Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

engineering profession alone. In fact, this is a component of a much more globalmovement entitled Character Education. Character Education’s roots lie in behavioralethics, and can be viewed as an understanding of desirable and undesirable actions basedon a society’s perceptions and norms.Sample topics that should be considered for an engineering ethics curriculum includesappropriate behavior (Whitbeck, 2004) related to: recruitment; employment; termination;guidelines for raising ethical concerns; commission payment under a marketingagreement; gifts to foreign officials; and writing a letter of recommendation. Discussionson these types of topics will allow each student to consider appropriate actions anddesirable professional behavior. Once an

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Niebuhr

well as, changes in expectations and deliverables dramatically increased the qualityof work. It was found that by fostering peer review of progress during the quarter andintroducing numerous case studies that student performance increased while anxiety decreased.A design component is introduced through the student’s development of the analysis process andby requiring specific actions to prevent future failures.I. IntroductionDesign as an engineering experience has become a prominent topic in recent years. At the 2004ASEE annual conference more than 100 presentations were given that discussed some aspect ofdesign for a complete engineering education. The importance of design in engineeringcurriculum is well documented and supported by

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zahed Siddique

process of changing data. If no one else is changing the data, then the server program willlock the shared data and obtain the information from the client. After the server data is updated,server side program send the update requests to all clients to make sure that all clients keep thesame data. 3D model viewer is developed mainly by Java and JavaScript languages. Java is usedto write the code of user interface and socket communication. JavaSript is used to access theproperties and methods of Cortona® 3D VRML Control. Java JSObject and JavaScriptdocument.applets property provide the interaction for Java code and JavaScript code.The text chat and audio information exchange, which is at the bottom of the web-page, ishandled by Macromedia Flash

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Melvin Corley

seminar, the students had to individually create a personal monthly budget for howthey would spend their money once they get a professional job after graduation.Career ManagementStudents who take this course typically are within a few months of graduation. Therefore, howto get a good job is an important issue for them. Every year we have the director of theuniversity’s placement office come in and make a presentation. She provides them with muchuseful information, such as how to write a good resume, and how to conduct yourself during ajob interview. The students are required to create a resume as a result of this seminar. Thisseminar is usually one of the first classes during fall quarter. That way the students can create agood resume in time to

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tycho Fredericks; Steven Butt; Jorge Rodriguez

collaborative learning sessions about the design process, data collection from potentialcustomers, and tasks to accomplish their goals that result in the manufacture of their prototype.Recognizing that students need to occasionally take a break from the intensive product designprocess, the instructional coordinators have also included “design challenges” that allow studentsto puzzle over a challenging problem for a short period of time. The program also builds in timefor the students to interact with each other in peer evening group sessions in order to reflect onthe activities of the day, address issues of concern, and focus on a topic of interest for highschool students planning to be college students. The program has also included a variety of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Suchowski; Frank Severance; Damon Miller

solving skills; (2) motivating students and fostering confidence; (3) instilling anappreciation for the importance of prerequisite courses; (4) developing effective team players;(5) improving basic instrumentation and construction skills needed for the practice of ECE; (6)developing a physical intuition for electrical and mechanical systems; (7) clarifying careerchoices by learning if ECE is a good fit; (8) making students feel like part of the ECEdepartment; and (9) forming long-lasting peer support structures. Assessment results alsoreinforce the benefits of close instructor involvement, hands-on learning, and project-basedcourses. Additional details of the course are provided.NoteThis paper is based upon work supported by the National Science

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Bernstein

Follow-upsThe University of Wisconsin follows up their student, summer internships with a senior level Page 8.1127.6seminar in which the students report on their work experiences both orally and in writing. Thisseminar provides an opportunity for the students to discuss their experiences with their peers and “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education”their professors 2. It seems this would also be a good opportunity to discuss with the studentshow their academic

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rothaupt

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEach team in Capstone II will design and fabricate the part handling, tooling and the controlsystem for their project. They are also required to produce documentation of the design process,and maintain a project journal. The documentation consists of: electrical, pneumatic andhydraulic schematics; any analysis or simulations used to prove the machine design; all partdrawings necessary for fabrication of the machine; documentation necessary for machine controland write a machine operation manual. Students must also design a web page of their projectthat is loaded onto the Manufacturing

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 4. Eight types of assemblies and their components organized in rows (assemblies on the left, components on the right).6. Student LearningGroup work in documentation of wastes in production system, calculations, brainstorming ofimprovements and evaluation of them were observed to be the best peer learning activities.Through hands-on work, students observed waste, quantified it and clarified ownmisunderstanding of some of the most important aspects of lean production. Work group wasrequired to produce a brief written report containing qualitative and quantitative documentationof waste, calculations of Lean Efficiency factors and hand sketches of solutions

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackie Sullivan; Daniel Knight

have many men students in their classes. Page 8.1316.2Instructors have also observed a general pattern whereby women students assume team roles that Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationinclude writing and presentation preparation, journaling, and team organization — and excel atthese functions — while choosing not to perform roles requiring hands-on skills such as computer-aided drawing, machining and component assembly. In contrast, male students often choose toperform the technical, hands-on tasks

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Tuana; John Wisw; John Christman; Andy Lau; Thomas Litzinger

design and an initial application of themethodology to design learning objectives for ethics activities; participants are also introduced totaxonomies of learning objectives such as Bloom’s taxonomy of cognitive objectives. Theparticipants are presented with a basic instructional design methodology including writing goodlearning objectives and linking them to pedagogical approaches and assessment. They also areintroduced to examples from the literature of various approaches to integrating ethics into coursesand for assessing the quality of student work. In one activity, participants are asked to writelearning objectives for their ethics activities and to discuss them with the group; another activityrequires them to complete a multiple-choice

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wierman John; Shoukas Artin; Robert Allen; Larry Aronhime

formed as follows: Team leaders apply to HBDA, are screened by faculty in the Springand choose their upperclassmen, who also apply to HBDA. In the Fall, the Team Leaders andupperclassmen select their freshmen, who are grouped into sets of three based on nonacademiccriteria. In the Fall, new hires are oriented into HBDA by participating in a number of smallprojects where they often perform themselves. Here, they learn basic skills such as takingmeasurements, creating mock-ups, making presentations, keeping a journal, writing reports, andperforming literature searches; using these skills, freshman can contribute meaningfully to themain project, which is drawn from outside sponsors. Based on their own interest, teams selectmain projects that

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Norris; Duco Jansen; Sean Brophy

class. Using the PRS, the instructor can pose a multiple-choice question and the studentscan respond with a small infrared transmitter. Students’ responses are aggregated immediatelyand can be displayed in the form of a histogram. The authors and other colleagues in VaNTH findthe system very helpful at engaging students in the classroom, and it provides valuable feedbackon what students currently understand about the ideas presented. Students have found this veryhelpful to have this feedback during class along with follow-up discussion with their peers and theprofessor’s explanation [2].Technology for this functionality has evolved over the past decade. One of the earliest systems isClasstalk, consisting of small palmtop computers or

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Leonard

learners for they are mature, motivation adults • Get learners involved in the online campus/content creation • Don’t be afraid of failure; try things out • Use a case study approach • Use electronic research / digital library • Peer Assess / Self-assess • Exercise tact and patience and show humanity • And, most importantly, collaborate, collaborate, collaborateLearning Theory and PracticeFrom a learning theory and practice perspective, we utilize the following theories, methods, andenvironments to make the adult learning experience in the MSTCO program successful. Theyinclude collaborative learning, cognitive coaching, enactivism, and a constructivist learningenvironment.What is collaborative learning?This is a

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Burt; Krishna Athreya; K-Y. Daisy Fan

existence since 1996 and gives special attention to therecruitment of underrepresented minority girls. The students, who are at the end of theirsophomore or junior year in high school, live in Cornell University dormitories and experienceas much engineering as can be coherently built into the seven-day timeframe. They work inteams on a core project, participate in seminars and workshops, and are exposed to a variety ofengineering fields through hands-on sessions. Five Cornell engineering students serve asProgram Assistants (PAs) and peer mentors during the week.The goal of the core project was to provide the students with a broad and challengingengineering experience, one that would allow them to understand engineering as “design underconstraint

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

people to be involved in the change process. At“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”all three institutions that meant selecting faculty for leadership in the new program whowere not only good teachers but also well regarded by their peers. TAMU included a fewnotable researchers to give greater legitimacy to the new curriculum. They also soughtout the support of high profile scholars (locally termed “bell cows”) in the belief that theywould have more influence across the college. In working with colleges outsideengineering, they learned that they needed to carefully identify the influential faculty inthe

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip J. Cornwell; David Stienstra

clear that when asked to do research, students seem to prefer to go to the web than tothe library. Unfortunately, students generally do not know how to critically evaluate theinformation they find and little or no peer review exists for web sources as it does for printpublished works. An assignment similar to the one at Rose-Hulman, that is, one that requiresstudents to research a material as well as to evaluate the sources of information is described inRef. 1. In this paper an assignment is described in which sophomore materials students select anengineering material to be researched using both conventional text resources and web resources.An important part of this assignment is that the students are asked to evaluate the quality of thedata

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

David F. Ollis

presentation round is clear with each group.The PRESENTATION period allows students to maximize what they can teach to, and learnfrom, each other. The structure of this lab presents repeated opportunities for students to showwhat they know to all, and the other students appreciate this additional, non-faculty knowledge.In one honors group, a particularly informed and polished student presentation received aspontaneous round of applause from audience peers.5. Retention of informationWe have not yet formally assessed and evaluated the quality of learning in this self-paced labformat. However, nearly all of the team roles involve activities which yield, according to the“Cone of Learning” (3) hierarchy of learning, progressively higher levels of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas L. Jones; Bunny J. Tjaden

they choose, based upon their interests and the topic being presented.The smaller spokes have created a more intimate classroom environment in which students andinstructors can interact during lecture and discussions. Spoke lectures are taught by a professorand a teaching assistant. The spokes present the opportunity for students to become acquaintedwith peers in their major and receive discipline specific instruction, according to their major. Page 5.43.2Labs and hub activities introduce students to those in other majors and present topics of generalinterest. Week Type Lecture Topic

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle

week on Tuesdays for the firstsix weeks of class. Grading is satisfactory/unsatisfactory, and is based primarily on attendanceand the completion of one or two small projects. Section sizes vary from as small as 8 to as largeas 25, with an average class size of about 15 students. Their major determines the section ofEngineering 100 students register for; thus, Engineering 100 students are in class with peers fromtheir department for the first time--their colleagues and classmates over the next 4 years. Effortis also made to match ELAs from a particular department with sections corresponding to thatdepartment. With incoming classes of approximately 1,100 engineering students annually, thereare about 60 sections of engineering 100 taught by

Conference Session

ET Capstone Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Currin

findings to their peers and faculty 6. Prepare meaningful progress reports 7. Prepare a set of engineering plans Page 7.1125.4 8. Present and defend a proposal for a project 9. Integrate knowledge from other classes 10. Work independently 11. Prepare a feasibility studyGrading: Progress Reports 10 Preliminary Engineering 40 Preliminary Design 50The reader will note that this syllabus is similar to the typical syllabus for capstone design coursesoffered by engineering and engineering technology schools throughout the nation. The coursewas developed to be a

Conference Session

Techniques for Improving Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cindy Finelli; Trevor Harding

aboutalternative funding sources and determining the best approach to successful proposal writing canbe challenging. Suggestions included searching for information on the Internet, contactingfunding agencies directly to discuss ideas for proposals, and forming an advisory board that canassist in searching for funds.4. Relating teaching and learning center innovations to assessment effortsWith the introduction of ABET Criteria EC2000, assessment has become a topic of unendingdiscussion on engineering campuses. In light of the importance of this topic, session participantswere asked to consider how centers could assist faculty and departments in establishing andsustaining successful assessment efforts.According to the discussion group, centers should

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Dennis

technique first presented by Angelo andCross3.Participants also completed an assessment vehicle at the conclusion of the workshop in whichthey rated each major activity of the workshop in terms of its value to them in improving theirteaching and the actual conduct of the activity. The results of that assessment are given in Fig. 4.Participants uniformly rated all activities high, however the defining features of the ExCEEdworkshops, practice classes and demonstration classes received the highest overall ratings. ETW Assessment (U of A ’00) Demonstration Classes Practice Classes S-1: Learning to Teach S-2: Principles of Teaching S-3: Speaking & Writing

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

enhance student understanding. The paper alsodescribes the use of internet tools to promote peer-to-peer interaction as well as collaborativelearning and teamwork in the class. Strategies for adapting standard collaborative learningtechniques to web-based and web-enhanced courses and the instructor's role in their successfulimplementation in a distance education setting are discussed as well. Finally, the paper discussesthe administrative procedures that were put in place to ensure smooth running of the class andfoster a positive learning experience for both the on-campus and off-campus students.1. IntroductionA variety of social, economic and technological factors are converging to create increaseddemand for long distance education. This

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

D. Smith; James Squire

controller switchbox alone.An exception: when teaching specific technical skills, such as peer-to-peer networking, it may beappropriate to gain some hands-on experience working entirely with off-the-shelf equipmentalone, such as installing network cards and a proxy server to allow a senior citizen’s computercenter internet access. Similarly, the project is more likely to be effective and have moremeaning to the students involved if the beneficiary or receiving organization is local enough topermit student interaction both in the early needs analysis stage, a midterm testing stage, and afinal handoff stage. In competition with the desire to have a compelling project, the proposedCBP should not be selected if the need is immediate (under six-month

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Halliday; Israel Urieli; Gregory Kremer

rushed to completion and demonstrated withoutsufficient feedback from the faculty, or evaluation by the students and their peers. The secondproblem was that there was a wide range of variability in the types of individual design projectsundertaken. Often these were little more than paper exercises where the student got littleexperience in actual design.The new design sequence, implemented in academic year 2000-2001 was specifically created toremedy these problems. First, the capstone design experience is now presented in an integratedsequence of three consecutive courses. The entire senior class is divided into design teams thateach begin the same project in September and demonstrate their solutions in a public competitionheld in May. The last

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

James E. Fuller

spread of the theorybase, criticism can become a tool to further enhance the educational experience of the student,peers and professors. The tripartite relationship of History, Theory and Criticism then becomesa didactic relationship bringing a clearer understanding of technical issues and problems.The didactic role that history, theory and criticism can play in a symbiotic relationship withtechnical courses can lead to a more complete understanding of the total role of the architect – aprofessional who combines design skills with technical knowledge. This combination, largelyin effect prior to the middle of this century, can lead to a better built environment

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikram Cariapa; Joseph Domblesky; James Rice

Page 6.270.4engineering principles while learning skills to operate CNC equipment. Because it is not feasible"Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education"to outfit the lab with equipment for individual students to work on, students work in teams withlab activities designed such that each group member has a function to perform. This has alsobeen advantageous since students who have had prior shop or manufacturing experience arepaired with inexperienced students to facilitate peer-peer learning. While student safety andability is always a concern whenever equipment is used, our experience has been

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Richardson

an effort to offersupport to new students. The courses developed jointly with Student Affairs use theSouth Carolina model. Some departments have developed their own freshman seminarcourses using other models. Most courses are one quarter hour of credit and meet once aweek for one and one-half hours. Some courses are co-facilitated by department facultyand Student Affairs staff; others are taught by individuals from either area. The goals areto assist the new student in developing his or her own: peer support, utilization of campusresources, connection of academic department, faculty and advisor relationships,awareness and respect of differences, self image, and skills in communications andteamwork. Freshman seminar sessions for these courses

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

concept of community building within thisroom has been the cornerstone for our positive retention efforts. The three minority studentorganizations each also have a designated office within the CEAS. The OMEP office with itsstaff is situated directly across the hall from the student study room, thereby encouragingimmediate access to student advisement, financial aid opportunities, resume writing assistance,industry internship positions, etc. Over the past three years, the room has been scrutinized toensure that it has optimal use. The subject of converting it into a lab or classroom spacecontinues to surface on a regular basis.Over the past two years, an additional on-going issue was that of adequate staffing for OMEP. Astaff expansion was needed