Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil

received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in1998. Professor Klingbeil is currently leading NSF supported research projects in the areas of manufacturingscience and engineering curriculum reform. He is the recipient of several awards for his work in engineeringeducation, including the ASEE North Central Section Outstanding Teacher Award (2004), and both the CECSExcellence in Teaching (2002) and Excellence in Professional Service (2004) awards at Wright State University.RICHARD E. MERCER is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Wright StateUniversity. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Washington in 1980. Professor Mercer isactive in curriculum reform

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Milton Bryant; Paul Biney

x 4093 Finite Element x x x x M10 x X x M M45 4123 Energy System x x x x X M20 M15 x M15 M40 x x 4473 Senior Project I x x x x X x M20 M45 X M70 M15 x X x x 4483 Senior Project II x x x x X x M20 M45 X x M15 x M50 x x 3031 Manuf. Processes Lab x x x x M10 M10 CVEG 2043 Engr Mechanics I x x M10 M5 CVEG 2053 Engr Mechanics II x x

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh; David Gibbs

conditioning of a material at higher temperatures. This paper describes theconception and execution of a laboratory to improve undergraduate students understanding ofcomplex material behaviors. In addition it includes portions which enable the student to quantifyphenomena often discussed only in a qualitative fashion. Laboratory procedure for theexperiment is described in detail. The laboratory presents theory and application in naturalfashion, linked and mutually supportive. The paper discusses the exceptionally positive impactthat this immediacy has on student learning.IntroductionThere is renewed emphasis on laboratory experience and project based learning in undergraduateengineering education, coupled with widespread belief that interdisciplinary

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erick Jones

Books, 1992).Bauch, Garland T., Chung, Christopher A.., A Statistical Project Control Tool for Engineering Managers, Project Management Journal 32(2): 37-44.Bohlen, George A., Lee, David R., Sweeney, Patrick A. “Why and How Project Managers Attempt to Influence Their Team Members” Engineering Management Journal, Volume 10 No. 4 (December 1998), pp. 21-28.Bureau of Labor, Labor Letter, (Washington: US Department of Labor, 1966).Chermiss, C.(1980b). Staff Burnout: Job Stress in Human Services, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.Chung, Christopher A. Simulation Modeling Handbook, A Practical Approach, (New York: CRC Press, 2003

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Nelson; Barbara Olds; Monica Geist; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

-0127806), a team of researchers atthe Colorado School of Mines (CSM) is creating a concept inventory to measure engineeringstudents’ understanding of difficult concepts in thermal and transport science, the Thermal andTransport Concept Inventory (TTCI). [1] Our project began with a Delphi survey of experts todetermine the concepts that were the most difficult and important for engineering studentsstudying thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics. [2] Once the key concepts wereidentified, we created open-ended questions related to each concept and asked students to thinkaloud as they answered the questions. Multiple-choice questions were then developed usingstudents’ misunderstandings as documented in the think-alouds as the basis for

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Ahmed Khan

their self-reported learning/success. The paper also presents recommendationsfor enhancing student learning by enhancing faculty technical currency. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationI. IntroductionPurpose of the StudyThis paper presents the results of the second phase of a two part research project. The purpose ofproject was to explore faculty and students’ perceptions of the importance of faculty technicalcurrency for their self-reported learning/success. The first phase of project explored the facultyperceptions of the importance of faculty technical currency for student learning/success

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

support of the US Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA), a Green Engineering Project has fostered efforts to incorporate green engineeringinto the chemical engineering curriculum. This paper focuses on the integration of greenengineering concepts into the courses in the chemical engineering curriculum that coverseparation processes (distillation, extraction, absorption, membranes, etc). The paper describeshow the green engineering topics are “mapped” into a separations course and presents a sampleof the novel types of problems that were developed for instructor use. Green engineering is defined as the design, commercialization and use of processes andproducts that are feasible and economical while minimizing: generation of pollution at

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Constantin Chassapis; Hamid Hadim; Kishore Pochiraju; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard; David Vaccari

, - Projects, ME Program Committee Select Student Work to represent Outcomes - Laboratory, etc. proposes changes to - Courses or Program, - Program Outcomes, or - Assessment Process Students Complete Course Survey via the Compile Information into Web SPAD Form

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Land

commercial systems designed to support web-based collection of assessment data.[6,7]Most of these systems are designed to support portfolio development or to permit individualfaculty members to establish and monitor student performance against self-specified courseobjectives. When looking at the needs of the Penn State programs and circumstances, thesesystems and approaches either did not offer the flexibility that was desired, were focused oncollecting fundamentally different information than was planned at Penn State, or involved much Page 10.867.4more expense than was felt feasible. Instead, a project was undertaken to develop an in-house

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Gerhart

6 are also followed. Themore rules that are used, the more shocking and awing the presentation will be. Keep in mindthat the presentation took very little time yet was effective at LTU.There are many ideas for shocking and awing presentations that take very little time. To recruitmechanical engineering students, a university may want to present a demonstration aboutprojectile ballistics. A shocking and awing demonstration can accompany the presentationinvolving the burning of smokeless gun powder and black powder. The resulting smoke andflame will shock and awe the students (see Figure 2). The SAE Formula Car performing variousmaneuvers can be used as an awing demonstration. One of the senior projects teams built a 2person hovercraft (see

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Bowman; Cliff Goodwin

proud ofhimself. He had learned a great deal about online course design. His pride however wasnot sufficient to overcome his sense of frustration at how long the project was taking andhow it was interfering with his other responsibilities, especially his research, writing andhome life. Twigg kept track of his time on the project and had logged about 200 hours onthe project thus far. He feels like a permanent fixture at the Center for Teaching andLearning. He even attended an office birthday party for one of the center’s staff memberslast week. He had attended way too-many-to-count group training sessions, not tomention all the individual consultations with the center’s staff. The really depressing part,Twigg kept thinking, was that he was only

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoAnn Lighty; Holly Moore; David Richardson; Nick Safai

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary A. Nelson; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

“alternateconceptions”).1 The topic has garnered considerable interest among engineeringeducators over the past few years and several concept inventories on engineering-relatedtopics are being developed, most notably by the group led by Evans associated with theFoundation Coalition.2 The goal of our project, funded by the Assessment of StudentAchievement (ASA) program at NSF, is to develop and test an inventory for the thermaland transport sciences, based on the model of the Force Concept Inventory pioneered byHestenes and colleagues.3 Once our CI has been developed and validated, it will be madeavailable to interested engineering faculty for use as a classroom formative assessmenttool that can provide valuable information for tracking student understanding

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Ramani; James Fenton; Suzanne Fenton

of the undergraduate curriculum (freshman through senior) andcan be used in multiple classes (Freshman Engineering, Intro to Chemical Engineering,Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Transport, Laboratory Practice, and Electives) to illustrateappropriate material. Figure 1 contains a concept map linking modules to concepts within thecurricula that are addressed in this paper. Use of the modules can be preceded by classroomdiscussions of the hydrogen economy, its projected political, social, and environmental impacts(both locally and globally) and/or the challenges associated with converting to such an economy.The modules can also be modified for use at the pre-college level for a wide variety of projectsand/or simple in-class or public

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Marybeth Camerer

of education and curriculum matters thanat other universities, particularly in undergraduate education. For example, new courses can becreated without any approvals from outside the home department.Decentralization means that there are few barriers to starting a new project, but little assistanceprovided to support the new effort, or to help a project through temporary difficulties. Funding isalso quite decentralized: In the Engineering School, departments receive a block budget basedprimarily on the level of research contracts and credit hours taught.Due to the selective excellence philosophy, Hopkins has achieved leadership in the fields ofmedicine and public health, but does not have a business school, law school, or education school.(It

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patsy Brackin; Clark Merkel

Design Intent.At which point the person who added the statement gets 30 seconds to explain why it isnot (if they can). The players (including any eliminated members) vote to agree ordisagree with the challenge. If the challenge is upheld, then the person who added thestatement is eliminated from the round and their statement is removed from thespecification. If the challenge is vetoed, then the student who challenged the specificationreceives a black mark. Any challenger receiving a third black mark is eliminated from theround. Play continues until only one person is left. By completing this game, studentsget some idea of the complete nature needed to specify all aspects of a project to bedesigned and manufactured.Communication

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

and thetime element assigned to the particular project. In addition, the user must have a thoroughunderstanding of the software functionality and the ability to gather information related toimplementing a particular modeling strategy. This process of strategy development andimplementation coincides with components of learning theory. As engineering graphicseducators, it is helpful to reflect on how students learn in our classrooms and laboratories as wellas reflect on how we develop instruction. This paper outlines three theories of learning that areapplicable to graphics education, discusses the assumptions about the learner and the learningenvironment, presents the components of learning for each theory, discusses major issues relatedto

Conference Session

Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Horvath; Cecilia Lucero

persistence in science and engineering graduate programs. Uncovering Page 9.646.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe nuances of underrepresented minority (URM) graduate students’ experiences is key toaddressing issues of enrollment, persistence, and attrition. To this end, the National Consortiumfor Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) is proposing aqualitative research project designed to understand the socialization of underrepresented minoritystudents in STEM

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wiley; Hamid Khan

number ofalternatives were examined as potential projects of research with the problem of performanceappraisal systems and their effectiveness. For this research study, the inherent problems ofperformance appraisal using forced ranking system will be investigated and the effects of forced-ranking as an effective appraisal method will be examined for the technical personnel. Page 8.908.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationINTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM AND BACKGROUND According to Oberg

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Wickert; Gregory Plett

through extra examples and clarifications.I. Project ObjectivesIt is our premise that students in any class might benefit from electronic course supplements suchas: printed lecture notes, audio or video files of lectures, homework hints, homework solutions,worked example problems, sample tests and computer code to implement or demonstrate sometheory learned. An efficient means to distribute these supplements is via the internet. Theinnovation described in this paper is the result of a project with three main objectives: 1. Develop standards of style and format for on-line course supplements and for the parts of the course web-site documenting the supplements

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicolae Dragulanescu; Carmen Boje

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard M. Single; William S. Carlsen; Christine M. Cunningham; Carol B. Muller; Peg Boyle Single

multi-institutional program MentorNet allows for significant economiesof scale in administration as well as opportunities for program growth because it can reachbroader and deeper pools of mentors and students and can provide mentoring at campuses wheresuch opportunities might be limited. (See Table: MentorNet’s Actual and Projected GrowthChart). The size and structure of the program permits MentorNet to develop and employspecialized systems and resources, such as a web-based interface to a customized, relationaldatabase related to a set of computer programs to optimize the matches between mentors andstudents and personalized, customized communications with participants. A structured e-mentoring program, MentorNet provides training and ongoing

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Almstead; Karen Williams; James Hedrick

design was produced using technologies that had proved successful inintroductory engineering and computer science courses and in Union’s summer Robot Camp.Cost and time for construction were also considered. With this in mind we opted to: (1) use theParallax Basic Stamp II microprocessor since it met the project requirements, was inexpensive,and used a simple programming language, (2) use breadboards for circuits to provide flexibilityand ease of use, and (3) provide the speech capability through a software solution rather thanpurchasing expensive hardware. We chose Microsoft Agent technology since the use of theanimated, speaking characters had sparked excitement in our introductory programming classes.A proof of concept design was built and

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey

aerodynamic lift under a wing. Open-ended problem solving was,however, an important component of the program at this institution as demonstrated by acommitment to problem and project-based learning. Exact calculations on load bearing capacity,for example, would be expected but the choice of beam type might itself be a variable. Studentswould be requested for the “best” choice according to prescribed constraints such as cost,weight, materials, required load, construction time etc., with the expectation that they couldvalidate their choice by the application of appropriate mathematics. No two design solutions werelikely to be exactly the same.The focus on problem solving, and in particular the pragmatic necessity within an educationalsystem to provide

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; William LeBold; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie

, demonstrations, classroom experiences, and projects. Since the computer is a fundamentaltool used by today’s engineer, students have the opportunity to solve elementary engineeringproblems using software packages like Excel, MATLAB, and the like. Other sessions duringthe weeklong experience include: labs tours and demonstrations from the various schools withinthe Schools of Engineering, plant trips to local industry, a chemistry show designed to peak astudents interest into the marvels of chemistry, and various hands-on engineering projects.A detailed assessment that examines current trends in the participants demographics, pre-collegepreparation, influencing factors regarding the college and major selection process, as well as theeffectiveness of the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Yellamraju; Kurt Gramoll

courses.The project involved in developing a long term scalable system and a strong backbone whichconnects different kinds of resources and has an integrated system wherein any instructor can setup his own class, manage his own set of students and administer testing and evaluation methods.But unlike similar systems like WebCT or Blackboard, this system includes content so that theinstructor does not have to develop problems and it is freely available to all institutions. Thesystem has been used at University of Oklahoma (OU) where selected Dynamics and Static’sengineering courses are taught using laptop computers (required at OU with wireless networkconnection), CD-ROMs, and the Internet. This project involves giving all instructors theopportunity to

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Frey; Jose Cruz

design project. They use an issue into full-blown ethical matrix and empirical dilemmas. methods to uncover embedded ethical issues. Decision- The ability to integrate The Ethics Using a case or scenario that Making (not just apply) ethical Laboratory presents a real world decision- (Designing) considerations into a making situation, students use decision or design such a seven-step model to resolve that the considerations the case by

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Uanny Brens Garcia; Douglas Bodner

motivates the VIS. In Section 3, wedescribe the VIS concept. Section 4 presents a specific VIS learning system in productionplanning. Section 5 discusses our deployment and assessment results to date. We conclude withplans for future work and dissemination of the VIS.2. Motivation and BackgroundImproving student learning has motivated new approaches to teaching in the engineeringcurriculum. This has led to innovative hands-on and project-based courses, and to the use ofeducational technology. While an exhaustive listing of new teaching approaches and techniques Page 7.1199.1is beyond the scope of this paper, several example efforts can be

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Blowers

variety of issues that could be of interest to beginning collegestudents. The topics also offer a balance between life skills, like time management and creatinga resume, to learning skills like how to take exams and studying strategies. Selling Yourself on Paper: How to Create a Resume. What is your Learning Style? Resumes Revisited. Using your Learning Style to your Best Advantage. Student Leaders Panel Discussion. Maximizing Success: How to Take Engineering Exams to Maximize Your Grade. What Good is an Internship Anyway? Teamwork Projects: Group Leader or Group Packmule. Teamwork Project: How to Work as a Group to Delegate Tasks. Time Management Skills. Roommate Conflicts (and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Warmbier; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher

. Lessons LearnedWe are currently in the process of sharing what we have learned about the reform of EE servicecourses with various faculty, student, alumni and administrative groups within the MSU Collegeof Engineering. From these discussions, we will identify a strategy for moving forward withplans to better link ECE 345 to follow-on courses within the majors, including the majorengineering design experience.We embarked on the benchmarking project to assist the engineering faculty at MSU changecourses and curricula. Change is the heart and sole of continuous quality improvement. Our goalin benchmarking was to show how other institutions dealt with engineering service course issuesand how engineering service courses might be integrated into the