Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawna Fletcher; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

courses fail to motivatestudents and many potential engineers transfer out of their majors before they experience anyengineering3 . In either case, female students do not feel comfortable in their degree programsinitially and feel a lack of contact with their college.Therefore, it is necessary that retention efforts begin with programs that serve to integrate femalestudents into the college, peer groups, and support services available to them. These programsshould include both academic and community learning experie nces that help female students toconnect on a personal level with staff, faculty, and other female students in the college.II. WISE Retention ProgramsThe WISE Office at ASU has had several retention programs in place that have aided

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

haddeveloped for EGR 312 that term so that all students could review all presentations inpreparation for the final exam. After all the presentations and subsequent discussions, studentswere required to write a brief statement indicating their original position, which team was mostconvincing, and whether their own beliefs were changed by the opposing team.Assessment of the Project Management ModuleA variety of methods were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the project managementcomponent of EGR 312. The authors of the "Design of Field Joint for STS 51-L: Launch or NoLaunch Decision" case study provided two evaluation instruments. The first instrument (CaseStudy Evaluation I) pertained to the content of the case study; the survey consisted of

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

factors that lead to effective presentations. Sample questions were “List tworeasons why engineers need to develop good presentation skills.“ and “Prepare a single list ofthe five most important guidelines for planning, preparing, and delivering a talk. Write asentence or two justifying your choices.” The second type of assignment directed the students toweb sites or printed material and required them, normally as members of a team, to prepare ashort talk on some topic dealing with presentation skills. Topics included common mistakes indelivering a presentation, preparing for questions, preparing for a hostile audience, and dealingwith nervousness.The project management module also used two types of assignments. The first set encouragedthe

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

Page 7.337.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationclearly dominated by advising, career profiling, and special orientation programs. A significantnumber of programs employ some form of community building, although Table 6 shows no clearpreference for one method over another. Table 7 confirms Gándara’s finding that peer mentoringand tutoring programs are popular, if not well assessed. Table 8 indicates that math is, by far, themost common subject area to be addressed in special programs, most likely because it is thesubject area most commonly cited as a problem area for transitioning students

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza S. Abhari; Friederike Mund; Anestis I. Kalfas

design tasks were performed through manual calculations by followingtraditional lecture notes. The conceptual design was followed by more sophisticated three-dimensional design tasks using computer-aided techniques. Finally, the students were assessedcontinuously with respect to their technical contribution, working techniques and interactionwith their peer group at national and international level. They were also probed regarding theiropinion on various aspects of the project using interviews and forms. These surveys have beenevaluated together with the opinion of the academic staff in order to form future directions. For the planning the students had to consider the engine as a whole before distributing the tasksindividually. This enabled

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Subrata Roy; Karim Nasr; K. Joel Berry

. In a recent study by Kettering University CoreEngineering Team (CET)[1], a survey of engineering curricula at other universities was carriedout. Reviewed universities included all of Kettering’s Association of Independent TechnologicalUniversities (AITU) peers, Michigan universities with major engineering programs, anduniversities participating in the Foundation Coalition. This review[2-6] found that manyuniversities, including Kettering, continue to offer relatively traditional core curricula. Non-traditional or innovative programs are in place at a number of universities, but relatively few ofthese have been implemented for all students. Most remain in an experimental stage and areoffered to only a subset of the students and taught only by

Conference Session

Technology Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Emery; John Feland

· Teaching via the case method · Designing for experiential learningIn addition, journal articles will be highlighted to support educators with how, and why, to usevarious technologies to design unique learning experiences in the entrepreneurship classroom.Such examples include: · Online collaboration tools · Creating a classroom community online · Real-time case writing through teleconferencing · Cross-university collaboration · E-mentors: Transcending geographical barriers to provide real-world contentd. The CommunityIndividual comments regarding the challenges faced by entrepreneurship educators indicated thatmany faculty lack the time to review resources, and miss having a peer group with whom toshare

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena

peers on the basis of nationalstereotypes.According to David Harvey (1989), in a system of flexible accumulation subcontracted "flexible"workers use their multiple skills to produce products according to rapidly shifting tastes.Globalization also depends on the availability of flexible workers to produce "just-in-time"products according to consumer demands and on the rapid dispersal of those products around theglobe. Again, Harvey does not give engineers special conceptual treatment. Furthermore, thedesired feature of flexibility in engineers has been taken for granted as something that can betaught in engineering school, particularly if encouraged by corporations hiring engineers andaccrediting bodies of engineering education (Boeing 1997

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Bailey; Ozer Arnas

theacademy’s goal and mission. While pursuing a four-year college degree, the students thatattend the academy are also training to serve as officers in the United States Army andare therefore known as cadets. The complete student body is referred to as the Corps ofCadets and includes representation from every state in the nation as well as numerousforeign countries.West Point’s Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering offers an AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited degree in mechanicalengineering (ME). Cadets enrolled in ME must successfully complete a course of studyvery similar to that required by their peers at civilian institutions. Each year,approximately 75 cadets select mechanical engineering as a major. All

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

P. James Moser; Biswajit Ray

, including,optics, electronics, manufacturing technology, electrical machinery, controls, and nano-fabrication. Recognizing that we could not satisfy all of the needs of all constituents, we focusedon those needs that transcended many businesses. Various different local industries desired toemploy graduates skilled in electronics, three-phase electrical machinery, power distribution,manufacturing, and controls. They needed graduates who can write and speak well, whounderstand the economic and social implications of their business, and who are well trained inthe latest technology - able to apply it during the first day on the job. We concluded thatengineering technology graduates with specialized training in both electricity and electronics,could

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Petersen; Richard Hughey; David Meek; Alexandra Carey

assemblylanguages, MIPS and HC11, in the computer organization course. These would be treated in anewly created separate laboratory, thereby allowing us to meet both our primary and secondarygoals. The work to design this laboratory divided naturally into two major tasks: development ofthe actual tutorial hardware to be used, and writing an accompanying lab manual to support bothassembly languages, HC11 and MIPS. Thus, the hardware would employ the 68HC11 and bedesigned to meet the primary goal of bringing the hardware closer to the students while the labmanual meets both goals. The following two sections discuss details about changes we made tothe course, and how and why the necessary hardware was designed and built here at UCSC.Although this was formally

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

reasons:(i) No coding: Even though SE-382 is a software engineering course, it is the first course for SEstudents in which they do not do any design or implementation. Instead, majority of their time isspent writing documents and specifying the project requirements completely and correctly. Ourstudents, like many seasoned programmers, believe that the major effort in software developmentis programming and testing. Consequently, they found the task of documenting the functionality Page 7.748.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ronna Turner; Greg Salamo

Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn summary, the Cohort methodology is nothing more than a focused effort to give the studentsin a graduate program the sense of community and trust that is necessary for them to form anatural work group. If this work group mentality is properly formed and nurtured, then eachstudent’s individual academic success will naturally improve. The techniques they learn andapply through the cohort activities gives them the interpersonal and organization skills valued inthe technology workplace.Impact of the Cohort methodologyOne direct measure of the Cohort methodology is its acceptance under peer review by educatorsin the engineering and science communities. The Cohort methodology formed the

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

presentations before individual teachingteams, to no presentations at all.Action research projects can be particularly important in helping teachers internalize thematerials, in convincing school peers of the need for change, and in ultimately effecting changewithin the classroom and school. To encourage serious research projects we offered to pay forsubstitutes for two days of release time so the teachers could conduct their action researchprojects. However very few schools invoiced us for either the workshop materials and suppliesor the release time substitutes, though all teachers placed their personal orders for the resourcematerials. Evidently many schools are not well versed in the process of invoicing externalinstitutions for money, and/or it is

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Pimpida Punnakanta; Craig D. Lewis; Cynthia Atman

improvement.Assessing student learning of the engineering design process is particularly challenging, andefforts to assess design competency are varied 5-6. Examples of using surveys include self-assessments of abilities and knowledge7-8 and peer-based instruments where students assess the Page 7.310.1competency of their peers9-10. Examples of performance-based assessments include: juries where Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Special Topics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ayre; Julie Mills

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

George Havener

all members is required to complete a project effectively. 9. Foundations in technical report writing. An effort coordinated with the English Technical Department. Reports 10. Foundations in preparing and presenting information in oral presentations. Oral Briefings 11. A Tool: Foundations in using the USAFANet and the WWW. Computer Nets 12. A Tool: Slide and figure preparation using MS-PowerPoint. PowerPoint 13. A Tool: Foundations in using MS-Excel to create and use spreadsheets to catalog data Spreadsheets and to make calculations.from the instructor’s suggestions for improvement. We have found that the feedback sheetimproves student

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Zern; Richard Grabiec

realization ofplace and develop future direction. Additionally, the work of Arthur Chickering (1969)has provided a theoretical framework for these objectives and, together with institutionalexperience, has provided an increased awareness that engaging students from multipleperspectives is more often than not responsible for helping students develop academicallyand socially.Success as a college student requires development of a strong personal network ofsupport, connection among peers and purposeful awareness of their course of study.Studies of how college effects students by Pascarella and Terenzini (1991) offer citationafter citation as to the value and importance of the concept of mentorship, i.e., connectionto faculty, staff, students and others

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Simon Ang; Fred Barlow; Alan Mantooth; Sean Mulvenon

definition, and presentation in a suitable learning format andpace. This phase also allows the developers to focus on the selection of the best course material,lab and homework exercises, and presentation methods in the traditional lecture format. In the second phase, the focus shifts to distance learning strategies, iterative refinement of thecourses, and collaboration with other peer institutions. All lectures will be provided via I2, butleft available on the class website for later or repeated viewing by students. An additional goal ofthis phase is to begin incorporating the additional research developments into the courses. This isdone through a variety of methods including, but not limited to: a) having students in the classreview recent

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Ratnajeevan Hoole; Dushyanthi Hoole

provide the teaching materials fortheir students in addition to examination and certification, distance education has become a truealternative to conventional education, particularly for those who did not make it intoconventional universities. A measure of the success of the distance experiment is that there are asmany students enrolled at the Open University of Sri Lanka as in all the Sri Lankan conventionaluniversities put together.However, the distance option still suffers from problems. There is a high failure rate because ofdiminished peer interaction, lack of full time commitment and other reasons. But the problem ismost severe in engineering and (to a lesser extent) in the physical sciences where sometimesthere are more academic staff

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori Bassman; Patrick Little

schools that participated in the program· Increase number of teachers with engineering design knowledge· Increase awareness of the nature/limits of science· Raise standards to which students hold themselves (i.e., encourage peer evaluation as an alternative to teacher-based grading)· Encourage and support implementation of results at the local level after the factThe goal of increasing student learning opportunities and skills was translated into the followingobjectives:· Provide a framework for student decision making and problem solving· Increase number of students exposed to engineering problem solving and engineering design processes· Offer another avenue for active learning· Expand use of groups and teams in classrooms

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Titus; Guoqing Tang

choice, multiple select, numerical, fill-in-the-blank, symbolic, and essay questions. Wewill demonstrate how to use these techniques to write more intricate questions to actively engagestudents in the learning process, help them understand basic concepts, and improve theirproblem-solving skills. We will also illustrate how to use assignments delivered by WebAssignto create a learner-centered environment by promoting interactive, cooperative learning amongstudents and increasing interaction between students and faculty.Through using WebAssign to deliver, collect, and grade homework and quizzes, we haveobserved that students have increased the number of hours spent on academic tasks outside theclassroom in Calculus and General Physics as well as

Conference Session

Techniques for Improving Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Steneck; Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Susan Montgomery

students who are involved in campus organizations, such as fraternities, sororities,and athletic teams, are more likely to cheat than their peers 2,18,21,23.Finally, there has been some research performed on how situational factors, such as the pressureto succeed in school, affect academic dishonesty. Other such factors include external workcommitments, heavy course loads, and financial aid or scholarship requirements 1,4,24.Additionally, students frequently place the blame for cheating on the faculty, citing poorinstructional quality, irrelevant course material, and faculty apathy about cheating 23.Overall, we believe that the responsibility for reducing academic dishonesty lies with the entirecollege community, including students, academic

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

(aq) + HCl(aq) –> NaCl(aq) after calculating the )H for the following reactions:NaOH(s) –> NaOH(aq) and NaOH(s) + HCl(aq) –> NaCl(aq).Acid - Base Titration - Students determined the concentration dependence of pH for carbonicacid and then estimated the amount of base required to neutralize the acid. They repeated this forcalculation HCl, and by comparison learn that the difference between a strong and weak acid.Kinetics - The students determined the rate law of crystal violet (CV) + NaOH to determine if itis an elementary process.In these experiments the students were not given specific experimental conditions to examine,and were required to write a brief lab memo (with an introduction, procedure, results anddiscussion) to explaining

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Teodora Rutar; Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Lawrence McKenzie; Denny Davis; Kenneth Gentili; Patricia Daniels; Michael Trevisan

where they show offtheir capstone design projects. Furthermore, they are asked to make a journal entry analyzingtheir individual performance with the rubric suggested by Figure 3 and outlining a personal planof action for elevating their skills to the next level. They are also asked to speculate whyengineering students typically score much lower on the teamwork and communication sectionsthan the design process sections and are asked to suggest actions that could be taken across thecurriculum to improve performance in these areas.At Seattle University some freshman classes take the instrument as an ice-breaker in thebeginning engineering course. This experience initiates fellowship among their peers and helpsstudents see the big picture of what

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David W. Miller; Doris Brodeur

issue at thistime, as did teamwork and good communication.Because communication and teamwork skills are important objectives to this capstone course,they were taught concurrently in a companion Communications Practicum. These skills includedtechnical briefings and presentations, graphics, technical writing, team dynamics, conflictresolution, and colleague assessment. Presentations and reports were observed and critiqued byan instructional team led by a communications specialist from the School of Humanities andSocial Sciences. Both the instructional staff and student peers rated team participation and teamleadership skills. Page 7.1128.6

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Shirley

only of theengineering students.Each lecture is broken up with exercises to illustrate the concepts being presented. Additionally,in each class the students are broken into teams (usually four to six in classes between 15 and 40students) which are as diverse as possible in terms of personality, gender, culture, and skill sets6. The teams are later combined into larger groups which become a “business”7. There are teammidterm and final reports and presentations, as well as individual exams and homeworkassignments. Peer grading is also used. The lectures are lavishly illustrated with actualexamples, many drawn from the author’s personal experiences, particularly as the leader of the

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Upchurch; Chi Thai

objective. In additionto the virtual instrumentation (data acquisition), each workstation was equipped with a digitaloscilloscope (Tektronix TDS 210), dual power supply (Agilent E3620A), digital multimeter(Fluke Model 45) and 2 MHz function generator (Leader LG 1301). To provide an ergonomicworkstation, the instrumentation was mounted on shelves on each side of the monitor (Figure 2).This arrangement also met the guidelines for the American Disabilities Act.Engineering Software. Software packages available for engineering design are readilyavailable and very useful in strengthening lecture material. The basic software for report writing(‘Microsoft Office Suite’) and data analysis (‘MatLab’, ‘TKSolver’, ‘StatMost’) was installed oneach workstation

Conference Session

Issues in Physics and Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Probst

focuses oncommunications issues such as writing styles, written and oral communication within the groupand to others outside the group. Group organization and project management are also coveredduring this week. The next two weeks focus on small case studies in order to emphasizeproblem-solving strategies, group dynamics, and to practice written and oral communication. Page 7.96.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationOf course, students should bring many of these skills to the course, but

Conference Session

ET Capstone Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Behbood Zoghi; Joseph Morgan

students identify competing design project opportunities. Asthe individual students interact, design teams are formed and the teams generate white papers to insurethey fully understand the objectives and constraints of the potential project sponsor. A formal technicalproposal is then generated which contains the detailed planning the team has done in preparation for theproject. Finally, the teams create a web presence for their project so that access to pertinentinformation is available to all stakeholders. The third major objective is to expose the students toimportant areas of information that are not possible to include in the other technically-orientedcoursework. Topics such as business etiquette, resume writing, and compensation packages