Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Hassall; Jose Arquero; John Joyce; Ian Robinson; Michael Bramhall

communicationapprehension. The Engineering students do not register this trend in OCA and consequently thisis also reflected in total communication apprehension. However, the trend for the Engineers isthe same as for the other two groups in WCA. It is noticeable that although, as mentioned earlier,the range of academic self rating by the Engineers was much greater than the other two groupstheir range of mean scores as shown above is much less than for the others. For example, in thecase of oral communication apprehension the range of mean scores for Engineers is 5.17 (that is62.97 to 68.14) as against 16.22 (75.90 to 59.58) and 9.77 (69.13 to 59.36) respectively forAccounting and Business Studies students

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Rossler; Martin High

engineering education in that it demonstrates the practical and economicimportance of applying sound technical skills. More important, it provides business withtechnologists who recognize the economic value of responsible design practices. Society, inturn, benefits from better, safer products and processes, and from legal systems and processesthat better reflect the unique challenges of technology practice.IntroductionStarting in the mid-to-late 1970s, and continuing to present day, legal issues have intruded uponengineering and technology practice. Despite the increased probability that an engineer willencounter a legal issue in daily practice, (almost) all engineering curricula do not reflect this,choosing instead to emphasize technical skills in

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

, relative to the proposed development. The sketching assignment should require studentsto reflect on the geotechnical conditions at the site and write detailed engineering report qualityparagraphs describing the conditions. If desired, a computer generated cross-section can beprepared once a hand-sketched cross-section is developed.Elastic Stress Distribution. Text books all present elastic stress distribution theories and avariety of tools using those theories to estimate changes in stress beneath different loadconfigurations. Equations and charts are available to predict these changes in stress. Whilehistorically these equations and charts were the standards used in engineering practice, software,based on the same theories, is available today for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Akbar Eslami

. Atconcentrations above that range the times continued to decrease but at a much lesser rate. Geltemperature (Figure 3(b)) showed a similar pattern of little change at the higher concentrations,reaching a plateau around 185 C. The inflection temperature pattern was not as clear.The gel time and temperature behavior reflect the molecular make up of the vinyl ester. Asoriginally made, the resin is much too viscous to be used for composite materials. Consequently,it is diluted with styrene monomer. (It is the styrene monomer that gives polyester resins thecharacteristic odor that many people associate with “fiberglass” composites 2.) Fortunately, thestyrene monomer enters into the gel and cure reactions and thus is a reactive diluent. As part ofthe final

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Velasquez-Bryant; Gokhan Pekhan; Ahmad Itani; Pamela Cantrell

, interpreting, and reflecting. These processskills do not occur within engineering design in any kind of linear pattern, but rather the learneremploys these skills on demand in a single or layered configuration, depending upon thechallenges met during the design process. Teachers were trained in the design process skills andincluded them as teaching strategies within the TLM.Triangulated Learning ModelA study of current literature and best practices led to the development of the Triangulated Page 9.941.3Learning Model (TLM), a major component of the TIES project. The TLM is supported by both Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

sudhakar vadiraja; Hector Cervantes

competency-based curriculum requires application of different educationalstrategies8-10:The first step in a competency-based curriculum is the development of a set of competencystatements to define what knowledge, skills and attitudes the mechanical /materials engineeringundergraduate should possess. This set of competency statements will then provide a standard foridentifying the core content of the curriculum and allowing the assessment of outcomes of thecurriculum. Competencies in the curriculum should be reviewed and modified to be responsiveand reflective of the educational needs of the students, community demands and changes inprofessional practices.2.2 Undergraduate courses on Smart materialsTypical components of an undergraduate course on

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James West; Dennis Miller; Daina Briedis

as possible. Theissue of modernizing chemical engineering curricula has been a newsworthy nation-wideconcern over the past several years.As many chemical engineering faculties across the country have doggedly observed, ourcurricula have not reflected the innovation and dynamics of the profession. Except for minortweaking and title changes, most chemical engineering curricula have remained essentiallystagnant over the past 40 years. Although starting salaries remain high, student enrollments havedropped and unemployment rates have increased (1). Many of the better students are attracted toother engineering disciplines or modern sciences. While reasons for these phenomena may benumerous and complex, it is clear that changes in the enabling

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Rand; Don Bowie; Donald Peter; Anthony Donaldson

significant timereductions by applying strategic thinking. In addition, the engineering students hosted thebusiness students in the electronics lab to both introduce them to the lab environment andto demonstrate to them an electronic circuit, concept or theory. Students were required towrite short reflection papers on these experiences. Below are images of these activities. Page 9.278.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFigur e 1 Dr . Rand explains pr ocess mapping Figur e 2 Business and engineer

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vyas Harinath; Pfumai Kuzviwanza; Jianzhong Lou; Leonard Uitenham; Keith Schimmel

analysis. Students are able to study the relationship betweenpolymer structure and biodegradation properties. They are challenged to use statistical methodsto determine which polymer physical and chemical property measurements best correlate withbiodegradability. Through this process, the students develop a vivid understanding offundamental principles of polymer science, as well as the importance of societal andenvironmental issues with polymer materials design, manufacturing, and applications. Pedagogythat has been demonstrated to be effective in improving student learning, e.g., cooperativelearning, formative assessment and feedback, and reflective writing, is incorporated into thelaboratory materials.I. IntroductionSynthetic polymers continue

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

necessary to become licensed asa professional engineer. It is expected that existing undergraduate and graduate programs Page 9.737.1will be revised to reflect this body of knowledge and that new programs will be created. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The ASCE board established the Task Committee on Academic Prerequisites forProfessional Practice in the fall of 2001 and charged it with developing a plan forimplementing Policy Statement 465. That committee has been pursuing three parallellong-term (20

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Shull; John Wise

data on existingpractices in an unobtrusive and consistent manner. Each week, faculty are asked to log on thesystem and enter their goals and objectives for the past week, along with a short synopsis of theireffectiveness in achieving them. This information is stored locally and can be accessed in orderto develop a list of objectives currently being pursued by each faculty member. Collecting thisinformation as near as possible to its presentation to students controls for gaps in memory thatare sure to come up in any post-semester meeting on course objectives. This activity is useful onseveral levels. The faculty benefit from the weekly reflection on each class, something that is alltoo often seen as a luxury. The data thus obtained can be used

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Preeti Nagarajan; Roman Stemprok

thought of as acollection of M linear registers of N pixels each. The M linear registers are aligned vertically; side-by-side and separated by channel stop regions. Light is incident on the exposed thinned surface.The incident photons do not pass through the front surface electrodes and passivation layers. Anenhancement layer is added to the back surface to create an electric field that forces photo-generated electrons toward the potential wells under the gates. An anti-reflective coating may beadded to increase optical quantum efficiency. An additional independent linear register is placednext to the array with its charge transfer direction orthogonal to that in the array. The serialregister is arranged so there is a single pixel adjacent to

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Krause

, and the nature of misconceptions. The interviews were notparticularly useful since students were hesitant to talk, possibly because they felt self-consciousor because they had little experience with reflective thinking. On the other hand, the “intuitionquizzes” were quite useful in identifying creative and original student misconceptions which Page 8.648.3“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”were often used as effective distracters. Larger scale testing during the following semester wasused to determine which

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Gralinski; Janis Terpenny

2001 the ARHS Technology Education department completed curriculum maps4 foreach course. In doing that the department was directed to complete the maps reflecting currentpractice and content and to match that content with the concepts in the curriculum frameworks.With that as a benchmark the school would begin a course by course departmental review tocompare current curricula to frameworks. Individuals and/or teams of teachers would thenresearch options and make suggestions as to how to best meet the broad concepts outlined in theframeworks and then initiate a rewrite of the map and curriculum for that course. The twocourses relating to this paper are the single trimester courses; Engineering & Technology I andII. Discussions were held

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

components in the schematic. Simulate the hot-swapcircuit using MULTISIM. If some component model is not available, either get alternative modelsor build approximate models. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.162.5 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationExperimentConnect the circuit as shown in Fig. 3 and verify the results with respect to the results in pre-lab. Fig. 3 Hot-Swap Controller circuit4.3.2 A Simulation Exercise: Simulation of Transmission lines, reflections and

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Carter; John Feland

compellingNeed-Solution Pairs. In this context the framework was valuable in ensuring student teams didnot just design a widget but a widget with a purpose. Traditionally the products designed in thiscourse reflect the perspectives of the designer more than meet the Needs of any customer group.By integrating the Need-Solution framework with a new understanding of the Doblin process,courses in innovative product development can equip students with the tools to cross theInnovation Fence. By using the Need-Solution framework to provide a language to supportproduct team interactions and Doblin’s Innovation Landscape™ to assist teams in targeting andevaluating their innovation efforts. This tool set begins to fill the curricular gap in the academicofferings

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Hadgraft

, engage students in thedesign of the assessment. This assessment should test the full range of graduate capabilities,not just technical skills. Assessment should cover all levels of Bloom’s taxonomy8.Evaluate your success. This should include staff evaluation, eg through a reflective journal,student evaluation of the course and of themselves, and external evaluation.Having completed the cycle, the whole process can start again because the evaluation processrevisits the professional needs, which can then be revised. Page 8.947.5Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Dean; Carol Considine

. Modification oftraditional lectures is one way to incorporate active learning in the classroom.1 The instructorsmodified the synchronous lecture formats for the courses to include the following active learningtechniques: • THINK-PAIR-SHARE. Students were asked to individually reflect on specific questions, write down their response, pair with a neighbor and discuss their answers, and then share a final group answer with the entire class. For this active exercise, each distant site became their own group and was expected to share their response as a group. Although some sites had only one student and did not have the opportunity to come to a group consensus, they still had the opportunity to

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

biomechanics, we are also interested in incorporating project-based instructionalapproaches that utilize modern learning theory in a university setting. The Legacy Cycle uses challenges as anchors for learning. The challenges are designed tocreate an increasing depth of knowledge in a specific subject, with each challenge presented asone cycle of the Legacy shell. The combination of well-designed challenges and meaningfullearning activities provides a rich environment for both the students and the instructor. The sixsteps constituting each cycle of Legacy are (see Figure 1): (1) Look Ahead and Reflect Back,which allows students to see where they are going and to reflect back on where they have been;for example, students are able to see how the

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Keilson

), but stillonly receives three credit hours and that the course currently fulfills no graduation requirement fornon-engineering majors, this first experience was encouraging. There exists a real interest for thiskind of class. It is hoped that in the future this course will also function as a recruitment tool forengineering students. Therefore, the course fulfills the Introduction to Engineering requirement forengineering majors.Assessment and evaluation of Alpha program courses consists of a self-reflection survey preparedby the instructor, as well as a number of student surveys, including a pre- and post- semester generalattitude survey to assess the overall efficacy of the Alpha class in promoting retention of studentsand an easier social

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research and New Directions

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daphne Chang

processes: 1) Concrete Experience, 2)Reflective Observation, 3) Abstract Conceptualization and 4) Active Experimentation.One of the major functions of education is to shape students’ attitude toward learning and todevelop effective learning skills. The authors hope to accomplish these objectives by usingdynamic animation and team project. It is not merely about including practical experiences bututilizing these experiences to induce higher levels of learning. Furthermore, students will be Page 7.508.1exposed to the importance of team work, working collaboratively through individual differenceswhich is an integral part of real work scenarios.In the

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yichong Zeng; Patrick Kwon; Muhammad Sohail Ahmed; Jenny Wang-Chavez

Engineering Education Figure 3 (a): Trial part Figure 3 (b): Trial part printBuilding on the trial part, students, still working in the same group, are asked to produce theprocess plan for producing the final manual press tube (Figure 4 (a) and (b)). In the process ofdeveloping process plan, students are provided with web links to the different types of machiningprocesses. At conclusion of the project, students will post their deliverables to class discussionboard. They will be asked to critique each other’s process plan. Sharing findings and critiquingeach other help students to learn from each other and to reflect what they have learned. Figure 4 (a): Final part

Conference Session

Best Teaching Practices for ABET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

and continuous improvement required for ABETaccreditation support our approach. UT Austin has a strong research focus and theteaching environment is enriched by abundant research opportunities. Additionally, UTAustin’s College of Engineering is consistently rated among the top ten in the nation,with some programs ranking in the top five. This atmosphere helps attract top-notchfaculty as well as establishing an environment of high expectations for academicachievement and instructional innovation.Documented institutional support contributes to an environment in which instructionalinnovation is a priority. Our College’s policies reflect its philosophies. Quoting from theGuidelines for Recognizing Faculty Teaching Effectiveness, “Innovative

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Norris; Duco Jansen; Sean Brophy

free-text responses. The first case was a post quiz to a short lecture on the anatomy of theeye. The second application of short answer questions asked students to reflect on what studentslearned from a field trip to a laser clinic. This reflection activity served as a pre-test for a lecture. Page 8.410.3After the lecture the students answered the questions again. (Details of these questions areProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmentioned in the next section).Essay questions were mainly used to capture students

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy Volz; David McStravick

exacerbated by our conversion to usingassigned the first week of the semester and are computers for data acquisition. Thisgraded and returned before their first modification leads to data files, which can haveexperimental lab report is due. excessive significant figures, and if the studentsThis process also identifies students who need don’t use good judgment, the results of theirhelp with their writing skills. Faculty who analysis will reflect this same excessive level ofspecialize in communications

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

the red LED, which is a warning signal. Figure 2 is assembled in the opposedsensing mode and Figure 3 is in the Figure 2: Opposed sensing mode. Figure 3: Retro-reflective sensing mode. Page 8.179.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education1retro-reflective sensing mode. According to the information from Banner EngineeringCorporation4 , opposed mode sensing is the most efficient sensing mode, and offers thehighest level of sensing energy to overcome

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

them to the need for that information. It should be noted that these problems werefirst implemented in the fall of 2000, and are not reflected in the assessment results given below.Interpersonal RapportThe three elements above all fall within the intellectual excitement dimension of Lowman’s twodimensional model of effective teaching.11 It is appropriate that the focus of the T4E model beon this dimension, since Lowman found that intellectual excitement is slightly more importantthan interpersonal rapport for effective teaching. However, interpersonal rapport with studentscan not be ignored, as it is necessary to achieve the highest levels of teaching skill. There areseveral techniques that can be used to promote interpersonal rapport. The

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wen-Whai Li; Charles Turner; Alfredo Martinez

Foundation have recognized the need to incorporatesustainable/green principles into engineering education curriculum. 8,9,10 These papers andarticles all reflect the need to integrate sustainability concepts across the engineeringcurriculum.II. GenesisIn 1997, Virginia Tech (VT) and UTEP joined forces to submit a proposal to ENRON, alarge energy corporation, for the development of a student and faculty exchange that wouldinitiate a greening program in the Colleges of Engineering and Science at UTEP. UTEPwould build on Virginia Tech’s existing green program and Virginia Tech students and Page 6.359.2faculty would have an experience at a culturally

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Davis

, ethics, social impact, andeconomics are addressed by the project, as well as a self-evaluation. In the self-evaluation,students reflect on how their mandatory co-op experience, as well as their course work, haveprepared them to undertake the project. Project implementation and oral status reports take placein the Winter quarter. In the Spring term, testing, refinement, writing final evaluations, andpresentation at a senior forum are done.The important curriculum innovation is that the students usually do not write more than a page ortwo for any weekly assignment, yet when assembled the individual assignments form a complete Page 6.451.1

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawna L. Fletcher; Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

theSociety of Women Engineers. At the beginning of 1999, the four groups struggled with theirdesire to collaborate, formalize a “new” coalition, and what to call themselves. Realizing thestrength and accomplishments of CEMS, they felt it was important to maintain that portion of thename and not “redefine” it to include SWE. Yet they felt that using CEMS/SWE was too muchof an “add on” and did not truly reflect their feelings of complete collaboration. Afterconsiderable debate and reflection, they agreed to CEMSWE. What made this name appropriatewas that they “shared” the “S” in the middle and it ends with “WE”. The collaborative events Page 5.458.1now