Conference Session

Carrying The Message: Creating A Culture For Engineering Education Innovation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. P. Mohsen, University of Louisville

would successfully complete a program that will supplement and strengthentheir capability to use essential skills and knowledge in the education-related aspects of their position.ImplementationThe SPEED program would typically last one or more years and would occur early-on during a faculty member’stenure track appointment. Individual institutions would retain flexibility in implementing the program. They wouldnot necessarily need to have the same program structure and might utilize national workshops, educational classes,on-line offerings, mentor circles, etc.ContentWhile the SPEED program would not necessarily be one standardized program, any SPEED program would containthree common critical elements: (1) approval of a nationally recognized

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patrick Brophy, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Council of Sections

instructor draws the situation shown in Figure 1, and asks students again to guessthe deflected shape. The most common answer is shown in Figure 2. The instructorasks for a show of hands: which way will the right end go, up or down? Based on themajority response, the instructor applies the loads as in Figure 3a or 3b so that thebeam behaves opposite from the majority response. The key to the demonstration is to Page 14.969.5put the students in a situation where their intuition is wrong. Figure 1. Example situation drawn by instructor. Students are asked to predict the deflected shape before the instructor demonstrates it in the classroom

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Elisabeth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Bernard Gallois, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Council of Sections

include masters and doctoral degrees. The faculty and scope of the Page 14.994.2programs has grown rapidly leading to the recent formation of a School of Systems & Enterprises  1(http://www.stevens.edu/sse) with a significant national and international impact in the systemsengineering field.The presence of a strong graduate-level activity in the systems engineering discipline on campus leadnaturally to discussion with those responsible for the undergraduate engineering core curriculum of howsystems concepts could be addressed at the undergraduate level for all engineers. The surging

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristi Shryock, Texas A&M University; Helen Reed, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Council of Sections

accreditation workshould reflect the program as a whole.Some programs treat the six-year time lag between visits with the following timeline: - Year 1 – Celebrate success of previous ABET visit. - Years 2-4 – Feel that ABET is a long time away. Page 14.148.2 Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education - Year 5 – Begin to worry about ABET visit the following year, and survey every class imaginable to be ready for year 6 with the ABET visit.This

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane Brown, Washington State University; Cara Poor, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Council of Sections

reasons for their decision[1]. Progress has been made in identifying best instructional practices, such as active learning[2] and peer instruction [3-5], which have been shown to improve student learning and attitudestowards learning and retention [3-5]. Active learning techniques include brief in-class exercisesin which students work alone or in groups to process concepts more fully than simply takingnotes. An integral part of these exercises is the formative assessment process, where studentsreceive feedback through purposive social interactions from other well-prepared students and/orthe instructor. Due to large class size in most undergraduate engineering mechanics courses,which often include hundreds of students, instructor feedback is

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harley Hartman, P.E., Pennsylvania State University, York; Peter Idowu, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

. They areeasily modifiable to reflect instructor’s comfort and convenience. The tools are effective ingenerating more enthusiasm among students because they provide alternatives to traditionalapproaches to clarifying difficult and unintuitive concepts.Index Terms – AC Machines, AC Concepts, Visualization.1. IntroductionThe present generation of students has a mindset that lends itself to interactive displays andvisually rich environments. Engaging them in the classroom has become an ever-wideningchallenge.As it is widely assumed that this trend will continue1 the possible impacts of various ways forengaging students through technology has been explored. Visualization in particular or the useof computer simulation is found to substantively

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

use of common PCs as a low costreplacement to the expensive proprietary equipment used previously in such tactical simulations.Various computer game platforms20, 21 were used to develop virtual simulations of accidentscenarios in chemistry laboratories, stipulating that this approach is more effective thandistributing safety regulations to the students in the traditional paper form. For example, a videogame was developed by students at DHS’ CREATE Center to train fire fighters to efficiently usetrucks, equipment and personnel in fighting a fire (see Figure 1). It simulates an emergency indowntown Los Angeles and is being tested out by the city fire department.22