Conference Session

Problem-based and Challenge-based Learning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leema Kuhn Berland, University of Texas, Austin; William F. McKenna, University of Texas, Austin

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Educational Research and Methods

practices asfundamental to their fulfillment of design challenges.BackgroundIn the past two-decades, engineering educators have used lessons learned in science educationand the learning sciences to improve engineering courses at both the collegiate7, 15 and pre-collegiate 13 levels. Engineering modules that emerge out of this work typically employ a versionof project-based learning 9 in which students are posed problems or challenges that motivateexploration of the desired engineering science content. In engineering education, this is typicallycalled Challenge-Based instruction (CBI). Across this work we see three different sorts ofchallenges: Problem, Design, and STEM-Design.In CBI that focuses on challenging problems students are given large

Conference Session

Four Pillars of Manufacturing Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Nutter, Ohio Northern University

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Manufacturing

understanding of business and lean manufacturing. Based upon nearly 100 intern visits to companies, bachelor degree students need four things: first-technical skills; second-lean manufacturing; third-interpersonal (communications) skills; and fourth-leadership skill to get things done (accomplish projects) with minimal supervision.”Resulting Curriculum AdjustmentsIn response to the priorities reflected in this and the referenced prior surveys several topicspreviously included in my manufacturing management, quality assurance, work measurement,and digital manufacturing courses have been eliminated or reduced in emphasis. Some havegotten increased emphasis. The reductions are largely in response to course consolidationsduring

Conference Session

Engineering and Technological Literacy: Past and Future

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W. Blake P.E., Austin Peay State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

technological risks and benefits.In the area of capabilities, majors are expected to reach a much higher level. Majors areexpected to be able to be useful members of project teams which will design, build, and managecomplex technological systems. The curriculum and the related program learning objectives inan engineering or engineering technology degree program can be linked to a specific list ofcapabilities.With experience, our graduates are expected to be able to lead project teams and manage large,complex engineering projects. To do this, they need the capabilities associated with their major.They also need attributes listed here in the areas of knowledge and ways of thinking and acting.Expectations for majors will be different, at least for some

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; John-David S. Yoder, Ohio Northern University; Briana B. Morrison, Southern Polytechnic State University; Fong K. Mak, Gannon University

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Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashland O. Brown P.E., University of the Pacific; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Joseph J. Rencis P.E., Tennessee Technological University; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Kyle A. Watson, University of the Pacific; Chuan-Chiang Chen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Vladimir A. Labay, Gonzaga University; Ismail I. Orabi, University of New Haven; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; John J. Wood, U.S. Air Force Academy; Rachelle Kisst Hackett, University of the Pacific; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University; Jiancheng Liu, University of the Pacific; Paul Henry Schimpf; Alexis Pham, University of the Pacific; Krystian Zimowski, University of Texas, Austin; Kristin Taylor, University of the Pacific

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

development of empirical testing methods using similitude-based approaches. This approach provides significant potential for increasing the efficiency of the design process through a reduction in required full-scale testing and an expansion of the projected performance profiles using empirically-based prediction techniques. Wood’s research also includes the development of robotic ground and air vehicle systems using innovative conceptual design techniques for current technology implementations, as well as futuristic projections, applied in the framework of a senior capstone design course. Page 25.752.2

Conference Session

Contextual Competencies

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun Kyoung Ro, Carnegie Mellon University; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan; Dan Merson, Pennsylvania State University; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2012-4880: MEASURING ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ CONTEXTUALCOMPETENCEDr. Hyun Kyoung Ro, Carnegie Mellon University Hyun Kyoung Ro is a Research Designer and Analyst in the Institutional Research and Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University.Dr. Lisa R. Lattuca, University of MichiganDr. Dan Merson, Pennsylvania State University Dan Merson is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Center for the Study of Higher Education and the College Student Affairs program at Penn State. He received his Ph.D. in higher education from Penn State in the summer of 2011. While at Penn State, he primarily worked on the NCAA-funded Student-Athlete Climate Study (SACS), a nation-wide project to assess student-athlete’s perceptions and experiences

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Teaming and Collaboration

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

and manufacturing. In subsequent summers, two of thepartner universities will host summer enrichment opportunities in Boston and St. Louis.Throughout the week, the camp participants explored the core competencies of creativity andinnovation through activities and games. In addition, the students studied and implementedvarious methodologies of creative problem solving through teamwork on various problems andproduct development projects/tasks. To further emphasize innovation as it relates to Americanhistory, two of the five days were spent visiting The Henry Ford which includes the Henry FordMuseum, Greenfield Village, a Ford F-150 truck assembly plant, and the Benson Ford ResearchCenter where they participated in a pilot version of the new

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nick J. Surface, University of Kansas; Bryan Anthony Strecker, University of Kansas; Jonathan M. S. Mattson, University of Kansas; Christopher D. Depcik

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

] 250 10 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Torque [N-m] Figure 1. 100% biodiesel generator Figure 2. Generator results investigating unique oil integrated in a 1974 VW Super Beetle. feedstocks for efficiency and reduced emissions. Upon starting the EcoHawks in Fall 2008, the faculty mentor (fourth author) met withinterested students and defined a sustainable architecture as the approach to projects within theprogram. The student’s definition of

Conference Session

Problem-based and Challenge-based Learning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela van Barneveld, Purdue University; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Greg Light, Northwestern University

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Educational Research and Methods

2000 from the University of London (UK) where he was deputy head of the Lifelong Learning Group now the School for Lifelong Education and International Development - at the Institute of Education. He has taught post- graduate courses in higher and professional education and consulted across the higher and professional education sector in the UK the USA and Canada. His research and scholarship focuses on the theory and practice of learning and teaching in higher and professional education. Recent projects and publications have focused on student learning and the professional development of teaching in higher education

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jessica Kaminsky, University of Colorado, Boulder; Cathy Leslie P.E., Engineers Without Borders - USA ; Kaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

AC 2012-3644: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GENDER DIVERSITY,IDENTITY, AND EWB-USADr. Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder Amy Javernick-Will is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering Department. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and has focused her research efforts on knowledge transfer in global organizations, global projects, and increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in engineering.Jessica Kaminsky, University of Colorado, BoulderCathy Leslie, Engineers Without Borders - USAKaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder Kaitlin Litchfield is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of

Conference Session

Ethics Education, Global Health, and Outreach in BME

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Rust, Western New England University; Steven G. Northrup, Western New England University

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Biomedical

regarding global health issues, 2) increasestudent interest in global health as an area for future study or careers, and 3) increase studentinterest in traveling abroad and learning a foreign language.Course BackgroundThe new Global Health & Technology course was developed and implemented for the first timein Spring 2011. The course was co-instructed by two faculty members from the College ofEngineering, including one biomedical engineer and one electrical engineer (EE). Bothinstructors had prior experience with global health, including research projects involving medicaldevices and prior course-based trips to developing countries. Since one of the goals of thecourse was to create a multidisciplinary learning environment, the course was made

Conference Session

Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew J. Pasek, University of Windsor

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

contributions to society shown or hinted?The process of film content analysis is usually based on the intersection of two analyticalapproaches: the content analysis and the discourse analysis. The traditional content analysismethodologies, which is a study of recorded human communications, have been in use inhumanities and social sciences for over three decades23 and are well developed and documented.Their use, however, in this project has to be adjusted to take into account the visual nature of theresearched materials. Recent advances in visual communication analysis24 offer some guidanceon how these approaches can be used in analysis of a dynamic medium, such as film.While the traditional content analysis provides a summarizing, quantitative

Conference Session

Curriculum Exchange II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dani Sledz, Colorado School of Mines; Allison M. Silvaggio, STEM Magnet Lab School

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. . Page 25.603.5 3. STEM Magnet Lab School Parent and District Handbook. December 11, 2011 . 4. Stats and Test Results – Tennyson Knolls Elementary School. Great Schoools.org, December 14, 2011. 5. NEED National Energy Education Development Project. December 15, 2011. .6. Energy Kids. U.S. Energy Information Administration, December 15, 2011. .7. PECO Energizing Education Program, December 15, 2011. .8. Educational Resources. National Renewable Energy Lab. Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC, August 29, 2011. .9. Renewable Energy Lesson Plans - Infinite Power.org, Texas State Energy Conservation Office, 2005. < http://www.infinitepower.org/lessonplans.htm>

Conference Session

Social Media and In-class Technology: Creating Active Learning Environments

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xin Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computers in Education

students’ learning experiences in the next section.2.2 Engineering Students’ Learning ExperiencesOne of the major research projects regarding engineering students’ experiences is the AcademicPathways Study (APS) conducted by the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education(CAEE). APS consists a series of longitudinal and multi-institutional studies on undergraduateengineering students’ learning experiences and their transition to work. It involved over 5,400students across the country. The research team included over 130 faculty, research scientists,graduate and undergraduate research assistants, and staff representing 12 universities and sixnational organizations. They used various research methods including surveys, structuredinterviews

Conference Session

Curriculum Exchange II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devin R. Berg, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Lucas A. Harder, University of Minnesota; Arthur G. Erdman, University of Minnesota

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2012-3822: GENERATING INTEREST IN TECHNOLOGY AND MED-ICAL DEVICES THROUGH AN INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL GAMEMr. Devin R. Berg, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Devin R. Berg is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Through his work at the Medical Devices Center, he has been involved with a number of engineering outreach activities targeted at K-12 students and has mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students through their product design and research projects in the area of medical device engi- neering. His research interests are in the area of design as applied to the health care field with a focus on mechatronics and biomimicry, and he is pursuing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Karen V. Reynolds, Wichita State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Page 25.683.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012   Great Expectations: Engineering Kansas ScholarsAbstractThe GEEKS Program (Great Expectations: Engineering Kansas Scholars) is a National ScienceFoundation (NSF) Scholarships for STEM students (S-STEM) project that awards scholarshipsof $5,000 per year for 2 years to academically talented low-income, full-time students (in threeseparate cohorts) to obtain degrees in engineering at Wichita State University (WSU). Therecruitment efforts specifically target low-income students in three populations: women,minorities, and students from underserved urban schools. The objectives are: to increase thegraduation success among low-income

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Experiences and Assessment in Environmental Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Francis J. Hopcroft, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

that inform and influence those feelings and discusses ways to beginto change those attitudes within the student bodies.IntroductionIt has been observed that students taking similar classes in college often project a wide range ofacademic skills, interest in the subject matter, and personal justifications for class attendance,among other things. Since people are inherently different, there is no shock or surprise generatedby these observations; merely academic curiosity and fodder for research by those so inclined.Academic research can take many forms. It can be highly rigorous, purely anecdotal, primarilyliterature-based, or empirical, based on personal experimentation or observation. The dataprovided in this report are based solely on direct

Conference Session

Engineering Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; John M. Mativo, University of Georgia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

left to students to determine. From the yearlong project thatinvolved seven classes, the most load that was supported by four index cards four inches fromthe ground was 166 lb. This was more than the group had predicted. Its initial prediction was 80lb because during the individual loading one card had held 20 lb.Details of Outreach for the Pennsylvania Summer Camp Activities: Computer-AidedEngineering in a SnapshotPennsylvania secondary school students attending Robert Morris University Summer Camps andtheir teacher chaperons were exposed to the role of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) andEngineering (CAE) in product design and development process. The main goal of the campswere designing and developing animated toys, Figure 4. However, the

Conference Session

Assessment and Impact

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic; Odesma Onika Dalrymple, Arizona State University, Polytechnic

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

may direct their area of study after theirsophomore year in one of four focus areas – robotics, mechanical engineering systems, electricalengineering systems, and civil engineering (land development). Every student, regardless offocus area, must complete a project-based course each semester of his or her degree. The cohortof students was mostly male (91%) with a high percentage of non-traditional students (28%)returning to school.For the study, students were asked during their required engineering project course, to representtheir understanding of how the DC voltage measurement function (Figure 1) works in amultimeter that they assembled. Students were first asked to submit for homework their responseto the following question: Q1

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Karen M. Bursic, University of Pittsburgh; Natasa S. Vidic, University of Pittsburgh; Nora Siewiorek, University of Pittsburgh

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Corporation. She teaches undergraduate courses in engineering economics, engineering management, and probability and statistics in industrial engineering as well as engineering computing in the freshman engineering program. Bursic has done research and published work in the areas of engineering and project management and en- gineering education. She is a member of IIE and ASEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Pennsylvania.Dr. Natasa S. Vidic, University of PittsburghMs. Nora Siewiorek, University of Pittsburgh Nora Siewiorek is a graduate student in the Administrative and Policy Studies Department in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh where she also received her M.S. in

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Futuristic Planning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona

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Engineering Technology

students, alumni, facultyand industry representatives. To connect students to the hands-on nature of the EMET program,students in action—senior design projects, individual laboratories—are prominent. The peer-to-peer connection aids in information credibility.The EMET program coordinator meets with all sections of EDSGN 100—typically 10 in the falland 1 in the spring. The 40 minute presentation begins with a showing of the DVD. A brieflecture/question-answer follows that covers the two programs’ similarities and differences suchas  academic content,  types and range of jobs,  salaries,  job advancement,  hiring prospects or marketability,  companies that have hired our graduates, and

Conference Session

Thinking About the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Mark H. Somerville, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kerri Ann Green, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

identifying the strategic core, we discussed what topics and activities students couldchoose. The negotiable elements reinforce the strategic core, but give students autonomy topursue personal purposes and competencies. For example, students could choose to take thehour exams or they could choose to create design projects or education resources. Page 25.357.93.3.3 Create course structures To present the strategic core and the negotiable elements in a way that supportedstudents’ sense of competence, we required students to create three learning agreements thatwould replace the normal course syllabus. These learning agreements would be

Conference Session

Stops and Starts in the Development of Cooperative Education Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ilka M. Balk, University of Kentucky

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

(UK), she is the Staff Adviser for the recently re-started Engineers Without Borders chapter, a group that plans, designs, and implements public service engineering projects, mostly in developing nations. In 2006, Balk also helped establish the German and Engineering program in the college, through which students can work, study, or conduct research in Germany. Under her direction, the College has established an exchange program with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. She is also leading a group of freshmen students on a five-week tour to Germany every summer. Before coming to Lexington in 2004, Balk served as a political consultant to candidates and campaigns in the Washington, D.C., area and for

Conference Session

Instrumentation Applications

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lash B. Mapa, Purdue University, Calumet; Avanish Reddy Vancha, Purdue University, Calumet

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Instrumentation

AC 2012-5108: DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS MODELING OF A HEATTUNNELDr. Lash B. Mapa, Purdue University, Calumet Lash Mapa is a professor in industrial/mechanical engineering technology at Purdue University, Calumet (PUC). His undergraduate and graduate degrees are in chemical engineering. He has several years’ ex- perience as a Chemical Engineer, Process, and Project Manager with European and U.S. manufacturing organizations. Currently, he is involved in the M.S. Technology program at PUC and has managed more than 30 Lean Six Sigma projects with manufacturing, service industry, and educational institutions.Mr. Avanish Reddy Vancha, Purdue University, Calumet Avanish Reddy Vancha is a master’s student in industrial

Conference Session

CoED General Technical Session I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; J. Lane Thames, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert Donald Wellman Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology; Dazhong Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sungshik Yim, Georgia Institute of Technology; David W. Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

categories: (1) service consumers, (2) serviceproducers, and (2) service managers. Service consumers utilize the services offered by theCBDM. Service consumers include, for example, students participating in distributed design andmanufacturing projects, researchers/engineers investigating a new design prototypes, orcompanies with geographically distributed manufacturing shops that need to manufacture thecomponents of a new product. Service producers provide human resources in term of intellectualcapital and labor that result in provisioning of useful services. For example, a laboratory assistantor production manager could be a service producer who installs a new set of devices andequipment into the CBDM and integrates these components to form a new

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Xiufang Chen, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

AC 2012-3380: EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF VIRTUAL REAL-ITY GAMES PROMOTING METACOGNITION AND PROBLEM-SOLVINGDr. Ying Tang, Rowan University Ying Tang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Northeastern University, P. R. China, in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and Ph.D degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J., in 2001. She is currently an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rowan University. Her research interests include virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and modeling and scheduling of computer- integrated systems. Tang has led or participated in several research and education projects funded by National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Transportation

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin L. Devine, Illinois State University; Corinne Zimmerman, Illinois State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

a research project in which we measured the effectiveness of avery low-cost robotics-related manufacturing outreach activity that was conducted withelementary school students. Existing educational robot kits such as LEGO® MINDSTORM®and Boe-Bot® were not used in this study in order to reduce costs and to allow the research teamto investigate an outreach activity that is easy replicate because it does not require programmingexpertise or special equipment to deliver.The principal investigators in this study were a faculty member from the Department ofPsychology with expertise in cognition and child development and a faculty member from theEngineering Technology program with expertise in manufacturing and industrial automation.Graduate and

Conference Session

Innovatiive Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College; Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico College

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

. Note the projection for computer networks (network systems and datacommunications).The proposed model also targets retention, breaking up long-term goals (e.g., obtaining abachelor degree) into milestones, where a milestone can be the completion of the 4 courses in thearea of computer networks. By doing so, the model provides a safety net to students, who areable to acquire skills demanded by the job-market early during their studies. Moreover, theprogram helps in avoiding high dropout rates during early semesters, where institutions havehistorically experienced higher dropout rates because of lack in incentive for students and limitedhands-on experience. The model is also articulated with the 2008 ACM and IEEE ComputerSociety Guidelines for

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack P. Eng...., Grand Valley State University; Val Hawks, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

AC 2012-3744: AN EDUCATORS VIEW OF TRENDS IN MANUFACTUR-ING EDUCATION: LEARNING FROM THE PAST TO PLAN FOR THEFUTUREDr. Hugh Jack P. Eng...., Grand Valley State University Dr. Hugh Jack is a Professor of Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids Michigan. His specialties include automation, design projects, and internet application development.Dr. Val Hawks, Brigham Young University Val Hawks is the Director of the School of Technology at Brigham Young University and faculty mem- ber in the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program at BYU. He has a B.S. degree from Brigham Young University, a M.S. from Lehigh University, and a Ph.D. from Gonzaga University. He

Conference Session

Understanding Our Students I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald William Rhymer Ph.D., U.S. Air Force Academy; Richard T. Buckley Ph.D., U.S. Air Force Academy; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Educational Research and Methods

-specific impact. For the control group,both instructors taught their class using traditional lecture (narration was not used nor directly referredto during class time.) Note that the key conceptual sections of the text were still referred to in thecontrol group classroom, where a main point of the author would be highlighted by the instructor andthe students would be asked to draw conclusions. However, per the aforementioned definition, thestudents did not participate in narration. The research sections used narration for 3-5 minutes at thebeginning of approximately half of the lessons, primarily during the first half of the semester (thecourse focused on project work toward the end of the semester).During narration, the randomly chosenstudent