Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michel Reece; Carl White

/CAMRA student where data collection and student assessments are maintained. This service assists undergraduate students in maintaining a balance between academics, training, and research. The data collected is maintained, stored, and can be transferred to other departments within Page 9.441.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education MSU/CAMRA. This data is utilized as a tool to help assess ATMO’s success and effectiveness.A coordinator is assigned to manage each

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Merino

Session 1139 Effectiveness of Teaching Engineering Economics Fundamentals to Undergraduate Engineers Using a Self Taught Computer Tutorial Donald N. Merino, Ph.D. P.E.; Vishwajeet Rana, MBA MS Stevens Institute of TechnologyIntroduction:This article assesses the effectiveness of teaching engineering students using a computerbased tutorial. To test the effectiveness of this method of learning the difference in astudent’s pre and post test scores for individual modules was analyzed. In addition, thecomputer based tutorial individual modules post test average was compared to theaverage grade in traditionally

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

introduce new engineering female faculty to female engineering faculty workingin separate buildings, programs, departments, many of whom one might not everencounter otherwise.With a recent change in administration at both the university and college levels and newpriorities being set, WEFIG has become more formalized in structure. As diversificationof the faculty has become increasingly important, WEFIG has been called upon by theDean to assist in meeting this goal. As a first step, WEFIG has initiated, with supportfrom the Dean’s office, an expanded version of the MIT self-study (MIT, 1999) toinclude issues of gender and ethnicity in assessing the college climate for recruitment andretention of new faculty. This study is expected to expose

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

microcontrollers, includinga project to add a meaningful hardware experience and providing a means for students toinexpensively program their MCU’s at home. We selected the PIC12F675 microcontroller and the PICkitTM 1 FLASH Start Kitdevelopment board from Microchip Technology, Inc. for our microcontroller studies. Teamsof students construct, code, debug and test complete design solutions at home and verify theirimplementation by real-time execution in class. The paintball chronograph project requireshardware and coding for both the PC and PIC12F675, focusing most of the pertinent coursematerial into a single effort. Course assessments show that the chronograph project was very successful and highlymotivational. Hardware construction was relatively

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thorndyke; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

ofcoursework, it may be important to compute their grade point average from subsets of corecourses statistically significant to retention (rather than dividing between the full core set andelectives, as is commonly done), in order to accurately assess their probability of success andrecommend appropriate supplementary study and course sequences to complete their degree.C. Student PerformanceGiven a clear division between the core science courses, we thought it would be interesting tolook at the overall GPVs in each course, and in particular to contrast the performance of theengineering students with non-engineering students. The results are presented in Tables 3 and 4.In Table 3, we see the student performance in each of the 6 predictive courses

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

puszynski jan; David Dixon; Bhavani Puli; James Munro

line. to, the equipment Project Evaluation A survey was prepared to assess the effectiveness of the new experiment. The survey posed six questions to students and provided space for written comments. Table 2 summarizes the results of the responses. Table 2: Student Survey ResultsNumbers represent the percentage of students responding in SA A D SD Neach category*. A1. The experiment was effective as a learning tool. 46 542. The experiment was just another cookbook lab. 8 61 313. The handouts were effective in conducting the laboratory 16 38 15 31 exp.4

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tricia Berry

members and engineering student Program Assistant. Assistants4 – 5 p.m. Keys to Success Participants are given tips on working effectively in teams with concepts reinforced through role playing.5 – 6 p.m. Learning Styles Participants take learning style assessment and appropriate, style-specific study habits are introduced and described for future implementation.6 – 7:30 p.m. Dinner – Meet your Participants meet their assigned engineering student E-mail Mentor E-mail mentor, a resource to them after WE@UT.7:30 – 8 p.m. UT and WEP Engineering students describe

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt; Greg Wilkins; Clay Gloster; Robert Lent; Linda Schmidt

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering"confidence in their ability to cope with a variety of barriers, or problems, that engineeringstudents could potentially experience (e.g., "cope with a lack of support from professorsor your advisor").The outcome expectations measure listed positive outcomes that could result from earninga BS degree in engineering (e.g., “earn an attractive salary”). Interests were measured byasking participants to indicate their degree of interest in performing engineering-relatedactivities (e.g., "solving complicated technical problems"). To assess social supports andbarriers, participants were asked to indicate how

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Will; Doug Tougaw

relationships among faculty and students in the twodepartments and improved assessment results for multidisciplinary teamwork skills.Particular aspects of the course sequence such as writing design requirements, virtualprototyping, physical prototyping, testing, and reporting are described in detail. Specialconsideration is given to the challenges of grading individual members of a team project.1. IntroductionTwo of the most important skills engineering educators can impart to their students arethe ability to design a product or system and the ability to work effectively in teams1-3. Inparticular, since the introduction of Engineering Criteria 2000 by the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology4, multidisciplinary teamwork has been an active

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Miskimins

efforts to foster thisprocedure in multidisciplinary teamwork settings would be extremely beneficial. Efforts arecontinuing to improve the use of cluster analysis in evaluating peer learning. Acquisition ofadditional data is continuing with the MPD class to improve the database. Future quizzes arebeing developed that are more focused on evaluating peer learning and the associatedinterdisciplinary languages. The use and practicality of student interviews to aid in cluster analysisevaluation is also being reviewed.ConclusionThe results of this study show that the multivariate statistical technique of cluster analysis can beused to aid in assessing interdisciplinary peer learning. The limitations of cluster analysis requirethat the technique be used

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

. 185). The design makes use of a strong contextually based “Challenge” followed by a sequenceof instruction where students would attempt to “Generate Ideas” (first thoughts on the challenge),view “Multiple Perspectives” of others commenting on the challenge and possible ways toaddress it, participate in extended “Research and Revise” activities where data and informationwould be gathered to help the student address the challenge, followed by “Test your Mettle” aformative self-assessment and “Going Public” where students solutions would be made public topeers and others. Examples of implementation of this design include Schwartz, et al. 14 andSherwood15. Several other research and development groups have developed materials and

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Aronson; Marie Reyes; Jeff Goldberg

participating students to gather information about attitudes and experiences as women inengineering at the UA. We spoke to students at the beginning of their project involvement for pre-assessment data. Here, the women engineering students talked about having doubts concerningwhether they should remain in engineering or change majors. Reasons for the uncertainty werenever based in academic inability. Instead the doubts were the result of not wanting to sacrificeother aspects of their lives to fulfill expectations for engineering students. Specifically womenstudents spoke of the desire to “have a life”, wanting to combine diverse interests (working withchildren, photography, history, art, etc.) with engineering work, and contributing back to theirown

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacob Chen; Joseph Chen

were easy to understand and apply in the 4.14 final project. 10.5 10. The assignments were always finished on time. 4.14 10.5 19. The D lessons were helpful to enhance my knowledge for 4.14 my future career. 10.5 4. The course appeared to be well organized and presented 4.14 logically. 10.5 7. The reading assignments were appropriate. 4.14 14 13. This course has improved my ability to interpret and 3.86 evaluate information. 15 11. You always got feedback on time when you submitted an 3.57 assignment for assessment. 16

Conference Session

Motivating Students to Achieve

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Socha; Valentin Razmov

turn make it easier to learn project skills, since large projectsare fulfilled by teams working together.This paper describes how we devised a table that allowed us to see how well the practices“covered” each of the levels and to assess whether each collection of practices within a singlelevel was appropriately balanced. In our case, we felt that we had enough coverage and balanceat the time.2. Restructuring the Course Page 9.970.2Four months later, last autumn, we met to organize our third offering of this course. Instead of Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

assessing their ability to apply fundamental knowledge in adesign context. The ECE Design course1,2 is run as a simulated business, with faculty serving as“Engineering Managers” who teach the process of design and manage the learning experience.The students work in three-person design teams to design a viable product, from market researchthrough to demonstration of a working prototype. The student teams keep extensive engineeringnotebooks, report out their work to the faculty and external evaluators in technical DesignReviews, and submit formal design reports.In a recent offering of the course, WPI faculty collaborated with Design that MattersTM (DtM), anonprofit organization that acts as a bridge between students of design and

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Meade

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe students addressed the nine questions shown on the handout during one 50-minute period ofclassroom discussion. No formal assessment of the engineering ethics was planned. The ethicsinstruction was an initial attempt to formally devote several class periods to ethics. I haverecorded the student feedback to each of these questions very briefly as a qualitative assessmentof the instruction.Sustainable developmentFour references to sustainable development occur in the code. Three of these are within theguidelines of the 1st canon. Twice the guidelines refer to the “principles of sustainabledevelopment,” once to the practice of sustainable development and once to duty to extendknowledge of

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox

. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The average student evaluation for the instructor was not significantly different from previousyears (just under 3.5/4.0). However, the average student evaluation of the course wassignificantly higher (3.4), up from a past average of 3.1. The only other statistical changes fromprevious years involve two self-assessment questions. Students rate their own preparation for thecourse (from previous courses) as significantly worse than in past years (2.6 vs. 3.1), and theyrate their attendance as significantly better than in past years (3.7 vs. 3.4). These results lead tospeculation

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Wherley; David DiBiase; Eric Spielvogel; Jonathan Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

majority of the EGEE 101 team’s design efforts took place in four areas; Dynamic,Interactive Content; Assessment & Feedback; Learning Community Development &Communication; Student Management.I) Dynamic, Interactive ContentThe facet of online learning that gets perhaps the most attention from the instructionalcommunity is the continuous effort to turn learning activities online into more interactiveexperiences than their classroom counterparts. Definitions vary widely about what defineslearning material and activity as “interactive”, but the common thread is the notion that studentsare given greater level of control over the progression and display of the material and over thetiming and sequencing of instructional events. How this is

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackie Sullivan; Daniel Knight

Session 1392 Women’s Manufacturing Workshop Series that Supports Inclusiveness and Skill Building in Undergraduate Engineering Education Beverly Louie, Daniel W. Knight and Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Women in Engineering Program/Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractDuring the past six years, pre-semester assessments of student skills have revealed a lack of hands-on experience by women students in the First

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker; David Silverstein

taking courses requiring application ofcalculus concepts would enter the course expecting to use calculus and better prepared toapply advanced mathematics to engineering problems. The success of the project will be Page 8.673.1assessed over a period of 3-5 years using examinations designed to assess preparedness inmathematics at the beginning of engineering courses. Results will be compared betweencurrent students who will not have seen the materials developed in this project, and laterstudents who will.IntroductionEngineering is at its core mathematics applied to physics. It can be argued that without asolid foundation in mathematics at the calculus

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Murphy; Vincent Capece; John Baker

simple structure using Pro/ENGINEERsolid modeling software, and included production of a stereo-lithography (SLA)prototype of their design as a souvenir.The students were graded on their efforts. Initial assessment of the success of theprogram was done through surveys of the participating students. Page 8.1249.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”I. IntroductionWhile engineering is a generally well-known profession among high school students, fewactually know what engineers do in the various

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

CCBC business developer on how todevelop internship opportunities for students. This pilot project will also strengthen faculty tiesbetween the two institutions and open a dialogue between the two organizations that will benefitall students.Assessment and EvaluationTo evaluate Objective 1 (increase high school student interest in STEM) the evaluation team willprepare a questionnaire that the class and high school teacher will use to evaluate thepresentation and activities. This assessment will help determine what was done well, what couldhave been done better, and how improvements can be made to the presentation and activities forfuture high school visits. The information gathered from the evaluation will be disseminated

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in EM ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps

highly dynamic. 3) The web techniques taught closely parallel the methodsused by professionals to select components for a project.In the module, students explore different types and capabilities of available processors anddevelop a sense of how each processor fits into the spectrum. The module uses authenticexercises and assessment methods to enhance the relevance of this experience. Students completea series of exercises to enable them to: 1) Search on-line for available state-of-the-art systems. 2)Select a microcontroller given specifications. 3) Identify microcontroller or embeddedapplications. 4) Select a microcontroller for a given application. Students are encouraged tobecome familiar with embedded computer products from several different

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jill Lynn

conducted needs assessment of currentpromote the fields of engineering and technology and potential aviation students at the Indianapolis Page 8.442.2location indicated high interest in distance curriculum goals and objectives, while at the sameeducation courses. This assessment also showed time expanding the reach of each institution tothat majority of students do not want the traditional populations of students that were previously unablecorrespondence courses with minimal instructor to pursue an education with their institution orcontact, but courses where frequent interaction is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus Carter; Tim Anderson; Brian Thorndyke; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

American Language and Literature at ShandongUniversity, China, and a M.Ed. in English Education at Georgia Southern University. She has published extensivelyand has won numerous awards at the national and regional level in the area of educational research in China. Sheteaches Measurement and Assessment in Education at the University of Florida. Her research interests involveapplied quantitative research designs, categorical data analysis, and structural equation modeling.BRIAN THORNDYKE is a Ph.D. candidate in the Quantum Theory Institute, Department of Physics, University ofFlorida. He received a M.Sc. in High Energy Physics at the University of Montreal, and an M.S. in ComputerScience at the University of Florida. His research interests involve

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

A.K.M. Abdul Quader; Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

. Bangladesh is the fifth-largest supplier ofcotton apparel to the United States and is also a major trading partner in the West Europeanmarket. This unprecedented growth has been a blessing for the economy, but the damage to theenvironment has yet to be assessed. Textile weaving and dying industries are producingenormous volumes of waste effluents containing dyes, alkali, and bleaching agents, usually asmixed-waste and discharged to open waters.The increasing population and higher levels of human activities, including effluent disposals tosurface water and groundwater, have made sustainable management of water resources a verycomplex, challenging task for Bangladesh. In addition, per capita demand for fresh water issteadily increasing as more and

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Clark; Donald McMurchie

forall lecture sessions. We also planned our examinations so that they combined both technologicaland historical concepts.In order to assist students in developing written communications skills, all examinations wereplanned for an essay format, with extensive feedback to students to allow them to improve thequality of their work.To assess the strengths and failures of the class, we decided to give all students an initial inventoryquestionnaire, and both a mid-term and exit assessment of student satisfaction. During the courseof the term we decided to add a focus-group discussion with all students during the ninth week toobtain additional feedback.IV. ImplementationAfter obtaining permission to offer the course from our administration, we both

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Paterson; Samantha De Bon; Jean-Yves Chagnon; Deborah Wolfe

the accreditation system to evaluate the program’s goals. TheCEAB is currently evaluating further use of outcomes based assessment. Another related ideaunder consideration is switching perspectives from evaluating teaching to evaluating learning.The CEAB gives sympathetic consideration to departures from these criteria in any case in whichit is convinced that well-considered innovation in engineering education is in progress. To satisfyaccreditation requirements, an engineering program must include at least a minimum of each ofthe curriculum components specified.The CEAB and Canadian Engineering Constituent MembersIn Canada, the regulation of the engineering profession is a provincial and territorialresponsibility. This responsibility has

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Blowers

list of objectives makes it Describe an action that:easier to construct good tests that assess student • students must be able to do • when they should do itlearning in a course. Exams are normally timed • how they should do itin-class activities that can only cover a finite • and, why they should do it.amount of material. A focused list of objectivesallows the professor to select the most importantinformation to include on the exam. Also, the list Figure 2 - A description of whatcan be used by the professor to create multi- must be included in a goodobjective questions that test students

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman; Gordon Kingsley

their school projects and interactions.We then gave them some basic web site design training as well as an introduction to how the K-12 teachers use technology in their classrooms. The Fellows attended a two-day trainingworkshop provided by one of the school districts on inquiry-based science education, and wefollowed that up with a discussion on problem-based learning. A seminar was held on the “at-risk classroom” and on diversity and equity. The rudiments of classroom assessment techniqueswere covered along with a primer in Bloom’s Taxonomy. Finally we had a basic lesson onsexual harassment and their legal responsibilities.Project EvaluationAt the conclusion of the summer training sessions, one of us (GK - the project evaluator)interviewed