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International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberto Montoya

fiveyears to obtain the degree. Engineering schools are part of universities in which the GermanHumboldt influence has consolidated over the years. In courses for engineering major, thescientific rigor of the Napoleonic tradition has proven to produce engineers with solidknowledge. The particular situation of Latin American countries requires engineers that quicklyjoin the workforce, which is why the universities there have much likeness to the great Europeanpolytechnic institutes.The Bologna Declaration and its impact on the models for engineer trainingThe Bologna Declaration in 1999 is in fact an actual strategic plan for achieving the integrationof all the higher education systems in the European Union by the end of the year 2010. That’swhat has

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Stroud Rossmann; Clive Dym

fluids.” “The idea of the tensor has expanded my view of the physical world and the way we describe it.” “The most useful things I take out of [this class] are the ways to think about problems. From considering the internal reactions of structures, to design considerations in choosing materials/dimensions, I have learned a great deal about how the world around me is planned and constructed. This is everything I hoped I would learn in this class.”ConclusionsWe feel that our approach has made the complex and challenging subject of continuummechanics accessible to students early in their studies, allowing them to develop a method ofanalysis that will serve them well in future endeavors. The development of continuum mechanicsfrom

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

the faculty membera class to teach. He asks who taught it last time and discovers that the professor is either onsabbatical, just left the university, or can only provide sketchy and maybe inconsistentinformation because he is too busy or doesn’t care. Next, the new hire asks the department headfor historical information on the class and there is essentially nothing in existence but a coursetitle and catalog description. So, this is the beginning point for the experienced, new faculty: notmuch to draw upon, and no one to help him.He creates a set of objectives based on what he thinks is important to the students, orders a textbook, takes a guess at how much material can be covered in a semester, puts together a schedule,then starts planning

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cullinane; Baris Yanmaz; Ronald Perry

Session Number 2558 Strategies to Attract Information Technology Students: An Extrapolation of Worker Experiences Thomas P. Cullinane, Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Ronald F. Perry, Director, Graduate Information Systems Program Baris Yanmaz, Graduate Student Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts Abstract The predicted dramatic increase in demand for IT workers in the next decade suggests anopportunity for IT educators to establish plans to ramp up to meet these needs. The purpose ofthis paper is to

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers

information on schools,parents and students often rely on school rankings as they contemplate which institutions to applyto. One study revealed that up to sixty percent of some student populations cited a school'sratings as being an important selection criteria.25 Graduating high school students from uppermiddle and upper class families tend to rely more heavily on these types of rankings in selectingwhere they will apply16, 26 and which schools they will visit. In addition, researchers have foundthat the number of applications to a school increases when a school moves up in a ranking,showing that parents and students are affected by the rankings.27 Some claim that the proliferation of “early-decision plans” whereby students must indicatetheir

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Blaine Lilly; John Merrill

light of the constraints and requirements of the FE program. Finally, theimprovements from the second quarter trials are further explained. This paper will provide clearexamples of the project’s various cycles, discussion of the planned implementation process, andexamples of the final roller coaster design.The collaboration model is reviewed, with experiences gained and future plans presented.I. IntroductionThe Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) course sequence is part of the First-Year EngineeringProgram at OSU, and is mandatory for all students not enrolled in the Honors equivalent. The FEsequence consists of two courses (ENG 181 and ENG 183), in which students are exposed toEngineering drawing, MATLAB, Excel, hands-on labs, and a quarter-long

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

2002). “Australia has slammed its door to the ‘less civilized,’ the U.S.border with Mexico has been strengthened, Britain plans to increase requirements forimmigration, and Germany is grappling with integration of immigrants. Some of theincreased barriers to immigration are the result of 9/11 concerns, while others areeconomically motivated” (Digest 8 April 2002).We should note that mobility to some is brain drain to others. Students and engineeringfaculty have proven to be particularly adept at following the best the world has to offer,regardless of national borders. US engineering educators have been provided with largequantities of statistics describing fluctuations in the national origins of their students(Digest 22 October 2002). Figures

Conference Session

Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas J. Brumm; Larry F. Hanneman; Brian Steward; Steven Mickelson

, are made available to the department curriculum committees aftereach work period for evaluation. The Agricultural Engineering Curriculum Committee at ISU hasused this feedback to develop curriculum plans and changes. Feedback from co-op/intern studentfocus groups has been used to clarify the competency data received from the Engineering CareerServices office. This feedback, along with other sources of feedback, has been very helpful to thecurriculum committee in assessing our current program.Mentkowski et al. (2000)4 addresses this type of initiative for a curriculum group. “ Forcurriculum designers – any faculty or staff group who designs learning for students – theessential question is, “What elements of a curriculum could make a difference

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wook-sung Yoo; Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

from the Computer andInformation Science (CIS) department also participate in this project, as they plan to seek ABETaccreditation in the near future. The committee is responsible to evaluate the process in place fordepartments and to ensure consistency between departments in meeting the ABET’s criteria.The committee developed a common format for end-of-semester course (e.g. course-exit)evaluations that pertain to ABET evaluation. It consists of the course name, instructorinformation, course objectives, assessment methods, a qualitative questionnaire section, aquantitative questionnaire section, and an ABET criteria section. This web-based course-exitsurvey facilitates the process in collecting the data in a timely manner. The web-based tool

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus L. Carter; Amy G. Yuhasz; Misty Loughry; Matthew Ohland

peer evaluationinstrument. It is not always clear, however, what characteristics of teamwork these instruments,or the students, are evaluating. In preparation for this multi-year NSF-supported project, the teamreviewed peer evaluation literature and instruments. The research team has an ambitiousassessment plan that will help develop an instrument that is easy to use and yet meaningful forboth faculty and students.IntroductionIn recent years, there has been a great deal of activity in engineering education research aimed atevaluating teamwork. Much of this is a result of the need to measure ABET’s EC 2000 Criterion3, outcome (d), “an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams.”1 While there has beenconsiderable debate on how to apply the

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

participation in the concrete canoe and steelbridge projects enhances the skills and personal development of the students involved. The CETprogram at RIT plans to use the ideas generated from this study for the continuous improvementof the design project teams and to enhance student participation, thus “closing the loop” withregards to the ABET TC2K. It is the authors’ hope that the ideas presented in this paper can beused as a tool by other CET programs and institutions to enhance student participation in theconcrete canoe and steel bridge project teams.Bibliography 1. Engineering Technology Criteria 2000 (1999). Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Baltimore, MD. http

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Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Engelken

used the previous time that the course was taught unless specifically invited by senior faculty and/or the chair to choose an alternative.I. Do not come in and try to immediately revamp the curriculum with new courses or changes in degree plan. This will enrage faculty colleagues. Again, over time, acquire experience and then diplomatically suggest curriculum changes or new courses [9]. To come in like an arrogant, overly confident “bull in the china cabinet” will label one as Page 8.262.9 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Wickert; Gregory Plett

concerned with any “invasion” of privacy (by logging accesses).The most frequent comments in the write-in section were “please add more practice exams”,“please add worked problems” and “please add solutions to practice exams”. Other commentsindicated that ‘night-owls’ were very appreciative of the convenience of being able to downloadsupplements at any time. Some students wanted the supplements displayed in a differentorganization on the internet site, and we are planning to do so next course offering.IV. Conclusion and Future PlansWe have described an internet-based course supplement management system that we havedesigned and implemented. We hypothesized that benefit to student learning would be significant.Our findings from the access log show

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ziegler

, andaddressed whenever students evaluate each other. However, with the appropriate checks-and-balances as proposed in this paper, the ethical considerations can be minimized.Teaching Teamwork:Attempts have been made in the past, to define the best dynamics of a successful team. However, Page 8.1056.2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education.as is the usual case in nearly every professional settings, teams are formed more as a randomselection of employees with the necessary skills, rather than via a cohesive plan for a best fitregarding

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naphysah O. Duncan; Gerardo Del Cerro

Director of Assessment and Innovation at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Scienceand Art. He develops assessment plans in the Art, Architecture and Engineering schools conducive to program andorganizational innovation. He is a PhD candidate in Planning at the New School for Social Research in New York.NAPHYSAH O. DUNCAN obtained a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from The Cooper Union. She is currently aResearch Associate at The Cooper Union in the Center for Biomedical Engineering. She is pursuing a PhD in BiomedicalEngineering at Rutgers University. Page 7.233.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fredrick Cowan; Alan Gravitt; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

onemathematical relation is substituted into another expression, thereby enabling the valuation of adifferent variable. However, we observed that students frequently struggled to make sense ofthese problems, instead becoming mired in identifying the given information, distinguishingmissing information, and then utilizing appropriate mathematical expressions to relate one withthe other. Their deficiencies in planning and implementing mathematical solution proceduresmake these physics students ideal subjects for our study.Initially, our investigation was piloted with two students during one-on-one physics tutorials in anafter-school setting. Here, the representational formalism of constraint graphs was explained anddemonstrated utilizing web-based forms of

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Hise; Jim Clark; Bryant Kiedrowski; Aaron Jennings

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Milo Koretsky

Session 3513 Table 1. Chemical Process Statistics: Course Outline Topic 1. Typical steps in analysis of data: AIChE Salary Survey 2. Measurements of central tendencies and dispersion 3. Graphical treatment of data (e.g. Box Plots and Pareto diagrams) 4. Probability 5. The normal distribution and other probability distributions 6. Variation: common causes and special causes 7. Measurement System Analysis 8. Sematech Qualification Plan Case Study: Gauge capability of video micrometer 9. Sampling from populations - Student t

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

a Mechanical/Electrical engineering courseentitled Design for Energy Sustainability. The primary course objective is to train the futureengineers to think sustainability as a matter of second nature by seeking engineering designs (1)that slow down the rate of energy consumption, (2) that use more of the resources most available,and (3) that use more of the resources renewable. This course is being planned to offer at UnionUniversity to graduating seniors during the fall 2004 or spring 2005 semester. Syllabus Engineering Course: Design for Energy Sustainability Prerequisites: Heat transfer, ThermodynamicsEducational outcomes: at the end of the course, each

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas K. Miller; Catherine E. Brawner; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

contribute to the team activities at a technical level consistent with theiracademic expertise.Each team has a faculty advisor. The primary role of the faculty advisor is to serve as mentor andfacilitator for the team, and to make sure that team organization and role definition takes place.Managing the group dynamics is probably the most important and challenging role for the advisor.While the EEP does not include a formal lecture, it does include a weekly seminar. The seminarsare best if presented by outside speakers, and may be on any topic relevant to the theme of theprogram (e.g.: teambuilding, developing a business plan, obtaining venture capital, consulting,legal matters, and marketing). Seminar speakers have included attorneys

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

a design team (0-4) Dependent Variables Explanation 1. Design project performance 2 team quizzes (5%) Team quizzes (23.75%) Peer project evaluation (71.25%) Blind review of reports3. Guided Research Experience: Content and DeliveryThe planning of the library sessions for ED&G 100 carefully considered the research done onsuccessful information literacy programs and the specific situations in the engineering classrooms.Before any sessions were planned or web pages developed long discussions of course goals,assignments, syllabus and projects were held. Guided research experience topics and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; William LeBold; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie

thecharacteristics and background of beginning engineering students. Data are collected not only onpre-college academic courses and computer experiences but also on outside activities, honors, Page 6.19.2“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”career plans, and parents’ education and occupation background. This information is collectedconfidentially and is used only for counseling and research studies.Purdue Engineering Data (PED)Another area of considerable interest is engineering and university retention and graduationrates

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Black; Robert Weber; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira

growing need for students with this knowledge.Real-time Software Development: There are few courses that cover software development issuesfor real-time (or time-critical) applications and how to design software to survive rapidlychanging underlying technology. This knowledge is critical for any Computer Engineeringstudent who plans to continue a career in the development of virtual reality applications, or anyother area with rapidly changing hardware. This kind of software requires very differentapproach on program design and implementation techniques than, for example, a databasemanagement environment. A typical VR system integrates a visual display, a tracking system tolocate the user and his interactions, several interactive devices, such as

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar; John Wood; John Fowler; Hong Xiao; Fabian Lopez; Dave Hata; Bassam Matar

by MCCCD and ASU): input/output variables for each of the unit processes (e.g., litho, sputter, etch, etc.), factorial design, response surfaces, optimization, and statistical package linkages. • Plasma Etch (led by ACC and UTA): etch flow, dc-bias, end point signal, spectroscopy, selectivity, power, RF power, anisotropy, RF discharge, voltage, plasma chemistry, etch profiles, residue and cleaning. • Thin-Film Deposition (led by MCCCD and UNM): ellipsometry, nitrides, oxides, epitaxial silicon, polysilicon, dielectrics, instrumentation and measurements. • Characterization & Control (led by TVI and ASU): statistical control charts, gauge capability, sampling plans

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCombs; David Pratt; John Nazemetz

2000 was a marked improvement over the previoustechniques. All professional staff who viewed the composite video productions of the Fall 2000course offering also concluded that the technique provided a significant improvement to distanceeducation.The instructor’s videostreaming experience began prior to the Fall 1998 offering of the course.In recognition of the time requirements for distance course development and delivery and thegeneral underappreciation of the effort required and academic contribution of distance coursedevelopment by university administration [1] and discussions with distance education specialistsat OSU, the instructor developed the following plan for course delivery via videostreaming: • Fall 1998 – use available release

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Edward J. Coyle; William Oakes

several mechanisms to encourage the development of theircommunication skills. On an individual basis, all EPICS students are required to maintainweekly reports, which are one-paragraph summaries of their accomplishments along with a oneparagraph summary of their plans for the coming week. Design notebooks are maintained by allstudents and are used to document their individual accomplishments and information related totheir project and their experiences. These notebooks are reviewed three times each semesterand feedback is given to the students.As a team, two reports are written each semester. For teams that are new to EPICS, this firstreport takes the form of a proposal to their project partner. This proposal is shared with thecommunity partner

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

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

gender equity instruments used with theteachers and counselors will be presented with the raw scores and a data analysis. In addition,examples of feedback from surveys and focus groups will be given. This paper is divided into six parts. Part II gives a description of the program. Part III providesa comprehensive description of the special sessions on gender equity. The instruments used toassess the participants’ understanding of gender equity are the focus of Part IV. The outcomesfrom the pre- and post-tests are described in Part V and Part VI is a discussion on the dataanalysis. Part VII gives the conclusion of the paper and future plans

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa A. Haston; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher; Diane Rover

approach requires substantially more lead-time in developing course materials.• Benchmark with peer institutions and departments to identify best practices. Use this information to help convince local faculty members to support the instructional innovation.V. DiscussionWe are currently in the process of sharing what we have been learning about the reform ofengineering service courses with various faculty, student, alumni and administrative groupswithin the College of Engineering. From these discussions, we plan to identify a strategy formoving forward with plans to better link these courses to follow-on courses within the major,including the major engineering design experience.We have also come to conclude that what we have learned about course

Conference Session

ET Capstone Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

, affective andpsychomotor domains. Senior level research-project planning and control activities willbring about this change. These changes will be reported in perceived quality criteria thatwill be extracted into the design of questionnaire for the purpose of gathering suchevidence.Introduction Page 7.1107.1ABET’s accreditation reform effort designed to foster effective program evaluation usesa set of criteria. This method allows programs to be flexible to many stakeholder needs. ItProceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002. American Society for Engineering

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Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

driven. It isoutcomes driven now through the ABET program evaluation criteria. Most programevaluations, however, are done with hazy and broad “outcomes statements” as “ aftercompleting this class I have acquired the necessary skills and knowledge of appropriatemethods, procedures, and techniques.” This paper will address the “broad outcomes levelstatements” like above, to crisp learning outcomes at the activity level. These activitylevel outcomes can be measured. The changed behavior of the student, due to educationalintervention and experience at the activity level will affect the behavior in cognitive,affective and psychomotor domain. Senior level research-project planning and controlactivities will bring about this change. These changes will