Conference Session

Innovative Course Developments in Construction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suat Gunhan, University of Texas, San Antonio; Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Construction

MEPdrawings are then highlighted and the procedures for their analysis are presented in a systematicorder including the differentiating aspects of various systems. The laboratory portion of themodule concentrates on performing quantity takeoff, digital or manual, where the results aretranslated into work scope sheets. The paper further explains the detailed scope identificationmethodology for each system and their integration into estimating course context.IntroductionConstruction science and management graduates are expected to work in a dynamic workenvironment performing various tasks including planning, estimating, scheduling, and managingthe construction process. The graduates are also expected to be familiar with work scopes for allconstruction

Conference Session

Research Projects, Course Development, and Industry Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Bodenhamer, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Ivan G. Guardiola, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Steven Michael Corns; Cihan H. Dagli, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Systems Engineering

, schedule, and technological performance of a designed system Technical Management  Describe and discuss the necessary management articles necessary to Plan oversee a complex engineering system  Plan analysis and design activities, manufacturing operations, integration and test  Plan reviews, configuration freezes, verification activities  Prepare and track performance to budgets  Create a work breakdown structure that represents the execution of the systems engineering effort.  Create

Conference Session

Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pamela S. Frinzi, Southern Polytechnic State University; Rebecca Hudson Rutherfoord, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Women in Engineering

Page 25.1485.5dominated. We need to educate our female faculty about ways to overcome these stereotypes.Program History and DevelopmentIn 2009, SPSU developed its new three year strategic plan that is in effect from 2010 to 2013.11This strategic plan has three major goals – one (Goal 3) of which is “To increase the sense ofcommunity within the University and between the University and the region.” One of themajor objectives (Objective 3.2) under this goal is “Increase the diversity and inclusiveness ofthe University community”. As part of the plan, each objective has a set of key indicators (oractions) that would indicate how this objective (and goal) would be met. Two of the keyindicators for objective 3.2 are: 1) Increase the percentage

Conference Session

Factors Affecting Student Performance

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica R. McCormick, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Eugenia Fernandez, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Danny King, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology

on probation will stay on continued probation until their cumulativeGPA reaches a 2.0.In order to intervene early for students on probation, the advisors in the NSAAC developed andimplemented a two-step action plan: mandatory attendance at a workshop focused on improving Page 25.1206.6academic success and goal setting, and a follow-up appointment with each advisee. Theworkshop began at the start of the Fall 2010 semester. Students were able to choose from anumber of one-hour face-to-face workshops offered multiple times throughout the semester.Days and times varied so students were able to choose an offering that fit their schedules best.An

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2001 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Massa; Gordon Snyder; Fenna Hanes; James Masi; Gary Mullett

been formed. Extension of this network to a national base has begun with six additional schools. b) A sub-network of shadow secondary schools with colleges is in place.10) Develop a business plan for sustainability and ongoing evaluation plan based on realistic goals. a) A business plan for sustainability has been developed with industry education and training. b) The Interim, Second Year Evaluation Plan and Yearly Evaluation are being used as guides for tracking the Center’s progress toward its planned goals and objectives.11) A video, which gives an “Introduction to NCTT”, has been produced by Springfield Technical Community College personnel, along with a video/CD on “Careers in Telecommunications

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; David Pines

university officials, a town planner, a town engineer, and engineers from a localconsulting firm. At the conclusion of the project, the students presented the alternatives andrecommended design to the Bloomfield Town Planning and Zoning Commission.I. IntroductionThe civil engineering curriculum at the University of Hartford requires a capstone design projectin the senior year. In 1993, the department revised the capstone design course so that studentswork on industry or town sponsored civil engineering design problems that include anengineering practitioner as part of the design team. This approach both technically challengesthe students and also provides them with an opportunity to learn about the professional aspects ofbeing an engineer. In

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wade; Virginia Elkins; Roy Eckart; Catherine Rafter; Eugene Rutz

instructors were told to use class time to enhance thelearning material. Based on this educational plan for the web-based course and the streamingvideo course, both classes were produced during the winter quarter, 2000.The faculty participants were carefully selected, based on excellent teaching records andexperience in teaching Mechanics I. The faculty received extensive video training for the projectby the College Conservatory of Music, Electronic Media Division faculty. A series ofworkshops, including pilot video productions, was held to prepare the faculty for video-basedclass work. The workshops covered such topics as: Understanding the audience Watching for feedback Vocabulary

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Krygowski

taken by students in both the MechanicalEngineering Technology and the Electrical Engineering Technology programs. Since thislaboratory makes extensive use of both mechanical and electrical skills, lab teams are chosen sothat each team has representation from both majors. Thus, when electrical skills or observationsare required, the EET majors are expected to use their strengths to aid the MET students'understanding, and vice-versa. This approach seems to work well. Much student-to-studentinstruction takes place, with the instructor circulating between groups to give additionaldirection as needed.Future EnhancementsDevelopment work on this course and laboratory is still very much in progress. Enhancementsare planned for several existing

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Akins

. resources available. Table 1 – Missions and Goals of TCP and Curriculum Development TeamIn the initial planning and working meetings, several specific issues arose that seemed to be atthe core of the recruitment and retention problem. These issues were: • Many prospective students (and their parents) assumed that jobs in high tech manufacturing were low-skilled, poorly paid, repetitive, and were likely to be in a hazardous work environment. • The general population did not see technician positions to be part of a career path. • The perception of parents and guidance counselors was that the two-year technology degree was a dead end and that if a student was college bound, then they should embark

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Han Bao; David Dryer; Derya Jacobs; William Swart

, 4) provide experience for design of products in a virtual environment using 3D modeling and visualization, as well as planning, scheduling, control and implementation of a virtual product development project, 5) provide experience in constructing product prototypes, and 6) provide an understanding for the potential applications and limitations of current virtual product development tools.The course was offered as a 2 credit-4 hour laboratory course using tools and facilities availableat Old Dominion University. As part of an extensive distance learning capability, the Universityand the College use various distributed course delivery and communications tools withfunctionality including asynchronous message board, synchronous chat

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; David Huggins; Winston F. Erevelles

field of manufacturing. Specifically, the colleges targeted industryperceptions of the competency gaps that are commonly seen in newly hired graduates. Thisfollowed the report entitled “Manufacturing Education Plan: 1999 Critical Competency Gaps” bythe Society of Manufacturing Engineers4, 5. In interviews, manufacturing and human resourcemanagers in diverse industries cited the need for a workforce with a continuum of technical skillsto meet the demands of new technology and increased domestic and international competition.The findings of the study appear in Table I. Table I. Competency Gaps to be addressed by PRIME Competency Gap Institution

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Shirley J. Dyke; Phillip Gould; Kevin Truman

objectiveswill be achieved through the development of a series of illustrative structural dynamics experi-ments, and the integration of these experiments into the undergraduate curriculum.Furthermore, experiments will be developed for non-engineering students that will benefit fromsuch exposure (e.g. architects and geo-scientists). Additional activities include plans for develop-ing two nationwide competitions in earthquake resistant design, one for undergraduates and onefor elementary school children.3.2 Outcomes and ProductsThe primary outcome of the UCIST program will be a series of experiments for students at all lev-els. These experiments are designed to introduce students to relevant topics such as: introductoryconcepts in structural dynamics

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Natalie A. Mello

engineers in the 21st century is also addressed by theNational Science Foundation’s Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus on Change 2.There an integrated systems approach is highly regarded as the way to accomplish the changesneeded in the curriculum today. Page 5.331.1As the call for new pedagogical thinking and curriculum planning is heeded, reforms in theaccreditation process by ABET have been initiated. ABET’s Criteria 2000 3 has instituted manyof the same ideals as outlined by NSF and ASEE in their recent reports. To satisfy ABET’s newcriteria engineering and technological institutions must show evidence that graduating seniorspossess

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2000 Annual Conference

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Mohammad A. Zahraee; Lash Mapa; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

TQM. The criteria setforth for this award is one of the best known for describing the major components of a TQMculture. The following descriptions are paraphrased from the Malcolm Baldrige NationalQuality Award criteria. 1) Leadership – This requires that senior-level management be committed to the process of quality improvement. Organization leaders are expected to develop and sustain goals that support customer focus and quality values. 2) Information and Analysis – This requires that the organization use data and information to back quality excellence which, for the most part, means that data must be used to identify areas for improvement. 3) Strategic Quality Planning – This requires that an organization have key

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Horton

. Studentsinvestigate fewer processes but in greater depth. Those processes that are treated in thelaboratory courses were removed from the MET 270 syllabus and processes relevant to Maineindustries were added.The new program evaluation criteria established by the Technology Accreditation Commission(TAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and the graduatecompetency gaps cited in the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) ManufacturingEducation Plan Phase I Report were addressed in the new course design.1, 2 Students mustpractice and demonstrate teamwork, communication, and lifelong learning skills. Team-based Page 5.375.1projects

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven B. Shooter; Catherine A. Shooter

Cowan DiagramWankat and Oreovicz6 suggest a six [seven] step strategy for problem solving: Motivate, Define,Explore, Plan, Do it, Check, and Generalize. Of particular interest to this paper on experientiallearning are the first and last steps. As Wankat and Oreowicz recognize, “since anxiety can be amajor detriment to problem solving, it is useful to work on the student’s self-confidence.” Thedesign experience is fraught with the unknown because it often involves the creation ofsomething new. Even the instructor does not know the answer ahead of time. Throughout the Page 5.278.3design process, students will naturally encounter a broad range

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2000 Annual Conference

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Mark McNeill; Steven Shooter

Cowan DiagramWankat and Oreovicz6 suggest a six [seven] step strategy for problem solving: Motivate, Define,Explore, Plan, Do it, Check, and Generalize. Of particular interest to this paper on experientiallearning are the first and last steps. As Wankat and Oreowicz recognize, “since anxiety can be amajor detriment to problem solving, it is useful to work on the student’s self-confidence.” Thedesign experience is fraught with the unknown because it often involves the creation ofsomething new. Even the instructor does not know the answer ahead of time. Throughout the Page 5.390.3design process, students will naturally encounter a broad range

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Rainer Fink

quickly respond with "religion, family, andhealth" as my most important ones. I am married with three young children. My wife and I enjoytravel and spending time with our children and other family. Over the last 15 months, however,these priorities have been pushed aside as I build my credentials toward gaining tenure. Clearly, abalance is needed between my dedication to success in the tenure process and my personalpriorities. My plan at this point is to develop a well-defined strategy for meeting the tenure-trackexpectations (without an unusual level of compromise of the time with my family). While I havenot yet developed my strategy, there are some obvious elements to include in the plan.First, it will be useful to identify those factors that

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1998 Annual Conference

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Robert Knecht; Randal Ford

engineer a musical Develop Prepareproduction. Namely, they had to identify goals, Specifications Plandevelop specifications, gather data, defineoptions, prepare a plan of action and implement Gatherthe design, which, in this case, was their Dataproduction of The Music Man. These students Figure 1: Engineering Design Process Applied in the Design (EPICS) Curriculumresolved the client issue by approaching thefaculty representative on MLT Student Council tovolunteer. He supervised production expenses and signed off on the budget; so the team

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1998 Annual Conference

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Marjorie Davis; John Palmer; Helen Grady; Clayton Paul; Allen F. Grum

decided to change from the quarter system to the semestersystem by the fall of 1997. While a number of our sister schools at Mercer planned to simplyroll their current curriculum into the semester format, the School of Engineering faculty decidedto take this opportunity to reshape our engineering program and achieve a new vision. Thisimpetus came from both external and internal forces.Externally, we were aware that ABET was working on a new set of criteria that would changethe way our programs would be reviewed for accreditation. In addition, our colleagues at otherschools and our advisors from industry confirmed our sense that engineering education needed toincorporate ways to assess its outcomes and provide mechanisms for responding to

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1997 Annual Conference

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Randall Guensler; Christopher Conklin; Paul S. Chinowsky

environmental resources provides a distinct advantage to practicing engineers.However, there is a staggering amount of information associated with environmental regulationsthat must be understood when proposing and building projects.Undergraduate university programs in civil engineering and city planning typically do notprovide enough opportunity for students to gain practical knowledge in environmental regulationand policy. New concepts in environmental planning are introduced every year, but theseundergraduate programs are under pressure not to add additional content beyond their currentfour year programs. Hence, this material is usually learned by graduates under the tutelage ofsupervisors once they have their first professional job. This gap in

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Pradeep K. Agrawal

-operativeeducational plan (almost 35% of our students participate in this plan.) However, it necessitatesthat every required undergraduate level course in chemical engineering be offered at least twice ayear. Many are offered more than twice, whereas the laboratory courses are offered everyquarter.The undergraduate curriculum in Chemical Engineering has three categories of laboratorycourses. The first consists of two courses, ChE 3302 and 3303, addressing transport phenomena;the second also consists of the two courses, ChE 3309 and 3310, broadly covering unitoperations, but also including chemical reaction analysis and catalysis and new technologies suchas those associated with microelectronics and biochemical engineering; and the third, ChE 4418,which

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael J. Pavelich; Barbara Olds

institution to report assessmentof general education, discipline-specific education, retention and completion, alumni/student 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Page 1.28.1satisfaction, after-graduation performance, minority student statistics, and costs. According tothe timeline established by CCHE, each institution was required to submit its institutional goalsand objectives for approval in 1988 and then submit an assessment plan after the goals were approved.In 1989 the first assessment reports were submitted. The legislation stipulated that CCHE couldretain two percent of an institution's appropriation

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1997 Annual Conference

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P.J. Fisher; N.J. Quick; S.J. Steiner

. It is a project-based activity where thestudents are organised into teams, spanning all three years of the students’ undergraduatestudies. The project acts as an integrating theme through a course module entitled “TotalDesign”, and requires the students to acquire a number of transferable skills. Theseinclude information gathering, report writing, presentation skills, time management,project planning, teamwork, and managing meetings. This paper describes the year onyear structure of the PAMS project, and the acquisition of the mentioned transferableskills, with particular reference to team working, and the subsequent implications for thestudents as they enter industry on graduation.I. IntroductionThe School of Manufacturing and Mechanical

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Gulser Kosal; Hasan Nadir Derin

principles are used. Planning for the future, clearobjectives, participation, motivation, teamwork, leadership, problem solving,continuous improvement, empowered students, and learning assessment are givenspecial emphasis. Major stakeholders are identified as students, graduates, instructorsof the course, potential employers of the students, and the university management.Their expectations from the graduates are taken into account while designing thecourse. Difficulties due to the asynchronous nature of the course conduct are studied,and tried to be minimized by the design. In conducting the course, a student team isformed to improve the quality of the course as a project. The instructor works with theteam in collecting data each week to assess the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Grossman; Steve Wells; Michihiro Nishi

technical and cultural, and many became Page 4.162.2friends. The exchange is not only between students. The visiting faculty member also brings hisexpertise into the host university classroom in the form of guest lecturers.In 1994 and 1995, the Presidents of Old Dominion University and Kyushu Institute ofTechnology in Japan exchanged visits and worked to identify ways to develop relationshipsbetween these new sister institutions. An agreement was reached that a design competitionwould be held at ODU in the summer of 1996, and that the president of KIT would provide$10,000 in seed money. Planning for the competition began early in 1996, with

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Nagy N. Bengiamin

attributes.Step 4 Establish a process to monitor effectiveness of the program objectives - A plan must bedeveloped to revisit the mission statement and program objectives to ensure their continuedconsistency with the present activities of the department. Changing needs of students, shift indemographics, advances in technology, and changes in the department’s focus are among thedriving factors in this endeavor. All these factors are not of the highly dynamic nature whichsuggests a maintenance cycle of four to six years.Criterion 3 addresses the educational outcomes of the academic program and the assessmentplan. This criterion calls for satisfying outcomes a-k as a minimum. Additional outcomesshould be determined such that program criteria (Criterion 8

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

Session 1360 Diversity: The Role of International Students as the New Global Prerequisite Hamid Y. Eydgahi, Saeid Y. Eidgahy Lima Technical College/Jefferson Community CollegeAbstractA study completed by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education in July 1998,forecasts more diversity in high school graduates while other studies have shown that studentslearn more effectively working in teams than they do independently. A review of the Societyof Manufacturing Engineers, Manufacturing Education Plan, clearly outlines integrativeacademic components in which the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent R. Canino; John D. Gassert

as manager of all of the design teams formed in BE-103. The GroupManger is responsible to the Division Engineering Manager. The function of the GroupManager is to call meeting(s) of the Project Managers to insure that all design teams are makingprogress towards their design goals. Further, Group Managers are required to meet with theVice President of Engineering and the Chief engineer every two weeks during the each academicquarter The Project Manager (PM) is an engineering member of a design team who assumes theresponsibility for organizing, coordinating and planning the activities of the design team. TheProject Manager is required to attend meeting(s) called by the Group Manager. The Associate Project Manager (APM) is an

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Wayne; Alfred Stiller; Kristine Craven

publications, client presentation, and many othernecessary forms of communication that the students will encounter after graduation.Social EnvironmentIt is desirable that freshman-engineering students get to know each other. The students in aparticular section of freshman engineering will be required to work together in teams. The valueof study groups is also emphasized and thus they need to know students from other engineeringsections who may have the same mathematics or chemistry course. In order to encourage thisinteraction of students, there are two social activities planned during the first year.Early in the fall semester the students are brought together in order to meet each other and tointeract with the engineering faculty. The location of