Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wigal

ability to identify project objectives morethoroughly and relationally. Assessment of the IED curriculum will continue over the next 2years as the students progress through the design sequence. Page 10.831.11 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Bibliography1. Simon, Herbert (1967) The New Science of Management Decision, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.2. DeGreene, Kenyon B. (1973) Sociotechnical Systems – Factors in Analysis, Design, and Management, Prentice- Hall, Inc

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

includingCPE, EEs, SE, and CS majors.Figure 11 Dynamic web page served from internet-capable embedded systemThe course described here has been offered once (Fall 2004) so statistically significant data is notyet available. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the very visible and broad extents of the projectengaged students more than traditional “concept” oriented lab tasks. Furthermore, studentsperceived an increased relevance of their education. Quantitative assessment data will becollected in subsequent semesters and the findings will be reported at ASEE conferences in thecoming years.References[1] J.W. Bruce, J.C. Harden, and R.B. Reese, “Cooperative and progressive design experience for embedded systems,” IEEE Trans. Educ. vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 83

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas MacIntosh; Susan Conry

will be working with diverse teams of engineers and nonengineers to formulate solutions to yet unknown problems. They will increasingly need to address large-scale systems problems.” 1Engineering in the 21st century requires teamwork. The problems are large and open ended,requiring expertise across a range of disciplines. Because solving these problems demandscompetent engineers, engineering education has been focused on educating the individual –enabling each student to acquire the fundamental knowledge and skills associated with his or herchosen discipline of study. Students are evaluated using metrics that assess the knowledge andskills they have acquired as individuals. Yet engineering students must learn the skills they needto work

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Owen; Robert Knecht; Abel Feltes

AssessmentDesign Engineering Practices Introductory Course ResourceSequence (EPICS) Program at the Colorado Design Assessment (EPICS) ISchool of Mines (CSM) guides teams of first and Visualizationsecond-year engineering students through an Figure 1: Overview of Design Stem Sequenceauthentic design experience that requiresdecision-making to address technical, client-based projects. The disciplines are responsible foryears three and four. The centerpiece of each design sequence is an open-ended problem

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacki Stewart; Peter Jansson

volunteers from the professional service societies of the College (IEEE, ASCE, etc.), will beinstalling the PV systems themselves. Early estimates are that the planned installations will saveover 8.5 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually (estimated from the installation of 6-kiloWatts of PV. This paper describes the steps that the student volunteers undertook to performresource assessment, site identification, site selection prioritization, presentation toadministration, system design, system component procurement and ultimately systemconstruction, permitting, and rebate application. Although Rowan University finds its 2005deadline challenging, since, like many universities, it is growing very significantly each year,significant strides have

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seth Bates; Patricia Backer

studentknowledge and skills have been made and will continue to be taken in a time-series study todetermine trends among the students in the program. The Minicurriculum faculty are pleasedwith progress to date and excited and optimistic about the future of the program. The threedepartments involved have plans to conduct a complete evaluation of the minicurriculum in thenext academic year to assess the content and goals of this program.Looking Towards the FutureThis program continues to grow in depth and sophistication as the teachers and students compilea growing set of curricular and research resources, and new techniques to challenge the mind andthe imagination. Currently, the program is seen as a success by all three programs which use it,and this

Conference Session

Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; John Hansen; Thomas Hall

professionals. Micromanagement signals mistrust of their knowledge and skills. • Uninformed evaluation. Most faculty are specialists in their disciplines and question the ability of leaders to adequately assess their performance. It is critical that performance expectations of faculty members be explicitly stated and reviewed. Most academic leaders do not have the same level of knowledge and experience as each faculty member. By clearly negotiating and describing the expected performance faculty are in control of their progress towards the desired behavior. • Setting artificial and changing deadlines. Changing deadlines diminishes the commitment to accomplish

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Mattei

all (very low), • 2 = a little (low), • 3 = somewhat (some), • 4 = quite a bit (high), and Page 10.929.7 • 5 = completely (very high). “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Education” It should be noted that data from the 2001 workshop was limited to aggregate data lumped into groups. The survey results from the 2003 workshop were available in their entirety, so that a more in-depth comparison of each topic from the 2003 workshop surveys could be done. Table 4: Assessment

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenda Kelly; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

GK-12 Track 2 MUSIC (Math Understanding through Science Integrated with Curriculum)program. Weekly or Bi-weekly meetings are also important to provide ongoing training andguidance to Fellows.Summative Impacts on Engineering Teaching FellowsSummative impacts on Engineering Teaching Fellows were assessed through end-of-year fellow-completed surveys. Quantitative data were available from 63 Engineering Teaching Fellowswho participated in the Techtronics program from 2001 through 2004, the MUSCLE programduring the 2001-2002 and the 2003-2004 school years, and the Duke-NCSU Fellows Programfrom 2000-2002. Qualitative, open-ended responses to questions on personal development wereavailable for 29 Fellows in the Techtronics and MUSCLE Programs. The

Conference Session

New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Fischer; Richard Jerz

. To date,approximately 110 students have taken the course. It is a challenge to fit all desired materialsinto this single course; class time is at a premium. The web-based course management systemmentioned earlier, WebCT, provides the capability to give quizzes outside of class times. Threeexams are administered during class times. In two of the exams, students perform a Pro/E designtask, which is observed by the TA’s. This approach helped us better assess how well thestudents have learned the CAD work. Doing this in the first exam gives students the motivationthey need to learn Pro/E.Student evaluation results are mixed. Some students think that the course is too hard and somethink it is too easy. After the experience gained through the

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eldon Larsen

.) Assignment 12: For the same project as that in Assignment 11, and using the information Page 9.1156.8in the table, identify the project duration which allows the project to be completed with the least “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”possible cost and still achieve all cost and time objectives for the project, while notcompromising on the project performance standards and scope. A penalty cost of $5,000 perweek over eight weeks is to be assessed if the project takes longer than eight weeks

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Lim; James Kokernak; Dean Lewis; Abhijeet Golwelkar; Paul Schoch

30 students. Since students interactwith their graders during section time, it allows graders to assess each student individually. Themidterm and final exams are graded by the entire LITEC staff together.The overall TA requirements per week are 300 hours. This includes the section/open-shop time,grading and course administrative issues. The course meets this requirement through 10-12graduate TAs (they usually work 20 hrs per week) and 8-10 undergraduate TAs (they usuallywork 10 hrs per week). Weekly staff meetings and regular exchange of emails make it possiblefor this team to function properly.Enhancements and the invitational:Students are required to enhance their Smart Car to give the car added functionality and usefulfeatures. The

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mani Soma

experience in other distance-learning laboratoryimplementations. The student at home has a full instrumentation capability connected to hiscomputer, he can build and test his own circuits, he can debug circuits just as students on campusdo, and he actually can work in a better environment since his experimental results are alreadyon the computer, directly available for analysis with MATLAB and / or comparison with SPICE.4. Initial feedback from studentsThe first prototype of the Pandora box was used by four student groups who have taken coursesusing standard benchtop laboratory instrumentation. The assessment tool is a survey thatincludes specific questions to compare the laboratory experience using the Pandora box andusing the laboratory

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

Proceedings, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2002, CD Rom, Paper 1173, 6 pages. 10. Inman, A., Anderson-Rowland, M. R.,, Castro, M., and Zerby, D., “Assessing the Evolution of Engineering Saturday Academies for Middle School and High School Women,” WEPAN 2003 Conference Proceedings, Chicago, Illinois, June 2003.Biographical InformationMARY R. ANDERSON-ROWLAND, PhD, is the Associate Dean of Student Affairs in the Fulton School ofEngineering at ASU. She was selected for the National Engineering Award in 2003, the highest honor given by theAAES. In 2002 she was named the Distinguished Engineering Educator by the Society of Women Engineers. Shehas received other diversity support awards including the YWCA Tribute to Women 2001 Award

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Koehnemann; Barbara Gannod

first is a web application thatsupports an NSF funded curriculum development project. The second is a channelsupported by the uPortal portal system that automates the department’s graduateadmissions process and is deployed on the university’s IT portal system. The third is anapplication that integrates a Course Management System, Blackboard, with an outcomesbased assessment tool, True Outcomes, to automate the importing of student information tobetter measure outcomes for ABET accreditation. The fourth project is a linguisticsanalysis tool that finds word usage patterns in media articles.1 IntroductionOne of the program characteristics that ABET expects in engineering and technologyprograms that it accredits is the inclusion of some type of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Woodruff; Farhad Reza

thank Dr. Earl Lhamon of the LimaAstronomical Society for his enthusiasm and cooperation. The authors also thank the Lima CityEngineer Kirk Neimeyer and his staff for their assistance. The assistance provided by Dr. JasonPinkney of the Physics Department at ONU was also appreciated.Bibliogr aphic Infor mation 1. Chan, E. H. W., Chan, M. W., Scott, D., and Chan, A. T. S. (2002). “Educating the 21st century construction professionals,” Journal of Professional Issues In Engineering Education and Practice, 128(1), 44-48. 2. Molenaar, K. R., and Saller, B. J. (2003). “Educational needs assessment for design/build project delivery,” Journal of Professional Issues In Engineering Education and Practice, 129(2), 106-114. 3

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

., Dunlap, D.D., Keating, D.A., Stanford, T.G., Growing the National Innovation System: Assessing the Needs and Skill-Sets for Innovative Professional Graduate Education Defined by the Tasks and Responsibilities of Engineer-Leaders in Industry, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2003.18. Conrad, C.F., Haworth, J.G., Millar, S.B., A Silent Success: Master’s Education in the United States, The National Study By the Council of Graduate Schools, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.19. Haworth, J.G. and Conrad, C.F., Emblems of Quality in Higher Education: Developing and Sustaining High- Quality Programs, Allyn and Bacon, 1997

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clive Dym; Anthony Bright

technologically-rich, service-oriented economy and lifestyle.In this connection, and as providing but one (relatively minor) assessment measure, note thatHarvey Mudd’s Engineering program is well known and invariably ranks at or near the top oflists of “best” programs (e.g., ranked second in the 2003 U. S. News ranking26 of “BestUndergraduate Engineering Programs”). We also have ample anecdotal and survey data fromalumni that these experiences provide a framework for “lifelong learning,” and from companiesthat our graduates “hit the deck running.”ConclusionsThe “philosophy” of general engineering at Harvey Mudd developed as a response to aconstrained college curriculum emphasizing the liberal arts. Breaking the mold of an“engineering science” niche, the

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Cavanaugh; Matt Ellis; Mark Ardis; Richard Layton

. Also, members of underrepresented minorities in engineering should not beoutnumbered in a team.Regarding prior work, a program for assigning teams is described in [5], but it is not as adaptableor user-friendly as the web-based application described here. And no reference was found in theliterature to an application created to meet cooperative-learning guidelines.The goals for the project are: • Reduce the amount of time needed to create a satisfactory set of teams. • Increase the likelihood that cooperative learning guidelines (or other instructor preferences for team-formation) are met. • Provide metrics to assess the extent to which the team-formation criteria are met.1.2 Solution overviewThe primary goal of this project is to

Conference Session

Computer-Based Data Acquisition Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Parten

demonstrate an understanding of the technical aspects of theproject and to work effectively with their team. The first three items are measured by the labinstructor, the lab assistant and the other students in the class (excluding the team members). The lastitem is measured by the team members themselves. Each individual's oral presentation style and effectiveness is evaluated and the results areavailable to the student before the next week's class so that improvements can be made. Some of thepresentations are video taped. Each student is asked to evaluate his/her own presentations anddevelop plans, with the lab instructor and staff, for improvement. The written plans are used later inthe semester to assess improvement. Approximately

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mara Wasburn

valuable to other members of the team, and can and should beshared with them. Sharing skills, abilities, and information is one way in which the teammembers can increase their value to the organization and position themselves to advance. During the Dream phase, team members assess the strengths that they identified duringthe Discovery phase, and determine how those strengths can be used to build the organization'sfuture. This stage can be viewed as analogous to a brainstorming session in which creative ideas,regardless of their merit or lack thereof, are considered and then accepted or rejected on aconsensus basis. For example, an individual with statistical and methodological skills mightsuggest new ways of sampling and measuring the

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Hug; Jason FitzSimmons

Engineering Course, 2005 ASEE Illinois/Indiana Sectional Conference, April 1-2, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois.7. Dearholt, D.W., Alt, K.J., Halpin, R.F., and Oliver, R.L., Foundational Aspects of Student-Controlled Learning: A Paradigm for Design, Development, and Assessment Appropriate for Web-Based Instruction, Journal of Engineering Education, April 2004, pp. 129 – 138.8. Barcia, R.M., Pacheco, R., and Paas, L.C., A Classroom Model for WWW Use in Modern Engineering Education, Paper presented at the International Conference on Engineering Education, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 17 – 20, 1998.9. Merino, D.N., and Abel, K.D., Evaluating the Effectiveness of Computer Tutorials Versus Traditional Lecturing in Accounting

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Stockman

for CS majors, would add an unnecessary amount of time and frustration to non CSstudents. Similarly, students have to get comfortable with the idea and use of .jpg images, eventhough only a small fraction of professors understand the mathematical basis of all of .jpg’sfeatures. The use of indexed color in .gif is, on the other hand, understandable in detail. Althoughstudents sometimes struggled with the algorithms and quantitative work, and perhaps the firstand second year students more than the upperclassmen, students at all levels and in all majorsshowed that they could do the work. The instructor had to dynamically assess learning and slowdown or review when students struggled with assignments. This happened with the databasehomework: an

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tori Bailey; Jonathan Gabrio; David Cannon; Helen L. Chen; George Toye; Larry Leifer

effects: if we were able to interview these students in their junior or senior year, would these students be any different in their thinking about design, their undergraduate education, learning styles, and choice of major, from students who had expressed interest in the course but did not actually take it? • Textual analysis of reflection: Can we develop a rubric or other assessment tool to objectively evaluate the kinds and depth of reflection engaged in by the students, using proxy measurements such as coding and analysis of the text they wrote in their ePortfolios? Finally, there were a number of areas in the way that we applied the Folio Thinkingapproach in

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Keith Stanfill

invention attracting licensees are greatly improved. Theoutput of the ITV teams is a commercializable prototype, an assessment of potential markets, abusiness plan, and an investor presentation. This is far beyond the typical resources devoted tothe 300 or so invention disclosures annually submitted to the UF Office of TechnologyLicensing. In the industry-sponsored IPPD program, each project is supported by a liaisonengineer provided by the company. The inventor fulfills this critical role as the technical advisorfor the ITV companies.Pilot ITV program experiencesInventors were heavily involved in the pilot offering of the ITV program. In two cases, theinventors provided the technology development teams access to their labs for prototypedevelopment

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Miguel A. Padilla; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

attract females to computer science andretain them even when the females are coming from a pre-selected group that started inengineering.We are very intrigued by the gender and GPA interaction illustrated in Figure 1-female studentswith low GPAs (<2.5) have a much higher probability of success than males with similar GPAs.The implications on advising practices are obvious and a better understanding of the underlyingreasons for this pattern might alter our approach to reducing the gender gap. Future researchshould include qualitative assessment to help understand why female students respond morepositively to poor grades. Considering the gender differences that Seymour and Hewitt point outin how low grades are interpreted, do females earning low

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Warren; Jason Yao

been used as teaching tools in theselaboratory sessions. The learning objectives of this laboratory (i.e., what a student should beable to do upon completion of the laboratory) are the following: • Explain the physiological origin of a photoplethysmogram • Describe the hardware and software components required to determine blood oxygen saturation using light-based sensors • Calculate blood oxygen saturation given a set of red/infrared plethysmograms Page 10.1138.6 • Assess the character and spectral content of the time-varying signals Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Zhang

in this article is being implemented in both lectures and labexperiments. Positive results have been observed by the authors. Assessment of this method willbe reported when more data become available. The systems approach to teaching ”Electronic Communications Fundamentals” course providesECET students a systematic view of a communications system. This is essential to students interms of communications system design, analysis, testing, and troubleshooting. Lab experimentsprovide students hands-on experience and enhance their problem-solving skills. Through workingon the design and testing of communications circuits, students can consolidate their knowledge inanalog and digital circuits, gain better understanding of ”real-world

Conference Session

Diversity: Women and Minorities in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Kuyath

also want those whoare not involved in the writing, speaking, and research to learn more about engineering andengineering technology, so we have the students present their papers to the other club members.Teachers will then submit the papers to professors at the university for assessment. The authorsof the seven best papers will be invited to the university to present their papers. In this way,many more students will hear speeches by their peers – one of the groups they listen to whendeciding what kind of career they will pursue8.According to Campbell, et. Al8, parents are one of the sources to which students will listen whentrying to make career and college decisions. So, we are organizing and conducting communityseminars for parents. If

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

improve the attitudesof their students on the subject of engineering. In order to make such an assessment, a quasi-experimental design has been developed. A similar experimental design was developed for thisproject. At this point, the project analysis is still in progress and will be reported in a futurepublication. In the next subsection, we focus on activities carried out during this past summer.3.2 Teacher ActivitiesThe project curriculum can be roughly divided into hardware and software components. Themorning session is more focussed on software components, wherease the afternoon session ismore focussed on hardware components.Software components begin with an introduction to graphical programming languages (RIS 2.0and RoboLab 2.5 (based on