Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Johnson; Mary Vollaro

various sorts appear as a mainstay over the years.These efforts are above and beyond our interaction with NEW. These experiments have beenfocused by education level (K-12, K-20, lower division/undergraduate, upper division/graduate,majors, non-majors), but have appeared in all five years.Curricula development has appeared regularly. Some of this has been oriented towardaccreditation, but most is of a general nature (e.g. ‘materials curricula’).Teaching methods is also a common topic. This is folded into curricula development in somecases, or even the ‘Activities’ category. However, it is has a specific meaning and wasresponsible for a sizable number of abstracts in 2002.There have also been ‘alternate materials’ of various titles through the

Conference Session

Materials Science for Nonmajors

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Bahr; M. Grant Norton

NOVA WGBH Educational Foundation 2002The videos are used to generate topics for class discussion and some of the questions on theweekly quizzes are based on material in the video. Page 9.42.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationStudent FeedbackThe student response to date that we have received for this course has been extremely positive.In addition to receiving very high overall student responses on the standard College ofEngineering student evaluation forms we

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

Session 1121 Innovations in Construction Engineering Education: Rudiments of a Senior-Level Topics Course Virendra K. Varma, Ph.D., P.E. Missouri Western State CollegeAbstractThere is an urgency for reform in engineering education. The new accreditation criteriaEC2000, and TC2K of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)for accrediting engineering and technology programs respectively, encourage innovationsin curriculum design. The criteria are outcomes-based, and non-prescriptive. However,there are constraints in what educational institutions can and can

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

focus on the problems ofteaching and learning in K-12 classrooms. Research in chemistry education, for example, hasprovided useful insight into the problems children have understanding heat and temperature orthe problems high school students have when trying to master the task of balancing a chemicalreaction. While this research is potentially useful for those who teach in the elementary, middleand high schools in the U.S. and abroad, it does not necessarily address the problems that facultyface when teaching sophisticated topics in science, engineering, and mathematics at theuniversity level.For examples of research that does address sophisticated topics focused at the university level,consider several projects recently completed by graduate

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

Session 2238 Learning Theories: Applications for Instruction in Constraint- Based Solid Modeling and Other Engineering Graphics Topics Nathan W. Hartman, Theodore J. Branoff Purdue University/North Carolina State UniversityAbstractConstraint-based modeling tools, as well as computer graphics tools in general, offer the usermany choices in commands and techniques for creating graphics, which forces the user to have astrategy or plan as they proceed. The formulation of this plan is often dependent on theintegration of existing knowledge and current factors, such as customer specifications

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Duesing; David McDonald

is being created with grants from industry and the National ScienceFoundation. The development has included extensive student participation. The paper discussesthe project background and educational need for this laboratory. The paper also discusses thelaboratory development process along with information on unique instructional equipment thathas been designed in the areas of machine control and energy conversion.IntroductionThere is a national need for engineering graduates who are prepared to enter the energy-relatedindustries. This is especially important with increased dependency upon sophisticated computer-based systems, deregulation and the resulting “rolling blackouts” in recent years, and thepossibility of major blackouts. National

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Barron; Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Robert Pangborn; Thomas Litzinger

this new strategy was the survey administered to recentalumni. Both the departments and the programs were interested in the perceptions of studentsrelative to the eleven program outcomes specified in the general criteria of the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology and in gaining insight as to the curricular elements orexperiences that students equate to their level of preparation in these areas. Specifically, thesurvey probes the various professional and workplace activities in which graduates are involved,as well as their perceptions of their undergraduate education and how well it prepared them fortheir chosen career path.The alumni survey is administered every two years and is sent to alumni who graduated two andthree years

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

Session No. 1621 Systemic Framework for Planning of Construction Education for the Next Generation in the United States. Erdogan M. Sener Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Abstract:Construction work that will take place in the United States in the next few decades will befundamentally different from the type of construction work that has been typical in the last fewdecades. The titles of the traditional construction and construction management undertakings interms of design, estimating, costing, bidding, specifying, scheduling

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Eugene Audette

adecline in the number of students in graduate engineering programs and a flat number ofengineers graduating from undergraduate programs. This is of significant global importancesince the rest of the world is producing engineers at much higher rates. In Europe and Asia, a fargreater percentage of university students are enrolled in engineering education. That maypartially explain why so many manufacturing jobs are moving overseas.What is the cause of this low level of interest in engineering in the United States? There aremany possible causes, but one seems to clearly relate to the lack of compelling engineering Page 9.150.1courses taught by

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Krupczak

. Under this new arrangement, student performance in the secondyear has been comparable to classes in previous years in which general physics served as aprerequisite. The class average on exams in the second year Introduction to Solid Mechanics andIntroduction to Electronics courses has remained similar to previous years.IntroductionThe Engineering Program at Hope College experienced a precipitous decrease in retention of Page 9.1065.1students from freshman to sophomore year. Attrition occurred even among students who started “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Luegenbiehl; Kathryn Neeley; Jerry Gravander

appropriate to the student's field of study. The engineering sciences have their roots in mathematics and basic sciences but carry knowledge further toward creative application. These studies provide a bridge between mathematics and basic sciences on the one hand and engineering practice on the other. Engineering design is the process of devising a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. It is a decision making process (often iterative), in which the basic sciences, mathematics, and the engineering sciences are applied to convert resources optimally to meet these stated needs. c.) a general education

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Elizabeth DeBartolo

their thesis work at this time, they often lack the softerskills that many educators remember learning from their graduate student peer groups when theywere in school. Since RIT is a primarily undergraduate institution, where many of the MSstudents are just advanced undergraduates, this peer group does not exist for many of our dual-degree students who are taking four courses per quarter, holding down jobs, and participating ina variety of on-campus extracurricular activities. To facilitate this skill set development in earlyBS/MS students, a graduate seminar series has been piloted this year. Topics have been selectedand timed to help guide students through the process of finding a thesis topic/advisor, startingtheir thesis research, and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clive Dym; Anthony Bright

required for graduation. It is not surprising, then, giventhe severe time constraints, that the initial course offerings of the engineering program wereheavily oriented towards a general engineering science curriculum with five required courses inelectrical, mechanical and materials engineering, an engineering lab course, two courses inengineering design and analysis and a choice of four technical electives in various engineering Page 9.637.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdisciplines. So

Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Jacobson

education Iowa State University and its InformationAssurance faculty created an Information Assurance graduate Certificate Program. Since thecreation of the MS degree in Information Assurance there has been a large demand for several ofthe courses by computer professionals who already had an advanced degree or who are notinterested in the MS degree. As part of its land grant mission Iowa State University created aspecial graduate degree called a certificate which consists of at least 3 graduate courses.Students completing an Iowa State University certificate program receive this indication on theirtranscripts and receive a paper certificate.In November 2000, Iowa State University created an interdisciplinary Information AssuranceCenter2 with

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hancock; John Norton

semester of instruction. The GSM program complements the orientation andtraining that the GSI receives by providing mentoring and support throughout each semester thatthe GSI teaches. This paper will elaborate on the details of the GSM program at the Universityof Michigan College of Engineering from a mentor’s point of view and will provide someexamples of typical GSM/GSI interactions. In addition survey data from GSIs will be presentedto characterize the overall effectiveness of the GSM program.1 IntroductionThe Chronicle of Higher Education has reported that many colleges are making efforts to betterprepare their graduate students to teach in the classroom1. These efforts are generally focused oninstructional programs which provide Ph.D

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Kavetsky

, each university will receive support directly from ONR for graduate “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”students, post-doctoral students and faculty to perform research on topics deemed of nationalinterest in USW by ONR. It is intended that the participating students/faculty will be paired withone of the naval organizations working on problems of interest to ONR and the particularorganization. This will assure the educational continuity and sustained research accomplished inuniversities is supported by the ONR undersea weapons NNR program.The University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) was

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

education. Inherent in this is the need to support the K-16 educational pipeline that willproduce the next generation of their professional colleagues. It is important to lead throughexample, so the microEP faculty and administration have pursued resources to activelyparticipate in all of these activities. The microEP program has received NSF IGERT, REU,RET, GK-12, and MRSEC awards; and a Department of Education FIPSE award to implementthe microEP educational concepts in the traditional Physics Graduate Program.The history of the microEP program formation, along with the details of its approach to graduateeducation, have been fully described in a paper presented by the authors at the 2002 ASEE

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

purpose to discuss their relative merits; neither Page 9.267.1side is expected to change their position. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationMost curricula in Delft use persons from outside the academic environment to enhance theirprograms on a (formal) part-time or even a more ad-hoc basis. The offshore engineeringcurriculum does this more than others, however. This has been motivated partially by the need toprovide optimum coverage of a variety of topics with only a small core team of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

a valid assumption. Further, some universitiesoffer little faculty mentoring and the new professor must “sink or swim” his way to success. Toavoid frustration, guidelines are presented to help the new hire avoid “trial-and-error” mistakesand they fall into three general categories: peer networking, teaching skills, and timemanagement. Of these, teaching skills require the greatest attention. The new professor isencouraged to incorporate active learning exercises into his lecture and to integrate cooperativelearning project in the course syllabus. Finally, attending a teaching workshop such as the NETIsponsored by ASEE is a great way to acquire an introduction to effective teaching techniques.IntroductionMuch has been written about a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

Session 2171 Design and Startup of an ABET General Engineering Science Program. Doanh Van, PhD., PE., CEM Associate Professor and Chair Engineering Union UniversityI. AbstractUnion University started up its new engineering program in 2001. The program offers aBachelor of Science in Engineering with a specialty in either Mechanical Engineering orElectrical Engineering. The first graduating class will be in May 2005, which will pave the wayfor the application for ABET accreditation1 (EAC) in 2006.This paper presents a case study to discuss and

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Chen; John Tharakan

Program (NAFP).The paper describes NASA’s education framework and outlines the enhancement of graduatechemical engineering education in the department through enhanced elective course offerings,expanded research opportunities and networking to broaden research and employmentopportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, concluding with the critical role NASAhas in promoting and impacting engineering and science graduate education. "To inspire the next generation of explorers...as only NASA can" is the NASA educationprogram's mission. This “can-do” concept guides all NASA’s programs and activities andrequires a diverse pool of talented scientists and engineers. The NASA NAFP Fellow and theDepartment of Chemical Engineering at Howard

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Dockter; Carol Muller

graduate students was generally higher than the overall response rate 26.Overall mentor and student satisfaction with the program has been high each year. Highlights ofevaluation findings for students include improved self-confidence (50% of student participantssaid MentorNet increased their confidence to succeed in science or engineering; 52% saidMentorNet increased their desire to pursue a career in their field) and enriching educational andpersonal experience (94% of student participants would recommend MentorNet to a friend; 64%were satisfied or very satisfied with their MentorNet experience) 26, 36. Page 9.488.6 “Proceedings of the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Zeytinci; Philip Brach

now Xerox Corporation hashelped to fund what is called “The Xerox Fellows Program” (so named in recognition of theirsustained support). This program provides a small stipend for the student and one for a facultymentor. The mentor and student agree upon an appropriate research topic. A school committeereviews and ranks the proposals; the Dean then ranks the fellowships. The fellows’ experiencehas been very beneficial to both students and mentors who have participated in the program.This paper is a brief overview of the Fellows Program, including selected examples of studentresearch projects.IntroductionOne of the most beneficial aspects of graduate studies is the opportunity for students to work asgraduate assistants in either teaching or

Conference Session

Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lerzan Özkale; Fatma Küskü; Gülsün Saglamer

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering"graduates who were placed in ITU with the first general entrance exam of 1974. Womenengineers graduating from ITU increased rapidly, reaching 525 in 2003 [9]. As many otheruniversities joined ITU in graduating female engineers since 1933, the total figures are muchhigher for Turkey as a whole. The historical data were obtained from ITU archives and thus cannot be compared to the other universities for which this type of data is not public.Nevertheless, according to the press release of the Turkish Chamber of Engineers and Architectson March 8th, 2003, only one sixth of the engineers and architects registered to 23 chambers

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Theodore W. Manikas; Gerald R. Kane

of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section ConferenceGuided Reading AssignmentsIn order to develop graduate student research and communication skills, many graduate coursesrequire students to complete a research paper. The traditional approach is to assign the researchpaper, and assume that the students will be able to complete this paper by the due date. Eachstudent is responsible for determining how to select an appropriate topic, find related articles,and compile this information into an acceptable research paper. Initially, we tried this approachin our graduate courses; however, we discovered that there was a wide variety of quality in theresearch papers. While some

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

the subject is the first and foremost item to be addressed To give the teaching assistant direction in the types of comments to make on undergraduate papers. To provide examples of text with types of comments to make. To give ideas on general grammatical mistakes made by undergraduates To prepare teaching assistants for the role of flow master through effective paragraph construction topic sentence or idea supporting informationThe graduate students learn how to serve as readers by looking at the big picture: the total lookand feel of the paper, remembering that the subject matter is most important. Secondarily theylook at the grammatical elements that are evident or

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Lewis; Carol Considine

on using Mult-Sim version 7. Electrical history is added to the content to generate some interest in students who may be more inclined toward choosing this major. Their grade for this session is based on their ability to successfully simulate the circuit. Page 9.1019.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education • The Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) three-day session provides brief introduction into the available areas of study within MET. The

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Messervey; MAJ Dave Borowitz; LTC Keith Landry; Ronald Welch

the world in which our future army officerswill be leading soldiers’ demands that each graduate of the United States MilitaryAcademy at West Point be a disciplined problem solver who has internalized theengineering thought process. In fact, Engineering and Technology is the first of sixdomains of knowledge listed under the Academy’s Academic Program Goals (Page 6 –Educating Future Army Officers for a Changing World1). As such, every future “armyleader” at West Point must take an engineering sequence, or “track,” as part of theiracademic program regardless of major or field of study.The Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering offers two of the six availableengineering sequences at the Academy: civil and mechanical engineering

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

Diversity Seminar “In thearea of Engineering Technology, there is a need to add a sense of diversity to the curriculum.Graduates of the program have generally stayed within the state, and often within the immediatecounties that surround UPJ. More of our graduates are venturing across these boundaries andare finding a world that is different from the one in which they were raised. Diversity issues arenew to many of them and it is important that we bridge this gap in their social education”.In the process of preparing the students for the reality of working in a diverse domesticworkplace or perhaps in an international environment, the instructor shared with students aspectsof his own experience working in diverse environments. The instructor also

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Denton; Heather Cooper

maintenance a practical approach to maintaining rotating equipment. Previouslythe responsibility of consultants who analyzed the condition of a handful of critical machines,monitoring programs were expanded to include necessary supporting equipment (pumps, motors,compressors) and duties were shifted to a combination of skilled trades personnel, maintenanceengineers, and technicians in-house1. This shift from consultants to maintenance professionalscreated an educational void, where graduate engineers and engineering technologists lacked theknowledge needed to successfully manage predictive maintenance programs2.An initial pilot version of MET 317 Machine Diagnostics was offered in the fall of 1990 to sixsenior Purdue University MET students to begin