Conference Session

Research in Minority Issues

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tommy Stevenson, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University

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Minorities in Engineering

2006-564: PLANNING FOR DIVERSITY AT ALL LEVELSDonna Reese, Mississippi State University Donna S. Reese. Professor Reese is currently the Associate Dean for Academics and Administration for the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University and a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. She has been on the faculty at MSU for 17 years. She may be reached via email at dreese@engr.msstate.edu.Tommy Stevenson, Mississippi State University Tommy Stevenson is currently the Assistant Dean for Diversity and Student Development for the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering at Missisisippi State University. He may be contacted via email at tommy@engr.msstate.edu

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University; William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Thomas Griffith, North Seattle Community College; Michael Brzoska, Eastern Washington University

2006-406: PLANNING A DUAL-SITE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAMEsteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University ESTEBAN RODRIGUEZ-MAREK obtained his B.Sc. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Washington State University. He worked as a research scientist at Fast Search & Transfer before transferring to the Department of Engineering & Design at Eastern Washington University. He holds a Professional Engineering Certification and does research in image and video processing, communication systems, digital signal processing, and wavelet theory and applications.Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University MIN-SUNG KOH obtained his B.E. and M.S. in Control and Instrumentation Engineering

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jed Marquart, Ohio Northern University; David Sawyers, Ohio Northern University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

2006-978: THE USE OF STUDENT-GENERATED LAB PLANS IN THE THERMALSCIENCESDavid Sawyers, Ohio Northern University DAVID R. SAWYERS, JR. is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio Northern University, where he teaches courses in General Engineering and in the Thermal Sciences. He received a BSME degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and the MS and PhD, both in Mechanical Engineering, from The University of Notre Dame.Jed Marquart, Ohio Northern University JED E. MARQUART is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio Northern University, where he teaches courses in General Engineering and in the Thermal Sciences. He received a BSME degree from Ohio Northern

Conference Session

Mechanical/Manufacturing ET Design Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Drigel, Miami University

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Engineering Technology

2006-550: FROM PROJECT PLANNING TO NATIONAL CHAMPION - BUVDESIGN, BUILD AND WINGary Drigel, Miami University Gary Drigel is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at Miami University (Ohio). He received his Bachelor of Science Degree (1973) and Masters Degree (1980) in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. He has also completed all his course work and part of his thesis work for a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering at UC. Gary is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio. He has 30 years of engineering and research experience gained at Armco Research and Technology in Middletown, Ohio and has been a professor at Miami

Conference Session

Assessment of Information Literacy Programs for Engineers

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alysia Starkey, Kansas State University-Salina; Jung Oh, Kansas State University-Salina; Judith Collins, Kansas State University-Salina; Beverlee Kissick, Kansas State University-Salina

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Engineering Libraries

2006-677: FACULTY LIBRARIAN PARTNERSHIPS FOR INFORMATIONFLUENCY INSTRUCTION: PLANNING AND PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENTAlysia Starkey, Kansas State University-SalinaBeverlee Kissick, Kansas State University-Salina Head of LibrariesJudith Collins, Kansas State University-SalinaJung Oh, Kansas State University-Salina Page 11.633.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006Faculty librarian partnerships for information fluency instruction: planning and preliminary assessmentThis paper provides guidelines for writing effective information fluency assignments, derivedfrom face-to-face collaboration with faculty/librarians from two regional universities

Conference Session

Design Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hansen Lukman, Bucknell University; Steven Shooter, Bucknell University; Fabrice Alizon, Bucknell University; Asli Sahin, Virginia Tech; Robert Stone, University of Missouri-Rolla; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Timothy Simpson, Pennsylvania State University; Soundar Kumara, Pennsylvania State University

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Design in Engineering Education

enable the planned development anddeployment of families of related products whereas a traditional design processes optimize on asingle design. Product family design places an increased emphasis on management ofinformation due to the reuse aspect of having a platform. This has prompted a multi-prongedcollaborative research effort by four universities that covers many facets of the product platformrealm. The National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)Program was one of these research efforts. The REU Program gave five students from the fouruniversities the opportunity to discover platform design and participate in ongoing researchbetween the four universities. The students spent a month each at Bucknell University

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Asli Sahin, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Timothy Simpson, Pennsylvania State University; Steven Shooter, Bucknell University; Robert Stone, University of Missouri-Rolla

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Design in Engineering Education

Page 11.68.1 design competition activities of eight teams and guides the Center’s new engineering design and experiential learning initiative.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Method to Evaluate Relative Instructional Efficiencies of Design Activities for Product Platform PlanningAbstractProduct Platform Planning is markedly different from the traditional product developmentprocess and a relatively new development in engineering design. Different than optimizingproducts independently, it requires integration of principles from both management andengineering design for developing a set of products that share common features, components,and/or modules. To present the basic principles of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Applications

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jana Whittington, Purdue University-Calumet; Kim Nankivell, Purdue University-Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University-Calumet; James Higley, Purdue University-Calumet

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Engineering Design Graphics

2006-1724: BUILDING SOFT SKILLS INTO A CGT PROGRAM: PLANNING FORACCREDITATION AND JOB SUCCESSJana Whittington, Purdue University-CalumetKim Nankivell, Purdue University-CalumetJoy Colwell, Purdue University-CalumetJames Higley, Purdue University-Calumet Page 11.298.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006Building Soft Skills into a CGT Program: Planning for Accreditation and Job SuccessAbstractPurdue University Calumet has long supported engineering technology, with some programsfinding their roots in World War II industrial training programs. Only recently, however, has theuniversity added a program in Computer Graphics

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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John E. De Leon, Kansas State University at Salina

test by the new head of Engineering Technology (ET) at Kansas State University at Salina inthe 2005 fall semester. The University’s Provost challenged the academic departments toinstitute a strategic plan that synchronized with nine University mission-related themes. Thispaper chronicles the department head’s experiences in his attempt to satisfy the directive.IntroductionK-State at Salina. The College of Technology and Aviation, a consequence of a merger of theKansas College of Technology with Kansas State University (K-State) under an enactment of the1991 Kansas Legislature, has its own campus, located approximately 75 miles west of the maincampus in Manhattan, Kansas. Students enjoy the benefits of a Big-12 University within theclose-knit

Conference Session

EM in a Global Environment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Divakar Rajamani, University of Texas-Dallas

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Engineering Management

, Cellular Manufacturing Systems: Design, Planning and Control, which was published in 1996. Page 11.180.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 An Effective Framework for Teaching Supply Chain ManagementAbstractTo survive in today’s competitive business environment, companies strive to adopt thestrategies of supply chain management. Thus, supply chain management has become anintegral part of the engineering management curriculum. This paper discusses aframework that can be helpful for teaching and managing supply chains effectively. Theframework that is named the “Supply Chain Management Process Map” establishes

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Dana Newell, Arizona State University

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Minorities in Engineering

on a detailed timemanagement schedule and the activities that go with it using Donna Johnson’s 4.0 Plan. Thepresentation of the process, the student assignments, the students’ reactions, and the results of ayear of this program will be discussed. The success of the program is very dependent on thecommitment of the student to the 4.0 Plan. Dramatic results have occurred with students whowere resolved to raise their GPA. Lessons learned and an evaluation of the program will also bediscussed in this paper.I. IntroductionIn fall 2003, the first class of National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME)academic scholars was held in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. These 21 minorityentering freshmen students had this

Conference Session

Reforming the Industrial Engineering Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharon Johnson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Diane Strong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Jamshed Mistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Industrial Engineering

2006-2338: INTEGRATING ENTERPRISE DECISION-MAKING MODULESSharon Johnson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Sharon A. Johnson is Director of the Industrial Engineering Program and an associate professor of operations and industrial engineering in the Department of Management at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She teaches courses in process management, facility layout and design, and production planning and control. Dr. Johnson received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering in 1989. Dr. Johnson’s research interests include lean manufacturing and operations design, process modeling, and reverse logistics. With co-investigators Arthur

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Sherrill, University of Houston; Thomas Duening, Arizona State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Page 11.1208.3This paper presents a logico-deductive analysis of the leading approaches to entrepreneurshipeducation. We have identified the six leading approaches as: • The Business Plan approach • The Resource Based approach • The Entrepreneurial Mindset approach • The Case Study approach • The Simulation Experience approach • The Entrepreneurial Personality approachSince entrepreneurship education has only recently become a focus of academic scholarship,little empirical data exist on which curricular approach works best to convey the fundamentals ofentrepreneurship.3 Worse, there is little agreement among scholars and other interested partiesabout the fundamental ends

Conference Session

Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Ring, Dublin Institute of Technology; Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University

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International

2006-2408: FACULTY PERSPECTIVES ON INSTRUCTIONALCOLLABORATION AS A COMPONENT OF INTERNATIONAL LINKAGEMichael Dyrenfurth, Purdue UniversityMichael Ring, Dublin Institute of Technology Page 11.634.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006TO: Dr. Nick SafaiFrom: Michael DyrenfurthRe: International Program SessionHello & Please note that the progress on the session we discussed is moving along wellalthough we will not be able to submit more than drafts of the papers at this time.I have been in touch with the Dean of DIT in Ireland and they will be finalizing plans as towho is coming this week and that will need to be reflected in the final papers.Given this, I am

Conference Session

Professional Development/Scholarship & Service Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University

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Engineering Technology

. Page 11.1123.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Service Learning Projects as Platforms for an Undergraduate Project Management CourseAbstractOne of the challenges facing today’s engineering faculty is how to make the textbook knowledgereal to the student. This is especially true in the area of project management where the essenceof the subject is a combination of people skills and planning skills. Both of these skills havebeen identified by ABET as essential skills for the next generation of engineers1. At WesternCarolina University, project management is a senior level course and a requirement forgraduation. Prior approaches to the course required the creation of individual project as part

Conference Session

EM Program Trend and Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron Foster, University of Arkansas; Ken Vickers, University of Arkansas

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Engineering Management

to choose, but the practice of management in the academicsetting would be difficult.First, it was recognized early in the program planning that the professional behaviors observedby UA students during their undergraduate/graduate careers are overwhelmingly academic innature. As in every profession, current academic professional behaviors have developed over thelast fifty years under the influence of the academic reward and recognition systems that havegrown over that same time period. The rewards to faculty at the UA are similar to typicalsystems in PhD granting institutions, in that they focus on tenure and promotion with a largeelement of the assessment function concentrated on research attainment and publication.Even with an increased

Conference Session

Assessment & TC2K Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Crossman, Old Dominion University; Alok Verma, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) but it isalso a necessary condition for the maturation and development of any engineeringtechnology program. The assessment and continuous improvement plan discussed here was developedat Old Dominion University (ODU) and implemented during the last accreditation cyclewithin the Engineering Technology Department. The plan is based on two cycles ofassessment and evaluation, a short cycle of one year and a long term cycle of three years.The plan includes a variety of assessment methods and tools. In addition to assessing theachievement of program outcomes, the plan allows assessment of program objectives andgoals. A method for individual course assessment is also presented. Issues related

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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G. Padmanabhan, North Dakota State University; Wei Lin, North Dakota State University; Robert Pieri, North Dakota State University; Floyd Patterson, North Dakota State University; Eakalak Khan, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

engineering applications. Many students have difficulty connecting math and sciencecourses to common phenomena seen all around and to future careers. This problem is furtheraggravated on Indian reservations in North Dakota because of their isolated locations anddistance from industries. The authors developed a weekend academic program, “SundayAcademy”, carried out on four North Dakota Indian reservations, to stimulate Native Americanstudents’ interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), to attract toengineering programs, and to engage high school teachers and tribal college instructors in theprocess of developing engineering and applied science lesson plans. The academy consisted of aseries of one-day academic sessions

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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LeeRoy Bronner; Swagata Pramanik; Akeila Richards

military has problems in sorting out all the data available oninsurgency for strategic purposes. To be effective in their strategic plans, themilitary needs a way to ask questions of insurgency information and receiveimmediate responses.The Engineering and Psychology departments at Morgan State University (MSU)in collaboration have developed an Insurgency Information Framework (IIF). AnIIF is a logical structure for organizing, classifying and presenting complexinsurgency information for military decision making. The IIF is developed byanalyzing and modeling the answers to questions such as: 1) How areinsurgencies planned for and what is the process? 2) Does insurgent behaviorprovide any insight into their future plans or actions (i.e., are

Conference Session

Design in Manufacturing

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wangping Sun, Oregon Institute of Technology; John Anderson, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

the experiences of MFG 407 instructors regarding how to set up a project-based learning environment in the engineering course. Keywords Engineering education; Facilities Planning; Material Handling; Project-based learning.IntroductionProject-based learning (PBL) is any learning environment in which the problem drives thelearning 1. PBL emphasizes learning activities that are interdisciplinary, student-centered, andintegrated with real-world issues and practices 2. It is currently the most-favored pedagogicalmodel for teaching design 3 and has the following significant benefits as far as learning, workhabits, problem-solving capabilities, and self-esteem are concerned 2, 4-7: • PBL is learner-centered. It

Conference Session

New Topics in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim Needy, University of Pittsburgh

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Industrial Engineering

, many of thecommon project management tools used for developing a project plan such as developing astatement of work, a project charter, a work breakdown structure, a linear responsibility chart,and a Gantt chart are discussed. What better way to learn this material than by applying it to areal project setting. Beginning in the third week of the semester, students are grouped into 6-person teams with an aim at ensuring diversity with respect to gender, discipline, and academicability. The instructor then assigns a project to the students lasting about three weeks. Theproject deliverables include a final project report and an oral presentation. In the fall 2005, aneffort was made to assign projects that emphasized the societal context of

Conference Session

1st Year Retention Programs for Women Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Donohue, University of Virginia; Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia

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Women in Engineering

and Engineering (WISE) at peer institutions (see 4, 5, 6, 7, for example) wouldbe the vehicle for co-ordinating and implementing recruitment, retention, and support activitiesfor both undergraduate and graduate female engineering students. Establishing the Initiativewould give greater visibility to these activities, and the additional CDE staff would be dedicatedresources. Organizing current and planned activities and outreach projects also provides theopportunity to capture, quantify, and assess project performance in a systematic manner. Theability to evaluate project performance quantitatively is extremely critical to establishing thesuccess of the Initiative.One popular component of WIE and WISE programs is a seminar offering educational

Conference Session

Trend in Construction Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Arumala, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Khaled Nassar, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Emmanuel Akinjide, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Anthony Stockus, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Carlos Salgado, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore

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Construction

design optimization to multimedia and virtual reality applications. He has published over 35 refereed journal and conference papers and advised 5 MS students on topics ranging from data mining applications, to simulation. In addition to being a book and paper reviewer for several journals, he has developed an add-in software to MS project to help in scheduling linear projects. He has also provided professional training on a number of software to various design firms such as Alfred Benesch, Chicago Illinois, a fortune 500 company.Emmanuel Akinjide, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore Mr. Akinjide is the Associate Director of the Physical Plan at UMES and is a registered Electrical Engineer

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education - A 10,000' View

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clifton Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College; John Farris, Grand Valley State University; Jana Goodrich, Pennsylvania State University-Erie; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Robert Weissbach, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

above, and although PUI faculty could learn from theirresearch colleagues, they would also be well-served by a PUI network to identify, develop, anddisseminate best practices for their institutions, particularly with regard to entrepreneurship Page 11.629.3education.In May 2005, this group received an NCIIA grant proposal to identify and document bestpractices3. The group prepared an initial set of five topic areas during that summer and met inAugust 2005 to critique and validate best practices, brainstorm connections between topic areas,identify areas of future development, and plan strategies for documenting and disseminating thegroup results

Conference Session

Evaluation and Assessment of IE Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Radharamanan, Mercer University

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Industrial Engineering

Engineering Education (SUCCEED) proposed a 10-step qualitymanagement support model in support of engineering education reform1, and a qualitymanagement plan based on service quality had been developed and implemented at IndianaUniversity Southeast2.A series of innovative quality planning approaches important for the success of comprehensivequality planning model have been presented and supported by data from a case study for thefirst-year curriculum at Texas A&M University. It has been verified that the inclusion ofconcepts from systems engineering, quality function deployment (QFD), quality management,and utility theory can not only prove useful in strategic planning but also assist the decision-making team by taking into account the voice of

Conference Session

Professional Development Programs for Teachers

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Patricia McNerney, University of Cincinnati; Suzanne Soled, University of Cincinnati; Kelly Obarski, University of Cincinnati; Mingming Lu, University of Cincinnati; Richard Miller, University of Cincinnati; Daniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati; Heng Wei, University of Cincinnati; Thaddeus Fowler, University of Cincinnati

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

professional development activities executed are presented, second theassessment process used as part of the evaluation plan is described, third the outcomes of theevaluation plan are presented and how these results obtained are planned to be used for futureimprovements, and finally the general conclusions from the whole experience are summarized.Hopefully, this documentation will help others in planning similar experiences for K-12 teachers. In a world with rapidly changing technology and a global economy, there is a growingconcern that Americans will not remain competitive1. The well being of our nation dependsupon how well we educate our children in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM). Poorly prepared instructors teach

Conference Session

Building Blocks for Public Policy in Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Haight, Pennsylvania State University; Richard Devon, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

explicitly. One class approached it as a problem in engineering design. The otheraddressed it in terms of the emergency preparedness and planning effort in New Orleans. Thelatter is certainly closer to public policy than engineering design is, but it still focused more onwhat happened rather than what was planned or what policies drove the planning.In fact, the unfolding events and coverage, which still continues, made a top down approachrather impractical. Yet both instructors found that a great many policy issues were raised by thestudents in their projects and these are summarized and reported here. This is, then, an inductiveand student centered approach to engineering and public policy. We report on a “found policy”equivalent to what is

Conference Session

Software Engineering Curriculum Support

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Clifton, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

computing curricula in a varietyof ways. Authors have written about integrating software testing throughout their curriculum andusing software development methods such as Extreme Programming2, 3, 4. Papers have beenwritten on how some software engineering techniques, such as pair programming, can helpincrease retention, particularly of female students7, 8.This paper suggests that other software engineering practices can be used to help increase thesuccess rates in lower division courses, which should translate into increased retention rates. Inparticular, use of detailed work plans and periodically monitored time logs and version controlcheck-ins is examined. The underlying assumption is that students need to be encouraged to startprograms early

Conference Session

Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Meyer, U.S. Military Academy; Allen Estes, U.S. Military Academy; Ronald Welch, U.S. Military Academy; David Winget, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Assessment the Easy Way: Using Embedded Indicators to Assess Program OutcomesI. IntroductionThe culminating design experience for civil engineering majors at the United States MilitaryAcademy (USMA) is CE492, Design of Structural Systems. CE492 serves as a “capstone”experience or one in which students are faced with a multi-disciplinary design projectincorporating facets from all previous civil engineering courses. Previous capstone experienceshave required students to design structures planned for construction or currently underconstruction at the Academy, thus providing an opportunity for site visitations and activeparticipation with key players in the project development process. Since CE492 provides amulti-disciplinary

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Koehler, North Carolina State University; Jerome Lavelle, North Carolina State University; Susan Matney, North Carolina State University; Mary Clare Robbins, North Carolina State University

MENTOR program was to extend these successes, and to provide amentoring experience for all ~1200 of our entering first-semester engineering students. Thispaper describes the background, implementation, assessment, and future plans of the program.BackgroundIn order to understand the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges of a program withthe scope and size of the MENTOR Program, we benchmarked our plans with peer program dataavailable in the literature. In addition, we looked at the components of our existing mentoringprograms for women and minority engineers. Below are details of each of these programs –which formed the basis of our implementation and assessment plan.Peer mentoring programs of various kinds have been part of