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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Plichta; Mary Raber

develop and implement an assessment plan that is strongly dependent on 'elective'courses, which may vary so dramatically from one student to another. As will be seen shortly, theentire Enterprise curriculum can be accommodated into any of the engineering (and non-engi-neering) degree programs through the appropriate use of the University General Education pro-gram, the major design requirement, and some of the technical, approved or free elective credits.It is also worth noting here that another curricular boundary condition has facilitated the imple-mentation of the Enterprise Program, namely the Common First-Year Engineering programrecently adopted by the College. All engineering students participate in the same curriculum dur-ing the first

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William H. Dennis; Jeff A. Risinger; Thomas Hall

chose Natchitoches, Louisiana, the home of Northwestern State University,as the site of their new manufacturing facility partly due to the availability of the university.Even before the site was chosen, Alliance planning teams met with university officials, and withthe faculty in the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology to discuss the electronicsengineering technology and industrial technology curricula offered at the university. Afterchoosing Natchitoches as the site for the plant, and while the facilities were under construction,the new plant manager and human resources director approached NSU with the possibility ofdeveloping a joint training program for the future employees in their high-tech operation. Thisforward thinking

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William L. Scheller

Are you in town most weekends? 9 Yes 9 No Do you have evening classes or an evening job? 9 Yes 9 NoEach group was assigned 1 manufacturing engineer and 3 mechanical engineers. Students withknowledge of MasterCAM were assigned as available. There were four basic tasks which needed tobe accomplished. These were: Programming, Fixtures, Presentation Stand, and Reporting. Acompetition was held between the groups first for programming. Each group submitted a plan for howthey would program the part. This included a process plan for cutting and the required tooling. Toolshad to be drawn from the existing inventory. The winning team from that competition began workimmediately. The remaining two groups competed for design

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Adams; Monica Bruning; Lawrence Genalo

aimed at getting youngpeople interested in technological careers, and encouraging persistence in mathematicsand science courses. Still, career aspirations of high school students do not fit theemployment projections.Current ConditionsOf the half million sophomore students who took American College Testing (ACT)PLAN test – a standardized test of educational development – 29% of the test-takersindicted an interest in science related careers, but only 14% plan careers inengineering/applied technology/computers or in natural sciences and mathematics. Interms of gender, almost as many females (28%) as males (31%) were interested inscience or mathematics careers. Breaking this down further, 16% of the males and 3% ofthe females are interested in

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Jeruzal; Brenda Henderson; Ahmad Pourmovahed

assessment process that can be applied uniformly by all instructors. The assessmentprocess must also improve cognitive learning as well as meet accreditation requirements. Thispaper addresses an assessment plan that has been implemented for the Energy SystemsLaboratory course. Assessment is often driven by the need to obtain accreditation from organizations such asNorth Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA) and Accreditation Board ofEngineering and Technology (ABET). However, assessment should be driven by a desire toimprove cognitive learning while meeting accreditation requirements. The Energy Systemsthread, when considered as a whole, is a complete model of cognit ive learning at all domainlevels1. In the thermodynamics, fluid

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld

forsubsistence farmers in developing nations and prepared a manual of “best practices” inSpanish for Costa Rican farmers. Their report was also shared with Zibabweanentrepreneurs who wished to explore tilapia farming. Another team will, by the time ofthis conference, have completed an investigation of the potential for fish farming(multiple species) in Puerto Rico as a way to offer employment to displaced fishermen.In Costa Rica, a team competed a needs assessment and then a feasibility study for theimplementation of a Geographical Information System (GIS) for the national firedepartment of Costa Rica. Once having determined there was a need and that it wasfeasible, they developed a preliminary implementation plan and identified fundingsources for the

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ristroph

worth (EAW)? 2. What is the definition of equivalence within an industrial context? 3. How are PW and EAW interpreted? 4. Why does choosing the largest PW or EAW maximize a company’s FTW? 5. How should alternatives with different lives be compared?The next section briefly reviews the FTW model, and following sections provide the answers tothe above questions. FTW ModelA firm’s FTW is its total capital at the end of the planning horizon. The FTW model computesthis capital as a function of project selection, thereby enabling the decision maker to select theproject that maximizes FTW. Maximizing FTW is an intuitively appealing investment objective,and the FTW model leads to the use of popular

Conference Session

Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cindy Finelli; Trevor Harding

wasorganized.Results of the Roundtable DiscussionAs described earlier, six issues pertaining to establishing a center for teaching and learning werediscussed by the groups. Responses of the participants are compiled here.1. Developing support for a teaching and learning centerA variety of ideas regarding how to support such a center were discussed, and the group agreedthat before establishing a teaching and learning center, a critical mass of support was required.Perhaps most important is finding an individual leader willing to forward the idea of creating acenter, organize meetings, compile materials, and seek further support for the development of acenter.Furthermore, when putting together plans to develop a center, it is essential that a sponsor be

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Probst

nolonger specified, and we felt that our large general education requirement could be turned from aweakness into a strength. We began developing program educational objectives and anassessment plan throughout the spring of 1999. The assessment plan was implemented in the fallof 1999. The request for evaluation was submitted to ABET in January 2000, the self-study waswritten during Spring 2000, and the self-study was submitted to ABET in July 2000. The visitfrom ABET evaluators occurred early September 2000.This paper will describe our program in detail, the preparations made for the evaluation byABET, and the preliminary results of the visit.II. The Engineering Physics Program at Southeast Missouri State UniversityThe Engineering Physics

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Lenhert; David Soldan; Andrew Rys

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department(EECE) faculty felt it would be best to do a complete evaluation of the mission and educationalobjectives of the programs. This could involve some changes in existing data gathering andanalysis processes. Our long term plan is to have a comprehensive review of the programeducational objectives on a six year cycle.The next activity is the reevaluation of the processes by which the program outcomes aredetermined and results evaluated. Inherent in this will be a review of current program outcomesfor each program. The plan is to finish this activity in time to allow at least three years prior tothe next general review. This would allow for data regarding any new outcomes to be gatheredand analyzed.A key goal

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gershensen; Carl Wood; Joseph Clair Batty

SME’s Manufacturing Education Plan: Phase I Report. TheDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering offered an ABET accreditedManufacturing Engineering program, but did not grant a degree in Manufacturing Engineering.Direct presentations by national SME officers to the Governor of Utah, near the beginning of thegrant period, increased statewide awareness of the manufacturing program at USU. The 14competency gaps were addressed as part of an extensive curriculum reformation. Six newmanufacturing courses were developed and taught. Manufacturing applications were developedand initiated in several core mechanical engineering courses. A unique and comprehensivecurriculum assessment process was developed and implemented. Industrial and student

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Clark; Don McMurchie

requirements, we developed an experimental course that fully integratesinstruction in both history and materials science. Titled “Materials in the Modern World,” thecourse was offered in the Spring of 2000. This paper describes the development of the course,its advantages and disadvantages, and our plans to use what we learned to offer similar coursesin the future.I. IntroductionHumanities instruction has often been an afterthought in engineering technology education.While required by accreditation agencies, humanities courses typically are taught by facultyoutside of engineering technology programs and are not integrated with engineering courses.Some schools have sought to deal with this situation by offering courses in the history oftechnology or

Conference Session

Structural Education Applications in Architectural Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo, State University of New York, Farmingdale State College

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Architectural

how to draw a plan,section, elevation and axonometric. Page 22.823.2In this paper, quantitative spatial reasoning test results and qualitative data of students‘perception of a model project will be presented. This study is a follow-up to the author‘s studyof the use of visual aids in classrooms that are not supplemented with a laboratory component forhands-on learning.Background:Spatial reasoning is ―the mental manipulation of objects and their parts in 2D and 3D space.‖1 Ithas also been defined as concerning the locations of objects, their shapers, their relations to eachother, and the paths they take as they move.2 Research has shown

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College

Tagged Topics

Council of Sections

22.841.5between the end of spring 2009 semester and the beginning of the summer 2009 session. Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 136Morning sessions were mostly devoted to studying math either in groups or individually usingMyMathTest10, an online system developed by Pearson Education for developing mathplacement tests and short math refresher programs. Note that the first week of the program hadmore workshops related to resources and skills needed for college success. Many of theworkshops planned for the second week

Conference Session

Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Baltimore, California Polytechnic State University; Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University

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College Industry Partnerships

Institute. Current efforts in sustainable knowledge transfer are focused in the planning, design, and construction of a Polytechnic school in rural East Africa (Sam, Tanzania). The project is a collaboration of the people of Sam (Headed by the Catholic Diocese), Cal Poly SLO (headed by Baltimore), NGO (the Mbesese Initiative), and industry (Arup Los Angeles).Dr. Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University Allen C. Estes is a professor and Head for the Architectural Engineering Department at California Poly- technic State University in San Luis Obispo. Until Jan. 2007, Estes was the Director of the Civil En- gineering program at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA). He is a registered Professional Engineer in

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Cutler, Virginia Tech; Walter Curtis Lee Jr., Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies, Student

of transitioning students from a traditional engineering program into anengineering education doctorate program. The purpose of this project is to ease this transitionthrough the development of a formal orientation for an Engineering Education department; theADDIE model for training design was used. The first step was a thorough analysis of thedepartment, student requirements, tasks, personnel, and knowledge, skills & attitudes (KSA)required by a doctorate student in engineering education. Then, we developed learning objectivesand a plan of instruction that would optimize the learning, retention, and transfer of theinformation introduced during the orientation. Next, we developed the physical elements of theorientation program, which was

Conference Session

FPD IX: Research on First-year Programs Part III

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard M. Bennett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; William Schleter, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; D. Raj Raman, Iowa State University

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First-Year Programs

homework, and attended one extra hour of study sessioneach week. The SEP program seeks to intervene earlier in the semester, and is available to allstudents.Another early intervention technique in a calculus course is described by Koch2. Students whoperformed poorly on the first exam in Calculus I were given the option of switching into a half-term, 2-credit hour intensive pre-calculus course, before retaking Calculus I the following term.The goal of the SEP program is to retain the students in the course, and for them to make thenecessary corrections to be successful.Lavelle3 describes an intervention program after the first Calculus exam in which students meetwith an academic advisor, develop an action plan, and then have a follow-up meeting

Conference Session

Engineering Management Applications

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Syed Athar Masood, National University of Sciences & Technology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

management. There are also functional gapsbetween working units of the organization. If we superimpose the management gaps ontop of the functional gaps, we find that companies are made up of small operationalislands that refuse to communicate with one another for fear that giving up informationmay strengthen their opponents. The project manager’s responsibility is to get theseislands to communicate cross-functionally toward common goals and objectives5 . Page 25.184.4 Figure-1 An Overview of Management and Functional Gaps5Researchers have identified failures of projects in the 1980s as quantitative, mainly dueto: Ineffective planning

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl A. Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech; Katherine E. Winters, Virginia Tech; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech

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College Industry Partnerships

studies.IntroductionEngineering as a profession struggles to retain a robust and diverse workforce. Research inengineering education has shown that students who enter engineering programs do not alwayspersist in earning engineering degrees and even in their senior year are unsure of pathwaysforward 1, 2. Furthermore, even those students that complete their engineering degrees do notalways remain in engineering fields. Developing an understanding of how graduates make earlycareer choices can lead to strategies for supporting choices to remain in engineering professionsincluding both workforce and graduate school choices.Much of the existing research on engineering career choices has focused on undergraduates’intended career plans as they are graduating. For example

Conference Session

Leadership, Design, and Entrepreneurship

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jameel Ahmed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Samuel N. Peffers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon M. Sexton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2012-3871: THE ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYLEADERSHIP ADVANCEMENT PROGRAM: PREPARING ENGINEER-ING, MATH, AND SCIENCE STUDENTS FOR LEADERSHIP SUCCESSDr. Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Aseess- ment and professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her publications on assessment, portfolios, and engineering and professional communication have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, and the European Journal of Engineering Education. She is also Co-founder of the Rose-Hulman Leadership

Conference Session

Engineering Education for Modern Needs Part II: Novel Curriculum Development and Project-based Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pil-Won On, University of Missouri, Columbia; Robert O'Connell, University of Missouri, Columbia

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Continuing Professional Development

a Lesson Plan Table 1. Online TBL Training Course FrameworkDuring the informative sessions (part 1 through 4 in Table 1), trainees will learn about TBL frominstructor’s presentation recordings and video clips excerpted from an actual classroom thatdemonstrate best practices of TBL strategies. They will check their understanding in each partthrough an online quiz that they can retake as many times as needed until achieving apredetermined level of success in order to move on to the next. The trainees will also have anopportunity to design or modify their own course with TBL by working on a lesson plan as afinal outcome of the training.Instructional Design

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Student Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Jane Kilpatrick, Iron Range Engineering; Emmy Sue Stage, Iron Range Engineering

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Student

Page 25.1150.3minimums and dress in business casual attire on a daily basis. Partnering with industry andworking engineers is something IRE prides itself on. Because of this the students are held to thesame standard as working engineers in an engineering environment. This gives all students thechance to practice engineering. Students at IRE are required to do the same type of writing as traditional students, but arealso required, over the course of their four semesters, to write four technical documents, abusiness plan, and several personal improvement plans. The final design deliverable for each project is a technical document that is writtenthroughout a semester about the projects that students have been working on. Each member

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Resit Unal; Andres Sousa-Poza; Paul Kauffmann

private sector expectations. Exhibit 3 Expectation for Cost / Budget Analysis Cost / budget analysis - I am expected to estimate, analyze, or prepare cost information for operating or project budgets. Public Sector Private Sector Statistical significance Always or frequently 44% 30% Sectors not different Seldom or never 56% 70%Organizations that involve engineering and technical personnel in business planning andapplication of financial analysis tools should have methods that are clearly understood

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips; Charles V. Camp; Paul Palazolo

necessary to understand forces and limited engineeringprinciples.Instruction in the program was based on cognitive principles of active and collaborative learning,and, in addition to the technical skills, students were exposed to technical writing strategies andcommunication skills. The assessment plan included pre/post surveys, student and instructorjournals, and an exit skills test. A longevity follow-up study is planned for the spring 2001semester.Results were overwhelmingly positive from the program’s administrators, instructors, andstudents, and tips for generalization of the program with recommendations for improvement areincluded.I. What is the Joy of Engineering Program About?The pilot program for The Joy of Engineering Summer Program was

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan A. Burtner

year, and 4) continuedcommunication with campers through e-mail or phone. The program targets 5th, 6th and 7th gradegirls and features a tiered-mentoring process that is designed to match campers with high schoolstudents, college students, and college faculty who excel in science, mathematics and/orengineering. The mentors work in both camps and continue their mentoring activities throughoutthe following school year. The Central South Summer Camp evaluation plan, which includesqualitative and quantitative measures, will be used to assess program effectiveness and to helpdetermine if girls who participate in this program have developed a sustained interest in math,science or engineering.Introduction It is commonly accepted that we need

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Lee; Connie Dillon; Arthur Breipohl

lieu of providing another service,say ancillary services, because they are able to choose the type of service they’ll provide tomaximize profit in a competitive market.The importance of these considerations will intensify the need for power system plans andresource schedules that incorporate the best engineering and financial principles and practices.Both scheduling and planning require the integration of engineering knowledge about thephysical characteristics of the generators and financial knowledge about the financial tools thatcan be used to aid in power production and delivery. For example, if a company acquires a leaseof a generator for a period of time, it will probably reduce the risk if the company also shorts aforward contract for

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Aanstoos; Steven Nichols

, theseprofessional skills are taught on-the-job by mentoring, “stand and deliver” instruction,correspondence, computer-based instruction, etc. Such internal training may require severalmonths of a new engineer’s first year on the job.In a recent course in Engineering Professional Responsibility, student teams were assigned asemester research project in which they were tasked to 1) Analyze their own four-yearcurriculum in comparison to other Universities, 2) Determine the preferred set ofknowledge/skills/abilities at the entry level for the job they plan to seek, and 3) Plan thesupplemental education (through seminars, short courses, certificate courses, etc) required to“bridge the gap.” In researching for this project, student teams were encouraged to

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Zaharee; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

Session 2647 Closing the Loop: The Difference between Making Improvements and Continuous Improvement Gregory Neff, Susan Scachitti, and Mohammad Zahraee Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IndianaAbstractCriteria1 published by the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology TAC of ABET are continually changing. In preparing for a TACof ABET accreditation visit, many engineering technology faculty and administrators are hardpressed to distinguish between a list of useful improvement initiatives and a continuousimprovement plan. This

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

L. Alden Kendall; Dianne Dorland

design project.The Departments of Chemical and Industrial Engineering received an NSF Instructional andLaboratory Improvement grant that was implemented between July 1995 and December 1997.The hardware and software provide engineering course support for engineering science as wellas design applications for both engineering disciplines. The departmental faculty consideredcontinued maintenance and operation of the computer lab, and chose to work with InformationServices (campus level oversight) in the development of this lab. Information Services isresponsible for the operation and maintenance of the lab. In addition, Information Servicesprovided part of the match money for the grant proposal.Laboratory DevelopmentThe laboratory was planned and

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John G. Nee

some students recently employed in EDG/CAD/CAM positions include: 1) planning,selecting and applying computer/automated systems for manufacturing or processing;2) designing computer and automated systems machines, and equipment used in manufacturingor processing; 3) research and development leading to the creation of new or improved computerand/or automated equipment or processes; 4) developing common computer-related databases tobe shared by engineering design, factory automation, and manufacturing planning functions; and5) product design and development. PROBLEMS AND ISSUESThere appears to be a reduction of EDG/drafting/design visualization courses available nationallyin grades 7-12. Also, spatial related