Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Little, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Charles Parsons, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School; Pat Van Driessche, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School; Marilyn Barger, University of South Florida; Kim Parsons, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Debbie O'Hare

embedded in their units of study. Page 12.489.5Importance of Curriculum AlignmentAn important and unique characteristic of the curriculum at Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. ElementarySchool is its horizontal and vertical integration and alignment. This combined alignment andintegration permits the curriculum to mature as the school matures. This, in turn, drives studentexpectation levels up as the fraction of students in the higher grades increases to reflect more ofour primary students moving through the school. The alignment quality also assures that we canincrease our depth of focus with respect to engineering while the integration effort willstrengthen

Conference Session

Optical and Wireless Communication Systems

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Moore, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

criticalimportance to students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics,for it represents an accumulation of the body of knowledge of the discipline. Research showsthat educational institutions facilitate the development of critical thinking when they incorporatean active learning style in their instructions and laboratory experiences. Experiential learningmodels presents us with the four modes on which learning styles are based – concreteexperience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization and active experimentation. Studiesconducted on knowledge retention, found that using these learning modes, individually and inpair wise combination, from twenty –to- sixty percent increase in retention has been achieved.However

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manfred Hampe, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt; Lars Hagman, KTH; Jan Helge Bøhn, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

International

-tensive experiences and well-tuned infrastructures in place to facilitate outgoing and incominginternational students, scholars, and faculty members. This includes dedicated staffs to facili-tate travel briefing, second language training, housing, visa application and processing, socialintegration, and student advising and counseling.12 Evaluation planThe assessment planned reflects both the goals of the program and good practice, beginningwith the alignment of assessment strategies and outcomes. Direct methods will provide oppor-tunities for students to demonstrate their achievements; indirect methods will provide evidenceof students’ and others’ perceptions of students’ achievements. Where possible, assessmentwill be embedded in coursework, and

Conference Session

Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

example, consider BOK Outcome 1, which includesrequirements for “biology, chemistry, ecology, geology/geomorphology, engineering economics,mechanics, material properties, systems, geo-spatial representation, and informationtechnology.” The corresponding provision of the Basic-Level Civil Engineering ProgramCriteria requires only “one additional area of science, consistent with the program educationalobjectives.”The sharp difference between the standards communicated in the BOK and the criteria is entirelyappropriate, as it reflects the distinctly different nature of these two documents. If the criteriawere written at the same level of detail as the BOK, they would be overly prescriptive andlargely unattainable. If the BOK were formulated as a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gina Montgomery, Auburn University; Chetan Sankar, Auburn University; P.K. Raju, Auburn University

visibly vibrating. The listeners also reported a lack of clarity and felt the sound wasdistorted. Substantial portions of the back wall were bare and lacked any acoustical treatment,and these reflected a part of the energy back towards the source, creating additional reflectedenergy. When the reflected energy detected was loud and late-arriving, this was resulting inunwanted reflections. The clients wanted to resolve the issue as quickly as possible in order toavoid generating a lot of negative publicity.L&T engineers and managers consulted with members of the faculty at a university to evaluate anew material that could potentially be used to resolve the problem and determine thereverberation time of the auditorium if this material was used

Conference Session

International Distance & Service Learning for Engineers- Discussion on Best Practices

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Swan, Tufts University; David Gute, Tufts University; Douglas Matson, Tufts University; John Durant, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

International

, organizing and completing theseprojects from the perspective of faculty advisors (each of the co-authors has served as facultyadvisor in one or more international projects). Three projects are described with faculty advisorsproviding insights on project team development and organization, travel coordination issues,project delivery, and personal reflections of the benefits and detriments observed during and afterproject participation. Finally, the paper provides some concluding remarks on how internationalprojects can be more successful as a result of improved advising.Project 1: Kwabeng, Ghana - Schistosomiasis Control in a Community Impacted bySurface Gold-MiningBrief Project Description:Between 30-40% of the children attending elementary school in

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

teachercomments into five focuses (correctness, style, organization, content, and context) and nine modes(corrections, criticism, qualified criticism, praise, commands, advice, closed questions, open questions,and reflective statements).20 In examining the more specific linguistic forms taken by our students’comments, we also consulted Mackiewicz’s subdivisions of non-directive comments: hints(evaluations, general rules, and elisions)19 and compliments (formulaic and non-formulaic—those thatrely on “sequences of language that people have heard and said many times before,” and those thatexhibit “a novel coherence”).21Procedure for Inventorying of Peer Review FeedbackThe site for the first iteration of our study was two sections of the Technical

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Bob Nelson, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

instruction. Finally, faculty members’ reflect on theirexperience working as part of a multidisciplinary team and offer recommendations forimplementation.BackgroundThe field of engineering demands collaboration to solve today’s complex problems. Gone are thedays of working alone in a lab. Today’s engineer needs to be able to function as a productiveteam member, and to accomplish this objective, the engineer needs to be a competentcommunicator. As a result, much of the focus of communication instruction within theengineering disciplines emphasizes effective informal communication within teams. In fact, agreater focus has been placed on “teaming” in the engineering education literature.Engineering teaming research, in general, encompasses the following

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Patti Culley, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

apply for scholarships. The high school resume is often two pages andpredominately a list of activities in which the student participated and honors that the student hasreceived in high school. Now the resume must reflect the skills and knowledge of a promisingengineer. Since the lower division students do not have many college-level activities, honors ortechnical experience, they are often at a loss on how to translate what they do have into acompetitive college-level, pre-professional resume. Page 12.801.2Minority students as a group do not usually have any distinct needs when it comes to puttingtogether a resume. Minority students may be

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Chen, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

, thestudents were quite used to using the whiteboards to sketch out plans and ideas, as well asdiscussing pros and cons with each other. Since there were so few students in the class,there also appeared to be a fair amount of accountability to contribute in some way. Evenwhen the students divided into 3 different display projects, the students still relied oneach other for feedback and help.While the final designs seemed to be quite simple at first, there turned out to be a varietyof challenges that had to be overcome. The “real world” aspects to the projects and theneed and desire to have the displays actually work impacted the students, as revealed intheir reflection assignments and end of the quarter survey.Metallic TrampolineThe “atomic trampoline

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University; Michael McCuddy, Valparaiso University

Obligations From Individual Development Individual Development Emerging Technology Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Figure 1. The four-step teaching sequenceThe authors have used this teaching method in leading two class sessions of four different coursesections of both engineering and business students. At the beginning of the first class session,students completed a 17-item questionnaire that measured knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors thathopefully would be influenced by the training sessions. During the two training sessions, thepresentation and discussion reflected the material in section 3 of this paper. At the end

Conference Session

Redefining the Boundaries of Engineering and Liberal Education: Contributions to the Year of Dialogue

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Cech, University of California-San Diego; Kara Boettcher, Montana State University; Heidi Sherick, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

. Page 12.1436.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The Incredible Shrinking Job Description: Trends and Consequences of an Increasingly Technical Engineering ProfessionAbstract: ASEE promotes the importance of graduating engineers who possess a host of non-technical skills to complement their technical competencies. As this year of dialog draws to aclose, the authors are interested in the extent to which such well-roundedness is reflected in theactual work that engages engineering graduates. Using quantitative data from the 1993, 1997and 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, this paper analyses the changes in workcharacteristics of jobs that employ graduates of U.S

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 2

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Vollaro, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Materials

judgment’ in the positioning of selection lines on the materials selection charts (i.e. use of CES EDUPack software) and, Page 12.1038.4 3) reflect on the implications of the material(s) selected for the ‘product’.The philosophy and methodology adopted throughout the Materials Selection and EngineeringDesign and Manufacturing course, is that presented in the text by Michael Ashby, MaterialsSelection in Mechanical Design, Third Edition. The exercises propose using the “Ashby’sphilosophy” outlined in Figure 1. Strategy for Materials Selection 1 All materials

Conference Session

Special Session on Fixed-Point Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Padgett, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

can be treated as “ideal” and so signal can be separated from quantization and othererrors. This approach allows the validation of the theoretical predictions discussed in class.If we wish to explore the effects of different configurations of precision such as reduced wordlengths for FPGA simulation, or increasing the precision of a portion of the algorithm to 32 bitdata, the simulation tools can easily be reconfigured to reflect the changes, and all the analysistools still apply.The use of simulation tools teaches good habits in system development. Students can developand debug their algorithms in floating point, then simulate the results in fixed point and resolveany precision issues before starting any hardware implementation

Conference Session

Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

built portfolios through a semi-structured curriculum with each week ofthe course focusing on one of the previously mentioned portfolio elements (artifacts, annotations,etc.). Each week students worked to achieve the goal of describing their preparedness tofunction as an engineer. During this portfolio work, students sought to portray themselves asengineers and to provide evidence of their preparedness. The six students from whom wecollected data were the ones who agreed to work with us on our research. Our data includeweekly written reflections from the students about their activities and the challenges they wereexperiencing, periodic interviews with the students focused on the same issues, and pre and post-portfolio construction interviews in

Conference Session

Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy; Fred Meyer, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

statements are recommendations from the NAE Committee on the Engineer of2020, Phase II,1 many of which require inspiration of the students to accomplish. The authorsfind that without that added element of inspiration the likelihood of success is minimal: 1. The baccalaureate degree should be recognized as the “pre-engineering” degree or Bachelor of Arts in engineering degree, depending on the course content and reflecting the career aspirations of the student. 2. ABET should allow accreditation of engineering programs of the same name at the Page 12.903.3 baccalaureate and graduate levels in the same department to recognize that

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharlene Katz, California State University-Northridge; Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

. • Currently working with the NSF ATE Midwest Center to adapt their marketing materials. Page 12.1392.3Objective 3: Implement regional programs in Information Technology, Engineering Technology and Manufacturing Technology that reflect existing and emerging industry needs. • CREATE has developed and implemented over 50 new engineering/manufacturing/ electronics/information technology Associate degree and certificate programs. These new curricula have resulted in 197 new or revised courses being taught at six community colleges in Fall of 2006 that integrate academic and vocational subject matter with industry skill standards

Conference Session

Student Diversity: attracting and retaining a diverse population of students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

------ ------ ------testTable 4: MCI results by sex. Numbers in parentheses are number of students (N) followed bythe standard deviations. The values of N reflect those students for whom data was available.MCI gain may not equal the difference between the pre-test and post-test scores due to round-offerror. MCI pre-test* MCI post-test* MCI gainMale 11.9 (87, 3.6) 15.7 (89, 4.0) 3.8 (82, 3.4)Female 10.3 (25, 2.7) 13.8 (25, 3.7) 3.6 (24, 3.0)* Significant at p

Conference Session

Student Teams and Project-Based Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Zemke, Gonzaga University; Diane Zemke, Gonzaga University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

world just to get off topic. ¶2: Just to make sure you know where everybody’s at? ¶3: And—I mean that it’s hard to say that’s —that’s the most important thing because these other things are kind of the foundation for what you build a good meeting. But assuming you kind of had rudimentary standing agenda items and these other things, it wouldn’t really matter at all unless you had this good process check. I think that’s king of the key. You can have a meeting without one, but you can’t have a good meeting without it.In this reflective task it appeared that the students were easily drawing well-formed ideas fromtheir previous discussion. One implication of this apparent

Conference Session

International Distance & Service Learning for Engineers- Discussion on Best Practices

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; James Mihelcic, Michigan Technological University; David Watkins, Michigan Technological University; Brian Barkdoll, Michigan Technological University; Linda Phillips, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

International

community. ACDI/VOCA works with the partnercommunity (Palos Blancos, Bolivia) on development projects and will serve as theintermediary between American and Bolivian university students and the communityprior to the team’s arrival in Bolivia. The Mosetenes Indians are the most importantpopulation in the area, besides the Aymara and Quechua colonizers. The exact nature ofthe project will be defined by the team and community members. Table 1 illustrates howdevelopment projects motivated previous research projects (designed and executed bystudents in other programs at our university) and reflects some of the types of researchprojects that could emerge in this program. Using the community interests communicatedby the NGO, the student teams will begin

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

anticipate that by asking educators about their teaching decisions, wemay trigger reflection, which in and of itself may lead to improvements in teaching practice.By exploring the processes through which engineering educators make teaching decisions andthe factors they consider, we can use decision making as a lens to understand their teachingpractices and gain a better understanding of how to help engineering educators make moreeffective decisions about their teaching. We believe that this approach is particularly appropriatebecause it is a framework used extensively in the field of engineering (i.e., design decision-making) and thus may be a more familiar framework to discuss their teaching practices.We chose to emphasize teaching decision-making

Conference Session

Communication and Professional Skills in BME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo; Daniel Cavanagh, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

presentations and Building Engineering Communication Skills 7requiring students to privately view their presentation. This type of self-reflection canquickly highlight the good and bad presentation habits of individual students.Group WorkAs in motivation one, professional engineers will often write documents as a team. Anyof the above communication ideas may be assigned to a group of students. In fact, manyof the final communications used as examples above, were assigned to groups. Groupwriting brings special challenges related to teamwork which we will not expand uponhere. One helpful guideline, however, is to assign responsibility for various sections toprevent one person from assuming the role of

Conference Session

ChE: Bioengineering, nanotechnology, and systems engineering in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Danielle Amatore, Oregon State University; Shoichi Kimura, Oregon State University; Alexandre Yokochi, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

departments in the College of Engineering.13This program requires students to take four courses in nanoscale engineering, two of which arelaboratory courses. They are also expected to attend a seminar series. This program iscomprehensive, hands-on, and reflects the interdisciplinary nature of nanoscale engineering. Page 12.517.3However, this program does have its limitations. It does not offer a single ChE course so thespecific background ChEs can contribute to high volume manufacturing on the nanoscale isabsent. Most courses are graduate level, only available to advanced undergraduates.Additionally, the content focuses heavily on semiconductor

Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricardo Jacquez, New Mexico State University; Veera Gnaneswar Gude, New Mexico State University; Adrian Hanson, New Mexico State University; Michele Auzenne, New Mexico State University; Sarah Williamson, New Mexico State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

have performed better than others in monitoringwork examples. Also the SI group earned better grades than the non-SI group in the class.Introduction “Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering” is a junior course taught in the CivilEngineering department at New Mexico State University. General course objectives areto learn and apply the engineering design process and develop and apply skills used bysuccessful practicing professional engineers, including critical (reflective) thinking,communication, and documentation. This course teaches the fundamental civil-environmental engineering principles for design of conventional domestic watertreatment and wastewater treatment systems. One of the primary learning objectives ofthe course is for students

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation of Multidisciplinary Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

latest research results to create new,value-added products.Even in its formative years in the early 1900s, the role of the engineering profession was toharness scientific discoveries to create products that address the needs and desires of our society,and in doing so shape and improve our quality of life. Thus, in attempting to imagine whatengineering will be like, and what engineers will need to know, as we move more deeply into the21st century, we only need to reflect upon how our lives are changing, how society is beingstressed, and how recent scientific advances may relate to new product concepts that can address Page 12.347.2these

Conference Session

ChE: Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Terry, Brigham Young University; W. Vincent Wilding, Brigham Young University; Randy Lewis, Brigham Young University; Danny Olsen, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

learning, but do not measurelearning itself. The most common indirect assessment tools are surveys which solicit input fromstudents, alumni, employers, graduate schools, or other constituencies. These surveys provideparticular insight into the questions of how and why learning takes place through questions aboutsuch topics as student engagement and the effectiveness of specific class activities. Angelo andCross discuss the essential insight gained as students engage in self reflection in these surveys.2Because of the focus on the how and why of learning, indirect measures are essential in ourefforts to improve the educational environment. They can help us evaluate the effectiveness oflectures, reading assignments, homework, or any other

Conference Session

Engineering in Elementary Schools

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate Hester, Museum of Science, Boston; Christine Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

encounter problems or ask questions leadinginto the explanation phase, in which students describe what they think is happening and areready to learn from their peers and teacher. In the elaboration phase students apply what theyhave learned to meet the larger design challenge. Finally, in evaluation students reflect on whatthey learned.Contextual Learning and Problem Solving. Students often fail to connect what they learn inschool with the world around them. The engineering problems in EiE demonstrate how math,science, engineering, and creativity are needed to solve a problem. Situating learning in a largercontext piques students’ interest and helps them to understand how what they are learninginteracts with the real world or solves a problem 24

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Shawn Addington, Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

evaluation of student performance data. Please see Appendix 4.All of these data are compiled in the Departmental Course Assignment Database, in order toallow both course-level and program-level assessment. At the course-level, the Database is usedby the ECE faculty in the preparation of their Course Portfolios. The Course Portfolios offereach faculty member the opportunity to reflect on the effectiveness of each of his courses,primarily in terms of the desired Course Objectives, and their associated Performance Criteria.Through this mechanism, the faculty member can evaluate student strengths and weaknesses inmeeting Course Objectives by identifying the specific curricular topics and assignments thathave contributed to the level of achievement, and

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

) with access to the latest technology tools for teaching. Flexible schedules are very important to most professionals as they contrast the environment of the academic world to the corporate world.These alternatives can be funded by the professional education programs and should be built intothe budget when developing a business case which would be reflected in the tuition paid bystudents.Since not all faculty will buy into the “pay for performance” concept, it should be voluntary andthe result of targeted recruiting for professional graduate education.A training program for faculty long on content knowledge and experience but short on teachingskills must be established. This should also include a mentor relationship with

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kam Jugdev, Athabasca University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

participants 17, 20, 22 • Lifestyle conveniences 14, 16 Page 12.552.4 • Access to information and faculty 17, 14, 20 3 • Collaborative and interactive learning environment 17, 16Distance education is a learning-centered experience that allows participants to developargumentation skills, increase their written communication and complex problem-solving skills,participate in reflective deliberation, and develop higher levels of learning and critical thinking22 . The social environment changes in distance education. Some