2006-736: KAMIKAZE: INVESTIGATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATERVEHICLE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND UNDERGRADUATEEDUCATION AND TRAININGBrian Howell, Western Carolina University Dr. Howell is the Program Director for Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Western Carolina UniversityStephen Wood, Florida Tech Dr. Wood is an Assistant Professor in Ocean Engineering at the Department of Marine and Environmental Systems Page 11.853.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 KAMIKAZE: INVESTIGATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND UNDERGRADUATE
education research by examining the ISEE model. We also describe the successesand challenges experienced as we near completion of the second of three cycles, andimplications for future community building efforts. One finding is that community at the locallevel is crucial. While expanding the national community of engineering education researchersis important, scholars who are new to the field need a community of like-minded colleagues withwhom they can give and receive feedback on works-in-progress. We also found that engineeringfaculty tend to have difficulty with particular aspects of educational research, such as navigatinga new disciplinary language, utilizing qualitative research methodologies, and analyzingqualitative data. We found that
on module design, to Jairam Eswara for providing the exam data from theoriginal curriculum, to Itty ‘James’ Samuel for his work implementing the tutorials, to Ragu Vijaykumarfor his work implementing the simulation, and to Professor Robert Linsenmeier of NorthwesternUniversity for his valuable insights on module design.References1. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Eds: Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., Cocking,R.R.. National Academy Press (Washington; 1999).2. Gunter H.E., Bonventre, J.V., D’Avila M.A., Sadeghpour S., Vijaykumar R. (2003), “EducationInnovation in Physiology” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education AnnualConference. Nashville, TN, June 22-25, 2003.3. Henrickson S.E., Gunter H.E
2006-142: THE PARALLEL CURRICULUM MODEL: UNDERSTANDINGENGINEERING EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS TO OPTIMIZE STUDENTLEARNINGYvonne Ng, College of St. Catherine Yvonne Ng, M.S.M.E., teaches computer science and engineering for non-majors at the College of St. Catherine. Educated as a mechanical and aerospace engineer, she worked in industry as an automation design engineer and contract programmer. She made computer science a more appealing topic for her all-women undergraduate student body by presenting this technically valuable course in a more comprehensive manner. She is currently working with the college’s AS and AAS program to create pathways for students to enter technical colleges and engineering
2006-2523: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE / ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNChristopher Jarrett, Georgia Institute of Technology Chris Jarrett is Associate Director and Associate Professor of the Architecture Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He teaches courses on architecture and ecology, eco-tectonics, and graduate design studios addressing a range of contemporary green topics. Page 11.594.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Environmental Science / Environmental DesignAbstractEnvironmental science has formed the central part of ecological discourse in architecture. It hasbeen the
2006-1392: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF CRITICAL THINKING INSTRUCTIONUPON THE PREPARATION OF FRESHMAN STUDENTS TO PURSUEADVANCED DEGREES IN ENGINEERINGAnnette Donawa, Morgan State University/CAMRA Annette Mallory Donawa is currently working on her Ph.D. in Higher Education and Administration at Morgan State University. Within the NASA-sponsored Center of Advanced Microwave Research and Applications (CAMRA), she assists the Director, Dr. Carl White, with strategic planning, in addition to staff and project management. Her engineering education research is focused on assessing the impact of teaching critical thinking to African American engineering students. The goal is to prepare and motivate
2006-1605: INCORPORATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN EXPERIENCEIN THE INTEGRATED ENGINEERING PROJECT DESIGN MODELJose Guevara, University of Puerto Rico Dr. Guevara is an associate professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, he is leading the work to make improvements to the capstone course and helping also in the improvements to the curriculum. He has also work as a structural consultant for a wide variety of projects including commercial, residential, industrial, transportation, marine facilities as well as the tren urbano.Ismael Pagan-Trinidad, University of Puerto Rico-MayaguezDidier Valdes-Diaz, University of Puerto Rico-MayaguezEileen Pesantes, University of Puerto Rico
highly motivating: instructorenthusiasm, demonstrated relevance through examples, instructor organization,appropriateness of difficulty level, active student participation, variety of instructionalmethods, instructor interest in students and their learning, and the use of real, concreteexamples23. Alternatively, McKeachie suggests guiding students toward developingspecific learning goals for a given course and requiring that they track their progresstoward these goals as a means of motivation24. By remaining mindful of these relativelystraightforward ways in which students may be motivated, instructors can be betterequipped to promote positive efficacy.ConclusionsBoth first-year engineering students enrolled in an honors program and those not
forinstructors to evaluate student design processes10 and monitor student comprehension of andreceptivity to specific course topics, along with general feedback about the course.With enhanced student learning in mind, we have introduced semester-long learning journalassignments into undergraduate mechanical engineering design courses. The instructor guidesthe journaling activity by providing reflection questions to aid in topic selection, along withexemplary samples and a grading rubric to establish expectations. In turn, the students arerequired to write short weekly journal entries of 200-500 words that culminate in a 1000-2000word final entry at the end of the semester. In this paper, we provide an overview of the learningjournal initiative and a
foreseeable future and can develop a history of the reconstructionas it is used.These are the very broad public policy issues that ran through the instructors’ minds as we ranour classes, despite our lack of a form approach to policy 1. How hard is it to design a socio-technical system for New Orleans that would be safe? What could first year engineers do to understand the problems and redesign New Orleans. Insofar as they succeed, the implications are that the considerable levels of complexity and technological difficulty are not the issue. 2. Is the image of a devastated New Orleans coupled with poor design, poor planning and a hapless response a public policy issue for engineering in the United States. How inept and
Carnot’sfascination with steam power led to statements of the second law grounded in heat engines, while Page 11.1003.6subsequent statements by Clausius became more abstract due to a quest for parsimony andelegance. It also supported students’ critical reading of the textbook’s presentation of entropyanalogies, discussed below.AnalysisWe collected a variety of evidence of student engagement with the ideas of Foucault. First, therewas the pre-assessment in which students shared what came to mind when presented with theidea of “power” and “knowledge.” Second, the students completed a reflective essay on theFoucault reading they were assigned. Third, students
, Richard. Performance Studies: An Introduction. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2002.14. Wenger, Etienne. Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.15. National Academy of Engineering. The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century. Washington: The National Academy Press, 2004.16. Wertsch, James, V. Voices of the Mind: A Sociocultural Appproach to Mediated Action. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.17. Lave, J. & Wenger, Etienne. Situated Learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.18. Lave, J. “Situating learning in communities of practice.” In L. B. Resnick, J. M. Levine, &
2006-61: LEARNING FROM THE ENEMY: EDUCATIONAL METHODS OFPRIVATE, FOR-PROFIT COLLEGESPhillip Wankat, Purdue University Phil Wankat is the Clifton L. Lovell Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering and Engineering Education at Purdue University. He earned his BSChE from Purdue, his Ph.D. from Princeton University and an MSED from Purdue University. His technical research is in separation processes and he is interested in improving teaching and learning in engineering education. Page 11.874.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Learning From “The Enemy:” Educational Methods of
markets • ‘leading edge’ reputation in science, technology, ICT and businessWith these points in mind, the following two case examples of international engineering educationare described. In both cases, bilateral foci on educational quality, equivalence, transferability ofacademic credit, differences in academic culture and financial matters were all of high importance.However, the considerable and lengthy effort expended in the assurance and continuingmaintenance of these factors has not been described in this paper except where pertinent to theengineering educational theme.The SHU-TARC Articulation PartnershipThe Sheffield Hallam University, UK (SHU) - Tunku Abdul Rahman College, Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia (TARC) articulation partnership
engineering students and the number ofstudents involved was small. In the case of the SAE team from our university, it involved threestudents, one advisor, and a non student pilot. Recently it was reported in a local news paper thata professor in University of Dayton had introduced the concept of model plane building tofreshman engineering students1. But no further information was forthcoming. In the above cases, the time line for building and flying a plane ranged from 10 hours to months.Based on our course curriculum, it was decided that 4-5 hours per team could be allotted for thisproject. With this in mind, the criterion for this event was: • Building and flying the plane should be completed in less than 5 hours. • Every student on a team
fundamental concepts such as heat and temperature, all the learning in the class ispurely memorization, which does not lead to problem solving ability required by anengineer. Page 11.578.6References[1] National Research Council, Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics,Engineering, and Technology (Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 1999).[2] Handelsman, J., Ebert-May, D., Beichner, R., Bruns, P., Chang, A., DeHaan, R., Gentile, J.,Lauffer, S., Stewart, J., Tilghman, S.M., Wood, W.B., "Scientific teaching." Science, 304(5670): 521-522(2004).[3] Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., Eds. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience
undertaken with this in mind. Idaho State University may not be a good examplebecause of its small present size, but at our institution we do not cover many of the topicstaken up in the summer institute. These topics include nonproliferation, material controland accountancy, international norms of nuclear safety, nuclear law, transportation, andothers. Even where we do cover certain of these topics, the coverage is not extensive andgenerally not from an international perspective.However, even if one concedes that there is a need for WNU to fulfill a role in the globalmission of nuclear engineering education, the summer institute is only a first step. Tosucceed of course, WNU must go beyond the summer institute, and with the broadinvolvement of the
typically slide shows, structural drawings, skeletalmodels showing the framing scheme, plus any props required to convey the structural principalsbehind their designs to the reviewers. Students were required to keep the knowledge of theiraudience in mind, again reinforcing the concept of clear and concise communication and areminder to use simple terms to describe complex engineering principles. Three practicingengineers of with various structural expertise plus both instructors presided as the jury for thestudent presentations. Projects were reviewed for technical merit as well as architecturalsensitivity – how well was the architectural intent preserved. Most design solutions expressedthe structure to reinforce the architectural space so
2006-1656: EXPERIENCES WITH GROUP WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY OFMARYLANDAdel Shirmohammadi, University of Maryland-College Park Adel Shirmohammadi is Professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland. He joined the university in 1986 and is a Fellow of ASABE.Arthur Johnson, University of Maryland-College Park Arthur T. Johnson is Professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland. He came to the university in 1975, and is a Fellow of ASEE, AIMBE, BMES, AIHA, and ASABE. Page 11.617.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006
either replied “no”, or were undecided changed their minds afterseeing what they could achieve in 2 hours. Of special interest was the bridge building session asmost students enjoyed an environment of competition while learning how to build a strong trussstructure. This unique interaction involving design, production and structural construction wasseen to develop the student’s interest in the technical fields, and the interaction with facultyprovided them with further understanding of the needs in this important area. As a result of thisinteraction, program attendees are given the opportunity to develop an understanding of the goalsand needs within the technical professions of engineering and technology.References. 1. Illinois Department of
. He has specific program management experience in numerous arenas, from retail store rollout and low-income housing to large industrial and infrastructure projects. Stephen holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Construction Engineering and Management) from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Civil Engineering (Construction Engineering and Project Management) from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.S. in Architectural Engineering, also from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently employed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Technology at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas
, or more narrowly, within their academiccareers, and are objective enough to see, to accept, and even to teach the increasinglyobvious. To see the individuality of the inhabitants of the “tech lit” frame of mind, we needonly note the diversity and disciplinary focus of authors of recent engineering reflections: Billington(civil): The Tower and the Bridge16 Florman(civil): Engineering and the Liberal Arts9 Lewis(mechanical): Masterworks of Technology17 Lienhard (aeronautical) Inventing Modern: Growing up with X- rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins18 Petroski(civil
errorsdiscovered. Using the question-and-answer technique with the 35 engineers resulted in just 20tools for evaluating results. This paper presents a detailed description of how the critical incidenttechnique was implemented along with guidelines for adapting the technique for use by otherresearchers.IntroductionAn important goal of the education process is to help students in the transition from novice toexpert in one or more areas. Beginning with the research of Newell and Simon (1972), aconsiderable body of knowledge now exists describing how people transition from novice toexpert status (Ashcraft, 2006; Solso, 1995). The major type of data used when studying problemsolving is the “verbal protocol.” The verbal protocols provide a window into the minds
between this performance and theinstructor’s expectations.This study sought to understand the thinking and use of classroom assessment in thecontext of engineering capstone design courses through the published literature. Relevantjournals and conference proceedings over a 10 year period were queried. Three articlesprovide detailed illustrations of formative classroom assessment strategies that could beimplemented in capstone design courses.We are currently developing assessment tools for capstone engineering courses withthese strategies in mind. Our goal is to develop tools that will enable instructors toprovide formative assessments that have the potential of benefiting the student, theproject and the course itself.Bibliography 1. Todd, R. H
are provided bycourses that explore electromagnetics, electromagnetic compatibility and signal integrity.System-level issues are then discussed in courses in high-speed design and are extended viaapplications in wireless systems. Planned courses include a laboratory-based course in modelingand measurement and a course in RF integrated circuit design.In this paper we report on courses in electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), signal integrity (SI),and high-speed design that will provide the foundations of the high-speed design program beingdeveloped . The needs of both disciplines, electrical engineering and computer engineering,must be kept in view. In the discussion below, therefore, keep in mind that, since electricalengineering and computer
2006-1362: THE SHOW MUST GO ON - REFLECTIONS ON THE PURSUIT OFENGINEERING THROUGH INTER-DISCIPLINARY DESIGN CHALLENGESBenjamin Kidd, University of Virginia Benjamin holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, also from the University of Virginia. His current research involves a project called "ecoMOD", a collaborative effort between the University's Engineering and Architecture schools to design and build energy efficient affordable housing. Benjamin is also the recipient of the 2004-2005 Outstanding GTA Award for the Electrical Engineering Department, and a recipient of the All-University Teaching Assistant Award. His interests include Amateur Radio (Call sign KG4EIF), stage lighting, pyrotechnics
2006-2390: TRANSFORMING COLLEGE TEACHING COURSES INTOAUTHENTIC EXPERIENCES: LEARNING THROUGH DIVERSITYSandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison Sandra Shaw Courter teaches technical communication courses in the College of Engineering. As director of the Engineering Learning Center, she also coordinates professional development experiences for graduate students, staff, and faculty. She has been involved with several NSF proposal. First, as a member of the management team for the NSF Center for Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), Courter is responsible with a multi-disciplinary team for developing and teaching a course for graduate students on teaching science and
2006-158: INTERACTIVE SYLLABUS AND BLOOM’S TAXONOMYMysore Narayanan, Miami University Page 11.811.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Interactive Syllabus and Bloom’s Taxonomy Mysore Narayanan, Miami University, Ohio.AbstractThe author is of the opinion that an effective assessment rubric based on theprinciples of Bloom’s Taxonomy can help the learning process by generating aconstructive dialogue between the instructor and the learner. The author alsofavors the development of a set of course material content that includes aninteractive syllabus, as opposed to a traditional syllabus. Such a system has beensuggested by Clifford O. Young Sr
2006-1042: DEVELOPING AN ENGINEERING EDUCATION RESEARCHCOMMUNITY OF PRACTICE THROUGH A STRUCTURED WORKSHOPCURRICULUMMaura Borrego, Virginia Tech MAURA BORREGO is an assistant professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Dr. Borrego holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Her current research interests center around interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering education, including studies of the collaborative relationships between engineers and education researchers and how engineering faculty learn educational research methods.Ruth Streveler, Colorado School of Mines RUTH A. STREVELER is the Director of the Center for Engineering Education
2006-631: A GLOBAL COLLABORATION TO TEACH GLOBAL PRODUCTDEVELOPMENT: FACULTY PERSPECTIVESJongwon Kim, Seoul National UniversityDong Mok Kim, Seoul National UniversityStefano Consiglio, Technical University of BerlinSemih Severengiz, Technical University of BerlinGuenther Seliger, Technical University of BerlinLalit Patil, University of MichiganDebasish Dutta, University of Michigan Page 11.46.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Global Collaboration to Teach Global Product Development: Faculty perspectives1 IntroductionIn this age of globalization and diversification, it is important that our engineering studentsunderstand how to