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NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Jeff Jackson

include a detailed evaluation plan. Solicit external evaluators that will provide feedback on your project. One of the best choices would be nationally known educational scholars that would also have a truly vested interest in the results of your project. For our current CCLI grant, we formed an external evaluation team consisting of faculty at prestigious universities and local industry that employs our graduates.6. Broader impact – The successful proposal should address a global versus a local problem. Demonstrating how a particular result of the project can and will have a broad, national impact is critical. This particular investigator labored for years under the disillusion that the NSF programs existed to solve problems at

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny

Session 3255 Design in Engineering Education and Practice Janis P. Terpenny and Richard M. Goff Department of Engineering Education Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061AbstractThis paper reports on a new core graduate course that has been developed for the recentlyestablished Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity (Virginia Tech). The course is focused on preparing future engineering facultymembers and practitioners to teach

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lagace; Earll Murman

team involving allparts of these programs -- students, industry members, and faculty. Another factor is that thestrong linkages with industry in developing and delivering the curriculum naturally lead tointeractions between teaching, practice, and research. Identified gaps of knowledge lead toideas for new research studies, and this and the overall work help set priorities for future work.The background of students the authors have taught in some of the subjects listed earlier differssubstantially from those found in a traditional aerospace engineering graduate program centeredon research degree tracks. On one end of the spectrum have been students who have justreceived a bachelors degree, many of whom have no industrial design experience, and

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Conrad Newberry

missile community are probably best met in some type of graduateprogram. Ideally, such a graduate program would be based upon an undergraduate program inaerospace engineering. However, government agencies and the missile industry employ a wide Page 10.56.3variety of engineers and scientists. The missile system design engineering model graduate Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright ©2005 by C.F. Newberry. Published by the American Society for Engineering Education with permission.curriculum should account for this wide variation in student background

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bertini; Christopher Monsere

data to be collected rather easily. Data collection assignments Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcan be designed to encourage exploratory learning as students seek to reconcile collected datawith classroom lessons. In addition, the relatively low cost of our approach allows a number ofdevices to be used. This encourages a greater amount of data to be collected by a number ofstudents and assembled over multiple years. Furthermore, we have found this tool to be robustenough to be used in research and professional practice (as discussed later). This synergy is anadded feature of our tool

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

practitioners, andargues for engaging properly selected adjunct faculty in the teaching-learning process, inpartnership with full-time, regular faculty members. The impetus here is three fold. First, thegeneral belief that well-seasoned and experienced practitioners can be a tremendous resource totap; in combination with regular “full-time” faculty- who are, in most instances, the “research-type” who have not had the opportunity to practice engineering. Second, industry’s prevailingperception that engineering education does not prepare graduates adequately for the practice.Therefore, from industry’s perspective, the quality of education for engineering practice is seenas deficient. Third, The importance of blending practical experience in teaching

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

regularlywith personnel for Let Me Learn. Professor Harvey has subsequently begun a 10-weekintensive course involving 28 hours of instruction on all aspects of the LCI.The LCI has been used in the engineering program at Rowan University to enhance theperformance of student teams [19]. In Sophomore Clinic I, a multidisciplinarysophomore design and composition course that is taught collaboratively by faculty fromengineering and composition and rhetoric, faculty used the results of the LCI to formteams with balanced components of each learning pattern, based on research suggestingthat successful learning in team environments occurs if team members havecomplementary learning patterns

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Schultz; Arnold Johnson

have designed, built, tested, and launched include Scorpio Alpha, an instrumentationpayload designed for flight using weather balloons; AEROCam, a three-band, one-meter spatialresolution imaging sensor designed for flight by UND Aviation small aircraft; AgCam, a two-band, ten-meter spatial resolution imaging sensor to be installed in the International SpaceStation for capturing precision agriculture data; and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, a radio-controlled airplane with a three-meter wingspan, capable of flying scientific payloads with amass of up to four kilograms. Generally, teams consist of master’s-level graduate studentsconducting thesis research and undergraduates enrolled in the two-semester capstone seniordesign sequence. Primarily

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Eliot; Jennifer Turns

knowledge. The work of the grant is guidedby three research questions: 1. What are the impacts of portfolio construction, particularly in the areas of knowledge integration and identity formation? 2. What are the mechanisms that lead to these impacts? 3. Under what conditions do these mechanisms result in an impact?Here we describe one part of this grant, specifically an effort to develop a version of the portfolioconstruction activity appropriate for seniors in the department of Technical Communication atthe University of Washington. We began our design process by gathering our accumulatedknowledge about the user population (the students) from a number of venues. For example, fromour own prior research on student understanding of

Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberley R. Breaux; Heidi Loshbaugh; Ruth Streveler

activities are the data. We provide considerations for otherProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationresearchers in engineering education using mixed-methods practices. “[T]he development ofsuch accounts relies on methods that can document and connect processes of enactment tooutcomes of interest” [3]. Design research depends on iterative events and discussion andevaluation of events within the process. Our hope is that this discussion can play a role inassisting other researchers to “systematically create, test, and disseminate teaching and learninginterventions that will have maximum impact on practice and…contribute…to theory” [4

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John McMasters

resulted in curriculum compression – sometimes to extreme levels.Faced with pressure to add material, reduce time, and satisfy the demands of the (sometimesarchaic) industry hiring practices, academe too often resorted to a balkanization approach incurriculum development.One possible solution to our overall dilemma is to make the entry level requirement forprofessional practice a 5- or 6-year program. This is at best only a partial solution to theproblem. While science and mathematics provide the engineer much of the basic tool andknowledge suite needed for practice, it is design, and more recently its abstraction into systemsengineering, that is the essence of our profession. In educating engineers for our future, we needto think in terms of a

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Shooter; Soundar Kumara; Robert Stone; Timothy Simpson; Janis Terpenny

experience wherestudents from each of the participating institutions worked collaboratively in support of theoverall research project. To enhance the students’ education, they spent several weeks in afocused experience at two of the universities with visits to the others. The intent was to broadentheir perspectives on the operations at different schools and promote interest in graduate schoolwhile learning about product platform planning. We describe the structure of the program alongwith the activities undertaken by the students. We also include an assessment of the program bythe students and plans for improving our future offering of this program.NomenclatureBOM Bill of MaterialsDSM Design Structure MatrixEBOM Enhanced Bill of

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janice Miller-Young

. 12. Kurfiss, J.G. (1988) Critical Thinking: Theory, Research, Practice and Possibilities. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 2. Washington, D.C.: ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education and the Association for the Study of Higher Education.BiographiesJANICE MILLER-YOUNG is a P.Eng. with a background in mechanical engineering and a PhD in biomechanics.She has worked in the oil industry, has consulted for sports equipment companies and academics on biomechanicsresearch, and has been teaching engineering design for three years. She also incorporates writing-across-the-curriculum and inquiry-based learning concepts in more traditional courses such as statics and dynamics.RYAN WARRINGTON has an MSc in mechanical engineering with a

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Pasek

theories • Analyze organizational environment • Define organizational structure • Analyze organizational culture • Understand strengths and weaknesses of alternative organization structures • Understand the role of teams in organization design • Understand the organizational decision-making processes • Understand the role played by technology in organizations • Become aware of contemporary views of best practice in organizations • Work as a team to explore, analyze and understand selected issues closely related to their professional interests in organizational setting.The course intent was to focus on the problems and challenges faced by middle-managers indealing with the industrial organization (enterprise) as a

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stefani A. Bjorklund; Norman Fortenberry

graduate also ought to demonstrate 1) ability to manage a project (including afamiliarity with business, market-related, and financial matters), 2) a multidisciplinary systemsperspective, 3) an understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of students, faculty, staff,colleagues, and customers, and 4) a strong work ethic. During Phase II of this project, weidentified several assessment instruments that might measure those outcomes and begansearching for instructional “best practices” thought to promote the 15 desired learningoutcomes. This paper, based on Phase III of the project, provides empirical evidence from andidentifies the gaps in higher education and engineering education journal articles that linkinstructional best practices with

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

harnesses, virtual dashboards, and so forth. There wouldalways be an Aerospace Engineering plane or rocket project which needed electrical andcomputer engineering skills for data acquisition/analysis, communication, command and controlsystems.Beginning in the Fall of 2002, several significant changes, decisions and events occurred in rapidsuccession and have had a dramatic positive impact on the nature and quality of the senior designprogram in the ECE Department and throughout the College of Engineering: • The ECE senior design course context was changed to emulate a start-up enterprise • Over $40,000 in NCIIA funding was acquired to support certain types of senior design teams • The senior design course instructors across the

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Bailey; Andrew Ricke; David Spurlock; Susan Murray

graduates regarding skills andexperiences obtained from outside the classroom.We need more data to characterize student (and faculty) views on these issues, but we would liketo identify three opportunities for future research suggested by these findings. The first questionthat needs greater study is whether students feel greater pressure to multitask when they have theopportunity in the classroom. In other words, if they are listening to a lecture, do they feel theyshould really be trying to get some other work done at the same time? Do instructors perceivestudent multitasking in the classroom as a growing problem? If they do, are instructors changinghow they conduct class to counteract that behavior?A second research question worth pursuing

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim McLernon; David Hughes

. The parameters of a programme in higher education are definedby the curriculum; however, students focus on assessment and their learning is driven by theassessment requirements. Assessment practices should be designed and implemented to drive andcomplement the learning process with the singular, focussed objective of assisting the student tooptimise learning. Higher education in the UK today is subject to a host of quality assuranceprocedures which use the processes and outcomes of assessment as indicators of institutional andprogramme ‘quality’. Higher Education has to deal with significant increases in the studentpopulation from more diversified educational backgrounds in a climate of diminishing resources.Competition for research funding

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert McHenry

ofgraduate education for academic scientific research can be distinguished best by using moderndefinitions of engineering as follows: “Engineering has a mission, purpose, and method … as a creative profession; engineering is concerned with the combining of human, material, and economic resources to meet the needs of society for the advancement and betterment of human welfare. As creative professionals, engineers purposefully conceptualize, design, and lead the systematic development of new innovative technology in the form of new and improved products, processes, systems, operations, and breakthrough developments that are responsive to real-world needs. In this process, they use the integrative engineering

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

. Retrieved March 1, 2004, from ABET website: http://www.abet.org9. Ariely, D., Kamenica, E., & Prelec, D. (2004). Man’s Search for Meaning: The Case of Legos. (Working Paper).Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology .Biographical InformationSUMI ARIELY is Research and Assessment Coordinator for the MIT Public Service Center and senior lecturer atthe Sloan School of Management. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in1999.AMY BANZAERT is a graduate student in MIT's mechanical engineering department. Previously, she worked forthree years as MIT's service learning coordinator, developing the program from its early beginnings. She has alsoworked as a design and manufacturing engineer for Texas

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackson Denise; Charles Aikens

feedback and intervention capabilities, and the design and operation of qualitymanagement programs. The consequences of these decisions are far-reaching and have strategicimplications.While the world has been changing dramatically, ironically few major changes have been madeto the baccalaureate-level industrial engineering curriculum that is common to most ABET-accredited U.S. programs. In addition, the research suggests that traditional pedagogy may beinconsistent with the teaching practices that work best in engineering education. Clearly there isa critical need to develop a comprehensive plan to reengineer the design and delivery ofindustrial engineering education.A decade ago, two independent studies (Myers and Ernst (1994) and Board of

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Stephanie G. Adams; Jeffrey W. Rieske

my new interests in graduateeducation. Hearing about their course work and projects, I became excited and desired to gainsimilar experiences, and the best way to do so would be through graduate school. From this experience I also came to realize that research skills are an invaluable part ofnot just a graduate education, but everyday life also. For example, no one would purchase a newcar without first researching such things as government crash test ratings, independent reviewsfrom such experts as Consumer Reports, and even review forums on the internet from everydaypeople who posses experience with the product. This summer, I learned the same is true ofresearching. You have to ensure that the sources you use are creditable either

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Sutterer; Robert Houghtalen; James Hanson

impacting work ethic and motivation. These must be emphasized to improve the odds of success. o An early orientation dinner should be scheduled for all students in the college/institute from different programs to get folks together and begin the process of building community. o Contact with graduate students and other researchers must be encouraged and expected. Students learn much from interacting with non faculty research personnel. o Arranged housing with students housed together is important. Students are unfamiliar with campus and have no community to move to unless this is created in advance. o If there is not community of similar students on campus, students will likely have a more difficult time. This should be

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

Conference & ExpositionCopyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Engineering Ethics Workshop: The ERC offers a very popular workshop onengineering ethics to provide the students with resources for understanding andaddressing ethically significant problems that arise in their research and their work asprofessional engineers.Communications Workshop: The communications workshop offered to the REUstudents each year includes communication skills involving poster making andpresentations, writing abstracts and papers, resume and cover letter writing. The mostpopular portion of the workshop is a segment on best practices for presenting scientificmaterial to various audiences.Engineering Graduate School Seminar: At the beginning of the

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bardo; Gary Bertoline; Eugene DeLoatch; Duane Dunlap; Albert McHenry; T.G. Stanford; S.J. Tricamo; P.Y. Lee; H.J. Palmer; Michael Dyrenfurth; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

engineering practice thatcreates new technology have been redefined in the 21st century (National Academy of Engineering).10, 11The essence of engineering is creative problem-solving and creative development to deliberately bringforth new technology and effective solutions to meet the hopes, wants, and needs of society for thegeneral betterment of human welfare. In this sense, William Wulf, president of the National Academy ofEngineering has rightfully pointed out that: “Engineering is design under constraint.” 12As such, creative engineering practice is neither viewed any longer as a secondary, follow-on function tobasic/or directed scientific research nor is engineering development perceived any longer as that whichtranslates research findings into

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Panhans; Joseph Musto; William Howard

be added to this list in the near future. AMSE views the increasedfocus of biological sciences as more than simply a response to the changing role of themechanical engineer; it is also seen as a method to recruit and retain the “best and brighteststudents” to the profession, who are apparently eschewing mechanical engineering for otherfields of study.The anticipated role of the mechanical engineer in the biotechnology fields is difficult stilldeveloping. ASME recommendations point to a role in fundamental biotechnology andbioscience, such as research on protein dynamics. The Engineer of 2020 points to a role thatseemingly fits with a more traditional interpretation of mechanical engineering, such as theapplication of equipment design and

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder

on a Collegiate Teaching Experience #1In 1999, Daria began her teaching career at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Atthat time, she instructed a Parametric Design course for senior and graduate students inmechanical and industrial systems engineering. Walking into class the first day, Daria realizedthat she had no formal training in college teaching. Concerned with her inexperience, Dariawondered what possible credentials qualified her to develop students’ talents and aptitudes. Shewas not familiar with education research or the word “pedagogy.” The only background thatDaria drew upon was the positive learning experiences in her own secondary and post-secondaryeducation. During the next 10 weeks, Daria used a syllabus that

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hjorth; Barb Eichler; John Morello; Ahmed Khan

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationII. Elements of “Best Practice” Teaching: ConstructivismDuring the past several decades, constructivism has gained popularity and advocacy as educatorshave searched for better ways to teach and learn. With traditional methods teachers have notedpersistent shortfalls in students’ understanding and a great deal of passive knowledge across allages and grades, including the universities. According to the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, 1constructivism is a "viewpoint in learning theory which holds that individuals acquire knowledgeby building it from innate capabilities interacting with the environment" (p. 64).Constructivist teaching is based on recent research about the human brain and what

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Matthews; Perry Heedley

, in which a total of 5 engineersworked on the entire analog portion and only a single engineer designed the ADC.This trend has increased the importance of teamwork and communication skills for newengineering graduates, and has received attention from bodies such as the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET)1. Employers value prospective employees withteamwork experience2. Page 10.159.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe authors believe that integrating these skills

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy L. Mahan; Martin J. Gutowski; Brian H. Victor; Mark Deluca; Sarma Pisupati

-on experimentation and plenty of out-of-classroom activity –Flash was the natural choice to allow students to have the same type of experiences in anonline environment. The activities allowed students to do everything from exploringrooms in a ‘virtual home’ in order to gain energy-usage information for commonhousehold appliances/devices, to conducting a ‘virtual experiment’ in order to determinethe best insulation method, to visiting a ‘virtual home improvement center’ in order tocompare prices and R-values of various insulation materials.The challenge from a design perspective was to capture the fun, hands-on essence of theclassroom course while keeping students engaged and focused on the learning at hand. Asmentioned previously, plenty of