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Engineering Ethics Case Studies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

Engineering Education Vol. 84, No. 4, pgs. 375 –381.9. Meyers, C. and Jones, T.B. (1993) Promoting Active Learning: Strategies for the College Classroom, Jossey-BassPublishers, San Francisco.10. Kolodner, J. (1993) Case-Based Reasoning Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. San Mateo, CA.11. Leake, David B. (1996) Case-Based Reasoning: Experiences, Lessons, and Future Directions AAAI Press/MITPress, Cambridge. MA.12. Shapiro, B.P. (1984) An Introduction to Cases, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA. 9-584-097.13. Bruner, Robert F. (2003) Socrates’ Muse: Reflections on Effective Case Discussion Leadership McGraw-Hill/Irwin, New York.14. Evan, William M. and Manion, Mark (2002) Minding the Machines: Preventing Technological DisastersPrentice Hall PTR, Upper

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Josh Humphries; David Radcliffe

from theoutset of their professional career while simultaneously having immediate value in helping themto manage a research project and capstone design project in their senior year. An integral part ofthis innovation was the development of a web-based project management tool. While the mainobjectives of the new course design were achieved, a number of important lessons were learnedthat would guide the further development and continuous improvement of this course. The mostcritical of these is the need to achieve the optimum balance in the mind of the students betweendoing the project and critically analyzing the processes used to accomplish the work.IntroductionIn most industries, engineering is increasingly managed through projects. As a new

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Morris; Dawn Conniff; J. Ledlie Klosky

in their learning engineering moreeffectively. In these cases, the multimedia used did not deliver engineering content, but providedan avenue to get students in a better frame of mind to learn. However, multimedia was also usedvery effectively to directly teach engineering principles. The course lent itself well to employinga wide variety of multimedia.In the anonymous survey taken at the end of the semester, 100% of the 109 students surveyedstated that they felt welcomed by the music before class. The music before class did not promotedirect learning of engineering. However, two very useful outcomes did result. First, the studentsfelt welcomed and at-ease at the start of class and it made this class stand out from others. Infact, students

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Hanson; Julia Williams

to add a formal report, proposal, orseries of memos to an existing course. While added formal writing is beneficial to students, thedrawbacks include increased instructor evaluation effort and a degree of distinction in the minds Page 9.420.1of students between their technical work and the writing (which is sometimes looked upon as an Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationannoying, make-work addition). In deciding to develop a Writing-to-Learn assignment, theauthors were interested in

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Pawley

Session 3692 The feminist engineering classroom: a vision for future educational innovations Alice L. Pawley The Delta Program for Research, Teaching and Learning University of Wisconsin-MadisonAbstractIn the quest for the gender equalization of the engineering profession, a variety of strategies arebeing developed and used in daily engineering education practice. Colleges and universities arerecruiting girls and women in increasing numbers into the so-called “engineering pipeline” byusing camps, special

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

innature (e.g., manufacturing systems, facilities design). While IE’s diverse knowledge domainscontribute to its uniqueness, they also highlight the need to effectively integrate material fromthese different domains into a compact curriculum. To succeed, students must learn how tointegrate these different concepts and apply them to the complex problems that they will face inpractice.In response to the challenges facing engineering educators in general, and IE educators inparticular, we are revising the undergraduate IE curriculum at the University of Pittsburgh withfour primary objectives in mind: 1. Integration: Integrate concepts across the curriculum via • Reinforcement of course material throughout the curriculum. • "Just

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Larry Stetler; Stuart Kellogg

Session 3530 Portfolio Assessment and Improvement for a First-Year Engineering Curriculum Larry D. Stetler, Stuart D. Kellogg, Jon J. Kellar, David J. Dixon, Glen A. Stone, Larry A. Simonson, Zbignew J. Hladysz, Jason T. Ash, and Heidi L. Sieverding South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701Abstract:For the past five years, the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology has redefined its first-year engineering curriculum. The program, now required of all first year engineering students,incorporates curricular elements developed by the Foundation Coalition and elements from theEPICS program at the Colorado School of Mines. As part of the course, students are required

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

in General Engineering program to be themost favorable. Based on that, it was decided the issue of space could be worked out relativelyeasily in light of the more pressing issue of industries needs. In effect, we decided that theweight factor for industry need should have been higher. With that in mind, a BS in Engineeringwith concentration in either Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering degree programwas selected to be the most desirable solution taking into all constraints and established criteria.9. Write Specification  The engineering program will be administered by the department of Engineering and housed in the college of Arts and Sciences for academic and administrative support.  One program is to serve both

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

. Texas Education Agency, 2000 District Accountability Summary for Austin Independent School District., Page 9.153.13 available at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account/2000/index.html Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 13. Texas Education Agency, 2000 District Accountability Data Tables for Austin Independent School District., available at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account/2000/index.html 14. Carmean, C. and Haefner, J. (2002) Mind over

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Dockter; Carol Muller

2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”“Actually meeting a woman who has a physics PhD and is still working in the field hasbeen extremely valuable. Previously, it almost seemed like no such women existed.” MentorNet Protégée“You cannot imagine how much I've changed since we started the mentoring process,basically from a timid chicken to a brave fighter. I now know when and how to speak upmy mind. As a result, I receive much more respect, consideration and understanding frommy colleagues and advisor

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Healy

increase intrinsic motivation in ourstudents, and hence we have sought ways to accomplish this. This effort begins with the Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.165.1 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationconcept of a paradigm as developed by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of ScientificRevolutions1.Kuhn argued that at any historical moment there exists a paradigm that describes theworld in the eyes of science. This includes all of the laws, theories, practices,assumptions, beliefs that science holds

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Carlson; Renato Pacheco; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco; Walter Antonio Bazzo

engineers and the implications oftechnology in environmental changes, lifestyles of societies, and sometimes, in economy.However, to understand how a society works it is essential to analyze how the modes ofproduction are organized1.Therefore, considering the role that the economy performs in society, we would like to bringto mind one of its aspects, within the STS approach, which is consumerism. Here, the facet ofsociety that we intend to approach is the society of consumption.In a capitalist system, consumption moves the economy, i.e., commerce, industrialproduction, availability of employment or goods, investments, and so on. If, on one hand, itpromotes more employment, enrichment of groups and development of nations, on the otherhand, it can

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dilip Mirchandani; Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran; John Chen; Yusuf Mehta

-on, minds-on” approach to integrating engineer-without-bordersservice project from the freshman to the senior year, a model will be established for otherprograms. This program encourages student to interpret knowledge from different disciplines andrequires interaction with the world in a different cultural perspective. This project will initiallybe implemented in the Engineering Clinic sequence in the College of Engineering at Rowan, andthen disseminated in various forms to other disciplines.ConclusionsAt Rowan University, the importance of sustainable design practices and design is understood tobe critical in the education of engineers. To achieve this objective, several courses have beendeveloped that integrate sustainable design practices

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

. Tosome extent we lost the one who would bring us together periodically when she movedinto the Dean of Faculties office. It was up to us to continue our gatherings. This wasfacilitated through the Engineering Academic Programs Office which runs many of theoutreach programs in which most of us participate. Another pivotal event was a change inadministration in the College which can be an unsettling time as positions are vacated andfilled by the incoming Dean. During this time of change was an opportunity to take ourgatherings to another level and become recognized as a group with a role in the College.Special interest groups are common on college campuses. They provide an opportunityfor like minds to come together. The Women’s Faculty Network (WFN

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Amin Karim; Ahmed Khan

Session 1078 Faculty Technical Currency: Status Report on a National Survey of Engineering Technology Faculty Ahmed S. Khan DeVry University, Addison, IL 60101 Amin Karim DeVry University, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 Gene Gloeckner George Morgan School of Education, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 AbstractRapid technological growth has put new demands on engineering and engineeringtechnology

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kathy Enger; Sudhir Mehta

higher. For thosestudents who do graduate, concerns are raised regarding their ability to write clearly, speakeffectively, think logically, critically, and across disciplines, and to participate in a democraticsociety with civic responsibility1-11.HypothesisFaculty and staff in academic affairs and student affairs at NDSU will enhance the quality ofstudent education and improve retention rate by building learning communities, implementing apractice-oriented curricula, and incorporating leadership and service learning into residential andclassroom settings. Page 9.1319.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Smith; Joseph Ekstrom

courses through providing examplesand having students modify working code to provide additional functionality in labexercises.We have been seeking ways to increase language proficiency without using class timeand without forcing all students to learn the same set of languages. As the authors Page 9.107.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdiscussed this issue of language instruction we decided that Perl provided a uniqueopportunity to experiment with delivery of web-based language instruction.One of the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Cottrell

first hands-on design experience. In particular, this article features ET 200,“Graphic Communications,” a three-credit course taken by all students in the StructuralDesign and Construction Engineering Technology Program, generally during the fallsemester of their junior year. The course content is conventional and develops basicskills in the student aimed at reading and interpreting commercial and residentialconstruction drawings. For most students, ET 200 is their first engineering course withthe potential for a design component. These design projects presented in this paper weredeveloped and implemented with specific objectives in mind: • To stimulate interest in engineering and design; • To provide the user with an

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Arthur Brodersen; Cordelia Brown

study will evaluate the students’ performance,attitude toward their instruction, retention, success rate, failure rate, and confidence levels ofstudents in both the traditionally taught sections and the modified instruction sections. Throughthis study, strategies will be provided on how to maintain effective experimental instructionsections beyond this research study. Methods to apply sustainable experimental instruction onother courses will also be examined.Bibliography1. Bransford, John D., et. al., editors, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (Expanded edition), National Academy Press, Washington, D. C., 2001.2. Felder, Richard et. al., (1993) “A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stani Vlasseva; Valentin Razmov

Session 1793 Feedback Techniques for Project-based Courses Valentin Razmov, Stani Vlasseva Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington, Seattle { valentin, stani } @ cs.washington.eduAbstractFeedback is important for student learning, yet many instructors are rightly concerned about thetime they spend giving feedback, especially if they cannot tell whether it is used or ignored bythe students. Similarly, instructors can benefit from student feedback, yet to achieve this,effective mechanisms for

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

many of them are “potential switchers” (i.e., thinking of switching out of engineering). These “potential switchers” tend to have different learning styles, different expectations, different degrees of self-discipline, different “kinds of minds” from students who traditionally like what they are in for, do well in science and engineering subjects, and have a clear vision of where they are heading. Unlike the “potential switchers,” these students, referred to here as: “first tier,” are easy to deal with, believe in teamwork, get work done on time, and require minimal attention or supervision by the teaching staff. It is clear that the group labeled “potential switchers”, require, and I would argue, deserve more attention, more

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ethan Brue

theseapproaches are counterproductive. Both approaches only solidify in the minds of engineeringstudents the false notion that while engineering and history may be both good to study, thesedisciplines are independent from one another and not inseparably intertwined. The developmentof an integral historical component in the engineering curriculum requires more than just newcourse development or old course modification; it necessitates interdisciplinary communicationand thematic continuity across the boundaries of every course taken by engineering students.Carefully crafting a history of technology “hub” course that enables integral historical reflectionin all subsequent engineering courses is only a first step. As an example, I will briefly outline

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Caswell; Clifton Johnston

the concept of themorphological matrix although functionality is the platform from which the morphologicalmatrix grows.Understanding functionality and communicating it to the client is critical to both theacceptance and the success of any design. Functionality provides a critical communication linkbetween what the customer wants and how the engineering designer will achieve the desiredoutcome. A great many designers, novice and professional, make the mistake of presentingtheir design solution fait accompli to the client only to be told the client had a completelydifferent solution in mind. It is the job of the designer to create an environment in which bothclient and designer walk hand in hand toward the solution. In other words, a sense

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Brian Manhire

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsociated with its energy conversion process. In addition to this economic consideration, there is a(generally undesirable) voltage drop across the transmission system that would not occur withoutthe current drawn by the purely reactive load.And so with all this in mind, it is the author’s hope that the ideas and concepts compiled hereincontribute to fostering the further understanding of reactive power.V. AcknowledgementThe author wishes to recognize and thank Dr. Stephen A. Sebo, Professor Emeritus of ElectricalEngineering, The Ohio Sate University, Dr. William Shepherd, Retired Pro-Vice-Chancellor,University of

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Harter; Mark Dean; Donna Evanecky

encouraged specialization, Page 9.1260.4as men spent long years of education, training, and repetitious practice to master their role – atProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe expense of other interests and powers. Competition put a premium on this process. All ofthis preceded systems thinking and caused social critics to lament.18Systems thinking might be seen as the next logical step in this process, as it isolates the mind onthose system roles. The particular human beings who happen to occupy those roles are not

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

; Instruction, pp. 129-160. 9. L.S. Vygotsky, Mind in Society: The Development of the Higher Psychological Processes, Harvard University Press, New York, 1978. 10. Dollár, A., Steif, P.S., “Learning Modules for the Statics Classroom”, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville, June 2003. 11. Steif, P.S., Dollár, A., “Collaborative, Goal-Oriented Manipulation of Artifacts by Students during Statics Lecture”, Frontiers in Education, Boulder, November 2003 12. Mazur, E., 1997, Peer Instruction, Prentice Hall, New Jersey. Page

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jared Berrett

Yeargan, engineering professor at the University of Arkansas and 2001 President of ABET,suggested that creating standards and teaching technological literacy is ”not about getting morestudents into engineering, its about getting the right students into engineering.” (Gorham, 2002)By teaching technology for all, like Brad Thode does in Wood River Middle School, perhaps wemight better encourage young engineers and achieve a more technologically literate citizenry.Conclusion Though this paper represents a sliver of a view into the case study of Brad Thode and histeaching practice, I hope it has served a purpose of creating interest and opening up minds to thepossibility of elevating the education of our children to the highest potential of

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Leland

Self-Explanation in an Introductory Electrical Circuits Course To Enhance Problem Solving Robert Leland Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of AlabamaWorked out examples play a prominent role in engineering education. Learning from examplesrequires active processing that often does not occur in our students, creating an illusion ofunderstanding that can result in poor test performance2. How students process examples canhelp or hurt them. Many students try to mimic examples without understanding them, and haveinaccurate pictures of their own understanding. Students who truly understand

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dyani Saxby; Saeed Foroudastan

. This is especially true for complex Page 9.796.3terminology that may be dispersed throughout the class readings. Additionally, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationprofessors should keep in mind that some topics may be difficult for internationalstudents to fully comprehend if they involve issues that are specific to the United Statesor a particular city. Another interesting revelation in this study was that one of thestudents felt that although he could understand the instructor most of the time, he

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Chad Washington; Patrick Norris

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education7. Cross, P.K. & Steadman, M.H. (1996). Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass.8. Harris, A.H. & Cox, M.F. (2003). Developing an observational system to capture instructional differences in engineering classrooms. Journal of Engineering Education, 92, 4, 329-336.9. Stallings, J. (1977). Learning to Look. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company.10. Bransford, J., Brown, A.L. & Cocking, R.R. (Eds.) (1999). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.11. Harris, A.H., Cordray, D.S., &