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Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Larry Stout; Ken Bosworth; Brian Williams; Habib Sadid; Mike Ellis

Math Usage by Practicing Engineers: What does it mean to Curriculum Planners? Mike Ellis, Brian Williams, Habib Sadid, Ken W. Bosworth, and Larry Stout Idaho State UniversityAbstractEngineering programs are constantly assessing the material required to earn an engineeringdegree. This assessment leads to squeezing in additional courses, often at the expense ofrequiring additional credits beyond that for a typical Bachelors degree. The common practice ofincluding new material while not changing what already exists is pushing the number of requiredcredits for an engineering degree in excess of what should be expected. A fundamental questionnot typically

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Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

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2004 Annual Conference

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Osman El-Sayed

Session 0560 Engineering and Engineering Education in Egypt Osman Lotfy El-Sayed Faculty of Engineering, Cairo UniversityI IntroductionThe long history of Egypt is marked by a number of engineering achievements which gave ita well deserved reputation of a nation of great builders.Foremost among these achievements is the construction of the first stone building in thehistory of mankind, the stepped pyramid of Sakkara which is associated with the name of itsarchitect Imhoteb, the eminent figure of engineering and medicine deified by the ancientEgyptians and revered by the Greeks for

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Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Scott

Session VERSATILE, LOW COST ELECTRONICS LAB PROTOBOARD Timothy C. Scott, Kevin L. Knight University of VirginiaAbstractPurchased equipment for teaching basic electronics can be expensive. It may also be delicateand, in the case of many prototyping circuit boards, so small that students have troublevisualizing the circuit before them and instructors cannot easily figure out what the student hasdone wrong when asked for help. This paper describes a versatile circuit board system that canbe built for about $100 in parts. It contains its own DC power supply, voltmeters, and

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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N. M. Ravindra; Jr., Anthony Culpepper; Henry McCloud; Howard Kimmel

school year studying in state-of- the-art science,mathematics, computer laboratories and smart classrooms. The program goal is toenhance the participants' academic ability and interest in technology by providinghands-on opportunities to work on research projects with university faculty andmentors. We will also examine the influence of incorporation of Technology on bridging theDigital Divide and Computer Equity for groups under-represented in science,technology, engineering and mathematics. A review of the effects of technology on ourparticipants in their educational attainment at the secondary and post-secondary levelsis presented.2. Introduction The Center for Pre-College Programs at the New Jersey Institute of Technologyhouses an Upward

Conference Session

Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Kulonda

compared on the basis of pre-tax cash flows and students gain no appreciation for the factthat virtually all real world comparisons must be performed on an after-tax basis. They alsoencounter financial statements that they have difficulty interpreting, as they have not learned theaccounting concepts that underlie their development. In the past decade, accounting standardshave required that Cash Flow Statements accompany SEC filings and annual reports.Encouraged by their familiarity with the term “cash flow”, students who attempt to interpretthese are in for a rude awakening. The construction of the cash flow statement bears littleresemblance to what they have learned. The problem lies with the fact that cash flow statementsdevelop historical

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Depew

Session 14552004 ASEE – Salt Lake CityGraduate Studies DivisionInvited Panel Session:Professional Graduate Engineering EducationRelevant to the Needs of IndustryInvited Panel Paper #3 Draft Enabling the U.S. Engineering Workforce to Perform: Developing Financial Sustainability to Ensure High-Quality in Professional Graduate Engineering Education D. R. Depew, 1 A. L. McHenry, 2 S. J. Tricamo, 3 D. H. Sebastian, 3 J. M. Snellenberger,4 D. H. Quick,4 I. T. Davis,5 J. P. Tidwell,6 D. D. Dunlap, 7 D. A. Keating, 8

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

and thetime element assigned to the particular project. In addition, the user must have a thoroughunderstanding of the software functionality and the ability to gather information related toimplementing a particular modeling strategy. This process of strategy development andimplementation coincides with components of learning theory. As engineering graphicseducators, it is helpful to reflect on how students learn in our classrooms and laboratories as wellas reflect on how we develop instruction. This paper outlines three theories of learning that areapplicable to graphics education, discusses the assumptions about the learner and the learningenvironment, presents the components of learning for each theory, discusses major issues relatedto

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sandra Courter; Mary McEniry; Cid Freitag

about teachingand learning in the process of building a learning community, 3) create a collaborativelearning environment with faculty and peers, 4) build confidence in curriculumdevelopment including designing, guiding, and assessing learning, 5) learn with andabout technology in the process of improving curriculum, and 6) connect teaching andresearch and bridge the gap between theory and practice. The twenty participantsrepresented ten universities; a team of two from each university included one facultyperson from engineering and one from another science, math, or computer sciencediscipline. Specifically, the professional development opportunity explored ways ofknowing including theories of learning, learning styles, disciplinary and

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Fernandez

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION CLOSES THE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING GAP John D. Fernandez, Ph.D. Texas A&M University – Corpus ChristiAbstractWith the pervasiveness of computers throughout our environment, there is a growing demand fordiligent Human Computer Interaction (HCI) education of graduate and undergraduate students toclose the gap left by software engineering education. This paper describes one approach toteaching HCI while requiring students to develop systems for various city, school, and universityorganizations. The benefits derived by the students and the clients receiving their services aremany. There is a wide range of opportunities for

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Per Andersson

Session 2550 TekNO: Employing low-tech activities for the hi-tech employees of tomorrow Per E. Andersson, Fredrik Lindkvist, Christina Jansson, Magnus Wallenborg Inga-Kari Fryklund Uppsala University, Sweden / Confederation of Swedish EnterpriseAbstractTechnology is a core subject at compulsory (K-9) schools in Sweden but the outcome untilnow has been very dependent on each teacher’s interest and priorities, especially at primaryschool levels. Few of the teachers at this level have had any significant amount of science ortechnology included in their teacher training

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

across-section of information sources for the reader interested in pursuing the topics further, butmay also be read without attention to the footnotes.IntroductionA few years ago when concerns were being raised about the impact of the global marketplace onthe employment of US engineers, the authors drafted a paper entitled “Are current engineeringgraduates being treated as commodities by employers?” 1 We questioned whether engineering inthe United States was still an attractive profession offering productive and satisfying careers andlifestyles. One of the important problems we noted was the churning in engineeringemployment, with more experienced engineers living under the constant threat of being replacedby younger, more recent graduates, and

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mellinger Margaret

Session #1541 Librarianship at the Intersection of Engineering and Business Margaret A. Mellinger Oregon State University LibrariesIntroductionOregon State University has initiated two programs that engage engineering students inentrepreneurship. The first program is an entrepreneurship minor available through the Collegeof Business that enrolls engineering and science majors in the same courses with businessstudents. The second is the Austin Entrepreneurship Program, a residential program offeredthrough the College of Business and designed to give engineering and other students

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

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Marvin Criswell

Session 3515 Has the Moment Passed for Classical Solutions? Definitely Yes and Definitely No Marvin E. Criswell Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80512-1372AbstractToday’s computing tools facilitate rapid numerical solutions carried out to a precisionunimaginable only a few decades ago. An initially logical conclusion flowing from thiscapability may be that the “classical” solution methods once used extensively in pastprofessional practice for many engineering

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahbub Uddin

University is to provide talentedstudents with a broadly based undergraduate engineering education by offering a design oriented,multidisciplinary engineering science curriculum in the context of the University’s tradition of theliberal arts and sciences.The curriculum emphasizes an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals of the physical sciences,mathematics, and engineering science that form the foundation for technical work in all fields inengineering. Some specialization is available through elective courses in Chemical, Electrical, andMechanical Engineering, taken during the junior and senior years. The program provides significanthands-on experience in engineering laboratories and participation in engineering design projectsthroughout the

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Knecht

Session 2131 CAN PEERS BE USED EFFECTIVELY TO ASSESS TEAMS: TASK/TEAM FUNCTION OBSERVATIONS DURING TEAM BUILDING EXERCISES Robert Knecht Colorado School of MinesAbstract – This presentation describes a model used to illustrate functions that team membersassume during teambuilding exercises. The Design (EPICS) program introduces teams ofengineering students to design, technical communications and teamwork processes through anopen-ended, client-based project. Teams conduct a series of exercises in which half perform theexercise

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

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David J. Bettez; G. Lineberry

University of Kentucky Lexington, KentuckyAbstract The University of Kentucky (UK), with an enrollment of 21,000, is a comprehensive, public land-grant university located in the Bluegrass Region of Central Kentucky. As the State’s flagshipuniversity, the University of Kentucky has long been involved in study abroad and foreign exchangeprograms, either sending or hosting over 300 non-degree-seeking students and scholars per year. While there is no debate among U.S. educational institutions of the benefit derived both by thestudent and the educational community from participation in study abroad and foreign exchangeprograms, virtually no effort has been made to properly assess such programs. Against the

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Kresta; Alan Nelson

Session 3675 Team Teaching of Thermodynamics: Rapid Instructional Development in Young Academics Alan E. Nelson and Suzanne M. Kresta University of Alberta Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G6 CanadaIntroduction A large undergraduate teaching service course is often viewed as a teaching ghetto,where young academics learn how to teach by doing without any substantial guidance ormentoring. New faculty are often assigned to such courses during the first term of appointmentand are expected to perform in the

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Ping Wei; Thomas Quimby

may help to further focus the goals of advisor training in volunteerorganizations.IntroductionThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) maintains a system of student chapters andclubs (hereafter referred to simply as chapters) whose objective “is to help students preparethemselves for entry into the Civil Engineering profession and society.”1 These student chaptersare seen as being a valuable means of supplementing the technical education provided by atypical civil engineering curriculum with professional development experiences. ASCE alsoviews these chapters as a source of potential professional members. A successful chapter isconsidered to be one that has demonstrated effectiveness in meeting the stated objective.The ASCE Committee on

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars

Paper 2004-1886 Bringing Engineering Concepts to the Middle School and High School Donald C. Orlich1, William J. Thomson2, Richard L. Zollars2 1 Science, Mathematics, Engineering Education Center 2 Department of Chemical engineering Washington State University A problem facing the United States is the declining numbers of students expressing aninterest, or majoring, in engineering. Recently the American College Testing organizationreported that between 1992 and 2003 the percentage of high school

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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J.W. Bruce

Design Inspections and Software Product Metrics in an Embedded Systems Design Course J.W. Bruce Mississippi State UniversityAbstractDevelopment tools, especially those for software, have matured to the point where a singleiteration of the development cycle can be as short as a few minutes. No one desires to go back tothe “good old days” when the development and physical prototyping cycles took hours or days.However, the slower development pace of yesteryear did prompt a certain amount of criticalreview of design changes and undoubtedly prevented many basic design defects. Currentdevelopment tools combined with the increasing

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer; Terri Lynch-Caris; Matthew Sanders

. Second, expectations ofthe process within the faculty and student body is agreed upon and communicated. Third, a testbank of questions to reflect basic knowledge required to successfully complete each course iscreated and maintained by the faculty.Two primary outcomes are considered using the pre/post test assessment tool. First, the pre-testinformation from post-requisite courses can be shared to determine how well course topics arecovered and retained. Second, the post-test results are analyzed and compared to pre-test resultsto determine if students gained the basic knowledge required to complete the coursesatisfactorily. The pre/post test assessment tool is discussed relative to a larger course levelassessment methodology to be proposed

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Rennels; Stephen Hundley; Patricia Fox

Session 2150 What Can The Past Tell Us About Our Future? Trends and Developments in Engineering Technology Patricia L. Fox, Stephen P. Hundley, Ken Rennels Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Abstract A group of engineering technology educators collaborated in 1977 to develop alongitudinal survey to look at trends and developments of baccalaureate engineering technologyprograms in the United States. Representatives of the Engineering Technology Division (ETD)four zones of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conducted the survey

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul McCright; Joanne Larsen

2004-2440 Coordinating Learning Styles and Teaching Styles in Undergraduate Engineering Education JoAnne Larsen, Ph.D., PE, Paul R. McCright, Ph.D., Gregory Weisenborn, Ph.D. University of South FloridaAbstractA student’s success in undergraduate engineering classes is determined in part by the student’sinnate ability, life experiences and the compatibility of the student’s learning style with theinstructor’s teaching style. Felder’s Index of Learning Styles (ILS) provides a measurement of astudent’s preference to receive, process, and understand information. Use of the ILS provides aninstructor with valuable insight into

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Simo Lehto

TRANSFORMING ENGINEERING EDUCATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY AS AN ENGINEERING R&D WORK BY USING THE SYSTEMS APPROACH Simo Lehto Helsinki PolytechnicChanges created by globalizationThe paper describes the ongoing R&D work in Finland aimed at developing andimplementing a new structure for engineering education (EE). The work is driven by thefundamental changes created by the economic and cultural effects of globalization.At the beginning of the 21st century, most of the world is moving rapidly towards a global,market-oriented, real-time economy. This accelerating transition has led to a dramaticallyrising level of know-how and use of

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joni Spurlin; Susan Grant; Jo-Ann Cohen; Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley; Sarah Rajala

Session 3192 The North Carolina State University Women in Science and Engineering Program: A Community for Living and Learning S.A. Rajala, L.J. Bottomley, E.A. Parry, J.D. Cohen, S.C. Grant, C.J. Thomas, T.M. Doxey, G. Perez, R.E. Collins, and J.E. Spurlin North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7901AbstractWomen are underrepresented in many of the disciplines in engineering, the mathematicalsciences, and the physical and natural sciences, both at the undergraduate and the graduatelevels. Depending upon the discipline, we lose women

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Ezzell; Paul Gordy

Energizing your Engineering program through competitions and team-based projects Paul Gordy, Associate Professor – Engineering, Tidewater Community College Steve Ezzell, Assistant Professor – Engineering, Tidewater Community CollegeEngineering faculty members Paul Gordy and Steve Ezzell had been looking for opportunities toget their students involved in more than just coursework as they pursued their degrees. TheEngineering curriculum at Tidewater Community College was a solid two-year transfer program,but Gordy and Ezzell felt that students didn’t have the same opportunities as four-year studentsto experience the excitement of engineering projects. Four-year colleges and universities havenumerous

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Adnan Javed; Fazil Najafi

Document: 2004-2243Division: Emerging Trends in Engineering EducationPROFESSIONAL ENGINEER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMAT THE COUNTY LEVEL: SETTING HIGHER STANDARDSFOR ENGINEERING PRACTICE Adnan Javed1, Gary Downing, P.E.2, Thai Tran, P.E.3, Dr. Fazil T. Najafi41 Boyle Engineering/University of Florida, 2, 3 Sarasota County Government, 4 University of FloridaABSTRACTOne of the most important decisions a young engineer can make early in his/herengineering career is to place oneself on a professional course and becomelicensed as a professional engineer (P.E.). The profession regulates itself bysetting high standards for professional engineers, and by law, many jurisdictionsrequire

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Devine

within general guidelines of the assignment. Assignment guidelines includestructures such as buildings or bridges, material specifications, material properties, and water,sewer, and storm water services. Students have several weeks to complete the assignments ofless than 5 pages and they gather information for their topic primarily through readings andinterviews. While the Internet is a valuable resource for information, it is not allowed as the solesource of information. A secondary purpose of the assignment is for students to read informationfrom multiple sources. The grading rubric for the assignment stresses good writing by makingcorrect spelling, punctuation, and grammar a component of the grade as well as documentationof the sources of

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Said

Session _2560_ Improving Students Retention by Engaging Them in Real Life Experiences Hazem Said Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing Technology, University of CincinnatiIntroductionEngaging engineering technology students in real life experiences has a positive impacton retention rate. The Center for Information Technology and Community Development(CITCD) at the University of Cincinnati initiated the IT-Students-Work project (ITSW)as part of its plan to establish strong relationship between students in the InformationTechnology program

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Maixner

Session 2266 Thermal Fluids Systems Engineering at the United States Air Force Academy Michael R. Maixner, George Havener United States Air Force AcademyAbstractThis paper describes the new pedagogy used to teach thermal fluid systems engineering (TFSE)to cadets who major in either mechanical engineering or engineering mechanics. Previouslytaught as a 4-course sequence consisting of separate and distinct subject material onThermodynamics (ME 312), Fluid Mechanics (ME 341), Heat Transfer (ME 441), and EnergyConversion (ME 467), the current presentation integrates this subject material in