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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Coleman

package and the job offer itselfinto consideration, rather than focusing in on salary alone, when evaluating any potential offer. Finally, in wrapping up the course, expert speakers are invited to the class to discussissues related to their first year on the job. The concept of career advancement is equallyimportant to a graduating senior as landing their perfect job. Topics run the gamut fromconducting oneself professionally, how to get ahead in a cut-throat environment to maintaininggood credit and responsible financial planning. Throughout the course students are encouraged to work with each other, rather thanagainst each other in their job search. In effect, the course becomes an informal “job club”, asstudents are given a

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

Session #2315 ASCE’S RAISE THE BAR INITIATIVE: MASTER PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION ASCE Task Committee on Academic Prerequisites for Professional Practice (TCAP^3) BOK-Curricula Committee of TCAP^3 Accreditation Committee of TCAP^3 Licensing Committee of TCAP^3AbstractIn October 2001, ASCE approved Policy Statement 465 entitled “Academic Prerequisites forLicensure and Professional Practice.” The underlying purpose of ASCE Policy Statement 465 isto prepare the civil engineering professional of the future. The

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TC2K Issues and Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Cottrell

Session 2149 Planning and Execution: The Key to Developing a TC2K Quality Program David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgIntroduction This paper describes an ongoing process: the integration of the new ABETaccreditation criteria for engineering technology (TC2K) into the School of Science,Engineering, and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg.Currently three technology programs – Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,and Structural Design and Construction Engineering – are implementing outcomes

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Schemmel

Session 2530 Development of Engineering Focused Lesson Plans for K8 Teachers and Students John J. Schemmel University of Arkansas, College of EngineeringIntroductionWhile the entire population continually benefits from the work of engineering professionals,there are still relatively few graduating high school seniors electing to pursue a bachelor's degreein engineering. The fact that an engineering degree is not widely considered by enteringfreshmen is not a new development. However, it is becoming a more serious problem as thenumber of

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Serdar Tumkor; Russell P. Kraft; Ismail Fidan

Session XXXX The Development of A Computer-Aided Process Planning Tool for Electronics Manufacturing Education Ismail Fidan1, Serdar Tumkor2, Russell P. Kraft 3 1 Department of Manufacturing & Industrial Technology, College of Engineering, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN 38505-USA/ 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul 80191-TURKEY/ 3Center for Integrated Electronics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180-USAAbstract In the 21st century, the rapidly evolving technological developments make educatorsconstantly

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Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Mulvihill

Session 3515 Planning and Design of a Water Distribution System with Practitioner and Student Interaction Michael E. Mulvihill Loyola Marymount UniversityAbstractIn the spring semester of 2002 the second semester senior level Water Resources Planning andDesign course at Loyola Marymount University was substantially modified to make the coursemore student centered and practice oriented. The course was enhanced by including theinvolvement of several civil engineering practitioners. This involvement was motivated byASCE’s call for greater cooperation

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Topics in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charlie Edmonson; Donna Summers

Session 2549 A Structure for an Interactive Project Management Course Donna C.S. Summers Charlie P. Edmonson University of DaytonAbstractInteractive, two components combined to make one word. Inter, meaning between,among, or involving individual elements. Active, meaning to cause motion or change,implying action. A project is composed of the proposal, the plan, the schedule, thebudget, the performance measures, the status updates, the termination, and the audit.These are all key concepts covered in a

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Andrew Sterian; Paul Plotkowski; Jeffrey Ray

provided with a larger view ofthe entire undergraduate curriculum including major and general education requirements andsequencing.Utilizing database management software and web tools, a system has been implemented thatprovides both students and faculty advisors with timely and accurate student program data. Theinformation is presented in an easy-to-understand format that is effectively utilized in advising.Providing this information changes the dynamics of an advising session, and allows students andtheir faculty advisors to focus their conversations on forward planning rather than bookkeeping.IntroductionProper academic advising has always been important to student success in engineering programs.In recent years, additional pressure has come to

Conference Session

Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King

achievement of the course LOs, the instructor should prepare a course plan andview the course LOs as a list of skills and topics that the student must learn in the course. Thecourse plan is the blueprint of how the course will be taught and how the LOs are to be achieved.In the past, an instructor prepared a course syllabus based on his interests and assessed studentachievement based on his internal standard. Most instructors conscientiously presented thestudents with a series of lectures and exams that they felt were designed to meet a standard theyset for the course.Under the new paradigm, courses must be taught and assessed with the achievement of thecourse LOs and the program POs in mind. These new planning and documentation requirementshave

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Marvel

WorkEnvironments. Students are required to complete a minimum of three out of the four courses.The Manufacturing Operations courses were originally designed for engineers without anybackground in industrial engineering topics, such as mechanical or chemical engineers whoseprimary job responsibilities are in the area of production operations.The professional practice component includes courses in Project Management, EngineeringDesign, and a course in Law, Ethics and the Environment. The course in project management isdesigned to provide the students with the necessary skills to manage engineering projects. Thestudent is expected to use these concepts when planning and completing the capstone project.Law, Ethics, and the Environment is a discussion-oriented

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Bottomley; Aaron Clark

Page 8.356.1emphasis was placed on secondary education, as high schools work to Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright (c) 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationeducate students for initial employment upon graduation, or to continue on into higher education.The project was led by the State Department of Education in Oklahoma with 13 other states andthe District of Columbia helping in this initiative. These project participants broke all occupationsinto 16 different clusters to be studied. The mission of the project was to identify the universalknowledge and skills needed for a given occupational area and plan for future knowledge

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sarah Rzasa; John Wise; Elizabeth Kisenwether

,and IST (Information Sciences and Technology) to develop a problem-based curriculum designedto encourage creativity, customer-oriented design, and to foster understanding of theentrepreneurial business world. This paper will present the outline and initial findings of ourassessment plan. Lessons learned in the first 18 months of course offering will be shared, andrecent improvements (inclusion of online portfolios and improved curriculum co-ordinationbetween courses) are discussed.BackgroundTwo years ago, Penn State applied for and received a grant from General Electric todevelop an entrepreneurship minor within the College of Engineering. The originalgoals for assessment were as follows: 1. Are students more motivated and more likely

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Brzoska; Atsushi Inoue; Min-Sung Koh; William Loendorf

: industrial demand within the region and state, the smallnumber of qualified graduates available to enter the workforce, and the increasing pool ofpotential students. Some of the projected activities in the planning process include visiting nation-wide university campuses that currently have SET programs, identifying new laboratoryequipment needs, setting up an advisory board, creating a recruitment plan, and obtaining ABETaccreditation. This paper will document this planning process.Funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF), in form of a recently approved grantproposal, will facilitate the planning process for this program. Some of the components of thecurriculum design to be developed will include integrating new learning strategies and

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Denise Carlson; Janet Yowell; Jacquelyn Sullivan

math and science can be accomplished with well-developed, interactive engineeringlesson plans that incorporate hands-on activities. Through real classroom interactions inelementary, middle and high schools, graduate engineering Fellows successfully bridgeengineering subject-area content to age-appropriate education pedagogy. Supported by NationalScience Foundation (NSF) and Department of Education (DOE)1 grants, the Integrated Teachingand Learning (ITL) Program has developed extensive and innovative hands-on engineeringcurricula focused on topics universal to K-12 science, technology and math classes.Graduate engineering Fellows are key to the successful creation of K-12 engineering curricula,through researching and writing engineering-focused

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Muratore; Jeannette Russ

motivation, but they may be somewhat poorly prepared inthe more mundane areas of planning, classroom presentation, and classroom management.There is good news for the professor who needs help in these routine tasks: Techniques forimprovement in the daily tasks associated with teaching can be easily learned. The goal of thispaper is to present steps that can be taken by the new professor to initiate significant improvementin the everyday elements of teaching. To achieve this goal, the paper presents specific techniquesand ideas for improving classroom performance in the areas of course planning, lecturepreparation and delivery, student assessment, personal study, and long-range planning.Course PlanningA liberal amount of time spent planning a course

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Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi; Nick Safai

Session 3560An Institutional Assessment Process in Recruiting, Retention, Orientation and Placement of Minority Students Dr. Fazil T. Najafi1 & Dr. Nick M. Safai2 1 Professor, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of Florida / 2 Chair/Professor, Engineering Department, Salt Lake City CollegeAbstractThe paper presents a model that may be used by an institution of higher education (IHS) toenhance its existing graduate minority enrollment. It is essential for any IHS to have a short- andlong-range strategic plan. As an essential element of any

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Vaidyanathan; Preeti Nagarajan; Roman Stemprok

to enhance the course with introduction of PLM conceptsand the use of specific PLM software obtained from EDS, Inc.The major objectives of this course are instrumentation design techniques, transducer selection,and interfacing control and measurement signals to the system. The use of graphical andstructured programming techniques (LABVIEW) in the design of virtual instrument systemsforms a significant portion of the course. As an enhancement to the course, PLM concepts will beintroduced early in the semester. Students will be introduced to the concepts of product portfolioplanning, understanding the requirements of a product, developing a project plan, schedulingvarious developmental tasks using a task hierarchy concept and finally

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaughn Whisker; Sai Yerrapathruni; John Messner; Anthony Baratta

tool that allows construction engineering students to interactively generate aconstruction sequence for a project in an immersive environment. The results of theseeducational initiatives were assessed through two experiments. The first experiment assessed theeducational value of having students develop 4D CAD models for a building project. Thesecond experiment was a preliminary study to determine the educational value of immersingstudents in a virtual construction project and allowing them to develop a construction plan for thefacility.The results of these experiments suggest that students can understand construction projects andplans much better when advanced visualization tools are used. The conclusions from theimmersive virtual reality

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wierman John; Shoukas Artin; Robert Allen; Larry Aronhime

where 10-13 teams of 10 undergraduate students each work on independent projectsannually posed by sponsors such as researchers, clinicians and individuals in need. The designprojects culminate in a prototype and final report. About ¼ to ½ of these projects have potentialfor commercial application. In entrepreneurship and management, a program exists where teamsof between three and five undergraduate students develop business plans for ideas that areproposed to them by biomedical engineering students. Business plans for projects withcommercial potential examine factors necessary to convert the project idea into a viableenterprise. Such issues include market size, revenue and reimbursement, market penetrationstrategies, costs of operations, legal

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Huba; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

to formulatethe problem, devise a plan of action, and derive a final solution using the domain knowledgeacquired in class. In addition to improving understanding of the course material, the module isalso designed to improve more general cognitive skills and specifically to enhance themetacognitive ability of the participating students. A prototype of the module is currently beingused in a classroom setting and we report on our initial experiences and student outcomes. Wealso discuss how this will be extended to an active learning environment that uses informationtechnology across the curriculum to integrate all required undergraduate courses.1. IntroductionUsing information technology (IT) to improve engineering education offers much

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Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Powers

knowledge into a project-based curriculum that meets the needs of the teachers, while also exciting the students.Lecture/workshops include: team work; components of an effective class and teacher; projectplanning and management; problem solving process; inquiry based learning, deductive/inductivelearning; creating unit/lesson plan; defining learning objectives; incorporating mentoring intoprogram; NYS standards and science exam; and, assessment techniques. Journals are used toencourage the fellows to reflect on their learning and own educational experiences. Anevaluation of the program by both Clarkson students and their partner teachers indicated that thistraining was appropriate for the students to enter the classroom as professional scientists

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Mahaffey; Elizabeth Petry

a team project. Despite these potential challenges we haveconsistently offered a team project in our third year design studio course. The project is a four-week team project, which is part of full 14-week course.The Project: Master Plan for the University of Hartford Page 8.1089.2A master plan is a comprehensive study, which provides a detailed survey, evaluation, analysis,and space management strategies for the existing and future buildings and properties of a givenProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

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Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

leaders. Presently the programincludes flexible and wide ranging subjects that relate to the facilities managed by public worksagencies. The public works function encompasses: government affairs includingregulatory/legislative alerts, funding issues; storm water, sewer system management, solid wastemanagement, air quality; transportation system including planning and design, transit, airports,Intelligent Transportation Systems; operations including: fleet, street maintenance, public parks;construction/design engineering, finance, administration, organizational and personnelmanagement. As a way to fulfill the public works functions, it has been a long-standing vision ofthe public works division to start an International Public Works Center. This

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

Session 2692 Summer Industry-Based Research Internships for Female High School Students Lawrence J. Genalo, Emily J. Smith Iowa State UniversityAbstract:Building on a successful high school internship program started by a National Science Foundationgrant in 1997, an internship program has been offered the past two years that provides studentsopportunities to join university research teams and investigate industrial work environments. Theinterns develop complete lesson plans targeted at a 5 th – 8th grade audience that are based on

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kelvin Kirby

within the MDRC. The Center must maintain technical and strategicalignment with various sponsor organizations or funding sources. As we proceed further intothe information age, technological and material development will foster continuous changewithin various components of our society. Somehow, the Center must be “plugged in” orconnected in such a way to receive pertinent information as it becomes available or at theearliest opportunity. The key roles of the Advisory Boards, Technical Review Committeeand Technical Advisory Panel are provided below.Executive Advisory BoardThe Executive Advisory Board (EAB) consists of management executives from industry andother academic institutions. The EAB participates in the strategic planning for the

Conference Session

Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Evans

canfavorably impact the regard in which the college or university and the civil engineering professionare held by the community 11. University officials may also look more favorably upon yourstudent group and be inclined to provide more financial support if you are improving theuniversities prestige in the community 12. Future employers, clients and university officials wouldlove to see your student chapter community service project featured in local newspapers.Contributing to the local community will make the college experience richer and more rewarding.Planning Community Service ProjectsStudents should develop a general planning document that will guide the current project as well ashaving the potential to guide future community service projects 13

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

degree programs in construction engineering and construction management. Based onour most recent Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and the AmericanCouncil for Construction Education (ACCE) accreditation reviews, it was recommended that theCME Division acquire additional space dedicated primarily for construction education, i.e., aconstruction classroom / laboratory (CCL). Based on this recommendation we developed a planto acquire additional space for the dedicated CCL.The contents of this paper describe: 1) the overall conceptual plan of the CCL, 2) the requiredtechnology systems, 3) the phased construction schedule, 4) the funding mechanisms used toconstruct the classroom/laboratory, and 5) student and faculty

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael McCorquodale

-mercialization process associated with academic research. Furthermore, the resources requiredspan several disciplines including law, business, and engineering. Only recently have engineeringprograms included entrepreneurial courses covering the basic concepts that are essential for tech-nology business development. At the University of Michigan, such courses include an MBA busi-ness plan development sequence that is elected by an increasing number of engineering graduatestudents, an undergraduate engineering course in business plan development, and a patent lawclass specifically for engineering students. Academic resources such as these significantlyincrease the likelihood of stimulating student entrepreneurial activity and of successful commer

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yichong Zeng; Patrick Kwon; Muhammad Sohail Ahmed; Jenny Wang-Chavez

8.826.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationpart. When the design changes, the operation sequence has to be rearranged and redesigned andnew operations must be added between appropriate operations. This, in some cases, may betrivial. However, the interactions among the operations can be quite complex. The students whohave not planned out the complete sequence of operations are not ready to deal with the processplanning under the changes in design, machine and materials. One way to address suchchallenges is to have students work through the real world problems while they are learning themachining

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Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Hefley; James Lookadoo; Randy Winzer

challenge implementing these curriculum changes, finding temporary instructorsfor existing courses, and conducting a search for a new permanent faculty member. In addition toall of this, we knew that we were scheduled for an accreditation visit in 2001. At this time, ourgroup was vaguely aware that TAC of ABET was planning a major shift in accreditation style.We were also aware that EAC of ABET had already undergone such change. As all our energieswere focused on our immediate challenges, we were not very attentive to TC2K. However, thatwas about to change.In the summer following this tumultuous year, one of us was accepted as a TAC of ABETprogram evaluator and underwent the requisite training session. As part of that training, thepreliminary TC2K