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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Martin

students’ coordinator. They Alumni can also be linked to an employer as the school coordinator or liaison Staff with that employer. Faculty • Once a school is created in the Staff Schools records, that school can Advisory Boards also be linked as a student’s former Volunteers high school or community college, Emeriti faculty or as the university that the student Courses faculty are able to teach plans on attending after graduation Faculty Committee Assignments from your school. • Once an employer is created

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Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tony Casalena; Matt Weinstein; Borna Ghavam; Blake Robertson; Karen Thornton; David Barbe; James Green

Hinman CEOs and people seeking teamingopportunities with talented students. Our annual New Venture Challenge, formerlycalled the Business Plan Competition, provides experience in structuring and givingeffective presentations in a competitive entrepreneurial environment. Three types ofeducational opportunities are provided to the CEOs: formal academic courses, aninformal (seminar) class and experiential education.1.1. Hinman CEOs Program 2004-2005 Student ProfileThe current Hinman class is made up of about 89 undergraduate students withapproximately one-third majoring in an engineering discipline, one-third majoring insome area of business, and one-third studying a broad set of majors across many differentcolleges. Twenty-two percent are female

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Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Sinha

.ABSTRACTConstruction courses in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at thePennsylvania State University focus on the subjects of planning, organization, monitoring andcontrol of the construction projects. There is currently a scarcity of information relating to ethicalconduct in these courses. Government regulations, environmental permits, and other bureaucraticcontrols continue to grow. Projects also continue to get larger and more technical, requiring morespecialized people, high-tech equipment, and better project control systems. This trend requiresthat project managers have technical, business, organizational, ethical, and leadership savvy.Many new regulations and specifications (for example, those of OSHA and ACI) requireconstruction

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A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Dennis

practice of civilengineering at the professional level.”[2] In addition to adopting Policy 465 ASCE created theTask Committee on Academic Preparation for Professional Practice (TCAP3) and charged it to“…develop, organize and execute a detailed plan for full realization of the ASCE PolicyStatement 465.” This committee, which was later made a board level standing committee(CAP3), formulated the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK) which was formallyreleased in January of 2004. As a result of the CAP3 report on the BOK, ASCE’s PolicyStatement 465 was revised in October 2004 to reflect the work of the committee. It now states inpart that “ASCE…supports the attainment of a Body of Knowledge for entry into the practice ofcivil engineering at the

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary Vanis; Donna Zerby; Bassam Mater; Debra Banks; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1692It is a unique challenge to work with students at both academic institutions since the studentneeds and structure of the two schools is different. The METS collaboration requires bothASU and MCCD to see the student needs from the other institution’s perspective to maintain acollaborative working relationship. This is a difficult task and requires a good management plan.A management plan which gives ASU and MCCD equivalent organizational structure is key toaccomplishing program tasks and encouraging the METS team to work closely

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Woodruff; Farhad Reza

trusses did not allow sufficient clearance for HVAC withoutmaking the ceiling elevation too low. Another story related by a recent ONU graduate, nowworking for a construction company, told of a set of plans that specified pipes which had to crosseach other at the same elevation! These types of errors translate into economic losses because ofconstruction delays and additional costs.The authors believe that some of these problems stem from the fact that engineers may not havefully considered constructability issues. One step in the right direction towards resolving thisunhappy situation may to be to encourage undergraduate student engineers to “try walking in thecontractor’s shoes”. In other words, they need to think in the same way that the

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

needs-driven engineering development that is supportedconcurrently by directed scientific research has evolved. Today, a growing percentage of continuoussystematic technological innovation in U.S. industry and mission-oriented government service isprimarily the deliberate outcome of a purposeful, planned systematic practice of innovative engineeringleadership, which includes directed engineering creativity, design, and development, and which isintegrated with phenomenon-oriented directed scientific research for complex technology developmentprojects. In this deliberate process, engineering development and scientific research are not competitors inthe nation’s innovation system  but they are interdependent and vital components with

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Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

made contacts with engineering students in other majors through 18 0 NACME?5 Has the NACME program helped you fell more confident about graduating in 16 2 engineering?6 Are you planning to reapply? 17 17 Do you plan to continue in engineering in the Fulton School next fall? 17 1Table I. General Satisfaction with the NACME Scholars ProgramIn general, the NACME program was found to be beneficial, helped the students make contactswith engineering students outside of their major, and made them feel more confident aboutgraduating in engineering. The students planned to re-apply and to

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International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacie Edington; Melissa Eljamal; Stella Pang

will engage both itsundergraduate and graduate student populations to develop global skills. Programs rangein duration from a few hours to the length of an academic career and include languagelearning and cross-cultural training. These programs are accompanied by a strategicmarketing plan that has resulted in a steady increase in participation, with more graduateswho are well-equipped to deal with the challenges posed by working in multi-nationalcorporations.I. IntroductionEngineers are increasingly asked to work with international suppliers, co-workers, and clients.Global assignments for companies in industries such as communications, informationtechnology, and automotive manufacturing, require engineers to integrate technical knowledgewith

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Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey LaCombe; James Detweiler; Daniel Loranz; Eric Wang

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationdeveloped that could be driven from a control center across the desertto pick up the payload and return it back to the launch site. Thesystem worked well in nearly all respects, except for the transmissionrange of the video transmission system used for driving.In addition to participating in “Open Class” ARLISS competition,NeavdaSat is also planning to participate in the general (non-competitive) CanSat portion of ARLISS. NevadaSat has begundeveloping a student satellite workshop that focuses on CanSat. Theexperience gained thus far with “Open Class” CanSats, coupled withthe proximity to the ARLISS event were large factors

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Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

the freshmen year experience with faculty from mathematics and the sciencesand linkage with the Binghamton Success Program, a federally funded effort to supportstudents from underrepresented groups in engineering. Each of the four elements will bedescribed with attention paid to assessment and planned future directions anddevelopments. The program has changed dramatically over the course of the last twoyears and has witnessed both successes, and to a lesser extent, several failures.Introduction One of the innovative features of undergraduate engineering education at the StateUniversity of New York at Binghamton is the common freshman year program,administered by the Division of Engineering Discovery and Design. Students are notrequired to

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Hirleman

attend classes at Purdue during the Spring Semester 2004.The Karlsruhe students will return to Karlsruhe at the beginning of May for the Karlsruhesummer semester.Preparation of Participants: After the selection process is completed, a number of orientationactivities are conducted to prepare the students for their work and study in Germany and China.A Foreign Languages and Literature faculty member meets with each selected student to furtherevaluate language and culture skills. An individual plan of action is developed to ensure thestudent has a working knowledge of the target language prior to departure. Some students arealso asked to prepare a 20-minute presentation in German or Chinese about their ownbackground to introduce themselves to an

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Duesing; David Baumann; David McDonald

that are the result of the review. Figure 2 shows a blockdiagram of the design review process.Students are given instructions on the philosophy and mechanics of conducting design reviews. Itis emphasized that the review is a semiformal meeting with a carefully planned agenda. A keyaspect of the agenda is a list of the specific outcomes and decisions that are expected as a resultof the review. Student teams are instructed to select a meeting facilitator, individuals to discussand present each topic/design, and individuals to take notes and provide summaries at key pointsin the review. In addition to providing a lecture on the design review meeting process, sample“mock” design reviews are given to the students. Faculty members play the roles of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shivram Sankar; Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

, Tallassee, AL. Mr. Clay Hamblen documented the use of thesematerials in a physics classroom for his Honors undergraduate thesis. In addition, a specialworkshop was held for 4-H students (ages ranging from nine to fourteen) in Birmingham, AL.These studies show that high school students get excited about science once they are able towork with case study CD-ROMs that use STEM extensionsFindings from Using a Case Study at a High School Level A physics teacher at a High School included the Della Steam Plant Case Study in his Page 9.1194.8lesson plan during the Fall semester of 2001. An example of how the case is incorporated intoProceedings of the

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Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emilia Hodge; Chang-Yu Wu; Anne Donnelly

in St. Louis, Environmental Engineering Science Program, St. Louis, MO 63130/4University of Florida, Office of Academic Technology, Gainesville, FL 32611AbstractA comprehensive evaluation program was developed as part of an NSF Course Curriculum, andLaboratory Improvement grant to develop three undergraduate computer simulation modules.Aerosol science and technology is generally taught at the graduate level and the goal of thisprogram was to develop materials that would bring this subject to the undergraduate level. Toachieve this goal, an evaluation plan was developed that included formative and summative, andcognitive and affective measures. This was a collaboration between content and

Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Jacobson

hard time getting students. The four courses were already being taught viadistance education and had off campus enrollments ranging from 10 to 40. Advanced ComputerNetworking has been taught to off campus students since the course was created in 1980.Information System Security and Information Warfare have been taught to off campus studentssince they were created in 1995. Our first few students who enrolled in the certificate programhad already taken one or more of the courses and were planning on taking most of the coursesanyway. We tried several different things to get interest including making presentations atseveral regional business meetings. Iowa State University also issued a press release which waspicked up in several

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

development”. For this paper, sustainable development will be defined as,“The acting out of cultural and economic programs that would allow the currentpopulation to live off of the resource interest provided by environmental, economic, andsocial plans, concepts, projects, and innovations without lowering the value of resourcesfor the following generations.”It is obvious that the clear goal of business is to make money, but responsibility should bespread among international and national businesses that are contributing to the problemof pollution and anti-sustainability. Too many penalties for pollution are less than thecost for cleaning the problem, so often that the option of paying penalties is chosen overfixing the problem. For some companies

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Rossetti

students to be able to: • List and identify the functions of an industrial engineer. • Describe and explain the role of an industrial engineer within an enterprise. • Describe the typical applications or problems addressed by industrial engineers. • Solve introductory problems within industrial engineering such as break-even analysis, quality control charts, economic order quantities, manufacturing planning, project management, engineering economics, transportation planning, and information systems.Finally, the course emphasizes how to understand and use models. In particular, students areintroduced to different types of models (e.g. conceptual, pictorial, analytical, etc.) They are askedto create and interpret

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lin; Richard Pfile

. This person is also usually responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining common network services, including file, print, fax, and Internet access. More senior network administrators may also manage custom or enterprise-level applications and services, including accounting systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, and database environments. Some common certifications in this job role include credentials such as Microsoft’s MCSE or Novell’s CNE and MCNE. • Internetworking Professional — Individual who manages complex network infrastructures that are most likely TCP/IP-based, plus related routing

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thompson; Terri Fiez; Larry Flick; Edith Gummer

Page 9.562.1problem and the desire for simplicity in a solution. A study of curriculum reform in theFoundation Coalition illustrates this very issue.2 The initial model for curriculum change usedby institutions in the coalition involved implementation and evaluation of small pilot projectsfollowed by adoption. The model became increasingly complex over time as the realities ofscale and institutional differences were factored into adoption plans. Simple pilot projects didnot address the diversity among faculty and students at the larger scale and so curriculum had tobe modified from the original concept. The Foundation Coalition adapted to the complexitiesconfronting its institutions. Addressing complexity as the Foundation Coalition did

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Orr; Richard Vaz

appropriate now and for the foreseeable future. It also describes the new ECEcurriculum with the inevitable depth vs. breadth tradeoffs, the transition plan from EE to ECE,the preparations for the initial accreditation visit, and the results of the visit.2. BackgroundWhen the decision was made in 2001 to move to the ECE major, only four US universitiesoffered accredited majors in ECE. However, since that time it appears that a small trend hasemerged; at present the ABET web site lists accredited ECE programs at 12 universities(including WPI). The following universities offer only ECE (not EE, computer engineering, orsimilarly-named programs) as their accredited major: • Baylor University • Carnegie Mellon University • University of

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Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Wolverton; Janet Wolverton

the United States Air Force Academy is discussed, and a plan forimproving ethics across the curriculum is outlined.II. Engineering EducationPrior to 1950 the emphasis in engineering education was on design according to codes and otherstandardized methods outlined in handbooks. It was seen as a very practical subject, with littleapplication of mathematics beyond elementary calculus. During the 1950s and 1960s engineeringeducation experienced a true paradigm shift from this applied, practice-oriented focus to amathematical, academic, ‘engineering science’ focus. 2 Although this model has undergonevarious revisions during the past 40 years, it is still the predominant pedagogy used in engineeringeducation.Since the late 1980s there have been a

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Rossetti; Kellie Scheider; Richard Cassady

criteria for ABET2000 accreditation emphasize continuous quality improvement 3 . Tooleyand Hall believe that capstone design courses are one of the most effective ways for engineeringdepartments to meet specific ABET criteria 7 . They have developed such a course for the CivilEngineering Department at the University of Arkansas. Within this course, the civil engineeringstudents “don’t really meet the client and their plans and specs are not used for biddingpurposes.” 7 Deleveaux and Rudd describe an industry-based senior capstone course within thePenn State University’s Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 2 . In thiscourse, students are exposed to uncertainties such as change in problem parameters, insufficientdata, lack of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wheatland

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that continue toplay a significant role in increasing the number of African Americans who successfully obtaindegrees and establish careers in SEM. 5 HBCUs are institutions of higher education foundedbefore 1965 with a primary mission of providing higher education access and opportunities toAfrican-Americans. 6 MSU conducted two SEM bridge programs during the summers 1994 to 1998. Thisdissertation study analyzed the academic records of SEM students who entered MSU as first- 1 Alexander Astin, Minorities in American Higher Education (New York: Jossey-Bass, 1980), 52-69, 178;Report of the Planning Commission for Expanding Minority Opportunities in Engineering, Minorities

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Instructional Technology in CE 2

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kemeny

for Engineering Educationlayer will contain all the processing logic of the site, it will perform searches and return results,take metadata content and write it to the database, perform a login/logout of a user or respond toa NSDL harvest of the GROW metadata. The logic layer will be coded in Java and will possibleuse XML and XSLT. We plan to use Apache as a web sever with Tomcat running on it. Tomcatis a servlet container and will be used to house our java servlets and JSPs.The metadata schema will be a combination of Extended Dublin Core records and records thatwill be specific for the GROW website. Each learning module or singular piece of content willbe provided a metadata record. This metadata record will contain descriptive information

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Curricular Issues in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hart; Mike Williams; George Grandle; Alvin Womac

Development of an On-Line Electronic Course in Environmentally-Sensitive Spray Applications Mike Williams1, Alvin Womac2, William Hart 2, George Grandle2 1 Graduate Assistant, 2Associate Professor The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Biosystems Engineering & Environmental Science Department Abstract Software packages, course lesson plan topics, and a presentation format for an on-line engineering course for university credit were identified as a case study. Developmentcriteria included the use of commercial software to minimize the effort required for

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Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Corradini

, theapproaching retirements of an aging work force combined with low enrollments in nuclearengineering programs in most colleges and universities raise concern about a looming crisis.1 Over the past decade the number of nuclear engineering programs in the United States hasdeclined by half (from 80 to 40), the number of university research and training reactors by two-thirds (from 76 to 28), and enrollments have dropped by almost 60% (from 3,440 to 1,520). Asnoted in a recent planning study by the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy ResearchAdvisory Committee: “Nuclear engineering programs in the United States are disappearing.Without concerted action by the federal government, most of the existing nuclear engineeringprograms will soon evaporate or be

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M.J. (John) Frye; Myron (Ron) Britton

understood. We focus on problems, not people. If we don't like an idea, we try to offer an alternative. We try to solicit input from one another. Everyone has an obligation to participate. We usually have an agenda/plan for our meetings. We keep good records of what we did and when we did it. We try to have fun. We always try to reach consensus on important decisions. TOTAL: Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Page 8.1087.7 Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2003

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Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Eckstein; Charla K. Triplett

coordinator works with theirstudents and industrial contacts to place interns, but through the Alliance, they communicate tohelp place students in non-local opportunities or to share knowledge and experience.Alliance Growth and Development of Resources Currently, the Alliance consists of 34 members with planned expansion to include all programsinterested in placing BME students into strong, educational experiences in industry. As we growand adapt to serve our constituents, we have made efforts to expand our presence nation wide.During the past year, the Alliance has worked to develop a professional image by creating a logo,developing a public webpage and a brochure. These items can be viewed athttps://www.orau.com/bme. The effort has allowed us to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Haley; Calvin Mackie; Sundiata Jangha

toBGSA to direct and organize. This point is important, as the critical mass of students, andtheir active participation in both planning and implementation, from the very beginning,was crucial to the success of FOCUS. Originally the program was aimed at undergraduateseniors. However, in 1996, invitations were also extended to juniors in order to expand Page 8.576.3the demographic exposure and to stimulate graduate school awareness earlier in the Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education