Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Kissoff

project course which is designed to encompass and exhibit the skills and knowledgeobtained by graduating seniors during the four years in their program. The project is consideredto be a culmination of the students’ education and a springboard for the type of work that theymay encounter in their chosen careers. Programs within The University of Toledo’s Engineering Page 9.1099.1Technology Department are no different. In order to gain an economy of class size and maintainconsistent guidelines for the projects and presentations between disciplines, students in each of Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

for upper elementary and middle school teachers has been initiated at Kansas State University to enable teachers to become agents of change and engage their students in the engineering process at an early age – before high school. This is the time when many students begin formulating career directions, and we want them to consider computing sciences and engineering as viable career options. This paper describes the structure of our Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site in real-time embedded system design, and the lessons we have learned during its first year in operation.1 IntroductionThe number of embedded

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

) resources, globalization, and shifts in social and governmental practices, foretell majorchanges in the career needs for tomorrow’s young civil engineer. The Civil EngineeringDepartment at Colorado State University (CSU) has been defining and implementing changes inthe curriculum to respond to needs of today’s and future graduates as an ongoing task. Thedepartment more recently has worked with the ASCE Body of Knowledge Committee as anexample of a civil engineering program in a large public university, and the lead author servedon that committee. Relevant activities at CSU are described. Three program features at CSUfacilitating the curricular changes needed to achieve consistency with the desired BOK are anundergraduate program including an

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

. traditional science andengineering graduate programs are recognized world wide for their strength in giving theirstudents excellent technical knowledge. The evidence of the power of these traditional graduateprograms is in the high number of students from around the world who apply to the programs ona routine basis. The microEP program has maintained the full scope of academic methods inthese traditional programs in transferring technical knowledge, while adding new methods andtechniques to improve its students’ ability to utilize that knowledge effectively in their earlyprofessional careers. These new methods and techniques include: • Creating a natural work group of all students entering the program in one academic year (the Cohort

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

appreciation forinterpersonal and presentation skills, leadership, professional ethics, organizationaldynamics, product development, and statistical quality control; 2) Knowledge 2- InSpring, students attend alumni-led workshops on career development; 3) Experience- InSummer, students complete 12 weeks of employment where they will be able to realizeUPOP’s educational objectives; 4) Reflection 1- During the summer, students complete astructured journal that permits exploration of engineering teamwork, communication, andorganization; 5) Reflection 2- In Fall, students meet to discuss their experiences withother students and faculty. Assessment and evaluation of the new program includedactivity feedback surveys completed by students, ability self

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cyrus Hagigat

], [5].This article contains a summary of the accreditation criteria from TAC and CAC of ABET. Thesummary is focused only on the portions of ABET criteria that would be affected if distancelearning courses are offered. The article then contains discussions on techniques for satisfying theABET requirements when distance learning courses are offered.An institution can also be accredited by one of the following eight regional accrediting agencies.• Commission on Higher Education, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools• Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, New England Association of Schools and Colleges• Commission on Technical Career Institutions, New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Hollis; Namas Chandra; Chiang Shih

to learn in order to keep up.” • “We learn how to do time management and realize the importance of self-learning.”It is encouraging to receive this kind of feedback from students as it suggests that they seem tobe practicing higher-level learning skills when they talk about time management, understandingteacher’s perspective, self-learning, etc.Based on our experience and the documented positive impacts of active learning, we propose thefull integration of the LTT program into the ME core curriculum. This complements ouroutreach program by systematically stimulating our students with higher-level learning skills tonot only prepare them for their future careers but to also prepare them to be competent

Conference Session

Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lerzan Özkale; Fatma Küskü; Gülsün Saglamer

not planning to work as an engineer give the fact that “they could not likeand adopt this profession during their studies” as the reason to it. This is another negative effectof the university entrance exam pushing the students to make their preference list based on theirgrades and not on their aspirations and/or skills.The second reason of the girls not wishing to work as engineers is their intention of following auniversity career. Among the replying students to this question 50% of the girls stated their wishto follow a university career while it is only 3.3% among the boys. This resulted is supported bythe findings of previous research in Turkey [17]. The increase of female participation in graduatestudies faculty and researchers is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wheatland

history of oppression, unequaleducation, and unequal career opportunities. 2 However, as the United States moves into thetwenty-first century, industry leaders recognize that this country must develop all of its technicaltalent if it is to remain competitive in the global economy. Since the early 1970s many government and private initiatives have focused onincreasing the number of SEM college graduates from underrepresented groups. 3 One of thestrategies encouraged in these initiatives is the use of summer bridge or transition programsdesigned to help students successfully make the transition from high school to college. 4 Formore than ten years Morgan State University (MSU) has offered summer bridge programs.MSU is one of several

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Chmielewski

Session 2003-1056 “One Ancient Greek and One Mythic Bird: The Cunning of the Engineer” Philip J. Chmielewski, S.J. Loyola Marymount University Engagement in life-long learning (ABET) can be fostered by utilizing resources drawnfrom (a) classical Greek literature and (b) modern ethnography. Life-long learning does notsimply happen because a person lives or even lives long. The habit of the learning thataccompanies the stages of one’s life and one’s career must be acquired. In this paper the focus isdirected to the shrewd, problem

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadia Craig; Michelle Maher; Walter Peters

course wasdesigned, the “story” of this course will include student comments and learning outcomesthroughout the following sections.Methodology and Course DesignThe freshman learning experience discussed in this paper took place in a College of Engineeringsection of University 101, “The Student in the University.” This course recently receivedrecognition from U.S. News and World Reports as the number one program for first-yearstudents in the country.4 The “university” part of this course introduces and exposes the studentsto living and learning opportunities such as sex education, alcohol and drug abuse education, thelibrary, and the career center. This class was made up of ten freshman engineering honorsstudents (four females and six males

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Applied Science offers the First-Year Engineering ProjectsDesign-Build Course (FYEP). Initiated in 1994, this course is a three-credit, one-semester coursethat now serves approximately 350 students per year. The course is required by the mechanical,aerospace, and environmental engineering majors and is an elective for the rest of the college’sdepartments. In contrast to large, impersonal math and science courses, each FYEP section islimited to 30 students. Instruction and enrollment are interdisciplinary; sections are staffed withinstructors from a variety of engineering departments. The goals of the course are to introducestudents to the excitement of engineering as a career and the practical considerations of thedesign process, experimental

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Bradley Golish; Phil Weilerstein; Harvey Wolfe

program). Results were veryencouraging. Survey respondents indicated that over 30% of these alumni were actively pursuingan entrepreneur-like career. These students had either formed their own company or hadcommercialized their product. This result illustrates great strides towards the promotion ofentrepreneurial activities. Seventeen percent of the students were pursuing a more traditionalavenue of entrepreneurial activities, such as working for a start-up company, worked in the areaof design, continued their E-team idea via graduate work, or were studying patent law. Further,over nine percent of the students who had an E-team experience were filing a patent for theirwork or had one approved. Twenty-six percent of the students had pursued a

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCaul; Earl Whitlatch; Robert J. Gustafson

: Cost and time constraints(n = 37); Supervisor/employer attitude, values and behavior (n = 37); Personal beliefs and attributes (n = 22); Page 8.176.1 Lack of training or knowledge (n = 18); Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Money and personal greed (n = 11); Career advancement and job security (n = 10); Communications (n= 7); Laws, regulations and design codes (n = 7

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Peter Shull; Heather Nachtmann; Joseph Hartman; Robert Martinazzi; Kim Needy

everything fromcourse material sharing, labs and software, to teaching and career management workshops andgrant opportunities1. Repositories are being provided in selected instances for faculty members.For instance, MIR FacultyOnline6 is an online source of textbook information for college anduniversity professors. The service provides access to textbook data, including reviews, lists oftop-selling titles by course, among other information. The Internet Scout Report3 states "MIRcan be extremely useful, especially for younger faculty or professors tasked with teachingcourses out of their field." Despite this new abundance of information available, enabled by theInternet, there is still little guidance offered as to its use.The framework and model in

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Wojciechowski

. In addition to the initial challenge of developing relationships with potential employers of co-op students, a greater one has been maintaining the three-semester per year balance of supply and demand of students for co-op employment.10. Career Services. For new programs in engineering, the institution’s Office of Career Services (OCS) needs considerable lead time to develop an understanding of the culture and issues related to providing engineering graduates with effective assistance in securing engineering employment. In this regard, regular communication should occur between the program director and the OCS staff. In addition, significant effort is required on the part of the OCS in attracting corporate recruiters

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

. He also feels that since he is thefirst generation out of his family going to college, his parents are very supportive and committedto his education. He feels that through a strong commitment to himself, he will be an engineerand this will allow him to do want he wants to do in his career. Going to high school, eventhough he had very little exposure, he liked computers a lot. He also feels that the CEASenvironment is free of discrimination. He also stated that he has never felt the need to see hisfaculty professors. He feels that the MEP SBP gave him a head start in ECE 100, but he wouldhave liked the program to include more on corporate politics and culture.Ken is a commuter student and usually leaves school when his ride has to leave, but

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Wild; Michael Ryan

first year – before their academicrecord and confidence have been seriously damaged. The first set of conditions is strictlyacademic: students are required to take appropriate remedial courses and to achieve at aparticular level in these courses. They are also required to use selected support resources.Even so, a high attrition rate is expected among this group, and so a second set ofconditions constitutes a “safe-exit” process. Participation is required in: · A two phase career planning activity developed specifically for this group. Students first meet in small groups with university career planning and advisement professionals to explore their own personal motivational connection to engineering. In accord with the needs

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

George Havener

(ethics, sociological, health and safety). The teammanager was responsible for organization, maintaining schedules, and the written and oral t eamreports that were the products of the team. The task teams were responsible for educating theentire project team on the fundamentals of their respective task.Why the Mars Mission PBL-Problem – USAF graduates are Air Force Officers who, duringtheir careers, participate in and have responsibility for a variety of systems -programs. Suchprograms often present interdisciplinary ill-defined problems requiring expertise in engineering,economics, politics, sociology, medicine, psychology, and law. So in addition to device-orientedproblems, USAFA cadets need school-experiences working on multifaceted

Conference Session

Learning Styles of Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Scott; J. Elaine Seat; J. Roger Parsons

database to show the MBTI distribution for students at ouruniversity, compare this information to existing engineering student data available in theliterature, explore graduation rates for different learning styles, and explore gender and minoritydifferences in learning style and graduation rate.We also have given the MBTI to our engineering faculty and have data to demonstrate theteaching /learning style differences that a typical engineering student faces in his or her classes.We compare this information with MBTI data for educators from kindergarten through highschool to show how this situation has changed for a typical student as they have progressedthrough their educational career. We also compare this information with existing data

Conference Session

Technology Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Markham; Russell Thomas; Roger Debo; Angus Kingon

business schools.This paper discusses some differences between the current teaching of entrepreneurship inengineering versus business schools, and also adds the dimension of “high technologyentrepreneurship.” The work has been motivated by a strong desire to provide the optimumeducation content to our own entrepreneurial students at NCSU, in both the Colleges ofEngineering and of Management. The ultimate objective is to ensure that we are providing aneducational experience supportive of student career aspirations and perceived employer needs.The outline of the paper is as follows. Firstly, we provide some background comments thatprovide context and definitions for the categories of entrepreneurship that we discuss in the paper.Next, we compare

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Bernard White

a softening ofrequirements relative to our other rigorous IT&E programs, while othersquestioned the extent to which the BS IT program would prepare students for life-long learning. As always, there were questions regarding the potential diversionof resources away from existing IT&E programs. As the BS IT program proposalneared maturity, it was generally the consensus that the new program will helpachieve our goal, which is to produce more graduates who understand informationtechnology and who can use it effectively.V.1. Career Opportunities for GraduatesLots of discussion centered on the degree to which the BS IT degree will enhancestudents’ abilities to find work as IT professionals. The working group addressedthese concerns by

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Fadali; Michael Robinson

principles and design.II. Research QuestionsThe following research questions were used to judge the presence of technological andengineering applications and design in some of the newest and most widely used secondaryscience textbooks. These questions were chosen for their motivational potential and thepossibilities they might offer to students to gain the kinds of problem solving skills needed forsuccessful study and possible careers in technical fields. Mathematics was addressed in sciencetextbooks because of the research that indicates that one reason for the high attrition rate in manyengineering programs is related to inadequate preparation in mathematics prior to enteringcollege 16 . 1. Do the science textbooks use science conceptual

Conference Session

FPD V: Gender and Engineering Education: A Panel Discussion and Workshop

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Caitrin Lynch, Olin College of Engineering; Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lynn Andrea Stein, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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First-Year Programs, Women in Engineering

faculty in 2003. Her current research interests are twofold: as well as her research in biological materials (cur- rently focused on bioderived plastics synthesized by bees), she also researches the engineering student experience, including persistence and migration, differences by gender, and the role of self-efficacy in project-based learning. In 2010, she received an NSF CAREER Award in support of her research on engineering education.Caitrin Lynch, Olin College of Engineering Caitrin Lynch is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Her research concerns gender, work, aging, and globalization, with a focus the United States and Sri Lanka. She is the author of the book

Conference Session

Liberal Education Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

careers, they often fail at delivering an effective presentation themselves. The disparitycan often be explained by the students relying overwhelmingly on the quick-fix-tips they havegained to mend their presentation rather than spending their efforts to diligently practice theirdelivery before the final presentation. Rehearsals allow the students to identify discontinuities intheir flow, avoid awkward pauses, gain confidence with their delivery, reduce reliance on theslide text and better manage the allocated time - all common shortfalls evident during studentpresentations. Rehearsing is often the least favored presentation tip because it requires thegreatest effort and its importance is least apparent to the students. In fact, there is a

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; Robert W. Hendricks, Virginia Tech; Cortney V. Martin, Virginia Tech; Peter Doolittle, Virginia Tech; Richadr Lee Clark, Virginia Western Community College

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

%) 22 (58%) PostPedagogical contribution of LiaB. Students view the LiaB courses as a significant contributor totheir personal understanding of circuit design. Of the ECE 2074 students, 73% (pre-coursesurvey) and 81% (post-course survey) indicated that the hands-on portion of the class includingthe ANDY board, multimeter, and oscilloscope, contributed more than average or a majorportion of their knowledge. Among the ECE 3074 students, we see a shift where pre-course only51% thought LiaB experiments would be an above-average or major contributor, and post-course,84% responded in that manner. Through their use of the LiaB kit, more students found value inthe hands-on experience.Impact on career preparation. The majority of students in both

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

and kinetics of rigid bodies. It is a sophomore level course which is known to beespecially challenging due to its demand for high analytical skills. It is also known that theperformance of students in this course can lead them to question their ability to the extent ofrethinking their major and career. The number of students involved in the study was 12 students,which is the typical class size in any given semester. From a statistical point of view, this meansthat the sample considered in the study is 50% of the population. Additionally, the incomingperformance expectation of both groups, as measured by the cumulative GPA, was compared. Itwas found that the control group had an average cumulative GPA of 2.8 compared to 3.1 for

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allan T. Kirkpatrick, Colorado State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Robert O. Warrington, Michigan Technological University; Richard N. Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; A. Kulacki, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; William J. Wepfer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Thomas Perry, P.E., American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

as the foundational stem upon which extensions forcontinued professional depth and transition to non-engineering career paths can be grafted; themasters degree should introduce engineering as a profession and become the requirement forprofessional practice; and the doctoral degree needs to be enhanced with an emphasis on breadthas well as depth, linking discovery and innovation.With an interest in implementation, the 2009 5XME workshop formulated a number ofmechanical engineering curricular concepts: a professional (or design) “spine” offeringengineering reasoning, engineering synthesis and other professional skills during all four years,the fundamental topics central to a mechanical engineering or mechanical engineeringtechnology curricula

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

Engineering Educator Award 2009, ASEE Minorities Award 2006, the SHPE Educator of the Year 2005, and the National En- gineering Award in 2003, the highest honor given by AAES. In 2002 she was named the Distinguished Engineering Educator by the Society of Women Engineers. Her awards are based on her mentoring of students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of re- cruitment and retention. A SWE and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering. Page 22.1228.1 c American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention of Women II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne Keilson, Loyola University, Maryland; Irah Modry-Caron, Loyola University, Maryland

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

, progression, and eventual attainment of bachelor degrees. This paper focuses on whether or not there are significant differences between gender and racial groups across measures of academic performance, retention, and degree attainment at a four-year comprehensive university with a liberal arts focus. This was of interest because of an ongoing concern about the overall enrollments in STEM fields at Loyola University Maryland. With the exception of Biology, which is often seen as the pre-medical career path of choice, the university was seeing low enrollments especially in physics, computer science and engineering. Before outreach and marketing a Catholic comprehensive university with a strong Jesuit mission and core curriculum to prospective