Conference Session

Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, work that critically examines the ethicsof the Grand Challenges has so far been rare. In this paper, examining the process surroundingthe framing of the Grand Challenges generates a series of ethical questions about both thespecifics of the Challenges and the processes that gave rise to them. The outcomes of this inquiryinclude a set of research questions for scholars in engineering ethics and engineering studies, anda Grand Challenges lesson plan for classroom implementation that focuses students on the ethicsof problem framing, and the consideration of social questions as an integral part of professionalethics.IntroductionSince the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) first publicly articulated the GrandChallenges in 2008, engineering

Conference Session

Novel Approaches to Teaching Materials

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn E. Kelly, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Dale R. Baker, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

. Vygotsky, L.P. (1986). Thought and Language (rev. ed.). The MIT Press, Cambridge. 3. Yeung, H. H. and Werker, J. F. (2009). Learning words’ sounds before learning how words sound: 9- Month-olds use distinct objects as cues to categorize speech information. Cognition, 113, 234-243. 4. Patalano, A. L., & Seifert, C. M. (1997). Opportunistic planning: Being reminded of pending goals. Cognitive Psychology, 34, 1-36 5. Lemke, J.L. (1990). Talking science: Language, Learning and Values. Noorwood, NJ: Ablex. 6. Parkinson, J. (2000). Acquiring scientific literacy through content and gesture: A theme based language course for science students. English for Specific Purposes, 19(4), 369-387. 7. Braine, G. (1989

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allan T. Kirkpatrick, Colorado State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Robert O. Warrington, Michigan Technological University; Richard N. Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; A. Kulacki, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; William J. Wepfer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Thomas Perry, P.E., American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

innovative and sustainable solutions to thesechallenges.The yearlong senior capstone class provides a vehicle to focus on larger scale engineeringproblem formulation, and the design, construction, and operation of a piece of hardware orprototype. The two terms would allow for the generation and selection of design concepts,engineering analyses, detailed component design, fabrication, systems integration and assembly,prototyping and testing, application, and failure analysis of the project. During the year, studentswould prepare and follow a project plan, allocate resources and budget, write progress reports,and deliver design reviews to different audiences. Ideally these projects would be industrysponsored and involve industry mentors in addition to

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Velda V. Morris, School District of Philadelphia; Rebecca A. Stein, University of Pennsylvania; James F. Keller, University of Pennsylvania; Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

design, simulation, and flight test of all Boeing rotorcraft products. At Penn, he has been active in GRASP Lab robotics outreach programs with local FIRST Robotics teams at the high school level since 2004 and at the middle school level since 2007. Jim has been a Summer Academy Robotics instructor at Penn since the program’s inception in 2005. He is studying path planning for autonomous air vehicles in surveillance and reconnaissance applications.Dr. Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania Page 22.1713.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Robotics in Urban

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SE Tools and Techniques

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert W. Hasker, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Mike Rowe, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

language, both for identifiers and libraries. This mechanism should allow users to specify identifier syntax and library classes. • Provide a course profile mechanism to enable or disable specific checks. • Revise how feedback is given so that issues appear as notes directly on the submitted diagrams. • Incorporate natural language processing tools to provide more semantic-oriented checks such as described in our previous work.19 For example, the tool could warn against using verbs to name classes. • Using metrics such as those surveyed by Genero9 to identify common design flaws such as concentrating all processing in one or two classes.As discussed above, we are also planning a careful evaluation of the tool’s

Conference Session

Female Faculty, Learning, NSF, and ABET Issues at Two-Year Colleges

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A. Koonce, Ohio University; Cynthia D. Anderson, Ohio University; Valerie Martin Conley, Ohio University; Christine Mattley, Ohio University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

advising, curriculum planning, hiringcommittees, and many others. As one biology professor stated, “Yeah, that includes service tothe college, service to the department, service to the profession, advising…we do it…we have allthat.” The majority of respondents indicated that working at a community college was just asdemanding as working at a four-year institution or in private industry. “I think the communitycollege work environment is very demanding. I don’t know that you’re able to balance life,family a little better. Maybe in the sense we are given more flexibility in our teachingschedules…but I don’t know that it’s easier.”However, a few claimed that community colleges might indeed help women balance work andfamily responsibilities. One math

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bonnie Ferri, Georgia Tech; JillL L. Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jennifer E. Michaels, Georgia Institute of Technology; Douglas B. Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

reveals thatsupplemental materials and efficiency have an impact on student response to the experiments,which confirms the need to develop a set of “best practices” to achieve widespread integration ofportable labs in lecture-based courses.Integration Across the CurriculumThe major revisions to our curriculum that are now in progress offer several opportunities for amore thorough integration of the hands-on modules being developed in this program. Almost allrequired courses are undergoing at least minor changes, and new courses are being created.These changes provide a chance to design modules that build on related materials used in earlier,prerequisite classes. As an example, we are planning to use the National Instruments myDAQ in

Conference Session

Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen F. Gygi, University of Washington; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington

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College Industry Partnerships

, how useful, what learned • Cheat sheet • Practice and demonstrate communication skills • ID area to improve, or goals • What about academic portfolio? Co-op Group 2 • Give a clear idea of what you have done and how to tell people about it (rehearsal) • Recap what done and organize it • Learn more from the experience (not just a boring meeting); goal is to take experience forward • Extra reflection…what really got out of it…..Insight 2: Articulating What it Means to be an EngineerOne of the first activities in the workshop is to have students introduce themselves and brieflydescribe their career plans. Many did not have a clear idea of what profession they were headedfor. Writing

Conference Session

FPD VI: Presenting "All the Best" of the First-Year Programs Division

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder

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First-Year Programs

— a performance-enhancing first year for highly motivated but under-prepared students — are encouraged or, insome cases, required to use the SSC.18In the 2010-2011 academic year we are encouraging the formation of more collaborative studygroups in the SSC, by designating times for calculus sessions that are facilitated by specifictutors. In this manner, we can support, with the presence of a known tutor, the numerous studentswho want to meet others who are working on the same problems as they are.We also plan to offer facilitated, collaborative, workgroups for Calculus 3 and DifferentialEquations, while also adding to the number of facilitated workgroups for Calculus 1 and 2 thatdo exist. These types of workgroups can also play a significant

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yizhe Chang, Stevens Institute of Technology; El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven K. Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

scripts for theassembly of the setups were discovered, but they have been fixed since. However, once theassembly of the experimental setups was completed, the remainder of the experimentalprocedure was carried out very smoothly. Nevertheless, the students felt an average of 70%satisfaction regarding the reliability of the setups.A more detailed assessment study of the learning effectiveness of the game-based virtualenvironment is planned for the Spring 2011 semester. If this more in-depth assessment generatessimilarly encouraging results, then further extensions of this pilot implementation of the virtuallaboratory environment to the design of other gear train types will be considered in the future.4. ConclusionsThis paper examined the potential

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Interdisciplinary Course Design Opportunities for Chemical Engineers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Kelly, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

asimportantly, the two instructors left the course energized as a result of the collaboration and thefeedback from the students.There were several areas of improvement that were identified either from the post-class studentsurveys or from observations by the instructors. All of the students, especially the businessstudents were interested in getting more exposure to biotechnology science and engineeringtopics. For the next course offering, the following changes are planned for the course: - Adding a few emerging technical topics such as genetic engineering, personalized medicine and cell-based therapies as at least one additional technical lecture - Posting pre-class notes/reading material earlier (i.e. several days before

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching: Mechanics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Lanning, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

degree programs or leaving theuniversity (and perhaps higher education altogether). The prerequisite skills exam implementedin solid mechanics appears to offer such an indicator. The author plans to continueimplementing the exam in future semesters and monitor student outcomes during the final Page 22.88.11exams.Prerequisite skills exam learning materialsThe author is happy to provide any educator with the learning materials described earlier in thispaper. The four documents include the (1) list of skills, (2) practice exam, (3) final solutions,and (4) worked solutions to the practice exam, and are the same documents provided to all

Conference Session

Reports from ADVANCE Institutions

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan Rinehart, Rice University; Eden B. King, George Mason University; Mikki Hebl, Rice University

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Women in Engineering

(1.95 inNatural Sciences; 2.08 in Engineering, 1.8 in Humanities, and 1.68 in Social Sciences). Womenalso reported higher quality mentoring than men across all the schools.Expansion of MentoringThe Provost has placed faculty mentoring as a high priority at Rice University. As such, thedepartment chairs and deans are developing a plan concordant with their faculty and perceivedneeds to meet this clear mandate for mentoring — and this priority is being reinforced both fromthe highest levels of the institution and from the faculty. In response to the Provost’s request formentoring, the ADVANCE Program developed a Department Grants Program in summer 2009.ADVANCE and the University leveraged resources to fund six grants totaling $23,400.Although the

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Warren R. Hull, Louisiana State University; David Bowles, Louisiana State University; Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University; Stephen O. Sears, Louisiana State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

graduatelevel. We propose to capitalize upon this diversity by building team-oriented Capstoneassignments that require students to seek opinions and guidance from these graduate studentsregarding completing projects in their home countries. Teams will then report their learnedexperiences to the class in a communication method already well established in our Capstonecourses. Of course, development of the assignments and the logistics of involving internationalgraduate students must be well planned to succeed.As mentioned previously, our alumni survey was intended to help guide our efforts in itspreliminary stages; however, as we undertake the development of assignments, we will alsoconduct a more detailed alumni survey. The design of this survey is

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Michael C. Loui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

administered at different types of institutions and differentdepartments across the United States. Since we have shown that the DLCI is a reliable and valid estimator of students’ conceptualunderstanding in digital logic, there are many new directions for research and development.There are two main categories of future research: pedagogy studies and assessment tooldevelopment. We plan to conduct a large scale pedagogical study where we will use the results from theDLCI to compare the effectiveness of different teaching methods. We will look for statisticallysignificant differences in performance between institutions on the DLCI as a whole, onconceptual subtests, and individual items. We will then collect artifacts of instruction (syllabi

Conference Session

Advanced Aerospace Student Projects

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

production comes down, LH2 becomes an evermore attractive option. As planned there, the concept exploration results from last year havebecome the starting point for this year’s course assignments. The gaps in learning seen last yearare being addressed this year.The new paper for 2011 extends prior work through a second cycle of iteration, bringing in theexperiences of developing a paper for professional peer review, presenting to visiting technicalexperts from industry, and hopefully, presenting to the airline industry in 2011. It also discussesthe experience from a current experiment to close the iterative cycle of improvement: refiningthe undergraduate high speed aerodynamics course, incorporating the lessons and capabilitieslearned from the

Conference Session

What Else do Environmental Engineers Need to Know

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brett Borup, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

be conflicts in thevalues systems used in the design process when two or more of these groups are involved in thedecision making process, as they always are. These conflicts should be acknowledged andaccounted for using proper decision making techniques.IntroductionThe choice between alternative facility plans in wastewater treatment plant design can be a verycomplex decision. In this situation a choice must be made between several acceptablealternatives based on many different criteria. In addition, typically several different groups areinvolved in the decision making process including consulting engineers, facility owners, andgovernmental regulators

Conference Session

Technological Literacy for Undergraduate Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Kate A. Disney, Mission College

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

interconnections between engineering, technology and other areas ofsociety and culture. These four categories are proposed as templates or models that other facultycan use in developing and planning a course. These four models were found to be consistentwith the recommendations made by the National Academy of Engineering and the InternationalTechnology Education Association regarding standards for technological literacy. It is intendedto develop an online database of course materials organized around the proposed framework. Anadditional feature to be included is classification of material based on cognitive level of Bloom’staxonomy. The current status of the development of the online system is described.BackgroundThe goal of the work reported here is the

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Keith L. Coogler, Sam Houston State University; Ayhan Zora, Deere & Company

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

, mechanical integration and modifications, electricalintegration and wiring, design, measurements and instrumentation, welding and aluminumcasting etc. There is currently a hiring process to improve and extend the project due tograduation of senior students. Due to budget considerations students involved in this projectworked either voluntary or enrolling an independent study course. Student feedbacks are verypositive. Especially graduating students commented that why they were not given such extensiveprojects for especially student cannot get internship opportunity. It is planned to offer extensiveprojects on the campus for students who are willing to do internship on campus in near future.Students involved in the project experienced structured

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University; Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Maryfaith Rodgers, Rowan University; Pavlo Kostetskyy, Rowan University; Keith McIver; Haddy Diallo; Kaitlyn Jean Zienowicz; Jason J. Giacomelli, Rowan University; Vladimir de Delva

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NSF Grantees

Particulate Systems (C-SOPS) is striving tobecome a focal point in pharmaceutical processing. The overall goals of the EngineeringResearch Center are coordinated through carefully planned thrust areas. The thrust areas includethe major research initiatives of the Center: manufacturing science; composites structuring andcharacterization; and particle formation and functionalization. Three test beds based onprograms developed from the thrust areas have been created at the Center. DevelopmentProgram I concentrates on the continuous manufacturing of pharmaceutical tablets. Continuoustablet manufacturing processes offer significant advantages over batch processes. Theseadvantages include an increase in tablet uniformity and stability, reduced production

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Harvey Bell, University of Michigan; Brian E. Gilchrist, University of Michigan; Gail Susan Hohner, University of Michigan, College of Engineering; James Paul Holloway, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

of failure, and transformingfailure into learning opportunities, in design work. Sometimes, you are gonna have to fail. We knew what was wrong. It’s not like we weren’t gonna be able to fix it remotely. It’s just we didn’t have the equipment there with Page 22.1031.9 us, so it’s learning to be resourceful in areas where you don’t have everything with you or you didn’t plan certain things to happen…Sometimes, yeah, things will run a lot smoother if it’s structured, but will the students be getting the same experience? Probably not. Will some of them fail? Yes. But again, like I said before, they’ll

Conference Session

Computers and Software in Teaching Mathmatics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheri Shakiban, University of St. Thomas; Michael P. Hennessey, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

Moon.Fish frieze pattern at the Chan Chan Large walls at the Chan Chan complex Plan view of the Chan Chan complex, atcomplex (Tshudi Palace).21 (Temple del Arco Iris). least an 8th-order fractal of “nested Page 22.1046.13 rectangles.”4. Additional Noteworthy Student WorkAfter grading all of the student work, including their site journals, final papers, and collections ofsymmetry (excluding that from the internet), there are several noteworthy pieces of work worthsharing. In most cases, the work is tied directly to both visiting

Conference Session

Advanced Aerospace Student Projects

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Horacio Andrés Trucco; Martina Y. Trucco, Hewlett-Packard Labs

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

models for both the NASA Langley Research Center and NASP related programs. In particular, Mr. Trucco has been involved in planning and designing a low speed premixed combustion test apparatus for NASA Lewis and premixed and diffusion type super- sonic combustion tests for NASA Langley, the design and manufacture of a laser diffuser model for NASA Ames and an x-ray scanner for computerized tomography for an industrial client, the design of a transonic wind tunnel for NASA Langley and the development of industrial burner concepts to improve combustion efficiency and reduce emission levels. He has also been responsible for an analytical study of bypass turbojet engines with supersonic fans for NASA Lewis, for design of

Conference Session

Aerospace Curriculum and Collaborations

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valana L. Wells, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University; Praveen Shankar, Arizona State University; Wen-Ting Chung, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

outcomes in the class are positively and significantly related to their finalgrade in the course. This indicates that students’ self-beliefs and the assessment in the class werebetter calibrated in the most recent semester that the course was taught.It is not yet known how the course modification may affect students’ overall success in themajor. Future plans include analysis of the correlation between participation in the modifiedjunior-year curriculum and student persistence and graduation rate. In the meantime, additionalrevisions to the aerodynamics course will include a stronger alignment of the laboratoryexperience with the class presentation and homework assignments. It is hoped that this willprovide a greater sense of the utility of the

Conference Session

Emerging Areas: Biotechnology, Microtechnology, and Energy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Polly R. Piergiovanni, Lafayette College

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

students gave several presentations on various topics. We were also fortunate to be invited to tour a nearby pigment plant, where the students saw full size examples of the unit operations and safety measures we had discussed.LaboratoriesThe students met in the laboratory on Fridays for two hours for different activities.About half the activities were done individually, and half done in a group of two or three(with each group including at least one engineer). The exercises are described below. Inaddition, I had planned to have the students extract indigo from the plant leaves, but I wasunable to keep my plants alive through the Pennsylvania winter. Dead plants do not yieldmeasurable indigo. 1. Natural dyes and the necessity of mordants: Each

Conference Session

Poster Sessions for Unit Operations Lab Bazaar and Tenure-Track Faculty

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Jefferson Baird, University of Pittsburgh; Schohn L. Shannon, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

– the opposite of what might be expected as students should develop greaterexperimental acumen as they perform more experiments. One reason may be that juniors mayfeel that they are confined by the structured labs, thereby limiting their perceived improvementin experimental design capability.Overall, all student answers tended towards agreement and strong agreement to the posed Likertscale questions with little disagreement. These favorable results, along with a substantial numberof positive open-answer responses, indicate that the majority of students believe that the Pillarlab course structure has value in their chemical engineering education.Future WorkThis Likert scale survey is an initial study of a planned longer study that will follow

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Interdisciplinary Course Design Opportunities for Chemical Engineers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

identify critical features identify critical features Articulates no problem goals PROBLEM Defines/redefines the problem and identifies Seeks to understand problem goals Lets group identify Never uses the white boards SOLVING problem goals Identifies criteria problem goals and then Fails to apply inquiry to Breaks problem down into appropriate parts Uses inquiry in problem solving follows along problem Identifies and defines appropriate criteria Uses white boards to assist in Sometimes applies Never suggests a plan of

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Colin Coghill, University of Auckland

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

, so that teachers can access practice and assessment data for theirstudents but not for others. The assessment generator will also be improved. In most respectsit is easy to use, but instructors wishing to provide different students with different questions(rather than different versions of the same questions) must currently follow a non-intuitiveprocedure. The question composer also requires some effort to master and a simplifiedversion is planned for 2011 in order to encourage greater teacher use. Once these changes areimplemented and School OASIS is operating smoothly, links will be added so students canreadily access information about engineering as a career, university engineering courses, andother relevant matters.With the above changes

Conference Session

Learning Outside the Classroom

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian A. Burt, University of Michigan; Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Janel A. Sutkus, Carnegie Mellon University; Matthew Holsapple, University of Michigan; Robert M. Bielby, University of Michigan; Eunjong Ra, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

towards cheating. Journal of Engineering Education, 95(3), 181–194.18. Harding, T. S., Carpenter, D. D., Finelli, C. J., & Passow, H. J. (2004). Does academic dishonesty relate to unethical behavior in professional practice? An exploratory study. Science and Engineering Ethics, 10, 311–324.19. Harding, T. S., Mayhew, M. M., Finelli, C. J., & Carpenter, D. D. (2007).The theory of planned behavior as a model of academic dishonesty in humanities and engineering undergraduates. Ethics and Behavior, 17(3), 255-279.20. Passow, H. J., Mayhew, M. J., Finelli, C. J., Harding, T. S., & Carpenter, D. D. (2006). Factors influencing engineering students’ decisions to cheat by type of assessment. Research in Higher Education

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-Year Programs in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hector A. Ochoa, University of Texas, Tyler; Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Code; Data Analysis and Ethical Issues in Engineering. The faculty designedtheir own custom textbook for the course, after surveying the available textbooks in the area, andhave also designed appropriate laboratory projects to meet course learning objectives. Inaddition, the students attend IEEE meetings and invited lectures from practicing engineers.Two years have passed since “EENG 1301 – Engineering the Future – Electrical and DigitalConcepts” was introduced into the BSEE degree plan. Preliminary data shows that the retentionrate from freshman to sophomore years has improved from 54.8% to 75%. The survey data alsoclearly indicate that the retained students are more engaged and enthusiastic about the profession.It can be safely concluded