Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Marybeth Camerer

students did not take advantage of the opportunity to meetwith their assigned mentors, which left their mentors disappointed. This reflected poorly on theprogram at a time when we were working hard to develop strong alumni relationships.Undergraduates can be excellent Teaching Assistants. Since there is no business school atHopkins, we also do not have graduate students in business available to serve as teachingassistants. We currently hire approximately 15 of our top undergraduate students each semesterto serve as teaching assistants to our adjunct faculty. These students typically assist the faculty bypreparing handouts and copying materials, grading and marking corrections and suggestions onhomework papers, and assisting students at regularly

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Yudelson; Latifur Khan; I-Ling Yen; Evgeny Panteleev

additional relations reflect important rhetorical-didactic linksbetween multimedia objects. Third, discussed relations make possible automatic generation oftextual logical links between multimedia objects that are connected with these relations. Forexample if a piece of text is connected to an image with “image/animation A illustrates text B”relation, then the text “Refer to the following illustration” can be when the text goes before theimage on a page. Insertion of such textual fragments will augment the coherence of themultimedia objects and will make media pages more solid4.The correlation structure facilitates automatic generation of text fragments for smooth textualtransitions and there is no need to explicitly store the text fragments in the

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

this course graded much harder than any other course and that it also demanded more work on graded assignments than any of my other courses. • I think I know the material a lot more than my grade reflects. This was my favorite class this semester, but I currently have a C. • This course was my least favorite of my engineering courses. I always felt overwhelmed by the material and they kept piling it on. It seemed more like a chore that I didn't want to Page 8.693.9 participate in as opposed to my other engineering courses where I felt a desire to learn. I Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Agnew; Ka C Cheok; Jerry Lane; Ernie Hall; David Ahlgren

, graduationceremonies, and new jobs reduced the number of participants who actually arrived at thecompetition to 17. Throughout the practice and qualification weekend, additional hardware andcomputer realities eliminated six more participants for a total of 11 competing teams. Figure 8. Oakland University's entry running the navigation challengeThe Design Competition component of the IGVC has been sponsored by the Society ofAutomotive Engineers (SAE) for 8 of the 10 years the competition has been held. Judges for thiscompetition are chosen to reflect both commercial and military applications of intelligent vehicles.Two weeks prior to the IGVC, all 17 teams sent their technical papers to the 2002 judges forreview. The presentations and technical

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

reflects its usage by many disciplines (civil,electrical, environmental, mechanical, petroleum, and metallurgical engineering students).The new combined course would reduce credits hours for all these disciplines, whileproviding opportunities for students to enroll in specialized discipline-specific courses. Forexample, electrical engineering students could omit further applications courses related tofluids entirely. The fundamentals course should provide them with essential knowledge forthe Fundamental of Engineering (FE) exam. Civil and environmental engineering studentsmay elect to take the applications course in open channel flow and ground-water flow, whilemechanical engineering students might elect to take applications courses in computation

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

shown by the dot pattern, to and beyond Level 3 (ability) via post-licensure experience and/or education. 7. The dot pattern also indicates that additional outcomes (beyond 15) are probable after fulfilling the pre-licensure BOK.AttitudesAs stated earlier, the BOK is defined as “the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to becomea licensed professional engineer.” Knowledge, skills and attitudes are the essential componentsof the what dimension of the BOK. Individual experiences and review of studies8,10 prompted theBOK Committee to include attitudes in the BOK.By attitudes, the Committee means ways in which one thinks and feels in response to a fact orsituation. Attitudes reflect an individual’s values. A person’s

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

clarified to indicate that it refers to modeling of a design before building it (as opposed to “testing” a built final design). 2. Because the rubric did not fit all student responses well, it needed to be updated to better reflect a measure of a student’s design knowledge. For instance, initially students received 2 points for indicating that more documentation was needed for the pretest. After scoring the pilot tests, the points were split such that indicating that documentation is needed throughout the design process receives 2 points whereas merely indicating that the time spent in documentation needs to be lengthened (a less specific answer) only receives 1 point. This bottom-up adjustment was needed

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt DeGoede

them) physics concepts to situations notexplicitly covered in class or in the text. This was reflected as well in student comments whenasked about what aspects of the course they would like to see changed. Many commented thatthe exams were too difficult and indeed many did struggle on the exams. Many exam problemswere at the application level. Despite these struggles and the fact that no students receivedhigher than an A- in the course and the average grade was a B-, overall the students gave very Page 9.1145.14 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Marionneaux; Michael Edmondson; Matthew McDaniel; Jay Daly; Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

, and the iterative nature of the design experience are all reflected in these survey responses. • The students’ misconceptions suggest areas for future improvement of the software.The survey completed by the four teachers was intended primarily to provide general feedbackabout the conduct of the contest. We did, however, ask about three specific issues:What did your students learn from using the WPBD software? The teachers’ responsesgenerally paralleled those of their students, except that the teachers added three new (and equallyvaluable) learning outcomes: • Students learned the importance of teamwork. • Students gained confidence in their ability as self-directed learners. • Students gained comfort with the use of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus L. Carter; Amy G. Yuhasz; Misty Loughry; Matthew Ohland

critical to effective team functioning.35,36Management researchers who specialize in human resources have studied a personality traitcalled conscientiousness to predict employee performance. Conscientiousness reflects a tendencyto be careful, dependable, responsible and achievement-oriented. Conscientiousness does notsuffer from the race-based differences that plague other selection tools that are frequently used topredict performance. Conscientiousness has a small amount of predictive value for taskperformance and training proficiency.37,38 Conscientiousness is more strongly associated withcontextual performance,39 which is also called organizational citizenship behavior.40,41

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shuhui Li; Rajab Challoo

the assumption of steady-stateconditions. Students usually thought that the course was old-fashioned and boring, which greatlylimited student’s ability to understand wide control applications of electric machines. However,modern electric machines are widely interacted with power electronics, DSP and digital controltechnology. These technology changes are not reflected in traditional teaching structures of thecourse. This paper gives the restructuring of the course at TAMUK through an integrativeteaching approach and computer assisted teaching methodologies so as to provide students acomplete view of an electric drive system that consists of electric machines, power electronics,controllers, power supply systems, and mechanical loads

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

fallThe views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of theUnited States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or the United States Page 9.933.1Government. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsemester; CS408A is taken the following spring semester. CS407A emphasizes softwareengineering and design principles. Students are assigned to project teams and determine specificproject

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

mathematical and scientific tools of analysis,experimentation and design on which the practice of engineering is built. There were a total of11 Technical learning outcomes. The Social learning outcomes category neither means “hard tocharacterize” nor “non-essential but a good idea anyway.” These outcomes reflect the very realneed for engineers to have “soft” people skills in addition to the traditional “hard”cognitive/technical skills. The new global market place demands engineers that are ambassadorsfor the profession and who are able to convincingly communicate to diverse and non-technicalaudiences. “An understanding and experience dealing with engineering practices and principleswill only get you so far” comments Kerry Hannon in The Graduate

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Orth Wright; David Robinson; Carol Mullenax

blackboard has, but all in one place and easier to decipher.85. More information in general86. The grades section should be more accurate, half the time when I would look at them the points would change or not reflect my proper grade.87. No changes.88. No it's a good website - maybe more photos of professors.89. I thoought that the TIDES website was very thourough and easy to use. no additions are needed in my opinion.90. More food related classes91. Maybe I just missed it, but I didn't see where stuff was due easily posted on the website.92. Make sure it works when using an apple computer and the internet explorer web browser.93. I would like to see more guest speakers.94. nothing.95. The website was easy to use; I

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

one would receive additional technical trainingas well as practice/business training in order to meet the demands of IT industry.Ongoing professional education maintains or improves workers' knowledge and skillsafter they begin professional practice. It also proves that an IT profession has to maintainhis knowledge and skills at the current level and understand the most advancedtechnology in his field. After a professional's initial education and skills development arecomplete, ongoing education requirements help to assure a minimum competency levelthroughout the professional's career. The fact is that some college degree and non degreecomputer related programs do not even reflect the current technology.One aspect of professional development

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Georgiopoulos

interested in ML?In review, students seemed to find the module very hard, and this reflected negatively on howmuch they liked it. Strangely enough, they did grade the module well in terms of its relationshipwith machine learning and about a third of the class demonstrated interest in learning more aboutthe subject.Modifications were applied to the module to try to make it more palatable to the students for thesummer of 2003. The original module specification was broken down into 3 sections: 1. A theoretical neural networks handout. 2. A detailed explanation of the perceptron learning and pocket algorithm. 3. A module handout specifying grading and deliverables.Originally (in Spring 2003) all these sections were lumped together and the students

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Reed Stevens; Lorraine Fleming; Cynthia Atman; Sheri Sheppard; Theresa Barker; Ruth Streveler

fornon-SME majors, or persisting in SME majors despite challenges and setbacks. Her researchaimed to derive a set of testable hypotheses from student reflections. This study’s findingsinclude a number of factors specific to engineering, as well as science and math majors: 1) Students who chose to discontinue an SME major were not “different kinds of people” from those who succeeded in an SME major.11 Those who switched out of SME majors were not necessarily less qualified to master the necessary technical concepts, but their evaluation of the SME-major academic experience was highly dissatisfactory, either due to a perceived lack of success, or to a dissatisfaction with the way courses were taught. 2) Both

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Criswell

proportion of the design engineer’s time and it was properly given a greatdeal of attention in the analysis-oriented classes. The designer is increasingly being a managerand user of software for these computationally-intensive tasks. This should provide the designerwith more available time for the higher-level creative tasks of conceptual and preliminary designand with large-scale error detection, critiquing and validation of software results being vital stepswhich must be carried out before the final design is accepted. The content of engineeringeducational programs is slowing changing to reflect this changing role of the typical designengineer regarding how and by what/whom the computational task is conducted

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

Manufacturing Engineering Technologies and Supervision Department (METS)followed a series of 5 steps: Step 1. Reflect on where your program came from. For PUC, the most noticeable observation comes from the changing demographics of the service area. In 1979, 46% of area residents found employment in the goods sector, primarily manufacturing, while in 1999, only 24%. This has a significant effect on the programs offered by the METS department: Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET), Industrial Engineering Technology (IET), Organizational Leadership and Supervision (OLS) and Computer Graphics Technology (CGT). Step 2. Determine who are your constituents. METS faculty decided that their constituents in priority

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

engineeringcollege that virtually encompasses NAU and all of its partners – a novel educational model thatdirectly reflects the real-world global workplaces that students will encounter when theygraduate.We do not expect our vision of a Global Engineering College to be accepted immediately in allquarters; many traditionalists will initially have difficulty accepting a model that does notmaintain absolute local control over undergraduate education. We believe, however, that theincreasing trend towards globalization and international industrial partnership requires acorresponding shift in engineering education, away from isolated, one-campus experiences, andtowards a more distributed, multi-institutional and cross-cultural model. In short, we view theGlobal

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

, it would enhance their chances for receivingResearch/Teaching Assistantship or Full Scholarships in graduate engineering programs. Severalcase studies (shown later) reflect on the promising nature of this approach/model.IV– DESIGN OF THE EXPERIMENTS AND THEIR ASSOCIATED APPARATUSES"Everything must be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." (Albert Einstein)The following criteria have been incorporated in the design of the experiments and the associatedapparatuses:• Safety • Simplicity and Practicality in Fabrication• Affordability/ Control of Cost • Use of Reliable Sources for Components• Durability • Use of Non-Corrosive & Aesthetically Pleasing Materials

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Wickert; Gregory Plett

Springs’Teaching and Learning Center. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theUniversity of Colorado at Colorado Springs, or of the Teaching and Learning Center.The majority of the code in EduFile was written under subcontract by Matthew Long of MatthewLong Enterprises, http://www.matthew-long.com. ¶ The log data was lost for these classes, so could not be included in the previous section. Page 8.1288.13 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ziegler

college? 49 51 % %Is peer evaluation to determine rank a fair system at the professional level? 71 29 % %Did you fill out the evaluation forms accurately? 94 6% %Did the scores you provided accurately reflect your true feelings about the 80 20contributions of your teammates

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tanya Capers; Kofi Nyarko; Craig Scott; Jumoke Ladeji-Osias

styles compared to only 4% having strong preference forintuitive learning styles. In fact, students with strong preferences for the active, sensing, visualand sequential learning styles outweigh students with strong preferences for the reflective,intuitive, verbal and global learning styles by significant factors. Further studies have shown 5that educational environments rich in varied learning methods provide students with a diversemeans of receiving and applying knowledge and information resulting in a more engaging andinteractive educational setting 12. The reason why interaction with information is so importantfor students is because without it, the reciprocal process of assimilation and accommodation,through which new information is

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Rosenkrantz

effectively are the board and other visual aids 1.58 1.87 1.68 used? 7 How available is the instructor to students for 1.63 1.68 1.61 consultation? 8 How well was the course material paced? 1.54 1.83* 2.16** 9 How accurately does the instructor's grading 1.69 1.94 2.12* reflect what the student has learned? 10 How would you rate this instructor compared to 1.40 1.58* 1.88** other instructors? Outcomes Assessment Skill, Knowledge, Ability or Attitude Area 11 How would you rate your ability to apply what 1.75 1.81

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

Session 2615 A Flexible Undergraduate Civil Engineering Curriculum Wilfrid A. Nixon, Robert Ettema, Forrest M. Holly Jr., and James W. Stoner Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242AbstractThe ABET EC 2000 criteria allow programs to develop flexible approaches toundergraduate education. Such approaches must reflect program objectives and meet allABET criteria, but content and quantity of the various curricular components (Math andScience, Humanities and Social Science, Engineering Science, and Engineering Design)are defined

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Reynolds; Macy Reynolds

. Students ranged from new freshmen to graduating seniors. The computer class, anintroduction to Excel and VBA programming for Excel, was mainly made up of first yearstudents. Engineering economics, an upper level class with mostly juniors and seniors, usedfinancial and economic concepts to analyze cost-related engineering decisions.In this study the journal content was not expected to be voluminous but rather to the point andsomewhat reflective. The students usually had a week to respond with their journals to allowtime to complete homework or unfinished class assignments. Often students found that thematerial that seemed clear in class became less so when applying it to new problems. At thispoint the emails arrived with questions or even attached

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Baratuci; Angela Linse

’ motivation, the importanceof motivation is critical in a distance-learning course because of the limitations on student-instructor and student-student interaction. Flori2 lists six types of interaction that characterize anexpert teacher that he quoted from Collins, Brown and Newman. · Modeling: Showing how and why an expert does a task. · Coaching: Observing students as they work and correcting their performance online. · Inquiry: A strategy of questioning. · Articulation: Getting students to articulate their own knowledge and reasoning. · Reflection: Replaying and abstracting students’ work and contrasting that with expert performance. · Exploration: Pushing students into a mode of trying to do the activity better on

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naphysah O. Duncan; Gerardo Del Cerro

10.9Quality of your major design experience 2.7 6.5 10.8 2.2 49.5 52.2 27.0 32.6 9.9 6.5 AVERAGES 9.8 10.2 17.1 19.6 33.5 35.0 30.9 29.2 8.6 6.0Table 5. Spring 2000 ENGINEERING STUDENT COUNCIL SURVEYGENDER COMPARISONPlease indicate the level of agreement that most accurately reflects your opinion of how wellThe cooper union has instilled you with the following qualities Not At All Not Well Moderately Well Very Well Extremly Well MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard M. Single; William S. Carlsen; Christine M. Cunningham; Carol B. Muller; Peg Boyle Single

for the 1999-98, 1999-2000, and 2000-01 programs. MentorNet particularly attracted a large percentage of students,and mentors, in engineering, information technology, and computer science fields – thepercentage of these students ranged from 72% to 83% across the program years, while theremaining students were in mathematics or the natural science fields. The majority of theMentorNet students and mentors were Caucasian, reflecting the demographics of the students inthe field. For the three years reported here, MentorNet used both quantitative and qualitativemethods to evaluate the results of participation in MentorNet by mentors and students. Thequantitative portion of the evaluation used a web-based survey administered near the end of