Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Immekus; Susan Maller; P.K. Imbrie

Cronbach’s coefficient alpha, were: .96, .92,.96, and .94 for Interdependency, Learning, Potency, and Goal-Setting, respectively. Cronbach’scoefficient alpha for the entire scale was .98.Backgr ound The NAE National Research Council Board on Engineering Education, NSF EngineeringEducation Coalition Program, and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology [1]Engineering Criteria 2000 ushered in a movement to reshape the engineering curricula. To buildon these pioneering initiatives, new educational pedagogies must be used to develop graduates assuccessful professional contributors and lifelong learners in global, multi-disciplinary markets;be flexible to support diverse career aspirations; be agile to rapidly transform in response

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Cooper

many students wereable to see the value of remote access in their future careers. However, students were not certainhow the WebCT VistaTM interface enhanced the remote access environment. Long termimplementation of the remote environment will likely need to address these concerns. 5 4.5 4 Median Opinion Score 3.5 3 Many practical applications using Always important to have hands

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Miller; Jack Waintraub

is a place where all NETEC users may come together and become a truevirtual community. Discussions in the forum will be opportunities for the ET community tocommunicate, collaborate, or simply exchange ideas. All discussions will be moderated by ETexperts, who can help to steer the conversations in productive directions, as well as guard theforum against spam and other abuse.3. CareersThe NETEC careers section allows registered users to submit job and/or internship opportunities,skill sets, etc. Users may then search these listings to find opportunities that suit them. Allpostings are removed after 30 days, ensuring that the opportunities are up-to-date and current.4. Additional ResourcesThis section of the NETEC website highlights outside

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Lewis; Carol Considine

- civil, electrical andmechanical. In this module, the class section is divided into three groups and each group spendsthree days exploring each of the three engineering technology disciplines. The following is adescription of the content covered by each of the disciplines: • The Civil Engineering Technology (CET) three-day session focuses on surveying as a career option within CET. Surveying as a profession and its application to the engineering and design process are introduced to the students. For the hands-on portion of the session, a short introduction to leveling theory and instruction on how to operate a piece of basic surveying equipment (an automatic level) is provided. The students are then

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Donald Keating

question, however, is how to fund it.We cannot, nor should we expect research-oriented faculty, who are hired, promoted and tenured on their ability toattract research monies and to build research programs that support research-oriented graduate students, will berushing to make educational change for professionally-oriented graduate education. At many universities, researchis the primary goal and "teaching has become a bothersome chore.The changing role for a new type of graduate faculty in educating a new type of graduate student population isspecifically designed to support educational transformation for career-long learning, growth, professionaldevelopment, and leadership for creative engineering practice in industry. Non-traditional graduate

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Duff

course of the assignment, rather thansimply applying an existing skill set. And in the end, they had to rely on each other,which may have been the greatest learning experience of all.Postscript After graduation, these four students followed widely varying careers. NateGelber, the project coordinator, works as a quality specialist at a North Carolinapharmaceutical manufacturer; Ryan Graham, who modeled machinery andinstrumentation, is a instructional designer at the University of Phoenix Online; JakeHibler, who modeled the HVAC and utilities, is a data manager at a Hollywood pre-production house; Mike Kelly, who modeled the RO water system, is trying to break intothe major leagues. He had had a very successful minor league career before

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

one of the nation’s leading IE education center. Thegraduate and undergraduate ISE programs at UF are ranked in the Top 20 nationally. Thecurriculum at the ISE department at UF offers a great flexibility to students incustomizing their educational goals according to their career plans (3).A bachelor’s degree in and field of Engineering at UF is broken down into two phases:general education/pre-professional and upper division. During the first two years,students take general college and pre-professional courses. Once having completed 64credit hours, students apply to their desired specialized field. The program of study hasbeen accredited and approved by standards set by the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) (3).The

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kawintorn Pothanun; William Peterson

techniques should be used, and manyother issues). I have found limited publications based on direct experiences in teaching anengineering course for the first time.This paper describes a first teaching experience from (including the structure of teachingmaterials, the structure of exams, the benefits of short quizzes, developing a gradingpolicy, and experimenting with presentation tools and techniques) the point of view of agraduate student. This paper describes why teaching a course during their graduatestudies is important for graduate students who want to pursuit a career in academia.Recommendations are made for including the teaching of a basic level undergraduateengineering course as a component of preparation for the professorate. The

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kawintorn Pothanun; William Peterson

experience helped me better prepare for the professorate and to better understand myfuture career (and evaluate its desirability).RecommendationsEngineering Economics is one of the basic engineering courses in undergraduateengineering education. Graduate assistants who want to pursuit a career in academia(especially in Engineering Economics, Engineering Management, and IndustrialEngineering) should be assigned to teach this course.Bibliography1. Hartman, J. C., J. Lavelle, R. Martinazzi, H. Nachtmann, K. Needy and P. Shull, "A Decision Toolfor Developing a Course in Engineering Economy," American Society for Engineering EducationConference, Albuquerque, NM, June, 2001.2. Dahm, K., “Interactive Simulation for Teaching Engineering Economics

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

thefollowing:• Materials developed for a new national image and marketing campaign to promote ET careers (Sinclair Community College);• Videos, web sites, and workshops designed as tools to recruit learners, educate policymakers, and encourage expanded involvement of business and industry in ET education (WGBH public television); and,• Workshops available to help faculty incorporate continuous quality improvement principles into ET education (ABET).In addition, a "one-stop shopping" web site for accessing best practices and exemplary materialsfor recruiting and retaining students, as well as for teaching engineering technology, is available.An ad hoc committee of engineering technology educators is helping to build this centralizedresource

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Sloan; Ashok Goel

circuits is described. Undergraduate students worked with electricalengineering graduate students and faculty members for ten weeks on projects rangingfrom designing & study of GaAs-based circuits using MAGIC and L-Edit to modelingthe very high-frequency effects and parasitic capacitances in the GaAs-based VLSIinterconnections to computer simulations of GaAs-and SOI-based devices and circuitsusing the semiconductor TCAD tools. In this paper, the undergraduate research projectscarried out by the REU students are summarized1. IntroductionIt is widely recognized that active research experience is one of the most effectivetechniques for training and motivating undergraduate students for careers in science andengineering. In the USA, National

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

mechanisms. Accommodate concurrent review activities (local reviews, advisory committees) even if they don't quite fit the ABET model.4. Minimize documentation, scrutiny, and the time required by all.A faculty colleague summed it up in a phrase, "Back off!"Concluding remarksI write this paper with some trepidation, but I feel that it is something that must be done. Iwonder whether I strike a resonant chord with many engineering faculty across the country3. Ifear that it does. My career as an engineering faculty member and administrator spans nearlythree decades now. I have generally been an optimist and a promoter of new ideas andprograms. Some of these have achieved success and stuck. With others, I have had to face themusic, and it has not

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Cutlip

- as a facultymember, as a department head, and as a member of a Board at another university. Experiencesover a 35-year period will be used to explore ways in which these Boards and their members canbe utilized to the fullest advantage for the sponsoring Departments and for the EngineeringCollege.IntroductionThe following are my personal views on the operations of a Departmental Advisory Board. Theyare based on career-long experiences with Boards in various capacities. My first contact with aBoard was as an assistant/associate professor participating in our department's Board when it wasthe only one in the engineering college. I then managed and interacted with a Board as adepartment head for nine years. Finally, I am now a professor who

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

theuniversity research and industrial sponsor’s work. These lesson plans are placed on a web site fordissemination. The interns have visited the industrial sponsor to learn about their business anddone final project presentations for them.This program has a history of success in attracting women students into engineering and sciencemajors. It also hopes to have a larger impact in the long term as the 5th – 8th grade audiencetargeted for the lesson plans becomes of college age and chooses science, technology,engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers in (hopefully) larger numbers than before.Introduction and History:Female, high school summer research interns at Iowa State University work with engineeringindustries and Iowa State research groups to

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dustin Swanger; Guy Johnson

website at http://www.pltw.org.This nonprofit organization has developed a five-course curriculum that helps students exploreengineering-related careers and develop engineering concepts that help them as they enter two-and four-year college engineering and engineering technology degree programs. PLTW aims atchanging the focus of technology education at the high school level.The strategic goal of PLTW is to forge a dynamic and on-going partnership among schooldistricts, colleges and universities and industry that will establish and support a pre-engineeringcareer cluster program in America’s high schools. The PLTW program excites students aboutengineering careers and strengthens the link between traditional academic programs with hands-on learning

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Berdanier

application of fundamental math andscience relationships to solving real-world engineering problems. Programs are needed in the K-12 experience that deliver hands-on, project-based curricula providing the opportunity for K-12students to experience the wonders and opportunities of education and careers in engineering andtechnology 1.K-12 teachers typically have not majored in the science field of the courses they teach. Also, inthe United States students are less likely than students in other countries to be taught science byteachers with a major area of study in science 3. Generally, across all countries, only 20% ofstudents are taught science by teachers who believe that they are well prepared. The US teachersgenerally report higher levels of

Conference Session

Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

professional career paths have reported appreciating their Survey of OffshoreEngineering experiences even more as time progresses. They remark that they have found thatthey are especially capable of presenting a problem to and discussing it with a consultedexpert.ConclusionsMulti-background teams provide an added dimension to projects which are broad enough toallow each member to make a unique contribution. An offshore field development provides anexcellent setting for this within the Offshore Engineering MSc curriculum at the DelftUniversity of Technology.The broad hands-on experience relatively early in the curriculum becomes more and morevalued as team participants progress through the curriculum and on into their careers. It alsohelps to motivate

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anne Beddingfield; A. Wayne Bennett

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Expositions Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” One of the primary goals of the leadership program is to affect the campus culture ofstudent-initiated life-long learning and to positively impact the pejorative stereotype that engineerscannot communicate effectively or become good leaders. All of the activities are voluntary andno course credit is given for participation. Attendance and participation have not been problems.Careful planning and student input are keys to the program’s success. Students realize theactivities are relevant to their growth as individuals and that these skills will serve them well intheir professional engineering careers and personal

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Rainer Fink

participating in collaborative research.While tenure-track faculty members can find great success in collaborations, they must ensurethat their contributions and leadership of research in collaborative efforts are clearly recognized.In his book “Tomorrow’s Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science andEngineering,” [3] Reis echoes this view in the context of balancing the breadth and depth of thetenure-track faculty member’s research strategy. “Developing depth…in research…is essentialto academic success. You need to be known for something, and that something needs to be bothimportant and unique.” He states that one good reason for developing breadth of research inaddition to depth is that “By knowing what’s going on in related areas you

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeid Y. Eidgahy

-management refers to a constant effort in developing personal practices that enhance Page 6.305.1a person’s skills in dealing with the uncertainty of change. Most of what our students“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”learn in college programs is obsolete by graduation. It then becomes highly importantthat students develop life-long skills in living and taking advantage of change that isnecessary and inevitable in today’s careers. Communications is constantly cited as abasic need in all work environments. What is particularly

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jamie Workman

setting. From this starting point, several possibilities exist for expansion of the program, breakout into subject matter concentration, and reformatting for different grade levels. The objectives of the course are to encourage hands-on science, engineering, and technology activities by females, increase interest and awareness of the potential careers for women in engineering and technology, and create a sense of acceptance, and increased self-esteem for young females entering these typically male-dominated academic and professional fields. These objectives were approached in a unique way throughout the course and the efforts were well received. The development, sample course material, instructional approach, general results, and the overall

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Holcombe

whichadvanced degree to obtain is made on the basis of furthering their career rather than advancingtheir knowledge in a particular field. Degrees such as the MBA are considered as the gateway tothe executive ranks. These decisions by the graduates have reduced the available talent for the Page 6.421.2universities and colleges as long as we hold to the related field philosophy. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001,American Society for Engineering Education As technological change gains momentum, educators must be prepared to treat theircareers as dynamic

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Atashbar

Engineering students traditionally take a subset of courses required for the EE and CSdegrees, along with specialized CE courses in architecture, microcontrollers and digital designand integrated circuit design. From an EE view, they have too little hardware experience touseful interfacing and according to CS, programming embedded microcontrollers in assembly orC is insufficient. This would probably be satisfactory if most CE graduates went to work in hightechnology companies like microelectronic industry, but this simply not the case. A number ofCE students wind up being employed as more traditional engineering doing software design.Many will have careers in digital communications and data acquisition, where signalconditioning, digital signal

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; R.J. Bennett; R. Jacoby; M.I. Mendelson; D.A. Keating

the context of research, the American system of graduate education has set the world standard for preparing scientists and engineers for research careers in academe, government, and industry.” 21.4 Changing the Context of U.S. Graduate Education for EngineersAlthough the U.S. system of graduate education for research has proven to be a world leader, “and is one of thenation's strengths in carrying out graduate education where a large portion of the nation’s best research is done”, it isnow evident that a change is required.2 The change that is required is not a change in the graduate education of thenation’s scientists and engineers for academic research. Rather it is a change in the advanced professional educationof the nation’s

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard A. Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

group,the Tech-4 High Technology Industrial Educational Consortium. The partners of this consortiumare representatives of the high tech industries, community colleges and universities in centralFlorida roughly along the interstate 4, which runs east to west from Daytona Beach throughOrlando to Tampa. The Tech 4 Education consortium was founded to ensure a highly skilledworkforce for business in central Florida. Tech 4 promotes training for high school students,community college students, university students, as well as individuals seeking a career change.Beyond education offerings the Tech 4 Education Consortium provides awareness programs thatseek to increase the general public’s knowledge concerning high tech careers. Additionalindustry

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

education. The idea of networkingand developing strong links to individuals who can supply help and counsel in future work canand should be instilled early in the college or university career. Strategies for dealing with teamactivities, elements for creating a team environment, activities that will allow teaming to be partof the natural engineering education, and ideas concerning the type of students who may enterengineering programs (and their teaming potential) will be discussed. The incorporation ofproblem solving as a team activity will also be reviewed. Attitudes towards the teaming activitiesand their benefit to the students will be explored through the students’ assessments of theactivities.Every fall thousands of freshmen join the ranks of

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas J. Webster; Karen Haberstroh

should apply! Thomas Lozito: My REU project involved cell modeling. I never considered modeling as an interest, but after the summer I became involved in two modeling projects. Mary Waller: The entire experience, both the research and the chance to see the clinical and industrial applications, has greatly increased my interest in BME. I plan on pursuing a career in BME. Katie Jansen: Although I am now steering away from BME, it had nothing to do with my experience this summer. The most important thing is that this experience did make me decide to go to graduate school and pursue research as a career. As I have said before, it was a very

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Schiano; Claudia Mincemoyer

program are to: 1) develop a series of hands-on activities thatintroduce youths to basic concepts of electrical science and technology, 2) foster a natural curiosityregarding electrical science and technology in youths, motivating their study of science and math, and3) develop important life skills. A key component of the program is the generation of an Internetresource that provides a repository of low cost projects with detailed assembly instructions andbackground material, information on careers in electrical science and technology, and links to otherrelevant Internet resources. We present an overview of the program by describing some of the projectsand discussing the logistics of recruiting and assisting adult leaders.ChallengesDespite the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Burger

this sort.EAC has taken a quantum leap forward by focusing on goals and outcomes. The next steplogically is to reap a benefit by re-organizing the commissions as proposed above. [1] http://www.abet.org/ [2] A. Sanoff, Under the magnifying glass, ASEE Prism, October 2001. [3] A. Eades, ABET Revisited, ASEE Prism, Feb. 2002. [4] http://www.abet.org/accredited_programs/EACWebsite.html#C [5] http://www.abet.org/accredited_programs/TACWebsite.html [6] http://ar.byu.edu/dept_academ_advise/gemajor/98/dc/395220dc.html [7] http://www.rit.edu/~706www/newpages/eet/about.html [8] http://www.oit.edu/~career/survey/ [9] http://career.asu.edu/V/offers/CollofTech&AppSci.htm [10] http://careers.latimes.com [11] http

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jones

early in their college experience. Many ET programsface the common challenge of recruiting and retaining qualified students. At the same time,substantial portions of the incoming students lack basic skills in math and science that are neededfor them to succeed in ET. Consequently, some introductory ET courses teach basic math andscience while exposing student to career opportunities in ET.This paper discusses the experience of faculty teaching Introduction to Engineering Technology,IET 120, over the past seven years. The course has gradually shifted from a pure lecture formatto incorporate hands-on activities, plant tours, and design-and-build projects. A questionnairewas developed to assess the effectiveness of the changes in the course. The