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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

J. Collins

technical writing students whenever possible. The chemistry faculty identifiedstudents enrolled in technical writing who had previously taken the chemistry course, soone of these students were assigned to lead a group as a “knowledgeable peer,” becauseof their experience with both courses. Because enrollment numbers fluctuate, flexibilityin composing groups is required.The assignmentThe assignment was given as a pre-lab to the chemistry students; it was given as asecondary research (library digital database compendium) assignment to technical writingstudents. Ideally, students were to meet for a full 50-minute session to share the resultsof their research into chromatography. Two subsequent 50-minute sessions providedtime for teams to synthesize

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kevin R. Lewelling; Kevin S. Woolverton; Michael C. Reynolds

Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 6confounded by a portion of students neglecting to read reports regularly as some students failedto send reports in a timely manner and others did not write them effectively.A majority (62.1%) believed that community service was an important part of the project. Theengineering faculty emphasized this project was “a gift to the community” and students weregenerally receptive to this idea. Over eighty percent of the students indicated they learned waysengineers can give to their communities. This is an indirect measure of the desired outcome thatstudents understand their work

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Surendra Singh

undergraduate students. There are currently four companies thatare hosting a total of nine students. The host companies are Qual-Tron Inc., Railroad SignalInternational, Centrilift and John Zink Company. The interns work part-time during the schoolyear and full-time during the summer break. The interns are required to write progress reportsand technical reports on their work assignments. The interns also make a poster presentation atOklahoma regional Universities Research Day hosted every year at the University of CentralOklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma. The internship program has not only provided workexperience to the students but also helped the companies in developing new products.I. Introduction:In a standard four-year engineering curriculum, leading

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William M. Baer

, they viewed using the work of others as a means to communicate their ideas better thanthey think they can.”11 Even when students know they should give credit to another source, theymay not know how to cite the source properly. Unfortunately, the other reasons for plagiarism show at least some conscious level ofunethical behavior. Procrastination is a trap that many students fall into. Failing to manage timewisely can lure the student who would not usually plagiarize to employ unethical practices tocomplete an assignment.12 Online paper mills with a six-hour turn around time provide atempting alternative to pulling the more traditional all-night writing session. Another contributing factor to plagiarism is a changing view of the

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

J. Oh; B. Kissick

female group, in a male dominated engineering technologyinstitution, encouraged us toward a co-mentor to each other “a friend with whom oneshares mutual assistance.” Our group engaged in a series of interactions to discussvarious aspects of teaching/scholarship/service and professional development inacademe. We shared our individual and interdependent teaching goals/materials,observed each other’s classroom activities for peer review, inspired each other withscholarship and creative endeavors, and consulted each other for constructive critiqueduring their major academe career advancements.How did we build a community of learners? Our group shared knowledge, ideas, andpractices involving common issues about teaching and student learning

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Roy Myose

consisted of four separate self-contained chapters covering the fourdifferent major tasks, where range and operating cost calculations were combined as the fourth task.Each chapter consisted of an explanation of the task objective, technical approach used, results intabular and graphical form, discussion, and summary. In order to encourage students to be succinctin their writing, a maximum page length limit of five pages per task, including tables and figures,while using 12 point font text and 1" margins was imposed. Students were warned about the needto include properly labeled table headers and graph axes labels including appropriate dimensionalunits. In the results discussion, emphasis was placed on explaining the technical behavior rather

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Steven Skinner

skills in talking through material with peers, listening with realskill, knowing how to build trust in a working relationship, and providingleadership to group efforts [17].” Leadership skills are vital to become a successengineer. Leadership is here defined as the knowledge and practice of skillsnecessary to lead a team to accomplish a common goal. Students participate informal instruction and lead a project or have previous leadership experience. Thestudent completes a project report and submits to the Director of EngineeringEducation.To satisfy the Leadership criteria each student must: • Take some formal instruction on leadership • Propose and demonstrate a leadership experience • Submit a short report on the