Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Technology Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher R Conty, Editor On Behalf of You

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

& textbook publishing expandedgreatly. As Engineering Technology emerged as a distinct discipline (neither engineering nor“shop”), explosive growth of college enrollments in all disciplines occurred. Existing colleges &universities expanded, while new ones were built right through the 1960's (& some after); two-year colleges formed & expand through the 1970's. 14 Pre-WW II text publishers expanded theirofferings in just about every discipline, & several new textbook publishers started – Prentice-Hall alone launched & then spun off Allyn & Bacon, Charles E. Merrill’s College Division &Reston. By 1975, 30 distinct U.S.-based textbook publishers had post-secondary level titles. 15Many Engineering-level publishers

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Carlson; Renato Pacheco; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco; Walter Antonio Bazzo

by science and technology: tool using culture, technocracyand Technopoly. In the tool using culture, tools were created and used to solve specificproblems or to reach explanations to philosophical or existential doubts. A priori, those toolswould not attack people or culture, maintaining, in a general way, faith, politics, and moralprinciples and beliefs. Spiritual ideas and traditions acted as control power on creation anduse of technology. Science was seen more as curiosity and helped to consolidate the currentfaith values.Technocracy emerged at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of theseventeenth century, as a consequence of the accumulation of knowledge and of the great

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Goodnight

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering”http://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/MA_IssueArchive/0,1400,117411,00.htmlThis link is an issue archive of Entrepreneur magazine and has a search feature, which is helpfulif you know exactly what you are looking for. This site is excellent for specific information. TheMagazines are listed by year/month, so navigation is intuitive. Each issue of Entrepreneurmagazine covers the topics of money, smarts, marketing, management, technology, and beingyour own boss.http://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/MA_FrontDoor/0,4430,,00.htmlThis link is virtually identical to the previous one but this site

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John McGuire; John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

separate engineering into different periods: Agricultural Age (up to 1745AD); Industrial Age (1745 AD-1954 AD); and the Information Age (1954 AD-present) Page 9.1275.6[4]. This is very simplistic though and leaves out many different events during theseperiods. Others break down time into the following periods: Stone Age technology (to c.3000 BC); The Urban Revolution (c. 3000 BC-500 BC); Greek/Roman Technology (500BC-AD 500); Medieval advance (500 AD-1500 AD); Middle Ages (1500 AD-1750 AD);Western technology (1500 AD-1750 AD); The Industrial Revolution (1750 AD-1900AD); Early 20th Century Technology 1900 AD-1945 AD); and the Computer Age (1945AD-present) [11

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sanders; Charles W. White; Sanju Patro

disciplines so that broadlybased business perspectives can be developed within and among the three degreecurricula represented in the department. Curriculum changes have been made to includeinternational business courses. Student Exchange and Study Abroad programs givestudents credit for studies in foreign countries. Long-distance graduate degree programssuch as MS in Information Technology, MS in Manufacturing Operations, MS inManufacturing Engineering, and MS in Operations Management reach students in NorthAmerica, Europe, and Asia. Kettering University is well structured to make seriousattempts to create internationally focused leaders.THE UNIVERSITY SYNERGY PROGRAM CONFERENCEThe University Synergy Program (USP) conferences are venues for creating

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Rogers; Phil Lunsford; Paul Kauffmann

ofspecialists in narrowly defined fields. Finding this talent also presents issues. Local, nationaland global firms all have difficulty attracting and retaining engineering talent in a region that isprimarily comprised of small towns and cities.Development of local engineering talent, with roots in the region, was perceived as an importantelement in solving this issue. However, the dynamic character of such technology-dependentand, typically, resource limited enterprises requires a unique kind of technical problem solver towork in general and, often, emerging disciplines. In this highly competitive environment,technologically-based challenges cannot be neatly categorized along traditional disciplinaryboundaries with highly specialized domain experts

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

Session 1793 Integration of Engineering Principles in High School Algebra Courses Taryn Melkus Bayles Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Anne M. Spence Department of Mechanical Engineering Claudia Morrell Center for Women and Information Technology University of Maryland Baltimore CountyAbstractIn 2003 the state of Maryland implemented an education initiative which requires all Marylandstudents to enroll in algebra classes and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Cyr; Bonniejean Boettcher; Bree Carlson

the newly framedvision for technological literacy presented in Technically Speaking, Why all American Should beTechnologically Literate2, and the International Technology Education Association (ITEA)standards3, lead to the newest Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Frameworks4.Also as part of the education reform act, the state of Massachusetts has implemented a highstakes testing system throughout its pre-college educational system to test student knowledge invarious areas of the state set curriculum frameworks. These tests are known as theMassachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS.) The science andtechnology/engineering exam is currently given to students in grades five and eight, and a tenthgrade exam in technology

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Jacoby

important questions, since their professional survival will largely depend on how well weprepare them to face the realities of our times. We live in very exciting times. A time when, due to rapid increase in globalization andInformation Technology (IT), most products assembled in the United States have more than 70%of their content supplied by various domestic and overseas firms. As examples consider the carmotors fabricated in Japan for the Big Three American car manufacturers, or the many essentialparts and subassemblies imported from all over by Boeing for their planes. In the information andcomputer technologies, and many others, engineers in different countries work and collaborate onthe same project 24/7. It is a time when staying

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports; Carolyn Fausnaugh; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

from the students on the entrepreneurial course contents and logistics At this point, the entries in this area are anecdotal. The students appreciate the practical, hands-on, case-study approach to the course content of the engineering management courses. The “missing” content most in demand by the students is more entrepreneurial finance information and training aimed specifically at non business majors. This year, for the first time, what could have emerged as a serious issue was avoided. Several entrepreneurial students in the engineering management courses declared themselves hobbled – unable to participate in any meaningful classroom discussion about their projects and issues because

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Muniram Budhu

Session 1793 A NEW LEARNING ENVIRONMENT USING REUSABLE, INTERACTIVE LEARNING OBJECTS IN AN ENGINEERING DIGITAL LIBRARY: THE GROW-NCERL PROJECT Muniram Budhu Professor, Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721 USA. E-mail: budhu@u.arizona.eduINTRODUCTIONLibraries have always played a key role in education. They provide a place for the storage andretrieval of a large body of human knowledge. Digital technologies are now transforming andexpanding the traditional roles of library. Digital libraries provide an assortment of tools for auser to search, retrieve, create, customize and share content

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josh Goldowitz

. Theysubsequently perform hydrologic tests and use the results to determine groundwater flowdirection, velocity and discharge. The students then present this information in the form of aconsultant’s hydrogeologic report. This lab activity provides a link between the prerequisite geology class, the corequisitehydrology class, and the subsequent remediation methods class. Students gain the knowledge,confidence and understanding to lead a hydrogeologic investigation of a simple system Theauthor has not collected data documenting improvements in student understanding of thisdifficult subject, but anecdotal evidence indicates that the lab leads to good understanding ofgroundwater flow. Alumni of the Environmental Management & Technology program

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Hadgraft; Mike Xie

Triple Bottom Line Plus One (environmental, social & cultural, economic, governance) provides a systematic approach to begin to unravel just how we might work in the 21st century.This quote neatly summarises some of the key issues that emerged at the stakeholders’meetings, namely globalisation, information and knowledge management and communityawareness, leading to the need for a triple bottom line approach.During the latter half of 2002, a project was initiated to expand these ideas within the contextof engineering [11]. This report defined the sustainability capabilities as: 1. Understanding of, and commitment to, the principles of sustainability and sustainable development, including the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Debra Ricci; Arnold Weimerskirch

fostering personal growth and appreciation for lifelonglearning.The UST School of Engineering employs this philosophy to educate engineers and technologyleaders. We offer Bachelor of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) andElectrical Engineering (BSEE); and Master’s degrees in Manufacturing Systems Engineering(MMSE), Manufacturing Systems (MSMS) and Technology Management (MSTM). We aim toproduce a new kind of engineer and a new kind of leader. By this we mean that our mission is toprovide a practical, values-based learning experience that produces well-rounded, innovativeengineers and technology leaders who have the technical skills, passion, and courage to make adifference. In carrying out our mission, we seek to excel in the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Toshiyuki Yamamoto; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

; Shimura A. (2003). Technology Trends in Human Interaction Conscious e-Learning. The Journal of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering. Vol. 89, No. 11. 826-833.Biographical InformationDR. MASAKATSU MATSUISHIEducation: 1969, Doctor of Engineering, Naval Architecture, Osaka University.Professional Experience: 1999-Present, Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology. 1966-1999, Hitachi ZosenCorporation.DR. KAZUYA TAKEMATAEducation: 1998, Doctor of Engineering, Information and Computer Engineering, Kanazawa Institute ofTechnology.Professional Experience: 2001-Present, Assistant Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology. 1987-2001,Assistant Professor, Kanazawa Technical College.DR. TOSHIYUKI YAMAMOTOEducation

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Drez; Deepthi Werapitiya; Jerald Rounds

the evaluation techniques used for this online delivery program. Inparticular, it looks at the case study of two courses taught by Professor Jerry Rounds of UNM:Construction Safety and Methods Improvement.Course designers felt it was important to integrate evaluation methods upfront not only becauseof the newness of the online course delivery format for engineering courses, but also the need tomeasure the effectiveness of the design and implementation (Picciano, 2001, Moore & Kearsley,1996)1. Moreover, it was determined that evaluative instruments will provide information aboutthe effectiveness of the online teaching and learning environment as well as the platform(WebCT) and related technologies used to deliver the course. Formative

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Elaine Millam

3155 Beyond Professionalism to Leadership: Leveraging Leadership for a Lifetime Elaine Millam, Ronald J. Bennett, Ph.D. Engineering and Technology Management University of St. Thomas St. Paul, MinnesotaABSTRACTIn 2000, our Industry Advisory Board asked how we knew that we were achieving ourmission, how could we determine that our students were becoming the leaders as weclaimed and, further, how would we know what our program was contributing to studentpersonal growth? The ensuing discussion among

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Heaslip

2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Salt Lake City, Utah June 20-23, 2004CAPS Document ID: 2004-1735Title: Bridging the Gap between Post-graduate Engineering Education and Industry NeedsAuthor: David Heaslip, Executive Director Advanced Design and Manufacturing Institute___________________________________________________________________________In today’s industrial business environment there is increasingly high demand for engineerscapable of integrating modern business practices with enhanced skills in engineering designand manufacturing processes, and knowledge of rapidly changing technology

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Eichinger; Mark Wilson; Anton Kruger; Marian Muste; Tao Xing

Environmental Engineering from The University of Iowa (UI) in1995. Dr. Muste is a Research Engineer with IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering (IIHR) and Adjunct AssociateProfessor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. He is responsible for the overall operation of theFluids Mechanics Laboratory of the College of Engineering.ANTON KRUGER received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UI in 1992. Dr. Kruger is aResearch Engineer with IIHR and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment. His area of specialization includes Information Technology, software development for managinggeosciences data sets and scientific visualization, equipment and instrument development.WILLIAM EICHINGER

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

quality of the resources, but at the same timeproviding an appealing possibility for an objective measure of educational excellence,comparable with journal publication metrics for research. In the survey6 of MERLOT and WLHusers, close to 50% of the contributors considered developing learning objects as a way forpersonal growth.However, it is also important to realize that the promise of the radical change in the instructionaldesign paradigm associated with the learning objects is still largely unrealized. Facultysurveys6, 7, 13 still indicate that they overwhelmingly use online technology to provide a one-wayinformation flow of mostly course management information and content. Web technology is stillseen mainly as the broadcast medium, rather

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Morris, Brigham Young University; Dawn Conniff; James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy

communication landscape grows increasingly complex with each passing year. Sinceteaching is, at its root, communication, it is essential that we understand the availabletechnologies and the implications of each new mode as it emerges. In this paper, the authorsexamine the complex and evolving communications opportunities provided by a variety oftechnologies, paying particular attention to the emergence of Instant Messaging (IM) and itscousins. Uses and misuses of this suddenly ubiquitous technology are discussed, and studentattitudes are surveyed. Student use profiles and communication preferences are discussed aswell as anecdotal cases from a recent semester where e-communications were used extensivelyas a means of student – professor interaction

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett

assess this learning, but there aremany pitfalls in this process. It may take months, years or longer for much of the learning to“sink in” and for students to more objectively assess how they have actually benefited from thecourse.To look at longer-term results, a survey was conducted of students who have completed the“Implementing Innovation” course at the University of St. Thomas. As reported earlier, theseare graduate students in Master degree programs in Engineering and Technology Management.They are employed full-time by local industries, varying from Medtronic and 3M to theHennepin County Medical Center, who have emerging leadership responsibilities in theirorganizations. In their positions, they have the opportunity to use the workplace

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mario Simoni; Marc Herniter; Bruce Ferguson

Session 1793 Concepts to Questions: Creating an Electronics Concept Inventory Exam M.F. Simoni, M.E Herniter, and B.A. Ferguson Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 5500 Wabash Ave Terre Haute, IN 47803AbstractConcept inventory exams are standardized tests that have been carefully designed to point out thecommon misconceptions that students have in a specific body of knowledge. We are currentlydeveloping an electronics concept inventory (ECI) exam for basic electronic circuits. In

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Nelson

Emerging Trends Session 1793 Engineering Student Writing Shortcomings and Remediation Strategies Stephanie Nelson, Ph.D. College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology California State University, Los Angeles 5151 State University Drive Los Angeles, CA 90032Abstract — Engineering student reports for senior term projects were evaluated from the threeengineering disciplines taught at California State University Los Angeles: Civil, Mechanical,and Electrical/Computer Engineering. The reports were evaluated for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

Page 9.267.5 on grades submitted by the university staff member. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThesis CoachingThesis coaching is the oldest and most widespread use of industrial teachers within the DelftUniversity of Technology. Roughly 70% of the offshore engineering theses are carried out withsome form of industrial assistance. An offshore thesis last nominally 6 months and in themajority of cases is carried out within industry using their facilities. Industrial theses give theindustry access to the latest information from university courses (via the student) as well as arelatively

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Brigham; Angran Xiao; Kenneth Bryden

Session 2004-1793 Virtual Reality Tools for Enhancing Interactive Learning Angran Xiao 1, Kenneth Bryden 1*, David Brigham 2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50014 2 Iowa BioDevelopment, Indian Hills Community College, Ottumwa, IA 52501AbstractVirtual reality (VR) technology is capable of constructing a user-centered, three-dimensionalenvironment that is familiar to the student onto which abstract and complex information can be imposed.This virtual environment can stimulate interactive learning and comprehension

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Chad Washington; Patrick Norris

Session 1793 The VOS Data Manager: Providing Immediate Feedback on Teaching Effectiveness Patrick R. Norris1, Alene H. Harris2, Chad W. Washington1 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering/ 2 Department of Teaching and Learning Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TNAbstractNew classroom assessment technologies produce large amounts of data. However, providinguseful information to instructors, who may not be familiar with coding or analytic methods,remains challenging. For the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lewinski; William Hudson

learned about hardware design and integration, software engineering and validation, andcompressed design cycles. Students involved in this research have also learned that researchschedules are many times driven by factors outside of their control.IntroductionCurrently there are at least three police officers in this country facing homicide charges becauseof a shooting incident. During the past four years the second author of this paper has providedexpert testimony on human performance in 20 civil cases, 9 criminal cases, 17 grand juries, hasbeen featured twice on Court TV and has been involved in numerous arbitrations. Scientificresearch spanning engineering and human performance is being used to obtain information toappropriately evaluate lethal

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Elizabeth DeBartolo

HENSEL, registered professional engineer, is Professor and Head of the Mechanical EngineeringDepartment and Professor of Microsystems Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He earned his BSin mechanical engineering from Clarkson, and his PhD from New Mexico State University. Page 9.44.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1793Appendix: Sample Information Available

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

agreement of the course instructors, and also departmental and CoEadministrators, that all of the changes have been beneficial and are already driving the rightresults.Bibliographic InformationAs the ECE senior design course sequence is a “doing” experience, information needed by the teams and projects istransmitted by means of meeting notes, much as in industry. There is no textbook assigned for any of the courses.However, typical of the texts which provide good reference information for the purposes of the instructor are:1. Barry Hyman, Fundamentals of Engineering Design (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2003)2. Daniel L. Babcock and Lucy C. Morse, Managing Engineering and Technology (Upper Saddle River, N.J.:Prentice Hall, 2002