Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stephan

Practical Approach for Converting Group Assignments Into Team Projects," IEEETransactions on Education, vol. 46, no. 2, May 2003, pp. 273-282.8 The evaluations were performed by Keith Research, Evaluation, and Information Services, P. O. Box 160427,Austin, TX 78716. KARL D. STEPHAN is an associate professor in the Department of Technology at Texas State University–San Marcos. He has published numerous papers in the fields of microwave engineering, engineering education,engineering ethics, and the history of technology. VEDARAMAN SRIRAMAN is Professor and Director of the Manufacturing Engineering program in theDepartment of Technology at Texas State University–San Marcos. His research interests and publications are in thearea of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Elizabeth DeBartolo

Speaker: Student panel time to start literature search Research Ethics Case Study3 Speaker: Department Head Students may be able to Combining Thesis and Senior Design develop a Senior Design4 Speaker: Student panel project for next fall to support their thesis work Students whose co-op is not5 Balancing Thesis and Co-op thesis

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Colleen Duran; John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

BO (Buffer Overflow) problems. BOwas a problem for software engineers in the 1980’s and is still a problem today. The only waythat software engineering will eradicate BO is to educate software engineering students so thatit’s cleaned up at its source.References[1] Baase, Sara, A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computers and the Internet,2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 2003.[2] CERT Coordination Center, “Cisco ACNS contains buffer overflow vulnerability in theauthentication module when supplied an overly long password,” CERT, Vulnerability NoteVU#352462, Dec. 12, 2003, accessed January 2004.[3] CERT Coordination Center, “Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0, 5.0, and 5.1buffer overflow in chunked encoding transfer

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education(g) Understanding the social, cultural, global and environmental responsibilities of the professional engineer, and the need for sustainable development(h) Understanding the principles of sustainable design and development(i) Understanding of the professional and ethical responsibilities and a commitment to them.(j) Understanding of the need to undertake life long learning, and a capacity to do so.A case study involving the development of a new process could be used to illustrate toundergraduate students how an existing problem can be identified, a solution formulated viateamwork and the outcomes implemented to provide a responsible and sustainable newprocess. The fact that students can

Conference Session

Pedagogy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Pezeshki

seriously about project completion. In our class, students do not receive a grade until their project is completed. Additionally, companies need to know that the class is not being sold to them as a ruse for donations. Students are often only one step away from being employed as engineers in the project sponsors’ companies. When project sponsors know that your students take completion seriously, they will be more motivated to hire your students, knowing that a strong work and completion ethic is also something that students leave your program with. In the real world, incomplete projects lead to failed companies. 7. Money isn’t everything. The monetary contribution to the design clinic

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Jacquelyn Sullivan

professional and ethical responsibility is tested every time our engineering students enter a K-12 classroom. Do they represent the university and the engineering profession well? Are they reliable and trustworthy? Do they serve as effective role models in a K-12 educational setting? The teachers evaluate this every day, and the instructor evaluates this component during formal classroom observations. (Criterion f) Page 10.1304.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationCourse BenefitsFor the

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Voigt; Nathan Shenck; Delores Etter; Thomas Salem; Samara Firebaugh

relating to the engineering design process, ethics, math, and criticalthinking skills to introduce them to what will follow in the next three years in their chosen major[1]. Our problem is that our students do not declare majors until late in the freshman year, so wechose to offer an elective course with these elements to students that may have a proclivity forengineering.The students we recruited to register for our experimental introduction to engineering coursewere those who had not validated any introductory courses but had scored high enough on theplacement exams to warrant an advanced introductory calculus course. We chose to stay awayfrom the high validators who are more likely to choose engineering anyway and go after the

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Bernal

Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcurriculum. Thus it follows that if there is a move towards licensing software engineers underthe rubric of the Professional Engineers Licensing structure and requirements, there would be adefinite impact on the curriculum of software engineering programs. The examination forlicensing professional engineers “would require examinations over subjects most softwareengineers neither study in their formal education nor need in order to practice softwareengineering”1. Specifically, in addition to computers and math, the fundamentals of engineeringexamination covers chemistry, ethics, statics, dynamics, electric circuits, and thermodynamics. 23

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gregg

criteria may appearsuperficially minor, the required effort to make the change reflects on it’s importance. In Dr.Splitt’s words ‘Engineering programs must then demonstrate that their students attain an abilityto design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints suchas economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, andsustainability, as well as demonstrate the broad education necessary to understand the impact ofengineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.’6‘Green’ engineering is the terminology currently in use to describe the process of designing andproducing goods, services, or processes, taking into consideration the effect

Conference Session

Diversity: Women & Minorities in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Kuyath

necessity, not just an ethical responsibility.Diverse groups are known to combine their unique perspectives to devise exceptionally creativesolutions to the problems they encounter8. The different perspectives and frames of reference ofa diverse team offers competitive advantages in teamwork, service, product quality and workoutput because a workforce that mirrors a company’s customers is more likely to understand theneeds of its customers9.Some progress has been made in attracting women and minorities at all levels of education andemployment, but they are still less likely to choose careers in engineering than in other fields ofstudy6. Has the engineering community presented itself in such a way that we are turning awaymost women and minority

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Joslyn

; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health and safety;social; and political.” The FalconLAUNCH program addresses all of these issues [4].IV. Course Grading and Cadet Reaction to the ProgramAssigning individual grades to a multidisciplinary group project of this size is achallenge. The grading system developed includes the input of peer evaluations by themembers of each subdivision team and evaluations by the faculty mentors of these teams.The final grades are assigned by the senior faculty members in charge of the course.Faculty members look at individual contributions, initiative, and time spent workingoutside of class, and quality of the student’s documentation of their efforts. Timeworking on the program is tracked by students

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Schulz; Adrienne Minerick

landfills. For the past two years, Minerick has alsoasked the students to write a brief discussion of bioproducts that chemical engineers are involvein making and ethical / environmental responsibilities of dealing with mass leaving the process.The reading contains considerable discussions on the different stages of population growthdynamics21. The following is an excerpt from the handout the students are given. The studentsare asked to match each stage of growth with its definition. a) Cell number and weight increases rapidly. _____1) Lag b) Number of forming cells is equal to number dying

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Thompson

BehaviorQuant. Dec. Methods 3 Quantitative Analysis for Management 3Information Tech 3 Fundamentals of Executive 3Management ManagementGlobal Envir. Business 3 Legal and Ethical Issues for Managers 3 3 Statistical Methods II 3Skills Course 1 Human Resource Strategies 3Operations and Supply Chain 3 Operations and Production Management 3ManagementElective 3 Capstone: Global Business Policy and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

-77. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education9 McISAAC, Gregory, F. and C. MOREY, Nancy (1998). "Engineers' role in sustainable development: Consideringcultural dynamics." Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice 124(4): 110-119.10 McCUEN, Richard, H. (1999). "Course on engineering leadership." Journal of Professional Issues in EngineeringEducation and Practice 125(3): 79-82.11 DUFFIELD, James, F and H. McCUEN, Richard (2000). "Ethical maturity and successful leadership." Journal ofProfessional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice 126(2): 79-82.12 LYONS

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie McCarther; Linda Garavalia; David Renz; Deborah O'Bannon

issues (n=1) Ethical issues (n=1) Discussion of the work of department chairs (n=1) I will incorporate everything that I have learned (n=1)IV. DISCUSSIONThe purposes of this paper were to describe a leadership institute developed to train futurewomen faculty leaders in STEM disciplines and to present the results of a year-oneimplementation of the leadership institute. The primary aim of the institute is to facilitate themovement of tenured women STEM faculty into academic leadership positions, therebyincreasing the number of women in these positions.First, we sought to attract women participants who met two criteria: STEM discipline andtenured status. Sixteen women met these criteria and completed all aspects of the institute.Many STEM

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kerry Kinney; Tricia Berry

conducting laboratory experiments and developing computer models. Mandatory seminar meetings related to the engineering profession, engineering ethics, as well as research career tracks in industry and academia will be held weekly. Students keep written logs documenting their research experience and reflections on weekly seminars and regularly present their research experiences and projects to the interdisciplinary class.Each GLUE student formally presents their research project to the rest of the class at least twotimes during this course. A discussion period follows each presentation so that the other studentscan ask the presenter follow up questions. In this way, the students learn to present their work

Conference Session

Program Assessment in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

, ethical, and social responsibility, j. recognize contemporary professional, societal, and global issues and are aware of and respect diversity, and k. have a commitment to quality, timeliness, and continuous improvement. 3) Specific program educational objectives covering most or all of a thru k above will be developed as well to specify requirements for students in each program.Where data comes from Review of all course syllabi objectives for student learning. Each learning objective will be listed on the course embedded assessment matrix (Tool 5) with a description of how the objective will be assessed during the course.When data should be gathered and by whom 1) This data should be gathered from review of course

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Gary Downey

. [1] This attitude focusesattention on the relative timing and quantitative mix of design and science. For example, somedesign initiatives expand design experiences in the first year, with the hope of introducingstudents to what engineering is all about as early as possible.[2-5] Other initiatives integratedesign throughout the curriculum with the goal of helping students in "making the transitionfrom the `seat-of-the-pants' freshman design approach to the engineering design approachrequired for the capstone experience and engineering practice." [6] Finally, senior designcapstone courses aim at exposing engineering students to the key elements of design --designmethods, project management, teaming, engineering economics, ethics, risks, and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

M. P. Sharma; Matthew Hayes; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

Session 2793 Ethical Responsibility of Engineers for Alumnus Whistleblowing Roman Taraban, Edward E. Anderson, M. P. Sharma, and Matthew W. Hayes Texas Tech / Texas Tech / University of Wyoming / Texas TechIntroductionCollege workload—the amount of academic work expected of students—is one of the mostimportant factors affecting students’ engagement with their college studies, the quality ofinstruction and learning, and the drop-out rate.1 Workload is determined primarily by collegeinstructors, who control it through the number and nature of assignments in a course—i.e.,through the demands they make of students

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manoj Patankar

universities in 1915 in order to allow facultymembers the freedom to research and publish without fear of retribution 1, 2. Consequently, therewere very few, specific reasons under which a tenured faculty could be terminated. For example,ethical misconduct and termination of the department are two of the typical reasons forterminating tenured faculty; however, such incidents are very rare. Furthermore, since January 1,1994, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act has prevented colleges and universities fromimposing mandatory retirement based on age 3. Therefore, award of tenure represents a life-timecommitment for employment on the part of the university.Promotion through the ranks of Assistant, Associate, and Professor is a matter of peerrecognition

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

senior design course requires a large number ofother activities, such as mentoring and peer advising of sophomores, community service projects,report writing and presentation skills, professional ethics, and etc. – and all of these activities,which may be “good” activities, do not help the student integrate the “islands of knowledge” intothe “capstone project”. Other senior design courses have formal team projects with competitionbetween teams from different universities. Few, if any, of the teams have offices on campus orcoordinated class schedules to provide a time or place for the team to work together on theproject as a full team. Teams with equipment may have a workshop space, but usually notsecure office space for discussion, for planning

Conference Session

Issues of Concern to New Faculty

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

by amechanical engineering student. Therefore, part of the course objective is to introducestudents to, and build their confidence in, problem-solving. The course is projectoriented and, during a typical semester, one major group project and two or three minorprojects (individual or group) are assigned. While the intent, extent and format of theminor projects change each semester, the format, structure and the evaluation process forthe major projects (which change each semester) have evolved to a more or less steadystate. While the course content includes a potpourri of topics, e.g., the design process,shop practice, manufacturing, creativity, ethics, statistics, intellectual property, codes andstandards, personality issues (Myers-Briggs

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Krishna Krishnan; Janet Twomey; Vis Madhavan; Don Malzahn; Lawrence Whitman

and thus alleviate the problems listed above.A case study is typically defined as, “a problem statement suitable for use by students and set innarrative form. The narrative should provide information that will lead more to a discussion of a 5problem than to its solution” . The use of cases studies in managerial and business science ispervasive and well documented5. The use of case studies in engineering education has just begunto become a useful tool for teaching subjects such as engineering ethics and economics.Recently Raju and Sankar6 reported on their research investigating “Teaching real-world issuesthrough case studies.” The typical approach is to use a single case study that was utilized in asingle course

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Janet Schmidt; Gary Pertmer

outcomes of an engineering education: “the ability to function on a multidisciplinary team” “the ability to communicate effectively” “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility” “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in aglobal and societal contest” “a recognition of the need for an ability to engage in life-long learning” “knowledge of contemporary issues” Page 7.778.1Proceedings of the 2002 American society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

The Modern ChE Laboratory

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Brazel

Biomaterials/Tissue Engineering Introduction to Genetics Bioremediation Ethics in Bioengineering Drug and Gene Delivery In addition to offering biochemical engineering elective courses, a number of chemicalengineering programs have adopted biochemical engineering laboratory experiments into theircurriculum, either through the design of unit operations experiments to enhance the seniorengineering laboratory course, or through methods similar to the one described herein7, whereexperiments are tied in directly to the biochemical engineering lecture course. The range of chemical engineering-related topics (Table

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Demel

Program (IEP) and the Freshman EngineeringHonors (FEH) Program. These new programs retain part of the traditional material but add inhands-on laboratory experiences that lead to reverse engineering and design/build projects. Therelational practices – teamwork and project management, along with report writing and oralpresentations and ethics have assumed important roles in this program. The programs aredesigned to have faculty from all of the degree granting departments teach freshmen. Theseprograms were developed to improve the retention and early decision to stay or leave for newfreshmen and to lay a foundation to better address some of the ABET 2000 accreditation criteria.Retention has improved markedly. This paper provides a brief description

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Prasanta Kalita; Peter Lyne; Loren Bode; Alan Hansen

activities have includedfamiliarization with laboratories, computer facilities and network software. Taking into accountthe student learning outcomes specified by ABET, key topics that are now covered include timemanagement and study skills, habits of highly effective people 6, communication skills, creativityand problem solving techniques, and ethical situations in engineering practice. The micro steamcar project is introduced early in the semester so that students have most of the semester to buildtheir cars. In addition, students are assigned to work in teams from the outset.Problem solving is a fundamental skill that engineers are expected to have and is listed by ABETas a necessary attribute for an engineering graduate. However, relatively few

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Steven Barrett

decided early on that there would be no pride in authorship. Each co-author was encouraged to critically assess the other’s writing. They both understood itwas for the overall good of the final product. Aside from a similar philosophy, it ishelpful to choose a co-author with a similar work ethic.In Pack and Barrett’s situation, it was a natural choice to work together as co-authors.Pack and Barrett had worked together on a number of projects before the book. Theirwork relationship was founded on friendship, a deep mutual respect for each otherscapabilities, and a similar work ethic. Furthermore, they decided early on that theywould provide a detailed plan to complete the book and that they would be mutuallyaccountable to one another to meet

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Proulx Denis; Martin Brouillette; Jean Nicolas; Charron François

. Again, this was done to promote the development of engineering competencies by presenting and applying, throughout the curriculum, material promoting the development of the correct attitudes or “know-how-to-be.” This material includes: teamwork, oral and written communications, creative problem solving, project and time management, ethics and professionalism.2.3 Programming of curriculum contentOnce the content was established, its programming through the eight semesters of the curriculumwas achieved by promoting lateral and longitudinal integration of course material. For us, lateral(or vertical) integration is the close integration of the material presented within a semester. Toachieve this, the material within a given

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Doran; Leo Denton; Dawn McKinney

disciplines, and a myriad ofpersonal difficulties all of which impinge on student success. Other issues not treated by thecognitive-based approach also remain including academic misconduct and drop and failure ratesthat sometime exceed fifty percent. Affective objectives can provide an opportunity tomethodically deal with the attentive, emotional, attitudinal, and ethical dimensions of learning.14In the past year, however, course content has become stable, class sizes were reduced, and a pilotstudy was completed. The purpose of the pilot study was to confront problems largely externalto the cognitive domain, build student motivation, and achieve affective objectives as part of thestudents’ learning process. Central to the pilot study was the