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TC2K Issues and Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

Manufacturing Engineering Technologies and Supervision Department (METS)followed a series of 5 steps: Step 1. Reflect on where your program came from. For PUC, the most noticeable observation comes from the changing demographics of the service area. In 1979, 46% of area residents found employment in the goods sector, primarily manufacturing, while in 1999, only 24%. This has a significant effect on the programs offered by the METS department: Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET), Industrial Engineering Technology (IET), Organizational Leadership and Supervision (OLS) and Computer Graphics Technology (CGT). Step 2. Determine who are your constituents. METS faculty decided that their constituents in priority

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

engineeringcollege that virtually encompasses NAU and all of its partners – a novel educational model thatdirectly reflects the real-world global workplaces that students will encounter when theygraduate.We do not expect our vision of a Global Engineering College to be accepted immediately in allquarters; many traditionalists will initially have difficulty accepting a model that does notmaintain absolute local control over undergraduate education. We believe, however, that theincreasing trend towards globalization and international industrial partnership requires acorresponding shift in engineering education, away from isolated, one-campus experiences, andtowards a more distributed, multi-institutional and cross-cultural model. In short, we view theGlobal

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

, it would enhance their chances for receivingResearch/Teaching Assistantship or Full Scholarships in graduate engineering programs. Severalcase studies (shown later) reflect on the promising nature of this approach/model.IV– DESIGN OF THE EXPERIMENTS AND THEIR ASSOCIATED APPARATUSES"Everything must be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." (Albert Einstein)The following criteria have been incorporated in the design of the experiments and the associatedapparatuses:• Safety • Simplicity and Practicality in Fabrication• Affordability/ Control of Cost • Use of Reliable Sources for Components• Durability • Use of Non-Corrosive & Aesthetically Pleasing Materials

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Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Wickert; Gregory Plett

Springs’Teaching and Learning Center. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theUniversity of Colorado at Colorado Springs, or of the Teaching and Learning Center.The majority of the code in EduFile was written under subcontract by Matthew Long of MatthewLong Enterprises, http://www.matthew-long.com. ¶ The log data was lost for these classes, so could not be included in the previous section. Page 8.1288.13 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Ziegler

college? 49 51 % %Is peer evaluation to determine rank a fair system at the professional level? 71 29 % %Did you fill out the evaluation forms accurately? 94 6% %Did the scores you provided accurately reflect your true feelings about the 80 20contributions of your teammates

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tanya Capers; Kofi Nyarko; Craig Scott; Jumoke Ladeji-Osias

styles compared to only 4% having strong preference forintuitive learning styles. In fact, students with strong preferences for the active, sensing, visualand sequential learning styles outweigh students with strong preferences for the reflective,intuitive, verbal and global learning styles by significant factors. Further studies have shown 5that educational environments rich in varied learning methods provide students with a diversemeans of receiving and applying knowledge and information resulting in a more engaging andinteractive educational setting 12. The reason why interaction with information is so importantfor students is because without it, the reciprocal process of assimilation and accommodation,through which new information is

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Rosenkrantz

effectively are the board and other visual aids 1.58 1.87 1.68 used? 7 How available is the instructor to students for 1.63 1.68 1.61 consultation? 8 How well was the course material paced? 1.54 1.83* 2.16** 9 How accurately does the instructor's grading 1.69 1.94 2.12* reflect what the student has learned? 10 How would you rate this instructor compared to 1.40 1.58* 1.88** other instructors? Outcomes Assessment Skill, Knowledge, Ability or Attitude Area 11 How would you rate your ability to apply what 1.75 1.81

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

Session 2615 A Flexible Undergraduate Civil Engineering Curriculum Wilfrid A. Nixon, Robert Ettema, Forrest M. Holly Jr., and James W. Stoner Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242AbstractThe ABET EC 2000 criteria allow programs to develop flexible approaches toundergraduate education. Such approaches must reflect program objectives and meet allABET criteria, but content and quantity of the various curricular components (Math andScience, Humanities and Social Science, Engineering Science, and Engineering Design)are defined

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Reynolds; Macy Reynolds

. Students ranged from new freshmen to graduating seniors. The computer class, anintroduction to Excel and VBA programming for Excel, was mainly made up of first yearstudents. Engineering economics, an upper level class with mostly juniors and seniors, usedfinancial and economic concepts to analyze cost-related engineering decisions.In this study the journal content was not expected to be voluminous but rather to the point andsomewhat reflective. The students usually had a week to respond with their journals to allowtime to complete homework or unfinished class assignments. Often students found that thematerial that seemed clear in class became less so when applying it to new problems. At thispoint the emails arrived with questions or even attached

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Baratuci; Angela Linse

’ motivation, the importanceof motivation is critical in a distance-learning course because of the limitations on student-instructor and student-student interaction. Flori2 lists six types of interaction that characterize anexpert teacher that he quoted from Collins, Brown and Newman. · Modeling: Showing how and why an expert does a task. · Coaching: Observing students as they work and correcting their performance online. · Inquiry: A strategy of questioning. · Articulation: Getting students to articulate their own knowledge and reasoning. · Reflection: Replaying and abstracting students’ work and contrasting that with expert performance. · Exploration: Pushing students into a mode of trying to do the activity better on

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

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Naphysah O. Duncan; Gerardo Del Cerro

10.9Quality of your major design experience 2.7 6.5 10.8 2.2 49.5 52.2 27.0 32.6 9.9 6.5 AVERAGES 9.8 10.2 17.1 19.6 33.5 35.0 30.9 29.2 8.6 6.0Table 5. Spring 2000 ENGINEERING STUDENT COUNCIL SURVEYGENDER COMPARISONPlease indicate the level of agreement that most accurately reflects your opinion of how wellThe cooper union has instilled you with the following qualities Not At All Not Well Moderately Well Very Well Extremly Well MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard M. Single; William S. Carlsen; Christine M. Cunningham; Carol B. Muller; Peg Boyle Single

for the 1999-98, 1999-2000, and 2000-01 programs. MentorNet particularly attracted a large percentage of students,and mentors, in engineering, information technology, and computer science fields – thepercentage of these students ranged from 72% to 83% across the program years, while theremaining students were in mathematics or the natural science fields. The majority of theMentorNet students and mentors were Caucasian, reflecting the demographics of the students inthe field. For the three years reported here, MentorNet used both quantitative and qualitativemethods to evaluate the results of participation in MentorNet by mentors and students. Thequantitative portion of the evaluation used a web-based survey administered near the end of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Forsman; Kathryn Holliday-Darr; Michael Lobaugh

. We have not found a textbook that covers material in afashion that suits our course topics. Therefore students download material from the instructor’swebsite on each aspect that is covered. The class is structured with a lecture at the start of classfollowed by practice and homework.Major Changes Implemented In The Fall Of 2001:1. Rewrote syllabus using 21-step process for designing a course including key objectives, etc.(5) In the end, a five page document was produced detailing both student and instructor responsibilities. (http://engr.bd.psu.edu/holidar/html-110/110syl.html)2. A new grade distribution was established reflecting the addition of office visits, assessment and notebook requirements. The distribution was as follows

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George List; Stacy Eisenman

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2793Several seniors registered for a course call “Hands on Experience” in the 2001-2002 academicyear. Although the course was quite different from the “Hands on Experience” courses that willbe offered in the future the course provide students a wonderful opportunity to reflect on whatthey had learned in the previous year and allowed them to explore new opportunities for learning.In order to ensure that the Hands on Experience courses in the future would be seen as valuableto the students, the students were asked to play a key role in its

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karthik Ramani; Anderson David; Alexander Lee

levelengineering course at Stanford. WebCT, a web-based course management tool, is used in a self-taught solid modeling course at Rensselaer 6 which uses it as an archiving system for pastprojects, student profiles, local vendor directories, and presentations. How universities teach anduse CAD and CAM continues to evolve with the changes in the tools themselves.Our goal was to develop a framework for a course that could continue to reflect the advances indesign software. We created an environment and process for the learning to occur in a settingwhere the students are self-motivated. Learning also occurs through errors and difficulties incollaboration in team settings. To further ensure long-term success, we imparted a process bywhich students could learn

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

understand concepts, achieve course objectives, and apply their knowledge to follow-oncourses and capstone designs will all be assessed based on this feedback. Data can be comparedto the feedback that is currently collected at the end of each semester to determine if theintegration of courses has had a significant impact. The questions that support theaccomplishment of our program outcomes and objectives can also provide valuable feedback overtime. Based on the cited advantages, other institutions may want to consider implementing someof the changes proposed.ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not purport to reflect theposition of the United States Military Academy, the Department of the Army

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Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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H. David Smith; Cara Rieger; David Kanter; Robert Linsenmeier; Ann McKenna

-laboratory instruction demonstrated a greaterability to apply core concepts, with effect sizes ranging from 0.41 to 0.75. In addition, studentscompleted a survey designed to capture their experience of the course. This surveyindependently verified the increased learner-, community-, and knowledge-centeredness of theexperimental group’s redesigned pre-laboratory. The experimental group also reported a higherdegree of satisfaction with the redesigned learning experience.2.0 Introduction2.1 Why Teach Undergraduate Biomedical Engineers to Apply Systems Physiology’s Core Concepts?Grounded in the biological and medical sciences, the undergraduate Biomedical Engineering(BME) curriculum has systems physiology at its core, reflected by the extent to which

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Summers

had ideas and suggestions of how we might improve the on-line program. Somewere very good and insightful, others were reasonable but difficult to implement. No one suggested thatnothing could be done. Some of the suggestions have already resulted in changes in how we offerour on-line courses and have already resulted in improved grades and student work. Other ideasremain the subject of subsequent and ongoing research outlined in this report.Some of the suggestions that came out of the interviews with students and professors are easily resolvedby good teaching practices and equally apply to the on campus courses. Other suggestions reflect thefrustration experienced by students working alone to understand complex concepts with only a

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Cooperstock

sacrifice of our Environments, Vol. 1, 1999, pp. 145-148.earlier goals, but it was necessary to ensure a common 3. Authoring on the Fly, University of Freiburg, Germany.mechanism for volume adjustment, regardless of source.13 http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/mmgroup.aof.Another area of current research is the automatic insertion 4. AutoAuditorium. http://www.autoauditorium.com/of images taken from the document camera, reflecting a 5. Bacher, C. and Ottmann, T. Authoring on the Fly. Journal ofsignificant change of scene indicative of a new slide. The Universal Computer Science, 1(10), Oct. 1995.Course Online system [7] provides similar functionality

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

senior design course. Instead ofreinforcing the professional skills absolutely vital to practice, and then documenting andassessing these efforts, a disconnect between lessons and application can be found betweenseparate courses, and between engineering education and practice as a whole.Too Much Choice or Not Enough Direction?In our designer culture where custom-order is included on most everybody’s consumer bill ofrights, engineering education seems to have followed suit. Electives, especially technicalelectives, reflect the opinion that the wealth of information “out there” necessities the need forspecialization. Student-determined electives comprise a much larger percentage of the total civilengineering curriculum today (21.5%) than was the

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Milo Koretsky

Society for Engineering Education Session 3513Figure 2. Correlation of heat transfer coefficients in senior lab.3. ChE 302: Chemical Process Statistics3.1 Course overviewChemical Process Statistics (ChE 302) was developed to provide students exposure to statistics,in the context of the educational challenges discussed in Section 2. It especially focuses on thosetopics that will be useful for work in industry. The Course Goals and Course LearningObjectives are presented in Figures 3 and 4, respectively. An outline of the topics is presented inTable 1.The course content reflects, for the most part, topics covered in many engineering

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Staci Provezis; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Dan Budny; Harvey Wolfe

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”section (most difficult) of a six part Algebra-Trigonometry Placement exam, student attitudetowards math, and background in differential calculus4 as reflected from that section of the MathInventory.Two output classes - good (C or better) and poor (C- or lower) performance in Calculus 1 wereused and three models resulted. The actual predicted math performance was then based on a“majority vote” (at least two out of the three results) from three different competitive networks.These models were first implemented as part of the advising/testing process for the 2001-02entering Freshman

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Malicky

, indicating that womenare not leaving because they are not performing—a finding reflected in Seymour and Hewitt.In sum, there are national database studies showing both gender effects (Adelman) and no gendereffects (Sax) on retention. And, there are multi-institutional studies on both sides (Takahira v.Strenta). And, there are single institution studies on both sides (McClelland v. Schaefers). Thiscontroversy can be better understood after examining self-efficacy and a reconciliation is Page 8.62.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamy Fry; Mark A. Nanny; Mary John O'Hair; Teri Reed Rhoads

comparing responses before and after implementation of the ATAactivities.The Authentic Teaching Alliance In recent years, the nation’s educators have expressed growing concern as they witness thedwindling numbers of students entering math, science, and engineering fields. According to theNational Science Foundation (NSF), enrollment in engineering dropped by more than 20 percentbetween 1983 and 1999, and continues to decline2 . Interest in math and science seems to be atan all- time low. The National Center for Education Statistics (2002) reported that attitudestoward math have been shown to decline from grade eight to grade twelve for the majority ofstudents, and are generally more negative for females3 . This is also reflected in the national

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tricia Lytton; Margie Haak; Edith Gummer; Dan Arp; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

figure below): I) Training andPreparation, II) In-school Engagement, and III) Extended Outreach. The details of each phaseare described below. This plan was designed with the participation of GK-12 Teachers, OutreachCoordinators, and Departmental Liaisons and reflects three years of experience with the currentproject. Each Fellow was paired with a GK12 Teacher from their school. This teacher acceptsthe responsibility to assist the Fellow in preparing for the in-school activities, offer guidancethroughout the year, and provide some assessment of the Fellows. The GK-12 Teacher is alsoexpected to be the primary beneficiary of the assistance afforded by the Fellow. TheDepartmental Liaisons assist in all three phases by providing disciplinary support

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Guido Lopez

totally eliminated by using EES.EES is a window-based software. The structure of mathematical formulas and procedures aimingto solve physics problems are written on an “equations window” in an intuitive format. The userdevelops this structure based on the proper conceptual and logical thinking that reflects the natureof the problem. Subsequently, the computer takes charge to manipulate equations as needed(variable substitution, elimination, etc), and perform the calculations that lead to an answer. Thesoftware is capable to check for dimensional homogeneity, and it will prompt the user to checkunits if related inconsistencies are detected. Page

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

are critical parts of the laboratory and design projects both for thestudents to reflect on what they have been doing and how it might be improved upon and for thefaculty to understand how the students view the experiences.7.1 Observed SuccessesEarly assessment of the programs4,8 clearly demonstrated that students in the program werebetter retained in engineering, had higher grade averages than their control group peers, weremuch more likely to enter the workforce with co-op experience, possessed more teamwork andcommunications skills, and were more proficient in both ABET 2000 core and technicalcompetencies. The students who participated in the FEH Program have also become the leadersin the Engineering College organizations and SAE Design

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCombs; David Pratt; John Nazemetz

theinstructor, slides prepared by the instructor, and “head shots” of the students as they askedquestions. The video sequences captured during discussion were not optimized forvideostreaming and reflected the need to display (and thus record) slides and images needed inthe classroom during the discussion and thus the sequences, when videostreamed, included morenumerous and longer segments when both channels of the interface contained the slide beingdiscussed (longer voiceovers) and segments during which the discussion captured and replayedfrom the video did not correspond to the slide in the other channel of the interface. Thisoccurred when the classroom discussion had not been anticipated and no slides had beenprepared prior to the class being held.IV

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Secola; Bettie Smiley; Dale Baker; Mary Anderson-Rowland

sessions.These special sessions were held throughout the two-week workshop in 2000. In 1999 there wasonly a one-day session. The distribution of information throughout the workshops in 2000allowed for reflection and integration. In addition, the 2000 cohort reviewed and discussed eachof the questions after their initial orientation. Page 6.471.11 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationSince the 2000 survey was an expanded version of the 1999 survey, a direct comparison of theeffects of the gender equity

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jeffery M. Saul; Rhett J. Allain; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

preparedUnsatisfactory Consistently failed to show up or complete assignments, unpreparedSuperficial Practically no participationNo show No participation at allThese ratings should reflect each individual's level of participation and effort and sense of responsibility,not his or her academic ability. You will be graded on the quality of the evaluation. In other words, youneed to thoroughly justify your decisions. Name of team member Role(s) Rating JustificationYour signature _________________________________ adapted from R. Felder