Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan O. Schall, SOS Consulting, LLC

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

)composed of academic and industry leaders, leaders from ABET and the EngineeringAccreditation Commission (EAC) was chartered to advise on how to increase flexibility in theengineering accreditation criteria while maintaining a strong emphasis on educational qualityand to recommend ways to facilitate recruitment of outstanding engineers from industry andeducation to lead the ABET accreditation process. The committee identified three major barriersto change: 1) excessively long, prescriptive and detailed accreditation criteria, 2) a complicatedand user-unfriendly evaluation system, and 3) difficulty attracting technically active mid-careerprofessionals. ABET with support from the National Science Foundation convened consensus-building workshops

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faisal Aqlan, Pennsylvania State University, Erie (Behrend College); Yuan-Han Huang, Pennsylvania State University, Erie (Behrend College); E. George Walters III P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Erie (Behrend College); Osama T. Al Meanazel, The Hashemite University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

involves gathering of customer requirements, identifying productspecifications, generating design concepts, evaluating the designs, and selecting the best design.Results show that students’ design skills can be greatly enhanced by integrating the two courses.1. IntroductionInterdisciplinarity is becoming a critical issue for teaching design skills1. Integrating EngineeringDesign courses with Manufacturing and Ergonomic courses can effectively enhance students’design skills. Aligning product design and manufacturing education with market needs isimportant to overcome the skills gap and other challenges faced by students2. Moreover,ergonomic consideration is crucial for product design and development in today’s global market.Ergonomics, which is the

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alejandro Salado, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

decide for an alternative that is notaligned with those ethical principles and values.A formal justification for the need to incorporate ethics in engineering curricula can be made byreferencing ABET, which requires “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility,broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global andsocietal context” (ABET, 2007, p. 1). Informally, two examples can set the ground.Example 1: Challenger. In 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated during launch,instantly killing its crew. Assessment of failure root cause, led to concluding that launch wasapproved despite the predicted operating temperature for one of its components (the O-ring) wasgoing to be -3 degree C

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cristina D. Pomales-Garcia, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

DescriptionThe Work Systems Design course at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus,provides junior-level students their first formal design experience in the IE ProgramCurriculum. The course prepares students in work systems design where human beings playan important role. This is accomplished through the alignment of systems, jobs, products andenvironmental conditions to the characteristics and human abilities to achieve mental andphysical well-being. The expected course outcomes include: (1) application of designstrategies for work systems design, (2) design of products, workstations and systems usingdata and design principles, (3) evaluation of the physiological requirements of a task, (4)identification of occupational risk factors, and (5

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen M. Bursic, University of Pittsburgh

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Engineering Economy

distribution of theinventory.BackgroundThe Force Concept Inventory (FCI) is a multiple choice test designed to monitor students’understanding of the conceptual domain of force and related kinematics [1]. Often cited as thefirst concept inventory [2], it was one of the earliest and most well-known instruments in thesciences and there have been quite a few follow up studies that have looked at its validity in avariety of contexts. It is used frequently to assess concept learning in physics courses. Conceptinventories are used extensively in physics and astronomy [3] [4] as well as biology [5].Examples include the Statistical Reasoning in Biology Concept Inventory (SRBCI) [6] and theBiological Experimental Design Concept Inventory (BEDCI) [7]. Many of

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 2, IE-ing the Classroom

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dia St. John, University of Arkansas; Eric Specking, University of Arkansas

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

engineering fields, especially industrialengineering. Most outreach literature, focuses on the recruitment of students, content, and theimpact on participants. In 2015, the authors, St. John and Specking, proposed a framework toadapt college-level lessons for outreach activities.[5] This work will 1) discuss a modifiedversion of the 2015 framework that emphasizes implementation, assessment, and continuousimprovement, 2) provide an example application that was successfully implemented at multiplesections of a University of Arkansas summer camp with assessment data, and 3) provide anadditional example of a previously implemented activity to emphasize the cycle ofimplementation, assessment, and improvement. The University of Arkansas used pre and

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac W Wait, Marshall University; Sameh M. El-Sayegh, American University of Sharjah; Salwa Mamoun Beheiry, The American University of Sharjah

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Engineering Economy

from the George Washington University and a First Class Honours Bachelors of Science from Reading University (UK). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Using concept inventories to gauge preparedness and assess learning objectives in engineering economy classesAbstractA ten-question, multiple-choice Concept Inventory was developed and administered to studentsat two universities: (1) students enrolled in a “Cost Analysis” course at an English-language,ABET-accredited Civil Engineering program outside of the United States, and (2) studentsenrolled in an “Engineering Economy” course utilized by students in civil, mechanical, andelectrical engineering, along with computer science

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James D Burns, Purdue Univeristy; Bob E. White P.E., Western Michigan University

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Diversity

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Engineering Economy

, there are challenges to this approach, not the least of which is the relatively short timestudents have to learn and apply a new programming language. As with most instructionalchallenges, finding the right approach for the situation is more desirable than attempting tobalance between extreme options (leaving students to learn on their own versus providing acomplete tutorial on VBA programming). Our intent here is to introduce the approach taken forthis course in order to highlight those aspects we believe are most critical to success.InstructionOverviewThe project begins during the first week of class and concludes during the last meeting. Theproject is administered in three phases, with the model-building activities performed duringPhase 1

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ted Eschenbach, TGE Consulting; Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University; Neal A Lewis, University of New Haven

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Engineering Economy

sector—not toward individual engineers and certainly not students.Note that J.G. Thuesen and Sullivan (1999) is an interesting review of engineering economy’shistory by the lead authors of later editions of these two titles.Personal finance topics in more recent textbooks: Our assessment of the inclusion of personalfinance topics in engineering economy textbooks in the 1970s through the mid-1990s issummarized in Table 1. That time period was chosen because it seems to have the largestnumbers of titles with a broader variety of chosen coverage. Most currently available texts arelater editions of these titles.From Table 1 it is clear that as a group, undergraduate textbooks in engineering economics havenot made the inclusion of personal finance

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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Engineering Economy

two different hypotheses being tested are: the difference in the means for the final exam scores for the two populations, and the difference in the means for the overall course scores for the two populations. Null hypothesis 1: Ho: µ final exam score 2015F = µ final exam score 2016F Null hypothesis 2: Ho: µ overall class score 2015F = µ overall class score 2016FThe samples are assumed to be independent, and normally distributed. The variance forboth populations is unknown, but we’ve pooled the sample variances to estimate thepopulation parameter. We’ll assume that 𝜎!! = 𝜎!! , and select 𝛼 = 0.05.Given 𝑛! = 117 and 𝑛! = 144, the degrees of freedom is 117 + 144 − 2 = 259.With 𝛼 2 = 0.025, the critical 𝑡 statistic is

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gilbert C Brunnhoeffer III P.E., Roger Williams University

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Engineering Economy

evaluatereplacement street lighting for municipalities. Of course, the analysis suggested is slanted1ftp://ftp02.portlandoregon.gov/PBOT/Chi/COP%20Signal%20&%20St%20Lighting%20Reference/COP%20St%20Lighting%20Reference/LED%20Lights/Leotek.LED.Streetlight.Guide.V7-101613.pdftoward their LED product but the analysis steps are a fair representation of how one mightanalyze the decision at the city engineer level.The basic decision is, do we spend money now to put a more expensive (purchase price) cobrastyle street light head with LEDs on the existing poles? As part of the process the problem wasdivided into four parts; 1) gathering data on representative costs of purchasing commercial streetlight heads (both sodium vapor and LED), 2) determining the

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert P. Leland, Oral Roberts University

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Diversity

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Engineering Economy

, Technology Review, andvarious web based venues. They are assigned and due the next lecture. Students must read ashort article, and write a ½ - 1 page summary. All students turning in a reasonable paper receivefull credit. The focus is on content and exposure, rather than on composition and in-depthanalysis.Some of the readings I have used include:Woman Who Couldn’t Be Intimidated by Citigroup Wins $31 Million11, A manager inCitigroup’s Mortgage division becomes a whistleblower exposing improper mortgage practicesat Citigroup. This reading reinforces the importance of integrity, and addresses a principal causeof the recession of 2008.Professor on quest for India’s hidden Inventors12. Management professor Anil Gupta travelsthrough rural India to find

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 2, IE-ing the Classroom

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul C. Lynch, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Joseph Wilck, College of William & Mary; Amanda Elizabeth VanBuskirk

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

went to:  Check Grades  Check Attendance  Check Course Calendar for Upcoming Deadlines, Quizzes, Exams - The ANGEL Calendar also contained the breakdown of coverage on exams and quizzes  Print Lecture Notes (Unedited and Edited)  Print Lab Procedures (for IE MFG course)  Print Assignments  Submit Assignments  Send EmailsData were collected in both courses regarding student satisfaction with the instructor, course,communication in the course, and the use of the course management system. Table 1 belowbreaks down the course semesters and enrollments for the data collection.Table 1: Course and Enrollment Statistics for Data Collection Course/ Semester Enrollment

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 2, IE-ing the Classroom

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

individual efforts and the ability level that can be reached under adult guidance or incollaboration with more capable peers.1 Guidance can be provided by helping the learner tofocus on particular aspects of the problem by asking leading questions or providing starterinformation, or simplifying some of the details.2Scaffolding provides a structure that helps students construct knowledge by building newknowledge and competencies upon their existing abilities. It is commonly used in writing andusually given in one the following three forms: 1) breaking up an assignment into smallerassignments, 2) keeping assignment constant but increasing the difficulty of materials, or 3)creating a scaffold within a single assignment. 3 The levels of learning based

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Billy Gray, Tarleton State University; Daren Davis, Tarleton State University; Erick C Jones P.E., University of Texas, Arlington

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Engineering Economy

economic analysis after it has been implemented. As many of ourpartners implement and utilize the capstone projects, it is important for our students tounderstand how the projects are evaluated so that they can conduct a better analysis of theprojects in the beginning. As we continue to look at our courses and implement projects, we willcontinue to bring more examples into the course.References1. Anwar, S., & Ford, P. (2001). Use of a case study approach to teach engineering technology students. International journal of electrical engineering education, 38(1), 1-10.2. Dixon, G., & Wilck, J. (2014). Integrating Economic Analysis into Capstone Course. 121st ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Indianapolis: American Society

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 2, IE-ing the Classroom

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alejandro Salado, Virginia Tech; John Ray Morelock, Virginia Tech; Arash Baghaei Lakeh, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

inaccordance with conditions that continually changed in response to competitors’ actions.Adaptability involved managing uncertainty through negotiations with other teams andinnovating within the game’s ruleset to secure advantages. Third, the game was built to promoteconstrained decision-making, as students needed to understand what information was needed toapply certain engineering techniques or make engineering decisions, as well as distinguish whichdecisions were appropriate for the given amount of information and time they had to completethe game.The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify evidence of learning during the game and todetermine, for future iterations, (1) what learning frameworks fit the data to inform the game’sdesign and

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Omar Ashour, The Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College; Faisal Aqlan, Penn State Behrend; Paul C. Lynch, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

until this semester (Fall 2016). Figure 1 shows a graphicalrepresentation of mastery learning and assessment. In this study, a variation of the masterylearning and assessment approach is implemented in this course. The Engineering Economycourse is a hybrid in the sense that the mastery learning and assessment is used in the first thirdof the course where students are required to successfully solve problems before receiving creditfor their work. The pace of the course is led by the instructor. The remaining two thirds of thecourse is taught using the traditional learning and assessment approach where grades are basedon partial credit and no retakes are allowed. Table 1 shows the topics of the EngineeringEconomy course and the portions where

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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Diversity

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Engineering Economy

) HVAC control Upgrade: This project involves the recommendation to change the controls throughout the 20+ story building from 50-year old pneumatic thermostats to wireless controls. Previously, consultants recommended changing the controls but this was many years ago before wireless controls were popular. Also, the previous data was collected when utility prices were significantly different than today, so it makes sense that this project is worth evaluating. Below are photos from the tour given by the building staff. Figure 1: First picture from tour of mechanical Figure 2: Second picture from tour of mechanical room current controls room – condensate pumps• Geothermal Well Expansion