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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ferruzza

integral part – but at the end –of their report. We ask their thoughts, along the lines of: did they enjoy the exercise and did itprove to be useful in building their skills as scientists and engineers. We also solicit suggestionson how to improve the exercise.In a bird’s eye view, the responses show a somewhat even distribution of opinions in three largesegments: the enthusiasts, strongly supporting and cheering the exercise as a very important stepin preparing their needed career skills; the indifferent ones, looking at this as just anotherexercise, albeit longer and more complex than usual; and the cynics, openly stating they did notenjoy it and that time might be served better by alternative activities. A large majority of studentsin the cynic

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Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Goodwin

An Experimental Course for First-Year Students: Leadership in Engineering Mary E. Goodwin Iowa State UniversityAbstractA first-year leadership course was created for engineering students. The purpose of the class wasto develop stronger leadership skills in undergraduate engineering students early on in theircollege career. This was done by actively engaging students in leadership activities that gaveopportunities for practicing skills while also providing classroom instruction on leadershiptheories, issues, and concepts. Industry has expressed a need for graduating engineering studentsto have stronger leadership

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NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Vollaro

, promotes life long learningthrough the use of handbooks, technical papers, and critical evaluation of web sites. Theinstructor has observed students who become frustrated with traditional web searches (forfundamental technical information) and become enthusiastic about professional societyhandbooks, especially those available on-line or on CD-ROM with search capabilities. Theseadditional skills and experiences with new literature resources demonstrate to the students the Page 10.1485.6connection between this course and the technical applications, which they may encounter duringtheir engineering careers. “Proceedings of the 2005 American

Conference Session

Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Atanas Serbezov

and expanded into new areas, there has been increasingpressure to modify senior process design to better prepare graduates for the realities which theywill face during their careers. Some of the challenges discussed in the literature include thefollowing: 1. Shifting the emphasis from process design to product design within the chemical industry [1-3]. 2. Including the design of batch processes in addition to continuous processes to reflect the growth areas of the chemical industry [4]. 3. The need to understand the business factors that affect design [3,5] 4. The need to incorporate sustainable development and design of green processes [6].In addition to changes

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Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Allameh; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”international collaborative teams.1 Students graduating from an engineering program canexpect to work at some point in their career, on teams with individuals from differentcultural and linguistic backgrounds from various locations in different continents.Doerry1 explains that international programs for engineering students have had limitedimpact on engineering education as a whole. These programs have remained curiouslyperipheral; students participating in these programs remain relatively small. Tounderstand the reason why so few students choose to gain “international experience

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Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Lynch

university-style affiliation with non-professional students,curricula, and norms of scholarly development. We as custodians of the Engineering disciplinesmust understand this important achievement and what it entails vis-à-vis what should andshouldn’t be taught. We must perform against recognizable scholarly criteria – we must create,conserve, and convey the central animating ideas, the important facts, the useful analyses, andinitiate careers that are authentically productive. And we must look to the intellectualnourishment of a whole professional cadre, which populates numerous external institutions andcreates very specific demands on the time of our students and faculty. To fail on either of thesedimensions is to lose our preferred place in

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Recayi Pecen; Ronald O'Meara

together to evaluate the student teams’ results and to providestudents additional experience of public presentation of their work.II. Program InformationThe EIET Program is a four-year undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Science Degree inElectrical and Information Engineering Technology area. The major prepares students for applicationoriented engineering technology careers in conventional and renewable electrical power,analog/digital electronics, microcomputer, telecommunications, and networking areas; there are also Page 9.375.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson

theindustrial projects, students tend to be very detailed, for example, “We should have useda different fastener.” or “The production department was not helpful.” In the service-learning projects, students tend to discuss their role in the project. “I was happy that wecould make a difference.” or “I have a new perspective on engineering.”9. Students mature. In the service learning projects, students are the “experts” for thefirst time in their technical career. With industrial projects the students are seen asnovices who might offer help to the company. In the service learning projects, thestudents are seen as the experts who will make a difference. They are the ones with thetechnical background who can make the decisions.The authors have observed that

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carolyn Heising; Mary Goodwin

the ISU Women’s Studies Page 9.1426.4 Diversity Course 5program in October, 2002, which was in development for the last several years at ISU. Dr.Heising, as well as Drs. Farrar, Bird and Bix, were heavily involved as co-conveners of theconference, which involved the participation of twelve engineering colleges in the Midwest. Thisconference provided a wealth of information on the status of women in engineering, and thebarriers and challenges facing women in pursuing careers in science, math, engineering andtechnology (SMET) fields. Scholarly work based on

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Rogers; Phil Lunsford; Paul Kauffmann

focus that emphasizes core science and fundamental engineering principles toposition graduates for an engineering career in a world of rapid technological change. Thegeneral engineering curriculum provides a broad background in the core sciences, mechanics andstructures, information technology, engineering design and decision-making and focuses on asystems approach to engineering. It is enriched by the use of computer-aided engineering toolsand course experiences involving a design-build-test-evaluate ("closed-loop") cycle that echoesthe real world. This learning experience begins at the freshman year and proceeds continuouslythrough the senior year. The senior year culminates in a client driven, commissioned projectcourse in which student

Conference Session

Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Dwan; Robert DeMoyer; Carl Wick; George Piper

technical topics and flexibility to student interest,the Systems Engineering major has become the largest engineering major at the NavalAcademy. The Systems Engineering Department continues to evolve. Recognizing that asnaval officers’ careers advance they take on more management responsibility, twomanagement systems courses are under development that will incorporate some of themore traditional Systems Engineering topics. When fully developed it is anticipated thatthese courses will form an additional elective track.INTRO TO SYSTEMS ENGINEERING At the Naval Academy the midshipmen have a common curriculum during theirplebe (freshman) year that does not include an introductory engineering course. Theirchoice of major, made midway

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Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Devine

as necessary components of accredited degree programs 1 . Theneed for improved writing skills for engineering students is apparent in other articles as isongoing efforts to improve them over several years2, 3, 4, 6 . The same case is true of engineeringtechnology students. Employers and graduates identify the value of writing skills. Furthermore,the author’s experience of several years of engineering practice reinforces this need for effectivewriting skills.General StrategyThe general strategy of the writing assignments is that stud ents concentrate on writing technicalinformation that they read or learn from personal communications. This is in the third year of anacademic career for the author who has made writing assignments in most every

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pete Hanlon; John Hill; Bryan Goda; Lisa Shay

, Page 9.975.1illustrated in Figure 1, which differs from, yet is complementary to, the ABET AssessmentProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationModel. The mission of USMA is "To educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that eachgraduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor,Country; professional growth throughout a career as an officer in the United States Army; and alifetime of selfless service to the nation.1" Therefore, our primary constituency is the UnitedStates Army and our academic program goals reflect this. The overarching academic goal is

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Mullenax

get really frustrated, work hard to control what you say – what is said cannot beunsaid, and if you intend to pursue a career in your field of research you will likely run into youradvisor again. And again. And again. Don’t make an enemy if you can help it. Page 9.879.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThis research project just isn’t working out…If you find yourself in a situation without remedy, your best course of action may be to changeeither advisors or projects. The consequences of

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

. Page 9.777.1 AProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education@A. Design experiences in first-year courses. Design courses in this category have three maingoals: to introduce the concept of design; to give hands-on experiences in design early in theundergraduate careers of students; and to motivate students to study engineering, thereby,enhancing their retention and persistence in that major. A sample of references to papers thatillustrate these ideas is: Richards & Carlson-Skalak (1997)32; Hall (1998)14; Zhang (1999)45;Ghosh (2000)13; and (Njock Libii, 2002)25.B. Focused-design courses. These kinds of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationSince guests, especially, can also have a role model function for the course participants, they areencouraged to tell a bit about themselves and their career at the beginning of their lecture. Theyare also generally allowed to tell a bit about the company for which they work as well.Problems and Solutions1. The guest tries to cover too much; as a result, their content often overlaps with that handled by others within that same course. The best preventative measure is to make sure that the guest lecturer is fully aware of the entire course structure and the topics

Conference Session

Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Shaeiwitz

engineer and are responsiblefor completing the work within their groups. The initial assignment to the class is deliberatelyvague and open ended. The goal is to force students to define their own work statement, withinput from faculty members, and to learn material not normally taught in class. The exact topicsstudents must learn are a function of the project. It is less important what they learn year to year.The goal is to make students realize that they will have to continue learning new materialthroughout their careers and that they have the ability to do so.AssessmentTwo assessment measures were used. In one, the two instructors use a rubric to evaluate,separately, all aspects of the final design report and oral presentation submitted by the

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

where their teaching load is increased. Compound this with “mission creep”, a trendat institutions across all Carnegie classifications toward increasing demands for research, and thenew faculty hire may indeed serve two masters.2 Although programs like Preparing FutureFaculty address this concern, such programs are not available at most universities3.Misalignment between a new hire’s research/teaching preconceptions and departmentalexpectations negatively impacts all stakeholders. Tenure is often lost because research andteaching duties are mismanaged. Career goals are stalled and resources invested in those facultymembers are lost. Accurate prior knowledge of the research/teaching balance and the requisiteactivities would facilitate a fast

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

Operations, required in their Associate in AppliedScience degree programs. They are from a variety of career fields, including marketing,accounting, management, computer systems and information systems, which allows themakeup of the "companies" to be representative of an industry. Integrating students fromvarious disciplines not only fulfills the technical needs of the student teams but also providesvaluable interaction and communication opportunities. Acting on the advice of the advisorycommittees for their career programs and utilizing a list of essential workplace skills1endorsed by the area Tech Prep consortium, the instructors who organize the project make thedevelopment of teamwork and communication skills a major focus. In their technical

Conference Session

Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kari Clase

professionals currently employed within various realms of the field of biotechnologyBibliography1. Miller, Thomas P., and Associates for Indiana Health and Industries Forum. (2002). The Indiana HealthIndustries Workforce Study. Retrieved October 6, 2004, from http://www.ihif.org/industryinfo.aspx2. Kling, Jim. Careers in Biotech Manufacturing. Science’s Next Wave, April 23, 2004. RetrievedJanuary 5, 2005 from http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/3. Cliff Mintz, CEO of the training and staff search firm BioInsights Inc. quoted by Jim Kling. Careers inBiotech Manufacturing. Science’s Next Wave, April 23, 2004. Retrieved January 5, 2005 fromhttp://nextwave.sciencemag.org/4. Louet, Sabine. Get Ready to Scale Up. Science’s Next Wave, March 21, 2003

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Bolick; Richard Drushel; John Gallagher

matriculated engineering students entertaining and engaging educationalexperiences that give them early experience with the kinds of open ended design problems theywill face in their professional careers. By their nature, however, these classes often require someprior computer programming experience – which raises the threshold of entry to the very earlycareer students who might most benefit from the extra motivation and depth provided by dealingwith open-ended problems. In previous work we discussed minimizing dollar cost andmaximizing physical access to a robot by creating a WWW/web cam based infrastructure andsupporting open sourced robot simulation software. In this work, we will focus on additionalwork that addresses more fundamental pedagogical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cheryl Willis; Susan Miertschin

assignments. Eachearlier assignment focused on the presentation of information about a career interest of thestudent. One assignment asked the students to present information in the form of a report,another assignment asked the student to present information in the form a presentation slides,and the third assignment asked the student to present information as a web site. The groupdevelops a qualitative evaluation report for the nine items.In Fall 2004 a survey was administered to gauge the students’ former experience with electroniccollaboration and to learn what they thought of using the the MSPS in support of their groupproject. The survey items and results are in Table 1. Interesting results from the survey include: • Most students knew

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

A “Basis Set” for Multidisciplinary Design Courses David F. Ollis Department of Chemical Engineering Raleigh NC 27695-7905 North Carolina State University ollis@eos.ncsu.eduAbstract We describe a variety of multidisciplinary design course formats developed andinstalled during the lifetime of the NSF–sponsored SUCCEED engineering educationconsortium. These formats provide design approaches to meeting the ABET/EC 2000criterion mandating that all graduating students will have “a multidisciplinaryexperience” during their undergraduate careers in engineering

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ranjith Munasinghe

the material in the sequel to theclass? Undergraduate projects are for the capable students interested in penetrating thisunfortunate boundary.3. Many upper classmen, specially the students we would select for research projects, entertainthe idea of going to graduate school. Introduction to research by an undergraduate project canhelp them make this important career decision.4. Obviously, research projects promote team work and writing project reports and presentationsimprove communication skills.5. We must not forget the most fundamental goal of any research project. We conduct research tofind new ideas and invent new things. In fact, undergraduate researchers have a uniqueadvantage that sometimes could help them invent revolutionary

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Johnson; Andrew Jackson

3D Engineering Drawing tools 2) Excel and MiniTAB 3) Full integration of the Microsoft Office Suite, including: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Publisher, and an Introduction to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Programming.Conclusion Students in the Industrial Engineering program at Texas A&M University-Commerce arebeing introduced to tools and techniques that will be used throughout their academic programand throughout their chosen careers. The IE faculty team at Texas A&M University-Commerceis attempting to break the cycle of courses that often appear to be isolated, in the eyes of thestudents. The contents of the course must continue to meet the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Krupczak

students in their first semester were in a course taught by engineering faculty,and establishing a group identity among the first year engineering students. Additionally,general physics, a calculus-based physics course previously taken by engineering students in thefirst semester of the freshman year, was moved to the second semester of the sophomore year. Inmost engineering programs, general physics serves to introduce engineering students to conceptsessential to sophomore engineering courses. To replace general physics in the first year, theintroduction to engineering course was modified to include the teaching of basic concepts ofkinematics and electromagnetism along with the usual engineering career exploration andengineering design activities

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Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Taylor; Jacqueline Mozrall

tools applied in the real-world,trips to both manufacturing and service industries are included.Computer Tools- Computer Tools is a course designed to give students an appropriatebackground in computer software tools to support their future education and career needs. Thestudents are given exercises and case studies in AutoCAD that support both part design and plantlayout. The students use the radiator fan case study that they have seen previously in Intro toISE to design an assembly cell and an overall plant layout. Additionally, the students develop amajor project in Access to do inventory tracking and control. The students once again use theradiator fan assembly as a basis for this project. The students are also required to use MS Officeto

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Rajappa; Steve Watkins; Ray Luechtefeld

Session number 2004-1340 Differentiated Team Training in a Multidisciplinary Engineering Projects Course Dr. Ray Luechtefeld, Dr. Steve E. Watkins, Vijay Rajappa University of Missouri-RollaAbstractThe ability to function effectively in teams is an important contributor to career success inengineering. Unfortunately, specific training designed to improve team effectiveness is not oftenincorporated into engineering education. Even when such training is provided, the absence ofclear comparisons makes it difficult to evaluate effectiveness. Providing two kinds of teamtraining to

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; Jian Peng

’ learning styles. Project-based learningmodel was adopted for this purpose [1]. Project-based learning is gaining more support in theAmerican undergraduate engineering education [2, 3]. Our Electrical Engineering program hasstrong emphasis on the implementation of design experiences. The program is committed toproducing graduates who are well prepared for the start of productive, successful careers asengineering practitioners. We believe engineering practitioners are those with a foundation ofbasic science, mathematics, and engineering knowledge, combined with practical knowledge andhands-on experience in applying existing technology to contemporary problems.In addition to our integrated project-based curricula, we are building a new learning

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

UVSC in 1993. The program’s goal has been to provide a qualityprogram that meets accreditation standards while providing the students with a skill set thatallows them to succeed in computing careers.6Computing Curriculum – Computer Engineering draft 20047 specifies eighteen knowledge areas;sixteen of which relates directly to Computer Engineering and two relate to mathematics(probability and statistics, discrete structures). Comparing Computer Engineering area ofspecialization curriculum at UVSC with the knowledge areas specified in that draft, it can beseen that our curriculum addresses all the 18 areas specified.To be considered for matriculation into upper division status for a Bachelor of Science degree inComputer Science, a student must