Conference Session

Nuclear Power and the Environment

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Simpson; David Hintenlang; James Tulenko

production systems, (i.e. wind,coal, gas, hydro, nuclear, etc.), evaluated on a consistent basis, taking into account thesocial and economic effects in addition to the cost (dollar) effects. A major problemaffecting the evaluation of the environmental and social costs of energy production inconjunction with the monetary cost is a lack of standardization, without whichcomparisons are difficult or invalid. A conflict has arisen between those intent onprotecting their view of the environment and those intent on providing continuingeconomic development. Previous studies of the environmental consequences have beendone by the Pace Law School Energy Project, which is part of the Pace University Schoolof Law's Center for Environmental Legal Studies, located

Conference Session

Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hoffman; Christopher Zappe; Steven Shooter; Michael O'Donnell

suggests that 1) managers and engineers view the same facts fromdifferent perspectives and 2) there is a general difficulty to send or receive bad news, particularlywhen it must be passed to superiors. It is possible that the level of risk was not effectivelycommunicated to higher levels of management. Lighthall6 argues that there was a lack in basicskills in statistics with the engineers, and that the data and analyses were not valid but deficient.In fact, NASA safety organizations were not staffed with professional statisticians or riskanalysts, and project engineers were not trained in modern statistical analysis techniques.3 The following hypothesis and supporting hypotheses are thus presented for this study: Engineering curricula

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wood; Jason Bartolomei; Dave Winebrener; Don Rhymer; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

a number ofassessment instruments specifically for this project. Assessment results indicate that the presentform of the Vis-MoM courseware is well received by both professors and students. In addition,quantitative results indicate a significant increase in both short term and longer-term conceptual Page 7.341.3 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”understanding when using the Vis-MoM courseware over standard lecture alone. Theassessment instruments developed specifically for this

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gulnur Birol; Todd Giorgio; Sean Brophy; Ann McKenna

the challenge below. You need to take this opportunity to participate in thisactivity to the best of your ability. You should identify anything you are uncertain of and identify what you would do to research more toremove this uncertainty. Your effort on this activity represents -10% of your score on the first midterm exam.Part A. Recent sports reports have focused on the use of proteins as supplements to enhance an athlete’s performance. As such, there isgreat interest in the pharmaceutical industry to produce protein-based products that can be used in over-the-counter performanceenhancing supplements. You have just been promoted to project manager at ProteinPlus Corporation. ProteinPlus Corporation’s primaryrole is to design protein

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Mary Lidstrom; Kjell Nelson; Jeffrey Bonadio; David Stahl; Cynthia Atman

2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationobjectives of these exercises were: 1) elicit and record students’ initial concepts, 2) to illustratethe functional aspects of living systems, and introduce the principle that the design space of lifeis constrained by a rational set of physical parameters, and 3)allow the instructor to establish theframework for the discussions to follow in the course.Module 2: Introduction to The Human Genome Project and genetic mapping. For this exercise,the students were shown the recently published map of the human genome1 and were challengedto decode the meanings of its annotations

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

wilson ruggiero; regina silveira; itana stiubiener

from Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) in1988. In 1994, she received the M.S. degree in Physics from University of São Paulo, São Paulo, and Brazil.In 2000 she degree Ph.D. in the Department of Computer and Digital System engineering at the PolytechnicSchool of University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is teacher and researcher at LARC (Laboratory of ComputerArchitecture and Networks) where she has developed projects at multimedia applications for high-speednetwork and distance educationWilson Vicente RuggieroWilson Vicente Ruggiero is President of SCOPUS TECNOLOGIA S.A. He is an assistant professor ofComputer Department and Digital Systems Engineering of Polytechnic School of University of São Paulo andDirector of Laboratory of Computer

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shelia Barnett

conditioning, paper mill, telephone, government contractors,and a biomedical pharmaceutical company. From employer evaluations, we find most of thestudents performed extremely well. Some of the employer comments were: “Student’s greatattitude a plus … work ethic will be an asset to any organization,” “… student is a cut above therest,” “Student exceeded expectations of intern program,” “… provided great support for multi-million dollar project,” etc. Student surveys showed that students regarded their experiences positively and wantedto continue working in some form of internship or cooperative experience. However, studentsdid express anxiety in beginning work in an engineering environment with no previousexperience. Most students were able to

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Duke; Don Morris

of the form used to report a summary of the assessment results and anyrecommendations based on the evaluation of the results. Any particular assessment tool,homework, group project, laboratory reports, quizzes, testing, or combination deemed necessaryby the instructor could be used. The assessment might be used to monitor (M) or summatively Page 7.238.2assess (S) the student achievement. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationFig. 2. Schematic diagram depicting the process for course

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Osborne; Bill Carroll

offered.Course Design and DeliveryCS/EE Online courses are delivered via the World-Wide-Web in the form of hypertext files.This permits a wide range of options for course design and implementation. All courses aredesigned to facilitate asynchronous and self-paced learning. On-line Web access (utilizingcourse WebPages and WebBoard, and email) is used to facilitate group discussions and Q&Awith the instructor, and support other logistical needs such as homework assignments. FAQs andthreaded discussions are provided through the course WebBoard. Threaded discussions andQ&As are kept from each semester and are made available to students in future semestersthrough the WebBoard. Use of the WebBoard to organize project teams in CSE 5324 is shownin Fig

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Braun

at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. Heworked at Philips Research Labs in Eindhoven, the Netherlands from 1992 to 1996, after completing the Ph.D. inElectrical Engineering at U.C. Santa Barbara. Please see www.ee.calpoly.edu/~dbraun/ for information about hiscourses, teaching interests, and research projects in semiconducting polymers. Page 6.529.4Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Drake; Douglas Walcerz

goals that are being satisfied and those which are not. Thisinformation can motivate and direct efforts to improve curriculum.In practice, the measurement of educational outcomes is difficult and can be expensive, the results are oftenambiguous or statistically unsound. The positive impact of continuous improvement on the curriculum isdifficult to provei. Despite the difficulties and expense, accrediting groups and other agencies havemandated outcomes assessment and continuous improvement. Of special note are new criteria by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), which apply to engineering programs in2000ii, and are projected to be mandated for engineering technology programs in 2001iii. The new criteriarely extensively

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Wilson

, and sponsored activities, including IE students in these efforts if they are interested. • Investigate the possibility of developing K-12 outreach programs such as summer camps and mentoring programs. • Continue the brown bag lunches and try to include more female students. • Collaborate with WES to sponsor activities for female engineering students. • Work with the campus freshman advisors to assist them with advising potential engineering students • Work with the campus tour guides to help them understand the types of projects performed in the engineering departments, and how the facility supports those projects. • Conduct surveys or interviews in other departments at UMD to try to determine why

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Reardon; Cici Mattiuzzi

that may be used includes,but is not limited to, the following: student portfolios, including design projects; nationally-normed subject content examinations; alumni surveys that document professionalaccomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys; and placement data ofgraduates.”1The College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Sacramento,has initiated a new method for assessing the outcomes of our graduates, in response to the newABET requirements. This paper describes our industry site visit survey program. Page 6.581.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Behr; Christine Masters

in class actually used.” • “The overall ability to project our class work on paper to a functional lab experiment was most beneficial. My learning was further aided through use of a well designed software program that made it easy to calculate forces and moments.” • “It (MechANEX) applies very directly to what I am learning in class, what I’m doing for homework, and what I am being tested on.” • “It was extremely beneficial to have an opportunity to visualize work I had done in class and see what I read in the book. I now have a greater understanding of the relationship of the resultant force-couple system and the resultant only model.” • “It reinforced the concepts in class and also some more

Conference Session

Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph J. Biernacki, Tennessee Technological University; Donald P. Visco, University of Akron; Evangelynn Thurber, Cookeville High School; Ryan Thomas Pavlovsky

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

property. This approach is usually much more cost effective than runningexperiments. Once predictions have been made, experiments might be conducted to verify thevalidity of the projected behavior for targeted substances. Extracting information from a QSPRis one such CAMD strategy that enables this form of advanced computationally aided decisionmaking.The web applets are an embedded element of the broader lesson plans which apply the Legacycycle pedagogy. The Legacy Cycle is a strategy that uses challenge questions to promote studentdriven inquiry. While the Legacy Cycle concept is explained in detail elsewhere 12, the basicelements include: 1. The challenge – a statement or question that provides an objective and motivation 2. Generation

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Mott, University of Dayton; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

AC 2011-1723: WHAT IS CURRICULA 2015?Robert L. Mott, University of Dayton Robert L. Mott is a professor emeritus in engineering technology at the University of Dayton and a fellow of ASEE. He is the author of four textbooks for the mechanical design field. He also works with the NSF- sponsored National Center for Manufacturing Education and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers as the leader of the SME Center for Education. He is a member of the ASEE, SME, and ASME.Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University Professor of Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering. His interests include Automation, Robotics, Project Management, and Design. Most recently he was part of the team that developed the Curriculum 2015

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Virginia Booth Gleghorn, Purdue University,Minority Engineering Programs; Carol S Stwalley P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Engineering Academic Boot Camp. Students were expected to secure their coursetextbooks and materials and do their best to keep up with the assignments for the duration of thefive week period. The Engineering Academic Boot Camp included mentoring opportunitiesbetween participants and faculty, corporate partners, undergraduate and graduate students aswell as team building activities across cultures. All participants completed a cross-disciplineteam-based engineering project as a part of the overall Engineering Academic Boot Campexperience. Students would receive a final GPA calculation at the close of the camp, howeverstudents do not receive course credit for their participation in the Engineering Academic BootCamp.ResultsThe Engineering Academic Boot

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment in SE Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan E. Conry, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

. Gradually, as Page 22.1308.3the importance of software engineering topics was recognized, treatment of software engineeringconcepts filtered into undergraduate programs. Sometimes these concepts were woven intocourses in computer engineering and sometimes they were treated in computer science courses.As more experience was gained with software engineering courses within computer sciencecurricula and computer engineering curricula, it was recognized that it took a differentexperience to educate a software engineer1. Education of a software engineer requirescoursework and applied project experience that goes beyond what can be added to a

Conference Session

WIED Olio

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen G. Villa, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City; Elsa Gonzalez, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

, it is likely they will not be retained12. In recent years, engineering educators havetried to engage students through learning communities, team projects, and cooperativeeducation5,12.Although most female engineering students experience a male-oriented environment, many havesucceeded in this environment. Some studies address female engineering students‗ experiences incollege; however, little attention has been focused on determining the elements that facilitatesuccess in this environment, especially the role of the culture in their retention.Methods and ProceduresThe methodology used in this study was exploratory and descriptive with the intent to identifyand describe how cultural considerations shape the experiences of college women

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Boerio, University of Cincinnati; Dionysios D. Dionysiou, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati; Miguel Pelaez, University of Cincinnati; Mark Schulz; Christopher Huth; Vesselin N. Shanov, University of Cincinnati; Donglu Shi, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

to Nanoscale Science and Technology and Experimental NanoscaleScience and Technology and provide students at UC with an outstanding educational experiencein nanoscale science and engineering. The new and existing courses support UC studentsparticipating in the Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Revolutionizing MetallicBiomaterials in which UC partners with lead institution North Carolina Agricultural andTechnical State University and the University of Pittsburgh. They also address the need for atechnologically advanced workforce in the areas of nanomaterials and nanotechnology asexpressed by Ohio's Third Frontier Project 1 and Deloitte Study 2 and by employers in UC’sinternationally acclaimed mandatory co-op engineering program. All four

Conference Session

Hey You: Effectively Engaging Students in the Classroom

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey A. Laman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Irene B. Mena, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Mary Lynn Brannon is the Instructional Support Specialist at the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education, College of Engineering, at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. She has a master’s of arts degree in education and human development, specializing in educational technology leadership. Her work focuses on projects that measure and assess student perceptions of learning related to their experiences with engineering course innovations. She has worked extensively in the design of as- sessment tools for course methods and activities. She is a Faculty Development Consultant with previous experience in instructional design, and the instructor

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rhonda K. Young, University of Wyoming; Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College; Shashi S. Nambisan P.E., Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

pedestrian design, operations, for a section of a transportation experiences with and planning transportation problems. transportation concepts to create a facility. 2.2 Able to explain terminology and traffic impact1.2 Complete level of relationship common/classic analysis project. service analysis for between transportation 4.2 Integration of basic freeway components of the engineering complete streets segment. transportation problems (i.e. principles in1.3 Complete signal

Conference Session

Research in Engineering Education I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Loree Dika, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Jae Hoon Lim, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

include socio-cultural issues in mathematics education and various equity topics in STEM fields. She has served as a Lead or Co-investigator for multiple educational research and evaluation projects. She published more than 30 articles in scholarly and professional journals world-wide and authored seven book or monograph chapters. Page 25.368.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Critical Review of Research on the Role of Social Engagement in Engineering Students’ Retention and Academic Success Sandra L. Dika and Jae Hoon Lim

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George E. Meyer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Kim Cluff, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jeyamkondan Subbiah P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

. stashed dry erase markers)for such loss occurrences. Depending on the classroom size, traditional whiteboards should havesufficient real estate to allow for students to visually see more of the delivered material at a giventime. If the classroom does not have a fixed projection system, then there was the addedinconvenience of arranging, transporting and setting up projection equipment.Tront (2007) found that electronic homework submission was typically difficult for engineeringstudents since much of what was to be submitted consisted of not just text but mathematicalscript and sketches intermingled with text along with the occasional picture. He noted thatseveral tablet-based tools available do offer students more flexibility in producing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech; Jacob Preston Moore, Virginia Tech; Aditya Johri, Virginia Tech; Robert Scott Pierce, Sweet Briar College; Chris North, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

visualization to design, develop and assess a cyberlearning tool thatadvances personalized learning and helps students develop deep and broad conceptualknowledge. The proposed visualization tool, the “adaptive concept map,” overcomes theproblem of map shock by providing the user control over the quantity and level of detail ofinformation displayed, thus providing a means for navigating content in a manner that isadaptable to their personal cognitive load needs. In this paper, the authors present the progressthat has been made in this project thus far. Specifically, the development of a course-wideconcept map for an entire Statics course and a description of the software development processare presented.1. MotivationThe continued success and growth of

Conference Session

The "Education" in Experiential Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman Corporation; Timothy Boyd, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

program (Space Based InfraRed System). Since 2006, Boyd has not only been involved in performance analysis and sensor characterization, with a number of technical publications featured in various conferences both internal and external to the company, such as CalCon and MD-SEA, but has also managed technical teams and is currently Deputy Integrated Project Team Lead within the SEIT (Systems Engineering Integration and Test) organization. Furthermore, to address his passion for leadership and community building, he kickstarted a chapter of Connect1NG, a professionally recognized yet non-traditional development program focused on engaging and assimilating new employees to the workplace. He is currently one of three

Conference Session

Innovations in Computing Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javad Shakib, DeVry University, Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

inheritance. Of course,networking abilities and stability also play an important role, but object orientation enablescompletely new ways for code reusability and increases the efficiency of applicationdevelopments in control programming. As it is not efficient to implement the whole applicationfrom scratch for every new project, it is important to encapsulate functionalities in classes forreasons of reuse. Depending on the concrete device, by means of these classes (or interfaces),generic functions such as specific communication protocols or easy access to specific devicescan be realized. These existing classes can (if necessary) be modified or extended and then beintegrated into the application.Hence, notable potentials result for industrial

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Elif Ozturk, Texas A&M University; Joshua Johnson, Prairie View A&M University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Xiaobo Peng, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

platforms; it should represent expertise that is adaptive. Lang et al., note thetransferability of CAD expertise based on procedural knowledge 4.This work represents the first step in a project to examine the adaptive nature of CAD expertise and itsrole on modeling behavior. This work assessed an adaptive expertise instrument that has been used tocapture the adaptive expertise of students at two universities as well as several practicing engineers.Later the instrument will be used to relate general adaptive expertise to CAD-specific adaptiveexpertise and modeling procedure. The overall goal is to examine how to better train students andimprove the adaptive nature of their CAD expertise.Routine versus Adaptive ExpertiseExpertise is the ability to

Conference Session

FPD XI: Tidbits and Cookies

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jesse J. French, LeTourneau University; Paul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

process, with a one-semester design project 5. Introduction to engineering problem solving with an introduction to principles from circuits, statics, and thermodynamics (Eide et.al. 4) 6. Introduction to engineering thinking and engineering skills (Stephan et. al.-Thinking Like an Engineer 5 )Our goal became to combine the best of each approach while focusing throughout the course onthe question, “What do engineers actually do?” Previous studies by Trevelyan and others haveserved to define what an engineer does in the course of executing their professional duties6. Acomposite list of tasks that engineers tackle became central to the goal of introducing as many“real engineering tasks” as possible into the course. These tasks were

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and Technological Policy

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zachary Foltz, Iowa State University; Amanpreet Kaur, Iowa State University; William Henry Tushaus, Iowa State University; Christopher Sears Mikelson, Iowa State University; Brian Vincent Skalak; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

” bill to congress as well as administers many of the environmental and energy laws. Organizations, special interests groups, and even entire industries are spending a large amount of money on lobbyists in order to influence politicians to support particular legislation. The nuclear industry, which spent some $71,405,955 lobbying Capitol Hill in 2004, would get $7.37 billion in tax breaks and projects, including federal funds to construct a $1 billion nuclear plant in Idaho. After a bill is passed, the EPA is then authorized to implement the law by creating regulations that apply to individual, business, state or local government. A study by the nonpartisan General Accounting Office last year found that Vice President Dick Vice President