Conference Session

Bridging and Freshman Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale Buechler, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Christa James-Byrnes, University of Wisconsin - Barboo/Sauk County

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Mathematics

comparing the average GPA of engineering graduates who tooktheir initial coursework at the UW-Colleges (3.17), versus those who took all their coursework atUW-Platteville (3.12) shows that the UW-Colleges provide quality foundation for engineeringstudents.We plan to communicate additional results from this on-going project as data becomes available. Page 13.1059.7ConclusionThe UW-Colleges still play an essential role in the education of future engineers. They provideopportunities for students who have deficiencies in their mathematics background. In general,they allow for an easier transition for students from high school to college offering

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Golanbari, University of the Pacific; Rick Garlikov, Garlikov.Com

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Electrical and Computer

communications,and senior capstone design project courses, teaching laboratories and projects helpedimprove student participation, got the students actively involved and excited about theprojects and the material being taught, motivated the students to better master coursecontent and taught the students to learn to think and reason more clearly, accurately,relevantly, logically, rationally, ethically and responsibly.This paper discusses how the judicious, sensible and affable use of the Socratic Methodin the aforementioned educational settings facilitated the development of students whoare learning to possess the basic skills of thought and reasoning such as the ability to:identify, formulate and clarify questions; gather relevant data; identify key

Conference Session

Programs that Serve Industry & Academia

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University; Carol Popovich, Corporate member, Microchip Technology Inc.; John McGrane, Microchip Technology Inc.

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Continuing Professional Development

design; and analog1Couple these statistics with students who wish to incorporate hands-on learning in theircurriculum, and you have an audience for 1-2 day workshops that address a market need forinstruction, due to rapid technology changes.IntroductionStudents entering college today will graduate to a different world. In an article in the winter 2006edition of Marquette, the magazine of Marquette University, author Barbara Abel writes aboutthis changing landscape. She cited a 2004 book, The Jobs Revolution: Changing How AmericaWorks, which projected that between 1991 and 2015, the number of U.S. jobs requiring skilledworkers would increase from 50% to 76%.2 “None of the top ten jobs that will exist in 2010existed today,” the book says quoting

Conference Session

Educational Software

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Curtis, Microchip Technology Inc.

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Computers in Education

and engineering shortcuts necessary toaccomplish miracles in engineering productivity. Then, in an engineering rite of passage, theywould graduate to handling their own projects and become a full partner in the engineeringbrotherhood. In time, their experience would transform them into the older more-experiencedengineers that had mentored them, and they would in turn pass their wisdom on to the nextgeneration of new college graduates.Unfortunately, in today’s embedded microcontroller job market, this ancient and beneficentbrotherhood of engineering is long gone. Engineers seldom spend more than 3-5 years with asingle company, so employers are reluctant to invest a year’s salary in mentoring. The older,more-experienced engineers that once

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Two

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University; Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University; Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Civil Engineering

AC 2008-1260: EFFECTIVE USE OF INTEGRATED LECTURE AND LAB TOTEACH CIVIL ENGINEERING MATERIALSClaude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University CLAUDE VILLIERS is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Materials and Construction from the University of Florida in 2004. Previously Dr. Villiers was an Assistant Professor at The City College of New York. Prior to this position, he was employed by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) as a research engineer. Dr. Villiers also was employed by The University of Florida and worked on several projects sponsored by the FDOT and the

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadia Kellam, University of Georgia; Ashley Babcock, University of Georgia; David Gattie, University of Georgia-Athens

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Women in Engineering

individual faculty can change the learning environment in theirclassrooms. The following intervention approaches can be used in a single classroom, adepartment, or even the larger engineering community:1. Provide a supportive educational environment23Educators can encourage a supportive educational environment for the students by incorporatingcohorts or networks among peers and near peers in individual courses, across multiple courses, inundergraduate research projects, and across disciplines. Additionally, students can initiatecohorts through extracurricular activities related to engineering. By encouraging and supportingstudents in developing and maintaining peer cohorts, a more complex learning environment willeasily be realized. One way to

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Olowokere, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Kayode P. Ayodele, Obafemi Awolowo University; Olutola Jonah; Temitope O. Ajayi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; O.O. Akinwunmi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

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Computers in Education

. This interface allowed for loose coupling between experiment engineimplementations and the MSI-world.The general structure of the MSI lab interface is illustrated in Figure 5.VI. Students’ ResponseWhile the Flex OpLab has been completed (partly because the hardware had been previouslydeveloped for another project), the MSI lab is still under development. Despite this however, ithas been possible to assess students’ response and it has generally been positive. Page 13.1025.10 Figure 5: MSI Lab interface structureAs a simple test of the effectiveness of the Flex OpLab RLI, eleven students were grouped intotwo sets. One set was made to carry out the lab using the RLI interface, while the other

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmal Das, Georgia Southern University

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Engineering Technology

component.Typically, laboratory assignments and group projects would require the use of this tool that isaccessible in a dedicated computer laboratory. The author is aware of certain limitations in theprogram developed, and plans to assign tasks of modifying segments of the program as groupexercises to the class.. Through these exercises, students would learn to write programs usingMathcad to find solutions to a variety of problems. Students are required to support their resultswith other manual calculations. If group projects are done using these tools, students are requiredto make presentations and share the experience with others in the class. It has been the author’sexperience that such in-class presentations not only help students sharpen their

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betty Harper, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Patrick Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

, andconcluded that “employment during college enhances the development of career-related skills.”While most of these studies were based on student self-reports of the benefits of these workexperiences, data from employers suggests that they agree with students’ self-assessments.Casella and Brougham9 found that a majority of employers they surveyed reported that studentswith work or internship experience “produced higher-quality work, accepted supervision anddirection more willingly, demonstrated better time management skills, and were better able tointeract with coworkers on team projects.” Similar to internships, the influence of coops might beexpected to be even stronger because these experiences are typically longer in duration and moreintegrated

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering; Kamyar Haghighi, Purdue University

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Engineering and Public Policy

, “Assessment and Active Learning Strategies for Introductory Geology Courses,” Journal of Geosciences Education 51 (2003), pp. 205-216.8. D.E. Stokes, Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1997.10. N.L. Fortenberry, J.F. Sullivan, P.N. Jordan, and D.W. Knight, Engineering Education Research Aids Instruction, Science, vol. 317 (2007), pp. 1175-1176.11. D.W. Knight, L.E. Carlson, J.F. Sullivan, “Staying in Engineering: Impact of a Hands-On, Team-Based, First-Year Projects Course on Student Retention”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Meeting held June 22-25, 2003, in Nashville, TN

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Novoselich, United States Military Academy; Bobby Crawford, United States Military Academy; Erica Young, United States Military Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

proved possible early inthe semester, but, as the remote education students’ schedules began to diverge, so did theirassignment turn-in times. Ultimately, homework solutions for the resident students were madeavailable through the internal “Blackboard Site”. Solutions for remote education students wereemailed along with their graded assignments.Based on this course presentation strategy, the remote learning students received identicalcontent as the resident students with one minor exception: the Engineering Design Project wasslightly modified to strictly engineering analysis, no actual fabrication was required. Point totalsfor the assignments were adjusted accordingly.Resource AllocationBased on the model used for the development of remote

Conference Session

Technology in the Physics or Engineering Physics C

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raymond Winton, Mississippi State University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

modeling complexity, isincluded in the philosophical stream almost entirely as a conceptual transistor, whose onlytrue visibility is through its device models. So it almost seems to exist only in the framework Page 13.807.8of interesting integrated circuit layout geometries and somewhat impenetrable device models.Fortunately, the reality of MOS as a classroom circuit element is reconditioned by theconnection between the university community and the rapid-prototyping environment. Inthis respect an operating environment for which a low-cost multi-project fabrication contextwas developed through a DARPA (defense advance research projects agency

Conference Session

Enhancing K12 Mathematics Education with Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wendy Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Barbara Brizuela, Tufts University; Peter Wong, Tufts University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2008-1824: INTEGRATING ALGEBRA AND ENGINEERING IN THE MIDDLESCHOOL CLASSROOMWendy Huang, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBarbara Brizuela, Tufts UniversityPeter Wong, Tufts University Page 13.759.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Integrating Algebra and Engineering in the Middle School ClassroomAbstractThe Building Math curricula project was originally titled “Integrating Algebra and Engineeringin the Classroom.” It resulted in the development of three middle school instructional units thatuniquely integrates inquiry-based mathematics investigations and engineering design challenges.The engineering

Conference Session

FPD9 - First Year Learning & Assessment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jim Chamberlain, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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First-Year Programs

what I want to do instead of filling a mold” Engineering not rewarding / appealing “(new field) deals mainly with people rather than (“pushed from”) with things” Profession Other profession more appealing “the number of options for a career (in new field)” (“pulled towards”) “more money to be made” Misunderstanding of engineering as a “I can do project management (in new field)” profession “actual practical knowledge

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science Course

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University

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Materials

of students in introductory materials engineering classes. Most recently, he has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for a courses on Connecting Mathematics with Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design.Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University Amaneh Tasooji is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Materials at ASU and has been teaching and developing new content for materials science and engineering classes and laboratories. She has developed new content and contextual teaching methods from here experience as a researcher and a manager at Honeywell Inc. She is currently working to develop

Conference Session

Focus on High School Girls in Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Brake, Eastern Michigan University; Kaninka Bhatnagar, Eastern Michigan University

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Women in Engineering

towardsengineering and the physical sciences but there have been very few studies that have examinedwhat young people think about “technology”. One of the largest research projects to addressstudents’ technology perceptions was the 1986 Netherlands study conducted by the EindhovenInstitute of Technology: Pupils’ Attitude Towards Technology, PATT.7 Even though it is 20years old it is relevant to this study because, like this study, it specifically dealt with ‘technology’as opposed to science, engineering or math. Also, the scope of the PATT study was large as itwas initially offered to 2,600 thirteen year old students in the Netherlands. This was expanded toinclude 11 countries. This study found the following attitude and impressions of studentsregarding

Conference Session

Anything New in the Mechanics of Materials?

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Mechanics

introduced to motivate the student to do well. The stage of go public corresponds to the final project and report in the engineering design process.Challenge N: The following progressively more ambitious challenges enable the student toprogressively deepen their knowledge to the topic being explored.According to the authors, the different stages of the Legacy learning cycle focus to differingextents on student motivation, discovery, knowledge, and self-efficacy (key desirable studentoutcomes). Even though all stages of the Legacy learning cycle have a combination of them,there is usually one or two that dominate in each stage. For example, while the stages of“challenge”, “generate ideas”, and “go public” may all contain a

Conference Session

New Ideas for ChEs II (aka ChE Potpourri)

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Birnkrant, Drexel University; Matthew Cathell, Drexel University; Priscilla Blount, Martha Washington Elementary School; Jean Robinson, Martha Washington Elementary School; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Drexel University

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Chemical Engineering

. Fontecchio is the recipient of a NASA New Investigator award, the International Liquid Crystal Society Multimedia Prize, and the Drexel ECE Outstanding Research Award. He has authored over 35 peer-review publications on Electro-Optics and Condensed Matter Physics. His current research projects include developing liquid crystal polymer technology for optical film applications including electro-optic virtual focusing optics, reflective displays, flexible displays, power generating MEMS arrays, and photonic crystal structures with tunable defects. Page 13.798.1Eli Fromm, Drexel University Eli Fromm is

Conference Session

Focus on Under-Represented Women

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Donohue, University of Virginia; Larry Richards, University of Virginia; Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia

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Women in Engineering

literature: that persistence is more likelywhen female students receive the support to which they’re accustomed from high school fromkey mentors who provide examples and strategies for survival in a male-dominated profession;when the peer group is well represented, lessening the chance of isolation; and when programshave features that fit well with preferred learning environments for female undergraduates, suchas interdisciplinary studies with a stress on the inclusion of liberal arts courses, flexibility, lowstudent-faculty ratio, no pigeon-holing or stereotyping by faculty and fellow students, project andteam-based learning, emphasis on design projects (including service learning), and support ofinnovation and entrepreneurship in both faculty and

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Chalmers, United States Military Academy; Eric Crispino, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy

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New Engineering Educators

sporting events, greeting andencouraging all of them to let them know we cared about them outside of the classroom. For thecivil engineering Firsties (seniors) we have a private social gathering where we teach them homebrewing in an informal atmosphere and they learn proper social etiquette and moderate alcoholconsumption. In addition, we perform duties as the Academic Officer in Charge (AOC) wherewe inspect cadet living and study conditions from 1930-2330 at least once a semester. Thisallows us to gauge how well cadets are able to study at night, and it allows us to visit ourstudents in their rooms and see how they are doing at a very personal level. Each instructor alsoparticipates in a CE489 Individual Study Project, that allows a group of

Conference Session

Engineering Student Involvement in K12 Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

MS in civil engineering from CU-Boulder.Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder JACQUELYN F. SULLIVAN is founding co-director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program and Laboratory. She co-created and co-teaches a First-Year Engineering Projects course, an Innovation and Invention course, and a service-learning Engineering Outreach Corps elective. Dr. Sullivan initiated the ITL's extensive K-12 engineering program and leads a multi-institutional NSF-supported initiative that created TeachEngineering, an online collection of K-12 engineering curricula. Dr. Sullivan has 14 years of industrial engineering experience and directed an interdisciplinary water resources

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment Concerns in Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University; Katie Kuder, Seattle University; Dragovich Jefferey, Seattle University

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Civil Engineering

science and engineeringtopics2. The university worked with NCEES to obtain previously unreleased FE Page 13.311.3data on student performance in various topics for their institution from 1993 to1996. Their analysis showed that there is a direct correlation between increasingFE score and increasing GPA. The correlation coefficient between the averageFE raw score and average student GPA was found to be 0.42 for 104 civilengineering students over the fours years. As part of this project, the universityadministered a Campus Engineering Assessment (CEA) examination in April1996, two weeks prior to the FE examination. The examination was constructedby the faculty and

Conference Session

Case Studies & Engineering Education Around the Globe

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karim Altaii, James Madison University; Hennia cavallini, University of Costa Rica

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International

provided manyeducational benefits for all involved including understanding the fundamentals of energy, its usesand resources, exposure to international energy technologies, experience and understandingassociated with living and working in an international setting; and applied, interdisciplinarycourse experience that integrates the technical, social, and economic dimensions of aninternational setting. Seven students from each of the institutions were taught by a team ofinteruniversity faculty and learned via immersion about Costa Rican culture, history, geography,language and political affairs. Each JMU student was hosted by a Costa Rican family and thecourse included hands-on field trips to operational renewable energy projects and installations

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer - I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Kean, California Polytechnic State University; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; Tamara Moore, University Of Minnesota; Barbara Olds, Colorado School of Mines; Eric Hamilton, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

-solving strategies from studentsin mathematics classes, but have now been expanded to other disciplines including ethics andengineering science2,3.Through a collaborative, large-scale National Science Foundation project, MEAs are now beingdeveloped to elicit student misconceptions about important but poorly understood concepts inthermal science. For example, misconceptions about the second law of thermodynamics and itseffect on energy quality are being explored in an MEA where students estimate the overallthermal efficiency of electric vs. hybrid vs. gasoline cars. Student teams must use a systemsapproach and include all relevant energy conversion steps in their problem solving process.In this paper, we will describe MEAs and how they are being

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Lutes, Purdue University; Richard Mislan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Information Systems

software professionally since 1982. Prior to his current appointment at Purdue, he held various software development positions in industry and has worked on projects for such industries as banking, telecommunications, publishing, hospitals, medical schools, retail, and pharmaceuticals. Addition to his teaching and research duties at Purdue, Kyle is the founder of DelMar Information Technologies, LLC. His company specializes in custom software development using Microsoft technologies (C#, .NET, .NET Compact Framework, Active Server Pages (ASP), SQL Server, and Visual Basic) for mobile devices (smart phones and Pocket PCs), enterprise, web, client/server and desktop

Conference Session

FPD2 - First-Year Advising and Transition

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ida Ngambeki, Purdue University; Odesma Dalrymple, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University

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First-Year Programs

program at one university, allow students togain a better understanding of various disciplines by participating in engineering projects in thecommunity10. Colleges and universities also use introduction to engineering or first year seminarcourses in engineering to introduce students to the different fields in engineering by havingprojects and labs relating to different disciplines, or having guest speakers come in to giveintroductions to the different disciplines5, 11. Other colleges allow students to take severalintroductory courses in various areas to allow them to explore and gather information on variousfields12.A study of one such introductory program found that approximately 30% of students choose theirengineering discipline before

Conference Session

Anything New in Dynamics?

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Nordenholz, California Maritime Academy

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Mechanics

LaboratoryAbstractThis paper describes a relatively simple method in which planar rigid body motion can bemeasured and analyzed in the context of an upper division mechanical engineering laboratorycourse. The overall intention of this work is to help facilitate upper division level laboratoryprojects in dynamics. Such projects are intended to provide students with the opportunity to i)apply and reinforce their knowledge of dynamics, ii) learn and practice modern experimentalmethods used to make and assess motion measurements, and iii) if possible, compare theoreticaland measured results.The instrumentation involves the use of two inexpensive sensors – a dual axis accelerometer anda rate gyro – and a data acquisition system (such as LABVIEW). The accelerometer

Conference Session

Design: Content and Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University; Mieke Schuurman, Pennsylvania State University; Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University; Samuel T Hunter, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

experiences into the second and third years as well? A few engineering programs havetaken major steps to incorporate significant design experiences throughout all years ofundergraduate study, but this seems to be the exception, not the rule. For example, at the HarveyMudd College, design permeates the overall curriculum: “The design and professional practicestem includes five required courses that are designed to provide students with the means to workin teams on open-ended, externally-driven design projects that, over the course of the curriculum,encompass conceptual design, preliminary (or embodiment) design, and detailed design. ‘Handson’ exposure to professional practice begins with students undertaking challenging designproblems in the first

Conference Session

Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Natalia Kapli, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Perceptions and Success of Active Learning Techniques in an Engineering Education CourseAbstractActive learning is extremely prevalent in discussions of how to improve teaching and learning inboth undergraduate and graduate engineering courses. However, active learning may not alwayslead to success. Rather, characteristics of the students enrolled and of the course material mayinfluence whether or not active learning is met with resistance. This project examines therelationship between graduate students’ perception of active learning techniques and the successof these techniques in an engineering education course entitled, “Teaching Seminar for GraduateAssistants.” The context of the project surrounds three sections of a course

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education Initiatives

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quamrul Mazumder, University of Michigan - Flint; Dhruba Baishya, University of Michigan - Flint

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International

engineeringeducation is at its infancy stage. Researchers, academic institutions, and industry have employedmultifarious projects to understand and model globalization of engineering educationWe strongly emphasize that optimum work needs to be done to prepare upcoming U.S. studentswho will be competent in an increasingly demanding global work environment. In order toestablish new models, we made an attempt to understand and analyze perspectives of current(U.S. and non-U.S.) students, academic faculty, and engineering professionals currently workingin industry. One of the goals of this study was to test the hypothesis that the current U.S.curriculum do not adequately prepare engineering students to work, manage and communicateeffectively with engineers and