Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

within the chosen field.The tenth semester has no instruction and is reserved for the dissertation project.This specialisation prepares students for a career in for example architectural or engineeringcompanies, public authorities and consulting companies.Urban designStudents choosing the urban design specialisation work with urban development, urban re-structuring and architecture at the city scale. This includes planning of new urban districts,technically and aesthetically renewing dilapidated residential or disused business districts,and applying architectural design to streets, squares, parks and large landscape features in andaround the city.Urban development is the theme of the sixth semester. The focus is development on a largespatial

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Gerhart

informed; then they must retain the information that they gathered. Duringthe visits, an overview of the engineering discipline is presented. A spoken overview is not veryshocking and certainly not awing. Visuals should be employed. A simple “bullet point” slideshow alone will not awe the students, and it is unlikely that the information they read and hearwill be remembered when considering engineering as their career. Instead, make a fast-pacedslide show with some “unexpecteds.” For example, for mechanical engineering I have anoverview slide show that tells of the various aspects of mechanical engineering: solid Page 9.1094.5 Proceedings of

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

course (ENES 100) to seniors completing capstoneengineering courses. Freshmen teams provided the baseline or “naïve condition” since most of Page 9.85.1these students had few prior team experiences. Seniors, on the other hand, are individuals who “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”have “made it” through the engineering curriculum and have been members of a variety of teamsthroughout their undergraduate careers. They have mastered engineering content with sufficientproficiency to be a

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Richards; Daniel Pack; David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

progress in their project skills, due to participation in the fire-fighting robot project. Half of them evaluated their progress as considerable.• Many students in both divisions reported on their progress in general skills, but only 10-30% of them evaluated it as considerable. Part of the students did not mention any progress in general skills.• The majority of the students evaluated the positive impact of the robot project on their learning motivation and interest to specialize in science and engineering. Lower progress was achieved in clarification of career goals and expectations.Robot makingAs shown by the previous surveys, the majority of university and high school students reportedon their significant contributions to designing

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoAnn Lighty; Holly Moore; David Richardson; Nick Safai

returned missionaries (a significant fraction of the student body serves two yearLDS missions after entering college), to middle aged “retreads” who are preparingfor a new career. Because of their broad range of preparation, all enteringstudents are required to take placement examinations in both English andMathematics. Recent ACT or SAT scores may be submitted in place of thesetests. Since proficiency in mathematics is critical to engineering students,mathematics placement tends to control a student’s progress through theengineering programs. English proficiency, although important to engineers, isnot a prerequisite to engineering classes. The mathematics placement data specifically for Engineering students wasnot available , however

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

) and 13 females (1Latina; 1 Asian American; 10 Caucasian; 1 “other multi”). The main goals of the semi-structuredinterviews were to:• gather preliminary feedback from the students about their reactions to and engagement in the MEA’s as well as their interactions within technical teams;• examine gender-related patterns for levels of interest, persistence, and possible resistance as well as expectations for future career paths in engineering; and• pilot the interview protocol and determine its effectiveness at gathering student feedback, thereby informing the second implementation in the project.To measure long term impact on students’ interest and persistence in engineering, we conductedfollow up interviews with a smaller cohort from

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Sinha; Randolph Thomas; John Kulka

changed over timeeven though the process and environment in which the ‘designer’ and ‘constructor’ operate havebecome increasingly more complicated. Government regulations, environmental permits, andother bureaucratic controls continue to grow. Projects also continue to get larger and moretechnical, requiring more specialized people, high-tech equipment, and better control systems.This trend will require that tomorrow’s project leaders have technical, business, organizational,ethical, and leadership savvy to complete their construction projects successfully.Many engineers elect to pursue their careers in construction. They may be graduates ofconstruction engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, or other engineering degreeprograms

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Carlson

sometimes feel that what they arelearning is irrelevant to the rest of their career. And because many students becomecynical about or act less than interested in their education, the professors can come to feelthat the students don’t really know or appreciate the material presented in the courses andare only after grades.To address some of these perceived problems, we developed and used an educationalframework which we called the “Bioprocessing Cluster” for teaching bioprocessing(biochemical engineering) to undergraduate students. At Penn State, chemicalengineering students can specialize in areas of concentration called “options” by taking aprescribed set of courses in place of random electives. For example a student can get a“bioprocessing

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

Development and Assessment of a New Project / Practice Based Civil Engineering Curriculum Matthew A. Dettman, P.E. Western Kentucky University1. IntroductionWestern Kentucky University is currently in the process of developing a new undergraduateengineering programs in civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering focusing on engaging thestudent in a project / practice based environment and preparing them for a career as a practicingengineer. This paper will discuss the process of developing the civil engineering program thatbegan with the creation of goals for the engineering department up to the present day with aclearly defined

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Frame

method for teaching the students how theskills they have learned apply to the “real” world. The learning experience could becarried one step further in the core classes themselves. During the instruction of a core subject, the instructors could easily show thestudents how that particular material fit into the design process. This would expose thestudents to the design process early in their academic careers, and promote interest ineach separate subject. Additionally, this look at the subject from a slightly differentperspective would reinforce the skill level of all students. Once the students wereconvinced that a subject was both interesting and applicable later, they would get moreout of each class. Finally, the engineer of the

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamara Knott

ePortfolio to aid in thelearning process. Most students felt that it was helpful to include important projects with severalstudents specifically mentioning that the structure of the ePortfolio encouraged them to reflect onthe project, which they found beneficial. Some examples of students’ observations are: “I think that using an ePortfolio for a class could help aid in the learning process because it encourages students to reflect upon their work and their overall experiences with and in the class.” “It would give you an opportunity to look back and reflect on what you did earlier in your college career, or even the semester you’re in, and try to improve your next assignment.”Sharing ePortfolio elements and receiving

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

kenneth weaver

crack Figure 2. Examples of the Backyard Bridge, a detection in aircraft skins, guitar effects 10 Sophomore Clinic design project . pedals, small-scale bridges10 (See Fig. 2) and a biological fuel cell powered robot.In the final four semesters of a student’s career, the Engineering Clinic continues the format ofmultidisciplinary teamwork with the added dimensions of year-long projects and the inclusion ofboth Junior- and Senior-level students in 3-5 member teams. Each multidisciplinary team worksclosely with two professors (usually from two disciplines) who act as Project Managers to guidethe team. In Mechanical Engineering, Junior

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Alam

. To instill in students an attitude in life-long learning to enable continuing career success in a changing technological environment and to prepare them for professional licensure. ________________________________________________________________________ Fig. 4 Page 9.832.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 6 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Constituency InputReport Back

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

Mission Statement thatshould drive the department’s strategic planning, the following phrase can be excerpted: “… toprovide a quality program of instruction that will prepare our students for successful engineeringcareers, …”. It therefore seemed natural to ask what constitutes preparation for a successfulengineering career and to conclude that the program should equip its graduates with theknowledge, skills, and foundation for future learning that will enable them to perform the tasksexpected of them by future employers (or customers). Further discussion between faculty andAdvisory Board members led to definition of four perspectives in which program graduates areexpected to perform, and to organization of the existing list of POs into those

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers

prestigious CAREER proposals that emphasize both technical andeducational excellence. They say that proposals may not assume extraordinary time expendituresin order to reach their goals. Proposals must detail realistic time expenditures. Quantifying thenumbers of publications in both pedagogy and technical areas would show if this zero-sum gamedoes hold with more technical papers leading to fewer pedagogical papers. One could check thishypothesis by correlating these publication categories over a period of time. This data set couldalso then be used to see if the total number of publications, not just pedagogical publications, didcorrelate well with school rankings. One would expect that the higher number of publicationscorrelates with higher rankings

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

SEMESTER?___Yes ___No If yes, please go no further.You are:___Grad Student ____Senior ____Junior ____Sophomore ___FreshmanWhat is your present major?_________________________________________You have worked at (please mark all that apply):___an internship ___a co-op ___a job within the engineering fieldDo you believe engineering students have deficiencies in their technical communication skills?___Yes ___NoWhat types of communication have been assigned in your courses (please mark all that apply). this college semester career ___ ___ Formal presentations ___ ___ Short oral presentations ___ ___ Demonstrations ___ ___ Essays

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

in formal training. • Working on an ambiguous project is more time consuming than other projects here. • How to think outside of the box. • That real-world problems require in-depth thinking and problem solving and that the Page 8.299.12 skills I have learned earlier in my student career are actually applicable. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference& Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education • My designs will work in real life and I am capable of designing something

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

required if designs are to be successful. Structured laboratory experiences (eachstudent or group of students perform rigid and contrived experiments) require less facultyresources but do little to develop student design and project management skills [10][12]. A com-promise between the two approaches has been created by the author [2].The embedded systems design experience described in [2] strives to develop professional skillsthat will serve students well in their careers in addition to the “traditional” technical skills the stu-dent expect. Overarching goals of the experience are to expose the student to a realistic embeddedsystems design environment and to develop the student’s teamwork and lifelong learning skills.The design experience strives

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

of theCollege of Arts and Letters at Southwest Missouri State University, Special Assistant to the President forStrategic Planning at University of Delaware, and Department Chair of Modern Languages at ClevelandState University.RUSSEL C. JONES is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services inengineering education in the international arena. He previously served as Executive Director of theNational Society of Professional Engineers. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: facultymember at MIT, department chair in civil engineering at Ohio State University, dean of engineering atUniversity of Massachusetts, academic vice president at Boston University, and President at University ofDelaware

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaidy Vaidyanathan, University of Central Florida; Carmo D'Cruz, University of Central Florida

technical entrepreneurship, facilitate technology transfer and make the Central Floridaarea a hub of high tech entrepreneurial activity. This program is strongly oriented into steeringundergraduate and graduate engineering students towards careers in entrepreneurship.The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a growing metropolitan research university withcomprehensive programs of teaching, research and service to more than 35,000 students. UCFconducts high-tech research in Optics, Lasers, Communications, Simulation, Alternative energy,Materials, and other branches of engineering. UCF has developed, in partnership with industry,world-class centers and institutes that focus on these strengths and other core competencies.UCF’s location in the heart

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

, has got to be the hardest course I have ever taken in my life. It has taught me what real hard work meant to do well. I understand now what it means to study hard, getting help from the P often and working together with classmates. If I had worked hard in the beginning of the semester as hard as I did the end of the semester, I would have done awesome. My P was one of the most motivated P's I had so far in my cadet career. He knows his stuff, and he enjoys being here. He'll do anything to help a cadet; stay late hours after school to work with cadets. • Too much work. • CPT Vander Schaaf is a very good instructor and shows superb understanding of the concepts he is instructing. • I thought that

Conference Session

Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nasir Bilal; Harold Kess; Douglas Adams

. Harold Kess is a senior undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering. He worked as asummer intern to develop many of the roving laboratory experiments discussed here. Harold isthe winner of a John M. Bruce Memorial Scholarship for his research work in nondestructiveevaluation of composites and will be pursuing a Masters degree in mechanics in the fall of 2003.Dr. Douglas Adams is a third year assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and is theinstructor in the course discussed here. He is the winner of the 2003 Solberg Award for BestTeacher in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue and a 2001 Presidential Early Career Award for

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Denny Davis; Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili

least Product Performance one primary design requirement. 9. Communicate for Use formal and informal communications with team, advisor, and clients Project Success to document and facilitate progress and to enhance impact of design products. 10. Pursue Needed Assess and pursue personal professional growth in concert with project Professional requirements and personal career goals. DevelopmentThe ten capstone course outcomes were checked for alignment with two sets of criteria—attributes (and performance factors) of top quality engineers and ABET criteria— to determinetheir versatility and relevance to design educators’ needs. As shown in Table 5, each

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon DeReamer; Nick Safai

. Because of these factors, it is alarmingly apparent that, if the situation continues aspredicted, the United States will have a significant problem hiring Scientists and Engineers. Inview of potential peril to US strength in science and engineering, the National Science Boardendorses the following imperative for Federal action: RECOMMENDED NATIONAL POLICY IMPERATIVE The Federal Government and its agencies must step forward to ensure the adequacy of the US science and engineering workforce. All stakeholders must mobilize and initiate efforts that increase the number of US citizens pursuing science and engineering studies and careers.3 These facts drive the faculty at the Salt Lake

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

fourth difficulty in measuring design knowledge in ENGR 102: students workon teams in ENGR 102 and will likely work on design teams in their careers. It is difficult tomeasure design knowledge on an individual level when design typically occurs in teams. Weaddress this by asserting that each engineer on a design team needs an understanding of theoverall process through which a system is being designed. Therefore, our pre and posttests focuson the processes used by teams that each individual on the team needs to understand. The reasonwe have each student complete the pre and posttests, as opposed to the design teams, is that iftwo students out of the five on a team know a good answer and the other three are not involvedin the response, then we

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a minor in Education fromthe University of Florida in 1996. Previously, he served as Assistant Director of the NSF-sponsored SUCCEEDEngineering Education Coalition. His research is primarily in freshman programs and educational assessment.MISTY L. LOUGHRYMisty L. Loughry is an Assistant Professor in Clemson University's Management Department. She received herPh.D. in Management from the University of Florida in 2001. Her research focuses on control in organizations,especially peer monitoring. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Loughry worked in banking for ten years, mostrecently holding the position of Assistant Vice President of Small Business Lending.RUFUS L. CARTERis Coordinator of Institutional

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas O'Neal; Carmo D'Cruz

. Page 9.1324.4Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEntrepreneurship at University of Central FloridaThe University of Central Florida has been developing a unique interdisciplinary program topromote technical entrepreneurship, facilitate technology transfer and make the Central Floridaarea a hub of high tech entrepreneurial activity. This program is strongly oriented into steeringundergraduate and graduate engineering students towards careers in entrepreneurship.The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a growing metropolitan research university thatdelivers comprehensive programs of teaching, research and service to more

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; Catherine Pieronek

college careers todetermine overall retention through graduation. Fall 2000 Fall 2001 Fall 2002 Fall 2003First Year Students Starting EG 111 369 359 354 366First Year Students Starting EG 112 271 262 259 280 % Retained 73.4% 73.1% 73.16% 76.05% Table 6 A summary of student retention through the start of EG 112Assessment of these retention numbers indicates that the changes made in the first semester havehad positive impact on retention.It must be cautioned, however, that additional study and modification of this

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

help explain how young engineers can avoid such pit-falls as theystart their careers. CASE STUDY No. 3: HISTORY & ENGINEERING: Tracing Engineering Failures (and Successes) due to HistoryEngineering is one of the most human of engaging activities. One does not have to be a professional Engineer in order to BE an engineer;although it has been said that what separates an Engineer from the layman is how long it may take to accomplish a specific task to somegiven desired degree of quality and/or completeness. It is sometimes desirable to think that, unlike other more common activities,engineering is not

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Rosenkrantz

, American Society for Engineering Education”Learning Activity #1: The first three components will be taught mostly in a linear, processoriented style. However, to generate engagement students will be asked along the way to createtheir own retirement plan scenario to illustrate the concepts, terminology and methods in a waythat should interest them. The normal lecture material was supplemented with a four-partPowerPoint presentation on retirement planning that included information about retirement plansand investing options. A basic EXCEL template was provided as a starting point for each studentto develop their own retirement plan and sensitivity analysis. In the end they had some idea abouthow much they will need to save over their working career