Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn W. Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Joanna F. DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Sally Sue Richmond, Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies

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Educational Research and Methods

. (2004)† - Comprehensiveness: definition of the subject area, level of knowledge in the area, breadth and depth of that knowledge - Organization: systematic arrangement of concepts, hierarchy of concept placement, connections and integration of branches - Correctness: accuracy of the material presented (considering level of sophistication, use of appropriate terms, any misconceptions)* = with expert/master map; † = without expert/master map Page 23.105.14

Conference Session

Project Based Learning In ET Program

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh, Wayne State University; Gene Yeau-Jian Liao, Wayne State University; Joseph L Petrosky, Macomb Community College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

manufacturing and research enterprise. He has served as a U.S. consultant to state-owned manufacturing industries in Poland during that county’s post-communist transition, and previously worked for General Motors Corporation. Joe has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lawrence Technological University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan. Page 23.125.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013   A University and

Conference Session

INT. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Partnerships, and Implementations

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Ruth Rodríguez Gallegos, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Tagged Divisions

International

of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Mexican section; member of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnolog´ıa (CONACYT) Network on Information Technology, and coordinator of the Science Education Community of the Corporaci´on Universitaria para el Desarrollo del Internet (CUDI). Professor Zavala teaches and advises master thesis and PhD dissertations in the Graduate School of Education of the Virtual University of the Tecnologico de Monterrey. Professor Zavala’s research areas are a) students understanding of science concepts, b) use of technology in science education, and c) evaluation.Prof. Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) Angeles Dominguez is an Associate Professor of the Department

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jucain Butler

analysis [1] to evaluate student progress. With a properly designed web-based evaluationtool, it should be possible not only to measure if students have acquired simple skills, but also tofollow students through their work on complex problems to see if the path to a solution makessense. In doing this, the instructor can evaluate and even quantitatively measure, the degree towhich students have mastered the process of solving, e.g., design problems that requireintegration of understanding and knowledge by the student.The ”deliverables” of this project will be complete plans, materials and purchased equipment list Page 8.144.1for a ~0.5 l

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Thompson

program members Jan. 24, “What is Christine Quality Design of 97 HS 2002 an Douglas Engineer, artificial students Engineer?” Zimmer joints/limbs 6 SWE HS career members day March 5, “What is Angie Master Six Sigma 250 MS 2002 an Marshall Black methodology students Engineer

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kelvin Kirby

undergraduate and graduate student research, educationaland industrial opportunities such as:§ Research opportunities at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX§ Medical School opportunities at UT Health Science Center, Houston, TX§ Joint Ph.D. program with Texas A&M University, College Station, TX§ Joint Masters program with Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX§ Research opportunities at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX§ Research opportunities at the University of Houston, Houston, TX§ PVAMU is currently pursuing a joint degree program in Nuclear Engineering with Texas A&M University at College Station and Texas A&M University at Kingsville, TXPVAMU continues to take positive steps to engage

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hankley

andfor those students from other disciplines who take selected courses in “programming”. Myobservation is that once students master the elements of a programming language, mostdifficulties with programming are actually difficulties in forming the architecture, that is,difficulties in defining the program functionality and in defining and organizing the program“parts”. All students who learn some programming should also learn about softwarearchitecture, because the architecture models are the most effective means by users, designers,and programmers can communicate requirements about software.BackgroundWhat was originally the ACM model curriculum for computer science [1,2] and is now the ACM/ IEEE guides to computing curricula [3,4] have been

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruth Davis

. “Hilbert's Finitism: Historical, Philosophical, and Metamat hematical Perspectives.” Ph.D.Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2001.Biographical InformationRUTH E. DAVIS holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Mathematics, and a Ph.D. degree in Information Page 8.1023.10Sciences. She received the ACM Doctoral Forum award for outstanding Ph.D. thesis in Computer Science in 1979.She is currently Professor of Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University, with research focused on formalmethods in software engineering, and increasing the diversity of the engineering workforce.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

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

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorelle A. Meadows, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Elizabeth S. Hildinger, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

; and tobring them into the engineering community here at the University. It is a project-based class inwhich students work in teams and individually to master first-year level technical content in oneof the major engineering disciplines and to become competent in the major genres of technicaland professional communication.The current form of the course is the end result of a process that began in 1991, when the Collegeof Engineering faculty involved in the development and implementation of the communicationcurriculum, working with a small group of technical faculty interested in reaching out toengineering students at the beginning of their college careers, created a plan for a first-yearengineering class that would couple communication with an

Conference Session

Topics in Computer Science and Programming

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Talbert, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

list of competencies that each student was expected to have mastered before coming to class. These were phrased in simple, atomistic terms and using action verbs, such as “State the syntax for the first line of a MATLAB function'” and “Use the FPRINTF Page 25.883.6 command to display formatted output including the contents of variables”.4. A list of three exercises to help students map the basic information from the video and print resources onto tasks given in the competency lists. While varying in style and complexity, the exercises are intended to train students to handle new information the way expert learners do: By

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Collura, University of New Haven; W. David Harding, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

challenging, it seems that the slowstep in the development for many students is the willingness and ability to adopt an organizedapproach (the methodology of problem-solving) as needed for the more complex problemsencountered in engineering. It is difficult to give up the expectation that the task would besimplified by just finding the right equation. In discussing the difficulty of chemical engineeringstudents mastering mass balances, Ollis points out the need for students to translate informationfrom verbal to visual to analytical forms15. Precisely this same translation is required forintroductory courses in statics (momentum balances), circuits (charge balance) andthermodynamics (energy balance). The approach used in EAS211 provides a lot of

Conference Session

Construction Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu, University of Texas, San Antonio; Vincent B. Canizaro, University of Texas, San Antonio; John D. Murphy Jr., University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Construction

to be less productive. A second challenge is the level of preparation for theparticipating students. The architecture program at UTSA is a 4+2 program where the first four-year curriculum is “pre-professional” and considered as preparation for the 2-year Master ofArchitecture professional degree. Without the Master’s, or other appropriate professional degree,a graduate is not able to sit for the architecture professional licensure exam. Our limitedexperience in this collaboration shows that preparation level of Master of Architecture studentsare is more appropriate for potential collaborative coursework with the construction and interiordesign undergraduate students.Overall, the structure establishes a common first year with 28 credit hours

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Olaleye, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Emmanuel Abiodun, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Joseph Olusina, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Francis Derby, Pennsylvania State University-Lehman

Tagged Divisions

International

.,Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in Surveying andGeoinformatics as well as Master of Geoinformatics (MGIT-Executive programme) and aPostgraduate Diploma programme in Surveying and Geoinformatics (PGD).The need to change the name of the department was firstly due to the very narrow interpretationgiven the term "surveying" by the general public and the resulting difficulties in studentrecruitment. Secondly, to reflect the tremendous impacts that advances in technology andmodern surveying techniques have had on the surveying profession. The first concerted effort atrealizing this goal was made at a Faculty of Engineering Board of Studies meeting in the 1996/97session, in which many names were proposed. However

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

-traditional students.Besterfield-Sacre et al.5 studied gender differences in freshmen engineering students related totheir confidence and self-perceived ability to succeed in engineering. They found that femalestudents had lower confidence than male students in their basic engineering knowledge andskills, problem solving abilities, and creativity. Building confidence in female students in theirabilities to solve problems and master basic engineering concepts is essential encouragement tofacilitate the pursuit of science and engineering career paths, where they are often the minority.Given this background, peer and faculty mentoring of second year students and outreach to firstyear, prospective students and students transferring from community

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas, University of Houston-Downtown; Lea Campbell, University of Houston, Downtown; George Pincus, University of Houston, Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Sciences and Technology, and Professor of Engineering Technology at the University of Houston-Downtown (1996-date). He earned a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (with honors) and Master of Science in Civil Engineering degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Houston, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Cornell University. Dr. Pincus is a Life Member of ASEE and a Life Member of ASCE. He is currently registered in Texas, New Jersey and Kentucky. He is the author or co-author of 3 books and has published over 50 refereed papers

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Whalley; Harriet Svec; Harvey Svec; Teresa Hall

system is legendary and a de rigueurexperience for visiting SDSU personnel (Figure 1). On the SDSU side of the equation,faculty members Harvey and Harriet Svec had visited Manchester numerous times over thepast decade and had developed more than a passing interest in the impact of the IndustrialRevolution on technological and social developments in that time period. Figure 1. Dr. Whalley provides insight into British history and applications of technology on the Manchester Canal Tour. Here, the group views restored lock master houses along the canals.The Svecs made a proposal to the SDSU Provosts’ New Ideas fund to offer a one creditGeneral Engineering special topics course in the spring 2004 semester entitled “The Historyof the

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Devine

, Joseph. Mastering the Techniques of Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995. 5 Wankat, P.C. and Oreovicz, F.S, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, Inc. 1993. 6. Welch, Ronald, Janet Baldwin, David Bentler, David Clarke, Shawn Gross, Joseph Hitt. “The ExCEEd Teaching Workshop: Participants’ Perspective And Assessment” Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2001. Biographical Information David P. Devine, P.E. is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Technology in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering Technology at Indiana University Purdue University Ft. Wayne (IPFW). He is a registered Professional Engineer in Indiana and has earned

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil, Wright State University; Byron Newberry, Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts; Anthony Donaldson, California Baptist University; Joan Ozdogan, Chantilly High School Academy

Professor of Teaching from 2005-2008.Byron Newberry, Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts Byron Newberry is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Oklahoma Christian University. He also serves as Director of the Master of Science in Engineering at OC. He is the lead PI for OC’s implementation of Wright State's National Model for Engineering Mathematics Education. His interests include engineering education, stress analysis, dynamic systems, and engineering design.Anthony Donaldson, California Baptist University Anthony Donaldson is the founding dean of the School of Engineering at California Baptist University. One of the four focus areas he established for the school is

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoff Wright; Braden Boss, Springville High School; Daniel Bates, Brigham Young University; Ronald Terry, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. For years, technology literacy has been a topic of instruction for our undergraduatestudents, but recently we have added a technology literacy course to our masters program.Students in our masters program come to us from a variety of disciplines and experience. Manyof these students are in-service teachers. The new course will help our graduate students whopursue teaching careers meet the need to increase content in this important area.Teacher Technological Survey DevelopmentIn preliminary work, the investigators closely worked with various NCETE (National Council ofEngineering Technology Education) committee members, with ITEA personnel, and with theBoston Museum of Science, in collaboration dealing with K-12 technological literacy

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Chen; John Tharakan

service, and the Chair of theDepartment (Tharakan) served as the Technical Monitor to the NAFP Fellow. This model ofexchange proved invaluable in enhancing the contributions of the Fellow to departmentalgraduate education and research as well as to the Fellow’s professional development.The Department of Chemical Engineering at Howard University The Department of Chemical Engineering is housed in the College of Engineering,Architecture and Computer Sciences (CEACS) at Howard University, the largest HBCU in thecountry. The department offers an undergraduate program leading to the Bachelor of Science inChemical Engineering (BSChE), and a graduate program of coursework and research leading tothe Master of Science (MSChE). The undergraduate

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Farris

was a requirement in the practiceoriented engineering masters degree program in the Padnos school of Engineering at GrandValley State University. The class had evolved to include team, semester-long, design projects.Student usually proposed design projects related to their jobs or project topics were solicitedfrom the Small Business Technology Development Center on campus. With only engineers in Page 9.887.1the class, creativity was stifled and much of the new product development process was notProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Mark Pullen

provide such a service. Oursolution to this is a software component called the Transport Layer Multicaster (TLM) thataccepts messages from one user and sends them to all others in the same group, producing thesame effect as a multicasting network. Our Master Client used with TLM (called TLMC) isprogrammed to accept the UDP messages that are sent by the multicast audiographic tools andpass them through a TCP “tunnel” to the TLM. This unorthodox approach lets us deal with thefact that many students connect from behind a corporate security “firewall” or through a cableprovider’s Network Address Translation (NAT) system. As neither of these situations isconducive to using UDP, we encapsulated the multicast messages in a TCP stream. While thislets us

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tina Hudson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon M. Sipes, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

labs to ensure that the studentsunderstand what is expected. The students obtain a great deal of practice in the subsequent labs.Finally, the students receive immediate feedback about their critical thinking decisions throughthe industry-grade automatic test equipment (ATE). “Appropriate tests” or students assessments,the third condition, is obtained by requiring deep analysis in lab, homework, and exams, all ofwhich contribute to their grade. The forth condition, “Reasonable workload” is handled to the bestof the professor’s ability. Since the course is an upper-level course and not a pre-requisite for anyother course, the professor can adjust the content if necessary to help the students master thesehigher-level thinking skills. “Choice over

Conference Session

Diversity Redefined: Nontraditional Views in Traditional Environments

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard R Harris, Northeastern University; Lauren Machunis, Northeastern University; William Tiga Tita, D'Amore-McKim Business School, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

. Lauren received her BS in Communications Studies, as well as a Master of Science in Applied Educational Psychology, from Northeastern University. In addition to her interests in the area of college student development, she has also been involved in college access programming. Lauren served as Director of Linking Education and Diversity (LEAD), a college access mentoring program serving students in the Boston Public School system.Dr. William Tiga Tita, D’Amore-McKim Business School, Northeastern University Dr. William Tiga Tita, Ph.D., MBA, BSME, Chairman and CEO of the Global Management Cen- ter, Trade Information Network of the G77 Chamber Ltd (GMC-TIN). GMC-TIN created and operates http://www.tradeinfonet.org

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Craig J. Kief, COSMIAC at UNM; Bassam H. Matar, Chandler Gilbert Community College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #8508Digital Technology Education Collaborative First Year Progress ReportDr. Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological UniversityProf. Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University Aleksandr Sergeyev is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology program in the School of Technology at Michigan Technological University. Dr. Aleksandr Sergeyev earned his bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering at Moscow University of Electronics and Automation in 1995. He obtained the Master degree in Physics from Michigan Technological University in 2004 and the PhD degree in Electrical

Conference Session

Enhancing Success/Peristence at Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

used for the P.A.S.S. program (Prep for Accuplacer Student Success, a special summer program to help students improve their math placement score). o The supervising professor will create remedial algebra (MATH 0302/0303) and college algebra modules for students (Includes 5 modules (objectives): geometry, measurements, beginning algebra (Math 0302), intermediate algebra (Math 0303), and college algebra (Math 1414). The syllabus is presented in Appendix 2. o Students that master Math 0303 topics (80% level) will get credit for Math 0303. Page 24.446.4 o EDGE

Conference Session

Electrical Energy Courses - Labs and Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tan Ma, Florida International University; Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University; Brandy Louie Serrano, Florida International University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Systems, Energy Conservation and Alternate Energy Sources and smart grid power system design and optimization.Prof. Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University Dr. Mohammed is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and is the Director of the Energy Systems Research Laboratory at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. He received his Master and Doctoral degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He has performed research on various topics in power and energy systems in addition to computational electro- magnetics and design optimization in electric machines, electric drive systems and other low frequency environments. He performed multiple research projects for

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia D Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mel Chua, Purdue University; Cole Hatfield Joslyn, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, I came to my vocation in engineering education as a teacher first anda researcher much later. A critical incident happened in my 5th year teaching, long after I wascomfortable and fluent in the classroom. During a circuits tutorial, I suddenly had the sensationthat something beyond me was teaching through me. I already regularly dropped into flow state12with this particular class, but that night was different; although I was agnostic at the time, Icouldn’t shake the phrase “moved by the spirit” from my mind.The funny thing was that this “spirit” had nothing to do with increasing student skill or contentmastery, which was how I thought about “good teaching” at the time. Instead, I felt like a dancertransported to the side of a master

Conference Session

Innovative Use of Technology and the Internet in Engineering Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chirag Variawa, University of Toronto; Susan McCahan, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

to both the instructor and student oughtto converge as the student masters the course content. Instructors may currently use techniquesto help identify this vocabulary, including referring to glossaries and increasing the frequency oftheir use in the classroom. There is an opportunity to increase transparency and accessibility tosuch vocabulary by developing an automated software-based tool that can be used by instructorsto create customized course-specific wordlists for their courses. Using text extracted frominstructional material in a course, the algorithm developed for this study is able to hierarchicallyidentify and display course-specific terminology using principles from artificial intelligence,linguistics, higher education, and

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogy and Assessment in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Berndt Spittka P.E., U.S. Military Academy; Erik R. Wright PE, U.S. Military Academy; Steven D Hart, U.S. Military Academy; Evan Hansen

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

internal based motivationof an individual. 6 In order to inspire students to internal motivation, the manner in which tasksand rewards are structured must be adjusted. The students must feel they have three elements inthe work they are accomplishing: autonomy, mastery (or the ability to strive toward mastery),and purpose. 7 In order for students to be motivated to discover how to solve the complexproblems facing today’s professionals, they must be given the latitude to develop their owninternal motivation.Autonomy speaks to the desire of humans to be their own masters. People want to feel like theyhave the ability to control their own destiny by picking and choosing where they place theirefforts. Pink argues that we move beyond Motivation 2.0 and