Conference Session

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Penny Knoll; Lisa Bullard; Ann Saterbak

this summer.’ For me, thatlifestyle is not realistic. Finally, my department already has 25 tenured or tenure-track personnelwho have a research focus – what we really need is at least one faculty member who has thetime, energy, and desire to focus on undergraduate students.”Faculty Member #2. The second faculty member is 38 years old and graduated with a B.S. inConstruction in 1995 and an M.S. in Construction Management in 1999. She joined the CivilEngineering Department at Montana State University in 2000 as an Adjunct Instructor inConstruction Engineering Technology (CET). She teaches both undergraduate and graduateclasses; advises 45 undergraduate CET students; serves as the Director of the Internship programat MSU for both Civil and

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman; Gordon Kingsley

, specifically linking them to faculty who will be most likely to take a personal interest in the school and to thereby enhance the university-school partnership.· Recruiting students and teachers from STEP schools to participate in events and activities on the Georgia Tech campus. These opportunities range from student participation in science and technology competitions, to teacher participation in staff development workshops, to students attending career awareness-type activities.· Coordinating school visits by Georgia Tech admissions officers and members of the minority recruitment team to encourage SMET career expectations among underrepresented populations.· Encouraging the development of personal relationships between

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Milton Franke

Page 7.592.2prospectus examination, admission to candidacy, dissertation defense, and time limitation. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. .Students and Faculty The students in the graduate space programs of the Department of Aeronautics andAstronautics are primarily U. S. Air Force officers. Approximately 10 percent of the students aremilitary officers from other services or allied countries, or are DoD civilians. The faculty iscomprised of approximately 50 percent military and 50 percent civilians. Most of the civiliansare permanent members of the faculty while the military faculty members generally have 4-yearassignments.Department Space Programs Space education

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tina Barnes; Ian Pashby; Anne Gibbons

. Page 7.1327.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationWhile the work of Starbuck 17 provides sound guidance that can be used to enable students togain significantly from collaborative experience, other writers warn of issues relating directlyto the influence of industry, that can have an adverse affect on students. Randazzese 18 forexample, raised concerns regarding industry’s attitude toward collaborative research withuniversities. A survey of faculty members and affiliates of a collaborative research centrerevealed that industry required applied research that was essentially short term and

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Gary Downey

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Reprinted by permission of Harvey Mudd Collegethe meaning of the distinction between ‘science’ and ‘design’ itself. Such would necessarilyinvolve reforming pedagogy in the engineering sciences as well.To make more visible student interpretations of design, we conducted an ethnographic study oftwo traditional capstone courses in senior engineering design. This study is part of a largerproject examining how learning mathematical problem solving in engineering educationchallenges and shapes students as people (see [9] for some preliminary findings). This paperreports findings from one of those courses, in which an activist design faculty member struggledto convince

Conference Session

ET International Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

student enrollment and retention are even more important when there is a projected decline in male high school students. Also the ‘chilly campus climate’ has identified the behavior that causes women to lose confidence, lower their academic goals and limit their career choices. The studies conducted in the US and Canada found similarities. The minority students are also considered as a vital source of graduates needed for engineering workforce. All the Universities and colleges should provide a sincere push to retain the minority students who have decided to pursue an engineering and technology education. It will enhance diversity in the work place as well as competitiveness in an increasingly

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

Originality (SO), Efficiency (E),and Rule/Group Conformity (R/G)5,6. The SO sub-score relates to a person’s style of ideageneration, the E sub-score relates to one’s method of problem solving, and the R/G sub -scorerelates to a person’s style when dealing with structure, both impersonal (i.e., Rule) and personal(i.e., Group). While these sub-scores were determined for the ILTM students and faculty, theyhave not yet been fully analyzed and will not be reported here.It is important to note once again that there is no correlation between KAI scores and any levelmeasure. Thus, in this context, high scores are not “good” and low scores are not “bad”; it is therelative difference between the scores of two individuals or between an individual and the meanof

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Otto Loewer; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

clients in active consideration. In addition, we will discussstrategies for managing communications, successes and failures.A number of policies and procedures have been developed in support of the launch of theInnovation Incubator. The “rules of engagement” have been developed, including the limitation onscope of activity both geographically and technologically. The applicant screening process isfundamentally linked with education goals, since graduate students participate at every stage. Inaddition, faculty members are involved in the critical decision-making processes. An objectivescoring method has been created in order to insure that bias is minimized, and a committeedrawing from a broad knowledge and experience base has been created

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

students. One femaleprofessor at Tulane University agreed in that role models in faculty send immediate and visibleconfirmation that as women they wouldn’t be out of place and dispel myths that if they pursue engineeringas a career they will be one female out of 300 men. Even female faculty members lack support systems.Nancy Leveson, computer science faculty member at MIT feels lonely and isolated as only one of eig htfemale professors in the department of 40 in computer science (9). She believes that the problem will onlyget worse as she has seen a notable decrease in female students. This is a regressive trend that will needimmediate consideration. A step in the right direction may be through some positive promotional models oftechnology and

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

. 8, 20, 21At the University of Maryland (UM), an innovative educational intervention is being introducedin summer 2002 to help overcome some of these barriers. Research Internships in Science andEngineering (RISE) serves women in the higher-educational pipeline: incoming first yearstudents, undergraduates and graduate students. This program has two tracks. For incoming firstyear students, there is a ten-day orientation to engineering, the sciences and the UM community.The goal is to jump-start the careers of female students by providing them with teamwork andtechnical skills training and networking opportunities with both female faculty and each other, aswell as exposure to research in STEM fields. For upper-level undergraduates, the

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Teodora Rutar; Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Lawrence McKenzie; Denny Davis; Kenneth Gentili; Patricia Daniels; Michael Trevisan

an assessment, not an evaluation, goes a long way toward developingshared commitment to continuous improvement between students and faculty. It is helpful topoint out that the purpose of the assessment is to provide feedback to the instructor on how tobest address student needs, so that the goals of the course can be efficiently achieved. It is alsohelpful to frame the workplace importance of the skill sets investigated by the Design TeamReadiness Assessment. Most students are fascinated to hear that more employees are terminateddue to poor decision-making and interpersonal skills than due to deficiencies in technical skills.They also are curious to learn how their skills match up against other students’ in the TIDEEassessment database.CLEAR

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

opportunities to develop scholarly publications. Secondly, the teaching load of ETfaculty members is normally higher than engineering faculty, leaving them with less time to developresearch agenda and publish scholarly work. Finally, because the vast majority of ET programs areoffered at undergraduate level, ET faculty does not benefit from the interacting with graduate Page 7.704.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”students, thus limiting their opportunities for interaction

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson

exercise in business and personal ethics, the dilemma of the decision of a large,profitable biomedical corporation to create an environmental/ethical trust fund was presented aspart of a final examination (see “Ethics or Economics?” in Appendix 5).CONCLUSIONThe STAR.Legacy cycle of learning was used to illustrate to biomedical engineering students inBME 102 how ethical and economic issues can arise from basic thermodynamic contexts. Forexample, material balances led to a study of dialysis, which led in turn to the ethics andeconomics of home dialysis. Stoichiometry led to drug development, which in turn led toresponsibilities of pharmaceutical companies to the public. The students from BME 102 can as aresult relate to this conversation from The

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard M. Single; William S. Carlsen; Christine M. Cunningham; Carol B. Muller; Peg Boyle Single

workplace demands,” “college coursework, majors, or advanceddegrees,” and “social stuff: jokes, stories, personal news.” Upper division undergraduatesselected “job hunting and interviewing” more often than others. This makes sense as they arenearing graduation and most likely beginning to think about job searching. Ph.D. studentsselected “industry workplace, culture, values” and “differences between academia and industry”more often than others. This pairing is not surprising either; both of these topics would helpgraduate students gather information about upcoming decisions. Masters, and Ph.D. studentswere more likely to indicate “balancing a career and other interests, family, etc.” Mastersstudents, and to a lesser extent upper division

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Borrelli

thoseadvisors to follow-up on the students. This appeared to be consistent with my interview withher. She seemed to believe that if students want to make a choice to change their major that itmay be a personal or internal motivation. Maybe they are not happy with the courses, or thecourses are not what they expected.It seemed that she was willing to help the students transition to a new career field more quicklythan her co-worker Angela. Angela’s notes conveyed the impression that students needed to findout if this next major was in fact the best fit. She repeatedly reinforced that students should notmake a decision before doing some career exploration through the use of career services andinterviewing professionals in the chosen field. Both

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Wild; Michael Ryan

first year – before their academicrecord and confidence have been seriously damaged. The first set of conditions is strictlyacademic: students are required to take appropriate remedial courses and to achieve at aparticular level in these courses. They are also required to use selected support resources.Even so, a high attrition rate is expected among this group, and so a second set ofconditions constitutes a “safe-exit” process. Participation is required in: · A two phase career planning activity developed specifically for this group. Students first meet in small groups with university career planning and advisement professionals to explore their own personal motivational connection to engineering. In accord with the needs

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Myron (Ron) Britton

four year schedule that contains at least 75% design by the CEAB Academic Unit allocation. Each program will have their own course and will emphasize the aspects of design that are unique to the particular discipline.- A capstone design course in each program. The feasibility of having a common capstone design course across the faculty was to be explored as part of the Chair Program.4. Impact on graduate studiesTraditionally graduate studies has been based on research. Two specific actions were proposedto influence, but not change, the traditional approach. It was proposed to develop a graduatecourse on design philosophy as well as to introduce Industry Based Design Units (IBDU).M.Eng. students would be encouraged to pursue

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Omid Ansary; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

must have an assessment process with documented results. Evidence must begiven that the results are applied to the further development and improvement of the program.The assessment process must demonstrate that the outcomes important to the mission of theinstitution and the objectives of the program, including those listed above, are being measured.Evidence that may be used includes, but is not limited to the following: student portfolios,including design projects; nationally-normed subject content examinations; alumni surveys thatdocument professional accomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys; Page 7.328.2and

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

faculty attending the poster session were positive.The students were required to think on their feet. Their comments of others work wasconstructive. There was some concern about certain team members not pulling their weight. Thiswas addressed in two ways. First the students performance on tests, homework, and the final faroutweighed the percentage assigned to the project. Second, in some cases instructor interventionwas required.Phase 3 Broader Context of Engineering - requires the students to write a user friendly Windowsbased program to analyze a frame or machine. This program will also allow the user to makebusiness decisions. In addition to programming fundamentals, the students are introduced toelements of micro economics, net present value

Conference Session

Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Gowen; Alisha Waller

of Engineering Education, 89, (3), pp.285 – 294.ALISHA A. WALLERAlisha Waller, Ph.D. is currently a doctoral student at Georgia State University in the College of Education. She hasbeen an active member of the ERM division of ASEE over the past 10 years, serving in several positions on theExecutive Board. Dr. Waller received her B.I.E. from the Georgia Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. inOperations Research at Cornell University. She has been on the faculty at Auburn University, the University ofMinnesota, and Macalester College. Dr. Waller also has conducted teaching enrichment workshops for faculty atcolleges and universities across the country.SHERYL GREENWOOD GOWENSheryl Greenwood Gowen, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Research

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

to move toward modular, activity-based, competency-based instruction.Assistance for departments or individual faculty members to develop their own modules orauthentic learning tasks is also available through the use of a set of development kits.Descriptions of these products and services are available at www.aimcenter.org.Organizational Issues: Organization of the activities within the college schedule is also affectedby a move toward modular, activity-based, competency-based instruction. Successful activitiesoften require more than the traditional 50-75 minute class times to complete. An ideal solutionwould be to permit instructors to gather teams of students who are ready for a particularinstructional module at any time and spend whatever

Conference Session

Strengthening Liberal Education in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Steneck; Barbara Olds; Kathryn Neeley

, analyze, and solve technologicalproblems in a thoughtful, responsible way, within the context of society's structures and mores.IV. Curriculum Design and Learning Objectives for Liberal Education in Engineering EducationCurriculum DesignAs an area of study that encourages self-discovery, the exploration of different ways of thinking,and broad intellectual development, LE in engineering cannot be reduced to a single course ofstudy. No single pattern of learning is right for every student, teacher, program, or school. Infact, LE can be delivered in many ways, including: Traditional H&SS Courses. Courses entirely devoted to some aspect of a humanities or social science discipline and taught by experts in the discipline. These courses

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

. Faculty members and students are being surveyedand spoken to concerning the items to be placed in the brochures and on the web.Current WorkAn effort is being made at Michigan State University to prepare documentation, both written andweb based, to provide younger engineering students with connecting strands between coursestaken at the lower tier of study and the upper tier. It is a work in progress; and the details of theproject, its current status, and future directions will be explored. Page 7.959.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristin Wood; Daniel McAdams; Robert B. Stone; Alan Dutson; Matthew Green

approaches are: (1) an undergraduate design methods class in whichteams design new concepts, such as a heat exchanger for medical relief teams; (2) anundergraduate capstone design class in which students deliver a working prototype, such as awheelchair positioning unit; (3) two graduate prototyping classes in which students deliver aworking prototype, such as an assistive lock-opener for persons with physical disabilities; and (4) Page 7.703.1an MS thesis research program for developing countries, with such projects as a handbook for Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Demel

2 2002-2043CADD. There are nine hands-on labs, which include a model bridge design project. The secondcourse continues the instruction in CADD and Engineering Graphics and teaches an introductionto MATLAB. The focus for the ten lab periods is a team design-build-document project wherethe product has to meet written performance specifications. The documenting portion for boththe IEP and FEH programs includes progress reports, drafts and a final version of a writtenproject report, and an oral presentation. The classroom portion (72 students) has a teaching teamof one faculty member, two graduate teaching associates, and two Peer Mentors

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Zern; Richard Grabiec

realization ofplace and develop future direction. Additionally, the work of Arthur Chickering (1969)has provided a theoretical framework for these objectives and, together with institutionalexperience, has provided an increased awareness that engaging students from multipleperspectives is more often than not responsible for helping students develop academicallyand socially.Success as a college student requires development of a strong personal network ofsupport, connection among peers and purposeful awareness of their course of study.Studies of how college effects students by Pascarella and Terenzini (1991) offer citationafter citation as to the value and importance of the concept of mentorship, i.e., connectionto faculty, staff, students and others

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kara Bliley; Emily Mowry; Amy Gray; Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson; Sean Brophy

subjects in research: “the principle ofrespect for persons, beneficence and justice”. Miss Evers Boys raises issues about eachone of these principles. Therefore, we decided to use this movie as an introduction tothese ideas, which will be explored in more depth in the classroom as part of Bird’sresearch.Method In this first study a within subjects design was used to explore effects of using amovie to stimulate students’ noticing of relevant ethical issues raised during a movie.The participants in this study consisted of students (N= 5) from a 2nd-year undergraduatecourse on thermodynamics of biological systems. They must attend the movie as part oftheir participation grade (students must attend at least one of several

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

P. James Moser; Biswajit Ray

2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationOn-site visits are necessary to promote opportunities for cooperative education. Also,engineering technologists and other experts from industrial organizations are invited to campusto share their expertise with students and faculty as a standard practice in courses and seminars inthe program. The budget also shows a requirement to purchase specialized equipment to beginthe program. An annual operating budget for educational supplies to support all of the myriadactivities associated with laboratory courses and travel to maintain close ties with members ofthe industrial advisory

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Fahmida Masoom; Abulkhair Masoom

instructor with input about the topics presented or suggestions for additional topics.10% of the course grade was assigned to interview one=s advisor or a faculty member in whoseclass the student was enrolled. To complete this assignment the student was asked to:(a) scheduleand keep an appointment with the faculty member, (b) come prepared to the interview with atleast 12 questions, and (c)write a short essay (using a standard word processor) on what he/shelearned from the interview.Tours to all engineering department laboratories and the library were conducted so as to give thestudents a first-hand look at the facilities. Most of these tours were guided by upper-classstudents from the different engineering departments. In addition to attendance in

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Soulsby

supervision are, for many, their capstone experience. · Have a mentor. A ‘mentor’ experience; e.g., mentored internship not done for academic credit, in which students get to create their own project and then implement it under the supervision of a faculty member, provides an effective tool for learning. · Appreciate diversity. The impact of racial and ethnic diversity on their college experience has a highly positive effect; students learn from others who come from different backgrounds. · Manage time. Students who grow the most academically, and who are happiest, organize their time to include activities with faculty members, or with several other students, focused