Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jin-Hwan Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

realize that mentoring can be extremely rewarding. The challenge of being a teacheris to explain concepts as clearly, precisely, and simply as possible.I had a chance to give a talk entitled “Integrated Multi-Analyte Microelectrode Sensors for InSitu Biological Applications” at the ECE Department seminar and to discuss my research withgraduate students. As an international student, I found that the teaching mentor’s feedback andrepeat-practice improved my English skills and self confidence for presentation and discussion.These mentored teaching activities were completed over the course of two years. Since I joinedthe PFF program after successfully defending my Ph.D. proposal and being admitted intocandidacy in my third year of graduate studies

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J.Patrick Abulencia, Manhattan College

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

was used as the primary component for theBRIDGE program, which offers an opportunity to ease the transition of incoming freshmen intocollege life. In addition to this role, online social networking tools have other potential uses for aChemical Engineering department. First, they can be used as a mechanism to disseminateinformation quickly. Creating a central communications location allows easy announcement ofdepartment events or collection of feedback surveys. Another possibility is to use it as adiscussion forum for their Chemical Engineering courses. Since classes can be gathered togetherinto one group, exchanges on concepts or assigned problems can occur among the members (i.e.students and faculty of the course). Finally, online

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Drexel University; Alexandru Belu, Case Western Reserve University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

potentials with given boundaries conditions, dielectrics andpolarization.Figure 1: The straight filamentary conductor with the finite length crossed by the electric current (leftpanel), 3D image the magnetic field in the case of the straight filamentary conductor with the finitelength (right panel).The fundamental concern of electromagnetism is to solve Maxwell’s equations, and much of the courseon this subject is devoted to vector calculus. To calculate an electric field and/or a magnetic field, wecan perform integration directly from Coulomb’s law and Biot-Savart Law, using the functions of theCAS mathematical library. For example with Maple, we can concentrate on physics, such asdistinguishing the coordinates of the source point and the field

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Africa, Asia and the Mid-East Region

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

International

solely totraditional classroom environment. Therefore students need to be prepared by exposing them toinformal cooperative learning, where students are to work together to achieve a joint learninggoal in temporary, ad-hoc groups that may last from a few minutes to one class period (32).Informal cooperative learning groups also ensure that misconceptions, incorrect understanding,and gaps in understanding are identified and corrected.. Using procedures such as informalcooperative learning guarantees that students have been exposed to some active and interactivemethods prior to engaging in PBL.B. Infusing PBL in the Curriculum: There are several strategies that may be utilized to infusePBL in an engineering curriculum. The selected strategy depends

Conference Session

Liberal Education and Leadership

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

engineering faculty’s communication pedagogy in theengineering classroom. We have surveyed engineering faculty at a variety of institutions todetermine to what degree they incorporate communication into their technical classes. Theproject included the development of an electronic survey instrument that collected responsesfrom engineering faculty at programs and departments in the United States. In addition to thesurvey results, we conducted focus groups with small groups of faculty, both at our institutionand at the site of the 2008 Frontiers in Education Conference, in order to dig deeper into the datacollected. The conclusions we draw from analysis of the survey and focus group results indicatethat engineering faculty have incorporated

Conference Session

Exploring Technological Literacy and Awareness

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

, identifying each attribute and itscharacteristics, and identifying the excellent and poor quality work using narrative descriptivecriteria. Holistic rubrics and analytical rubrics are both used to measures students understandingof course content. Holistic rubrics provide a choice to state the highest and lowest levels ofperformance combining the descriptors for all attributes and analytical rubrics state the highestand lowest levels of performance using the descriptions for each attribute separately. The use ofrubrics allows the instructor to provide quality feed back to the student along with providingevaluation and reflection opportunities for an instructor as well. The use of rubrics in a technicalprogram will provide accountability and evaluation

Conference Session

Starting the Last Day with New Ideas

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natarajan Gautam, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

where it is debatable whether the technology boosts or hindersunderstanding. One question we get often in this day and age is whether the book is required or ifthe students can just read it on-line. There are pros and cons to this. The greatest benefits of on-line texts are cost and accessibility. However from the standpoint of time (speed to recovernecessary information) and convenience of browsing through a hard copy it is unclear if an on-line textbook is the way to go.Another question that instructors get asked often is if graphing calculators are permitted in thecourse. The benefit of using these calculators is not only in drawing graphs of complex functionsbut also being able to perform numerical integration (area under the curve) among

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daphene Koch, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

mechanical curriculum. There have also been comments from students inthe required course evaluations that there is a disconnect from the lecture and the lab. The beliefof the instructor is that the students are not making the connections from the written text to thehands on activities. One example is a diagram of a water closet carrier that was labeled as part ofan in class assignment in lecture, Figure 2. Figure 2: Water Closet Carrier and Fitting 2Upon testing the students about this diagram on an exam, many failed to identify the parts. Thesame exercise was done with a valve shown in Figure 3, but the valve was also viewed in lab andthe students were given the opportunity to look inside the valve and each one

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Dunn, University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Construction

CMTprogram builds mutual benefit with access to extended resources often not available in universitybudgets.Our program has an active and supportive industrial advisory committee. Participating membershelp in curriculum development and monitor the progress as the program expands. They providementoring opportunities, summer employment, and classroom assistance to enhance the learningenvironment. Many contractors open their active project sites to student groups to allow directobservation of the industry. We encourage professional networking and the industry encouragesstudent participation in the monthly trade meetings to give students greater understanding of theissues surrounding construction. This paper presents the structure of the industrial

Conference Session

Beneficial Case Studies in AEC Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Mitchell, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

” (AED) is addressedthrough an online survey of representative faculty at ABET accredited Architectural Engineeringschools. The faculty are first characterized in multiple ways: university, academic rank, years ofexperience, registration status and discipline. The results of their open-ended definition of AEDare examined using eight categories derived from the responses rated on 1-5 Likert scales, withthe analysis broken down using the same faculty characterization. Faculty opinions about thedisciplines necessary to include in AED are also analyzed. Overall there is general agreementthat disciplinary “skills” are an important part of AED as are, to a lesser extent, the “products”produced. There is some agreement about the idea of “integration

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Trenor, Clemson University; Shirley Yu, University of Houston; Denise Grant, Clemson University; Hibah Salem, Univesity of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

certainly know where to get that information or where to send them to. Page 14.941.11All eleven teachers felt that the Legacy Cycle training was valuable (n = 11; 25 references) andwere confident to teach their RET-developed modules, particularly due to ties to their summerresearch and the curriculum development training session. Many (n = 5; 9 references) describedthe summer program, and particularly the Legacy Cycle training, as valuable for multiple areasof teaching, not just the course in which they planned to implement their module. Theseparticipants described the RET program as having an impact on their entire perspective onteaching. All

Conference Session

Project-Based Learning in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Archibald, Brigham Young University; Doran Wilde, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

expose students to cutting-edge problems and technology, and the desire to havestudents experience success in solving a difficult design problem. The project ismultidisciplinary and provides a good team experience in which each student can play an Page 14.1247.14important role as a team member. The project continues to evolve, and we believe it willcontinue to play an important part in our curriculum for many years.References1. Archibald, James K. and Randal W. Beard, Goal! Robot Soccer for Undergraduate Students, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 70-75, March 2004.2. Archibald, James K. and Randal W. Beard, Competitive

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Komives, San Jose State University; Erik Fernandez, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

surveys of the students who developed the problems, surveys of thestudents who solved the problems in the chemical engineering course, as well as the peer reviewof the problems by biochemical engineering faculty will be presented. This strategy for studentlearning could effectively be utilized with other application areas as a way to incorporate moreinterdisciplinary learning in the undergraduate curriculum.IntroductionSince the late 1990's there has been a drive to integrate more biological applications into theundergraduate chemical engineering (ChE) curriculum. The availability of employmentopportunities in the life sciences has grown steadily for ChE graduates, spurred by the expansionof bioprocessing to include both high margin fine

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa Larkin, American University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

AC 2009-1689: PEER REVIEW FROM A STUDENT PERSPECTIVETeresa Larkin, American University Teresa L. Larkin is an Associate Professor of Physics Education in the Department of Physics at American University. She also serves as Faculty Liaison to the Pre-engineering Program. Dr. Larkin received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Physics from South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD in 1982 and 1985, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with special emphasis in Physics and Science Education from Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS in 1997. Dr. Larkin’s research interests primarily involve the assessment of student learning in introductory

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing: STEM Outreach

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Winston Erevelles, Robert Morris University; Jennifer Parsons, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

foundations, industrial and government sources. His teaching, research, service, and publishing interests are in the areas of Automation, Robotics, Rapid Prototyping, Reverse Engineering, Process Monitoring & Control, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing.Jennifer Parsons, Robert Morris University Jennifer Parsons is the Director of STEM Outreach Programs within the School of Engineering, Mathematics and Science. She previously served as the SEMS Outreach Programs Specialist and PRIME Business Manager and is an integral part of all grants from Pittsburgh area foundations, the SME Education Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Labor. She continues to work

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Wendel, Sinclair Community College; Walter Buchanan, Texas A&M University; Shep Anderson, Sinclair Community College; Robert Mott, University of Dayton; Gilah Pomeranz, Sinclair Community College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

sophistication and interconnection. In this networked model, the traditional analysis, laboratory, and design components would be deeply interrelated: engineering knowledge remains central but is configured to include both technical and contextual knowledge; competencies of practice, laboratory, and design experiences are integrated into the whole, as are professionalism and ethics.”1 Page 14.900.2In addition, the merger of the two centers has provided the NCME the opportunity to expand notonly its scope, but also its mission. During its inception, the overarching goal of the NCME wasto provide curriculum materials and

Conference Session

Automation and Robotics Subjects in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Sample, Oregon Institute of Technology; John Anderson, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

project. One of the selling points forthis type of project is that rather than develop interesting but trivial engineering solutions thestudents can develop software to solve a real-world program and provide an invaluable tool forundergraduate education.For the project a group of students committed to the project as CSET curriculum requires ayearlong junior project. The team project will be to create user-friendly services and a GUI(Graphical User Interface) which will be able to control the entire work cell through MSRS.In keeping our work within MSRS and Solidworks we are able to utilize the projects from allthree teams of undergraduate students in building a complete and functional work cell withintegrated parts delivery system. The central

Conference Session

Classroom Engagement

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Leicht, Pennsylvania State University; John Messner, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Hyeon Woo Lee, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Computer Integrated Construction Research Program at Penn State. He teaches courses in construction engineering and management; Building Information Modeling; and virtual prototyping. He recently led a project to construct the Immersive Construction (ICon) Lab, an affordable, 3 screen immersive display system for design and construction visualization, and is developing an interactive virtual construction simulation application for engineering education. He can be reached at jim101@psu.edu.Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University Tom Litzinger is Director of the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State, where he has

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten Davis, Boise State University; R. Casey Cline, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

AC 2009-1531: IMPROVING CONSTRUCTION-MANAGEMENT COURSECOMPREHENSION THROUGH EXPERIENTIAL LEARNINGKirsten Davis, Boise State University Kirsten A. Davis is an Assistant Professor in the Construction Management Department within the College of Engineering at Boise State University. Dr. Davis earned a B.Arch. in Architecture and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tennessee, an M.S. in Civil Engineering specializing in Construction Engineering and Management from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering specializing in Construction Engineering and Management from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her educational research

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erdogan Sener, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; D. Tom Iseley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Construction

on the faculty of Mississippi State University, Purdue University, Louisiana Tech University, and as chairman of the department of Construction Technology at the Purdue University School of Engineering and Technology in Indianapolis. During the past 15 years, he has maintained an international leadership position in trenchless technology. In 1989, Dr. Iseley established the Trenchless Technology Center (TTC), an industry/university cooperative research facility, at Louisiana Tech University. He is a founding director of the North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT). He received the National Utility Contractors Association (NUCA) 1993 Associate Member of the Year

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Developments, Implementations

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University; John Harb, Brigham Young University; Spencer Magleby, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

International

lifestyle change can bedaunting.” “There needs to be an international experience, preferably one that is immersive.” “Competence in global communication tools.”Other comments from academia included:“It is crucial to integrate courses on the global economy or cross-cultural differences andforeign languages into the engineering curriculum and provide internships abroad related tothe students’ major courses.” “I believe that to reach the highest/deepest level of cross-cultural competence with a specificsecond culture it is essential to speak the host language at a conversational level.”Other comments from industry were: “[The importance of global competence] is highly dependent on the particular job. For someit may be a 2 and for others it may be a 5

Conference Session

Professional Issues in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock Barry, Purdue University; Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University; Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

West Point. He is a licensed professional engineer in four states and has 10+ years of consulting engineering experience. His research interests include engineering ethics, assessment, motivation theory, and integration of professional skills in the engineering curriculum.Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University Dr. Mehta is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University. Dr. Mehta has extensive experience in teaching several civil engineering courses and has published several technical and educational papers in leading professional organizations. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of New Jersey.Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Hochstein, University of Memphis; Shelia Moses, University of Memphis; Daphne Jones, Memphis City Schools

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

careers and various resources such as summer and after school programs that canhelp students to explore engineering as a possible career.12Future PlansIn 2004, the ASEE Engineering K-12 Center produced a report titled “Engineering in the K-12Classroom: An Analysis of Current Practices & Guidelines for the Future”, that included six Page 14.602.11guidelines for improving K-12 engineering education and outreach.13 Three of these guidelineswere fundamental to our 2008 Expanding Your Horizons conference. ≠ “Hands-on learning: Make K-12 science curriculum less theory-based and more context-based (hand-on), emphasizing the social good

Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs in Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Joseph Cocozza, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

biomedical engineering jobs will increase by 31.4 percentthrough 2010---double the rate for all other jobs combined.” 3 Overall job growth in this fieldwill average 15.2% through the end of the decade. The U.S. Department of Labor reportattributed the rapid rise in biomedical engineering jobs in part to an aging U.S. population andthe increasing demand for improved medical devices and systems. Specific growth areas cited inthe report included computer-assisted surgery, cellular and tissue engineering, rehabilitation, andorthopedic engineering. Accordingly, it id essential to increase the number of K-12 andundergraduate students in to this important engineering field. This can happen at two levels, byrecruiting undergraduate students from other

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Winn, West Virginia University; Laura Winn, Waynesburg Central High School; Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University; Robin Hensel, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

student in three ways. First, we are taking two-hour, undergraduate-led, real-life engineering design exercises to the high schools; second, wehave created a web-based, for-credit course in basic engineering (notions of design, career paths,ethics, etc.) to bridge the gap; and third, we have created an opportunity for high school teachersto create their own web-based engineering teaching modules called Tools for Integrating Mathand Engineering, or TIME Kits.As part of a full program evaluation of our EoT project, we are also collecting and reporting dataon whether peer-led freshman physics homework sessions 20 and peer-led first-calculushomework sessions are useful in decreasing failure rates; these results are reported elsewhere,but the data

Conference Session

Professional Issues in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Chou, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Deborah Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

work in an engineering firm during the summer, having faculty members spend theirsabbatical leaves in an engineering firm, and having full time engineers spend a year of paidleave in a university. There also exist situations where companies send engineers to theclassroom at the expense of the companies and situations where engineers with many years ofpracticing experience decide to have a second career in academia. Students in primarilyengineering technology programs indicated that as a result of including real world engineeringexperiences in the curriculum they became more job ready and were actually receiving job offersas a result.13,14 More recently and partly in response to ASCE’s Body of Knowledge15 report andPolicy 46316, many schools

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Turner, Westfield State College; Glenn Ellis, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

evaluations were positive. “I was surprised by how much Ilike physics” was an often-repeated student comment. One enthusiastic student remarked, “Ifound this course extremely valuable. I am a very visual learner so the hands-on project andgraphical focus of the course was exactly what I needed. I really think this course wasexcellent.” The Test of Understanding Graphs in Kinematics Test12was administered to arandom sample of students before and after their exposure to the kinematics curriculum. Theaverage possible gain was 43% of the total score. The average gain for the sampled students was Page 14.657.917% of the total score—thus they had achieved

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Project-based Experiences in Manufacturing

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Dong, University of Cincinnati; Janak Dave, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

AC 2009-576: DESIGN, BUILD, TEST, COMPETE: A BATTLEBOTJanet Dong, University of Cincinnati Janet Dong,Ph.D is an assistant professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering Technology at University of Cincinnati. She holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and a MS degree in Manufacturing Engineering. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University in 2003. Her academic interests include CAD/CAM, manufacturing engineering technology, process planning, control and automation, robotics, engineering education and research, and manufacturing applications in the dental field.Janak Dave, University of Cincinnati Janak Dave PhD, PE is a Professor in the

Conference Session

Assessment and Continuous Improvement in Engineering Technology: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Hill, Weber State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, Criterion 5dealing with curriculum, has also been modified. There have also been some modifications tothe other criteria in an attempt to increase the commonality among the criteria for all fourcommissions of ABET as well to clarify the language in the overall criteria. This paperdiscusses the major changes in the TAC criteria and in particular, how TAC has attempted tomake the criteria for associate degree programs a better fit to such programs.IntroductionSeveral years ago the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) started aprocess called harmonization in regard to the general criteria for accreditation. This was anattempt to get the four commissions of ABET, namely the Applied Science AccreditationCommission (ASAC), the

Conference Session

Assessment and Continuous Improvement in Engineering Technology: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Irwin, Michigan Technological University; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

instruction.Student input is used to improve teaching and learning techniques used in the classroomas well as to improve curriculum and laboratory facilities. Typically, instructors willutilize the SRI instrument 10 optional questions to have students rate the overallachievement of the course objectives, which are correlated to the POs in the binderprocess. The 10 optional questions on the SRI are not to be used for merit ortenure/promotion decisions, and are very helpful for the continuous improvement actionplan.Next, an Assessment Analysis of POs, shown in Figure 6, was used to indicate the a-kcriteria being used to evaluate graduates, the methods used to evaluate the criteria, themetrics, and the Results/Actions implemented to address the data. The