Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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K.L. Jordan, Michigan Technological University; Anahita Pakzad, Michigan Technological University; Renee Oats, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineers that are produced through internetbased engineering education. Both faculty and students feel that engineering studentsneed hands on experiences and personal interactions. In industry social skills are neededfor interaction in the field. As technology continues to advance, internet based learning islikely to grow among campuses. As long as safe and interactive tools are implemented, awelcoming internet based environment may drive the future of internet based engineeringeducation.Future work requires the creation and validation of an assessment that can be used todetermine the effectiveness of internet based engineering education compared with thetraditional classroom setting. Factors to be addressed in this assessment include but arenot

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiffany Veltman, University of Calgary; William (Bill) Rosehart, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Denis Onen, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2011-2066: EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS OF FRESHMAN DESIGNCOURSES IN ENGINEERINGTiffany Veltman, University of Calgary Tiffany Veltman received her B.Sc in software engineering from the University of Calgary, AB, Canada in June, 2010. Currently, she is pursuing a Master’s degree at the University of Calgary, in the field of engineering education research. Specifically, her research is focused on developing qualitative metrics for the assessment of student learning and engineering curriculum.William (Bill) Rosehart, University of CalgaryProf. Marjan Eggermont, University of CalgaryDenis Onen, University of Calgary

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University; Shelby Gilbert, Ed.D., Florida Gulf Coast University; Yves J. Anglade, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Minorities in Engineering

dearth of students with strong skills in STEMfields. FEF hires and pays certified teachers and an administrator for each camp, as well as acollege or graduate student(s) to assist camp teachers. Staff also administers at least foursimulated SAT math assessments. It is believe that this repeated exposure to the test and testingenvironment help students alleviate anxiety and common test-taking missteps, such as theimproper use of time and guessing. Daily hands-on activities which are structured to apply mathin projects from exciting fields like aerospace technology, robotics, engineering, computing arepresented. To date, a total of 1,815 students have graduated from FEF summer collegepreparatory programs. In 2010, 392 students participated in

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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Computing & Information Technology

needsThe administration of a large wiki textbook project is demanding, encompassing aspects oftopic selection, communication, role and responsibility assignment, assessment andmonitoring. 1. Signup sheet. Only a limited number of students or teams must be allowed to select any particular topic, to assure that all the topics will be chosen by somebody. Passing around a signup sheet in class means that some students get first choice because of where they sit in the classroom. Using standard software tools for this task—shared spreadsheets or message boards, for example—is unreliable, since these tools don’t have any way of preventing “too many” students or teams from signing up for a

Conference Session

Faculty and Program Developments, Exchanges, and Partnerships

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sowmya Narayanan, VIT University; Muniratnam Adithan, VIT University, Vellore; Robert C. Creese, West Virginia University

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International

education setup. With internationalization of education we need to revampour curricula, objectives and methods of assessment. With global universities entering into theIndian educational market, our education systems needs a thorough facelift. It should provide anopportunity for students to explore their ideas. It needs to inculcate the creative and criticalthinking in our students. Students need to solve problems that don‟t exist, now. The 21st Century learners prefer processing and multitasking, prefer processing pictures,sounds, prefer receiving information quickly from multiple multimedia sources, prefer paralleland video before text, prefer to interact/network simultaneously with many others, prefer instantgratification and instant

Conference Session

Capstone Courses and Design Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania; Craig W. Somerton, Michigan State University

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Mechanical Engineering

, student assessment wasdone solely with personal interviews.1. Introduction Student design competitions can provide an excellent opportunity for both undergraduatestudents and instructors. While time is usually the most constricting factor in the lives of bothstudents and faculty, teaching independent study courses that involve the completion of projectsto compete in student design competitions is a great way to maximize the results of time spent.Instructors can introduce material necessary to a design project to a small group of studentswithout preparing involved lecture notes and homework sets. The instructor can then getimmediate feedback in the small independent study meetings when the material is presented, andthey can provide more

Conference Session

IE Technical Session II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jose F. Espiritu, University of Texas, El Paso; Heidi A. Taboada, University of Texas, El Paso

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Industrial Engineering

thiscomponent are complete handouts including (i) student activities, (ii) classroom modules,extensions, and homeworks and, (iii) teachers handouts in the Renewable Energy Systems andNatural Resources area. The main goal in the connection component is to build strongerconnections among different institutions, therefore guest speakers are invited to come to ourUniversity with the objective of providing a seminar, reviewing the curricula developed, share allmaterial developed and explore ways for future collaborations. Formative and summativeevaluations are used to assess the objectives of the BEES model.1. IntroductionThe United States is currently facing a critical challenge to transform our current fossil fuel-based energy economy to a stable and

Conference Session

General Topics in Graduate Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Naji Khoury, Temple University; Jyothsna K. S., St. Joseph's College, Bangalore, Department of English; Amithraj Amavasai

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Graduate Studies

workplace but also society atlarge7.Ethics is an important subject and should be an integral part of any engineer’s actions. However,very few teachers include ethics as a significant part of the graduate study. Over the past severalyears, engineering colleges have been formulating and implementing assessment and feedbackprocesses for improving their curricula as required by the ABET accreditation criteria. Throughthese processes, many departments identified a need to improve the ethics components of theircurricula. Since there is no consensus on learning objectives or pedagogical approaches for ethicseducation, Faculty in many engineering colleges including the authors of this paper haveintegrated ethics into their curricula rather than having

Conference Session

Computer Science Applications

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norena Martin-Dorta, University of La Laguna; Isabel Sánchez Berriel, University of La Laguna; David López Rodríguez; Héctor Amado; Jose Luis Saorin, Universidad de La Laguna; Manuel Contero, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación en Bioingeniería y Tecnología Orientada al Ser Humano (I3BH)

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Computers in Education

types of exercises.• Verify the effectiveness of the mobile game through spatial visualization enhancement.• Assess users’ work overload with respect to the number of exercises and level of difficulty in each competition.• Test our tool among middle and secondary school students.• Develop an English version of the application, considering the third angle projection system.• Test and port the mobile game in other devices (such as iPad and other tablets).AcknowledgementsThis work was partially supported by grants from the Spanish Ministry of Education (Ref.EA2009-0025) and ESREVIC Project (Ref. TIN2010-21296-C02-02) from the SpanishMinistry of Education under the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Betsy Palmer, Montana State University; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Betty J. Harper, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Dan Merson, Pennsylvania State University

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Design in Engineering Education

teaching approaches of engineering faculty. Dr. McKenna received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.Betty J Harper, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Betty Harper is the director of Student Affairs Research and Assessment at Penn State. Prior to assuming this role, Betty worked in Penn State’s Center for the Study of Higher Education as the Senior Project Associate under Project Directors Lisa R. Lattuca and Patrick T. Terenzini on two NSF-funded stud- ies of engineering education: Prototype to Production and Prototyping the Engineer of 2020. She also worked with colleagues Lisa Lattuca, Patrick Terenzini, and J

Conference Session

Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saeed B. Niku, California Polytechnic State University; Ross James Miller

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Instrumentation

layers of silicone foam with detailed painting between coats to match human skin.)The Educational ObjectivesThis project was performed as a Masters thesis, and therefore, it was assessed through awritten thesis1 and an oral defense. It was deemed appropriate for this purpose due to itscomplexity and the need to research methods for construction of the sensors and thesubstrate, and to develop the design. However, with the accumulated knowledge, it ispossible to use this idea for further development as a senior project, individual projects,group projects, or in-class projects.In senior design classes where each group works on a different project, the artificial skinidea may be assigned to one group of students

Conference Session

Factors Affecting Student Performance

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Muhammad Zafrul Hasan, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

circuits, scan testing, Boundary ScanTesting (BST) of integrated circuits and their assembly are quite relevant in this respect. Also,Built-In Self Test (BIST) of complex systems, memory and processor testing and testing ofcellular arrays are important. This paper presents an outline of such a course with laboratoryactivities and assessment strategies. Also, it assesses the performance of students in relatedcourses in order to justify the appropriateness of such course in the above mentioned engineeringdisciplines.IntroductionMotivation and rationale: Digital systems are built from simple logic gates of assorted types.Building and testing such gates in isolation is a trivial task for electrical, computer, andtelecommunication engineering students

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1999 Annual Conference

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Tom Gasque Smith; Deanna E. Ramey

assessments ofstudent writing often seem, at best, subjective, and, at worst, biased.Tutor/consultants who engage engineering faculty and students in conversation use theseconversations as starting points for discussing writing, not as non-writing issues ancillary to theconstruction and design of a student lab report or faculty grant proposal. When, after thequestions of a non-expert tutor, a student writer says, “What I meant to write was ‘. . .’”, thestudent views the new statement as found words. But the tutor views such moments as createdknowledge. Whether the knowlege is created or the words are found, this movement fromimplicit to explicit expression in texts occurs more quickly when consultants/tutors are familiarwith the micro- and macro

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1999 Annual Conference

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George H. Williams; James . Kenny

studied in an earlier digital hardware module. Because the weather station consists of amodular set of sensors, it can be augmented or upgraded as the project is reused. In addition tothe temperature sensor, commercial sensors for humidity, and rainfall were purchased. Studentsdesigned, fabricated, and calibrated a wind speed sensor was fabricated. Currently, the studentshave formed a club that is looking after the weather station and continues to develop it. Becausethere are a number of commercially available weather stations and components, the studentsmust continually assess the relative merits of buying or building the components.Project 7. The Newcomen EngineThe Newcomen engine is an atmospheric pressure steam engine that was a precursor to

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1999 Annual Conference

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James Pearson

courseare being met to some degree. The course has now been offered for seven years and hasevolved each year. The written materials (books and handouts) are essentially the same.Better feedback on oral presentations is now being given through discussion with eachgroup after their presentations. Peer assessment has been more recently used to give agreater spectrum of input to the grading process. A new means for students to keep upwith their own grade at three week intervals will be provided in a handout listing eachassessment situation, the possible score and their score.This has been an excellent learning experience for the students in both groups(engineering and graphic design). It has also been a stimulating experience for

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1999 Annual Conference

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Sohail Anwar; Frances Winsor

the Penn State Altoona’s School-to-Work coordinator. Finally, the paperdescribes the outcomes and the assessment of the above mentioned internship program forstudents.IntroductionThe BSEMET Degree at Penn State AltoonaThe Bachelor of Science in Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology (BSEMET) programat Penn State Altoona is designed to meet industry’s needs for professionals who can work onsystems, machines, and products that have both electrical and mechanical elements.The program emphasizes a breadth of knowledge in all fields of engineering technology relatedto typical manufacturing, production, and assembly plant process. Basic coverage is providedin all major areas involved in the operation and control of manufacturing and

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1999 Annual Conference

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Sohail Anwar; Frances Winsor

Page 4.341.1describes the outcomes and the assessment of the above mentioned internship program forstudents.IntroductionThe BSEMET Degree at Penn State AltoonaThe Bachelor of Science in Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology (BSEMET) program atPenn State Altoona is designed to meet industry’s needs for professionals who can work onsystems, machines, and products that have both electrical and mechanical elements.The program emphasizes a breadth of knowledge in all fields of engineering technology relatedto typical manufacturing, production, and assembly plant process. Basic coverage is provided inall major areas involved in the operation and control of manufacturing and production processes,including instrumentation and monitoring methods

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1999 Annual Conference

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Takayuki Sugita

assess the learning he acquired of CAD. The drawing adopted for the testwas the same as the one used during the training, because it seemed to be appropriate as a testsubject based on the training contents and working time. The grade points of the test were givenbased on the mistakes made on their drawings. For every wrong element, three points were de-ducted. The total number of elements in the drawing test is 102.In addition, questionnaire survey on CAD proficiency and training was carried out individually toevaluate students' understanding, interest, intention, attitude and working time. Results of ques-tionnaire survey and individual drawing test are summarized in Table 2 and Table 3 (appendix)respectively. "Basic operation" of item 4 means

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1999 Annual Conference

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Patricia Click

course will include a unit on the role of the press and photography. In addition toprobing the impact of reporting on the home front, the unit will explore the relationship of thepress to war strategy. Historian Eric T. Dean Jr. has postulated that the communicationsrevolution exerted a great effect “on the perceptions, expectations, and the course and outcomeof the war” (Dean 1995). Others, most notably Brooks D. Simpson, have disagreed (Simpson1997). It will be necessary to assess the wide-ranging significance of communicationstechnology in the war effort, as well as its impact on the outcome.V. Development of Critical Thinking SkillsAs outlined, the course units will offer many occasions for reflective and analytical readingassignments

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1999 Annual Conference

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Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Zina Ben Miled; Paul Salama; Mohamed El-sharkawy

courses, the paper will presentthe results of our continuing efforts to assess student satisfaction of the PCB/ASIC designlaboratory as well as our progress in the two laboratory components.I. IntroductionWith the continued and rapid increase of computer and electronic equipment usage, electronicmanufacturing has become a significant sector in the manufacturing industry. Electronicproduction worldwide is undergoing a revolutionary change in both component manufacturingand manufacturing techniques used in chip and board technologies. These new technologies havereduced component size and costs, and have improved the reliability of electronic products.Advancing the state-of-the-art in electronic manufacturing technology presents a challenge

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1999 Annual Conference

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Phylis Katz; Howard A. Canistraro; Ann Lankford; Joan Dannenhoffer; Janice Girouard

“ party school” . These results were given to the Office of Residential Life for further study. Everyeffort was made to keep all results anonymous by the use of a standard questionnaire and mixing of allsection responses before compiling the results.A reduced version of the syllabus is included in Appendix A.IV. Assessment Measures of the First OfferingAt the end of the first offering of the course (December 1997), a student survey was given in whichstudents could give short answers to several questions. Three of the questions dealing directly with thecourse are given below, along with the primary responses and their percentages (note: these are theresults from all three sections). 1. What is one aspect of the course you liked? (instructors

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1999 Annual Conference

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Loren Lutes; James T. P. Yao

, this may not automatically increase the demand for civilengineers. The demand for these professional engineers with post-baccalaureate education willdepend on the decisions of employers. The civil engineers could essentially lose the job marketof employers who conclude that a four-year education is adequate to their needs.Another issue that should be considered in assessing the adequacy or inadequacy of the currentsystem is the level of preparation of the incoming students. In particular, if the studentsgraduating from high school now are better educated than those of one hundred years ago, thenone must also presume that current graduates of a four-year curriculum are at a very differentlevel that those of the past. The authors can certainly

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1999 Annual Conference

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S. Mouring; S. Brown; P. Mead; M. Natishan; I. Goswami; C. Lathan; Linda Schmidt

systems builtaround sound education principles. We also believe that a training system with a proven trackrecord would additionally sway many faculty members who simply want to eliminate poor teamperformance from their courses. The time to develop high quality team training materials is now.3.2. Student Focus Groups: Some Teams Fail to Thrive in Our Own BackyardsThe course instructor’s opinion is only one side of the team effectiveness evaluation equation.We must also determine the engineering student’s assessment of the current team projectenvironment. To do so, we developed a protocol for conducting student focus groups. (SeeTable A in the Appendix.) Student facilitators organized, conducted and summarized datacollected from ten focus groups

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1999 Annual Conference

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Chuck Keating; Paul Kauffmann; Abel Fernandez

: n ∑c j =1 ij 16 m n = = 0 .12 (12 %) (4) ∑∑c 128 . 6 ij i =1 j =1These columns (row total and normalized row total) will be used to answer questions in the nextsection. 2. Assessment of Proportional Work Package ImpactThe second question asks whether the impact of the activities on the tenure objectives isconsistent with the objective importance (weight). The normalized row totals (last column) ofExhibit 5 provide the basis to analyze this issue. By

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1999 Annual Conference

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Trevor Harding

they relate to authority?• How do they relate to their students?What are GSIs concerned about?The concerns of GSIs vary widely, but in general, they follow similar distinctions as thedevelopmental process. At the senior learner stage, GSIs are concerned with "survivalissues" (e.g. How will I dress? Will students like me? Am I able to teach this subject?).At this point GSI anxieties are at their highest. Students at the colleague-in-trainingjuncture are more concerned with developing the appropriate skills (e.g. How do I gradepapers? How do I organize a lecture?). Finally at the junior colleague stage, GSIs aremore concerned with outcome assessment (e.g. Why aren’t my students learning fracturemechanics? How can I motivate them to read the book

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1999 Annual Conference

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Melissa S. Tooley; Kevin Hall

Session 1625 Using a Capstone Design Course to Facilitate ABET 2000 Program Outcomes Melissa S. Tooley, Kevin D. Hall University of ArkansasAbstractABET 2000 challenges colleges of engineering to produce graduates with professional as well astechnical skills. Specifically, ABET Criterion 3 (Program Outcomes and Assessment) outlinesthe desired attributes for graduate engineers. Capstone design courses are one of the mosteffective ways for engineering departments to facilitate the outcomes described by ABETCriterion 3.This paper discusses how the civil

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1999 Annual Conference

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Steven L. Cohen; Dennis P. Slevin; David I. Cleland; Kim LaScola Needy; Heather Nachtmann

theupcoming board meeting and pertinent information required to discuss agenda items. Corporateboards should be informed about the current external environment, their competitor's strategies,their company's strategies, resource deployment, customer satisfaction and the business model. 2Boards must receive information from various sources including outside stakeholders, customersand employees. 3After decades of excessive spending, rapid expansion and poor decision making, AlleghenyHealth Education and Research Foundation (AHERF) filed for bankruptcy in July 1998. Thedirectors were unable to adequately review and assess the documents that were prepared for eachboard meeting. At times, these documents consisted of more than 1,000 pages of information

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William Darby; Richard Grodsky; Joseph Pietroburgo; Nancy Shields

examination is designed to determine whether or nota student is ready to take College Algebra and Trigonometry.The evaluation of the engineering component of the project was designed to measure attitudinalchange in several different areas, as well as to evaluate the specific activities that were offered.The attitudinal aspect of the evaluation was based on work by Besterfield-Sacre, et al.,5 Hoitand Ohland,6 and Courtner, et al.7 Several subscales (and a few individual items) weregenerated to assess change in the students’ attitudes toward various aspects of engineering. Thestudents were asked to respond on a five-point scale from strongly agree to strongly disagree tothe items below. All items and subscales were scored so that higher values

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2000 Annual Conference

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Joseph R.V. Flora

buildings, andevaluating water quality in local rivers. An evaluative questionnaire was distributed to thestudents to assess the effectiveness of the open experiment compared to the traditionalexperiments in enhancing the student learning experience. A statistical analysis performed on theresponses to several items on the questionnaire showed that students believed that the openexperiment provided a better learning experience compared to traditional experiments. Studentresponses to open-ended questions revealed that most students enjoyed the experience ofperforming an open experiment and that it should be included as part of the laboratory class.IntroductionAn ongoing movement to improve the science and engineering education experience

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2000 Annual Conference

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Steven Brown; Sarah Mouring; Patricia F. Mead; Marjorieanne Natishan; James Greenberg; Corinna Lathan; David Bigio; Indranil Goswami; Linda Schmidt

styleperspectives. Students complete a Kolb learning style inventory and discovering their own style,and that of their teammates. The exercise can continue to include demonstrations of the value ofworking on teams with diverse learning styles.3. BESTEAMS Focus Group General Results Found Institution-Based DifferencesDuring 1998 and 1999 we have tested the EPTTS on over 400 students at BESTEAMS Partnerinstitutions. A description of the EPTTS Training is available in a companion paper by theBESTEAMS project, titled “Engineering Project Team Training System (EPTTS) for EffectiveEngineering Team Management.”4Our assessment plan for the EPTTS system includes conducting focus groups on engineeringstudents at partner institutions. We have developed a protocol