Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Richard Helps

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Information Systems

talented undergraduate student to design a series of labs.Even in that case the instructor restructured the labs later to fit his personal teaching style andinstructional design expectations.3.2 Structural AnalysisOne approach to an analysis of the structural design of the course changes is to use instructionaldesign layers. Instructional design layers define seven different distinct aspects of instructionaldesign. They are inspired by concepts such as Stewart Brand’s layers of buildings. Stewart Brandand others describe how buildings evolve over time and point out that the different layers of thebuilding can be changed separately11. Stewart Brand’s six layers are alliteratively named Site,Structure, Skin, Services, Space-Plan, and Stuff. Brand

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Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Coso, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

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Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerri Phillips, West Virginia University; Giampiero Campa, The MathWorks, Inc.; Srikanth Gururajan, West Virginia University; Marcello Napolitano, West Virginia University

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Aerospace

stable testbed in flight. The produced drawings were utilized in the design of theaircraft molds and overall construction of the aircraft. Figure 1 shows the CAD design of the YF-22 aircraft that was translated into the construction, shown in Figure 2. Figure 1: CAD Design of the WVU YF-22 Aircraft12 Page 15.507.5 Figure 2: Student Working on WVU YF-22 Construction12The molds shown in Figure 2 were used to lay-up carbon fiber and fiberglass shells to constitutethe aircraft body. The students worked to ensure that the aircraft body was strong enough tosupport the weight of the planned avionics

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching and Assessment Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald McEachron, Drexel University; Fred Allen, Drexel University; Elisabeth Papazoglou, Drexel University; Mustafa Sualp, Untra Corporation; David Delaine, Drexel University; David Hansberry, Drexel University

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Educational Research and Methods

., and Felder, R. (2007). A psychometric study of the index of learning styles. Journal of Engineering Education, 96: 309-319.21) Martin, G.P. (2000). Maximizing multiple intelligences through multimedia: A real application of Gardner’s theories. Multimedia Schools, 7: 28-33.22) McCoog, I.J. (2007). Integrated instruction: Multiple intelligences and technology. The Clearing House, 81: 25-28.23) National Science Board (2007). Moving Forward to Improve Engineering Education. NSB-07-122 (November 19, 2007).24) Noble, T. (2004). Integrating the revised Bloom’s taxonomy with multiple intelligences: A planning tool for curriculum differentiation. Teachers College Record, 106: 193-211.25) Raven, M., Cano, J., Carton, B. and Shelhamer, V

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Integrating Engineering Ethics into the Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Culver, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Ishwar Puri, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

emerging technologies: the role ofEngineers; and Ethics and sustainability education. Another workshop is planned forsummer 2010 and details are being discussed at the time of this writing.Spiral Curriculum WorkThe graduate course, discussed above, evolved, not only through the work of the GILEEgroup and its focus on ethics, but also as a natural evolution of previous curriculum workdone in the college. As a part of a major NSF grant led by one of the authors [8], a spiralcurriculum framework has been developed to reformulate engineering curriculum of thebio-process engineering which is a part of the Biological Systems Engineeringdepartment at Virginia Tech. The twentieth century psychologist, Jerome Bruner,proposed the concept of the spiral

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Summer Dann Johnson, Louisiana State University; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; John Scalzo, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Kelly Rusch, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Gerald Knapp, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Roger Seals, Louisiana State University

alumni gave “Lessons Learned”presentations and new participants gave brief presentations on the course and topic they plan toimplement with active learning strategies. Page 15.936.4 As with previous years, upon completion, faculty participants were presented with acertificate; a letter and a copy of their certificate were sent to notify their chair of theirparticipation. Chairs were encouraged by the Dean of Engineering to acknowledge the FacultyDevelopment Workshop in the faulty and instructor annual reviews. In addition to therecognition, faculty and instructors who participated in the FDW were provided a stipend of$800. Several

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Schneider, Cornell University; Maria Terrell, Cornell University Math Dept.

committee, in cooperation with faculty andadministrators from Engineering, approved a plan to infuse first semester engineeringmathematics with collaborative, problem-solving workshops. The first set of materials waswritten by teams of engineers from across the college and by pure and applied mathematicians.In the Fall 2007 pilot implementation effort, applied problem-solving was integrated into the firstcourse in the required engineering math sequence by transforming one of the two weeklyteaching assistant-led recitation sections into a collaborative problem-solving workshop. Allsixteen sections of the course received the workshop innovation. As such, all 392 studentsenrolled in the course participated in the workshops. The problems for the

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

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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

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Chemical Engineering

faculty 27 44.3%members attendIn courses taught by department faculty and targeted at freshmen 46 75.4%Other 12 19.7%Advising can be a very personal interaction between a student and a faculty membersince the student needs to communicate his or her personal goals and objectives. Thefaculty member will often share relevant personal anecdotes or recollections to aid thestudent in planning his or her career. Respondents indicated that students are advisedindividually in most cases (51 or 83.6%), though at some institutions advising is handledexclusively in groups (3 or 4.9%), in both groups and individually for all students (11 or18.0%) or

Conference Session

Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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International

andresults to expect. It is also proposed in future offerings that an improved structure for the modelof the twin rotor system be employed. Other ways to make the project go more smoothly includeto break the assignments into smaller parts to encourage better planning and to give moreinstruction for the communication so that both sides better understand what to expect from theirinternational collaborators. This further instruction can also decrease the amount of workrequired by the students for writing their memos if they can better focus their communication.The students can also be encouraged to reuse or refer to figures from their specific assignment inorder to decrease the repetition of work. Finally, for the benefit of the UDM students it

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Reisel, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

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New Engineering Educators

Teaching and Learning. Number 47, Fall 1991. SanFrancisco: Jossey-Bass Inc.3. Bennett, J.B., (2001). Teaching With Hospitality. In “Teaching Excellence”. Center for Teaching,University of Southern Maine. 12, No 1, 2000-2001.4. Ladeji-Osias, J.O. “Planning and Teaching an Undergraduate Course,” Proceedings of the 2005 AmericanSociety of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR. (2005).5. Kim, D. “Successful Methods and Techniques for Effective Teaching and Class Management,” Proceedings ofthe 2007 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, HI. (2007).6. Miguel, A., and Larson, E. “Efficient and Effective Grading of Student Work,” Proceedings of the 2006American Society of

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical Engineering Technology: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Durfee, Eastern Washington University; Hani Saad, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

operation of the building would be available throughthe internet. Citizens who helped fund the building would have some access to observe itsoperation. With information available over the internet it would be readily available for use inelementary, middle and high school courses. Engineering & Design department faculty andstudents could have that information available and use it in outreach programs to communityschools. This type of use of the building is still in the planning stages.One desired but unfunded set of equipment was a weather station to be mounted on the roof ofthe building. By having access to current temperatures, wind speeds and directions the overallefficiency of the building could be assessed. Students could see how changes in

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Projects

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conry, Clarkson University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

,Verification and software reviews and testing, user interface testing and 42Validation evaluation, problem analysis and reportingSoftware Evolution Evolution processes and activities 10Software Process Process concepts and implementation 13 Software quality concepts and culture, standards andSoftware Quality 16 processes, process and product assurance Management concepts, project planning and control,Software personnel and organization issues, software configuration 19Management

Conference Session

Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Denson, Utah State University; Matt Lammi, Utah State University; Kyungsuk Park, Utah State University; Elizabeth Dansie, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

parts of the solution)to the problem. Applies to initial Fitting a solution element in thesolution concepts as well as to the larger designfinal design(FEAS) FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS Verifying workability in general “Yeah, that’s good because it’s strongAssessing and passing judgment Determining whether a solution or enough to hold anon a possible or planned solution solution element meets the adult.”to the problem (or parts of the Problem Definitions criteria or Page 15.869.8problem) constraints(EVAL

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Facciol, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Jason Foster, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

alternative designs Impact of designs (ethically and socially) Leadership Manufacturing processes Open-ended problem solving Optimization of processes and designs Understanding of the industry Problem definition and scoping Product design and development Product marketing Product testing Professional and ethical responsibility Project documentation Project management and planning Rapid prototypingTopic/Focus Agree Taught Top 5 Reflection Resource management Page 15.360.20 Reverse engineering Safety, standards, and

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanical Systems: What's New

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arun Chintalapati, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Hong Sheng, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Richard Hall, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Robert Landers, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Regina Hannemann, University of Kentucky

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Design in Engineering Education

schematics - Provide mathematical definitions of filters and electronic devices - Provide logic diagramsTime Line - Organize by week and indicate team member responsible - Use Table or Gantt chart (Gantt chart seems to be more used in industry) - Indicate Milestones and important objectives - Contrast this with your proposed deadline and explain any inconsistencies or delays - Please compare to your original proposal, indicate why you have changed your time-line/ Page 15.1058.12 planned work - Then compare to your midterm timeline, indicate, if you met the timeline, if not, why?Distribution of Effort - What is

Conference Session

Computer Education Innovations II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ryan Smith, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

programs for K-12. Many have sprung up as aresult of national calls-to-action in response to declining student achievement in STEM and thepipeline issues this creates for engineering programs. For example, the recent Rising above theGathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future wasunequivocal in its message that science, technology, and innovation – the building blocks foreconomic security – are eroding in the U.S. just at the time when other nations are gatheringstrength.12The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) maintains a clearinghouse website forinformation and resources on K-12 outreach.13 The electronic library excels in cataloging text-based lesson plans for hands-one activities at the

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineeering & Outreach Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia; Wraegen Williams PhD, University of Virginia; Ping Guan, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

one participant of the LEAD-SEI program stated that “this opportunityallowed him to decide that he wants to be a biomedical engineer”. Another participant statedthat “My experience this year really convinced me that I can actually do engineering and I mostdefinitely plan to study it in college, specifically chemical engineering, which I had not evenconsidered before”. These statements alone suggest that these summer enrichment programs arehelping to create a diversified STEM workforce for the future.Bibliography1. Blumenthal, P. and Grothus, U. "Developing Global Competence in Engineering Students: U.S. and German Approaches," Online Journal for Global Engineering Education: 3(2) 1-12, 2008

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Terry Beck, Kansas State University; Greg Payne, Kansas State University; Trevor Heitman, Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

here.A more complete large scale Pitot-static probe is planned for future implementation, whichwould provide better control of orientation and viewing of other yaw angles. A simplifiedschematic of the current large-scale Pitot-static probe test model is shown in Figure 10. Themodel was constructed from ABS Plastic, and had a diameter of about D = 1.25 in. (31.8 mm),and an overall length of about 14.0 in. (356 mm). One end was hemispherical with a diameter D,and the other end was elliptical in shape. (a) Leading Edge Smoke Streams (b) Close-up Leading Edge Flow Figure 11: Simplified Pitot-Static Probe Flow Visualization—Normal OrientationFigure 11(b) shows the streamline behavior near the leading edge of the simplified

Conference Session

Potpourri of First-Year Issues

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rod Paton, University of Auckland; Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

don’tconcentrate that much. I go to the lectures and they go through things once and they gothrough it pretty fast. Not like high-school. Where they take one week to explain stuff youcan get it already. And you can get good results. So like I wasn’t that good last semester and Iam going to catch up. I don’t have a plan yet. But I just have to do all the work that they giveus. The work they give us today I will have to do it tonight.” The above comments reflect theimportance of students viewing themselves as their own teachers, building on and extendingtheir pre-existing knowledge, skills and approaches.Peer AssessmentAnother ‘way into’ the subject was through effective feedback from formative assessment. In

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Winters, Virginia Tech; Holly Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Ruth Streveler, Purdue Universtiy

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

4 4 8 2 9 5 3 3 4 2 Antagonistic (A) 1 4 4 4 0 5 1 3 2 3 4 2 Overall Trend S S/A A A S/N A N/A N/A S S A S Positive to Positive to Neutral to Positive to Negative to Summary Over Time Negative Negative Positive 1 Anna experiences extreme positive and negative experiences associated with her plans to change departments making her interview difficult to rate overall. Therefore, her second year interview is

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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Information Systems

Conference Session

Build Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffany Simon, Columbia University

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Minorities in Engineering

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; David Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana

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First-Year Programs

afrequency and time determined by their members.iCheckpoint and iExpoThe iCheckpoint meeting was held at midterm (14 October 2009). After a box-dinner meal, thewhole community assembled briefly and then was broken into two breakout presentationsessions where the teams presented their organization, plans, and progress regarding (1) identityand social networking, academics and advising and (2) the world of work and service. TheiTeams conducted various social and academic events. For example there were skating parties,movie nights, including a gathering to watch TED.com presentations, trips to corporate sponsors,travel to Silicon Valley conferences, international service projects, helping with Habitat forHumanity projects, and more.The iExpo meeting

Conference Session

Nuts and Bolts of Cooperative Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Yin, Pennsylvania State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

GPA greater than 3.0 and two students with a cumulative GPA lessthan 3.0. The interview protocol asked students about their short- and long-term career andeducational plans, confidence in solving ill-structured and well-structured problems, problem-solving experience, learning experience, and their development of problem-solving skills. Aspart of the protocol, students were asked to describe how they would solve two think-aloudproblems (a well-structured and ill-structured problem) as well as their approaches to problemssolving. All student names in this paper have been changed to pseudonyms.Findings A comparison of the responses of students with co-op or internship experiences andstudents without these experiences revealed

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Holsapple, University of Michigan; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Janel Sutkus, Carnegie Mellon University; Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Kelley Walczak, University of Michigan; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

BME Laboratory and Project Experiences

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Estefania Alvarez, Clemson University; Steven Saville, Clemson University; O. Thompson Mefford, Clemson University; John DesJardins, Clemson University

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Biomedical

, a new „abstract‟ format was implemented in orderto incorporate a writing style and inquiry-based approach that will help the student in theirengineering careers.8 The design and planning of this course was based to meet the ABETEC2000 criteria. The foundation for the use of this criteria was to correlate and promote theundergraduate experience to be similar to other courses that have a similar set-up of a laboratoryclass that is mainly used to strengthen the concepts and principles learned in the lecture. Amongthe criteria met, this course included: the application of knowledge of math, science andengineering; the design and execution of experiments and measurements, analysis, andinterpretation of data from living systems; the ability to

Conference Session

Mentoring First Year Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh; Alaine Allen, University of Pittsburgh; Jeremy Tartt, University of Pittsburgh

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First-Year Programs

], thus, the freshman program has developedprocedures within our courses that establish an environment that reinforces the existing studentsupport system.ACADEMIC TRANSITIONSThe final transition that many engineering students encounter is within the academic milieu,which is often compounded by the additional challenges these changes elicit. As a studentmoves from high school to college he/she is channeled through the high school highly structureddaily schedule of planned activities. Upon entering college, the same student is now in charge ofcreating and implementing their own schedule that is typically different each day, may includenight classes, and also has free time throughout the day. In addition to time management, otherchanges that

Conference Session

Student Attitudes and Perceptions

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Educational Research and Methods

theexternal conditions that can influence the system, determining the necessary conditions for asystem to exist or function normally, and establishing the extreme cases of how the systemfunction.Items 14 - 16 relate to student’s comprehension of what is to be measured quantitatively usingthe model (referred to as the performance criteria), such as determining how to make theperformance criteria better. Items 17 - 22 pose questions related to the tasks of developingcalculational or computational models to estimate the performance criteria, such as writing a Page 15.1050.10computer program, planning out hand calculations, identifying the constraints

Conference Session

Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Lynne Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University; Nina Truch, California Polytechnic State University

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Educational Research and Methods