Conference Session

Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Valerie Fuchs, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

International

” Page 13.403.6criteria that are delivered through their major studies (ability to apply knowledge of mathematics,sciences, and engineering; ability to design and conduct experiments; ability to identify, formulate,and solve problems; and an ability to use techniques, skills, and tools necessary for practice). A recent 5comparison of ISD students to traditional senior design students illustrates this point. Whereas ISDstudents reported a 10% higher self-rating of technical writing and speaking abilities, ISD studentsdemonstrated an eleven-fold ability over their traditional senior design peers (87% correct versus 8%on a post-project quiz) to understand the global and societal context

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Rabb; David Chang, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

4 engineering tools and techniques. [ABET Criterion 3 Outcomes (b) and (k)] 5. Communicate solutions clearly, both orally and in writing. [ABET Criterion 3 4 Outcome (g)] 6. Work effectively in diverse teams. [ABET Criterion 3 Outcome (d)] 3 7. Apply professional and ethical considerations to engineering problems. [ABET 3 Criterion 3 Outcome (f)] 8. Incorporate understanding and knowledge of societal, global and other contemporary issues in the development of engineering solutions that meet

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Smith, U. of St. Thomas - St. Paul

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

assesspossible vulnerabilities. They perform simple risk assessments in which they must balance theimpact of security measures against the potential reduction in risk. They also write security plansin which they describe the security measures that must be implemented to block specificweaknesses in a system.Each type of student work here is considered in the light of Bloom’s taxonomy for cognitivelearning objectives4. In Bloom’s taxonomy, there are six levels of cognitive learning objectives: Page 13.255.6 • 1. Knowledge • 2. Comprehension • 3. Application • 4. Analysis • 5. Synthesis • 6. EvaluationThe upper 3 are generally

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

descriptor for supervision and mentoring. A largeproportion of interview responses referred to interactions with other people that were closelyrelated to supervision in the sense that the interview subject was relying on other people toperform some work or provide information. The term ‘coordination’ seemed moreappropriate and general than supervision as most of the people were not subordinates of therespondent. Instead they were clients, peers, people in other parts of the same organization,superiors, contractors, and outsiders. These were mostly one-on-one situations and mostreferences were in response to questions unrelated to supervision.Willing cooperation also seemed to be important. An insightful first-hand comment about C.Y. O’Connor, the

Conference Session

Issues in the Professional Practice of Faculty Members in Civil Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Ronald Welch, The University of Texas-Tyler; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy; Norman Dennis, University of Arkansas; Debra Larson, Northern Arizona University; Carol Considine, Old Dominion University; Tonya Nilsson, San Jose State; Jim O'Brien, American Society of Civil Engineers; Thomas Lenox, American Society of Civil Engineers

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

in Engineering Education – with a small “c”) teaching workshops. By 2005, ASCEreclaimed sponsorship of ETW, and the participants ever since have come from those civil,environmental, architectural and construction engineering and engineering technology programsthat the society supports. ASCE has offered two of these workshops per year ever since. At thetime of this writing, there have been 19 ETWs which have been attended by 449 participants Page 13.586.4from 203 different colleges and universities. International universities such as Durban Institute Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

Conference Session

New Ideas for ChEs I (aka ChE Potpourri)

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. Therefore, while afreshman chemical engineering course must (obviously) contain information about thefield of chemical engineering, it should also find ways to address non-chemicalengineering related issues as well. Here, ample use of guest speakers in CounselingServices or similar offices on campus should be explored.In addition to what has been discussed above, other ideas in freshman chemicalengineering courses exist as well. Roberts discusses a course that focuses on, amongother areas, communication skills13. Worcester Polytechnic Institute looks to mix writingwith first-year engineering in a course taught shared by a ChE faculty and Writing facultymember14. Vanderbilt University describes a course where students are introduced tochemical

Conference Session

Innovations in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianbiao Pan, California Polytechnic State University; James Harris, California Polytechnic State University; Albert Liddicoat, California Polytechnic State University; Dominic Dalbello, Allan Hancock College

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

an electronic device;• exercise project management skills and use the Gantt chart;• exercise communication skills through preparing a proposal, writing a final report, and presenting in class. Page 13.90.4Details of ProjectIME 157 Electronics Manufacturing is a lower-division engineering course and has no pre-requisite. The lecture meets twice per week for fifty minutes each and the lab meets twice perweek for three hours each over the ten weeks of a quarter. We believe that laboratory work isvery important component in engineering education and Cal Poly’s teaching philosophy is“learning-by-doing”.Each student will work on two projects

Conference Session

Educating for Results: Tools used in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Terri Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University; Joshua Killey, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Elizabeth Wager, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

and Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).Joshua Killey, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis Joshua Killey is Director for the Office of Career Services and Professional Development in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).Elizabeth Wager, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Elizabeth Wager is a Lecturer of Technical Writing in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), where she is also pursuing a master's degree in applied communication

Conference Session

Approaches to Active Learning

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Yim, University of Pennsylvania; Katherine Kuchenbecker, University of Pennsylvania; Paulo Arratia, University of Pennsylvania; Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania; John Bassani, University of Pennsylvania; Jonathan Fiene, University of Pennsylvania; Jennifer Lukes, University of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, instrumentation, fabrication,information retrieval, technical writing, and the scientific process can be taught progressivelyover four years. Skills build on each other from one year to the next, enabling students todevelop independence and ultimately acquire a sense of engineering empowerment.PIC follows a progression that is loosely metaphorical to human growth. Just as a human childultimately learns the ability to survive in a world independent from his or her parents, we striveto enable students to learn concepts and applications to the point where they can apply them inan unstructured environment outside the classroom. • Freshman year. Like toddlers learning new words, following simple instructions, and exploring the world, freshmen are

Conference Session

ChE Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Krantz, National University of Singapore

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

whom English is not their first language. As such, many of these students are more reticentand less outgoing than typical U.S. students. Interestingly, components of effective publicspeaking such as maintaining good eye contact, lightening up a talk with humor, or ‘dressing forthe occasion’ can be difficult to implement for students from some cultures.In writing this paper the author had some difficulty in deciding in which voice to write the paper;that is, whether to consider the reader to be a student, who might be taking this Workshop, or aneducator, who might be faced with coordinating a similar workshop. The end result was acompromise between the choices. Hence, parts of this paper that deal with the creation of thewebsite for this

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Drushel, Case Western Reserve University; John Gallagher, Wright State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

ideas. Moreover, a physical papernotebook was flexible enough to incorporate printouts of code (already typed for the compiler Page 13.1283.3anyways) and digital photographs (after the lab obtained a digital camera) by taping or staplingthem in, or else keeping the notebook as a 3-ring binder, to allow easy insertion of pages. Somestudents made rough handwritten notes in class and then typed them into a word processor ontheir own computers, especially those who had poor handwriting but were efficient typists.Overall, the immediacy afforded by just writing down observations in real time during classallowed high-quality documentation to be

Conference Session

Case Studies & Engineering Education Around the Globe

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

International

?); 2. Many college students do not know how to take effective notes. Although various strategies and formats for effective “note-taking” have been identified. The fact is that “note-taking” is seldom taught; 3. The listening, language, and/or motor skill deficits of some students make it difficult for them to identify important lecture content and write it down correctly and quickly enough during a lecture; 4. Instructors sometimes get off-track from the primary objectives of the lecture. Professors—especially those who really know and love their disciplines—are famous for going off on tangents during lecture. Although getting off-track would break the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gerlick, Washington State University; Denny Davis, Washington State University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho; Jay McCormack, University of Idaho; Phillip Thompson, Seattle University; Olakunle Harrison, Tuskegee University; Michael Trevisan, Washington State University

simply recall of information.The examples above highlight some common methods for assessing student design processknowledge. In addition to this, faculty have used design products as opportunities to assessprocess activities. For instance, common capstone products include design reviews (peer, client,and faculty), oral presentations, and written reports. In the assessment and evaluation of theseproducts, performance criteria may also be included to address various elements of the designprocess. This is commonly done by addressing a particular activity – identification of customerneeds, for example – through a single scoring metric in a rubric. In this case, the nature of theassessment is more holistic with little depth, mainly used as a

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University; Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 13.286.16health information to adults for a small fee. This increases the health consciousness of the peopleand provides a revenue stream to make the project economically sustainable. A team of businessstudents is working on a detailed business commercialization plan. Mashavu employs anetworked healthcare system that also can be extremely valuable during emergencies anddisaster situations. Mashavu means “chubby cheeked” in Swahili, the national language ofTanzania.Student EvaluationThe grading categories for the course are given in Table 2. All the Adventures and Quests havepoints specifically allocated for creativity and innovation. Venture-related deliverables are co-graded by peers (50%) and referees (50%). Success and failure are both

Conference Session

Student Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Rachel Reed, Calvin College; Crystal Bruxvoort, Calvin College; Neil Carlson, Calvin College

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

advantage of opportunities to work in 6.20 1.87 *** engineering-related internships or co-op jobs. Answer "not applicable" if you have not had any such opportunity to take advantage of.PART4 I have taken advantage of opportunities to participate in 2.63 .88 .00 study groups with my engineering peers. Page 13.522.14Code Indicator Stem Estimate S.E. pPART5 I have taken advantage of opportunities to participate in 2.40 .82 .00 review sessions conducted by an instructor in at least one course related to my engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Chang, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jessica Townsend, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

was to look at how other schools have run their capstone programs.Due in part to its similar mission, scale, and approach to undergraduate engineering education,an obvious model for Olin’s capstone program is the Harvey Mudd Clinic Program. The ClinicProgram is the longest running sponsored capstone program for undergraduates. For reasonsdetailed in later section, the Clinic Program became the blueprint from which the SCOPEprogram was designed.Goals of this paperIn writing this paper, the authors intend to describe through a narrative, the history and evolutionof the program over its first three years. The intention is to put the reader into the context ofdeveloping a capstone course from the ground up such that our experiences may inform

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Anthony, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Marjory Palius, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Carolyn Maher, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Prabhas Moghe, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

but also the areas that needimprovement in their peers’ presentations, and that this has helped them to make note of what todo and not to do in their own subsequent presentations (not just IRIFs but also group meetings,conferences, etc.).Additionally, the mere process of engaging in extended discourse, with its give and take, hasbeen instructive for all students – and particularly so for those whose research groups are very Page 13.440.13small, and/or do not meet frequently, and/or have different norms and cultures for meetings. Onestudent reported that the IRIF experience emboldened her to speak up in her own groupmeetings, which had been

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Kitto, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, such as a diving board. On theother hand, the post-class questionnaires showed that by the end of the term less than tenpercent of the students could not distinguish between these effects.Last term, in addition to writing research papers where the students answered importantmaterials engineering questions, the students presented their work to each other duringPoster Sessions. Peer grading rubrics were also used during the sessions (the studentswere provided with concept based grading guidelines). The students seemed to enjoy thesessions, but more importantly they gained valuable experience by communicating toeach other why one material is used for a particular application. Their arguments had tobe grounded in at least three materials

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Jonassen, University of Missouri; William Miller, University of Missouri; Matthew Schmidt, University of Missouri; Matthew Easter, University of Missouri; Rose Marra, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

scenarios are embedded in various contexts inwhich there is a need for ensuring radiological safety, including nuclear power plants,research reactors, hospitals, isotope production facilities, etc. Every scenario is supportedby all relevant regulations and guidelines (NRC, DOE, DOT, ANSI, INPO), proceduresfor each activity, supporting cases of operating experience and event reports, descriptionsof the radiation sciences, situational awareness (self- and peer-checking) procedures, andadvice from others. These scenarios may be used by course instructors in numerous ways,from the objects of lectures to problem-based learning. Utilizing a blended learningformat, learners concurrently approach course content and relevant scenarios both in classand

Conference Session

Use of Summer Research Programs in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tamim Younos, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

going to the environmental engineering conference, regardless of their own field, especially given that they are still undergraduates3. List the top three things that you learned (within and outside of your discipline) duringthis program. • Important – Should have a presentation on how to give presentations, i.e., PowerPoint, Communications • Bacterial source tracking and methodology • Presenting research • How broadly something like water uses the skills of so many academic fields • Research in general as what I want to do • How to go about research • How to present • How to write a research paper • Learn about a new area of a field (geology) • Learning to present chemistry to non-chemists

Conference Session

FPD6 - First Year Curricula Development

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; John Uhran, University of Notre Dame; Catherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame; Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh; John Ventura, Christian Brothers University; Patricia Ralston, University of Louisville; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Constance Slaboch, University of Notre Dame; Brenda Hart, University of Louisville; Rebecca Ladewski, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

security.John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University John K. Estell is Chair of the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department, and Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, at Ohio Northern University. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His areas of research include simplifying the outcomes assessment process, user interface design, and the pedagogical aspects of writing computer games. Dr. Estell is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon.Brenda Hart, University of Louisville Professor Hart is the director of student affairs in the School of Engineering

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley Ater Kranov, Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology; Robert Olsen, Washington State University; Carl Hauser, Washington State University; Laura Girardeau, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

understandings of the ABET skills and how they maybe expressed in student team performance, set program outcomes or performance benchmarks,apply results to teaching improvements, and track longitudinal growth. It also offers richopportunities for faculty development and collaboration with industry professionals. Thecurricular debrief method can also be used as a teaching tool, so that students can practice theirABET professional skills in just one class period, gaining insight from faculty and peer feedback.The Scoring Tool: Guide to Assessing ABET Professional SkillsFirst, a rubric to be used as the rating tool was developed for the ABET professional skills.“Rubrics are scoring guides that describe the various levels of student performance for a

Conference Session

Novel Energy Applications in Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Schroeder, University of Toledo; Mohammad Elahinia, University of Toledo; Walter Olson, University of Toledo; Mark Schumack, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

an effort in theCollege of Engineering at the Ohio State University where the freshman engineering classeswere redeveloped into a combined course with hands-on laboratory elements2. Teamwork,project management, report writing and oral presentations were the main parts of this program.Recently, in their research, Smith et al. focused on classroom-based pedagogy of engagement3.The authors recognized that active and collaborative learning provides better ways for students tolearn by being intensely involved in the educational process. These learning methods can furtherbe implemented by encouraging the students to apply their knowledge in many situations. Thearticle, as illustrated in, also indicates the superiority of the problem-based learning

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mieke Schuurman, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University; Christopher Johnstone, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

(for the males, the admission of nervousness generally occurred later in theessay). Also, the degree of nervousness for the female students was high. For instance, in thesecond sentence of her essay, one female student wrote about how she felt at the beginning of thecourse: “I was terrified of public speaking and I was nervous to have to take an entire class onthat.” Another wrote the following: “In September, I was terrified of giving speeches in front ofmy peers. I so badly wanted to drop this class that I cried one night.” Interestingly, the femalestudents on average gave presentations that were at least as strong as, if not stronger, than themale students. In addition, the source of nervousness did not simply arise because the

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

Tagged Divisions

International

relationships,communications, and English proficiency regarding reading, writing, and speech. Projectmanagement, planning, team work, time and budget management are integrated intoprojects in American engineering curricula. Such an approach obviously makes goodsense to address issues like lack of training on problem solving skills, ability to deal withconflicts, team organization, and engineering way to organization, project development,finance awareness, and software for project management through a variety of academicactivities.The main goal of this enhancement is to help Chinese students to broaden their viewsfrom narrowly designed technical background, develop their critical thinking skills inproblem solving and prepare them for their future growth

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

experience, and one engineer from at an airconditioning manufacturing company with two years of experience. The four applicationengineers all have 15 or more years of system integration experience and are considered to beexperts by their peers. The latter two engineers work with automated manufacturing systems, buthave little system design experience; we consider them to be novices for the purposes of thisinvestigation.Procedure. The interviews were conducted as follows. The interviewer would:1. Introduce himself and describe the purpose of the interview (to gain a better understanding of system integration)2. Show the engineer a cell phone assembly consisting of eight parts (see Figure 1).3. Ask the engineer to think aloud about

Conference Session

Technology in the Physics or Engineering Physics C

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nataliia Perova, Tufts University; Walter H. Johnson, Suffolk University; Chris Rogers, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

Harvard University and B.S. from Rice University. He is a Chairman of Physics Department at Suffolk University. His research interests include neural networks, wireless motes, and ellipsometry. He has a strong commitment to teaching and integrating innovative technology to better reach his students, from streaming video and electronic writing tables for distance learning to using wireless mesh-networking devices in undergraduate research projects. His academic awards include C.W. Heaps Prize in Physics and Phi Beta Kappa from Rice University, Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard University, and Carnegie Foundation Massachusetts Professor of the Year in 2005.Chris Rogers, Tufts University

Conference Session

Developing Communication/Teamwork Skills in ChEs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Lefebvre, Rowan University; Loren Connell, Rowan University; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

- intrinsic: natural curiosity or interest in the activity itself - social: please the professor or peers - achievement: enhance position relative to others - instrumental: gain rewards beyond the activity itselfStudents motivated by intrinsic and social drivers will naturally engage in their education.Positive competition has been used in lecture settings to appeal to students motivated byachievement or instrumental drivers.13In the case of the protein production challenge: - In order to foster an inductive environment that mimics an “undergraduate research” experience, the project was given an open-ended structure in which students were challenged to develop their own optimized experimental procedure

Conference Session

New Ideas for ChEs II (aka ChE Potpourri)

Collection

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

Tagged Divisions

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

Innovations in ME Laboratory Instruction

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Davis, Kettering University; Craig Hoff, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

course requires students to instrument and test drive vehicles on open roads.Because of this, each team is given opportunities to setup and use the equipment duringscheduled times outside of class hours. Typically, a week is dedicated for each laboratoryexercise. In order to facilitate this process and to provide additional responsibility, each teammust host one of the exercises. The requirements of a host team include:• Assembling the equipment• Testing equipment, including working with the professor to set up the test• Taking data (a data set must be taken and analyzed at least one week before the lab date). This data must be submitted to the Professor along with the lab write-up corrections so copies can be made at the copy center