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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ferruzza

and polish your solution and your report!Your feedback is needed -- At the end of the team’s report, each student is to append a separatepage and answer questions, individually without consultation with other team members:1. Did you enjoy this exercise? Why or why not?2. Was this a worthwhile exercise? Why or why not?3. Regarding the work that was done in lab and the effort put into preparing the Team Report,assess how much effort each team member – including yourself -- made. (Use percentages thatadd up to 100%: e.g., Manny Smith, 20%; Jo Doe, 30%; Jack Jones, 50%)4. What suggestions do you have to improve this exercise if it is used in future? (not necessaryto answer this question.)AcknowledgmentsAmong the first students to do this exercise

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Stier

) Leadership and willingness to take initiative A willingness to learn and improve their knowledge and skills. Additionally, six items were included in the technical skills section. These items wereformulated based on the learning outcomes that had been established for the assessment processused by the IMS Sequence at ISU. The employers were asked to rate the following technicalskills with regard to importance: The ability to interpret and apply basic concepts of materials science such as strength of materials, structural properties, conductivity, and mechanical properties. Perform various non-destructive and destructive materials testing procedures. The ability to analyze and apply basic electricity and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

accuratedemographic of the teachers exposed to the HSTI materials, and collect evaluation data in orderto improve our product and process. From the metrics assessed thus far, we can conclude thatthe HSTI materials are being accepted by teachers and are improving the classroom curriculum.Bibliography1. National Science Education Standards, National Academy Press, Washington D.C., 2003.2. Cooper, W. (Mar 1998). Science in the public eye. Skeptical Inquirer, 22, pp 25-27.3. CNN.COM, U.S. schools fall behind in high-tech education, September 2000, http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/09/27/tech.schools/ .4. Nastasi, B.K., & Truscott, S.D., (2000), Special issue: Acceptability research in school psychology, School Psychology Quarterly

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Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Hole; Day Radebaugh; Kurt Soschinske

the design to lower factors ofsafety due to better understanding of the failure modes as well as use of materials with consistentproperties. The design curriculum should incorporate student assessments of situations where Page 10.1144.5 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”the design is based on the lower limits of the specification and possible variation in materialproperties may exist.Professors must also demonstrate and enforce ethical decision-making in the classroom as a partof ethics

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lobaugh

ideas for projects. These project ideas come from the graduate students anddepict a current opportunity for improvement the graduate’s facility. Depending on the numberof graduates and the class size, a finite number of projects are selected from the list.The class is divided into project groups of four to five students with the graduate student as the“Champion” or team leader. For each team, during the semester, the project requirements are: totake a plant tour of the facility, select a product or production system to review, and then performan initial assessment of the system using Value Stream Management (Mapping). By mappingthe current situation, the group can select an opportunity for improvement by using any one ofthe lean practices

Conference Session

Exploring Trends in CPD

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverlee Kissick; Saeed Khan

in theAmerican industrial environment, now includes programs that help U.S.-born workers tocollaborate successfully with their non-native colleagues both here and abroad. Both theTechnology Accreditation Commission (TAC) and the Engineering AccreditationCommission (EAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)have recommended that all programs seeking ABET accreditation pay serious attention toteaching and assessing diversity skills [3,4]. Drs. Kissick and Khan have been involved instudying and developing schemes to promote diversity at the College of Technology andAviation at Kansas State University-Salina [5-7], and believe that this can best beaccomplished by teaching some simple rules that foster diversity

Conference Session

Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Atanas Serbezov

. Commentshave included the following (arranged by course). CHE 416 and CHE 417 have now beenoffered twice in its current form allowing for additional feedback to be presented. Assessment ofthe changes is ongoing, and we hope to present more quantitative data in the future.CHE 416 Design I: Process Economics and Equipment Design • I learned skills that will be useful towards problem solving upon graduating. • I learned a lot about what things to considering and what things are unimportant when designing equipment for engineering applications. • The course ties in a lot of the material we covered in other courses. It was not so much a review as it was how to combine the different course material into one big process. • This class gave a lot

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Pinkham; Cathryne Jordan; Lisa Peterson

. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.3. Bean, J.P. (1986). Assessing and Reducing Attrition, in In Managing College Enrollments: New Directions for Higher Education, D. Hossler, ed. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco.4. Kaplan, K.M. and J.J. Kaplan. (2003). Understanding the Numbers: Increasing the Number of Minority Engineering Students. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Educational Annual Conference & Exposition.5. Katz, S. et al. (2003). Gender and Race in Predicting Achievement in Computer Science. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. Fall 2003.6. LeBold, W.K. and S.K. Ward. (1998). Engineering Retention: National and

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Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brianno Coller

Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgmentThe author gratefully acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation undergrant 0354557. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions are those of the author and donot necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.References[1] J. Bransford, T. Hasselbring, B. Barron, S. Kulewicz, J. Littlefield, and L. Goin. Uses of macro- contexts to facilitate mathematical thinking. In The teaching and Assessing of Mathematical Problem Solving, pages 125—147. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988.[2] J. Bransford, N. Vye, C. Kinzer, and V. Risko. Teaching thinking and content knowledge: Toward an integrated approach. In B. Jones and L. Idol, editors, Dimensions of thinking and cognitive

Conference Session

Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gregg; Tamara Knott; Jenny Lo

Page 10.1355.7Institute and State University and serves as the Director of the Green Engineering Program. He teaches introductorycourses in engineering in addition to CAD and environmental life cycle assessment. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Recayi Pecen; Ronald O'Meara

., Life Skills and Leadership for Engineers, McGraw-Hill, Inc, 1995.[5] Currin, T., “The Capstone Design Course and Its failure to serve as an effective outcome assessment tool”,Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.[6] http://www.uni.edu/indtech/recruit/itscholars.htm[7] Davis K.C., “Enhancing Communication Skills in Senior Design Capstone Projects”, Proceedings of the 2002ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.[8] Retrieved from Iowa Solar Calculator Web Site at http:// www.energy.iastate.edu/renewable/ solar/ calculator/[9] Message Pro-Version 2.30 developed by Electronics Displays Inc., 1999.RECAYI PECENRecayi Pecen holds a B.S.E.E. and an M.S. in Controls and Computer Engineering from the Istanbul TechnicalUniversity

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Teerasak Asvahem; Campana Claudio; Devdas Shetty

dataacquisition and control board, and reproduction of tool path simulation.IntroductionAdvances in computer-aided engineering (CAE) have brought a new paradigm in the last decadeso that current Computer-Aided Design systems (CAD) have the capability for sophisticatedgeometry and assembly of part models. The assembly can be visualized, evaluated, andmodified as a whole, and its motion can be simulated. It could become a virtual evaluation toolfor assessing product reliability and performance if its real time computational efficiency isimproved. CAE is used in the design process to guide design decisions, saving valuable time andcosts associated with redesign. These trends in engineering have converged to a newengineering concept: virtual engineering. In

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Baraniuk; Ray Wagner; Patrick Frantz; Lee Potter; Hyeokho Choi; Douglas Jones

1999 at Rice University, its hallmarks include: • a Content Commons of diverse educational materials that are modularized for easy reuse and available free-of-charge to anyone in the world under an open-content license; • rapid, collaborative authoring of the materials by global communities of authors; • high-quality materials, thanks to an iterative development process and an inherent quality assessment mechanism; • flexible, dynamic construction of customized courses and curricula, enabled by a coherent format (XML) and delivered in a variety of forms, from web pages to e-books to paper texts; • visualization and navigation of the “connexions” among concepts, courses, and curricula.See [1] and cnx.rice.edu for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Khan Saeed; Beverlee Kissick

,attitudes, perceptions, assumptions and communication styles. These latter and moresubtle dimensions can be described as hidden or submerged. In order for one to trulyappreciate diversity, one needs to probe deeply into the submerged portion as well as theovert. What follows is an attempt to classify promotional efforts, and to assess thecoverage of diversity issues by these efforts.In a previous effort to categorize diversity promotion activities at the College ofTechnology and Aviation (COTA) of Kansas State University (K-State), Kissick andKhan [3] resorted to a system of classification that addressed four different levels ofconcern. The areas of concern identified were as follows: (1) personal level (how do Ifeel about those who are different

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carolyn Heising; Mary Goodwin

and gendercommunication, the students will be able to communicate more successfully in a workenvironment an addition to creating a positive work environment that does not favor one genderover another. A longer term outcome then would also be the retention of women engineers in theworkplace. Assessment is ongoing and will be done through interviews with students who havebeen in the workplace for at least a year.Class Topics The following subjects were each covered in class over a period of one to two weeks: gendercommunication; including A Male/Female Continuum (Pierce, Wagner, Page, 1988),understanding “Collusion of Dominance and Subordinate” (Pierce, et al. 1988), feminine andmasculine stereotypes in speech patterns, gender patterns in

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andy Blauch; Hugh Jack

GrandValley State Univer-sity and chairs the graduate and manufacturing programs. His research interests include using open source softwarefor industrial control.ANDY BLAUCH received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Messiah College, M.S. degree in Electricaland Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from thePennsylvania State University. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Grand Valley State University. Current inter-ests include development of an 68HC11-based general purpose controller and student practice/assessment software. Page 9.68.9 Proceedings

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Beheler; Wayne Jones

assignment, students assessed the essential elements to fulfill this projectby first analyzing the type of network configuration needed specifically in terms of transportmechanisms for the files and for the real–time communication link. Dissemination of the actualCAD files is accomplished by an attachment to an email or via FTP (file transfer protocol)depending on the size of the file. For the communication link, students utilize the IP (InternetProtocol) network (Fast/Gigabit Ethernet) for the “physical” connection and employ Net meetingsoftware to establish both voice and video capability. Within this environment, employees at thecontracting firm situated at various locations across the country have the ability to interactivelyparticipate in the

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch

) Specialized courses that provide skills and knowledge for employment and careersFor each of the curriculum reform efforts, a curriculum advisory team was formed that includesfaculty from two and four year College of Technology partner institutions, industry Page 9.946.5 5representatives, and a web based curriculum designer. In each case, the curriculum advisoryteam built on the significant investments made in the past by NSF, industry, the communitycollege system and other ATE organizations. Areas of technology enhancement will beidentified, assessed

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Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Dwan; Robert DeMoyer; Carl Wick; George Piper

Systems Engineering major has a long history of very successful ABETvisits. We are currently in our fourth year of a six year ABET approval. The changes inthe ABET review have our department working hard on the assessment issues which willbe raised during our next inspection in two years. The midshipmen are attracted to a program with lots of diversity and choices inthe courses selected. We are also blessed with many fine instructors who are naturalmagnets for these motivated students. Many of our majors are selected for graduateschool at some of the finest institutions in the country. The masters level programs towhich they are selected points to the major's diversity- nuclear engineering, electricalengineering, mechanical engineering, the

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Erekson

, operation, maintenance, management, and assessment of technological products and systems, emphasizing the abilities that each of these tasks demands. (p. 10) 6 The Standards require that students learn both the theoretical base for design and itsapplications. The word “design” suggests action or actions, but actions without a theoreticalbase can become an exercise in futility. Likewise, providing only the theoretical base forengineering design without purposeful experiences offers the students a shallow understanding.Dugger noted this: A student can be taught in a lecture about the design process, for example, but the ability to actually use the design process and to apply it for finding a solution to a technological

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

through practice how to use their communications skills to market their solutions. Dress that includes shoes for men and no bare shoulders or midriffs for women attests to the formality but also to the value of the presentation. Presentation rituals emphasizeFigure 6: A CSM Student Presenting His Results appearance to highlight the importance of the to a Panel of Officials from St Kitts. content.Summarizing the Value Although most of the data currently collected to assess the program is qualitative, valuableevidence suggests that the program offers an

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Seetha Veeraghanta; Janice Frost

explain sustainability in their corporate policies or statements? • How is the concept related to engineering ethics and technological innovations in these corporations or businesses?Our ReflectionsAlthough this paper is not based on a formal assessment, we offer our findings and reflections:• Integrating sustainability and ethics provides a context or a basis for linking both resource management and engineering tools for freshmen engineering students to comprehend that practicing ethics is an engineering goal.• This linkage between engineering ethics and sustainability discourse provides opportunities for the students to conduct meaningful research in specific engineering disciplines at the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cedric Walker; Carol Mullenax

provided an overview of research, then specific examples of research in industry andacademia (undergraduate and graduate).3D Visualization in DesignA faculty member provided examples of visualization tools/techniques in engineering.AssessmentStudent course assessments are not made public from the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences(LAS), which administers much of the required freshman curriculum for Engineering (physics,chemistry, calculus, etc.), so the Engineering Dean’s Office administered its own student surveyfor LAS classes. Social time outside followed, with holiday food and drink provided.Outside activitiesIn addition to the above fourteen lectures, students were required to participate in activitiesoutside their normal lecture hour

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

, Faculty reactions to teachingengineering design to first year students, Journal of Engineering Education, 86, 3, July, 1997, p233-240.33. Jaspal Sandhu, Eberhard Bamberg (MIT), Active engagement pedagogy for an introductorysolid mechanics course, Session 2468- Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes, 2002 ASEEAnnual Conference and Exposition, June 16-19, 2002.34. Schilling, W.(Norwegian Univ of Science and Technology); Hagen, E. , Project-basedlearning in sanitary engineering-preliminary conclusion after three year's experience, WaterScience and Technology, 41, 2, 2000, p 75-81.35. Schmidt, Janet(Univ of Maryland at College Park); Yang, Chia-Hung; Wilson, Otto;Zhang, Guangming, Assessment of the teaching-learning effectiveness of a freshman

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Youakim Kalaani

describeschanges needed to revitalize curricula as the results of 1) a self-assessment to ensure that thecourses support the department curricula, 2) an investigation of similar programs instituted atother colleges and universities, 3) joint coordination with Rock Valley College (RVC) tostreamline courses at both institutions, and 4) a survey with the department’s industrial advisorycommittees. Additionally, various instructional technologies that were specifically designed forteaching in a multimedia environment commonly referred to as “Smart Classrooms” are alsopresented and described in this paper. Finally, students’ surveys regarding the use of PowerPointpresentations, Blackboard or on-line courses, videocassette education product, computersimulation

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Hassall; Jose Arquero; John Joyce; Ian Robinson; Michael Bramhall

certain individuals to higher levels of anxiety.The state typology is seen as being situational and is a “transitory orientation towardcommunication with a given person or group of people”: McCroskey 11. It is not personalitybased but is a response to situational constraints generated by the perceptions of the other personor persons in a communication situation.Research methodVarious forms of CA have been identified and investigated. The basic split is between oral(OCA) and written communication apprehension (WCA). In order to assess levels ofcommunication apprehension a questionnaire was constructed that was based on the PersonalReport of Communication Apprehension (PRCA-24) developed by McCroskey 11 and theinstrument developed by Daly and

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Zion; Ronald Fulle; Carol Richardson

courses. We are not yet at that juncture and may not be for some time.In the interim, this course greatly assists us by allowing us to assess and prove the aboveProgram Outcomes specifically.What about retention? Retention is a major thrust of RIT due to relatively low graduation rateswithin 6 years of commencing study. Multiple factors effect retention. However, it is generallybelieved that successful progress toward graduation is a key component toward improvingretention. Extremely lengthy programs may tend to diminish the perception of progress.Management Topics for Engineers does only a little for this effort. However, the process ofmeeting Program, IAB, ABET and Institute retention initiatives by providing extensive technicalskills and a

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yingzi Du; Robert Ives; Delores Etter; Thad Welch

room whomight also be speaking.VIII. Assessment We feel that the course was a success, based on our perception and student feedbackcompiled at the end of the semester. Since the course focused not only on the technical aspects ofbiometrics, but also the social impact, the students were able to experience and appreciate a morecomplete picture of modern (and future) personal identification. The hands-on nature of thecourse with modern state-of-the-art equipment gave the students a refreshing look at a new andincreasingly important facet of security.IX. Conclusion Being a new course and employing new hardware, the amount of time and effort in theplanning stages for the course was significant. The introduction of commercial systems

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

© 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationrequired for accreditation. It can also be seen that the Student Steel Bridge Project may possiblyassist in satisfying ABET criteria. However, participation in the SSBC must probably be requiredof all students in order to satisfy ABET criteria for a specific curriculum. Unfortunately, this maybe difficult to accomplish in all circumstances. Student Contest Implements ABET Criteria ABET AISC – SSBC Student PerceptionsCriterion 3, Program Rules booklet: “Civil Enhancement of the subjectsOutcomes and Assessment: Engineering students are listed in Table 1

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Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Vennes; Phillip Smith

machinist in the shop. They rely on simulationsoftware to run their solutions on a “virtual” milling machine in the computer to assess problemsthey might encounter in the shop. If all goes well they should be able to take their program tothe shop, load it into the machine tool, and run it directly. Page 9.328.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education3. Experiences in ‘Finite Element Analysis and Design’This course is a senior elective course taken after the student has had courses in mechanics