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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

facilitated by the recent changes to accreditation standards by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.In addition to reform that restructures the first-year engineering curriculum to engage thestudents through inquiry, real-world applications, and social relevance, admissions reform isstarting to reshape the face of the engineering student body. Carnegie Mellon Universityadjusted its admissions criteria to reflect its research that prior computing experience did notpredict academic success by removing its strong preference for highly experienced applicants. In2001, the University of California system adopted an admissions plan that guarantees provisionalUniversity admission to all students in the top 12.5% of every high-school class

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Gonzales

. Throughout the home page there are many references to findinggirlfriends, movie star favorites, TV soap stories or gossip, and more. Each page content is verycrowded with enticements toward money making schemes, gambling, fortune telling, gossiping,pornography, and lots of flash animated gif’s. The web site design is targeting the people ofChina and the designers have learned that these flashy, colorful, action packed designs work.China is a crowded population and this characteristic is reflected in the crowded web sitedesigns. Page 9.1261.4Another feature associated with the cultural diversity is the structure of the Chinese language.They are able

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Tricamo; Dennis Depew

model of needs-driven engineering innovation that integratespurposeful creative engineering development with directed-strategic research; and engineeringand technology graduate education must reflect this change for the United States to maintain itscompetitive edge in the innovation-driven economy. The demand for engineers with strongtechnical skills, practical engineering experience, and professional skills for leadership oftechnology development in industry is increasing. In today’s innovation-driven economy, thenation’s domestic engineering workforce plays a primary and integral role in generating,developing, and leading continuous technological innovation for competitive advantage.Although U.S. engineering education has pioneered various

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Coleman; Jennifer Craig

faculty also observed that the teams whose aircraft performed well incompetition demonstrated strong technical understanding and good teamwork skills inaddition to being able to articulate their work on the written SPS. On the less successfulteams, faculty observed weak technical understanding and difficulty in achieving projectmilestones. Engineering faculty also observed that, in reflective memos written at the endof the term, students could describe the teamwork difficulties they had encountered eventhough they had not been able to remedy those during the term. Not surprisingly, thestudents who described the most teamwork difficulties tended to be on teams whosedesigns did not perform well.Table 3: Correlation of competition scores with SPS

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Petlick; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe; Aaron Clark

, conduct research, analyze, and solve problemsaround a range of technology and science topics. The twelve units being developed reflect thenewly developed Standards for Technological Literacy (STL). 1 These standards, developed inconjunction with the National Science Foundation and NASA have as their goal to provide aframework for improving technological literacy in grades K through 12 and, therefore, providebetter prepared students for post-secondary engineering and technology programs. Developed inpartnership with North Carolina State University, the Southern Regional Education Board(SREB), and the North Carolina Department of Education, these units are being piloted in SREB“High Schools That Work” sites 2 that were selected to provide a diverse

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifton Johnston; Diane Douglas

consequences ofthe work, means that graduating engineers probably require stronger communicationskills than most graduating students5.To train students for writing in the engineeringprofession, assignments should reflect the nature of the work. Problem-based engineeringcourses require workplace types of communication—progress reports, proposals, oralreports, presentations. Engineering graduates must be able to establish relationships withco-workers and clients, they must have questioning skills in order to determine theparameters of engineering problems and to test developing designs, and they must be ableto convey technical information clearly to both colleagues and clients.In modeling actual engineering communication requirements, students become

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mikaya Lumori; Ernest Kim

applications.Experiments and design in the radio frequency applications made extensive use of vectornetwork analysis. Microstrip lines were designed and analyzed for VSWR, transmission,reflection, and impedance matching. Agilent ADS software and Motorola impedancematching network were used in both applications to enhance and confirm designs.Microwave Training Kit experiments gave a different, but equally useful, perspective onmeasurements of VSWR, microwave power, frequency, wavelength, load impedance, etc.Besides, familiarization with various microwave components was gained in this set ofexperiments.An extension of antenna design theory beyond the confines of the course textbookscovered low frequency antenna design for submarine communications. Furthermore

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Hassall; Jose Arquero; John Joyce; Ian Robinson; Michael Bramhall

communicationapprehension. The Engineering students do not register this trend in OCA and consequently thisis also reflected in total communication apprehension. However, the trend for the Engineers isthe same as for the other two groups in WCA. It is noticeable that although, as mentioned earlier,the range of academic self rating by the Engineers was much greater than the other two groupstheir range of mean scores as shown above is much less than for the others. For example, in thecase of oral communication apprehension the range of mean scores for Engineers is 5.17 (that is62.97 to 68.14) as against 16.22 (75.90 to 59.58) and 9.77 (69.13 to 59.36) respectively forAccounting and Business Studies students

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

, relative to the proposed development. The sketching assignment should require studentsto reflect on the geotechnical conditions at the site and write detailed engineering report qualityparagraphs describing the conditions. If desired, a computer generated cross-section can beprepared once a hand-sketched cross-section is developed.Elastic Stress Distribution. Text books all present elastic stress distribution theories and avariety of tools using those theories to estimate changes in stress beneath different loadconfigurations. Equations and charts are available to predict these changes in stress. Whilehistorically these equations and charts were the standards used in engineering practice, software,based on the same theories, is available today for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Akbar Eslami

. Atconcentrations above that range the times continued to decrease but at a much lesser rate. Geltemperature (Figure 3(b)) showed a similar pattern of little change at the higher concentrations,reaching a plateau around 185 C. The inflection temperature pattern was not as clear.The gel time and temperature behavior reflect the molecular make up of the vinyl ester. Asoriginally made, the resin is much too viscous to be used for composite materials. Consequently,it is diluted with styrene monomer. (It is the styrene monomer that gives polyester resins thecharacteristic odor that many people associate with “fiberglass” composites 2.) Fortunately, thestyrene monomer enters into the gel and cure reactions and thus is a reactive diluent. As part ofthe final

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Velasquez-Bryant; Gokhan Pekhan; Ahmad Itani; Pamela Cantrell

, interpreting, and reflecting. These processskills do not occur within engineering design in any kind of linear pattern, but rather the learneremploys these skills on demand in a single or layered configuration, depending upon thechallenges met during the design process. Teachers were trained in the design process skills andincluded them as teaching strategies within the TLM.Triangulated Learning ModelA study of current literature and best practices led to the development of the Triangulated Page 9.941.3Learning Model (TLM), a major component of the TIES project. The TLM is supported by both Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

sudhakar vadiraja; Hector Cervantes

competency-based curriculum requires application of different educationalstrategies8-10:The first step in a competency-based curriculum is the development of a set of competencystatements to define what knowledge, skills and attitudes the mechanical /materials engineeringundergraduate should possess. This set of competency statements will then provide a standard foridentifying the core content of the curriculum and allowing the assessment of outcomes of thecurriculum. Competencies in the curriculum should be reviewed and modified to be responsiveand reflective of the educational needs of the students, community demands and changes inprofessional practices.2.2 Undergraduate courses on Smart materialsTypical components of an undergraduate course on

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James West; Dennis Miller; Daina Briedis

as possible. Theissue of modernizing chemical engineering curricula has been a newsworthy nation-wideconcern over the past several years.As many chemical engineering faculties across the country have doggedly observed, ourcurricula have not reflected the innovation and dynamics of the profession. Except for minortweaking and title changes, most chemical engineering curricula have remained essentiallystagnant over the past 40 years. Although starting salaries remain high, student enrollments havedropped and unemployment rates have increased (1). Many of the better students are attracted toother engineering disciplines or modern sciences. While reasons for these phenomena may benumerous and complex, it is clear that changes in the enabling

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Rand; Don Bowie; Donald Peter; Anthony Donaldson

significant timereductions by applying strategic thinking. In addition, the engineering students hosted thebusiness students in the electronics lab to both introduce them to the lab environment andto demonstrate to them an electronic circuit, concept or theory. Students were required towrite short reflection papers on these experiences. Below are images of these activities. Page 9.278.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFigur e 1 Dr . Rand explains pr ocess mapping Figur e 2 Business and engineer

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vyas Harinath; Pfumai Kuzviwanza; Jianzhong Lou; Leonard Uitenham; Keith Schimmel

analysis. Students are able to study the relationship betweenpolymer structure and biodegradation properties. They are challenged to use statistical methodsto determine which polymer physical and chemical property measurements best correlate withbiodegradability. Through this process, the students develop a vivid understanding offundamental principles of polymer science, as well as the importance of societal andenvironmental issues with polymer materials design, manufacturing, and applications. Pedagogythat has been demonstrated to be effective in improving student learning, e.g., cooperativelearning, formative assessment and feedback, and reflective writing, is incorporated into thelaboratory materials.I. IntroductionSynthetic polymers continue

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

necessary to become licensed asa professional engineer. It is expected that existing undergraduate and graduate programs Page 9.737.1will be revised to reflect this body of knowledge and that new programs will be created. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The ASCE board established the Task Committee on Academic Prerequisites forProfessional Practice in the fall of 2001 and charged it with developing a plan forimplementing Policy Statement 465. That committee has been pursuing three parallellong-term (20

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Shull; John Wise

data on existingpractices in an unobtrusive and consistent manner. Each week, faculty are asked to log on thesystem and enter their goals and objectives for the past week, along with a short synopsis of theireffectiveness in achieving them. This information is stored locally and can be accessed in orderto develop a list of objectives currently being pursued by each faculty member. Collecting thisinformation as near as possible to its presentation to students controls for gaps in memory thatare sure to come up in any post-semester meeting on course objectives. This activity is useful onseveral levels. The faculty benefit from the weekly reflection on each class, something that is alltoo often seen as a luxury. The data thus obtained can be used

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

components in the schematic. Simulate the hot-swapcircuit using MULTISIM. If some component model is not available, either get alternative modelsor build approximate models. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.162.5 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationExperimentConnect the circuit as shown in Fig. 3 and verify the results with respect to the results in pre-lab. Fig. 3 Hot-Swap Controller circuit4.3.2 A Simulation Exercise: Simulation of Transmission lines, reflections and

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Horacio Sosa; Vladimir Genis

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIn this laboratory session, the directivity pattern is determined analytically and measuredexperimentally. During the experiment, a projector and a hydrophone are separated by theminimum acceptable distance, x, to minimize interference from reflections. The standard criteriafor uniform circular pistons are ra 2 x , (4) nwhere n"?"c/f is the wavelength, and f is the resonance frequency of the transducer.The experimental set-up for measuring the directivity pattern

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Pat Ackerman; Kathy Brockway; Raju Dandu; Pedro Leite; Jimmy Splichal

WritingSeminars coordinated by participating faculty began with the English section of the Departmentof Arts, Sciences, and Business. A seminar on community service and expressive writing washeld in conjunction with an Expository Writing Course. The workshop provided opportunitiesfor elementary students who are not actively involved in their community to engage in proactivecommunity service projects, while providing opportunities for KSU Salina writing students toactively participate in interactive community service projects followed by critical reflection andapplication in classroom activities. Each week, middle school and college students cooperativelyperformed community service, writing about their experiences in personal journals. Collegestudents

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay C. Dee; Glen Livesay

retention ofengineering students [2], sparked a complementary investigation into whether the retention offirst-year engineering students could be correlated to the learning styles of these students.MethodsIndex of Learning Styles The Index of Learning Styles (ILS) defines four major domains of learning styles; withineach domain are two descriptors. The ILS, well-described in the literature [3-5] and on the Web[6],essentially summarizes students’ self-reported preferences for receiving information visually orverbally, processing information actively or in a reflective manner, focusing on sensory orintuitive types of information, and understanding information in a sequential or a global fashion.The ILS can be used to identify an overall

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

them to expand their knowledge beyond what is typicallyProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education covered in a text. We also discuss this issue in the aforementioned CEES seminar class. In addition, some classes have started using “reflective writing” as another means of assessment, as well as a mechanism to have students look inwardly at their own learning and see if they are progressing toward their personal goals. Finally, the senior capstone project further exemplifies the need for life-long learning. 10. Contemporary issues - Level 2. Again, “real-world” Sooner City projects

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberto Montoya

rigorously scientific, academic andthoroughly committed to the advancement of science. The pillars upon which Humboldt basedthe structure of his model were Investigation and Teaching, and with them he intended to replacethe medieval university. This model is the epitome of the classic humanities and spiritualsciences university, where the main goal was pure and abstract investigation and the training ofhuman resources to that end. Its mission is to train investigators, using teaching methods tocreate spaces for analyzing and reflecting upon the mankind’s broadest issues, the great problemsof culture and human existence.The French Napoleonic University of 1806 had a clear objective of obtaining professionalquality by way of a high intellectual level

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Dockter; Carol Muller

.” MentorNet ProtégéIn addition, MentorNet has found benefits to participating mentors, including 57% of mentorsreporting that self-reflection about their own careers was a positive outcome of their MentorNetexperience, 18% reporting a renewed commitment to their field as a positive outcome, and 7%reporting improved supervisory skills 35. In addition, mentors find benefits in helping anotherperson and some, such as the male mentor quoted below, find MentorNet a means of workingtowards gender equality in science and engineering.“Through all my years since 1969, men have outnumbered women in engineering andscientific fields by a huge margin. It is clear that much more work is required to achievecomplete equality in the workplace. To make a contribution

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Can Saygin

, learners accept that they are legitimate sources of knowledge. They realize thatauthorities help but learners themselves are the active decision makers. The fourth level isCommitment with Relativism. At this level, students synthesize solutions to the consequences ofmaking the commitment, and they realize that the perfect or ultimate solution does not exist butthey are committed to struggle with the process and to continually improve.In the Kolb Learning Style Model, four learning modes exist: (1) Abstract Conceptualization(learning based on explaining concepts), (2) Reflective Observation (based on examining theevents, operations, etc. rather than actively participating), (3) Concrete Experience (based onactively experiencing with an event

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Tammy VanDeGrift; Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

graduate education inwhich the students are currently engaged. A teaching program that has unrealistic expectationsof the students, such as requiring significant time investment, would likely fail. Additionally,design of a program for engineering graduate students should attempt to address the challengesof institutionalization and reflect realistic hypotheses about how institutionalization could occurover time. For example, if possible, the program should be designed to be self-sustaining and tostand apart from specific university administrative or managerial units.The Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program: Description and DesignIn this section, we first describe the primary characteristics of the ETPP, including our programobjectives, the major

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Froyd; Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson

have been suggestionsthat an institution must have a “culture” that facilitates change, and that change strategiesare often shaped by organizational culture. Recently, as presented in the 2003 ASEEconference, Godfrey1 made a considerable contribution to understanding the culture ofengineering education by providing a theoretical model that may assist change leaders inunderstanding the dimensions of their own school’s engineering education culture. Shesuggests that if the espoused values inherent in any proposed change do not reflect theexisting culture at an “operational level,” change will be difficult to sustain.In the Foundation Coalition (FC) we have been studying the change processes FC partnerinstitutions went through to restructure

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; H. Michael Cheung; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

, Page 9.685.1pre- and post-tests of project relevant content knowledge, reflective journal and end of“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”project/course evaluations. The preliminary results indicate that, as a result of participating on aVITDP, first year students greatly enhance their knowledge content and have a significantappreciation for the discipline of chemical engineering. In addition, post-project surveys of thefreshman students indicate an overwhelmingly positive attitude toward engineering when theproject is designed to encourage good teaming behaviors. We present the lessons

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosa Pinkus; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Mark Sindelar; Larry Shuman; Carl Mitcham; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

S.Kitchener’s Reflective Judgment (RJ) Model [30]. These models measure students’ positionsalong a hierarchical construct of stages representing increasingly more sophisticated ways of un-derstanding knowledge and solving complex, open-ended problems.Perry developed his model from clinical studies of Harvard students in the 1960’s. As he inter-viewed student groups at the end of each academic year, probing their views of their universityexperiences, he observed patterns of thinking that were hierarchical and chronological. He trans-lated these patterns into a nine-stage model of development that he validated by a second, moreextensive, longitudinal study. King and Kitchener developed the Reflective Judgment (RJ)model in the late 1970’s from their

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Long

faculty perspectives. The dynamics of the meetings reflect a team-centeredapproach, offering solutions that stem from a network of distributed cognition.The RCS is presented as an educational model that augments undergraduate research whilesupplementing classroom instruction. The research team has developed a multi-dimensionalrubric and a coding system to quantify extensive qualitative data: student deliverables andvideotapes of small group sessions. This paper focuses on the method for quantifyingtraditionally qualitative data, and, based on analyses of those data, reports progressundergraduates have made in their research learning through the distributed cognitionenvironment of the RCS.The Research Communications Studio ApproachThe Research