Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Palmer, Louisiana Tech University; Hisham Hegab, Louisiana Tech University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. describes a course to teach softskills applicable to all students but little training on tackling open-ended problems. Rogge andLivesay presents a course to prepare biomedical engineering students using mini-design projects,however no details of the projects are given in the paper. Csavina and Seeney discuss a productdesign course for biomedical engineering students to prepare of open ended constraints bydesigning a Home Lift Position and Rehabilitation chair. Co et. al. write about a pre-capstonecourse for electrical engineers where teams work on various subsystems of an overall electricaldevice. A number of team and soft skills were also reinforced in the course to provide bettermanagement and integration of efforts. The course described in this

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joao Paiva, Politecnico de Viseu

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International

of a region’s specific shrub drying ratios occurring using solar dryersled to the solar kiln PBL.4.2 Experiments Applied thermodynamics has been using good lab equipment available and experimentalactivities involving the use of refrigeration equipment, as well as HVAC, are common.Energy conversion using a small vapor power cycle plant is one of the most popularexperiments. Theoretical results are compared to experimental data gathered by a dataacquisition system. Teams are only allowed to carry out experiments after passing an oralexamination12. The level of integration achieved with these experiments is clearly lower than the onedescribed below for heat and mass transfer. In this case it was possible that, when dealingwith the French

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chandra Austin, Utah State University

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Educational Research and Methods

cause is dueto lack of encouragement and support from teachers and family. Specifically, there is an absenceof evidence focusing on the reasons African Americans avoid subjects relating to engineering.The purpose of this study was to investigate causal factors underlying the avoidance ofengineering opportunities by African American students. The idea of disproportionate education is not a recent phenomenon. This concept has beenaround for decades. Although schools have progressively become integrated, the content studentslearn and achievement outcomes are still largely determined by race and class 2-5. Thisdemarcation follows students into higher education and the labor market, influencing the choicesthey make. At a time in which the United

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dave Sly, Iowa State University; Daniel Bumblauskas, Iowa State University; Frank Peters, Iowa State University

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College-Industry Partnerships

≠ Industrial Tooling, Machines, Automation, Manufacturing≠ Industrial/Agricultural Equipment (graders, tractors, etc) ≠ Transportation≠ Systems Integrators ≠ IT Services (Technology)≠ Industrial Chemicals and Supplies ≠ Energy/Utilities≠ Contractors and HVAC SuppliersThe Industrial Engineering committee reviewed the companies that were hiring COE graduates for sales and marketing positions.Prior ISU graduates at these companies, or companies in similar industries, were asked to participate on an engineering salesadvisory board which would assist in developing the curriculum for the course. The industry advisory board, selected by

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tammy Baldwin, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.; Marisa Hemingway, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc

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College-Industry Partnerships

AC 2010-2048: ENGINEER DEVELOPMENT AND MENTOR PROGRAMTammy Baldwin, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Tammy Baldwin graduated with a B.S. in Psychology and an M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Idaho. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Educational Administration. Tammy has been with Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. for four years and is the University Relations Coordinator responsible for encouraging and supporting engineering curriculum at universities across the United States and internationally.Marisa Hemingway, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc Page 15.473.1© American

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fred Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Michael Ciaraldi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Eben Cobb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kenneth Stafford, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

semester of 2008, the program is the fourth largest discipline at theinstitution in terms of freshman enrollment. At the core of the curriculum are four signaturecourses called Unified Robotics I-IV. The educational objective of these courses is to introducestudents to the multidisciplinary theory and practice of robotics engineering, integrating thefields of computer science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. In addition totaking these and other courses, it is a requirement that all WPI undergraduates, regardless ofdiscipline, complete a senior-level project in their major field of study called Major QualifyingProject (MQP). This paper discusses the capstone design experience within the context of ournew RBE degree program

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Stephen Bitar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Robert Labonté, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-647: THE TECHNICAL, PROCESS, AND BUSINESS CONSIDERATIONSFOR ENGINEERING DESIGN – A 10 YEAR RETROSPECTIVEWilliam Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. William R. Michalson is a Professor in the ECE Department at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he performs research and teaches in the areas of navigation, communications and computer system design. He supervises the WPI Center for Advanced Integrated Radio Navigation (CAIRN) where he is developing a Public Safety Integration Center focused on the integration of communications, navigation and information technologies for public safety applications. His research focuses on the development, test, and evaluation of systems

Conference Session

DEED Potpourri

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Oscar Nespoli, University of Waterloo; Steve Lambert, University of Waterloo

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Design in Engineering Education

converting student co-op work term reports into case studies andimplementing them across all courses in the Faculty of Engineering curriculum. Cases havebeen implemented successfully, and show promise in addressing and demonstrating newCanadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) graduate attribute requirements. The casemethod also shows promise in integrating these required attributes by expressing real situationsencountered in practice and allowing individual students and student teams to experiencerealistic challenges in a classroom setting.In addition to developing cases from work term reports, cases have been developed from studentcapstone project experiences, Master of Engineering (MEng) design project experiences, anddirectly from the

Conference Session

Creativity and Innovation in Engineering Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Niall Seery, University of Limerick; Donal Canty, University of Limerick; Ronan Dunbar, University of Limerick

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Design in Engineering Education

anessential facet of the second level curriculum. This new focus encourages students tobecome enterprising, creative and empowered during their learning experience.This paper centres on defining an innovative pedagogical framework to facilitate thefluidity, dynamics and personalisation of educational interventions within an initialtechnology teacher education programme. Focusing on the teacher as the primaryagents for change, this study explores the effect of forming the norms and practices ofpre-service teachers in effectively achieving the desired outcomes of the newcurriculum at second level.The approach taken, explores the novel use of personal assessable technologies thatenable the collection, synthesis, and narrative capabilities essential to

Conference Session

DEED Potpourri

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Singli Garcia-Otero, Virginia State University; Ehsan Sheybani, Virginia State University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-304: ENGINEERING SENIOR DESIGN COURSE (“NEW ANDIMPROVED”)Singli Garcia-Otero, Virginia State UniversityEhsan Sheybani, Virginia State University Page 15.496.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Engineering Senior Design Course (“New and Improved”)AbstractSenior Design is one of the most important courses in an engineering curriculum, because SeniorDesign utilizes much of the knowledge and skills gained during the undergraduate study.Therefore, many program outcomes for the engineering curriculum can be assessed in the SeniorDesign course1,2,3.Before 2007, the senior design course in our relatively new Computer Engineering program wassimilar to a

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Pembridge, Virginia Tech; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

show little change.Courses still typically have only one team per project, with an average of 4 to 6 students perteam (Figure 4, Figure 5). With the increased integration of projects into courses, however, morefaculty combine opportunities for in-class work with expectations that students will also arrangeout-of-class meetings (Figure 6). The sharp decrease in “lab-only” work time, particularly giventhe increase in-lab plus out-of-class time, could indicate an expansion of the complexity ofdesign projects. That is, the scope of current design projects now exceeds the available classtime. If true, this expanded scope may have significant implications for both teachers andstudents in terms of successfully managing larger projects

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Lockwood, University of Calgary; Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

increased to 4.97 and Evaluation methods increased to 4.61.At the end of Winter 2009, C&E scored 5.28 and EM scored 5.15. While the Fall 2009scores have not been released, we anticipate holding these scores. Perhaps moreimportantly, grade appeals to instructors dropped 50% in the 2008/2009 academic year(from 150 to 74), and in the Fall 2009 semester, only 68 appeals were reported. Alongwith the increased consistency shown by the coaches, these numbers would seem toindicate that the process, while labour-intensive, ensures that the student learningexperience is far more consistent, focusing student attention on the content, not on gradecomplaints.Bibliography1. Patton, M D. "Beyond WI: building an integrated communication curriculum in one

Conference Session

Early Engineering Design Experiences

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aezeden Mohamed, University of Manitoba; Myron (Ron) Britton, University of Manitoba

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Design in Engineering Education

connect an IC output toa sensor signal.Basic digital electron component students in this course learn how to use digital electronic components inelectromechanical projects such as in the case of elevator controller engineering project. The componentsperform specified binary logic operations. Examples of some of the components or the gates are provided inthe studio handout with their function defined in the accompanying input/output “truth” tables. Students ofthis course are highly exposed to use designing a circuit using logical operations. Then, when students wantto construct students design, students would choose a technology (logic family) to implement studentsdesign. This would often be in the form of discrete integrated circuits (ICs). Some

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noe Vargas Hernandez, The University of Texas at El Paso; Jose Davila, University of Texas, El Paso

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Design in Engineering Education

proposals of how to implement educational theories in engineeringdesign activities. An example of this6 the authors present (as pedagogy) a general modelof curriculum for design engineering upon their needs of teaching: design science,technical systems, modeling and disciplinary information. They also present (asdidactics) a general model of transformation system, which can be applied to theeducational system to transform the competencies of the learner, using pedagogicalvariables that define the overall components needed for the system (Figure 4), but theyacknowledge that these proposals do not consider two key issues: How the studentslearn?, and how to perform instructional methods for engineering design

Conference Session

Design with External Clients

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Cross, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

project.This paper will primarily be focused on the implementation aspect, particularly related to thesystems engineering process, of this NASA EMSD senior design project. In additioncomparison of the NASA ESMD group experience to the implementation of systems engineeringpractices into a group of existing design projects is given.IntroductionPrior to the discussion of the implementation of system’s engineering into engineering design, abrief background on the curricular structure of the Materials and Metallurgical Engineering(MME) department and how the design courses fit into the curriculum is given.MME Course StreamThe design courses are structured to integrate material learned in core courses with the solutionof problems within the field. Typically

Conference Session

Early Engineering Design Experiences

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Prins, James Madison University; Eric Pappas, James Madison University

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Design in Engineering Education

support to what we already know as“experience using tools” in that cognitive changes accompany repeated tool use. The authorcontinues: “To act efficiently in space, our brain must not only localize any objects of interest inextrapersonal space but also hold a constantly updated status of the body shape and posture”15(p.1). There is little doubt this factor would increase cognitive tool use through familiarity ofmotion and tool effect.III. Inquiry and DiscussionIn the process of developing the hands-on portion of our curriculum, we have engaged in anongoing discussion related to the value of such an approach. This discussion has led us toconsider the immediate value of hands-on experiences as well as its potential broader impacts.We include the

Conference Session

Early Engineering Design Experiences

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Oppliger, Michigan Technological University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

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Design in Engineering Education

15.643.14Page 15.643.15The contents of the summer workshop included many topics surrounding the tasks relating tocoaching an HSE team. Most pertinent to this paper, however, is that engineering design andproject management were addressed in a three hour interactive session, along with a follow-updiscussion which took place the next day. The design session was taught by Dr. Jean Kampe. Dr.Kampe developed and taught first-year engineering curriculum at Virginia Tech for ten years,and much of that content was framed in the context of engineering design. She is now the chairof the Engineering Fundamentals Department at Michigan Tech, home of the university’s first-year engineering program. A synopsis of the presentation follows.Workshop participants were

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yogesh Velankar, Purdue University; Sean Brophy, Purdue University; Masataka Okutsu, Purdue University; Daniel Delaurentis, Purdue University

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Design in Engineering Education

teams into the process of investigating a proposed problem. (e.g. inengineering Newstetter4; in medicine, Hmelo5) The facilitator provides various levels ofscaffolding in various forms. For example, he or she may introduce organizational tools such aswhiteboards to manage idea generation and investigation of various options. The facilitatorcould initially assume the team manager types of responsibilities, and gradually hand over moreof the responsibility to the students. The objectives are to help students learn to participate andlead these kinds of team design processes. An important point to note is that not all courses needto use the facilitation model. As students progress through the curriculum instructors can assumestudents can manage

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wael Mokhtar, Grand Valley State University

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Design in Engineering Education

oversees all projects. The faculty members in this boardare involved in the projects as faculty advisors, customers or for technical support. Severalmentoring tools are presented such as design review meetings, public and technicalpresentations, written proposal, and final project document. Also tools to improve teamdynamics such as weekly meetings, team leader, and team contact person are presented. Themodel was applied to two of capstone projects and showed success. The first one is to design andbuild a Mini-Baja off road vehicle for the SAE competition. The second project is to design andbuild an internet controlled robot. Each project has its own mentoring and managementchallenges beside the technical problems. Details of each project are

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Regina Hannemann, University of Kentucky

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Design in Engineering Education

been an integral and important team member; has made significant contributions to theoverall solution; attends and participates in all team meetings.Communications:1. Has basically dropped out from the project and is not contributing in any way.2. Produces no useful documentation of work done; communication skills poor.3. Documentation and communication skills are below expectations.4. Documentation is only marginally helpful; communication skills need improvement.5. Documentation and communication skill are adequate.6. Documents all work; communicates effectively with the team and faculty advisor. Page 15.1058.207. Documents work exceptionally

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Design in Engineering Education

integrated through the curriculum. Studentsbegin with design-build projects in the freshman year. The complexity of the project work isincreased until the senior project. The course projects are used to teach students the fundamentalsof project management, and provide experience in free form decision making and project execu-tion. The senior project experience is positioned as a finishing exercise before the students joinindustry. Senior projects involves the design and build of production equipment, test equipment,and new product designs for local companies. In 2009 the total materials costs were over$170,000 for 12 projects. These projects must meet industrial standards and require approval bythe sponsor. And, while failure can be acceptable in

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University; Steve Chenoweth, Rose Hulman Institute Of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-1404: TEACHING HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN WITHSERVICE-LEARNINGCarla Zoltowski, Purdue University CARLA B. ZOLTOWSKI is Education Administrator of the EPICS Program at Purdue University. She received her BSEE and MSEE from Purdue University, and is a PhD Candidate in Engineering Education at Purdue. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.William Oakes, Purdue University William Oakes is the Director of the EPICS Program and an Associate Professor and a founding faculty member of the Department of Engineering Education at Purdue University with courtesy appointments in Mechanical Engineering and of Curriculum and Instruction. He is a co

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Dawson, York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-79: EXPERIENCES OF USING FORMULA SAE AS A CAPSTONEDESIGN PROJECTJennifer Dawson, York College of Pennsylvania Dr. Jennifer Bower Dawson is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at York College of Pennsylvania where she teaches courses in Machine Design, Controls, and Capstone Design. She earned her MS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University where she worked on the design and testing of spacecraft hardware for Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle. Her academic interests include robotics, sensor design, precision engineering, and service learning in engineering education.Stephen Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania Dr. Stephen

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Laguette, University of California-Santa Barbara

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Design in Engineering Education

firms. Page 15.419.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Development of High Performance Capstone Project Teams and the Selection ProcessAbstractA successful Capstone Design program including companion design courses has beendeveloped1,2 that has become an integral and important component of the MechanicalEngineering curriculum. A variety of challenging projects are created each year to appeal tostudent academic and career interests. Students work in teams with the assistance of a facultyadvisor to tackle a significant mechanical engineering design project. The formation of studentteams

Conference Session

Creativity and Innovation in Engineering Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina White, Columbia University; Austin Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Daniel Jensen, United States Air Force Academy; Kristin Wood, George Washington University; Andy Szmerekovsky, US Air Force Academy; Richard Crawford, University of Texas at Austin

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Design in Engineering Education

hoc or singular, intuitive concept generation techniques. Througha suite of techniques, fixation, group think, and other cognitive barriers may be mitigated, wesurmise, leading to an enhanced ability to ideate. Page 15.602.2 Creativity & Innovation in Concept Generation Morph Matrix: Finger Nail Clipper Function Solution 1 Solution 2 Solution 3

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Zemke, Gonzaga University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-265: STUDENT PRECONCEPTIONS AND HEURISTICS IN LEARNINGDESIGNSteven Zemke, Gonzaga University Steven Zemke is Associate Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Gonzaga University in Spokane Washington. He oversees the curriculum for all Mechanical design courses and teaches sections of each. His research area is pedogogy of design. Prior to teaching, he was a design engineer for 25 years at Hewlett Packard, General Instruments, and Bell Telephone Labs. Page 15.1120.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Student Preconceptions and Heuristics in Learning

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stuart Wentworth, Auburn University; Dennis Silage, Temple University; Michael Baginski, Auburn University

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Electrical and Computer

plates, as shown in Figure 1(b). (a) (b)Figure 1: (a) Configuration of rectangular conduction plates with a uniform charge distribution(b) actual electrostatic defection platesThe intentionally vague specification of the task is to calculate the vector electric field at anarbitrary location P(x,y,z) for a specific uniform charge density S. The width X1 and length Z1of the rectangular plates, the angle and the charge density S are randomly assigned to eachstudent to avoid direct duplication of the results.The course learning objective is to effect the translation of a problem to an engineering analysisto be solved by discrete summation, rather than integration, and to formulate a

Conference Session

Computers and Software in Teaching Mathematics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Young, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Tace Crouse, University of Central Florida; Alvaro Islas, University of Central Florida; Scott Hagen, University of Central Florida; Cherie Geiger, University of Central Florida; Melissa Dagley-Falls, University of Central Florida; Patricia Ramsey, University of Central Florida; Patrice Lancey, University of Central Florida

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Mathematics

Research, evaluator for an NSF CAREER Grant, and Coordinator of Assessment for the "EXCEL-UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence" grant for two years.Cherie Geiger, University of Central Florida Cherie Geiger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the UCF College of Sciences and a Co-PI of the NSF-funded S-STEM program at UCF entitled the "Young Entrepreneur and Scholar(YES) Scholarship Program" as well as the NSF-funded STEP program entitled "EXCEL:UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence." Dr. Geiger's research interests are in the areas of developing novel materials and technologies for use in environmental remediation and degradation

Conference Session

Past and Future of Manufacturing Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Manufacturing

43 55%A crude conclusion that can be drawn from the data suggests that the respondents feel as if theywill have an impact but are inconsistently receiving support or encouragement from outside themanufacturing community.4. Curriculum ContentIt is the authors experience that there are multiple opinions about what should be taught in theManufacturing Curriculum. Ideally all of these topics would be included in a program. Howeverthe reality is that given the current time limitations adding new content requires the reduction/ Page 15.946.4removal of other content, development of new teaching methods, increase of degree time, post

Conference Session

BIM and Other New Construction Practices

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeong Woo; Blake Wentz, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Construction

toward integrated design and constructionenvironments that require a higher level of collaboration with project team members.As an attempt to remedy these needs, wiki-based group assignments were implemented in lieu oftraditional writing assignments. Wiki is a website that allows the easy creation and editing ofweb pages via a web-based editor. A good example is wikipedia.com. A group of registeredusers can freely contribute to the contents of wikipedia.com that is open to the public. Wikis areoften used to create collaborative websites, to organize research community websites, and todevelop educational web sites as a KMS. Key advantages of using wiki are collaborativeknowledge creation, self-regulated learning, and fast knowledge dissemination