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

appropriate use of interpersonal skills. Team members are helped to develop skills required for high-performance teamwork, including leadership, communication, time management, project management, and conflict resolution. 5. Regular self-assessment of team performance. The members periodically reflect on what they are doing well as a team, what they need to improve, and what if anything they will do differently in the future.Detailed information about cooperative learning strategies and the research base that supports theeffectiveness of this method is provided by Smith et al.,8 Felder & Brent,9,10 and Oakley et al.11 Primarily because some students normally drop CBE 205 in the first few weeks of thecourse, we made

Conference Session

Engineering and Sustainability

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

responsibility,” which holdsmanufacturers responsible for the fate of products that are no longer useful,47 accentuates end-of-life. The “ecological footprint” approach, however, looks at a shared consumer-producerresponsibility.48 The electronics industry has an enormous ecological footprint, requiring,according to 2003 United Nations University data, the following resources for the production of asingle PC: 240 kilos of fossil fuels, 22 kilos of chemicals, 1.5 tons of water.5 Surely suchinordinate consumption cannot continue indefinitely, and our future engineers may someday holdpositions with the power to effect positive change.Classroom ActivitiesWith a projected half a billion obsolete computers in the US alone by the end of 2007,24 theissues

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lari Garrison, University of Washington; Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Portia Sabin, University of Washington; Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

research projects and jobs inthe field (both on campus and off) as being factors in one’s chance of being admitted. Of all ofthese, however, grades seemed to be what most students thought was given the greatest weight inthe decision about their futures in engineering. This is not surprising, given that much of the Page 12.428.9assessments given by advisors relied heavily upon GPA. The other things, like activities played asupporting role. They were things used to bolster or prop up one’s chances, if one’s GPA was notbelieved to be strong enough.The students who were most confident in their chances, like Joe and Renee, talked very little, ifat all

Conference Session

Applied Mathematics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S.K. Sen, Florida Institute of Technology; Gholam Ali Shaykhian, NASA

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

. This age is estimated to be about 13.7 × 109 years = 13.7billion years. According to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe project of NASA, theestimated age of the universe is between 13.5 and 13.9 billion years. Thus to obtain the optimalglobal minimal path for a TSP of only 26 cities, the fastest available computer of 2006 wouldneed about 5 × 1017 years compared to which even the estimated age of the universe is anumerical zero. Even if a TSP solution is given, its verification is also intractable. This isbecause the TSP is an NP (nondeterministic polynomial time)-hard problem. Designing apolynomial-time deterministic algorithm for a TSP is and has been an open problem forcenturies. We, therefore, attempt to solve a symmetric TSP by

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Part 1

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Daniel Amos, University of Washington; Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington; Lari Garrison, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

discusses this in thecontext of how she plans to marry an engineer, so she can “stay with the kids until they go toschool” and then “work part-time until they get out of school.” For Maggie engineering allows aperson, in this case her imagined husband, to earn enough money to allow her, projected as anequally qualified professional engineer, to stay at home with children or work part-time. Theengineering-as-lifestyle perspective is differently shaded here, when compared to the unalloyedversions from Max and Jake, but our interpretation is that it is the same basic belief about theleading value of engineering—that it provides for a high salary and a comfortable lifestyle. Maggie: If I was married with children= Int: =You knew—You knew I was

Conference Session

Creating a Technology Incubator and Creating a Seed Fund

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Laughlin, University of Maryland; Scott Magids, University of Maryland; David Barbe, University of Maryland

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

University’s “social capital” on behalf of selected projects. Page 12.1520.4In summary, VA is designed to encourage and assist with the formation of new, purpose-builtcompanies around technological discovery and to then invest the social capital of the Universityon behalf of these select newly formed companies to mitigate their risk of failure in the delicateearly years. To make this system work, VA has built a process that takes substantial care in theselection of technologies and faculty and student participants that receive this benefit. Theprogram then provides an intense amount of assistance in the early days of company operation asdetailed in

Conference Session

New Models for Teaching and Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margherita Landucci, Liceo Artistico Statale; Fabio Garganego, Municipality of Venice

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2007-1680: TEACHING CHEMISTRY AS A CROSS-CULTURAL SUBJECT : IT& LINGUISTICSMargherita Landucci, Liceo Artistico StataleFabio Garganego, Municipality of Venice Page 12.1349.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Teaching Chemistry as a Cross-cultural Subject IT & LinguisticsAbstractThe main theme of this paper is the language of chemical formulae rather than the languagethat explains chemistry; the focus of our interest is the code used in writing chemicalformulae.The paper describes the nature and scope of a research project started by an out-of-schoolmultidisciplinary team who set up in 1993 and concluded

Conference Session

Engineering Student Involvement in K-12 Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina; Veronica Addison, University of South Carolina; Stephen Thompson, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

state all standards relating to the activity on thelesson plan in both the Science and Math content areas and also discuss them during the Institute.Another approach would be to discuss how these projects could involve both a math and scienceclass working together. An example of this could be the Rocket activity: a science class couldinvestigate effect of the water level and fins on the rockets, while a math class could focus on thealtimeter construction, measurements, and height calculations.Concluding RemarksThe outcomes of the GK-12 Institute for Teachers indicate that the primary goal of enhancingteacher’s abilities to use engineering related educational materials to teach science andmathematics is being met. Future Institutes may emphasize

Conference Session

Perspectives for Women Faculty

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Sheridan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Eve Fine, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jessica Winchell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Christine Pribbenow, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Molly Carnes, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jo Handelsman, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

must come from another source, such as a survey.The Study of Faculty Worklife at UW-Madison survey14,15 was conceived of in 2001, as anelement of the proposed ADVANCE project at UW-Madison. Development of the surveyinstrument began in 2002 with in-depth interviews of 26 women faculty in the biologicaland physical sciences. Their comments formed the basis of an instrument designed toinvestigate gender differences in workplace experiences of men and women faculty inbiological and physical sciences. In late 2003, just before the instrument was to befielded, the Office of the Provost requested that the survey be sent to all faculty in alldivisions, and funded the additional costs associated with the expansion of the survey.This survey was

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reem Nasr, Boston University; Steven Hall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Peter Garik, Boston University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

) and 12 ut (t)] are identical. S67: Right.Participant S66 similarly reasoned about the problem when asked to deduce the step response ofthe system, however, he arrived at a different answer. He concluded the step response, gs (t), to be Page 12.1317.9This response can be also ascribed to the invocation of the interval matching readout strategy.However, participant S66 appealed to the notion of extrapolation not in the sense of an extensionbut as a projection or replication of a given pattern. He argued that because the step function canbe obtained by extrapolating the scaled version of the input function 12 ut (t) as defined over0 ≤ t