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ELD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mellinger Margaret

arelooking for the “work-ready engineer,” an employee who can “hit the ground running” and addto the productivity of the company early in their employment. Employers assume that newengineers know how to gather, evaluate and use the information they will need for their projects,whether or not they have access to a library within the company. Engineers are expected toorganize research information in laboratory notebooks or other formats and to communicateresearch and results in a meaningful and coherent manner. For engineering entrepreneurs, theinformation they will need to communicate is likely to include not only technical and productinformation, but information on business and marketing as well.Atkinson and Figueroa studied business students

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sharnnia Artis; Bevlee Watford

, and values; (b) members ofthe community working together to accomplish tasks that require many talents, skills, andvalues; and (c) communities that feel a sense of place that can support and nurture the group’sactivities.HypatiaHypatia is essential to advancing the mission of CEED, which is to increase the number ofunder-represented students in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. The mission ofHypatia is to bring together first-year women engineering students in a residential environmentdesigned to provide encouragement and support in pursuing engineering degrees. This isaccomplished by uniting participants’ academic and residential lives with special programmingthroughout the year to teach strategies and skills for academic success

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Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Cottrell

at two- and four-yearcolleges and universities located within the mountain region of the U.S. As of the 2003-2004academic year, 40 of the 185 schools in the region were teaching at least one course intransportation; 36 of these were four-year institutions. A total of 32 of the 40 institutions wereoffering a degree in a transportation-related field. The combined results of three differentsurveys of transportation professionals, each performed by other researchers, along with inputfrom the author, identified a set of 15 essential topics to be covered in a comprehensivetransportation education program. None of the institutions in the study region were offeringcourses in all 15 areas, but four schools were covering over 50% of the essential

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

taught the art of verbal and written communication correctly. Yes, thereare courses that attempt to instill these techniques into the student, but are students really gettingthe point? In fact, are the teachers who are teaching technical communications to these studentsproviding adequate examples and demonstrating proper technique that specifically focuses on thestudent’s future job market? From personal experience, it seems that only the very top studentsseem to be adequately prepared in this area. What about the rest? These folks seem to be fallingbehind the learning curve. This situation may take some time for these students to recover from.In industry, time is money. Only those students who have been prepared properly will advancequickly in

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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

other science, technology, andmathematics disciplines, graduates of engineering programs typically enter a work environmentthat immediately requires team and interpersonal process skills. From the perspective ofeducation, positive team project experiences can motivate students to perform at higher levels.Well-functioning teams have been shown to improve learning and retention in non-engineeringfields, especially for members of underrepresented groups3,4,5,6,7.Previous research suggests that while most engineering faculty are committed to using projectteams in their classrooms, they have little or no formal training on how to work with studentteams or how to teach team members to work well together8. Focused on their discipline and onpedagogy

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dwight Egbert; Dave Williams

because they recognize that they will be nobetter prepared the second time than they were initially. If the course is required for an ETdegree (as it is in most cases), it can effectively serve as a barrier to successful completion oftheir chosen program of study in the same way a moat encircles a castle. A teaching institutionwhich does not provide a reasonable transition to the material in its introductory courses risksalienating a sizeable portion of its potential enrollment. When students can’t climb the castlewalls, a drawbridge across the moat should be offered to provide the access they require.Struggling students will endure an additional setback. By the time many realize the gravity oftheir situation, the semester deadline for adding new

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Long

“learning takes place inside the learner and only inside the learner”. However,Simon also recognizes that “whether from books or people, at least 90% of what we have in ourheads . . . is acquired by social processes, including watching others, listening to them, andreading their writings”9. The RCS takes into account this socially distributed nature of learningby building an optimal environment for research learning to occur. The learners’ knowledgeconstruction process is aided by an environment of distributed cognition in which participants atall levels—experts, mentors, accomplished novices, and novices—teach and learn from eachother1. The RCS addresses both the learners’ cognitive development and the development ofcommunications abilities in a

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sadie Miller; Donna Riley

hand toolsand found objects. Social factors in design for this project primarily relate to the decision of howsafe is safe enough, and disparities in drinking water standards among countries. Students design,season, and test their filters over the course of several weeks. Testing can be accomplishedthrough the use of standard laboratory methods if they are available and convenient, or throughthe use of fairly inexpensive synthetic agar substitute gels – where one places the water sampleand counts the number of colonies of coliform bacteria that develop. While the latter method isless precise, it should allow students to have some measure of the effectiveness of their filter, andto track its improvement over the seasoning period.A second, more

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationMechanical Engineering (ME) agreed to work together to pilot a joint capstoneexperience while the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering decided tomaintain their own approach. Separate ECE and ME course listings were maintainedwhile the administration and teaching responsibility of the courses was given to theDivision of Engineering Discovery and Design, the organizational unit that alsoadministers the common first two years in engineering at SUNY-Binghamton. For the new multi-disciplinary capstone course, projects were generated in thefollowing three ways: (a) in-house through the sponsorship of a SUNY-Binghamtonfaculty

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramon Vasquez; Anand Sharma

(Criterion 3). This retreat workshop enabledeach program to develop or re-define their mission statement, to develop outcomes based coursesyllabi, and to map the outcomes to program educational objectives. This retreat led to an ABETEC 2000 mock visit sponsored by Raytheon Missile Systems, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard andBoeing in January 2002 with team members representing both academia and industry. Theobjectives of the mock visit were to visit the laboratory facilities, conduct interviews with facultyand students, evaluate the first drafts of the individual self-study reports, and to offer candidcomments and recommendations to incorporate assessment and continuous qualityimprovements within the programs.Early Lessons LearnedThe results from the

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Knight; Christine Cunningham

) Though the concepts are theoretical, the implications are concrete. The messagesstudents gather from years of socialization influence their attitudes about science andmath, their self-efficacy beliefs, their choice of coursework, and even their future careerplans. Girls begin to form negative attitudes about their abilities in science, especiallyphysical science, as early as second grade [12]. Sex role stereotypes have negativeimpacts for both men and women. Men who choose non traditional careers in nursing andelementary school teaching often are regarded with a critical eye. Similarly, women whocontinue onto careers in non-traditional fields such as science and engineering arenegatively stigmatized [13]. A student who is interested in

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Reagan; Aldo Morales; Sedig Agili

implementation issues of different DSP techniques.I. IntroductionPenn State Harrisburg offers BS EE, BS EET, and ME degrees. The Bachelor of Sciencedegree in Electrical Engineering provides an opportunity for students to pursue interestsin electrical and electronic circuits, including digital circuits and VLSI and its fabrication,microprocessors and their applications, electromagnetics, communications, controlsystems, digital signal/image processing and computer vision. The BSEET programprovides similar experience however, its strengths include: an applied, hands-on approachand extensive laboratory experience. Through a senior capstone design project, bothcurricula emphasize written as well as verbal communication and a teamwork approachamong students

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston Massachusetts, November 2002.KEN VAN TREURENKen Van Treuren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Baylor University. He received hisB. S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the USAF Academy, his M. S. in Engineering from Princeton University,and his DPhil. at the University of Oxford, UK. At Baylor he teaches courses in laboratory techniques, fluidmechanics, thermodynamics, and propulsion systems, as well as freshman engineering.STEVEN EISENBARTHSteven Eisenbarth is Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University. Hereceived his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Albertson College of Idaho and a Masters and Ph.D. in Physicsfrom Baylor University

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Subhash Bose; Immanuel Edinbarough

Japan,” IEEE Transaction, Production Engineering Research Laboratory Hitachi, Ltd., pp. 792-797, 1990.[4] V. Sankaran, B. Chartrand, D.L. Millard, M.J. Embrechts, and R.P. Kraft, “ Automated Inspection of Solder Joints-A Neural Network Approach,” IEEE Int’l Electronics Manufacturing Technology Symposium, pp. 232-237, 1995.[5] T.L. Landers, W.D. Brown, E.W. Fant, E.M. Malstrom, and N.M. Schmitt, Electronics Manufacturing Processes, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1994.IMMANUEL EDINBAROUGHDr. Immanuel Edinbarough is a Professor in the department of Engineering Technology at theUniversity of Texas at Brownsville. He has successful track record spanning over 23 years in theservice oriented and challenging fields of academia

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett

as their Page 9.696.1“laboratory” to test their learning in real organizational settings.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004,American Society for Engineering EducationThe survey was based on the learning objectives for the course. It was sent to all former studentsof the course.Structure of the CourseIt is with the Mission of our programs and the desire to enhance innovation leadership skills inour students that we created a new course on Implementing Innovation for our graduate studentsin Engineering and Technology Management at the

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifton Johnston; Diane Douglas

departments and a topic well discussedin the 2001 ASEE conference2,3. The curriculum of the course was built around fourpillars: drawing, design, communication and teamwork.The Engineering Design LabThe University of Calgary invested 1.28 million dollars as a start up contribution to thedesign and construction of four technologically advanced laboratories for the first yeardesign course. The four linked labs circle around a central broadcast booth; instructorscan broadcast to all labs simultaneously and are able to monitor lab activities throughfeedback screens. The four labs accommodate 150 students at one time; students work atlab tables in teams of four. Each lab has a document camera, a projection screen, acomputer terminal for every two students

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cedric Walker; Carol Mullenax

theresearch laboratories. Payroll and consumable supply expenses were funded through the TIDESbudget. Target enrollment for any given lab session was two or three freshmen. Composition,duration, and requirements (reports, etc.) for each lab topic were left to the discretion of the labinstructor (with suggestion and input from us).In the first iteration, graduate students submitted ideas for mini-labs which were approved firstby the TIDES instructors and then by the faculty members controlling whatever equipment & labspace was needed. Documentation for each lab included a mini-syllabus and pre-lab documentposted to the website so that students could decide which labs to select

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Maggio; Sandra Yost

Session 1692 The Mechatronics Road Show: Building on Success in Mechatronics Curriculum Development Sandra A. Yost, Daniel D. Maggio Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering/ College of Engineering and Science University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MichiganAbstract:This paper describes a progression of successful pre-college programs that have grown from acomprehensive mechatronics curriculum development project sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation’s Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Rand; Don Bowie; Donald Peter; Anthony Donaldson

to prepare their business counterparts to make the same kind of presentation on oneof their projects or some technical principle of electrical engineering. These experiences providepowerful ”hands-on” venues in which students from differing disciplines are exposed to thediverse vocabularies and modes of thinking representative of actual professional workingenvironments . This paper provides the basic classroom/workshop/laboratory activities that wereundertaken, an indication of the educational experiences involved, a sampling of student verbalfeedback, and future expansion considerations for this multidisciplinary interaction.Intr oduction: Industr ial InvolvementSince it’s inception in 1985, Seattle Pacific University’s (SPU) Electrical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Rajappa; Steve Watkins; Ray Luechtefeld

activities are structured with each student having a distinctcontent specialty or interest and having specific assigned roles in accordance with cooperativelearning theory 12. In addition, individual grades to promote accountability and group grades topromote interdependence are combined as per components-of-cooperative learning theory 13.Several exercises and discussions are typically included on the nature and group dynamics ofengineering teams. These initial team homework and laboratory assignments give the studentsconsiderable experience with their teams and interdisciplinary interaction before the finalprojects. The final project is a Problem-based-Learning-type project in which a multifaceted,non-unique technical solution is required and

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Solomon Alao; Shurron Farmer; Damian Watkins; Craig Scott; Pamela Leigh-Mack

student attitude andacademic performance. Page 9.230.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 1620References 1. Shade, Leslie Regan “Net Gains: Does Access Equal Equality”, Journal of Information Technology Impact, Vol. 1, No 1, 1999. 2. Doulai, Parviz, “Web-based Teaching and Learning Resources in Electrical Engineering Education”, Proceedings of the

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

65.5% 75.7% 0.119 Appreciation of the role of engineers in society 80.8% 87.1% 0.233Finding #3: Interestingly, the positive benefits of the course have not translated to higherretention rates.Revisions to the introductory engineering course at other universities have appeared to positivelyimpact retention. For example, in Hoit and Ohland’s4 new laboratory-based introductoryengineering course, 100 of the 198 students were retained as compared to 111 of 321 in the“control” lecture sessions. Although we are dealing with smaller sample sizes, we do not haveany evidence that the type of introductory engineering course (ICEE vs. GE102) has an impact,positive or negative, on freshman retention. 55 of the 84

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

65.5% 75.7% 0.119 Appreciation of the role of engineers in society 80.8% 87.1% 0.233Finding #3: Interestingly, the positive benefits of the course have not translated to higherretention rates.Revisions to the introductory engineering course at other universities have appeared to positivelyimpact retention. For example, in Hoit and Ohland’s4 new laboratory-based introductoryengineering course, 100 of the 198 students were retained as compared to 111 of 321 in the“control” lecture sessions. Although we are dealing with smaller sample sizes, we do not haveany evidence that the type of introductory engineering course (ICEE vs. GE102) has an impact,positive or negative, on freshman retention. 55 of the 84

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

student may understand a concept but not the analysis methods or perhaps the inverse and be able to apply a simple analytic method without understanding the key concepts. Dr. Daniels has had considerable experience with combined analytic and conceptual testing for the Engineering Materials course that he teaches. Here it seems that administering a lengthy concept test and analytic test similar to those used in Engineering Materials at the beginning of the semester is a possible solution. ‚" The conceptual testing should follow a modified Foundation Coalition Force Concept Inventory approach. Perhaps components or the actual full suite of concept inventories under development might be used. While analytic

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Tisa; Greg Garwood; Peter Jansson

1620 Undergraduate Research: Novel Integration of PDAs, GPS and Bar Code Scanner via an Embedded Visual Basic Program for a Utility Asset Management System Peter Mark Jansson, Jeffrey Tisa, Gregory Garwood Rowan UniversityAbstract Undergraduates in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of RowanUniversity have undertaken innovative software research and system integration for the electric utilityclients of its Engineering Clinic Program. In this innovative classroom / laboratory course, theproblem students set out to solve was the development of an integrated

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Greta Zenner; Amy Payne; Aura Gimm; Wendy Crone

Session 1793 Internships in Public Science Education: A model for informal science education J. Aura Gimm, Amy C. Payne, Greta M. Zenner, and Wendy C. Crone Materials Research Science and Engineering Center/Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706AbstractThe NSF-funded Internships in Public Science Education (IPSE) program at the University ofWisconsin-Madison (UW) provides a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduatestudents with diverse academic backgrounds to experience learning and teaching science -specifically in the field of nanotechnology - to the general public and middle

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

; Page 9.1304.8 Exposition, Nashville, TN, June 22-25, 2003 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education7. ASME student web page, www.asme.org/students/8. “Machine Tools”, video from www.historychannel.com9. Warren, E. W., Home Made Steam Engines Volume 1: The Wobblers, Camelback Books, St. Cloud, MN, 1998.10. Modeltec web site, www.4w.com/modeltec/lucy.htm11. Oscillating engine model, www.keveney.com/oscillatingSteam.htmlAuthor BiographyH. JOEL LENOIRH. Joel Lenoir is the Layne Professor of Mechanical Engineering at WKU, and primarily teaches in the dynamicsystems and instrumentation

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jianping Yue

institutions that have the mostawardees are the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Michigan, and GeorgiaInstitute of Technology, which have 23, 13, and 11 awardees respectively 3.3.2. NASA Research Associateship ProgramsNASA has participated in the Research Associateship Programs (RAP) administered by theNational Research Council (NRC). RAP was established in 1954 to provide postdoctoral andsenior research awards at participating federal laboratories. The awardees of NASA/RAP will doone-year research at NASA centers, and the number of recipients varies from year to year. Therewere 76 postdoctoral students who received the RAP awards to work at NASA centers in 2002 4.The stipend of the RAP associateship starts at $46,500 plus

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

communication.2. The activitiesA) Activities for stimulating the mind; discovering and exploring problems andsolutions; learning new concepts in thinking3D Puzzles. Almost every class starts with solving 3-D mechanical puzzles. The purpose ofthis 5-minute activity is to stimulate the students’ minds and to help introduce an upcomingconcept in problem solving. A few times per semester the students meet in a laboratory withmore than 250 different 3-D puzzles where they simply play. In a way it is a “playground forthe mind” where they explore problems and solutions at their own pace. An example for abook from which puzzles may be designed and built is8. Puzzlebusters1 and brainteasers arepart of their homework assignments. Proceedings of the 2004

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Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Kramer

Conference, 2003.[3] Kramer, K. A., "Laboratory Innovations for a Wireless Communications Course Via Collaborations with Local Industry," Proceedings 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2002.[4] Todd, R. H., et al, “A Survey of Capstone Engineering Courses in North America,” Journal of Engineering Education, April 1995.[5] Brackin, M.P. and Gibson, J.D., “Methods of Assessing Student Learning in Capstone Design Projects with Industry: A Five Year Review,” Proceedings 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2002.[6] Archibald, M., et al, “Reconciling Well-Defined Capstone Objectives and Criteria with Requirements for Industry Involvement,” Proceedings 2002 American Society for