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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Shaw; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

bono or fee basis (2) Student interns and employees (3) Access to technicallabs, facilities and equipment (4) Access to databases and researchers (5) Access to research anddevelopment financing through programs such as SBIR – federal grant funding is greatlyenhanced when incubator clients submit a joint proposal with a university or federal laboratory(6) Additional services and resources including patent knowledge, alumni who may act asadvisors, business contacts and strategic alliance facilitators or investors, access to a far-flungnetwork of laboratories and technical expertise, and access to investment by universityfoundations.All the above mentioned research findings and other issues and environmental factors wereconsidered when designing

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Terry Wildman; Kumar Mallikarjunan; Mark Sanders; Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

) introducing modern learning practices, (ii) incorporating new laboratory experiences, (iii) integrating powerful software tools using an object oriented approach in engineering design, (iv) incorporating research experiences including use of National Scientific Digital Library (NSDL) to promote inquiry based learning outcomes, and (v) emphasizing communication and interpersonal skills, 2. Develop an assessment scheme to assess the effectiveness of the enhanced program, and 3. Develop a Master in Engineering Education program Page 10.649.7 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

professional services referral network • Linkages to faculty consulting and collaborative proposals • Access to specialized equipment, laboratories and other university capabilities • Coordination and offering of curricula, courses and training • Other special activitiesEntrepreneurial teams and students in senior design work directly with Florida TechStart to helpfacilitate the commercialization of their projects and ideas. In this regard, Florida TechStart’sgoal is provide an accelerated opportunity track for any senior design projects and teams whichmay have market potential for commercial implementation.In addition to Florida TechStart, Florida Tech has initiated a student entrepreneurial club, the e-club, which meets regularly

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmine Balascio

conceptual understanding is a costly process for the instructor in terms of both time and effort. Page 9.1360.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIdentification of Problem and Implementation of LON-CAPA Enhanced PBLEGTE 321 is a four-credit lecture/lab course that meets weekly for two one-and-a-half-hourlectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. EGTE 321 is a required course for theConstruction Technology and Technical Management concentration in the department’sEngineering

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Innovative Curriculum Development in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Fisher; Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

% Laboratory Classroom 20% 10% 0%Figure 2. Number of students in engineering internships and co-ops at Iowa StateUniversity. 250 Internship Co-op

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Leanne Avery; Angela Lueking; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

then does experiments to test their hypotheses.”Question 7: Describe what an engineer does.“Engineers use math and science to solve practical problems. They also design, manufacture, and build such itemsas houses, bridges, etc.”“An engineer is someone who invents or creates new thing things. This is much like the job of the scientist in thefact that they would also use the scientific process in their work.”“An engineer takes the theories that scientists develop and then apply them in the field and in everyday life, to see ifthe theories can work outside of the laboratory. An engineer will also examine the theories and fine tune them ifnecessary, in order to make them work outside of a laboratory.” College Student Minute PaperTo

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Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

. Page 9.379.2Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering7. Analyze Each SolutionEach solution was analyzed taking into account the needs of the industries as well as the practicalavailable resources for classrooms, laboratory space, supporting library, faculty and the timerequired to get an engineering program up and running. The department Chair, who also wasresponsible for assigning the various numerical values, conducted the study.Table 1: Summary of Type of Program AnalysesCriteria Weight Discipline BS in BSE with Discipline BS in BSE with specific General

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Bowman; Cliff Goodwin

approximately 300hours of preparation time to get his class online, the hardware and software systems areavailable to him. His university has made the high fixed cost investments. However, hecan consider his personal development time of 300 hours as a fixed cost for his course.RevenuesThe fees charged for online and traditional classes may be different. The justification fordifferent and usually higher fees for the online offerings is that there is higher instructorcosts in preparation and more time spent in online questions/chat and in the overhead orfixed costs of the online system. Usually there are different fees for laboratories thannon-laboratory courses, so the precedent for different and higher fees is established.In general, there is

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Knox; K. Muraleetharan; G. Miller; D. Sabatini; Randall Kolar

- ing in several.The following provides some of the reasoning for the CEES assessment shown in Table 3. 1. Technical core - Level 3. CEES maintains a science-based approach to engineering education, where students receive a grounding in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and engineering science before embarking on sub-specializations of civil engineering. Through this course sequencing, the students do have an ability in (at least) four areas. 2. Experiments - Level 3. Besides general chemistry and physics labs, six required courses have formal laboratory/field components. In addition, courses that have Sooner City design components use a combination of virtual and real data sets for

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

Page 9.1058.2faculty member or professional scientist mentor at an industrial, governmental or“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”university laboratory site. The objectives of this program are:• To increase the number of students who participate in undergraduate research.• To enhance students’ learning and commitment to their studies.• To increase the number of students attending graduate schools.• To provide students with professional development training. Research in the undergraduate engineering curriculum remains a significantcontributor to the educational preparation of new practitioners for an

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Min Huang; Michael Trevisan

-technologysector. Several companies have investigated re-locating to the region or establishing start-upcompanies in the area. A key concern voiced by these companies is the need for a professionalworkforce in the region that can be drawn on to fill critical technical positions. In addition, therecurrently exists a dearth of trained individuals with expertise in optoelectronics, which is criticalto many high-technology products and future development.In response to regional high technology industry needs, a master’s program in opto-electronicswas established at WSU, combining the research strengths of the physics and electricalengineering departments. NSF funding was obtained to develop and support the initial stages ofthe program. Course and laboratory

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Wong; Vikram Kapila

the B.S. and M.S. degrees,respectively, in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. He is a member of Pi TauSigma and Tau Beta Pi. He worked for the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH, during the summers of2000 and 2001. He is currently a doctoral student at Polytechnic University. His research interests include control ofmechanical and aerospace systems.VIKRAM KAPILA is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY,where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSFfunded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics that has been featured on WABC-TV and NY1News, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

computer laboratory period per week. The lectures focus onfundamental engineering concepts and problem solving. Prior to Fall 2002, each lab period wasorganized into a series of four or five tasks to be completed either by teams of four students orindividual students, as specified by the instructors. Typically, tasks provided the students withstructured exploration of the use of new computer tool syntax/procedures and simplefundamental engineering problems. Each lab concluded with a "check for understanding" on thenew concepts covered in the lab. Students then applied the theory introduced in lecture and thesyntax/procedures learned in lab to the solution of homework problems and team projects withengineering context.In Fall 2002, four MEAs were

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hancock; John Norton

scholarship of teachingand learning.Graduate student instructors (GSIs) are an important component of the CoE teaching staff.There are 318 faculty, including assistant, associate and full professors, as well as 62 non-tenuretrack instructors. An average of 215 GSIs supplement the instructional faculty each term, along Page 9.596.1with an untold number of graders. The duties of a GSI are varied and range from leading Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdiscussion and laboratory sections to holding

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne DeGroat; Jeffery Radigan; Jeff McCune; Andrew O'Brien; James Beams; Matt Gates; Craig Morin; John Demel; Richard Freuler

computer programming with the C/C++ and MATLABlanguages, and engineering problem solving involving computer programs and computer tools.Both courses have hands-on lab experiences designed to further explore the engineeringdisciplines, and both have a mini-design/build project usually carried out by 2-person teams overa one-week period at the end of the academic quarter.The last course in the FEH sequence is the Engineering Fundamentals and Laboratory 3, nowcalled ENG H1933. Prior to taking this course, the students will also have completed as a part ofthe FEH program two math courses and two physics courses, all of which are coordinated withthe engineering courses. As a culminating course for first-year engineering honors students, theENG H193

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

• Signal Flowgraphs • Schematics and Diagrams as necessary • Circuit Responses • Summary or ConclusionAdditionally, other pictorially descriptive materials that the student designer deems necessary toget the point across to the reader should also be included. This report must be grammaticallycorrect and organized as professionally as possible. These reports were not meant to be the quickand dirty physics laboratory reports of old, but rather state-of-the-art professional documents.Students must also produce a PowerPoint presentation and present it in front of their engineeringpeers (classmates). This may also seem trivial for those academics reading this article, but it isreally a traumatic experience for those students who take

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shaundra Bryant; David Cavallo; Arnan Sipitakiat; Anindita Basu

themselves as learners, problem-solvers, and creative thinkers. In this paper we will present the underlying concepts, describe some sample, discuss some of the issues,and our ideas for continuation. For the purposes of this paper, we combine a number of different initiatives of oursfrom a variety of settings. The principles of learning through design and construction of engineering projects isconsistent throughout. However, we have applied this in schools, in informal settings such as community centers inpoor, urban neighborhoods, and in projects with children in our laboratory. What is important is not the setting, butrather the nature of the activity and what the children accomplish. Significantly, children, including minoritychildren

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports; Carolyn Fausnaugh; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

partnerships for networking and leverage • A professional services referral network • Linkages to faculty consulting and collaborative proposals • Access to specialized equipment, laboratories and other university capabilities • Coordination and offering of curricula, courses and training • Other special activities Page 9.1152.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEntrepreneurial teams and students in senior design work directly with Florida TechStart to helpfacilitate the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Blaine Lilly; John Merrill

(OSU). His current responsibilities primarily include teaching courses andcurriculum development for the FE program. Mr. Masud received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from OSU in2002, and received in B.S from Florida Institute o f Technology in 1999.STUART H. BRAND is an Instructional Lab Supervisor for the First-Year Engineering Program at The Ohio StateUniversity (OSU) College of Engineering. His current responsibilities include lab support, curriculum development,and educational multimedia development. He received his B.S. in Physics from OSU 1997, after serving as asubmarine nuclear propulsion plant operator for the United States Navy.MICHAEL J. HOFFMANN is an Instructional Laboratory Supervisor at The Ohio State University (OSU

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Agnew; Ka C Cheok; Jerry Lane; Ernie Hall; David Ahlgren

, American Society for Engineering EducationWILLIAM G. AGNEW received a Ph.D degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue. From 1944 to 1946 heworked at the Los Alamos Laboratory. He retired in 1989 from the General Motors Research Laboratories. He is amember of the National Academy of Engineers, ASEE, and SAE.Gerald R. Lane, is the Associate Director for Advanced Vehicle Technology in the Research Business Group at theU.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center, Warren, MI. He is a Director of theAssociation for Unmanned Systems International and a Director of the Michigan Chapter of the National DefenseIndustrial Association. Jerry is a co-founder and co-chair of the IGVC

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringEach form was returned to the instructor who evaluated the peer review. Then individualinterviews were conducted by the instructor to assess each student’s progress.In the last week a laboratory activity was conducted. A single-phase resistive-inductive-capacitive circuit was analyzed on paper with phasor diagrams and evaluated in the laboratoryusing an oscilloscope. A take-home final test was conducted, with comprehensive problems.At the end of the five-week period the instructor individually met with the students to discussthe problems of the final exam and assess their overall

Conference Session

Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

learning in a course takes place in the context of projects, with lectures playing asubsidiary role or not taking place at all. The way the capstone design course is usually taught isproject-based learning, as is the engineering laboratory in which each experiment can beconsidered a project. Several engineering departments have shifted some of their traditionallecture courses to project-based courses, and a few universities have made the switch for all oftheir courses, the best known of which is the University of Aalborg in Denmark. Whetherproject-based learning or one of the forms of problem-based learning is adopted, if student teamsare involved, all of the methodologies of cooperative learning can be used to maximize theeffectiveness of the

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bruno; Alistair Greig; Robert Mayer; Jennifer Waters

Cockney College”, because of its aim to extend access to universityeducation from the very rich to the growing new middle class.The first academic sessions of the University started in October 1828. Chairs were established inseveral subjects which had not previously been taught in English universities, for instancemodern foreign languages and English language and literature. The systematic university studyof law began at UCL. Instruction at UCL was primarily by means of lectures and writtenexaminations - reflection of practice in Scotland and Germany rather than Oxbridge. Theteaching of engineering was pioneered at UCL, the first Professor of Mechanical Engineeringwas appointed in 1847. Also the first undergraduate teaching laboratories in

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas O'Neal; Carmo D'Cruz

technicallabs, facilities and equipment (4) Access to databases and researchers (5) Access to research anddevelopment financing through programs such as SBIR – federal grant funding is greatlyenhanced when incubator clients submit a joint proposal with a university or federal laboratory(6) Additional services and resources including patent knowledge, alumni who may act asadvisors, business contacts and strategic alliance facilitators or investors, access to a far-flungnetwork of laboratories and technical expertise, and access to investment by universityfoundations.All the above mentioned research findings and other issues and environmental factors wereconsidered when designing the entrepreneurship programs at the University of Central

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Joan Gosink

Page 9.734.3distributed energy systems (fuel cells, solar cells, wind turbines), sensors for monitoring well Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwater levels and quality, and sensors for contaminant transport and containment. Thisknowledge and the associated technical skills will enable CSM engineering students to helppeople in remote communities improve their access to energy and power.Modifications to existing Engineering CoursesIn soil mechanics laboratory, civil engineering students will be introduced to sensor technologiesfor identifying and quantifying soil contaminant species and

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

course.20. I was able to understand the syllabus and grading procedures.21. The instructor followed the syllabus.22. Given the ease or difficulty of the material presented in this course, the exams represented the topics covered fairly.23. The course assignments were related to the material being covered.24. The laboratory assignments in this course help reinforce the topics being covered and make them easier to Page 8.329.9 learn. (Only for classes with labs.)25. My instructor returned graded material such as homework and tests in a timely manner. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

Regional Educational Laboratories 10 (1992). Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 106· Equity Reality Check: A School Rating. Adapted from Science Education Reform for All. AAAS, (1996). Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 109· Gender Audit of Physical Classroom Adapted from Science Education Reform for All. AAAS, (1996). Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 112· Classroom Observations for Teacher/Student Interactions Adapted from Sadker, Sadker, Bauchner, and Hergert. Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 90· SummerScape Faculty-Student Interaction Observation Sheet. Created by SummerScape

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Milo Koretsky

department at Oregon State University (OSU) isaddressed at two levels. (1) a required introductory statistics course, Chemical ProcessStatistics, is offered in the sophomore/junior year, and (2) these concepts are reinforced in thesenior unit operations laboratory. To facilitate this connection, it has been found effective tohave the statistics instructor give two “refresher” lectures to the lab class.In this paper, some educational opportunities for a statistics course to address are firstanecdotally illustrated with a couple of examples pulled from student work. An overview of thechemical process statistics class at OSU is then presented. This overview includes the coursegoals, the course learning objectives, the industrial case studies which form

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

are identifiedby the team and community partner allowing the team to continue to work with the samecommunity partner for many years. Each undergraduate student may earn academic credit forseveral semesters, registering for the course for 1 or 2 credits each semester. The creditstructure is designed to encourage long-term participation, and allows multi-year projects ofsignificant scope and impact to be undertaken by the teams.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care ofadministrative matters, do project planning and tracking, and work on their project. All studentsalso attend a common one-hour lecture each week. A

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Gomez

Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationrelated to materials science and technology3.VII. Details of Materials Science InstructionStudents in the materials science class have many different topics and experiments to go throughin the one-year class. Historical developments and manufacturing processes are major parts ofeach unit. The Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, WA and Batelle Institute developed thiscurriculum initially in the late 1980’s under support from the U.S. Department of Energy. Areasdiscussed include metals, ceramics, polymers and composites.In the metals unit, students explore the many