Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Marie Flynn

semester helped students to learn a new method ofthinking. In the past many students assumed that operating with concern for the environmentmeant sacrificing profit and eating a lot of granola. The problems helped show students thatoperating with environmental issues in mind can be beneficial in many ways, not just for trees.”Nicole A.“I learned to not always think with my wallet but rather the health of myself, others, and theenvironment. Overall, I no longer see these assignments as a waste of time or busy work,because of the impact it had on my sense of ethics in the engineering world”Alex S.“The purpose of this particular problem was to show that there are situations where the bestapproach economically is not the best approach environmentally

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

1 to a more difficult design problem. Less guidance was providedand students were expected to be able to apply the skills acquired and use the design tools taughtduring project 1. In addition, students were exposed to additional design concepts such as thetheory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ), materials and material selection, green design, andengineering ethics. The end of semester student course evaluations scores for the section, however, turnedout to be significantly lower than the mean of all 13 sections, and significantly lower than thevalues the authors typically receive for this course. The very low scores and general studentdissatisfaction with the course provided motivation for this work. This aim of the study

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Krumholz; Robert Martello; Jonathan Stolk

: History: • Research and analyze the social context of a modern material artifact, Students must choose an emphasizing ethical, environmental, political, or cultural influences and ancient counterpart to their impacts object dating no later than 500 • Research a historical counterpart to a modern item and explore its context AD. as well • Connect historical and technical analysis and evidence

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Todd; Spencer Magleby

faculty member about 4-6 clock hours per week.Course Content and StructureWe use a structured design process. We have one lecture each week throughout the twosemesters in which we present the design process, including additional topics such as intellectualproperty, engineering ethics, engineering economics, conflict resolution, industrial design, teamprocesses and other related topics. We seek outstanding outside speakers to address the studentson these and related topics throughout the two semesters. In addition, we have 5 writtendeliverables that document the status of the project. These deliverables are due throughout thecourse of the two semesters. Each deliverable is evaluated by different coaches of other studentteam projects and the

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Gabriele

knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work and incorporating engineeringstandards and realistic constraints that include most of the following considerations: economic;environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health and safety; social; andpolitical.” There are other elements to this criterion that specify math, engineering and basicsciences, as well as general education components, but there is a distinct focus on attempting toaccomplish all the elements listed above on a culminating experience. The criterion suggests anages old approach to professional education that starts with the basic sciences, then the applied

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

directing towork of other team members. In end-of-the-semester surveys, seniors have cited this as one ofthe most valuable outcomes of course (whether or not the specific interactions were good orbad). In past semesters, teams were asked to build a more or less traditional milestone chart toschedule the tasks to be accomplished. The primary vehicle to keep teams on schedule was thetask planning sheet.The BSC idea of multiple perspectives is clearly in line with Criterion 4 of EC2000 whichrequires: “… a major design experience … incorporating engineering standards and realisticconstraints that include most of the following considerations: economic; environmental;sustainability; manufacturability, ethical, health and safety, social, and political.”1

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Muci; Jonathan Weaver

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationstudents need to have a good understanding of the process, methodologies, and tools commonlyused in industry to design and develop products, good written and oral communication skills, theability to work in an effective and efficient fashion in multidisciplinary teams, good planning andtime management skills, an understanding of ethical and societal issues, and the list goes on.Also, they must be exposed to meaningful practical experiences that closely resemble the “realworld” practice of the engineering profession. In this regard, two approaches that have beenwidely used to provide undergraduate

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

Feasibility Study • Preliminary Business Plan • Trade Show Booth • Project Website • Weekly Individual Activity Reports, once teams are formedThe feasibility study touches on technical, schedule, financial and “marketing” feasibility. Thebusiness plan is not complex; it has minimal financial content, focusing on top level specs, theproduct value proposition, competitive analysis and risk awareness.Fall semester Senior Design Topics – • Product to Market System Details • Project Planning, Management, Execution and Closure • Product Design • Design-for-X • Manufacturing Readiness • Risk Management and Mitigation • Engineering Ethics

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Dantzler; James Richardson; Tan-Yu Lee; Robert Leland

solutions. 5. Ethics, with a focus on the immediate student issue of academic integrity (cheating). 6. Metacognition: Students being aware of and controlling which of the four problem solving activities they are currently involved in. 7. Drawing good diagrams that facilitate problem solving. A majority of the problems worked involved geometry in some way.In general, very little time was spent lecturing, and most class periods consisted of active andcooperative learning exercises. These exercises included: 1. Finding the weight of the bar of a see saw near the student recreation center using only distance measurements and the weights of the students. 2. Estimating the surface area of a soda can. 3. Finding

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Land

. The potential for this system to identify opportunities for quality improvement is alsoevident from some of the figures. In Figure 4, for example, several disparities between studentand faculty assessments deserve investigation. The results for course outcome 9b (which relatesto the course’s impact on students’ social, environmental and ethical awareness) indicates thatfaculty judged the course to have no influence on this outcome, nor did the course test students’performance in this area. Nonetheless, students had a very favorable view of their abilities withrespect to this outcome, and they felt the course had some influence on those abilities. Clearly,there is need to look into this situation. In a similar fashion, results for course

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

ethical is it to use a lecture only control group when over 100 years of research demonstrates that cooperative learning is more effective?Relationships o Inanimate objects do not o In human research, relationships experience relationships with must be established before data researchers. collection can begin. After data is

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

described themselves as loners, they were pleasantlysurprised by how well their group functioned. Their success was largely due to chance and acommitment to some shared goals. This team believed experience was the best way to learnabout teamwork, reporting little confidence in formal team training. Despite their surprise andenjoyment of this team experience, no one reacted positively to the notion of future team basedengineering classes.Seniors, on the other hand, attributed their success to the careful selection of team members, ashared mindset, work ethic, and motivation to complete the project to a high quality standard.Although luck may play a role, these students were seasoned members of engineering projectteams. They cited their prior team

Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data; (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs; (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams; (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems; (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility; (g) an ability to communicate effectively; (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context; (i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning; (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

kenneth weaver

. Page 9.351.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe NSF Competitive Assessment LaboratoryFor engineering students who are interested in developing their own ideas into engineeredproducts, it is important that they have the skills and resources to evaluate currently existingproduct lines of their would be competitors. Indeed, it is imperative for any would beentrepreneur to keep abreast of the technological advances and design innovations incorporatedinto competing product lines. The term competitive assessment has been coined bymanufacturers to describe the process of ethically acquiring, inspecting

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

professional and ethical responsibility 2. To improve the level of achievement of the following POs. (g) communicate effectively At present, no POs have been identified for this perspective. (h) … the impact of engineering solutions in … context … (i) recognize the need for, and engage in life-long learning 3. Consider addition/deletion of the following POs. (j) be knowledgeable about contemporary issues (Note: letters indicate potential designation as Program Outcomes

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education inclusion of communication activities in the courses.Fresh. ATL – American Thought and Language EGR 291– Freshmen DesignYear (Tentative) Remembered Events Paper, Proposed Solution Paper, Justified Evaluation Paper, Writing Profile Paper Tools: None EGR 291 – Residential Option for Science and Engineering Students Resumes, email, short engineering focused reports, engineering writing demands, problem solving, speaking, ethics, and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Blaine Lilly; John Merrill

of the items.This Conveyor Sorter System project improves students’ project management and teamworkskills, and also introduces them to concepts in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,Product Design, Testing and Reusability and Engineering Ethics. Although the project is verychallenging and demanding for the students, the faculty has recognized certain drawbacks in thecourse material. In evaluating the designs of the student teams the instructional staff hasdocumented the effects of redundancy in design and lack of innovation. The challenging aspectof the design is also diminished as students share and discuss ideas between teams acrossquarters. This has led to final designs that are very similar and are completed ahead of

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

efficiency is measured in LoC/workday, where a workday is definedas eight person-hours of effort. Assuming a contract hourly wage of $75/hour, each student deter-mins their development cost in $/LoC. Code quality is measured as number of defects per thou-sand LoC.At several points during the semester, I collect data from each team and compare the productivityof each team at the next lecture. This allows me to (i) give feedback to each student to ensurequality data collection, (ii) identify teams with a poor team dynamic, (iii) promote a friendly com-petition between teams to operate with maximum efficiency and lowest coding defect rate, and(iv) motivate engaging discussion on ethical, economic, and design methodology issues.4. Observations and

Conference Session

Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas J. Brumm; Larry F. Hanneman; Brian Steward; Steven Mickelson

work our tail off then there’s no other reasonfor them to spend time with you. That’s the kind of mentality that I had. Being in Milwaukeeand not knowing anybody --- you really don’t have anything else to do but work.Student 2: So I would say the expectations are more than not. If you have the work ethic and thewill to do what you need to do. I haven’t talked to a lot of people that they didn’t say they didn’tdo what they were expected to do nor had a bad experience so.Student 8: I guess for me they really had really high expectations of me coming in and I think Imet those expectations coming in. Some parts that were difficult for me was I was working inFrance and my supervisor was German and it was very hard to adapt to his style and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wook-sung Yoo; Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

, component, or process to meet needs √ d) Function on multi-disciplinary teams e) Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems √ f) Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility g) Ability to communicate effectively h) Broad education necessary to understand impact of engineering solutions I) Recognition of need to engage in lifetime learning j) Knowledge of contemporary issues k) Ability to use techniques, skills and modern tools √ IEEE competencies for ECE department related degree programs: Knowledge of Probability & statistics & applications Knowledge of Discrete Mathematics Knowledge of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Agnew; Ka C Cheok; Jerry Lane; Ernie Hall; David Ahlgren

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education • An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data • An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs • An ability to function on a multi-disciplinary team • An ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems • An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility • An ability to communicate effectively • The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context • A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in, lifelong learning

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

K Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; Dee Fink; Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Carolyn Ahern; Kurt Gramoll

-time learning (students gain skills asneeded). Thus, students learn technical material using the latest hardware and software, while atthe same time learning how to communicate (design reports/presentations), how to functioneffectively on a team, how to balance the political/social/ethical aspects of engineering projects,how to teach themselves (researching design solutions/new analysis skills), how to engage inhigher level thinking skills (critical analysis of multiple design alternatives), how to self-assess(learning portfolios9), and how to be effective leaders on projects.Sooner City's web-based nature facilitates distance learning and outside-of-class activities.31Included in the development are content-rich multimedia modules that

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

academic and personal success and the methods of (and resources for) developing these skills o know how to use the computer and internet responsibly o appreciate the value of lining and working in a diverse community o understand the importance and ethics of collaborative learning and collective work • Library Skills o have been oriented to UMBC’s AO Kuhn Library and understand how to use its resources o understand the nature of library research • Major/Career Decision Making o have examined personal and academic goals and values in terms of how they relate to their chosen major and to the world of work

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Krause

of the world which falls nicely into the definition of technology and itscomponents.”The Societal Relevance of Engineering category indicated that students found ways to integratehistory of technology with social studies in the classroom, and they realized the importance oftechnological literacy in everyday life.Isabel: “First, the goal of technological literacy for all. I agree with this idea because like manyscience educators who would argue the same for science literacy, we need to be able to makeinformed decisions concerning the environment, ethics and politics. Oftentimes we can be easilyswayed to jump on a popular bandwagon, such as getting a smallpox vaccine, without knowingwhat questions to ask.”As a result of applying the Technical

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Can Saygin

,” Manufacturing Engineering, vol. 125, no. 4, pp. 54-63, October 2000.23. Shaw, M.J., Seidmann, A., Whinston, A.B., “Information Technology for Automated Manufacturing Enterprises: Recent Developments and Current Research Issues,” International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, no. 9, pp. 115-120, 1997.24. Perry, W.G., Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years: A Scheme, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wiston, 1970.25. Kolb, D.A., Experimental Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1984.CAN SAYGINDr. Can (John) Saygin is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Management and Director of the Integrated SystemsFacility at the Engineering Management

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

andCanada participate in 20 regional competitions.3At RIT, the concrete canoe and steel bridge teams exist within the ASCE student club. The mainfocus of the club is on professional development, engineering ethics, hands-on learning, andcommunity service. Both the concrete canoe and the steel bridge are yearlong projects that beginin September and culminate in a regional competition in April, and a national competition inJune. The student design teams at the RIT consist of undergraduate students in their first throughfifth year of study.The new Engineering Technology Criteria of ABET, ET2K, as well the Engineering CriteriaEC2000, now require continuous assessment of all program activities to ensure that the programoutcomes and educational

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Urban; James Collofello; Doris Roman; Faye Navabi; Mary Anderson-Rowland

recognition that the need for computer science education in comprehending theinformation age is analogous to the need for natural science education in understanding thenatural world. The ACM curriculum recommendations take the form of a one-year coursetargeted for students to take in the tenth grade. The curriculum identifies the following sevenareas that are appropriate for secondary school students: 1. algorithms 2. programming languages 3. operating systems and user support 4. computer architecture 5. social, ethical and professional context 6. computer applications 7. additional topics (such as software engineering, artificial intelligence and graphics)More recently, secondary school curriculum guidelines have been

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

ultimately succeed. They get their job done and return home with their prize! Can this story taken from Greek methodology be actually ametaphor for an engineering team’s efforts to complete the project professionally and ethically; to get the job done? CASE STUDY No. 2 Page 8.727.5 WHY ISN’T GOOD DESIGN ENGINEERING ALWAYS ENOUGH TO SUCCEED? Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society of Engineering EducationConsider the following

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Rosenkrantz

software, use of scientific equipment, finding technical information, etc.)? 15 How would you assess the coverage of issues 1.91 2.13 1.93 related to professional behavior and ethics in this (n = 47) (n = 38) (n = 15) course? 16 How would you assess your improvement in 2.15 1.98 2.00 communications skills (either written or oral) from (n = 40) (n = 45) (n = 20) your experience in this course? 17 How would you assess your improvement in 1.95 1.98 2.17 teamwork skills from your experience in this (n = 19) (n = 50) (n = 24) course?Note: * = Chi-Square test