Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cedric Walker; Carol Mullenax

Session 1793 Increasing Freshman Contact with Engineers – A Revamp of ENGR101, Tulane’s Freshman Intro to Engineering Course Carol Mullenax, Cedric Walker Tulane UniversityAbstractIn prior years, an entering freshman wanting to pursue a career in engineering could not eitherrefute or verify that decision based on anything other than entry-level math and science classesuntil well after his first year of study. At Tulane, a third of the freshmen initially enrolling in theSchool of Engineering decided to pursue other majors by the end of their freshman

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Orth

ways to show and explain complex constructiondetails and the quality of workmanship or material that is expected.Real objects, models, and mock-ups can be easily incorporated into a construction managementcurriculum. For example, this author was one of three instructors who were conducting a four-week workshop introducing adult men and women to the different career opportunities in thefield of construction. The participants were shown how to draft, estimate, and construct a 12-foot by 16-foot outbuilding. First, the participants drafted the building; second, they estimatedthe material and labor cost for the building; and third, they actually constructed the building.The participants even had to shingle the roof, set windows and doors, install

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Darnell Austin

Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringBibliography 1. Dewey, J. (1933). How We Think. Boston: DC Heath and Company. 2. Rogers, C. (2002). Defining Reflection: Another Look at John Dewey and Reflective Thinking. Teacher College Record, 104(4). 3. Ibid. 4. Dewey, J. (1938). Experience and Learning. New York: MacMillian Publishing. 5. Kolb, D., & Wolfe, D. (1984). Professional Education and Career Development: a Cross Sectional Study of Adaptive Competencies in Experiential Learning (NIE-G-77-0053). : Case Western University. 6. Malak, A., & Sharon, B. (1979). Assessing Experiential Learning in Career Education. Career Education Measurement Handbooks, 165. 7. Ibid. 8. Glickman, C. D

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdinc Acar; Faruk Taban; Ismail Fidan

, momentum, inertia,equilibrium, structural stability, sensors, etc. were covered. In addition, some club membersworked on other aspects of the competition like writing a research paper, presentation,fundraising, web design, etc.3. FIRST Robotics Competition for High School StudentsThe FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, multinational competition that teams,professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense andcompetitive way. The program is a life-changing, career-molding experience and a lot of fun. In2004, the competition has reached more than 20,000 students on over 900 teams in 27competitions. The teams come from Canada, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Great Britain, and almostevery U.S. state. The competitions

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehria Saffi; Mariana Alvaro; Diana Mejia; David Bowen

isunlikely to be feasible for most faculty to accomplish given time constraints [3].Mentoring is the long term guidance and counsel between (typically) less experienced and moreexperienced individuals. It is usually between two that are following a similar career path, butare at different stages of their careers. Mentoring of all undergraduates in an academic setting isdifficult to accomplish beyond a certain level due to student faculty ratios. In a professionalsetting a mentor may have one or two, or at most a handful of mentees. In an academic settingthe reality is that for each student to have a mentor, each faculty member would have scores ofmentees. While mentoring is common between faculty and graduate students, it is much lesscommon at the

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Davis; Craig Hoff

2005-2130 The Integration of Hands-on Team Projects into an Engineering Course to Help Students Make the Transition from Student to Professional Engineer Craig J. Hoff, and Gregory W. Davis, Kettering UniversityThere is considerable concern that current engineering education practices do notadequately prepare students for the practice of engineering. This statement goes farbeyond the often stated requirements that to be successful in their careers engineeringgraduates must have good communication skills, must be able to work inmultidisciplinary teams, etc. There

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

Session 1370 Capturing Young MINDS with MITE – A Pre-College Residential Program Generating Results Andrea M. Ogilvie The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Minority Introduction to Engineering (MITE) program at The University of Texas at Austin(UT Austin) is a five-day summer residential program designed to spark students’ interest inengineering as an exciting career choice. MITE offers 100 high school juniors and seniors theopportunity to discover engineering through hands-on experience and interaction withengineering students, faculty

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rice; S. Michael Kilbey; Scott Husson; Graham Harrison; Douglas Hirt; David Bruce; Charles Gooding; Deborah Switzer

.99. I am supported in my studies by the engineering faculty.100. I am having fun in my major.101. I lack self-confidence.102. I can think critically.103. The general engineering courses (ENGR 101/120) have prepared me for this course. Table 3. Items in the Attitude Toward Chemical Engineering domain.104. I want to be a chemical engineer.105. I am confident about my choice of major.106. The field of chemical engineering is interesting.107. I feel pride when I tell others that I am a chemical engineering major.108. Chemical engineering is a lucrative career.109. Chemicals are harmful.110. Chemical engineers are respected by society.111. My family is encouraging me to be a chemical engineer.112

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

present their project, which is somewhat controversial, on behalf of their client. Otherstudents are given roles in the meeting such as city or county engineers, state agencyrepresentatives, property owners, clients, and representatives of the public, some of which arerather surly. Invariably, the student engineers step over an ethical line when fielding difficultquestions. Unbeknownst to the class, this leads into a discussion on the subtleties of professionalethics. The second method involves the personal testimony of a practicing engineer who hasfaced a career threatening ethical situation. Students love stories, and a true story told by apracticing engineer that involves the vagaries of ethics grabs their attention. It also causesstudents to

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Moody

Session 2004-1214 From the Battlefield to the Classroom: Bringing Leadership as a Civil Engineer in Iraq into the Classroom Captain Paul Moody United States Military AcademyIntroduction In May 2003, I had just relinquished the guidon, the symbol of command authority andresponsibility for a 130 soldier combat heavy construction company, in Iraq. I was preparing tomake a huge transition in my life and career. I was leaving the dust, heat and eternal threat ofviolence in post-war Iraq to teach civil engineering at the Nation’s First Department ofEngineering at

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

• Career and information resources placement workshops with security • Time management including UG & G workshops handbook, etc. • Leadership workshops, etc. Figure 1. A proposed model of the IHE Mission to enhance the overall undergraduate and graduate enrollment of

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Cheryl Sundberg

students to consider selecting a career in science andengineering.We started their engineering time with an introduction to problem solving techniques. Theyworked in groups to solve several problems. We introduced fatigue by having them fatigue untilfailure two different sizes of paper clips in order to emphasize that when an experiment isrepeated you do not obtain the same answer every time. Subsequently, they were introduced tosome simple statistical ways to analyze the data.Students were introduced to mechanical behavior of materials by performing Charpy Impact testson steel and aluminum at room temperature as well as at the temperature of liquid nitrogen.Demonstrations of polymeric behavior at liquid nitrogen temperatures were also

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

% 25% 1.1E-05I feel I know what an engineer does. 97% 63% 3.5E-04I plan on continuing my studies in engineering 90% 50% 1.9E-03I am excited about my career choice 94% 75% 7.4E-02Table 6 illustrates the differences for the GE102 sections. Women in GE102 overwhelminglyfelt that the course required too much busy work and was not challenging. However, this ispartly contradicted by the fact that less women than men thought the course was a “waste oftime

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

% 25% 1.1E-05I feel I know what an engineer does. 97% 63% 3.5E-04I plan on continuing my studies in engineering 90% 50% 1.9E-03I am excited about my career choice 94% 75% 7.4E-02Table 6 illustrates the differences for the GE102 sections. Women in GE102 overwhelminglyfelt that the course required too much busy work and was not challenging. However, this ispartly contradicted by the fact that less women than men thought the course was a “waste oftime

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Monte Tull; Gerald Crain

assignment by imposing design process controls, documentation requirements and team responsibilities • To provide instruction in professional skills of design, program management, communications and other career topics not in the conventional curriculum • To provide a measure of the student’s educational readiness and understanding; knowledge of product technology required to meet the customer’s performance requirements and constraints; understanding of requirements for written technical reports; ability to communicate their design including use of oral reportsIndustry sponsored projects are solicited that fit within the scope of a 1-semester experience andhave a product output of clear value to the sponsor

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Grant Norton; Charles Pezeshki

world. A major driver for largemulti-national corporations in pursuing such growth paths involves not only potentialcost savings with respect to engineering service costs, but equally or more important,access to intellectual property from around the world. The intellectual economies ofscale achieved by a multi-national effort, when managed properly, can be tremendous.Since 70% of Boeing’s market is overseas, neglect of concerns from customer countriescan only contribute to loss of market share.The Affected Demographic ClassEngineers at the start of their careers are very vulnerable to BPO corporate efforts. Sincethis is a recent phenomenon, especially with regards to engineering, hard figures aredifficult to come by. However, plots of

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

- service teachers with any exposure to engineering disciplines or practice. Teachers play a significant role in counseling and encouraging students toward specific educational and career paths, but their lack of experience with the requisites for engineering careers inadequately prepares them to help students make informed educational and career choices regarding engineering1. Mentoring and Recruitment – We view mentoring as a crucial activity for creating educational reform and cultural change because it promotes sharing of ideas, techniques, and resources, and provides advanced role models to encourage students, teachers, and practitioners alike to pursue higher-levels of achievement1

Conference Session

Novel Courses for ChEs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Bowman

formimpressions of chemical engineering, make decisions on which major to pursue, and setexpectations for the college learning environment early in their college career based almostentirely on non-engineering courses and professors.Many engineering programs across the country have modified their freshman curricula to addressthese challenges. A variety of approaches has been used including general engineering courses,design-based courses[1, 2], orientation courses[3-5], and seminars[6, 7]. The Vanderbilt UniversitySchool of Engineering has recently introduced a variety of freshman seminar electives for the Page 9.304.1purpose of providing students

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Swiezynski; Don Myers; Ray Luechtefeld

Enhance Career Enhance Skill Obtain Promotion Personal Growth Change Background Number of Respondents Figure 7When those who have not yet pursued a master’s but were interested in doing so (a total of 76respondents) were asked the same question, “Personal Growth” was considered very importantby more respondents, though it was closely followed by “Personal Growth”. (See Figure 8). Page 9.151.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Horton

, developed CAD projects of equal interest to girls and boys, anddeveloped appropriate classroom techniques to support girls’ and boys’ learning. Of the thirty-six campers attending, nine were girls. Several of the girls planned to enter technical fields butothers had no prior interest in technical careers. The directors were particularly pleased that allthe girls were enthusiastic about the camp and wanted to recruit other girls to the planned 2003CAD Camps. Page 8.636.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”This camp

Conference Session

Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

man is an island, and no field of study can divorce itself from the activities,interests, and positive reinforcement of divergent areas of instruction. Students who becomeembroiled in the quest for a degree in any of the engineering areas can quickly close the doors tomany of the more liberal pursuits. The feeling exists that any time spent on "non-engineering"pursuits is not beneficial to the career. Efforts must be made to include in the educationalstructure of every engineer ample connections to the world of the humanities.Too many engineers go through their college or university careers unaware that many of theirpeers studying fluids, circuits, controls, composites, or calculus have vast experience in the liberalarts. These talents and

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

students in the Department of Mathematics and ComputerScience at UMES. Twenty middle school students identified from selected schools inAccomack County, VA, in the Eastern Shore of Delmarva peninsula participate in thistwo-week summer activity. Two school teachers accompany, chaperone, design anddirect some of the student activities during the camp. They also try to include some of thescientific and engineering related projects that they get exposed to during the camp to thestudents during the regular school year. The overall objective of the program is togenerate interest among participants and other school students to pursue MSET careers.I. IntroductionIt is imperative to inspire more students to pursue MSET careers to sustain the

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

. Page 8.1259.3 o I thought that this AIAD was extremely useful. I have a much better idea of the options that I have if I spend a career in the Army. I got some experience in seeing Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education what actual engineers do on a daily basis. This was extremely helpful, because I really didn’t know what the occupation was really like. This summer caused me to think a little bit harder about how I look at my academic classes. o This AIAD was without a doubt a very enriching experience. I was able to see first hand some of the theory I had

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

typical pattern is forbright young talent in developing countries interested in engineering education tocomplete programs of study through an undergraduate degree in their home countries,then to go abroad to North America or Western Europe for doctoral study. Sufficientfinancial aid, in the form of fellowships from international agencies or assistantships at theuniversities where graduate level study is undertaken, is typically available today. It isimportant to assure that doctoral graduates from institutions in developed countries doreturn to their home countries to take up faculty careers. “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Brown; Mel Mendelson

created at the request of and supported by regional industry to provide muchneeded graduate education in systems engineering and business. It will draw from over50,000 working engineers and scientists in the Los Angeles’ South Bay. In addition, theSELP curriculum has been coordinated with the needs of the Los Angeles Air Force Base innearby El Segundo [7-9].While other Southern California universities offer education in systems engineering, theSELP extends its education into areas where business and management skills are essential.The program’s graduates will be prepared to take on leadership roles in major technical firmsand enhance their careers in management.The goals of our SELP program are very similar to those of the benchmarked programs

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Miskimins

Page 8.921.1geological engineering (GE), geophysical engineering (GP), and petroleum engineering (PE).Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThis class is a senior design capstone course and is required for graduation from the PetroleumEngineering Department. The class is an elective for undergraduates from the Geology andGeological Engineering and Geophysical Engineering Departments who are interested in pursuinga career in the petroleum industry. The class is taught by a faculty team comprised of one memberfrom each of the three disciplines.The main objectives of the MPD course are the development of team skills, the

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Harper; David Meyer

Session 2003-913 Capturing History with Modern Technology Wright Flyer Replica Space Launch Steven D. Harper, MS Eng, David G. Meyer, PE Sinclair Community CollegeAbstract Student interest in engineering technology has been in decline over the 10 past years.Today's students seek exciting career opportunities and can choose from a number of interestingand rewarding non-scientific disciplines. The need to show high school students that engineeringoffers rewarding career opportunities has never been stronger, with an estimated 400,000 unfilledjobs

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

education to reflect the process of engineering forcreating technology.8 This reform is not limited to K-12 or undergraduate education. It extends throughout thegraduate’s professional career in industry. The national innovation system is composed of both the nation’sscientists and its engineers. Today, the U.S. engineering workforce is a cornerstone of the nation’s thrust forcreating technology for U.S. competitiveness. And the process of engineering for the nation’s continuedtechnological development is heavily dependent upon the continued graduate development of the creative,innovative, and leadership capacity of the engineering workforce in industry, which is subsequently dependentupon the nation’s system of engineering graduate education

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ernest Smerdon

with the production ofservices than the production of goods. This does not mean that the production of goods isbecoming unimportant in our national economy. Rather, it means that manufacturing, and evenengineering design, is becoming more automated through the use of technology. Engineers whoare to remain productive throughout their careers must continue to learn and update their skills.This continued learning will be most effective if it builds on the strong education of thefundamentals and experience base necessary for engineering practice at the professional level.Although more data are needed to be totally definitive, the patterns of very recent years showthat more of the engineers are employed in small companies. That trend is expected to

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

Session XX60 “Let’s Go Folks!”: A K-12 Special Program Beyond Social Parameters Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi COPEC – Council of Researches in Education and SciencesAbstract“Let’s go Folks!” This is the appealing name of a project which main goal is to help students ofK-12 to develop the necessary skills to choose careers like engineering that for many reasons isso necessary for the development of a country. São Vicente City Hall present administration hasdecided to implement a special program for K-12 in public schools of the city, which resulted inthis