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Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

Session 1810 Using ePortfolios to Develop and Assess ABET-Aligned Competencies Thomas J. Brumm, Anthony Ellertson, and Steven K. Mickelson Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Iowa State UniversityAbstractThe Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) Learning Community is using electronicportfolios (ePortfolios) for developing and assessing student competencies. These competenciesare part of the Iowa State University’s (ISU) College of Engineering competency-basedassessment program for ABET student outcomes. ABE students in their second

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jessica Matson

Session 2793 Fuzzy Logic to Assess ABET-Accredited Degree Program Emphasis David Elizandro and Jessica Matson Tennessee Technological UniversityAbstractIn the Self-Study Questionnaire, the ABET definition of well-defined processes necessary toadminister engineering programs is: “Processes for all elements of criteria are quantitativelyunderstood and controlled; clearly tied to mission, program objectives, and constituent needs;seen as benchmarks by other institutions.” To date, there has been little discussion onapproaches to benchmarking programs.Benchmarking consists of

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Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Fazil Najafi; Nick Safai

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

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ted Sarma; Massood Atashbar; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

Session 2132 Real Time Engineering Systems Course; Methods for Self- Assessment and Evaluation Ted Sarma, Massood Z. Atashbar, Hossein Mousavinezhad Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan, 49008AbstractUniversity Computer Engineering programs continue to be a popular draw for students. Still,since they are relatively new, their defining curricula continue to evolve. Traditional courses suchas digital logic, and digital design, microcontrollers, computer interfacing and

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2001 Annual Conference

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Robert Floersheim; Stephen Ressler; Margaret Bailey

Session 2793 Course Assessment Plan: A Tool for Integrated Curriculum Management R. Bruce Floersheim, Margaret Bailey and Stephen J. Ressler United States Military Academy at West PointAbstractAs we enter the 21st Century in engineering education, a common desire exists toimprove curriculum structure, integration and assessment. Much has been written anddiscussed in workshops and professional journals concerning the top-down process forassessing and/or revising a program curriculum. Institutions are finally realizing theycannot afford to rely solely upon the senior capstone design experience to be theintegrator of all

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2001 Annual Conference

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Douglas Goetz; Darin Ridgway; Ben Stuart; Valerie Young; Michael Prudich

Session 3213 Criterion-Based Grading for Learning and Assessment in Unit Operations Laboratory V.L. Young, D. Ridgway, M.E. Prudich, D.J. Goetz, and B.J. Stuart Department of Chemical Engineering, Ohio UniversityAbstractGoals for student learning in Unit Operations Laboratory are diverse. Students are to developskills in the planning and execution of experiments, the interpretation of experimental data, andthe communication of technical information. Additional goals include gaining familiarity withprocess equipment, improving teamwork skills, and developing professional habits in

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2001 Annual Conference

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Karim Nasr; Basem Alzahabi

Session 2793 Development and Implementation of a Course-Level Assessment Plan Karim J. Nasr, Basem Alzahabi Mechanical Engineering Department/Kettering UniversityAbstractCourse-level assessment in the spirit of continuous improvement is key to successful evaluationof an engineering program. The assessment process involves stating proper educationalobjectives and specific course outcomes, forming performance criteria and metrics, and assessingthe achievement of the stated outcomes. This paper presents the development of a coursesyllabus and associated performance criteria and metrics and the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Denny Davis; Larry McKenzie; Steve Beyerlein; Michael Trevisan

Session 2625 Enhancing Scoring Reliability in Mid-Program Assessment of Design Denny Davis, Michael Trevisan, Larry McKenzie Washington State University Steve Beyerlein University of IdahoAbstractFor the past six years, faculty across Washington State have worked to define and measuredesign competencies for the first two years of engineering and engineering technology degreeprograms. A three part performance-based assessment to assess student design capabilities at themid-program level was developed for this

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2000 Annual Conference

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Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Gloria Rogers; Cynthia Atman; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Jack McGourty; Harvey Wolfe

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2000 Annual Conference

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Sima Parisay

Session 2257 Multimedia and Assessment Techniques in an Operations Research Course Sima Parisay California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractThis paper discusses the implementation of multimedia, and its effect on the learning process, inan Operations Research course. WebCT, a World Wide Web course tool, was used for thecourse web site. Web technology was applied extensively in the form of video lectures (thatwere streaming), course web pages, discussion board, email, and Internet search. Students wererequired to prepare an extensive

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2000 Annual Conference

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Kathryn Angelyn Neeley; Ingrid Soudek Townsend

Session 1461 “Naming the Complexity”: Women’s Experience and the Holistic Assessment of Technology Ingrid H. Soudek Townsend, Kathryn A. Neeley University of VirginiaHistorians of technology have long recognized that the development of technology can only befully understood if it is conceptualized as “an integral part of cultural history” (Cappon 1966,p.x). Charles Singer, whose pioneering A History of Technology (1955-58), helped establish thehistory of technology as a distinctive field, asserted that “a history of technology should beclearly related to human history as

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey L. Newcomer

Session 1625 Reassessing Design Goals: Using Design Projects to Meet Assessment Goals Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Ph.D. Engineering Technology Department Western Washington University Bellingham, WA 98225-9086AbstractThe ability to set and assess desired student learning outcomes is key not only to maintaining ac-creditation, but to providing students with a high quality education as well. This paper discussesusing integrated design projects to meet student learning objectives and also to provide

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2000 Annual Conference

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Pamela L. Eddy; David A. Pape

Session 2222 Setup of a Course Level Assessment For ABET 2000 David A. Pape, Pamela L. Eddy Saginaw Valley State University / Michigan State UniversityAbstractThe ABET 2000 accreditation criteria requires that an institution have in place anassessment program to ensure the quality and continuous improvement of the educationalprocess. There have been many papers published in the last few years on the topic ofassessment as it relates to the new criteria. For the most part, the existing literature dealsonly with program level assessment methods, even though a comprehensive assessmentprogram includes both program and

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Christopher Jeruzal; Brenda Henderson; Ahmad Pourmovahed

Session 1395 Assessment of Student Cognitive Development in the Energy Systems Laboratory Brenda Henderson, Christopher Jeruzal, Ahmad Pourmovahed Kettering University, Mechanical Engineering DepartmentI. Introduction Kettering University is a fully cooperative school where students alternate between eleven-week work terms and eleven-week academic terms. The core engineering courses in theMechanical Engineering Department are divided into four threads, one of which is the EnergySystems thread. Students progress through the Energy Systems thread by taking courses

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Patton

Session 2793 Keeping Track of Assessment and Other Quality Control Data under EC2000 James Patton, PhD, PE Electrical and Computer Engineering University of MaineAbstractRecently, our department was reviewed under ABET’s EC2000 criteria. We struggled to strike abalance between gathering sufficient statistics and assessment data, while trying to minimize thecontinuous administrative overhead of doing so. As a small department, we cannot afford to hireadditional personnel to support EC2000. As a result

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dr. Promod Vohra

Session 3560 A Potential Barrier to Completing the Assessment Feedback Loop Ed Furlong, Promod Vohra Northern Illinois UniversityAbstractNorthern Illinois University’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology employs acomprehensive nine-component assessment model. Each element in the assessment model (Pre-test, Post-test, and Portfolio; Standardized Testing; Student and Faculty Surveys; StudentInternships and Cooperative Work Performance; the Capstone Experience; Student PlacementInformation; Employer Surveys; Alumni Participation; and Peer Review of the Curriculum

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

Session #2002 Learning Assessment in Problem-based Learning for BME Students Wendy C. Newstetter, Paul J. Benkeser Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractIn the fall of 2001, the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech inaugurated itsundergraduate degree program. The two anchor courses in the curriculum, BMED1300/2300have adopted an innovative educational approach called Problem-based Learning or PBL that hasbeen used in medical schools for more than a decade. In this approach, teams of eight studentstackle real

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Samira Hasan; Tom Roberts

Session 2793 New Student Orientation Assessment: A Student Council/Dean’s Office Partnership at the College of Engineering at Kansas State University Tom C. Roberts. P. E. & Samira Hasan Kansas State UniversityAbstractThe Kansas State University (KSU) Engineering Student Council (ESC) and the College ofEngineering Dean’s office established DEN 015: New Student Orientation Seminar Series(NSOS) in 1994. (The course identifier DEN is assigned to all Dean of Engineering courses).Emphasis is on new student (freshman and transfer) transition to college life. Students

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

Session 3453 Assessment of an Engineering Outreach Program: Hands on Engineering Laura J. Bottomley, Elizabeth A. Parry North Carolina State UniversityThe College of Engineering at North Carolina State University (NC State) has developed anoutreach program using a unique presentation of interactive demonstrations. The program is usedat school visits at levels K-12 across the state of North Carolina. How effective are such short-term visits to schools or by groups of students to campus? This paper presents a brief descriptionof the program and summarizes assessment results collected

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Adams

Session 1017 A Conceptual Model for the Development and Assessment of Teamwork Stephanie G. Adams, Ph.D., Laura C. Simon Vena, Bianey C. Ruiz-Ulloa and Fernando Pereira University of Nebraska-LincolnAbstract This article presents a newly developed conceptual mode l to assist in the development ofeffective teams; to assess team effectiveness and to measure the growth of individuals working inteams. This model, to be carried out in three phases, will reveal that when individuals have aneffective teaming experience the following

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Gardner; Harold Ackler; Anthony Paris; Amy Moll

Session 2553 Rethinking First Year Engineering at Boise State: Assessment and Improvement John F. Gardner, Harold D. Ackler, Anthony J. Paris and Amy J. Moll Boise State University Boise, Idaho 83725AbstractBoise State University offers three undergraduate engineering programs, Mechanical,Civil, and Electrical & Computer engineering. The engineering program at Boise Stateis relatively new with its first BS degrees conferred in 1997. Like most engineeringprograms, we offer a 3-credit course to first year engineering students. When theprograms were first conceived

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Daughton

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Jordan; Stan Napper; Melvin Corley

Session 1566 Doing Assessment During a Time of Administrative and Curricular Change William Jordan, Mel Corley, and Stan Napper College of Engineering and Science Louisiana Tech UniversityAbstractOur university has recently gone through the ABET EC-2000 review process. Like many otheruniversities, we have integrated this process with our efforts to improve assessment of our academicprograms and college operations. This paper documents some of the processes that we havesuccessfully developed to deal with these issues.There are some things that made our

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul King; Joan Walker

Session 2002-1225 Concept Mapping as a Form of Student Assessment and Instruction Joan M. T. Walker, Paul H. King Psychology and Human Development / Biomedical Engineering Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37203AbstractAs part of a concerted effort to improve Biomedical Engineering (BME) education, theVanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT Engineering Research Center (VaNTHERC) is investigating alternative methods for assessing students’ conceptual knowledge,and integrating an array of diverse competencies into the curriculum. One potentiallyuseful tool for

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2001 Annual Conference

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Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

Session 3630 The ExCEEd Teaching Workshop: Participants’ Perspective And Assessment Ronald Welch, Janet Baldwin, David Bentler, David Clarke, Shawn Gross, Joseph Hitt United States Military Academy/Roger Williams University/ University of Kentucky/ Clemson University/Villanova UniversityAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of the ExCEEd (Excellence in CivilEngineering Education) Teaching Workshop (ETW) through daily documented thoughts,feelings, and impressions of one team, consisting of four participants with

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2001 Annual Conference

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Denise Nicoletti; John Orr

Session 2532 An Implementable/Sustainable Outcomes Assessment Process for an Electrical Engineering Program Denise Nicoletti John A. Orr Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractThe ECE department at WPI has adopted four principal means of assessing program outcomes:course-based assessments, assessments of each senior project by the project advisor, acomprehensive biennial review of senior projects, and an annual senior survey. The course-based assessment component is both one of the more important assessment aspects, and one ofthe more difficult to

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2001 Annual Conference

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Constantin Chassapis; Kishore Pochiraju; Sven Esche

Session 1566 Implementation of Assessment Procedures into the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Sven Esche, Kishore Pochiraju, Constantin Chassapis Stevens Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe Department of Mechanical Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT) is aiming atdevising a modern engineering program that reflects the recent nationwide trend towardsenhancement of traditional lecture-based courses with a design spine and a laboratory experiencethat propagates through the entire educational program. Another thread to be woven into the

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2001 Annual Conference

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April Brown; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

Session 2592 Institutional Self-Assessments as Change Agents: Georgia Tech’s Two Year Experience April Brown, Donna Llewellyn, Marion Usselman Georgia Institute of TechnologyIn January 1999, the results of two institutional self-assessments were reported at the GeorgiaTech President’s Cabinet meeting. This marked the culmination of a five-year effort to evaluatethe status of women at Georgia Tech and to help warm up a climate perceived to be inhospitableby many female students and faculty. These self-assessments, the InGEAR Report on the Statusof

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Patricia A. Ralston, University of Louisville; Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University; David Wheatley, University of Louisville

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NSF Grantees

AC 2011-417: IMPLEMENTATION AND ASSESSMENT OF CASE STUD-IES IN A FRESHMAN ENGINEERING PROGRAMJames E. Lewis, University of Louisville James E. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals in the J. B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. His research interests include paral- lel and distributed computer systems, cryptography, engineering education, undergraduate retention and technology (Tablet PCs) used in the classroom.Patricia A Ralston, University of Louisville Dr. Ralston is currently professor and Chair of the Department of Engineering Fundamentals and an As- sociate in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Louisville. As

Conference Session

Pedagogical Innovations in Laboratory Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alyn Marie Turner, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Shirley Dyke, Purdue University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2011-1505: INNOVATIVE SHAKE TABLE LABORATORY INSTRUC-TION: IMPLEMENTATION AND ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARN-INGAlyn Marie Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison Alyn Turner is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests are in education policy evaluations, social stratification and inequality, and sociol- ogy of education.Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison Sandra Shaw Courter is co-PI for ”Deployment and Integration of Shake Tables Using the NEES Cyber- infrastructure.” She is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Engineering Professional Development and Wendt Commons: Teaching and Learning Services. Her area of research is