Conference Session

Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

International

provide guidance, help in seeding the new culture, and in developing emerging professionals; ≠ Initiation and maintenance of regular well-planned interaction with industry; and to seek industries’ input, assistance, and feed back; ≠ An engineering “up-front” approach, where engineering is the intellectual centerpiece of the curriculum and to be used from the beginning, i.e., not simply be the traditional introductory and/or survey type course offered as an independent exercise during the first year; ≠ An integration of basic math and science onto themselves, but most importantly, intertwining the theory to serve engineering principles and engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Ravi Ramachandran, Rowan University; Linda Head, Rowan University; Lawrence Chatman, Camden County College

engineering design projects in this course.1. Project 1 - Report on Electric Toothbrush: in this project, engineering design teams are assigned to study current electric toothbrushes in the market and prepare a report to the CEO of their company with the ambitious plans of manufacturing a competitive (cost effective, environmentally friendly, high performance etc.) electric toothbrush [5]. The report has to provide detailed information including but not limited to the design, operation, ergonomics, aesthetics, safety, and cost issues related to the current products. The result will be recommendations for product improvements.2. Project 2- Toothpaste and Manufacture: extended from Project 1, the engineering design teams are

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ari Epstein, MIT; Joellen Easton, American Public Media; Rekha Murthy, Public Radio Exchange; Emily Davidson, MIT; Jennifer de Bruijn, MIT; Tracey Hayse, MIT; Elise Hens, MIT; Margaret Lloyd

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

generally involves environmental or Earth-systemissues, although it is not exclusively devoted to them. Previous problems have included:developing a plan to provide adequate fresh water for western North America for the nextcentury and beyond; creating a legal, regulatory and scientific framework to preserve theviability of global fisheries; and deciding how (and whether) to rebuild New Orleans in theaftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Students are given broad latitude in structuring their approach tothe problem, and they have great freedom in organizing themselves and their solution to addressthe problem as they see fit.By the spring semester, Terrascope students have thus developed a deep interest, and some levelof expertise, in a specific complex

Conference Session

Tablet and Portable PCs for Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lin Li, Prairie View A&M University; Sherri Frizell, Prairie View A&M University; Yonggao Yang, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

development of an advanced learning lab equipped with tablet PCsand a SMART interactive learning system. Our goal is to use the educational infrastructure topromote problem-based learning, collaborative learning, and assessment. We present a noveldigital ink based computerized testing system Real Test, which is used to comprehensivelymeasure student class performance. A supplementary virtual reality learning platform is alsodiscussed for enhancing student learning outcomes. Finally, we discuss our phasedimplementation plan which ensures that students benefit from the innovated learning technologythroughout their degree plan.BackgroundTo build solid academic programs, we need not only effective management and highly-qualifiededucators and scholars

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

the1970s were 40 years ago. The Cold War was in full swing. The West and the Soviet Unioneffectively neutralized each other’s plans for large global advances in travel andcommunications. There were no viable business destinations in central and southern Africa, andmost nations banned travel and commercial links with Apartheid-ridden South Africa andRhodesia. The People’s Republic of China was not a leading trade/business destination, and theirown citizens (except for government/Party officials) were not known or allowed to travel, or tohave the means to travel much outside. Plans for the Concorde would have included landing atBombay (Mumbai) as one of two viable business destinations in India (the other being Delhiwhich is deep inland), but

Conference Session

Scholar Program Proposal/Develop Courses and Materials/Collaborations and Accredatation Systems for Global Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Shumway, Brigham Young University; SClaudina Vargas, Complex Systems Optimization Lab; Geoff Wright; Ronald Terry, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

International

acollaborative multidisciplinary network of university faculty from USA, college students,teachers, and principles.The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. We begin with a review of the conditions ofthe education system in Ytabo and the DR, considering challenges and difficulties that must beovercome to effectively advance engineering and technology education in public K-12classrooms. Next, we describe the components of the emergent MACILE model for Ytabo.Following, we present an analysis of the evolution of the summer program over the pilot phase.Next, we discuss efforts beyond the pilot phase, focusing on the joint collaboration betweenCOSOLA and TEE. Finally, we present future plans for the collaborative efforts.Challenges to Engineering

Collection

2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

LeRoy Alaways

volunteered each of these factors. Table 2 – Success Factors and Categories Category Factors Communication, Leadership Communication Organization, Assignments, Planning Cell phones (Texting) Outside Assistance Outside Assistance and Advisors Outside Funding Teamwork

Collection

2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jason T. Kirby; Talat F. Salama

next several years. Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova UniversityBackgroundIn 2005, the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) Department of Civil, Constructionand Environmental Engineering began the implementation of newly developed strategic plans inorder to enhance both research and academic programs. Among the changes was the adoption ofa new vision to: “become a nationally and internationally recognized, research-orientedDepartment of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering: a first choice for graduateand undergraduate education”. However, like many U.S. engineering programs, internationalcollaborations were scarce and rarely extended beyond individual research projects. To

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

John Adams

Adams: Renewable Energy Education … Renewable Energy Education at Merrimack College John Adams, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, 01845 Session: Interdisciplinary programs, sustainability and alternative energy as related to engineering educationAbstractThis paper describes recent, ongoing and planned Renewable Energy (RE) education atMerrimack College. The primary RE education efforts have been through the departmentof Electrical Engineering (EE), with involvement from the department of CivilEngineering. In summer of 2009 the college installed a solar hot water (SHW) system inone of its student townhouses. The subjects of the advanced EE elective “EnergyMeasurement and Display

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Kenneth W. Santarelli

will provide adefined action plan for obtaining a college degree. Such a program will provide a destination forstudents who cannot afford to leave the area or who do not desire to leave for various reasons.The poor University of California/California State University preparedness rate amongst theregion’s high school graduates creates a necessity for partnering with the region’s community Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 196colleges. Dr. Les Uhazy, Dean of Math, Science

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Upperclass Years

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Cox, Purdue University; Angie Andriot, Purdue University; Stephen Beaudoin, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

mentor, connect these to learning (or other) student-derived benefits fromparticipating in the program, discover enjoyable aspects of the program, and identify areas of theprogram that might be improved. Within this paper, informal relational structures relate toactivities that were planned outside of those mandated by the program, and formal relationalstructures are activities that were experienced by all students in the program and were designedby program administrators.MethodsParticipantsParticipants in this study were eleven undergraduate engineering students selected for thesummer 2008 Design, Application, Analysis, and Control of Interfaces (DAACI) ResearchExperiences for Undergraduates program. These students represented seven

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

ago as an idea has taken on a life of its own. The concept ofbringing old technologies to life and allowing students to touch and examine them has added anew dimension to their learning experience. As the years passed new collections were added.And this trend is expected to continue.Future plans include adding more collections with additional artifacts obtained either throughdonation or recreation. Artifacts for the new collections are currently being made using the toolsand techniques from the past, just as engineers from generations ago did. Donations for other newcollections are also being accepted with the items being added to the collections as well. It is clearthat the project is by no means complete, but rather just in its beginning

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in BME

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Willits, Saint Louis University; David Barnett, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

curricula. Bioengineering at Saint Louis University(BE@SLU) began with Training Week, which spans topics in from cell and tissue culture tolaboratory etiquette to reading journal articles. After Training Week, students work in thelaboratories of their selected research mentors to complete an 8-week research project. As thestudents are early in their career (students entering their first or second years), the program also Page 15.433.2has a Peer Mentor system, where undergraduates experienced in research are integrated into theprogram to help the participants adjust to laboratories, to plan academic and social activities, tohelp train the

Conference Session

Design in the First Year

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Bennett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Will Schleter, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Forms Page 15.1063.8To facilitate grading in a large class, much of the feedback from the projects is obtained by theuse of online forms. Each student is required to fill out an online form as part of their grade.The online forms are used both for students to record their data, as well as to reflect on theirperformance as a team.The first team project that the students accomplish is usually an estimation project (e.g. Paint theJumbotron Orange). The feedback form for this project focuses on the performance as a team.The questions asked are:  List all the members of your team.  Did your team choose a leader?  Did your team make a plan

Conference Session

Innovations in First Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Ringenberg, University of Michigan; Marcial Lapp, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

bebrought into the classroom and aid in the delivery of the course content.To further study the effectiveness of the competition, we intend to interview several focus groupscomprised of students from a variety of different backgrounds. Since the results of our initialsurveys indicate that the competition was an effective study tool, but was only marginallyenjoyable, it is our goal to make the competition more enjoyable by incorporating the feedbackthat we receive from these interviews.In addition, we plan to further refine our survey, such that we can improve the feedback processfrom the entire class instead of relying solely on the focus groups. A final area that we wouldlike to explore is whether or not the students that are presenting score

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanja Magoc, University of Texas at El Paso; Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso; Francois Modave, Central Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

impossible to understand using only analytical techniques, thus enabling students to approach real-life problems that they previously could not tackle.Our planned evaluation will examine both the effectiveness of the course in achieving studentlearning objectives, and student interest in continuing multi-disciplinary studies that includecomputation and programming.Computation for Science and EngineeringThe new curriculum of the CompSE will be offered for the first time in the Spring of 2010. Bythis curriculum, rather than focusing on syntax, CompSE will immerse students in problemsolving and incrementally introduce language features in an as-needed manner. Python isselected as the initial programming language due to its simplicity to convey

Conference Session

e-Learning Course Development and Instruction

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

. Generate a charter statement. 4. Attend a half-day class. There are typically 4 – 6 participants with a very wide variety of cases. Review charter statements and plan next steps. Page 15.1208.6 5. Initial dialogs in company and information review. 6. Revise the charter statement and distribute to other course participants. 7. Determine the basic story-line with supporting documentation. 8. Identify key decisions in the case and decide how to present them. 9. Second half-day class. This is 4 – 8 weeks after the first class. It is devoted to presentation of the outcomes for each case. 10. Reflections from

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - College Courses and Minors

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelli Huser, Iowa State University; Thomas Kelly, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Seth Ballou, Iowa State University; Joseph Crispin, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

technology that define this course.This student’s passion for this subject matter within her technological literacy educationinfluenced her classmates and her future in a positive manner. During the class she wouldsuggest assignments involving sanitation, drinking water and irrigation, and her interest andknowledge of the subject matter influenced several class discussions that drew in relatedtechnological areas of city planning, flood retention, and agriculture. Her interests influencedtwo other students to pursue topics related to water resources for their final papers. As of thiswriting, this student intends to pursue a career in the law, focusing on laws related to the waterresources and the technologies that she learned in this class. Her story

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida

asingle packet of STEM material.The first is the challenge for the Fig ure 1: sTEm at Work Puzzle Examplestudents so they can see why scienceand math are needed in a technicalcareer. The second is actually more important than the puzzle itself. The role of thesecond is to assure that the teacher has a clear understanding of the specifics of the puzzle.STEM will work as a strategy only when the science and math teachers buy in and useSTEM focused examples blended into their lesson plans. That will happen when theteachers are really comfortable with the examples. For K-12 teachers that comfort levelshould not be assumed just because the teacher has experience teaching science and mathin K-12 classrooms. Talent, training, time, and

Conference Session

Sustainable Construction Practice

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyuksoo Kwon, Virginia Tech; Yong Han Ahn, East Carolina University; Hyun IK Shin, Kumoh National Instute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Construction

education.Sustainable education is becoming one of the most important subjects areas of constructioneducation along with other key subjects including estimating, planning and scheduling, projectmanagement, etc. [4, 11, 12, 13 & 14]. Several scholars have already studied the importance ofsustainable education in several countries such as the U.K., the United States, and Australia.Along with presenting the importance of sustainable education, the purpose of this study was to Page 15.1206.3identify factors affecting undergraduate student’s attitudes toward sustainability in order tosuggest the most efficient way to change construction student’s attitude toward

Conference Session

Issues and Directions in Engineering Technology Education & Administration: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Spang, Burlington County College; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

industrial sectors. This shortage of qualified employees directly affects the ability of theUS as a whole to compete in the global economy. Additionally, in a similar report8, theConference Board examines the basic knowledge of applied skills of workers and found thatmany of new entrants to the workforce lack skills essential to job success, skills that employersexpect young people to already possess. This report particularly notes that employers surveyedsee the educational system as primarily responsible for workforce readiness, and acknowledgesthe great role that parents play in instilling in their children the importance of learning, work, andcareer.The needs of industry for skilled technologistsA one-day Planning Conference with some of New

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE III

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Cambron, Western Kentucky University; Stacy Wilson, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

ProjectIn EE Design III, students are assigned to teams. Each team is assigned a unique design projectand must solve and implement a design problem throughout the semester. These projects areoften industrially supported. Recently, some projects have been extended into the senior year.EE300 is taken in the spring semester before the year long senior design sequence and is animportant foundation to the senior project experience.The first course of the senior year experience is EE Design IV. During this course, studentsthoroughly plan their capstone project. At the beginning of the semester, students are placed onteams and are assigned projects. Each of these projects has a sponsor external to the EE faculty.Some of the projects are funded through

Conference Session

Build Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renee Baker, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

opportunities when qualified candidates are found ≠ Serve as a bridge in the transition from graduate student to faculty member ≠ Assist in preparing future faculty for a career at the university.Future Faculty Career Exploration Program StructureSince the program’s conception in 2003, a certain procedure has taken place to execute thenecessary planning and preparation of each year’s program. These procedures are set in stagesthat stretch throughout the entire year, beginning at the end of the current year’s program. Table1 provides a breakdown of these stages. FFCEP Highlights (Table 1) PHASE STEP ACTION Recruitment of applicants: Advertising

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Bowen, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Performance Recently, department faculty have implemented several measures aimed at improvingstudent preparation for the exam. The following four-part plan has been implemented: 1. Offer a formal weekly FE review class taught by department faculty, and require all seniors to attend the course, 2. Offer a four-hour FE mock exam on a Saturday morning two or three weeks prior to the actual FE exam, 3. Hold a “signing-day” ceremony attended by department faculty, with a presentation by a prominent alumnus, where students obtain the signatures needed for the FE exam application, and 4. Encourage department faculty teaching the Civil Engineering core curriculum to give some “FE-exam-style” questions

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wayne Whiteman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

maintained by theGeorgia Tech Office of Institutional Research and Planning,http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Peer%20Institutes.html. Nineteen schools were investigated to obtaina sample size of ten schools with combined BS/MS programs. This figure implies that about onehalf of our current peer mechanical engineering programs have a dual bachelor and master’sdegree program. Table 2 shows a list of the schools included in our study. GT Peer Institution with BS/MS Programs Stanford University Johns Hopkins University Carnegie Mellon University Virginia Tech

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton; Ogai Ahmadi, Kabul University

Tagged Divisions

International

 introduction will have a major effect on education system. As the learning resources such as fully stacked  libraries  and  fully  equipped  computer  laboratories  are  rare  in  the  country,  careful planning is required to prioritize the introduction of ICT into the mainstream education including  Page 15.1251.3higher education.While  the  world  has  changed  dramatically  in  the  past  few  decades  and  will  continue  to  do  so with  an  accelerating  pace,  the  learning  environment,  i.e.  the  classroom  has  not  changed  but  it will change in the near future. The education system in Afghanistan must follow its international

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

alternates (backup plans)takes the lower risk. And multiple lower risk scores statistically reduce the overall probability offailure.Purchasing RiskPurchasing parts is a useful strategy to reduce the dependence on internal resources while allow-ing a manufacturer to focus on their core business strengths. But any part purchased outside, orproduced internally carries some element of risk. The ranking system below provides a quick wayto apply a score to each part in the design. Obviously the scoring should focus on special parts inthe design. It would be wise to ignore commodity parts such as surface mount discrete compo-nents, nuts/bolts/washers, generic raw materials, etc. 0 You have the thing 1 Commodity item - available now 2 Commodity item

Conference Session

Design Projects across the Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibibia Dabipi, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Christopher Hartman, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; James B. Burrows-Mcelwain, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

sciences programs to structure projects related in some ways to both programs. This is done to advance engineering principles as well as proof of concept, as the case may be in its application to the aviation program. The benefit for students is that they are able to engage the faculty both as clients and instructors that result in a variety of learning modes. For this project, the class groups of two distinct teams that completed identical projects for the same client. Engineering design concepts with emphasis on various aspects of planning, developing and product design via hands-on approach was the key to this course experience. It also enhanced the students’ communication skills and teamwork. Product visualization utilizing computer software

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, USF

research interests include modeling, analysis and control of discrete event systems, production planning and control, industrial information systems, data analysis and knowledge discovery, and engineering education research. He has taught courses in the areas of systems modeling and analysis, information systems design, production planning, facilities design, and systems simulation. He has publications in the areas of control of automated manufacturing systems, transportation systems, and autonomous vehicles, business process modeling, freight transportation systems analysis, people logistics, manufacturing and service information systems, and engineering education research. He also co

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Elizabeth Birmingham, North Dakota State University; Ann Burnett, North Dakota State University; Roger Green, North Dakota State University

and/oradopted by ADVANCE institutions. The committee met monthly to discuss goals and strategiesfor achieving institutional transformation through recruiting, retaining, and advancing women,particularly in the traditional science and engineering disciplines at North Dakota StateUniversity. The group applied for the grant but was unsuccessful in 2005; however, afteradditional research and honing of project plans, the group re-applied and received the grant in2008. In the meantime, during the 2002-2008 time period, the FORWARD group also advocatedfor and succeeded in obtaining additional childcare facilities, lactation rooms, and changingtables on campus.In this same time frame, North Dakota State University had been poised for change, making