Conference Session

Applications of Online Computing

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; Logan N. Collins; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; John D. Whitcomb, Texas A&M University; John Edward Angarita, Columbia University

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Computers in Education

together via an ePub editor 73 .Finally, there is the displaying of math in the chapter. This is obviously an important feature.Originally we attempted to use MathML (which ePub 3 is supposed to support), but had greatdifficulty getting this to work. Having used LATEX and MathJax in a similar project 72 , we tried itwith great results. We used the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 74 option in MathJax exclusivelywhich allowed us to trim MathJax down by deleting some unused resources that come bundledwith it.PerformanceThe primary concern in creating interactive eBooks for computationally intensive applications isobviously performance. A test case computed is that of an inviscid, uniform, incompressiblecross-flow over a circular cylinder with

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Letitia M. Pohl, University of Arkansas; Edward A. Pohl, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

, is the Introduction to Operations Management course. The Introduction toOperations Management course provides an overview of the functional activities necessary forthe creation and delivery of goods and services. The goal of the course is to give the students abasic understanding of operations management and an appreciation for the many roles anoperations manager can play in an organization. Specific attention is paid to how an operationsmanager impacts strategic and operational decisions across a variety of functional areas in anorganization. Topics covered include: productivity; strategy in a global business environment;project management; quality management; location and layout strategies; human resourcesmanagement; supply chain and

Conference Session

New Trends in Computing and Information Technology Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rob Elliott, Purdue University School of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

classroom [6].Course Details and Student DemographicsThe systems analysis and design course is a core requirement of students studying computertechnology and focuses primarily on the makeup of software systems. The subject matter buildson the concepts of logic, decomposition, and problem solving introduced in the first year. Thecourse was held during a typical 16-week semester and met on Monday and Wednesdaymornings for 75 minutes at a time.The course itself is made up of a number of learning modules, most of which are scheduled for asingle calendar week although there are a few longer topics. 10 distinct learning modules werescheduled over the first 12 weeks of the course. Students are engaged in two larger, multi-deliverable final projects during

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John R. Reisel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Marissa Jablonski, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Arash Kialashaki P.E., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Ethan V. Dupe-Munson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Hossein Hosseini, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Foundation (NSF) funded FORTE (Fostering Opportunities for Tomorrow’s Engineers) Program at UWM. Jablonski is focusing her dissertation on sustainable oxidation of textile wastewater and is working to create small-scale wastewater treatment units for cottage textile industries. She trained at the National Environmental Engineering Re- search Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur, India where she worked on biodegradation of azo dye intermediates. Jablonski served as Co-chair of UWM’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders for 2 years begin- ning with its inception in 2007 and continues to help design and implement water distribution projects in Guatemala as a mentor. Jablonski was a 2012 recipient of NSF’s EAPSI fellowship in

Conference Session

Spatial Ability & Visualization Training II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chen Guo, Purdue University; Yingjie Victor Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Craig L. Miller, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nathan W. Hartman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Amy B. Mueller, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrick E. Connolly, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Design Graphics

View3. Siemens providestwo solutions for visually analyzing the product during its design process. The first one is NXthat uses HD3D Visual Reporting from metadata to help designers understand design issues.With different color-coded tags and “see-through” settings, users can see the inside componentsof 3D models and comprehend data quickly4. With the integration of product views and 2Dsnapshots, Teamcenter’s lifecycle visualization can send CAD data to the stand-alone applicationviewer or the Lifecycle Viewer to provide a complete view of the whole assembly5.Almost all these projects use spreadsheets, basic information diagrams, and tree widgets todisplay the product information. However, very few existing PLM systems adopt

Conference Session

Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Mott, University of Dayton; Ronald J. Bennett F.ASEE, F.ABET P.E., University of St. Thomas; Mark J. Stratton, SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers); Scott Danielson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

bestatistically valid and resulting data provide a groundbreaking view of mechanical engineeringeducation.In a broad-brush summary of the Vision 2030 survey data, the industry supervisors’ four greatestperceptions of weakness are worth highlighting. These four were focused on engineeringpractice—how devices are made and how they work, communication within diverse engineeringteams and with stakeholders in the organization, engineering codes and standards, and a systemsperspective. Notably, early career engineers judged their greatest weaknesses as practicalexperience, project management, knowledge of business processes and engineering codes andstandards.2 Many of these perceptions of weakness point unmistakably to a lack of emphasis ontranslating

Conference Session

Interactive Panel on Advocacy Tips: an Initiative to Provide Individuals the Tools to Advocate for Women and Underrepresented Minorities

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Robyn Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Kristen P. Constant, Iowa State University; Beth M Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sandra D. Eksioglu, Mississippi State University; Debra M. Gilbuena, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

 al  [7].  The  ADVANCE  project  spurred  coordinated  programming  aimed  towards  recruitment,  retention,  and  advancement  of  women  faculty,  improved  campus  climate,  and  expanded  leadership  opportunities.  Overall  indications  are  that  intensive  efforts  on  multiple  fronts  have  shown  positive  results.    There  are  more  women  in  faculty  ranks  and  academic  administrative  positions,  and  measures  of  institutional  climate  change  continue  to  show  progress.  In  addition  to  multiple  interventions,  the  kind  of  transformation  sought  required  engagement  of  men  –  not  just  as  participants,  but  also  as  facilitators,  planners,  and  leaders  guiding  the  work  of  NSF  ADVANCE  at

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College; Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

, and by an authorityderived from education and expertise. The historical development of engineering into aprofession highlighted the engineer’s role in social development and progress; the tradeoffsnecessary in engineering decision-making; and the need to anticipate “unintended consequences”and identify stakeholders who may be silent or lack social power.Student learning outcomes are listed in Table 1.Student work included several design projects, with documentation in the form of hand and CADdrawings, written descriptions, and oral presentations; design problem definition assignments;and writing assignments in which students reflected on their experiences and responded toreading assignments. This work was assessed to evaluate achievement of

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain

functions for many otherfluids). However, the appearance of EES programs is similar to the appearance of C orFORTRAN programs, and some users find the unit conversion procedures awkward in EES.MathCAD was chosen for this project because of its mathematical report appearance, because ofits ability to perform calculations with automatic unit handling and conversion, and because ofits wide use in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama atBirmingham.This effort started in an ME 448/548 Internal Combustion Engines course. Since combustion isan important topic in a senior/graduate level internal combustion (IC) engines course, the initialintent was to take some of the effort and distraction away from working combustion

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Rosalind Hale; Renee Akbar; Ramona Travis; John Fulwiler

opportunitiesfor participants. Additionally, they were to develop expertise in the basic factors that need to beconsidered when selecting and utilizing software and websites to enhance/expand learningopportunities of children with particular emphasis on those children from culturally and raciallydiverse communities.In order to accomplish this, the participants engaged in workshop-type activities in aninstructional lab environment that enhanced their understanding of their own personal andprofessional interests in technology. To pull all of this together, a group project, called*WebQuest, was used. It became a concentrated, hands-on task that developed their skills ofresearching and utilizing resources of the Internet and the World Wide Web around a

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachelle Heller; H. David Snyder; Catherine Mavriplis; Charlene Sorensen

of New Haven Press, 2001.11. Sandler, B. R., The Campus Climate Revisited: Chilly for Women Faculty, Administrators and Graduate Students, Washington: Association of American Colleges, 1992.12. Fitzgerald, L., Shullman, S., Bailey, N., Richards, M., Swecker, J., Gold, Y., Ormerod, M., & Weitzman, L., The incidence and dimensions of sexual harassment in academia and the workplace. Journal of Vocational Behavior, Vol. 32, 152-175, 1988.13. National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics, Gender Differences in the Careers of Academic Scientists and Engineers: A Literature Review, NSF 03-322, Project Director, Alan I. Rapoport (Arlington, VA 2003), also available at http://www.nsf.gov

Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil

received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in1998. Professor Klingbeil is currently leading NSF supported research projects in the areas of manufacturingscience and engineering curriculum reform. He is the recipient of several awards for his work in engineeringeducation, including the ASEE North Central Section Outstanding Teacher Award (2004), and both the CECSExcellence in Teaching (2002) and Excellence in Professional Service (2004) awards at Wright State University.RICHARD E. MERCER is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Wright StateUniversity. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Washington in 1980. Professor Mercer isactive in curriculum reform

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Milton Bryant; Paul Biney

x 4093 Finite Element x x x x M10 x X x M M45 4123 Energy System x x x x X M20 M15 x M15 M40 x x 4473 Senior Project I x x x x X x M20 M45 X M70 M15 x X x x 4483 Senior Project II x x x x X x M20 M45 X x M15 x M50 x x 3031 Manuf. Processes Lab x x x x M10 M10 CVEG 2043 Engr Mechanics I x x M10 M5 CVEG 2053 Engr Mechanics II x x

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh; David Gibbs

conditioning of a material at higher temperatures. This paper describes theconception and execution of a laboratory to improve undergraduate students understanding ofcomplex material behaviors. In addition it includes portions which enable the student to quantifyphenomena often discussed only in a qualitative fashion. Laboratory procedure for theexperiment is described in detail. The laboratory presents theory and application in naturalfashion, linked and mutually supportive. The paper discusses the exceptionally positive impactthat this immediacy has on student learning.IntroductionThere is renewed emphasis on laboratory experience and project based learning in undergraduateengineering education, coupled with widespread belief that interdisciplinary

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erick Jones

Books, 1992).Bauch, Garland T., Chung, Christopher A.., A Statistical Project Control Tool for Engineering Managers, Project Management Journal 32(2): 37-44.Bohlen, George A., Lee, David R., Sweeney, Patrick A. “Why and How Project Managers Attempt to Influence Their Team Members” Engineering Management Journal, Volume 10 No. 4 (December 1998), pp. 21-28.Bureau of Labor, Labor Letter, (Washington: US Department of Labor, 1966).Chermiss, C.(1980b). Staff Burnout: Job Stress in Human Services, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.Chung, Christopher A. Simulation Modeling Handbook, A Practical Approach, (New York: CRC Press, 2003

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Nelson; Barbara Olds; Monica Geist; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

-0127806), a team of researchers atthe Colorado School of Mines (CSM) is creating a concept inventory to measure engineeringstudents’ understanding of difficult concepts in thermal and transport science, the Thermal andTransport Concept Inventory (TTCI). [1] Our project began with a Delphi survey of experts todetermine the concepts that were the most difficult and important for engineering studentsstudying thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics. [2] Once the key concepts wereidentified, we created open-ended questions related to each concept and asked students to thinkaloud as they answered the questions. Multiple-choice questions were then developed usingstudents’ misunderstandings as documented in the think-alouds as the basis for

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Ahmed Khan

their self-reported learning/success. The paper also presents recommendationsfor enhancing student learning by enhancing faculty technical currency. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationI. IntroductionPurpose of the StudyThis paper presents the results of the second phase of a two part research project. The purpose ofproject was to explore faculty and students’ perceptions of the importance of faculty technicalcurrency for their self-reported learning/success. The first phase of project explored the facultyperceptions of the importance of faculty technical currency for student learning/success

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

support of the US Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA), a Green Engineering Project has fostered efforts to incorporate green engineeringinto the chemical engineering curriculum. This paper focuses on the integration of greenengineering concepts into the courses in the chemical engineering curriculum that coverseparation processes (distillation, extraction, absorption, membranes, etc). The paper describeshow the green engineering topics are “mapped” into a separations course and presents a sampleof the novel types of problems that were developed for instructor use. Green engineering is defined as the design, commercialization and use of processes andproducts that are feasible and economical while minimizing: generation of pollution at

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Constantin Chassapis; Hamid Hadim; Kishore Pochiraju; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard; David Vaccari

, - Projects, ME Program Committee Select Student Work to represent Outcomes - Laboratory, etc. proposes changes to - Courses or Program, - Program Outcomes, or - Assessment Process Students Complete Course Survey via the Compile Information into Web SPAD Form

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Land

commercial systems designed to support web-based collection of assessment data.[6,7]Most of these systems are designed to support portfolio development or to permit individualfaculty members to establish and monitor student performance against self-specified courseobjectives. When looking at the needs of the Penn State programs and circumstances, thesesystems and approaches either did not offer the flexibility that was desired, were focused oncollecting fundamentally different information than was planned at Penn State, or involved much Page 10.867.4more expense than was felt feasible. Instead, a project was undertaken to develop an in-house

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Gerhart

6 are also followed. Themore rules that are used, the more shocking and awing the presentation will be. Keep in mindthat the presentation took very little time yet was effective at LTU.There are many ideas for shocking and awing presentations that take very little time. To recruitmechanical engineering students, a university may want to present a demonstration aboutprojectile ballistics. A shocking and awing demonstration can accompany the presentationinvolving the burning of smokeless gun powder and black powder. The resulting smoke andflame will shock and awe the students (see Figure 2). The SAE Formula Car performing variousmaneuvers can be used as an awing demonstration. One of the senior projects teams built a 2person hovercraft (see

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Bowman; Cliff Goodwin

proud ofhimself. He had learned a great deal about online course design. His pride however wasnot sufficient to overcome his sense of frustration at how long the project was taking andhow it was interfering with his other responsibilities, especially his research, writing andhome life. Twigg kept track of his time on the project and had logged about 200 hours onthe project thus far. He feels like a permanent fixture at the Center for Teaching andLearning. He even attended an office birthday party for one of the center’s staff memberslast week. He had attended way too-many-to-count group training sessions, not tomention all the individual consultations with the center’s staff. The really depressing part,Twigg kept thinking, was that he was only

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoAnn Lighty; Holly Moore; David Richardson; Nick Safai

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary A. Nelson; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

“alternateconceptions”).1 The topic has garnered considerable interest among engineeringeducators over the past few years and several concept inventories on engineering-relatedtopics are being developed, most notably by the group led by Evans associated with theFoundation Coalition.2 The goal of our project, funded by the Assessment of StudentAchievement (ASA) program at NSF, is to develop and test an inventory for the thermaland transport sciences, based on the model of the Force Concept Inventory pioneered byHestenes and colleagues.3 Once our CI has been developed and validated, it will be madeavailable to interested engineering faculty for use as a classroom formative assessmenttool that can provide valuable information for tracking student understanding

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Ramani; James Fenton; Suzanne Fenton

of the undergraduate curriculum (freshman through senior) andcan be used in multiple classes (Freshman Engineering, Intro to Chemical Engineering,Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Transport, Laboratory Practice, and Electives) to illustrateappropriate material. Figure 1 contains a concept map linking modules to concepts within thecurricula that are addressed in this paper. Use of the modules can be preceded by classroomdiscussions of the hydrogen economy, its projected political, social, and environmental impacts(both locally and globally) and/or the challenges associated with converting to such an economy.The modules can also be modified for use at the pre-college level for a wide variety of projectsand/or simple in-class or public

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Marybeth Camerer

of education and curriculum matters thanat other universities, particularly in undergraduate education. For example, new courses can becreated without any approvals from outside the home department.Decentralization means that there are few barriers to starting a new project, but little assistanceprovided to support the new effort, or to help a project through temporary difficulties. Funding isalso quite decentralized: In the Engineering School, departments receive a block budget basedprimarily on the level of research contracts and credit hours taught.Due to the selective excellence philosophy, Hopkins has achieved leadership in the fields ofmedicine and public health, but does not have a business school, law school, or education school.(It

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patsy Brackin; Clark Merkel

Design Intent.At which point the person who added the statement gets 30 seconds to explain why it isnot (if they can). The players (including any eliminated members) vote to agree ordisagree with the challenge. If the challenge is upheld, then the person who added thestatement is eliminated from the round and their statement is removed from thespecification. If the challenge is vetoed, then the student who challenged the specificationreceives a black mark. Any challenger receiving a third black mark is eliminated from theround. Play continues until only one person is left. By completing this game, studentsget some idea of the complete nature needed to specify all aspects of a project to bedesigned and manufactured.Communication

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

and thetime element assigned to the particular project. In addition, the user must have a thoroughunderstanding of the software functionality and the ability to gather information related toimplementing a particular modeling strategy. This process of strategy development andimplementation coincides with components of learning theory. As engineering graphicseducators, it is helpful to reflect on how students learn in our classrooms and laboratories as wellas reflect on how we develop instruction. This paper outlines three theories of learning that areapplicable to graphics education, discusses the assumptions about the learner and the learningenvironment, presents the components of learning for each theory, discusses major issues relatedto

Conference Session

Recruiting and Building Diversity

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Horvath; Cecilia Lucero

persistence in science and engineering graduate programs. Uncovering Page 9.646.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe nuances of underrepresented minority (URM) graduate students’ experiences is key toaddressing issues of enrollment, persistence, and attrition. To this end, the National Consortiumfor Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) is proposing aqualitative research project designed to understand the socialization of underrepresented minoritystudents in STEM

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wiley; Hamid Khan

number ofalternatives were examined as potential projects of research with the problem of performanceappraisal systems and their effectiveness. For this research study, the inherent problems ofperformance appraisal using forced ranking system will be investigated and the effects of forced-ranking as an effective appraisal method will be examined for the technical personnel. Page 8.908.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationINTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM AND BACKGROUND According to Oberg