Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Tammy VanDeGrift; Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

Session 3555 Preparing Future Engineering Faculty: Initial Outcomes of an Innovative Teaching Portfolio Program Angela Linse, Jennifer Turns, Jessica M. H. Yellin, Tammy VanDeGrift University of WashingtonAbstractEngineering graduate students have few opportunities to explore and develop scholarlyapproaches to teaching compared to graduates in other fields. As part of an NSF funded teachingand learning center, we have developed the Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program (ETPP).Our initial step has been to design the program and conduct a formal study of how twoindependent

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

Technology 7/ Western Carolina University 8 AbstractThis is the fourth paper in the special panel session focusing on issues driving reform of faculty rewardsystems to advance professional engineering education for creative engineering practice and leadership oftechnological innovation to enhance U.S. competitiveness. This paper explores the conceptual beginningsof a template for improved faculty reward systems that better reflect the practice of engineering for full-time, tenure track professionally oriented faculty in schools of engineering and technology.1. Background and HistoryThe United States has built an excellent system of research-oriented graduate education that is second tonone for the

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed Crowley; Susan Miertschin

PortfolioPrior to starting work, it is important that each student define their portfolio audience as clearlyas possible. The specific audience determines the appropriateness of many portfolio attributesincluding media design, navigation, content, resolution. Historically, not all UH IT students areready to define their prospective employers in detail sufficient for the portfolio project.Consequently, faculty members have written specifications for an offline project notebook thatstudents now build prior to beginning their portfolio projects. This structured course elementencourages reflections that facilitate student self analysis. Specific self analysis exercises includea “Skills Analysis”, a “Knowledge and Learning Style” Analysis, a “Career

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

notice, or in aself-defining time period. Personal ethics are tested when engineers are engaged inconvergent thinking and not paying attention to the sudden dilemma facing them. It isthen we conduct an “Unanticipated Moral Query.” There are several questions to beasked of students when they feel they have to make a major decision in their engineeringcareers. Questions such as: If this was my business, would I make the same decision? Ifmy action faced public scrutiny, would I be ashamed? Would it be acceptable forsomeone else to treat you in the same manner? How would you handle this situation ifyou knew the other person would find out? Would you treat this person this way if he/shewere a family member or friend? If you were going to purchase and

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

deal of professionaldevelopment for graduate students, the professional development among the faculty has beenremarkable. Each faculty group brought different perspectives, expertise, and literature fromtheir field to the project. Each faculty member has grappled with and gained a great deal of newknowledge and understanding from the interactions among the various faculty groups. Page 9.919.10 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe education faculty contributed expertise in teaching and

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

then, a more liberal classroom setting, which features: active learning,care, and accommodates students’varied learning styles, may emerge. Page 9.709.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIn this endeavor, the author draws on his own experience as a faculty member in the Arab GulfStates (recently in Qatar and earlier in Saudi Arabia); in addition to views and suggestions of:colleagues, students, graduates, and business leaders.A Glimpse at Engineering Education in the Arab Gulf

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Amin Karim; Ahmed Khan

educators. Industry seeks graduates with up-to-date technical knowledge. Thehalf-life of an engineer's technical skills - how long it takes for half of everything anengineer knows about the field to become obsolete - is becoming strikingly short. Thepace of technological change has also imposed new challenges on faculty developmentand technical currency programs. Faculty professional development activities andtechnical currency play an important role in promoting student learning and success.Especially for non-research (purely teaching) institutions that offer technology drivenprograms, one of the most important factors determining student success is the technicalcurrency of faculty members. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyler Cummings-Bond; Robin Adams

], intrinsic motivation, and border agent practices. Here, border agentsrefer to those who can transverse and integrate the trading zone between disciplines and serve astransformative agents [11]. From this perspective engineering education is an “interdiscipline”building bridges between what we know about the nature of engineering and what we knowabout the nature of human learning.In this paper we explore three publicly available datasets to take a first cut at the question “whatdo we know about career trajectories in engineering education?” The first data set are recipientsof the ASEE Educational Research and Methods Apprentice Faculty Grant which includesgraduate students and young academics who at the time of the award were not in tenure

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Baty; Patricia Fox

Authority? Learning and Active Resistance, College Teaching., Summer 2002 v51 i3 p86(6).Biographical InformationPAULA BATYPaula is a senior standing student in the Department of Construction Technology. Paula will graduate in May 2003with a Bachelor of Science. Paula is a member of the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), the Society ofStudent Constructors (SSC), and the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE). She is employed part-time and summers as an Engineer Student Trainee with the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Services. Paulareceived an undergraduate research grant from IUPUI for research work she did in Germany during the summer of2003 on green vegetated roofs.PATRICIA L. FOXPatricia L. Fox is the Associate

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kim Covington; Jeff Froyd

changing faculty) is being explored in an NSF-supported project “Changing Faculty throughLearning Communities.” The project employs four mechanisms to promote change in facultymembers: speakers, workshops, faculty learning communities (FLC), and matching grants tosupport women students. Specifically, the project aims to catalyze changes in the way facultythink about four concepts that are tightly linked to the concept of gender diversity: 1) mentalmodels, 2) development and invitation, 3) personal vision and commitment, and 4) the culture ofengineering and science. The following paper describes change mechanisms, highlighting FLC,and four changes that learning community participants report. Participants a) shifted fromsearching for external

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cullinane; Baris Yanmaz; Ronald Perry

the position, salary, responsibilities, characteristics needed to succeed at the employingcompany, and why the respondent moved to IT if a career transition was made. DFB includesquestions about age, gender, family and living situation, and general and technical education offamily members. The EECI category covers courses taken in high school and college; the influ-ence of relatives, teachers and friends on the respondent's choice of an IT career; and the influ-ence of personal attributes and activities on the choice of IT. WRA includes characteristics andbenefits of the job that are important to the respondent. Completed questionnaires were received from 431 respondents (289 women and 142men), 92% of whom are U.S. citizens. The mean

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

other science, technology, andmathematics disciplines, graduates of engineering programs typically enter a work environmentthat immediately requires team and interpersonal process skills. From the perspective ofeducation, positive team project experiences can motivate students to perform at higher levels.Well-functioning teams have been shown to improve learning and retention in non-engineeringfields, especially for members of underrepresented groups3,4,5,6,7.Previous research suggests that while most engineering faculty are committed to using projectteams in their classrooms, they have little or no formal training on how to work with studentteams or how to teach team members to work well together8. Focused on their discipline and onpedagogy

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Rowe; Tim Mulroy

variety of workingenvironments, mostly within England but with a significant number working in other countries.In program documentation, the advantages of placement are celebrated and attempts to quantifythe learning outcomes achieved have been made. However, because of the wide variety ofgeographical and cultural locations, work environments and the faculty lack of day to daycontrol once a student has been placed, it is difficult to write these learning outcomes from anevidence base.In this paper a qualitative approach has been used to illuminate the academic, personal andprofessional development of students resulting from the placement experience, based on theanalysis of semi-structured student interview data. This paper reports upon the

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mara Wasburn

professional and personal lives,and students have an opportunity to sign up for lunch with them to continue the conversation.Final class project. Students are given the opportunity to select one of several projects due at theend of the semester: (1) Investigate a career of particular interest and write a brief reportdetailing special requirements needed to enter the field, the specific job responsibilities,challenges that the job presents and strategies for dealing with them, what excites them about thisjob, etc.; (2) Job shadow and interview a female technology professional, and write a brief reportdescribing her job, how she spent her day, the structure of the company where she works, andobservations made during the visit; etc; (3) Read a book

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Krause

and one professorof science education. An educational psychology professor and a graduate student in scienceeducation participated in the evaluation. The class met in an industrial engineering lab withaccess to a wide range of materials, tools, and technical assistance. The class was held weeklyfor 3 hours but frequently ran overtime due to student interest and engagement. Students wererequired to read assignments from both the science education and engineering literature. Studentswere pre and post tested each week on the readings. Students wrote weekly reflections thataddressed the readings, class activities, what they were learning, and personal insights. At thebeginning of each class readings were discussed and students shared their

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Newberry; James Farison

number of graduates during 2003 ranged from 8 to 64, with a mean of 35 and anaverage of 34.A2. The trend in the number of graduates is generally stable, ranging from cyclical variation tostable to growth, and generally equal or better than campus overall.A3. With regard to why the Engineering program was the only engineering program on campus,most (11 of 14) indicated some combination of size, history and philosophy. Two indicated thatstate limitations require new programs to be distinct or unique.A4. Most (10 or 14) felt that prospective students select the field (engineering) first then theinstitution, although 3 felt it was a combination decision and 1 that it was the institution first.A5. Nearly all respondents indicated that the Engineering

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

1990s, therefore much of the increase in the percentage ofwomen was actually due to many thousands of men leaving the field. Secondly, when the data isdisaggregated by discipline, greater disparities are found. For example, Chemical Engineeringincreased their percentage of women graduates from 21.7% in 1986 to 35.4% in 2000; however,Electrical Engineering (the largest discipline) only increased their percentage from 12.4% to13.3% in the same time span (which was not statistically different from no increase at all). My analysis of this graduation data, my experiences as an engineering student andprofessor, and my involvement with the American Society of Engineering Education leads me tobelieve that a new phase of research on equity in

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

role of faculty, practitioners, and students in imparting the BOK by means of B+M/30 programs. Seek input from and support for the preceding from forward-looking academics and practitioners.The Committee defined the BOK as the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become alicensed professional civil engineer. The BOK would be fulfilled by a carefully integratedcombination of pre-licensure formal education and pre-licensure experience. PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present the recommendations of the BOK Committee and tointroduce the curricula design project, the current phase of BOK development. For

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

the “Other” category do not fit strictlywithin the Boyer model but are still potentially valuable sources of improvement. For example,Chickering’s recommendation 55to “Advise students about career opportunities in theirmajor/field of study” is not describing an innovative application of knowledge, the developmentof new knowledge, the synthesis of different strands of knowledge, or teaching new knowledge;however, it may be categorized in our remaining dimensions as “Encouraging faculty-studentcontact” for the purpose of “changing the environment,” with the intended goal of enhancingcommunity.3. Category: PurposeThree major categories divide the practices into their purposes: improving teaching, redesigningcourses, and changing learning

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Hassall; Jose Arquero; John Joyce; Ian Robinson; Michael Bramhall

engineers. The outcomes werepublished in a new edition of SARTOR (Standards and Routes to Registration) in 19975. Thisintroduced many changes, many of which are not relevant to this study but one of thefundamental new features was an explicit requirement for accredited programmes to develop andassess student transferable skills within the curriculum: “All accredited engineering courses must provide for the personal and professional development of students. As all engineering students will not necessarily seek careers in engineering, the emphasis should be on personal development” 5.It would be good to think that the focus on communication skills over the last 20 years, to meetthe accreditation requirements of the professional body

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

years.The Alternative Fuels and Fuel Cell Enterprise (AFE) is run as a business with studentmanagement and faculty oversight. The students have arranged themselves into sub-teams that are active in the following projects: ‚" Development of a hybrid diesel / fuel cell military transport ‚" AIChE Chem-E-Car competition ‚" Recruting, public relations, and fundraising ‚" Business plan and accountingThe paper will further illustrate the structure of Michigan Tech’s enterprise program andhow AFE is helping students learn to solve real-world energy problems, work in teams,and communicate with other students, faculty, and industry.Motivation for Alternative EnergyThe search for alternative energy sources is an area that has received great

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Olds

have taken onthe role of K12 curricular materials developers. An engineering faculty member and aneducation/engineering faculty member at Northwestern University who are both involved in theNSF-sponsored VaNTH Engineering Research Center encouraged university students tovolunteer extracurricular time to develop a challenge-based module that would engage middleschool students in the engineering design process2. Middle school science teachers, faculty fromthe school of education, and faculty from the school of engineering helped round out the initialworking team. About 30 undergraduate and graduate science and engineering students haveworked together for about 2 years to develop a 600+-minute module that challenges middleschool students to draw

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana Muldrow; Rosa Cano; Deran Hanesian; Henry McCloud; Angelo Perna; Howard Kimmel

pursue their education to the doctoral level. Inaddition, the aim of the McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program is to produce morefaculties from the underrepresented student body. Undergraduate students who enter theseprograms gain an insight into the research process, learn about Graduate Schools and learn aboutan academic career. Page 9.684.10 The URE Program, which was initiated in 1990, allows students to perform research andindependent study under the guidance of a Faculty Advisor. The program provides technical Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Sinha; Randolph Thomas; John Kulka

details of the profession.4.3. Societal Values and MoralityThe study of the acceptable standards of a society is a component of schooling that is essential inhelping students to become contributing, responsible and ethically mature persons [20]. Humans,by their very nature, are moral beings. On a daily basis, it is necessary to confront decisions,choices and judgments that involve degrees of “rightness” and “wrongness” [19].Universities have a role in providing students with the “tools” necessary to improve theirdecision-making abilities [15]. The importance of this area of education can be obscured by itscomplexities. However, the Universities are, inevitably, a source of ethical education. The choiceis whether or not it will be an explicit

Conference Session

Novel Courses for ChEs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Dickson

current industry specific technicalsubject material in their programme.However, as part of ongoing course review procedures, three factors influenced afurther change of course delivery: • Recognition that school leavers have an incomplete view of how a course in chemical engineering will lead to a career in the process industries. • Feedback from graduating students on their performance at job interviews. • End-of-year course assessment suggesting limited choices of optional modules in year five.As a result of this process, two new modules have been introduced into the degreeprogramme • A second year class in “Business Management Practices”. • A fifth year (for MEng students) class in “General and Strategic

Conference Session

Collaborative Programs and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scogtt Magids; Sarah Djamshidi; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

carried out to date is 5:1.As of October 2003, 256 faculty members of 11 of the 13 University System of Marylandinstitutions have conducted 445 projects for 300 companies. Over half of the projectshave been for small and startup companies.2.3. Maryland Technology Extension Service (MTES)Started almost 20 years ago, MTES is a program that provides practical, hands-onbusiness and technical assistance to Maryland companies, especially those inmanufacturing, typically of small and medium size. The MTES mission is twofold: toapply Clark School of Engineering resources to the benefit Maryland manufacturers andto strengthen the competitiveness of Maryland manufacturers by providing information,decision support, and implementation assistance.As an

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; John Demel; Richard Freuler

students dropped out of engineering before completing the pre- major core curriculum.Stark reality was brought home somewhat later by a careful study20 of 1988 first yearengineering students that was completed in 1996. This study revealed the overall retention ratefor freshman students who expressed an intention to study engineering was less than 40%, withmost attrition occurring during the first and second years. Against this backdrop of poorretention of engineering students and preparation shortfalls in those that did graduate, a smallgroup of Engineering Graphics, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and EngineeringMechanics faculty worked together with a few select, cooperative faculty from the Mathematicsand Physics departments to

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Reed Stevens; Lorraine Fleming; Cynthia Atman; Sheri Sheppard; Theresa Barker; Ruth Streveler

in small group tutorials, seminars or one-to-one faculty-supervised work. 4) Diversity is a key factor in learning to think more widely about subjects, as students encounter and learn to understand alternate viewpoints to their personal perspectives.The study results also recommend the acquisition of such specific skills as learning timemanagement, getting help when needed, teaching students to think like professionals, teachingthe use of evidence in making decisions and evaluating policies, and making use ofinterdisciplinary ideas in educational experiences.Alexander Astin has conducted research using surveys with 200,000 or more students, intostudent development in higher education. Astin surveyed freshmen for over twenty years

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Granlund

gather and record information as they complete the design challenge. (4) Every student team is required to prepare a final design report in which team members’ work and findings are summarized. The final design report is a written report in which at least two product styles are compared. For example, a team might look at a drawer-type CD holder versus a flip-lid type. The report should include an evaluation of possibilities presented by various manufacturing methodologies studied in this course. In addition, the design decisions made by the student team must be justified in the report. (5) The student team is required to build a model of one of the styles analyzed

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

engineering science, design and project-management by executing a real-world project.The projects have been generated both in-house through the sponsorship of a BinghamtonUniversity faculty member and externally by an industrial client. Additionally amechanism was established wherein a team of students developed a project from theirown imagination with the requirement that an engineering faculty member serve as theadvisor. The course sequence has been offered for the past two years. Data gathered fromthe offering of the courses as well as assessment of the students’ experiences has shedlight on both the strengths and weaknesses of the existing engineering program.Introduction Each year, more than 100 students receive undergraduate degrees in