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Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ana Kennedy; David Ollis

theirreading, speaking, and writing skills in Spanish. In particular, we survey how the lab component contributes to achievement offour of the six student learning objectives, namely that students will: 1. Learn vocabulary commonly used in engineering and technology context, 2. Develop the ability to comprehend and use Spanish in settings invariably encountered in our technological society 3. Interact in a more formal setting such as the presentation of a technological/culture project to class and guests, and 4. Explain in the target language the workings of a technological device. We conclude with lessons learned and plans for a final version

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Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Vallone

organizations, process is a dirty word, the dreaded ‘P’ word, and mostsoftware engineers view it as the stereotypical Dilbert style waste of time. To get complianceand participation, true believers and Software Quality Assurance teams (the process police),frequently resort to the threat of ISO and/or TL 9000 non-compliances. In most cases,compliance obtained in this way amounts to lip service. The net result is that the processesprovide little value and the poor results only serve to reinforce the impression that this “stuff” isuseless and detracts from the real objective, writing code. From my background on various Page 10.1045.1industry projects, I

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny

topics such as teaming, project management, communication and writing, Page 10.406.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationtheories of student learning and appropriate pedagogical approaches to teaching an open-endedsubject such as engineering design. By the end of the course the students design and develop adesign course in their own discipline, including their personal approach and philosophy ofteaching design, along with learning objectives and outcomes with accompanying syllabus,assignments

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Eliot; Jennifer Turns

all participants, a focus group of allparticipants once the program ended, and final surveys from all participants. In our dataanalysis, we used a coding process to derive emergent themes from our data sources. Theresulting findings allowed us to better understand the usability and effectiveness of the program.In terms of iteration, we used the results of our empirical study to understand how to revise theprogram for the second offering. As a result, the second offering of the TC3P during winter2005 showcased a number of changes including the construction of wireframe portfolios near thebeginning of the course, more structured peer evaluations, guest speakers from industry, and ameeting space with better computer access.Since the goals of our

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shashi Nambisan

. In some cases, such experiences are vital in helping students identifytheir interests and in helping them attain their potential. Examples of such situations includestudents who are among the first in their families or peer groups at their educational levels, andwho may not have “mentors” or “role models” to help guide them. In particular, experiences thathelp students link their educational background to research efforts, and those which help themrecognize implications of the outcomes of their research effort are powerful tools for recruitmentand retention. As can be imagined, this consideration has not only scientific and technologicalbenefits, but also tremendous long lasting social and economic implications. Further discussionson the

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Brockway; Greg Spaulding

approach is as follows.Entrepreneurial education: • More "out of the box" thinking. • Methods not only to solve problems but also to determine what the problems are. • Projects that allow students to interact with successful entrepreneurs. • Topics that are more relevant to entrepreneurial situations. 1. Idea Generation for Entrepreneurs 2. Legal Forms of Business Structures for Entrepreneurs 3. Marketing and Sales for Entrepreneurs 4. Writing a Business Plan for Entrepreneurs 5. E-Commerce for Entrepreneurs 6. Finance for Entrepreneurs 7. Patent and Invention Protection for Entrepreneurs

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Jean Russo; Joseph Hartman

’, ‘moderately’, or ‘very much’) and also provide their qualitative feedback. We alsowill ask a number of questions to compare the quizzes: • Which type of problem were you more prepared to answer? • Which type of problem did you find more challenging? • Which type of problem did you find more interesting? • Which type of problem did you prefer?The students were able to rank their preference according to ‘strongly prefer’, ‘prefer’, or ‘nopreference’ for the last question and ‘strongly’, ‘slightly’, or ‘no difference’ for the others.5. Interpreting the ResultsEach quiz will be systematically graded, including partial credit. For example, a cash flowdiagram will be worth a certain amount of points as will be writing down the correct time

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roya Javadpour

essentialfor the effective implementation of projects. In addition they learn the appropriate use ofcomputers in planning and controlling projects, and monitoring progress (actual vs.planned and earned value). The importance of conflict management is emphasized alongwith techniques to manage conflict. The course also offers students with the followingpersonnel development opportunities: • Analytical, Writing, and Presentation Skills - research a specific topic, analyze a problem, think creatively, suggest a solution, and prepare a written or oral presentation of the solution. Page 10.371.2 “Proceedings of the 2005

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Internet Computing and Networking

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shelton Houston; Christopher Herrod; Steven Blesse

their applicability to address theusers’ needs(f) Analyze the impact of information technology on individuals, organizations and society, includingethical, legal and policy issues(g) Demonstrate an understanding of best practices and standards and their application(h) Demonstrate independent critical thinking and problem solving skills(i) Collaborate in teams to accomplish a common goal by integrating personal initiative and groupcooperation(j) Communicate effectively and efficiently with clients, users and peers both verbally and in writing,using appropriate terminology(k) Recognize the need for continued learning throughout their careerTable 7 illustrates enrollment and graduation trends in the Information Technology program atSouthern Miss

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Newell

students, staffmembers and engineering professionals involved in organizations. These activities encouragenetworking by introducing students to their peers and providing information on professional andstudent organizations. In addition to student Society of Women Engineers (SWE) members,members from all engineering minority societies; Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers(SHPE), National Society for Black Engineers (NSBE), and American Indian Science andEngineering Society (AISES) are invited to attend networking activities to get to know Bridgeparticipants and inform them about their organizations.Industry Mentoring: To date, Motorola and other local industry have provided 35 mentors to beindividually matched to WISE Summer Bridge

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

use in industry.Due to changes in the professional practice of civil engineering, updates to what is taught withinthe civil engineering curriculum are needed.2,3 This is in part due to the abilities of computers toconduct computations much more efficiently than in the past.3 Graduates from structuralengineering programs with considerable computer usage4 have an employment advantage overtheir peers since they tend to be more productive in industrial positions immediately aftergraduation. In most civil engineering programs, computer software use is introduced into thecurriculum directly through discipline specific courses. The literature presents numerousexamples of computer usage and software implementation in discipline specific courses.5,6,7

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Kukulka

must answer to this board and ultimately to the sponsorthat they are doing the project for. Initially the students must present their work to the board,with the board members ensuring that proper procedures are being followed. Each board memberevaluates the work and writes comments. Evaluations are given to the students after theirpresentations. If the board requires additional work, the group would have to resubmit theirproposal before they could proceed to the sponsor submittal step.Once the proposal has been accepted by the board, the proposal must be submitted to thesponsor. This proposal is the agreement between the student group and the sponsor on what isrequired by the group, when it will be delivered and the various responsibilities on

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

percent of our IT (Information Technology) workers are foreign born and fifty percent ofthem are on H1B visa. In recent years almost sixty percent of the continuously increasing H1Bvisas are filled up by the qualified engineers and technologists from Indian subcontinentcountries. A comparison study of overall core curriculum of engineering and technologyprograms of those countries to that of the United States towards international accreditation ispresented. The future engineers and technologists must be able to interact with foreign peers andcustomers to fulfill their obligation in global nature. The emerging facts from successfulcompanies, organizations, and universities have established that the real source of power in aknowledge base economy

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Westrom

, universities, businesses and community to participate since they are the beneficiaries of the effort. 3. Introduce excitement and fun into learning SMET and parity for girls and minorities in numbers and participation. 4. Finally, the goal is to use informal science so it will be a major supporter of formal SMET education in filling the pipeline for colleges, universities and the future technical workforce.The NeedAccording to the National Science Teacher’s Association, the Third International Mathematicsand Science Study Repeat TIMSS-R validates the results of the 1995 TIMSS study “that after 4thgrade, students in the United States fall behind their international peers as they pass through theschool system1". A recent study by

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Berliner-Heyman; Nicole Koppel; Rosa Cano; Siobhan Gibbons; Howard Kimmel

upon a protocol developed through theCenter’s professional development activities15. The protocol links the state sciencecontent standards and the specific knowledge and skills students are expected to acquirewith the learning expectations of the students by the teachers. The program instructorsplan standards-based lessons that include the learning expectations of the standards, andassessment of student work in relation to the expectations of the standards. Theprocedure allows the instructors to write and implement standards-based lesson plans thatinclude the assessment and documentation of students’ achievement of the standards inthese lessons. Program instructors develop rubric assessment instruments to evaluate theextent to which their

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bailey

little resemblance to the desktop PCs and servers that IT emphasizesbut are becoming part of the IT mainstream as more and more systems converge.An uninformed observer may conclude from the forgoing description of the emerging ITmovement, that hardware is necessarily an important part of all such programs’ curriculum. Indiscussions with our peer institutions across the country, we have discovered this not to be thecase. A recent survey, conducted via the ACM-SIGITE (Special Interest Group on InformationTechnology Education) list server illustrates this. This survey asked each institution to selfassess their coverage of the following 8 topics: Networking, AC and DC fundamentals, Power(consumption, heat, etc.), Modulation techniques, Signal

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wong; Stephanie Blaisdell; Paula Leventman; Anna Swan; Katherine Ziemer; Rachelle Reisberg

. The students use conduction,convection, and radiation as methods to remove (evaporate) water from the orange juice toconcentrate it. From these experiments the students determine which method they would like touse to concentrate their orange juice. Figure 1. Example of Student Design of Northeastern Project – Great Orange Juice SqueezeThe third section is about the engineering process. Students learn about flowsheets andprocedures and how they are used to communicate engineering solutions. They then design theirown concentration process, draw a flowsheet, and write a procedure for their process. They alsomust take into consideration safety issues that they may encounter in their work environment.In order to develop their process, they need

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed; Jacqueline El-Sayed

Process for Integration of the classes From the interviews of both instructors, a common laboratory schedule was developed Theschedule and topics are given in Table 1. Table 1 - Lab Schedule Developed for Integrated Classes Week Auto Capstone and CIM Common Lab- Mondays 1:20-3:30 PM 1 ME: Lecture on creativity, team dynamics, brainstorming techniques; IC: team building; IE: Introduction to CIM Assignment: Project brainstorming session 2 ME: Lecture on the design process, product attributes, design criteria, and proposal writing; In

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

ASEE Abstract 2004 Conference A "Grass Roots" Mentoring Model to Create Change Robin Autenrieth, Karen Butler-Purry, Angie Hill Price, and Jan Rinehart Texas A&M UniversityAbstractFor more than fifteen years the women faculty in the College of Engineering at TexasA&M University have built a community through social activities, seminars, andoutreach programs that have served well as a mentoring mechanism between junior andsenior faculty and peers. What started as social activities during lunch or after work hasevolved into the formation of the Women Engineering Faculty Interest Group (WEFIG),a university

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Shull; John Wise

courses. In a post-semester meeting, the general feedbackfrom the faculty was positive. Most felt that the experience had helped them to understand theirindividual courses better and to begin to see how their courses fit into the larger program.Several of the faculty took advantage of the opportunity to see what their peers were doing.None expressed concern for this data sharing. The single administrator present at the meetingexpressed satisfaction with the instrument and the ability to review the current status of all of the Page 9.573.5active courses in the curriculum. Some faculty who were also involved in ABET committees Proceedings of

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

. Due to the complexity of the project, students work in teams of two. Grading consists oftwo major progress reports that are graded by the coordinator, a formal presentation of theirwork before their peers, lab journals graded periodically by the assistants and progresstowards completion, which is also graded by the assistants. Page 9.1071.2Robot Specification Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual conference & Exposition CopyrightÀ 2004, American Society for engineering Education At it inception, the robot was a mechanical platform kit with custom analog control basedon

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

decisions have on theproducts or projects they are working on, the customer who buys the product, the owner whofinances the project and their reputation as a designer/builder and as a person. AECs through theirimportant work have vast impact on the lives of many people through health and safety issues aswell as financial issues. Bibliography • American Association of Architects (AIA). www.aia.org. • Banik, G.C. (2003) “Writing an Effective Case Study”. Proceedings: 39th Associated School of Construction (ASC) Annual Conference, Pp. 1-7, Clemson University, Clemson. • Construction Management Association of America (CMAA). www.cmaa.org. • Dorsey, Robert (1999

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Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell; Kevin Dahm

would be unlikely to argue that it is as significant of a learning objective as“drew meaningful and supportable conclusions.”Once the rubrics have been optimized, the next major task to be addressed is differentiating theperformance of individuals from the performance of the team. It is possible that a team couldhave one or more member who fully attains the desired learning outcomes, but whose teammatesfall substantially short of achieving these outcomes. Currently, the Chemical EngineeringDepartment at Rowan University uses a peer-assessment technique modeled after the processdescribed by Felder [26].Although this is a useful tool, it is somewhat over-reliant on student evaluation of their peers.Our experience indicates that reasonably

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

from the low performing schools of the region. The students are chosen sothat there is a mix of both high and low performing students and racial diversity in thegroup. The program endeavors to provide a positive experience for the participants so asto inspire them to prepare for MSET related fields in college. Also, it is hoped that theparticipants themselves will act as messengers and advocates of the program and program Page 8.853.1objectives among their siblings and peers. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering

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Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw

, organizations and society, including ethical, legal and policy issues; (g) Demonstrate an understanding of best practices and standards and their application; (h) Demonstrate independent critical thinking and problem solving skills; (i) Collaborate in teams to accomplish a common goal by integrating personal initiative and group cooperation; (j) Communicate effectively and efficiently with clients, users and peers both verbally and in writing, using appropriate terminology; (k) Recognize the need for continued learning throughout their career. This Committee has also defined the main topic and sub topics of the core curriculum. The main topics are as follows: Security, Social & Professional Issues, Information

Conference Session

Motivating Students to Achieve

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Socha; Valentin Razmov

from what they have done while in the game. A term-long project providesadditional experiential material, while weekly reflective writings help the students exercise theirreflective skills and discover what they have learned.Last spring, as we, instructors, were discussing the many (19 at the time) reflective techniquesthat we had used in our course6, we realized that each technique was working on one of threedifferent levels - individual, team, or project. We also realized that our course had moreindividual techniques than team techniques, and more team techniques than project techniques.This can be illustrated by the following pyramid structure: project

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Niebuhr; Heather Smith

. This informal conclusion comes following teaching the course a dozen or sotimes over the past 4 years, where the modified lab came into being 2 years ago. Thesesentiments were shared by my colleagues who had also taught the lab the old and new way.The quiz results are broken down into 4 dot plots shown in Figures 1 through 4. Figure 1illustrates the results of the statistics multiple choice questions, Figure 2 the results of thecorrosion multiple choice questions and Figure 3 is the design question results. Figure 4combines the total scores received on the quiz. In all four figures it is clear that the studentstaught using the new integrated lab scored higher than their peers performing the old lab. Table1 summarizes the numerical results of

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

that might not actually occur in the classroom. Younger students could talkto seniors, and the peer type encounters could lead to a wealth of information being imparted.The thought was also to allow more of a comfortable atmosphere than a structured semester labthat required students to simply mimic upper level activities. Students were informed that theyshould make every effort to use the opportunity to create friendships that would allow them togain both worthwhile and truthful information about their major.During the first class of the semester, the freshmen were provided with the 19 projects thatwould be investigated by the seniors. With scheduling concerns being most important, theychoose the groups in which they would interact. The

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tremayne Waller; Bevlee Watford

writing techniques for lab reports. The third class sessionis when the instructor divides the class into small groups in order to analyze each groupmember’s lab reports. Students are encouraged to rewrite their lab reports to meet theexpectation set by the department. It is during these last two class sessions, the professor willschedule one-on-one meetings with the students to discuss their progress in the class.MathInitially, the math course was designed to assist students who were not calculus ready to pass theMathematics Department’s Mathematics Readiness Test (MRT). The MRT exam was designedby the math department. So, the exam can be difficult to take if the students have not used orseen some of the formulas in while.Some of the information

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jule Scarborough; Conard White; Promod Vohra

Session Number Strategic Alliance Between Higher Education, Secondary Schools, and Community Business and Industry to Improve Secondary Mathematics, Science, Technology, and English Education: A National Science Foundation Project Jule Dee Scarborough, Ph.D. and Conard White, Ph.D. Presented by Promod Vohra, Dean College of Engineering and Engineering Education Northern Illinois UniversityNorthern Illinois University (NIU), Rock Valley College (RVC), and the Rockford [Illinois]Public Schools (RPS), as well as (a) Peer Master Teacher Leader(s) from Grayslake