Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anca Sala, Baker College; Raghu Echempati, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

utilized include Homework, Quizzes, Laboratory Reports, Midterm Exam, and Final Exam. While all tools are used to assess achievement of SLO’s, for brevity we discuss in the following only the results from Final Exams from the 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years, and Midterm Exams from the 2007-08 academic year. Tables 7 and 8 show the individual student results from academic year 2007-08 for General Physics I, and General Physics II respectively. Table 7. General Physics I Individual Student Results.2007-08 Midterm Exam Final ExamStudent ID SLO2

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Meyer, Purdue University; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

lecture and directed problem solving session combination helped me prepare for exams. 4. The on-line lecture and directed problem solving session combination helped me prepare for the laboratory experiments. 5. I would choose the on-line lecture and directed problem solving session combination in another ECE course (if available). 6. I would prefer only a live (traditional) lecture over the on-line lecture and directed problem solving session combination for this course. 7. I enjoyed learning course material in the directed problem solving format. 8. Having a choice of course delivery options enhanced my ability to learn. 9. The directed problem solving sessions enhanced my learning experience.10. I

Conference Session

Integrating Design into the BME Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amit Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Silas Bernardoni, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Tyler Lark, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Willis Tompkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

effectively across disciplines1. The students work on a variety of interesting and challenging projects. Some examples of Page 14.1083.2the projects are:1. A combined thermistor, pressure, and CO2 device for use in the sleep laboratory: Develop adesign for a single device that can be used on infants and that can measure all three signals ofinterest which are a) temperature difference between inhaled and exhaled air, b) pressure sensorsthat show a flattening pressure profile during upper airway narrowing, and c) carbon dioxidesampling tubes to detect the exhaled CO2 waveform.2. Design for a self-contained, maneuverable, endoscopic, video camera

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christiaan Gribble, Grove City College

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

determine the scaling propertiesof their implementation using the multicore machines in our computer laboratory. Specifically,students measure the wall time required to approximate the value of using 100 million randomsamples distributed across one, two, four, eight, or 16 threads. A written analysis of theobserved scaling behavior is submitted along with the source code for each of their multithreadedprograms.The pthreads project is introduced first primarily because the execution environment, thoughrequiring the students to begin thinking “in parallel”, is nevertheless more familiar than that ofthe GPU devices. Once students have gained a certain level of comfort with the core issuesarising from a multithreaded implementation of the Monte Carlo

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Birmingham, Grove City College; Vincent DiStasi, Grove City College; Gary Welton, Grove City College

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

coursemanagement systems (CMS). Since Tablet PCs are integrated into the college curriculum as well Page 14.841.3as students’ lives (i.e., they are comfortable with the affordances offered by the Tablet PC) andthe use of CMS is spread thorough the college, GCC is an excellent laboratory to assess thistechnology.All the classrooms are equipped with network ports, wireless networking, and electrical outlets ateach seat. The backbone is all fiber connected running at gigabit speeds with multiple trunks toeach of the academic buildings. The campus network has ample bandwidth with capacity to growin the future. In addition, all students and faculty have

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: Using Case Studies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Didier Valdes, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Erika Jaramillo Giraldo, University of Puerto Rico; Jorge Ferrer, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; William Frey, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

work with short, thinly structured scenarios, theycan refine these skills through practice in the realistic scenarios that well written cases candeliver. Thus, cases turn the ethics class into an ethics laboratory. More complex casesencourage students to practice different modes of structuring and framing complex situations.These framing and structuring activities have been identified by Werhane [8] and Johnson [9] askey elements to moral imagination. Finally, having students practice decision-making andproblem-solving through cases and scenarios and then having them explain and justify theirdecisions to teachers and peers starts the process of developing the virtue of responsibility.Cases represent the best pedagogical strategy for responding

Conference Session

Sustainable Education and the Environment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine Scott, Seattle Pacific University; John Lindberg, Seattle Pacific University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

material, text books and other referencematerials, with the focus being the upcoming project. It also makes the homework very openended – much like real-world applications – with no single correct answer but many possibleincorrect answers.Detailed Project ExamplesThe above concepts are illustrated with some examples from the hydroelectric power generationsection of the class. The project for this section involves analyzing an existing, small scale,hydroelectric plant owned by our university located on a remote biology field station. Theproperty consists of several hundred acres of forested land on a private, undeveloped island,including two small fresh water lakes connected by a stream, some laboratory and dormbuildings and a small (35 KVA) hydro

Conference Session

Starting the Last Day with New Ideas

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nagen Nagarur, State University of New York, Binghamton; Krishnaswami Srihari, State University of New York, Binghamton; Sarah Lam, State University of New York, Binghamton

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

planned keeping the needs of the industries in mind, especiallyin the light of the recent economic turmoil.References1. “International Association of Financial Engineers,” http://iafe.org/html/, Accessed February 2009.2. Alsop, Ron, “Wall Street Employers Shine to Financial Engineering Degrees,” The Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2006.3. “Career Options,” http://interpro-academics.engin.umich.edu/fep/, 2005, Accessed September 2007.4. “Laboratory of Financial Engineering,” http://lfe.mit.edu/, Accessed February 2009.5. “Financial Engineering,” http://interpro-academics.engin.umich.edu/fep/, 2005, Accessed September 2007.6. “Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering,” http://orfe.princeton.edu/, Accessed

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Vollaro, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Materials

minute class with an extended laboratory period on Friday, allowingup to two hours for these activities. Each student was assessed by her/his performance onquizzes, exams, homework assignments, and written work associated with the lab activities.The lab activities completed in this manufacturing processes (Spring 2007) course included:a) “Attention to Detail” – writing and following directions for an everyday task,b) Machine Shop Observation – turning and milling of three different materials using the samemachining parameters with a worksheet,c) Video Field Trips – viewing of technical videos independently with brief written report,d) Industrial Field Trips – touring a manufacturing facility with a written trip report,e) “Quick-n-Dirty” CNC

Conference Session

Assessment and Continuous Improvement in Electronics and Electrical ET Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. IntroductionThe curriculum of the EET program covers a broad based educational experience emphasizingpractical, hands-on laboratory work, closely coordinated with theoretical classroom discussion.Students receive a solid foundation of coursework in electric circuits, digital electronics,solid-state electronics, communications, power and electrical machinery.The EET program has developed a PEOs assessment process to fulfill ABET accreditationrequirements. It is an outcome based assessment in which the PEOs should meet the need of theprogram constituents. PEOs describe the attributes that we desire our graduates to possess three tofive years after graduation. According to ABET’s definition of PEOs, “Program EducationalObjectives are broad statement that

Conference Session

Engineering and Technology for Everyone

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

AC 2009-1307: INSTRUCTIONAL BENEFITS OF A COURSE MANAGEMENTSYSTEM IN K-12 EDUCATIONPatricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia A. Carlson has taught a variety of professional writing courses at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and has held ten ASEE Summer Research Fellowships. She is on the editorial board of three professional publications for advanced educational technology and has served as a National Research Council Senior Fellow at the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory. Email: patricia.carlson@rose-hulman.edu Page 14.745.1© American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Distance and Web-Based Learning in Engineering Technology: Part I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sherion Jackson, East Carolina University; Andrew Jackson, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

selected 21 times (17.9%).Other was selected 12 times as an assignment type choice, and Team Topic Paper was noted fourtimes. (see Table 6) Those noting the Other category often focused on interactive activitieswhich included interactive laboratories, discussions, and chats. (see Table 11) Participants tendedto steer away from team work due to negative opinions regarding poor online interactionsbetween some team members and non-participation of other team members. One participantcommented on team assignments with this statement. “Online team projects are largelyineffective for me unless ALL members of the team are willing to put forth solid effort. Just onein the group not carrying their share drags the whole group down.”Table 6Preferred

Conference Session

Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Mobasher, Alabama A&M University; Mohamed Seif, Alabama A&M University; Kenneth Fernandez, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Showkat Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at AlabamaA&M University in Huntsville, AL. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering fromUniversity of Alabama in Huntsville. He has research interest in the areas of ComputationalFluid Dynamics, Biomechanics, and Control and Automation. His primary area of interest atAAMU is Automation, Control and Fluid Dynamics. After graduating from UAH, he worked atU.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory at Fort Rucker, Alabama. During his employmentthere, his research focused on aircrew protection and head-supported mass and center of massplacement for the U.S. Army aviation. As a Ph.D. candidate at UAH, his research focusedprimarily on shock-wave turbulent boundary layer interactionsMOHAMED

Conference Session

Distance and Web-Based Learning in Engineering Technology: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Hackworth, Old Dominion University; Carol Considine, Old Dominion University; Vernon Lewis, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

and Evaluate Programs. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 71, fall 1997, Jossey-Bass Publishers page 33-39 5. Palloff, Rena and Pratt, Keith. Building Online Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Virtual Classroom, 2nd Edition, , Jossey-Bass, 2007, pages 205-226.. 6. Flory, Isaac and Hackworth, John R., The Administration of Senior Design Projects in a Distance Learning Environment. ASEE 2005 Annual Conference Proceedings. 7. Hackworth, John R. and Jones, Richard L. Assessment Methods for Comparison of On-Campus and Distance-Learning Laboratory Courses in an Engineering Technology Program ASEE 2004 Annual Conference Proceedings

Conference Session

Manufacturing Curricula for the Year 2015 and Beyond

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University; Venkitaswamy Raju, State University of New York, Farmingdale; David Wells, North Dakota State University; Robert Mott, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

requiresmajor curriculum redesign and/or major expenditures on laboratory equipment. After this astudent would need to take the course and could still be up to two years away from his or her firstposition. In simple terms we often need to look four or more years into the future to predict whatwill be cutting edge as our students enter the workforce. This problem has long guaranteed thatthere is a lag between industry need and graduate knowledge. Although some futuredevelopments are easily foreseen, many are not. To identify developments that can impactproduction within five to ten years we look to private and public researchers. Through their workthey develop new solutions to old problems, and to develop innovations that redefine what wecan do, and

Conference Session

Manufacturing Curricula for the Year 2015 and Beyond

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University; Venkitaswamy Raju, State University of New York, Farmingdale; David Wells, North Dakota State University; Robert Mott, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

research in manufacturing can be quickly and effectively transferred from research projects or industry developments into manufacturing curricula. Session 3: Emerging Methods of Educational Delivery - Alternatives to lecture-based instruction; activity- based learning; project-based learning; case-study based learning; role of laboratories – projected changes, distance learning – Web based; distributed hybrid; role of cooperative education; internships; industry-based education; continuing education, etc. Session 4: Manufacturing Topics in Other Engineering Disciplines - Manufacturing immersed in other (non-manufacturing-named) engineering curricula (mechanical, industrial, electrical

Conference Session

Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College; Rocco Piccinino, Smith College; Mary Moriarty, Smith College; Linda Jones, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

; ≠ Homework assignment and test problem from a first-year course15 directed toward students’ abilities to access and evaluate information in the libraries and on the World Wide Web. ≠ Reports from a variety of design projects, laboratories, or research-based analyses in which students cite data in developing an argument. These types of assignments provide measures of the abilities to access and evaluate information, cite information ethically and in proper format, and utilize information to accomplish a particular purpose. As students progress through the curriculum, they are exposed to a greater variety and greater complexity of data, including data presented in tabular and graphical formats. In

Conference Session

First-Year Advising and Transition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles McDowell, University of California, Santa Cruz; Adrienne Harrell, University of California, Santa Cruz

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

shown how tonavigate the student portal, with specific tips and tools from the Peer Mentors about accessingand updating information on this key campus information network. They were also given toursof four faculty research laboratories led by their program Peer Mentors and other undergraduatestudent researchers.The primary goal and intended outcome of the Engineering Transfer Transition Program was toease the transition of incoming transfer students to facilitate their academic success andpersistence to graduate within engineering in a timely manner. We hoped to achieve this largelyby connecting ETTP students to faculty, staff, and other transfer engineering students, while alsoexposing them to the academic demands and opportunities of upper

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Bowles, University of South Carolina; Caitlin Buchhaults, University of South Carolina; Donald Griffith, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-1425: VIRTUALIZING FIRST FOR IMPROVED RECRUITMENT OFSTUDENTS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGJohn Bowles, University of South Carolina John Bowles is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of South Carolina where he teaches and does research in reliable system design. Previously he was employed by NCR Corporation and Bell Laboratories. He has a BS in Engineering Science from the University of Virginia, an MS in Applied Mathematics from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rutgers University.Caitlin Buchhaults, University of South Carolina Caitlin Buckhaults is an undergraduate student majoring in Computer

Conference Session

Statics and Dynamics: What's New

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Anderson, Texas Tech; Roman Taraban, Texas Tech; Diana Hudson, Texas Tech

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Services(ETS) as described by Ekstrom, French, and Harman6. Subjects were offered extra course creditif they completed all four tests. The subjects took a pre-SCI test during the first ten days of thecourse and a post-SCI test during the last week of this course. The same test was used for thepre- and post- examinations. The PFT and CRT tests were administered at the same time as thepost-SCI test. Seventy-six students completed both the pre- and post-SCI tests. Several othersubjects completed either the pre- or post-tests, but not both. These students either dropped thecourse during the semester or did not participate in both tests. These data were excluded for thepurposes of this study. The tests were administered in a computer laboratory. The

Conference Session

Curriculum in Civil Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sylvester Kalevela, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

programs in engineering technology. The BLS provides thefollowing notes regarding 4-year engineering technology programs: ≠ The programs include various hands-on laboratory classes that focus on current application issues. ≠ Students are prepared for practical design and production work, rather than jobs that require more theoretical knowledge. ≠ Engineering technology graduates may obtain jobs similar to those given to engineering graduates. ≠ Engineering technology graduates are not qualified to register as professional engineers under the same terms as graduates with degrees in engineering. ≠ Some employers regard 4-year technology program graduates as having skills between those of a technician

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Baer, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Maryland and their libraries’ experiences collaborating with various research programs." New Review of Information Networking 11, no. 1: 83-98.[19] Kearns, Katherine and Tracy Thrasher Hybl. 2005. “A Collaboration Between Faculty and Librarians to Develop and Assess a Science Literacy Laboratory Module.” Science & Technology Libraries 25, no. 4: 39-56.[20] Trussell, Alice. 2004. "Librarians and engineering faculty: Partnership opportunities in information literacy and ethics instruction." IATUL Annual Conference Proceedings 14.[21] Poole, Clifton H. 2004. “Plagiarism and the online student: What is happening and what can be done?” Journal of Instructional Delivery Systems 18, no. 2: 11-14.[22] Dibble

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Techniques

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifton Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Journal 50, 5, 1079-1106.21. Richards, B. 2000. Bugs as features: Teaching network protocols through debugging. In Proceedings of the 31st SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Austin, TX, Mar 8-12 2000), 256- 259. ACM.22. Sebern, M. 2002. The software development laboratory: Incorporating industrial practice in an academic environment. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, 2002 (Covington, KY, Feb 25-27, 2002), 118-127.23. Seiter, L. 2009. Computer science and service learning: Empowering nonprofit organizations through open source content management systems. Integrating FOSS into the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ehsan Sheybani; Singli Garcia-Otero; Keith Williamson

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

assisted to define their ProgramEducational Objectives (Criterion 2) and Program Outcomes (Criterion 3). This enabled eachprogram to develop or re-define its mission statement, to develop outcomes based course syllabi,and to map the outcomes to program educational objectives. Additionally, this led to an ABETEC 2000 Mock Visit. The objectives of the Mock Visit were to visit the laboratory facilities,conduct interviews with faculty and students, evaluate the first draft of the individual EC 2000self-study reports, and to offer candid comments and recommendations to incorporate assessmentand continuous quality improvements within the programs. The results from the Mock Visit werean eye-opener for many of faculty and provided the vital external

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Richter, Virginia Tech; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Lisa McNair, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

-technicaldisciplines. The students articulated how their own discipline, and sometimes a team member’sdiscipline, contributed to the project, but when asked to describe the fields of their teammates,the student typically had a limited understanding of the other disciplines. One student’sunderstanding of ISE graduates is that “you're just a business degree, business manager with anengineering degree I guess. That's just the way I see ISE.”Another pattern emerging from the transcript data involves the students’ lack of knowledgeabout each other’s discipline. In some instances, the discipline was equated with a specific typeof career. For example, ISE majors become managers, and MSE graduates run testing equipmentin laboratories. Other disciplines were equated

Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Jarvie, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

environmental health impacts; an ability to conduct laboratory experiments and to critically analyze and interpret data in more than one major environmental engineering focus areas, e.g.…environmental health…”4 Geological and “The program must demonstrate that graduates Similarly Named have…engineering knowledge to design solutions to geological Engineering Programs problem, which will include one or more of the following considerations…the impacts of… other activities of society on these (earth) materials and (surface and near-surface

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ozdemir Gol; Jan Machotka; Zorica Nedic; Andrew Nafalski

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

where different groups of students doing laboratory work submitting identicalreports or individual students handing up a report written in a previous year by a group ofstudents as their own work for assessment are not uncommon.Figures 2 and 3 should illustrate this misdeed. Students, working in groups of three in computerhardware course were given the task to write an algorithm for bubble sorting. Surprisingly, bothgroups have submitted identical reports with identical algorithms and identical errors. The onlydifference was that one group had compiled a code whereas the other group submitted an imageof the code! Page 14.435.4B. 2. Bubble Sort

Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs in Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

L. Diane Hurtado, Texas A&M University; Andrew Conkey, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Thomas Blasingame, Texas A&M University; Christi Madsen, Texas A&M University; Cesar Malave, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

undergraduate students in the COE.Departmental Tours/DemonstrationsIn general the participants spent the mornings of the camp with the 12 departments in the COE.This time was intended to introduce the participants to the various engineering disciplinesincluding future career opportunities, and the types of classes they would be taking in that major.The tours varied in content and style from department to department. For the most part, theyincluded presentations, laboratory tours, and/or hands-on demonstrations.Design ProjectsThe afternoons and evening were used to prepare a design project. The participants at each campwere divided, roughly equally into 3 groups of approximately 20 participants, and assigned to aparticular design project. This division

Conference Session

Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Welker, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

engineering laboratory techniques, and g. an ability to communicate effectivelyteamwork k. an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice 5. can explain basic concepts of leadership4. explain by way of several examples the societal h. the broad education necessary to understand thecontext of civil engineering practice including the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic,importance of civil engineering works to society and environmental, and societal contextcontemporary issues

Conference Session

Design Cognition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2009-2234: ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION FOR INTEGRATEDPRODUCT REALIZATIONMohamed El-Sayed, Kettering University Dr. Mohamed El-Sayed is a professor of Mechanical engineering and director of the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Systems Integration Laboratory, Kettering University. He is the current editor of the SAE journal of Materials and Manufacturing. Dr. El-Sayed has over thirty years of teaching experience in the area of design, design simulation, design optimization, and automotive design. Dr. El-Sayed has over twenty years of Automotive Design, Development, and Validation experience. Dr. El-Sayed was the lead engineer on the design optimization and quality/Durability/Reliability Integration of