Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Outside the Classroom

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dominic Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Elliott Butay, Oral Roberts University; Ben Hase, Oral Roberts University; Sean McDonough, Oral Roberts University; Taylor Tryon, Oral Roberts University; Joshua Weed, Oral Roberts University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

spirituality. Multidisciplinary teams of undergraduate students and facultyexplore, and wrestle with, the connections between science/engineering and spirituality asthey endeavor to become whole persons. Engineering, science, and theology studentsteam up to investigate and assess evidence of purpose from findings in science andengineering. They apply reverse engineering techniques to natural systems in an effort toassess the potential for design recovery. Psychology students help to provide a betterunderstanding of the human condition and the role of perceived affordances inestablishing purpose. Anecdotal and survey evidence suggests that undergraduatestudents find such interdisciplinary studies to be interesting, motivating and beneficial

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samantha Brunhaver, Stanford University; Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Micah Lande, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-118: SUPPORTS AND BARRIERS THAT RECENT ENGINEERINGGRADUATES EXPERIENCE IN THE WORKPLACESamantha Brunhaver, Stanford University Samantha Brunhaver is a second year graduate student at Stanford University. She is currently working on her Masters in Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests include engineering education and design for manufacturing. She earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University in 2008.Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Russell Korte is an Assistant Professor of Human Resource Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently a Fellow with the iFoundry project in the College of Engineering at

Conference Session

Modeling Student Data

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University; Alice Pawley, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

research assistant. She works on the ADVANCE-grant exploring engineering in the contexts of gender, work-family balance, and career trajectories. Prior to this, she taught Introductory Sociology at Purdue University. She was also a research assistant in Purdue’s Sociology Department where she worked on a longitudinal study of mothers who returned to college as non-traditional students. Through her dissertation research, Jordana hopes to understand the role of motherhood on the career paths of women engineers with doctoral degrees. She is interested in the ways women negotiate their identities as engineers and mothers when making career decisions. Her research interests

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University; David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

(1995).7 F. Billups, “Measuring College Student Satisfaction: A Multi-Year Study of the Factors Leading toPersistence”, NERA Conference Proceedings, 2008.8. D. Hellawell and N. Hancock, “A case study of the changing role of the academic middle manager inhigher education: between hierarchical control and collegiality”, Research Papers in Education, 16(2), 183(2001).9. A. Minerick and J. Schneider, “Established Customs: Changing Roles in Departmental Culture andImpact on New Faculty”, Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE-SE Annual Conference, ASEE-SE (2007).10. R. Felder, "Does Your Department Culture Suit You?", Chem. Eng. Ed., 43(2), 113 (2009

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Essinger, Drexel University; Ryan Coote, Drexel University; Pete Konstantopoulos, CAPA High School; Jason Silverman, Drexel University; Gail Rosen, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, PeteKonstantopoulos participated in each lab discussion and offered suggested improvements basedon his particular classroom structure. His primary focus was on helping the graduate andundergraduate students develop the lessons and labs they would eventually use in his classroomduring the school year. In addition to consulting on lesson development he also spent some timelearning how to use Matlab; specifically the bioinformatics toolbox and he was particularlyinvolved with improving the image processing and robotic labs.Staff Reflections on Implementations of the LabsThe university students found that the implementation of the labs was a balancing act betweenkeeping students attention and engagement and making sure the lab concepts were learned. Theyfound

Conference Session

Collaborative Projects in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlie Setterfield, Sinclair Community College; Eric Dunn, Sinclair Community College; Russell Marcks, Sinclair Community College

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

of each student discipline. Forexample, this graduating class only had three HVAC graduates while there were over 20architectural technology graduates. We did consider that each discipline form a disciplinarygroup to act in the fashion of a consultant to provide the IPD approach we were promoting.However, we felt there was to high a probability of students reverting to the typical segregatedapproach most prevalent today. To prevent this, we used an integrated team approach used bymany local industry consultants. We ended up with three teams, each to develop their ownbuilding. This still resulted in some teams not being staffed with certain disciplines. Forexample, two teams had no environmental personnel. However, since each of the three

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

are engineering topics. Davis for examplequestioned whether or not ‘software engineers’ were engineers.3 Williams argues that thefuture of engineering lies in accepting this multiplicity. She argues that engineering isexpanding within its own walls rather than responding to the world outside. Toaccomplish this goal it will need a broader education that encompasses the liberal arts.The author questions what would happen if matters continue as they are? One answer isthat the number of technicians will grow considerably. Students will enter a particularroute, graduate into the field and find there is no way out. They will become specialists.The consequences for employment are profound if the specialism dies. This was aprediction that was made as

Conference Session

Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manjusha Saraswathiamma, North Dakota State University; Kathy Enger, North Dakota State University; Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Achinthya Bazebaruah, North Dakota State University; Bruce Schumacher, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

friends, and voluntary training services, which these widows preferredto the various formal training services available to them. He showed how MIL analysis could beused to design programs to meet the needs of a specific group of females.Thompson, in a 1992 study of female persistence44 in baccalaureate nursing programs, found that Page 15.367.5females who dropped out of these programs lacked satisfactory MIL. In Thompson’s model,female students sought a balance between load and power and dropped out because they couldnot find adequate margin in their lives. Participants in Thompson’s study pursued the program ina condition where power and load

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida; Arif Mohsin, University of Florida; Oscar Crisalle, University of Florida; Suleyman Tufekci, University of Florida; Carl Crane, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

the team focused on the design project goals.The Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) program at the University of Florida is a fullyinstitutionalized experiential educational course sequence. Through weekly classes held over twosemesters (eight months), students from various engineering and business disciplines are taughthow to design products and processes. Then working in small multidisciplinary teams thestudents design and build authentic industrial products under the guidance of faculty coaches andindustrial liaison engineers representing the sponsoring companies.Over a fourteen-year period, spanning more than 340 industry-sponsored design projects, a widevariety of interaction patterns have been observed between project teams

Conference Session

Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eleanor M. Jaffee, Smith College; Donna Riley, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

extent to which students freely chose their academic path and the extent to which thechoice was influenced by other people or external forces. In the quotation above (27:8), recallingher decision to pursue an engineering education, this student‟s account took the tone of a fable inwhich, according to her parents, a prescient neighbor foresaw her predestined professional future.McLean and Fournier refer to these connections between past events and present identity inpersonal narratives as „self-defining memories.‟ 13 Nevertheless, this student ultimately attributedthe decision to her own strengths and preferences as well as a sense of economic practicality.Coffey and Atkinson19 observe that qualitative analysis has the potential to “complicate

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Engelken

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

grateful for the support provided in this endeavor by his chair, dean, and Page 15.939.1other administrators. To their great credit and sometimes sacrificially, they did provide significantsupport, both tangible and intangible, within the constraints upon them.Probably the most pivotal method used to leverage existing resources was the heavy involvementof undergraduates in the research, essentially identically to how graduate students are used inlarger programs. Most were electrical engineering majors, but a few were mechanical engineering,chemistry, and physics majors. The set has also included women, minorities, and internationalstudents from

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Caverly, Villanova University; Howard Fulmer, Villanova University; Sridhar Santhanam, Villanova University; James O’Brien, Villanova University; Gerard Jones, Villanova University; Edward Char, Villanova University; Frank Mercede, Villanova University; Pritpal Singh, Villanova University; Randy Weinstein, Villanova University; Joseph Yost, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

went through several problems (both in class and for homework) and we showed the studentshow to set up and solve the equations in Mathcad. To further illustrate these two conservationlaws experimentally, we designed a set of experiments for the students to perform on a pool tablein the university Pool Hall. The students worked in teams of five students on these experiments. Page 15.994.7In the first experiment, the students were asked to align two identical pool balls in a straight lineand set up a digital video camera above the pool table. A tape measure and a stopwatch were alsoplaced alongside the line of the pool balls. As the first pool

Conference Session

ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Elizabeth Birmingham, North Dakota State University; Ann Burnett, North Dakota State University; Roger Green, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

progressive, public, land grant university in the upper greatplains, has been undergoing dramatic institutional transformation since the late nineties. Theinstitution has moved from a Carnegie-classified Research Intensive University to a ResearchExtensive University. This move accompanied new doctoral programs that advanced researchand extramural funding. Further, North Dakota State University’s efforts have resulted in recordenrollments for ten consecutive years, and the number of graduate students has nearly doubled ineight years. Research expenditures have increased 108% in only six years, significantly outpacingthe national average. According to the NSF data on academic research and developmentexpenditures, North Dakota State University is one