Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Kelly

. According to the most recent report by the U.S. TradeRepresentative, the European Union continues to be the U.S.'s largest trading partnerand, as such, is a large market for US goods and services.NIST has a number of publications that students can use to learn about EU Directivesthat could affect their design project. NIST Special Publication 951 gives an overview ofthe European process. 5 A table is included which shows the product fields affected by thenew approach. Some areas covered by directives include: medical devices, constructionproducts, machinery, and low voltage equipment.A series of reports are available dealing with directives in different sectors which studentscould consult for details specific to their project area. These documents

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

ideas into a business venture.This research is part of an ongoing research project between the Entrepreneurship EducationForum at Vanderbilt University and the School of Engineering Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity (TTU) to investigate ways of developing teams to think creatively andentrepreneurially. This is part of TTU's NSF grant on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Thispresentation will report on the activities related to developing cross-discipline entrepreneurshipteams and the process related to taking ideas for the mind to the market place. Project objectiveare as follows:Project Objectives1) The introduction of the idea of an Entrepreneurship Team2) The development of an Entrepreneurship Team3) The development of a series of activities

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amanda Young; Richard Brow

school students.As part of the project, UMR undergraduates are developing and testing self-contained kits fordistribution to high schools. The kits will contain all of the materials and supplies needed forhigh school teachers to perform experiments and controlled demonstrations that illustrateimportant scientific principles in an entertaining manner. Laboratory exercises based on slipcasting and glass melting have been prepared for the kits. These hands-on activities give a basicunderstanding for what ceramic materials are and how they are produced. They emphasize theapplication of science (chemistry and physics) to form common raw materials into usefulproducts. At the end of the funding cycle, an example kit, written instructions, and an

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Soule; Bruce Segee

devices require a voltage higher than that of the supply voltage, most HBridge chips contain high side driver circuitry that is transparent to the user.As an educational project the design of an NMOS exclusive H-Bridge was undertaken.This will implement simple circuitry and consist of common, easily obtainable components.This paper will demonstrate the design of the H Bridge and high side driver and willdiscuss, in depth, component choice, design considerations, and effectiveness of thisparticular circuit.1. IntroductionOften in an industrial environment power must be delivered to high voltage devices. Thismay include as simple a task as turning on and shutting off power to the load, but may alsorequire bi-directional control of power through the

Conference Session

Mentoring Women and Minorities

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Dunfey; Julie Salisbury; Erik Rushton; Brian Gravel

is important tocommunicate ideas in a manner that will be interesting and comprehensible to a wide range ofpersonalities. Communicating exclusively with engineers requires technical descriptions withhigh levels of detail; however this is not the case with all individuals on a project team. Amanager wants to know how much money you are spending, and why you are spending it. This Page 8.231.4information is directly related to your design, but warrants a completely different explanation “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American

Conference Session

Motivating students to achieve

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Gaonkar

no teaching. If we include learning is an int egral part of teaching, Shannon s model fallsshort in representing the teaching. However, Shannon s model with feedback, known as theShannon-Weaver model, can represent the teaching-learning process, and this model is verysimilar to the model of an engineering system. This paper describes both the Shannon s originalmodel and modified model with feedback and compares the modified model with theengineering systems model. It draws analogies between the engineering model and classroomactivities and student activities and suggests various lessons t hat can be learned from theengineering model to improve teaching and learning.* Supported by NSF ATE Project DUE 99-50019

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Gaonkar

no teaching. If we include learning is an int egral part of teaching, Shannon s model fallsshort in representing the teaching. However, Shannon s model with feedback, known as theShannon-Weaver model, can represent the teaching-learning process, and this model is verysimilar to the model of an engineering system. This paper describes both the Shannon s originalmodel and modified model with feedback and compares the modified model with theengineering systems model. It draws analogies between the engineering model and classroomactivities and student activities and suggests various lessons t hat can be learned from theengineering model to improve teaching and learning.* Supported by NSF ATE Project DUE 99-50019

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Butt; Sam Ramrattan; Alamgir Choudhury

experiments in the laboratory and downloading process data in remotecomputers using the web. Most of these developments were geared toward laboratory practicesin under graduate programs.At Western Michigan University a project was undertaken to access a real time process from theclassroom, monitor the process data, use them for teaching process analysis and make decision torectify the out of control process as part of classroom learning in the graduate level processmonitoring and control class. As a result, the students will be familiar with the process of makingkey decisions based on on- line statistical analysis of a real process and observe the effect of thecorrective actions on a out of control process without leaving the classroom. This will

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mufazzal Arif; Mitchel Keil; Jorge Rodriguez; Alamgir Choudhury

utilize the complete sequence or only agiven subset of the methodology. This aspect is of great value to students because theycan make use of a specific procedure to study and check the material and problemscovered in lecture during a semester, or they can use the entire Module to do a completestress analysis while they are working on lab projects, where they need to perform analysisand redesign tasks while putting systems together.The module has been implemented in Mathcad, with the use of Visual Basic as a controlconsole and to display options for graphical interface to visualize results. The type ofproblems that can be dealt with in the implemented module are generic statically-determined beam problems, which are the typical problems that

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Ali Sekmen; Recayi Pecen; Ayhan Zora; Ismail Fidan

. Page 8.657.2Although most of these systems included some representation of a relevant knowledge base “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”(data, algorithms, and rules), the high cost of utilizing this knowledge and extreme difficulty ofmaintaining it made such systems useful only for special large applications or projects wherecosts could be justified. However, a modern KBS can be implemented on an inexpensivecomputer platform and contains software tools that permit a novice or apprentice to perform thetasks normally reserved for a professional with a higher degree of training. In other words

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Jansen

)Abstract The domain of biophotonics/biomedical optics continues to increase in importance for manyareas of Biomedical Engineering, Medicine, and the Life Sciences. Whatever the ultimate goal ofthe use of light in medicine and biology, the initial interaction and distribution of light withinbiological tissue is fundamental. Students at all levels have considerable difficulty with many ofthe concepts that govern light distribution in tissue. To address these conceptual difficulties, newparadigms in the learning sciences advocate approaches that actively engage the students inmodels of challenge-based learning. The goals of this project were: 1) implementation of a challenge-based learning module,based on the laser treatment of a Port Wine

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julio Davalos

selected fundamental principles with existing oremerging teaching technologies can be beneficial for improving the quality of learning andteaching in the classroom. In addition to the obvious benefits for students and the satisfaction Page 8.469.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationderived by the instructor, the experience and knowledge gained through efforts directed toimproving teaching can be effectively combined with research interests and evolve intointegrated research-educational projects This paper describes an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski

Session 1526 Non-traditional Laboratory Experiments: Olive Oil Manufacturing and Testing. Part I: Freshman Engineering Experiments M. P. Gifford, E. G. Cervo, M. J. Savelski, S. Farrell, R. P. Hesketh and C. S. Slater. Rowan University. College of Engineering. Glassboro, NJ 08028AbstractOlive oil manufacturing and processing involves the application of many fundamentalchemical engineering principles and unit operations. These operations are not, however,traditionally explored in the chemical engineering curriculum. This paper presents thefirst set of experiments created as part of an NSF funded project whose goal is

Conference Session

Factors Impacting Engineering Career Choices, Including Engaging Families

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Boynton P.E., Virginia Tech; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2012-3769: ENGINEERING AS A CAREER CHOICE AMONG RU-RAL APPALACHIAN STUDENTSMr. Matthew Boynton P.E., Virginia Tech Matthew Boynton is a doctoral student in the Engineering Education Department at Virginia Tech. Before entering Virginia Tech, he earned a B.S. and M.S. in civil and environmental engineering, and an Ed.S in instructional leadership from Tennessee Technological University. His engineering work experience includes work within a rural telecommunications service provider and an environmental consulting firm. While working toward his M.S. and Ed.S, Boynton worked with the Extended Education Department at Tennessee Technological University teaching Project Lead the Way engineering courses in rural high

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aileen M. Walter, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, NACME, Inc.; Saundra Johnson Austin, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, NACME, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

theretention-graduation rates of URM students in engineering, as well as the cultivation of middleand high school, community college students’ success in STEM.Topics that will be addressed include:–Developing innovative partnerships to increase the capacity and capability of academicinstitutions to recruit, admit, retain, educate and graduate underrepresented minority students inengineering–Establishing regional pilot projects across the United States–Measuring the impact of XXX’s STEM Integration Model Page 25.606.2
BackgroundThis is a critical time for our nation. While the United States has led the world in globalinnovation, economic competitiveness

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Hossain, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech); Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University, Calumet; Hamza Kadir, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology)

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

served as chair of manufacturing Systems Development Applications Department of IEEE/IAS. He authored more than 25 refereed journal and conference publications. In 2009, he as PI received NSF-CCLI grant entitled A Mechatronics Curriculum and Packaging Automation Laboratory Facility. In 2010, he as Co-PI received NSF-ATE grant entitled Meeting Workforce Needs for Mechatron- ics Technicians. From 2003 through 2006, he was involved with Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill., in developing direct computer control for hydrogen powered automotives. He is also involved in several direct computer control and wireless process control related research projects. His interests are in the area of industrial transducer

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research-related Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher M Greene, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

with robotics, college,STEM majors, and being an underrepresented student. The goal of this program was to getunderrepresented student interested in going to college and majoring in a STEM discipline.Project Lead The WayOver the summer there was a two part program, Project Lead The Way (or PLTW) , that bringsteachers into the institute to learn different teaching methods and styles in attempt to get them toincorporate the knowledge gained in their lesson plans. PLTW is a STEM education innovatorin middle and high schools across the country. One set of teachers come in one day and anotherset visit another day2. One of the highlights of the program is that it allows faculty todemonstrate different teaching methodologies and it also allows

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen T. Marosi, Bucknell University; Barbra Steinhurst, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

courses.Integral to this process is an exceptionally active and motivated Advisory Committee made up ofalumni from a variety of engineering disciplines and graduation years. These industry partnerswork not only to help raise funds to endow the program but also meet regularly with the studentsto mentor and inspire. The students and alumni share multiple meals a year together on campusand the students have been invited to visit partner offices and project sites. In exchange for thestudents’ participation in the ESA activities, the industry partners will facilitate internship andprofessional development activities in the third and fourth years of the students’ engineeringprogram. When the students in the ESA program graduate, the Advisory Committee

Conference Session

Focus on Elementary

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly L. Lundstrom, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Page 25.924.2been the most difficult positions to fill for more than two sequential years (2008 and 2009), andyet careers in engineering are projected to grow by 11% over the 2008-2018 decade3,10. In orderto fill engineering careers with competent individuals from the U.S., there is a need to improvethe educational system at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, and there is a need toinclude engineering as an area that is addressed in our educational system.The idea that engineering and technology should be taught in pre-college schools is somewhatnew. According to recent research, most science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) programs in the United States focus solely on mathematics and science, and leaveengineering

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and the Non-science College Student

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Robert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University; James F. Young P.E., Rice University; Scott VanderStoep, Hope College

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, or advertisedto indicate its potential appeal or value to non-engineering majors?" Would someone in yourmajor be attracted to a minor? What types of majors would be attracted to this? What are someof the potential benefits to a student who chooses a minor? Can you see any drawbacks to aminor from engineering? Would the minor be more attractive if one of the electives could besatisfied by a practical experience such as a summer internship with an engineering company, Page 25.939.10working on an Engineers Without Borders project, or working on a senior design team withengineering students? 9It was

Conference Session

Developing Young Minds in Engineering: Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine S. Zerda, University of Houston; Stuart A. Long, University of Houston; Fritz J. Claydon, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

success. Thecurriculum components integrate project-based learning and team-based design challenges withstudy skills development, time management strategies, and personal and professional skillsenhancement. Those will be discussed in another paper that focuses on First Year programs. Forthe remainder of this paper we will present another cornerstone of our college’s programs tosupport student success.Far too often, students who enter college aspiring to careers in engineering progress successfullythrough their freshman courses but do not survive the rigorous sophomore courses. Some of thesophomore engineering courses (e.g. Thermodynamics, Mechanics I, Chemical Processes,Applied Electromagnetics and Circuit Analysis) have pass rates in the range

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

,  Ph.D.,  K.  (October  26  -­‐  28,  2011).  Group  Discussion  Leader  with  Ellen  Kabat-­‐Lensch.  What  Are  the  Secrets  of  Success  for  Energy  Projects?  ATE  National  Principal  Investigators  Conference.  Washington,  D.C.    WORKSHOPS  Robertson,  S.  (April  14,  2011).  KidWind  Regional  Competition  –  8  Teams  Participated.  Cuesta  College,  San  Luis  Obispo,  CA.    Alfano,  Ph.D.,  K.  (April  14  -­‐  16,  2011).  U.S.  Department  of  Education's  Community  College   Page 25.984.7Regional  Summit.  San  Diego  City  College,  San  Diego,  CA

Conference Session

Instructional Innovations and Global Issues in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Dermody A.I.A., Roger Williams University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

and axial stress. While studying thesedesigners, who worked during the rise of the modern movement in architecture, engineeringstudents will also be exposed to cultural and social issues affecting the design of large scale civilworks projects. This was also a time in which graphic statics was commonly used to find goodforms for structures and to determine member forces. The Swiss engineer, Robert Maillart,epitomized this way of working. (Figure 8)Figure 8. Robert Maillart, Figure 9. Isambard Kingdom Figure 10. Gustave Eiffel,1872-1940 Brunel, 1806-1859 1832-1923Engineering PersonalitiesThe pioneering designers of historic structures, as well as many others, are also

Conference Session

Computer Education Innovations I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcial Lapp, University of Michigan; Jeffrey Ringenberg, University of Michigan; T. Jeff Fleszar, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

, who attempted to predict performance inintroductory computer science courses through a detailed factor analysis. The researchers usedhigh-school grade point averages, ACT/SAT scores, as well as tests such as the IBMProgrammer Aptitude Test as predictors.The work performed by Campell5, Cantwell-Wilson6 and Evans7 suggest that using predictorssuch as mathematical ability and the number and level of previously completed math and sciencecourses indicates computer programming success.A different set of research projects relate a student’s success in a computer programming courseto previous exposure to computer programming and logic courses. Hagan8 and Holden9 illustratea positive correlation between the performance in a computer programming course

Conference Session

Faculty Development for Distance Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Donohue, The College of New Jersey; Christine Schnittka, University of Kentucky; Larry Richards, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

theyseemed to be the most logical candidates for recruitment. However, many students were notacademically prepared to enroll in college STEM courses without remediation, often becauseprevious curriculum choices resulted in limited exposure to math and science in these students’programs of study. Other obstacles include students’ lack of awareness of engineering as apossible career because of unfamiliarity with the profession.1 One natural extension, then, wasto focus projects at the middle school level, where timely interventions would ideally lead toenrollment in classes that would better prepare students for the rigors of college STEM studies.Research, however, is increasingly indicating that that intervention efforts must begin as early

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University; Monica Cardella, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

up a summary describing the project Figure 1. The design process the teachers were asked to comment onAs a part of the validation process, we pilot tested the instrument with elementary teachersvoluntarily participating in a summer five-day professional development workshop that focusedon integrating engineering content into mathematics and science curriculum. Among variousactivities that the teachers took part in, such as demonstration of what different types ofengineers do, they were introduced to the engineering process model from the “Engineering isElementary” units developed by the Boston Museum of Science 9. The teachers participated indesign activities and discussions based on the model throughout the workshop

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

changes in how the class was run based on the results ofthe surveys. The question that provoked the most useful responses was, “Name one thingthat is still not clear from today's class.” In the undergraduate class, feedback caused me tospend more time describing—and answering questions on—a programming project, and toexplain Java interfaces a second time, I also discovered that an active-learning exercise thathad worked well the semester before did not work at all in this year’s class; though Icouldn’t revisit it this semester, I will be sure to modify the exercise before using it again.In the graduate class, I learned that I needed to provide further explanation on why we weredeveloping a rubric in class to use for evaluating student

Conference Session

Computer Education Innovations I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

, unusual facts about themselves, and theirWeb pages. They can create the roster by filling out a Google form, as shown in Figure 18. Page 15.1177.13Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 12Copyright  2010, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 18. Class rosterOther administrative uses include registering (self-selected) partnerships for doing particularhomework assignments, and registering for specific project topics when students are asked tochoose from a list of topics for their project. Forms are helpful, but not ideal, for

Conference Session

Technology-Enhanced Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diarmuid McCarthy, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick; Seamus Gordon, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

a decline in the uptake of technologicalbased subjects at second level.Over the past 4 years, in an attempt to stimulate technological education, theDepartment of Education and Science has modernised the entire suite of traditionalcraft based syllabi to foster a design and creative culture. This brought with it anunprecedented amount of new material, the need for philosophical change and adynamic learning approach.The challenges facing contemporary teaching and learning centres on interpreting,realising and delivering the philosophical changes that accompanies educationalreform. The focus of traditional subjects centred on prescribed project based outcomesthat enabled practitioners form the role of a didactic director, the

Conference Session

Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks; Thomas Gavigan, Penn State Berks; Brittany Farrell, Penn State Berks

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

. One unit was for disassembly with nointentions of it ever being returned to its original state. The essential parts of the disassembledunits were, however, still functional. In this way, the efficiency of the key system elementscould be determined.In parallel with the work being performed by the first-year students, a similar but separateindependent investigation was being performed by a fourth-year engineering technology student.This investigation involved the conversion of mechanical energy stored in a spinning flywheel to Page 15.462.3electrical energy stored on a capacitor. The work on this project also started by disassembling ahuman