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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Sterian; Paul Plotkowski; Jeffrey Ray

spend precious time on clerical matters,the faculty are able to discuss career aspirations with the students and build a plan of study that ismost appropriate.Grand Valley has a strong liberal arts tradition. As a result we have a substantial generaleducation program that includes upper level course requirements. It is a logistical challenge forengineering students to blend the engineering school requirements with the general educationprogram. It is only through careful and continuous review of student progress that this issuccessful. The timely updating of the student study plans is essential to this process.The final auditing process relies upon the automated Assessment of Academic Progress report.Upon receiving a request for graduation audit

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Salahuddin Qazi

Institute ofTechnology (SUNYIT), Utica, New York. The first course deals with the basics of fiberoptics and contains a structured lab of eight experiments while the second coursesincludes advance topics and experiments in optical communications, and a project. Thepaper also discusses the development of experimental facilities used in support of thesecourses. The implementation of these courses has made our curriculum current, andhelped the students to enhance their career options in the current technologicalenvironment.IntroductionOptical communication is a technology of transmitting information in the form of lightby way of optical fibers or free space as a medium. Over the last two decades the lowcost of optical fibers, enormous capacity and

Conference Session

The Use of Technology in Teaching Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracey Evers; Gilbert Casterlow; Eric Cheek

taughtin a vacuum. Philosophies were presented and students recited them, principles were “taught”, butmany times without the students being able to apply them to any real life situation. Math waspresented in such complex ways that students were often discouraged from pursuing careers thatwould require strong math backgrounds. Math educators in the U.S. recognized this was aproblem and in the 1980’s they embarked on a movement to improve the way math is taught. Theprimary goal was to extend instructions beyond rote learning by tying in real life lessons that givethe students the ability to visualize the concepts, and as such improve their retention andunderstanding. An out come of such an approach would be to given the correct activities

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

thefollowing:• Materials developed for a new national image and marketing campaign to promote ET careers (Sinclair Community College);• Videos, web sites, and workshops designed as tools to recruit learners, educate policymakers, and encourage expanded involvement of business and industry in ET education (WGBH public television); and,• Workshops available to help faculty incorporate continuous quality improvement principles into ET education (ABET).In addition, a "one-stop shopping" web site for accessing best practices and exemplary materialsfor recruiting and retaining students, as well as for teaching engineering technology, is available.An ad hoc committee of engineering technology educators is helping to build this centralizedresource

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Sloan; Ashok Goel

circuits is described. Undergraduate students worked with electricalengineering graduate students and faculty members for ten weeks on projects rangingfrom designing & study of GaAs-based circuits using MAGIC and L-Edit to modelingthe very high-frequency effects and parasitic capacitances in the GaAs-based VLSIinterconnections to computer simulations of GaAs-and SOI-based devices and circuitsusing the semiconductor TCAD tools. In this paper, the undergraduate research projectscarried out by the REU students are summarized1. IntroductionIt is widely recognized that active research experience is one of the most effectivetechniques for training and motivating undergraduate students for careers in science andengineering. In the USA, National

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Cutlip

- as a facultymember, as a department head, and as a member of a Board at another university. Experiencesover a 35-year period will be used to explore ways in which these Boards and their members canbe utilized to the fullest advantage for the sponsoring Departments and for the EngineeringCollege.IntroductionThe following are my personal views on the operations of a Departmental Advisory Board. Theyare based on career-long experiences with Boards in various capacities. My first contact with aBoard was as an assistant/associate professor participating in our department's Board when it wasthe only one in the engineering college. I then managed and interacted with a Board as adepartment head for nine years. Finally, I am now a professor who

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

theuniversity research and industrial sponsor’s work. These lesson plans are placed on a web site fordissemination. The interns have visited the industrial sponsor to learn about their business anddone final project presentations for them.This program has a history of success in attracting women students into engineering and sciencemajors. It also hopes to have a larger impact in the long term as the 5th – 8th grade audiencetargeted for the lesson plans becomes of college age and chooses science, technology,engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers in (hopefully) larger numbers than before.Introduction and History:Female, high school summer research interns at Iowa State University work with engineeringindustries and Iowa State research groups to

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dustin Swanger; Guy Johnson

website at http://www.pltw.org.This nonprofit organization has developed a five-course curriculum that helps students exploreengineering-related careers and develop engineering concepts that help them as they enter two-and four-year college engineering and engineering technology degree programs. PLTW aims atchanging the focus of technology education at the high school level.The strategic goal of PLTW is to forge a dynamic and on-going partnership among schooldistricts, colleges and universities and industry that will establish and support a pre-engineeringcareer cluster program in America’s high schools. The PLTW program excites students aboutengineering careers and strengthens the link between traditional academic programs with hands-on learning

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Berdanier

application of fundamental math andscience relationships to solving real-world engineering problems. Programs are needed in the K-12 experience that deliver hands-on, project-based curricula providing the opportunity for K-12students to experience the wonders and opportunities of education and careers in engineering andtechnology 1.K-12 teachers typically have not majored in the science field of the courses they teach. Also, inthe United States students are less likely than students in other countries to be taught science byteachers with a major area of study in science 3. Generally, across all countries, only 20% ofstudents are taught science by teachers who believe that they are well prepared. The US teachersgenerally report higher levels of

Conference Session

Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

professional career paths have reported appreciating their Survey of OffshoreEngineering experiences even more as time progresses. They remark that they have found thatthey are especially capable of presenting a problem to and discussing it with a consultedexpert.ConclusionsMulti-background teams provide an added dimension to projects which are broad enough toallow each member to make a unique contribution. An offshore field development provides anexcellent setting for this within the Offshore Engineering MSc curriculum at the DelftUniversity of Technology.The broad hands-on experience relatively early in the curriculum becomes more and morevalued as team participants progress through the curriculum and on into their careers. It alsohelps to motivate

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anne Beddingfield; A. Wayne Bennett

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Expositions Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” One of the primary goals of the leadership program is to affect the campus culture ofstudent-initiated life-long learning and to positively impact the pejorative stereotype that engineerscannot communicate effectively or become good leaders. All of the activities are voluntary andno course credit is given for participation. Attendance and participation have not been problems.Careful planning and student input are keys to the program’s success. Students realize theactivities are relevant to their growth as individuals and that these skills will serve them well intheir professional engineering careers and personal

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Beckry Abdel-Magid; Yunsheng Xu

, skills in lifelong learning are becomingimperative for engineers to cope with the ever-changing demands in theworkplace during their professional career. The elements of undergraduateresearch and lifelong learning skills are presented in this paper and two coursesare suggested as mechanisms to foster this education in the engineeringcurriculum.IntroductionNumerous studies conducted on the undergraduate engineering programemphasized the importance of the basic elements of mathematics, naturalsciences, engineering sciences, and fundamental concepts of analysis anddesign [1-4]. These studies also called for emphasis on synthesis and design,depth and strength in the technical subjects, greater emphasis on deeper inquiryand open-ended problem solving

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Davis; Melissa Dark

prepared for careers in the IA fields. A major barrier to meeting this challengeis that few Universities currently offer a comprehensive IA educational program; furthermore,sufficient numbers of experienced faculty to ramp up such an effort does not exist. In a testimony given to the US House of Representative Committee on Science (4) on February11, 1997, Professor Eugene Spafford from Purdue University presented results from a survey heconducted indicating that there were only 12 faculty members nationwide with significant teachingand researching assignment in Information Assurance. In 2003, we are able to identify only a fewscore institutions offering more than a single course in network security or cryptography2.Given the growing need for

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Mosto; Gregory Hecht; Kathryn Hollar; Stephanie Farrell

DivisionAbstract Preparing chemical engineering students for careers in emerging technologies, suchas bioengineering and pharmaceutical engineering, is essential in today’s competitivemarket. To meet the industry (and student) demand for training in bio-focusedengineering, many schools offer specialized curricula that concentrate on the interfacebetween biology and engineering, or offer elective courses at the senior or graduate level.However, integration of biology and chemical engineering at the lower levels and in corecourses is often difficult in curricula that are already filled to capacity. The chemical engineering curriculum at Rowan University has been revised toinclude a Biological Systems & Applications course designed

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Anderson; Richard Wilk

. Page 8.1200.1The assessment tools used include course assessments, student course portfolios, senior exit “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 3166surveys and interviews, alumni surveys, the FE Exam results, co-op employer evaluations, degreeaudits, ME curriculum audits, course-end evaluations, and career surveys. Table 1 lists theseassessment tools and some of the associated details.We are constantly looking for new and better assessment tools for obtaining data on the studentoutcomes. Recently

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski

committed tobeing a major technological resource for the area, preparing students for engineering careers inregionally important industries such as food processing. The New Jersey Economic DevelopmentAuthority has targeted food processing as one of the state’s key industries, and has arranged for [2]over $50 million in financing to attract new food processors to the state . The state is home toCampbell Soup Co. (in neighboring Camden, NJ), and has major manufacturing operations of topcompanies such as Coca Cola, Anheuser Busch, General Mills, and Kellogg’s. The immediateVineland area is the hub of Southern New Jersey’s food processing industry, home to about thirty

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Prestwich; Fiona McNeill; David Chettle

careers are known; 70% are working in a medical or healthphysics related area, 87% have employment in science or medicine and 63% undertake agraduate degree of some form.The undergraduate programmes are also successful in that they attract a relatively highproportion of women, as compared with other physical science or engineering degrees.Undergraduate enrolment of women has ranged from 40-50%. Current enrolment in theprogrammes is 50% women. Page 8.209.1The Graduate Programme in Health and Radiation PhysicsMcMaster University has maintained a graduate programme in Health Physics at the M.Sc.Level for some twenty years. The current M.Sc. in Health and

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

Page 8.114.2 Copyright @ 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationstudents who took the first engineering course in the fall or spring semester of a particularacademic year. These students were then tracked throughout their career at Baylor. Table 1. Department of Engineering Retention Data Engineering Any Degree from Degree EGR EGR EGR EGR Baylor from 13011 13022 24303 33804

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Coburn Stoler; Peter Crouch; Douglas Gorham

Editor of IEEE Educational Publications and Director, Career Development and Outreach.Before joining IEEE, she was a training consultant to the telecommunications industry in New Jersey, asocial studies textbook editor with Prentice-Hall and a teacher in elementary and middle schools for 13years. Page 8.580.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Kithcart; Legunchim Emmanwori; G. Van Ness Burbach; Dominic Clemence; Caesar Jackson; Guoqing Tang

are created, and older jobs and skills become obsolete. Career broadening throughinterdisciplinary experiences is particularly important in preparing underrepresented students forthe opportunities in geophysical sciences. North Carolina A&T State University, the Nation’s topproducer of minority baccalaureate degrees in STEM disciplines, is well positioned to take thelead role in preparing underrepresented students to pursue academic studies and careeropportunities in geophysical sciences.The National Science Foundation HBCU Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) funded theUniversity’s TALENT-21: Gateway for Advancing Science and Mathematics Talent programin 1999. The TALENT-21 Program began the effort of developing an undergraduate

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

interactions between technology and management. The Engineers Leadership Foundationand the Foundation for Professional Practice conducted a survey of almost two hundred seniorengineering managers and leaders, in which they concluded that engineering knowledge isessential, but that leadership positions can be attained earlier if engineering students are exposedto management, public speaking, and other non-engineering coursework. The most highlyrecommended courses included business management, public speaking, and marketing. Inaddition to taking courses, the professionals surveyed suggested involvement in activities likesports, internships, volunteering, and clubs to improve interpersonal skills. Engineering andtechnology-related careers involve life

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Issues in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Yau

discussions of heuristic versus brute-force problem-solving approaches. In the context of a course on computer security, the assignment serves totangibly demonstrate issues with password selection and user policies that apply to this issue.Undergraduate students in Computer Science Technology and Information EngineeringTechnology do not receive the same training in the formal analysis of algorithms that students instandard theory based Computer Science programs do. It is clear, however, that IT studentsmust develop a basic understanding of problem complexity issues and heuristic problem solvingapproaches to be successful in their careers. The exercise described in this paper gives students ahands-on feel for computational complexity through a

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Murphy

Session 1355 Practical Advice for the “New Kid on the Block” Dave Murphy Fire Safety Engineering Technology The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is. – Joan Gilbertson As a new faculty member at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, I haverecently experienced many changes associated with starting a new career. I can readily attest tothe unique challenges and expectations of assuming the position of assistant professor afterserving twenty years in the fire

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Wise; Philip Kosky; Robert Balmer

, from unit systems throughenergy, electrical circuits, and information and control are exemplified by systems found in theautomobiles of today and tomorrow. Problem Definition The problem that Union College’s Introduction to Engineering and Mechatronics course isdesigned to solve is to help students make an early and informed decision about whether or notthey find engineering an exciting career path and have both the interest and the capability topursue an engineering degree. This problem is, in large part, set by the nature of Union Collegeas an educational institution. Founded in 1795, it is a small, predominantly liberal arts collegewith a total enrollment of 2000. About 15% of these students are engineering majors. Withinengineering

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Zuckerman; Nathaniel Bowe; LaMarr Taylor; Kyle Smith; Dan Moore

8.593.4submissions. Each project submitted by the Engenius Solutions team is of the utmost importancedue to the impact our projects have upon our economic survival. More specifically, the workcompleted by each design department team has a direct relationship to both project andorganizational success. While some design department teams may be involved in a project that iscritical to some organization or company, every Engenius Solutions sponsored project is criticalto our operation. Moreover, students are exposed to both the pressures and excitement of doinghighly beneficial, marketable work.Direct HiringDirect Hiring involves Engenius Solutions “advertising” the project being undertaken, as well asthe students needed for the project. The career services

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Keyser; Ronald Musiak; Richard Mindek; Mary Vollaro; Steven Schreiner

lectures were greatly needed for the incoming freshmen. Duringrecent years, within the context of the college’s SOAR program, engineering faculty had been introducingfreshmen enrolled in our Introduction to Engineering course (ENGR 103) to the topic of ethics by discussingthe “Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse” in some detail, including a technical demonstration, and then givingthem related homework to complete over the summer. The introduction of several ethics lectures to thesesame freshmen during the fall semester was thought to be a good follow-up to the SOAR assignments, and anappropriate point in the careers of potential engineers to introduce them in earnest to the topic of ethics.While the main emphasis of ethics integration in the

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kissock; Rebecca Blust

theclient with specific recommendations to save money by reducing energy waste or productioncosts. Each recommendation presents the current state a recommendation of the estimatedsavings, the estimated project cost, and the estimated simple payback. Last year, facilities fromThe University of Dayton Industrial Assessment Center reported savings on average of $136,000per year based on an assessment.II. Student LearningCommunicationA critical element in a successful career is the ability to communicate effectively; transferringinformation clearly and accurately is important for the students to learn. Through the IAC,students are given the opportunity to become effective communicators by extensive practiceconveying written and oral technical

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid

) influence their career choice - students (andtheir parents) who were involved in these activities stated that they loved the activities and parents haveexpressed appreciation to the instructors for explaining engineering to their children in a fun and excitingway.Young ScholarsThe Young Scholars program was established before the starting dateof this grant and was quite successful. The technical portion of theprogram was named as one of the top three programs nationwide inthe IEEE-USA Precollege Education Project Competition. Wehad a series of classes which were all full, and demand for moretechnical content in the program. The Young Scholars program is administered by the School ofEducation, not the School of Engineering and Technology.The courses

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

implement the projects. The college also partner with area industries toschedule classes and workshops for specific groups of employees wishing to upgrade or learn newskills. As the industries realize the benefits these labs, they will offer research project and financialsupport to our department which grantees our future grow.c. Impact on Curriculum and InstructionThe study of CIM and related advanced manufacturing requires modern equipment that thestudent can utilize in a lab setting. The long run plan is to offer students CIM-related options incomputer science and other pertinent fields. Such advanced offerings can be tailored to thestudent’s individual career goals. Our developing interdisciplinary effort combines engineeringand computer

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hirak Patangia

SESSION 3448 A Recruiting and Retention Strategy Through A Project Based Experiential Learning Course Hirak C. Patangia University of Arkansas at Little Rock hcpatangia@ualr.eduAbstractAn experiential learning course centered on an intellectually inquisitive project has been designedfor the benefit of any freshman student who wants to explore engineering as a career field, andalso to provide the prospective majors with a head start for the beginning engineering