AC 2010-2129: ENGINEERING EDUCATION COLLABORATION: INNOVATIVEPEDAGOGICAL METHODS FOR HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITYENVIRONMENTALISTSLeslie Hadaway, Norwood High SchoolMegan Urbaitis, Norwood High SchoolRegina Lamendella, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryDaniel Oerther, University of CincinnatiAndrea Burrows, The University of CincinnatiMike Borowczak, The University of CincinnatiAnant Kukreti, The University of Cincinnati Page 15.483.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Engineering Education Collaboration: Innovative Pedagogical Methods for High School and University EnvironmentalistsAbstractThis
Page 15.578.2is a crucial issue to the faculty. This process can be quite challenging at times particularly forthe faculty that do not have any prior experience with teaching online courses. Psychologicalsetbacks and barriers among undergraduate engineering students add another concern for thefaculty, i.e., students may have fears of losing partial credit in an online multiple-choiceassessment. The asynchronous and economical advantages of distance education and learningthat make offering and taking them very popular force the engineering education profession tore-examine, re-organize, and re-engineer some of the assessment-related issues that otherwisedon’t exist.The use of online-based, “honest, open book, open mind” approach is being
. Page 15.90.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Sophomore Level Data Analysis Course Based on Best Practices from the Engineering Education LiteratureIntroductionAs educators are well aware, the customary educational setting in which students developproblem solving skills is one where the numerical values presented are specific and absolute. Thedeterministic nature of the end-of-chapter type problems is imbedded in their minds well beforestudents even matriculate.1,2 However, as practicing engineers, they will confront the variationassociated with measured data in the real world. Ideally, it is beneficial to prompt students toattend to the concept of variation early in their undergraduate studies. This
AC 2010-92: A COMPARATIVE INVENTORY OF CORE COURSES IN SELECTGRADUATE EM PROGRAMSKathryn Abel, Stevens Institute of TechnologyAnirban Ganguly, Stevens Institute of Technology Page 15.16.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010A Comparative Inventory of Core Courses in Select Graduate EM ProgramsAbstract:All educational programs should grow and change with the times. To be stagnant and acceptingof the status quo will not move an educational program forward, and may end up leaving it waybehind the leaders. With this in mind, an investigation into the current state of EngineeringManagement (EM) graduate education was undertaken. The study was intended to answerquestions
AC 2010-1540: A LABORATORY/DESIGN BASED, PROBLEM SOLVINGCAPSTONE HELPS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGISTS HIT THE JOB MARKET!John Marshall, University of Southern Maine John Marshall received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and is the Internship Coordinator for the Department at the University of Southern Maine. His areas of specialization include Power and Energy Processing, Applied Process Control Engineering, Applied Automation Engineering, Fluid Power, and Facility Planning. Page 15.44.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Laboratory/Design Based, Problem Solving Capstone
tutorials.However, we do not have the kind of technical support or the amount of time needed to doanything like that. We needed to use a product that we had easy access to and required littlesupport from our systems people. The Evansdale Library Instruction Coordinator worked to Page 15.839.3come up with some alternate ideas that would work for the project we had in mind. She viewedthe Penn State video and decided we could use Adobe Captivate to do a tutorial for our students.The libraries have access to and experience with Captivate but not Camtasia. This was a newlearning opportunity for the engineering librarian since there had never been a reason for her
AC 2010-2378: ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATIONMysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional, national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of organizations. He is a senior member of
AC 2010-1257: FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OFCONTEMPORARY ETHICAL ISSUESSeamus Freyne, Manhattan College A member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) since 2003, Seamus Freyne is an assistant professor of civil engineering at Manhattan College in New York City. His research interests include concrete materials, infrastructure reliability, and ethics. He is also active with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).J.Patrick Abulencia, Manhattan College James Patrick Abulencia is an assistant professor at Manhattan College. He received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Manhattan College, and his Ph.D. in chemical and biomolecular
taken by our department, therefore, is to enhance the breadth anddepth of knowledge within the collective faculty in both theoretical and practice areas byincorporating adjunct faculty having extensive knowledge and experience in contemporaryprofessional practice including project selection, design, construction, and commissioning, aswell as in related areas of teaming and communications.Adjunct Faculty CharterWith the above goals and benefits in mind, The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department ofCivil and Environmental Engineering has developed a charter to help define the purpose ofadjunct faculty and their integration to department functions. A copy of the charter is outlined inAppendix B. The charter was formally adopted by the
AC 2010-2388: ASSESSMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS DESIGNMysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional, national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of organizations. He is a senior
demonstrations exist to aid in thisunderstanding of motion and rigid body kinetics, however, the military tank is one of the bestexamples for many aspects of rigid body kinematics covered in an undergraduate dynamicscourse. Nearly every student can picture, in his or her mind, a military tank and the motion ofthe chassis and the independent motion of the turret atop this chassis. It is this easy vision whichallows the military tank to become such a powerful model for student understanding of rigidbody kinematics in an undergraduate engineering course. The military tank is useful to showkinematic concepts of relative velocity, rotating reference frames, relative motion, andinstantaneous centers of rotations. The military tank is a single example that an
an undergraduate student in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI.Kelly Keelen, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Kelly Keelen is Administrative Coordinator of Academic Programs in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. Page 15.632.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 GREAT Environments for Student SuccessAbstractGREAT is an acronym that stands for Graduate, Retain, Engage, Admit, and Tell. It is anorganizing framework that reverse-engineers the process of how students interact with ourschool. By beginning with the end in mind
AC 2010-1462: PROPOSED FRESHMEN EXPERIENCE COURSEThomas Dobrowski, Purdue University-North Central Page 15.1006.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Proposed Freshmen Experience CourseAbstractThere are many college campus’s moving towards Freshmen Experience courses as part of aGeneral Education. While at first glance this may appear appropriate “on paper”, a one size fits allapproach does not seem logical for such varied plans of study. Each college places academicemphasis in different areas. This makes a “one size fits all” approach to a freshman experiencecourse weak as the expectations that the faculty will have of their students will vary with
AC 2010-1735: A NEW FULL YEAR MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERINGSENIOR DESIGN PROJECT COURSE: STRUCTURE, CONTENT AND LESSONSLEARNEDLily Laiho, California Polytechnic State UniversityRichard Savage, California Polytechnic State UniversityJames Widmann, California Polytechnic State University Page 15.65.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A New Full Year Multidisciplinary Engineering Senior Design Project Course: Structure, Content and Lessons LearnedAbstract A new full-year multidisciplinary senior design project course has been implemented atCalifornia Polytechnic State University. This course series utilizes externally sponsoredcomprehensive
AC 2010-895: USING HISTORY TO REINFORCE ETHICS AND EQUILIBRIUMWilfrid Nixon, University of Iowa Wilfrid Nixon is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa, and has been on the faculty there since 1987. In addition to his research on winter highway maintenance, he has also conducted research into student learning, and ways in which faculty can enhance such learning. He has been involved both with the Civil Engineering Division of ASEE and with the ASCE Committee on Faculty Development, and has also both attended and served as a mentor at ExCEEd Teaching Workshops. He plays bad golf, and also dances the Argentine Tango
such changes, the civil engineering professorscompared the competencies achieved in each program course with the desired competenciesusing a matrix, as suggested in Civil Engineering, Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century3.This examination showed that the civil engineering program should better integrateenvironmental management and sustainable development into its courses to ensure that studentsdevelop the desired competencies.The idea of “contaminating” the civil engineering program with sustainable developmentcrystallized in the mind of Professor Louise Millette (Associate Professor and Director of theDepartment of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering) following an analysis of the
AC 2010-473: AN ASSESSMENT AND DATA COLLECTION PROCESS FOREVALUATING STUDENT PROGRESS ON "A-K" ABET EDUCATIONALOUTCOMESKathleen Ossman, University of Cincinnati Dr. Kathleen Ossman is an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department at the University of Cincinnati. She earned a BSEE and MSEE from Georgia Tech in 1982 and a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1986. Her interests include digital signal processing and feedback control. Page 15.141.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 An Assessment and Data Collection Process for Evaluating
AC 2010-971: ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCES AND INTELLECTUALPROPERTY: A STUDENT PERSPECTIVEKenneth Cook, Lawrence Tech University Ken Cook is the chair of the Department of Engineering Technology in the College of Engineering. Mr. Cook is a registered professional engineer, a certified clinical engineer, and holds some 28 patents of his own. He holds degrees from or attended DeVry Technical Institute, Lawrence Technological University, Wayne State University, and Oakland University. Cook has many years of experience in engineering management and sales. His was most recently executive vice president and chief engineer for Vultron/Trans Industries. His earlier positions included General Manager
a plug-in hybrid SUV. TheElectrical Power Engineering Technology (EPET) faculty was very interested in such projects.The Electrical Power Engineering Technology major has a long relationship with the distributionarea of the CenterPoint Energy, but had no knowledge of their interest in PHEVs. TheCenterPoint Energy representative said the company wished to have a joint effort withUniversity of Houston to provide good advertising for both the company and the university, andto strengthen the linkage between the company and the university. The project would be to putyoung minds to work on PHEVs and PHEV implementation problems to see what might bediscovered. The electrical power technology faculty members were very interested in projectsthat
career efficacy scores when compared to generalintroductory courses. To best prepare our students for careers in their chosen field, it is essentialthat they be exposed to topics in the field early in their academic career. The significantrelationship between satisfaction with the introductory course and career efficacy is alsointuitive. Those that enjoyed an introductory industrial engineering course will likely havehigher confidence that industrial engineering is the right career field for them.In conclusion, the design of introductory courses in industrial engineering was shown to have asignificant impact on students’ career efficacy. Therefore, it is important to design the courseswith student outcomes in mind, particularly their preparation
AC 2010-559: CONSTRUCTING THE NORM OF THE PROBLEM SOLVINGABILITIES OF SENIOR STUDENTS OF MING-CHI UNIVERSITY OFTECHNOLOGYHsi-Hsun Tsai, Ming-Chi University of Technology Page 15.314.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Constructing the Norm of the Problem Solving Abilities of Senior Students of Ming-Chi University of TechnologyAbstractLots of research regarding the Science-Technology-Society issues reveal that the problemsolving ability should be more important for students. The high level cognitive skill may helpthe students to face the future complicate development of the society. The ability of theproblem solving is thus the front one of the
hands-on learning than theoretical instruction. With these things in mind, wehave developed this pilot teaching strategy to help the students become more involved with theirlearning of the basic concepts of engineering. This pilot study of introducing RP into theStrength of Materials course has many benefits that are summarized here: Page 15.1013.8 • To have students exercise the 3-D solid modeling knowledge learned in a previous course in a meaningful manner • Be able to work as a team: emphasizing team work and collaboration • To expose the students to the basic engineering design processes • Students experience for
the technical/engineering workplace - is important to keep in mind as the reader puts our approach into thebroader context of engineering programs, and specifically into the context of Engineering Page 15.337.2Management programs.Introduction: Importance of Ability to Change in Engineering EducationThe global environment is changing rapidly. The pace of change is causing dislocations in somearenas, and a growing awareness that change is now the norm. And the pace of change will likelyquicken. The importance of adaptability in the face of increasingly rapid change is no wheremore evident than in the widening mismatch between the methods and
AC 2010-31: WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY'S HYBRID BUS - AMULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO PROJECT BASED EDUCATIONSteven Fleishman, Western Washington University STEVEN FLEISHMAN is currently an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at Western Washington University. He joined the Vehicle Research Institute at WWU in 2006 after spending twenty years in automotive drivetrain R&D. Steven.fleishman@wwu.edu Page 15.1362.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010Western Washington University’s Hybrid Bus – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Project-BasedEducationAbstract Western
AC 2010-319: PROBLEM SET ZEROSteven Hart, United States Military AcademySteven Kreh, United States Military AcademyRhett Blackmon, United States Military AcademyNicholas Melin, United States Military Academy Page 15.986.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Problem Set Zero What these students were good at…was feeding back correct answers: they had mastered the arts of short-term memory and recall. The whole class was a wonderful example of what the British call “surface learning.” But very little “deep learning”—which comes with time, depth, practice, and reinforcement— seems to have occurred.1 This
AC 2010-1006: TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT EXPERIENCES OF ANUNDERGRADUATE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSERaghu Echempati, Kettering UniversityRichard Dippery, Kettering University Page 15.1166.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT EXPERIENCES OF AN UNDERGRADUATE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSEAbstractTeaching and learning a fundamental core course such as Mechanical Engineering Design (orMachine Design) continues to be fun but a challenging task for many instructors, as well as forstudents. It certainly helps if an instructor has both hands on and/or professional consultingexperience to share their rich and real-life knowledge to keep
AC 2010-1117: INTEGRATION OF JOURNAL CLUB IDEOLOGY INTO ANANOTECHNOLOGY COURSESmitesh Bakrania, Rowan University Smitesh Bakrania is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his PhD from University of Michigan in 2008 and his BS from Union College in 2003. His research interests include combustion synthesis of nanoparticles and their applications. Page 15.782.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Integration of Journal Club Ideology into a Nanotechnology CourseNanotechnology is bound to dramatically impact how we use materials in all aspects ofengineering
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; Federal Other Building Code Building Code DOT Stormwater Figure 2. Codes and Standards used by Civil Engineering Graduates-2009 Alumni SurveyIn 2009, the University of Evansville ranked ninth in the United States among Master’s grantinginstitutions with 58.3% of all undergraduates participating in a study abroad experience.1 The2009 alumni survey results revealed that 40% of graduates had traveled outside the United Statesin the previous two years for either business or pleasure. Travel to Mexico, the Caribbean, andCanada was not included in the percentage because they are convenient vacation destinations.International travel contributes to graduates global minded perspective
in the areas of pedagogy and consensus building. We are increasingly bringing educational experts into the college for special seminars and presentations. We seek to better leverage the educational innovation activities that occur broadly across our campus. • Engage colleagues in manner that is pre-emptive in managing conflict and change reluctance. • Re-communicate the vision of the EB2 initiative. • Recommit to working toward better measurement, documentation and communication of progress. • With the long-term in mind, continue to move forward with consistent goals and messages.SummaryDespite an increasing number of studies calling for major changes to engineering education