Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Lisa McNair, Virginia Tech; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University

its curriculum and would not accept the three-credit option as a substitute forany course in its curriculum. This third student simply could not afford to spend the time to takethis additional course. The goals of the fall segment were as follows: (1) to give the students the opportunity todocument their summer research experience, (2) to teach the students how to make a professionalpresentation, and (3) to teach the students how to document a project in a poster and a formalarticle. As is common in technical communication courses, all of the class periods were devotedto lessons on technical communication. These class periods consisted of critically examiningexamples of writing and presentations and of performing peer critiques on

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

the peer-review process. For example, prior to any work being submitted by the group forpublication, students in the group not affiliated with the paper can serve as reviewers. Theyshould provide written reviews of the submission in the same manner as would occur atprofessional journal. Such student-student interaction allows them to establish a formalprofessional relationship with the colleagues in their group.As a final example, students can benefit from learning to write professional correspondenceregarding committee meetings, abstract submissions, or requests for papers. It may be necessaryto instruct the student on email etiquette (carbon copying advisor on lab correspondences, papersubmissions, etc.) including salutations and signatures

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janice Miller-Young, Mount Royal College; Sean Maw, Mount Royal College

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

course. Revision is also encouraged, forexample in an early assignment where groups of students write instructions for building a given Page 12.621.4Lego mechanism, which are then marked by another group who try to follow the instructions andgive feedback. The groups learn from their peers the importance of accuracy and clarity inwriting as well as drawing, then get a chance to revise their instructions before handing them into the instructor. We believe these activities not only help to improve the students’ performanceon subsequent projects, but to increase students’ awareness of the skills they have gained.Team evaluationsThe students work

Conference Session

Professional Development and Scholarship

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Hill, Weber State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

eachof these areas and how this weighing is used to calculate an overall rating for the faculty memberundergoing evaluation.Information GatheringThere are several sources of information that are available and used for the purposes ofevaluation. The types and kinds of information sources vary depending upon the area beingevaluated, namely whether one is looking at teaching, scholarship, or service. One sourcenormally common to all three of these is a self-report from the faculty member describing his orher accomplishments in each of these areas over the period for which they are being evaluated.Another common source of information is peer review. In talking about peer review, it isimportant to have the right group of peers doing the evaluation

Collection

2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Paul Stanton; Duane Fairfax

the research5.2. Using Peer Assessments After initially assigning students to groups, instructors must then provide direction, guidance, andcontinual observation of the teams’ progress. As part of the guidance, instructors should ensure that eachgroup has a method for policing itself in the form peer assessments. In order for students to embrace thecooperative learning environment, they must feel that there is a method of ensuring fairness in grading.Nothing will demoralize students faster than for a non-contributing student to receive a high grade basedsolely on the other group members’ efforts. Research shows that students derive a much greater sense ofsatisfaction and higher test scores from groups that have the ability to provide a

Conference Session

Design Methodolgy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

team andassume they are a professional is to overlook the much needed education in basic professionalism.As with any pedagogical method we have identified perpetual problems with problem studentsand specifically address these through project team design. The general categories that weencounter with students at our institution are listed below in relative frequency/importance. Theyhave been developed using personal interactions during, and peer evaluations after studentprojects from a variety of courses and faculty. Each school will have a different list. For example,our list obviously excludes cultural differences. • Working - Students working outside school 20 or more hours per week often have schedules that do not fit with regular full

Conference Session

Women, Minorities and the New Engineering Educator

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

incidentresulted from an awareness of past offenses and potential future offenses related to diversity. Page 12.558.5When JI102 attempted to write her first draft of the diversity statement she did not know what tosay. She emphasized that she did not think it was very good. When she brought her diversitystatement to the peer review and discussion session it was not a priority for her to have the groupread it and comment. JI102 stated that these feelings of inadequacy about her diversity statementstemmed from her previous experience. She was unaware of how much the incident that occurredduring the previous diversity workshop had negatively impacted her

Conference Session

FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Mathias, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Lalit Gupta, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Jale Tezcan, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Ronald Caffey, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Bruce Chrisman, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Chris Pearson, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Ernest Lewis, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Kathy Pericak-Spector, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Hasan Sevim, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

engineering residential college, and peer mentoring, faculty mentoring,and mentoring by practicing engineers.The introduction to engineering course will include all freshman students in SIUC College ofEngineering. This lecture-laboratory course will provide an interesting description of eachengineering major and allows students to work with hands-on projects that will teach theusefulness of mathematics and basic engineering concepts. The SIUC College of Engineeringhas worked with other departments on campus to offer engineering designated sections of corecurriculum courses, such as math, sciences, English, and speech communication. The summermath course lasts four-weeks and accepts students who test below the pre-calculus level andprepares them for

Conference Session

EMD Curriculum Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

is monitored by milestones defined in the project charter, project baselineschedule and earned value analysis—again, a demonstration that these topics are understood.Meeting the project milestones ultimately means the project meets the need of the sponsoringclient. Throughout the project, project team members write (for review/ranking) a weeklyprogress memo indicating both personal progress on project responsibilities and progress onlearning related to the course objectives. These memos are peer-reviewed and peer ranked aspart of the process for evaluating course objective completion.The ProjectsAs the course design evolved from instruction centric to learning centric, the university’sVolunteer and Service-Learning Center was invited to

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Miskimins, Colorado School of Mines; Ramona Graves, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Skills in MultidisciplinaryTeams, ” (paper presented at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, St. Louis, Missouri, June 18-21, 2000).7. Robert S. Thompson, “Reliability, Validity, and Bias in Peer Evaluations of Self-Directed Interdependent WorkTeams” (paper presented at the ASEE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Albuquerque, New Mexico,June 24-27, 2001).8. Jennifer L. Miskimins, “Peer Learning: Observation of the Cluster Effect in Multidisciplinary Team Settings,”(paper presented at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 16-19, 2002).9. Kirk H. Schulz and Douglas K. Ludlow, “Incorporating Group Writing Instruction in Engineering Courses,”Journal of Engineering Education, July 1996

Conference Session

Advice from the Experts for NEEs at Small Universities

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Larson, Seattle University; Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

what extent the following factors contribute to scholarship ifat all: publishing pedagogical papers, synthesis or review papers, setting up labs for research andteaching, writing grant applications, developing software, exploring different research areas,performing research that is unsuccessful, and involving undergraduate students in research.4. Time ManagementOne of the most difficult challenges to conducting research at a smaller institution is finding thetime for it. This section presents tips on how to manage the time required for teaching, research,and service.Tip 1: Spend summers doing almost exclusively research.Virtually all of the people we talked to used the summer to concentrate on research. Unlike theacademic year, summer is free

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Schimmels, Marquette University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

of eachcourse is reflected in their respective titles. The first course in the sequence is titled,“Engineering: The Art of Creating Change”. The title of the second is: “Engineering Projects:The Practice of the Art”.Both courses use assigned reading followed by reflection, writing, and discussion related to adebatable question (or questions) posed by the instructor. Section size is limited to 25 students.A relatively senior member of the regular faculty and one teaching assistant facilitate classdiscussion using Socratic questioning.Both courses also use design projects as vehicles in developing student understanding of keyconcepts. In the first, the course requirements manage student-team project activities; in thesecond, the student-teams

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

carried out online in a lab, or usinglaptops. A “scavenger hunt” gets students to work in pairs to surf the Web for answers toquestions posed by the instructor. In another kind of exercise, students can be assigned to comeup with new examples, or exercises, for the text, and then submit to an online peer-reviewsystem, where their work is reviewed by others, and the best work selected to be presented tofuture classes. Another strategy is to have students prepare resources to share with the class.They post these on a wiki, and the lectures become class meetings with an agenda posted on thewiki. The instructor moderates the meeting, and a student takes the minutes, and posts them onthe Web. Peer assessment is used for all contributions. The paper

Collection

2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Adriana Popescu

critically and effectively about scientific articlesin the students’ own area of research. By using the specific topics that the students chose to write about,the major tools for locating journal literature have been reviewed and discussed in detail.Internet search engines are the preferred starting point for conducting literature searches, with Google,being the favorite. Very few students however were familiar with Google Scholar, the tool developed byGoogle to search and index scholarly publications, such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, preprints,abstracts, and technical reports from all disciplines of research. While search engines can be valuabletools to quickly locate some needed information, it was pointed out to the students that they don’t

Conference Session

Engineering Without Borders: Programs Involving Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Myszka, University of Dayton; Scott Schneider, University of Dayton; Scott Segalewitz, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

International

students in the U.S. come from developing and newlyindustrializing countries, most notably China2. Many students believe that the prestige of adegree from a foreign, especially an American, degree is greater than one from a local institution.Also, with the tremendous growth of U.S. companies setting up manufacturing facilities inChina, a technical degree from an American university is extremely desirable3.In the classroom, many performance studies have been completed. Oakland4 documents thatChinese students are more organized than American counterparts. Chinese students exhibithigher achievement in mathematics than their American counterparts. However, Turner5 foundthat aptitude in critical thinking skills is below their American peers

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud Ardebili, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY

sessions. Assessment is underway to ascertain optimum strategy in incorporating peer-mentoring.Student SupportEnrichment/Research workshop for pre-engineering students is offered every summer. Itis designed to reach out to engineering majors who are academically not prepared toenroll in the science and mathematics courses of engineering curriculum. The motivationis to strengthen students’ academic skills and therefore increasing the likelihood of theirretention in engineering.The five-week long workshop focused on improving students’ Physics, Chemistry andVisualization skills in an inquiry-based/active-learning environment. Upon completion ofeach module in the workshop, students were required to write reports about their subjectmatter. It

Conference Session

Pedagogical Issues in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Rumpf, Ferris State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

– essentially a time & motion study project during their first semester in the MFGE program, every student is on the same footing as none enter the program with prior experience. Whereas we used to assign groups randomly, we now use the rank in class method to motivate underperforming students and give them one final chance to demonstrate subject mastery. • Computer applications project – a project that requires students to develop an Excel spreadsheet to solve an assigned set of engineering problems, write a training & operations manual for the spreadsheet in Word, and present their efforts to their peers using PowerPoint. Because students in the computer applications class come from multiple

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Wronecki, East Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

methods contained within. Therefore, the main goal of this research paper is tosimply communicate the author’s approach towards teaching design. The results of thisexperimental research are by no means conclusive. Therefore, this paper neither substantiates norvalidates the systematic methods contained within. However, some measure of assessing student Page 12.1372.2performance when using the following methods can be ascertained by empirically peer reviewingexamples of student design projects at the paper’s presentation session.Design ProcessA seven stage design process organizes design projects and structures this paper. The stages inthe process

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Russell, University of Hertfordshire

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

compares with only 69/297(~23%) that did not. The rest, 53/297 (~18%) indicated a neutral response.ConclusionLaboratory studies should be considered an integral component of any engineering curricula.They offer significant value in that they allow the students to gain both first hand and situatedknowledge of the subject domain. Two issues however are found to exist – both of which canbe countered by judicious use of technology.First the additional resource demands of laboratory studies and the attendant assessmentdemand can be offset using technology to help set, collect, mark and provide feedback.Second, the desire for students to disregard advice on how to write laboratory reports can becountered by using the learners as assessors. Peer

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Meyer, Clarkson University; Dick Pratt, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

̇ Increased understanding of and insight building effective relationships with peers, being a into personal behavior collaborative team member, and identifying and ̇ Appreciation of the need for self- managing team conflict. motivated, life-long learning ̇ Increased social awareness and 2. Students should identify moral and ethical dilemmas interpersonal competence, including an and problems in situations typically encountered within appreciation for the value of the student’s profession, and provide an analysis of these experiencing diversity from different ethical perspectives. ̇ Understanding of and recognition of the

Conference Session

Design in BME Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David McStravick, Rice University; Marcia O'Mallley, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

the electrical requirements and control concepts • This project provided an excellent design development experience for the mechanical engineering and electrical student. It has followed the classic design procedure of defining the problem, brainstorming, determining specifications, locating components, making other components, assembly, and testing. • The Medi-Fridge project is an excellent engineering project in that it has the typical engineering tradeoffs required to reach a satisfactory approach that meets the project goals.Bibliography1) Robinson, R., 2001, Calibrated Peer ReviewTM: An application to increase student reading and writing skills. The American Biology Teacher, v. 63, n

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Crown, University of Texas-Pan American; Arturo Fuentes, University of Texas-Pan American

. The prevalence of quality media richcontent related to course material has produced an increasing expectation among students thatlearning should be easy and is primarily the responsibility of the instructor. Additionally, accessto report writing services and vendors who will sell homework solutions manuals presents manychallenges to students. Addressing these issues can be frustrating and time consuming forfaculty. This paper presents the experiments conducted in four mechanical engineering coursesspanning from freshman to graduate level courses that lead the authors to discover that manystudents enjoy partnering with the faculty in addressing these issues, the benefits to studentsthrough involvement in the process, and the practical issues

Collection

2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kevin R. Lewelling; Kevin S. Woolverton; Michael C. Reynolds

Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 6confounded by a portion of students neglecting to read reports regularly as some students failedto send reports in a timely manner and others did not write them effectively.A majority (62.1%) believed that community service was an important part of the project. Theengineering faculty emphasized this project was “a gift to the community” and students weregenerally receptive to this idea. Over eighty percent of the students indicated they learned waysengineers can give to their communities. This is an indirect measure of the desired outcome thatstudents understand their work

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom for Manufacturing II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University; Amir Javaheri, Virginia State University; Nasser Ghariban, Virginia State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

implementation project. Communication Skills Finally, after the completion of their project, the students are required to write a final high- quality design report and give a clear and informative oral presentation elaborating on the works they have done throughout the semester. They are also required to demonstrate the operation of their production line.Project ComponentsAfter specifying the target product through brainstorming by team members, considering allconstraints (time, budget, availability of tools and equipment), the activities follow the threeproject phases of definition, planning, and implementation.The project has the following two main components (refer to figure 2) 5: a) Defining and solving design problems, which includes

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Walker, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

students and instructors. The results are overwhelmingly positive and themethods can be applied to all or parts of multiple courses and curricula. There is definiteapplicability to K-12 outreach programs as well as community/junior college collaborativeprograms. Issues addressed include learning styles, under-represented minority participation,student peer support and collaboration, student classroom participation, budgetary and personnelresources, computer grading, and course management systems. Methods and technologiesinvolved will be used and demonstrated during the presentation.BackgroundThe concept of “distance” or “online” courses is not only generally accepted by most engineeringschools, appropriately and properly developed courses are

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Orono, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

projects, and projects for design competitions. A systematicmethodology, based on the students’ rankings of all the projects for assigning students to theirpreferred choice of projects, is also presented. Whereas the data presented shows that studentsgenerally read carefully the project description, the majority of students prefer the project clientsto make short presentations. To analyze the impact of project choice on team performance, fourcategories, based on the student project choice, were proposed. Teams whose majority did notget their first choice of project, showed the largest drop between the mid-semester peer ratingscompared to end-of-semester peer ratings. This study was performed at two universities.1. Introduction The teaching of

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Describe the project to peers and faculty through oral presentations during the Page 12.1190.4 project development phase (g).3. Develop design alternatives and evaluate them using a decision matrix, as appropriate for the project (a, c, e, f, h, j, k)4. Apply scientific and engineering principles to the assigned project (a, c, e, k).5. Optimize the engineering design based on client expectations, design constraints, and constructability (a, c, e, f, h, j, k).6. Demonstrate effective written communication skills through the development of a written proposal, progress reports and final project report evaluated by faculty, liaison(s) and Civil Engineering

Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Drnevich, Purdue University; John Norris, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

model usesdeviations (greater than or less than) from the centroid, essentially the middle point for allvalues. The BSTAM software can do this by writing the same constraint twice, first goal forpenalizing below the target and a second goal for penalizing above the target. These twoformulations are essentially similar since penalizing team levels above or below a target valuewill tend to bring the teams close to the average or target value essentially accomplishing thesame objective.Current techniques for solving binary variables and a quadratic objective function create difficultproblems in optimization, as pointed out in the literature (Bhadury et al., 2000)5. The BSTAMsource code is written in Visual Basic for Applications within Microsoft

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Northern, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

decades, one of the top priorities forAmerica’s higher education leaders is to get more students into college. The second priority is tograduate students that are competent in their field of study. In a recent national study, only twoof five minority students who enroll in engineering programs graduate with a baccalaureatedegree in engineering, as compared to two of three non-minority students. Another nationalstudy found that 54 percent of students entering four-year colleges in 1997 had a degree six yearslater, with even a lower percentage for Hispanics and Blacks. The barriers to minority studentretention continue to be: the cost of education, isolating campus environments, a lack of peer andfaculty engagement, and inadequate math and science

Conference Session

FPD4 -- Hands-on & Real-World Studies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Bland, John Brown University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

requirements? 3)understanding the engineering design process, 4) beginning to learn basic engineering computertools, 5) developing writing skills, and 6) establishing ethical engineering practices.The course begins with understanding what engineering is. There is the classical definition thatengineers use science to solve problems. Most programs have come to recognize that this is anoversimplification of the engineering discipline. The students are taught that engineers have toconsider many elements that go beyond the physical sciences and mathematics. There are theadditional, broader issues of economics, politics, environment, health, safety, quality, ethics,culture and other contemporary issues.Along with an understanding of general engineering