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Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Cynthia Finelli

education, students have beenfinding ways to cheat on these assessments. What has only more recently become apparent isthat the extent to which individuals engage in cheating is dependent on the field of study of theindividual. For example, Bowers [1] and McCabe [2] both showed that engineering studentsself-reported significantly higher rates of cheating than did students in other disciplines with theone exception of business. Explanations for elevated cheating among engineering studentsinclude higher work loads, the vocational orientation of the discipline, and the grade orientationof engineering students. However, the interaction of these and other explanatory factors is notunderstood, leaving faculty and academic institutions with little more

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Carl Eger

between classes,develop racial and cultural sensitivity, enhance their commitment to civic responsibility, increasetheir ethical awareness and awareness of the impact of professional decisions on society and theenvironment and see the human side of engineering. Through service-learning, students are ableto develop fundamental skills while serving the needs of a local or global community.1-5Appropriate technology also has many definitions but typically involves solutions to problemsusing alternative, non-traditional technologies that are based on fundamental science andengineering principles, are culturally appropriate, can be made and maintained by the localpeople, promote self reliance and help to feed the local economy. Ideally

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lehman; Chung-Ling Huang; Muniyappa Venkatesha; Asad Yousuf

Engineering EducationCourse ContentElectronics and Computer Science Technology students are introduced to EmbeddedSystems I and II sequence courses at the junior and senior level respectively. Each courseis a three-credit hour course consisting of two-hour lecture and a two-hour lab per week.Embedded Systems I is designed to introduce the basic concepts in microcontrollerprogramming and interfacing, followed by Embedded Systems II, which covers theadvanced topics.Following topics are covered in Embedded Systems I and II sequence courses: 1. Introduction to the PIC18 Microcontroller 2. PIC18 Assembly language Programming 3. PIC18 Development Tools 4. Advanced Assembly Programming 5. C language programming and PIC 6. Interrupts, Resets, and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Carroll

experiences for students in all engineeringprograms at UMD. The course also provides a setting in lecture format for describing to studentsthe engineering topics identified as the “Professional Component” of engineering by ABET, andembeds topics in advanced composition relevant to engineering professions. Through a series oflectures and lab assignments, this course specifically addresses the “Professional Component”ABET topics and provides multidisciplinary design experiences that students enjoy.References 1. Carroll, C. R., “Engr 4001: Engineering Professionalism – Teaching the “Soft Side” of Engineering,” Proceedings of ASEE North Midwest Section Conference, Milwaukee, WI , 2004. 2. Fleddermann, C. B., Engineering Ethics

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

multiple subjectssimultaneously. While there is a trend among schools of engineering to introduceentrepreneurship into the curriculum, it is usually taught as an entity within itself and doesnot involve cross-disciplinary activities. Our approach involves the development of cases that are tied to either the localcommunity or of national concern. Cases are usually written for a certain group of students atUniversities that are in the Entrepreneurs in Action! network. Other classes and Universitiesare encouraged to use the cases after they have been fully developed and tested. We havedeveloped the following cases to be used in Engineering and Business related curricular:Featured Cases 1. Blackout in America! (Electrical Energy Case

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

AHAMAD FARHOUD

bothmotion and speech, the next step was to determine the scope and logical order of these functions.First, when motion (a child approaching) is detected, the abominable snowman, who is hidingbehind a large Christmas tree, pushes the tree aside, revealing himself and startling guests. Then,the scary creature looks around, ostensibly, seeking out the victim. Suddenly, he raises his armin a threatening manner. Then, his demeanor changes and he waves. Simultaneously, thesnowman speaks! He cheerfully greets his audience, transforming at once into a lovable friend.A complete flowchart of the scope of the project is given in Figure 1. S ta rt S en se

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Niewoehner

ObjectivesIntroduce T&E practices and attitudes at the undergraduate level in order to: 1) Enhance student/staff safety in conjunction with design/build/operate activities by systematically identifying and mitigating test hazards. 2) Promote affective appreciation of T&E processes as the bridge from engineering development to operational deployment, and the business and technical incentives for disciplined T&E.Content Disciplined T&E depends largely upon the quality of the preparatory planning. Appropriateplanning provides the principle means by which the following may be assured: 1) the testing will answer the sponsor's questions. It is possible to devote considerable resources to an extensive test program

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Andrew Clark

opportunities for interaction between the university facultyand incubator residents.Conceptual frameworkThis section suggests a conceptual framework for establishing a business incubator and auniversity research foundation. The steps outlined here are discussed in some detail in theremaining sections of this paper. Lessons learned at East Tennessee State University whenapplying this framework are also briefly discussed in terms of a mini-case that is included in thisarticle.Step 1: Develop a Strategic Vision. The shared strategic visioning process helps buildconsensus between the administration, faculty, staff, and students. Primary benefits that meritconsideration are economic development, mutually beneficial commercialization of research andscholarly

Conference Session

Visualization

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe

evaluatedtheir knowledge of the material, you’ve probably asked yourself the question: “Did they evenlook at that material that I gave them?” It is a perennial question educators ask and one thattypically has only been answered indirectly through polling the students or testing their recall ofthe material. There are times, though, where it would be very helpful to know, truly, did they seewhat you intended them to see? For this purpose, you need eye tracking technology.Eye tracking can be particularly useful for two broad areas of application: 1) general researchunderstanding of how different types of students in different learning situations make use of textand graphics, and 2) applied usability research of instructional materials that will be going

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lehman; Asad Yousuf

the frequency of the analog signal to be processed [1][2][3].There is also similarities that may be found between DSP’s and programmable switchedcapacitance blocks. But once again the analogy between DSP’s and programmableswitched capacitance blocks is also limited. Page 10.1182.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session xxxxProgrammable switched capacitance blocks are a subject deserving study in its ownright

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Barrett; Marion Usselman

placements vary greatly in length, intended scope and type of research experience, and canbe grouped into the following six general categories: 1. Fellowships in technical data analysis divisions of corporations; 2. 8-week experiences in which teachers conduct science, engineering, or social science research in academic laboratories; 3. International experiences in which teachers travel with university lab members to conduct research or compare cross-cultural models of academic instruction; 4. Student mentoring experiences where teachers supervise high school student research projects conducted in the university laboratory, 5. Fellowships created to assist teachers in refreshing their knowledge of specific academic

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

continues to grow in society, K-16 educators need to integrateSTEM skills throughout curricula to adequately prepare students for life long success. Toaddress this national need, faculty from the UC Colleges of Engineering and Education (faculty);teachers of STEM courses from local high schools (teachers); administrators from local highschools (administrators); and a cross section of professionals from the Cincinnati community(advisors) formed an ad hoc project team. The following four objectives guided meetings of thead hoc project team: 1. Determine what students, teachers, and school administrators know about engineers and the engineering profession. 2. Brainstorm to identify activities that could be undertaken to change the views

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

of Technology, and Linkoping University launched aproject to reform undergraduate engineering education.1 Sponsored in part by theWallenberg Foundation2, The CDIO Initiative has expanded to include programs in morethan eight countries on five continents. Descriptions of the project and its globalimplementation can be found at http://www.cdio.org.3The vision of the project is to provide students with an education that stresses engineeringfundamentals set in the context of Conceiving-Designing-Implementing-Operating(CDIO) real-world systems and products. This context is a generalized description of acomplete system life cycle, called in this project, Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate.The Conceive stage includes defining the need and technology

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marlin Thomas

into the entry levelprofessional IE curriculum.1. IntroductionHomeland security has been a U.S. priority since the formation of our nation and throughouthistory our goal has been to provide citizens with a secure environment that is free of fears ofany attacks or invasion of our homeland. This is largely the basis for maintaining a strongmilitary force. In addition, we also have a network of federal, state, and local civil defenseorganizations that organize and direct preparedness and recovery plans for providing emergencyrelief to citizens during major disasters. Community alert programs such as air raid drills,training programs for schools, fall-out shelters, and emergency medical treatment plans areexamples of our civil defense programs

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randal Direen; Frank Barnes; Edward McKenna; Driss Benhaddou; Deniz Gurkan; Alan Mickelson

centralized location for bothpractical and safety reasons. This fact has hampered the freedom of non traditional (offcampus) students to achieve their educational goals. The web adaptations of softwarepackages such as LabView allow control of experiments over the internet. Remotelaboratories then become possible.Online education has been gaining momentum for many years, in great degree due to theindustrial need for training [1]. Broadband access, which provides high bandwidth access tothe Internet, is beginning to have an effect on the content of such materials [2], [3]. Thereseems to be consensus that video streaming is preferable to simply static placement ofmaterial on a website. The efficacy of live streaming (large scale teleconferencing

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars; Jim Henry

aspect (communication) intowhat we had been trying previously while still maintaining the desirable feature of havingstudents working with real equipment. Feedback was obtained from the students todetermine the best and worst features of this approach.Procedure – Experiment-Remote StudentsThe process control class at Washington State University is taught in the first semester ofthe senior year. The class is typical of many ChE-based control classes. The courseobjectives state that the students should be able to: 1) analyze the dynamics of process operations 2) understand the dynamic response of various operations 3) understand PID controllers for process operations based on both theoretical and empirical process characterizationThe

Conference Session

Mathematics Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch

AC 2005-1349: GUIDED TOUR OF GENERALIZED FUNCTIONS IN SIGNALPROCESSINGJohn Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch Page 10.679.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005 Session #### Guided Tour of Generalized Functions in Signal Processing 1 John Schmeelk Department of Mathematical Sciences Virginia Commonwealth University Doha, QatarAbstractThe paper considers generalized functions as a necessary ingredient in various

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Radha Balamuralikrishna; Kurt Rosentrater

content is the examination of textbooks which arecurrently being used. At this time, however, no ethics textbook solely dedicated to the discipline ofindustrial technology exists. In order to establish an appropriate content domain for ethics which isapplicable to the discipline of industrial technology, an examination of tables of contents fromseveral common engineering ethics textbooks would be useful. These are depicted in Table 1below. Throughout the table it is evident that many of the topics covered in engineering ethics textswould be equally applicable to the field of industrial technology as well.Examining Table 1, as well as delving into the substantive content domains of each of these books,has identified several areas of commonality

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Radha Balamuralikrishna; Clifford Mirman

ADOPTING A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO DESIGN A FRESHMAN COURSE IN TECHNICAL GRAPHICS – MEETING THE SOCIETAL NEED FOR ARTICULATION Radha Balamuralikrishna, Clifford R. Mirman Department of Technology, Northern Illinois UniversityIntroductionThe freshman course in engineering or technical graphics has received wide attention in recenttimes 1. There is a significant variation in course offerings taken across engineering andtechnology degree programs nationwide both at two-year and four-year institutions. Forexample, in problem solving, some courses are solely restricted to structured drafting exercisestaken from typical textbooks and others are devoted to an ill-structured design

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

regional campus of Purdue Universitylocated in northwest Indiana. It is primarily a commuter campus, and serves justover 9,000 students. PUC started a program in Computer Graphics Technology(CGT) in the Fall 2000 semester. The course curriculum development wasinfluenced by existing successful course offerings within the Purdue system, bynationally known universities, and by regional job demands, as well asinternational considerations. Figures 1 and 2 show the growth in credit hours andthe increase in students in the CGT program between 2001 and 2004. In the spaceof a few years, laboratories were built, faculty hired, and many new coursesdeveloped to meet this demand. In the face of all this growth, and the number ofchanges that were occurring

Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yifat Kolikant; Bugrahan Yalvac; Ann McKenna

project different cross-disciplinary teams worked together on specific courses/topics.Members of the entire community met in larger bi-weekly and quarterly meetings to discussissues and share ideas. In the current study we focus on the local interaction between two facultyand two learning scientists during the development of course materials and examine the processof how these diverse practitioners worked together. We interviewed the faculty and learningscientists and asked them to retrospectively describe the process by which they collaborated. Weused a semi-structured interview protocol. Sample questions from the interview protocol aregiven in Figure 1. The interview protocols were slightly different for faculty and learningscientists

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmad Pourmovahed

, and endplates (Figures 1 and2). Heating or cooling plates may also be contained in the fuel cell. Hydrogen and oxygen reacton opposite sides of the MEA to produce water, electricity, and heat. In order to accomplish this,the hydrogen and oxygen half reactions are separated by a solid polymer electrolyte (known aseither a proton exchange membrane or a polymer electrolyte membrane). This electrolyteseparates the two reactant gases while providing an ionic connection through which the protonsmay pass. The electrolyte has a catalytic electrode layer on each side to speed the reaction rateand provide electrical contact for the conduction of electrons. The reactant gases flow throughchannels cut into the flow field plates. While the gas flows

Conference Session

Diversity: Women & Minorities in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Begolly; Jennifer Gilley

progress has been made in eliminating certain disadvantages that keep girlsfrom entering the science and engineering pipeline, the great divide between girls andengineering remains due to a lack of familiarity with the nature and possibilities of engineeringand engineering technology.IntroductionLow Number of Degrees EarnedBetween 1994 and 2001 the percentage of engineering bachelor’s degrees awarded to womengrew from 16% to 20%1. While this growth is encouraging, it is occurring at a painfully slowpace and is partially due to a decrease in the number of men enrolling in engineering programsrather than a substantial increase in female enrollment. The numbers for engineering technologyprograms are even lower. The percentage of associate’s degrees

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

BenefitsArizona continues to rank as one of the leading states in the number of workers employed in thesemiconductor manufacturing industry. To meet these demands, national and localsemiconductor companies have launched an aggressive campaign to attract students intoprograms that prepare them for the future workforce.1 The goal of students in technologyprograms is to be hired by a high-tech employer or to advance to higher pay level if currentlyemployed. Many of the students enrolled in technology programs within the CTAS are currentlyemployed in the local high tech industry. As a result, local semiconductor companies havesought to collaborate with the higher education institutions, such as their neighboring universitiesand community colleges, to

Conference Session

Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia White; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

STARs contributeto our overall outcome assessment plan.IntroductionCareer interviews for engineering students are evolving from interrogation sessions to structuredconversations. This evolution is facilitated by the proliferation of information technology thathas automated many of the previously manual tasks such as reviewing resumes and schedulinginterviews. This frees recruiters to spend more time networking and building relationships withjob candidates.1 The real impetus for this evolution is the realization that past behavior is thebest predictor of future performance.2 And after all, future performance is what any intervieweris trying to ascertain.This type of structured conversation, commonly referred to as Behavioral Based Interviewing

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad; Thomas Hilburn

discipline took place at the 1968 NATO Conference on Software Engineering [4].Since that time there have been numerous studies and analysis of software development as anengineering profession [1, 5, 7, 9, 11]. Even though software engineering has made greatprogress and the term “software engineering” is now widely used in industry, it is still not yetwell-defined and its professional content, practices, and certification criteria are not universallyagreed upon. There is confusion and controversy over the relationship between computer scienceand SE, and some would even dispute that SE is engineering. A more generous attitude might bethat the discipline is still new relative to more traditional engineering fields; and, thus, softwareengineering is

Conference Session

Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

, having knowledgebased workers with appropriate skills also enhances the nation’s health, security, andprosperity. According to the US Bureau of Labor, the portion of the U.S. labor force withS&E skills is growing closer to 5 percent per year compared to 1 percent growth in therest of the labor force.1 At the same time that global competition for the S&E workers isincreasing, other countries are making larger investments in S&E education andworkforce than is the United States. “The United States has always depended upon theinventiveness of its people in order to compete in the world marketplace. Now,preparation of the S&E workforce is a vital arena for national competitiveness.”1The second aspect that contributes towards this road

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Jouny

Page 10.594.1assessment tools are prevalent and successful. Program Educational Objectives (PEO) Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationare “statements that describe the expected accomplishments of graduates during the firstseveral years following graduation from the program” according to ABET [1].Furthermore, it is required by ABET that a program maintains “a system of ongoingevaluation that demonstrates achievement of these objectives and uses the results toimprove the effectiveness of the program” [1]. Finally, ABET demands a periodicallyevaluated process in which PEO’s are determined. This paper

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica Dark; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

engineering problem solving ability. We describe the ELPenvironment itself, our experience with implementing the environment in three industrialengineering classes, and how it has impacted engineering problem solving as part of thecurriculum.1. IntroductionEngineers are routinely faced with complex, ill-structured problems that differ dramatically fromtextbook problems routinely assigned in classroom environments. Such problems present manycognitive challenges, and a key element of the problem solving process is making decisions.Many decisions regarding the nature of the problem, the solution approach, and evaluation aremade over the life of a problem scenario. These decisions are based on knowledge, perceptions,cognition, and negotiation. The

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rickie Miller; Elisa Barney Smith

allow.Massachusetts decided that part of the solution was to require that engineering be taught in theK-12 classroom along side reading, math and science. “The Massachusetts Science andTechnology/Engineering Curriculum Framework is one of seven curriculum frameworks thatadvance Massachusetts’s educational reform in learning, teaching, and assessment... Its purposeis to guide teachers and curriculum coordinators about what content should be taught from PreKthrough high school” [1]. In Idaho similar legislation has not been proposed, but a desire toincrease engineering education in the K-12 level exists. An issue that always arises whenlegislating that some additional material be taught in the classroom is that the teachers need to beprepared to properly and