Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristin Wood; Daniel Jensen; Alan Dutson; Matthew Green

new materials such as hands-on activities, interactive multimedia, andgroup learning. This balance with concrete experience is especially needed in “building-block”courses that create the foundation for advanced design courses. If we expect students to performwell with open-ended, project-centered problems, we need to provide a pedagogical basis acrossthe entire undergraduate curriculum. This paper presents such a basis for one importantengineering core topic: mechanics of materials. Active learning concepts applied in mechanicsof materials courses are discussed, including specific examples of hands-on, multimedia, andgroup design exercises.1. IntroductionOne of the needed reformations in engineering education involves a change in

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Brad Kinsey

8.370.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcomputer screen thus becoming discouraged or confused. The author has anecdotally witnessedthis while teaching introductory design courses. By providing the user with an actual 3D objectin the correct orientation, a perceptual connection will be made between the 3D object and the2D representation on the computer screen, thereby improving the user’s spatial ability skills.The goal is to assist the user in visualizing 3D objects in a 2D representation and develop theuser’s projective spatial skills, which are essential in creating and visualizing orthographic viewsof objects in detailed part

Conference Session

Graduate Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahram Varzavand; John Fecik; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

publication, or 3)submitted and under consideration for publication.The required internship is an opportunity for the student to apply the knowledge gained in thedoctoral program to a practical, career-related area. This internship is educational in nature and isinitiated by application and may be fulfilled in either an industrial or educational organization. Theintern works in industry or cooperating agency with supervision from the advisor. The internship maybe related to the dissertation topic, or provide a capstone experience for the doctoral student.Research activities encompass investigative study of a research topic related to the student’s researchinterest, writing research proposals, reporting of research findings, and statistical

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Havener

a time, in all courses inthe curriculum. Near the end of the program, the capstone design and senior laboratory-courses(AE 481, AE 482, and AE 471) are used to put all pieces of the thread into a single product. Communications Thread - The educational objective of the Communications Thread is:Graduates will use professional writing and speaking skills necessary to communicate effectively.We believe the process of developing effective communicators involves consistent and continuousdevelopment across the curriculum. Thus, instead of teaching technical report writing in a singlecourse, the pieces of a technical report along with efforts to develop good writing skills are taughtin several courses. One course may teach writing an abstract

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Bill Elmore

many of the things theyreally want to do anyway, which is to have fun developing exciting new courses. In this case,the class is the research project. If the professor is successful, he can then turn this work into apublication. Before a professor jumps into the world of educational research, he needs to makesure his university will accept research of this type. Some universities do not recognizeeducational research as real research. Other universities may accept educational research, butstill want you to do some traditional research. This is the case at our university. The collegeleadership still wants us to do traditional research, but we are allowed to use educationalresearch as part of our overall plan.It is also possible to sometimes

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay K. Martin; Jay Martin; Dayle K. Haglund; Jennifer Kushner

have suggested that efforts to foster change in higher educationmust be holistic in approach. In this context, holistic means that the process must consider allaspects of the educational experience, not just the objectives and outcomes, but the pedagogyitself as well as the history of the discipline. Most importantly, they reinforce our ideas that forpositive, reflective, and continual curricular change to occur a department must engage in buildinga philosophy of practice to support their work.Consistent with the EC2000 objectives, one of the objectives for this project was and is todevelop a methodology for use by an engineering department that would result in the followingprocesses. First, the department would engage in regular and

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

publicspeaking and presentations.Engineering students are not often required to present complex ideas to technical and non- Page 8.1199.6technical audiences that mirror the design meetings and public information meetings that real Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationengineers must participate in. Many students make presentations in upper division designcourses, often as part of group work, but it remains unclear how much class time is devoted todeveloping presentation skills in the average capstone or

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Milo Koretsky

arereinforced in senior lab. The content and structure of the introductory statistics course andefforts to integrate these concepts into senior lab will be discussed.1. IntroductionUndergraduate chemical engineering education emphasizes analysis and then design. In thetypical curriculum, the majority of the technical credit hours are devoted to fundamental science(e.g., general chemistry, physics, physical chemistry, and organic chemistry) and engineeringsciences (e.g., mass and energy balances, thermodynamics, transport processes, reactionengineering, process dynamics and control). The student is then asked to synthesize this materialin unit operations and then the capstone design course. However, the majority of graduates arehired as Process

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie McBride

the further development and improvement of the program. • The outcomes important to the mission of the institution and the objectives of the program are being measured.Examples of evidence that can be used in assessment documentation are student portfolios,including design projects; nationally normed subject content examinations; alumni surveys thatdocument professional accomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys; and Page 8.134.2“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education