AAEE 2007 Paper Sessions
Assessment
Monday 10 December, 11:00–12:30, ICT Theatre 3
Session chair: Lesley Jolly
- Dianne Hesterman, Andrew Guzzomi and Brian Stone. How to Mark Markers?
- Iouri Belski. Using Task Evaluation and Reflection Instrument for Student Self-Assessment (TERISSA) to Improve Educational Assessment and Feedback
- Sharon Nightingale, Anna Carew and Justin Fung. Application of Constructive Alignment Principles to Engineering Education: Have We Really Changed?
- Heiko Rudolph and Peter Radcliffe. Anti-Plagiarism: A Weapon of Mass Self Delusion?
The First-Year Experience
Monday 10 December, 13:30–15:00, ICT Theatre 3
Session chair: Tom Molyneaux
- Kanchana Jayasuriya and Greg Evans. Journeys in Problem-Based Learning during the First Year in Engineering
- Chris Smaill, Elizabeth Godfrey and Gerard Rowe. The Transition from Final-Year High-School Physics and Mathematics to First-Year Electrical Engineering: A Work in Progress
- Anthony Williams and Willy Sher. Using Blackboard to Monitor and Support First Year Engineering Students
- Heiko Rudolph and Peter Radcliffe. Plagiarism: A Survival Strategy or Recipe for Disaster?
Final year / Capstone / Supervision
Monday 10 December, 15:30–17:00, ICT Theatre 3
Session chair: Gerard Rowe
- F. Soltani-Tafreshi, D. R. Twigg and J. G. Dickens. The Impact of Industrial Sponsorship on the Final Year Undergraduate Engineering Students
- Mark Beckerleg and John Collins. Producing Research from Undergraduate Projects
- Kate Neely and Gary White. AutoCRC: Supporting Collaboration between the Automotive Industry and Undergraduate Students
- Xu Huang and Dharmendra Sharma. Effective Supervision: A Case Study in Engineering Research
- Guy Littlefair and Peter Gossman. Developing Robust Assessment Criteria for Postgraduate Research Oriented Papers
Teaching and Learning
Monday 10 December, 11:00–12:30, ICT Room 206
Session chair: Margaret Jollands
- George Banky. Looking for Kikan-Shido: Are Elements of It Detectable in Tertiary Engineering Pedagogy?
- Raymond Lewis. The Classroom Performance System - the Introduction of a Pedagogical Innovation in the Teaching of an Engineering Course
- Alan Jowitt and Ljiljana Jovanovic. Self-Regulated Learning Techniques for Engineering Students
- Graham Brewer, Anthony Williams and Willy Sher. Utilising Learning Contracts to Stimulate Student Ownership of Learning
- Colin Kestell and Dorothy Missingham. Student Perceptions of Lecture Quality (A Work in Progress)
Curriculum Design
Monday 10 December, 13:30–15:00, ICT Room 206
Session chair: Gary Codner
- Michael Harrap, Susan Burdekin and Raymond Lewis. The Development of the Bachelor of Technology in Aviation Degree Program at the Australian Defence Force
- Thomas Goldfinch, Anna Carew, Chris Cook, Patricio Olivares, Tim McCarthy, Paul Cooper and Sharon Nightingale. Initiating Curriculum Review: The Chilean Experience
- Roger Hadgraft. It's Time for a Coordinated Approach to Computer-Aided Learning and Assessment
- Trish Andrews and Gavin Lind. Enabling collaboration: Staff Perceptions of a National Mining Engineering Collaboration
- David Smith and Roger Hadgraft. The `Melbourne Model' and New Engineering Degrees at the University of Melbourne in 2008
Curriculum - Birds Eye View
Monday 10 December, 15:30–17:00, ICT Room 206
Session chair: Arun Patil
- Selvadore Selvalingam, Rosemary Billings and David Booth. Professional Standing of Partially or Wholly Licensed Engineering Programs in the Malaysian Context
- Lydia Kavanagh and Liza O'Moore. Enriching the Teaching Experience at UQ
- Anna Carew and Sandrine Therese. EMAP: Outcomes from Regional Forums on Graduate Attributes in Engineering
- Ronald Ward. Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on
Industry 1
Tuesday 11 December, 11:30–13:00, ICT Theatre 1
Session chair: John Smith
- Steven Goh. 2020 VISION and Its Implication for Engineering Management Education: Responding to the Needs of Industry and the Engineering Profession
- Karen Adams, Anthony Zander and Gerry Mullins. What Do Engineering Postgraduate Research Students Know about Industry Work?
- Clive Ferguson and Stuart Palmer. Australian Mechanical Engineers: Industries and Attributes
- Thomas Werner, David Hudson and Roger Hadgraft. Towards Forging Stronger Links - Overcoming the Communication Barriers between Industry, Students and Academia
Industry 2
Tuesday 11 December, 15:30–17:00, ICT Theatre 1
Session chair: David Dowling
- Christine Norton, Ian Cameron, Caroline Crosthwaite, Nicola Balliu, Moses Tade, David Shallcross, Andrew Hoadley, Geoff Barton and John Kavanagh. Pedagogic Principles for an Immersive Learning Environment for Process Engineering
- David Thorpe and Robert Fulcher. Experiences in Implementing a Postgraduate Engineering Management Program
- Peter Childs and Peter Gibson. Proposals for Strategic Development of Engineering Management Education Aimed at Improving Business Outcomes
- John Smith and Nicole Duns. Untangling Skills and Qualifications: Training Engineers and Related Professionals Capable of Filling Skill Gaps in the Mining Industry
- Keith Willey and Anne Gardner. Building Better Teams at Work using Self and Peer Assessment Practices
Women in Engineering
Tuesday 11 December, 11:30–13:00, ICT Room 206
Session chair: Rebecca Gravina
- Mara Wasburn. Strategic Collaboration and Retention of First-Year Technology Students: An Instrumental Case Study of Woman-Friendly Peer Mentoring in a Mixed-Sex Classroom
- Julie Mills, Virginia Mehrtens, Elizabeth Smith and Valerie Adams. Would You Choose an Engineering Degree Course If Given the Choice Again?
- Lesley Jolly. Women, Men and the Practice of Engineering
- Sally Male, Elaine Chapman and Mark Bush. Do Female and Male Engineers Rate Different Competencies as Important?
- Bronwyn Holland. Remembering Not to Forget Why There Are So Few Women in Engineering: The Women in Engineering Program, UTS 1981-
Communication and Reflection
Tuesday 11 December, 15:30–17:00, ICT Room 206
Session chair: Aaron Blicblau
- Alec Simcock, Juan Shi, Robert Ives, Charles Mphande and Paul Bronson. Towards Staff Awareness of Communication Education in Engineering
- Jane Moodie, Naomi Brammer and Mir-Akbar Hessami. Improving Written Communication Skills of Students by Providing Effective Feedback on Laboratory Reports
- Paul Wellington. Reflective Essays: A Tool for Learning, Course Improvement and Assessment
- Meg Rosse. Facing the Difficult Questions in Question Time
Problem-Based Learning 1
Wednesday 12 December, 9:30–11:00, ICT Theatre 1
Session chair: David Jorgensen
- Brian Stone. Problem-Based Learning Using an eBook?
- Siva Krishnan, Colleen Vale and Roger Gabb. Life in PBL: Two PBL Teams
- John Smith. Thinking Like an Engineer: "Guest Listener" Contributions to a Problem-Based Learning Course
- Rolf Nordahl and Lise Busk Kofoed. Learning Lab - Teaching Experienced Engineering Students PBL
- Benjamin Chartier and Brad Gibson. Project-Based Learning: A Search and Rescue UAV - Perceptions of an Undergraduate Engineering Design Team: A Preliminary Study
Problem-Based Learning 2
Wednesday 12 December, 11:30–13:00, ICT Theatre 1
Session chair: Wageeh Boles
- Lise Busk Kofoed and Frances Jørgensen. Using Problem Based Learning Methods from Engineering Education in Company Based Development
- Tom Molyneaux and John Brumley. The Use of Wikis as a Management Tool to Facilitate Group Project Work
- Chandika Jayasundara, Sandrine Balbo, Rod Farmer and Michael Kirley. Speclad: An Online Collaborative Problem-Based Learning Environment
- Fons Nouwens, John Mark, Patrick Keleher and Kaye Clark. Evaluating Use of an Online Concept Mapping Tool to Support Collaborative Project Based Learning
Design / Laboratories
Wednesday 12 December, 9:30–11:00, ICT Theatre 3
Session chair: Xu Huang
- Joachim Walther, Brett F. Robertson and David F. Radcliffe. Avoiding the Potential Negative Influence of CAD Tools on the Formation of Students' Creativity
- Stephen Hall, John Culvenor, Stephen Cowley and Dennis Else. Concepts of Accident Causation and their Role in Safe Design Among Engineering Students
- Euan Lindsay and Malcolm Good. Learning Styles a Potential Predictor of Student Achievement in Remote and Virtual Laboratory Classes
- Euan Lindsay, Dikai Liu, Steve Murray and David Lowe. Remote Laboratories in Engineering Education: Trends in Students' Perceptions
- Michael Harrap. An Airborne Laboratory for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education
Mathematics and Visualisation
Wednesday 12 December, 11:30–13:00, ICT Theatre 3
Session chair: Iouri Belski
- Simi Henderson and Philip Broadbridge. Mathematics for 21st Century Engineering Students
- Andrew Ooi. An Analysis of the Teaching of Mathematics in Undergraduate Engineering Courses
- Zbigniew Michalewicz and Matthew Michalewicz. Puzzle-Based Learning
- Dikai Liu, Shoudong Huang and Terry Brown. Supporting Teaching and Learning of Optimisation Algorithms with Visualisation Techniques
- Ken Sutton and Anthony Williams. Research Outcomes Supporting Learning in Spatial Ability
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Wednesday 12 December, 14:00–15:30, ICT Theatre 3
Session chair: Jamie Evans
- Alec Simcock. Action Research - Design Problems for Undergraduate Students in the Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Gerard Rowe and Chris Smaill. Development of an Electromagnetics Course-Concept Inventory - a Work-in-Progress
- Iouri Belski and D. Campbell Gray. Enhancing Students' Systems Thinking: Four-Screen Representation of Electronic Systems
- Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Samuel Freney, Julien Epps and Tim Hesketh. Self-Directed Project Based Learning - A Case Study
Sustainability
Wednesday 12 December, 9:30–11:00, ICT Room 206
Session chair: Euan Nichol
- Kurt Paterson and Valerie Fuchs. Development for the Other 80%: Engineering Hope
- Jennifer Goricanec. How to Organise a Sustaining Technological World, One that We Can Continue to Live in?
- Andrea Bunting, Andrew Carre, Friederika Kaider, John Andrews, Boo Chapple and Inger Mewburn. Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Industry: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Project-Based Learning
- Pam Hazelton and Anne Gardner. A Multidisciplinary, Multicultural Short Course Giving Young Engineers a Global Perspective on Professional Practice
Projects and Assessment
Wednesday 12 December, 11:30–13:00, ICT Room 206
Session chair: Euan Lindsay
- Keith Willey, Betty Jacobs and Mary Walmsley. Self and Peer Assessment: Professional Skill Development Requires Planned Integration not just Ad-Hoc Use
- Julie Mills. Multiple Assessment Strategies for Capstone Civil Engineering Class Design Project
- Paul Bronson, Anne Ng and Kwong Wong. Design and Implementation of a Peer Assessment Tool for Problem Based Learning in Engineering
- Lydia Kavanagh and Jasmine Steer. A Process for Proactively Ensuring Student Team Success: Perceptions of Students and Lecturers
- Olga Pierrakos, Maura Borrego and Jenny Lo. Empirical Evidence to Support Interdisciplinary Projects in Engineering Design Experiences