principles of sustainabilityxii, and their expression in engineeringpractice, is required of all civil engineers.There are social, economic, and physicalxiii aspects of sustainability. The latter includes bothnatural resources and the environment. Technology affects all three and a broad, integrativeunderstanding is necessary in support of the public interest. Beyond that, special competence isrequired in the scientific understanding of natural resources and the environment, which are thefoundation of all human activity; and the integration of this knowledge into practical designs thatsupport and sustain human development. Vestxiv referred to this as the primary systems problemfacing the 21st century engineer.The actual life of an engineered work
AC 2008-1374: USING ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIO REPOSITORIES AS ASTUDENT RESOURCE FOR MSE APPLICATIONSAaron Blicblau, Swinburne University of Technology "Aaron Blicblau graduated as materials engineer and worked in the manufacturing and steel industry for ten years. He then commenced lecturing at Swinburne University of Technology specialising in materials science and engineering to students ranging form first year to final year. . He has been involved in implementing novel teaching procedures to improve the learning aspects of students as well as his own teaching processes. Over the past few years he has adopted and implemented active learning measures including problem based and project based
end of the summer, the director of theprogram sends out surveys to the families of the participants to get their feedback. One requestthat came back time and again was to see more classes in the area of science and engineering.These areas were not represented in the classes offered in the past.Penn State Behrend has over 4,000 students that study in one of four schools: business,engineering, humanities and social science, and science.The School of Engineering has over 1,100 students and offers bachelors’ degrees in computerengineering, electrical engineering, electrical and computer engineering technology, mechanical Page
Page 13.520.3 serves on the Board of Trustees.--The Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC) Scientific ResearchBuilding is located close to the Engineering & Architecture Library. Itaccommodates a wide range of laboratory needs in the areas of engineering,computer science, and basic scientific research materials.--The AUB’s Energy Research Group, based in the faculty of Engineering andArchitecture, has collaborated with the Jordan University of Science andTechnology, the Palestine Polytechnic University and the Birzeit University todevelop renewable energy initiatives and technology to enhance energy efficiencyand to contribute to environmental sustainability efforts in the Middle East. Usingthe AUB’s Climate Chambers
AC 2008-543: CONTROL SYSTEM PLANT SIMULATOR: A FRAMEWORK FORHARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATIONDavid Chandler, Rochester Institute of Technology Dave Chandler was born in Camarillo, California, on October 27, 1981. He graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2004 with highest honors and a bachelors of science in Computer Engineering. Upon graduation he began his career as a software engineer at Harris RFCD, working on software defined military radio systems. He completed a Masters of Science degree in Computer Engineering from RIT in 2007. He currently lives with his wife Cheri in Rochester NY.James Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology James R. Vallino is an Associate Professor
AC 2008-1139: SURVEY OF ENGINEERING MECHANICS IN CIVILENGINEERING CURRICULABridget Wadzuk, Villanova University Assistant Professor Water Resources EngineerDavid Dinehart, Villanova University Associate Professor Structural EngineerEdward Glynn, Villanova University Assistant Professor Geotechnical EngineerShawn Gross, Villanova University Associate Professor Structural EngineerFrank Hampton, Villanova University Assistant Professor Structural Engineer Page 13.1124.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Survey of Engineering Mechanics in Civil Engineering CurriculaAbstractNewtonian mechanics provides most of the core concepts
AC 2008-2807: MODELS ON INDUSTRY AND UNIVERSITY GLOBALCOLLABORATION THROUGH CO-OP AND INTERNSHIPSThomas Akins, Georgia Institute of Technology Tom Akins is the Executive Director of the Division of Professional Practice at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a position he has held since 2002. Prior to that, Tom was the Director of the Cooperative Division, also at Georgia Tech. He holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering degree (Co-op Plan) from Tech, and a MBA from Georgia State University. A 27 year member of ASEE, Mr. Akins is the recipient of the Cooperative Education Division's Alvah K. Borman Award and ASEE's Clement J. Freund Award.Debbie D. Gulick, Georgia Institute of TechnologyJack
AC 2008-337: PARTNERSHIP FOR MENTORING: THE GEORGIA TECH CSEMSPROGRAM AT AGE SIXNarayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology Professor of Aerospace Engineering. Directs the Experimental Aerodynamics and Concepts program. Served as Fellow of the NAIC, Boeing Welliver Fellow in 2004, Sam Nunn Security Fellow at the Center for Strategy, Technology and Policy, 2004-06, and Hessburgh Senior Teaching Fellow, 2005.Marilyn Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology MARILYN J. SMITH Marilyn J. Smith, an Associate Professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, joined the faculty in 1997 after fifteen years of industry experience at Lockheed-Georgia (now LMAS), McDonnell
mechanical engineer needs to um be able to collaborate well with other people, that’s a very, very key aspect. Um, because, I learned a lot this quarter that great ideas don’t always come from one person… I think that’s one thing that a mechanical engineer really needs to be able to do well is work on a team. Another thing is you have to be able to think abstractly. You can’t always think along the lines of-, of, here is a set of rules or preconceptions and you have to stick to them. You have to be able to design and develop and improve on technology that has already been designed and developed and improved on by previous people… Once you get out of the design and, you know, creative thinking and
AC 2008-246: MILESTONE-BASED ASSESSMENT: AN ALTERNATIVESTRATEGY FOR ASSESSING LABORATORY LEARNING OUTCOMESEuan Lindsay, Curtin University of Technology Euan Lindsay completed a PhD in the field of Engineering Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2005. In 2004 he moved to Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia, where he is a Senior Lecturer in Mechatronic Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, telecontrol (particularly internet-based telecontrol), artificial neural networks, and rehabilitative technologies for people with sensing impairments. He is a member of the Executive of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, and co
AC 2008-315: EMBEDDED SOFTWARE DESIGN METHODOLOGY TO HELPSTUDENTS SUCCEED IN THE REAL WORLDKeith Curtis, Microchip Technology Inc. Page 13.481.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Embedded Software Design Methodology to Help Students Succeed in the Real WorldIntroduction: A Tool for Entering the Workforce With ExperienceIn the good old days, new engineers could look forward to a long and rewarding career, workingfor a well-established engineering firm. They would typically spend their first year ofemployment “learning the ropes” from older, more-experienced engineers. During thisapprenticeship, they would pick up the tips, tricks
AC 2008-2384: A DIRECT METHOD FOR TEACHING AND ASSESSINGPROFESSIONAL SKILLS IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMSAshley Ater Kranov, Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology Dr. Ashley Ater Kranov is Assistant Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology at Washington State University. She specializes in program assessment and has extensive experience in the assessment of engineering education. She has co-authored a number of journal articles and conference proceedings on engineering education, including Integrating Problem-Solving Skills Across an Engineering Curriculum: A Web Resource, 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, 2002.Carl Hauser, Washington State
AC 2008-2741: RELATING CONTINUOUS-TIME AND DISCRETE-TIME IN THECLASSROOMMark Hopkins, Rochester Institute of Technology Mark A. Hopkins is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1988. His main research interests are in the areas of modeling and controlling large flexible structures, and engineering education. Page 13.1030.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Relating Continuous-Time and Discrete-Time in the ClassroomAbstractIt never ceases to
AC 2008-1756: EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF RE-DEFINITION OF LEARNINGOBJECTIVES ON INTER-MEASURE CORRELATION AND VALIDITYDaniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology Daniel M. Ferguson, MBA, MSIE, is a Senior Lecturer in the IIT Stuart School of Business, and Associate Director for Research and Operations of the Interprofessional (IPRO) program. He was brought in specifically to focus on IPRO courses, and has led over 50 IPRO project teams in the past four years. He has an undergraduate degree in liberal arts and mechnical engineering, and graduate degrees in Business and Industrial Engineering. For over 20 years he led consulting businesses specializing in financial and information process
Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology Margaret Hellie Huyck, Ph.D., is Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, within the Institute of Psychology. Her graduate work at the University of Chicago focused on life span human development and the sociology of education. Her academic specialities are adult development and program evaluation. She has major responsibility for the evaluation of the IPRO Program at IIT. Page 13.1099.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Stimulating and Developing Reflective Thinking In Undergraduate Students
AC 2008-152: ENGINEERING AND THE MEDIA: BUILDING A NEWRELATIONSHIPTylisha Baber, Michigan State University At the time this paper was written, Dr. Tylisha Baber was serving as a National Academies Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow. She earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Michigan State University. Tylisha’s dissertation focused on the design and implementation of a biomass conversion process for improving the fuel properties of biodiesel. She is currently an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering at North Carolina A&T State
AC 2008-154: THE ACADEMIC VALUE OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATION: ALITERATURE REVIEWTylisha Baber, Michigan State University At the time this paper was written, Dr. Tylisha Baber was serving as a National Academies Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow. She earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Michigan State University. Tylisha’s dissertation focused on the design and implementation of a biomass conversion process for improving the fuel properties of biodiesel. She is currently an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering at North Carolina A&T
technological or interpersonal structures are used in learning,interactions of learners and learning facilitators, why a given topic is deemed important to learn,and the internal and external influences on learning systems including the goals of variousstakeholders). An example of engineering education research applied to student retention isgiven by Fortenberry et al.[10].We believe U.S. engineering education practice could benefit from the pursuit of engineeringeducation research and the careful application research findings. For example, the statistics onthe drop-out rates of engineering programs indicate there is room for improvement in currentpractice. On average, 40% of undergraduate students nationally leave engineering beforegraduation, with
technological advances as well as the globalizationof businesses, economies and cultures in the twenty-first century, the importance of engineeringdisciplines and education has reached a critical state and prompted several examinations withinthe past few years. Although numerous studies and research on changing or restructuringengineering education have been conducted over the last century, many findings have remainedthe same over time, such as (a) what to include in the curricula, (b) how long engineeringeducation should be, (c) what level of specialization, (d) how to prepare students, and (e) how tomeet the needs of society. The trends in engineering education that we found to be mostprevalent in reviewed reports and articles are increased attention
theaccreditation bodies of several other countries. Three agreements currently in force recognizethat the systems of the CEAB and the other party for accreditation of programs leading to adegree in engineering are substantially equivalent and that the accredited programs of bothparties satisfy the academic requirements for entry to the practice of engineering at a professionallevel.The first of these agreements was signed in 1980 by the CEAB and the EngineeringAccreditation Commission (EAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET)2 in the United States of America. This agreement was updated and ratified by bothparties during the course of 1996 and 1997. The agreement is valid for graduates of all programsaccredited by the EAC.The
dimensions to classifyproblems as introduced by Jonassen [3], structuredness, complex/simple, static/dynamic, context(inter) dependent, need then applied to the different parts of the broken-down problem.V. Study 2: Comparing results with stories of engineeersThe second study compared the findings of the first to already collected and analyzed stories of90 engineers discussing their problem solving strategies. The library of these 90 stories can befound at the homepage of the Center for the Study of Problem Solving, School of InformationScience and Learning Technologies, University of Missouri-Columbia (http://csps.missouri.edu).Details on the creation of the library and an initial analysis of the contained data can be foundelsewhere [37]. The main
Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow. She earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Michigan State University. Tylisha’s dissertation focused on the design and implementation of a biomass conversion process for improving the fuel properties of biodiesel. She is currently an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. Page 13.577.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Evaluating Instructional
AC 2008-1057: PILOTING A GAME-BASED VIRTUAL LEARNINGENVIRONMENTFelipe Arango, Stevens Institute of TechnologyGonca Altuger, Stevens Institute of TechnologyEl-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of TechnologyConstantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of TechnologySven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology Page 13.982.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Piloting a Game-based Virtual Learning EnvironmentAbstractIn a new technological era, where virtual environments and social networks are redefining howstudents interact with each other and exchange information, alternative and complementaryapproaches to traditional hands-on laboratories are emerging. Educational
Ed Howard is an Assistant Professor in the College of Technology and Computer Science’s Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Marquette University. He has 14 years of industrial experience, mostly in the design and analysis of composite structures. Page 13.730.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008Manuscript Submission for the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference and ExpositionJune 22-25, 2008 Pittsburgh
AC 2008-357: INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COURSE EXPERIENCESPatrick Ferro, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patrick Ferro is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He has been on the faculty of Rose-Hulman since 2005. He is licensed as a PE in Michigan and Ohio.Naoki Osawa, Kanazawa Institute of Technology Naoki Osawa is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Kanazawa Institute of Technology. His doctorate degree is in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from KIT. He has been on the faculty of KIT since 2007, following three years of industrial experience at Hitachi, Ltd.Masakatsu Matsuishi, Kanazawa Institute of Technology Masakatsu
AC 2008-1755: GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE DESIGN PROJECTSUTILIZING A VIRTUAL PRODUCT LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT (VPLM)Daniel Schrage, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr.Daniel Schrage has extensive expertise in the design and development of complex systems. Prior to coming to Georgia Tech in 1984, Dr. Schrage served as an aviator, engineer, manager and senior executive servant with the U.S. Army Aviation Systems Command (AVSCOM) for ten years. As a dynamics, vibrations and aeroelasticity engineer he served as the Army’s expert in these areas during the design and development of all the Army’s major aviation systems, the UH-60 Black Hawk, the AH-64 Apache, the CH-47D Chinook, and the OH-58D Kiowa
), Baltimore, Maryland, in May 2003. Her research interests include mechanical applications in microelectronics, biomechanics, system dynamics, and system optimizations, etc.X. Chang Li, Lamar University X. CHANG LI is currently an assistant professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. He received his Ph. D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University. His research interests include gas turbine cooling technologies and energy conservation. Page 13.514.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Gpikpggtkpi"Ocvjgocvkeu"hqt"Ogejcpkecn
influenced by their ideasregarding the NOS.7,8 Some science educators have claimed that an informed view of the NOSwill improve students’ attitudes towards science, help them internalize science, and eventuallyenhance their science learning.9,10 The same argument could be appropriate for and can beapplied to the engineering field. In other words, an understanding the nature of engineering(NOE) could improve students’ learning outcomes of engineering and technology. It could alsoaffect how engineers see and conduct their professional lives after they graduate.11Research has shown that the attitudes of high-school students toward engineering become morefavorable as their knowledge of engineering increase.12 The International Technology
for a base-camp to house, support and sustain a givenpopulation. Page 13.1163.3 The Engineering Design Process Environment: Technological Design & Economic Analysis Political Alternatives Social Generation Modeling & Analysis
Matherly is Associate Dean for Global Education and Applied Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Tulsa, where she directs the institution’s international study, work, and volunteer programs. She is currently directing the university’s initiatives for new university partnerships in China. Dr. Matherly is the co-PI for a National Science Foundation Partnership for International Research and Education (PIRE) Grant that funds initiatives to expand international research opportunities for science and engineering majors. She serves as the director of the INNOVATE conference, which involves students from five countries 14 in the study of globalization and technology in Asia, and the