easilyanalyze complicated problems while reducing the potential for errors. Using financialcalculators allows students to focus on analyzing the problem rather than completing tediouscalculations.Clickers encourage students to be more engaged in class and allow instructors to efficientlyobtain feedback from the class at regular intervals. Rather than relying on experience andintuition to judge how well students are grasping the concepts, instructors can quickly determineif a sufficient majority of the class is ready to proceed or whether another example problem isneeded. This is a powerful tool for engineering economy where complex concepts can stymiestudents that normally excel in quantitative analysis.Using the two technologies together is
bachelor’s degree in mathemat- ical statistics and a master’s degree in quantitative educational research methods from the University of Florida, and a doctoral degree in applied statistics and psychometrics from The University of Iowa.Iem Heng, New York City College of Technology Professor Iem Heng earned his bachelor’s degree from Providence College (Providence, RI) with double majors in Pre-Engineering Program and mathematics. In addition, he earned another bachelor’s degree from Columbia University (New York, NY) in mechanical engineering and master’s in applied math- ematics from Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI); his Ph.D. in computational and applied mathematics from Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA
AC 2011-1429: NATIONAL SURVEY OF STATES’ P-12 ENGINEERINGSTANDARDSJohannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette Johannes Strobel is Director of INSPIRE, Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning and As- sistant Professor of Engineering Education & Educational Technology at Purdue University. After study- ing philosophy, religious studies and information science at three universities in Germany, he received his M.Ed. and Ph.D. (2004) in Learning Technologies from the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. NSF, SSHRC, FQRSC, and several private foundations fund his research. His research and teaching focuses on the intersection between learning, engineering, the social sciences, and technology
research interests including Robotics, Computational Vision, Sensor Systems, and Science Education.Susan Lowes, Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College/Columbia University Susan Lowes, Ph.D., is Director of Research and Evaluation at the Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College/Columbia University.James S. Bonner, Clarkson University Dr. James S. Bonner Shipley Fellow, Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Old Snell Room 102 Clarkson University PO Box 5764 Potsdam, NY 13699 Phone: 315.261.2166 Fax: 315.268.7802 Email: jbonner@clarkson.eduWilliam David Kirkey, Clarkson UniversityTemitope Ojo, Clarkson University A Research Assistant Professor at Clarkson University, Dr. Ojo received his
AC 2011-496: RESIDENTIAL RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES CASESTUDIES OF RETURN ON INVESTMENTLouis Reifschneider, Illinois State University Associate Professor Registered Professional Engineer Research interests include product design, net- shape manufacturing, and sustainable technology. Page 22.1245.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Residential Renewable Energy Sources Case Studies of Return on InvestmentRenewable energy is a popular topic today because of concern over rising energy costs. Federaltax credits for renewable energy
AC 2011-279: EDGE DETECTORS IN IMAGE PROCESSINGJohn Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University/Qatar Dr. John Schmeelk is a Professor of mathematics at Virginia Commonwealth University teaching mathe- matics at VCU/Qatar campus in Doha, Qatar. He received his PhD from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He has been an invited speaker to conferences in Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Hungary, India, United Arab emmirate, Qatar and many other lands. Page 22.518.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Edge Detectors in Image
course? Please check all types of questions you ask on you exams: Please check all types of technology that you incorporate in your Engineering Economy course: Please check all of the following teaching methods that you use in your Engineering Economy course: Figure 1: Quantitative Survey Questions. Page 22.58.3Survey Results for Instruction The survey results from the Instruction section give an indication of who is teaching theEngineering Economy course across U.S. classrooms. According to the participants’ responsesto the highest degree they have
solve problems The announcement moved from general requirements to more specific definitions.Eight general education areas that crossed most disciplines were defined including naturalsciences or technology. The overall purpose was to promote understanding of scientificthinking and associate methods as well as an understanding of how technology affectshuman life. Classes offered under this heading would partially fulfill the general educationscience requirement. The General Education request detailed further criteria made several telling pointsthat affected how engineers could design these classes. These are General Educationcourses with students from across the student population, virtually all of whom have nobasic or conceptual
) applications. He is adept in performing requirements definition, analysis, review, management, and documentation using Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements Software (DOORS). As a lead systems engineer, he played an instrumen- tal role in designing, developing, and testing the next generation of Entegra Electronic Flight Instrument System (EFIS). Dr. Khalid received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds Master of Science degrees in the discipline of Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University, and Industrial, and Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He obtained Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ghulam Ishaq Khan
AC 2011-1726: USING VERTICALLY INTEGRATED PROJECT TEAMSTO INSPIRE STUDNET INTEREST IN COMPUTING CAREERSMassood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach Massood Towhidnejad is a tenure full professor of software engineering in the department of Electrical, Computer, Software and System Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. His teaching interests include artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and software engineering with emphasis on software quality assurance and testing. He has been involved in research activities in the areas of software engineering, software quality assurance and testing, autonomous systems, and human factors.Thomas B Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ
analyzed to determine ifthey behaved like experts or novices. The data consisted of paper-and-pencil solutions and video-recordings of engineering freshmen and sophomores who were asked to think aloud as theysolved typical statics problems. Data from U.S. students suggested that freshman-sophomoreundergraduate students did not use forward inferencing. In contrast to the U.S. data, students atan Indian Institute of Technology clearly used forward inferencing and showed that beginningundergraduate students can achieve the deep problem solving insight characteristic of experts.The U.S. and Indian data include quantitative and qualitative evidence. The distributions offorward versus backward inferencing are reported. Curriculum and cross-cultural
AC 2011-1159: COMPREHENSIVE COURSE REDESIGN: INTRODUC-TION TO THE MECHANICS OF MATERIALSJefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeff Froyd is the Director of Faculty Climate and Development in the Office of the Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost at Texas A&M University. He served as Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, an NSF Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized their undergraduate engineering curricula, and extensively shared their results with the engineering education community. He co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engi- neering and Mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Graduate Teaching Assistants for FLS 101. In addition to the courses he teaches in a classroom setting, he is also the instructor of an online Spanish course that blends the elements of the Spanish language with the relationship among culture and technology. He meets regularly with department members to plan collaboratively and articulate content between courses. In addition to teaching, Mr. McConnell leads Engineering Students on a summer semester program to Spain. Although based out of the town of Segovia, students travel to several cities including Toledo, Barcelona, Madrid, Avila and Salamanca. The program is geared toward Engineering students and includes traditional language classes and various excursions such as
AC 2011-717: ENGINEERING ETHICS AND JUSTICE: HOW DO THEYRELATE?William M. Jordan, Baylor University WILLIAM JORDAN is the Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, an M.A. degree in Theology from Denver Seminary, and a Ph.D. in mechanics and materials from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials related courses. He does work in the areas of entrepreneurship and appropriate technology in developing countries. He also writes and does research in the areas of engineering ethics and engineering education
also has expertise in providing professional development that includes strategies for the engagement and persistence of under represented populations in STEM disciplines. She has received awards from several organizations including the American Association for University Women (AAUW) for her work in addressing the need to increase females in engineering and technology fields as well as for her work in educating students with the skills required for the 21st century workforce.Marilyn Barger, Florida Advanced Technological Education Center, FLATE Dr. Marilyn Barger is the Principal Investigator and Executive Director of FLATE, the Florida Regional Center of Advanced Technological Education, funded by the National Science
inspired the focus of her research and academic work: how we learnthe psychology of writing and creating. She has presented on this topic in professional meetings and academic venues. From 2005-2010 she collaborated with Dr. John Schmeelk on a five-year series of studies that revolutionized the teach- ing of Contemporary Mathematics at VCUQatar. Results from these studies have been presented in Abu Dhabi and Qatar, as well as at previous annual meetings of ASEE. Page 22.86.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF USING WRITING AS A CRITICAL
in the future. This paper explores how the classroomlecture has changed with technology and student expectations. Current discussions and conflicts onwhat engineering education should look like in the future will be discussed as well as the dilemmafacing new faculty with increased expectations to achieve tenure. Cutting funds for highereducation by many states has been a high priority of legislators and research funding is being cut bythe federal government. So why should one go into a career in higher education? The importantrewards are still the same as they were a half century ago!Foundations for the FutureFor the past several years there was an article published on the incoming class of freshman studentswith the emphasis being on the
through progressively leadingsmall teams, medium teams and larger teams. Secondly, because there are fewer mid-levelemployees, less-experienced engineers are frequently stretched into leadership roles beyond whatwould typically be given them.Interviews with several technology executives estimate that nearly 80% of projects led by thesewell motivated, but raw, chiefs fail in achieving many of the key objectives of the project, at bestcreating a non-optimal product; at worst something unworthy of taking to market.Adding to the difficulty of developing engineering leadership is distilling the difference betweenmanagement and leadership. Developing engineers perceive career growth in the technicalspace as capped or limited and that eventually they
Sustainable Environmentally Responsible Air Transportation • Technologies for Sustainable Environmentally Responsible Ground TransportationEnvironmentally Responsible Sustainable Aviation • Reduction in Energy Requirements - Reduce the Vehicle Mass Using High Strength Low Weight Materials (Advanced Composites) - Innovative Aircraft Designs (e.g. BWB) and Technologies (e.g. high L/D) - Innovative Engine Designs (e.g. P&W PurePower) - NextGen Air Traffic Management (ATM) - Changes in Aircraft Operations (Reduce MTOW and Range) - Air-to-Air Refueling, Close Formation Flying, Tailored Arrivals • Reduction in GHG Emissions - Alternative Fuels (Bio-fuels, Synthetic Kerosene) - Innovative Aircraft Designs (e.g. BWB) and Open Rotor
Department from both an educational and research prospective. Dr. Bryzik also personally executes major, state-of-the-art research projects at Wayne State University in areas such as: defense systems engineering and advanced automotive technology, primarily within innovative propulsion systems and alternative fuels areas. Dr. Bryzik was Chief Scientist of the US Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development, and Engineer- ing Center (TARDEC) in Warren, Michigan, encompassing all Army aspects of ground vehicle technol- ogy. He represented the Army worldwide within government, industry, and academia as its chief technical officer in the overall area of DoD ground vehicles. Upon retirement from TARDEC, Dr. Bryzik held the
AC 2011-227: ELEMENTARY ENGINEERING IMPLEMENTATION ANDSTUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMESJeremy V Ernst, North Carolina State University Jeremy V. Ernst is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education at North Carolina State University. He currently teaches courses in digital media and emerging technologies. Jeremy specializes in research involving students categorized as at-risk of dropping out of school. He also has curriculum research and development experiences in technology and trade and industrial education.Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University Laura Bottomley received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering
AC 2011-860: INTEL: PRESENTING ONLINE 3D EXERCISES IN A STAT-ICS CLASSChristine Valle, Georgia Institute of TechnologySue Rosser, San Francisco State University Sue Rosser has been the Provost at San Francisco State University since 2009. From 1999-2009, she served as Dean of Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. She has published 12 books and more than 130 journal articles on the theoretical and applied issues surrounding women and gender in science, health and technology.Janet H Murray, Georgia TechWendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology Wendy C. Newstetter is the Director of Learning Sciences Research in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech.Her
in the lab. Many activelearning exercises were developed for the class time, and I created seven laboratoryexperiences. This paper presents descriptions of the active learning and laboratoryexercises, an assessment of the results and lessons learned from teaching engineering tostudents who are not engineers. Page 22.1375.2Background InformationOur society is driven by technology, and everyone needs to understand something aboutengineering1. This is the logic behind the Values and Science/Technology (VaST)requirement at Lafayette College. Every sophomore is required to take a VaST course,chosen from a list of about 25 options. Each VaST course is
AC 2011-1502: ELICITING MEXICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ IM-AGES OF ENGINEERING: WHAT DO ENGINEERS DO?Caridad del Carmen Cruz Lpez, Universidad de las Americas PueblaRocio C Chavela Guerra, Purdue University, West LafayetteAurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas PueblaEnrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla Enrique Palou is Director, Center for Science, Engineering, and Technology Education; and Professor, Department of Chemical, Food, and Environmental Engineering at Universidad de las Americas Puebla in Mexico. He teaches engineering design, food science, and education related courses. His research interests include emerging technologies for food processing, creating effective learning environments, and
temporal complexity should bepresented to students in construction engineering and project management. Second, an explicitconceptual framework of spatial and temporal complexity in construction engineering andproject management still needs to be developed and effectively integrated into the curricula.Research goal and objectives Page 22.355.4 The authors are motivated by existing research findings in case-based learning or reasoning(CBL/CBR), computer technologies, learning complex systems, and conceptual changes [20] [21].These findings provide an opportunity to construct a different pedagogical
previous work, we are investigatingthe teaching of entrepreneurship across the nation.Many experts agree that the U.S.‟s technological leadership is highly dependent on its strong ca-pacity for innovation and getting such innovations to market. According to political leaders, thisstrength “has continued to create jobs and raise living standards . . . However, the rising trend ofoutsourcing high technology manufacturing and high-end services jobs overseas presents a newand fundamentally different phenomenon. Key components of our innovation infrastructure suchas knowledge and capital have become highly mobile. If our engineering, design, and researchand development (R&D) capabilities continue to follow the manufacturing and services
interactive curriculum designed for high school students with the goal ofINcreasing Student Participation, Interest, and Recruitment in Engineering & Science. It wascreated to target the ITEA Standards for Technological Literacy and to increase involvement inSTEM related fields. This curriculum allows for students to learn basic engineering designprinciples through a variety of ways including hands-on activities, online animations andsimulations and culminates in an open ended design challenge that encourages creativity,resourcefulness and teamwork to solve a real world engineering problem. A new curriculum module was created this year entitled: "Engineering in Healthcare: AHeart Lung System Case Study". Like all of the INSPIRES curricula
Understanding Globalization for the 21st Century Engineer Dr. S. Jimmy Gandhi, Stevens Institute of Technology Dr. Michael McShane, Old Dominion UniversityDR. S. JIMMY GANDHIHe is a faculty member in The School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute ofTechnology in Hoboken, NJ. His research interests include risk management, globalizationand engineering education. Currently he is co-authoring a book on Systemic RiskManagement and another one on Case Studies in System of Systems Engineering (SoSE). Dr.Gandhi got a PhD in Engineering Management at Stevens Institute of Technology, a Mastersin Engineering Management at California State University, Northridge and a Bachelors
PREPARING ENGINEERING STUDENTS FOR THE GLOBAL SOURCING ENVIRONMENT Faculty Paper Glogalization Louis Manzione and Akram Abu-aisheh College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture University of Hartford manzione@hartford.eduAbstractRapid changes in modern product development and realization and the move towardsglobalization are creating gaps in the engineering education systems around the world.The global economy has changed the way that engineering firms design, develop, andproduce their products, and the new global
AC 2011-301: COMPARISON OF PREFERRED LEARNING STYLES FORINTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERINGSTUDENTSIsaac W. Wait, Marshall University Isaac W. Wait is an assistant professor of engineering in the College of Information Technology and Engineering at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Dr. Wait teaches and conducts research in the areas of water resources and environmental engineering. Dr. Wait joined Marshall in 2009 after teaching for four years at the American University of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates.Andrew P Nichols, Marshall UniversityWael A. Zatar, Marshall University