Conference Session

Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Ledlie Klosky; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

institutional focus on honorable behavior is considerable.After considerable deliberation, the independent-study grading model was adopted, with themodification that the student would face the same final exam as his peers, and that the score onthat final would be a major factor in determining the final grade. This philosophy of evaluationcan be summarized as flexible but verifiable. It was particularly important that the grading andevaluation scheme be relatively “bulletproof”, given that this was a test case and might drawconsiderable scrutiny from unforeseen persons or organizations. The shared closely-proctoredfinal exam administered at the home institution upon return was judged to be fair, illustrative ofthe student’s level of achievement, and

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bahman Motlagh, University of Central Florida; Michele Shahir-Motlagh, Harcourt School Publishers; Alireza Rahrooh, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

International

software or can be developed in-house. This site must be capable of providing real-time access to information and capable of accepting documents to be loaded by students.) 9. Identify appropriate evaluation methods. Ensure assessment of all tasks performed including identification of grading criteria. Require a peer review by project team members after each project as a part of the student’s overall grade. (In one case, we identified 10 projects for a course and grading was based on the number of successful projects completed and submitted on time.)If an online distance learning course is considered a project, then the professor assumes the roleof project manager. In this role they need

Conference Session

Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Zidek, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Cindy Orndoff; Susan Blanchard

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

analyze the case in theirnewly formed teams. Teams were assigned by the instructors using the “team application” tocreate teams that were interdisciplinary (based on the three engineering majors in the class),diverse and mixture of traditional and non-traditional students.Creativity and ideation were the next topics covered. Following brief discussions regardingmethods of increasing creativity, the students participated in in-class exercises demonstrating thecreative process. In-class activities included writing a story about an abstract picture, as a team,devising answers to hypothetical questions and using dissimilar fields to solve a commonproblem

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

syllabus.This course describes the field of engineering and engineering technology allowing students toexplore technology systems and design processes. Through the course students will use math,science, technology, and writing to solve engineering problems. The course is primarilyproject-based and requires substantial participation by all students. The course also emphasizesteam work, oral and written communication, and the impact technology has on society.The course is a two-semester sequence. The first semester can be taken without taking thesecond semester. Except in rare cases, the second semester can not be taken without completingthe first semester.Table 1 lists the topics to be covered in the course. Table 1

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Frehill; Amanda Lain, New Mexico State University; Ricardo Jacquez, New Mexico State University; Lauren Ketcham, New Mexico State University; Karen Luces, New Mexico State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

is now has a fourth cohort of students at NewMexico State University. For each student, pre- and post-program data were available viaindividual interviews, focus groups, transcripts, students’ writings related to career goals, andinterviews with their advisors. These rich data provide multiple insights about the students’mentoring experiences as well as the expectations of their mentors.Although the program is now working with its fourth cohort of students, the analyses in thispaper are based upon results from just the first two cohorts. Almost all of the members of thesetwo cohorts have transitioned out of the program. The cohorts differed in terms of thedisciplines and ethnic backgrounds of the students. For example, all of the members of

Conference Session

Freshman Design and Other Novel Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Willits, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

evaluate your experiment/demonstration as a Biotransport student and solve all relevant equations, analyze the results and discuss the outcomes. Your team is responsible for the design of an experiment, including the equations and mathematics behind the experiment, a sample apparatus (if necessary), a description of the set-up for a TA/moderator, parameters for the experiment and a sample laboratory write-up/handout. Additionally, you will need to video-record a model presentation. Be sure to have a hypothesis or purpose to the experiment, background on what the students will learn and why it is important (in other words, what will they learn?). You may also design ‘props’ that will be used in

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; Richard Felder, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

AC 2007-139: A STUDENT-CENTERED APPROACH TO THE STOICHIOMETRYCOURSELisa Bullard, North Carolina State University Dr. Lisa G. Bullard received her BS in ChE from NC State and her Ph.D. in ChE from Carnegie Mellon. She served in engineering and management positions within Eastman Chemical Company from 1991-2000. At N.C. State, she is currently the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Chemical Engineering. Her research interests include curriculum development, information literacy, and the integration of teaming, writing, and speaking into the undergraduate curriculum.Richard Felder, North Carolina State University Dr. Richard M. Felder is the Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University; Ronald Earley, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

is a senior member of IEEE and is a member of ASME, SIAM, ASEE and AGU. He is actively involved in CELT activities and regularly participates and presents at the Lilly Conference. He has been the recipient of several Faculty Learning Community awards. He is also very active in assessment activities and has presented more than a dozen papers at various Assessment Institutes. His posters in the areas of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Socratic Inquisition have received widespread acclaim from several scholars in the area of Cognitive Science and Educational Methodologies. He has received the Assessment of Critical Thinking Award twice and is currently working towards incorporating writing

Conference Session

Innovations for the Senior Year of the ME Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Showkat Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University; Abdul Jalloh, Alabama A&M University; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo, Alabama A&M University; Mohamed Seif, Alabama A&M University; Amir Mobasher, Alabama A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

faculty, and the survey completed by the graduating students in thisrespect. This serves as a tool for measuring the accomplishment of ABET requirements. Theresults also give some feedback for possible improvement in future.The Capstone Design course also serves to prepare the students to succeed as entry-levelengineers in industry, by acquiring technical design experience for appropriate careers. Thestudents are required to make several oral presentations with audio-visual aids (usingPowerPoint) about their project in front of the faculty and peers, during the semester. AProject Oral Presentation Evaluation Form has been developed which is completed by thefaculty and peers during each presentation. The results are compiled and analyzed. The

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Birmingham, Grove City College; David Adams, Grove City College

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

. Moreover, the students have also taken data structures and algorithms, and so arecomfortable with designing, analyzing, and coding high-performance algorithms and complexdata structures. In addition, they have taken computer organization and operating systems. Thus,they know about threading, memory organization, and processes. All of these things—not just Page 12.767.3programming—are needed for writing games.Finally, by their junior year, all the students have taken physics (statics, dynamics andkinematics), three courses in calculus, and linear algebra. Since students need to create all thephysics in their games (e.g., how a ball will bounce off

Conference Session

Introducing Active and Inductive Learning and Improving the Learning Curve in ME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emilia Bratschitsch, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Department of Automotive; Annette Casey, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Department of Automotive Engineering,; Günter Bischof, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Department of Automotive Engineering,; Domagoj Rubesa, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Department of Automotive Engineering,

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

language, which is usuallyEnglish.For these reasons we decided to develop a 3-phase multi subject didactical method, based on thewell known methodology of project based learning (PBL), see Figure 1.The main idea is to define engineering tasks according to the level of education and to equip thestudents with the necessary information and skills to solve them. This includes education inspecial technical subjects, processing of electronic data and writing of documentation andreports, project work and project management, preparing of power point presentations andpractice in English.During the first phase – in the second and third semester of the degree program – we mainlyconcentrate on the theoretical and language education. We do not require or

Conference Session

NAFP Panel Discussion

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohan Aggarwal, Alabama A&M University; Benjamin Penn, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center; Ravindra Lal, Alabama A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

findings in nationaland international journals of physics. They also execute research experiments within the existinginfrastructure as it currently exists, serve on Review Panels, peer review papers in scientificjournals and serve on proposal review panels, initiate students in the methods of research, andguide M.S. and Ph.D. students pursuing their studies for their thesis and dissertations in variousareas of physics. They should develop the graduate students as the stewards of the discipline. Asteward is a scholar that can generate new knowledge, critically think and transform thisknowledge through writing, teaching and application. They are also required to support studentsin their presentations and research papers. At present, no release time

Conference Session

Special programs and activities for minorities in engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Brown

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

students act as mentors and role models for freshmen students and assist them in their understanding of the electrical engineering discipline as well as how to navigate through the electrical engineering program. In addition, the program coordinator acted as a mentor to the upper classmen. In the end, a professional (as well as a social) network was formed among the student participants as a direct consequence of this novel style of peer/tier-mentoring. This proved to be essential since most 1st year engineering students (particularly from underrepresented populations) struggle in identifying a network of students within their major that they can associate with professionally and socially. 3) Career

Conference Session

Engineering in High Schools

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramzi Bualuan, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

highschool students who have just completed their junior year. Students come from all aroundthe country, and in some cases from abroad. IEP’s purpose is to provide participants withan overview of all fields in engineering, while giving the students a taste of college life, alook at career opportunities, and a chance to meet professional engineers as well asengineering faculty. Students work on several projects, attend lectures, write reports,code programs, give presentations, do problem solving and design, go on field trips, andinteract with a very diverse group of peers.In this paper we describe the IEP program, and provide an overview of its selectionprocess and its structure and content. We examine how effective the program has been,and describe

Conference Session

Sustainability & Environmental Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Richter, Virginia Tech; Sean McGinnis, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

complex to modelthoroughly, so the LCA software was critical for the quantitative analysis; the size of the teamallowed good coverage for all aspects of the product. The students were required to identifytheir specific roles within the team, complete the analysis, and present the analysis in reportformat as well as a 20 minute presentation to the class. To encourage teamwork within themultidisciplinary project, the assessment of the students was based on several components. 40%of the project grade was given to the project team as a whole for the written report and oralpresentation, 40% of the grade was based on the individual roles that the students assignedthemselves on their team, and 20% of the grade was based on the students’ peer assessment

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rainer Seidel, The University of Auckland; Linda Haemmerle, Plume Ltd.; Chris Chambers, CPC Consulting Ltd.

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

-disciplinarydomain of new product development4. Therefore the importance of a teamwork approach wasparticularly emphasised and practised in this course. However, potential downsides ofteamwork in an academic environment are that some students attempt to take advantage ofteam arrangements in order to get a ‘free ride’, or to avoid certain types of tasks such as CADmodelling or report writing7,8. To eliminate these problems as much as possible, a range oftools such as confidential peer assessment, oral interviews and specific work and submissioninstructions for students were used in the course. A confidential peer review process wasapplied as a tool to discourage students from freeloading and cheating. Another importanttool used to facilitate the teamwork was

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention and Diversity in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tim Brower, Oregon Institute of Technology; Richard Grimsley, Project Lead The Way; Pam Newberry, Project Lead The Way

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

students develop skills for living in a knowledge-based, technological society. Solving highly complex problems requires that students have both basic skills (i.e., reading, writing, mathematics) and foundation skills (i.e., teamwork, problem-solving, research, time management, information synthesizing, and technology tools usage). • Adds relevance to the learning. By bringing real-life context and technology to the curriculum through projects and problems, teachers encourage students to become independent workers, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. If students learn to take responsibility for their own learning, they will form the basis for working cooperatively and effectively with

Conference Session

Climate Issues for Women Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

knowledge and skills from one to another. Recommendationsare made for team-based classroom activities that would promote positive engineering self-efficacy.IntroductionThe disproportionately low representation of female practitioners in the field of engineering isstill an issue1. Engineering is one of the few fields where women representation is as low aseleven percent2. Recent studies show that women are more likely to drop out of engineeringbecause of the social and affective factors and the environment that they perceive asunwelcoming3,4. In addition, female students have lower confidence in their engineering skillscompared to their male peers, causing women to believe that they cannot do engineering5, 6.There is some evidence that self-efficacy

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Tycho Fredericks, Western Michigan University; Steven Butt, Western Michigan University; Luis Rodriguez, University of Wisconsin - Waukesha

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

about the design process, data collection from potential customers, and tasks toaccomplish their goals that result in the manufacture of their prototype. Recognizing thatstudents need to occasionally take a break from the intensive product design process, theinstructors have also included “design challenges” that allow students to puzzle over achallenging problem for a short period of time (the teams in this challenges are different from theDesign teams). For the residential programs, time is allocated for the students to interact witheach other in peer evening group sessions in order to reflect on the activities of the day, address Page

Conference Session

What's New in the Mechanics of Materials?

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arturo Fuentes, University of Texas-Pan American; Stephen Crown, University of Texas-Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

shear and moment diagrams. Students were provided with the basic platform for thegame but created their own shear and moment diagrams along with the logic for the solution.The games of individual students were compiled in a multilevel game that proved beneficial tostudent learning. The feedback based on student input in the games allows the students to learnand apply new concepts simultaneously. The impact of the games and the student involvementin the game design process have been positive as evidenced by performance on exams andpositive feedback on surveys. Students are motivated to get involved in the game design processby the fact that their work is being evaluated by their peers and that it has some useful purposethat will continue to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Sherrill Biggers, Clemson University; William Moss, Clemson University; Matthew Ohland, Purdue Engineering Education; Marisa Orr, Clemson University; Scott Schiff, Clemson University

Engineering with a minor in Education from the University of Florida in 1996. Previously, he served as Assistant Director of the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED Engineering Education Coalition. In addition to this work, he studies peer evaluation and longitudinal student records in engineering education.Marisa Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is a Ph.D. student at Clemson University. She received her B.S. In Mechanical Engineering from Clemson in 2005. In her research, she is studying Engineering Mechanics Education. Page 12.176.1Scott Schiff, Clemson University Scott D. Schiff is a Professor of

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sofia Vidalis, Pennsylvania State University; Iordanis Petsas, University of Scranton; Fazil Najafi, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

International

boards, discussion forums, web contentpresentation areas, and peers sharing files with other peers. WebCT, Blackboard, and ANGELeach have distinct features that allow the students and instructors to build this collaboration witheach other and with groups, see Table 1. It also frequently reduces questions and email toinstructors.Technology can strengthen faculty interactions with all students, especially with shy studentswho are reluctant to ask questions or challenge the instructor directly. This may be done byplacing a more “distant” source of information and guidance for students. It is often easier todiscuss values and personal concerns in writing than orally, since inadvertent or ambiguousnonverbal signals are not so dominant. As the number

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Farrar, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Michael Todd, University of California-San Diego; Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

validation and uncertainty quantification. Industry short coursesprovide an avenue of outreach to the engineering community at large as well as an additional,non-traditional form of peer review. Most recently, the SHM course has been taught at NASAMarshall Space Flight Center, Sandia National Laboratory, and Boeing Inc. (St. Louis). Theseshort courses speed industry adoption of EI research and provide a metric for the relevance of EIresearch activities. The courses are completely self-sufficient and require no funding fromLANL.Additional ActivitiesAdditional strategic guidance of the EI comes through an annual workshop, with a four-yearcycle of recurring themes. Each year, a workshop is organized that focuses on one of the threefundamental

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Durward Sobek, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

about levels of performance. After some discussion, we decidedthat a rubric might be more appropriate for our purpose.Developing a RubricIn order to get more background on developing measures of performance, one of theauthors attended a workshop on Designing Performance Measures at Washington StateUniversity. The workshop, which helped us get started on a rubric and gave us a modelof a development process, was sponsored by the Northwest Regional ProfessionalDevelopment Center and facilitated by Pacific Crest personnel.A rubric is a scoring guide used to evaluate the quality of student work. Rubrics havebeen used extensively in the evaluation of student writing and, more recently, in theevaluation of many different types of student work

Conference Session

Retention Programs for Women Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amy Monte, Michigan Technological University; Kerri Sleeman, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

students in general and underrepresented groups in particular. Project RISE(Retention Initiative in Science and Engineering) initiated campus Learning Centers in gatewaycourses. Through this program, various centers have been developed and staffed since the 1990s.There are viable learning centers in Chemistry, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering (Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials). In addition,the university supports the MTU Writing Center, Modern Language Learning Lab, Center forComputer-Assisted Language Instruction, and tutoring services. The Learning Centers areutilized in two ways. First, students who need help with homework or course concepts can obtainassistance on an as-needed basis from

Conference Session

Educational Software

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Joines, North Carolina State University; Stephen Roberts, North Carolina State University; Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

analysis, optimization, and database interfaces.Finally, the “scripting language” of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) provides “glue” thatallows users to piece objects together from Excel and any other application on the Windowsplatform that exposes its object structure. Thus students can, through a simple programminglanguage, become knowledgeable about objects and object properties including graphics. Theycan write custom functions and create libraries (for example to queuing formulas). They canbuild graphical user interfaces of forms and windows that accept data, import files and provideconvenient navigation for the acquisition of data and the presentation of summaries, so importantto decision support systems.Because VBA is generally

Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 Mathematics Education with Engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Feldhaus, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Kenneth Reid; Pete Hylton; Marguerite Hart, Washington Township Schools; Kathy Rieke, Washington Township Schools; Douglas Gorham, IEEE

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

representatives – can advance the stateof engineering and engineering technology education. Coupled with the information from theaforementioned surveys, the ideas and suggestions from conference attendees and currentresearch in the field of K-12 education, Dougless, Iversen and Kalyandurg have developed a setof six guidelines for improving K-12 engineering education and outreach: 1. Hands-on learning: Make K-12 science curriculum less theory-based and more context- based, emphasizing the social good of engineering and demonstrating how it is relevant to the real world 2. Interdisciplinary approach: Add a technological component to all subjects and lessons, and implement writing guidelines in math and science courses 3. Standards

Conference Session

FPD11 -- Multidisciplinary Experiences

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

learning involves “a structured form ofgroup work where students pursue common goals while being assessed individually.” Theproposed project in this paper utilizes all the three learning styles.The positive effects of cooperative learning are apparent in literature. In their extensive literaturesurvey, K. A. Smith et. al. find that the level of college-level student success, when learningcooperatively, is much higher than when learning competitively or individually5. The studiedpapers reveal that cooperative learning promotes ‘meta-cognitive thought’, persistence inreaching goals, intrinsic motivation, and “transfer of learning from one situation to another”.Cooperative learning not only helps establish positive peer relationships, which are

Conference Session

Design for Special Services

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan McCahan, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

door may be physically equivalent but carries social meaning that stigmatizes the user.So in this example the very act of separating someone from their peers and requiring them toaccess the system differently creates an additional effort and a disparity that must be considereda design flaw. The system designer needs to be cognizant that such disparities can arise ifaccessibility, in its fullest form, is not explicitly recognized as one of the basic goals in thedesign process. If we intend our designs to be bought and used by the widest possible user setthen we must make each of our intended users feel that the system, product, or service wasdesigned with them in mind; to meet their physical, psychological, and social needs.Taken as a whole we

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Freeman, Valparaiso University; Peter Johnson, Valparaiso University; Kenneth Leitch, Valparaiso University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

from six to twelvehourly sessions. Additionally, students were assigned to a group. Each group was givena particular case from NSPE and asked to write and present an opinion as if they were anNSPE Board of Ethical Review (BER): summarizing the case, identifying the ethicalquestions and appropriate ethical canons, researching similar cases, and citing how otherBERs ruled and determining whether the engineers involved in the case acted in anethical manner. If the team could not come to a unanimous decision, they would have towrite both a majority and minority opinion. Unlike the previous assignment prior to theSpring 2005 semester, students were required to vigorously discuss and defend theiropinions on the cases.Changing the ethics assignment