Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Developments and Implementations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rocio Chavela Guerra, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University

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International

develop globalcapacity and communities in engineering education research. The implications of developing andsustaining such community are discussed.IntroductionIn the last decade, engineering education has gained significant recognition as a legitimatescholarly, research field. Proudly, “engineering education now enjoys a community of scholarsand researchers, an emerging body of core knowledge, an identified research agenda andframework, recognized culture and vocabulary, avenues of dissemination […] and is progressingsteadily toward developing avenues to maintain standards and regulate quality.”1 Acknowledgingthat this steady progress and the vitality of the discipline depends upon “a vibrant community ofscholars and practitioners advancing the

Conference Session

Structure and Form in Architectural Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Dermody, Roger Williams University

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Architectural

corresponding structure.Graphical methods of structural analysis and design were used in this studio for several reasons: Page 15.616.3 1. Graphical methods clearly demonstrate the relationship between form and force in statically determinate structures. 2. Different structural schemes can be compared visually in terms of efficiency and form based on their respective force polygons. 3. The graphical methods focus on the relationship between form and force rather than on calculations. 4. Potential revisions to schematic designs can be derived from evaluation of force polygons. 5. Relatively compact force polygons indicate relatively

Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Denny, University of Auckland; Beth Simon, University of California, San Diego; Melissa Micou, University of California, San Diego

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Biomedical

to five alternative answers,an indication of the correct answer, and an explanation. As soon as a question is contributed it isavailable in the “Unanswered Questions” section for other users enrolled in the course. Page 15.540.3Figure 1: Examples of the PeerWise interface. A) The main menu is divided into 3 sections: the questions that thestudent has contributed, the questions contributed by others that the student has answered, and the questionscontributed by others that the student has not answered. B) A list of all the questions the student has not answered isprovided and can be sorted by multiple features.“Unanswered Questions” are

Conference Session

Launching Successful Academic Careers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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New Engineering Educators

typical of senior level faculty whose years of effort and contributions in their fieldshave led them to be selected to serve on various committees and commissions related to theprofession.1 Boyer’s view of scholarship resulting from service activities at the highest level ofone’s profession has limited applicability for new engineering educators who are often juststarting out in their professional field. In order for a new engineering educator to use service as a Page 15.849.2scholarly activity, they must not merely serve, but they need to produce a scholarly publicationas a result of that service.Some of the general types of service activities

Conference Session

Design Projects across the Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold Henderson, United States Miliary Academy; Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

designs. The lab technicians grewfrustrated as they retaught the same basic machining skills.The original test stand created to support testingthe water wheels was identified to be a limitingfactor. It was an extremely crude contraption thatwas located in the corner of a lab room. Itconsisted of garden hose and a 20 gallon tanksuspended on the rafters. Its placement wasdictated by the location of an available drain andwater source. A pair of C clamps would hold thedevice in place as it lifted a pile of mismatchedweights. The location of the test stand in thecorner limited the ability of the students to operatetheir devices and observe their peers’ devices in Figure 1. Original Test

Conference Session

Build Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renee Baker, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Minorities in Engineering

? Despite executive leadership, endorsement, financial backing, humanresources support, and, equally important, a newly acquired pipeline, competitive advantageamongst pipeline prospects to continue to build upon relationships was lacking. Having attendedthe “Keeping Our Faculties” conference in April of 2004, the Manager for Faculty Recruitment(MFR) sat in on a breakout session that discussed a study that had been performed by aMidwestern university (see figure 1); this research investigated the candidates’ perspective of therecruiting process. It is quite interesting to note that when asked the question, “Did you acceptthe job offer at the Midwestern university,” 76% of the candidates who said “yes” had two ormore visits and 83% of “yes

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics & Structural Modeling Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vincent Sabatini, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Ryle Maxson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Darris White, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Jack McKisson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; William Haupfear, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Page 15.1233.2maintaining consumer acceptability. Because of the availability and efficiency of electricity andelectric power systems, vehicle electrification was identified as a key technology for this project.The modern automotive is the result of over a century of evolution. A wide range of propulsionsystems have been attempted with electric, hybrid-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles havingbeen developed as starting in the late 1800s. GM developed an experimental plug-in hybridvehicle, called the XP-883, in 1969 (1). Despite notable efforts to increase the degree of vehicleelectrification, the cost, weight, and complexity of these systems has prevented widespreadmarket acceptance. Recent advances in battery, and control system

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yu-Wei Huang, National Changhua University of Education; Jieh-Shian Young, National Changhua University of Education; Chih-Hung Wu, Chienkuo Technology University; Hsing-Jung Li, National Chung Cheng University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

systemcontinually. Given a simulated industrial problem with a set of reference information,students design their systems to solve this problem. To reach this goal, we compared ourrequirements with Kolb's learning cycle1: concrete experience (experiencing), reflectiveobservation (examining), abstract conceptualization (explaining), and active experimentation(applying).Therefore, we designed a learning environment that requires students to use all of the styles.At the beginning, students read the given problem and search the related references. Beforedeveloping OBD implementation, students read the manufacturer datasheets and instrumentdescriptions from this course. They should complete a term report including: (1) aspecification that describes the

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Surendra Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology; Daniel Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology; John Morelli, Rochester Institute of Technology; Michael Eastman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Vincent Amuso, Rochester Institute of Technology; James Moon, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Two Year College Division

stakeholdersin academic programs at our university, and form an extremely attractive pool to both expandand diversify the engineering and technology workforce of the future. Transfer students areespecially important to the five engineering and engineering technology (EET) departmentsidentified in Table 1 that also lists the number of BS degree programs offered in eachdepartment. Table 1: Participating Academic Departments, Abbreviations, and ProgramsAcademic Department Code # of ProgramsCivil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management & Safety CETEMS 1Electrical

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Betty Harper, Pennsylvania State University; Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; Alexander Yin, Penn State University; Patrick Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University

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Liberal Education

Education for a Changing World, commonly referred to as theGreen Report.3 The Green Report argued that “with the end of the Cold War, engineeringeducation needed a new set of guiding principles to replace those that had been developedfollowing World War II. Rather than a world based largely on superpower competition andnational security, engineers now faced a world of intense international economic competition andwidespread public uncertainty about the uses of technology” (Preface, paragraph 1) The reportcalled for an increased focus on skills and activities such as teamwork, communication,appreciation for diversity, multidisciplinarity, and understanding of societal contexts and largelyforeshadowed the changes to ABET’s (Accreditation Board for

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Engineering Ethics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Donna Riley, Smith College

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Engineering Ethics

willinclude the development of instruction as proposed above and assessments will be conductedbefore and after the intervention. The ultimate goal is to prepare engineering students toencounter nanotechnology education across science, technology, social sciences and humanitiesto be better equipped to participate in debates about how societies ought to be transformed.References: 1. Roco, M. C., & Bainbridge, W. S. (2001). Societal implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2. National Science and Technology Council. (2000). 2000 Annual Report. Washington D.C. 3. Roco, M. C. (2003). Broader societal issues of nanotechnology. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 5(3), 181--189. 4. Roco, M

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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

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

attractiveness to female students as a way ofincreasing the overall number of women in the engineering pipeline.Outside of summer camps in computing and computer science very few reports have been madeon single-discipline and single-sex summer camps in engineering8, 9. As a result, the purpose ofthis paper is three-fold: 1) to provide an overview of the development of a single-discipline,single-sex pre-engineering camp; 2) to discuss a formative evaluation plan for assessing the pre-engineering camp; and 3) to reveal anecdotal lessons learned to assist future camp directors. Inthe next sections, this paper uses CheME & YOU @ OSU as an exemplar single-discipline,single-sex pre-college engineering outreach program designed to attract young women

Conference Session

Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech; Shreya Kothaneth, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; Dale Pokorski, Virginia Tech; David Bailey, Virginia Tech; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Engineering has deployed various strategic alliances withinternal and external organizations to the university.Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations theory has been used as a theoretical framework tomaximize adoption of instructional technologies2. According to Rogers, there are fiveattributes to be considered when it comes to adoption of technology. They are relativeadvantage, compatibility, trialability, observability, and complexity. Adoption oftechnology will be more likely if the complexity of the technology is reduced but relativeadvantage, compatibility, trialability, and observability are maximized. Figure 1 depictsthe strategic alliances maintained to increase faculty/student adoption of TabletPCs,while using Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edwin Garcia, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

example applications to expose students to advantagesand disadvantages of a) phase field, sharp, and level set microstructural evolution methods and b)numerical techniques such as finite differences, finite elements, and finite volumes.To attain the goals of the course, two computational tools, OOF and FiPy, have beenincorporated into the class. OOF (Reid et al., 2009) 3 is a tool designed to calculate the spatial Page 15.584.2distribution of physical fields and the macroscopic properties from images of real or simulatedmicrostructures (see Figure 1). The code provides an intuitive Graphical User Interface to enablethe user to perform Finite

Conference Session

Research in Graphics Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Sadowski, Purdue University; Patrick Connolly, Purdue University

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Engineering Design Graphics

private college/universities, andone Canadian university. Although most of the universities represented are public institutions,small, medium, and large institutions were represented.ProcessThis Delphi was conducted via the web using Qualtrics Survey software. Round 1: Panelists were asked to rate each of the suggested names, add comments, and add new names. Round 2: Panelists received a compilation of the Round 1 responses and asked to review the data, read the comments, and with this new information rate the names again, add new names, and additional comments. Round 3 and Round 4: These rounds are the same as Round 2. Round 4 is only needed if

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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First-Year Programs

Entrepreneurial Engineer (Wiley, 2006). Page 15.1130.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Students as the Key to Unleashing Student Engagement: The Theory, Design, & Launch of a Scalable, Student-Run Learning Community at XXIntroductionImproving engineering education has been a recurring theme throughout the past century. Overthe last two decades, calls for reform have intensified from many stakeholders at the global andlocal levels—including the National Academies, policy makers, faculty, employers, andstudents.1, 2, 3 Heroic faculty efforts have been broadly mounted and large

Conference Session

Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Harding, Purdue University; Paul McPherson, Purdue University

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New Engineering Educators

standards while ANSI certifies standards as meeting the criteria to be anAmerican National Standard (ANS). Increasing educational awareness about standardization is one of twelve primaryobjectives of the USSS (1). To that end, over the past several years standards professionals haveconducted studies to determine how professors are incorporating standards into currentcurriculums. In parallel, other attempts have been made to increase students’ awareness ofstandards by imposing minimal requirements for standards use within specific engineering andtechnology ABET requirements. Yet the question of how to adequately implement the practiceand application of standards into curriculums still remains largely unanswered. Among standards

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Deborah Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Marilyn Hart, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Mezbahur Rahman, Minnesota State University, Mankato

attend the seminar, Page 15.1293.3and to reduce outside work hours because of the scholarship. Each year, we have assessed strongpools of candidates and found diverse recipients to create our cohorts of scholars.Seminar StructureIn developing this program, we created a weekly 1-credit seminar course listed at both a 200-and 400-level. This allows us to have distinct expectations for students at different points in theiracademic careers. A typical seminar may include a 10-15 minute lecture followed by small groupwork, a panel discussion, outside speakers or presentations by scholars. Scholars are regularlydivided into smaller groups for discussion

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University; Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, University of Pennsylvania; Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Chad Dean, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

were not considered for this study but it is interesting to note that graduate levelcourses follow the same basic patterns discovered in the undergraduate courses.In this study, we discovered four different teaching models used by different universities toteaching data mining at the undergraduate level. These four different models are:Mathematical/Algorithm Based, Textbook Based, Topical Based, and Applied Data Mining. Ofthe nine schools we researched, five followed the same pattern. The remaining four schools aredivided among three different approaches as showed in figure 1. Page 15.646.2 Mathematical

Conference Session

Mentoring First Year Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Goodwin, Iowa State University; Amy Brandau, Iowa State University; Deb DeWall, Iowa State University; Bing Du, Iowa State University

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First-Year Programs

they are doing in their class (as instructorsmay regularly update them in other ways), the one aspect that is different with this concept is thatit brings the advisor into the picture. Research has shown for years the importance of studentsmaking connections early on with key faculty and staff in continued persistence14,15,16. In manylarger schools the engineering students are unable to make those type of connections especiallydue to large classrooms. This provides a way for other key members of the university to try tomake those connections with struggling first semester students.As shown in Table 1, graduation rates fall significantly for students who receive less than a 2.00GPA their first semester in engineering. Those who receive between

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane Cotter, Union College

depicted on television. Noisy Test Sample Feature Enhancement Preprocessing Extraction Decision Classification Clean Training Samples Preprocessing Feature Extraction Figure 1. Pattern Recognition Block Diagram

Conference Session

Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University; Bruce Harding, Purdue University

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New Engineering Educators

additionally includes a literature review on aspects of the case study project, overviewof information literacy standards, description of related engineering and technology accreditationrequirements, and integration of information literacy into the curriculum. The case study and its Page 15.841.2evolution in a changing information world is related from the viewpoint of both instructionalfaculty and library faculty. Student learning experiences are also characterized.Literature ReviewErdmann and Harding (1988) first described the Treasure Hunt in “Information Literacy: Needs– Skills – Assignments” 1 and discussed the definitions of library

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Culbertson, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Janice Meyer Thompson, Arizona State University; Christopher Mehrens, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University

activities that provide opportunities for hands-onactivities which build tinkering self-efficacy.This project used the engineering design process to specify the projects on musical instrumentsthat provided the context for the course. This supported students employing problem-solving,decision-making and creative-thinking skills, all of which are considered important forcompetitiveness in the global economy. Briefly, the engineering design process consists of aseries of steps which include: 1) identify and define a need or a problem, 2) specify requirementsand constraints, 3) brainstorm to propose possible alternative solutions to the problem, 4) fitmodels of physical phenomena and associated mathematical models to the alternative solutions;5) use the

Conference Session

Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sabina Jeschke, Aachen University of Technology (RWTH); Lars Knipping, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Olivier Pfeiffer; Nina Reinecke, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Erhard Zorn, Technische Universitaet Berlin

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International

, everyEuropean university today uses the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS)as a standard for comparing performance and achievement of students while on the other hand,all the partner countries are using the American academic system. Actually, one of them is anAmerican university, i.e. the degrees awarded are officially registered by the Board of Educationin New York State.First experiences are reviewed, including the not exclusively academic obstacles that we had toovercome in teaching and learning within these different educational systems .We will alsoreport on a survey, which we will conduct to learn about the students’ experiences and thusassure the quality of their mobilities.1. Overview of the Erasmus Mundus External Co

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jayathi Raghavan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Hong Liu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Mathematics

undergraduate program in Computational Mathematics hasbeen recently approved. The trend seems to be that most of the students wishing to pursue thedegree program are engineering students interested in pursuing a dual major. The challengesfaced by the department are 1) to offer these dual majors an integrated curriculum that wouldtake advantage of their engineering background and 2) to offer a curriculum which will enablethem to complete the degree within one additional year without compromising the integrity ofthe program. In this paper, the authors discuss in detail their Computational Mathematicscurriculum and the modification of the curriculum for the dual majors.IntroductionComputational Mathematics is a multidisciplinary field that applies the

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Thompson, University of South Carolina; Joy Watson, University of South Carolina; Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina

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Graduate Studies

. Page 15.862.2IntroductionIn the 1990s the National Science Foundation (NSF) introduced the Graduate Teaching Fellowsin K-12 Education (GK-12) initiative [1]. The GK-12 program supports the participation ofgraduate students from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines,called GK-12 Fellows (Fellows), in K-12 science and mathematics education. One of the primarygoals of the GK-12 initiative is to improve Fellows’ communication and teaching skills [1] in thehope that these improvements will lead to more effective teaching when the Fellows matriculateinto the professorate. This study examined how participation in one GK-12 program influencedthe teaching beliefs and self-confidence (known as teaching efficacy) [2] of the

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University

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Mechanics

required to watch multimedia example problems over the web.Class begins with a concept question or two, then students are given the opportunity to askquestions about the example problem. After a short “lecture” introducing the new topic, studentteams then worked on 1-2 problems that they set up (e.g., Given/Find/Assume) prior to the class.The instructor usually guides the students along, often asking questions to specific individualsabout the process, including how and why they are approaching the problem in a certain way.The 50 minute class typically ended with a short concept quiz and a brief introduction to whatwould be covered in the next audio example problem. Depending on the class, other activities(both in and out of class) included Team

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanical Systems: What's New

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashok Kumar Manoharan, Auburn University; P.K. Raju, Auburn University; Chetan Sankar, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

technical and/or business issue that has actuallybeen faced by managers together with surrounding facts, opinions, and prejudices upon whichmanagement decisions must depend. These real and particularized cases are presented to studentsfor considered analyses, open discussion, and final discussion as to the type of action that shouldbe taken. The fundamental principles underlying the case study method of teaching, assummarized by Barnes et al.5, are:1. The primary of situational analysis: Analysis of some specific situation forces the student todeal with “as is” and not the “might be.”2. The imperative of relating analysis and action: The traditional academic focus has been toknow; the practitioners’ focuses have been on action. The case study

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuyi Lin, University of Missouri

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Design in Engineering Education

have beeninvestigated by well-equipped research teams all over the world, can student design teams makea significant and meaningful contribution to the use of renewable energy? Can students acquireuseful knowledge in the application of physical and chemical principles for engineering designwithout duplicating or copying from existing products and processes?During the past several years, our senior student capstone teams have designed biomasscompactors, collecting and storing energy from human activities, biomass gasification equipmentto generate fuel gas, solar water heaters, and similar projects. Some important lessons werelearned from working on these design projects: 1) though the energy generated from human oranimal physical activity may

Conference Session

Methods, Techniques and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Robert Herrick, Purdue University; Gareth O'Donnell, Dublin Institute of Technology; Kathryne Newton, Purdue University; Nuria Castell, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Miquel Barcelo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Didac Balas, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Maria Ribera Sancho, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Donal McHale, Dublin Institute of Technology; Jordi Garcia, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

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Graduate Studies

activity established a solid foundation for the newdual/concurrent technology degree program and enabled it to get off to a fast start. Two of thenew consortium members are already partnering in an Atlantis undergraduate student mobilityproject that is working well and which has generated considerable student and faculty traffic andcollaboration well in excess of the funding requirements [1]. The partners have investedconsiderable amounts of their own monies in building the relationship and thus evidence thesustainability of the new dual transatlantic technology masters degree program.Globalization, technological innovation and sustainability are critical issues for most if not allnations in the world. Nowhere do these concerns converge more than