Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Williamson; Randy Winzer

buggies built at the Redstone Arsenal, taken to the moon in the lunar module and used bythe astronauts to travel the lunar surface. For this moon buggy contest, human power wasselected as the mode of power in place of the batteries used to power the original moon buggies. Figure 1: Apollo Lunar Rover (4)There are two divisions in the contest, one for high schools and one for colleges/universities. (6)The primary purposes of the contest are to encourage students to learn more about math, science,working together and having fun. The contest may also help students select a career in theaerospace industry. The Great Moon Buggy Race is a two-day contest; contestants come from allover the USA and Puerto Rico. PSU does

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

• Integration of creative original works educating students about works from several fields • Demonstrations the research process and • Technical assistance methods) SERVICE • Participation in task • Academic governance • Leadership in • Student advising and SCHOLARSHIP forces, think tanks, and • Assistance to professional activities career counseling other problem-solving corporations, government • Peer-review activities • Advising student activities

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cyrus Hagigat

], [5].This article contains a summary of the accreditation criteria from TAC and CAC of ABET. Thesummary is focused only on the portions of ABET criteria that would be affected if distancelearning courses are offered. The article then contains discussions on techniques for satisfying theABET requirements when distance learning courses are offered.An institution can also be accredited by one of the following eight regional accrediting agencies.• Commission on Higher Education, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools• Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, New England Association of Schools and Colleges• Commission on Technical Career Institutions, New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Chmielewski

Session 2003-1056 “One Ancient Greek and One Mythic Bird: The Cunning of the Engineer” Philip J. Chmielewski, S.J. Loyola Marymount University Engagement in life-long learning (ABET) can be fostered by utilizing resources drawnfrom (a) classical Greek literature and (b) modern ethnography. Life-long learning does notsimply happen because a person lives or even lives long. The habit of the learning thataccompanies the stages of one’s life and one’s career must be acquired. In this paper the focus isdirected to the shrewd, problem

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadia Craig; Michelle Maher; Walter Peters

course wasdesigned, the “story” of this course will include student comments and learning outcomesthroughout the following sections.Methodology and Course DesignThe freshman learning experience discussed in this paper took place in a College of Engineeringsection of University 101, “The Student in the University.” This course recently receivedrecognition from U.S. News and World Reports as the number one program for first-yearstudents in the country.4 The “university” part of this course introduces and exposes the studentsto living and learning opportunities such as sex education, alcohol and drug abuse education, thelibrary, and the career center. This class was made up of ten freshman engineering honorsstudents (four females and six males

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Applied Science offers the First-Year Engineering ProjectsDesign-Build Course (FYEP). Initiated in 1994, this course is a three-credit, one-semester coursethat now serves approximately 350 students per year. The course is required by the mechanical,aerospace, and environmental engineering majors and is an elective for the rest of the college’sdepartments. In contrast to large, impersonal math and science courses, each FYEP section islimited to 30 students. Instruction and enrollment are interdisciplinary; sections are staffed withinstructors from a variety of engineering departments. The goals of the course are to introducestudents to the excitement of engineering as a career and the practical considerations of thedesign process, experimental

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Bradley Golish; Phil Weilerstein; Harvey Wolfe

program). Results were veryencouraging. Survey respondents indicated that over 30% of these alumni were actively pursuingan entrepreneur-like career. These students had either formed their own company or hadcommercialized their product. This result illustrates great strides towards the promotion ofentrepreneurial activities. Seventeen percent of the students were pursuing a more traditionalavenue of entrepreneurial activities, such as working for a start-up company, worked in the areaof design, continued their E-team idea via graduate work, or were studying patent law. Further,over nine percent of the students who had an E-team experience were filing a patent for theirwork or had one approved. Twenty-six percent of the students had pursued a

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCaul; Earl Whitlatch; Robert J. Gustafson

: Cost and time constraints(n = 37); Supervisor/employer attitude, values and behavior (n = 37); Personal beliefs and attributes (n = 22); Page 8.176.1 Lack of training or knowledge (n = 18); Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Money and personal greed (n = 11); Career advancement and job security (n = 10); Communications (n= 7); Laws, regulations and design codes (n = 7

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hesham Shaalan

. __________________________________________ Figure 1. Tour Evaluation FormIn addition to playing a significant role in achieving the course objectives, field trips can help theengineering technology programs as follows: increase exposure of the program, strengthenrelationships with industry, help faculty gain new technical knowledge, and keep faculty familiarwith job opportunities.ConclusionIndustrial field trips can enhance student learning particularly in an introductory course.Therefore, field trips have been integrated into the Introduction to Process Industry course atTexas A&M University-Corpus Christi. An additional benefit of field trips is that companyengineers and managers inform students about career opportunities as well as what they look forwhen they hire an employee

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tonya Smith-Jackson; Chang Soo Nam; Chanel Thomas

to the learning styles of Type A individuals and designingWeb pages targeted towards individuals using search engines will support information literacy inEngineering Students. Future implications include researching the effects of Behavior Type onparticular areas of study such as Engineering and Mathematics vs. English and History.Introduction Information literacy refers to a “person's ability to access and understand a variety ofinformation resources (Lenox and Walker, 1993; p. 314) 2.” Information literacy in Engineering isimportant for both academic and career success. Web and database searches are common activitiesassociated with information retrieval, and information literacy reflects an individual’s knowledge andskills

Conference Session

REU at VaNTH & Graduate Programs in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Quint

found that the studentsentering through this mechanism are on par with the students entering through the competitiveadmissions process from other institutions. Over the 14-year span of this program, all of the 5-year Master's degree students have completed the degree, or are actively enrolled.References[1] IEEE Spectrum, Education (September, 2001), “Teaching from a Clean Slate”.http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/careers/careerstemplate.jsp?ArticleId=e090301Stephen R. Quint, PhD Stephen R. Quint received his BS in Electrical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1970 and PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 1977. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, and Associate Chair of

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

K Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; Dee Fink; Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Carolyn Ahern; Kurt Gramoll

theeducational community.Selected Educational Awards to Members of the Project Team: • 3 NSF CAREER Awards (integrating research and education) • 3 ASEE Dow Outstanding New Faculty Awards • 4 OU teaching and research awardsAwards for the Sooner City Project • NSF Course and Curriculum Development Award (seed money for concept) • NSF Action Agenda for Systemic Engineering Education Reform (major funding source) • Oklahoma Regents Instructional Technology Excellence Award (1999) • Oklahoma's Williams Faculty Innovator Award (2000)Other Project/Individual Recognition • 5 Invited Presentations at National Conferences (1998 and 1999 ASEE/NSF Project Showcase, 1998 and 2002 ASCE

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

Page 8.243.6“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”in the design, construction and competition. Both teams strive to give every student anopportunity to lead a subgroup assigned to a specific task. Whether it is acquiring material forthe steel bridge or constructing the canoe mold, every task is critical to the successful completionof the project. Completing tasks correctly and on time enable the students to develop confidencein their abilities to lead a team.Project management is a prominent career track for civil engineers. Therefore, it is importantthat students acquire some project management skills and experience

Conference Session

Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Rebecca Bates

engineering students titled "Active Learning inEngineering Education." The objective of the course was to provide engineering graduatestudents with information about the learning process and resources on teaching and academia tohelp them make informed decisions about teaching as a career and to help them be betterteachers. We believe this course is unique because it provides a curriculum taught to graduatestudents by a graduate student. This work was funded by a Huckabay Teaching Fellowship, aprogram that provides support for teaching projects conducted by graduate students paired withmentors.1I. IntroductionPreparing engineering graduate students for a future in academia should include providingmethods and support for teaching as well as guidance in

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Abushagur; Harvey J. Palmer

sciences“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”and engineering which should prepare the student for a successful career. RochesterInstitute of Technology offers a unique educational and research program that leads to aPh.D. in Microsystems Engineering. This multi-disciplinary program builds on thestrengths in microelectronic fabrications, photonics, imaging and micro-power researchprograms at the institute. The program is designed to be application oriented withoutsacrificing the scientific and engineering fundamentals. Students will be involved incutting edge research and have access to modern facility, the largest of its

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

, entitled Women and Men of theEngineering Path: A Model Analyses of Undergraduate Careers. This study confirms therelative scarcity of liberal arts courses in the undergraduate experience: “only four coursesoutside of science, mathematics, and technology—introduction to economics, Englishcomposition, general psychology, and introduction to management—turn up frequently ontranscripts” (Adelman 1998). The authors’ study confirms these findings, except the presence ofa psychology course, of which only two civil engineering schools specifically require. This islikely a difference between civil and other branches of engineering. The USDE study went on toreport that although “all branches [of engineering] encounter problems brimming withambiguities and

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Lugowski

, understanding of the basics, and oftenhard work. That’s why many students avoid it. History is full of examples of scientists,researchers, and engineers who avoided critical thinking in their careers. Those who did applycritical thinking, contributed to the progress in their disciplines. It may seem that lack of criticalthinking occurred only in the past. We often are so deeply engaged in solving problems that weoverlook that there often is another possible approach to a problem. In the bibliography1-9, severalreferences are given to publications that deal with critical thinking as a way of living. In thispaper, only limited experiences are presented that relate to a few courses in the MechanicalEngineering Technology Department at Purdue University.2

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Earley; Dave Lennig; Dave Campbell; Suguna Bommaraju

variouscontexts and reflect on their actions throughout the project. 3-5At Miami University, the senior design project course is also used to establish bridges with localhigh schools by participating in FIRST robotics comeptition. Started in the year 2001, this coursehas been successful in collaborating with local high schools participating in the competition. TheFIRST robotics competition 6 engages university students in a challenging 'design-build-and test'project, while working side by side with industrial engineers and high school students. Throughthe competition, university students complete a demanding engineering project and motivate anew cadre of students to follow their career footsteps.After a brief description of FIRST competition, the paper

Collection

2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Fahmida Masoom; Abulkhair Masoom

students who do not immediately qualify for aprofessional program must begin their studies at UW-Platteville in the General EngineeringDepartment.The GE Department has the following continuing goals, which directly support the mission of theUniversity and the College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science, where it is housed: 1. Prepare students for entrance into the professional engineering programs; 2. Smooth the transition from high school to college for new freshmen in engineering through proper advising, schedule-building, counseling and monitoring; 3. Assist freshmen and transfer students in career counseling related to both engineering and non-engineering fields; 4. Recruit and retain high quality high school and

Collection

2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Vojin Nikolic

early in the fall semester. The student teams, consisting offour to five students each, evaluate and rank the projects according to their interests andfuture career plans. Typically, there have been enough of these projects (the companiesoften present several projects each) so that all major areas of mechanical engineering arecovered. The faculty member coordinating the course in consultation with othermechanical engineering faculty members who will serve as faculty advisers to the teamsmake final decisions on assigning specific projects. Every effort is made to best pair theteams and the projects, and typically every team gets their first or second choice. Once assigned a specific problem, a student design team develops the strategy

Collection

2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert Bruce Kelsey

measuresthey are most accustomed to: headcount costs, billable hours, and decreased operating costs.Instead, they see a rise in headcount to support process engineers, they see a rise in non-billable work to implement the process controls, and they see a corresponding decrease inoperating margin. Typically, senior management responds to this situation by putting pressureon the software organization to cut costs and to have defect free releases.This tension between the business metrics and process improvement costs has an immediateeffect on development staff. The developers and their line-level managers find that theirpaychecks, their bonuses, and their career options are suddenly based on just one thing: meetthe numbers. To meet the project cost

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

AProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Page 8.749.1 Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education@well.A. Design experiences in first-year courses. Design courses in this category have three main goals:to introduce the concept of design; to give hands-on experiences in design early in theundergraduate careers of students; and to motivate students to study engineering, thereby,enhancing their retention and persistence in that major. A sample of references to papers thatillustrate these ideas is: Richards & Carlson

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationBecause of the dynamic nature of machining, the manufacturing laboratory is a popular stop forhigh school students, teachers, and counselors. Each year, several groups of interested studentsfrom local high schools are given tours of the lab where the CNC machines manufacture analuminum pen holder as shown in Figure 2. These holders are raffled off to the students in returnfor filling out an evaluation sheet. In addition, local high school teachers and counselors visit thelab in the summer to learn more about careers in engineering and technology. Finally, theuniversity hosts a minority engineering

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Bickart; Pam Newberry; Douglas Gorham

set of standards could lead to change in fundamental components of the educationalsystem.Comparing Engineering Criteria 2000 and Standards for Technological LiteracyTables 1 and 2 compare and contrast the concepts and principles that are recommendedfor technology education courses for grades K-12 in STL with outcomes specified inCriterion 3 Program Outcomes and Assessment of EC2000.Potential Impact of STL on Engineering EducationAs pre-college schools and districts adopt and implement STL, increased numbers ofstudents will take technologically oriented coursework, and will be exposed to manyaspects of engineering. These experiences will likely result in more studentsunderstanding engineering principles and selecting engineering as a career

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chow Michael; Barry Farbrother

Comments from the studentsAn opportunity is provided here for five of the present EiR program students to share their experiences. Student #1, Shiloh Archer : Senior - Civil EngineeringWith a strong interest in Structural Engineering and since Ohio Northern University’s Engineering college does not offer aspecialization in this area of Civil Engineering, the opportunity to work as a Structural Coop with MAP has had atremendous impact on my education and future career. Over the past thirteen weeks with MAP, I have been able to applythe following classes to my structural engineering projects: Structures I & II, Reinforced Concrete, Steel Design and ProjectManagement.My initial project with MAP was to

Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cairns; Donna Farrior; Shirley Pomeranz

Towers Twin Towers Twin Towers 6:00 p.m. Orientation KEP Lego Robots Career Panel: Meet some Bowling Dinner, KEP Swimming at Mabee Pool Bellovich/Harrington women from industry Riverlanes Bowling Name Game. (7:00-9:00 p.m.) (6:00-8:00 p.m.) Faculty Study, McFarlin Library

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

highway by-pass and large dam in particular. Students then watched a video onlarge dams and were assigned to write about the social and economic issues associated with largedams. In addition they were asked to discuss the social and economic issues of a local project oftheir choice. After the assignment, class discussion was used to highlight some of the social andeconomic issues encountered in each project. Student feedback on this learning experience wasalso obtained.IntroductionCivil engineering technology students prepare for technical careers in a profession in which thesocial and economic implications of a project are often as important as the technical aspects. Assuch, their education should not only include learning the technical aspects

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

different cohort. Engineering students who have taken theHOD class have enjoyed it, and have greatly enhanced the learning environment for other HODstudents. 2) Freshman Engineering Entrepreneurship Seminar. The professor who has taught theentrepreneurship courses in the School of Education and Human Development agreed to teach acourse in entrepreneurship for engineers. The concept related to this course is to capture theattention of the engineering student early in his or her career and to illustrate how newinnovation can be taken to the marketplace. HOD students have been invited to participate inthis seminar series. This has been an effective model, but limited in terms of student interactions.(The Education Professor also has a

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthey do have diverse backgrounds, learning styles, and career objectives.Moreover, courses presenting architectural drafting basic concepts are, most of the time,offered as introductory courses in many engineering or technology curricula. They arepresented to freshmen students who most probably are not yet oriented, or certain enoughabout their abilities or even their interest in those disciplines. Unfortunately, this couldturn-off some students, leading them to become less motivated or enthusiastic. If theirstamina is not strong enough to help them survive this frustrating period

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amanda Young; Richard Brow

. Thedemonstrations are meant to foster classroom discussions of ceramic materials that promoteinquiry-based learning. The experiments will provide the students with hands-on learningopportunities while the kits will provide the resources and background materials necessary to set-up and understand the experiments. Further, the finished AGPMA kits will contain aninteractive DVD that will provide explicit instructions for using the kits along with explanationsof the science behind the experiments. The DVD will also contain information on educationalopportunities and descriptions of careers in Ceramic Engineering. Prior to delivery to AGPMA,the kits will be tested by UMR. Testing of the kits will proceed in two steps. The initial phaseof testing has included