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Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Martinazzi

traditional way of being taught.As a side note, it was necessary several times during the semester to remind the students of thechoice they made regarding being taught this new way. They were asked to reflect on thePrimetime Live program and encouraged to act as responsible and mature adults especially sincetheir future livelihood and success in the engineering profession are directly related to how wellthey can solve problems.Third, the students are given some very minor examples of how the concept will be implementedso they understand the model and how it will be used throughout the term. This step is criticalsince it begins to illustrate how they will encounter unfamiliar material and how the“T.H.I.N.K.” concept must be used to begin solving the

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

building an academic ”pyrimad” in science, engineering, and technologydisciplines. Consequently, the E&T curricula design reflects this philosophy in E&T education. Another aspect crucial to gain a good understanding of Chinese E&T education is thatuniversity curricula have been historically administered by the Ministry of Education. Individualuniversity had limited freedom to change its curriculum. The centralization provides a uniformlydistributed basic requirements for E&T schools across the country to ensure education quality.Even though the trend of decentralization has been observed due to the emergence of localgovernments and privately administered universities, however, the baseline requirements set bythe Chinese Ministry

Conference Session

Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Yasuhara

programmers.More in keeping with expectations, the gender gap in extracurricular and other programming expe-rience might reflect the lower rate of home computer ownership/access 3,9,14,15,19,22 or less comfort Page 10.303.7or confidence with computing among women. 15,24 Avoiding extracurricular programming might Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationalso be a reaction to the associated “geek” stereotype and gender socialization. 15,16The prominence of programming in students’ definitions of CS is

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

courses, modification of courses, andthe introduction of new courses requires approval by appropriate committees withindepartments and the College. The ERC worked diligently with those committees toimplement the appropriate curriculum changes.The new ERC courses and the modified ERC courses have utilized the concept of Page 10.1140.2education modules, reflecting a just-in-time approach that is recognized in industry as thekey to life-long learning (that is, “exactly the education needed, exactly when needed.”). Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Study

There are many factors that could contribute to the low visualization scores of theminority subjects including inequality in educational background of the incoming studentsrelated to lower acceptance standards at the university level. Students at the non-minorityinstitution were required to have higher levels of math and science in previous academicpreparation as well as higher standardized test scores than students at the HBCU. In addition,minority students in general often have a more superficial overall preparation in math andsciences and studies have shown positive correlations between visualization skills and success inmath and science. Therefore, the low PSVT scores of minorities may be more a reflection ofunderdeveloped visualization

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Massarani Marcelo; Jose Siqueira; Celso Furukawa

.• Introduce the difficult concept of social capital through examples and real experiences.• Show how to act in an entrepreneurial way in very practical terms.• Make them analyze and express the reasons for not acting in an entrepreneurial way.• Make them reflect on the term venture and compare it to enterprise.• Make them get in contact with fear.• Make them get in contact with rejection. Page 9.1259.2After several fruitful experiences in 2002 and the first half of 2003, the authors arrived at aspecification that seems to meet the defined requirements.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Woodruff; Farhad Reza

quarter with the understanding that it could be changed laterif the work was not completed as originally agreed upon.At the end of the capstone course students are given an evaluation sheet where they have thechance to reflect upon the learning outcomes of the project as well as to comment on teamdynamics. Most of the time, all of the members in a team will receive the same grade. If it isevident that one member of the team has not performed satisfactorily, there is the possibility ofhim/her receiving a lower grade. These problems can usually be detected early on in the project,thus giving the faculty member the opportunity to intervene. This is because students areexpected to meet weekly with their adviser, turn in a weekly progress report and

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Schuch Miller; Donald Falkenburg

ownskills, techniques, compare with and learn from others, and set goals for their future. Sharing Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationlessons learned makes possible the improvement of processes for subsequent investigations. Thisintegral component of the case design allow learners to reflect, summarize and solidify their ownlearning and structure it in a way that is meaningful to them [9].Guy [10] states that “the rich case allows students to gain safe experience in practicingfundamental skills needed in their careers: they need to plan and set up interviews and focusgroups, question

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

) andthe Design Quality Rubric (DQR) for 14 projects. The values in Table 7 are averages of theevaluator scores. The final score is the mean of the five metrics.The next step was to examine if the CSQ and the DQR scores could be combined to obtain asingle composite score on the design project outcome. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.52implied that the two scores were measuring different things and could not be combined to obtaina single composite score. Also a two tailed p-value of <0.0001 indicated the two data sets comefrom statistically different populations and thus confirmed the Cronbach’s analysis. Further,visual inspection of a x-y plot showed no strong correlation trends between the two scores. Thislikely reflects the fact that

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Mark Gunty; Leo McWilliams; Carrie Graf; John Uhran; Catherine Pieronek

on understanding how various groups of female students differ from each other.We now have data that describes our female students not as a one-dimensional monolith, but as amosaic – a whole made of many different parts who come to Notre Dame with differentexperiences and different levels of interest in engineering. We have adapted our support systemsto reflect these differences, and have made course changes that work to bridge the differencesamong the groups and, consequently, have seen a dramatic improvement in the retention ofwomen.References1. Brockman, J.B., Fuja, T.E, Batill, S.M., “A Multidisciplinary Course Sequence for First-Year EngineeringStudents,” 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2002.2

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brecca Berman; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

0231904. For more details on this research, “Alternative Approaches to Evaluating STEMEducation Partnerships: A Review of Evaluation Methods and Application of an Interorganizational Model,” pleasevisit the project website at http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gk18/STEM Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationuniversity-K-12 partnerships using the Georgia Tech’s Student and Teacher EnhancementPartnership (STEP) GK-12 program as a case study, and reflect on the ramifications forpartnership evaluations.Conceptualizing PartnershipsDuring the course of this research we have come to conceptualize the STEM

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alvin Lester; Bruce Mutter

Portfolio Average 94 75 Final Class Average 80 75The results imply that the students taking the in-class course do not enter with the same level orhave the same comfort level with computer skills and web technologies as students deciding totake a web-delivered course. This is reflected in the higher scores on assignments and theportfolio. The test scores have been relatively even. The web course randomly generates a newtest for each student from the database that the instructor created. The in-class test is one of therandomly generated tests given during a traditional class meeting. The web-delivered coursegenerates

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa Eljamal; Matthew Mayhew; Eric Dey; Stella Pang

Accreditation Commission. (2004). “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Effective for Evaluations During the 2005-2006 Accreditation Cycle.” p.6. Taken from Website: http://www.abet.org/criteria.html (November 17, 2004).Biographical InformationMATTHEW J. MAYHEWDr. Mayhew is Director of Student Life Assessment at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He receivedhis Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Michigan in 2004. Research interests includeunderstanding how college impacts student learning, including outcomes related to intercultural sensitivity, moralreasoning, and reflective judgment.MELISSA B. ELJAMALMs. Eljamal is Director of International Programs in the College of Engineering at the

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Stockman

averaging. Othersquestions are essay/reflective; for example, students are expected to be able to give a technicaldiscussion of the characteristics of rotating memory, and to discuss the impact of networking onenterprise computing.Problems encountered:Choosing a textbook for a uniquely defined course is a problem. With both textbooks [6] and [7],auxiliary information was critical, particularly with respect to the topics of algorithms, images,and CAD/CAM/CAE. Some students had trouble learning from sources other than the text. Ofcourse, the new course is also a problem for instructor preparation. Materials, exercises, softwaretools, etc. have to be identified and collected by a person who probably is not familiar with sometopics. The first offering

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Keith Stanfill

requirements. • Keep CEO informed of all team activities. Meet with CEO as a business team or as a company team at a frequency directed by the CEO. • Participate as a company in all major design reviews.Engineering Development TeamThe engineering team is comprised of students registered in the IPPD program. One way theengineering development team members are motivated to succeed in the ITV program is thattheir efforts are reflected on their permanent transcript—in other words they earn a grade andthree credits each for the fall and spring semesters.Pilot ITV program experiencesThere was difficulty in establishing a responsive attitude between the engineering team and theCEOs. Since it was clear that the CTO assigned the grades, the

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

workforce issues, have in the discussion of solutions? • Is there a future for global accreditation and licensure? • What are the responsibilities of industry to address workforce dynamics, including quality of life issues? • Should engineering be re-defined to reflect the more extensive involvement of engineers outside of technical specialties, in policy formulation, executive management, elected positions?Given that what happens to engineers and the technical workforce may well set the tone for thework environment of future generations of many professions, who are the best trusted and mostcredible advocates for the engineering profession? • What useful alliances might be forged between the engineering profession and other professions

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aanstoos Theodore; Thomas Krueger; Ronald Barr

Ability to Analyze 3-D Computer Models.shows the results for “Ability to CreateKinematics Animations” and Figure 7 shows theresults for “Knowledge of Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing.” In both cases, the attendeesshowed a diversity of opinions, somewhat resembling a bell-shaped curve centered at responseC. This suggests that graphics faculty are uncertain about these modern CAD applications, Page 9.1066.3although they realize the potential. It could also reflect lack of resources at some schools. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai

and brute force method to choose the independent “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”variables, as the output from the program is a reflection of their chosen inputs. Consequently, fora particular design alternative, the computer program could not manipulate their inputs to give abetter design. Instead, careful analysis of the output files for different inputs revealed trends,which are used to develop a systematic or a more logical approach towards arriving at the bestdesign. After progressing thus far, they acknowledged the fact that the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

thefinal project; and (d) reflect upon the entire design experience, their educationalexperiences, and provide feedback to the engineering program. During the first week of class, faculty advisers and external sponsors brief the seniorson the nature of their proposed projects and the financial support available. Students thensign up for the available projects listing their first three choices and proposed teams. Bythe end of the second week, the members of each of the teams are announced. After theprojects have been assigned, each team provides the course director with a weeklyactivity report (WAR). The WAR accomplishes the following three important tasks: (a) itdescribes the progress made during the existing period since the previous report

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramon Vasquez; Anand Sharma

Page 9.340.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”degrees awarded (695) during 2000-20013. The strategic plan of the College of Engineering wasapproved by its faculty on October 13, 1998, and subsequently revised on September 25, 2003.The vision and mission statements, which are an integral part of the strategic plan, are well inconsonance and they subscribe to preparing “best professionals in engineering” and “strongeducation in engineering.” This commitment to excellence is reflected in our college’sphilosophy “to provide a firm educational

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Knight; Christine Cunningham

conversation about what role anengineer might play in the development and testing of a car engine. This can lead into a Page 9.482.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2530discussion about other types of engineering which may appeal to a wider range ofstudents. Finally, since engineering and technology are inextricably linked, we contend thatstudents’ ideas about engineers and engineering reflect their

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

electronic systems used in automobiles, industrial automation, andother control systems continues to increase dramatically. These systems typically includesubsystems with separate processors. The processors must communicate to coordinate theiractivities. A typical system consists of an interconnected collection of distributed processors* This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Grant No. 0227709.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) Page 9.528.1and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Eichinger; Mark Wilson; Anton Kruger; Marian Muste; Tao Xing

copes with the experimental imperfections that usually are not reflected in the textbooks and numerical simulations that is essential part of educational experience. • Foster professional development for multidisciplinary faculty in engineering through adaptation and implementation of innovative instructional methods supported by state-of-the- art information and communication technologies.ConclusionsThis paper demonstrates that remote experimentation is a viable option for instruction in fluidmechanics by efficiently supplementing the instruction on campus and considerably assistingdistance learning and non-traditional student education. We are aware that nothing can replacethe value of direct hands-on laboratory experience

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ziegler

British Aerospace Systems (BAE Systems) in Johnson City, New York, andassisted by the T. J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at the State Universityof New York at Binghamton.The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) hosts Explorer Posts across the United States. Exploring isthe young adult division of the Boy Scouts of America, and is open to young men and womenbetween 14 and 20 years old. In Exploring, community organizations or businesses team up witha local Boy Scout Council to provide a program that typically reflects the possible careerinterests of the youth in an Explorer Post. Such a Post may specialize in any area of expertisesuch as engineering, space exploration, law enforcement, etc. For example, an Internet ServiceProvider could

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kishore Kotteri; Joan Carletta; Amy Bell

implemented in faster, smaller hardware than floating-point mathematics,one of the first steps in the design process is to convert the given filter into a fixed-point format.The quality of the hardware design is measured in terms of hardware performance metrics thatinclude size, throughput and power consumption.This standard approach effectively educates the DSP and DD students separately, but misses theopportunity to reflect the more realistic, industrial design process where filter design andhardware implementation of filters are intertwined. In DSP classes, filters are designed infloating-point software on a personal computer without any consideration of the challengesinvolved in a fixed-point hardware implementation of the designed filter. In DD

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

agree"). One ofthe Scholars who read Cummings’ book emailed the author directly to tell her the RISE programwas reading Hornet’s Nest. Cummings responded by coming to campus to meet the scholars anddiscuss her experiences as one of the first women fighter pilots in the US Navy (who ultimatelyleft the Navy due to unrelenting sexism). Her participation and the resulting discussion onwomen in science was a highlight of the program for many Scholars.Thus, discussing issues related to discrimination and sexism using the book club format enabledthe Scholars to come to new understandings and awareness. The Scholars appreciated “pool[ing]our resources to solve problems we all have had.” The discussions caused many to reflect upontheir own opinions

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

F.C. Lai

user to keep track ofwhich equation and properties have been used to obtain the resulting cooling load. An additional feature of the program is that each time the orientation of the buildings ischanged, the item name will change accordingly. For example, if the building is facing west,then the left wall of bedroom 2 faces south while the other wall faces east. The item namesautomatically reflect the direction of each component faces. (b) Total Sensible Cooling Load Once the transmission cooling load for each room has been calculated, other loadcomponents such as the loads contributed by occupants, appliances and infiltration are includedto obtain the total sensible cooling load of the whole house. As seen from Fig. 10, seven

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Guidera

? Reflections on the use of computing in architecture. Automation in construction, 11 (2), (237 – 248). 8. Won, P. (2001). The comparison between visual thinking using computer and conventional media in the concept generation stages of design. Automation in construction, 10 (1), (25-35). 9. Suwa, M. and Tversky, B. (1997). What do architects and students perceive in their design sketches? A protocol analysis. Design studies, 18 (4), (385 – 403). 10. Goel, V. (1995). Sketches of thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 11. Lasseau, P. (2001). Graphic thinking for architects and designers. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 12. Bilda, Z. & Demirkan, H. (2003). An insight on designers’ sketching activities in traditional

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Viva Austin; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

thathave been made, particularly in real-time signal processing and data presentation, arereadily apparent.In the near future the digital multi-meter and multi-plexer will be replaced, and theexternal balance will be supplanted by a robotic arm and internal stings for models.Later, when the propulsion system is replaced with a digitally controlled drive and fan,the tunnel replacement will be complete. This will most likely coincide with therenovation of the building that was built to house this system. Consideration is evenbeing given to returning the tunnel to its early open loop operation, perhaps with an“open test section”. Then its legacy will only be apparent in the shelves full of boundreports reflecting the collective and continuing efforts

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shivram Sankar; Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. We thank Chet Plank, Chris Davis, Clay Hamblen, Daniel Seaton, Justin Cochran, Nadja Bliedung,Sean Cook, Ven Raju, and Srinivas Kumarasetty who developed the STEM connections to the case study CD-ROMdiscussed in this paper. All these undergraduate and graduate students were part of the LITEE project.Biographical Information Shivram K. Sankar worked as a undergraduate research assistant at the Laboratory for InnovativeTechnology and Engineering Education (LITEE) during Summers 2002 and 2003. He is a senior at the Weinberg