ofTechnology (Chalmers) in Göteborg, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) inStockholm, Linköping University (LiU) in Linköping, and the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT)) formed an international collaboration to improve undergraduateengineering education in Sweden, the United States, and worldwide.1 Three overall goalsdirect the alliance endeavors, namely, to educate students to · master a deep working knowledge of technical fundamentals · lead in the creation and operation of new products and systems · understand the importance and strategic value of their future research workThe vision of the

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in E/M ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

understand thestandard against which they are evaluated and to assist the learning process. The good leaderprovides praise for those the who deserve praise. Other feedback should be of a constructivenature to facilitate learning.In the development of student expectations the teacher should develop a plan and provide theplan to the students. Students will welcome the organization of a plan, will understand that theplan required considerable work, and recognize the teacher as a leader. With expectations inhand the students will now be able to follow the teacher through the course and will do soeagerly because of the predictability of their leader. Predictability here means that the leaderdescribes what is ahead, and in large measure, follows the plan

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela Neal; Erlind Royer; Kenneth Soda

project estimation, implementation and test are, at best, given verylimited coverage. Therefore, it is not uncommon for students reaching their capstone designproject to possess little, if any, experience with the practical aspects of successful design. Wehave developed a one semester-hour course, El Engr 463, Design Project Techniques, whichaddresses some of the practical aspects of design project planning and implementation that arenot covered in other courses. In this paper, we describe in detail the course topics and methodsused to introduce them. The course is divided into two parts. The first half of the course focusesupon practical hardware considerations. We discuss and demonstrate printed circuit boardfabrication, including board layout

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman; Gordon Kingsley

TeacherCoordinator, and a variable number of additional teachers. The Teacher Coordinator is always ateacher chosen, and vouched for, by the school system’s Science Coordinator, and the TeacherCoordinator is paid $2,500 for coordinating the STEP program at his or her school for the year.The individual STEP School Teams create action plans that address needs identified by theschool and that take advantage of the talents of the particular STEP Fellows within the team.Each of the Fellows, as well as the Teacher Coordinator, is provided with a modest budget ($500per Fellow, $2,000 per Teacher Coordinator) to draw from in support of the program. Thespecific in-school activities are pulled from the menu of acceptable activities described below,with details

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

Session 2793 Successes and Failures In Teaching a Freshman-Level Engineering Design and Graphics Course William Haering The Pennsylvania State University – DuBois CampusAbstractThe author discusses experiences teaching a freshman-level engineering design and graphicscourse over a two-year span at the DuBois Campus of the Pennsylvania State University. Thiscourse is a survey course that covers many diverse topics in limited detail. Due to localcircumstances, the instructor prepared the course plan without direct contact with the previousinstructor of

Conference Session

ET Graduate Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gray

Introduction (2000) by the Lucent Technologies Center forExcellence in Distance Learning, several examples of technology utilization in corporate andeducational e-learning are described, including training via compressed video, satellitetelecourses and fiber optic networks. This information is included in Appendix A. Although technology is an important aspect of the e-learning implementation, it shouldnot be the only factor considered during an e-learning implementation. The methodology bywhich the implementation is planned, communicated, designed, utilized and reviewed areadditional important factors to be accounted for. In Virtual Instruction: Issues and Insights fromand International Perspective (1999), Feyten and Nutta state that

Conference Session

New Information ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy Morse; Jack Selter

as a working tool for understanding and improving performance and for guiding planning and opportunities for learning.To address these criteria, this paper proposes marketing strategies for curriculum implementationthat develop the awareness, advantages, and value of students, incumbent workers, andemployers utilizing the Information Technology program. Incumbent workers are those studentsthat have been out of school for a period of time and are place bound usually by occupations andfamilies. These strategies are unique for at least three reasons: · First, in the context of the traditional educational model, this strategy involves leaving the campus and meeting potential (industry) program users face-to-face and

Conference Session

What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Theodore; Joseph Reynolds; Ann Marie Flynn

Paper 2002-763 Why Settle for an MBA? Ann Marie Flynn, Joseph Reynolds, Louis Theodore Department of Chemical Engineering, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NYIntroductionWe engineers in education face a double challenge. First, many engineers move intomanagement type positions within 5 years after graduation and utilize little to none of thetechnical material provided during their academic experience. They become what some havedescribed as “paper shufflers”. The second problem is an outgrowth of the first. The intelligentengineer, realizing the first problem, scuttles any plans for an advanced

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lockwood-Benet; Rosa Buxeda; Manuel Hormaza; Alejandro Ruiz Acevedo; Jorge Vélez-Arocho; Lueny Morell

Programs in Response to Economic Development Based on High Tech thatinvolves all stakeholders (government, academia and the private sector). At the undergraduatelevel, the goal of the biotech program is to prepare professionals capable of developing andadvancing the biotechnology field contributing to the social-economical development of PuertoRico. To achieve this goal its strategic plan focuses on 6 major tasks: curriculum, research,industry/government partnerships, dissemination and assessment. This unique andinterdisciplinary program involves close collaboration with industrial partners, formal courses aswell as research and industry experience. The PhD Program being developed also focuses onindustrial partnerships as a key element with the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack Matson; Elizabeth Kisenwether

on written and oral communications, ability to work on multi-disciplinary teams, project planning and management skills. · Alumni interest and financial support via endowments for engineering entrepreneurship education is growing. · Participation in REEE2000 and REEE2001 Conferences – Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Education, at Stanford University - confirmed that good engineering design in inherently a creative process, and gaining business acumen is key for Page 7.798.1 engineering entrepreneurship education. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

to enable students to develop rapport within the team and forthem to be able to implement respectful communication. We needed an effective means ofhandling ineffective team members. That is, team members who simply would not participate orwho interacted with the team in a destructive way. Finally, we needed to give the students aframework for teaming that could guide them in how to be an effective team.We implemented the following six tools that helped address these issues with teaming: Buildingrapport within the team; Lectures on teaming practices; Development of a Code of Cooperation;Development of a Conflict Resolution Plan; Use of a team logbook; Weekly team leader meetingswith the instructor.Building rapport within the teamAn

Conference Session

Academic Prerequisites for Licensure

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

First Professional Degree(FPD) for the practice of civil engineering at the professional level.” ASCE is the first of thefounder and other engineering societies to officially call for more formal education as a conditionof practicing the discipline at the professional level. The current version of Policy 465 isexplicitly supported in Building ASCE’s Future – Strategic Plan adopted in 2000 by the Society.The ASCE Board formed the Task Committee (TC) for the FPD in October 1999 and charged itwith “developing a vision of full realization of ASCE Policy Statement 465 …and a strategy forachieving this vision.” The TC concluded that the fundamental issue addressed by PolicyStatement 465 was: The current four-year bachelor’s degree is becoming

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

and active in solving these problems.I. IntroductionThe central issue in this paper is how to get students involved in large interdisciplinary projectsat an early stage. In the past three years, enrollment in aerospace engineering at the author’sinstitution has risen sharply. This rise appears to be related to the expectation that there will be awealth of Space-related opportunities, resulting from the Mars Exploration plan 1 and the “GoldRush to Low Earth Orbit” 2 seen in the late 1990s. The rigorous courses on fundamentalmathematics and science in the first two years of college afford little occasion to remember whyone wanted to enter engineering in the first place. In the 1990s, we tried to address thisdemoralizing aspect by setting up a

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Dahleh

Session Sustainability of an Outcome Based Assessment Process: Analysis of the Resource Impact Marie Dillon Dahleh Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106AbstractAll ABET accredited programs are developing assessment plans, which are used to determine ifa program is successfully achieving the program outcomes. These outcomes must include butare not limited to Criterion 3 (a)-(k) of EC 2000. The assessment plans must balance the desire tomeasure all of the outcomes all of the time and the limited resources available. Most

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Baum; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

planning for the initiative, and theoperating program is co-managed by the engineering and business schools. The program wasdesigned to attract undergraduate students with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, to create a senseof community and cooperation among these like-minded students, to impact the way that theythink about their careers and destinies and to prepare them to start businesses.Academic year 2001-2002 is the second year that the program has been operating. In the firstyear, 65 students were admitted, and in the second year the number grew to 108 students . It isnot envisioned that the program will involve a larger number of students, but rather that theadmission requirements will continue to be raised so that only students with an

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Pierson; Michael Robinson; Betsy Dulin

, and environmental engineering. Activities were designed to promote the importanceof problem-solving and team-building skills.This paper will describe specific activities of the Academy and discuss lessons learned inorganizing and conducting the first ever Exploring Engineering: Academy of Excellence. Thepaper will also discuss student reactions to the Academy and plans for the 2002 event.I. IntroductionDespite the increasing influence of engineering and technology in our lives, interest in pursuingan undergraduate engineering degree has been on the decline since the mid-1980s.1,2Furthermore, when compared to their proportion in the general population, women and minoritygroups continue to be significantly underrepresented in the engineering

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Ledlie Klosky; Allen Estes

plan for a specific construction project. A QualityControl plan is a series of tests (usually following prescribed ASTM standards) thatverify that the materials and methods are satisfactory and that the project will meet therequired specifications. These tests require a comprehensive background in experimentalprocedure, conduct of physical measurements, documentation of strengths anddeficiencies, critical analysis of data, and data interpretation as demonstrated byconclusions. Selecting the appropriate tests and their frequency is designing anexperiment – probably the most realistic example of how a civil engineer designsexperiments in the real world of professional practice.Background. The Construction Management course (CE490) provides in

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann McKenna

been structured such that faculty, or domain experts, work together withlearning scientists, learning technologists, and assessment experts to redesign and evaluatecourses. We work together as an interdisciplinary team to create innovative course materials anddesign appropriate evaluation plans. We follow an iterative design process in that we implementchanges, collect feedback, and use these data to inform the design of the next course andevaluation. This paper describes three courses and assessment plans that have been implementedat Northwestern from Winter 2001 to Fall 2001. The three courses fall under the domains of bio -optics and biotechnology. This paper provides an overview of each course, the changes that wereimplemented, and the