Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller

is not clear. The students fill out the formsat some point during the class. At the end of the class period, the students deposit the forms at thefront of the room. This requires very little actual class time.After class, the instructor should review the comments and consider whether suggested changesare appropriate and especially note aspects of the course that have been perceived as positive, sothat they can be continued. The comments can typically be reviewed and considered in about 15minutes for a class of 50 students. In general, many of the comments will reflect common ideasand concerns. These provide the strongest basis for considering things to change in the course.For example, in some of my recent classes, many students indicated

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

. reflection on the presentation.Active learning [19-21] Introducing activities into the traditional lecture Improved retention and student (breaks up the lecture) and promoting student performance. engagement (activities designed around important learning outcomes and promote thoughtful student engagement).Inductive learning [1,12] Integrating the course material with past A better understanding of learning experiences, previous courses or course material. Connections situations from everyday life. Starting with of course material to the

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

and post-projectsurvey was requested, but for the K-12 class, only a post-project survey was requested. Thesurvey questions can be found at the end of the paper in the Appendix section. A sample websitedesign from Group 13 can be found on the next page. Additionally, the College Students wereasked to respond to a minute paper in which they were directed to reflect on the following set ofquestions: “How will you know if the students understood what you were communicating tothem via the website? Do you have some type of activity that will give you feedback? Howwould you know if what you communicated on your website made sense to the reader?” Aminute paper is meant to take only 1-2 minutes of time during a class period, and to collect datafrom

Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gardner; Patricia Pyke; Amy Moll

freshman college students andthat it carried a stigma similar to “remedial” programs. Based on our early assessments,the following changes were made: • The name of the program was changed to “Active Learning in Mathematics” to better reflect the nature of the program and to eliminate possibly negative language. • The students were encouraged to attend any session that fit their schedule, not just the one run by the facilitator who is attending their session. • Facilitators were permitted to hold additional sessions in any week if students from the class requested a more convenient time. • Advertisements were taken out in the school newspaper to publicize the existence of the program to

Conference Session

Improving Statics Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhifeng Kou; Sudhir Mehta

Be Learner Centered Show Applications and Relevance Incorporate Active/Cooperative Learning Use Appropriate Technology Focus on Outcomes & Critical Content Incorporate Classroom Assessment Set High Standards Prepare well and Explain Clearly Incorporate Service Learning Provide Great Learning Support Use Fair Testing & Grading Procedures Incorporate Writing (Reflections) Figure1 Organization of the Next Generation Principles.The fundamental belief underlying all these Next Generation principles is that as an instructor,one deeply cares about student learning and believes that one can make a difference in theirlives. With this

Conference Session

New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Ressler

the “technical core” of civilengineering. For consistency with the BOK, the level of competence in these subject areas isdefined as ability, rather than proficiency. In the interest of reducing prescriptiveness, therequirement for probability and statistics has been dropped in the new criteria. Becauseapplications of probability and statistics are prevalent in civil engineering, it is expected thatmost programs will continue to offer this subject to their students.Phrase B. This requirement for one additional area of science is found only in the new criteriaand reflects the BOK’s increased emphasis on fundamentals and on technical breadth. The BOKis actually much more prescriptive in its requirement for specific science subjects, such

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Bertoline

AbstractThis is the second of three papers prepared for a special panel session of the National Collaborative TaskForce on Engineering Graduate Education Reform that addresses the need for reform of faculty rewardsystems to advance professional education for creative engineering practice and technology leadership.This paper examines representative templates for professionally oriented faculty reward systems in otherservice professions in order to identify the commonality which should be reflected any faculty rewardsystem for professional engineering education. As a result, three unifying themes among other professionshave emerged which address teaching, professional scholarship, and service/engagement in practice.1. IntroductionTo be successful in any

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Eric Davishahl; Denny Davis; Jim Lyons; Kenneth Gentili

and correlates these with perceived course emphasis on learningoutcomes for design skills, teamwork skills, and communication skills endorsed by theWashington Council for Engineering and Related Technology Education (WCERTE).Several versions of the Team Design Skills Growth Survey have been used over the last ten yearsin sections of an introductory engineering design course at Tacoma Community College. Resultsgenerated from the survey are consistent with pre- and post-testing, verbal protocol analysis,team interviews, and a variety of reflective writing assignments. Results include an analysis ofthe difference between the means for class-averaged growth and class-averaged emphasis in eachof the WCERTE outcome areas.For students, the greatest

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Curry; Eugene Eckstein

on “How People Learn” (HPL). HPL theory states that learners achieve greaterunderstanding when they are taught in learner-centered, assessment-centered, community-centered, as well as knowledge-centered environments. When all of these environments are usedin the instructional scheme, the learner is more engaged and motivated.1 The challenge-basedinstructional module is delivered within the framework of the STAR-legacy cycle,2 anaction/reflection learning cycle. Challenge-based teaching is complementary to problem-basedteaching; however, in challenge-based teaching the students have not been educated on all of therequired skills/knowledge to complete the challenge at the time of assignment. The challengeinvolves leading the students to

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell; Juliet Hurtig

project and contribute to the effort by sharing team responsibilities. • Begin a design process which culminates in the creation of a proposal that incorporates several areas of technical expertise and which requires independent work of group members.To prepare students for the team project, this course requires students to complete a team charter,which becomes their key team management tool. The bulk of the lectures presented in thiscourse focus on the content of engineering design proposals. The course grade reflects this also,as 50% of the course grade depends on the team’s written proposal and oral presentation made atthe end of the quarter. The remaining 50% is based on the individual student’s performance

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

years. The “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright@2005, American Society for Engineering Education”table also lists the percentages of women participating in each senior design offering. Thesenumbers reflect the percentage of women undergraduate students in the entire school. Thenumber of students on Humanitarian Project teams and the percentage of women on these teamsillustrate a significant difference in gender participation. The team composition of humanitariandesignated projects is around 50% women, a doubling of the percentage of women in traditionalprojects.Semester Total Humanitarian Total

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Jane Parmentier; Rajeswari Sundararajan

technology core was initially designed by conceptualizing areas perceived to have been‘revolutionized’ by technology, resulting in the categories of telecommunications, transportationand commercial activity, with sustainable development covering energy and environmental issues,critical to any study of development. These subject areas also reflected the disciplinary strengthsat the university. At the same time, as students began entering the program, feedback receivedfrom students indicated that these were areas that fit, for many of them, topics that they wereinterested in professionally. Students are therefore able to take their elective courses in a selectedtechnology core area as well, particularly if their capstone work fits into one of these

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suketu Shah; Gaurav Agarwal; Mohammed Haque

Society for Engineering Educationoccupants. The system reduces energy consumption by making the utility powered hot waterheater in essence a storage facility for hot water heated by the solar system.e) Roofing Products: The biggest recent advance in roofing products technology came with theadvent of the radiant barrier. This physical layer in the roofing system acts to reflect sunlightback out of the roofing system before the light can be trapped and converted into heat inside thebuilding envelope. The systems are simple to install, and only add slightly to initial buildingcosts.f) Motion Sensors: There has been a leaning towards the installation of motion sensors thatwould detect the presence of people. The development of these intelligent

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cathcart; Shanti Bhushan; Sandun Fernando

3Background of Agricultural and Biological EngineeringThe provenance of Agricultural and Biological (Systems) Engineering is from the basicengineering discipline of Agricultural engineering. In the late 60s US engineering schoolsinitiated incorporation of the biological engineering component into traditional agriculturalengineering programs. Mississippi State University is the first US University to initiate abiological engineering program in 1967. As a result, many other traditional agriculturalengineering programs started incorporating biological engineering into their programs which alsoresulted in change of departmental names to reflect program changes.Traditionally, agricultural engineering departments had emphasis on areas of farm mechanization

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cote

Session Number 3548 The Development of a Cooperative Education Project as an Assessment Tool for an Engineering Technology Program Professor Mark Coté, PE Engineering Department Maine Maritime AcademyAbstractCooperative education has been an integral part of the educational program at Maine MaritimeAcademy (MMA) since the founding of the college in 1941. Employers, graduates, and potentialstudents describe MMA’s “hands-on” focus, reflected in these cooperative educationexperiences, to be one of the main advantages of an MMA education. The

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kris Wood; John Wood; Daniel Jensen

(dissection, reverse engineering, case studies) Information 4 1 What Why? If? Reflective Active Observation Process Information (discussions, journals, perturbations, Experimentation 3

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Barbara Bogue

way the director participants dotheir jobs are so well integrated that they will remain post funding. Our plans for disseminationand institutionalization include ongoing support systems that will enable both the initial directorparticipants as well as new ones to adopt and effectively use the AWE assessment tools, and tocollaborate with each other based on their results.Bibliography 1. Bogue, B., & Marra, R. (2001). Informal Survey of WIE Directors. University Park, PA: Penn State University. 2. Bogue, B., & Marra, R. (2001-03). Reflections: Annual Surveys of AWE Partners. University Park, PA: Penn State University. 3. Brawner, Catherine, Robert C. Serow. “Growing Pains: An Evaluation of the SUCCEED

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Maxwell; Frank Pietryga; John Stratton; Ilya Grinberg

Page 10.727.6the previous section. This process reflects actual engineering procedures and operations found in design andoperations of electric power systems. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationRequirements or criteria must be measurable, should be monitored throughout further steps of analysis, and could beoptimized. Besides technical and economical requirements found in any engineering system the criteria specified inABET Criterion 2 for program outcomes are also utilized.With topical outlines known it is possible to propose an advanced curriculum based on interrelations between topicsof

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ana Kennedy; David Ollis

Spanish. Thus they furthered their knowledge of device, language, andculture. In doing so they derived all the benefits of the original course and alsoexpanded their Spanish engineering vocabulary and develop their technical presentationskills in a language that is in fast becoming a necessity in our global communityScience, technology, society projects All students completed two science, technology, and society projects. Workingin teams of three and imitating the work in the device dissection laboratory, they studiedan artifact of the Hispanic world. Their task was to research and describe the historicalsignificance and engineering importance of the artifact and then to explain how theartifact reflects the culture which produced it. The

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Burbank

when triggered by the microcontroller. Thetime to echo reception is recorded by the microcontroller. The digital event time is thencompared to a setpoint, and the result of the comparison controls the vibration motors. Theflowchart for this control software is shown in Figure 2. The four sensors are pulsed at 5 Hz. The digital event time is related to the distance from the sensor to an object; closer objects reflect the sound waves back to the sensor quicker than far

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Liou

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Figure 4 – Laser Aided Manufacturing Figure 5 – Composites Manufacturing Lab Processes Lab Figure 6 – Integrated Systems Facility Figure 7 – Water-jet cut Millenium Arch Lab in Rock Mechanics Research Center Figure 8 – Virtual Reality LabTours of Brewer Science and Briggs & Stratton as shown in Figure 9 gave participantssome idea of the applications of the subjects discussed earlier in the week. BrewerScience as shown in Figure 10 is a manufacturer of anti-reflective coatings for thesemiconductor industry. The Rolla Briggs & Stratton plant is a manufacturer of

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Houdeshell

and do learners receive corrective feedback on their performance? • Are learners able to access context help or guidance when having difficulty with the materials?Integration • Does the IU provide techniques that encourage the learner to integrate (transfer) the new knowledge or skill? • Does the IU provide an opportunity for the learner to publicly demonstrate their new knowledge or skill? • Does the IU provide an opportunity for the learner to reflect-on, discuss, and defend his or her new knowledge or skill? • Does the IU provide an opportunity for the

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Hickey; Raluca Rosca

and researching for supporting evidence, as well as by creating anetwork of peers and facilitating reflection upon teaching styles and methods. The first author ofthis paper had seen the presentation and was interested in the seeing the program happen at herhome institution, University of Florida (UF), if not in an organized manner than at least in asocial get-together form.University of Florida has an active Teaching Center that coordinates tutoring activities andprovides professional development for all graduate students teaching assistants on its 48 000students campus, as well as a University Center for Excellence in Teaching that supportsprofessional development of post-doctoral associates and faculty. Those two centers weredeveloped from

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Hasenberg

year in Design and Society allowsfreshman the opportunity to analyze those situations in greater depth, view them from differentperspectives, and integrate their learning through reflection early in their education.For the non-technical students, which include liberal arts and business majors, Design & Societyoffers some unique general education experiences. First, the hands-on design projects, with theiremphasis on building models and prototypes, offer a new form of learning in a general educationcourse. Challenging projects that create a rich learning experience are designed to engagestudents within a wide range of skill levels. Through practicing these skills in open andsupportive environment, students who were unsure of their major

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christy Moore; Billy Koen

describes the research project students were assigned and evaluates its effectiveness inengaging students in a discussion of ethical dilemmas.The Assignment: Researching Corporate Responses to Crisis Engineering Communication or ME 333T is a required junior-level course in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering. Typically, in semesters past, students have worked onresearch projects involving a topic in engineering. The course has sought to engage students insome reflection on the ethical dimensions and social impact of engineering design, but much ofthe research and writing has been focused more on reporting data rather than evaluating it. Thenew assignment was first used in the summer of 2004 with the goal of integrating a discussion

Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Cahill; Joshua Peschel

Challenges and Learning Objectives As outlined in the previous section, there are four primary learning components associatedwith this instructional framework: Haar wavelets, Daubechies wavelets, the Fourier-waveletconnection, and advanced wavelet topics. It is expected that the learners will have been exposedto basic Fourier theory and the discrete Fourier transform, preferably within the course that thisinstructional framework is being implemented. This is absolutely essential for the third learningcomponent, though a brief review will be given. The Fourier approach reflects the learners’current mental model, which is assumed to not include a time-frequency representation of data.This assumption is based on the lack of exposure to wavelets in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nastasi; Leslie Brunell; Keith Sheppard

considerations. Fig. 3 Design concepts Page 10.419.7Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe design of the building was chosen to reflect the above concepts but also meetpractical constraints on the potentially significant wind and snow loading on thestructure. The design leverages the existing Visitor Center at the entrance to the Museumto provide an integrated structure with a balcony and views from the Center as can beseen in Fig. 4. CATIA was used for the design and structural analysis. A virtual videowalk through of the building

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

Page 10.482.2clear advantage to moving the course was that these tools could be used in subsequent courses. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe tradeoff is that the selection of laboratory assignments for the course becomes morerestrictive because of the student’s limited domain knowledge of industrial engineering topics.As reflected in this paper, the role and scope of Excel/VBA tools in the industrial engineeringcurriculum at Tennessee Tech continues to evolve.In previous years, the programming experience of students in the simulation course was a three-credit freshman course in FORTRAN

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Eliot; Jennifer Turns

with reflections on thecontributions and limitations of using user-centered design as a tool for engineering education.Design and user-centered designDesigners change existing situations into preferred ones2, by developing solutions that satisfy awide variety of goals and constraints. From an engineering perspective, important designconsiderations include structural stability, maintenance costs, reliability, and environmentalimpact. Because most engineering systems involve users, it is important for engineers to also Page 10.697.1take user issues into account. User-centered design has emerged in response to products and Proceedings of

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Cuddihy; Steve Lappenbusch; Jennifer Turns

(favorite session and why, suggestions for Page 10.686.4improvement). Analysis of this evaluation data is on-going. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session xxxx-xxxxDiscussionHere we reflect on a sample of the insights we have gained through this work. For example,concerning the student themselves, we have found them to be very able to identify topics andeager for a venue for discussing