Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

. They must build a case that strongly supports and backs theirdecisions stating as many reasons as possible and citing examples. The students are given twoweeks to complete their essays with the first project assigned during the initial class period.The projects are modified, changed or replaced every quarter. This is in part due to the directionthe class takes during the discussion of the material. It also reflects the dynamic selection of thematerial covered in the course. A typical five project sequence is presented below.A great variety of technologies were created and utilized throughout history. The first projectrequires the determination of the most important technology, innovation or invention forcivilization as a whole and then for

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Siegenthaler

, and open bookexaminations, resulted in an excellent course from both the student’s and instructor’spoint of view. At the completion of the course, the instructor felt all of the students werewell prepared for graduate school. Student reactions to the course were encouraging.One student evaluation stated, “Now that I have completed all my finals, andconsequently my education at the United States Air Force Academy, I can honestly lookback and reflect upon my entire academic experience. Your Math 470 class wasabsolutely the best class I have taken.” This quote was by an electrical engineeringmajor. Another quote, “I actually looked forward to attending class on every lesson! Onseveral occasions, I even called home to tell my parents about the

Conference Session

NEE Potpourri

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

; Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationConclusions, Reflections and the FutureThe transition from industry to education was both exciting and terrifying at the same time. Afterall, the aim of teaching was simple: to enhance the process and improve student learning. It wasexhilarating being a contributor to the process where students learn and grow. Teaching wastruly an important and noble profession requiring a deep commitment to the students.Reflecting on the first year as a full-time engineering professor it went rather smoothly. Theopportunity to work with wonderful students yearning to learn was a wonderful experience. Theywere learning to be engineers at the same time that a former

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Hadgraft; Mike Xie

projects and contracts; Develop quality plans; Provide constructive feedback to team members; Resolve conflict in a team; Lead a team; Work with other disciplines in a team with conflicting needs• Communication – Communicate effectively – listen, observe, speak, draw and write ; Communicate results qualitatively, quantitatively, graphically, electronically, textually; Page 9.306.2Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Communicate processes of thinking and reflection (including giving constructive feedback)• Personal

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rhona Moore; James Strueber

introducing them to the breadth anddepth of their chosen field. In addition, the assignments have been structured so as not to require gradingin order to be effective. Page 9.1429.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Theory--Learning and Teaching StylesAllan A Gatthorn in Curriculum Renewal suggests that writing can be used as a method of learning.“The idea of using writing as a method of learning is grounded in sound theory, as Yinger and Clark2have noted in Reflecting Journal Writing

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Baty; Patricia Fox

addition, technology for drainingsystems, plumbing facilities, and gray water re-usage reflect the high value placed on cleanwater. This also was apparent in the agricultural practices seen among crop fields. The erosioncontrol and water quality practices were much more common and lush than seen in the UnitedStates. Having seen good conservation practices successfully applied, enables students to applythis knowledge to their professions in the future. Overall, the GO GREEN course assisted in preparing students to deal with realtechnology, real-life challenges, cultural differences and global issues. It inspired creativity byproviding a catalyst of new ideas. The format of the class and the active learning/teachingmethods used achieved this

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Cluett; Peter Weiss; Kim Woodhouse; David Bagley; Susan McCahan

” 2004-1798managing the course and providing a coherent flow to the content. However, it gave the studentsmultiple resources and exposure to a variety of role models.Language and engineering faculty were in both the lecture and tutorial settings from thebeginning of the course. This team approach meant that the students had multiple supportresources for help with their writing, team issues, and projects. It also gave the students anunderstanding of the parallels between the engineering design process and the process ofdesigning a document or other communication.As at the University of Alaska Fairbanks1, the communications faculty reflected a broad range ofspecializations, including English, Linguistics and Theatre. This practical approach

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Qaissaunee

regional partners working with the National Center forTelecommunications Technologies (NCTT), the project will serve as the focal point for regionaldissemination of this curricula and training to regional business and industry. In addition toNCTT, strategic partnerships have been established to achieve the objectives of this project,which include:• Develop and disseminate a state-of-the-art wireless communications program reflective of regional industry need;• Support NCTT in establishing a nationwide telecommunications education program; • Develop collaborations with regional high school, 2-year and 4-year colleges and business and industry; • Provide professional development for regional collaborating institutions

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Greco

). Students program the microcontroller for the USART interface,and for the entire network operation, using assembly language. In addition to introducingnetwork protocols, the project also makes students aware of the practical aspects ofdigital system design, including the topics of power supply noise, cabling crosstalk andreturn path capacity, ground loops, and transmission line reflections and termination.An important aspect of the project is the emphasis on the need for thorough testing.Before each node is permitted to connect to another node or nodes, a series of tests mustbe passed to guarantee proper node operation at a slow, user-controller speed. Provided inthe laboratory are five test nodes that can monitor all activity on the network line

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Kulonda; Thomas O'Neal

lobbyist all can create extraordinary opportunities. But their value to the organization is not reflected in the accounting records unless there is a verifiable financial transaction tied to their services. Accounting Period- Accounting statements reflect activity during or at the end of a standard time window, called the accounting period. Publicly held companies are required to report quarterly and annually-- most often, but not always, matching the calendar year. Historical Cost- Business transactions are valued at the validated transaction cost or price at the point in time when the transaction occurred. Subsequent changes in market prices of assets are not normally recorded in the accounting

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

F. G. Edwards; E. W. LeFevre; W. M. Hale

Remembering of previously learned Describe, List, Name, Objective tests - material, often seen as reflecting rote Examine, Who, all formats learning. Includes specific knowledge Identify, Show, Label, and ways and means of dealing with Name, When, specifics. Tabulate, DefineComprehension Reflects the first level of understanding, Explain, Estimate, Objective tests - in which the meaning of material is Restate in your own MC most grasped, and skills such as translation, words, Summarize, desirable. Many interpretation, and

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Turns Jennifer; Atman Cindy; Angela Linse; Karl Smith

, and interdependence – within a project managementframework.More recent change research appears to blend the two approaches. For example, Gosling andMintzberg (2003) note the “dominant model of managing change is Cartesian: Action resultsfrom deliberate strategies, carefully planned, that unfold as systematically managed sequences ofdecisions.” However, they counter, “change, to be successful, cannot follow some mechanisticschedule of steps, of formulation followed by implementation. Action and reflection have toblend in a natural flow.”These two primary categories of change, staged and complexity, provide us with a usefulframework for organizing the various models of change.In the subsequent section, we further constrain our investigation of

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Harper

management; the optimal approachis a combination of tight and loose coupling among elements (think of the trusses and their rolesin raising the building, supporting its structure, and resisting fire) that is impossible to achieve inpractice.25, 27 “[T]echnology cannot be made safe by adding extra safety systems, for that onlyincreases its complexity and creates more ways for something to go wrong.”27 Risk managementremains what it will always be, an inexact science to the extent that it is scientific at all. There is no such thing as a perfectly rational approach to risk. Engineers hate to admit that, but it’s true. Every judgment about risk, even those made by scientists, reflects the culture in which it was formed.27

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Pacheco; Renato Carlson; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco

: How does the decision process of a person works? Axelrod still statesthat, like each and every mathematical model, the cognitive map can be useful in two trulydistinct ways: as a normative model or as an empirical model. In the normative model, themap does not intend to accurately reflect how a person infers new beliefs from old ones, howthe person take his/her decisions but, on the contrary, it intends to show how someone coulddo similar things. On the other hand, in the empirical model, the cognitive map intends toshow how a person really does some cognitive operations, since it is possible to simulateseveral behaviors and decisions taken by a modeled person and to anticipate or predict his/heractions.Fuzzy Logic TheoryAccording to Klir12

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

to: • Recognize, reflect, and internalize the Professor’s investment in writing, • Take assignments, meetings, and feedback seriously, and • Improve in skill and content areas.Writing is used as a tool for learning course material, and students are given ample, course-basedopportunities to improve their writing skills. The integration of course material and writingexercises improves student confidence and performance level in both content and skill areas; italso provides instructors with meaningful feedback on student learning.During the 2002-2003 academic year, WID sponsored a faculty colloquium with a guest speaker,presented a departmental workshop, launched WID Initiatives in five academic colleges(Business, Engineering, Liberal

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

in parallel, the overall project time will be significantlyshorter. Note that this is a dynamic document that is altered to reflect current events inthe project. New primary or lower level tasks are added by inserting a new row(Insert>Rows). Existing tasks can also be deleted.Table 1 enumerates the steps to add start date and end date columns in the WBS Page 9.718.3worksheet, where the end dates are automatically updated to reflect the current start dates Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 3 Copyright © 2004, American Society of Engineering Educationand

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis

and refined. Oncethey are consciously recognized, the rate and effectiveness of overall learning increases. Theycan be identified at an early stage of a learner’s development. No matter what the person’s ageor experience, learning skills can be improved to higher levels of performance through self-reflection, self-discipline, or guidance by a mentor. This growth in learning skill development isusually triggered by a learning challenge of some kind and is facilitated by actions built on ashared language between mentor and mentee. Finally, growth and development of a learningskill is sustained by quality feedback. These factors underlie the rubric for learning skilldevelopment presented in Table 1. Note how these change incrementally as one

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Case Studies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Manion; Eli Fromm; Jay Bhatt

9.552.2activities in the students’ curriculum (e.g., laboratories in the sophomore years.) Moreover, the“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education"choice of this model reflects our belief that the combination of ethics instruction relating toprofessionalism and individual responsibility, along with extended treatment of themes, conceptsand categories for dealing with the social, political, and environmental context of engineeringpractice is an effective curricular model for responding to the ABET Criteria 2000.EPED 231 and EPED 231All sophomore students in Drexel’s College of Engineering (CoE

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay Howell; Ann Wittbrodt; Alfred Moye

2004, American Society for Engineering • Techniques for assessing immersion and engagement; guidelines for increasing immersion and engagement in learning games • Guidelines for developing games that optimize mastery orientation in games; demonstrate optimization that reflects a 50% increase in mastery orientation • Techniques to increase motivation in games across tasks and learners and demonstrate 50% learning increasesResearch Tasks Identified in the Question Generation and Answering SystemsComponent

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

collected ultimatelydefine the outcome.This lesson is very similar to Lesson #3. The student work collected should drive the definitionsof the outcomes and the assessment process. In outcome 10, what “engineering tools” are andwhat is “use effectively” will be reflected in the work collected. For example, in a project basedlearning environment, it is expected that real-world type of engineering projects will be a criticalpart of the design experience. Real engineering projects are generally managed in such a way Page 9.422.6that schedule and budget are established. Therefore, it would be expected that in this outcome, “Proceedings of the

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

and thetime element assigned to the particular project. In addition, the user must have a thoroughunderstanding of the software functionality and the ability to gather information related toimplementing a particular modeling strategy. This process of strategy development andimplementation coincides with components of learning theory. As engineering graphicseducators, it is helpful to reflect on how students learn in our classrooms and laboratories as wellas reflect on how we develop instruction. This paper outlines three theories of learning that areapplicable to graphics education, discusses the assumptions about the learner and the learningenvironment, presents the components of learning for each theory, discusses major issues relatedto

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Shaw; James Gidley

the limits of a short paper. As an attempt to focus students on a clear thesis, to encouragethem to utilize evidence and arguments in favor or against the thesis, and for other reasons, thesecond author modified the assignment in Fall Semester of 2000 by providing five positionstatements (themes) from which the students were to choose: 1. The increase of entropy principle reflects the way God created the world; that is, it has been a characteristic of creation from the beginning, even before the Fall. 2. The increase of entropy principle reflects the curse that God placed upon the creation after the Fall (see Genesis 3:17-19); that is, before the Fall, the entropy of the universe did not

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt O'Connor; Kathleen Simione; Dale Jasinski; Chad Nehrt

mechanisms. The organization plan must addressappropriate management, operational, marketing, finance, accounting, and international businessconcerns and include an assessment plan. The assessment plan must include individual and teamcriteria. A post mortem assessment allows each student and student team to reflect on the successesand failures of the practicum. There are two key components of the post mortem. First, studentsmust complete their portion of the individual and team assessments as defined in the organizationalplan. The assessment is expected to be an honest evaluation of how well the student and/or his/herteam fulfilled the responsibilities, timetables, and quality standards established in the organizationaland implementation

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; Catherine Pieronek

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationRetention in Prior Semesters and Analysis of Motivation for Withdrawing from EG 111Each year, the course seeks feedback from various sources. Students are requested to completesurveys during the first two weeks of the first semester and during the final weeks of the secondsemester. Additional feedback is sought from students during each semester, particularly if astudent elects to withdraw from the course. Feedback is also sought from the freshman yearadvising team and from college faculty regarding student reaction to the course and studentlearning occurring in the course as reflected both in student projects and in student performanceafter the freshman year.In a recent paper, Pieronek et

Conference Session

Recruiting and Building Diversity

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Horvath; Cecilia Lucero

period, with 2000 enrollment reflecting a 23percent drop from 1992.While total graduate enrollment in science and engineering fell, current National ScienceFoundation4 data show that the numbers of minority graduate students in science and engineeringhave increased since 1990. However, a large percentage of these African American, Hispanic,and American Indian S&E graduate students (more than 50 percent) were in the social andbehavioral sciences compared to White students (39 percent) and Asian students (20 percent) inthese disciplines. With regard to doctoral degree attainment, of the 17,428 doctorates earned in Page 9.646.1 Proceedings

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph LaLopa; Mara Wasburn

Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Benefits of Mentoring, with Some CaveatsWhen asked to reflect on their career successes, many if not most people point to role modelswho helped and/or influenced them. In academe, mentoring programs for new faculty, bothformal and informal, have grown in number in recent years.5, 6 Many of those embarking on newcareers have concerns about their competence, their ability to succeed, and their understanding ofand ability to navigate the organizational culture in which they find themselves.6, 7 They oftenfeel isolated in their new milieu, and uncertain of exactly how to fulfill their job requirements,8, 9which can ultimately lead to feelings of alienation.6Research indicates that mentored

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

given communication channels. • Poor use of software tools. The MOGWI system was under-utilized. Several teams made use of the group mail alias, the Filebrowser (for sharing design documents), and the NewsPost module (to post design discussions). The Task and Workflow module received little usage, reflecting the poor coordination between local and remote team elements. MOGWI usage was highest at first, then tapered off as design and testing became more intense. Although this reflects a general tendency in student design teams to ignore “non- productive” (e.g. documentation, communication) tasks when time pressures grow, such lack of communication is particularly damaging when remote collaborators are depending

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis; Yi Min Huang; Larry McKenzie; Michael Trevisan

the capstone design course; approximatelyone half of these outcomes (b, h, j, and i) are assessed significantly less than believed possible. Thedisparity between actual and potential assessment of outcomes may reflect early stages ofmodification. These findings suggest a lack of preparedness among faculty to effectively developand manage assessments of some of these outcomes. Many respondents commented on the surveythat they were in the process of revising, or planning an extensive revision of, their senior designprogram outcomes and associated assessment instruments.Confusion Surrounding Criterion 4. Fifty percent (50%) of the design constraint considerations (c, g,d, and h) were reported as being appropriate for assessment in capstone

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Les Kinsler; Thomas Mertz; Troy Harding

anddevelopment situations very difficult to reproduce from textbook projects. Our paperdescribes the projects, discusses implementation problems, assessment procedures,students’ attitude toward the experience, and instructors’ reflections on the process.IntroductionAdvisory board members, prospective employers, and industrial partners have been expressingthe desire to hire computer systems technology graduates that are well rounded in all aspects ofour profession. Graduates should possess strong conceptual and practical knowledge as well asbe able to work collaboratively at all levels of software development: from problem solving todesign, from development to implementation and maintenance. Such an obvious request is noteasily implemented.In an attempt

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fengfeng Zhou

many schools. On the other hand, the use of such a device is an effective way to introducesophisticated technology into secondary classrooms and should be encouraged wheneverpossible.Dr. Anant Kukreti, Director of Project STEP, observed the implementing of Activity 3 and 4.“These activities are excellent,” he said immediately after the class. Students’ reflections on thewhole module are also encouraging according to a survey. All 15 students in the class took partin the survey. Among them, 4 students rated the module to be “excellent”, 7 rated it “very good”,the remaining results include 1 “good”, 2 “fair”, 1 “poor”, and 0 “very poor”. Considering thefact that the instructor is not a teacher and not a native speaker, these results should be