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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawna Fletcher; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Strategies and PlanningUnder the leadership of a new director, a dedicated staff held a comprehensive staff retreat inOctober of 2000. The staff outlined a two-year plan with goals and objectives to increase studentinvolvement in WISE programs. They outlined an overall mission to include a strongcommunity and diversified programming agenda with the goal of creating a more well roundedgraduate. After compiling a comprehensive report, the staff began holding WISE Memberforums in the spring of 2001 to discuss ideas and to receive student feedback. The memberforums are held on a continual basis twice a semester to evaluate the success of the programsoffered each semester. Next, the staff began fundraising to meet their objectives. They wereable to

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Steven M. Cramer; Nancy Ciezki; Hussain Bahia; Carole Kraak; Carole Schramm

effectively makethese course changes. Here are some of the other lessons learned in developing thesecourse enhancements. • Balance big plans with small measurable steps. Because of limitations of time and resource availability, it is difficult to transform a course all in a single semester or in one step. Your final goal may be quite grand, but divide the work into discrete and manageable steps to accomplish it. Develop a plan for accomplishing each and all of those steps over several semesters. • Tie goals and objectives to evaluations. When you're developing your goals and objectives, determine up front how you will be measuring and evaluating your progress. • Know your project. Try to determine as

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Gil Laware

process.Preparation for TechnologyUsing new technology within the classroom setting requires additional resources andplanning. Introducing computer technology in the arts, literature, and mathematics placeshigh demands upon the teacher to know exactly who will make use of the technology,what is to be achieved, when is it appropriate, why this technology is helpful, and how itwill be implemented in the classroom. Given the plethora of choices, planning is essentialto achieve an integrated and consistent delivery.Using computer technology requires that the institution provide a significant amount ofsupporting resources. Depending upon the scope of your technology plan, additionalresources are needed for computers, PDA’s, networks, software, and supplies. It

Conference Session

Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Henning

refreshers to middle school and high school science teachers. A teacher resourcepage for all teachers is also being developed on our NSF HEV M3 Penn State project web site.These teacher resource pages will include links and lesson plan suggestions, sources for projectmaterials and the write ups of the manipulative projects. Teachers will also be able to post links,comments and ideas that they have found to the teachers resource pages.An ongoing, qualitative-based assessment is being carried out for all of these activities. In thebalance of this paper we would like to use our various voices to tell some of the ways we havemade a variety of “course corrections” to the project as a result of the more immediate impact ofinformal feed back.Activities to

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Collaborations with Engineering Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Koller

kinds.The purpose of this paper is to describe existing and future programmatic needs foreducational activities and the approaches being developed to utilize partnerships withbusiness and industry, NASA and DOD facilities, educational institutions, andgovernment organizations such as state spaceport authorities for aerospace programactivities that will link K-12, community college, and university systems to sustain aqualified and technically competent workforce.The Case for PartnershipsSince at least the early 1980’s, perhaps in conjunction with the management movementsof Total Quality Management and Continuous Quality Improvement, partnerships haveincreasingly occupied strategic planning activities and deployment strategies of majororganizations

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonardo Rivera

process. This implies a thorough and intentional preparation of the material that will be covered in class, so the concepts studied can be transformed into knowledge. The student must come to class ready to solve doubts, to learn from everybody else’s interventions, to participate in the (individual and group) activities planned by the instructor and, through all these processes, to construct his/her own knowledge.c. All the students are different. How to make the learning process benefit all of them? A vital concept in this area is the different Learning Styles, which will be discussed next.Learning Styles: Different authors have proposed a variety of learning styles models (and theirapplication to engineering education); among the

Conference Session

Inquiring MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Freya Toledo; Antonio Gonzalez-Quevedo; Didier Valdes-Diaz

history and significance of the transportation industry and all modes of travel • career opportunities in public and private sector transportation, with an emphasis on emerging and new occupational requirements for the new millennium • various transportations modes, including public transit, automobiles, buses, vans, trains, airplanes, as well as freight, rail, ports, waterways, and pipeline with an emphasis on intermodalism • advanced technology and intelligent transportation systems, including aviation and space technology • career options in transportation design, engineering, planning, and research The overall composition of the program, along with the evaluations

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Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Borrelli

education system vis-à-vis their classes, their use of resources, their GPA, theirinteraction with faculty, etc. From my research, I have discovered that the unit of analysis is thestudent as a part of their family system. Further, my research indicates that family influencesappear to be the dominant social membership identity that students construct to explain theircollege choices and degree plans. This distinction is critical to understanding and rethinking whystudents who are in good academic standing continue to leave engineering majors. Many of us share a research assumption that student retention is about improvinguniversity life, including the quality of instruction, the size of the library, and even the success ofthe football team

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

information or to performsolutions to problems that are precisely stated and for which there is only one correct answer.Activity based learning built from constructivist principles calls on students to perform authentictasks that emulate the kinds of work they will be expected to do during their careers. Theactivities are often ill structured as opposed to being precisely stated. Students must analyze thetask, gather information pertinent to the objectives of the problem, clearly state the problem,perform experimentation, generate multiple possible solutions for the problem, evaluate thepossible solutions, make decisions about the best course of action, plan for the implementation ofthe optimum solution, and communicate the final set of

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Hager; Ronald Land

in the 1999 – 2000 academic year and has now been conducted fortwo consecutive years. A third survey is planned for the 2001 – 2002 academic year. Summaryresults from the first two years of the study are presented here. Detailed results are available atwww.ecsel.psu.edu/setce/ExitSurvey2000.htm and www.ecsel.psu.edu/setce/ExitSurvey2001.htm.Description of the Survey The exit survey for Penn State engineering technology students was derived, withpermission, from an assessment survey for engineering schools developed by EducationalBenchmarking, Inc. * It consists of 59 questions. The first eight questions define basicdemographics of the respondent, including the student’s degree program, campus location,estimates of average weekly study

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tina Barnes; Ian Pashby; Anne Gibbons

, university-industry collaborations are often still moreproblematic as a result of an inevitable difference in culture and perspective 3, 11, 12, 15.Industry and academia measure the success of collaboration quite differently and inevitablyperceptions of progress made, the perceived value of the outcomes and opinions regardinghow a project should be planned and managed, differ substantially between the two parties.The deployment of students on such projects is logical given the manner in which success inacademia is measured, e.g., number papers published, the generation of new knowledge,number of students successfully achieving research degrees. However, it is also logical toassume, given the opposing perspectives of academia and industry, that such

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

Project is a part of the comprehensive Southern Valley Development Project(SVDP) that aims to double the amount of cultivated land in Upper Egypt at a cost of$100 billion by 2017 to develop Toshka, East El-O-Wee-Nat, and the New Valley Oases.Twenty percent of that money is pledged by the Egyptian government -- which isbuilding the main canal and its four offshoots, the pumping station, major roads and mainelectricity network, with agriculture being only a base for the integrated developmentplanned. Industry, mining, alternative energy production -- and possibly oil and gasproduction and storage, and tourism, are parts of the vision, with plans for desert safaris,car rallies, conferences, and medical tourism.The subsections of this paper are

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Uriel Cukierman; Jorge Vélez-Arocho; Ciristián Vial; Miguel Torres-Febus; John Spencer; Lueny Morell

, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationto sponsor workshops at the leading institutions in four of its (5) Latin American countries wherethe company is establishing their strategic academic alliances (Argentina, Chile, Brazil, andMexico).The WorkshopsThe Learning Factory Workshops (Figure 2) go throughthe steps that helped MEEP develop this program: fromestablishing educational objectives to planning(resources, timetable, responsibilities) to curriculumdevelopment (courses, integrated laboratory facilities,industry collaboration), and finally to outcomesassessment (designing the assessment strategy

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Pearle; Gary Dainton; Christine Johnston; David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Douglas Cleary

Sophomore Clinic faculty worked with educationalresearchers at Rowan University’s Center for the Advancement of Learning to strengthen teameffectiveness by building teams based on learning. The underlying assumption of our plan tocreate learner-based teams was this: team members’ need to understand themselves and otherswas fundamental to successful teaming. Johnston’s Interactive Learning Model7 (ILM) waschosen for the study. It is a brain-based learning model, which uses a reporting instrument, orLearning Combination Inventory 8 (LCI) and a process (the Let Me Learn Processâ) to frame andfacilitate individual and group learning. The theoretical basis of the ILM is a set of constructsestablishing cognition, conation, and affectation as the

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rainer Jonas; Peter Winter; Peter Eichelmann; Paul King; Jeannie Scriven; Hunter Lauten; Hans-Jorg Jacobsen; Claudia Berger; Bernhard Huchzermeyer; Angelika Appenzeller; Jerry Collins; Todd Giorgio; Jean Alley

Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”the U.S. and Canada can hold exchange research fellowships and clerkships. VaNTH institutionsare among those who have hosted BMEP scholars. CDG has also facilitated the GBFinternational exchange programs for biotechnology students from less developed countries formany years.History and Purposes of the Partnership. In 1998 a trade mission from Niedersachsen visitedNashville and Vanderbilt. Discussions about a student exchange program were initiated. In May2000 Dr. Peter Winter of CDG visited Vanderbilt and plans for a student exchange program weremade more definite. On a visit to Niedersachsen in March 2001, Dr. Jerry Collins of Vanderbiltand VaNTH visited several laboratories and offices

Conference Session

Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Session 2430 Skills Assessment in Hands-On Learning and Implications for Gender Differences in Engineering Education Daniel W. Knight, Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, Susan J. Poole and Lawrence E. Carlson Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractA comprehensive course evaluation plan is a helpful tool for the development and revision ofnew curricula. One component of an evaluation plan is the assessment o

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Duggan

composition profiles to develop sampling plan and comprehensive site assessment for a proposed property redevelopment (attachment 3).Design Capstone Design For their major design experience, a student group has developed a biosolids/Pulp and Paper Mill

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Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Risa Robinson

“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Figure 3. Design, Redesign Cycle for Experimental Project Pilot Iterations 3 and 4 Topic Choice Experimental Plan Formal Proposal Redesign Apparatus Construction Cycle Preliminary Testing Demonstration

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

, installation of a 160-MW farm, 14 to 20 km off Horns Rev in the North Sea, will be Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcompleted later this year (2002). The latter is but one of five similar-sized offshore projectsslated for Danish waters by yr-2008. Denmark’s “Energy 21” Plan calls for 4 GW of offshorewind farm capacity by the year 2030, intending to satisfy 30% of that nation’s energy needs.4Wind energy is less predictable and more variable than tidal energy, but its potential depends onflow velocity and not on trapping (i.e., damming) a mass of fluid. Thus, construction andimplementation of a wind

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Matsumoto

, prestressedconcrete, or reinforced concrete bridge design. Even where special topics are selected, teams arerequired to link their topic to a real-life project or other practical application.Many students and employers have found this approach to be mutually beneficial. Students aremotivated to explore the design process and end products at their company, including the purposeand objectives of a project, the design basis and approach, actual calculations, and plan sheets.Engineers are pleased to help student assistants become more knowledgeable about companydesign practice and are very willing to supply these students (whom they hope will become futurefull-time employees) with the necessary information and additional insight into the backgroundand execution

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Ledlow

rationale for its use in engineeringclassrooms. Sections two through four provide faculty insights and recommendations preparingstudents for teamwork, planning lessons and activities, and implementing and assessingactive/cooperative learning. Section five presents actual lessons and activities developed byparticipating faculty. The final section includes faculty profiles and interview transcripts. Thispaper loosely follows the organization of the website: we provide an overview of the use ofactive/cooperative learning in engineering education and then summarize and annotate theFoundation Coalition faculty members’ suggestions for preparing students, planning lessons, andimplementing active/cooperative learning in diverse settings.Overview of Active

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

Engineering Education· Identify a problem or question related to gender equity that they wanted to pursue or investigate at their school using action research, and to implement their plan,· Return to Georgia Tech for periodic SummerScape meetings, and· Submit a written report detailing their activities and modified lesson plans.Teachers were also encouraged to observe each other periodically in the classroom to check ontheir progress in providing equitable attention to all students, and to conduct a gender equityworkshop for parents at their school.Online CommunityAll professional development materials and teacher final reports were posted online on aSummerScape WebCT course. The classroom instruments and activities were all available aspdf

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gulnur Birol; Todd Giorgio; Sean Brophy; Ann McKenna

the Bioprocess Technology course were to provide students withbasic principles in cellular and molecular biology of microbial and mammalian cells, give them aworking knowledge of bioreactor operations and microbial kinetics and their industrialapplications, and introduce product recovery processes of pharmaceuticals. In this course, wealso aimed to promote and help students develop lifelong skills such as adaptive expertise,presentation and communication skills in an active learning environment. Furthermore,integrating the new educational modules developed at Vanderbilt into class material of a courseat NU was the first attempt and required strategic planning. At the beginning of the course designprocess, the topics to be covered in the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

, appear to have subsided; and more genuine concerns reflecting the current mood arebeing openly debated. A wide range of issues have surfaced; included are: (i) the need torestructure present programs and curricula; (ii) the need to introduce organizational changes; (iii)the need to develop long-term connections with neighboring industries; and (iv) the desire tofoster proper engineering culture in the classroom and at the workplace.Contributors to this constructive debate have come from industry, faculty, administration, andstudents. As a consequence, ideas, directions and preliminary plans have emerged but not yetproperly jelled. The debate goes on, and forces of change are in the air. But there are counterarguments and counter measures that

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain

topics early.The second purpose is to help the students maintain focus on their experiments and ensure thatthey have not embellished the experiment so that it cannot be completed in the remaining four-week period. Students often over-design apparatuses or require expensive or unnecessaryinstrumentation. Thus, the oral proposals help to keep the students focused and the experimentssimple.Two weeks after the assignment of the project, the groups are required to submit a writtenproposal. In the proposals, the groups are expected to select the apparatus construction,materials, instrumentation, and test plan that minimize the expected uncertainty in their result.Students are expected to use uncertainty analysis with the appropriate physics to achieve

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yann-Hang Lee; Sethuraman Panchanathan; Gerald Gannod; Forouzan Golshani; David Pheanis; Ben Huey

at ASU is described in Section 4, including the structure of the programas well as planned courses. Section 5 reports on the work completed to date, draws conclusionsand outlines future work.2 Background and Related WorkCertain characteristics of embedded systems distinguish them from other systems. Specifically,embedded systems typically interact in real time with their environment. As a result, they operateeffectively on unbounded input sequences and similarly produce output data streams that areunbounded in length. Frequently, embedded systems have safety-critical constraints or arerequired to deliver ultra-high availability. Because they function without human interventionand often in hostile or remote environments, they also must be

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Stubblefield; Elisabeth Alford

concerns addressed in August, thesis planning in October, publications inMarch, and career concerns in April. Each of the 90-minute workshops briefly introducedkey principles of communications related to the topic, followed by one or more informalpresentations by individual faculty members who had relevant experience and particularinterest in the topic. Generally, the workshops concluded with hands-on practice androundtable discussions among the graduate students.Attendance at the workshops, which was voluntary, averaged 25 graduate students, buteach of the topics attracted a slightly different group of students. In fall 2000, graduateenrollment in the USC College of Engineering and Information Technology totaled 535students, including 109

Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Anthony Marchese; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha

for assessment. For this phase, studentteams were asked to keep written records of brainstorming and other creative orconstructive stages of their design project, establish methods of communication amongteam members, and submit documentation plans. The next stage will involve a formalstudy including a control group, who will not be instructed to engage in intensive writingduring the design process, in order to apply, evaluate, and further develop the criteriagenerated during the preliminary study. During this phase, methods of relating the use of Page 7.1329.2writing during the design process to the quality of design products will also be

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Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Oliver Hensley; Marjorie Donovan; Christopher Ibeh; James Otter

Session 2647Accountability requires that academia operate via “design and planning”, design andplanning that is done upfront to ensure that institutional goals and objectives are attainedin a manner that is cost-effective and that meets accreditation and governance criteria. Aviable means of operating via “design and planning” is to adopt and implement the CUESASSESSMENT MODEL (CUES-AM); CUES-AM is a core component ofepistecybernetics. The themes of enhanced student learning, enhanced course deliverymethods, continuous improvement, life long learning, faculty professional developmentand systematic documentation of knowledge are embodied in the principles andprecepts of epistecybernetics’ total system approach to knowledge and assessment

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Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Kauser Jahan; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head

and robot 7 Brainstorming time Show candidate designs to faculty · Develop ideas for robot design · Develop ideas for fuel cell design · Develop test / assessment plan for fuel cell 8 Fuel cell / robot fabrication 9 Fuel cell / robot fabrication Design proposal due 10 Midterm presentations Midterm progress report 11 Engineering economics Design proposal revisions due Fuel cell / robot fabrication 12 Fuel cell / robot fabrication and testing 13 Fuel cell