Conference Session

Information Tools and Techniques for Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Giovanna Badia, McGill University; April Colosimo, McGill University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

well as make services available that are analogous to what would be encountered inperson. Web conferencing is an area that is being explored by librarians to deliver personalizedreference, information skills sessions, and continuing professional development. It offers theability to provide real-time help to people with a number of features that support socialinteractions and learning, such as live chat, whiteboards, and video conferencing. Interactionsmay also be recorded for review or self-directed learning.The literature focuses on best practices for using the various web conferencing software optionsand describes pilot projects and experiences in the use of web conferencing to provideinformation literacy skills webinars and other library

Conference Session

Engineering Identity 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorraine N. Fleming, Howard University; Kalynda Chivon Smith, Howard University; Dawn G. Williams, Howard University; Leonard B. Bliss, Florida International University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

generally found their engineering professors to bepleasant, these professors were challenging, which motivated them to complete their engineeringdegree and therefore strengthened their engineering identity, from Jorge from HSI1, “They’retough…Tough. … [T]hey’re nice… [B]ut…they make you work for it…Which is good…I likechallenge...” Nicole from HBCU1 explained her experience in more detail: … [H]ere, it’s like, no, you’re on your own…I haven’t really had any negative Page 23.510.11 experiences. … [W]ith, with the research project [I did with a professor], [the professor should have] just put in more…input instead of having me do

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Anthony; C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

evaluations of instructor and course are valid. Students can therefore beasked for their evaluation of achievement of specific class outcomes. This can then be assessedby a panel (of faculty and/or external reviewers) to see if they are achieving program outcomes.Another approach is to take advantage of the senior project. A high percentage of programsrequire students to complete a major project in the last semesters in the program. By design theproject includes most of the skills the students have acquired throughout the program. This thenis a natural candidate for assessing outcomes. This can be done by multiple assessors (severalfaculty) who are looking for achievement of several outcomes. This can also be supplementedwith assessment by external

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Bodner; Deborah Follman; Mica Hutchison

sources of self-efficacy beliefs: mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, socialpersuasions, and physiological states. Understanding. The factor listed most frequently by students as influencing theirconfidence in success in ENGR 106 was their ability to learn or understand the materialpresented in the course. Further, the concepts of learning and understanding appear to affectmen and women to nearly the same degree. Few students indicated being affected specificallyby understanding or lacking an understanding of homework assignments (“I am understandingthe work more than I did before so my confidence level is higher.”), lab tasks (“Some of the labsfeel very rushed and are finished when I don't really understand how.”), projects

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Henderson; Gerald Gannod; Barbara Gannod

6 VIII. Embedded Systems 6 IX. Compilers 5 X. S/W practices 5 XI. Analysis 3 XII. Licensing/Copyright 2 XIII. Project management 2 XIV. IT 2 XV. Technical communication 0 XVI. Business 0 XVII. International

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Davari; Amir Rezaei

. After completing the exercises the students will be able: • To investigate the effects of Proportional, Integral and Derivative control action on the system performance • To analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each of the control actions. The last exercises are projects given to the students to demonstrate their ability to analyze a given system and design as well as implement a PID control scheme. Students should be able comment on the stability of the system (Open loop response) and which control scheme is best suitable for the given system.iii. Experimental resultsThis section illustrates some of the experimental results obtained by the students. The results arecompared by simulating the same experiment in

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

instructor demonstrated respect for cadets as individuals. A5. My fellow students contributed to my learning in this course. A6. My motivation to learn and to continue learning has increased because of this course. B1. This instructor stimulated my thinking. B2. In this course, my critical thinking ability increased. B3. The homework assignments, papers, and projects in this course could be completed within the USMA time guideline of two hours 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 Average Rating

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

boards, and/or in faculty research projects); developing a freshman curriculum that embodies some or most of the above features, and Page 9.1000.7 that takes full advantage of modern technology, particularly personal computers, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education multimedia materials, digital libraries, hypertext documents, and access to vast networked resources, including databases and activities on other campuses; improving ancillary skills (communication skills

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Wong; Vikram Kapila

the B.S. and M.S. degrees,respectively, in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. He is a member of Pi TauSigma and Tau Beta Pi. He worked for the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH, during the summers of2000 and 2001. He is currently a doctoral student at Polytechnic University. His research interests include control ofmechanical and aerospace systems.VIKRAM KAPILA is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY,where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSFfunded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics that has been featured on WABC-TV and NY1News, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Newberry; James Farison

program are you most proud? very close working/teaching relationship between students and fac. close student-faculty research interaction grounding of student in fundamentals, supportive learning environ integration of faith and learning within a broad technical program spiritual values in teaching, low student-fac ratio, sr. design project students seeing their calling to live, work as servants of the Lord graduates have strong work ethic and strength in fundamentals our graduates work ethic and character

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Johnson; Martin Morris; Arnold Ness; Richard Deller; Julie Reyer

the experiments with their rocket into the program to calculate the rockettrajectory. Under the supervision of the faculty, the campers built their rockets, conducted theexperiments, and recorded the data.Rocket Assembly Each camper was given an Alpha III rocket kit as a basis for assembling his or hercustom rocket. The campers customized the rockets by choosing one of six different nose coneshapes and one of four different fin designs. The shape of the nose cones was changed from theAlpha III shape to increase the frontal projected area and, as a result, drag. All six nose conechoices had the same frontal area, but each design had a unique profile with different dragcharacteristics and weights. The new fin designs increased the fin

Conference Session

Assessment Strategies in BAE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas J. Brumm; Larry F. Hanneman; Brian Steward; Steven Mickelson

feel that they were misleading in this respect.Question: Did they ask you to have that background coming in?Student 2: If I had been a design coop in our department that would have been a requirement.But I was under product support, so I did a lot more product testing and improvement ofproducts instead of designing. The coop in my department already had mechanics and otherthings so it wasn’t a requirement for my job specification.Student 1: My first project was an electric actuator – It would have been a lot more helpful if Iwould have had an actual course in electronics or electrical engineering or something like that.I learned a lot as I went.Student 6: Sitting there listening to my supervisor tell me all the material properties

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

Society for Engineering Educationlearning activities” scored 4.93 in AY 01-1, and 4.90 in AY 02-1 (Figure 2). All of these scoresare between the ‘agree’ and the ‘strongly agree’ response, demonstrating that the studentsconsidered the course to be very well developed and structured. The difference between theseresponses for the two semesters was statistically insignificant. Overall, the students rated thecourse structure and the classroom instruction equally highly both semesters (Table 2 and Figure2). Student Responses A6. My motivation to learn and to continue learning has increased because of this course. B3. The homework assignments, papers, and projects in this course could be

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt DeGoede

)?” the students indicated that they feltthat they did make progress (Table 4). Twenty-two of 29 students responded to the onlinesurvey which asked this question. The reasons for this probably include the difficulty of some ofthe problems which may have increased toward the end of the semester, increased loads in thestudents’ major courses with term projects and such quickly approaching deadlines, perhaps theproblem solving was more evenly shared between team members toward the end of the term sothe progress was not evident in the scores, and probably most significantly the fact that I droppedthe three lowest scores meant that the students that had been doing the best work on theseproblems could afford to skip three of the last four. For

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Klaus Rütters; Bernardo Wagner; Andreas Böhne

, N., Unland, R., CSCW-Kompendium, Springer, 2001, pp. 251-263BiographyDIPL.-BERUFSPÄD. ANDREAS BÖHNE received his diploma degree in technical education in 2001.He currentlypursues his PHD study at the Learning Lab Lower Saxony (L3S), where he works as a team member of the I-Labs(“Internet Assisted Laboratories”) project. The project develops didactic concepts for online laboratory usage andreusable software and hardware components.PROF. DR. PHIL. KLAUS RÜTTERS is managing director of the Institute for Technical Education and VocationalTraining at the University of Hanover. He is an associated member of the Learning Lab Lower Saxony (L3S). Hisresearch work includes the international comparison of TEVT systems and technical didactics (web

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

, around the world • Customer confidence based on your evidence of qualifications and suitability for the task at hand or project put out for bids.But there are some disadvantages as well: • Certification is not licensure or accreditation • Certification can be offered by different organization, vendor, institution, and school. So there is no single standard • Certification is recognized by one employer and may not be recognized by another employer • Certification has to be updated when technology changes and it is common that Page 9.75.4 the same certification has to be validated every 2 or 3 years

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Reed Stevens; Lorraine Fleming; Cynthia Atman; Sheri Sheppard; Theresa Barker; Ruth Streveler

gatheredduring ethnographic research (e.g. field notes, informal interviews, work products, etc.). Theseforms of data are then analyzed to find patterns that establish how people make sense of andparticipate in particular social settings. Each ethnography participant will be observed forapproximately 30 hours/academic year. Particularly important will be observing students duringactivities that are significant in engineering education culture such as intense project work,examination periods, and while involved in extra-curricular activities. In addition, the Page 9.1133.5observations will aim to document what the typical work-patterns are for each of

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdel Mazher

classrooms and labs. Other obstacles include writingcourses, class materials and lab materials that apply the unified concept. In addition to thatdeveloping suitable methods to measure the performance of students' progress is a major issue.Methods of writing the tests, the exams and the homework, consistent with the objectives of thecourses, for evaluation procedures should be addressed.10. ConclusionsThis paper is the first phase of an ambitious project that intends to change the way of conductingteaching, research and research training for undergraduate students of engineering and science.The ultimate goal of the paper is the curriculum development of engineering education to trainstudents to use the basic tools of research as an integrated

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Reynolds; Macy Reynolds

ok but I just remembered to do it as I was going to bed. Everything seems to be going ok for me in class. I seem to be understanding the material just fine, maybe a minor thing or two that I don't get but you usually clear things up in class. The project seems to be going ok, assuming I can get some numbers from work, which shouldn't be a problem. Well, that’s about all I have. See you in class on Tues.3. Some students, especially in the computer class, had skills in an area that was being taught.The instructor could then increase the pace of instruction rather than dwell on topics that werefamiliar. Students will often not admit in class that something was covered in high schoolclasses, but were willing to

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Baratuci; Angela Linse

Session 3413 Heat Transfer On-Line William B. Baratuci, Angela R. Linse University of Washington Department of Chemical Engineering / Center for Engineering Learning and TeachingIntroductionThis paper describes a project in which the internet was used to deliver a core course in theDepartment of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington (UW). This web-baseddistance-learning section of Transport Processes II, commonly known as “heat transfer,” wasoffered in Spring 2001. The distance

Conference Session

Issues of Concern to New Faculty

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato

not difficult to repeat each term. Many timesstructural engineering and construction courses see projects under construction, which are good,but each term the trip must change as the construction evolves and eventually must end. The keyis trying to find an existing project that does not change. This greatly reduces the overhead ofthe field trip. Even better is to find such a structure or location right on campus to minimizetravel requirements. If all else fails, do a virtual tour with photos and video. This approach maybe even better suited to some classes that do not lend themselves to obvious physical applicationsnear campus. The object is to show the student how the education gained in your class can applyto their future professions. “The

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Losaw; Ann Anderson

Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, January, 2001, pp 109-112.Lyons, J., Morehouse, J.H., and Young, E.F, 1999, “Design of a Laboratory to Teach Design of Experiments,”Proceedings of the ASEE Conference.Morris, M., and Fry, F., 2001, “Coupling Engineering and Entrpreneurship Education through Formula SAE,”Proceedings of the ASEE Conference.Musto, J.C., Howard, W.E., 2001, “The Use of Solid Modeling in Mechanical Engineering Outreach Programs forHigh School Seniors,” Proceedings of the ASEE Conference.Musto, J.C., Howard, W.E., Rather, S., 2000, “The RP Derby: A Design/Build/Test Experience for High SchoolStudents,” Proceedings of the ASEE Conference.Rencis, J.J., 1999, “The Formula SAE Project at WPI,” Proceedings of the ASEE Conference

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

precisely to the needs of engineering faculty. Section 3 then provides an in-depthdescription of the overall system and its key components. Page 8.260.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 11732.0 Designing for engineers: a user-centered approachThe INCA project was motivated by the observation that, despite the availability of a wide varietyof web authoring tools, engineering faculty are

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay K. Martin; Jay Martin; Dayle K. Haglund; Jennifer Kushner

have suggested that efforts to foster change in higher educationmust be holistic in approach. In this context, holistic means that the process must consider allaspects of the educational experience, not just the objectives and outcomes, but the pedagogyitself as well as the history of the discipline. Most importantly, they reinforce our ideas that forpositive, reflective, and continual curricular change to occur a department must engage in buildinga philosophy of practice to support their work.Consistent with the EC2000 objectives, one of the objectives for this project was and is todevelop a methodology for use by an engineering department that would result in the followingprocesses. First, the department would engage in regular and

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Staci Provezis; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Dan Budny; Harvey Wolfe

Mandatory 5 3 0 8 2.66 Volunteer 3 6 1 10 2.13 None 5 22 1 28 3.37 Total 13 31 2 46 2.97Program ChoiceLike a number of engineering schools, we have a common freshman year. All students take thesame curriculum and do not choose a department until the end of their second term. A number ofactivities and assignments have been incorporated into the first year to enable students to make aninformed department choice. These include library projects, departmental visits

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei-Chiang Lin; Mark A. Mackanos; E. Duco Jansen; Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Sean P. Brophy

this field typically put significant emphasis on student’s understanding of lighttransport in tissue. Analytically this process is described by the light transport equation whichhas little utility in helping students who are novices in this field obtain a conceptualunderstanding of light distribution in tissue. Students at all levels struggle with the concepts andhave difficulty obtaining a working knowledge of the role of the various tissue properties,boundary conditions and laser parameters on light transport. The goal of this project was 1) todevelop an interactive and visual learning module based on Monte Carlo simulations aseducation tool; 2) design learning activities to help students systematically explore the propertiesof light and

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Secola; Bettie Smiley; Dale Baker; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 1692 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Gender Equity Training in Engineering Summer Workshops With Pre-College Teachers and Counselors Patricia M. Secola, Bettie A. Smiley, Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Dale R. Baker Arizona State UniversityAbstractThe WISE Investments (WI) Program is a three-year NSF project designed to encourage youngwomen to pursue engineering and related careers. A major component of this grant is to providetwo two-week summer professional development workshops that introduce middle school, highschool, and community college teachers

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

John K. Estell

, displayed, and documented. The rubric guidelines for thiscategory include evaluation of the student’s discussion of the examined concepts and post-codingreflections of what this particular entry has accomplished. Finally, documentation is presentedas a separate category here, although other rubric areas contain some of these evaluationelements, to provide the student with a clear evaluation on this important issue. The lack ofmeaningful documentation within a program can prove catastrophic for a project at some point intime; throwing in some token comments after the code has already been written does notconstitute proper code documentation skills. The rubric also emphasizes the evaluation of howwell the portfolio entries document the concepts and

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

engineering courses, AST and AE students are frequently placed in the same first-year composition sections, a strategy needed to fill one section of English (26 students).We had originally hoped that combining AE and AST students into one section ofEnglish 104 would help to create community between these two groups of students andhave continued the practice because the students due appear to enjoy and thrive in theenvironment. Engineering 101, 160, and 170 are multi-section courses at ISU; however,we offer ABE specific sections for our students that are primarily taught by ABE faculty.This strategy not only enables us to cluster our students into one course, it also allows usto adjust the curricula to include topics and projects of particular

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Titus; Guoqing Tang

-engagementassignments in Calculus and General Physics courses and to increase students’ time on taskoutside the classroom. The pedagogical practice of incorporating web-based homeworkassignments to enhance students’ time on task is part of academic curricular reform effortundertaken currently by the mathematics, physics and chemistry departments at North CarolinaA&T State University under the NSF funded project “Talent-21: Gateway for AdvancingScience and Mathematics Talents.”The development of dynamic active-engagement homework assignments involves the creation ofwell-designed and well-structured questions using HTML and Perl. Questions include featuressuch as randomized content and Java applets. Various formats of questions were used includingmultiple