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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Jason Thrun

. Page 10.1178.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright , American Society for Engineering Education Table 3: Assessment Techniques Engineering Attitudes Survey – Given to ALL students in GE 1030 (all sections) and selected students in one class for middle-level math/science education or science majors Learning Style Assessment – Given to all students in pilot section of GE 103 Section 1 and faculty participants First Week(s) of Fall 2004

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Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aiman Kuzmar

Student's Ownership Of Class Project Improves Learning Aiman S. Kuzmar, Ph. D., P. E. The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractAn alternative approach to the project assignment process in the Steel and ReinforcedConstruction courses (AET 214 and AET 215 respectively) in the Architectural EngineeringTechnology Program at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus was introduced andimplemented in the past four years. Instead of dictating the project topic by the instructor, thestudents were given the freedom to choose their own topics with a few necessary restrictions.This paper gives details on this alternative approach. As usual, there are advantages andshortcomings. This paper

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TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Cottrell

Session 2150 Integrating TC2K from the Macro to the Micro: Program Assessment Inside and Outside of the Classroom David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgIntroduction This paper addresses specific, deliberate actions taken by the School of Science,Engineering, and Technology to establish and sustain a comprehensive program ofassessment and evaluation consistent with an academic environment of continuousimprovement that demonstrates compliance with the technology Criteria 2000 (TC2K).1The plan’s primary objective and ultimate end-state was to affect a

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Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lonnie Welch; Karin Sandell; Chang Liu

Teaching Communication Skills in Software Engineering Courses Chang Liu, Karin Sandell, and Lonnie Welch Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701, U. S. A. {liuc | sandell | welch}@ohio.eduAbstractCommunication skills are important to software engineers. Yet, this topic is sometimesoverlooked in computer science and software engineering curricula. To address thisproblem, we attempted to explicitly teach communication skills in a software engineeringcourse. We experimented with a number of approaches, including lectures by theinstructor, student presentations, mini-lectures mixed with in-class discussions, and otherin

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Mattei

the two surveys’ results indicates thatparticipants gained much knowledge as a result of attending the workshop. Hopefully thisincreased knowledge will ultimately result in the retention of these women and minorityengineering faculty.BackgroundAccording to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, overall engineering employment is expected togrow more slowly than the average for all occupations during 2002 to 2012 [1]. Despite this,overall job opportunities in engineering are expected to be good because the number ofengineering graduates should be in rough balance with the number of job openings over thisperiod. Employment of mining, petroleum, nuclear, and geological engineers is projected todecline, while other engineering disciplines, such as

Conference Session

Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Yasuhara

0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0% F high school M course(s) undergrad. course(s) other*Figure 3: Programming experience by type and gender: Experience types are high schoolcourse(s), undergraduate course(s), and extracurricular or self-taught (other) experience. (*sta-tistically significant gender difference, p ≤ 0.05)4.2 Computer science according to the pre-majorOne of the open-ended survey questions asked students to try to define “computer science” in theirown words. Although the

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack; John Farris

designs. The theory quality score was assigned bythe instructors. C M  t s 2 -------- 200 - B T ------- 0.2 score =  --- ( 4 ) ( 10 ) ( 10 ) ( 2 ) d where, t s = the time to settle (s) C = total cost of part ($) d = distance moved in test (m) B = build quality score assigned by judges (0=best, 1=worst

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clive Dym; Anthony Bright

constraints; and detailing the metrics against which the achievement of the objectives can be measured and assessed.One important question addressed only implicitly in this abbreviated list is, Whose objectives arebeing elicited? The answer(s) to this question is/are crucial because the objectives will almostsurely vary with the role of the respondent. Students want a good educational experience leadingto good jobs or graduate school; professors want to do research; employers want young, newly-graduated hires with twenty-five years of experience, ready to do any job competently andproductively; trustees want to fulfill the fiduciary responsibility of ensuring that the collegeremains financially sound; presidents want their university to

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

through the utilizing of the conventionalapproaches. Page 10.209.14 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Navaee, S., “Use of WebCT in Delivering Instructions in Engineering,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2001.2. Navaee, S., “Developing Instructional Modules for Analyzing Structures,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, 2003.3. Hibbeler, R.C., Structural Analysis, Third Edition, Prentice Hall, 1995.4

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

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Karl Stevens; Sharon Schlossberg; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

Session Number: 1430 Students to Engineering Practice K. K. Stevens, S. M. Schlossberg, M. M. Larrondo Petrie College of Engineering, Florida Atlantic UniversitySTUDENTS TO ENGINEERING PRACTICE (STEP) is a manifestation of a research project* that setsthe task of developing a sustainable and replicable industry-academia partnership model forhelping talented, but financially disadvantaged, students complete their baccalaureate degrees intimely fashion and move successfully into the workforce. The intent of the project is todemonstrate that significant improvements in retention, placement, and workforce throughputcan be achieved by

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sean Holleran; Elaine Chan; Chad Rasmussen; Alan McGaughey

is to inform students about various aspectsof a career in academia6, ASEE recognizes that many Ph.D. students decide to pursue careers innon-academic environments, and that a substantial number of students are often unsure whetherto pursue careers in academia or elsewhere. To help address these matters, the student chapterorganizes the event Non-Academic Careers for Ph.D.’s to provide students with information onjob opportunities and the work environments in industry and government for doctoral graduates.In this panel discussion students learn that their Ph.D. degree is applicable to a wide variety ofindustrial and government positions and gain an understanding of employment at theseinstitutions. In 2003 the panel consisted of former

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shivram Sankar; Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

Teaching Science Concepts using LITEE Case Studies Shiva K. Sankar, Northwestern University Chetan S. Sankar, Department of Management P.K. Raju, Department of Mechanical Engineering Auburn UniversityProject Goals The NSF, in its Shaping the Future document (NSF, 1996), declared that improvedscience, mathematics, engineering, and technology education is central to shaping America'sfuture. They expect that it will be increasingly necessary that citizens have a substantialunderstanding of the methods and content of science and technology and some understanding oftheir potential and limitations, as well as their

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Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

action of your circuit2. What are the limitations of the circuit you designed Figure 4. Application Example for the CycleExamination of Figure 2 will show that a student begins the cycle by wiring a circuit or using apre-wired one to explore the fundamentals of logic. Using two switches, the student fills out thestate of the output in response to changed states of the input – these are documented in the table.Figure 3 shows the dialog that follows. The instructor at this point would engage the student(s)in a discussion on what just transpired and guide them through the relevant theory – truth tables,normally open and normally closed contacts, and the setting of bits, in this case. With thisknowledge gained in

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Harper; Frederick Meyers; John Demel; Frank Croft

community, faculty are working to include as much instructionas possible in limited time. They are trying new approaches and this test can provide them witha method for measuring results. This can be particularly important when there are not enoughsections of a class to have both pilot and control groups. As we refine the test it will be madeavailable to faculty teaching similar curricula at other institutions.Compare with FCI for PhysicsNationally normed tests can have a profound effect on the educational state of a discipline. Asan example, consider the case in physics. In the early 90’s, the Force Concept Inventory (FCI)was developed and published.5 Soon physics instructors at a variety of institutions, from two-year colleges to elite

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Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ron Artigue; Mark Anklam; David Miller; Dan Coronell; Atanas Serbezov; Sharon Sauer; Alfred Carlson

Session 2213 Improving Student Learning in the ChE Laboratory David C. Miller,* Mark Anklam, Ronald S. Artigue, Alfred Carlson, Daniel G. Coronell, Sharon G. Sauer, and Atanas Serbezov Department of Chemical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstract: The unit operations lab brings together a significant number of educational goals forthe students: experiencing a broad range of equipment and instrumentation, enhancing teamingskills, learning to analyze experimental data, and developing written and oral communicationskills. To help improve the

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Sanders; John Favata; David Kukulka; David Barker

Session 3249 Implementation of the Computer Science, Engineering Technology, and Mathematics Scholarship (CSEMS) Program at Buffalo State College David J. Kukulka, David S. Barker, John Favata and Robin Sanders State University of New York College at Buffalo, Mechanical Engineering Technology Program, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14222The CSEMS program at Buffalo State College (BSC) is funded by a grant from theNational Science Foundation (NSF). This program provides scholarships andcareer/educational opportunities for academically talented students that are financiallyneedy in the

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Price

engineering andbiomedical engineering are competing with older engineering disciplines for the same anddecreasing supply of students 2.Since the 1970’s there has been a reactive to proactive shift for many universities and colleges tomarket their individual programs and educational offerings. Increased competition anddemographic changes in student population have placed considerable pressure on many Page 9.642.2institutions to adopt “customer driven” strategies to compete more effectively in the educational “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

South Cone such as the enterprisesof the region can protect themselves from others outside. The enterprises of the Bloc canassociate to each other to improve the quality of goods and services and get lower prices and sohave a larger consumer market. These are among others the immediate good consequences ofthis commercial integration. This is an economic bloc closer to the European Union; it is aneconomical – commercial project that is also political. The union process was conceived anddeveloped considering gradual changes so that they do not provoke crises or difficulties for noneof the four Countries.Mercosul has a history that dates back to the 50’s; many endeavors of integration took place andthe first two ones were the ABC – Argentina

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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patsy Brackin; Clark Merkel

included in theperformance grade equation to enforce limits on such items as Unassembled volume Setup time Initial cube over-height Initial bottle over-heightThe exact performance formula to determine the performance of the design was notprovided to the students until later in the design process because we wished to encouragean unlimited and unrestrained exploration process of idea generation. This designperformance criteria given to the teams during the fourth week of the quarter was Score = 30 a + 35 d + 25 W + C + S − P D wwhere:a = 1 if the cube movement is at least 12 inches in the horizontal direction 0 if the cube movement is less than 12 inchesd

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alex See

steady condition after about 25 s in time. Figure 5.2.6 Open circuit voltage profile of the series connected solar panels versus tracking time. The sampling interval is 0.5 sec. The tracking system appears to maintain steady condition after about 25s. Page 9.657.14 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 5.2.7 A single channel data acquisition block diagram for open circuit voltage measurement6.0 Student response to practical hands-on

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Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kimberly Barron; Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Robert Pangborn; Thomas Litzinger

. Page 9.499.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Table 2. ANOVA Results – Breakdown by Grad School vs. Employed Question P-Value (Prep) P-Value (Imp) Higher Group A Make Oral Presentations 0.833 0.024 Grad School I Write Clearly 0.844 0.251 S Listen to Others 0.450 0.008 Employed T Deal with Conflicts 0.403 0.000

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Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Wolverton; Janet Wolverton

engineering.7,8,9,12 The two-stage modelovercomes the shortfalls of the two methods most commonly used while incorporating thepositive aspects of each.The two-stage model consists of a general ethics foundation course followed by practicalapplication through ethics across the curriculum. The foundation course is taught by thePhilosophy (or equivalent) Department and focuses on application as well as theory. Theoutcome of the course is to provide a foundation in ethical theory along with the decision makingtools to apply the theory to specific situations. This is accomplished by identifying moralproblems and the stakeholders involved, analyzing the problems, and resolving problems in thecontext of the theories learned. This course “equip[s] students

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Asper; Bijan Sepahpour

motivation to bring afuture project to a successful completion. The goals of the team must be set as early as possible.This will enable the team to identify the potential need for the addition of a member(s) early inthe process. The role of the advisor of the team is examined. His/her role in the initial inceptionof the team is both critical and instrumental. The team must function in such a way that eachmember will benefit from all other members. Project management activities of the advisor mustgradually be taken over by at least one of the members who have been selected/recruited basedupon their management skills. The advisor must make certain that all members bring good groupmanagement skills to the project, and any deficiencies in these skills

Conference Session

Remote Sensing and Telemetry

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mihaela Albu; Keith Holbert

accomplished in a “web-ring”. Each institution provides specificexperiment(s), for which laboratory equipment is shared together with experimental data andprotocols. The bandwidth and number of users from each institution is “paid” in proportion totheir contribution in terms of equipment and accessibility time. This is very good for overseascooperation since the time differential favors extended use during periods when the homeinstitution students are otherwise asleep. The diversity of electrical engineering topics taughtand practically performed can be extended in this way.4. ApplicationIn this section an experiment designed for students enrolled in electrical engineering is presented.The particular hardware employed here is organized around a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert LaFarge; Chaouki Abdallah

and is expected to be 21.2 million by 2010with a strong growth among minority groups. 6 While the white college age population willexperience growth until 2010, it is projected to decline afterwards. The minority population, Page 8.1123.2however, will continue to rise. This trend presents quite a challenge to the U.S. educational Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationsystem if it is to educate these students who are traditionally underrepresented in Science andEngineering (S&E

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Murphy; G. Lineberry

pursuing initial accreditation for a new program underABET EC 2000 criteria.I. Program Origin The engineering manpower needs of Kentucky had largely been provided for many yearsby the University of Kentucky College of Engineering (Lexington). As the state’s land-grantinstitution, it produced its first engineering graduates in the 1880’s. The University of Louisvilleestablished its engineering school in 1924, and became part of the state university system in 1970.These two schools offered the only accredited engineering programs in Kentucky in the early1990’s. Both of these institutions are over 200 miles east of the heavily industrialized JacksonPurchase region of Western Kentucky. Many of the industrial plant managers in this area

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Bartus; Snehamay Khasnabis

possible time frame.A brief theoretical foundation of the four techniques is presented below. The followingsymbols are used in the discussion.I = Initial Cost ($) Page 8.1106.2K = Annual Operation and Maintenance Cost ($) Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationn = Project Life (years)S = Salvage Value ($)i = interest rate used (%, annual)EUAC = Equivalent Uniform Annual Cost ($/year)EUAB = Equivalent Uniform Annual Benefit ($/year)(C/E) = Cost Effectiveness Index(B/C) = Benefit Cost RatioIRR

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hanna Lee; Sven Bilen; Robert Pangborn

team is an E-Team, which is sponsored by the NCIIA. E-teams work on later-stage development of an idea and a plan for its commercialization. They mayinclude engineering students as well as students from business and other majors, and each teammust have a faculty advisor. E-Teams may form as part of a course or on the independentinitiative of students, faculty, or other representatives of member institutions.17Volunteers Student design projects generally contain a large cast of volunteers, which are perhapsbest harnessed via active involvement by the faculty advisor(s) or industry/government mentors.This group includes students who work on a project without receiving academic credit or

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Yvon Kermarrec; Ian R. Simpson

Languagesb) Economics and The Industry of Telecommunicationsc) A mandatory internship abroadd) Dual degree programs with non-French partners.a) Foreign LanguagesOn choosing to come and study at ENST Bretagne, every student at ENST Bretagne knowsthat (s)he will have to study two Foreign Languages up to « Level 4 », on a scale in whichLevel 1 = Beginner’s Level and Level 5 = Bilingualism. Page 5.467.2Just as the syllabus contains mandatory modules in Signal-Processing, Computer Science andNetworks, so two Foreign Languages must be studied and a high level attained. The award ofthe college Diplôme/degree has frequently been deferred because

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Vavreck

/13/02 Statistics 23 Install M. Fox 6/18/02 6/12/02 6/20/02 Software 46 Test Airfoil S. Howell 6/20/02 6/26/02 Figure 2: Open Task Reportperiods (a reporting period is the time between status meetings). The meeting participantsdiscuss the status of each of these tasks, and notes are taken by the project manager to track theproject and provide alerts about potential problem areas.Advanced Project ManagementA more advanced project management area which is implemented in the project is the use ofTheory of Constraints (TOC) project management techniques.2 7 TOC is an approach tomanagement which acknowledges