Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

projects. Teams generally meet weekly to discuss the progress of students andto plan the sequence of instruction for the coming week. Instructors are routinely in theclassroom at the same time only when students are making team presentations that are jointlygraded by the teaching team. Students enroll in all four ATE classes simultaneously unlessexempt from a course within the ET Core because of previously earned credit. It is not essentialthat courses in the ET Core be scheduled in an uninterrupted block of time, but this type ofscheduling helps keep students focused.Senior projects and capstone courses often "pull it all together" for four-year college engineeringor engineering technology students who persist to become seniors. For two-year

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mellinger Margaret

, there are points in the curriculum where further information resources are Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationclearly needed, and where targeted library instruction is valuable to improve the quality ofstudent projects and research papers. Examples include technical and professional writingcourses, design, capstone or synthesis courses for which students seek external sources ofinformation, and thesis or dissertation work requiring a comprehensive literature review. Also,certain pedagogical frameworks such as active learning or problem-based learning provideopportunities to introduce students

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Fisher; Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

Non-Professional Activities 50% Engineering Workplace Professional Activities 40% Co-op / Internship Capstone Design 30

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Leah Jamieson; Katherine Banks; Kamyar Haghighi; John Gaunt; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

faculty’s skepticism of engineering education as a scholarly activity has created anenvironment at many institutions that make the pursuit of deeply focused and productiveengineering education research program anywhere from difficult to impossible. In someinstances, engineering faculty with a high level of interest in engineering education carry aboveaverage teaching loads and are advised to develop and maintain traditional engineering researchprograms to ensure tenure. These faculty pursue engineering education projects as a sidelineactivity that often must be accomplished with little resources (e.g. time, funding, or graduatestudents). Alternatively, engineering faculty pursuing engineering education are relegated tonon-tenure track positions

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jensen

methodology is thenimplemented in the context of an example that compares the use of original design andredesign projects in a senior capstone design course.2. Reference Design MethodologyWe have chosen a product design methodology as a basis or starting point for formulatingour methodology for designing hands-on activities. There are two reasons why we believethis is a good choice. First, development of both products and hands-on activities can beconsidered an “ill defined problem” in the sense that there is not an optimal uniquesolution. As the product design methodology shown below is based on a generic stencilfor solving ill-defined problems, it qualifies as a reasonable starting point for formulating anew design methodology for hands-on activity

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Nelson

approximately one quarter of the 128 credit hours asspecified in a typical engineering program. This leaves ample room for the addition oflaboratory courses, a capstone project, electives, and general studies, allowing an institution tocustomize their program. For example, as depicted in Figure 1, ABET currently requires one andone-half years of engineering topics and one year of mathematics and basic science. The discretestructures area and the probability and statistics area often apply as mathematics rather thanengineering areas. The core hours listed for the other 16 knowledge areas in the Appendixwould constitute approximately two-thirds of the required minimum engineering content.Integration of engineering practice into the computer engineering

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Al-Ansary; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

major design experience for all graduating students Strategy A: Review and revise curriculum for design courses Action 1: Introduce corner-stone design courses in all programs Responsibility: Vice-dean for Academic Affairs Milestones: New major sheets include these courses, end of Fall 2004 Action 2: Investigate feasibility of a two-semester sequence for capstone design course Page 9.702.8 Responsibility: Vice-Dean Academic Affairs Milestones: Decision whether to extend the course to two terms, Fall 2004 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Hartley T. Grandin, Hartley T. Grandin,; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

Session 24685. Design. With a strategy incorporating a computer equation solver with the ‘raw’ fundamental symbolic equations, design and redesign activities can be naturally introduced in the first mechanics of materials course. The authors’ aim in this introductory course is to introduce design through short, simple and well-defined projects. As the student progresses to more advanced courses, i.e., machine design, structural design, etc., projects become lengthier, open-ended and difficult, leading to the capstone design experience. The implementation of this approach carries with it the following significant challenges:1. Symbolic Equations. The difficulty in requiring a symbolic approach with sophomore and junior engineering

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference to more advanced courses, i.e., machine design, structural design, etc., projects become lengthier, open-ended and difficult, leading to the capstone design experience. The implementation of this approach carries with it the following significant challenges:1. Symbolic Equations. The difficulty in requiring a symbolic approach with sophomore and junior engineering students is motivating them to write a complete set of governing equations in symbolic form before substituting numerical values. They just are not familiar with formulating problems this way. Their training in high school and college has primarily involved sequential solutions of the applicable formulas. The good news is that

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chell Roberts

: “the American educational system needs to producesignificantly more scientists and engineers …”. However, A draft paper from project onthe economics of advanced training at National Bureau of Economic Research19 raisesquestions about any predicted shortages of engineers.The state of Arizona has established a plan to increase its high-tech economy thatincludes increasing the number of science and engineering graduates14,15,16,17,18. Arizona’spopulation increased 93% from 1989 to 2001. As a result, Arizona is one of the highestgrowth states in the number of high school graduates. It is projected that there will be5,947,000 Arizona Residents by 2008 and 8,305,000 Arizona Residents by 2020. Atabout that time the population of the Phoenix

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Vennes; Phillip Smith

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsketching and orthographic projects with PRO/E1. This course replaces the traditional freshmanlevel computer aided drafting course. Instruction in the use of PRO/E is an integral part of thecourse. The second course, a sophomore level course, Introduction to Product Development,continues student instruction in PRO/E at a more advanced level. Manufacturing methods arealso treated within the laboratory portion of this course. The third course, an elective senior levelcourse called Finite Element Analysis and Design, continues the instruction in PRO/E to includestress analysis of the object under design. The purpose of this sequence of courses is to proceedfrom a design concept to a completed

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Keith Clutter; Alberto Arroyo; Amir Karimi

ME Design Project Mechanism Design Thermodynamics II Technical Elective* Technical Elective

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

, Administrative Services was able to absorb much of the impact on campusthus sparing academic programs.The academic areas of the institution began to involve themselves in transforming to thisCQI culture when both regional and program level accreditation requirements began tofocus in this direction. In 2001 PUC was among the first to adopt the North CentralAssociation of Schools and Colleges (NCA) Academic Quality Improvement Program(AQIP) rather than conventional regional accreditation criteria that was still available atthat time. The AQIP model is also patterned after the Malcolm Baldrige National QualityAward criteria. The emphasis with AQIP is on "action projects" showing goals andmeasurable improvements. Two of the quality projects PUC initiated

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elsa Bruno; David Swanson; David Barnhart; David Richie; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

mission of the Astronautics Department is to produce the world’s finest Air Force officerswho live our core values of integrity, service, and excellence and understand space. In keepingwith this mission, the Department has created the Space Systems Research Center (SSRC) andthe FalconSAT program1. Our philosophy of “Learning Space by Doing Space” is carried outthrough the SSRC. This center provides a facility in which our astronautics majors can design,assemble, test, and operate small, scientifically relevant satellites. FalconGold, FalconSAT-1,and FalconSAT-2 were the first spacecraft in a series of projects created by cadets. In recentyears, the program has expanded to include select management, physics, computer science, andelectrical

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Inside the Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori M. Bruce; J.W. Bruce

students work together on Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationhomework sets, lab experiments, course projects, and team-based exam questions. In short,cooperative learning is similar to team-based course projects common in many engineeringcourses, but cooperative learning is more formalized and structured to reinforce positive teamingand learning skills while avoiding common teaming problems [13], [15]. Cooperative learningmust meet five criteria [18]:• positive interdependence Team members must rely on each other to achieve the group’s goals.• individual accountability Members are held

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

construction of a prototype, a group of business students enrolled in MGMT 301,“Project Management,” conducted a market study during Summer 2003 to assess the marketpotential of OPTX. A letter survey was sent to 100 private and public middle-school teachers inthree geographic (rural, suburban, and urban) areas of Michigan. Forty-nine responses werereceived (49% return rate). Sixteen percent of the respondents have taught between 1-to-5 years,31% 6-to-10 years, 22% 11-to-15 years, and 24% 16 years or more.The major findings of the survey were: 1. All respondents agreed a new approach is needed to teach light reflection, refraction, absorption, and transmission; 2. 90% of all respondents stated OPTX would be useful for multiple lessons; 3. 12

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

pilot characterprograms. As of May 1999, nine states have initiated such projects. In Virginia, Georgia,Florida, and Mississippi legislation has been passed mandating that Character Educationprograms be implemented statewide. As a result, teacher education programs are nowbeing called on to provide a basic framework of Ethics and Character Education topreservice teachers. Greer (1998) believes that matters will certainly grow worse if theschools of education-and their colleagues in the liberal arts colleges-do not prepare thenation’s future teachers to teach effectively about morals and character.Developing an Ethics Education ComponentIn the fall of 1998, discussions began in our traditional four-year teacher preparatoryprogram on how to

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott DeLoach; Eric Matson

short lecture period with questions and answers. Then we show aNASA movie with robots venturing to Mars as a way to describe the future andpossibilities of robotics. The capstone experience is a set of experiments to allow thechildren to have a sensory experience with the robots. The agenda is identical for all ageswith the exception that the high school students are the only group to participate in theMulti-agent Race experiment.In the lecture, we discuss human and robot intelligence, then progress into learning andfinish with sensors. In each phase we compare and contrast the way humans use thesecapabilities to the way a robot is built and how it will use these capabilities.To begin the lecture, we compare and contrast human versus robotic

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

Engineering. He teachesundergraduate courses in machine design and statics as well as advises senior engineering student teams working onindustrially sponsored capstone design projects. He also teaches a senior-level undergraduate international designproject course and has taught graduate-level courses in innovation and technology management.Mark Urban-Lurain is Director of Instructional Technology Research and Development in the Division of Scienceand Mathematics Education at Michigan State University. He is responsible for providing vision, direction, planningand implementation for using technology mathematics and science education and developed several introductorycomputer science courses for non-computer science students serving 2000 students per

Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joan Walker

used concepts such as productdefinition, prototyping) intended to meet a user’s needs (e.g., noted client needs,scientific needs). Our findings also showed that experts tended to situate the designprocess in a social context, often mentioning issues related to ethics, marketing andinterpersonal skills required for success in the workplace.Study 2Student participantsAs part of their course requirements, 51 students enrolled in a capstone design course atVanderbilt University were asked to construct concept maps. Students were given thesame focus question that was presented to experts (i.e., “What is your current conceptualunderstanding of what is involved in the BME design process?”). Maps were given ashomework assignments at three time points

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

, around the world • Customer confidence based on your evidence of qualifications and suitability for the task at hand or project put out for bids.But there are some disadvantages as well: • Certification is not licensure or accreditation • Certification can be offered by different organization, vendor, institution, and school. So there is no single standard • Certification is recognized by one employer and may not be recognized by another employer • Certification has to be updated when technology changes and it is common that Page 9.75.4 the same certification has to be validated every 2 or 3 years

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Stroud Rossmann; Clive Dym

. They established an Engineeringprogram that built a sound theoretical base that was then strongly coupled to the realism ofengineering practice. Engineering’s Founding Fathers developed the Harvey Mudd Clinicprogram—Harvey Mudd’s three-semester capstone experience—to bring professional practice toon-campus students. Subsequent colleagues developed (and evangelized) the first-year designcourse (E4) that exposes students to client-based design work as the cornerstone of itsEngineering program. A current overview of the history and philosophy of the Mudd Engineeringprogram is found elsewhere1, while details of the current curriculum are shown in Figure 1

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

Session 3202 Student Design, Development and Operations of Small Satellites at the United States Air Force Academy Kenneth E. Siegenthaler, Jerry J. Sellers, David J. Richie, and Timothy J. Lawrence Department of Astronautics United States Air Force AcademyAbstractThe FalconSAT program is a unique, dynamic small-satellite research program thatserves as a capstone course for Astronautical Engineering majors at the United States AirForce Academy. The goal of the program is to give students the opportunity to “learnspace by doing space.” The program results in a

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gad-el-hak; Judy Richardson; John Speich; James McLeskey

tasks; scaffolding; cognitive apprenticeship;learner control; and non-linear instruction3. It therefore encourages collaborative learning andteam-building. The intention of the subject library is for the students to perform guidedexperiments and discover the answers to their questions. More details about the library conceptare provided in another paper4.ContentThe Experiential Engineering Library collections will allow students to study problems ofinterest in emerging fields that come from a number of sources including: faculty research,senior capstone design course projects, commercially developed educational tools, and donationsfrom industrial partners. Our Mechanical Engineering faculty includes experts in smart materialsand nanomaterials

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadezda Berezkina; Ilya Leipunsky; Guido Lopez

necessary because the flux of gas molecules into the indicator is also afunction of its affinity for the gas penetrant. Calibration of the process using known defectstandards is required in order to obtain the proper correction constants that can be used in actualapplications.GAIM: AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL TO CONVEY ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES OFSAFETY AND RELIABILITYVirtually all undergraduate engineering programs aim to enrich and culminate their curriculawith capstone projects where students are encouraged to apply their knowledge and skills in oneof the most fundamental activities of their future profession, i.e.: The design of artifacts, systemsand procedures that aim at satisfying human needs. There are innumerable aspects involved inengineering design

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

engineering software is to have them check their classical solutions(i.e., homework) with appropriate software. Another instructional method is to have them useengineering software for class projects. This is particularly apropos in the capstone designexperience.What Does the Educational Literature Say?Now let’s go to the recent educational literature to briefly examine if there is support for all threeteaching themes. First, let’s examine the importance of introducing students to theory (basicprinciples). Clearly the definition of “engineering” rests on obtaining specialized knowledge inscience and mathematics, as well as the engineering sciences.2 The Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) also supports this concept. Indeed

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Scmidt; Jeffrey Siegel

class and indicated that students who were getting many answers incorrect needed to increase their time studying class material or clarify the material with the instructor.6) The variety of results, particularly on opinion questions about the class, showed students the diversity of their peer’s opinions and the variety of learning desires.One of the major benefits of CPS is that it allows the instructor to preplan questions to addressseveral different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. The process of generating and categorizingquestions for ARE346N, although time-consuming, illuminated the scarcity of questions at thehighest levels. The instructor compensated for this by designing homework assignments andgroup projects to address the synthesis

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers; Jeff Goldberg

comparison of the presurvey results leads to some interesting observations. Althoughthere is explicit training on how to use the library system in a freshmen english course, only 26%of the SIE seniors recalled this training while 41% of the sophomore chemical engineers did. Anadditional 11% of SIE seniors and 5% of chemical engineering students had received trainingfrom either library staff or from a mentor on a research project. The rest of the students reportedreceiving no training of any kind, either formal or informal. While some of the students may betransfer students or have used Advanced Placement courses to miss the courses that instruct themin how to use the library, this would be a small percentage compared to the number that say theyhave

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Judy Collins; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh; Alysia Starkey

Program, Airframe and Powerplant Maintenance, and Technology Management). Develop means to evaluate the effect of the Inservice visits/faculty-library collaboration.Long-term goals: Identify barriers to this work, either in the opinions of faculty, administration, or library staff. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference Recruit specific faculty teaching key, capstone courses for the purpose of planning assessment measures in coordination with college-wide assessment plans: o Engineering: First year seminar o Engineering: Senior project o Construction Technology (Associates) research

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

support of the US Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA), a Green Engineering Project has fostered efforts to incorporate green engineeringinto the chemical engineering curriculum. This paper focuses on the integration of greenengineering concepts into the courses in the chemical engineering curriculum that coverseparation processes (distillation, extraction, absorption, membranes, etc). The paper describeshow the green engineering topics are “mapped” into a separations course and presents a sampleof the novel types of problems that were developed for instructor use. Green engineering is defined as the design, commercialization and use of processes andproducts that are feasible and economical while minimizing: generation of pollution at