Conference Session

New Learning Models

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

Fun, good atmosphere Enjoyable 10 Interesting I like when the material learnt is interesting To stay on the central topic but have enough diversions to keep the subject interesting Just thorough information, but not too much to bore me 11 Obtain a better understanding of the material Forces you to learn, but helps you learn it 12 Useful Use it later in my career Take away more than just the skills from the course Course that can change the way you look at people Course that can change the way you work with people You are

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela Maass; Kesa Black; Heather Storace; Anne Ranes; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

several years. SWE students would earn points for attendingSWE meetings and acting in leadership roles. Those students with the most points were giventhe opportunity to travel to a regional or national SWE conference. Usually most of the expenseswere covered by the student section. The SWE student section could apply for travel fundingfrom the Dean’s Office and then repay the money at the rate of $8/hour by doing volunteer workto help in recruiting events held by the School of Engineering, including helping with the ASUbooth at the SWE National Career Fair to recruit graduate students.III. The Torch is PassedThe emphasis of the 2003-2004 year was planning and improvement. Summer planningmeetings were increased to once per week. From the feedback

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Christine Masters; Judith Todd

innovations include: the introductionof undergraduate student portfolios; the adoption of a new perspective on “Design” for the ABETprogram criteria; enhancement of the senior research and design project through incorporation ofthe ABET professional components; incorporation of non-technical abstracts in bothundergraduate and graduate theses; professional development seminars for both undergraduateand graduate students; the introduction of an informal education seminar to prepare PhD studentswishing to pursue academic careers; and introduction of new courses to support the department’sstrategic plan. With an underlying focus on the development of multilevel communication skills,the aim of these initiatives is to foster an interdisciplinary and

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent C. Prantil; Thomas J. Labus; William Howard

1 0 0 prepared me well for this class. I believe that the course content was consistent with the number of 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 credit hours. I can see the relationship of this course to others in the MET 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 curriculum. I believe that this course contributed to me career 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 objectives.In the lecture portion of the class, partial class notes were handed out. During the lecture, theseclass notes were filled in. This method freed the students from much of the coping of class

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Rosenstein; Jeffery Donnell; Christina Bourgeois

consultant ECE 3042: Microelectronics Circuits – Formal lab report (10 pages + appendices) Lab – Industry-style writing assignment (e.g. (2nd semester junior) recommendation report) ECE 4000: Project Engineering & – Research paper, based on topic of student’s Professional Practice intended area of specialization – Annotated bibliography – Critique of a design project – Career plan and resume – Impromptu speech

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Muci; Jonathan Weaver

faculty member and the company personnel involved, and summarizethe results obtained and lessons learned. Introduction Today it is widely recognized that a good engineering education involves more thanpreparing students that have sound technical knowledge in a particular engineering discipline.Now the end goal of the undergraduate engineering curriculum is to provide the students with a Page 10.1410.1comprehensive education that will allow them to meet the expectations of prospective employersand help them to achieve success in their professional career. In addition to technical knowledge, Proceedings of the 2005 American

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

abusiness accelerator, encourage entrepreneurial behavior by engineering students and, on the partof the School of Management, to get involved with engineering senior design. The net result isas outlined in this paper.Though it is too early to quantitatively assess the bottom line of the effects of these changes(student career satisfaction and success), such measurements will be done. In the meantime,there is general agreement of the course instructors, and also departmental and CoEadministrators, that all of the changes have been beneficial and are already driving the rightresults.Bibliographic InformationAs the ECE senior design course sequence is a “doing” experience, information needed by the teams and projects istransmitted by means of meeting

Conference Session

Vendor Partnerships with Engineering Libraries

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Paulsen; Amy Van Epps; Lisa Dunn; Jay Bhatt

resourcesinto the coursework at strategic places to show its effectiveness in helping to find data forstudents’ needs. Much of the demonstration with students happens in a one-on-one situationwhen students are looking for specific information. One example of generating use is anassignment for freshman students which takes the form of a “treasure hunt.” The purpose of thetreasure hunt is to teach students how to find a wide variety of information that will be importantin their professional careers. The assignment has been used for years and many answers arecontained within materials that are a part of Knovel. With Knovel available to the students, theycan see the depth of the content and efficiency of retrieval available from electronic referencebooks

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

similarities, the goal is to examine features that Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationmake education research different from the kinds of research most engineering faculty do fortheir dissertation and to establish their careers. Engineering Research STEM Education ResearchPurpose o Solve problems for individuals, o Design efficient and effective corporations, communities, and education systems societies. o Solve problems in the educational

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

resistance and accommodation. Gender & Society, 15, 667 – 686.[8] Seymour, E. & Hewitt, N. M. (1997). Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.[9] Kvande, E. (1999). ‘In the belly of the beast’: Constructing femininities in engineering organizations, The European Journal of Women’s Studies, 6, 305 – 328.[10] Pattatucci, A. M. (Ed.). (1998). Women in science: Meeting career challenges. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.[11] Tonso, K. (1997). Constructing engineers through practice: Gendered features of learning and identity development. Unpublished dissertation. University of Colorado – Boulder.ALISHA A. WALLER, Ph. D. Alisha A. Waller is a doctoral

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Friedman; Jerri Drakes

summarizes the highlights of the player’s career as well as discusses why thatplayer is important to him or her introduces each video.4. “Learning is a cumulative process involving connections and reinforcement among the varietyof learning experiences people encounter in their lives: at home, during schooling, and out in thecommunity and workplace. Research designs need to offer opportunities to investigate alldimensions of learning and their connections in a variety of settings across a span of time whichwill allow us to understand how these experiences are used and connected to subsequentexperiences longitudinally.” Robert Marzano and Debra Pickering37 of the Mid-continent Regional EducationalLaboratory (McREL) discuss five dimensions of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

—A Survey of Constituencies. Union University’s Mission Statement: “Union University provides Christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to Church and society.” As a constituent of the Union’s Engineering Program, your comments are sincerely requested on the following educational objectives: 1. To provide a solid engineering education that is built on a strong liberal arts and science foundation. 2. To prepare students for successful careers or advanced studies in engineering or other professional fields. 3

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Zemke; Jennifer Beller; Donald Elger

or career goals? ‫ ڤ‬1) Highly relevant – easy to connect with my future ‫ ڤ‬2) Relevant—can make some connections to my future ‫ ڤ‬3) Irrelevant—no connection between this and my future. What specifically was relevant? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ List any “A-Ha’S”: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________Figure 2. Student survey used after each cooperative event. 1. Sort the events in order from “most helpful” to “least helpful.” “Most helpful” means that the event was most helpful in learning industrial materials. “Least helpful” means that the event was least helpful in learning industrial

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

within the chosen field.The tenth semester has no instruction and is reserved for the dissertation project.This specialisation prepares students for a career in for example architectural or engineeringcompanies, public authorities and consulting companies.Urban designStudents choosing the urban design specialisation work with urban development, urban re-structuring and architecture at the city scale. This includes planning of new urban districts,technically and aesthetically renewing dilapidated residential or disused business districts,and applying architectural design to streets, squares, parks and large landscape features in andaround the city.Urban development is the theme of the sixth semester. The focus is development on a largespatial

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Gerhart

informed; then they must retain the information that they gathered. Duringthe visits, an overview of the engineering discipline is presented. A spoken overview is not veryshocking and certainly not awing. Visuals should be employed. A simple “bullet point” slideshow alone will not awe the students, and it is unlikely that the information they read and hearwill be remembered when considering engineering as their career. Instead, make a fast-pacedslide show with some “unexpecteds.” For example, for mechanical engineering I have anoverview slide show that tells of the various aspects of mechanical engineering: solid Page 9.1094.5 Proceedings of

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

course (ENES 100) to seniors completing capstoneengineering courses. Freshmen teams provided the baseline or “naïve condition” since most of Page 9.85.1these students had few prior team experiences. Seniors, on the other hand, are individuals who “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”have “made it” through the engineering curriculum and have been members of a variety of teamsthroughout their undergraduate careers. They have mastered engineering content with sufficientproficiency to be a

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Richards; Daniel Pack; David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

progress in their project skills, due to participation in the fire-fighting robot project. Half of them evaluated their progress as considerable.• Many students in both divisions reported on their progress in general skills, but only 10-30% of them evaluated it as considerable. Part of the students did not mention any progress in general skills.• The majority of the students evaluated the positive impact of the robot project on their learning motivation and interest to specialize in science and engineering. Lower progress was achieved in clarification of career goals and expectations.Robot makingAs shown by the previous surveys, the majority of university and high school students reportedon their significant contributions to designing

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoAnn Lighty; Holly Moore; David Richardson; Nick Safai

returned missionaries (a significant fraction of the student body serves two yearLDS missions after entering college), to middle aged “retreads” who are preparingfor a new career. Because of their broad range of preparation, all enteringstudents are required to take placement examinations in both English andMathematics. Recent ACT or SAT scores may be submitted in place of thesetests. Since proficiency in mathematics is critical to engineering students,mathematics placement tends to control a student’s progress through theengineering programs. English proficiency, although important to engineers, isnot a prerequisite to engineering classes. The mathematics placement data specifically for Engineering students wasnot available , however

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

) and 13 females (1Latina; 1 Asian American; 10 Caucasian; 1 “other multi”). The main goals of the semi-structuredinterviews were to:• gather preliminary feedback from the students about their reactions to and engagement in the MEA’s as well as their interactions within technical teams;• examine gender-related patterns for levels of interest, persistence, and possible resistance as well as expectations for future career paths in engineering; and• pilot the interview protocol and determine its effectiveness at gathering student feedback, thereby informing the second implementation in the project.To measure long term impact on students’ interest and persistence in engineering, we conductedfollow up interviews with a smaller cohort from

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Sinha; Randolph Thomas; John Kulka

changed over timeeven though the process and environment in which the ‘designer’ and ‘constructor’ operate havebecome increasingly more complicated. Government regulations, environmental permits, andother bureaucratic controls continue to grow. Projects also continue to get larger and moretechnical, requiring more specialized people, high-tech equipment, and better control systems.This trend will require that tomorrow’s project leaders have technical, business, organizational,ethical, and leadership savvy to complete their construction projects successfully.Many engineers elect to pursue their careers in construction. They may be graduates ofconstruction engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, or other engineering degreeprograms

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Carlson

sometimes feel that what they arelearning is irrelevant to the rest of their career. And because many students becomecynical about or act less than interested in their education, the professors can come to feelthat the students don’t really know or appreciate the material presented in the courses andare only after grades.To address some of these perceived problems, we developed and used an educationalframework which we called the “Bioprocessing Cluster” for teaching bioprocessing(biochemical engineering) to undergraduate students. At Penn State, chemicalengineering students can specialize in areas of concentration called “options” by taking aprescribed set of courses in place of random electives. For example a student can get a“bioprocessing

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

Development and Assessment of a New Project / Practice Based Civil Engineering Curriculum Matthew A. Dettman, P.E. Western Kentucky University1. IntroductionWestern Kentucky University is currently in the process of developing a new undergraduateengineering programs in civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering focusing on engaging thestudent in a project / practice based environment and preparing them for a career as a practicingengineer. This paper will discuss the process of developing the civil engineering program thatbegan with the creation of goals for the engineering department up to the present day with aclearly defined

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Frame

method for teaching the students how theskills they have learned apply to the “real” world. The learning experience could becarried one step further in the core classes themselves. During the instruction of a core subject, the instructors could easily show thestudents how that particular material fit into the design process. This would expose thestudents to the design process early in their academic careers, and promote interest ineach separate subject. Additionally, this look at the subject from a slightly differentperspective would reinforce the skill level of all students. Once the students wereconvinced that a subject was both interesting and applicable later, they would get moreout of each class. Finally, the engineer of the

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamara Knott

ePortfolio to aid in thelearning process. Most students felt that it was helpful to include important projects with severalstudents specifically mentioning that the structure of the ePortfolio encouraged them to reflect onthe project, which they found beneficial. Some examples of students’ observations are: “I think that using an ePortfolio for a class could help aid in the learning process because it encourages students to reflect upon their work and their overall experiences with and in the class.” “It would give you an opportunity to look back and reflect on what you did earlier in your college career, or even the semester you’re in, and try to improve your next assignment.”Sharing ePortfolio elements and receiving

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

kenneth weaver

crack Figure 2. Examples of the Backyard Bridge, a detection in aircraft skins, guitar effects 10 Sophomore Clinic design project . pedals, small-scale bridges10 (See Fig. 2) and a biological fuel cell powered robot.In the final four semesters of a student’s career, the Engineering Clinic continues the format ofmultidisciplinary teamwork with the added dimensions of year-long projects and the inclusion ofboth Junior- and Senior-level students in 3-5 member teams. Each multidisciplinary team worksclosely with two professors (usually from two disciplines) who act as Project Managers to guidethe team. In Mechanical Engineering, Junior

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Alam

. To instill in students an attitude in life-long learning to enable continuing career success in a changing technological environment and to prepare them for professional licensure. ________________________________________________________________________ Fig. 4 Page 9.832.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 6 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Constituency InputReport Back

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

Mission Statement thatshould drive the department’s strategic planning, the following phrase can be excerpted: “… toprovide a quality program of instruction that will prepare our students for successful engineeringcareers, …”. It therefore seemed natural to ask what constitutes preparation for a successfulengineering career and to conclude that the program should equip its graduates with theknowledge, skills, and foundation for future learning that will enable them to perform the tasksexpected of them by future employers (or customers). Further discussion between faculty andAdvisory Board members led to definition of four perspectives in which program graduates areexpected to perform, and to organization of the existing list of POs into those

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers

prestigious CAREER proposals that emphasize both technical andeducational excellence. They say that proposals may not assume extraordinary time expendituresin order to reach their goals. Proposals must detail realistic time expenditures. Quantifying thenumbers of publications in both pedagogy and technical areas would show if this zero-sum gamedoes hold with more technical papers leading to fewer pedagogical papers. One could check thishypothesis by correlating these publication categories over a period of time. This data set couldalso then be used to see if the total number of publications, not just pedagogical publications, didcorrelate well with school rankings. One would expect that the higher number of publicationscorrelates with higher rankings

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

SEMESTER?___Yes ___No If yes, please go no further.You are:___Grad Student ____Senior ____Junior ____Sophomore ___FreshmanWhat is your present major?_________________________________________You have worked at (please mark all that apply):___an internship ___a co-op ___a job within the engineering fieldDo you believe engineering students have deficiencies in their technical communication skills?___Yes ___NoWhat types of communication have been assigned in your courses (please mark all that apply). this college semester career ___ ___ Formal presentations ___ ___ Short oral presentations ___ ___ Demonstrations ___ ___ Essays

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

in formal training. • Working on an ambiguous project is more time consuming than other projects here. • How to think outside of the box. • That real-world problems require in-depth thinking and problem solving and that the Page 8.299.12 skills I have learned earlier in my student career are actually applicable. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference& Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education • My designs will work in real life and I am capable of designing something