Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina; Bethany Fralick, University of South Carolina; Jennifer Kearn, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the Southeastern United States with apopulation of about 350,000. Three of these schools were classified as urban, two as rural.Thirty-two classes were given the EISC survey and twenty-eight the SISC survey. Although arelatively large number of students were surveyed, this study is based upon a sample ofconvenience. The survey respondents were future participants in a National Science Foundation– funded Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) program at the authors’institution.The GK-12 program that is associated with this study provides fellowships to graduate studentsin engineering and in science to work one or two days a week in middle school scienceclassrooms, enhancing science education through inquiry and design projects

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics, Academic Integrity

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

corollaries in the expectations for practicing engineers. There are additional questionsbased on the case studies and the engineering exemplars on the Online Ethics website. Ethics arealso discussed in the context of the course projects such as the CVEN exploration ofcontroversies and disasters and the EVEN drinking water evaluation project.Student perceptions of cheating behaviors were indicated by their anonymous responses to 18questions from the PACES-1 survey1. Students rated each behavior as either: cheating; unethicalbut not cheating; neither. The demographics of the students in the courses and the respondents,if known, are summarized in Table 1. Each course had about the same number of students, witha significantly higher percentage of female

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianno Coller, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

offeedback control systems, “Thread the Needle” created “attenuation of input” instead. Both deepand shallow attempts to solve the problem could produce similar outcomes in the game.Moving ForwardThe game-based dynamic systems and control course is being offered again in Spring 2009. Thechallenges and exercises in the new course are more similar to the Pendu-Car project describedpreviously. Instead of having students achieve specific performance metrics, we focus more onqualitative aspects. In devising a control strategy for the Pendu-Car, for example, one needs tothink deeply about how the feedback architecture is constructed. How can one simultaneouslycontrol two strongly coupled dynamic states (pendulum angle and car position)? Ourengineering

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Dannenhoffer, Syracuse University; Joan Dannenhoffer, State University of New York, Morrisville

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

GPAs ranging from barely passing to the top performers. The studentseach worked at a separate computer in a computer cluster. The evaluation session began with a30-minute introduction to the project and the software, including the solution of a typicalproblem by the instructor. Each student was then asked to solve one tutorial problem and thentwo new problems; the instructor walked around the room and was available to the students toanswer questions.Their initial impressions of the software were mixed. Some like to try anything new, especiallyif it involves the computer, and they quickly became proficient in using the system; thesestudents easily solved the two problems in about a half hour. Others were rather hesitant at first,and needed to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics, Academic Integrity

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shobi Sivadasan, Stevens Institute of Technology; Brian Sauser, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

. Overall, the survey results clearly revealed that students are aware ofacademic plagiarism and its resulting consequences. Regardless, academic plagiarism Page 14.1296.3continues to be a major problem.Plagiarism in the academic environment has plagued universities for a long time. Whilemost commonly committed by students, professors and researchers have been guilty aswell. According to R. Murray Thomas4, Professor Emeritus, University of California,Santa Barbara, “Students have plagiarized book reports, term papers, essays, projects, andgraduate-degree theses. Teachers—including college professors—have plagiarizedjournal articles, course materials, and

Conference Session

Focus on Faculty

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlie Law, Pennsylvania State University, Schuykill; David Younger, Rice University; Ann Saterbak, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

at Rice University were women. In addition, none of the winners were women in thescience or engineering faculty, whereas eight men in these areas were winners. The purpose ofthis project is to investigate the reasons for the underrepresentation of women faculty,particularly the women faculty in science and engineering, in the most prestigious teachingawards at Rice University.We explored the process for administration of the G. R. Brown Teaching Awards. Only tenure-track and tenured faculty are eligible for this award; seven total awards are given each year. RiceUniversity alumni who graduated two and five years ago vote on the award winners. The votingis done by mail through ballots. During the last four years, 11-14% of alumni have

Conference Session

Topics in Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York, Binghamton; Caroline Baillie, Queens University, Kingston

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

various cases and your responses as an engineering professional and anengineering educator. Case: The Next Generation Landmine Part I.Ms. Jane Enaj is a project manager at a multinational corporation which has just beenawarded a contract to develop and produce the next generation land mine. She is also amember of the Design Review Committee. The committee’s responsibilities includereviewing and approving design changes, procedural changes and submittingperformance reports to various U.S. Department of Defense agencies withrecommendations.Today Jane finds herself in a difficult situation. DRC is meeting to finalizerecommendation concerning the new land mine. It offers significant

Conference Session

Graphics and Visualization

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick; Seamus Gordon, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

neurosciencecannot be underestimated and the application of these findings is required for areorganisation of the education system 10.As far back as 1964, Smith outlined that procedures used for admittance toeducational institutions are heavily weighted to those with superior verbalintelligence12. He argues that a considerable proportion of students with advancedspatial abilities are being prevented from partaking in advanced educational courseswhere this ability can be nurtured and developed. The Irish education system hastaken cognisance of this research and the assessment of project based work in alltechnology based subjects now forms approximately forty percent of the overallgrade. An example of this change in focus is evident in Design and

Conference Session

Meeting the Needs of Engineering Faculty, Researchers, and Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

from a slot planto the current titles plan. They mention the disadvantage of losing older content when the newyear begins.Since the study, Texas A&M has moved from two to four and now six simultaneous users. It isconsidering subscribing to the complete file.Wallace4 (2006) wrote a journal article discussing the use of Safari for selected course reserveswith an existing slot system at the University of North Texas, Denton. He also did a similarconference presentation5 at ASEE in 2005. At the beginning of project, the university libraryhad three simultaneous users and 750 slots. To cover the anticipated use increase, the computerscience department paid for an additional simultaneous user. To avoid access challenges,professors explained to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics V

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Oliver, University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

prosecution of Mr. Siemaszko was met with skepticism by many. For example, theUnion of Concerned Scientists claimed that Siemaszko was “being used as a scapegoat" and that"[FENOC] and the NRC deserve the blame, not an engineer who was simply trying to do his joband keep the plant safe."21 Even the federal judge that presided at Siemaszko’s trial had hisdoubts stating that the conviction was "a close case".22 For its part in the deception, FENOC “agreed to pay $28 million in penalties, restitution,and community service projects as part of an agreement to defer prosecution of the company”23. Case 2: Boeing’s Purloined Papers In the late-1990’s McDonnell-Douglas and Lockheed Martin were in competition over along

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Stefanie L. Lozito; Karen M. Bursic; Cynthia Atman

objective of the larger study is to documentstudent problem solving processes by obtaining detailed descriptions of those processes. In this paper, we showhow this objective is obtained by demonstrating the usefulness of verbal protocol analysis through a detailedapplication of the method to one subject in our study. The Experiment In this study, students were asked to give a verbal protocol as they solved a playground design problem.This problem is a revised version of a term-long design project used by the University of Maryland (part of theNational Science Foundation’s ECSEL coalition)(5). The text of the problem is presented in Figure 1. The experimental procedure consisted of several

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin 'Quincy' Cabell VI; Javed Alam; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

locatedat distant locations. The number of users and Internet hosts are growing at an exponential rate and there does notappear to be an end in sight. The Internet offers a great potential for the rapid, cost effective exchange ofmassive amounts of information. The introduction of hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) used in the currentWorld-Wide Web (WWW, or the Web [1, 2]) project allows the FEMur development team to createinformation material in hypermedia format. It is a combination of Hypertext [3, 4] and multimedia. It allows oneto combine information from such diverse sources as plain text, pictures, sound clips and animation/video clipsto-create hypermedia documents using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). These documents are placedon a

Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Morris, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

ideas, including “intentionally destroy dying heart tissue over time, so that the bodycan more easily compensate” (3.1), “add an additional heart to the body” (4.1), “implantsmall pumps in various parts of the body where flow is decreased to help maintain flow”(6.7) and “utilized enzymes to ‘eat’ the plaque build-up” (7.2). The full list is shown inPart B of the Appendix.Some of the new ideas developed using this process may already exist, but were notencountered during research. During the project, several ideas were developed whilegenerating ideas and then later found in literature upon further research. Due to a limitedknowledge-base of the authors in medicine, not all ideas could be fully researched.Though an important step before starting

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna Dollar, Miami University; Paul Steif, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

learning process. One benefit is the possibility of including less routine activities, e.g., problem based learning, design projects or study of real engineering applications, case studies, ethics, and more advanced critical thinking and problem solving. And, to take greatest advantage of the feedback from OLI, more engaging in-class activities that target identifiable concepts and skills need to be developed.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSSupport by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation through the Open Learning Initiative atCarnegie Mellon University, by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie MellonUniversity, and by the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department at MiamiUniversity is gratefully

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynita Newswander, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Page 14.683.2innovation have been recently proposed in initial plans for graduate education. Specifically, we 1examined 134 funded NSF IGERT proposals for 120 unique IGERT sites (14 were renewalproposals), and examined their proposed organizational structures and any university support orexplicit plans for sustaining the project beyond the five-year funding period. Our analysis of theproposals was guided by the following questions, which are more thoroughly treated in thesections below: 1. What proportion of successfully funded interdisciplinary graduate education proposals specifically addressed sustaining the program after the funding

Conference Session

ASCE Policy 465: Raising the Bar

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy; Jeffrey Russell

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

through master’s-level study, is also a significant sourceof strength, as it reflects a trend toward a higher level of specialized knowledge. The BOK’semphasis on risk and uncertainty is an appropriate counter to the notion that engineeringknowledge is “too exact.”15 Enhanced professional practice breadth strengthens the professiononly insofar as the specified topics represent specialized disciplinary knowledge; e.g., bidding,quality-based selection, and construction project management. General knowledge ofcommunication skills, public policy, business, and similar topics are of considerably less value instrengthening the BOK, because they are neither theoretical nor specific to the civil engineeringdiscipline.Freidson also notes that an ideal

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

audiences typically emphasizeuse of engineering design methods of problem solving21. Engineering design is a common themeof introduction to engineering courses for first-year undergraduates as represented by someintroduction to engineering textbooks23-25.A strength of focusing on engineering design for either K-12 students, beginning engineeringstudents, or the general public, is that the design process emphasizes the central aspect ofengineering and technology which is the creation of physical objects of some type to solveproblems or provide for specific needs. Carrying out design projects allows students to be activeand engaged. Design activity can utilize a variety of materials from simple to sophisticated. Thepresentation of the basics of

Conference Session

Implementation of Experiments in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Dawn Spencer, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

traditional manufacturing processes through the book-making processes. Thisexercise increases an appreciation for manufacturing topics, and helps students understand thecomplex nature of many production processes.IntroductionWhile it is relatively easy to deliver a broad conceptual picture of the manufacturing processes inlectures, accomplishing this is somewhat more challenging in a laboratory environment. Inprevious years, a semester-long project incorporated a number of traditional manufacturingprocesses to produce a working device like a wind vane, a scale, or a desk lamp. However, ittook a whole semester to build such a device; therefore, a “large picture” was not provided to thestudents at the beginning of the semester. Some of the engineering

Conference Session

Active Engagement: From the New Engineering Librarian's Perspective

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Jane Dooley, Dalhousie University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

program.Strive to foster two-way communication.”7 She has successfully improved faculty-libraryrelationships, and increased her number of teaching and research assistance opportunities.Collaborative projects are now initiated by her teaching faculty because they know what toexpect from her. These opportunities have enhanced her career portfolio and were no doubt afactor in her successful reappointment and promotion to Librarian II in the summer of 2007. Theongoing development of her liaison work will strongly support her application for appointmentwithout term, and promotion to Librarian III in the fall of 2009.The author learned most of what she knows about networking and collaboration since she beganworking professionally. Overcoming challenges, and

Conference Session

Getting Started: Objectives, Rubrics, Evaluations, and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin; Mia Markey, University of Texas, Austin; Wonsoon Park, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Biomedical Engineering. The mission of her Biomedical Informatics Lab is to design cost-effective, computer-based decision aids. The BMIL develops decision support systems for clinical decision making and scientific discovery using artificial intelligence and signal processing technologies. The BMIL's research portfolio also includes projects in biometrics. Dr. Markey’s primary interests in improving engineering education are the identification of effective strategies for coordinating instructional technologies to reinforce learning and the recruitment and retention of a diverse student body.Wonsoon Park, University of Texas, Austin WONSOON PARK is a doctoral student in the College of Education at the

Conference Session

Issues and Opportunities in IE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marlin Thomas, Air Force Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

courses and they can be derived through multiple routes incurricula. There are varying opinions among engineering educators on the methods foraccomplishing the three elements of learning in the above definition. Issues range from theamount of repetition of topics through course overlaps, review of materials from course tocourse, inclusion of projects, and case studies. The objective is to establish an efficient andeffective routing for students to accomplish and build on the elements of learning throughconcept integration. Course prerequisites are very important in establishing the routes. 4.1. Example of a Learning PlatformThe Poisson process is an example of a learning platform for industrial engineering. It is thefundamental stochastic

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: Using Case Studies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Boston case is a discussion of contemporary building codes andwhy such large storage containers were not considered to be structures and hence did not requireengineering expertise for design and maintenance.Likewise, in the IMO case, the NSPE code is not applicable, although Mexican engineers cancross-register professional status in the state of Texas and the code is thus applicable acrossinternational boundaries. The actual problem with the storage tank was not engineering-orientedbut rather a bad management decision to hold more molasses than the tank was designed to store.The engineering problem was an environmental one, so an examination of sustainability issues isappropriate.Finally, in courses that require a term project or other major

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Farison, Baylor University; Zhuocheng Yang, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

developed to administer this new responsibility, 2) the experiences of the first three years of program evaluator visits, 3) the institutions with ABET EAC-accredited multidisciplinary engineering programs, 4) the number and names of the multidisciplinary engineering program(s) at each institution, 5) the ABET EAC accreditation history of these programs, 6) a look ahead at the projected future evaluator workload, and 7) other issues related to this new accreditation role and to recent changes in the process.IntroductionOne of the significant distinctions of a substantial number of baccalaureate engineering programsis that they intentionally do not align naturally with a currently so-called “traditional discipline”(such as

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Drexel University; Alexandru Belu, Case Western Reserve University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

, mathematics and computing are shown inFigure 1.Figure 1 The definition of computational science and engineering.Each module has three main components: lecture(s), which are part of physics or engineering courses;CAS solved related-examples; work groups and home-works. In the lecture(s), the theory is presentedand examples of typical and/or real life problems are worked out using the facilities of the CAS. Duringthe work groups, typically during the tutoring session, small groups or individual students are assigned aset of problems to solve. Students are expected to solve additional problems and to study the course text.The project total workload for a term course is about 80 hours for the average student. The main aim ofthe courses and the CAS-based

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Upper-Level Physics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Mowry, University of St. Thomas-St. Paul

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

showsthat the metrology-based modular approach of teaching undergraduate E&M is achieving theintended goals. The triply redundant flow/flux coverage of the vector-calculus module, theANSYS® modeling module and the Matlab® field visualization GUIs are very popular with thestudents. These modules have succeeded in helping the students visualize and analyze real fieldsin practical applications as well as providing the graduates with industry recognized E&M skills.The main detractors of the modular approach are the costs and space associated with establishingan E&M laboratory. Hence support, via CCLI grant or corporate donations, is necessary forfunding the complete E&M laboratory. The projected cost for implementing the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Balmer, Union College; Lance Spallholz, Union College

(saturated vapor). The maximum (i.e., reversible) work that can be performed by a system. Also called Exergyvii availability, available energy, and essergy.A 21st century active learning teaching technique We decided to experiment with “active learningviii” by linking the learning of theseobscure terms with the student’s popular culture. We created a computerized thermodynamicversion of the popular TV game show, Jeopardy. About a third of the way into the course theinstructor announces that they are going to play a special game. A Jeopardy-like game panel(that all the students instantly recognize) is then projected onto a screen on the classroom. At thetop of the screen are thermodynamic categories

Conference Session

Web-based learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Animesh Patcha, Virginia Tech; Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

past academic year. Computer Science joinedthe college last year and they have offered 12 courses, including two in the summer.Electrical and Computer Engineering is now offering 26 courses including one in the summerand an increase of eight courses over the past academic year. Industrial and SystemsEngineering added two courses over past academic year, making a total of 14 with twooffered during the summer. Other departments offered a limited number of courses as theyworked towards collaborative instructional projects with various university partners. Our Page 11.958.6goal to offer more courses during the summer, is an initiative based upon

Conference Session

Software and e-learning in the ME curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Javed Alam, Youngstown State University; Venkata Seshada Aluri, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

,” Sakai Project, April 14, 2005, http://www.sakaiproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=230&Itemid=473.8. “Learning Design Specification,” IMS Global Learning Consortium INC., 2001, http://www.imsglobal.org/learningdesign/index.html.9. “The IMS Learning Design Engine,” CopperCore, http://coppercore.sourceforge.net/index.shtml.10. “LAMS Foundation,” Learning Activity Management System, 2004, http://www.lamsfoundation.org/.11. Cabell, B.Q., Rencis, J.J., Alam, J. and Grandin, H.T., “Using Java to Develop Interactive Learning Material for the World-Wide Web,” The International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 13, No. 6, 1997, http://www.ijee.dit.ie/articles/999971/article.html.12

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mario Garcia, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

costeffectiveness of new key technologies are creating large opportunities for developing large-scaledistributed applications. These systems are made up of several interacting components, each ofwhich is pretty much well encapsulated. However, this phenomenal growth has also broughtabout security concerns since some of the data now being made available on the Internet issensitive. For example eCommerce, the leading Web-based application is projected to exceeding$1 trillion over the next several years. The strong need for information security is attributed toseveral factors, including the availability of sensitive information stored in corporations andgovernments databases to the outside world.Database Access Control ModelsAccess control models were

Conference Session

Revitalizing Cooperative Education and Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debbie Gulick, Georgia Institute of Technology; Debbie Pearson, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gayle Elliott, University of Cincinnati; Jennifer Oliver, IAESTE United States; Karl Zimmer, General Cable

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

cross-cultural issues and the benefits that international experiences hold for engineering students. Debbie completed a Master's Degree in English and counseling certification requirements from Troy University. Before joining Georgia Tech, she served various educational institutions through teaching, counseling, administration, and project coordination.Gayle Elliott, University of Cincinnati Gayle Elliott earned BS and MS degrees from University of Cincinnati and is currently assistant professor in UC's Division of Professional Practice. She is the faculty advisor for students in the International Co-op Program (ICP) and for mechanical engineering students in the class of 2008