Paper ID #7390Use of Multimedia Case Studies in an Introductory Engineering Course atTwo Southeastern Universities: A Qualitative Evaluation StudyMs. Kimberly C. Huett, University of West Georgia Kim C. Huett is an instructor of technology integration at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia. She holds an Ed.S. in Instructional Technology, an M.S. in Secondary Education, and B.A. degrees in English and Spanish from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently a doctoral student in School Improvement, Kim’s research interests include the design of distance learning environments, teacher education, and STEM
Paper ID #6522What is Engineering Knowledge: A Longitudinal Study of Conceptual Changeand Epistemology of Engineering Students and PractitionersDr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University Dr. Shane Brown conducts research on cognition and conceptual change in engineering. He received his bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from Oregon State University, both in Civil Engineering. His Ph.D. degree includes a minor in Science and Mathematics Education. His master’s degree is in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Brown is a licensed professional civil engineer and has six years of
Paper ID #6192Entering the Performance Zone: a Practical Pre-Lecture Guide for New Fac-ultyDr. Tomas Enrique Estrada, Elizabethtown College Page 23.542.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Entering the Performance Zone: a Practical Pre-Lecture Guide for New FacultyIntroductionWhile, in recent decades, undergraduate engineering curricula have been strengthened throughan increased emphasis on projects and hands-on learning, the need to provide students witheffective lectures remains a key
highlyappreciated. They have asked for smaller scale projects and for more class time to work on them.Most students were engineering and computer science students, and only few from othercolleges. This paper shares some of the specific comments (please see Appendix D). Special thanks to NCIIA for supporting activities and projects. Page 23.1302.3Details of activitiesThis section details activities that have been used to enhance the understanding of, andengagement with, user-based design. The underlying goal of the activities is to change thetraditional point of view of students when designing products or services, i.e., always keep theuser in mind
’ science.Computing as... not scienceThe scientific nature of computer science was significantly criticized in the 1990s. McKeeargued that computer scientists are not honest about their work and they are “just acting likescientists and not actually doing science”. For instance, Brooks (1996) wrote that computerscience is a synthetic, engineering discipline. He also argued about the misnaming of computingas a science. Firstly, it leads computer scientists to accept a pecking order where theory isrespected to more than practice. Secondly, it leads them to regard the invention [INCOMPLETEthought]. Thirdly, it leads them to forget the users and their real problems. Fourthly, it directsyoung and brilliant minds towards theoretical subjects. Among the arguments
Page 23.1396.11year. Bibliography[1] Canfield, S. L, and Abdelrahman, M. A., 2009, “Enhancing the Programming Experience for Engineering Students through Hands-on Integrated Computer Experiences” Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Southeastern Section Annual Conference, Marietta, GA, April.[2] National Academy of Sciences. 2012, "Undergraduate science and engineering teaching needs improvement." ScienceDaily (21 May 2012. Web. 29 May 2012).[3] Bransford, J. D., Brown, A., & Cocking, R., 2000, How People Learn: Mind, Brain, Experience and School, Expanded Edition, Washington, DC: National Academy Press.[4] Committee on How People Learn, A Targeted Report for Teachers, How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the
pursuing engineering programs at the university, who can shineas good role models to the tribal college students attending the PEEC summer camp.Education aspects of the camp were over seen by the faulty, and graduate students andundergraduates acted as student support staff. There were two roles that the graduate studentsfilled. The graduate students were essentially teaching assistants of the surveying course at thesummer camp. Along with that, they conducted various learning courses to keep the students inan academic mind set. Meaning, outside of the surveying course the graduate students wereteaching various session on pertinent math courses to help with the surveying course, statistics,MATLAB, and AutoCAD. Supplement education was just one
forces, moments, and normal bending stresseshelp resolve the business problem presented in the case study.2. Case Study Method InstructionEngineers working in business require the ability to solve relevant engineering problems “inuncertain and even currently unknowable environments.”5 The pedagogical goal of the casestudy method is to create this environment in the minds of students while they learn newconcepts and solve important problems. The case study method is widely used in businessschools to explore “the ‘wicked’ problems that potential managers will face in an uncertainworld”6 and encourage the “development of critical thinking and sense making abilities.”7 Overtime, the case study method has become a popular teaching tool because its
rewarding. Women do not seemto mind the medical field’s long years of study, hard training and difficult working hours. Nor dothey ponder, at least in the case of the UAE, the nature of the work environment in which menand women are expected to work together for long hours and under a lot of pressure. Themedical field has idealized their profession by focusing on the noble goal of serving humanityand treating the sick. This very notion has been lost on engineering and the sciences. In a similar Page 23.1374.6manner, when recruiting students from high schools, the focus of the PI presentation is on thesofter aspects of engineering such as
disciplines. They are encouraged to meet outside the class hours(during the lab hours) with their team members from the paired courses. The hope is to mixvisual artists, analytically minded engineers, and venture-oriented business students together insmall teams to catalyze innovation, with anthropology students as ethnographers and moderators.Since they have to form teams, we have a common assignment by the second week to post theirbios at a common Blackboard community site. They will have the next three weeks tocommunicate with each other and determine the team make-up. We get involved if they areunable to form teams on their own; we help them make up their minds. During the lab hours (seebelow) the engineering and arts professors teardown our
Page 23.615.13 Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology: A Meta-Analysis," Review of Educational Research, vol. 69, pp. 21-51, 1999.[20] M. F. Belenky, B. M. Clinchy, N. R. Goldberger, and J. M. Tarule, Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. New York, N.Y, 1986.[21] A. M. Paudel, "Fostering Diversity and Educational Learning among Engineering Students through Group- Study: A Case Study," presented at the ASEE-RMS, Ogden, UT, 2012. Page 23.615.14
Paper ID #6156Evaluating the ”Impacts” Section of the Engineering Self-Efficacy, Interest,and Perception SurveyDr. Cameron Denson, North Carolina State UniversityChandra Y Austin Ph.D, Auburn UniversityDr. Christine E. Hailey, Utah State University Dr. Christine Hailey is a Senior Associate Dean in the College of Engineering and a Professor of Mechan- ical and Aerospace Engineering. Her teaching responsibilities include Thermodynamics I and the Women in Engineering Seminar. She is the Principal Investigator of an NSF-funded project entitled ”The Influ- ence of MESA Activities on Underrepresented Students.” The Math
Paper ID #8176An exploratory study of students’ approaches to generating, maintaining andcommunicating visual-mental imagesMr. Thomas Delahunty, University of LimerickDr. Niall Seery, University of LimerickMr. Raymond Lynch Dr., University of LimerickDr. Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick Dr. Diarmaid Lane received his B.Tech. in Education and Ph.D. in Technology Education from the University of Limerick in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He spent six years in the metal fabrication in- dustry developing engineering craft based skills prior to pursuing his studies in technology education. He currently holds a faculty position
Paper ID #5931Adaptive Re-Use: The Architecture of Re-Purposing Existing ObjectsDr. David Jan Cowan, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Dr. Cowan is the director of the Architectural Technology and Visualization Program at Indiana Univer- sity Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He is also the associate chair of the Engineering Technology Department. He has degrees in Art Education, Visual Arts and Sustainable Architecture. He is a LEED AP. Research/teaching interests are in: post-disaster reconstruction, BIM (Building Information Model- ing), architectural visualization, sustainable community and
the students in the class come from professional disciplines (engineering &management) we purposely wanted to expose them to a different discipline’s methods forideation. Professor Meiser presented how artists explore their environment and other artisticexhibits to find inspiration for artistic ideas. He then described various methods that he uses tocapture and compile his thoughts, from mind maps to notes in his Moleskine notebook tobrowsing through a vast personal collection of images on his computer to simply being hyper-aware of the physical world around him. He collects all this disparate information and then usesit to inspire sketches of potential future sculptures. Exposing the students to this type of ideationprocess was both
Paper ID #6812Strategies to Support (Female) STEM Faculty as Voiced by Female STEMFaculty at a Major Research UniversityPamela S. Lottero-Perdue Ph.D., Towson University Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Science Education in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences at Towson University. She has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, worked briefly as a process engineer, has taught high school physics and pre-engineering, and has taught engineering and science to children in multiple informal settings. She prepares future early childhood, elementary and middle school
mind. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Many of these activities occurthrough extra-curricular clubs and therefore attract those with an existing interest and means toparticipate outside of the regular school day. It requires a pro-active effort by teachers, schools,and other supporters to attract K-12 minority students to engineering,10 and this paper willaddress one such effort that uses FLL both in schools and local youth organizations to impactminority youth and increase their interest in engineering. We also provide student- and coach-level data on ways participation impacted participants in our initiative.FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®)FLL is an international robotics and research competition operated by For Inspiration andRecognition of Science and
Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mail: ravivd@fau.edu 561 297 2773 akotlarc@fau.eduAbstract This paper describes an on-going non-traditional educational experience of working onan intelligent water-conservation project at Florida Atlantic University. It is unique in the sensethat the working settings are different from an ordinary research and development project. Wehave been working with a private investor and entrepreneur who came up with the original idea.He has been very involved in the project with business, humanitarian, environmental andeducational goals in mind. In addition to
Paper ID #6562Assessment of Learning Based on the Principles of Discovery and Metacogni-tionDr. Mysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional , national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired
-author of Capacitive Skin Sensors for Robot Impact Monitoring, a paper accepted at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), and he is the author of 2 poetry books, Ashulia (2011) and City of Rivers (2012). Page 23.13.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013The Power of First MOMENTS in Entrepreneurial Storytelling ASEE/IEEE 2013 Page 23.13.2AbstractOur minds are built to remember stories. Recall watching and listening to an audience respondto the first moments of a story
Paper ID #6371Technology-Enabled Nurturing of Creativity and Innovation: A Specific Il-lustration from an Undergraduate Engineering Physics CourseProf. Frank V. Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines Prof. Frank Kowalski has been teaching physics at Colorado School of Mines since 1980.Susan E. Kowalski, Colorado School of MinesDr. Patrick B. Kohl, Department of Physics, Colorado School of MinesDr. Hsia-Po Vincent Kuo, Colorado School of Mines Page 23.1161.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013
Paper ID #6491Getting Started With Screencasting: A Tool to Supplement Classes, AnswerStudent Questions, and Provide Guided Analysis Practice.Dr. Sean Moseley, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Sean Moseley is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech- nology. He received a B.S. from The Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Page 23.640.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013
Paper ID #6025Design of a Scholarship Program for Optimal ImpactProf. Jeffrey W. Fergus, Auburn University Jeffrey W. Fergus received his B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1985 and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Notre Dame, he joined the materials engineering faculty at Auburn University, where he is currently a professor.Dr. Shirley A Scott-Harris, Auburn University Dr. Harris is director of the Alabama Power Academic Excellence Program, an academic support program to assist
at hand. This is ahighly iterative process with consumer feedback sought at several points along the process. Theteam also needed to keep in mind the alternative package types (cans, pouches, plasticcontainers, etc.), processes (retorted, acidic/non-acidic, refrigerated, hot fill, etc.) and productplatforms (soups, sauces, beverages, etc.) they were working with. Intrapreneurs need a goodsense of engineering judgment and an ability to apply a ‘litmus test’ to the reasonableness of ananswer.The Campbell early development phase makes use of three levels of virtual prototypes ofincreasing complexity as the project evolves. These levels, in order of complexity, are 2Dconcept sketches, 2D illustrated concepts, and 3D rendering. 2D concept
monitoring progress and making adjustments. TAMIU, along withmany other universities across the U.S., is implementing student retention and success strategiesto improve student success. It is important to keep in mind, however, that student motivation iskey and must be given top priority.AcknowledgementsThe Internship and Research Assistantship Programs are partially supported by two TAMIUprojects, STEM Minority Outreach and Retention Enhancement (STEM-MORE) and ServingYouth in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (SYSTEM). These two projectsare funded by the U.S. Department of Education (Award # P120A110067 and Award #P031C110118, respectively). Feedback on the internship survey was provided by Dr. Judy Kellyof West Texas Office of
the holes, then bolts, nuts and washers... and "voila"! 1 minute maximum! Doing the same drawing by hand(line by line) will result in a better (and permanent) understanding of it. So, I fully agree with some "board/paperpractice". Anyway, my opinion is that the engineers have to THINK and the draftsmen have to DRAW! Otherwise itis a pity of their mind.”“My experience has been that it is hard to find a good detailer. After I make the 3D models, so much time is spentwith drafters going back and forth to get the drawings right, that I may as well do them myself. Some of thecompanies I have worked for have been too cheap to pay for a decent drafter/detailer that can work with only a
Paper ID #6090Use of an Electronic Dossier for PromotionDr. Carmine C. Balascio P.E., University of Delaware Dr. Carmine C. Balascio, Ph.D., P.E., is an Associate Professor in the departments of Plant and Soil Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware. He earned bachelor’s degrees in agricultural engineering technology and mathematics from UD. He earned an M.S. in agricul- tural engineering and a Ph.D. double-major in agricultural engineering and engineering mechanics from Iowa State University. He has taught engineering technology courses in surveying, soil mechanics, and storm-water
: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Learning in doing. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 138. (1991).8. H. Ginsburg, Entering the child's mind : the clinical interview in psychological research and practice. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 277. (1997).9. Nrc, ed. How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice. ed. M.S. Donovan, J. Bransford, and J.W. Pellegrino. National Academies Press: Washington DC. (1999).10. S. Brown, D. Montfort, and K. Hildreth, An Investigation of Student Understanding of Shear and Bending Moment Diagrams. International Network for Engineering Education Research. (2008).11. D. Montfort, S. Brown, and D. Pollock, An Investigation Of Students’ Conceptual
Paper ID #6753Those who can, teach. Immersing Students as Peer Educators to EnhanceClass ExperienceDr. Beverly Kristenson Jaeger, Northeastern University Beverly Kris Jaeger, PhD has been a member of Northeastern University’s Gateway Team, a selected group of full-time faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at Northeastern Uni- versity. Recently, she has joined the expanding Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at NU to continue teaching Simulation, Facilities Planning, and Human-Machine Systems. Dr. Jaeger has been the recipient of several awards in engineering education for both
Paper ID #5965Engaging Male Faculty in Institutional TransformationDr. Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University Canan Bilen-Green is Dale Hogoboom Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Di- rector of the ADVANCE Program at North Dakota State University. She holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Statistics from the University of Wyoming and a M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University. She was recently appointed to serve as the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, a new position created as part of institutionalization of the NSF ADVANCE Program at NDSU.Dr. Roger A. Green, North