Conference Session

Project-Based, Inquiry Guided, and High Performance Learning Environments: Effective Approaches

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Syed Helmi Syed Hassan, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Mohammad Zamry Jamaludin, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Nor Farida Harun, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Conference Session

Pay It Forward: Critical Thinking, Reflection and Faculty Engagement Promote Success in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R Goldberg, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology; Rory A. Cooper, University of Pittsburgh; Dan Ding, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology; Alicia Koontz, Human Engineering Research Laboratories

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

presentations from my wheelchair in ways that no other professor at my school could. This summer also gave me the opportunity to mentor someone else helping an intern who was just about to go off to college learn some of the independent navigation skills to be active in the community by herself. On the technical side, I was given a chance to see the field of Assistive Technology at work and allowed me to finalize my decision to pursue AT in not only a Masters Degree

Conference Session

Int. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, and Implementations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Joshua Jacobs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Julio A. Pertuze, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Daniel T. Roos P.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dava J. Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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International

andAdvanced Manufacturing (EDAM). Each of the four focus areas involves at least threePortuguese universities plus MIT, and involves multiple industry partners. The four areas wereidentified during a 1-year assessment period by the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technologyand Higher Education (MCTES) in coordination with MIT as strategically important forPortugal‟s future with a high chance of international competitiveness. The confinement to fourfocus areas stands in contrast to a Portuguese equity tradition university funding, which has oftenlead to a sub-critical dispersion of funding across many fields and places.The four focus areas have created a total of 7 new graduate degrees, 4 Doctoral programs and 3Advances Studies/Masters programs

Conference Session

Innovative Program and Curricular Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liesl Hotaling, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg; Rustam Stolkin, University of Birmingham, UK; Susan Lowes, Columbia University, Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College; James S. Bonner, Clarkson University; William David Kirkey, Clarkson University; Temitope Ojo, Clarkson University; Peiyi Lin, Columbia University, Teachers College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-1069: STUDENT-CREATED WATER QUALITY SENSORSLiesl Hotaling, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg Liesl Hotaling is a senior engineer at the College of Marine Science, University of South Florida. She holds a B.S. in Marine Science, and Masters degrees in Science Teaching and Maritime Systems. She is a partner in Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Networked Ocean World (COSEE-NOW) and specializes in real time data and hands-on STEM educational projects supporting environmental ob- serving networks.Rustam Stolkin, University of Birmingham, UK Dr. Stolkin is a Research Fellow at the Intelligent Robotics Lab, University of Birmingham, UK. He is an interdisciplinary engineer, with diverse

Conference Session

Open-Ended Problems and Student Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanda S. Fry, Purdue University; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

MEAs, Paper Plane Challenge, Just-In-Time Manufacturing, and Travel Mode Choice,were implemented in Fall 2008. For MEA 1: Paper Plane Challenge student teams used data toconstruct a procedure (model) for judging paper airplane contests, for MEA 2: Just-in-TimeManufacturing student teams provided a model for ranking shipping companies, and for MEA 3:Travel Mode Choice student teams developed a model from data to make predictions aboutstudents’ transportation choices in order to inform a university’s master development planningprocess. A more detailed description of these MEAs is provided by Zawojewski, Diefes-Dux,and Bowman3. The MEAs were part of a required problem-solving and computer tools course inthe first-year engineering program

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura R. Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christina Matta, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Technical Communication Program

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering faculty first to rank how important or useful these skills are forengineering students to master. Forty-one faculty took the survey, and they ranked “giving clear,organized, and credible presentations” and “creating a well-organized document” as the mostimportant skills for engineering students to have. (Figure 1 shows how faculty ranked seven ofthe 17 skills.) Page 22.579.7Figure 1. Sample faculty responses to the Spring 2009 College of Engineering Faculty Survey. This questionasked faculty to rank the importance of 17 communication skills. (Only seven of those 17 skills are shown here.)After faculty ranked the usefulness of those skills

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie Fabert, Arizona State University; Marilyn Cabay, Ph.D., Argosy University, Phoenix; Melissa B Rivers, Arizona State University; Mary Lee Smith, Arizona State University; Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

face-to-face collaboration, andseveral drawbacks were associated with this mode of communication. First of all, students foundthat relying on distant correspondence was not as efficient and slowed research progress: When I was in (her home country) I was all on my own. I managed to get through it for my Masters but it wasn’t easy to be honest. I did struggle a lot because sometimes I would get just stuck for like weeks and weeks and not be able to move forward because he (the student’s advisor) can’t really help me.Working on campus was considered more advantageous to provide easy access to physical andhuman resources and can hasten degree process: Um, well, it’s been quite interesting actually

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cherrice Traver, Union College; Douglass Klein, Union College; Borjana Mikic, Smith College; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Ari W. Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Gillette, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

mastering knowledge incertain areas as well as the integrative and social skills for combining their knowledge with thatof others in hybrid learning formats. Companies like IBM and IDEO refer to people with bothdomain-specific and integrative skills as “T-shaped” people,31, 61 and find them key to theinnovation process.b. Integration grooms entrepreneursEntrepreneurship is the ability to marshal resources in order to realize an idea or cluster of ideasthat creates value for a stated stakeholder set. As Schumpeter106 explained, entrepreneurs exploitnew inventions or ideas, or they find new ways to exploit existing ones. Entrepreneurs are able tosuccessfully change established routines by orienting people and markets to produce new formsof value

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Lee Downey, Virginia Tech; Masanori Wada, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

.         10   The  U.S.  occupation  authorities  actually  jump-­‐started  the  whole  process  by  allowing  small  and  medium-­‐sized  enterprises  to  trade  in  their  existing  machinery  for  equipment  that  had  been  seized  in  the  reparations  program.  This  continued  after  independence  in  1952  with  prefectural  governments  and  cooperative  organizations  playing  the  key  role  of  matching  the  needs  of  local  firms  with  available  machinery.  Prefectures  also  supported  small  local  laboratories  for  improving  production  practices  in  industries  of  local  interest  (Morris-­‐Suzuki  1994).     There  was  no  master  plan.  Rather  a  multitude  of  overlapping  ministries  competed  with  one  another  to

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine R. Millam, University of Saint Thomas; Ronald J. Bennett, Univeristy of Saint Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Conference Session

Understanding Students and Faculty

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Qiong Zhang, University of South Florida; James R. Mihelcic, University of South Florida; Julie Zimmerman, Yale University; Nina J. Truch, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, preserving nature [13] Unity with nature, fitting into nature [16] Respecting the earth, harmony with other species [14] Altruistic values Equality, equal opportunity for all [12] Social justice, correcting injustices, care for those who are less privileged [17] A world at peace, free of war and conflict [15]Methods of Instrument AdministrationThe instrument was administered in three parts at a private research university in the northeasternUnited States (E-group), a public research university in the southern United States (S-group) anda public masters university in the pacific coastal United States (P-group). Students wererequested to take the survey by the faculty in their courses. The

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Rais-Rohani, Mississippi State University; Andrew Walters, Mississippi State University; Anthony Vizzini, Western Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

help identifythe key elements of technology-supported active learning strategies. With the course subject andthe selected redesign model in mind, we followed each guiding principle in the manner notedbelow.1. Redesign the Whole CourseStatics is traditionally taught as a 3-hour credit course using a lecture format. Besidesintroducing various topics, the instructor also works example problems that clarify mechanicsconcepts while describing the analysis procedure. Much of the learning, however, occurs outsideof class as students master the material by working homework problems. Our course redesign isbased on three integrated activities that can be categorized as: 1) pre-emporium, 2) emporium,and 3) post-emporium, where the word “emporium” refers

Conference Session

Curriculum in Telecommunications Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim Nankivell, Purdue University, Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet; Jana Whittington, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. This commitment however makesthem less open to critical review. They neglect to learn from their own experiences and that theseexperiences are not valued. Learning from experience is an important avenue for knowledge thatcan be expensive but without this knowledge, organizations are doomed to continue to fail.IS/IT trainingThe ever expanding skill set for the IT professional to master has created a new array of issuesfor the IT profession. The IT organization, to remain successful, must foster IT competencewhich requires not only attracting competent IT professionals but provide training for theseprofessionals. This training comes in many forms including: academic IT programs, ITworkshops, self motivated training, vendor training, and

Conference Session

Leadership and Strategic Planning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten Hochstedt, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2010-745: A QUALITATIVE EXAMINATION OF FACULTY BELIEFSRELATED TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATIONKirsten Hochstedt, Pennsylvania State University Kirsten Hochstedt is a Graduate Assistant at the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education. She has received her Masters degree in Educational Psychology, with an emphasis in educational and psychological measurement, at Penn State and is a doctoral candidate in the same program. The primary focus of her research concerns assessing the response structure of test scores using item response theory methodology.Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University Sarah E. Zappe, is Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Simmons, University of Utah; Susan Sample, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

, there simply was not enough time or resources to devoteindividual attention to each student. This impacted the teaching and learning of teamwork,communication, and writing. There is a personal aspect to writing, even in teams. Oralcommunication takes time and practice to master and teamwork cannot be sufficiently, activelytaught via large lecture periods. We were challenged in such a large class that provided verylimited lecture time.To combat these challenges, students were repeatedly offered individualized help during officehours, but few took advantage. It is recommended that students be required to sign up for teamconsultations early in the semester, to facilitate development of their communication skills and

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth McManis, University of Louisiana

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

– Professional & Ethics as outcomes that may be challenging for programs to fullyimplement.The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the University of Louisiana’scivil engineering curriculum with respect the BOK2 outcomes associated with the baccalaureatedegree. Specific emphasis is given herein to these identified “challenging” outcomes.Institutional ProfileThe University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a public institution of higher education offering thebachelor, master, and doctoral degrees. It is the largest member of the University of LouisianaSystem with an enrollment of approximately 16,000 students. Within the Carnegieclassification, [University A] is designated as a Research University with high research

Conference Session

Student Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University; Eric Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Chia-Lin Ho, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Taiwan in 2002 and her Masters in I/O Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2005. Her research interests include measurement and evaluation issues, individual differences, leadership, cross-cultural studies, work motivation, and the application of technology on human resources management. Page 15.302.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Computational thinking: What should our students know and be able to do?AbstractA NSF funded project on our campus has two overarching goals: (1) to create a computationalthinking thread in engineering

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch; Jean Hodges, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

Arab Emirates and many other countries.Jean Hodges, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch Since Fall 2004, N. Jean Hodges has been an Assistant Professor of Writing and Writing Center Instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar (VCUQatar) in Doha, Qatar. Hodges works on writing assignments individually with VCUQatar students in all three of the university’s design majors as well as in the liberal arts courses. She earned her degrees in North Carolina: a Master of Science in Technical Communication from North Carolina State University; a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, magna cum laude, from Queens College (now Queens University); and an Associate of Applied Science

Conference Session

Use of Technology in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Halverson, Brigham Young University; Rollin H. Hotchkiss, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

opted to allow students to self-select their own teams. We do recognize thevalue in carefully establishing teams following a variety of well-research suggestions. However,due to time constraints and class focus, we worried that too much time spent on the teamformation process would distract from the main purpose of the course (mastering concepts offluid dynamics). Since the team-based and project-based assignment of creating a storyboardproposal was only one portion of the class (constituting only 6.5% of the overall course grade) itseemed to us more valuable to let students be motivated to work together with friends and peoplethey knew (this was a small class of majors) than to distract students with a lot of team buildingactivities. We

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William D. Schindel, ICTT System Sciences; Samuel N. Peffers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jameel Ahmed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

,evaluated, and mastered. When employed in concert with the Discipline Competencies anddomain knowledge of traditional Engineering and technical education, and the model basedSystems Competencies commonly associated with systems engineering, the innovators’Discovery Competencies of associating, questioning, observing, experimenting, and networkingeffectively posture new Engineering, Mathematics, and Science graduates for success in thecontemporary innovation environment. Appendix A provides a potential assessment platform forthe Discovery competencies, including Learning Outcomes and Rubrics.The use of model-based methods in engineering of systems has become prominent in recentyears. However, based on the literature on innovation, we believe that

Conference Session

Assessment Instruments

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Syed Helmi Syed Hassan, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Mohd Salleh Abu, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Shahrin Mohammad, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Case Studies, Engineering Education and Outcome Assessment Around the Globe

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Baker, The University of Vermont; John Merrill, The Ohio State University; David Munoz, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

International

Collection

2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Mohamad Musavi, University of Maine; Cary Edward James, Bangor High School; Ali Abedi, University of Maine

quality as they vary by location and over time. The master variable is hydrology and how it isaltered by storm flow. Participants will use classical hydrology methods to construct storm hydrographsand derive time of concentration. These will be correlated with water chemistry to produce a time seriesrecord of concentration that can be translated to flux and mass transport. At the spatial scale of a sub-watershed in an urbanized area, the methodological framework will seek to understand howenvironmental flows contribute to degraded water quality [6,7,8]. Hydrologic variability and interactionswithin the natural and engineered components alter biogeochemical fluxes [9] and ecological integrity [10,11] all of which are affected by storm water

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Andrew Clark

MountainSouthIncubator Alliance and other regional business incubators, to provide student teams with asemester long consulting opportunity working with startup technology-based entrepreneurialventures. This course entitled “Strategic Experience” is a culminating experience project forstudents finishing their master degrees in technology or business administration. Students have Page 10.580.13the opportunity to consult on a variety of issues such as strategies related to business and “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Turns Jennifer; Atman Cindy; Angela Linse; Karl Smith

training program together can change a team's norms, roles, communication patterns, and decision-making procedures.2. Have the participating participants actively use the procedures through micro-teaching Page 9.539.7 and guided practice. In mastering procedural skills, listening and watching are Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education ineffective compared with doing.3. Distribute training across a number of sessions. Typically, massing training sessions will

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodor Richardson; Jed Lyons

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Otto Loewer; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

. Clients are rated on fivefactors that intend to be predictive of success in commercialization.A major activity of the Incubator is the matching of talents, desires and skills of graduate studentswith a client opportunity. Ideally, the work that the graduate student completes with a client willlead naturally to a Masters-level thesis. 1 Page 7.797.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn addition to being referred, the Incubator acts to refer

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Barnes; Ian Pashby; Anne Gibbons

where it is stated, the collaboration yielded under-graduate, masters anddoctoral theses in engineering, management and operations research, whilst also exposingand enabling students to contribute to actual industry practice. The company involved gainedin return, a number of tangible benefits including PC-based tools and predictive models, anda general awareness of relevant long-term issues in an environment dominated by short-termpressures. Other benefits of this project included the sponsorship of several six-month in-house internships and the decision to employ one particularly promising graduate.The project, though successful, was not however without its problems. Students andacademic staff found that the company was unwilling to contribute

Conference Session

Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Keating