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Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

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Swami Karunamoorthy

, donation of used equipments, new equipmentgrants, capstone design projects, recruitment, etc. This committee is a valuable asset to a Page 8.633.3 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”program and it creates a great partnership between academia, industry and/orgovernment.Educational objectives should be General, Executable, and Measurable (GEM). Also,these objectives should be flexible, comprehensive, defined and documented. Theyshould be systematically reviewed and updated with inputs from various

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Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Theresa McGarry; Edward Young; Elisabeth Alford

as teaching tools, without increasing the professor’s workload. Moreover, theapproach is similar to industry practices of reviewing communications face-to-face and evaluatingthem in the context of assigned project objectives, and therefore better prepares students for thedemands of the workplace. In addition to the instructor’s assessment, the reactions of the studentswere obtained by oral surveys. The results indicated that the students believed the approach toincrease their understanding of assignments, their attention to and understanding of theinstructor’s comments, and their motivation. Finally, initial assessment of student writing indicatedimprovement resulting from the innovation.A new method of assessment and feedbackTraditionally

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Improving Communication Skills in ME

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Michael Alley; Harry Robertshaw

quickly orients the audience to the mainassertion of the slide with a succinct sentence headline (no more than two lines) and thensupports that headline primarily with images and, where needed, with words [3].Recommended Design of SlidesWhen slides are chosen to communicate the images and results of a scientificpresentation, their design becomes important for the success of that presentation.Typically, as soon as a slide is projected, the listener shifts attention from the speaker tothe screen. When the slide has words that cannot be read, the listener is distracted withthe question of what those words are. Likewise, when the slide does not quickly orientthe listener, the listener becomes confused, wondering what the point of this slide is. Ifthe

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Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ratna Babu Chinnam; Joe Nguyen; Jenny Wang-Chavez; Hemalatha Sathya

). Figure 4: Inventory management case finding sharingAt the end of a learning session, students will have the opportunity to debrief what they havelearned, which will further enrich their understanding and learning transfer (see figure 5). Figure 5: Inventory management debriefing Page 8.740.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationFormative evaluationInstead of waiting for evaluation to be conducted at the end of the course development project,the design team implemented

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

Society, organizes activities,events, competitions, and special programs and materials that introduce high-schoolstudents to the world of engineering.Project Lead the Way of the National Alliance for Pre-Engineering Programs hasundertaken the most comprehensive approach to pre-engineering curriculum development.Their program seeks to facilitate partnerships--among higher education, the private sector,and public institutions—that will promote the inclusion of engineering in pre-collegiatecurricula. The program currently operates in 25 states in cooperation with states’departments of education and receives funding from corporate sponsors and privatefoundations. Project Lead the Way’s four-year sequence of core pre-engineering coursesoffers

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Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sindee Simon; Theodore Wiesner; Lloyd Heinze

EducationTable 1: Strategies, Outcomes, and Assessment Methods and Metrics for Meeting Program Objective 1 in Chemical Engineering (after ref. 7) Strategies for Implementing Student-Centered ABET Assessment Methods and Metrics Program Objective 1 Outcomes Criterion a-k 1A Provide students with breadth in the 1. Our graduates will a, b, c, 1. Senior design project assessment. ChE curriculum through required have the basic e, k 2. Successful completion of coursework. course offerings that cover the basics understanding of all 3. Student exit interviews. of chemistry

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

learn how to use the debugger. In the lab, the students will type in an assemblyprogram and assemble and link it and use the debugger to step through the program. There is atutor for the course that sits in the lab to help students with their programming assignments. Thetutor-student relationship benefits the tutor as well. Tutor solidifies his/her knowledge whilehelping their peers. Laboratory programming assignments are given electronically. Assignmentsare submitted and graded electronically. Following a sample project is given:Sample Laboratory Project Page 8.86.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education

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Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bianey Ruiz; Stephanie Adams

. (1998). Work group performance on production operations management tasks. Journal of Technology Studies, 24(2), 15-20.17. McCahon, C. S., & Lavelle, J. P. (1998). Implementation of cross-disciplinary teams of business and engineering students for quality improvement projects. Journal of Education for Business, 73(3), 150-157.18. Urch, V., & Hayes, C. (2000). Learning versus performance in short-term project teams. Small Group Research, 31(3), 328-353.19. Chalupa, M., Sormunen, C., & Charles, T. (1997). Students’ attitudes about experiences with work groups. Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 39(4), 197-214.20. Porter, G. (1993). Are we teaching people not to work in teams: Reflections on the team based assignments in the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Haering

author taught the quadriplegic student was a freshman- levelintroduction to engineering design and graphics (ED&G 100). This course is comprised of fourdistinct components: traditional paper and pencil technical drawing, laboratory work, designprojects, and an introduction to computer tools. The design projects and the physical laboratoryexperiments were conducted in groups, and as a result the physical limitation of the student didnot require any special accommodation. The compilation of the laboratory reports, done by eachstudent, was accomplished by the quadriplegic student with a word processing program run on acomputer which the student operated by using a special mouth-operated pointing and clickingdevice and voice recognition software

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

communication and leaning between studentsparticularly when students are encouraged to work in groups on homework assignmentsand class projects. Mastering MATLAB earlier also helps students use it in other coursesand thus save considerable amount of time in trying to learn several other problem-solvingpackages.Students are given a detailed syllabus at the beginning of each semester in the mechanicsas well as structural analysis courses which will have a listing of course objectives andlearning outcomes. These objectives require an understanding of the engineering problem-solving technique and applying it in conjunction with technical skills to solve problems.These courses also require considerable work on the part of the students to do assignedreadings

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Jewell

Page 8.590.3“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”in 1000 AD. Visits to Roman ruins, antiquities museums, and archeological sites not yetopen to the public provided a rich background for the students in their projects.In the International Virtual Design Studio (IVDS), students interact over the Internet withstudents at a foreign university on a cooperative design project. The project culminates intravel to the foreign institution for a design competition. In some instances groups fromthe foreign institution also travel to the U.S. To date the only significant IVDS program iswith the Middle East Technical Institute in

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ted Sarma; Massood Atashbar; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

, signal processing and network communications. In addition, the students are requiredto maintain assignment logs providing a closed-loop feedback mechanism for continuousimprovement in the quality of the course and their learning experience. This course has beenhighly successful in that students not only learn a great deal of information but also gainexperience in applications that will be useful in further course work and senior projects as well astheir future careers. Page 8.968.1IntroductionMany educational institutions utilize single assessment methodologies (i.e. university- wide classsurveys) to gage the students’ satisfaction of

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David Leonard

students • Text chat for "live meetings" in which students discuss electronic readings and projects • Team learning and collaborative learningThe program is divided into four modules, each of which is comprised of two courses: • Module 1. Advanced Technology • Multimedia • Hypermedia • Module 2. Business Issues/ Practices • Electronic Work Teams • Globalization of Electronic Communication • Module 3. Processes • Usability Evaluation of Web-based information • Online Information of Web based education and training modules • Module 4. Foundations • Learning Theories as applied to Knowledge Management • History and Theory of CommunicationIn addition, students participate in a

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Steven Levitt

in the workplace, it usually isn’tbecause people don’t have the right information. Things go awry when communication breaksdown – often because someone fails to see something from a different perspective”5.II. Brief Case ExamplesAn engineer was a partner in a small construction company working on the construction ofNASA headquarters in Houston, Texas. This was an enormous project with many contractorsand on a fast timeline. A backhoe operator working for the company was killed when he duginto a cable box that was not shown on any plans: the existence of the box was notcommunicated to the people doing the work. The cable box was not shown on any plans becauseit was connected to Top Secret facilities and therefore the cable box was also

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2001 Annual Conference

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Jack Lesko; Eric Pappas

. We conduct our classes informally and teach these non-technical skills in a contextrelevant to students’ design projects. We try to create an atmosphere that lies realistically withinthe context of the professional workplace. The topics we have added to our curriculum movetowards a central point...to educate an individual who knows how to have a good career and agood life, and who is aware of the difference. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education Page 6.985.4 Our departmental

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Daniel Waldorf

Engineering Educationexperiences. No evidence has been found, however, of the use of FEA in a manufacturingengineering curriculum.The goal for this project is to introduce the finite element method into the Tool Engineeringcourse for use in tool design. Specific objectives include: • Make students aware of FEA capabilities for analysis and encourage additional learning in the subject • Review the basic equilibrium equations for stress, strain, dynamics, etc., used in FEA • Give students a basic understanding of how the equations are integrated across a complex geometric shape • Introduce the concepts of meshing, element order and shape, shape functions, boundary conditions, number of elements, accuracy, and convergence of an

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2001 Annual Conference

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Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

approximately 250 eligible students (those incoming students whodid not have deficiencies or advanced placement credit for any of the first-year core courses). Tohelp improve mentoring in Connections, a second pilot group (1995-96 academic year) wascapped at 31 students in order to emphasize mentoring and forming a learning community.Through analysis of their grade point averages, retention rates, and satisfaction with the programand CSM, we determined shortly after the end of the Connections project that Connectionsstudents were persisting in higher numbers and were generally happier with their collegeexperience than their peers.Because it is now six years since the first Connections group entered CSM, we have undertakena follow-up study of the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Robert Floersheim; Stephen Ressler; Margaret Bailey

director begins by creating a written draftdocument that includes a collection of narratives, assessment data, analysis of data, andproposed course revisions. Included in Figure 2 is a sample outline for a typical courseassessment plan as written in our department with attached sample data charts. Thecourse director’s role throughout the academic year is to teach the course as well asadminister all course related requirements. For example, a fluids course director mayteach three sections of a twenty-section course along with several other instructors.However, in addition to teaching, she also organizes the creation of common course wideexaminations, design projects, quizzes, etc.Course directors develop their written course assessment plan each

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2001 Annual Conference

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Merredith Portsmore; Chris Rogers

-on activities whenever and wherever they want. The fundamental components ofthis set of materials are the LEGO RCX, a programmable LEGO brick, with the ability to store2000 points at up to 180 Hz and LabVIEW Student Edition. These materials, along with a set ofsensors, motors, and building components, are given to students at the beginning of the semester.The hardware, the RCX and LEGO elements, is small, portable, and relatively inexpensiveallowing students to use and program it in their dorm room using LabVIEW on their owncomputer. Projects have ranged from characterizing a spring to building and configuring ascanner. Labs addressed topics ranging from repeatability and uncertainty to Hooke’s law andFourier transforms. Eliminating the

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Rob Guardiola; Larry Hanneman; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

of appearing foolish; takes on challenging or unfamiliar assignments.Figure 2. Key Actions for the “Continuous Learning” competencyREPRESENTATIVE CAREER ACTIVITIES:• Participating in applied projects that require new knowledge.• Designing and/or performing experiments that require new knowledge.• Designing products that require engineers to learn new subject areas.• Questioning ethical professional responsibility when undertaking sensitive tasks.• Engaging in discussions on professional responsibility.• Taking courses outside of the “hard sciences” while in the workplace.• Using feedback from “customers” to learn new material that will improve a product.• Reading non-assigned books to learn new topics.• Attending conferences and seminars

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2001 Annual Conference

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Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

engineeringcurricula grow and improve. Therefore, the Foundation Coalition has undertaken aqualitative research project that examines processes through which coalition partnershave initiated and attempted to sustain curricular change. It is important to emphasizethat the focus of the study is the process of curricular change, not content of newcurricula. The project is organized as series of six qualitative case studies that examinecurricular change at each of the partner institutions. Data for each case study is collectedthrough interviews of approximately twenty key faculty and administrators as well asreview of relevant documentation. Each case study identifies critical events and salientissues involved in that process, as well as valuable lessons each

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James Nelson; Bernd Schroder

this meant to sacrifice some highlycreative and beneficial activities for activities that were not as cutting edge, but which were morefeasible and still provided solid education. For example, commonly graded examinations7 are notpart of the integrated curriculum. Instead faculty strive to weave connections from parallel andearlier courses into their course. This includes, for example, homework assignments inmathematics that include problems from the text of the parallel engineering class, or projects thatrelate to content from other classes. The (achieved) goal of the design was to provide aframework for curricular integration with some integration in place and further opportunities forintegration available as the curriculum matures.A gradual

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jawaharlal Mariappan; Ravi Ramachandran; Stephanie Farrell

theoretical andpractical skills. This project is in accordance with the aims of our new programs and strives tomeet the requirements of industry in hiring control engineers who can move across ratherartificial program boundaries with great ease.Goals and ObjectivesOur aim is to accomplish the following: 1. Give students an exposure to the different aspects of control theory in the form of multidisciplinary laboratory experiences that include electrical, mechanical, fluid and thermal systems. In fact, the underlying theory of each of these systems can be explained using circuit theory as these four systems can be modeled as an equivalent circuit [2]. 2. Ensure that our laboratory has an impact on a wide variety of courses in our

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2000 Annual Conference

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G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

soundtrack design, production methods, production management, cinematic language, interactive authoring, Internet projects and Web page authoring’’ 5.This course produces graduates qualified to produce animated televisioncommercials, children’s television programs, video games, interactive andmuseum displays. The primary emphasis is on software and hardware basedapproach. ECU has a portfolio of courses in Interactive Multi-mediaTechnologies at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The emphasis ofthese courses is multi-media applications, presentation style etc. According toECU, ‘‘The course provide studies of both a theoretical and practical nature in the are of IMM and draws

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Matt C. Smith; David K. Gattie

provided by nature as well1.Recognizing the need to associate nature with human value, others have developed courseworkthat links the science of ecology with engineering through the liberal arts2. Moreover, we havelearned through decades of scientific research that the most serious threats from society are notpoint source discharges but rather the more complex non-point sources.At the USDA CSREES Southern Region Research Project S-273 annual meeting held inKnoxville, Tennessee in October 19993, the consent was that the current geographic informationsystem (GIS) approach to watershed modeling lacked the necessary biological and ecologicalinput necessary to appropriately model watershed health and integrity. The incorporation ofecological criteria

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Peter J. Graybash

multitude of decisions must be madeconcerning not just the equipment and technology issues, but also "human elements" relating tothe teaching and learning and participation by organizational personnel. Not all decisions aremade on economics. The principal objective of this project is to identify the human elements addressed byContinuing Engineering Educators in high-tech industries as they decide on delivery systems foremployee education. Information will be collected via a three-phase Delphi study of keydecision-makers in a purposive sample of 23 leading high-tech Fortune 500 companies. Thefirst phase of the study involves open-ended questions directed at a focus group. From the focusgroup comes a written survey questionnaire seeking to define the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Temple; Cynthia Atman; Jennifer Turns

Learning Terms associated with education. This generally includes "Grad school" words associated with the students’ schooling, such as "VLPA" professors and room numbers and school names.(J) Contemporary Issues Terms that convey student knowledge of contemporary issues. "Extending monorail" This category includes contemporary engineering projects and "Centennial fund" opinions of those projects.(K) Tools and Techniques Tools and techniques that engineers employ in the practice of "Inspection-buildings

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Pete Tschumi

) 77 Idea initiation 65 Project Management 58 Interviewing skills 30 Mediation skills 24In the category of computer programmer, the top competencies tend to fall into two groups: thosegeneral characteristics directly related to programming and those related to soft skills such asproblem solving and writing documentation. More specific knowledge, such as programming inC or C++ fall into the “desired” competencies with ratings of 54% and 53% respectively

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2000 Annual Conference

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Mike Robinson; M. Sami Fadali; Ken McNichols

option. This lack ofunderstanding of the duties and roles of engineers is not restricted to the general public but isoften true of students of engineering. Bartz and Deaton16 suggested role playing as a means ofovercoming this latter problem. They used role-playing as part of an inter-course and intra-course project. Students played the roles of engineering professionals on a design team.IV.2 Teaching the roles of engineers and technologist in societyAs students learn concepts in science and technology they may also learn more about theinteraction of science and technology with society, commonly known as STS17, 18. Role playingthe part that scientists, engineers, politicians, contractors, lawyers, concerned citizens, etc. playin making and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jack Matson; Elizabeth Kisenwether

on written and oral communications, ability to work on multi-disciplinary teams, project planning and management skills. · Alumni interest and financial support via endowments for engineering entrepreneurship education is growing. · Participation in REEE2000 and REEE2001 Conferences – Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Education, at Stanford University - confirmed that good engineering design in inherently a creative process, and gaining business acumen is key for Page 7.798.1 engineering entrepreneurship education. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education