Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; Teri Rhoads; Kurt Gramoll

. Before describing some specifics of our project, it is useful to reflect on past approaches to teaching core knowledge in the engineering curriculum. Literature suggests that it typically follows one of three models: 1) traditional; 2) integrated; 3) in-between [9,15,20,33]. In the traditional approach, core subjects are taught by faculty in their respective disciplines with little regard for the ultimate application. This approach, as cited earlier, is one of the reasons for low retention rates [6,15,17,19,31]. An integrated core approach is one where students learn multiple

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Yang; Andrew Bennett; Steve Warren

unguided. The JavaScript syntax checker has helped Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationsomewhat in this regard, since it locates mismatched/missing parentheses and unrecognizablevariables. Multiple choice questions can address this issue, but they are not as effective from alearning standpoint. Since problem sets can be submitted until a student achieves their desiredscore, it would simply be too easy for a student to obtain scores that do not clearly reflect theirlevel of understanding. In fact, there is not currently a good way to make computer homeworkfeel like the same experience as handwritten

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacie Edington; Melissa Eljamal; Stella Pang

context of the region where engineering solutions willbe implemented. Because these courses are not offered every semester, the PGE also permitscourses that allow a student to independently focus on cross-cultural issues. Students can use anIndependent Study option to work with a faculty member whose research involves working withinternational colleagues, suppliers, etc. Strict guidelines for the independent study project havebeen developed (how much interface necessary with international counterparts, plans forpersonal goals on improving skills, and a reflection paper) to ensure that the student gains insightinto cross-cultural challenges. One other option is for students to take part in an EngineeringCross-Cultural Training Series. This option

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

(Mwhen in association with Btu means thousand). In Equation [1], S is the slope of the Y(X) line incents/kwh/$/MMBtu or 10,000 Btu/kwh. As discussed in “Co-utilization of Domestic FuelsBiomass Gas/Natural Gas” Green, A., Swansong, G., and Najafi, F., we can relate S to the netplant heat rate (NPHR) (19, 20) or to the efficiency viaS = NPHR/10,000 [2] orS = 34.12/Eff [3]The constant K (in cents/kwh) mainly reflects the capital investment, the normal rate of ownerreturn and operation and maintenance (O&M) expenses. Lowering K and S as much as possibleso to lower the cost of electricity is the goal of true

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Riggins; Bruce Mutter

from the encoders contains position, velocity, and azimuth. • Diffuse Sensors – By emitting light that reflects from a surface back to thesensor, the frequency can be analyzed and compared to a programmedfrequency. The sensors can be programmed to detect a particular frequency (color)on the ground. • Proximity Sensors – By emitting light that reflects from a surface back to thesensor(s), the proximity sensors can find obstructions.Computers The computing system isdivided into two parallel systems.A central computer is responsiblefor planning paths, forcontrolling the vehicle, and forinterfacing to all sensors exceptfor the vision. The secondcomputer system dedicates itself

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

mental capabilities (such as vision, hearing, health, and judgment/reaction time) of the olderpopulation, traffic officials in certain areas of the United States have changed certain parametersin road design to accommodate (i.e. or to increase the comfort and convenience for) the needs ofthe elderly in all facets of transportation; whether it be as a pedestrian, a passenger, or a driver.The parameters that have been implemented have also been studied since implementation. Thosestudies reflect on how different cities and states have used or not used the parameters and theireffectiveness on traffic. Still there is a great diversity among states regarding how elderly driversare considered and accommodated. Greater emphasis on implementation of

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Hvid Nielsen

goon in an iterative process with scientific methods available and usable for the actual topic. It is likewalking in a staircase. Seen from above it can look like walking in circles, but seen from the side,the students’ position, one can recognise a constantly increasing level.The supervisors of project-organised education need to be aware of that and not press the projectgroup too hard in the first part of the project period. If that phenomenon is not taken inconsideration, the students will tend to fall back to the ‘Do as Learned Method’ and find onlyconservative solutions.Process-based model for contingency - a dynamic approachThe core of the model is a balance between attention to and reflection on the potential opportunitiesand resources

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Ramsey-Idem; Sally Pardue; Kristine Craven

. Girl Scouts exchange swaps, small crafts that canbe worn on a vest or hat, when they attend various activities. These swaps are meant to representthe person giving the swap, this could be something personal, local, or regional depending onwhen, where, and with whom the swaps are being exchanged. The activity leaders distributeswaps that are relevant to their specific activity. Thus each team of participants will have adifferent set of swaps at the end of the day, highlighting the activities that they completed. Theseswaps are displayed prominently on the bag they received, or somewhere on their person. Theseare meant to be a more personal reflection of the EAF experience.Adult WorkshopIn conjunction with EAF, a program is conducted for the

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Bryan Norman; Jayant Rajgopal; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

feedback on teamworkabilities, and perceived course integration. At the end of each problem, the student teamspresented their findings, results and recommendations in an oral presentation as well as a writtenreport. Both the oral presentations and written reports were graded by each instructor in thecourse using rubrics developed for each. In addition, for each project the students ratedthemselves and their team members on their teamwork capabilities through a two-pagequestionnaire. Because the course was primarily graded based on team collaboration, it wasimportant for the students to reflect through open-ended questions and along seven differentdimensions of team contribution (i.e. attendance, preparation, contribution, work load,timeliness

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Penny Hirsch; Ann McKenna

Evaluating Student Confidence in Engineering Design, Teamwork and Communication Ann F. McKenna1, Penny Hirsch2Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science1/The Writing Program2, Northwestern UniversityAbstractMany researchers have focused on the role of confidence and motivation on learning and havesuggested that students be encouraged to engage in reflection about the role of their self-perceptions in achievement. In this paper we explore how students’ confidence levels changeduring our freshman engineering design program. During the 2003-2004 academic year weimplemented a survey designed to measure students’ confidence

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

ofimplementation was $156,000 in 2003 and $97,000 in 2004. The decline in funding reflected asharp decline in corporate donations, resulting from an economic downturn. 2003 contestexpenditures included prizes, travel and lodging expenses for finalists, advertising, an awardsbanquet, and salary for the Contest Coordinator. As a result of the declining project budget, wewere unable to purchase advertising for the 2004 contest. The awards banquet was eliminated,and the prize package was cut back sharply.Project AssessmentIn assessing the extent to which this project is meeting its goals, we measured three differentoutcomes using the assessment instruments indicated in Table 1. OUTCOME INSTRUMENT Extent to

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Loralee Donath; Nadia Craig; Nancy Thompson; Michael Matthews

RCS sessions students are often asked to verbalizehow they learned something. This helps the student monitor their understanding and learning.They are also required to write a reflection on what they learned and what they are going to donext after each weekly session. This helps them hone their metacognitive skills.At the beginning of the semester, the students are required to develop a task plan with the help oftheir advisor. This task plan spells out the specific deliverables that are to be completed beforethe end of the semester. These deliverables are then evaluated by the University of SouthCarolina’s Office of Program Evaluations (OPE). The OPE staff uses a rubric that was createdspecifically for this purpose.8 For each meeting

Conference Session

Security

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hua Xu; Ronald Glotzbach; Nathan Hartman

, American Society for Engineering Educationdevelopers write secure code. It helps security professionals conduct security review in a timelybasis. It also enables system administrators to secure Web applications across the multiple layersof the application infrastructure. The ultimate goal of this strategy is to protect Web applicationsin a proactive, systematic, and holistic way.1. IntroductionIn general, security concerns confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and data.Confidentiality refers to the ability to ensure that information is private to the authorized partiesand protected from unauthorized disclosure. Integrity reflects the accuracy of information andrequires technology and processes that prevent unauthorized parties

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Noah Salzman; Christopher Emery; Kevin Kloesel; Sandra Cruz Pol; Omnia El-Hakim; Kathleen Rubin

graduate credits through the University of MassachusettsDivision of Continuing Education.CASA is a complex, multi-disciplinary project divided into three research thrusts: Page 10.298.2sensing, distributing, and predicting. To help the teachers understand how a complex Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationengineered system is comprised of multiple parts, we decided to present the content ofthe KCI in modules reflecting each of the CASA research thrusts. We presented moduleson radar and

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Craig; Maurice Aburdene

realization that what mattersis what students learn and can do after completing a program of study, not what the teacherknows or can do. This shift in understanding is reflected in the criteria that are now applied toschools by the various accreditation agencies2, 3. Increasingly, they look for evidence ofassessment methods used to measure specific educational goals, rather than just to provide agrade for a course.No single best method exists for learning assessment, but written evidence of a consistent andwell-organized process is advantageous, if not essential, for ABET accreditation. The methodpresented here can be helpful in recording, comparing, and consolidating the results of variousassessment means. While this method does not address the

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Jacquelyn Sullivan

dualbenefit of developing a strong sense of trust, openness and camaraderie among the students. Page 10.1304.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationWeekly Journaling — Students keep a digital journal of their weekly in-class teachingexperiences and their reflections about those experiences. The journaling helps the studentsreview their own performance and provides a confidential mechanism for them to communicatewith the instructors, typically about challenges they encounter in their team

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gregg

criteria may appearsuperficially minor, the required effort to make the change reflects on it’s importance. In Dr.Splitt’s words ‘Engineering programs must then demonstrate that their students attain an abilityto design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints suchas economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, andsustainability, as well as demonstrate the broad education necessary to understand the impact ofengineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.’6‘Green’ engineering is the terminology currently in use to describe the process of designing andproducing goods, services, or processes, taking into consideration the effect

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Russomanno; Anna Lambert

commitments,yet she was retained in the University as a part-time student. Interestingly, hercircumstances have changed and she is currently a CSEMS recipient for the 2004-2005academic year, meaning she has been able to return to her studies on a full-time basis.Goal 2’s objective to decrease the average time to degree completion for CSEM studentsalso compares favorably within the Herff College of Engineering, and The University ofMemphis total student body as well. Seven (7) of the initial twenty-five (25) recipientsgraduated within the first year of the program, and nine (9) graduated within the secondyear of the program.Program data revealed that Goal 3 was met as the 2002-2004 CSEMS graduates reflect ahigher percentage of underrepresented

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kerry Kinney; Tricia Berry

a graduate student working in that Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationarea. A key component of the GLUE program is the relationship that develops between eachundergraduate student and their graduate student mentor as a result of working together on aresearch project of mutual interest. The undergraduate participants keep written logs throughoutthe semester to document their work and to reflect on their research experience. These logs areturned in weekly and reviewed by the GLUE coordinators to make sure that each project isevolving smoothly and that no problems have developed.Participating

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Norman D. Dennis

instruction rather than38 pedagogical theory.3940 The final workshop format proposed by the program design team used the ETW99 format as a41 basis for future workshops. All proposed changes kept the fundamental ETW99 program, with42 its vital practice classes, demonstration classes, and stimulating environment, intact. The43 proposed focus of the ETW continued to emphasize basic teaching improvements for junior44 faculty. The program design team created objectives for the workshop that reflected this focus45 and a set of expectations for participants that would help in selecting applicants for the46 workshops. During the workshop: Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Brandon W. Olson

% Division of team workload: Somewhat unequally divided 37% Accurately reflect contribution 57% Peer evaluations: Adequately reflect contribution 37% Excellent 49% Overall grading: Adequate 50% Positive 65% Overall experience with TBL Neutral 29% Fig. 5 Summary of student responses to the team based learning survey. Not all

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Mosborg; Robin Adams; Rebecca Kim; Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman; Jennifer Turns

? Certainly, critics have questioned the relevance of the model toreal-world engineering practice. Ferguson,17 for example, has challenged the ability of the blockdiagram to adequately reflect the contingent nature of design. Despite being an accepted modelfor how design should work, he argues, if blindly used as a roadmap, the block diagram maymislead novices into thinking design is a process completely under their control. Bucciarelli2,18sees the block-flow model as only partial explanation of the design process, reflecting design’s“object-world” aspect of formally measured work with physical materials, but not its “process-world” aspect of narrative experience and social interaction. In this study, we explore expert engineers’ conceptions

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Jeanine Casler; Bugrahan Yalvac; H. David Smith; Gulnur Birol; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

writing guidelines from their instructors and if so, in which courses these guidelines are distributedf) the courses they have taken in their majors and the written exercises these courses includeIn developing the faculty and the student surveys, two members of the research team, who arecommunication experts, led the discussions to categorize the communication skills that alignwith commonly held standards in the field, as demonstrated in leading technical communicationtextbooks3, 4; best practices from industry, gathered from the consulting firm of CommunicationPartners5; research in technical communication6, 7,8 and team members’ mutual agreement. Wesettled on eight categories of skills that reflect a well-written paper, as listed in Table 2

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Tillison; David Hand

and reflection” while the aim of theremaining two statements is to “…elicit responses from students as to their overall assessment ofthe instruction24.” This survey also provides students with an opportunity to state the aspects ofthe course the teacher should retain and those aspects he/she should change for the proceedingcourse.The students’ course work, which includes team laboratory reports and posters for the spring2004 session, was collected to be analyzed in order to assess students’ understanding of keycourse concepts. Unfortunately, a pre-test activity was not conducted at the beginning of the Page 10.683.9semester; therefore, the

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Rene Reitsma; Martha Cyr; Nancy Shaw; Michael Mooney; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Paul Klenk

Collection Growth — The vision for the TeachEngineering collection is thatcontents increase at least 10-fold in the next three to five years, due to contributions from a broadspectrum of both engineering educators and K-12 teachers. This requires the establishment ofquality assurance and quality control mechanisms to maintain high standards for the collection’scontent, as well as a central processing capability for newly submitted curricula.Collection Maintenance — Collection maintenance challenges abound, and include routineupgrading of the system software, responding promptly to broken web links, and upgradingcurricular components to reflect user feedback.Expanding the State Standards to Include All 50 States — As the TeachEngineeringcollection

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jo Howze; Jefferey Froyd; Kristi Shryock; Arun Srinivasa

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”experiences [1]. Beginning with the 2003-04 academic year, the College of Engineering createdthree different tracks for first-year engineering students, depending on their major. Students whohad elected to major in Aerospace, Civil, Industrial, or Mechanical Engineering were assigned toTrack A. Students who had elected to major in Computer or Electrical Engineering wereassigned to Track B. Students who had elected to major in Biomedical, Chemical, or PetroleumEngineering were assigned to Track C. Content of the two first-year engineering courses in eachtrack was modified to reflect the goals of faculty members in

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Panhans; Joseph Musto; William Howard

The Engineer of 2020, biological applications offer a potential career path for the“next generation” engineer. Whether at the level of bioengineering (tissue engineering, drugdelivery), biomedical devices (pumps, filters), or bio-inspired applications (bio-inspiredcomputing), a further convergence of traditional engineering and the life sciences is expected1.ASME echoes this sentiment, implying that biology “warrants formal recognition as a foundationscience of mechanical engineering along with chemistry and physics”.2 While this has not yetbeen reflected in the Mechanical Engineering program-specific requirements by ABET4, whichstill require only “chemistry and calculus-based physics”, it is reasonable to assume that abiology requirement may

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationA number of these courses have been revised or newly developed specifically for the EEprogram. Extensive research was conducted to insure that the EE coursework reflects both theleading edge of technology and the requirements of industry. The revised or newly createdcourses include:Freshman Design (ENGR 197). A course with introductory projects to introduce students toengineering in general, with part of the class dedicated specifically to EE. In previous years,ENGR 197 was TECH 197 and consisted of introductory topics in Engineering Technology,invited speakers, and a

Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil

sequence, to be taught by the math department later in the curriculum. The resulthas shifted the traditional emphasis on math prerequisite requirements to an emphasis onengineering motivation for math, with a just-in-time placement of the new math sequence. Thecurrent paper summarizes the motivation, goals and development to date of the WSU model,which is currently in its first year of implementation. The paper reflects modifications since theapproach was first reported one year ago, and includes a preliminary assessment of studentperformance and perception during the first run of EGR 101.Introduction The traditional approach to engineering mathematics education begins with one year offreshman calculus as a prerequisite to subsequent core

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Bilodeau