Conference Session

Gender and Minority Issues in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Winn, Virginia Military Institute; Gary Winn, West Virginia University; Robin Hensel, West Virginia University; Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

adaptivedecisions.In impoverished and under-resourced Appalachian communities, the stressors are unique andinclude, as the literature review here suggests, poverty, out-migration, unemployment, lowercollege completion rates, lower family incomes, higher dependency rates, major industries influx, isolation by geography, absence of role models, a penchant for gender-specific careerchoices, and others. The authors propose that these stressors can be reduced by exposingAppalachian females to age and culture-matched peers through a variety of planned activities asshown in Figure 1. If their preferred channels of information reception and interests towardSTEM fields can be measured effectively, then recruitment and retention efforts can be

Conference Session

High School Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Abdelrahman, Tennessee Technological University; Holly Stretz, Tennessee Technological University; Angela McCulley, White County High School; Bridget Pugh, Monterey High School

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

presented in a separate paper1, buta glimpse is provided below. The project participants worked with 5 mentors from chemicalengineering, mechanical engineering and industrial engineering. The overall management of thesummer research institute was the responsibility of the principal investigator while the follow upactivities and assessment of the implementation is the responsibility of the co-principalinvestigator.The RET program2 was designed such that the teachers have a significant understanding of theresearch process. The teachers were asked with the help from their mentors and project directorsto formulate a research question based on the mentors’ ongoing research. The teachers designedand carried out the research plan and adapted it, as

Conference Session

Business Meeting

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Farison, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

and retained the Multidisciplinary degree as well 5. Programs at research universities 6. Programs at liberal arts colleges 7. Programs that merge engineering and management.”A petition to become a Constituent Committee of ASEE, prepared by Dr. Gosink, was edited andthen signed by 17 attendees. The group decided to plan a program, with both a technical sessionand a business meeting, for the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference scheduled for Nashville, TN.Two areas of focus for technical session papers were suggested: multidisciplinary engineeringprogram curricula and multidisciplinary engineering program visibility. Those assembledelected Dr. Gosink as chair, Dr. Jim Farison, Baylor University, as vice chair (and

Conference Session

Educational Research

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

engineeringstudents at U.S. institutions, it was not feasible to randomly sample individual students. Instead,sampling was done by institution using a stratified approach based on institutionalcharacteristics. Once the institutions were selected, the student population at each school wasdivided into subpopulations (or strata) for recruitment (see Donaldson & Sheppard (2008)6 for adetailed description of the APPLES2 sampling plan). Partnership with North Carolina A&TInstitutional recruitment for the national APPLES research began in mid-2007 with invitationletters sent to each institution’s dean as well as a special session held at the annual meeting of theAmerican Society of Engineering Education in June of 2007. As part of the

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ernest Kim, University of San Diego; Thomas Schubert, University of San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

≠ Constructing electronic circuits and verifying performance characteristics experimentally. ≠ Writing a PCB test plan with verification test procedures.III. Schematic CaptureThe goal of the laboratory experience was to design a PCB for a simplified discrete transistorversion of the 741 operational amplifier. The design chosen is shown in Figure 1. The designalso allowed exploration of the operation of the different segments of the operational amplifierdesign. Figure 1. 741 Operational Amplifier Equivalent CircuitWhile the schematic is complete, capturing the schematic requires that: ≠ Component geometries must be included in the captured schematic to allow seamless interface to the PCB layout software ≠ Inputs to and

Conference Session

Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joy Watson, University of South Carolina; Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

determine where a change is needed andcommunicate it to team members and other stakeholders. The leader and his or her teamformulate a strategic plan to implement a vision, create metrics and enable the team to self-assesstheir progress1, 7, 8, 11, 15-17. During the implementation a leader deals with technological,economic, political and regulatory risks. He or she needs self-confidence and self-efficacygained through a depth and breadth of knowledge in addition to past experiences7.Leadership requires lifelong learning because the implementation of a vision often requiresknowledge or skills that the team, including the leader, may not possess7, 13, 18. The leader’s jobis to identify the skills that are lacking and find a way to acquire them. In

Conference Session

Mentoring & Outreach for Girls & Minorities

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Backer, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

our project by selecting two high schools, Silver Creek and Mount Pleasant, in theEast Side Union High School District to participate in our program. We held community forumsat both high schools to meet with the parents and answer any questions they had. Research showsthat students are more likely to pursue computing disciplines if they are encouraged by theirparents13 14. One of the co-PIs for this project, Dr. Julio Garcia, is a native Spanish speaker. Hetook the lead in presenting this project to Hispanic parents and community members. The ProjectDirector also attended the meeting in addition to the high school club advisors. Figure 1. Timeline for the SVCC Completion Date Planning Tasks January 2009 ≠ Select two high

Conference Session

Design in BME Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Robert Dennis, University of North Carolina; Charles Finley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

roomassistants (TAs) staff the lab in the afternoonsand early evenings, as well as on weekends to coincide with student’s needs.This laboratory includes a separate, locked machining room with controlled access (figure 2).The room has a fusion deposition modeler (FDM, Stratasys Dimension) and laser cutter(Universal Laser Systems). We plan to add a computer numerical controlled (CNC) mill in thenear future. Students only have access to this room under supervision of a TA or facultymember.In the rare case that these machining tools are not sufficient, students have limited access tomachining equipment in a BME research lab, which is professionally staffed, as well as a fee-for-service machine shop in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.Courses A. BME

Conference Session

Faculty Development for Distance Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Donohue, The College of New Jersey; Christine Schnittka, University of Kentucky; Larry Richards, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

aspossible for the best outcomes; therefore, several STEM initiatives are targeting elementarystudents.1 - 3A signature outreach program at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and AppliedScience (UVa SEAS), the Virginia Middle School Engineering Education Initiative (VSMEEI),was created to address the need to engage students as early as possible in effective, empoweringinstructional activities introducing them to the engineering design process in order to motivatethem to study science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).4 – 6 VMSEEI’s primaryintervention instrument is the Engineering Teaching Kit (ETK). An ETK is a set of standards-based lesson plans designed to teach math and science concepts within the context of

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace and Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melany Ciampi, Organization of Researches in Environment, Health and Safety; Claudio da Rocha Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences

Tagged Divisions

International

implies several aspects such as the: qualityof classrooms, labs, libraries, communication systems etc; students ' services, qualification ofhuman resources; pedagogical scientific quality, credibility as a good institution. Good programshave good motivated teachers in addition to modern installations and dynamic planning. TheFaculty of any Institution of Education is one of the most important element, which provides ornot its qualification of excellence [02].In order to fulfill a lack of engineering educators for high education for engineering andtechnological fields in the country COPEC - Council of Researches in Education and Scienceseducation team has designed a new program in graduation level: the Port Engineering Program.The goal is to

Conference Session

Mentoring First Year Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Rippon, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

the camp and how it differs from othercollege freshmen camps. The paper also presents the logistical challenges of planning andexecuting a camp for over 700 freshmen as well as the role of undergraduate student mentors andtheir recruitment and training. Since the successful camp experience also depends onengineering faculty involvement, the paper will describe the creation and deployment of theFreshmen Teaching Academy.Finally the paper will describe detailed assessment results from two years of camp experience.The paper will also detail data regarding student retention and the first year experience for thefreshmen population as a whole as well as for female and underrepresented minorities.BenchmarkingThe notion of a freshmen engineering camp

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seema Khan, Sonoma State University; Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Page 15.45.9plans to improve and enhance IVLPs’ features.1. By design, IVLP allows only one user to have control over the application modules. In the future we plan to add a time-out feature to limit user access to IVLP to eliminate long idle connections.2. In this phase of the project we focused on development of IVLP using a central server. In the distributed IVLP design, we plan to support multiple seamless experiments from different sites. This is particularly useful when different institutions are collaborating together and each institution has limited test equipments.3. A major area of improvement in the future will be adding security features to the client database. For example, we plan to add permissions to user profiles so

Conference Session

DEED Potpourri

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nabila (Nan) BouSaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; William Heybruck, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Martin Kane, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Peter Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Deborah Sharer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Steve Patterson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Carolina. Dr. Conrad is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He is also a member of ASEE, Eta Kappa Nu, the Project Management Institute, and the IEEE Computer Society. He is the author of numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers in the areas of robotics, parallel processing, artificial intelligence, and engineering education.Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte G. Bruce Gehrig is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Contruction Management. His areas of interest/specialization are: Water Resources Planning and Management, Design and Construction Integration, and

Conference Session

BIM and Other New Construction Practices

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Althea Arnold, University of North Texas

Tagged Divisions

Construction

demographic research d. Research Environmental requirements e. Prepare a preliminary estimate and then revise the estimate in the second semester based on project progress f. Prepare a site logistics plan and site work layout plan (in phases as necessary) g. Prepare a preliminary schedule using Primavera, and revise the schedule according to work progress in the second semester h. Construct a 3-D Revit drawing of the project (or other project appropriate 3-D virtual model) i. Prepare a “green” analysis of the project.Milestones are given for each task which helps students schedule their time and stay on trackwith their project. A

Conference Session

Construction Classroom Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Namhun Lee, East Carolina University; Eddy Rojas, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Construction

used for 3D dynamic construction process simulations toeffectively manage complex construction operation processes in 3D virtualenvironments. In addition, 3D computer models have been used to increase thespeed and quality of design review. Simultaneously, 4D computer-aided designmodels as a construction tool have been developed to create more flexible anddynamic 4D simulation environments of construction progress. 4D modelingprovides a mechanism to visualize elements of 3D computer-aided design modelsbased on associated schedule intervals34. Through 4D simulation environments,project teams can virtually practice the construction of a unique artifact beforebuilding it in reality for the purpose of detailed work planning and coordination

Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Patten, University of California at Berkeley; Sara Atwood, University of California, Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

plan in a specified format - A two-minute “elevator speech” demonstration for their peers, teachers and science center staff - Feedback on the project day from the elementary school students and science center staff as well as from course instructor and graduate student instructors - A write-up which detailed the project development, evaluation and lessons learned - Team members’ evaluations.The undergraduate students were asked to think about their exhibits from the point of view of the5th graders. Each group was asked to develop their learning objectives, explain their “hook” (how Page 15.236.6they planned to draw

Conference Session

A Systems Thinking Approach to Solving Problems

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University; Fadi Deek, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Raghvinder Sangwan, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

Engineering Education, 2010 Promoting Effective Communication in Global Engineering ProjectsAbstractEffective communication plays a key role in the success of engineering teams. However,achieving a high level of communication when developing projects globally can be challenging.An organization’s learning capacity, its familiarity with the cultural diversity of its teammembers, and its information technology support for project planning, data management, groupcommunication and collaboration among geographically distributed teams, are some key factorsthat can help overcome this challenge.IntroductionThrough a study conducted in 2008 by NASA, communication was identified as one of the fivetop level themes their highly valued Systems Engineers

Conference Session

Technology-Enhanced Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

explanation (short essay)of a scenario regarding a particular course concept.Quantification of Participation – a measure of contribution to course discussions. Students aregiven specific instructions on the discussion board topics including the timeframe ofparticipation and the number of expected contributions. Student grades are dependent onmeeting these participation expectations.Personal Development Plan – serves as the final assignment. Students are required to submit aplan that describes how they intend to continue to develop interpersonal skills. The plans arespecific to the skills they have identified as important to their professional development.Interpersonal Skill DevelopmentOne of the initial assignments requires students to consider

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

goal actions. The support for this category comes fromcooperative learning theories (Johnson, Johnson, & Smith, 1991) and “how people learn”literature (Bransford,& Donovan, 2005) that describe goal-setting and self-monitoring as criticalcomponents of learning. Examples of goal-oriented actions are clarifying assignments,monitoring time, and suggesting a project plan. The second category is relationship actions.This category is driven by the social cognitive theory indicating that supportive socialinteractions and persuasions can affect behaviors and achievement through the mediation of self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997). Examples of relationship-oriented actions include acknowledginggroup members’ contributions and asking for others

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henry Louie, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

number of questionsneed to be asked, perhaps three to six, and therefore the time spent on the survey is minimal.Carefully crafting each question of the survey and the possible responses is fundamental inempowering the students but also limiting their opinions to a reasonable range. As a rule, thestudents should only be surveyed on course policies that the instructor is amenable to changing,otherwise the students may resent the survey as a waste of time. As an example, assume that theinstructor for a course has planned for the midterm exam to count toward 30 percent of the finalgrade. To gauge whether or not the students agree with this policy, the following Likert

Conference Session

Think Outside the Box! K-12 Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brittany Luken, Georgia Institute of Technology; Stacey Mumbower, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Transportation Engineering. Duringthis session, six graduate students facilitated the three abovementioned activities. Severalimportant lessons were learned during the first implementation of the activities. First off, whenusing them in rotation it was determined that Activity 3 was shorter than the other two activities.Thus, to compensate, that lesson was expanded on by letting students make an original plan forhow everyone gets to their destinations and then posing questions that made some change theiroriginal plan. For example, students were questioned on whether or not the direction they hadtheir car traveling would be affected by rush hour traffic. By posing this and similar questions,students got to explore more factors that go into logistics

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

earlier. The biggest mismatch seems to bein understanding the importance of learning good proposal-writing skills and also inunderstanding the importance of managing one's career and learning the unwritten rulesof the institution where one is employed.Thus, although the survey is not yet complete, we already have some good pointers forhow to improve our program as we adjust to the changes in the UC Engineering academicstructure. We will need to add more panels to program, where faculty and students caninteract and where the importance of having five- or ten-year career plans is stressed.And we will probably start requiring attendance at UC's day-long grant-writing workshopfor all participants. More practice in teaching should also be easier to

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lily Laiho, California Polytechnic State University; Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University; James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

feedback. Thelecture and lab topics covered in order during the 30 weeks of the course are as follows:Lecture LabDesign Process and Methodology Background Research/Requirements/SpecificationsTeamwork: Theory, Skills, Practice Team Building ActivitySystems Engineering QFD – House of QualityCreativity and Idea Generation Creative Problem Solving ExperienceConceptual Modeling Shop Orientation/Hand Tools ExperienceIdea Selection/Decision Schemes Teamwork Revisited: Personalities, CommunicationProject Planning Engineering EconomicsSafety and Risk Basic

Conference Session

Methods, Techniques and New Programs in Graduate Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Cox, Purdue University; Cyndi Lynch, Purdue University; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Phillip Dunston, Purdue University; Audeen Fentiman, Purdue University; Pamella Shaw, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Engineering and departmental research advisors will guidestudents toward acquiring their M.S. degrees and the possible pursuit of their Ph.D.s. Finally, PIsbuild and enhance scholarly communities and will develop strategies for sustaining the REACHScholars model within the College of Engineering and will work with support services and otherstaff and colleagues to provide professional development opportunities and mentoring Page 15.424.4relationships for Scholars.Recruitment Plan and Scholar SelectionThe REACH Scholars program collaborates with existing national recruitment efforts anduniversity initiatives to recruit the targeted populations

Conference Session

Design with External Clients

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

lunar habitat, and the lunar electric rover will all need electronic interfaces andcomputer controller boards. Rather than have three separate sets of electronics (and the sparesthat might be needed), a good design would reuse the one-use only lunar descent vehicle'scomputer controller board so that it could be used in the habitat or rover. The new projectinvestigated the feasibility of this concept.Dr. Conrad investigated in more detail the avionics planned and already in the Constellationvehicles (Orion, Altair, habitat, Lunar Electric Rover). Many documents are in the publicdomain, but many are also contractor designs and are thus not accessible. Dr. Conrad iscontinued with a "generic" design of the different avionics vehicles and

Conference Session

Faculty Set the Preliminary Standards for Co-ops

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Joseph, Pace University; Mabel Payne, Consultant

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

context dependent with learning inmultiple contexts more promotive of transfer.In regard to measuring or assessing learning and learning transfer, Bradford et al6 said that the“[m]easures of transfer play an important role in assessing the quality of people’s learningexperiences” and therefore, differentiate surface learning from deep learning. Furthermore,Venables & Tan41 mentioned the need for assessment of a student in a work based learningexperience to be within the appropriate context. They said that the “assessment tasks” and the“planned learning outcomes” should be aligned” and that assessment should promote the development of problem-solving skills, personal development, and social skills within a community or industry focused

Conference Session

Computer Education Innovations I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alisa Gilmore, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Herbert Detloff, University of Nebraska, Lincoln at Omaha

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

robotics platform while enrolled in an Introduction to Robotics course.The Introduction to Robotics course, a senior level elective, included 9 students, 7 of whom werealso enrolled in a preparation course for the Senior Capstone Design Project, entitled SeniorThesis Proposal. The Senior Thesis Proposal course guided students through the planning stagesof the capstone design project, including topic selection and project plan creation. Assessmenttools were designed to assess whether the project-based experiences with the mobile roboticsplatform positively impacted the senior students who were enrolled in Senior Thesis Proposaland Introduction to Robotics compared to the group of senior students enrolled only in SeniorThesis Proposal and not

Conference Session

Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-2028: SPECIAL SESSION: DEVELOPING INTERCULTURALENGINEERS THROUGH SERVICEKurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University Page 15.1083.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Developing Intercultural Engineers Through ServiceAbstractThis paper reports on recent efforts to understand the cultural awareness among engineeringstudents. A standard assessment program has been instituted across the various programs atMichigan Technological University with pre-, during-, and post-project phases. The mixed-methods assessment plan consists of surveys, reflection statements, journaling, a wellnessindicator, the Intercultural Development Inventory, and project

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida; Arif Mohsin, University of Florida; Oscar Crisalle, University of Florida; Suleyman Tufekci, University of Florida; Carl Crane, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, purchasing, and event planning. In 2008, a guide wasdeveloped for the liaison engineers at the sponsoring companies. The Liaison Engineer GuideDocument clearly defines the liaison’s role and provides best practices captured from pastliaisons for interacting with the student teams. The coach guide was the only missing piece of the“how to” document for the IPPD stakeholders.It is important to note that the coaches are enlisted rather than assigned for participation in theIPPD program. The IPPD director recruits faculty coaches based upon how well their expertisealigns with a given project’s technical expectations and how interested they are in mentoringstudents. New coaches have to be convinced this endeavor is something they have time for andthat

Conference Session

Industrial Interactions and Educational Resources

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Roe, Polk Community College - Corp. College; Ernie Helms, Polk Community College - Corp. College; Bob Lachford, RWD Technologies; Rick Johnson, Mosaic Company

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

maintenance technicians planned to retire in sevenyears.In Florida, the workforce education community has responded by undertaking the reform of: highschool career and technical education programs and career academies, Associate in Science (A.S.)and Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degrees associated with manufacturing and relatedtechnologies, and workforce training programs. These reforms were undertaken when an analysisof the programs that should be providing the advanced manufacturing workforce revealed that1: • Some of the curricular frameworks that, in principle, inform the outcomes of manufacturing related A.S. and A.A.S. degrees, which may potentially address many of the high skills required by manufacturers, are outdated