Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox

Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore MD 21202. (Additional pertinent information regarding the accreditation process is available from the ABET website located at www.abet.org.)2. Schacterle, L., “Outcomes Assessment at WPI: A Pilot Accreditation Visit Under Engineering Criteria 2000”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 87, no. 2, April 1998, pp. 115-120.3. Aldridge, M.D. and L.D. Benefeld, “A Model Assessment Plan”, ASEE Prism, vol. 7, no. 9, May-June 1998, pp. 22-28.4. Tener, R.K., “Outcomes Assessment and the Faculty Culture: Conflict or Congruence?”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, no. 1, January 1999, pp. 65-71.5. Briedis, D., “Building the EC2000 Environment”, Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 33, no. 2, Spring

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alicia Townsend; Renate Fruchter

be performed and continuous validation of the met hodologyand dimensions is planned for the coming A/E/C generations. One of the ultimate goals ofthis study is to develop a set of guidelines to accelerate the awareness of global team membersto multi-cultural aspects and communication channel preferences in a rich multi-modalcommunication environment.AcknowledgementThis study was partially sponsored by the Project Based Learning Laboratory, Department ofCivil and Environmental Engineering, at Stanford University.References1. M. O’Hara-Devereaux and R. Johansen, GlobalWork, Bridging Distance, Culture, and Time; Jossey-Bass Publishers; San Francisco; 19942. E.T. Hall, Beyond Culture, Anchor Books; Garden City, N.Y. 1977.3.G.Hofstede

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lonnie Welch

lack of planning by the instructor has resulted in“dysfunctional” teams or groups. For example, group grades often are emphasized and thepressure of grading often breaks down the CL atmosphere. Students simply assigned a mutualtask without supervision and without being accountable for their individual work may succeed,but oftentimes fail as the burden of the task falls on the shoulders of one or two highly gradeconscious individuals. Group members shift their focus from learning to the graded outcome andbegin to respond as individuals concerned about their own graded outcome rather than asmembers of a community concerned about each other’s learning. The goal of effective CL becomes creating and maintaining highly functional teams

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marny Lawton; Donald Wroblewski

would be compatible. All resources recommended aMargi Capture-To-Go card, but despite hours of painstaking system configuration changes theMargi proved unsuccessful with equipment setups similar to those who had recommended andused the equipment successfully. After many hours of research and painstaking testing, thedecision was made to use the Osprey 100 capture card that by that time was sold directly throughRealNetworks. This problem will disappear as more applications become available thatautomate the integration of multimedia.AssessmentA valuable lesson was learned regarding planning far enough in ad vance to organize the studentsin order to administer a pre-test and to make it mandatory. This did not happen. In fact, it wasdecided in the

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanford Meek; Mark Minor

during Semester I, they must nowimplement their plan. They must integrate their sensors, micro controller, and electronics intothe robot and program their strategy. These topics are considered further in Section 3, where theproject is examined in greater detail.3. Mechatronics Project3.1. Project theme The project is an extremely important component of the mechatronics course sequence.Lecture and lab together provide a very good understanding of the subject material, but they donot provide the creative experience of the project. The project deepens the students’understanding of the material by requiring them to apply the learned techniques to an open-ended

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

, how to make women more comfortable in the School, etc.In addition, there was one suggestion for us as their faculty advisors: Educate the faculty aboutissues affecting women students in the School. To that end, we plan to share these data with ourcolleagues and strategize ways to make our women students more welcome in our classrooms.Potential Impact of Women in TechnologyIn the near future, we will present these student recommendations to the members and supporttheir efforts to implement them. The group’s effectiveness will be measured by the leadershipthe members show in directing the organization; specifically the number of programs theypresent that address the concerns of the group, and the number of active members at meetings,As is the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Brader; Jed Lyons

. Page 7.1289.4The second classroom session begins as the third phase of the learning cycle, conceptdevelopment. The students share their procedure and analysis plans and have the opportunity to Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationask questions. Once all the groups have a complete and correct approach to the laboratory, thegroups begin recording data from their circuit and start the analysis; this represents theapplication phase of the learning cycle. The students enthusiastically approached studying thecircuit because it was an immediate application of the concepts developed.For the third

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Greg Luttrell

Required the students to participate in a class activity while not physically in-class;Greg Luttrell, SIUE WEB BASED DISCUSSION ACTIVITIES THAT ENHANCE UPPER-DIVISION ENGINEERING STUDENT LEARNINGß Challenged students to a high degree of thought (content and format) to receive high marks; andß Allowed assessment of student thoughts and writing without using in-class time.The instructor must plan for, be, and remain committed to the discussion process throughout thesemester.ß Discussion topics must be integrated with the overall course objectives and augment in- class activities, student learning.ß To maintain student interest in the discussions through the semester, there is a need to continue to focus the discussion

Conference Session

Instructional Technology--What Works

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Kanabar; Rumen Stainov; Tanya Zlateva; Eric Braude

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Buck; Kathleen Wage; Cameron Wright; Thad Welch

questions on the SSCI exams, including eight example questions taken directly from theexams. Section 4 outlines the studies now underway to evaluate the current versions of theexams. Section 5 presents the results from these studies with the data collected to date.Lastly, Section 6 summarizes our findings thus far and describes our future plans.2 Exam DevelopmentSignals and systems is typically taught in the late sophomore or early junior year. Represen-tative texts for this subject include the books by Oppenheim and Willsky with Nawab,6 andby Lathi.7 As indicated in the introduction, there are several ways to organize the signalsand systems material. One approach is to present continuous-time topics first, followed bydiscrete-time topics; a

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

D. Joseph Mook

abroad has been resolved bypreparing an approved “program of study” for each student prior to departure to the hostuniversity. As part of the application process, students, with their academic advisor’s approval,list courses that must be taken in order to complete their degree and provide course syllabi andother documentation on these courses for the review of prospective host campuses. Advisors atthe host campus recommend equivalent courses and provide similar documentation for thestudent’s own advisor, who then approves this plan of study before the student departs foroverseas. ABET was consulted on this method and has endorsed this general approach. Tocomplement the credit transfer process, a course databank was recently created, listing

Conference Session

Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Keating

made, most have been piecemeal at best, seeming never to break intothe mainstream of U.S. graduate engineering education at the national level. This is no longer acceptableif America is to sustain a competitive advantage in advanced engineering and technological leadership inthe global economy. This situation will continue unless there is deliberate, planned systematic action foreducational leadership at the national level. In order to meet the challenge for sustainable change, theASEE-Graduate Studies Division has formed a National Collaborative Task Force to spearhead actionacross the country to purposefully address the compelling issues for needed reform in engineeringgraduate education. The National Collaborative is charged not only to

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Callison; Bob Lorence; Dan Budny; Kate Thomes