Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Javier Kypuros; Thomas Connolly

’ conceptualization andexposure to System Dynamics and Controls fundamentals by providing less restricted exposureto a variety of systems that encompass the more important Dynamic Systems concepts. The plan involves the development of a System Dynamics Concepts Inventory and theimplementation and assessment of three Web-enabled laboratory formats: (1) inter-campuscollaborative experimentation, (2) remotely-accessible experiments, and (3) virtual systemexperiments. Each format has its inherent advantages and disadvantages. Remotely-accessibleexperiments, for example, can be made more readily available to students outside of regularlaboratory hours, but the lack of hands-on exposure limits the potential scope of the experiments.Each format has been

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Auzenne; Jeanne Garland; J. Phillip King; Ricardo Jacquez

-supported opportunities, and 3) year-round advising support on career opportunities. This paper focuses on the challenges we faced indeveloping and maintaining the META program and presents the positive outcomes, such asstrengthened industry and community college relationships, engaging student activities, studentinternships, and the increase of students entering SMET fields, particularly civil engineering.The paper reflects plans for sustainability by further collaborations with our community collegeand industry partners.IntroductionRepresenting a joint effort of New Mexico State University, Santa Fe Community College(SFCC), Luna Community College (Luna CC), and five regional civil engineering industrypartners, the Minority Engineering Transfer

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Rosalind Hale; Renee Akbar; Ramona Travis; John Fulwiler

learning, and developed theircompetency to integrate technology into the mathematics and science curricula.NASA personnel and university faculty offered courses that included lesson planning, classroomapplication of problem-based learning, application of mathematics and science content as relatedto real-world problems, and the effective use of technology as a teaching tool. In addition, pre- Page 10.1397.2 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition”Copyright © 2005, United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics andSpace

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Zemke; Donald Elger

guarantee these results; rather it is effectivementor interactions that influence learning positively. We need to know how to direct ourmentors to activate learning, team formation, and team performance.Our research question then is: “What roles and practices can mentors take to activate team formation, team performance, and individual learning?”Effective mentor roles were surfaced using a qualitative method case study. The case involved aclass of 44 students and six mentors. Each week the mentors conducted the lab, recorded theirinsights of effective mentoring practices, distilled “best practices,” and incorporate these into thenext week’s lab plan. The mentor best practices and an end of treatment student questionnairewere used to

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Dees; Megan Perkey; Karen Davis; Nicholas Harth

enablesecondary students to experience the relevancy of their education to everyday life, societyand the world. The third goal is to encourage secondary students to consider engineeringas a field of study in college and as a profession.Project STEP Fellows are primarily graduate students, but several undergraduate studentshave participated and used the experience as a capstone design experience. The Fellowsare trained by College of Education faculty in a sequence of graduate courses that covertopics including classroom management techniques, lesson planning, instructionaldelivery, state and national standards, and assessment of student learning. Fieldpracticum allows the Fellows to observe teachers’ classroom styles and becomeacquainted with school

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt

course. A more completedescription of the course elements is provided in a previous ASEE conference paper2.Students begin the semester by responding to the RFP. If possible, clients (typicallyrepresentatives from local consulting firms, the University, and ICAST) are part of the audiencewhen the students present their proposals. The students create a work plan to outline theiranticipated tasks and time management throughout the semester. Given that many weeks go bybetween due dates for the deliverables, time management by the students is critical. Weeklytimesheets are submitted by each student. Typically, individual meetings between each team andthe instructor occur on a weekly basis to ensure that progress is being made. Meetings with

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster; Mohan Krishnan; Shuvra Das; Sandra Yost

DetroitMercy. These included a new senior level technical elective in introductory mechatronics alongwith mechatronic activities in freshmen design and in the introductory electrical engineeringcourse meant for non-EE majors. This effort has been very successful, and now mechatronicsactivities are also going on in many pre-college programs that the school runs.Recently this team received a National Science Foundation grant to take this effort one stepfurther by developing two new advanced courses in the area of modeling and simulation ofmechatronic systems and in the area of sensors and actuators, including emerging technologies.One of the key components of this effort is a detailed plan for outcomes assessment. Anoutcomes assessment expert is also

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Reid Bailey

are taken is important for the shopping cart but notfor the egg counter. The results indicate that the two tests are not as parallel as intended and,consequently, assess different objectives.Item correlation analysis was conducted and the results show that in both tests (shopping cart andegg counter) there are some items that do not correlate with the overall score. There were fivecommon items that did not work in either rubric. These five items are as follows: • Item 1: State that a team is needed to work on the project. • Item A: Indicate that the three phases of design are addressed in an appropriate order. • Item C: State that iteration should be planned into a design process. • Item H: Extra points for

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Susan Magliaro; Michael Alley; Hassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hayden Griffin; Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

-level “program” (somewhat similar to our local Science & Technology StudiesProgram or our new School of Biomedical Engineering & Science), governed by faculty from allparticipating units, that will oversee the degrees. As a part of the creation of the Program, whichis currently being referred to as the “Education-Engineering Collaborative” (EEC), we plan toredefine and include our existing Technology Education graduate program, which has beenranked as one of the top such programs in the nation. This is not a radical combination, since asengineers, we feel an instant kinship when we visit the Technology Education laboratories andsee wind tunnels and polymer fabrication equipment in use. We have employed two TechnologyEducation Ph.D

Conference Session

Engaging Upper Level Classes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue McNeil; Adjo Amekudzi; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

Engineering; however, one or twostudents typically enroll from the City Planning Program in the School of Architecture. Thecourse has been offered once a year since 2000 with enrollments ranging from 4-18 students. Itpresents an integrated treatment of methodologies, models, tools, funding mechanisms, rules andregulations that assist with managing civil infrastructure deterioration. The course also includeslectures on sustainable development and the built environment. Concepts are introduced toencourage students to think more seriously about the broader social and environmentalimplications of infrastructure decision making and to encourage students to explore projectopportunities for incorporating sustainability into built systems decision making

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Melton; Michael Micci; Deborah Levin; Charles Croskey; David Spencer; Sven Bilen

slides of their early nanosat design for all universities toreview. The Preliminary Design Review (PDR) was a review of initial designs (subsystems,interfaces, configuration items) relative to the design requirements provided by the NS-3program. The SDR was an intermediate review whose intent was to ensure that the PDR concepthad evolved into a design that meets requirements and that the universities were taking theappropriate management steps to assure successful build and test. At the Subsystem Design Review (SDR), teams brought with them demonstrationsubsystem hardware as well as preliminary subsystem drawings and test plans. The subsystemhardware could be in a developmental stage or could be flight hardware. The Critical

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

, Daria co-instructs the Creative Engineering class for ninth-grade students at the Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) in Denver, CO. For Daria, one of the greatest benefits of participating in the K-12 outreach initiative was the development of her pedagogy skills at the middle school and high school instructional level. Each week, she created detailed 50- minute lesson plans that met a daily

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marijke Kehrhahn; Kelli Vallieres; Alexandra Bell; Nicholas Massa

which to model behaviors14. Providing learners with instruction that focuseson developing metacognitive knowledge will better prepare them to choose and regulate learningstrategies that enhance interaction while engaged in the learning process.Self-regulation, the degree to which individuals actively participate in their own learning processand utilize metacognitive, motivational, and behavioral strategies to orchestrate their learning is acritical element of learner success10, 14, 15, 16,17. Self-regulation is a continuous and integratedprocess utilizing reflection skills and metacognitive knowledge involving three interrelatedprocesses (a) planning (i.e., setting goals, identifying task knowledge, and selecting andsequencing a series of

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paolo Tamayo; David Florida; Ramakrishna Gottipati; Janos Grantner

are discussed in the paper in detail. In the first part of the paper, we briefly outline the key concepts to develop a verificationmethodology for teaching and research in the digital systems design area. The second and thirdsections of the paper focus on the test bench and provide for a few examples on how to use it. Page 10.462.1The fourth part of the paper concludes with a future assessment plan.“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”1. Introduction The main focus of

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Rowe

Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationaccreditation) will be discussed further in this paper. Students undertaking BEng (IEng) awardswho successfully complete the final year project are required to demonstrate the ability to: • Undertake a risk assessment of a project. • Undertake a search of information/literature related to a specified topic. • Appraise relevant practical techniques to be used to obtain specified data in order to achieve set objectives. • Formulate a project specification including a work plan to achieve desired project objectives

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

design firm in industry while providing a class experience that combines field construction with an engineering design project to benefit people of the developing world.University of Pittsburgh, PA. Mascaro Offers undergraduate research and courses in sustainabilitySustainability Initiative; Department of and development. The Green Construction and Sustain-Civil and Environmental Engineering. able Development Program offers a grassroots approach towww.engr.pitt.edu/msi/ project planning and design; political economy of development; and skills in development.Purdue University

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Simoneau; Mary deManbey; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

of the planning process, as it served to help grant administrators tailor activitiesaround the educators’ interests, and it also gave the educators information on what industrylearning opportunities existed for them.The focal point of the ATE Professional Development grant was the summer externshipprogram. CBIA took the initiative in setting up the industry experiences, working closely witheach teacher and company sponsor to assure that there was the potential for a beneficialpartnership. Educators were given an opportunity to express what their interests were, and torequest a particular company of interest. If an ATE leader had no company in mind, CBIAresearched general areas of interest and solicited companies that would be

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverlee Kissick; Alysia Starkey; Jung Oh; Judith Collins

ongoing instructioneffectively7. With Jung Oh, professor of chemistry, the four became a group with the goal ofexploring how IL instruction could be adopted into cooperative faculty's existing curricula.Because assessment programs were currently being planned university-wide, the IL Group alsoinvestigated ways to assess information literacies across curriculum.We adopted three near-term goals, the focus of this report: Identify cooperative faculty willing to collaborate on inservice visits tailored to the needs of specific courses taught. develop and pilot course assignments that integrate inservice librarian visits with course content

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

Key Assignment Elements Criterion 3 Outcomes Addressed Proposal - Take cues from NSF and require (b) – esp. designing experiments; (c) information regarding broader impacts – esp. a recognition of existing and intellectual merit constraints; (e) – esp. identifying and formulating problems; (f); (g); (h) – - Include a literature review through broader impact/intellectual merit; (i) –through literature review; - Include a project plan and proposed

Conference Session

Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

La Verne Abe Harris

methodology of this case study was based on multi-method survey and focus group activitiesthat were both quantitative and qualitative in nature. The success of the project was determinedby the analysis of the data from the pre/post tests, focus groups, and evaluations through processmeasures used to assess student involvement, skills, knowledge, and educational progress.Twelve graphic information technology (GIT) students at Arizona State University, who were Page 10.47.2enrolled in GIT 314 Multimedia Design Planning and Storyboarding, participated in this study. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Judith Miller; Paula Quinn; Jill Rulfs; John Orr

project objectives, overall organization, and budget aspects are presented in [2].Organizationally, this project is complex, involving WPI faculty, graduate and undergraduatestudents, WPS elementary teachers and principals, and five grade levels in three schools inacademic year 2004-05. The graduate fellows in the program devote full time in the summer andhalf time in the academic year to their K-6 activities, which include substantial time in theelementary classrooms as well as development (and often delivery) of lesson plans onengineering topics.Undergraduate students may participate in two ways: as fellows with duties similar to thegraduate fellows, but with a reduced time commitment, or as part of their regular academicprogram for academic

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Miceli; Chip Ferguson; Aaron Ball

all contributed to the project.American Carolina StampingAmerican Carolina Stamping served as a sub-contractor for prototype fabrication and assemblyon selected designs. Strengths were in mechanical and HVAC fabrication. Flexibility to take onthe project while maintaining current levels of demand for other committed products wasprovided. The long term goal of the project is regional economic development and the creation ofadditional jobs. Upon selection of the most viable prototype designs, scale up and costprojections, and establishing vendor contacts became the responsibility of American CarolinaStamping.Milestones and ResponsibilitiesMilestones and responsibilities of team members were identified during the initial planning ofthe project

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder

knowledge of engineeringas a career through an understanding of the pervasiveness of engineering in our world; and toprovide an appreciation of engineering as the creation of things for the benefit of society. In thispaper, we examine the planning, implementation and assessment results associated withdeveloping a 12-week, hands-on, engineering design-focused ninth-grade elective course.Additionally, we discuss how a partnership between a newly developed urban public highschool, engineering graduate students and faculty, and enthusiastic high school students andparents can make a significant impact on the knowledge of and interest in engineering amonghigh school students

Conference Session

Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Bern; Brian Steward; Amy Kaleita-Forbes; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

keepimportant issues in the minds of faculty. It is has become an important avenue ofcommunication among faculty to discuss and think about issues related to teaching, learning andassessment. It has also helped in assisting new faculty assume their roles as educationprofessionals, getting them thinking about learning and assessment at the beginning of theircareers, and helping them to understand the teaching philosophies of our department.Faculty WorkshopsEach year, between fall and spring semester, the department conducts a faculty retreat. In thisone- to two-day retreat, departmental business that can’t be addressed in a normal one-hourfaculty meeting (e.g., strategic planning, budgets, etc.) is conducted. For the past three years, ahalf-day of this

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi

background of the students.Initiation of the club was difficult initially due to the lack of funds but through the support of theSchool of Science and Technology faculty and staff, funds were raised to begin club activitiesFall of 2004.Student RetentionFollowing is a list of activities performed by the club to enable female student retention. Someare in the planning phase since a large amount of funds is required to implement them. • provide a comfortable work environment for these minority female students where they can find computers to work on, books to reference, tutors to help them out when they need it, and female faculty who are available to advise and mentor them as needed. • Provide an

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kanchana Jayasuriya; Doreen Thomas

-yearfaculty-funded post-doctoral fellowships” (Jayasuriya & Thomas3), and as described in “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Jayasuriya & Thomas3, this was incorporated into the Faculty Diversity Plan as well as theFaculty Operational Plan for 2003.Independently (at about the same time), and in spite of positive discrimination being illegal inThe Netherlands, five positions for women were established at the University of Groningen.The fellowships, which were named in honour of Rosalind Franklin were sponsored by theFaculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Groningen (Nosengo4). There

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Wipplinger

Engineering Education Annual conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Education regions of India in question, using the International Building Code and the Bureau of Indian Standards Code; and drawing conclusions about their adequacy. In addition, we will examine the possible effects of local construction practices on the given design and, if these effects render the design unsafe, suggest possible alternate designs.”Plans for two simple one-story structures were provided by Dr. Hausler for analysis. The plansrepresent the typical house layout for the region and are basic one-room houses with minimalwindows and doors. The common construction material in the area is

Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Cahill; Joshua Peschel

&M University. Theinstructional framework is outlined within the following six core domains: 1. Learning Challenges and Learning Objectives 2. Authentic Scientific Inquiry 3. Embedded Information Technology 4. Assessment and Learning Products 5. Learning Experiences with Instructional Technologies 6. Strategic Planning for Implementation Page 10.181.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education The material and techniques presented here are to serve as a series of

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Goodwin

related to theirleadership role in a student organization.All students were paired with an upperclassman who served as their mentor for the semester. Afinal report of three to five pages summarizing the journaling and the reflection that took placethroughout the whole semester was due at the end of the semester. Students were also asked towrite out their personal philosophy of leadership, and their leadership action plan that includedfour sections: (1) how did they plan to apply certain leadership theories and concepts; (2) theirobservations of various leadership and participant roles that they engaged in throughout thesemester (styles, differences, team and group effectiveness: what worked, what didn’t work, andwhy); (3) their plans to use the

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozlem Arisoy; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

semester long course. Upon returning to campus there is usually a classperiod reserved for discussion on the plant’s manufacturing processes, operational strategies,shop-floor philosophy, etc.There are also two projects associated with the course as follows:Project 1. Manufacturing Processes. Students are divided into teams of four and assigned a setof processes. At the end of a two-week time period, each group presents details of the assignedprocesses, evaluating the assigned manufacturing processes from the perspective of processplanning for manufacture of a product. Each group is also assigned the responsibility fordeveloping an information packet on one set of manufacturing processes.Project 2. Development of a Manufacturing Engineering Plan