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1997 Annual Conference
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L.J. Bohmann; B.A. Mork; Noel Schulz
83-84 85-86 87-88 89-90 91-92 93-94 academic year Figure 1: Percentage of Universities With a Power Program Requiring a Course in Energy Conversion [4-13]The motivation for rethinking the energy conversion course came from planning a
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1997 Annual Conference
Authors
Bahador Ghahramani
particular andengineering as a whole. Besides required courses, students are also encouraged to register forelectives in management and technical areas that most effectively satisfy their personal andprofessional careers. NTU students are assigned an academic advisor from the faculty. Advisors assiststudents in selection of the academic programs, planning their curriculum, registration, and otherpertinent information. Students are responsible for interfacing with their advisors and addressingtheir academic problems and issues.US ARMY ENGINEERING SCHOOL AND OTHER PROGRAMS The US Army Engineering School at Ft. Leonard Wood (USAES) is located to the southof Rolla, Missouri. USAES is a training school for the Army’s Engineering Officer
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1997 Annual Conference
Authors
Michael Alley
. Basic Communication is continuing to be taught in the College of Engineering. During the1996-97 year, there were twenty-five sections, and another twenty-five sections are planned for the1997-98 year. Acknowledgments. In establishing this course, much is owed to Dean John Bollinger,College of Engineering, and Dr. Gisela Kutzbach, Department of Engineering ProfessionalDevelopment. In teaching and developing the course, much is owed to Dr. Sandra Courter,Bonnie Schmidt, and Paul Ross—all from the Department of Engineering ProfessionalDevelopment.Felder, Richard, M., G. N. Felder, M. Mauney, C. E. Hamrin, and E. J. Dietz, “A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and Retention (III): Gender Differences in Student
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1997 Annual Conference
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Richard H. Barnett; Mary A. Eiff; D. Perry Achor; Troy E. Kostek; William J. Hutzel; Bruce Harding
delivering an ongoing program ofconsistently high quality is a much bigger issue. Every detail must be planned in advance. Issues Page 2.357.9like providing supplementary literature, transporting the equipment from school to school, andtraining the personnel who present the Techmobile were not apparent at first, but require a greatdeal of coordination. It comes down to time and money. Work on the Techmobile began in theSpring of 1996 and limited delivery will commence 1 1/2 years later in the Fall of 1997. Thebudget for the project is roughly $50,000, which does not include donated equipment or much ofthe time put in by volunteers. The cost for
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1997 Annual Conference
Authors
Raymond Yannuzzi; Edward McDonnell; Bradshaw Kinsey; Robert Bowman
Team" brings together administrators and faculty frompartner schools to provide prompt and detailed education and training plans that supplement Cityeconomic proposals to companies considering a move to the Naval Business Center. Philadelphiaofficials believe Shipyard Collegegives them a unique training resource that is particularly attractive to the large international firmsthat have long considered worker training and education as a key component of their operations. The emerging new role for the Shipyard site as a regional center combining rail, air, sea androad transportation has led the consortium to develop curriculum responses in which eachmember has a share. The three community colleges jointly operate a new Truck DrivingAcademy at
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1997 Annual Conference
Authors
Mulchand S. Rathod; Joella H. Gipson
to reach out for additional things to do beyond what was planned. Since theteaching was taking place in lab setting, it was not difficult to introduce additional material. About 2-3 additionalteachers/faculty and graduate/undergraduate students were available to help the subject area lead faculty. Generalconsensus was that if middle school students are exposed to more technical skills and knowledge, more they werewilling to learn. We did not observe boredom among them. It is equally important that our faculty continue to work with school teachers to address and exploretechniques for similar models to be used in school systems.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to thank the following for their very valuable contributions and
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1997 Annual Conference
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craig evers
success. These measures tell where weare along a planned course. They point out the direction we are headed, and give us informationregarding areas in which corrective action should be taken to prevent falling below a nominalcurve into an area where failure is a strong possibility. They allow a department or company todetermine how they are doing and also to report to their customers whether expectations will bemet. As educators, we have many metrics we use to define our success or failure. We must beskilled in their use to remain competitive in our own industry. Our customers, however, careabout only one. The most important measure of success we use in reporting to our students is thegrade.Performance indicators can be tricky to apply properly
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1997 Annual Conference
Authors
Robert J. Radin; Joan Dannenhoffer
, but the results have beenextremely effective. Gardner points out that not all material can be taught with all of theintelligences[4]. We have focused our energies on developing presentations which use as manyof the intelligences as possible. However, you will notice that musical intelligence was not usedin either of the applications in this paper. It doesn’t make sense to try to use an intelligence justfor the sake of using every intelligence. Of course, the presenter’s strengths also impact howcomfortable it is to use a particular intelligence.Formal assessment of student outcome reached by teaching to many intelligences will require acontrolled study. This is planned in our future research
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1997 Annual Conference
Authors
Barbara Olds
profile. This typeof portfolio might be more attractive as a selling device for a prospective employer because thestudent and teacher have had the opportunity to “filter” the contents and be selective about whatto include.We are in the planning stages of a longitudinal selective portfolio requirement for students in theMcBride Honors Program at CSM. Students in this seven-semester sequence will be required toselect representative works from their seminars each semester, reflect on how the selected workrepresents their efforts and accomplishments in the seminar, and meet with a faculty tutor for aone-on-one discussion of the portfolio. Before graduation each student will be required to meetwith a faculty committee to present his/her portfolio and
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1998 Annual Conference
Authors
N. Mohankrishnan; Sandra Yost
, and provide one or two carefully chosen examples to ensure that the groups will be able to function relatively autonomously in group activities. Do not try to “squeeze” the entirety of your former lectures into a shorter time frame!4. Using an absolute grading scale is a necessity! Grading on a curve fosters competition, not cooperation.5. Carefully planned group exercises achieve the best results. For out-of-class activities, it is important to structure the assignment so that the team members are motivated to rely on each other to successfully complete all of the tasks. It is often possible to modify a challenging text problem to include some computer simulation and analysis to make a non-trivial but doable group assignment
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1998 Annual Conference
Authors
Patrick E. Connolly
sales and marketing personnel.Presently, the industry is making another major step in this area, but away from uniqueness andindividual idiosyncrasies, toward a commonality, or generic, appearance. All of the major CADvendors have either recently released products with significantly upgraded user interfaces, or areplanning to do so in the near future. One of the largest and most successful high-end CADproviders is planning on making the modification of their user interface a “main thrust for thenext several releases” of their product.4 This trend will continue to be critical for CAD providersas customers demand easier to learn and easier to use products that meet quick implementationcriteria.FunctionalityFunctionality can be defined as what the
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1998 Annual Conference
Authors
Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater
given instructions on safetybefore they enter the plant. Using a special layout plan, given in the appendix, they must identifythe equipment and take specific plant readings. On the tour map, shown at the end of the paper,are digitized photographs of all the equipment that they are required to identify. In addition tothis equipment recognition, students are required to obtain readings from the process shown inFigure 3. These readings range from manual gauges to digital computer screen readings. Simu-lations and hand calculations will be based on the readings from the process shown in Figure 3.The table shown below is actual plant readings taken by the students of this process.Reading Computer Nota- Reading in High Bay Area
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1998 Annual Conference
Authors
Paul S. Chinowsky
document interpretation. The interpretation of regulatory documents is often adifficult task for students as they wade through legal jargon, professional acronyms, and obtuseregulations. To assist students in understanding the impact of regulations and other externalproject impacts, a broad range of materials is required to provide an appropriate case context.The students demonstrated a need for plans, project videotape, written regulations, and third- Page 3.550.2party summaries to successfully grasp the scope of a given case. This focus on broad issues andcontextual information emphasized the need expand beyond traditional written case formats
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1998 Annual Conference
Authors
Cliff J. Schexnayder; Avi Wiezel
Everyone contributes No plan and schedule conflictsSubmitting Assignments over the InternetA few assignments were placed in the course WWW page. Students were required to Page 3.158.9submit those assignments through the Internet. On one occasion the students submitted 10both their answers and the calculations through Internet. The Professor replied to thesubmitted assignments and issued the grades through email to the students. In the firstassignment, the marked answers and the grades were issued as soon as the assignmentwas received from the
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1998 Annual Conference
Authors
Anthony Brizendine
The ASCE Northern Branch, the three north-central West Virginia Society ofProfessional Engineers chapters (Clarksburg, Fairmont and Morgantown), and the AmericanAssociation of Cost Engineers - Morgantown Chapter have developed joint meetings for thepurpose of providing continuing education. The meetings are normally evening meetings withone or more speakers. These meetings are planned and hosted on a rotating basis among theparticipating organizations. Again, high quality continuing education is provided at a cost ofapproximately $20 to $25 per PDH. Page 3.159.6 6 WV EXPO
Conference Session
Communication - Needs and Methods
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Christine Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Thomas McGlamery, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Liberal Education
hospital staff for a new operating room design. The engineer managing the projectremarked, “We found out from the surgeons that they think they want it to be 65 degrees [ steadytemp in the operating room], - but they don’t really [tonal emphasis], since they actually need tocontrol certain fluctuations.” From his interactions with the medical team, the engineer haddiscovered that their stated desire was not going to meet the clients’ actual physical needs inreality. Only through listening carefully to them and adjusting his design team’s plan was thespace his team designed going to truly meet the needs of the client. Another engineer fromGeminid put this skill another way, stating, I think it is important for us to listen to understand what
Conference Session
Web-based Learning in ECE
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; Joshua Quesenberry, Virginia Tech; Justeen Olinger, Virginia Western Community College; Kevin Diomedi II, Virginia Western Community College; Robert Hendricks, Virginia Tech; Richard Clark, Virginia Western Community College; Peter Doolittle, Virginia Tech
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Electrical and Computer
Adobe Connect Pro was the best software solution for use in ourdistance learning circuits laboratory course. Unfortunately, the Virginia Techadministration has not made a commitment as of yet to purchase the softwarelicense. Although monthly and pay-for-use plans are available for individual users,it was not clear if there exists a means within the Electrical and ComputerEngineering Department to fund the necessary licenses long-term and, therefore,there was a substantial risk that the investment of the faculty’s and staff’s time andeffort to incorporate Adobe Connect Pro into the distance learning circuitslaboratory course would only be of value for a few semesters. a) b) Figure 3: Examples
Conference Session
Computers in Education Poster Session
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Daniel Solarek, University of Toledo; Hong Wang, The University of Toledo; Allen Rioux, The University of Toledo; William Evans, The University of Toledo; weiqing sun, The University of Toledo
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Computers in Education
Page 15.760.10 Figure 3. Assessment Matrix5. Conclusion.Benefitting from the new curriculum change, students are able to achieve more than engineeringtechnology can offer alone. Although it takes more effort for the students to master boththeoretical and practical contents, the feedbacks are positive toward the change.In the spring of 2007, Exit interviews with students in the senior capstone course who planned tograduate from the CSET program in the spring or summer of 2007 showed that many of ourgraduates are working in computer science field and some applied and admitted to computerscience graduate school. Over the recent years, enrollment and student quality are increasing
Conference Session
Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs & Issues
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College
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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
of requiring the students to plan, organize and execute complex tasks5.In the same line of thought, a set of different kinds of learning and assessment strategies havebeen developed. These strategies are based in the incorporation of authentic tasks; the connectionbetween theoretical learning in the classroom and the application of the acquired knowledge inthe work environment; in the assessments.These strategies include: project-based learning, the case method, problem-based learning,cognitive apprenticeship, situated learning, constructive learning environments, collaborativeproblem solving, goal-based scenarios, and model elicit activities between others 6,7 .From these strategies many forms of alternative assessment were developed and
Conference Session
Robotics Curriculum
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fred Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Tagged Divisions
Multidisciplinary Engineering
for modular design and implementation of decision algorithms and finite state machines. RBE 3001, Unified Robotics III. This is the third course in the four-course sequence. The focus of this course is actuator design, embedded computing and complex response processes. The course includes concepts of dynamic response as related to vibration and motion planning. The principles of operation and interface methods various actuators will be discussed, including Page 15.370.3 pneumatic, magnetic, piezoelectric, linear, stepper, etc. Complex feedback mechanisms will be implemented using software executing in an embedded system. The
Conference Session
New Collaborations
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Anne Rauh, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jody Hoesly, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Libraries
toRichard or Rolf for quality assurance.Climbing the CV Citation Mountains: how to build quality assurance into the process?As we looked at the range of citations, we couldn’t help but wonder: why we are doing this?The mountain of work seemed too steep to conquer, and at times, we questioned the worth of aproject that demanded we risk the possibility of failing in front of our colleagues and faculty.Despite the dangers, we believed that the climb would provide us with a new view of libraryservices. To reduce our risks, we concentrated on the path to the top rather than the summititself. We employed project management methods to help plan and implement this service viii.With teamwork and in-process quality control, the slopes seemed to level off
Conference Session
Communication - Needs and Methods
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; David Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Stephen Sears, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Daniel Thomas, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Paige Davis, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Tagged Divisions
Liberal Education
appropriate strategic planning will enable us tomaintain the future viability of the Studio and our communication initiatives to prepare studentsto use 21st century technologies.References[1] Waggenspack, W.N., Hull, W. R., Bridwell-Bowles, L., Powell, K. “Integrating Communication-IntensiveClasses and Communication Studios into the Louisiana State University College of Engineering,” Proceedings of the2006 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. June 2006.[2] Waggenspack, W.N., Hull, W. R., Bridwell-Bowles, L., Farrell, J., Bowles, D. “Implementing Informal WritingAssignments and a Written Feedback and Revision Loop to Enhance Learning in Engineering Courses” Proceedingsof the 2008 Annual Conference of the American
Conference Session
Developing Systems Engineering Curricula
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Steve Walter, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; David Walden, Sysnovation, LLC
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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee
Page 15.218.4which is based on ISO/IEC 15288: 2008, Systems and software engineering — System life cycleprocesses2. Until January 2011, the certification exam will test applicants on the material that iscovered in both versions of the handbook. Thus, ASEP candidates can use either version of theSE handbook to prepare for the certification exam. Topics covered by the exam include scopedefinition, requirementdefinition, requirement management, system architecture and design, trade studies, specialtyengineering (e.g., reliability, maintainability, human factors, system safety, etc.), systemintegration, verification, validation, and relevant project and enterprise management processes(e.g., planning, configuration management, risk management
Conference Session
Students' Abilities and Attitudes
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Maria Terrell, Cornell University Math Dept.; Robert Terrell, Cornell University; Lisa Schneider, Cornell University
Tagged Divisions
Mathematics
based on the inter-correlations of the eleven items on the MAI). His estimate of reliability based on this methodyielded alpha = .77 which is lower than the range of .85 but is not alarmingly low given thebrevity of an 11 item scale like the MAI. We plan to modify the test by adding items andexplore the relationships between the items, to improve the reliability of the test.The next phase of test development is to write multiple choice versions of the questions andalternate forms of the exam. Distracters have been written by analyzing students’ responses tothe open ended questions on the pretest and posttest. We have also gathered information abouthow students responded to the questions through in depth interviews with 14 of the test
Conference Session
Teams and Teamwork in Design
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Stephen Laguette, University of California-Santa Barbara
Tagged Divisions
Design in Engineering Education
performance teams. This will be continued in the selection process.Team Assessments and Team Surveys will also be conducted after project completion at thecompletion of the Spring Quarter. These results may be available for presentation at the ASEEconference in June.High performance project teams require a deeper sense of purpose, relatively more ambitiousperformance goals, better work approaches and outcomes, with mutual accountability. Thestudent team selection process is the first step in this process. Current efforts include the use oftemplates for project plans and design requirements for all Capstone teams as well as technicalsupport from the faculty and staff engineers. It is anticipated that improvements in these areaswill also be
Conference Session
Computers in Education Poster Session
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kathryn Rodhouse, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Benjamin Cooper, Savant LLC; Steve Watkins, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Tagged Divisions
Computers in Education
as they “play.” The older students tended to follow the instructions more closely andhad less difficulty using the tutorials. The results of the assessments indicate a need for morecolor and perhaps graphical aids and have identified some points of confusion. The resultsindicate that the level of the tutorials is good for high school students, but that more adjustmentwould benefit the young students. In particular, the younger students seem to need more aidssuch as graphics showing example screen shots and programming optional paths. Sidebars onapplications and careers may be beneficial as well. The next version of the tutorials willincorporate related changes. Also, additional tutorials are planned to address more advancedconcepts and to
Conference Session
International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Rafiqul Islam, Northwestern State University
Tagged Divisions
International
in the UAE has been growing at double digits for many years and will continue to doso until at least 2010. The country has come to realize two facts based on Kyoto protocol andawareness. The first one is that the conventional energy sources such as oil will deplete sooneror later, and the second is the higher carbon emissions will further pollute the environment. As aresult, the government of Abu Dhabi initiated ambitious plans for solar, biomass, wind and other Page 15.633.7renewable energy projects. Dubai electricity and water authority has launched a pilot projectusing wind energy to replace conventional energy sources. The gulf region
Conference Session
The Influence of Cooperative Education
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jim Wojciechowski, Grand Valley State University; Charles Standridge, Grand Valley State University
Tagged Divisions
Cooperative & Experiential Education
a machine designassignment on co-op, the student was required to follow the design processreasonably and logically. School trained him in the importance of planning outand organizing the machine design structure before implementation. The co-opexperience continued to reinforce the importance of following a design process.School taught engineering language and terminology. Thus, the student was ableto enter the work place and confidently talk about detailed drawings, a bill ofmaterials, or different structural mechanisms because of classroom exposure tothese topics. For example, a bill of materials for the project in electrical circuitsclass was required. The project consisted of designing and fabricating an
Conference Session
Design Education I
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University
Tagged Divisions
Manufacturing
Feedback Item Fall ‘06 Fall ‘07 (National Average) Course Organization and 4.63 4.42 Planning (4.23) Communication Skills of 4.43 4.31 Instructor (4.28) Faculty / Student 4.34 4.53 Interaction (4.27) Assignments / Exams / 4.40 4.32 Grading (4.02)Course Outcomes - Student 4.03 3.96 Learning, Interest (3.65) Student Effort and 3.71 3.39 Involvement (3.63) Overall Evaluation (3.97
Conference Session
Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Robert Brooks, Temple University; Tony Singh, Temple University; Hossein Rostami, Philadelphia University; Fernando Tovia, Philadelphia University; Amithraj Amavasai, Temple University
Tagged Divisions
Graduate Studies
and healthy environment. Students are encouraged to choose at leastone concept to take up in their life. The authors have plans to measure the lifelong learningobjectives by conducting telephone surveys once every two years for the next several years.Results and DiscussionThe improvements of all the seven performance indices over the control group were determinedusing t tests11,12 as shown in Table 1. The improvements in all the indices were statisticallysignificant at an alpha value of 0.05. Among the seven indices, improvement in TAs evaluatingthe performance of the students, which the authors consider to be the most important among theindices, was ranked the highest. In this category, the control group had scored 61% on theaverage whereas