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Innovative IE Curricula

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Masud Salimian, Morgan State University; Yaseen Mahmud, Morgan State University; Avis L. Ransom, Morgan State University School of Engineering

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

of Engineering, she develops projects, plans and implements strategies and develops and documents reports, newsletters and proposals. Page 23.1262.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Training Industrial Engineering Students as Energy EngineersIntroductionBuildings consume approximately 40% 1 of all energy in the United States. Most buildingsoperate far less efficiently than their potential. In the U.S., industry alone accounts for about 31%of all energy used 8. There are many benefits to making commercial and industrialmanufacturing plants more efficient. One is to

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Innovative IE Course Content

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas H Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Bloom’s taxonomy6 suchas knowledge, comprehension and application. But this mode of instruction is less likely toemphasize the higher-order cognitive skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. In this learningmodule that teaches gauge R&R, students must design a sampling plan for a gauge R&R studythat involves different measuring devices with different characteristics, conduct and evaluatemultiple gauge R&R studies, and recommend a measuring device based upon the analysis of thegauge R&R studies.The remainder of this paper will present the Mouse Factory learning system, the gauge R&R Page 23.1144.2project, results from the

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Hubert Wilck IV, East Carolina University; Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University

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Engineering Economy

fullyonline course13.Research Study Motivation and FocusThe origin of our study is based in a solidly pragmatic perspective. Similar to one of the keymotivations noted by the Peercy and Cramer11, our engineering program must explore costeffective ways to increase course availability from several perspectives:  Although many students are able to take courses in the semesters planned when multiple sections are available, there is also a significant number who are off schedule and need “trailing” sections. Unfortunately, timing of face to face sections may conflict with other needed courses and online versions offer scheduling flexibility which is impossible for traditional sections.  Faculty resources trail the

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Innovative IE Curricula

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan L. Murray, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Terri M. Lynch-Caris, Kettering University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Islands. The NCEES Strategic Plan describes several issues that representchallenges to maintaining an effective licensure process. The document, which is periodicallyupdated by the board of directors, specifies goals associated with each of the issues and describesstrategies for achieving these goals [NCEES, 2012]. Vision The vision of NCEES is to provide leadership in professional licensure of engineers and surveyors through excellence in uniform laws, licensing standards, and professional ethics for the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare and to shape the future of professional licensure. Mission The mission of NCEES is to advance licensure for engineers and surveyors in order to

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Neal A Lewis, University of Bridgeport; Ted Eschenbach, University of Alaska Anchorage

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Engineering Economy

disregards the time value of money. For single individuals, this is a complicateddecision. For couples, the decision making process is much more complex.Couples facing the question of when to start collecting benefits have more options than do singlepeople. For example, anyone may elect to start collecting early at age 62. However, if one’sspouse is already age 66, they may elect (starting at age 62) to collect up to half of their spouse’sbenefit. Or they may start collecting their own benefit, and switch to collecting spousal benefitsif that is in their best interest. Also, a widow(er) may collect survivor’s benefits. The beststrategy for defining both people’s benefit plans depends on each other’s, and opens manyoptions. Of course, other

Conference Session

Improving course effectiveness

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

developed for a reason and that they did not always exist in the body of knowledge.This thought process, especially when stimulated in the context of many fundamental conceptsrelated to the subject (e.g., Discrete-event simulation, Production Planning and Control, Linearand Non-linear Programming, and Quality Control), is often the reason for outcomes c and e.When students are forced to think and research a topic on their own, they have been seen to havean increased long-term memory of the topic (outcome a). Outcome b can be an indirectconsequence that is likely to occur when students start seeing the whys behind the fundamentaltopics. The outcome d is seen when students spend time researching the topic on their own.In contrast to PBL, deductive

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Innovative IE Course Content

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Connie Gomez, Galveston College; Heidi A. Taboada, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose F. Espiritu, University of Texas, El Paso

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

ethics course during the completion of theirengineering degree plans. Under the current degree plans, students do have the option to take anethics course, PHIL 2306 Ethics: Philosophical Perspective on Human Conduct and Values, tofulfill their Humanities Core Requirement. This means that students entering this course mayhave little exposure to ethics or a general background of ethics, without specifically addressingengineering or sustainability. Students invariably receive their background in engineering ethics Page 23.1251.4throughout their coursework, their interaction with their professors, and through any internshipor coop opportunities they

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lizabeth T Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Economy

price model was developed when I worked for Unocal Corporation in the1980’s. It is based on theories developed in finance and engineering economy that are similar tothe “discounted cashflow” method of stock evaluation (Rahgozar, 2008, Becchetti et all, 2004,Rawley et al 2006). When at Unocal, my colleagues and I in the strategic planning departmentbuilt a model to forecast the stock price of Unocal during the take over fight with T. BoonePickens (McCoy, 1985). We used the model to predict the change in the stock price asinformation was relayed to the investment community. It was very accurate and was extremelyhelpful in the take over defense.The point of this project, as it was in the case of Unocal’s stock price model, is not to develop amodel

Conference Session

Improving course effectiveness

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan L. Murray, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Julie Phelps, Missouri S&T, Educational Technology

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

though they did not prepare them. A different software package (Study Stack) was initiallyused to prepare the cards, but Quizlet proved easier for exporting and importing flashcards. Thispackage was more difficult to use and did not have the flexibility to export the electronic cards inas many formats.The cards created by an entire class, varied in quality and format. Some students put an excessiveamount of wording on the cards. The instructor reviewed and edited the cards before releasingthem to the class members. This approach took less time and created more student interest, butthe flashcards were less consistent. Even with these shortcomings, the electronic flashcards werewell received by the students. The instructor plans to make some

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Weihang Zhu, Lamar University; Alberto Marquez P.E., Lamar University; Julia Yoo, Lamar University

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Engineering Economy

LamarUniversity. It will give students more opportunity to learn and practice Engineering Economicswhenever they have spare time. The preliminary assessment results in Fall 2012 semester arepresented in this paper. Surveys and interviews are conducted with randomly selected students toget a better understanding of the impact of the mobile app. The authors are now in the process oftransforming the app into game-style. Further development and improvement with formativeassessment is planned in the next three years.* Acknowledgment: This project is partially supported by a grant from the National ScienceFoundation DUE-1140457 to Lamar University. 1. Introduction Engineering Economics is a core class in engineering and is often required in

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Improving course effectiveness

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard L Marcellus, Northern Illinois University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

agreement that consciously developing metacognitive habits significantlyincreases the ability to transfer academic learning to the workplace5-9 (The references given are onlya small representative sample.). This diagram summarizes metacognition: awareness dealing with problems Self planning while learning / teaching evaluating thinkingThe rest of this paper focuses on problem posing and problem structuring, with little explicitmention of metacognition. However, thinking about the essential qualities of problems is reflectivein nature, and hence metacognitive. Here is an example

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Innovative IE Curricula

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yunchen Huang, Mississippi State University; Lesley Strawderman, Mississippi State University; John M. Usher P.E., Mississippi State University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

. Review of Higher Education, 26(2), 119–144.11. Sherwood, J. L., Peterson, J. N. & Grandzielwski, J. M. (1997). Faculty mentoring: a unique approach to training graduate students how to teach. Journal of Engineering Education,86, 119-123.12. Johnson, P.E. (2001). Changing roles for the Teaching Assistant: a workshop plan. Journal of Graduate Teaching Assistant Development, 8(1), 33-3513. Park, C. (2004). The graduate teaching assistant (GTA): lessons from North American experience. Teaching in Higher Education, 9(3), 349-361. Page 23.81.9

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Innovative IE Course Content

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John P. Mullen, New Mexico State University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

with the client, plan and carry outdata collection, analyze the data, and make a report. As with the modeling exercise, studentsshare the reports with each other via our course management system. This serves to transfer theconcepts developed through simulated data to the real world. Frequently students tell me thatthey are surprised how similar the real-world study is to the simulated one.ObservationsUnfortunately, these graduate-level engineering classes are sometimes low in enrollment. Evenwhen class sizes run between 20 and 40 students, if many students had already developed a levelof stochastic awareness prior to starting the course, sample sizes would be small. Nevertheless, Ido have some indications of success:For example, in a current

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Innovative IE Course Content

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justin W. Kile, Quinnipiac University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Paper ID #7590Using Informal Oral Presentations in Engineering Classes: Training Studentsfor the ”You Got a Minute” MomentDr. Justin W. Kile, Quinnipiac University Dr. Kile is an associate professor of industrial engineering Quinnipiac University and is also serving as the interim chair of Quinnipiac University’s Department of Engineering. Prior to joining Quinnipiac in 2012, he was an associate professor and program coordinator for the Industrial Engineering program at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville. His research interests include material handling, facilities planning, and logistics. Additionally his

Conference Session

Improving course effectiveness

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory L. Wiles P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University; Thomas Reid Ball, Southern Polytechnic State University (ENG)

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

students even preferred a hybrid Page 23.1176.2course over the old traditional classroom 4. Our quasi-study supports this.The description of the traditional classroom for this department is a twice-a-week classconsisting of 75 minutes of f2f per class period. The instructor conducts the class in a traditionalmanner with transparency projectors or perhaps with the help of technology such as acomputer/projector and PowerPoint slides combination. Homework and tests are typically givenand received through paper handouts and take ups. Our plans were to migrate toward a hybridlearning environment, also called blended learning and the terms can be

Conference Session

Innovative IE Course Content

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Ann Layton, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Thomas Reed Willemain, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

-eight out of thirty-nine possible participants had amajor within the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, one being a MechanicalEngineer. Most students in QC are juniors and seniors with more than one prior course instatistics. By the end of this course students should have the ability to identify, formulate andsolve engineering problems, and model the stochastic nature of management systems andengineering relationships to the planning, organization, evaluation and control of human centeredsystems. The course places a heavy emphasis on control charting using Minitab 16. QC will becalled the Level 2 course for the remainder of this paper.At the start of the experiment, students provided various items of demographic information (e.g

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Innovative IE Curricula

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saylisse Davila, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Viviana I. Cesani, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Alexandra Medina-Borja, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

. Viviana Cesani is a professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM). She completed her Ph.D. degree in Manufacturing and Production Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998. Her areas of interest in teaching and research include production plan- ning and control, supply chain management, engineering economy, project management, and engineering education. She is currently the department head of the IE department at UPRM. Dr. Cesani is a senior member of IIE, President of the UPRM-Delta Chapter of the International Organization for Women Ed- ucators, and member of the Professional College for Engineers and Land Surveyors of Puerto Rico. She was recognized as UPRM