Conference Session

Principles of K-12 Engineering Education and Practice

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; George D Ricco, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

design • He made a list of the materials he may need like a bucket4 Create Creating and building • He created something • He built it differently5 Improve Making the design even • If it didn’t work too well, she might want better to make a few more changes than she did • He improved it • He was fixing his project he was redoing it to make it not break the egg6 Test Testing out the

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Technical Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew A Carr USN, U.S. Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

projects.12After all of this, the United States has effectively resisted metrication. The scientific community, Page 24.197.4competitive export industries, and some federal government agencies have adopted the SIsystem. However, the general American public, domestic industries, construction andmaintenance trades, and other sectors of the American economy either do not use SI, or onlypartially use SI. The de facto condition is a blended system that has been remarkably resistantand yet allowed businesses of the United States to be vibrant and competitive in internationaltrade.customer focusAs engineering educators, we need to be aware of the

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogy and Assessment in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Michael K Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Philip J. Parker P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

topics.Dr. Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC Carol Haden is s Senior Evaluator with Magnolia Consulting, LLC. She holds a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on program evaluation from Northern Arizona University. Dr. Haden has extensive experience in the evaluation of formal STEM education projects across the K-20 spectrum and the evaluation of informal STEM Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) programs. She has designed and implemented evaluations of programs funded by the National Science Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Arizona Board of Regents, Goddard Space Flight Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Arizona Department of Education, among others. She has

Conference Session

Computer-Based Learning Models

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

) storing new information by linking it with existing memories and (4)retrieval of stored information. Of course, sensory perception – the ability to see and hear amessage – is essential to learning. This project assumes that users do not have insurmountablephysical limitations of sensory perception. Given operational levels of sensory perception, thefirst bottleneck where learning can break down is selection of stimuli to attend to – in otherwords, attention. As established before, in the technology classroom, there are more stimuli thanever before to choose from, which places unprecedented demands on students’ attention.Attention TheoryBasic attention theory distinguishes between top-down (endogenous) and bottom-up (exogenous)attention 87. Bottom

Conference Session

Classroom Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralph Ocon, Purdue University Calumet

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

performance.Table 7: Opportunities for Implementing the 8 Leadership Behaviors 1. Assignments: the author gives two types of assignments (1) in-class and (2) outside projects requiring in-class presentations. In-class assignments are done by individual students and in group/teams 2. Class Exercises: the author gives students a number of class activities and exercises. Class activities and exercises are done by individual students or in groups or teams 3. Student Presentations: throughout the semester, students give presentations with various assignments, either individually or as the spokesperson for a group/team 4. Exams: three exams are given during the semester 5. Student Class Participation: throughout the semester, students are

Conference Session

Design Across the Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen L. Bollenbach, University of Virginia; Erika D. Powell, University of Virginia; Stephanie L. Moore, University of Virginia; James F. Groves, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

on group projects that are a standard element of the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Thus, real-time interaction ability was seen as a key strategy for preventing the development of isolated learners who would begin to feel alienated and powerless.Within the PRODUCED program, the desire to provide for real-time communication andcollaboration has led to the adoption of two software tools paid for by university site licenses.For formal class sessions, the program employs a web-conferencing software platform thatallows faculty to manage their mixed face-to-face and online classroom environment. Theplatform:  Integrates into the university’s learning management system,  Permits online students to join class

Conference Session

Improvements in ECE Signals and Systems

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mario Simoni, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Farrah Fayyaz, Purdue University; Ruth Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Matlab at Different Levels," in Education Technology and Computer Science, 2009. ETCS'09. First International Workshop on, 2009, pp. 952-955.[7] B. Han, C. Zhang, and X. Qin, "Based on Matlab signals and systems course project-driven teaching method research," in Communication Software and Networks (ICCSN), 2011 IEEE 3rd International Conference on, 2011, pp. 466-469.[8] L. G. Huettel, "A DSP Hardware-Based Laboratory for Signals and Systems," in Digital Signal Processing Workshop, 12th-Signal Processing Education Workshop, 4th, 2006, pp. 456-459.[9] B. H. Ferri, S. Ahmed, J. E. Michaels, E. Dean, C. Garyet, and S. Shearman, "Signal processing experiments with the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kit for

Conference Session

Applications of Online Computing

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carole E. Goodson, University of Houston (CoT); Susan L. Miertschin, University of Houston (CoT); Barbara Louise Stewart

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Application Development Lower division (sophomore) Enterprise Applications Development Upper division (senior) Database Administration and Implementation Upper division (senior) Research Concepts in Human Development and Upper division (senior) Consumer Science Visual Merchandising Upper division (junior) Embedded Systems Upper division (junior) Microprocessor Architecture Upper division (junior) Computer Engineering Technology Senior Project Upper division (senior) Introduction to Statistics Upper division

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT); Jim L. Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

systematic analysis that leverages thereflection framework introduced earlier. Specifically, we noted that reflection on experience canbe framed as an intentional and dialectical thinking process where an individual revisits featuresof an experience with which he/she is aware and uses one or more lenses in order to assignmeaning(s) to the experience that can guide future action (and thus future experience).Experiences: Since reflection on experience clearly involves experience, a useful area ofinvestigation is to consider the range of experiences that students currently have. It is natural tobe drawn to thinking about student experiences such as large-scale projects, co-op opportunities,and internship opportunities. What is possible to overlook is

Conference Session

INT. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Partnerships, and Implementations

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James L. Barnes, James Madison University; Susan Kubic Barnes, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

International

. Page 23.28.22• Innovation Center The Ohio University Innovation Center has been helping entrepreneurs turn their promising ideas into flourishing businesses since 1983. The Innovation Center provides valuable business incubation resources to fuel the economy in Athens, Ohio and surrounding regions• Innovation Center University of Dayton, Ohio’s Innovation Center in the School of Engineering stresses project-based learning through real problems from external clients to create future leaders and problem ...• Innovation Center Utah Valley University, Innovation in Instruction and Technology leverages exciting educational approaches and new technologies to promote ...• Innovation Center for Health Quality and Innovation The University of

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Van Wie; Kristin Wood; Robert Stone; Julie Linsey; Matthew Green

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education 2005-1195 Table 4: Design problem #2 – “Art enabling device” A device needs to be designed to allow children with severe physical disabilities to create art projects. The children have very limited motor skills. They cannot hold items such as a paint brush. The deviceDesign Problem needs to be actuated by simple electrical devices such as the large switch shown on the left. Teachers

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Willette; Larry White; Garry White

). Thiscontradicts the preferred use of third person by some references for writing. (3)(22)DiscussionA literature review found case studies, term projects, and exemplar studies (14) for the classroom.Miller (23) discusses industry’s additional issues (inconsistent data, real vs. theoretical data) thatare normally not part of the classroom. Otherwise, a search of the literature revealed nothing thatcompares how working world engineering problems differ from textbook problems.Textbook problems differ with the working world in several ways as shown in Figure “A”. Inthe working world the available information may be wrong or misleading. Critical data may notbe easily available. The engineer in industry needs an in depth understanding of the problem.He/she

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Bilodeau

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Petlick; Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

over the last five years. Again, manycomments were made, but those mentioned most often included greater utilization of web-based instruction and tutorials, emphasis on 3D visualization using testing and help sessions,and project-based learning with students working in teams.The 2004 survey requested that participants list their major concerns related to the teachingof engineering/technical graphic communications at the post-secondary level. Overall, the Page 10.1359.8most cited concerns were the quality of students entering programs; staying current withchanges in technology (the cost of software/hardware, faculty development, and the

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

. 4 7. Turning Consulting Activities into Scholarship : Present or publish in a practice-based publication or at a conference on the following: -- something useful and/or new and innovative in your consulting practice -- consulting case studies -- consulting applications -- monitoring of existing or developing technologies -- integration of practice into the classroom: documenting how technical aspects of consulting practice are integrated or incorporated into the curriculum -- documenting how professional issues facing industry and the profession are incorporated into the curriculum 8. Publish or present on Independent study projects with students 9. Publish or present on your leadership and service experiences with professional societies

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Brigham; Angran Xiao; Kenneth Bryden

biological inputs, initialtemperature, and the spinning speed of the impeller. Again, the engineering models simulate thefermentation process so students can practice varying chemical and biological inputs and controllingprocess parameters without the expense of doing so with real equipment.The VR environment used at the Indian Hills Community College is a 2.7 meters wide by 2.1 meters tallsingle-wall, rear-projected system driven by an SGI Octane 2T M, Figure 3 (a). It is a passive stereosystem that utilizes a Christie-Digital Mirage 2000T M projector with a Stereo Graphics projector Z-screenTM. The navigation for these VR environments is accomplished using a tracking wand, so theposition and orientation of the wand is always known, allowing it be

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hancock; John Norton

which department do you currently teach? AOSS AERO BME ChE CEE EECS ENGIN IOE MSE ME NAME NERS FE PharmE PIM Other 4. Which of the following describe your current duties as a GSI (check as many as apply): hold office hours attend class teach a lab teach a discussion section give lectures grade homework or papers grade exams grade labs or projects hold review sessions email with students maintain website other

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai

layer. Manycases are tested concluding that the adaptive fuzzy topologies are efficiently reducing the effectof external disturbances such as load changes and input voltage changes, on different types ofDC/DC converters. A commensurate number of components is designed and built. The components are testedindividually and in various combinations of hardware and software segments. The entire systemwill be fully tested. The other work to be completed includes the integration of the full systemand the start of the implementation stage of the project. Two categories of tests, namely, loadregulation, and line regulation will be carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposedcontrol system.References 1. J

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Alam

has 13 core credits.The senior year includes a substantial design project, typically involving team participation, aswell as senior courses providing an in-depth treatment of digital logic and systems theory.In order to validate the number of core computer science credits required for the CpE program,the present authors carried out an e-mail survey of peer institutions, the results of which areillustrated in Fig. 2. Page 9.832.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 2 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

.) (q) quantify and justify the financial impact of product and process 2. To improve the level of achievement of the following Program Outcomes. development and improvement (Note: Letters correlate with POs in ABET Self-Study Document.) (r) organize and use a project implementation plan None --- 1st year committed to defining current state of achievement of POs. (s) facilitate multidisciplinary group to accomplish q & r

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers

opposed tousing technical publications as a primary measure of faculty excellence. This paper begins with abrief overview of ranking services, those who use those rankings and the benefits they derive,followed by a short literature review discourse of similar research projects. Ranking colleges and universities is a profitable business as indicated by the number ofnews magazines and publications that have jumped on the rankings bandwagon over the passseveral years.2-4 Some publications' interest in ranking colleges and universities has been openlysuspected as being financially motivated. Most educators would agree that ranking academicunits is a flawed complex process5-10 that will never be quantifiable to the point where thenumerical

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

help fill in the gaps and blind spots of the team’s mental model of thetechnology. Pacey gets at this idea of adjusting the model through interaction: “…although ideasmay arise in all sorts of ways that may be described as intuitive or participatory, there is alwaysan obligation to translate them into more rigorous, often mathematical formulations, so thatothers may understand and check them, and explore their precise implications.”226. Bias in the Design ProcessLet us now explore the means by which bias may be introduced during each stage of the designprocess. Engineering design projects typically begin with a problem specification phase. Theconstraints, requirements, and specifications of the design are elicited from the customer

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

, and Inc. National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering. "Amicus Brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in Re: Nos. 02-241, 02-516, Barbara Grutter V. Lee Ballinger & Jennifer Gratz and Patrick Hamacher V. Lee Ballinger."Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. Available at http://www.umich.edu/%7Eurel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus-ussc/um/MITfinal-both.doc36. Denison University. "Improving The Economics Curriculum With Laboratory Experiments." Lessons Learned From FIPSE Projects II. Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education. U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 1993.37. Sullivan, W. G

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Criswell

the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationAn important observation is that our educational approach should not be “classical methods ormodern methods”, as there is a role for both, along with basic theory, principles, and equations,and other educational resources such as case studies and descriptive texts on general designconsiderations, project performance, and failure analyses. The challenge is how to makeoptimum use of this increasing rich mixture of educational resources to best prepare ourgraduates to effectively function in the computer/software intensive design environment so thatthey will consistently produce

Conference Session

Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Laws

, RutgersUniversity, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Princeton University.Students selected for the program spent the first summer after their senior year of collegeworking at the Labs under the guidance of a technical mentor who was a member of theR&D staff. Top researchers were selected as mentors. They worked closely withstudents, guiding the student's work in a research project and monitoring their progress.2 National Research Council, Minority Science Paths:National Science Foundation Minority GraduateFellows of 1979-81(Washington,D.C.:National Academy Press, 1995) p.1.3 National Research Council, Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipients (Office of Scientific andEngineering Personnel, Fellowship Programs Unit, October 1996), p.2

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fredrick Cowan; Alan Gravitt; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

support from NSF Project Number DGE-0086420. Many thanks tothe administration, faculty, and students at Westlake High School. The cost of computer timewas underwritten by the Systems Realization Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology.REFERENCES1. Borning, A., 1977, “ThingLab – An Object-Oriented System for Building Simulations Using Constraints,” IJCAI, Vol. 1, pp. 497-498.2. Chi, M. T. H., Feltovich, P. J., and Glaser, R., 1981, “Categorization and Representation of Physics Problems by Experts and Novices,” Cognitive Science, Vol. 5, pp. 121-152.3. diSessa, A. A., 1988, “Knowledge in Pieces,” Constructivism in the Computer Age, (Forman, G., and Pufall, P. B., eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 49-70.4

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

H. David Smith; Cara Rieger; David Kanter; Robert Linsenmeier; Ann McKenna

? Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), 1998.4. Silverthorn, Dee U. (1998), “Physiology Education Today: What Comes Next?” Advances in Physiology Education, December, 20(1): S1-3.5. Krajcik, J., C. Czerniak, and C. Berger (1999), Teaching Children Science: a Project-based Approach. Boston: McGraw-Hill College.6. “The design of learning environments,” in How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, J.D. Bransford, A.L. Brown, and R.R. Cocking, Eds. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999.7. Giorgio, T.D. and S.P. Brophy, “Challenge-based learning in biomedical engineering: A legacy cycle for biotechnology,” in ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. Washington, DC: American

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

on their offering time and peer-recommendations, not necessarily based on tie-ins with their civil engineering course.But how to educate contrarian leaders and thinkers, and how to incorporate the right amount of“gray” into a jam-packed curriculum? Engineering students are taking, on average, fewerengineering courses at a time when by almost universal estimation the complexity of the modernengineering project continues to mount (Allenby 2000/2001; Bordogna 1998; Clough 2000;TCFPD 2001). To confront the challenges of the 21st century, engineers need to polish their non-technical repertoire, and this includes developing closer ties with the liberal arts. As programsreform their curricula in response to ABET’s new outcome-oriented criteria, and

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Milo Koretsky

second quarter of the senior lab course(ChE 415) builds on the work done in UO Lab 1. The focus is on working independently,developing a project proposal, completing experimental work and writing a final technicalmemorandum that includes recommendations for future work.During 2001, in serving as a technical consultant for the microelectronics related labs in ChE415, and discussing the statistical analysis of the students throughout the year with the labinstructor, it was determined that the use of statistical methods needed to be enhanced. Reviewof the written reports confirmed this belief. Thus, two “refresher” lectures of ChE 302 wereincluded in ChE 414 during W 2002. One of the three experiments asked students to compare ifdifferent levels of

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Guido Lopez

project the technological initiatives that can be found behind its principles. In effect, a goodgrasp of the concepts of science inherent to a particular engineering discipline provides a reliableand firm scaffold to engineering students for the practice of their profession. Quite often,however, the teaching of undergraduate physics in engineering programs emphasizes manipulationof formulas and numerical computation instead of deep understanding of inherent concepts. This“cookbook” approach seriously affects the strength of the scientific foundation that physicscourses need to provide to engineering students. The use of computer software in the classroomhelps to minimize this problem substantially. In effect, much of the tedious manipulative