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Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

. Included are adetailed description of the major components of the Leadership Institute, characteristics of thewomen faculty members who enrolled in the 4-day program, a summary of participants'leadership activities to date, and an analysis of participants' pre-institute leadership goals.Sixteen women faculty participated in this first of three leadership institutes. Data from theseparticipants regarding the value and effectiveness of the first institute are presented as well asconclusions and plans for future work.I. INTRODUCTIONThe purposes of this paper are twofold. First, we describe the rationale behind and thedevelopment and implementation of a National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored LeadershipInstitute for tenured faculty women in

Conference Session

The Citizen Engineer

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2005 Annual Conference

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Isadore Davis; barbara waugh; Charles Pezeshki; Lueny Morell; Tom Roberts

toimagine an age of the Citizen Engineer – socially conscious engineers engaged inproactively tackling the enormous challenges that face the world today. How, through us,could ASEE become a critical player in solving the world’s greatest challenges? Forexample, how could corporate partners advocate for funding needed for engineeringeducation and research in ways that academia cannot? Where do we begin? Why? How?What do we know? What do we need to learn?In our own membership are citizen engineers. Who are we? Several activist memberswho met at the last conference will share our answers to these questions.Charles Pezeshki will share his experience as an engineer activist for the environment,including his successful campaign to save forests in the

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wang

professional degree. 4. The profession should encourage continued growth and improvement to prepare students to assume their places in the workplace with skills that are current. 5. The profession should participate fully in a future society characterized by the lifelong learning opportunities afforded by new information and communication technologies. 6. Professional education in architecture should continuously evaluate and respond to the demands of the ICT industry for creativity and innovation. 7. To seek balanced development of all industrial sectors, considerable resources must be devoted to enabling the high-technology industry to meet the needs of those other sectors.References1) Allen, B. and Feldman, R. (2000

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Kramer

Explaining Faculty Involvement in Women's Retention Laura Kramer Montclair State University After a period of rapidly increasing female enrollments in engineering (from the mid1970s to the late 1980s), the percentage of undergraduate degrees earned by women climbedvery slowly and has been stuck near twenty percent for more than ten years. Without moredirectly confronting and responding to a relatively unchanged set of cultural and institutionalfactors, gender integration in engineering may have gone about as far as it can. The researchdescribed in this paper helps to fill in the picture of the engineering faculty, whose role(s) androle

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Cathcart; Shanti Bhushan; Sandun Fernando

1 Agricultural Engineering Education in Developing Countries S. Fernando, S. Bhushan and M. Naveen AbstractAgricultural Engineering or Biological (Systems) Engineering is still considered a fairly newprofession not only in developing countries but also in many of the developed countries. Althoughcivil, mechanical, chemical, electrical and industrial engineering are well established asengineering subdivisions, Agricultural and Biological Engineering is still not considered as adirect engineering discipline in many of the 162 developing countries in Asia

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ehsan Sheybani, Virginia State University; Giti Javidi, VSU

esheyban@vsu.edu gjavidi@vsu.eduAbstractTechnology is having a dramatic effect on colleges and universities, producing what may bethe most challenging period in the history of higher education. One form of the convergenceof technology and education is distributed learning. The World Wide Web (WWW) providesalternative means for delivery of the courses and services, providing learners with anextraordinary range of options. Distance learning methods are being developed andimplemented to offer educational opportunities to those who are unable or choose not toattend an educational institution on a conventional, scheduled basis. There are few, if any,studies that have attempted to evaluate the learning achieved through interactivity of

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Daniel Fichana; Ann Marie Flynn; Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Jim Henry

the attic to cover the insulation. The average temperature outside in the winter-time isdetermined to be 10°C and the temperature inside the attic will be maintained at 21°C. Assumethe inside wall temperature is equal to the room temperature. One wall of the attic is measuredto be 7 m wide and 2 m long. The price of the fuel that operates the furnace heating the attic is$0.03/ MJ ($0.03/MW-s). a.) How much heat was lost through the attic wall before the renovations took place? What is the daily cost of the fuel without insulation? Page 10.605.10 b.) How

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Kiefer; Nihad Dukhan

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationactivities mentioned have gone on to graduate study. For the faculty, the program helpeddevelop course material, gather information for proposals, and developed conferencepublications. The faculty also learned a great deal about working closely with and managingstudents. Such opportunities are not usually available in regular undergraduate engineeringcourses. The authors recommend that the undergraduate research programs should beencouraged, especially for students interested in pursuing graduate studies.5. Bibliography1. M. P. Hodge and B. D. Lichter, “The union of therory and practice,” Journal of Engineering

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2005 Annual Conference

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H. Jean Russo; Joseph Hartman

., “A Supplemental Resource for Teaching Engineering Economy,” Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Conference, (CD-ROM), June, 2002. 3. Stanley, B. and J. L. Lunsford, “JAL Will Buy 30 Boeing 7E7s: Airline’s Order Gives a Lift to Sluggish Sales Campaign of Jet Maker’s Dreamliner,” The Wall Street Journal Online, retrieved at http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110371939261207056,00.html on December 23, 2004. 4. King, C., “Cameco Proceeds With Cigar Lake Mine Construction,” Dow Jones Newswires, retrieved at http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20041221_005192,00.html on December 21, 2004.8. BiographiesJOSEPH C. HARTMAN is an Associate Professor of

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Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Chenoweth; Donald Bagert

online programs), without manymore in sight. This paper looks at the growth and development of the Bachelor’s degreeprograms in software engineering in the United States, possible causes for the paucity of newprograms, and what this might mean for the future. Included is a survey of software engineeringeducators in programs which do not currently have a Bachelor’s degree program in softwareengineering, as well as comparisons with other computing fields when they were in similarstages of development.1. Introduction The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) lists “software engineer” as one of the fastestgrowing job categories in the United States, over three times as fast as job growth in generalexpected for the period 2002-2012. In fact

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Satinderpaul Devgan

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2005, American Society for Engineering Education Table 4 Course Coverage of EE Program Outcomes 3 Course Outcomes a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o MATH 1060 Calculus I x ENGL 1010, 1020 Fresh. English I, II x ENGR 100L Intro. To Engr. I x x x x x x x x x x CHEM 151 Gen. Chem. Eng x CHEM 151L Gen. Chem. Lab x x x x ENGR 115L Engr. Graphic Des

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Catherine Lewis; Susan Etheredge; Thomas Gralinski

To Pop or Not to Pop: Elementary Teachers Explore Engineering Design with Pop-up Books Susan Etheredge, Catherine Lewis, Glenn W. Ellis Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts Thomas Gralinski Amherst Public Schools, Amherst, MassachusettsAbstract: What is engineering? What do engineers do? What is the engineering design process?What is the relationship between engineering and the liberal arts? Why should we teachengineering in the elementary school classroom? What should engineering education look likein the elementary school curriculum?This paper describes how a group of elementary school teachers

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhongming Liang

) 3. Knowledge of rigid-body kinematics and its application in mechanical analysis (a1, f, h, k) 4. Knowledge of rigid-body kinetics and its application in mechanical analysis (a1, f, h, k) 5. Knowledge and skills of using engineering computer software for dynamic analysis (a1, d, f, h, k) 6. Knowledge of using computer-aided geometric modeling for dynamic analysis of mechanical systems (a1, b, d, k) ----------------------Assessment tool matrix of the learning outcomes Tools were defined for assessment of each course learning outcome listed in the above.Table 1 below is a matrix of the assessment tools versus the learning outcomes used for the fallsemester of 2003.Table 1

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Richard Keltie

eligible for participation inthe program (Groups #1, #2, and #3). It is interesting to see that roughly 58% of the students inthis group passed the course, yet at the same time 23% were placed on Academic Warning.Group #5 (N=45): Students in Group #5 were not eligible for the pilot study because they allreceived grades of 76 or higher on the first exam in Calculus-I. Collecting data on 45 suchengineering students from two randomly selected course sections formed this group. This groupprovides a basis of comparison for the observations from Group #4. Of the 45 students in Group#5 the average score in the first exam was 86.99, and on average students received a grade of3.22 (B to B+) in the course. In addition, 97.78% of these 45 students (44/45

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lason Watai; Arthur Brodersen; Sean Brophy

over the traditional bench top instruments (seeTables 4 and 5. Based on this evaluation, the Department replaced the conventional bench topinstruments in the EECE 213 circuits lab with computer workstations. All six stations in the labwere equipped with a Gateway Pentium II PC with the NI VB Version 2.1.1.1 software and theassociated hardware. Page 10.424.8 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education"B. Web-based lab courseware and learning resourcesIn the traditional lab method, apart from the

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

learning environments in the teaching of networking curricula. These exercises will be used as supplements to teaching with hands-on live data and will be sufficiently generic that students will be able to use them under many operating platforms. When used in conjunction with the accompanying vignettes and lecture notes in the website, they will enhance experiential learning, and do so comprehensively. To make this effort challenging and theory-based, learning objectives were generated for each exercise based on Bloom’s Taxonomy and ABET 2000 a-k Criteria. Specifically, the following have been addressed: (a) define the criteria with which to measure outcome achievements, (b) design assessment tools, (c) apply these tools to the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Irina Nelson

program organized by ISU, followingthe vision of its founders Peter H. Diamandis, Todd B. Hawley, and Robert D. Richards who, atthe time when they were still students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, realized theimportance of shared knowledge, philosophy, and practices among the future leaders of the spaceenterprises. The location of the SSP program is chosen each year in different countries ondifferent continents. The SSP program consists of interdisciplinary coursework followed by ateamwork project related to a complex space related issue, and ends with the publication of acomprehensive Report addressing various aspects of the selected issue.The most recent Summer Session Program was held in Adelaide, Australia, from 27 June to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Derby; Stephen Frempong; Willie Ofosu

engineers and technicians in the field. They get to appreciate thecurrency of topics discussed in class. They also get to learn the requirements for the job market,and the requirements for specific companies. Such contacts become invaluable after graduationwhen the new graduates are seeking employment.References[1] Commonwealth Telephone Company, C-TEC; Educator in the Workplace B (1998).[2] David, W. (2002). The National Guard's STARBASE program links kids with the real world of aviation and aerospace. http://scribe.iat.unc.edu/index.nsf/doc/starbase0406.[3] David, W. (2000). UNC-Chapel Hill's Mobile Science and Technology Laboratory takes to the highways this fall on a mission to bring science to the people. http

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Erekson; Kurt Becker; Maurice Thomas; Christine Hailey

The National Center for Engineering and Technology Education Christine E. Hailey, Kurt Becker, Maurice Thomas, Tom Erekson Utah State University (USU)/USU/USU/Brigham Young UniversityAbstractThe National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) is a recently fundedNational Science Foundation Center for Learning and Teaching. This paper provides a broadoverview of NCETE activities that will span the five years of the program, consistent with thegoals of ASEE’s Emerging Trends in Engineering Education session. The long-term goal ofNCETE is to understand how to infuse engineering design into technology education in grades 9-12. The paper describes the relationship between engineering and

Conference Session

Sustainability Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jianpeng Zhou

, water managers, and general publics were shown in thevideo. The video illustrated the complexity of a real-world problem relating to water supply anddemonstrated the connection between engineering principles and their applications. The twodiscussion questions proposed to the class were (a) “what are the major sources that contaminatewater supply sources, by human activities vs. natural reasons?”, (b) “what can we do to protectwater supply sources?”. After the video was shown, students were divided into groups of three toconduct approximately 15 minutes discussions and to develop answers to each question. Studentswere then asked to report their answers to the whole class. The instructor moderated thediscussion session to ensure that each student

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherra Kerns; Edwin Jones; John Weese

development of sound curricula and by representing the interests ofmultidisciplinary engineering on a national level with regard to accreditation, student placement,etc. The group's goal is to have membership representation from all non-traditionalmultidisciplinary programs. This relatively young Constituent committee is making great stridesunder the leadership of its officers: Chairperson, Dr. Joan Gosink of the Colorado School ofMines; Program Chair and Vice Chair, Dr. James B. Farison of Baylor University; andSecretary/Treasurer, Dr. Phillip W. Young of the University of Wisconsin at Platteville.The MECC’s contribution manifests itself in its focus on the general criteria. A programevaluator trained from the outset to examine multidisciplinary

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Brannan; Phillip Wankat

. Of the participating institutions, approximately two-thirds of the institutions wereabout evenly grouped in one of four categories: programs conducted by a formally recognizeddepartment or division, by someone on the dean’s staff, by a responsible faculty member orgroup of faculty members in addition to their teaching or research duties, and programsconducted in individual engineering disciplines. The remainder of the programs had uniquefeatures that did not neatly correspond with one of the other categories. The paper also presentssurvey data on how faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and others are used inteaching, advising, and tutoring; advising services and how these are handled; and availabilityand administration of tutoring

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole LaRocque; Terri Lynch-Caris

fatigued. Sets consisted of no more than ten repetitions. Subjectsrecorded how many repetitions and sets they performed at each experimental trial.At the end of the three week study period, the subjects were again assessed in regard topersonal fitness and strength levels. The data collected before and after the experimentwas compiled and analyzed. The data is summarized in Appendix B for both theexperimental and control groups.As shown in Figure 1, the average number of movements performed by each subject inthe experimental group increased throughout the three week period. As expected, onaverage, males performed a higher number of movement repetitions than femalesthroughout the experiment. The linear slope increased significantly for both groups

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Farison

Some Characteristics of Highly Ranked Programs in the U.S. News &World Report Ranking of Engineering Programs in Institutions without Doctoral Programs Jim Farison Department of Engineering, Baylor UniversityAbstractMany prospective engineering students and engineering educators and the schools they serve areaware of the U.S. News & World Report rankings. A distinct set of U. S. News & World Reportrankings is the ranking of the undergraduate engineering programs in institutions withoutdoctoral programs in engineering. While many observers point out the subjective and variablenature of these rankings, many also wait eagerly for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasemin Jones; Elaine Maldonado

in engineering andtechnology programs. References1. Upping the numbers: Using Research-Based Decision Making to Increase Diversity inQuantitative Disciplines. A Report Commissioned by the GE Fund, January 2002.2. Finkelstein, M., J. & Schuster, J. H. 2001, Assessing the Silent Revolution: HowDemographics are Reshaping the Academic Profession, AAHE Bulletin, October.3. Ernst, B., 2002, How Over Reliance on Contingent Appointments Diminishes FacultyInvolvement in Student Learning, Peer Review, February.4.National Center for Educational Statistics, 2002.Elaine MaldonadoElaine Maldonado is the Director of the College Learning Centers for New York CityCollege of Technology (City Tech), providing

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thaddeus Fowler; Suzanne Soled; Laura Koehl; Anant Kukreti

Constituent Goal/ ObjectiveOngoing *Document time and activities all i, iii, J,N,PSeptember *demographic survey all A *attitudinal surveys Fellows, teachers, students B, D, K *skills/confidence levels Fellows iii, E *document curriculum projects teachers II,O secondary students’ plan survey (N/A) students

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Tackett; Cheng-Hsin Liu; Ken Patton

Reliability. Marcel Dekker, 1998.18. Forcier, M. M. and Forcier, R. A. Frontline Manufacturing: Rules, Tools and Techniquesfor Line Workers. Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin, 1992.19. Fowler, T. C. Value Analysis in Design. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990.20. Burns, Marshall, Automated Fabrication: Improving Productivity in Manufacturing.Prentice Hall, 1993.21. Landis, Raymond B., Academic Gamesmanship: Becoming a "Master" EngineeringStudent. National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, New York, 1988.22. Grimm, Todd, User!|s Guide to Rapid Prototyping. Society of Manufacturing Engineers,Rapid Prototyping Association of SME, Dearborn, MichiganAcknowledgementThe authors wish to acknowledge that this work was supported by an NSF ATE

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sucharit Koontanakulvong; Direk Lavansiri

Use of CUQA in Quality Assurance System ofFaculty of EngineeringChulalongkorn UniversityProf. Dr. Direk Lavansiri Keywords: Quality assurance,Faculty of Engineering education, assessment, opinion survey.Chulalongkorn University 1. INTRODUCTIONAssoc. Prof. Dr. SucharitKoontanakulvong The Faculty of Engineering,Faculty of Engineering Chulalongkorn University wasChulalongkorn University established in 1913 to educate government service officers. Later, in 1933, it had expanded to offer a

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chia-Jeng Tseng

Session 3532 Efficient Resource Allocation for FPGA Demo Board Based Digital Laboratories Chia-Jeng Tseng Department of Electrical Engineering Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837AbstractDue to its low cost and convenience, a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) demo board isoften used in universities for teaching digital design. The major limitations of an FPGA boardinclude a small number of input and output options and limited high-level software capability

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Banzhaf

Session 3247 Electrical Fundamentals - Make Them Come Alive for Students Walter Banzhaf, P.E. College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117IntroductionMany laboratory experiments we ask students to perform in electrical fundamentals laboratoryclasses are unnecessarily unexciting. Such tasks as determining the current through R7 of aladder network with eight resistors (does a first-semester student really care about R7, or itscurrent?), or verifying Kirchhoff's Voltage Law in a circuit with only resistors