Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zack Bowles; Philippe E. Tissot; Jeremy Flores; G. Beate Zimmer; Alexey L. Sadovski; Carl Steidley

project was to investigate whether achange in the performance function or cost function used in the training of a neural networkwould lead to significantly different forecasts. These neural networks are trained by minimizingthe difference between the prediction and the actual data. However, it was hypothesized that theperformance function could be adapted to better reflect the Skill Assessment Variables publishedby the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). While the root mean squareerror is important as a skill assessment, NOAA also focuses on the Central Frequency of 15 cm,or the Central Frequency, i.e. the percentage of time the forecast is within 15 centimeters of theactual water level. To achieve a higher central frequency

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Martin

. You can additionally type a report heading that reflects thechosen search criteria. Extra-useful report capabilities include: • Emails – You can enter criteria for students or staff, for example, and generate a list of email addresses that can be effortlessly copied and pasted into your email program. The whole exercise can be done in seconds. • Letter-merging is nearly as easy, providing every possible address type and sort preference. • Statistics reports are “smart,” allowing the user to see extensive descriptive profile information such as the number of students, grouped by gender, ethnicity, etc.Student records can initially be imported from a spreadsheet, such as from the schoolregistrar’s office

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yvonne Ng

? Princeton Alumnae Reflect. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1993.6. H. K. Qammar, H. M. Cheung, E. A. Evans, S. P. Spickard, F. S. Broadway, and R. D. Ramsier. “Impact of Vertically Integrated Team Design Projects on First Year Engineering Students.” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. American Society for Engineering Education, 2004.7. D. K. Sobek II, and V. K. Jain. “The Engineering Problem-Solving Process: Good for Students?” slides for Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. American Society for Engineering Education, 2004.8. “Success of SEAS Interactor Program Hard to Duplicate.” Princeton University

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver; Donna Evanecky

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education EMD 1642Perhaps project management will be one of the fads that will be incorporated into businessculture. Ideas with merit seem to find their way into engineering practices. Those who can useproject management tools not only for individual projects, but for the entire project managementprocess will ensure its longevity. Once a fad moves from novelty to a position central to abusiness’s corporate strategy, it becomes a strategic business tool.22Thoughtful, reflective study is called for from today’s

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

results areoften necessary immediately. The graduate students you pick can help get the papers published,or they can require extensive rewrite when results are time sensitive and critical to the tenureprocess. Remember, the quality of the paper reflects on the professor, not on the graduatestudents.Teaching: This is an important part of the job of all professors. The time estimates above are forone class but are the absolute minimums – most new professors spend more time preparing andtime is used up quickly when there are multiple courses that have never been taught before. Getwith a mentor or the person who taught the course last. Find notes if they are available – andteach efficiently to maximize classroom success and time for research and

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec; Dexter Whittinghill; John Chen

communicate with the professor’s Windows XP Tablet PC using a peer-to-peer networking mode. The software we use to manage the intercomputer communicationsand to record and display student responses from the PDAs is a pre-beta version of OptionFinderVP, which is being developed by Option Technologies Interactive(www.optiontechnologies.com).Regardless of the feedback method, the concept question or skill quiz is posed by the professorthrough his Tablet PC and is projected to the front of the class, along with the possible solutions.The correct solution is embedded with incorrect answers, which are derived from commonstudent mistakes or misunderstanding. Students are given time to reflect on the question posed,discuss it with their peers, and then must

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitchell Neilsen

Explorer (RCX) bricks. Although conceptually simple, the problem enables students to connect abstract design concepts with a concrete implementation and to better understand the importance of using an iterative design methodology.* In part, this material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Grants No.9980321 and 0227709. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are Page 10.270.1those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Proceedings

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aminul Karim; Yakov Cherner; Ahmed Khan

altitude,rotating and expanding a space station antenna to wall thickness, as well as wall materials. Two lowerconnect to each of three satellites, and (3) to interactive simulations assist the student in understandingunderstand the impact of surface roughness on the Huygens principle and Fresnel theory, which describesreflecting signal by moving and resizing wave refraction and reflection. Page 10.802.6containers.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”A virtual experiment can provide an

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aiman Kuzmar

of a presentation and a report.• The presentation should be conducted professionally using Power Point, or a similar application.• The report should be prepared professionally using Microsoft, or similar applications. Page 10.1164.3The chronology of the adopted approach is as follows. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005. American Society of Engineering education”First week of classes:The instructor informs his or her students that this course requires a project. The coursesyllabus reflects this requirement. It officially

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lars Håkansson; Ingvar Gustavsson; Henrik Åkesson

different tasks from basic to advance. The experiment is designed to reflect on common a vibration problem in the manufacturingindustry, i.e. vibration in metal cutting processes.7, 8, 9 The object under investigation is aboring bar used for metal cutting in a lathe. Vibration problem associated with this type ofprocess is considered to be an important and critical factor concerning the performance, thetool life, the surface finishing, etc. that finally ends up on the production cost negatively.Since it is shown that vibration problem originates from the lower order bending modes7, 8it is of most importance to examine the different properties of the boring bar i.e. finding thedominating bending modes

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Eisenbarth; Kenneth Van Treuren

components oftheir curricula 23. Their handbook consists of twelve chapters covering the topics ofmanufacturability, sustainability, usability, health and safety, environmental impact, ethical,social, political, economic, compassion, lifelong learning, and bringing it all together. Thishandbook is distributed to incoming freshmen and the faculty use aspects of it throughout thefour-year curriculum. When the student reaches the senior year they have been exposed toextrinsic design concepts several times and they are included as a natural part of the designprocess.Nair at Carnegie Mellon University studied decision making in the engineering classroom andconcludes that in the “post conventional classroom” synthesis, evaluation, reflection and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

out of, or in correlation with, course andlaboratory work.At this stage (end of fall semester 2004) the next “Electronics” class in spring 2005 will use forthe first time the semiconductor parameter analyzer for projects linked to the course, building onthe work of a student who is working on integrating and interfacing the equipment in the lab, inthe context of a senior design project.Critical analysis of course formatIn this section we want to critically evaluate the decisions made with respects to the courseformat. This analysis reflects the experience during the last three years, since the author joinedElizabethtown College. During that period, “Circuit Analysis” has been offered three times and“Electronics” twice. The author had had

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacki Stewart; Peter Jansson

to operate most efficiently. At the start, eight sites were identifiedacross the campus that appeared to favorably meet these three conditions.The efficiency of the system is largely affected by objects that could obstruct the sun’s rays. Asite with few trees, buildings, or other means of shading are more desirable because more of thesun’s energy will reach the system’s panels causing the system to work more efficiently. Thesites found in the preliminary search were examined based on solar data collected by a SolarPathfinder™ 7. When placed at a site, the dome of the Solar Pathfinder™ reflects obstacles thatcould hinder the efficiency of the system. After the obstacles are traced, special paper made forthe Pathfinder allows the user to

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christy Moore; Stephanie Bird; Steven Nichols

10.1317.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 2. The Challenge Cycle. The introductory page to a lesson that uses the failure of a series of dams in Logan County, West Virginia in 1972 as a case study to investigate issues of personal, professional, and corporate responsibility.Description of Example Module: Introduction to Professional Ethics The Challenge cycle allows students to go through the iterative steps of reflecting,investigating, analyzing, and making judgements, a process that prepares them to beresponsible professionals as much as the actual information they acquire

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Young

the workspace from the start, let space evolve Provide room for group meetings and discussions Involve students in the designing, building and later operating and developing the workspace.- allow for management and control by studentsEquipment Within funding constraints, install equipments that have clear relevance to professional as well to curricular applications Include exhibits that reflect the education’s content The workspace should be totally wired, or wireless Integrate with other assets Establish collaborations with external workshops for specialized manufacturing processes

Conference Session

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

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Mattei

doctorates through 1998 largely reflected an increase in the number offoreign U. S. doctorate degree recipients. In fact, foreign-born engineers and scientists make upmore than one fourth of the engineering and science doctorate holders doing research in bothacademia and industry. Page 10.929.2As result of the September 11 terrorism, the United States may permit immigration at only a verycarefully monitored trickle. This could seriously depress the supply of foreign students and “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Martinazzi

traditional way of being taught.As a side note, it was necessary several times during the semester to remind the students of thechoice they made regarding being taught this new way. They were asked to reflect on thePrimetime Live program and encouraged to act as responsible and mature adults especially sincetheir future livelihood and success in the engineering profession are directly related to how wellthey can solve problems.Third, the students are given some very minor examples of how the concept will be implementedso they understand the model and how it will be used throughout the term. This step is criticalsince it begins to illustrate how they will encounter unfamiliar material and how the“T.H.I.N.K.” concept must be used to begin solving the

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

building an academic ”pyrimad” in science, engineering, and technologydisciplines. Consequently, the E&T curricula design reflects this philosophy in E&T education. Another aspect crucial to gain a good understanding of Chinese E&T education is thatuniversity curricula have been historically administered by the Ministry of Education. Individualuniversity had limited freedom to change its curriculum. The centralization provides a uniformlydistributed basic requirements for E&T schools across the country to ensure education quality.Even though the trend of decentralization has been observed due to the emergence of localgovernments and privately administered universities, however, the baseline requirements set bythe Chinese Ministry

Conference Session

Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Yasuhara

programmers.More in keeping with expectations, the gender gap in extracurricular and other programming expe-rience might reflect the lower rate of home computer ownership/access 3,9,14,15,19,22 or less comfort Page 10.303.7or confidence with computing among women. 15,24 Avoiding extracurricular programming might Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationalso be a reaction to the associated “geek” stereotype and gender socialization. 15,16The prominence of programming in students’ definitions of CS is

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

courses, modification of courses, andthe introduction of new courses requires approval by appropriate committees withindepartments and the College. The ERC worked diligently with those committees toimplement the appropriate curriculum changes.The new ERC courses and the modified ERC courses have utilized the concept of Page 10.1140.2education modules, reflecting a just-in-time approach that is recognized in industry as thekey to life-long learning (that is, “exactly the education needed, exactly when needed.”). Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Study

There are many factors that could contribute to the low visualization scores of theminority subjects including inequality in educational background of the incoming studentsrelated to lower acceptance standards at the university level. Students at the non-minorityinstitution were required to have higher levels of math and science in previous academicpreparation as well as higher standardized test scores than students at the HBCU. In addition,minority students in general often have a more superficial overall preparation in math andsciences and studies have shown positive correlations between visualization skills and success inmath and science. Therefore, the low PSVT scores of minorities may be more a reflection ofunderdeveloped visualization

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Massarani Marcelo; Jose Siqueira; Celso Furukawa

.• Introduce the difficult concept of social capital through examples and real experiences.• Show how to act in an entrepreneurial way in very practical terms.• Make them analyze and express the reasons for not acting in an entrepreneurial way.• Make them reflect on the term venture and compare it to enterprise.• Make them get in contact with fear.• Make them get in contact with rejection. Page 9.1259.2After several fruitful experiences in 2002 and the first half of 2003, the authors arrived at aspecification that seems to meet the defined requirements.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Woodruff; Farhad Reza

quarter with the understanding that it could be changed laterif the work was not completed as originally agreed upon.At the end of the capstone course students are given an evaluation sheet where they have thechance to reflect upon the learning outcomes of the project as well as to comment on teamdynamics. Most of the time, all of the members in a team will receive the same grade. If it isevident that one member of the team has not performed satisfactorily, there is the possibility ofhim/her receiving a lower grade. These problems can usually be detected early on in the project,thus giving the faculty member the opportunity to intervene. This is because students areexpected to meet weekly with their adviser, turn in a weekly progress report and

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Schuch Miller; Donald Falkenburg

ownskills, techniques, compare with and learn from others, and set goals for their future. Sharing Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationlessons learned makes possible the improvement of processes for subsequent investigations. Thisintegral component of the case design allow learners to reflect, summarize and solidify their ownlearning and structure it in a way that is meaningful to them [9].Guy [10] states that “the rich case allows students to gain safe experience in practicingfundamental skills needed in their careers: they need to plan and set up interviews and focusgroups, question

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

) andthe Design Quality Rubric (DQR) for 14 projects. The values in Table 7 are averages of theevaluator scores. The final score is the mean of the five metrics.The next step was to examine if the CSQ and the DQR scores could be combined to obtain asingle composite score on the design project outcome. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.52implied that the two scores were measuring different things and could not be combined to obtaina single composite score. Also a two tailed p-value of <0.0001 indicated the two data sets comefrom statistically different populations and thus confirmed the Cronbach’s analysis. Further,visual inspection of a x-y plot showed no strong correlation trends between the two scores. Thislikely reflects the fact that

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Mark Gunty; Leo McWilliams; Carrie Graf; John Uhran; Catherine Pieronek

on understanding how various groups of female students differ from each other.We now have data that describes our female students not as a one-dimensional monolith, but as amosaic – a whole made of many different parts who come to Notre Dame with differentexperiences and different levels of interest in engineering. We have adapted our support systemsto reflect these differences, and have made course changes that work to bridge the differencesamong the groups and, consequently, have seen a dramatic improvement in the retention ofwomen.References1. Brockman, J.B., Fuja, T.E, Batill, S.M., “A Multidisciplinary Course Sequence for First-Year EngineeringStudents,” 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2002.2

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brecca Berman; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

0231904. For more details on this research, “Alternative Approaches to Evaluating STEMEducation Partnerships: A Review of Evaluation Methods and Application of an Interorganizational Model,” pleasevisit the project website at http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gk18/STEM Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationuniversity-K-12 partnerships using the Georgia Tech’s Student and Teacher EnhancementPartnership (STEP) GK-12 program as a case study, and reflect on the ramifications forpartnership evaluations.Conceptualizing PartnershipsDuring the course of this research we have come to conceptualize the STEM

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alvin Lester; Bruce Mutter

Portfolio Average 94 75 Final Class Average 80 75The results imply that the students taking the in-class course do not enter with the same level orhave the same comfort level with computer skills and web technologies as students deciding totake a web-delivered course. This is reflected in the higher scores on assignments and theportfolio. The test scores have been relatively even. The web course randomly generates a newtest for each student from the database that the instructor created. The in-class test is one of therandomly generated tests given during a traditional class meeting. The web-delivered coursegenerates

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa Eljamal; Matthew Mayhew; Eric Dey; Stella Pang

Accreditation Commission. (2004). “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Effective for Evaluations During the 2005-2006 Accreditation Cycle.” p.6. Taken from Website: http://www.abet.org/criteria.html (November 17, 2004).Biographical InformationMATTHEW J. MAYHEWDr. Mayhew is Director of Student Life Assessment at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He receivedhis Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Michigan in 2004. Research interests includeunderstanding how college impacts student learning, including outcomes related to intercultural sensitivity, moralreasoning, and reflective judgment.MELISSA B. ELJAMALMs. Eljamal is Director of International Programs in the College of Engineering at the