Conference Session

Modeling Student Data

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

ispresented in the following list. Items referenced with [29] are quoted from the THE ThomsonReuters Survey and those with [31] from the ARWU.1. Financial indicators a. Income from research grants and awards (may be intramural or external) [29] Page 15.1008.14 b. Total expenditures [29] c. Income from teaching [29] d. Analysis of income sources (government, private, competitive, industry) [29] e. Analysis of expenditures (staff salaries, teaching, reserch, library, real estate) [29] f. The size of the resource supporting the program i) Size of the endowment ii) Number and state of equipment of the laboratories and facilities

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keith Walters; Keisha Walters

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

attack.Field Trip to Mississippi State UniversityThe Mississippi Governor’s School is held at the Mississippi University for Women, a primarilyliberal arts institution located in Columbus, MS. As part of the course, all of the students weretaken on a one-day field trip to Mississippi State University, located approximately 20 milesaway in Starkville, MS. The students were given guided tours of three research facilities. Thefirst was the Aerospace Engineering wind tunnel laboratory. The tour included both a subsonicand supersonic wind tunnel. The students were shown a demonstration of drag in the subsonictunnel, including a demonstration of the effects of dimples on the drag for a sphere, a topic thatwas later discussed in more detail during the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luis Godoy, University of Puerto Rico; Pedro Covassi, National University of Cordoba (Argentina)

, structural stability, granular flow, computational mechanics, and plates and shells, and results of his research have been published in more than 150 peer-reviewed journal papers. At present, he has been awarded an NSF-CCLI research grant.Pedro Covassi, National University of Cordoba (Argentina) Pedro A. Covassi graduated as a Civil Engineer at the National University of Cordoba (Argentina) and is currently a doctoral student at the National University of Cordoba in Argentina working in the Geotechnical Laboratory. He has been awarded a scholarship from the National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology (FONCYT) in Argentina

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Simon, University of Nevada, Reno; Ted Batchman, University of Nevada-Reno; Christine Taylor, Lewis and Clark University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

presentations from industry leaders and policymakers—renewable energy is changing so quickly, that it is important for students to gain information from “top name” leaders in the renewable energy marketplace as well as from national and state policymakers who make rules that govern markets and create incentives.  Team-based problem solving. Students will work together to create optimal energy system designs for sustainable communities. The students will use a web-based free shareware program known as HOMER™, which is available for download from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)-- http://www.nrel.gov/homer/.  Class discussion. We will use the assigned texts, guest presentations and

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics & Structural Modeling Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Soutas-Little, Michigan State University

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Mechanical Engineering

, Advanced Dynamics, Advanced Elasticity, Tissue Biomechanics and Biodynamics. He has won teaching excellence awards and the Distinguished Faculty Award. During his tenure at Michigan State University, he chaired the Department of Mechanical Engineering for 5 years and the Department of Biomechanics for 13 years. He directed the Biomechanics Evaluation Laboratory from 1990 until he retired in 2002. He served as Major Professor for 22 PhD students and over 100 MS students. He has received numerous research grants and consulted with engineering companies. He now is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University

Conference Session

Enhancing Environmental Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jess Everett, Rowan University

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Environmental Engineering

15.943.2materials before covering them in class. Calculation exercises were used as homework (HW) toPage 15.943.3Page 15.943.4was insufficient evidence to claim that students completing MML homework performed betterthan the students using traditional paper-based, instructor-graded homework (at a significancelevel of 0.05). However, the student success rate (final grade of A, B or C) was 70% in theMyMathLab group and 49% in the traditional homework group. In another study, introductoryphysics students completed homework using either the Web or paper.12 Performances on regularexams, conceptual exams, quizzes, laboratory, and homework showed no significant differencesbetween the two groups. Students in an electrical engineering signals and systems course

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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College-Industry Partnerships

Requirement for GraduationIntroductionProfessional internships are not a new concept to college and university programs.However, to require this experience in the form of a demanding, well designed andimplemented internship is a very time consuming investment, which will yield excellentreturns for your students and for your program. Students, both traditional and non-traditional, are given an opportunity to demonstrate, advance, and refine technical andsupervisory competencies learned in the classroom and in the laboratories. Graduateswith this type of resume-worthy experience have a substantial advantage over peers withno internship experience. “Once, having an internship or two on your resume made you areal standout in the marketplace. Today

Conference Session

Signal Processing Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Santucci, Arizona State University; Tushar Gupta, Arizona State University; Mohit Shah, Arizona State University; Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University

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Computers in Education

AC 2010-2233: ADVANCED FUNCTIONS OF JAVA-DSP FOR USE INELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING COURSESRobert Santucci, Arizona State UniversityTushar Gupta, Arizona State UniversityMohit Shah, Arizona State UniversityAndreas Spanias, Arizona State University Page 15.131.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Advanced Functions of Java-DSP for Use in Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior Level CoursesAbstractJ-DSP is a java-based object-oriented programming environment developed by Arizona StateUniversity as an educational tool for teaching fundamentals and applications of Digital SignalProcessing (DSP). This paper presents three new J-DSP

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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Two Year College Division

. He's the PI on two NSF S-STEM grants providing academic and career guidance to students in CSEM fields. He's a Professor of Electrical Engineering within the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at ASU. Prior to joining ASU, he worked at MIT, IBM, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Raytheon Missile Systems. He has consulted for Eglin Air Force Base, Boeing Defense and Space Systems, Honeywell and NASA. He has authored over 190 technical papers and three engineering texts. He has given more than 60 invited presentations - including 13 plenaries. Since 1994, he has directed an extensive engineering mentoring-research program that has served over 300 students. He's an AT&T Bell Labs Fellow, Boeing A.D

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University; Patricia Ralston, University of Louisville; Matthew Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Pamalee Brady, California Polytechnic State University; Manoochehr Zoghi, Cal State Fresno; D. Joseph Hagerty, University of Louisville; Xiong Yu, Case Western Reserve University

technical lessons learned, as well as theirresponse to the case studies. Case study questions were included on homework assignments andexaminations. Survey questions linked student achievement to educational outcomes. Thefocus groups identified additional benefits to the use of case studies. The sophomore studentsobserved that the cases helped build engineering identity, and provided historical understanding.The cases made the technical information relevant and linked theory to practice. In addition, faculty who participated in the case study workshops have been surveyedabout the time commitment required to implement the case studies, and whether the benefitsjustify the investment. Since teaching and revising a course is a time-consuming

Conference Session

Learning By Doing in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Golter, Washington State University; Bernard Van Wie, Washington State University; Gary Brown, Washington State University; David Thiessen, Washington State University; Baba Abdul, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

presentation.Background – What we have doneFor the past 12 years we have been developing a pedagogy that combines aspects of Cooperative,Hands-on, Active and Problem based Learning into a unique classroom environment, which we refer toby the acronym CHAPL. This has been developed in a required second semester junior year course, FluidMechanics and Heat Transfer. This course is the second course in our transport series.CHAPLis a group-centered learning approach in which the instructor and teaching assistants act aspreceptors to assist groups in narrowing the discussion focus, probe and guide group thinking whenmisconceptions are encountered and, on occasion, assist groups in resolving conflicts. One of thepedagogical tools central to this approach is the “Jigsaw

Conference Session

Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tuba Yildirim, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Page 15.1050.7GSE for measuring of modeling self-efficacy. In building our self-efficacy scale, we followedtwo essentials: first, we investigated other relevant scales in fields that are close to engineeringmodeling and academic setting, and second, we observed the guidelines suggested by Bandura.Pajares [28] provides a comprehensive list of the relevant efficacy scales for academic settings.We used his list of scales and added other available scales to create a comparison list of scales.This list is provided in Table 3.Table 3. Major Self-efficacy Scales for Various Academic Tasks Source Sample Question or Direction Answer Options Teaching Efficacy How much can you …? [Completed by various

Conference Session

ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Grant, North Carolina State University; Jessica Decuir-Gunby, North Carolina State University; Barbara Smith, North Carolina State University

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Women in Engineering

; Instruction at NC State University. Her research and theoretical interests include race and racial identity in education, African American academic achievement, emotions in education, and critical race theory. Dr. DeCuir-Gunby has served as a statistical consultant on numerous projects including the GenScope Assessment Project, a project designed to assess the use of technology on high school students' learning of genetics. She teaches courses in Educational Psychology, Adolescent Development, and Mixed Methods Research. She is a co-PI on an NSF ADVANCE Leadership grant.Barbara Smith, North Carolina State University Barbara Smith is the Executive Assistant Director of the PURPOSE Institute

Conference Session

Demonstration and Project Enhancements in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen Yang, Cornell University; Kathryn Dimiduk, Cornell University; Susan Daniel, Cornell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

important aspect of this project because traditionally, the chemical engineeringcurriculum stresses the scaling up of laboratory chemical reactions to larger chemical processingunit operations and often students enter the class with the bias that chemical engineering means“scaling up”. Particularly as studies of biochemical reactions in microbiological systems, suchas proteomics or in microfabricated devices as in the body-on-a-chip described here, are soprevalent in the chemical engineering research literature, it is important that students are exposedto the possibilities and advantages for scaling down chemical processes and the related careerchoices.Student appreciation of the significance of scale down on several levels (efficiency, safety

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineeering & Outreach Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharnnia Artis, The Ohio State University; Ruth Friedman, The Ohio State University; Glenda LaRue, The Ohio State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

determine which was most effective in removing each ofthe three different stains.Gas-Liquid-Solid Fluidization Activity: The gas-liquid-solid fluidization activityintroduced participants to a three-phase fluidized bed reactor. Students determined theminimum fluidization point of the reactor used in the university’s Koffolt Laboratories bygraphing the height of the liquid in the glass tube for each change in gas velocity.Students also learned about the importance of three-phase fluidized bed reactors to thepetroleum industry, where heavy oils have to be converted into high-quality gasoline.Sustainable Energy Presentation: The sustainable energy presentation inaugurated a day-long series of lab tours and activities designed around Shell’s “More

Conference Session

Past and Future of Manufacturing Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Norman, Applied Research Associates, Inc

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Manufacturing

, Lockheed and others soon followed. To better understandindustry needs, Terman would take the trouble to contact chief engineers of importantelectronics companies to find out which device or design approach was widely used.These were the design approaches he focused on in his teaching, research, journalpublications, and textbook publications (his electronics texts were at one time thesecond most valuable book property of the McGraw-Hill Book Company, being exceededin popularity only by a standard treatise of engineering drawing). A former student andprotégé of Terman’s, Professor Oswald Villard of the Stanford School of Engineeringrecalled:” Along with enormous energy, Terman always had a clear idea of what hewanted to do and what to do to meet his

Conference Session

Rethinking Traditional Pedagogical Strategies

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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

anything just because. The thing that I was very frustrated with my physics education was that I wasn’t really allowed to put any of myself into it I was just mimicking the professor. All of my labs are open and creative and sometimes my laboratories are just about experiencing.” “The women, they’re a lot more open to working on projects collaboratively. I do try to be somewhat aware of my classroom demographics. For instance, I’ve got a class this quarter that’s all male so we’ve been able to do lots of car things and guy things but if I Page 15.436.11 had women in the class I’d kind of shy away from those

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDS in Engineering - Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juan Castilleja, The Boeing Company; Rachel Jackson, Rice University; Natalia Salies, Rice University; Brent Houchens, Rice University

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Minorities in Engineering

school students by providing a design project to work on for 5-7 weeksduring or after school, each academic semester. The students build and learn about physics andengineering principles with their college mentors. The design project provides a naturalmechanism to spur a mentoring relationship. After the mentorship sessions, mentees demonstratehow their designs fulfill the design requirements via a competition held during DREAM Day.DREAM Day takes place at the end of the program and includes lectures and panel discussionson financial aid policies, tours of engineering laboratories, and information on STEM careers.Many of the students do not realize the opportunities that engineering and college present tothem, but when the Rice mentors inform

Conference Session

Curriculum in Telecommunications Engineering Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim Nankivell, Purdue University, Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet; Jana Whittington, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

) responsibility, d) a sense of humor, e)integrity, f) time-management, and g) motivation. Along with personal attributes interpersonalabilities are also considered a part of soft skills, such as: a) empathy, b) leadership, c)communication, d) good manners, e) sociability, and f) the ability to teach. Employers overallhave included such soft or applied skills as Creativity/Innovation, Ethics/Social Responsibility,Professionalism/Work Ethic, Lifelong Learning/Self Direction, and Critical Thinking/ProblemSolving as high need skills.48With a general understanding of what soft skills are defined, how does an academic IT programintegrate soft skills into the curriculum becomes the question for future research.Bibliography1 Lyytinen, K., & Robey, D. (1999

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Fridley, University of Alabama

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Civil Engineering

structures, and the response and protection of wood-frame buildings to natural hazards, such as wind and earthquakes. He has been active in various areas of research and has been awarded numerous externally-funded research grants. In addition, Fridley has more than 70 refereed publications and over 100 conference presentations. In addition to teaching and research, Fridley is involved in numerous professional activities and organizations. Since 1990, he has been a member of the American Society for Engineering Education. In 2008, he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and he has held numerous leadership positions in the organization, including

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randal Abler, Georgia Tech; James Krogmeier, Purdue University; Aaron Ault, Purdue University; Julia Melkers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tamara Clegg, Georgia Institute of Technology; Edward Coyle, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

various and sometimes unexpected ways: New computer hardware allows not only higher speed computers but also smaller, lightweight devices such as PDA’s and cell phones. New applications bring not only new or better services (voice/video over IP, etc.) but also new challenges as well as malicious applications such as viruses and email spam, which have become commonplace.James Krogmeier, Purdue University James V. Krogmeier received the BSEE degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1981 and the MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983 and 1990, respectively. From 1982 to 1984 he was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in