Conference Session

Rethinking Traditional Pedagogical Strategies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University; Dimitra Jackson, Iowa State University; Soko Starobin, Iowa State University; Mary Darrow, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

AC 2010-1019: EDUCATING FUTURE ENGINEERS: ROLE OF COMMUNITYCOLLEGESFrankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University Frankie Santos Laanan is associate professor and director of the Office of Community College Research and Policy at Iowa State University. His research focuses on the role of community colleges in serving as a pathway for women and minorities in STEM.Dimitra Jackson, Iowa State University Dimitra Jackson is a doctoral student and research associate in the Office of Community College Research and Policy at Iowa State University. Her research interests focuses on underrepresented students in STEM fields.Soko Starobin, Iowa State University Soko Starobin is assistant professor

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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

administrators, who were concerned about the status of womenfaculty at North Dakota State University, prepared a proposal for the NSFADVANCEInstitutional Transformation grant1. The group, called FORWARD (Focus on Resources forWomen’s Advancement, Recruitment/Retention, and Development), sought to develop anunderstanding of the climate for women faculty at North Dakota State University. In order toincrease the participation of women at all faculty ranks, by changing institutional culture andpractices, this ad hoc committee collected and analyzed institutional data and conducted severalsurveys to document the present climate and understand institutional barriers to women’ssuccess. The committee researched relevant literature and best practices developed

Conference Session

High School Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Oppliger, Michigan Technological University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University; Valorie Troesch, Michigan Technological Univeristy

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

measurements. • Our Mission to be Green: The Arthur Hill H.S. DIPLOMATS are researching, designing, and constructing a Michigan Natural Green Spot, consisting of a variety of floral plants, vegetables, and shrubs along with a pathway in an 80 x 130 foot area on the school’s campus. It will provide an educational space for the students and a place for the community to visit. • Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Competition: Utica Community Schools students participated in the annual MATE (Marine Advanced Technology Education) Underwater ROV competition. Preparation for this starts early in the school year and extends beyond the end of the year into the summer months. In 2009, the Utica team

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Johnson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

arenecessary. In this manner, the process owner ensures that the process improvements remain inplace.PFMEA in Capstone ProjectsPFMEA is used in AT497 Applied Research Project as one standard method to assess risk ofalternate designs for processes. AT497 is a 3 semester credit hour course with 2 hours of lectureand 3 hours of lab each week, and is taught in the spring semester. In the previous fall semester,the students form teams and prepare project proposals in AT496 Applied Research Proposal, aone semester credit hour course. The project proposals follow an outline shown in Table 1. Executive summary Table of Contents (with a page-numbered outline) – I. Introduction – II

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sundararajan Madihally, Oklahoma State Univ.; Marcus Duffy, Oklahoma State University; Lynn Franzmann, Stillwater; Rebekah Reece, Stillwater; Karen High, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Engineering at OSU. He is expected to graduate in 2011.Lynn Franzmann, Stillwater Lynn Franzmann teaches biology at Stillwater Middle School and participated in the TERMS project.Rebekah Reece, Stillwater Rebekah Reece teaches mathematics at Stillwater Middle School and participated in the TERMS project.Karen High, Oklahoma State University Karen High is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. She received her B.S. from University of Michigan and PhD from Penn State University in Chemical Engineering. Her research intersts include Sustainable Process Design, Multicriteria Decision Making, Engineering Education, K-12 Engineering for

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather Evans, University of Washington; Priti Mody-Pan, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

undergraduate engineering degrees. 4. Implement a statewide strategy to fully utilize the capacity of all engineering programs.As previous research suggests that students are more likely to persist to graduation if they aresocially and academically integrated into STEM disciplines23, participating schools worked toachieve their goals by implementing a variety of strategies designed to provide academic supportand to create a ‘community’ of engineering and pre-engineering students, specifically targetingwomen and URMs.This partnership between community colleges and universities provides a unique opportunity toexamine how differing institutional settings impact students’ feelings of integration into socialand academic engineering communities. Analysis

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George List, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

  in  terms  of  providing  classes  for  150­200  students  at  a time, not 20­50. There is also the issue of faculty skills. With tenure as a practice, the change in skill mix is very slow. Thirty year careers are very common, so only one­thirtieth of the resident skills  has the possibility of change every  year. While practitioners and adjuncts help accelerate this process, in the long run those individuals are not permanent fixtures in the program. The  second  is  that  ASCE’s  BOK2  “demands”  are  only  one  of  a  larger  set  of  “demands”  that current programs face. An example is preparation for graduate school, teaching students how to do  scholarly  research,  about  which  the  BOK2  is  silent.  Naturally,  the  BOK2  addresses

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University; Donald Woods, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Scholarship.Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University Margot Vigeant is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Dean of Engineering at Bucknell University. She is very interested in first-year engineering education.Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University Don Visco is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Tennessee Technological University, where he has been employed since 1999. Prior to that, he graduated with his Ph.D from the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His current research interests include experimental and computational thermodynamics as well as bioinformatics/drug design. He is an active and contributing member of ASEE at the local, regional and national level. He is the 2006

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Management

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

% ineffective (“How Companies Utilize,” 24 2001). A surveyconducted by Morgan39 (2000) discovered that about 40% of the responding organizations hadno performance measurement system; another 9% had a PM system but that it wasunsatisfactory; and roughly 60% had implemented some type of measurement system. Onlyabout 60% of the respondents were satisfied with their PMS while almost 40% were unsatisfied(Morgan39, 2000).ScopeThe research design utilized for this study (Loendorf33, 2008) was an exploratory mixed model Page 15.494.5design. The study was primarily qualitative with some quantitative aspects resulting in a mixtureof both models. The quantitative

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Hart, United States Military Academy; Steven Kreh, United States Military Academy; Rhett Blackmon, United States Military Academy; Nicholas Melin, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

methodology, consideration of alternative solutions, and designof an optimal steel structure to meet stated functional requirements. CE483, Reinforced Concrete Design, introduces the materials and mechanical propertiesof concrete, and the design of reinforced concrete structures. Mix design and strength testing labsdevelop the concept of proportioning constituents for quality concrete and provide a background Page 15.986.13in techniques of material testing, quality control, and sound construction practices. The study ofreinforced concrete includes analysis and design of simple structures, resulting in an appreciationfor the strength and

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamila Cola, Georgia Institute of Technology; Douglas Edwards, Westlake High School; Margaret Tarver, Tri-Cities High School; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

University. Douglas serves as the faculty sponsor of the Westlake NSBE Jr. and Engineers Without Borders chapters.Margaret Tarver, Tri-Cities High School Mrs. Margaret Tarver is a chemistry teacher, graduation coach, and NSBE Jr. sponsor at Tri-Cities High School. She received her B.S. in chemistry from Alabama A&M, and her Masters in science education from Georgia State University. She received the Golden Torch Award--PCI Director of the Year from the National Society of Black Engineers in 2010 for her work with the Tri-Cities High School NSBE Jr. chapter.Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Donna C. Llewellyn is the Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Economy

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John White, University of Arkansas; Kenneth Case, Oklahoma State University; David Pratt, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

AC 2010-427: ON THE DIFFERENCES AMONG "EQUIVALENT" LOANPAYMENT PLANSJohn White, University of Arkansas John A. White, PhD, PE, is Distinguished Professor and Chancellor Emeritus at the University of Arkansas. ASEE Fellow, IIE Fellow and Past-President, INFORMS Fellow, member of the National Academy of Engineering, Past-Chairman of AAES, Past-President of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Foundation, Past-President of the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science, and former Assistant Director for Engineering at NSF, former Dean of Engineering at Georgia Tech, he served on the boards of directors for 5 publicly traded corporations and served

Conference Session

Learning By Doing in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peyton Richmond, Lamar University; John Gossage, Lamar University; Qiang Xu, Lamar University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. Page 15.136.9Bibliography1. ASM Consortium; Errington, Jamie; Reising, Dal Vernon; Burns, Catherine; Sands, Nicholas P., ASM Consortium Guidelines: Effective Alarm Management Practices, ASM Consortium, 2009.2. Hollifield, Bill R. and Eddie Habibi, Alarm Management: Seven Effective Methods for Optimum Performance, ISA, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2007, page xvi.3. Mogford, J., Fatal Accident Investigation Report: Isomerization Unit Explosion Final Report, 2005, page 8, available online at http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/us/bp_us_english/STAGING/local_assets/downloads/t/final_report.pdf (referenced January 7, 2010).4. Rings, Terry, “Alarm Management Philosophy: A Roadmap to Success,” Presented at PAS Users

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa Larkin, American University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

. Stage (Eds.), Toward a Scientific Practice of Science Education (pp. 3 – 30). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 7. Connolly, P. & Vilardi, T. (1989). Writing to Learn in Mathematics and Science. New York: Teachers College Press. 8. Countryman, J. (1992). Writing to Learn Mathematics: Strategies That Work. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Educational Books, Inc. 9. Hein, T. L. (1998). Using student writing as a research and learning tool. AAPT Announcer, 27(4), 79. 10. Hein, T. L. (1999). Writing: An effective learning tool for non-science majors. AAPT Announcer, 29(2), 114. 11. Kirkland, W. L. (1997). Teaching biology through creative writing. Journal of College Science Teaching, 26(4), 277

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

, part manuallygraded, but some caution must be exercised, because not all respondents agree that thesystems can handle this kind of question. For systems that can’t handle them, it is notpleasant to design a workaround. Our workaround was to (1) create separate questions forthe automatically and manually graded parts, (2) assign our own numbers (such as 2a and2b) to these questions, and (3) disable the question-scrambling feature of the testing systemto assure that the questions would be juxtaposed on everyone’s exam. Page 15.927.5Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 4Copyright

Conference Session

Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Hill, University of Detroit Mercy; Patricia Pena, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Tagged Divisions

International

of the project could havepossibly been swapped for other topics. For example, linearization and state space modelingwere included in the UDM course, but are not central to the learning outcomes. It does, however, Page 15.795.10seem that the UDM students gained more practice with topics early in the semester like modelingand time domain analysis, than they did with later topics like frequency domain analysis andcontroller design because of the requirements and timing of the project.The UFMG course had in the past also included a final project, so the addition of theinternational collaboration did not significantly affect the structure of

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valerie Young, Ohio University-Athens

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

AC 2010-2054: STUDENT-PERCEIVED VALUE OF ACADEMIC SUPPORTINTERVENTIONSValerie Young, Ohio University-Athens Valerie Young is Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio University. She currently serves as Awards Co-Chair for the Chemical Engineering Division of ASEE, and previously served as Division chair. She teaches chemical engineering courses at all levels, from freshmen to graduate. Her research area is atmospheric chemistry and air pollution. Page 15.1118.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Student