Conference Session

Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wangping Sun, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

class to engineering students are basicallysimilar from school to school, which can be summarized as follows 3,5,6-9: • Providing students with skills necessary to begin a career in engineering discipline; • Ensuring that students have sufficient programming background for solving problems in engineering; • Introducing engineering applications in different disciplines by using structured programming; • Using tools for engineering analysis, calculation, and graphical display; • Understanding programming fundamentals, including the essence of object-oriented programming; • Opening the door for further study and specialization in computer science.The abilities that the

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Steiner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Langdon Winner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

practice from widely disparate fields2.Many first year engineering students are undecided about which field of engineering appeals tothem and are unsure about what engineers do. Many have interests that go far beyondengineering and are eager to explore a wide range of options. PDI offers an attractivealternative. Students who choose PDI often have strong backgrounds in art, humanities anddesign along with strong preparation in math and science. PDI gives students of this kind aflexible engineering program that is responsive to societal needs and satisfies a broad range ofintellectual, practical and career interests3. Page

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

J. C. LaCombe; E. L. Wang; M. Nicolescu; P. Rivera; B. Poe

, we are currently working towards thefollowing general program goals. 1) Provide students with experience in working on interdisciplinary technical project teams. 2) Provide students with hands-on design experiences. 3) Prepare engineering students for aerospace careers. 4) Present students with both collaborative and competitive experiences with students from other institutions.Description of Student Design ActivitiesEach of the four above-described projects works towards selected, overall program goals. All ofthe projects (BalloonSats, CanSats, ARLISS, and the URC) are design activities, and except forthe BalloonSats, all take the form of student competitions (national and international). In 2005,we undertook our most

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Justin Reginato

one for both modules. The Co-op program ensuresthat each graduating engineering student has one year of practical and applicable workexperience.Despite the lack of high-technology focus, many nearby companies employ a high proportion ofengineers. So, while all Pacific engineering students graduate with experience in engineering,they are oftentimes exposed to engineering careers that are not entrepreneurially focused. Thecoursework many students site as being apropos to their Co-op positions are traditionalengineering courses focused on mechanics and discipline-specific design courses.The University of the Pacific also recently underwent an ABET review in order for specificprograms to gain or retain their accreditation. As part of the review

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kevin R. Lewelling; Kevin S. Woolverton; Michael C. Reynolds

students to select careers inengineering and improve retention rates by making course work applicable and highly visible.We will be tracking these rates over the next few years to confirm these assumptions.References1 Hissey, T. W., Enhanced Skills for Engineers, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 88, No. 8, pp.1367-1370, August 2000.2 Ford, R.M. Goodrich, J.G. Weissbach, R.S., A multidisciplinary business and engineeringcourse in product development and entrepreneurship, Frontiers in Education 34th AnnualConference, Vol. 1, pp. T2E/5 - T2E10, October 2004.3 Sullivan, J.F.; Knight, D.W.; Carlson, L.E., Team Building in Lower Division Projects Courses,Frontiers in Education 32nd Annual Conference, Vol. 1, pp. T1A-7- T1A-12, November 2002.4 Felder, R.M

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Larry A. Glasgow

,” Wall StreetJournal, October 6 (2005).2. Finkelstein, N. D. “Context in the Context of Physics and Learning,” nfinkels@ucsd.edu (2001).3. Wankat, P. and F. Oreovicz. “Gaming the Curriculum,” ASEE Prism, 15:48 (2005).4. Glasgow, L. A. “Reconnecting Chemical Engineering Students with the Physical World,” presented at theAnnual AIChE Meeting, San Francisco (2006).5. Grose, T. K. “The Mechanics of a Career,” ASEE Prism, 14:25 (2005).6. Mc Dermott, L. C. and P. S. Shaffer. “Research as a Guide for Curriculum Development: An Example fromIntroductory Electricity, Part 1,” American Journal of Physics, 60:994 (1992).7. Slater, T., Adams, J., and T. Brown. “College Student Success in Completing a Simple Circuit,” submitted toJournal of College Science

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Douglas R. Carroll; Hong Sheng

Conference of the American Society forEngineering Education" 8[4] Siau, K., Sheng, H., and Nah, F. (2006) “Use of a classroom response system to enhance classroom interactivity”, IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 398-403Biographical InformationDr. Douglas R. Carroll, PE is a Professor in the Interdisciplinary Engineering Department at theUniversity of Missouri-Rolla. He is best known for his work with solar powered race cars, winning twonational championships and publishing a book on solar car design. He has received many teaching awardsin his career. His research interests are composite materials, solar-electric

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

J. Collins

. ERICClearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education. Office of Educational Research andImprovement, Washington, D.C. Retrieved from http://www.ericacve.org/fulltext.asp5 Cronin, B. (2003). Bowling alone together: academic writing as distributed cognition. Journal of theAmerican Society for Information Science and Technology, 55 (6), 557-560.6 Spector, J.M. (1999). Teachers as designers of collaborative distance learning. Society for InformationTechnology and Teacher Education International Conference, San Antonio Texas. ED 432 259.

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

William E. Kelly

as it should.2 One of the keys,according to the NAE authors is life-long learning – one of the current ABET outcomes and onethat has been particularly difficult to assess and evaluate. The NAE authors state that “...to beindividually/personally successful, the engineer of 2020 will learn continuously throughout his orher career, not just about engineering but also about history, politics, business, and so forth.”3Assessment is increasingly focusing on student learning including the ability of students to assesstheir own learning. Ultimately, a professional must have the ability to assess where there are gapsin their knowledge and skills and develop, implement, and assess appropriate learning strategies.An overall goal of accreditation is to

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Adriana Popescu

at thechallenges awaiting the current and future engineers1. In her address, Jamieson said: "We have to askourselves, will graduates have the attributes and skills that they need for careers over the next 40 years?"What makes this question even more thought provoking for engineering educators is the fact thataccording to some academic estimates, the half-life of engineering knowledge is between two to sevenyears, which means that by the time one graduates, half of what it was learned in the first years may ormay not be relevant. One other factor educators need to take into consideration when designing theirprograms is the fact that new technologies requiring multidisciplinary skills are an integral part of theprofessional practice, and they

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Chang-Hee Won

are vitally important in today’s business world. Soft skills, including oral, written, and interpersonal communications, are often the most important skills that a person must possess in order to advance one’s career. Working in large groups as a part of the undergraduate curriculum provides students with a chance to hone their people skills, which generally occurs only in an industrial cooperative education setting. • Students learned how to make informed group decisions and to deal with the ramifications of their decisions. Since each student was responsible for a major portion of a subsystem, she or he also learned how to depend on others to complete the mission. If only one

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Robert Edwards; Gerald Recktenwald

purchased commercially or canbe built at a much lower cost. A key feature of these exercises is the use of low cost, USB baseddata acquisition (DAQ) devices. Many companies are beginning to offer these types of devices,and prices are getting to the point where students may be able to obtain one for about the cost ofa textbook to use throughout their college careers and beyond. Before outlining the suite of exercises, we take a look at the pedagogical framework whichprovides the basis for them. Most undergraduate engineering courses that have laboratorycomponents involve a series of structured exercises that employ preconfigured devices that yieldpredictable results. The students are usually required to follow a particular procedure to run

Conference Session

Creating a Technology Incubator and Creating a Seed Fund

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Laughlin, University of Maryland; Scott Magids, University of Maryland; David Barbe, University of Maryland

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2007-1609: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND'S VENTUREACCELERATORScott Laughlin, University of Maryland Scott Laughlin is Director of the VentureAccelerator at the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (MTECH). Mr. Laughlin is a former Partner in IDG Ventures, a $600M family of private funds invested in early stage technology companies. Prior to his career in venture capital, Mr. Laughlin was a successful senior executive in Silicon Valley-based start-up companies, including a company sold to Microsoft. Mr. Laughlin received his B.A. from Princeton University (’90).Scott Magids, University of Maryland Scott Magids is Director of MTECH Ventures, one of the two main branches of the Maryland

Conference Session

Capstone Design & Project Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Walter, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeffrey Webb, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; George Slack, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

, thinking as part of a team, and thinking and communicating inseveral “languages” of design. Fry12 has also discussed the importance of “design thinking” inengineering education and underscores the value of multidisciplinary teams. Until designpractices are fully integrated into engineering curricula, capstone design programs will bear asubstantial burden to better prepare undergraduates for careers that inevitably emphasize the“practice” of design.At RIT, the infusion of multidisciplinary design into the curriculum represents a strategicimperative for the KGCOE. Without strong top-down commitment, the likelihood of making anoticeable impact on the broader challenge outlined above seems remote. In addition to theMSD program discussed in this paper

Conference Session

New Tools in Teaching and Learning Biomedical Engineering Concepts

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vikki Hazelwood, Stevens Institute of Technology; Arthur Ritter, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

perform the job. One student identified the experience as having ‘enlightened’ as to thetype of career opportunity he desired to pursue.Attrition/ retentionBecause student participation was on a volunteer basis, we presume that student retentioncorrelates well to student interest level. 54 retained out of 74 is 73% retention, which isreasonably good, especially given that student participation in the project was completely on avolunteer basis.Furthermore, it is important to consider that the attrition of 20 students included 11 students whoexpressed a desire to complete the study but who could not for logistical reasons. We can assumethat the other 9 students dropped out due to lack of interest. Re-examining student retentionbased upon those who

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

sameer prabhu, The MathWorks; Zachariah Chambers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Liz Callanan, The MathWorks; Marc Herniter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

have electronic,hydraulic, and control elements. Some companies have focused on teaching modeling focused onmechatronics, typically by allying themselves with a university that offers formal curriculum inthis area.As can be seen, there is a variety of approaches practiced in the industry to train engineers inModel-Based Design. While some large companies can allocate the time and resources to offerformal training, a vast majority of engineers do not have access to such resources. Therefore, itwould be beneficial to industry if academia focused on training engineering students on Model-Based Design so that graduating engineers can minimize the ramp-up time when they begin theirprofessional careers

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

research interests center around interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering and engineering education, including studies of the collaborative relationships between engineers and education researchers. She was recently awarded a CAREER grant from NSF to study interdisciplinarity in engineering graduate programs nationwide.Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech Jenny Lo, assistant professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, is interested in understanding and improving engineering curriculum related to introductory engineering courses, engineering design, engineering ethics, and undergraduate research

Conference Session

Professional Development and Scholarship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan, DeVry University; Amin Karim, DeVry University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, teaching effectiveness, technical currency, scholarly activity, professional society participation, communication skills, extracurricular support for student activities, and similar attributes appropriate to the program objectives. Individual faculty members must have educational backgrounds, industrial experience, professional practice, communication skills, and technologically current knowledge that support the field of instruction and program objectives. Collectively, the faculty must be capable of providing students an appropriate breadth of perspective and effective instruction in the use of modern technical and non-technical methodologies in careers appropriate to the program objectives

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Backer, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

article. As you read this article, you should review it with respect to the above student learning objective. Here are some questions about the reading that might help you with this article. a. What is the historical and social impact of Martha Stewart and how does it interact with the dimensions of race, class and gender? b. The author discusses the roles of work and family to be competing areas for women. How does the history of paid work versus unpaid work (housework) compare for women of different ethnic, cultural and class groups? c. The author compares the career of Martha Stewart and the career of Oprah Winfrey and

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation of Multidisciplinary Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Grondin, Arizona State University; Darryl Morrell, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

column of electrical systems courses, is a column whichconsists mainly of courses in mathematics and science. The remaining portions of thecurriculum are electives and general education credits.Power Expertise QuadrantOur first estimation is that we can accomplish many of the goals in the power expertisequadrant with a one-credit embedded module. Remember that we are not trying toproduce an electrical engineer who will pursue a career in utility scale power distribution.Rather, we are focusing on someone who can provide power to the various parts of asmaller system such as a vehicle. The person will need to know how to select an Page

Conference Session

FPD7 -- Service Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Pagano, Western Michigan University; Amanda Rossman, Western Michigan University; Kendall Vasilnek, Western Michigan University; Betsy Aller, Western Michigan University; Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University; Andrew Kline, Western Michigan University; Edward Brabandt, Western Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

interested in pursuing a career in structural engineering.Kendall Vasilnek, Western Michigan University Kendall Vasilnek is a second-year student in Civil and Construction Engineering at Western Michigan University. She is a teaching assistant for first-year, at-risk students, and hopes to go into environmental engineering upon graduation.Betsy Aller, Western Michigan University Betsy M. Aller received her PhD from Michigan Technological University and is assistant professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering at Western Michigan University. She teaches her department's capstone design courses and the college-wide service learning engineering design sequence, and

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Alfred Gates, Central Connecticut State University; Zdzislaw Kremens, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

will be used to evaluate the quality of the senior project.Proof of 400 Hours Professional Experience (Communication, Business, Ethics, Flexibility…)Professional experience is an extremely valuable asset for students when they seek permanentemployment. In fact, some employers require it for hiring. The requirement of 400 hours in aprofessional setting will ultimately deliver a more marketable graduate from the CCSU’sMechanical Engineering Program. It is intended that this requirement can be met throughcooperative work assignments in industry coordinated through CCSU’s Career Services andCooperative Education Office, or through one or more summer positions arranged directly withlocal industries. The program advisor and the cooperative education

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane Brown, Washington State University; Karyn Hildreth, Washington State University

option ofliving there, math, science and engineering students have first priority. This LLC caters to thesestudents by offering events such as career fairs, Society of Women Engineers meetings, andweekly Faculty Nights, where faculty members or graduate student in the CEA visit the dorm totalk to the students about their work, give them an opportunity to get to know the faculty, andbegin to establish connections within the math, science and engineering community.RESEARCH PARTICIPANT SELECTIONThe study took place during the fall semester of 2006 and began in the seventh week of thesemester. The study looked specifically at freshmen engineering students in their first semester atWashington State University. Students were recruited from Engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Lingard, California State University-Northridge

• Societal Issues in Computing • Demonstrate the knowledge and • Plus Electives capabilities necessary for pursuing a professional career or graduate studies • Demonstrate the recognition of the need for, and ability for, continuing professional development. Table 1 Program Areas

Conference Session

Engineering in High Schools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramzi Bualuan, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

highschool students who have just completed their junior year. Students come from all aroundthe country, and in some cases from abroad. IEP’s purpose is to provide participants withan overview of all fields in engineering, while giving the students a taste of college life, alook at career opportunities, and a chance to meet professional engineers as well asengineering faculty. Students work on several projects, attend lectures, write reports,code programs, give presentations, do problem solving and design, go on field trips, andinteract with a very diverse group of peers.In this paper we describe the IEP program, and provide an overview of its selectionprocess and its structure and content. We examine how effective the program has been,and describe

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

example, in the spring of 2006 students were asked to identify a contemporaryissue (such as global warming), discuss its relevance to engineering, describe theimpact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societalcontext, and discuss their understanding of professional and ethical responsibilityrelated to that issue. The students are also required to explain the recognition ofthe need for life-long learning and how their educational experience in college hasprepared them to continue their intellectual growth throughout their career. Thissenior synthesis paper is assessed by faculty.Criterion 3 program outcomes f (professional and ethical responsibility), h (globalawareness), i (lifelong learning) and j (contemporary

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

ethnicity of the participants.) Besides inspirationalspeakers who have made an impact on K-12 education representing ethnic and culturaldiversity among the underrepresented minority population in the United States, morethan 60 workshops relevant to STEM education including a few related to interview skillsand class room management skills were held during the conference. Teams from almostall participating institutions took part in the “Poster Contest” and “Talent Show” heldduring the conference. 35 organizations all over the United States sent representatives forthe “Career Fair” component of the conference. A significant number of the pre-serviceteachers found possible future employers/graduate school programs from among theserecruiters and few

Conference Session

Topics Related to Assessments and Outcomes

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Helbling, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; David Lanning, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Ron Madler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Darin Marriott, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Karl Siebold, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

faculty gain more experience in using the facility andmore fully understand the capability of the new equipment. In the meantime, the improvementin the undergraduate learning environment afforded by this new facility continues to betterprepare our students for the next phase of their academic or professional careers, thereby addingto ERAU’s reputation for producing quality engineers who understand the relationship betweentheory and application.References1 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs Effective for Evaluations during the 2003 – 2004 Accreditation Cycle, Engineering Accreditation Commission, November 2002

Conference Session

BME Assessment and the VaNTH ERC

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Gatchell, Northwestern University; Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

unlikely that a career in designingbiomaterials or biomedical devices would require knowledge of "Artificial Intelligence", a careerin bioinformatics may require some familiarity with this concept. This knowledge can be gainedfrom advanced courses in this discipline, and not from courses required of all undergraduates.In the second round of this study we revisited concepts which did not receive consensus ratingsin the first round, i.e., the ratings did not meet the criteria for inclusion in, or exclusion from, therecommended curriculum (see Table 1). Participants were asked to rate the importance of these Page 12.1584.13concepts, this time

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bob Lahidji, Eastern Michigan University; Jianhua Wang, Eastern Michigan University; Walter Tucker, Eastern Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

International

prepare our engineering technology students for their future careers, itis vital for them to know what new challenges are posed by the outsourcingenvironment. How can we grow, educate, attract and retain the best and brightestscientists and engineering students?10 Besides the obvious cultural differencesinherent in global sourcing, design support, engineering support, quality control,and logistical support are significantly different in developing and maintainingglobal supply chains. This research champions a new capstone course for seniorstudents with a Mechanical Engineering Technology major. This course will helpstudents practice engineering activities in an outsourcing environment and findthe protocol or define a prototype appropriate for