Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationpages/Home/Departments/Civil_Environmental /International_Service_LearningUniversity of Massachusetts, Lowell. Seeks to improve energy efficiency in end-use sectors andSolar Energy Engineering; increase the diversity of energy resources consistent withCenter for Sustainable Energy an economically and environmentally sustainable future.energy.caeds.eng.uml.edu/ Combines undergraduate and graduate education, research, public service, service-learning, and public education.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. D-Lab is a full year course including a January field trip toDept. Civil

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Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe; Stacy Klein-Gardner

to identify with what itmeans to be an Engineer and being a part of the engineering community (at Vanderbilt) throughexposure to practicing engineers, engineering faculty, graduate students, and fellowundergraduate students, to understand the focus of each (selected) engineering major and then beable to make an informed choice and to begin building professional relationships with facultymembers within the student’s department of interest.AssessmentAssessing student learning and understanding of core concepts taught in a classroom is anecessary but a continually difficult task for faculty. With the proliferation of computingtechnology available in the classroom including the mandatory student laptops, an additionaldaunting task for

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mysore Narayanan

of the Year" among research universities by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2000. The author has refereed to many of his publications and presentations. Peer Assessment must be a part of the Teaching Evaluations Plan and should be practiced by almost all the faculty in any given department. Peer assessment procedures are a mandatory requirement in Senior Design Projects. (Muchinsky, 1995, Nelson, 1991, Brown, Race and Smith, 1996).“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Page 10.231.3Exposition © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”7. Program

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Maria Tahamont; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

objective is intended to raise awareness of the biomedical engineering field, pro-vide exposure to an additional multidisciplinary topic, and enable those to may wish to pursuecareer or graduate education opportunities in BME related fields. Towards this objective, wepropose to expose students to a wide selection of BME topics through carefully designed ex-periments demonstrating both ECE and BME concepts. For students who express interest inBME, the concepts learned through the experiments are complemented by a senior level electiveproviding a broader BME background. The experiments are distributed throughout the ECE cur-riculum, providing a 4-year, continuous exposure of BME topics. Our second goal is mostly of pedagogical value: exposing

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Kline

, variations inmaterials, tools, and process settings are commonly investigated for their impacts on finishedproduct measures and their deviation from specifications. The identification of the criticalimportance of the time related process variations provides an additional dimension and sourcesto be investigated for quality and process improvement.The author is a wholehearted supporter of the book particularly for the tools to quicklycharacterize a process, the detailed analysis of the impact of variability in processes, and theoverall quantitative approach taken. However, after reviewing the text and associated chapterproblems and case studies, it was felt that it would be difficult to both support a graduate levelclass and successfully illustrate

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Chouikha; Don Millard

, resulting in poorer performanceand diminished interest in pursuing technical careers.2, 6 Although there is a rising demand forelectrical and electronic goods, foreign competition for electronic products and increasing use ofengineering services performed in other countries are negatively impacting employment growthin the U.S. In contrast, the number of graduating engineers in other countries is on the rise – nowplacing the U.S. behind China, Japan and India.7 Page 10.1351.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus Carter; Claudia Milz

has been achieved in our materials lab A detailed plan for development of a prototype product or practice has been prepared.Educational practices generally regarded by the community as effective in enhancing learningare being incorporated into the prototype, or new approaches are being developed. Anassessment instrument and/or an approach to evaluate the prototype’s impact in improvingstudent learning has been developed. A prototype of a product or practice has been developed and made ready for testing. Theprototype has been tested in a pilot program at the instructor’s home institution. Documentationis being prepared so that others can test prototype. Presentations have been given (at professionalmeetings or other institutions

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Lynn Alpert; Jacqueline Isaacs

assessments and applied ethics.16 NSF will also be awarding this year a large centergrant for research into the societal implications and ethical considerations related tonanotechnology.17 In the meantime, individual nanoscale research centers are designing theirown approaches to weaving such considerations into their educational practice. For instance, Page 10.955.5Northeastern University faculty associated with the Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing are “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

. Urban-Lurain M, Weinshank DJ. Attendance and outcomes in a large, collaborative learning, performance assessment course. http://www.cse.msu.edu/rgroups/cse101/AERA2000/attendance.htm; 2000.8. Urban-Lurain M, Weinshank DJ. Mastering computing technology: A new approach for non-computer science majors. 1999 April 20, 1999; Montreal, CA. American Educational Research Association.Author BiographiesTIMOTHY HINDS is an Academic Specialist in the Michigan State University Department of MechanicalEngineering. He teaches undergraduate courses in machine design, manufacturing processes and mechanics. He alsoteaches a senior-level undergraduate international design project course and has taught graduate-level courses inengineering

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thaddeus Fowler; Suzanne Soled; Laura Koehl; Anant Kukreti

, undergraduate Fellows and teachers • Better communication between PI’s and Fellows; PI’s as a resource • Clarify roles and expectations for Fellows • Address time constraints in planning and executing lessonsThe focus groups identified some additional lessons learned including: • More social time for Fellows to build team • Make better connection between Fellows’ goals and project goals • Be realistic about impact on length of time to complete graduate program • Role of undergraduate Fellow needs to be assessed • More training in technologyAttitudes towards teaching science. Over the course of their two year involvement, Fellows weresurveyed for their perceptions about and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

However, by and large, the Bachelor’sdegree continues to be sufficient to enter the engineering work force. Thus the vast majority ofprograms are four years in length and it appears this will continue to be the standard for sometime to come.4 Breadth versus DepthGiven that the constraint of four years is unlikely to change, the pressure to provide more depthand more breadth must be contained and trade-offs are necessary. Each emphasis has itsadvantages and drawbacks.4.1.1 DepthA focus on depth has several advantages. First, a graduate with depth in one area is oftenattractive to employers looking for a precise combination of skills and abilities. An employermay be looking for expertise in a particular CAD tool (often as specific as a particular

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Auzenne; Jeanne Garland; J. Phillip King; Ricardo Jacquez

technicians. To attract students to the field, Clough arguesthat civil engineering students must be trained in new and creative approaches to usingtechnology and that this training must include practical experiences in industry [13]. Further,prospective students must be made aware of what it is that civil engineers do. When theyunderstand that civil engineers work on things that most directly affect quality of life, they canbegin to connect their own values and passions to the profession as they see that their work canhave a direct impact on improving life for others. Oscar Suros, inducted into the HispanicEngineers hall of Fame in 1998, draws on a model his company uses to familiarize students withthe profession of civil engineering and the actual

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Feick; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

under the direction of a faculty member. Inaddition to attending pre-visit sessions, students must complete a multidisciplinary team projectthat focuses on an industry in the country visited. Last year the visits were to Chile, China, theCzech Republic, and Germany. This year Brazil is being added and France will replace theCzech Republic. The program was just selected to receive the Institute of InternationalEducation’s Andrew Heiskell Award for Study Abroad for 2004-2005 as the “best practice” ininternational education. It is an example of an IFTA (integrated field trip abroad) that services asanother model for providing students with international exposure in less than a semester.Experience to date indicates that a number of those who have

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Scherr; Bevlee Watford

institutions, and couldhave an impact similar to the MIT Women in Science Report published in 1999 [3].WEPAN Strategic PlanWEPAN has a strategic planning document that describes WEPAN’s vision for 2013. There are3 cornerstones of this document; • Towards increasing the visibility and inclusiveness of engineering to engage all talent • Towards catalyzing change to create critical mass • Towards making strategic choices to impact systemic changeIn each of these areas there are goals that are of potential benefit to women faculty. Among themore than 30 goals, the following is a selection of those that would be relevant to womenengineering faculty; • Best practices in diversity institutionalized • Creating an academic culture

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

completion of this project would lead to the creation of a pre-engineering program relationship with other universities within three years and our ownengineering technology-related Masters of Science degree offered through Bluefield StateCollege by the end of the five-years if adequately funded.CART will incorporate advances in science and engineering knowledge into coursesand laboratories by utilizing the latest digital tools for creating, exchanging, presentingand communicating architectural space utilization, schematic designs, presentations, andworking drawings. This activity is vital to the proper delivery of any state of the artarchitectural program curriculum. The CART-CMS webmaster will work with programfaculty to research and develop best

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Johnson

) indicated that the needs of industry employers had shifted based on changes inproduct design, product development and manufacturing strategies. Globalized production, jointtechnology development ventures, interdisciplinary team based product/process design and otherissues have changed the traditional roles and needs of the Manufacturing Engineer. This paperhighlights a process of establishing and evaluating the program outcomes and programeducational objectives for Manufacturing Engineering Technology at RIT by focusing on thechanging role of the practicing manufacturing engineer. Findings include identification of newconstituents, impacts on the traditional industrial advisory board, and updates to outcomes,objectives and

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

or productStudent Scholars FeedbackWe have previously discussed several reasons why student scholarship is desirable in ET.The author has had the privilege of mentoring four civil engineering technology students on ascholarly project. As the faculty advisor to the RIT steel bridge design team, we felt that it wouldbe interesting to find out what impact, if any, student design teams like the steel bridge orconcrete canoe teams have on student educational experiences. The students designed a surveyinstrument for alumni and current students, analyzed the data collected, and collaborated with theauthor to write and publish a scholarly paper on this subject which was presented at the 2003ASEE conference in Nashville. 14 Since this was the first

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Viveca Deanes; Olakunle Harrison

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Authors’ BiographiesOlakunle Harrison is an associate professor at Tuskegee University in Alabama and teaches mechatronics,automotive systems, machine design, capstone design, mechanics, and design for manufacturing. A graduate of theUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville, his research interests are in engineering design, automotive systems,mechatronics, product development, and design for manufacturing. He is a licensed professional engineer.Viveca K. Deanes is an assistant professor in electrical engineering at Tuskegee University. Her research interestsinclude factors that impact/improve academic persistence of first year engineering

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Strauss; Patrick Terenzini

criterion 7. ASEE Conference Proceedings, 2001. CD Rom. Washington DC: American Society for Engineering Education. 8. Terenzini, P. T., Cabrera, A. F., & Colbeck, C. L. (1999). Assessing classroom activities and outcomes, In Proceedings, 1999, Frontiers in Education Conference, IEEE, 19-24. 9. Cabrera, A. F., Colbeck, C. L., & Terenzini, P. T. (2001). Developing performance indicators for assessing classroom teaching practices and student learning: The case of engineering. Research in Higher Education, 42 (3), 327-352. 10. Campbell, D. T. & Stanley, J. C. (1963). Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for research. Chicago: R. McNally. 11. Carmines, E. G

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Jiusto; David DiBiasio

acceptable 3 44 Overall Quality Rating 3.6 2.4DiscussionWe investigated student progress on educational outcomes related to LLL that most collegesagree are essential for their graduates. The success of traditional and nontraditional curricula indelivering these outcomes, however, is only indirectly measurable because they relatefundamentally to future behavior: the life-long and self-directed learning activities of students.Thus, as we noted earlier, research about how to meet and measure these important educationalgoals remains incomplete, and there continues to be a need for critical testing of both educationalapproaches and outcomes assessment

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Ward; Robert Busch; Abhaya Datye; David Kauffman

of more importance in design of traditional process equipment and facilities and in environmental fields. Probability analysis is very important in health and safety fields. Each field has its own specific “industrial strength” computer program packages used for design, analysis and operations. Students should gain experience using the ones in their fields. • Design, economics, process control and laboratory: These are all topics that have close ties to industrial and/or research laboratory practices. They can be very different, however, depending on what industry or research area they are tied to. The design process for a large-scale, continuous petrochemical

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Noah Salzman; Christopher Emery; Kevin Kloesel; Sandra Cruz Pol; Omnia El-Hakim; Kathleen Rubin

tracking and prediction. Over the course ofthe week, the teachers learned about electronics, networking, radar, meteorology, and complexengineered systems. They also learned about diversity and grant writing, and gained familiaritywith the Massachusetts science frameworks, one of the first state frameworks in the country toinclude engineering as a core focus. The summer content institute was sponsored by CASA, theNational Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensingof the Atmosphere. CASA is developing a distributed network of small, low-cost radars andother sensors designed to observe weather phenomena in the lower part of the atmosphere. Thisnew sensing system will allow for better observation, tracking, and

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Youakim Kalaani

Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationand our institution provides the best venue for reaching a large audience in creative and effectiveways.An enormous benefit of “green” power is its impact on air quality and other aspects of theenvironment. According to the US government's Energy Information Administration, over onefourth of the air pollution produced by burning fossil fuels is a by-product of electric powerproduction. Acid rain caused by emissions of sulfur dioxide during the burning of coal and oil,has been reduced in the last 20 years, but has not been completely solved. Installing one kilowattof solar electric will result in reducing emissions over the course of the 25

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Larry N. Bland

. The listincludes research projects and publications. At JBU, we have a motto of “Head, Heart and Hand.” The Head represents theintellectual development of the student. An ABET response is consistent with the universityand parental needs. In our niche market, the Heart is our desire to assist in the spiritualdevelopment of each of our students. The Hand is providing application and practice that isdirectly transferable into a career. These three elements provide our response to the“foundational” issue. Functional. The functionality of an education is defined as the ability for a student toobtain employment after graduation. This translates itself three areas: 1) the market demand forpeople with an engineering education, 2) the

Conference Session

Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Shapiro

professor intervened with individual students if their actions were harming the group and if the group couldn’t resolve the issue.The framework was intended to incorporate many of the best-practices of learner-centered pedagogy. The project integrated this pedagogy with assessment in a holisticmanner. Although the project was complex and challenging, it was hoped that byestablishing clear expectations, designing the learning experience carefully, andproviding lavish formative assessment throughout, that the results would be of highquality and professional. Page 10.363.4Project Assessment “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Meyer; Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

for Outcome 11 (Engineering tools). Exposure to a variety of modern toolscan only occur at the formal education level and that in practice, those experiences will beneeded to guide an engineer to choose the best tool, teach themselves to use it, and select othertools when appropriate.There was wide agreement that Level 3 competency in Outcome 12 (Specialization) will have tobe attained at the masters degree level. While Levels 1 and 2 competency are started at theundergraduate level, the Committee concluded that it would be difficult to share thisresponsibility, especially when a student completes specialization at the graduate level in a civil-engineering sub-discipline that was not covered at all at his or her undergraduate institution

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Macnab

design, something barely taught in school • the majority of engineering graduates do not have an engineering careerThe engineering degree must be done in a short time to demonstrate the students ability to learnnew information quickly. This makes sense considering the short half-life of the knowledgeobtained. But why take engineering at all if most graduates do not become practicing engineers?The fact is that there is a very high demand in our society for people who are technically literate(sometimes referred to disparagingly as technocrats) in a very wide range of jobs. It isengineering and science degrees that fill this need. The technocrat will be expected to handletechnical information, to understand diagrams, be very computer

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberta Berry; Jonathan Olinger; Paul Benkeser

wide variety of settings—as engineers inindustry, physicians in private or public medical clinics, biomedical researchers in academia,industry or government, and many others. The opportunities opened up by interdisciplinarityand this profusion of career paths are also well known: fresh insights from novel cuts through oldproblems, techniques ported across disciplines and practices, innovations transferred fromlaboratory bench to surgeon’s suite. The distinctive opportunities for graduates are a functionnot only of interdisciplinarity and diverse career options, but of the common subject matter andpurpose of their work: interventions in life systems for human benefit.Ethics education for BME undergraduates presents related challenges and

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Allameh; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

anddeveloping countries, and effective management of academic and engineeringinstitutions. 2Critical thinking and problem solving are important skills that need to be developed forstudents in an undergraduate program. Critical thinking is one of the several ABETprogram outcomes that are difficult to achieve using traditional approaches toengineering education. For example, engineering graduates need to have the broadeducation necessary to understand the impact of civil engineering solutions in a globaland societal context. There is much to be gained from broader application of thephilosophies and techniques to the education of engineers.3 Problem solving in specificcannot be simply a series of stand-alone assignments or projects. It must thus

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Carl Eger

students to use techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice: Students are required to research their internship placement and technical concepts related to the service placement as part of the preparatory process. This research requires the use of the Internet. Students are required to communicate with the ETHOS director and the ETHOS community during their internship via e-mail and through the use of a Quickplace site. While serving on the internship, students have limited access to modern engineering tools. In most cases, students are required to improvise by designing and building simple tools that can be used in place of some of the higher tech