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Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kimberly Barron; Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Robert Pangborn; Thomas Litzinger

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sharnnia Artis; Bevlee Watford

courses for freshmen engineers.This includes engineering chemistry and the associated laboratory, calculus, engineeringexplorations (an introductory engineering course) and linear algebra. In addition to addressingthe isolation the students may feel in an environment where they represent less than 20% of theengineering freshman, it also facilitates the formation of study groups as well as collaboration oncourse assignments and projects.Throughout the academic year, various activities are implemented to provide professional andpersonal development for the Hypatians. For example a ropes team building activity early in thesemester provides a topic for discussion in class that centers on relationships and support for oneanother. Other activities

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Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

in Laboratory Automation', which wascommissioned by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). His first book, 'Language Independent Design Methodology - anintroduction', was commissioned by the National Computing Centre (NCC). Dr Maj has organized, chaired and beeninvited to speak at many international conferences at the highest level.He has served on many national and international committees and was on the editorial board of two international journalsconcerned with the advancement of science and technology. As Deputy Chairman and Treasurer of the Institute ofInstrumentation and Control Australia (IICA) educational sub-committee he was responsible for successfullydesigning, in less than two years a new, practical degree in Instrumentation and

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ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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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

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Taryn Bayles

Engineering Education Reform”, The Bridge, 28, 1998. 12. Wulf, W.A., “Diversity in Engineering”, The Bridge, 28, 1998. 13. Rosser, S.V., Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Science, mathematics, and Engineering, Columbia University, New York, 1995. 14. Campbell, J.R., C.M. Hombo and J. Mazzeo, NAEP 19999 Trends in Academic Progress: Three Decades of Student Performance, 2000. 15. Burkham, D.T., V.E. Lee and B.A. Smerdon, “Gender and Science Learning Early in High School subject Matter and Laboratory Experiences”, American Educational Research Journal, 24, 297- 331, 1997. 16. Campbell, P.B. and K. Steinbrueck, Striving

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The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Rossi; Herbert Ingley; Erik Sander; Dow Whitney; Marc Hoit; R. Keith Stanfill

positions with several companies, both public and private. Senior levelresponsibilities have encompassed general management, and financial, operations, sales, marketing, and engineeringmanagement. Mr. Rossi has been involved as a principal in several start-up and turn-around ventures.H.A. (SKIP) INGLEYH. A. (Skip) Ingley is an associate professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida.Dr. Ingley was Co-Director of the University of Florida's Solar Energy and Energy Conversion Laboratory from1973 until 1983. Ingley founded Ingley, Campbell, Moses and Associates, Inc. (ICM), a mechanical, electrical,plumbing and fire protection engineering firm in 1983 and served as the chief executive officer and senior engineerfor this

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Julia Morse; Jung Oh

, and Instructional Delivery Innovations Introduction Laboratory Development Course Design and Development Curriculum Development Instructional Delivery Innovations f. Summary of Student Advising and Mentoring Activities g. List of Teaching Awards and Recognition h. Externally Funded Assistance for Teaching Activities i. Industry Outreach Impact on Classroom Teaching Figure 1. Sample teaching portfolio contents in promotion and tenure document. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Craig Caulfield; G Kohli; S P Maj

Cowan University with two years of experience in Lecturing andDeveloping Network and Data Communication units at Edith Cowan University. Gurpreet is currently lookinginto web services and capacity planning of e-business sites as part of his research at Edith Cowan University.S. PAUL MAJ is a senior academic at the School of Computer and Information Science, Edith CowanUniversity, Perth, Australia, and also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Information Systems andOperations Management, University of North Carolina (Greensboro) in the USA. He is an internationallyrecognised authority in laboratory automation and has published a commissioned book in this field

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Elizabeth DeBartolo

compared with a class project. 7. Students do not know how to start and carry out a literature search. 8. Students must often learn new skills (programming, analysis software, laboratory equipment) that are beyond the scope of their completed coursework, and they do not know what resources are available to them.The first problem is one that is only solved by reducing the number of BS/MS students orincreasing the number of faculty advisors. Both solutions are beyond the students’ control, sothey are beyond the scope of topics for a Graduate Seminar. Numbers 2-5 are systemic – wecannot change anything about these issues, and the students know they will pose challenges totheir dual degree completion, but we may be able to provide ideas

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Peter Wiesner; Karen Miu

Award, she has applied this support to develop hardwareand software educational laboratories and participate in sustained K-12 outreach programs at Drexel.PETER K. WIESNER has been a staff member at IEEE since 1989. Formerly Director of ContinuingEducation, he is currently with IEEE Corporate Strategies and Communications. He has been involved inseveral projects funded by NSF and by the Sloan Foundation. He holds a Bachelor’s in History from UCBerkeley, a Master’s in Communication from University of Pennsylvania and an Ed.D. from Rutgers. Page 9.1266.11Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering, Education Annual Conference &

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Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

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

like to acknowledge theNational Science Foundation for their support of the offering of several pilot courses in ourMulti-Disciplinary Engineering Foundation Spiral curriculum.8 References 1. Collura, M.A., B. Aliane, S. Daniels, and J. Nocito-Gobel, “Development of a Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Foundation Spiral”, Submitted to the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2004. 2. Mikic, B. and D. Grasso, “Socially-Relevant Design:the TOYtech Project at Smith College”, Journal of Engineering Education, 91(3):319-326, 2002. 3. John Hopkins Virtual Laboratory, Bridge Designer, http://www.jhu.edu

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Wesner; Cristina Amon

Page 9.291.11engineering design, particularly product development and improvement of product development processes. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationART WESTERBERGArt Westerberg is the Swearingen University Professor of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.Together with Eswaran Subrahmanian, and as Director of the Education Laboratory at the Institute for ComplexEngineered Systems, Professor Westerberg co-founded the Engineering Design Projects Course and formerly actedas Course Director

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Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Harth; Matthew Barber; Andrew Spurgeon

/solar_basics.html/.National Renewable Energy Laboratory, http://www.nrel.gov/.AGI’s EarthComm – Energy Resources, http://www.agiweb.org/earthcomm/naturalresources10. AcknowledgementsWe would like to acknowledge Heather Woodyard for her work with us on this project,as well as, Andrew Spurgeon, Anant Kukreti, Karen Davis, Debbie Kinne, and everyoneelse involved with Project Step and these two fine high schools. Page 9.840.23

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Jayant Rajgopal; Bryan Norman; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

example, again consider the second term of the sophomore year for a typicalUniversity of Pittsburgh IE student. Students would take three IE courses – Probability andStatistics (ENGR 0020), Productivity Analysis (IE 1054), and Human Factors (IE 1061). Ifcertain topics were introduced in such a way that students simultaneously see their application indifferent areas, there would be better reinforcement as well as a much better appreciation forthese principles. For instance, when the normal distribution is introduced in ENGR 0020, onemight also do a work sampling study in IE 1054, and a signal detection theory laboratory in IE1061 that require the use of normal tables. We are currently working on implementing bothaspects of our model into the

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Davis

work and co-op knowledge andskills that have brought them to the point where they are now ready to initiate andcomplete a significant design project. This addresses the Criterion 4 mandate that thecapstone experience should be the culmination of previously acquired knowledge andskills.Nearly all students mention that their course work and laboratories are valuable andcontribute to their ability to reinforce and extend their hands-on skills during co-op.Some examples from initial self-assessment essays include the following. Undertaking and completing a senior design project is going to involve bringing lots of skills from different areas together. These include theoretical concepts, teamwork, and the ability to learn new

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

software. Spreadsheet programs, for example Microsoft Excel, are alreadyentrenched in college computer laboratories with students and faculty having familiaritywith their use. We present our experiences in implementing this approach in one section(32 students) of a freshman introduction to engineering design course. A preliminaryassessment is also presented.1. IntroductionThe use of team projects as a way to teach engineering design is pervasive across allengineering disciplines and throughout the curriculum. The success of any design team --both in learning design concepts and performing well -- requires that students have agood grasp of technical and management aspects of the design process. Accordingly,poor management or lack of communication

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Larry Stetler; Stuart Kellogg

-hours and istaught as a 1-hour lecture and a 2-hour laboratory session each week. In addition, severalcommon 1-hour meetings are held each semester where all students come together for a requiredprogram activity. During a typical academic year, the program sees approximately 370 students.Program Objectives and Outcomes:The program incorporates 5 learning objectives and nine course outcomes (Table 1), which arecontained on the syllabus for the students to purview and gage their progress. Further, courseoutcomes are mapped to ABET criterion 3:a-k (Fig. 1) and are used in the course assessment tomake refinements to the curricula.Assessment Processes and ToolsProgram curricula are assessed using a variety of tools, including: • personal web-based

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

undesired contaminants in the workplace. This topic can also be used with other Separations Topics such as their use in a manufacturing facility to separate a contaminant from laboratory/workplace environment (e.g., membrane process to reduce organic solvent vapors in air

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

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Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

teaching principles, and process, an environment to practice the applicationof these principles. Even though the content and process articulated in the T4E model hadevolved and been passed down through participation in ISW, they were very consistentwith the literature which included Lowman’s 3 two-dimensional model of teachingeffectiveness and Wankat and Oreovicz’s 4 compendium of learning principles. The T4E workshop eventually consisted of teaching pedagogy seminars,demonstration classes, and laboratories where the participants presented two classes totheir peers acting as students and assessed by a senior mentor. The seminars presented inT4E covered the following principles: use structured organization of content to guide thelearner; use

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sven Nielsen

independentof time. The result is either right or wrong. This is not the case with solutions to projects.A project, however, deals with the future stated or explored. Projecting is to “throw some-thing forward” (Project from Latin, Pro- (forward) + iare (throw)) [10]. The demands to aproject solution always include requirements from the future in which the solution shall becarried out by manufacturing or implementing processes. The demands include requirementsalso from that future in which the solution is expected to be useful. The projects themselvesinclude the future again also even if the whole work is made in the laboratory of the univer-sity.However, about the future nobody knows except by forecasts, by hypotheses, in the form oftheories

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Brigham; Angran Xiao; Kenneth Bryden

to look the same as it does at the real location. Hence, the virtual fermentor gives the student theimpression of being in a laboratory and sets the stage for the simulation within this familiar context. Thevirtual engineering model is capable of demonstrating the inner workings of the fermentor, allowingstudents to navigate the entire virtual bio-processing plant and investigating the details of thefermentation parameters including the vector and scalar data mentioned before. Hence, the virtualfermentor provides the students with a realistic and engaging learning experience that help themunderstand the course material. Additionally, running in VE-Suite, the virtual fermentor is used tosimulate the fermentation process so students can try

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

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Andrew Gerhart

Figure 3). The students presented a display of the hovercraft doing somethings that the prospective students would not have imagined that they could do themselvessomeday. Page 9.1094.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 2: Smokeless gunpowder (right flame) and black powder (left flame) demonstration just before the surprised student reaction. Figure 3: The 2003 hovercraft after its demonstration.The Material Science Laboratory is an excellent tool

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

improvements made such as new text books, rewritten syllabi with student objectives or assessment measures, laboratory improvements or advances, grants or other evidence of continuous improvement. If no form is turned in, it is assumed the faculty member has coasted in that course that semester. The course assessment forms produced by an individual are also attached to his or her annual report. 3. Outcomes Assessment Each faculty member also does a Course Learning Outcomes assessment for each of their courses at the end of each semester that shows program educational objectives, student learning objectives in support, assessment measures to evaluate student outcomes and analysis/further actions. Student survey data

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Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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

teams: Past,present, and future. Dordrech: Kluwer Academic Publishers.10. Devine. D.J., Clayton, L.D., Philips, J.L., Dunford, B.B., & Melner, S.B. (1996). “Teams in organizations:Prevalence, characteristics, and effectiveness.” Small Group Research, 30, 678-711.11. Smith, P. (2003). An analysis of team design and project management support during a design project's lifecycle.Unpublished doctoral dissertation.12. Ilgen, D.R. (1986). “Laboratory research: A question of when, not if.” In E.A. Locke (Ed.), Generalizing fromlab to field settings (pp. 257-267). Lexington, MA: Heath.13. Gibbs, G. (1993). Learning in teams: A student guide. Oxford, England: Oxford Brooks University Press

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Richards; Daniel Pack; David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

, to address real-world problems; developing curricula that expose students to key interdisciplinary connections, and multi- disciplinary perspectives stressing concepts as much as facts; focusing on processes (how to pose questions, how to acquire information to address those questions, assessing the quality of information); using the vast computational power of modern personal computers and mathematics to explore engineering concepts and illustrate those concepts in ways that entice students; ensuring that students have frequent access to active learning experiences, in class (such as in peer groups or in laboratory classes) and outside of class (as in study teams, using interactive class bulletin

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Assessment Issues I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary A. Nelson; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

work) and air in the rigid vessel does not. (Correct answer = d) Table 3: Alpha Version of Question 6.AThe Alpha TestingIn the fall of 2003 we administered an alpha version of the concept inventory consistingof 11 multiple choice questions to 93 students in two classes at the Colorado School ofMines—39 students in a senior-level chemical engineering course in TransportPhenomena and 54 students in a senior-level integrated laboratory course designed forstudents with a specialty in mechanical engineering. The alpha version of the test can befound in Appendix A. All of the students were seniors who had taken at least one coursein thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluids.Several of the questions had two parts (1, 2, 7a

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Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Norton

goal of Mars exploration1. Page 9.1005.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationMars Senior Design ClassBeginning in January 2004, the College of Engineering is offering a new multi-departmentalsenior capstone design course. The course, sponsored by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)and NASA, focuses on Mars exploration. Students design and fabricate prototypes ofcomponents of a permanent robotic outpost for Mars.A robotic outpost is the next step after the near-term robotic missions currently

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

industrial and commercial energy conservationtechniques as part of this innovative laboratory experience. The results they have generated arecreating motivation for a broader introduction of these concepts into the engineering curriculum.Background As our university's enrollment grows, new buildings are constructed and we increase ouruse of technology, we create a significant increase in our use of energy. In 2001 our universityadministration joined 46 other colleges and universities across New Jersey in endorsing aSustainability Greenhouse Gas Action Plan for the state that calls for a 3.5% reduction ingreenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 20053. This commitment as well as ongoing

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TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pape

is being overlooked. Exam and quiz problems,laboratory and project reports, oral presentations, and homework assignments, which arestandard in virtually all engineering courses, generate assessment data that can be usednot only for computing a student’s course grade, but also in a quantitative way forprogram level assessment and feedback. In fact, a few schools have reported that gradeson assignments and examinations in individual courses has been the single most usefulassessment instrument, providing feedback both to the student and to the instructor.Important differences between the method suggested herein and the practice of using rawcourse grades (transcript data), average class grades, or other “smeared” data aredescribed. The system