Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Fisher; Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

enrich grades 3-8 students’ learning of STEM concepts andapplications. The graduate students spend at least ten hours each week working with a teacherpartner in the classroom, and an additional five to ten hours each week planning for their in-school activities. The Fellows enhance science and mathematics instruction with engineering-related lessons and activities. In addition, each cohort of Fellows plans and implements a 3-daysummer workshop for teachers from across the state. To help prepare the graduate students forthese activities, they are required to enroll in a 3-credit, graduate-level course (EDTE 701 –Special Topics in Teaching Science) during the Fall semester, and attend weekly GK-12seminars during the Spring and Summer. At the same

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ressler Stephen; Estes Allen; Karl Meyer; Matthew Morris

, waste disposal, munitions storage,organizational shops, roads, and so on. The process involves the translation of concepts andrequirements into an actual plan with specific facility, utility, and labor force requirements. Agood base camp design plan minimizes the construction necessary by making the maximum useof existing facilities and utilities.The purpose of this paper is to describe an embedded assessment technique used in CE450during the fall semester of Academic Year 2004-2005. CE450 serves as the final andculminating course in the civil engineering three-course sequence taken by students who are notmajoring in engineering. It is one of seven different three-course sequences, which constitute aportion of the Academy’s core curriculum, and

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Sayed

to the eleven weeks timing with two 120minutes sessions per week.Process Educational Objectives To provide students with a comprehensive and realistic product realizationengineering/management experience and be applicable to any capstone class, the following arethe main preset educational objectives of the developed process:Objective 1: Creative thinking in design1.1 Students will be able to brainstorm and think creatively to achieve alternate design solutions.Objective 2: Teamwork and communication skills2.1 Students will be able to form teams and work effectively with others to achieve design goals.2.2 Student will be able to present their ideas, plans and design alternatives in written and oral formats.Objective

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Brockway; Greg Spaulding

promise of being a successful and enduring venture.Greg and Kathy plan to build on their previous successes and continue to promote agradual entrepreneurial transformation in the College of Technology and Aviationthrough a multi-component approach. • Create an entrepreneurial advisory board. • Develop and support the newly formed student entrepreneurial club. • Incorporate entrepreneurship across the curriculum.Entrepreneurial Advisory BoardOf the three components, the Entrepreneurial Advisory Board is pivotal to long termsuccess. The planned entrepreneurial board will consist of accomplished entrepreneurs,dedicated to advancing entrepreneurship across the KSU-Salina campus. The board willbe both directly and indirectly involved in each

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michelle Sabick; John Gardner; Patricia Pyke; William Knowlton; Amy Moll

single peanut buttercracker sandwich with just a knife, a jar of peanut butter and crackers. When their lab partnersmust then follow their precise instructions to build a sandwich, it becomes apparent that writingprocedures is not so simple after all. Vague instructions such as “put peanut butter on cracker”result in some unexpected configurations.Activity III — Process planning. In this activity, the students begin building their process.They define product specifications, draw a flow chart of the process, develop quality controlmeasurements, write procedures for operators, sketch tooling, and perform other developmentactivities. They may specify as many operators as they deem necessary and may use anyequipment or process, including a motorized

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationProblem-centered learning (PCL) is more explicit and structured than PBL. These teachingstrategies can encourage other learning outcomes beside developing problem-solving skills,including high student motivation, teaming skills, ability to organize, plan and execute problem-solving (technical, procedural and social), greater appreciation of course content utility, longerknowledge retention, knowledge of the real world, positive community awareness and civicresponsibility, and the value of teamwork. [5,6,7]. Other positive outcomes can be achieved aswell [8,9].Student active learning outcomes that

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virgil Cox; Stephen Kuyath

to the trebuchets 77.8% 22.2% 0.0%I plan to enter the writing/speaking competition 13.3% 32.2% 54.4%I will be in the club next year1 82.5% 15.9% 1.6%1 Responses from Freshman, Sophomore, and Juniors onlyNinety-four percent of the club members have enjoyed being a part of the club. This indicatesthat there are high school students that are looking for this type of activity in which to beinvolved. Ninety-five percent of the club members have enjoyed working with the robots. Onlyforty-four percent enjoyed preparing for the TEAM+S competition (97 students participated inthe

Conference Session

Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannette Russ

productdesign, a manufacturing plan, and a marketing plan – all of which must meet a tight timeschedule and a specified budget. Second, we require our engineering students to work withmarketing and accounting students from a business policy class, creating a multi-disciplinaryteam with the task of developing a solution that is technically feasible, financially viable, andappealing to the target market.This course structure exposes students to problem-solving techniques in real-world situations,while also providing a natural platform for relevant classroom discussions. In terms of real-world exposure, the case study is based upon events that occurred in the writing instrumentindustry during the World War II era, giving students an opportunity to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

high school through university.The origin of the MIMIC conceptIn 1995, the engineering design instructor and a business instructor at Illinois ValleyCommunity College developed a creative plan to provide their students with workplaceexperiences. As a project in one of their courses, the instructors integrated their students intoteams to develop, produce and sell a product. The design and business courses were scheduledto allow the student teams, called “companies,” a common meeting time and to facilitatespecial training in such areas as group dynamics and communication. Student teams simulatedan industrial environment not only by designing, producing and marketing a product, but alsoby participating in the types of communication situations

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Frey; Marisa Wolsky

Scienceand Math Content Directors, Content Manager, and working group of advisors, she oversees theprocess of transforming kids' ideas into educationally rich science and math segments. She isalso a producer on the NSF-funded preschool science series, PEEP AND THE BIG WIDE WORLD.A first step of the WGBH team was to secure a planning grant from the National ScienceFoundation. The goals under the planning grant were to: establish a board of advisors; identify acontent director; develop ways that viewers can become involved with LAZYBONES activitiesthrough outreach and Web; write the series curriculum; design the game; test the engineeringchallenges with kids; develop evaluation plans; and create a business model.To complement the skills of the WGBH

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

Conference andExposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2530chemists. The engineering design process includes at least 5 steps [3]: (a) problemdefinition, (b) invention, (c) analysis, (d) decision, and (e) implementation. Middle schoolstudents will learn about the essential engineering functions: design, build, analyze, test,and measure. ETKs will also include real-world constraints: budget, cost, time, risk,reliability, safety; and meeting customer needs and demands.Each ETK will include a student guide explaining key concepts and methods, a teacher’sguide, plans for demonstrations and experiments, and, where appropriate, a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmo D'Cruz

focuses on theproduct features, customer demands, competitive offerings and standards compliance.The Boston Consulting Group's Product Portfolio MatrixThe Boston Consulting Group’s Product Portfolio Matrix is a well known tool for the high techentrepreneur. It was developed as an approach to product portfolio planning. It has two Page 8.1031.1controlling aspects namely relative market share (relative to competition) and market growth. 1,2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and ExpositionCopyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationTo use this tool, you would look at each individual

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

OverviewThe Professional Component of the ABET assessment plan for the ME program at WKU has astrong emphasis on design, as documented in the program’s Design Plan.1 The Design Plandeveloped by the Mechanical Engineering faculty recognizes that the Engineering design processmust be integrated into the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum as a continuous process from thefirst year to the final semester. This is necessary to provide students with the opportunity toacquire design tools and skills, as well as competency in mathematical and technical analysis,and communication.2The Mechanical Engineering faculty accepts the following as a representative statement of theattributes of Engineering Design taught in this department: • Engineering design is

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Cluett; Peter Weiss; Kim Woodhouse; David Bagley; Susan McCahan

part,through a seminar style approach. Overall, the resulting course is a departure from a typicaldesign course.Course OutlineThe course plan can be roughly broken down into four parts. The major material introduced ineach part is as follows: Part 1. Introduction to design, team skills, professional writing, and reverse engineering Part 2. Human, social, and environmental issues in the design process; Introduction to oral communication, and critical reading Part 3. Project management and project planning Page 9.1171.1 Part 4. Major design project“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Monica Schmidt

been very positive as demonstrated by a 50% improvement in attendance. The objectives of improved communication, problem solving, and team skills in addition to a background in BME applications have been successfully demonstrated with projects, papers, and presentations. This approach has provided additional benefits for the supervision of graduate students and for research planning. Although initially challenging, the benefits to cost ratio is so high that it is planned for incorporation in all courses in the curriculum. I. Introduction This paper presents the results of having students use the instructor’s grading rubrics to assess both oral and written presentation. For the

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Clark; Donald McMurchie

technology, with a particularfocus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Dr. McMurchie's background and teaching experience is inmanufacturing engineering technology, with a particular focus on materials science. We hadknown each other for four years when we began planning the course, and had taught one classtogether before. Given our interests, we decided that a course that focused on the impact ofchanges in materials on society over time would allow both of us to play to our strengths.Since our target audience was students already enrolled in the Mechanical EngineeringTechnology and Manufacturing Engineering Technology programs, we decided to use existingcourses as the basis for the combined course. This allowed us to avoid the complicated processof

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Stephen Dannelly; Carl Steidley

impossible toapply standard search algorithms in any straightforward way because the numbers of states andactions are infinite. Much of the work in robot planning has dealt with ways to tame thesecontinuous state spaces.The question of moving a robot around successfully can be considered as problems of motion ina configuration space. Algorithms that handle a configuration space directly assume that anexact description of the space is available, so they cannot be used where there is significantsensor error and motion error. In some cases, no description of the space is available until therobot starts moving around in it. Russell and Norvig 5 identify five major classes of navigationand motion planning algorithms. We arrange them below roughly in the

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

-likesetting1,2. The LF model emphasizes practical experience and consequently, EngineeringTechnology (ET) and other programs that emphasize hands-on experiences for students are wellsuited to implementing the LF model. This paper describes a project whose goal is to adapt theLF model for implementation in regular academic programs oriented to practical applicationswithout having to build an actual factory. This work is being accomplished by modifying five carefully selected courses in ourprograms, leading to the use of coordinated projects across those courses. The projects focus onthe making of functional model engines. In the various courses, students will generate CADdrawings of all the engine components, produce process plans for and make

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Mason; Arthur Western

humanities and social sciencerequirements, and it has been a popular elective, especially for technical students withsome entrepreneurial interests. The objectives for the course are: • Describe the role of the entrepreneur in society • Describe the importance of entrepreneurial behavior in organizations of all sizes and types • Identify traits and behaviors needed for successful entrepreneurship • Use tools of economic analysis to analyze opportunities and efforts • Apply the knowledge of the basic aspects of a business plan • Communicate effectively in written and oral reports • Describe sources of capital, talent and other resources for entrepreneurship • Maintain a sense of fun and perspective about

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

terms of faculty development and facility costs. Pilots should be planned both to study the proposed improvements as well as to support eventual adoption across the entire college.• Building support for curricular improvement within and beyond the College of Engineering required significantly more design and effort than anticipated by the change leaders. Based on the interviews, building support requires widespread communication, selection of influential faculty, political strategizing and assessment data. Communication plans require substantial up-front investment in addition to the Page 6.423.1 efforts required to

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph J. Delfino

plans forimplementing the World Water Vision over the next 25 years are discussed. It is clearthat many areas of the world are facing a water “crisis.” The vision’s goal is to providewater security for the world’s citizens in the 21st Century. Several goals include insuringthat every person has access to enough safe water at affordable cost [which implies adrive toward water privatization on a global scale], and that water resources are protectedand improved. The task is challenging and the funding requirements to meet the goalswill be enormous. To date, the engineering component of the process of transforming“the vision to action” has not been fully described. This paper will analyze the WorldWater Vision from an environmental engineering

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ofodike Ezekoye; John Doggett; J. Nolen; John Butler; Steven Nichols

of their work, they in general rarely contribute to marketingreports. Half of the supervisors frequently write plans and proposals as compared to only 25% ofthe non-supervisors. Nearly all respondents believe that management skills can be taught.Nearly all respondents believe that spoken communication skills are more important foradvancement than written communication skills. A somewhat strange response betweensupervisors and non-supervisors is the importance of statistics in their performing their duties atFord. Nearly 67% managers felt that their statistics background was inadequate for performingtheir duties while only 6% of the non-supervisors indicated that their statistics training wasinadequate for performing their duties. Behavioral

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

probably should be, but curricular time is at premium and the studentssometimes complain of the workload.On the other hand, because of its renewed importance we now see that design should be taught inorder to establish competencies for the next design course rather than just a motivational tool orfor professional orientation. Thus, looking ahead we can identify many needs. Some of theseneeds are relevant to engineering management (project scheduling, staffing, budget and riskmanagement, development processes and organizational structures, application of codes andstandards, and product planning.) The following section summarizes the embedment of severalengineering management topics to design curriculum over the course of three semesters.III

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Nored; David Compton

industry experience is through mentoring designprojects. At OC, no engineering student may graduate without completing a three-semestersystems design project. Project teams composed of electrical and/or mechanical students workthrough the difficulties of planning a project. They must plan a schedule and a budget, writestatus memos, and present reports to the rest of the college. During their presentations, they mustanswer questions submitted from an audience that includes professors and their peers. This isrigorous project designed to emulate the reality of industry.II. IntroductionThe founders of the engineering program intended to prepare every engineering student to enterthe workforce with the skills to be immediately productive, professional

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vascar Harris; Eric Sheppard

AfricanAmerican aerospace engineering B.S. degrees in some years. Given this information, thedepartment is making plans for its future.I. IntroductionThere has been much discussion of the under-representation of African Americans in the field ofengineering, and both causes and effects have been analyzed. References 1 and 2 are examplesconcerned with retention issues that are particularly relevant to this paper. Some of the keyissues identified in these references are the importance of financial aid resources and thecomplexity of addressing minority retention rates that lag far behind the retention rates of non-minorities. In response, many universities across the country set up programs to help recruit andretain underrepresented groups. This under

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Outreach

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith J. Bowman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brenda Capobianco, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

in engineering careers, but it is also strongly focused on a particularfive step design sequence, “Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Improve.”8 Although aspects of what isput forward as design are included in each of the curricula, the interpretations and approacheswere found to be quite different. Clearly, a universal concept of engineering design may not beforthcoming, but the breadth of interpretations for just this aspect of the curricula demonstratesthe disparate status of K-12 engineering education and curricula that include engineering design.In their findings and recommendations, the NAE/NRC Committee described the development ofsystematic linkages between engineering design and scientific inquiry and furthermore, positedthese connections

Conference Session

Outreach Projects: Promoting Energy Efficiency and Education in General

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

architects, mechanical and structuralengineers, lighting designers and specialist simulation modelers contribute to anintegrated approach. The integrated approach may involve the use of local weatherconditions, such as wind-driven ventilation and daylighting, as well as the characteristicsof the building shape, materials and space planning needs.In this paper, a methodology presented to our students in the framework of this course ispresented. This methodology is based on using actual buildings, where local weatherconditions as well as engineering considerations and architecture are used in an integratedapproach to achieve a successful design.We discuss the course program from the students’ point of view, and the experienceearned in design

Conference Session

New Faculty Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahesh Aggarwal, Gannon University; Karinna M Vernaza, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

the tenure process at a teaching-based institution can use this article as aguide to create a portfolio/development plan that will contain the relevant information to satisfythe rank and tenure requirements at their institution. It is advised that the new faculty memberreviews in a yearly basis the contents of his/hers development plan with the department chair toobtain feedback and ensure a continuous progress towards advancement. By compiling thisinformation in a yearly basis, the new faculty member will be able to prepare his/hers tenure andrank application in a painless and smooth manner.2 Rank and Tenure Requirements before year 2000General requirements for rank and tenure at Gannon University consist of satisfying a set ofcategories

Conference Session

Impacts on Engineering Education Through Collaborative Learning, Project-based, and Service-learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu F. Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

Tagged Divisions

International

students come to their colleges with different motivations, goals, plans, attitudes,and expectations. College study requires them to complete all their assignments to reach all thegoals with no requirement compromised. As a part of college study courses with computer labassignments usually provide instructors with a unique opportunity to motivate students to workhard to achieve their goals and to sustain their knowledge as well as to measure student learningoutcomes on this matter. Research finds it is still difficult to predict or measure how muchstudents are able to sustain their learning outcomes before their graduations. This research aimsto first ensure that all student lab activities and exercises are designed to not only for them

Conference Session

Capstone Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manish Paliwal, College of New Jersey; Bijan Sepahpour, College of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

submission of the Senior Project Design Report –II (during week #15 of the spring semester). • Periodic log book review (bi-weekly): Students maintain design journals which are periodically evaluated. • The grading rubrics for SP-I (Table 1) and SP-II (Table 2) were developed and adopted.Forming a Senior Project Team and Improving its Chances of SuccessTables 3 and 4 together provide a summary of the essential elements and stages of teamdevelopment as well as some suggestions for planning and improving the chances of success fora team based project (7).ConclusionThe efforts of a group of faculty at the School of Engineering of the College of New Jersey wereshared with the engineering