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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jennifer Zirnheld; Adam Halstead

how does one explain each discipline in adequate detail in theallotted time? Two different methodologies were tested in a first-year engineering course at theUniversity at Buffalo. The first approach, called the disciplinary approach, covered each of the maindisciplines one at a time. The second approach, called the multidisciplinary approach, covered each ofthe main disciplines through a series of multidisciplinary projects. The results and discoveries of thisexperiment are presented.All freshman engineering students at the University at Buffalo (with the exception of computer engineers)take a course called Engineering Solutions. The goals of this course are threefold: to increase studentunderstanding of engineering, to develop teamwork and

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Jennifer Zirnheld; Adam Halstead

how does one explain each discipline in adequate detail in theallotted time? Two different methodologies were tested in a first-year engineering course at theUniversity at Buffalo. The first approach, called the disciplinary approach, covered each of the maindisciplines one at a time. The second approach, called the multidisciplinary approach, covered each ofthe main disciplines through a series of multidisciplinary projects. The results and discoveries of thisexperiment are presented.All freshman engineering students at the University at Buffalo (with the exception of computer engineers)take a course called Engineering Solutions. The goals of this course are threefold: to increase studentunderstanding of engineering, to develop teamwork and

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Cook, Montana State University; Robb Larson, Montana State University

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Engineering Technology

importantly, theimprovements were designed to support defined core competencies of the MET program and tobuild and develop these core competencies in our students through curriculum integration.Inherently, MET is an applications oriented curriculum, and thus aligns itself well with project-based teaching and learning models in these core courses. In support of defined courseimprovements, and to support core competency development, the MET program is developing aproject-based model for integrating the senior year MET core courses with the senior yearcapstone design and build courses. This paper will detail the methodology utilized to integratetwo courses, MET460 – Advanced Instrumentation, and MET 449 – Design for Manufacturingand Tooling with

Conference Session

Experiments and Laboratories in Mechanical Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Liou, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Society for Engineering Education, 2008 DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERDISCIPLINERY LABORATORY CURRICULUM FOR EMERGING PRODUCT MANUFACTURINGAbstractThis paper summarizes an effort to develop an interdisciplinary capstone design projectcourse and laboratory in manufacturing. As manufacturing laboratories are veryexpensive to develop, this program is designed based on distributed and integratedmanufacturing processes on campus. As students can gain access to various facilities,they will be able to make various products, including some emerging products, such asEDM machines, fuel cells, etc. As this capstone design project provides opportunities forstudents to design, manufacture, it stimulates the students’ interest in real-world productrealization. Both

Conference Session

Developing Communication/Teamwork Skills in ChEs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joan Alabart, University Rovira i Virgili; Sibel Özgen, University Rovira i Virgili; Magda Medir, University Rovira i Virgili; Hans-Joerg Witt, Witt & Partner

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2008-1031: HOW TO HELP SENIOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTSENHANCE AND DEVELOP THEIR LEADERSHIP COMPETENCEJoan Alabart, University Rovira i Virgili Joan R. Alabart is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). He received a B.Ch. and a Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona and an MBA from ESADE (Barcelona). His research, consultative, and training projects interests focus on the areas of Organizational Effectiveness and Leadership. He is co-founder and director of the Master in Business Administration program at the URV.Sibel Özgen, University Rovira i Virgili Sibel Özgen is currently a Research Assistant doing her Ph.D. at the Department of

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Knud Holm Hansen, Copenhagen University College of Engineering

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International

AC 2008-1198: SEVERAL WAYS OF PREPARING EXPORT ENGINEERINGSTUDENTS FOR INTERNATIONAL PRACTICEKnud Holm Hansen, Copenhagen University College of Engineering Page 13.1077.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Several Ways of Preparing Export Engineering Students for International PracticeAbstractExport engineers work in many different kinds of Danish and foreign companies where theymarket projects and products with substantial contents of engineering knowledge – in a highlyinternational environment.Besides giving an overview of the study program, including objectives and structure, this paperdescribes the different ways to

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Donal McHale, Dublin Institute of Technology; Richard Hayes, Dublin Institute of Technology; Robert Herrick, Purdue University; Heinz Schmidt-Walter, Hochschule Darmstadt; Dhushy Sathianathan, Pennsylvania State University; Eugeue Coyle, Dublin Institute of Technology; Robert Simpson, Dublin Institute of Technology

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International

, Transatlantic Collaboration Between Four Engineering, Design and Technology Institutions1.0 OverviewThis paper describes the goals and progress made in Year 1 of a 4-year project (December ’07 toNovember ’11) entitled the DETECT Exchange Mobility project. The project is one of twofunded by the European Commissions/US Department of Education under the EU-Commission’sAtlantis “Excellence in Mobility” Action 2007.The project is funded to promote translational exchanges between four leading Engineering,Design and Technology Education institutions namely; The Pennsylvania State University, USA,Purdue University, USA, the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland and the HochschuleDarmstadt, Federal Republic of Germany.The overall

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Frederick Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

introduction to engineering design course.We draw from a pilot project that used writing/communication assignments to improvethe teaching of engineering design. We based our approach on the “writing across thecurriculum” (WAC) movement’s premise that verbal composition is an analog forthinking and that communication artifacts can be used to infer student learning incomplex problem-solving situations.CPR™ -- as an advanced form of educational technology -- partners both with the studentand with the instructor to monitor learning through formative assessment. In this project,through the vehicle of CPR™, we were able to implement assignments that fully utilizethe WAC pedagogy, without overly increasing the workload for instructors. Furthermore,CPR™’s

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johnny Chang, National University; Ayman El Salim, National University; Ronald Uhlig, National University; Michelle Bright

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

also teaches global business. As Principal Investigator for a Hewlett-Packard Technology for Teaching – Higher Education – Grant received from HP, he is conducting research into the effectiveness of advanced technology in teaching complex information structures. He is a member of the Steering Committee for Project Inkwell (www.projectinkwell.com). Prior to joining the National University faculty, he was President/CEO, SegWave, Inc., an educational technology systems company he founded in 2000. He was Vice President for Russia and Eastern Europe, Qualcomm Inc., 1995-99, with offices in San Diego and Moscow. He was with Northern Telecom, 1984-95 in multiple positions

Conference Session

Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cathy Burack, Brandeis University; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Alan Melchior, Brandeis University; Eric Morgan, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Educational Research and Methods

Page 13.507.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Engineering Faculty Attitudes toward Service-LearningAbstractSLICE is a multi-year initiative at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) that isdesigned to embed service-learning opportunities for students throughout the undergraduatecurriculum in the College of Engineering, with the ultimate goal that each student would have atleast one course every semester with a service-learning project. Since it began in 2004, thirty-seven full-time faculty members in the engineering college at UML have tried service-learning(S-L) in at least one of their courses over the last three years, out of an average of 70 facultymembers who taught undergraduate courses. In 2003

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik De Graaff, Delft University of Technology; Wim Thijs, TU Delft; Peter Wieringa, TU Delft

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Mechanical Engineering

several educational innovation projects in Mechanical Engineering, one of which being the BSc assignment.Peter Wieringa, TU Delft Peter Wieringa, Ph.D. is professor in Mechanical Engineering, department of Man Machine Systems. Presently he is the dean of education of the Faculty mechanical Engineering and Marine Engineering. He was involved in the design of this course right from the beginning and he is responsible for the overall process. Page 13.1041.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Research Skills in a Mechanical Engineering CurriculumIntroductionAll teaching and learning

Conference Session

Been There/Done That: Advice for NEEs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Harding, Purdue University; Benedict Kazora, Purdue University; Robert Smethers, Purdue University

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New Engineering Educators

. Although they do not have graduate students, they are replete with undergraduates, andsome of those students can be great assets for improving the local educational environment.Why not capitalize on that opportunity?This paper describes a project that used two volunteer students, both upperclassmen, to do mostof the work developing a pair of lab manuals at one of Purdue University’s satellite campuses.The lab books, totaling over 200 pages, were customized specifically for the labs used by thebeginning circuits courses. We describe the genesis of the project, how each student becameinvolved, the experience of managing and coordinating the work, the lessons learned by all threeindividuals, and the costs/benefits for all involved, including the

Conference Session

Issues in the Professional Practice of Faculty Members in Civil Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Welker, Villanova University; Frank Falcone, Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

critical need for holistic engineering education which includes andstresses a broad range of leadership and management skills in addition to a concentratedtraditional technical curriculum. Emerging young engineers will, in many instances, be requiredto lead teams of diverse professionals and manage budgets and schedules for domestic and/orinternational projects only a few years beyond completing their formal undergraduate education.The new program criteria developed by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)1, andused by ABET during the accreditation process, recognizes this change and is more closelyaligned with the Body of Knowledge2. One major change is that the new criteria now include astatement requiring that students “can explain

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Issues in Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Utley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrea Ludwig, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; John Cundiff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Sean McGinnis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

the course attracts students from all disciplines within theCollege of Engineering, it is challenging to teach given the variety of backgrounds, specific skillsand knowledge, and perspectives. Analysis of course assessment data and revision to the coursecontent and teaching methods are part of an on-going effort to improve this course. The Green Engineering course has lectures which present background material on the keyenvironmental and energy issues facing society. To differentiate this course from one inenvironmental science, an engineering analysis component is included with the assignment offour mini-projects which are completed by teams of not more than four students. The projectsare: 1) biomass logistics, a project to document

Conference Session

Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Jordan, Baylor University; Glenn Blalock, Baylor University; Walter Bradley, Baylor University; Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Anne Grinols, Baylor University; Brian Thomas, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

International

cellular telephone industry, primarily in the field of microwave filters, duplexers, and other passive circuits. His current interests are in appropriate technology for developing countries, in particular, rural electrification schemes using renewable sources such as solar photovoltaic, micro-hydro, Page 13.1359.1 small wind power, and biogas. Since 2005 he has been taking small teams of engineering students to locations in Kenya and Honduras to implement engineering service projects for marginalized and/or impoverished groups. He is the co-founder of a student organization called

Conference Session

Novel Courses and Content for ChEs II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University; James Maneval, Bucknell University; Michael Prince, Bucknell University; Michael Hanyak, Bucknell University; William Snyder, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, incorporating economics, process simulation, control, Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Educationtransport, material and energy balances, thermodynamics, safety, and ethics (among otherelements). Due to the scope and scale of these projects, they are generally completedthrough calculation and simulation only.Senior design at Bucknell University is a two-semester sequence composed of two four-credit courses. In this paper, we describe how we moved from the traditional seniordesign sequence, in which both semesters focused on a single simulation-based design ofa styrene plant for a simulated company to one

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifton Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College

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Information Systems

Engineering Education, 2008 Open Source Software to Support Student Teams: Challenges, Lessons, and OpportunitiesAbstractTeam projects have a long history in education, with an extensive literature. Appropriate toolsand procedures can support team projects, and open source software tools present specificopportunities and challenges. Open source software (OSS) generally refers to software that isdistributed without charge and with the original source code, so that anyone can fix defects, addenhancements, or otherwise modify the software and share their changes with others. Thus, OSScan be freely installed on any number of computers, and modified by faculty and students withappropriate knowledge, but it may include

Conference Session

ChE Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyerim Kim, Yonsei University; Jiyong Kim, Yonsei University; Yoon-Su Baek, Yonsei University; Il Moon, Yonsei University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

solvingproblems, eliminating defects and improving business results. In order to increase students’creative ability, college should provide them with the Six Sigma. Learning about such a well-structured approach and developing related skills would enable today's students to becometomorrow's more effective employees.In this program, fifty-three students in the class are divided into 13 groups. As project, eachgroup finds college facilities and services to be improved and tries to solve these problems withDMAIC. The curriculum in this class furnishes instant feedback to the students by solving theproblems directly associated with them. The students’ creative thinking and power of expressingare also improved by learning various creative skills and teamwork

Conference Session

Developing Communication/Teamwork Skills in ChEs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Lefebvre, Rowan University; Loren Connell, Rowan University; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

on bioprocess engineering.The protein production project was developed and implemented during the fall 2006 semesterand repeated during the fall 2007 semester. A key element of the protein production project wasthe competition between student groups. Group performance was rated using a productionrubric, and the team with the highest score was guaranteed an “A” on the project. The rubricincluded equipment rental costs and production bonuses for producing large quantities of proteinof high purity. The equipment rental costs were carefully determined to encourage continuedstudent experimentation in the laboratory. The competitive nature of the project capturesstudents driven by achievement or instrumental types of motivation, which are not

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Beena Sukumaran; Joshua Bonzella; Kevin McGarvey; Heather Klein

Teaching Engineering Design with a focus on the developing world Beena Sukumaran, Joshua Bonzella, Kevin McGarvey, Heather Klein College of Engineering, Rowan UniversityAbstractThe paper describes a program, Entrepreneurs without Borders and a project undertaken through theprogram. The program seeks to establish entrepreneurship opportunities for the developing world. Thiswill be done through student teams comprising both engineering and business majors at RowanUniversity. The engineering and business students perform a survey of local communities in thedeveloping world, identified as having a need for engineering skills by Engineers without Borders1.During this initial survey, the students

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Beena Sukumaran; Joshua Bonzella; Kevin McGarvey; Heather Klein

Teaching Engineering Design with a focus on the developing world Beena Sukumaran, Joshua Bonzella, Kevin McGarvey, Heather Klein College of Engineering, Rowan UniversityAbstractThe paper describes a program, Entrepreneurs without Borders and a project undertaken through theprogram. The program seeks to establish entrepreneurship opportunities for the developing world. Thiswill be done through student teams comprising both engineering and business majors at RowanUniversity. The engineering and business students perform a survey of local communities in thedeveloping world, identified as having a need for engineering skills by Engineers without Borders1.During this initial survey, the students

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Rogers, Arizona State University; Mark Henderson, Arizona State University; Jerry Gintz, Arizona State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

International

generated by cooking fires in developing countries. Furthermore, theonce abundant resource is becoming scarce, so that in many cases women must travel largedistances on foot to gather the wood they need, an effort that occupies much of their day. Onesolution is to change fuels and cook with gelled ethanol created from locally available biomass.This is the purpose of the gelled ethanol production unit which was being built by 13 students inthe Capstone design sequence in the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering TechnologyDepartment on the Polytechnic campus of Arizona State University, and which will be describedin this paper.For this project, ASU has partnered with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science andTechnology in Kumasi, Ghana and with

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kevin Gary; Harry Koehnemann

The Software Enterprise at ASU’s Polytechnic Campus Kevin Gary, Harry Koehnemann Assistant, Associate Professors Division of Computing Studies, Arizona State University {kgary,harry}@asu.edu, (480)727-1373The Software Enterprise is a multi-year capstone project sequence designed to expose students to practical, “realworld” considerations in software development. By the conclusion of the Enterprise sequence, students have anappreciation for the role of software process, the challenges of software maintenance, the impact of open source, thepros and cons of off-the-shelf

Conference Session

Improving the Teaching Skills of Graduate Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lingtao Zhang, Western Carolina University; Robert Adams, Western Carolina University; James Zhang, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

has been one of the most rapidlygrowing disciplines and been widely used both in industry and daily lives. As a result, wirelesscommunications courses are becoming increasingly popular as an important part of engineeringeducation in various universities and educational institutions. However, in many universities,there are still not sufficient or efficient laboratory contents to effectively enhance the students’learning with hands-on experiences. This paper reports progress and results of the developmentof a Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) system for undergraduate laboratory experimentsas a graduate student project. Improvements of teaching quality and effectiveness for both thegraduate and undergraduate students in wireless

Conference Session

Technology in the Physics or Engineering Physics C

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nataliia Perova, Tufts University; Patricia Hogan, Suffolk University; Walter H. Johnson, Suffolk University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

integrating innovative technology to better reach his students, from streaming video and electronic writing tables for distance learning to using wireless mesh-networking devices in undergraduate research projects. His academic awards include C.W. Heaps Prize in Physics and Phi Beta Kappa from Rice University, Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard University, and Carnegie Foundation Massachusetts Professor of the Year in 2005. Page 13.1369.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Using Wireless Sensor Network as an Educational Tool for Learning Science ConceptsAbstractWireless

Conference Session

Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauri Burke, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines

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International

program provides undergraduate and graduate studentswith scholarship support throughout their degree program, mentorship from senior engineeringstudents and faculty, and assistance in mathematics, computer science, and engineering careerplacement after graduation. Each year of the program, the scholarship recipients complete a realworld, multidisciplinary humanitarian engineering project, which provides experience in theirfield of study. Projects for the academic year 2007-2008 are being completed in collaborationwith a non-profit organization, Into Your Hands, and are designed to benefit St. Denis SecondarySchool in Uganda, Africa. This paper describes the design of the NSF Scholarship program, andthe activities and outcomes to date, including

Conference Session

FPD10 - Freshman Engineering Introduction to Design

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Montgomery, University of Michigan; Rodney Johnson, University of Michigan

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First-Year Programs

communicating about their work. The challenge for educators has been to integratethis more holistic view of an engineer’s training with the already demanding curricula already inplace. At the University of Michigan all incoming first-year students are required to take acourse, Engineering 100, “Introduction to Engineering,” that integrates many of these skills—design, communication, engineering science and teamwork—in the context of a semester-longproject. This course has several sections each semester, each with a different project focus. Somesections of this course go through a complete design/build/test cycle, while others, such as ours,focus more closely on the design process.Our section, Design: The Next Generation, focuses on the product design

Conference Session

Design: Content and Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Melnyk, United States Military Academy; Daisie Boettner, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, faculty can encounter difficulty ensuring individualgrades reflect the quantity and value of individual work and not just the collective grade of thegroup. This paper outlines the various steps the mechanical engineering faculty took to provide amore standardized, objective, fair grading process in the capstone course. These steps includeuse of a non-numeric rubric for grading briefings, graded peer reviews, a more objective rubricfor grading written documents, and the use of course directors to standardize the grading process.Introduction The mechanical engineering curriculum at the United States Military Academy (USMA)includes a capstone design project as a culminating experience that draws on fundamentalengineering concepts students have

Conference Session

Successful K-12 Programs for Girls & Minorities

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stan Komacek, California University of Pennsylvania; Carol Adukaitis, PA State System of Higher Education

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2008-831: MANUFACTURING A WORKFORCEStan Komacek, California University of Pennsylvania Stan Komacek earned a BS from California University of Pennsylvania, MEd from Miami University, and EdD from West Virginia University. He served as the Project Director for the PA State System of Higher Education in PA’s Nanofabrication Manufacturing Technology Partnership and for the PA Governor’s Institute for Technology Education. A Professor of Technology Education and Chair of the Department of Applied Engineering and Technology at California University of PA, Dr. Komacek is currently PI and Project Director for the NSF ATE Advanced Manufacturing in PA Project.Carol Adukaitis, PA State System of

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

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International

AC 2008-1383: A COLLABORATIVE CURRICULUM ENHANCEMENT WITHRECOGNITION OF CHARACTERISTICS OF CHINESE COLLEGE STUDENTSFanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University Fanyu Zeng is an assistant professor of Business Information Systems and is actively involved in several projects to develop Chinese higher education programs and international student programs for Indiana Wesleyan University. Page 13.15.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Collaborative Curriculum Enhancement with Recognition of Characteristics of Chinese College StudentsAbstractThis study aims to enhance a software engineering