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International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

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A.K.M. Abdul Quader; Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

. In that context, pollution preventionshould be a priority in any management plan of its meager water resources.In the context of the above cited scenario, a linkage program between the chemical engineeringdepartments of North Carolina A&T State University (NCA&TSU) and Bangladesh Universityof Engineering & Technology (BUET) has been established with a focus on pollution prevention.The BUET chemical engineering department is the only program that offers a B.S. degree inchemical engineering in Bangladesh. Chemical Engineering is a discipline that teaches andtrains young minds in purification, separation and isolation in a broader sense for processindustries. From an environmental point of view, pollution prevention is the study

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Kowalski; Luke Campagnola; Frank Kowalski

). “How people learn: brain, mind, experience, and school.” Washington DC: National Academy Press.2. ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission (2004). “2005-2006 Criteria for accrediting engineering programs.” Baltimore, MD: ABET. Accessed online at http://www.abet.org/images/Criteria/E001%2005- 06%20EAC%20Criteria%2011-17-04.pdf3. Hake, R.R. (1998). “Interactive-engagement vs. traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses.” American Journal of Physics 66, 64-74.4. Black, P. and Wiliam, D. (1998). “Inside the black box: Raising standards through classroom assessment.” Phi Delta Kappan, Nov.1998. Accessed online at http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kbla9810.htr.5. Dufresne, R.J

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Fox

asrobotics, mechatronics, and manufacturing engineering. At CSU in the Department of Engineering Technology, we don’t have the usual four years inwhich to spread out the control system education. Our students come to CSU, having completedan Associate of Science degree, to complete years three and four of the bachelor’s degreeprogram in either mechanical engineering technology or electrical engineering technology.Curriculum constraints in each program allow for just a single senior-level course (withlaboratory) in which to provide some fundamental control systems education. The course topicswere organized with the NSF/CSS workshop recommendations in mind: (1) begin with topicsthat emphasize the basic principles of control systems; (2) then broaden

Conference Session

Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aura Gimm

. Becausethe semiconducting solids used in LEDs can be grown a fewatomic layers at a time, these materials represent an excitingapplication of nanotechnology that draws upon chemistry,physics, and engineering principles.The LED Color Strip Kit provides teachers with creative,hands-on/minds-on ideas that illustrate the properties of light Figure 2. LED Color Strip Kitemitting diodes and semiconductor materials.16, 17 It may be handbook with the deviceespecially useful in a multidisciplinary science or engineeringcourse that includes topics in materials and technology. The kit, for example, can be used tolearn about periodic properties of elements and chemical bonding, electrical conductivity insolids, diode behavior, and properties

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

Page 10.1443.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationnational competitive events encouraged us to initiate yet another project. A group of studentswas to design and fabricate a solar/electric boat with which to compete in ASME’s 1999 “SolarSplash”. These groups operate within our relatively small program, without funding from thedepartment.We approach each competitive event with several goals in mind. First is to win the event with thebest engineered, most finely prepared vehicle possible. The second goal is to finish every eventthat we enter. The third goal is to bring the vehicle, and driver(s

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Gerhart

Session 1793K-12 Summer Engineering Outreach Programs – Curriculum Comparisons Between Ages, Minorities, and Genders. Andrew L. Gerhart Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI 48075AbstractEnsuring that the level of the material presented/used for a K-12 program is not too easy or tooadvanced can be a challenge to the instructor. Also ensuring that the material will be of interestto a variety of students (i.e., minorities, females, etc.) can be a challenge. LawrenceTechnological University has two outreach programs each summer. One program, called

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

Calibrated Peer Review: A Tool for Assessing the Process as Well as the Product in Learning Outcomes Patricia A. Carlson† and Frederick C. Berry†† † Humanities and Social Science Department †† Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IndianaAbstract: For about two decades now, engineering education has been in the process of re-inventing itself. ABET’s revised requirements, changing realities of the workplace, and thegrowing awareness of

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Jason Thrun

Successfully Building Bridges Between Education and Engineering Programs at a 4-year Comprehensive University Jason Thrun and Philip Parker University of Wisconsin-PlattevilleAbstractSix faculty members (three from engineering, one from mathematics, and two from education)teamed up to plan and implement an innovative project. During the fall semester of 2004, ninepre-service teachers in secondary- and middle-level mathematics education enrolled in anexperimental section of GE 1030 – Introduction to Engineering Projects, an existing 1-credithour class that is required for all engineering majors, and is typically taken in the freshman year.The project

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tori Bailey; Jonathan Gabrio; David Cannon; Helen L. Chen; George Toye; Larry Leifer

without committingto being one; (2) make students aware of what it means and how it feels to think and act like adesign engineer; and (3) allow faculty, advisors, and potential employers to see individualsmature from having relatively undifferentiated intelligence into professional minds withdocumented skills and experience, some becoming design engineers, but all understanding wheredesign thinking fits into our everyday lives. Thus, the course emphasizes direct experience,practical design thinking, and the building of real product prototypes. No prior design experienceor fabrication skills are required. The ideas developed in the course are grounded in the students’collective background life experiences and observations of "human needs

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Mosborg; Robin Adams; Rebecca Kim; Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman; Jennifer Turns

Conceptions of the Engineering Design Process: An Expert Study of Advanced Practicing Professionals Susan Mosborg, Robin Adams, Rebecca Kim, Cynthia J. Atman, Jennifer Turns, and Monica Cardella Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching, University of WashingtonAbstract. Published models of the engineering design process are widely available and oftenillustrated for students with a block diagram showing design as sequential and iterative. Here weexamine experts’ conceptions of the design process in relation to a model synthesized fromseveral introductory engineering textbooks. How do experts’ conceptions compare? What mightthey see as alternative accounts? We

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Bodner; Deborah Follman; Mica Hutchison

ranking their confidence and to briefly describe them. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005. American Society for Engineering Education”They were encouraged to report everything that came to mind. After listing all of the factorsthey considered, students were asked to rank the factors from most to least influential.Analysis Due to the large number of students enrolled in ENGR 106, smaller sample populationswere selected for analysis using stratified random sampling. The population of men and womenwere each stratified by ethnicity (Table 1) and randomly sampled based on a 95% confidencelevel and a confidence interval of 5. Sample

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhifeng Kou; Sudhir Mehta

Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program and the EducationalMaterials Development (EMD) Track. The authors also thank Dr. Richard Shaw and hiscolleagues in the Center for Writers at North Dakota State University for their help in thepreparation of this manuscript.References1. NRC. (1996). “From Analysis to Action: Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology,” A report from NRC, http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9128.html, accessed March 30, 2001.2. NRC. (2000). How people learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (expanded edition). National Research Council’s Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Developments in the Science of Learning and Learning Research and Educational Practice. National

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Leo Benegas; Rick Covington

A Cognitive-Based Approach for Teaching Programming to Computer Science and Engineering Students Covington, R. and Benegas, L. California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, 913301. IntroductionAn issue receiving attention in the undergraduate Computer Science curriculum over the pastfew years has been the high failure rate in the freshman programming course. This coursegenerally corresponds to the ACM/IEEE course designation CS1. It is normally an introductorybut fast-paced and challenging course for students who have not previously studied computerprogramming (programming novices), but who do have a minimum level of mathematicalmaturity (students who are

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

, social, and educational objectives in mind. The analysis of the three main questionspresented here (changes in professional aspirations, perceptions of own skills, and interest incommunity service) revealed that over the course of the semester, students perceived learninggains and increased their orientation toward a service approach. First, students changed theirprofessional aspirations toward engineering/product development and further education andaway from management consulting and medicine. Second, the perception of their own skillsincreased in key product design areas such as ability to design new products, creativity, andproblem solving. Third, 2.009 students’ attitude became more service-oriented.In summary, the goal of integrating

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gillian Saunders-Smits

specialist and the scientist are grouped together in one career track asindividual contributors as that seems to be the common accepted definition in literature (See for Page 10.1322.1instance Landis2 and Covert4). It might be worthwhile to also keep in mind the definition from Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationSpurgeon5 who distinguishes between managers and individual contributors, which can be usedas a definitive decision maker in cases of doubt to which group an engineer belongs

Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kimberley R. Breaux; Heidi Loshbaugh; Ruth Streveler

, so we contacted participants individually. Furthermore, interview protocols were stillbeing refined as CSM’s academic year drew to a close. When protocols were complete, CSMhad only four weeks between Spring Break and Final Exams to schedule forty-eight interviewsone-and-one-half hours, each. When a student had to reschedule or missed an appointment, the Page 10.1074.6entire schedule was under even greater pressure.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationResearchers must be mindful of the participant’s value

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

(even if it means going to some bad movies or sitting through somepoor TV programs), bring them into the classroom to be dealt with face-to-face and re-engineer the problem by correctly applying physical laws to expose the physical fallacies.The good news is that the Instructor can count on the fact that a majority of the studentshave already seen the illusions and have had their attention focused on the “problem”even if subliminally, for one or two hours (depending upon the length of the movie orTV). Thus there is some level of recall by the students of their favorite movie or TV1 The author remembers fondly the ‘60’s movie “Flubber’ staring Fred Mac Murray as the absent minded

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler

move may commence. Realistically, as the amountof unknown and imprecise information becomes increasingly larger, it becomes more difficult toplan out contingency plans for the later stages of the game. The best decisions will also be those Page 10.1283.11that provide the greatest longevity of the units. Keep in mind that even the best plans often failbecause either there are too many unknown variables or the opposing plans are better strategies.“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Students should

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bardo; Gary Bertoline; Eugene DeLoatch; Duane Dunlap; Albert McHenry; T.G. Stanford; S.J. Tricamo; P.Y. Lee; H.J. Palmer; Michael Dyrenfurth; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

., Science: The Endless Frontier, Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1945.2. Ferguson, E.S., Engineering and the Minds Eye, MIT Press, 1993.3. Boyd, W., The History of Western Education, Eighth Edition, Barnes & Noble, Inc. 1966.4. Boyer, E.L., Selected Speeches, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1997.5. Dewey, J., Democracy and Education, 1916.6. Whitehead, A. N., The Aims of Education, Macmillan, 1929.7. Grinter Report, Report of the Committee on Evaluation of Engineering Education, Journal of Engineering Education 46, September 19558. Walker, E.A., Teaching Research Isn’t Teaching Engineering, ASEE, 1969.9. Boyer, E.L., Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Bryan Hill

Implementing a Mailing Campaign for Undergraduate Student Recruitment Bryan Hill College of Engineering University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR 72701 ABSTRACTThe process of recruiting a high school student to enroll into a university is a veryintricate and intense process. Why is this complicated? You must read a 17 or 18year olds mind in order to obtain this information, which is very tricky if notimpossible sometimes. How do you keep the interest of a student? What buttondo you have to push for them to read the information you send them? How manytimes and when should you contact a prospective

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Karen A. High; Paul E. Rossler; Martin S. High

Technology Management Program. The centerpiece of this initiative is a comprehensive design of a newentrepreneurship program. The curriculum will rely on engineering and businesscourses. One unique feature of this program is that we propose to engage freshman inthe curriculum. We see this as a benefit to retention of students with both technical andbusiness interests. . In the “capstone” classes, students will be organized in E-teams with varyingeducational backgrounds. The six prior Entrepreneurship courses in concert with thebusiness courses will provide the students with the tools needed to successfully developtheir products. These E-Teams will include Oklahoma inventors that commonly have aproduct concept in mind with little insight

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert McHenry

psychology of the child. New York: Basic Books11. Vygotsky, L. (1978). Mind in society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press12. Harnad, S. (1982) Neoconstructivism: A unifying theme for the cognitive sciences. In T.13. Jonassen, D. H. (1991) Objectivism versus constructivism: do we need a new philosophical paradigm? Educational Technology Research and Development, 39 (3), 5-14. . . . . Page 10.348.6 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”

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IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Fraser

Wayne State University, • History of technology at the University of South Florida, • Business law at Milwaukee School of Engineering, • Team leadership and facilitation at North Carolina ATSU and Milwaukee School of Engineering, • Reliability at Cal State Hayward, • Cognitive engineering at Ohio State University, • Fuzzy logic at SUNY-Binghamton, and • Entrepreneurship at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.ConclusionsAs a faculty member, I sometimes feel that the field is dominated by large research baseddepartments. I believe we should keep in mind that only 66% of the IE programs are indepartments that grant the Ph.D., and over half of IE faculty members are in departments thathave 14 or fewer faculty

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Fraser

Wayne State University, • History of technology at the University of South Florida, • Business law at Milwaukee School of Engineering, • Team leadership and facilitation at North Carolina ATSU and Milwaukee School of Engineering, • Reliability at Cal State Hayward, • Cognitive engineering at Ohio State University, • Fuzzy logic at SUNY-Binghamton, and • Entrepreneurship at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.ConclusionsAs a faculty member, I sometimes feel that the field is dominated by large research baseddepartments. I believe we should keep in mind that only 66% of the IE programs are indepartments that grant the Ph.D., and over half of IE faculty members are in departments thathave 14 or fewer faculty

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

La Verne Abe Harris; Judy Birchman; Mary Sadowski

participants were university graphics instructors with a variety of academic andindustrial backgrounds.I. IntroductionMuch research has been done to assess how the human mind operates, how it perceives and Page 10.153.1processes information. These individual learning differences are referred to as “learning styles” “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”(Butler, 1987). As a result, many learning models have been developed by which an individual’sstyle of learning can be assessed. Educators can begin

Conference Session

IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Palmer; Terri Lynch-Caris; Laura Sullivan

disciplines, acquiring the analytical skills and methods of each, theyexperience themselves as investigators and search for truths that cut across the interests andbiases that lie within a single disciplinary perspective.” (1997, p. 140) Collaborative ability, in addition to design skills and technical intelligence, is of growingimportance for today’s engineering graduates. Engineers of the future must not only becomfortable with technology outside of their own discipline, they must also be experienced withcollaborative problem solving tools. A spirit of cooperation, rather than a spirit of competitionwill drive innovation. As Sally Helgesen writes in The Female Advantage, Fearlessness, a thirst for combat, single-minded devotion to an

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Feodoroff

Original Quarter One Projects Utilizing Rapid Prototyping Bruce A. Feodoroff New England Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper describes the success New England Institute of Technology (NEIT) is experiencing ingrabbing hold of the first quarter students’ creative energy and motivating them to succeed inMechanical Engineering Technology. The introduction and use of a rapid prototype machine hassignificantly impacted not only the quality of the resulting original project models or prototypesbut has greatly enhanced the learning experience for quarter one (freshmen) students. This hashelped in sustaining the students’ interest in Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder

open their minds to an alternative future career option. By theirvery nature, elementary students are observant and curious about the world around them andwant to know how everything works and fits together — a perfect match for engineering.Malinda refined her prior experiences with teaching and writing to create curricular units onmotion (mechanical engineering), energy and environmental engineering. Each unit adhered tostate and national science and math standards, and included hands-on student activities. Meetingthe educational content standards, and providing clear curricular documentation was important ifteachers were going to find her engineering lessons useful enough to implement in future classes.Students were immersed in intriguing

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sivand Lakmazaheri

starts before expanding outward to methods and theories, and theirapplications in engineering disciplines.PerspectiveLearning does not take place when the student is exposed to new information by reading notesand books or listening to lectures. Rather, learning takes place when the student internalizes thatinformation—when the mind constructs meaning from the information and retains it byassociating it with existing knowledge.Even during the process of learning it is all too common for students to construct inaccurateand/or incomplete meaning from the information presented to them. Therefore, for meaningfullearning to take place, it is important that misconceptions and inaccuracies are identified andremedied while the student is actively engaged

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Hanneman; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

and not assessed separately.This has at least two important implications for engineering educators at ISU. First, we must re-examine how we use the classroom in educating future engineers, broadening our focus toinclude competency development. Second, these results confirm our belief that experientialeducation (internships) is critical to students becoming successful in the engineering workplace.With all this in mind, we identified the workplace competencies most important to ourstakeholders to the practice of engineering at the professional level, how those competencies Page 10.1271.2“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for