Conference Session

Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Sanders, Virginia Tech; Thomas Sherman, Virginia Tech; Hyuksoo Kwon, Virginia Tech; James Pembridge, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

fact that nearly half (47.4%) associated their programs with “vocational” rather than“general” education. This is likely due to the fact that a large majority of states have alwaysadministered Technology Education under the heading of “Vocational Education” or, morerecently, “Career & Technical Education.” Moreover, many probably don’t consider high school“engineering education” (e.g., PLTW) as vocational in nature, because it typically leads to apostsecondary vocational track rather than to a vocation in the trades immediately upon highschool graduation.Table 3: Teachers’ Beliefs Regarding the PURPOSES of Technology Education Purposes of Technology Education Rating Rank

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Oakes, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Participation: A student can participate in an EPICS team for more than one semester and even their entire career. ≠ Variable Credit Hours: An EPICS student can earn one or two credits per semester. ≠ Multidisciplinary Teams: In the 2007-08 academic year, 30 different majors participated in EPICS. ≠ Start-to-Finish Design Experience: EPICS provides a start-to-finish design experience for students. Projects begin with problem identification done by the students and moves through delivery of the project. The long-term structure allows EPICS to provide support for fielded projects, an additional value to the community partners

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships, Teaching Strategies & Collaborative Networks (IUCEE, IFEES, LACCEI.... )

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andy Ward, Ohio State University; Ann Christy, Ohio State University; Robert J. Gustafson; Jessica D'Ambrosio; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

International

engineeringprograms and experiences for their students, which can take many forms including dual degrees,exchange programs, extended field trips, extension activities, internships, mentored travel,partner sub-contracts, project based learning / service learning, and research abroad1. Withrespect to African partnerships, some of the programs have linked U.S. engineering students withcounterparts and projects in Benin5,6, Ghana7, South Africa8, and others. It has been suggestedthat all engineering students should have a passport before they graduate and be prepared towork in various parts of the world throughout their career, rather than in only one nation orcontinent. Prior to graduation, how international experience might be provided prior tograduation might

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phil Rawles, Purdue University; Anthony Smith, Purdue University; Raymond Hansen, Purdue University; Jeffrey Sprankle, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

, malware and SPAMcontrol, the continued evolution in wireless networks, and support for new applicationdevelopment and deployment models keep IT educators busy ensuring their courses andcurricula are kept in sync with changes in the industry.In addition to changes in the industry, there are changes in the student body. Today’s students aremuch more technology savvy than those entering the program just five years ago. These studentsare also taking internships earlier in their college careers, creating a need to ensure they areprepared for these earlier industrial experience opportunities.As part of our ongoing continuous improvement process the faculty in the Department ofComputer and Information Technology at Purdue University has recently

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

, including those specifically spelled out in the Title IX implementingregulations, as well as identifying promising practices to promote gender equity:27 admissions,recruitment, outreach and retention; faculty advising and career counseling; research participationand classroom experiences; treatment of students and faculty on the basis of parental/maritalstatus; safety policies; and sexual harassment policies.17,18,19,20,21 NASA’s reports make clear thatthe agency examined admissions statistics, retention statistics, data relevant to the utility ofparticular policies such as family leave, and more. Where NASA identified potential problems,such as the chilly or toxic climate in one physics department, it did take into account the opinionsof

Conference Session

Sustainable and Urban Development

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farshad Rajabipour, University of Hawaii, Manoa; Aleksandra Radlinska, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

with more general and conceptual ideas.We also sought opinion from the industry advisory boards (IABs) on what new skills wouldbenefit the civil engineering graduates the most in their career. Their common answer was thatwhile CE graduates are good in numerical solution of traditional engineering problems, theyoften lack creativity in defining new problems and in offering innovative solutions. In the IABs’opinion, two areas of particular importance in near future will be (a) design and construction ofgreen buildings, especially as outlined by LEED, and (b) development and rehabilitation ofrobust civil infrastructure7. In addition, CE graduates need to improve their communication andwriting skills and should be able to work in interdisciplinary

Conference Session

Engineering Courses for Non-engineers

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Blake, Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

system work. The story includesmany examples where engineers, operating under constraints, identify and solve problems.October Sky tells an autobiographical story of a group of young men who, after a long learningcurve with many failures, develops the technology to make very successful small rockets. Whilethis is a story about high school students, it reflects the perspective of an author who went on toan engineering career with NASA, and the story is a useful study for technological projects atany level. Moving to fiction and a setting in the distant future, Forbidden Planet tells a story ofthe enticing benefits of new technological marvels. It also explores the risks of unintended andunanticipated consequences. While these movies illustrate

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Christensen, Texas A&M University; Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

addition of a projectcomponent of such magnitude. In addition, the general engineering principles of the lower-levelcourses can be most readily applied and extrapolated to more general real-life challenges thatwould be the basis of the service-learning projects. The goals of increasing excitement andretention rates would be also better served by implementing service learning during the mostinfluential time of a student’s academic career, which typically coincides with the lower-levelcourses. Furthermore, the four learning outcomes of the material and energy balances coursewere defined with the goal of implementing service learning. Specifically outcome 4 is wellaligned with such objectives of a service learning project: community engagement

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to Mechanical Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Pawluk, Virginia Commonwealth University; Curtis Taylor, University of Florida; Marcia Hoffman, Virginia Commonwealth University; Maria McClintock, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Page 14.471.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Development of a Nanoscale Virtual Environment Haptic Interface for Teaching Nanotechnology to Individuals who are Visually ImpairedAbstractNanotechnology is a relatively new, exciting and growing area of research in whichgovernments, educators and researchers, alike, are interested in attracting K-12 andundergraduate students to pursue future careers. However, how things interact at the small scaleof a nano-environment can be difficult for these students to understand and conceptualize. Thisis particularly true for students who are visually impaired, as most current explanations andpedagogical methods heavily rely on 2-D

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

National Engineering Award in 2003, the highest honor given by AAES. In 2002 she was named the Distinguished Engineering Educator by the Society of Women Engineers. Her awards are based on her mentoring of students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering. Page 14.825.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Keeping in Touch with Your Class: Short Class EvaluationsAbstractEspecially for a beginning or fairly new

Conference Session

Exploring Retention

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Cassady, University of Arkansas; Sean Mulvenon, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

to CoE students are Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering); ≠ providing FEP students with academic, career, and personal advising in a proactive manner; ≠ fostering a sense of community among FEP students, other CoE students, the CoE faculty, and the balance of the UofA community.The FEP is executed via two sub-programs – the Freshman Engineering Academic Program(FEAP) and the Freshman Engineering Student Services Program (FESSP). These sub-programsare executed by a faculty Director, two full-time professional staff members, one full-timeinstructor, volunteer

Conference Session

Beyond the Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Bailey, North Carolina A&T State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

course to the undergraduate Engineering curriculum. Generaleducation is often devalued by students as irrelevant and a waste of time. Students wantmajor specific education, both because of their personal interests, and because of theperceived urgency to further their job and career goals. Major departments often wantlarger budgets which can result from high hours-requirements for their majors. Suchdesires can result in a correlative desire to take hours from general education in order tosecure a larger share of the total possible hours for major hours. In addition, facultymembers in major departments often deprecate general education as ‘soft,”unsophisticated, and intellectually and academically impoverished. We argue here for thepositive value

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Developments, Implementations

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Oliveira, Michigan Technological University; Ivan Lima, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

International

education has to be tailored to the needsof the current globalized world. Industry has begun to respond to the transformation byredefining business strategies and with new expectations for the new set of skills of engineers.According to the literature1-12 engineering students who have international study experience aremore likely to be hired and prepared for the global market place. Engineering graduates will beintegrally involved with the globalization of engineering during their course of their careers byworking at multinational companies, often having foreign-born coworkers, working withinternational suppliers, providing services to international product markets, or developingproducts that have an international market13.This changing nature of

Conference Session

Curriculum in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology: Part II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Li Tan, Purdue University, North Central; Jean Jiang, DeVry University, Decatur, GA

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University; Jeff Joines, North Carolina State University; Amy Craig, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

. A secondary outcome of these labs was thatstudents were seeing how to approach and solve a wide variety of different problems. Forexample, one engineering problem solving method the students see is the ‘divide and conquertechnique’ (i.e., breaking up the problem into its smallest elements and solving each of theelements (which typically is easier) and then reassembling the elements to solve the originalproblem) [2]. In order for students to enhance, rather than lose, these new found computationaland problem solving skills in the freshman year, computational modeling and problem solvinghas to be utilized through their academic career by integrating these tools into upper divisioncourses. A ‘computational thinking thread’ [3] is beginning to

Conference Session

Communication and Collaboration

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University; Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

body paragraph? Is the topic specifically linked to your career (engineering, finance, etc.) so that the audience will know why you are discussing this topic? 4. Organization: Is the paper organized appropriately with Page 14.1287.4 headings? Is a main point (thesis) stated? Are the paragraphs divided logically? Are subpoints expressed in topic sentences for each body paragraph? Is the order of subpoints logical? 5. Development of paragraphs: Are paragraphs developed logically with relevant, specific, sufficient details? Do details stay on the subject? Are they appropriate? 6

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum and Practices in Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

traditionally educated students for careers in the occupational field known as electronicsengineering technology (EET) or simply electronics technology (ET). Nationwide, overallenrollment in many of these legacy technology programs have continued to be running belowhistoric averages and have even caused the faculty of some programs to become fearful ofeventual program elimination! If one looks at the statistics available from the National ScienceBoard (NSB), the total number of students enrolled in the field of Engineering Technology(typically in the fields of civil, electrical/electronics, construction, computer, and mechanicaltechnology) continues to follow a downward trend from an all time high in the early 1980s totoday’s lower full time equivalent

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arun Ravindran, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Patricia Tolley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Arindam Mukherjee, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

additional opportunities for minor refinements to the course.ConclusionsWith the rapid emergence of diverse computing architectures in recent years, we were motivatedto introduce to the undergraduate curriculum topics such as reconfigurable computingtraditionally taught at the graduate level. Also, with the proliferation of multicore architecturesthe skills for writing parallel software needs to be developed in our students for their success intheir future engineering careers. The new course aims to address these goals by exposingcomputer engineering seniors to a variety of topics including hardware design using VHDL,FPGA design flow and interfacing, data parallel algorithms, and high performance computingapplications. After having taught the new

Conference Session

Project-Based Service Learning

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maya Trotz, University of South Florida; Ken Thomas, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

class to participate in one of theESW activities at the school or in the community. Such an endeavor could potentially help to Page 14.1155.9encourage more students to pursue a college career in a STEM discipline whilst buildingcommunication, leadership and mentoring capacity of college students.ConclusionThis project also has the potential to expand to other courses across the university with theinclusion of sustainability concepts. These include undergraduate laboratory courses in biology,environmental microbiology, and water resources engineering. The convenience of the ponds forsampling coupled with their importance in floodwater and water

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Johnson, Valparaiso University; Mark Budnik, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

thermodynamics. In addition, they complete a mid-term design project and a finaldesign project as part of a team and give an in-class oral presentation on each. This course isalso complemented by GE 199, a required zero-credit seminar course that meets once a week andfeatures a series of guest speakers to help the students understand the field of engineering.It was decided that one of the existing modules in this course (Communication System Design)should be replaced by a module on entrepreneurship. Introducing the concept this early in thecurriculum and across all engineering disciplines provided a unique opportunity to encourage allengineering students to begin to think about entrepreneurship from the beginning of theirengineering careers

Conference Session

Innovation in the Civil Engineering Classroom

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Bondehagen, Florida Gulf Coast University; Simeon Komisar, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

decreased output), solve the problem” • An ability to design a system with multiple constraints • An ability to technically communicate Evaluation of Outcomes The main assessment tool for quantitative evaluation included two rubrics (Appendix A) modified and designed for this particular course. The first rubric was used to score Projects 1-4; the second rubric was used to score the final project and poster presentation. The faculty review and grading of design projects reflected this rubric, and evaluated outcomes and student progression in demonstrating the abilities most important to long- term career success (note the emphasis on technical communication skills in the

Conference Session

Educational Research

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; P.K. Imbrie, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

subfactors identified through factor analysis14; each subfactor isin turn comprised of individual items. The constructs include:- Motivation, consisting of 25 items in four subfactors: Control, Challenge, Curiosity and Career.- Metacognition: consisting of 20 items in four subfactors: Planning, Self-monitoring/Self- Checking, Cognitive Strategy and Awareness.- Deep Learning, consisting of 10 items in two subfactors, Motive and Strategy.- Surface Learning, consisting of 10 items in two subfactors, Memorization and Studying.- Academic Self-Efficacy, consisting of ten individual items that do not form specific subfactors.- Leadership, consisting of 20 items with four subfactors, Motivation, Planning, Self- Assessment and

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mihaela Radu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Clint COLE, Washington State University, Pullman; Mircea Dabacan, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania; Joe Harris, DigilentInc; Albert Fazekas, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania; Ioana DABACAN, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

learningexperience.The first question investigates how beneficial is the competition for students’ professionaldevelopment and future career as an engineer. Students’ comments range from: “a chance todevelop a portfolio” to “take on a project without guidance from the instructor” and learningfrom mistakes. Suggestive examples of students’ comments:“This project gave me a better approach on how a design should be implemented as I learnedfrom my mistakes.”“I found out that an initial architecture can fail if you don’t know the hardware capabilities.”The second question investigates in which area the students think that they improved theirunderstanding and engineering abilities: Hardware-digital, Hardware-analog, Software-HDL orothers. The majority of students

Conference Session

Case Studies and Engineering Education Around the Globe / International Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anatoliy Protasov, National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI”

Tagged Divisions

International

level of competence during professional career, because engineeringknowledge becomes old very soon. Therefore, it makes sense to develop and stimulate thecognitive interest of students, form the skills, and use necessary information independently.The third is a contradiction between the principles of knowledge unity and dividingknowledge into fundamental and special. This problem is directly connected with formingprofessional competence of the future specialists. On the one hand, students have to knowfundamental subjects perfectly in order to become proficient. On the other hand, deepeninginto fundamental knowledge shifts the accent of student preparation and reduces time forstudying special subjects which are the basis of professional

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruba Alkhasawneh, Virginia Commonwealth University; Rosalyn Hobson, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

opportunity to work in the faculty mentor’slaboratory. eight out of twenty two students were successful in securing a research opportunity ina laboratory. Students worked as researcher assistants in laboratories on a variety of projects,such as stem cells, speech recognition, and tissue regeneration. The goal was to expand theirknowledge in the research fields in their departments and train students on professionalcommunication.During the program three guest speakers were invited, experienced scientists and engineers, totalk about their career experience and the variety of opportunities for students once they aregraduated. The guests were; Dr. Charlene Crawley, a chemistry professor at VCU; Mr. TonyMoss, a mathematician at Dahlgren NSWC; and Ms

Conference Session

Distance and Web-Based Learning in ET: Remote and Virtual Laboratories

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Emre Bahadir, Murray State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Figure 3: RRPL Participation Statistics in Fall 2008Most of the SHSU students had prior RP experience although TTU-BE students had extremelylow experience in RP technologies. As can be seen from Figure 4 almost 85 percent of allstudents had NO prior RP experience. So, RRPL was an excellent learning experience for thesestudents. Figure 4: Students Former RP experienceIt was very interesting to see how students feel about their future careers after the RRPLpractices. As can be seen from the Figure 5, the majority of the survey responses was in Medium Page 14.1020.9and High ranges. This was an excellent indicator that RRPL

Conference Session

Using Classroom Technologies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jana Whittington, Purdue University, Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

punishing them” (Nissenbaum 1999 Para 6)11. In the online environment sincepeople may feel safer to express themselves, they may also feel safer to cheat. A research studyreported, college learners “…appeared to believe that cheating on an exam is different fromcheating to advance their career…and that college activities were not real-world” (Rawlinson &Lupton, 2007, p. 91)12. Learners who cheat in a face-to-face course, will likely cheat in an onlinecourse. Lanier (2006) stated the main form of cheating [among college students] is plagiarismand that as faculty our role is to educate them on the ethics of cheating” (p. 259)13.Instructor Responsibility and he Teacher as ModelIn the online environment the responsibility for an instructor to

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University; William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Jason Durfee, Eastern Washington University; Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

recorded each day. The success for eachstudent can thus be tracked and measured against his/her attendance in the class. Data will beavailable for the class as a whole and on the individual level.The courses have been carefully selected to give a representation of the various classinstructional modes seen by Engineering Technology students (lecture-nonmathematical, lecture-mathematical, lecture/lab, lecture/demonstration). The project is also being conducted using fourseparate instructors who have agreed to participate in the project research. The use of more thana single instructor is an attempt to enable a more representative sample of the type of instructionthat a student experiences during his/her academic career at the university. This use of

Conference Session

OMCED Topics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edgar An, Florida Atlantic University; Manhar Dhanak, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

high school students’ interests in pursuing science and engineering as their fields of study and careers, and to enhance the research experiences for the in-service high school teachers in science and technology areas so they can bring the knowledge and experiences back into their classrooms. Keywords: Project-based learning, K-16, Education Methods, Innovative Classroom Practice. 1. MOTIVATION Our outreach effort addresses the inadequacy of high school students in math and science literacy in the United States. According to [3], U.S. high school seniors ranked below their counterparts in 17 other countries in math and science literacy. In physics, U.S. high school seniors scored last among 16

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing: STEM Outreach

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terence Fagan, Central Piedmont Community College

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

. This leads me to believe the students may focustheir efforts on communication throughout their careers, making them better engineers in theprocess.Many of the students did not seem to have a grasp on varying engineering principles or social issues.While not a major concern since it is a freshman class, it is nonetheless a concern. I was surprisedthat none of the answers to this question were the project’s intent to gain interest in engineering dueto the lack of engineers in society. A possible solution may be as simple as giving examples of someengineering principles and social issues in the question. Another solution may be to integrate othersocietal issues throughout the project. I would like to point out it was not surprising