Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus L. Carter; Amy G. Yuhasz; Misty Loughry; Matthew Ohland

in Education Conference, IEEE/ASEE, Reno, NV, October (2001).18. Van Duzer, E. and F. McMartin, “Methods to improve the validity and sensitivity of a self/peer assessment instrument,” IEEE Trans. Ed., 43(2), 153-158, May (2000).19. Version 1, received from Pat Meade at Frontiers in Education Conference, Reno, NV, October (2001)20. Seat, E., and T.P. McAnear, “Administering, scoring and debriefing Team Developer,” Proc. Frontiers in Education Conference, IEEE/ASEE, Reno, NV, October (2001).21. Crocker, L., and J. Algina, Introduction to classical and modern test theory, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., Chicago, p. 143, 157ff, (1986).22. McCaulley, M. H., Godleski, E. S., Yokomoto, C. F., Harrisberger, L

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Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Klaus Rütters; Bernardo Wagner; Andreas Böhne

Lernen mit Tele-Tutoring“, In: R. Schwarzer (ed.), MultiMedia und TeleLearning. Lernen im Cyberspace, Frankfurt, 1998, pp. 182-1966. Kiesler, S., Siegel, J., McGuire, T., W., “Social Psychological Aspects of Computer-Mediated Communication”, In: American Psychologist, Vol. 39, No. 10, October 1984, pp. 1123-11347. Mark, G., Grudin, J., Poltrock, S., E., “An Empirical Study of Virtually Collocated Teams“, In: Proceedings of ESCW`99, The 6th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, September 12-16, 1999, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 159-1788. Prenzel, M., Kristen, A., Dengler, P., Ettle, R., Beer, T., “Selbstbestimmt motiviertes und interessiertes Lernen in der kaufmännischen Erstausbildung”, Zeitschrift für Berufs

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

is also assigned to a faculty member who serves as the project advisor. If a projectis for an outside agency or organization, there will be an additional outside advisor who will helpdefine system requirements with the student project team.Shortly after the beginning of the fall semester, the computer science team members are exposedto the basics of project management and review the software development process in order toapply a discipline-specific framework to their project. In addition to answering to the instructorregarding how their system will be designed and built, each project team must work with theclient and advisor(s) for whom their system is being built. Project team members and their clientdetermine exactly what kind of finished

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

Engineering Education, vol. 82, no. 4 (1993): pages 203-211.31. Greiling, Paul, and Frank Brady. "High-Tech Engineering Research in the 90's."National Conference on Outcomes Assessment. General Session #2. Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education, 1997.32. Cohen, Andy. "Evaluating Engineering Graduates in "Business Consulting." National Conference on Outcomes Assessment. Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education, 1997.33. Black, Kent. "An Industry View of Engineering Education." Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, no. 1 (1994): pages 26-28

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Georgiopoulos

separable.4.5 Teaching Material: Perceptron Learning Algorithm, Pocket AlgorithmThe perceptron learning algorithm is described in a sequence of steps below.Step 1: Initialize the weights and the bias converging to node i (i.e., the weights wik1 ’s for0 ≤ k ≤ K ). The weights are initialized to small random values. The value of the index p isinitialized to 1.Step 2: Present the input pattern x( p ) from the training collection.Step 3: Calculate the output of node i due to the presentation of pattern x( p ) , by using thefollowing equation: K  yi1 ( p ) = g (net i1 ( p )) = g ∑ wik1 x k ( p

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

. Engineering Workforce Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies, Inc., Engineering & Technology Enrollments, Fall 2000, Washington, DC, 2000. 3. Engineering Workforce Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies, Inc., Engineering Degrees & Technology Degrees, 2000, Washington, DC, 2000. 4. Sax, L.J.; Astin, A. W.; Korn, W. S.; and Mahoney, K. M., The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 2001, Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, December 2001. 5. Anderson-Rowland, Mary R.; Baker, Dale R.; Secola, Patricia M.; Smiley, Bettie A.; Evans, Donovan L.; and Middleton, James A., “Integrating Engineering Concepts under Current K-12

Conference Session

Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hall; Kelly Crittenden

. Nelson, J. D. and S. A. Napper. 1999. Ramping Up an Integrated Engineering Curri culum to FullImplementation. Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, PuertoRico.4. Nelson, J.D., S. Napper, B. Elmore, J. Carpenter, B. Deese. 1998. An Integrated Freshman EngineeringCurriculum. Frontiers in Education Conference, Phoenix, AZ.5. Hall, D., P. Hadala, and F. Roberts. 2000. Laboratory Exercises for Statics and Mechanics of Materialson a Shoestring. Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Meeting, St. Louis,Missouri.6. Hyams, D.G. 1997. CurveExpert 1.3. http://www.ebicom.net/~dhyams/cvxpt.htm.Biographical InformationDr. David Hall is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdel Mazher

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Surya Mallapragada; Maureen Griffin; Mary Huba; Jacqueline Shanks; Kevin Saunders; Charles Glatz

sharing communication rubrics.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under award:EEC-0087696. Page 8.1256.7 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. Wilkerson, L. and Gijselaers, W. H. (eds). Bringing Problem-Based Learning to Higher Education: Theory and Practice. Jossey-Bass Pub., San Francisco, 1996.2. ABET Web Site 3. Barrows, H. S. Problem-Based Learning in Medicine and Beyond: A Brief Overview. pp. 3-12.4. Huba, M. E., & Freed, J. E

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerson de Oliveira

construction of computer systems as the one used inthis research. The indistinct fulfillment of the academic space with advanced computerequipment and the aleatory introduction of educational softwares, does not guarantee theresults gotten here. It is necessary to have a very clear distinction between the educationalaims and the means to achieve them. According to the background acquired along thisinvestigation, we have to confirm that the computer systems are not part of the mentionedgoals, but they can – if correctly built – to become powerful means to execute them.Bibliography(1) ALTHUSSER, L. Ideologia e aparelhos ideológicos do Estado. Lisboa : Presença, s/d.(2) BIREAUD, A. Os Métodos Pedagógicos no Ensino Superior. Porto: Porto Editora

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George List; Stacy Eisenman

Annual Conference Proceedings (2), pp. 2039-2043, June 25-28 1995.[6] P.S. Chinowsky and J.A. Vanegas, “Facilitating Interdisciplinary Civil Engineering Education through aLiving Laboratory,” Proceedings of the 1995 Annual ASEE Conference, Part 1(of 2), pp 596-600, Anaheim, CA,June 25-28, 1995.[7] S. Eisenman and G.F. List, “The Admiral Combs Design Retreat,” paper submitted to the 2003 Annual ASEEConference, Nashville, TN, June 22-25, 2003.[8] G.L. Fiegel and J.S. DeNatale, “Hands-On Geotechnical Engineering at the Undergraduate Level,”Geotechnical Special Publication 109, GeoDenver 2000 Conference ‘Educational Issues in GeotechnicalEngineering,’ pp 71-85, Denver, CO, August 5-8, 2000.[9] R.L. Kolar, K.K. Muraleetharan, M.A. Mooney, B.E. Vieux

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karthik Ramani; Anderson David; Alexander Lee

instructordecides on the learning objectives, the sequence, the reading materials, and the evaluationprocedure. The classroom is a way of aggregating students and creating an effective distributionchannel for moving knowledge from the instructor to the student(s). The web model of learningand team-based project we have developed for ME444 is based on a different set of principles:Both the instructor and students are co-developers of the course and the learning experience.This pooling of knowledge is critical to creating an exciting learning experience, especially whenit comes to bringing the experiences of each student to the classroom, allowing cross-fertilizationto occur.Finally, our goal is to create frameworks and tools that are appropriate to the new

Conference Session

Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claire Lynne McCullough

Page 8.650.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education … has never been a threat to science or mathematics, because when we need more scientists or mathematicians, we import them, and science and mathematics lives on. That’s the way we, as a nation, have dealt for decades with SMET shortages…[The United States] imported scientists during World War II; math faculty in the 60’s from England (and questionably left England in a bad situation); graduate students since the 70’s; and faculty today. Yet now our quick-fix importation strategy fails us. We can’t

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

Session #2615 Too Liberal or Not Liberal Enough: Liberal Arts, Electives, and Professional Skills W.B. Stouffer and Jeffrey S. Russell Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-MadisonIntroductionA well conceived liberal arts education is essential to developing the professional skills neededfor 21st century engineering practice. Currently, the liberal arts comprise a component of mostundergraduate engineering curricula, though as a recent study indicates, not necessarily asignificant or well

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Staci Provezis; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Dan Budny; Harvey Wolfe

,” Computer Applications in Engineering Education, September, 2002, 10(2), pp. 88-97.9. Besterfield-Sacre, ME, LJ Shuman, H. Wolfe, A. Scalise, S. Larpkiattaworn, OS Muogboh, D. Budny, RL Miller, and BM Olds, “Modeling for Educational Enhancement and Assessment.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2002.10. Ibid.11. Callison, R., D. Budny, and K. Thomes, “Simulated Conference Meets Academic, Advising, and Library Goals for Freshmen Engineering Students,” American Society for Engineering Education 2002 Annual Conference, June 2002, pp 1 - 23, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.12. Hein, TL and D. Budny, “Learning the ‘Write’ Way in Science and Engineering. 2001 IEEE

Conference Session

Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Mills; Tonya Emerson

Session 3215 Student Chapters – An Adjunct to Engineering Education Tonya L. Emerson, Russell S. Mills California State University, ChicoAbstractNew engineering graduates are expected to possess an ever-expanding array of skills. Yet,classroom synthesis is not conducive to many of these proficiencies. Student professionalsocieties can help cultivate valuable interpersonal, professional and technical skills through avariety of extracurricular activities.The success of a student chapter can be as valuable as the curriculum in defining the quality ofan engineering department

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Riley

takes away from quantitative instruction; on the contrary, it often provides bothcontext and motivation for students to pursue the quantitative aspects with more enthusiasm. Wemust remain steadfast in challenging the elevation of reductionism to the exclusion of integratedand interdisciplinary thought, and remind detractors that ABET and many engineering educationcritiques call for consideration of exactly these issues. A second criticism of hooks’s pedagogy is that the teacher loses control of the classroomwhen s/he adopts a classroom style (more) grounded in mutuality and respect. I have found theexact opposite to be the case – that students were “out of control” when I used a top-downteaching style because they weren’t taking

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; Deborah Follman

experiences. Further, TAs are responsible for all of the grading forthe course. They need to be able to grade consistently but also be flexible to different problemsolving approaches. Prior to the start of each fall semester, the TAs attend a combination ofPurdue University Center for Instructional Excellence TA training modules and departmentspecific training modules.Course PoliciesHigh student enrollments necessitate a consistent course materials delivery system that is, for themost part, paperless. For the last four years, ENGR 106 has delivered materials using WebCT,Inc.'s course management system. This system offers a number of features that are ideal for alarge course. First, minimal training is required to build and maintain a respectable

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Velegol; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant

engineering:digital logic design and digital information processing. The digital logic topic was treated inconsiderably more depth, but the lab project helped to make the 0’s and 1’s that we discussed inthe digital information processing segment a “bit” more tangible.2.D. Engineering and SocietyThe final segment of the course was again similar to the previous version of the course, wherestudents in the large lecture typically spent the last few weeks of the class learning about ethicsand the relationship between engineering and society. The key difference was that this year theethics section was made more personalized than in years past by using laboratory sections fordiscussion of specific ethical situations and writing about the ethical implications of a

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas K. Miller; Catherine E. Brawner; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

; n=32 freshmen, 19 sophomores, 33 juniors, 9 s eniors, 27 senior leaders Figure 4. Confidence in Engineering Survey Results (Earlier Study)Students said that they learned a great deal from the EEP (Figure 5). About 30% had taken thecourse more than once. One student had taken it all seven semesters it has been offered. Most ofthe students said that they had learned a lot from the project experience. As would be expected,seniors all seem to have learned a lot because they had more to put into the program. I learned a great deal from my work on this project Percent of each class giving response 100

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Yellamraju; Kurt Gramoll

number ofyears. The end goal was to create an e-course curriculum with a set of multiple electronic coursesthat can offer online or in-class to help address the scheduling and learning needs of the student.References1. Brooks, D. W. “Web-Teaching A guide to Designing Interactive Teaching for the World Wide Web”, Plenum Press, New York, 19972. Regan, M. and S. D. Sheppard, "Interactive Multimedia Courseware and Hands-on Learning Experience: An Assessment Study," ASEE Journal of Eng. Education, 1996 85 (2), p 123-130.3. Gramoll, K.C., R.F. Abbanat, and K. Slater, "Interactive Multimedia for Engineering Dynamics," ASEE 1996 Conf. Proc., Washington, D.C., June 1996.4. Gramoll, K.C., R. Abbanat and K. Slater, Multimedia

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Purdy; Christine Buckley; Don L. Dekker; Phillip J. Cornwell

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

A. Jalloh; Zheng-Tao Deng; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

ORI 101 Survival Skills (1) ENG101 Communication Skills I (3) MTH 125 Calculus I (4) CHE 101/101L Gen Chemistry I (4) FAS/HED/NHM 101/103 Health S. (2) ENG 101 Eng. Drawing & Graph (3) 2nd Semester ENG 102 Communication Skills II (3) MTH126 Calculus II (4) PHY 105 Physics I (4) EGC 104 Computer Programming (3) ME 101/101L Intro to Mech Eng. (2) Sophomore 1st Semester MTH 227 Calculus III (4) PHY 106 Physics II (4) HIS 101 Wold History I

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Bryan L. Gassaway; Masoud Rais-Rohani

predicted and measured results would be of concern at an aircraft manufacturingplant, it was to be expected in this project given the students’ lack of manufacturing and testingexperience. Nonetheless, in an attempt to identify the source(s) of discrepancy, studentssearched for possible clues in their analysis procedure and underlying theory as well as thepossible anomalies with the fabrication process and the imperfections with the experimentalsetting.The availability of multiple samples for each design concept provided an excellent opportunity tofurther elaborate on the statistical nature of such experiments involving multiple randomvariables. In this case the random variables included the specimen dimensions, supportcondition, loading

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Engelken

. This is particularly true ofsmaller industries in nonmetropolitan areas with no Ph.D.’s (and often no Master degreerecipients) on their staff and sometimes few Bachelor-level college graduates at all, even amongthe “engineering” staff. The staff might feel threatened by bringing in someone “superior” tothem in technical ability. They might also feel a new/young engineering professor is still only a“kid.”The above perceptions can be addressed only by a ongoing, sensitive, and low key nurturing ofrelationships with key industrial personnel and letting them know in a nonthreatening manner ofone’s interest and capability in helping with their problems. It may take some time but generallythey will come around, often when a “crisis” suddenly occurs

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Titus; Guoqing Tang

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Thibault; Noel Boutin

requirecoaching to guide us in our studies. Self-learning is not given to everybody with the sameeasiness. Maybe it is to soon in our training to ask us so much. » L-D. H.« I am a person who needs someone to summarize the subject, I need someone who explains mein detail, who gives me examples. It is difficult for a person like me to learn by myself. » T. S.5.2 – Metacognitive strategiesAmong the metacognitive strategies listed in table 2, those most often cited by students are : beaware of one’s progress and results, evaluate the quality and the efficiency of one’s cognitiveactivities. As a preliminary analysis, we ascribe that result to the fact that students have an examonce every two weeks (or each week if we consider the formative exam) instead of

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Klawunder; Blace Albert; Ozer Arnas

constrained wewere able to omit and insert topics that allow for a logical, integrated presentation of thermalsciences. The assessment process will determine which of these decisions were appropriate.After two or three annual cycles, this course will be an excellent model of an introductorythermal science course for mechanical engineering majors at USMA and elsewhere.References 1. Office of the Dean, 1998, “Educating Army Leaders for the 21 st Century,” United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, p. 5. 2. Office of the Dean, 2000, “Academic Program AY 2000-2001: Field Tables and Course Descriptions,” United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. 3. Albert, B., Klawunder, S., Arnas, Ö., 2002, “Energy

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Wilson

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg L. Fiegel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Ben Mason, University of California, Berkeley; Nicholas W. Trombetta, University of California, San Diego

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Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

thefuture, laboratory experiences, and past experience. During the interviews, we specifically notedthe students' strengths (and weaknesses) in relation to oral and interpersonal communicationskills. We made offers to the highest ranked candidate(s) based on our final assessments. Table 2 - Scoring Rubric for Assessing Student Applications Scoring Scoring (0 to 3 points ) and Qualifying Characteristics Category 0 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt Grade Point < 2.50 2.50 to 2.99 3.0 to 3.49 3.50 to 4.0 Average (GPA) Worked up to one