Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Nowak; Barry Shoop; Lisa Shay

attempt to remove the artificial barriers and to reinforcekey foundational concepts. Integration of the curriculum begins by identifying commonfoundational themes within and between courses, and highlighting these to students as the topicalcoverage warrants. Deliberate integration of the curriculum is accomplished by not onlyidentifying the foundational themes through conceptual abstraction, but also, by design ofcommon exemplars. Reinforcing these concepts through recurring common examples helps thestudent better understand and master these concepts while simultaneously understanding thelinkages between courses.While many foundational concepts and threads can be identified within the electrical engineeringdiscipline, we have selected one example

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Feick; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

Mahal, Ankor Wat, the Great Wall of China, and the Forbidden City, learningabout the culture of Japan while visiting such cities as Kyoto, Nara, and Hiroshima.This experience provided the motivation to create a true program for engineering students thatwould enable them to fulfill both the letter and spirit of ABET 3.h (understanding the impact ofengineering solutions in a global and societal context) as well as 3.j (knowledge of contemporaryissues). This would also provide an opportunity to master the other four ABET professionalskills (e.g., multidisciplinary teams, ethical and professional responsibilities, communication,and life long learning).Working in conjunction with the University of Pittsburgh’s International Business Center (whichhad

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Zemke; Donald Elger

collaborationbetween the mentee and mentor. The environment of collaboration now turns the learning taskinto a challenge to be mastered by the mentee with the help of the mentor. The collaboratingalso prevents the task from becoming one that the mentor forces upon the mentee.When the mentor explores the mentee’s representation of knowledge, the mentee’s intelligenceand value are directly acknowledged. Acknowledging the mentee further builds trust andopenness in the interactions. Enabling the mentee to build on and refine his or her representationfurther reinforces trust. All of these ways of showing respect for the mentee’s intelligence areconducive to high-level achievement against difficult challenges

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

African, one Asian and one white American)and six male (one Asian, and five white American) students. Three were sophomores, five werejuniors, and one senior; and six were pursuing an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering, onein Electrical Engineering, one in Chemical Engineering, and one in Physics and Pre-Engineering.Eight of the students came from Ph.D. granting institutions, and one came from an institutionwith a Masters degree as the terminal degree. The nine students were divided into three groupswith three students in each, and each group worked on a separate project under the supervision ofFaculty Mentors and a Graduate Student Mentor. The three projects selected for the Site dealtwith understanding the behavior of building frame

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George F. List; Stacy Eisenman

“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 3215faculty members, it stresses the fact that they need to advise, support, and tutor the students.They need to be a master, a sponsor, and a model to follow. It gives guidance on how facultymembers can help ensure success in all these aspects of a URP.Nagda et al. [6] talk about how student research teams can affect student morale and studentretention. They highlight the value of having students to work with students, to becomeprofessional peers. For example, they report how students

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dara O'Neil; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

no problem standing in front of a class and lecturing.” White female, 2nd year mechanical engineering Masters student “The STEP program has changed my career objectives. I now want to, ultimately, use my Ph.D. to develop educational programs for high schools. I want to create partnerships between industry and high schools. Don’t ask me how just yet; my thoughts are still evolving.” Black male, 5th year physics Ph.D. Page 9.980.14 student. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Froyd; Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

team. [This is evaluated by performance as part of a group while solving the semester long design project.] First Four Competency Areas sa a ad d sd a. These competencies were made clear to me at the beginning of the semester.b. I was tested on these competencies with straightforward exams. c. I had ample opportunity through multiple exams to demonstrate that I had successfully mastered each competency.d. My grades on the competency exams accurately reflect the knowledge I gained in each area. e. These competencies matched with what was taught in the course

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Manhire

of college graduates are Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education staffing businesses, teaching children, providing critical social services, and even winning admittance to graduate and professional schools without having mastered college-level skills or knowledge. With four out of five students graduating with GPA's of B-minus or better, with a college degree ensuring neither knowledge of subject matter nor basic skills, em- ployers and graduate schools have had to rely on other measures to sift applicants. Standardized

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William MacKunis; Daniel Raviv

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Middleton; Cheryl Gengler; Antonio Garciq; D. L. Evans; Sharon Robinson Kurpius; Peter Crouch; Dale Baker; Mary Anderson-Rowland; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

Associate Editor of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching and co-PI ofNSF programs to enhance opportunities for students in science, math, engineering, and technology.CHERYL G. GENGLERCheryl G. Gengler is an instructional specialist for the Chandler Unified School District. She earned a Bachelor ofArts in Education from Arizona State University and a Master of Secondary Education from Northern ArizonaUniversity. She has 12 years experience teaching high school level mathematics.STEPHEN J. KRAUSEStephen J. Krause is Professor and Associate Chair of the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department at ASU.His teaches in the areas of materials engineering, polymer science, characterization of materials, and design. Hisresearch interests are in

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rex Ramsier; H Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

after an attempt but wanes between attempts or experiences.According to Reynolds, students will master teaming and communication skills only after repeatedexposure to projects that include these elements. Others have reported this as well (Seat, 1999).An important distinction between VITDP and more typical in-class projects is the exposure to allelements of design and teamwork including those beyond their immediate competency. Studentssee the overall, ‘big-picture’ by participating in the project each year, but they will comprehendmore and more aspects with repeated exposure. Constructivism suggests that students will usetheir memories from prior projects (both positive and negative experiences) to constructknowledge while simultaneously

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdel Mazher

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationengineering education and suggests a new course of the social engineering. The ultimate goal ofthe paper is the curriculum development of engineering education to integrate the socialdimension and to train students to use the basic tools of research as an integrated interactive toolto formulate, analyze and address solutions to the social problems.Engineering education for the next generation should direct students to master the basics of thescientific method in an integrated way to deal with engineering as well as social phenomena.Hence, it is necessary in the 21st century to widen and deepen the role of

Conference Session

Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Goldberg

credited to an activity that the WaltDisney Company refers to as imagineering. This term refers to an entire spectrum of activitiesranging from master-planning and creative development to video production, audio/lightingdesign, and on-board vehicle performance. In addition, traditional engineering analyses such as Page 8.259.1those exploring the impact of layout on customer flow through the attraction were of critical Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William O. Jolley; Hartley T. Grandin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

complexities of the actual application ofFEM software such that engineers with education equal to or less than the bachelorsdegree are using the technique today. In contrast, ten years ago, specialists did a majorityof FEM analyses, mostly educated at the masters or doctoral level [1] due to the method’stechnical complexity and to the command line pre-processing requirements. Finite element courses in academia at the undergraduate and graduate levels inengineering programs are mainly theoretical in nature. Although some students andpractitioners have taken an FEM course at the undergraduate and/or graduate level, manyindividuals have only been introduced to FEM in a two to five day training course.These training courses enable an individual to

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

and others, surprisingly rare. Nor is thepedagogical rationale for employing educational technology instructional tools rather thantraditional methods clear 7, 19, 39, 41, 38. This work draws on the work of Simon, Dym and others who suggest that, in order fornovice students to benefit most from any form of engineering design activity, one must firstrecognize that the design process is, in fact, made up of a set of interrelated skills. The mostdifficult of these to master are problem solving, parameter estimation, and information searchwithin a domain. Some have suggested that students are often frustrated in their initial attemptsto design since they have not been given any training in such skills 42, 12. In this work

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Crowley; Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle; Bruce Litchfield

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph D. Torres; Tom Cummings

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Purvesh B. Thakker; Gary R. Swenson

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Gates; Mary Lamont; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

period or “submission window.” After thiswindow has closed, the web site stops allowing submissions, and the journal system thenassembles lists of responses submitted for each section of the several courses in the FreshmanEngineering Honors Program. In a typical week during the 2001-2002 academic year, thesystem processed responses from the approximately 250 students who are enrolled in one ofseven sections of FEH Engineering, one of eight sections of FEH Math, and one of nine sectionsof FEH Physics. Each list contains the responses sent in by the students in the particular sectionof a particular course being processed by the journal system. A master list of all studentresponses is also assembled. The web site software is able to automatically

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Alejandro Scalise; Dan Budny; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Somerville Jr.; Narciso Macia

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

whosuggested that it “might be called a post-graduate secondary school.” [ 1,p131].Payne cites US Admiral Rickover who said “Most of the liberal arts education given in ourliberal arts colleges has been absorbed into the curriculum of the European academic secondaryschools…”[1.p132]. It was an attitude that had important consequences for beliefs about the roleof the university in liberal education. Another consequence of this specialization was that itenabled the three year bachelor‟s degree to be the equivalent of an American master‟s degree[1.p 133]Payne notes that if the purpose of the grammar school system was to enable its students to go touniversity then it had been singularly disappointing [p144]. Only a quarter completed all thestages for

Conference Session

FPD II: Increasing Engagement and Motivation of First-Year Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Walter Curtis Lee, Virginia Tech ; John Andrew Janeski, Virginia Tech; Katherine E. Winters, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

10 20 30 40 50 Student Response Count Student Response CountFigure 3: A comparison between student perceptions of whether student-teacher interactionswere biased based on gender with regards to their (a) instructor and (b) GTA. Page 22.785.10CompetenceWe looked at students’ perceptions of instructors and classroom contexts with regard to how theymay contribute to students’ competence beliefs, i.e. their ability to master course content.Overall, students reported having the resources necessary to succeed in the class, which

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haluk M. Aktan, Western Michigan University; John Stephen Polasek P.E., Western Michigan University; Kevin James Phillips

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Bureau of Highway Development, which oversees statewide road and bridge design including quality assurances and specialty areas such as elec- trical, hydraulic and municipal utilities. The bureau is also responsible for administration of federal aid to local agencies and has statewide responsibilities for real estate, utilities and transport permits. In Fall of 2009 John accepted his current position at Western Michigan University (WMU) as Adjunct Professor for the Capstone Senior Design Courses. The position is responsible for the development and coordination of real world projects that are sponsored by industry partners.Mr. Kevin James Phillips Currently working on Master of Civil Engineering, with a focus on

Conference Session

Qualitative Research Programs & International Research Experience from Around the World

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yating Chang, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Joe J.J. Lin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Juila D. Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Shen, Purdue University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Eckhard A. Groll, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edwin Daniel Hirleman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

International

optimization. He worked as a production control engineer in Taiwan, and has taught laboratory classes in manufacturing engineering and freshmen engi- neering in the U.S. He earned his Bachelor and Master degrees in Industrial Engineering from National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) and Purdue University (U.S.A). His ultimate career goal is to help cul- tivate world-class engineering graduates that can compete globally, as well as collaborate with the best engineers across different cultures.Ms. Juila D Thompson, Purdue University, West LafayetteYi Shen, Purdue University Yi Shen is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Information Studies from the University of

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology; Jon Wade, Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology; Douglas A. Bodner, Georgia Institute of Technology; Masataka Okutsu, Purdue University; Dan Ingold, University of Southern California; Peter G. Dominick Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology, W.J. Howe School of Technology Management; Richard R. Reilly, Stevens Institute of Technology; William R. Watson, Purdue University; Don Gelosh, ODDRE/Systems Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

engineering competency development, systems thinking and systems engineering education. Alice is the Chair of the Systems Engineering Division of ASEE and has a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE). Alice received the Stevens Institute of Technology Provost’s Online Teaching Excellence Award in 2007.Jon Wade, Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology Jon Wade, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean of Research at the School of Systems and Enterprises at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Wade’s research interests include the transformation of systems engineering, Enterprise Systems and Systems of Systems, and the use of technology in technical workforce develop- ment