Conference Session

Rethinking Collection Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Clay

established procedures to continue over years of staff renewal. Itmay also reflect an attitude that with web delivery being so simple, the library is nolonger needed as a storage place. The best way to tackle these gaps would be to initiateand maintain communications with the Labs and Centers for which we are missingreports. Page 9.1139.6 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education"ConclusionThe technical and logistical barriers to making information available over the web haveall but evaporated in recent years

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peggie Weeks; Maryanne Weiss; Mark Pagano

achieveaccomplishment of the outcomes. The outcomes as stated in TC2K Criterion 2 are minimumstandards, not intended to be an exhaustive list. This list provides a template that programs canuse to define their outcomes. Programs must look at their own institutions, their own students,their own communities and constituents—and develop a process that supports achievement oftheir specific outcomes and demonstrates that the program is, in fact, achieving them (closing theloop).How, then, are these and other standards to be addressed? One way is by implementing acontinuous quality improvement process. CQI has existed as a process for many years, and itsuse by industry is ubiquitous. In the spirit of not wanting things to grow old or stale, CQI hasevolved to reflect

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hankley

CS112o course is close to what we suggestin this paper. One key aspect of CS112o is that it deals with use of standard collections datastructures but not implementation of them. For Java, this means students should understand theconcepts and the use of the existing collections library rather than building lists and trees fromscratch [ 2]. The ACM objects-first sequence reflects a software engineering emphasis, withfocus on building software. Some schools, for example, the Bachelor of Software Engineeringprogram at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, follow this structure [3].Software Design ArtifactsThis section give a small tour of the items by which one forms a design for software, whichincludes requirements, the static structure, and dynamic

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

theMassachusetts higher education sector and STCC, and both information and telecommunicationstechnologies were still evolving rapidly with an apparent continued convergence towards thenewly coined, blended discipline of ICT. Furthermore, as NSF financial support had beenshrinking in a by now, known manner, NCTT staffing had been reduced and the Co-PI’s releasetime had also been reduced (as they returned to the classroom on a part-time basis). After muchdiscussion and reflection, a grant application was submitted to the NSF for funding for anadditional four years as an ATE National Resource Center. The proposal indicted that NCTTwould continue many of its previous activities albeit at reduced levels. However, in a newinitiative that had been considered

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay

projects in the limited time that was available in a typicalcommuter campus, and the fact that they worked pretty much without the guidance andintervention of the instructor, the results were mixed. Some of the presentations werefairly detailed touching on every aspect of the design process reflecting the interest andmotivation level of the students. The others were sketchy with some last minute efforts.This was particularly revealing in the 4 projects that were centered on the wheelchairdesign (Projects 5, 7, 10 and 11 in Table 1). The problem was to come up with a designthat would be effective for the wheelchair to climb an eight-inch curb. One team (Project5) decided to employ rocket-like thrusters for their design despite requests by

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Osman El-Sayed

the graduating students over the different disciplines varied over the yearsaccording to job market variation. In 2002 32% of the graduating students from the Faculty ofEngineering, Cairo University specialized in Electrical Engineering, 21% in CivilEngineering, 13% in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, 13% Architecture, 13%Petroleum, Mining and Material Engineering 8%, Chemical Engineering 5% (Fig.2). The staffdistribution among the different disciplines reflects globally the same trend.One of the most striking features of engineering education in Egypt has been always therelatively large percentage of female students compared with their percentage in westernschools of engineering.In 1999/2000 this percentage varied between 25% for

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Hutchinson; Larry Erickson; David Steward; Lakshmi Reddi; Alok Bhandari

Industry needs assessment One time, Fall 2003 survey Expert review Fall 2003 and Spring 2004Selection of course content Student mid-semester and Every time course is taughtand learning experiences end of semester feedback Faculty feedback Annual Student self-reflection Every time course is taughtAssessment of studentlearning Expert review 2003-2004 2004-2005Effective Use of Web-based

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

environments and discusses the lessons learnedabout faculty and student satisfaction and student performance.BackgroundBlended learning programs combine the best aspects of the classroom based format andthe asynchronous learning network (ALN) format for course presentation (1). Researchconducted at a number of leading higher education schools (2), (3), (4) has reportedpositive results with respect to faculty and student preferences for more flexible learning.One of the often stated benefits is the increased opportunity for students to reflect onwhat they are learning. In the blended environment, there is time to think and rethinkindividual responses. Topic discussions can continue over extended times allowingstudents to consider and prepare their

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

a complementary path of professional graduate education for the further graduate developmentof the nation’s engineers during this same time period contributing to a long-term underdevelopment ofthe U.S. engineering workforce and subsequently reflected in the loss of U.S. competitiveness fortechnology innovation. Page 9.826.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”1.2 Engineering Graduate Education, Creative Professional Practice, and ResearchAs the nation competes in the 21st century

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Inside the Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Visco

the first homework assignment, the same of the student. [4]Such an approach, right from the beginning, demonstrates in a clear way that the instructor wantsto know more about the student. While most students will give back what is asked for in oneparagraph, several students take this as an opportunity to reflect on their life and career choice (infive pages!). As an additional benefit, the instructor can determine from reading the biographieswhether or not some situations exist in a student’s life that can affect their performance in class(single parent, disability, off-campus job, etc.)2. Have the students pick up the first exam or first quiz by coming to your office.There are certain students, no matter how much you beg them about

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Enger; Sudhir Mehta

/HigherEducation from the University of North Dakota and holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Sciencefrom the University of Iowa. Her dissertation examined the literature of higher education to determine how theliterature reflects the discipline’s development and practice. Through her work at North Dakota State University,she participated in the creation of a unique learning community that integrates service learning with leadershipdevelopment and problem-based learning methods for undergraduates. Using the Kellogg transformationalleadership model as background material for student leadership development, she is currently studying the theoriesand practices of John Dewey, Jane Addams, Paulo Freire, and bell hooks to support the model. She

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Donald Keating

).23. Kocaoglu, D.F. Engineering management: Educational strategies for leadership in technology management.Industry & Higher Education, 10 (6), 332-336 (1996).24. Schön, D.A. The reflective practitioner. New York: Basic Books (1983).25. Kostoff, R.N. Science and technology roadmaps. Springfield, VA: United States Defense Technical InformationCenter. Available WWW: http:// http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/kostoff/mapweb2index.htm (2001 access date).26. Keith, K.M. The responsive university in the twenty-first century. In, William G. Tierney (ed.), The ResponsiveUniversity: Restructuring For High Performance (pp. 162-172). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1998).27. Oblinger, D.G., & Verville, A. What business wants from higher

Conference Session

Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Cala; Jaymin Patel; Ganesh Kudav; Burke Davis

”, November 3, 2003.[2] Babbitt, Beatrice C., "University Curriculum Project - Professors Reflect onImpact",http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/Us_EU/conf/csun_98/csun_98_114.htm, 2003[3] Cala, Martin and Robert A. McCoy, "Corporate Connections: Developing Programs andRelationships", Proceedings of the 2002 Conference for Industry and EducationCollaboration, 2002. [4] Lord, Susan M. "Service-Learning in Introduction to Engineering at the University of SanDiego: First Lessons", Proceedings of the 1999 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference,1999. Page 9.730.7Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Justine Stiles; Ashly Middelberg; Farhad Reza; Subhi Bazlamit

the rubber tire. It reflects theenergy losses that occur as the rubber is alternately compressed and expanded as it slides overthe irregular pavement surface texture. Deformation of the rubber will occur, and hence thehysteresis component will exist, even if the pavement surface is perfectly lubricated.In the United States, the most common method of performing skid tests is by means of a vehiclepulling a two-wheel trailer whose wheels have been locked in place. The friction force isrecorded and a skid number is calculated and assigned to the pavement section. Skid numbersare normally used by highway agencies to identify pavement sections with low skid resistance, todevelop priorities for rehabilitation, and to evaluate the effectiveness of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Sanver; Li Yang

concurrency control. Consequently, there wouldbe a big gap between CS543 and CS643, which discussed distributed database systems.We have redesigned CS543 and CS643 to reflect modern contents of database systems. CS543has been designed as an application-oriented course where students learn how to use a database.CS643 has been designed as a system-oriented course which covers DBMS implementationtechniques. Student surveys showed that these changes are welcome by students. Many studentsjust need to know how to use database systems rather than how to implement a DBMS whileother students are interested in going further into database implementation and performancetuning.3. Issues and ConcernsThe redesigned CS543 covers topics in Categories 1 and 2. The

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

of lab courses that will approximatethe existing lab curriculum within the existing two academic year window, decouple theco-requisite problem, and stop global warming. The proposed structure is reflected inTable 2. Table 2. Core Labs - AY 2003-2004 Semester Lab Prerequisite Core Courses Fall 2nd Year ECE Lab 1 None Spring 2nd Year ECE Lab 2 Intro to Signal Processing Digital systems Fall 3rd Year ECE Lab 3 Circuits Linear Systems Spring 3rd Year ECE Lab 4 Electronics

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tarek Shraibati; Ahmad Sarfaraz

, 3. It is believed engineering colleges have a vitalrole to develop curriculum which meets the expectations of non-technical students. In order toenhance a curriculum reflecting the expectations of these students, it is necessary to respond toexpectations of non-technical students. A survey was conducted to allow faculty to determinestudents’ expectations and how well they were met by a general education course centered abouta computer aided design software program. Krupczak and Green4 used similar study to determinethe perspective of non-technical students on technical literacy. They found a clear definition oftechnical literacy was stated by their students. This included the ability to interact with technicalsystems and repair them when

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mario Simoni; Marc Herniter; Bruce Ferguson

%) Diode Circuit Analysis 4 (13%) Single Transistor Circuit Analysis 9 (29%) Device Modeling 7 (23%)One aspect of this exam for which we have received comments is the inclusion and number ofbasic circuit analysis questions. These questions are necessary for two reasons. First, they removesome ambiguity from interpretation of the ECI’s results by helping to identify the reasons forincorrect answers. These questions were carefully chosen to reflect the background knowledgethat is necessary to correctly answer the electronics questions. As such, they can help determine ifa student answered incorrectly because they did not understand the electronics

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajeswari Sundararajan; Bradley Rogers

established time limit of 20minutes for their presentations.Student EvaluationThe success of the course was reflected by the student evaluation ratings. The course instructor evaluation by theundergrad students was 4.76/5, which is very much above the department average. The course rating was 4.69,which again is much above the average. Similar excellent ratings were also given by the graduate students (4.76/5and 4.51/5, respectively). The only other concern expressed by a few was that there was too much material for a 3credit one semester long course.ConclusionThe idea of using an interdisciplinary team to teach the topic of fuel cells has been very successful at ASU. Theexperience has been very rewarding for both students and faculty, and is a

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramana Pidaparti

has been teaching design courses as part of the ME curriculum at the PurdueSchool of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI (Indiana University - Purdue University atIndianapolis) for more than a decade. The design courses have undergone many changes over theyears to reflect current theory and practice in the field. Engineering design courses are integratedinto the ME curriculum, beginning with a basic introduction to mechanical design examples andbackground during the freshman year to advanced capstone design projects in the senior year.Recently, there is a growing interest in synthesizing innovation and creative processing inengineering curricula through art [9, 10]. Patton and Bannerot [10] discusses nicely the designprinciples and process

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

manufacturing sector and does not cater much to the needs of non-manufacturing industrial arena. This certainly is not a true reflection of the completerequirements of the entire industrial setup in Pakistan, which is primarily dominated bythe service industries. When it comes to manufacturing applications, the curriculum atthe IME department specifically includes typical design courses like Computer AidedDesign (CAD) and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM). This makes the NEDcurriculum a little more comprehensive than that of the ISE department at UF. Althoughthe IE department at UF does not offer courses in these specialized areas, yet the studentshave the flexibility to take courses like CAD and CAM, and other similar courses, fromMechanical

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Etheredge; Glenn Ellis; Thomas Gralinski; Domenico Grasso; Baaba Andam

were introduced to the topic through a discussion of the engineering design process as presented in the Massachusetts Framework (see Figure 1). It is our belief that the design process is best learned through application, followed by discussion and reflection, so we made this introduction brief. 2. Students worked in teams, applying the engineering design process to redesign aspirin Page 9.1197.4 bottles that would allow easier access for physically challenged users. Each group began Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Ameel; Ian Harvey; Bruce Gale

rather than group labs, the lab sizes have been limited to 6 students to help optimizethe learning experience in the labs. Unfortunately, this also limits the number of students whocan participate due to the expense of setting up multiple laboratories. Another challenge associated with this course is that, while this course is the second in aseries for students in the NSF IGERT program, the first course is not a prerequisite for thiscourse. Thus, a number of students have a good introduction to microscale phenomena whileothers who enroll have had little or none. This disparity does end up being reflected in grades atthe end of the term, even though the two IGERT classes do not directly overlap. Student evaluation data are available

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rich Shiavi; Christopher Rowe

,focusing on computer modeling and simulation techniques for solving engineering and mathproblems. Since technology was just becoming user-friendly, MATLAB was a good choicebecause of its uncommon combination of ease of use and breadth of functionality.MATLAB originated in the late 1970's when Cleve Moler wanted to provide interactive accessto the FORTRAN linear algebra software packages EISPACK and LINPACK, motivated by hisbelief that a person should not have to learn FORTRAN in order to learn numerical computation.MATLAB was initially focused on constructing and manipulating matrices, and applyingalgorithms for eigenanalysis and linear algebra (“MATLAB” stands for “matrix laboratory”,reflecting these origins). In 1984, Cleve Moler and Jack Little

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Monica Cox, Purdue University

during the 2003 spring semester, this study will explore the presence or absence ofthe following within observed classrooms: (1) faculty’s signaling with cognitive organizers andusage of content linkages, (2) faculty and student in-class assessment patterns, and (3)professors’ pedagogical patterns. These three areas are reflected in seventeen items that comprisethe GR. Preliminary information about the percentage of observed instances of these Likert scaleitems will be examined, and patterns across traditionally-taught, nonHPL classes and HPL-oriented classes will be explored.Faculty Sample During the fall of 2002 and the spring of 2003, the first author, a trained classroomobserver who has collected classroom data with the VOS for three

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Manhire

upon stu- dents. We even think those grades reflect well on us; they show how popular we are with bright students. And so we are quite satisfied with ourselves, too. Page 9.645.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education There is something inappropriate -- almost sick -- in the spectacle of mature adults showering young people with unbelievable praise. We are flattering our students in our eagerness to get their good opinion. That our students are promising makes it worse, for

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

Austin’s College of Engineering that reflects the demographics ofthe college age population within the state of Texas, 35 percent ethnic minorities.IntroductionThe Texas Research Experience (TREX) Program was created at The University of Texas atAustin in 1992 to provide technical learning experiences for African American, Hispanic, andNative American undergraduate students enrolled in the College of Engineering. TREX wasinitiated to address the following challenges: (1) lack of African American, Hispanic, and NativeAmerican students pursuing graduate degrees in engineering; (2) large percentage of AfricanAmerican, Hispanic, and Native American engineering students with limited exposure to and/orinvolvement in research projects on campus; (3

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

engineering faculty at a research-orienteduniversity.We will review in brief how ABET arrived at its current state and present evidence thateducational initiatives must align with the goals and objectives of the research faculty at majoruniversities for those initiatives to have lasting impact there. Frank, anonymous feedback from across-section of engineering faculty will reveal that ABET 2000 is in trouble, lacking thegrassroots faculty support necessary for a stable accreditation system. The claim will be putforward that any such system must derive broad support, from more than a few true believers,and must not reflect a faddish wave of buzzwords.To conclude, we will present a few notions of a revised accreditation process that could be, atonce

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

tower in a limited amount of time using limited quantities ofspaghetti and marshmallows. Following this competition, the design teams are asked to reflect ontheir performance by participating in a classroom discussion. It has been observed by the authorsof this paper that, generally, the most successful teams are the ones who first discuss an action Page 9.783.2plan and then carry it out with effective teamwork. This is the most important point which is “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Hanus; Stephen Ressler

formallyassess their perceptions of this specific project; however, their responses to our course-endsurvey reflected strong outcomes in the specific areas that this project targeted—motivation tolearn, critical thinking, and the instructor’s use of effective techniques. The results aresummarized in Table 1 below. Student responses were scored on a five-point Likert scale, with 1indicating strong disagreement and 5 indicating strong agreement. Course USMA Survey Question Average Average My motivation to learn increased because of this course. 4.35