Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Ibrahim Ali Olwi, King Abdulaziz University

Tagged Topics

Faculty Development

, during the last three semesters, it was consciously planned to have a storyevery class. At the end of each semester, a survey was conducted to assess the methodologyemployed. A total of eight sections were surveyed over the three semesters. The surveyaddressed the idea and its implementation through a detailed questionnaire of ten items.Recently, the gender effect was also examined as there were two sections of female students, andtwo sections of male students this past semester. Page 20.36.3Sources of storiesFaculty members should acquire a treasure of cases and stories. The sources for attaining theminclude, but are not limited to

Conference Session

Teaching Communication II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jodi F. Prosise, St. Ambrose University; Hank Yochum, Sweet Briar College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

students’communication skills and is important for the development of a quality end-product. Whilecompleting projects for persons with disabilities or the underprivileged is not unique to ourprogram, it is a critical component to the success of our virtual teams because it appeals to thestudents’ desire to complete the design successfully and motivates them to work through anydifficulties encountered with team dynamics.Program planning and managementPrior to the start of the semester, faculty from each institution carefully organize and discuss the Page 24.873.3course organization, delivery, and management (Figure 1). Two main faculty, one at eachinstitution

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Summer Dann , Louisiana State University; Jo Dale Ales; Karim Elkholy, Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC); Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Adrienne Steele, Louisiana State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

 off  meeting  in  January  2013  with  the  joint  internal  and  external  advisory  boards;  both  institutions  have  hosted  their  own  separate  internal  advisory  board  meetings  as  well.  The  internal  advisory  board  meetings  include  other  stakeholders  from  the  respective  institutions.  The  strategic  planning  team  that  includes  the  two  PIs,  two  Co-­‐PIs  and  program  coordinators  meet  on  a  regular  basis  to  provide  feedback  and  to  hold  brainstorming  sessions  on  the  implementation  of  the  program  at  both  the  community  college  and  at  the  university.  A  new  website  with  the  transfer  programs  at  LSU  is  live  and  two  conference  papers  have  been  accepted  at  the  ASEE  2014

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James W. Jones, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

that just returned from participating in a Page 24.914.4competition. Industry advisory board members have been eager to participate as mentors andmany volunteer every year. Members are recruited directly by students or volunteer to facultymembers, who then make their information available to students.These mentors serve as a “reality check” for the student teams, reinforcing lessons learned in theclassroom and offering direct industry advice on suggested student solutions. For example,student teams developing a site logistics plan for a construction project might be cautioned onhow contractors balance access and risk, considering how oversize

Conference Session

Nanotechnology

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University; Mehmet C. Ozturk, North Carolina State University; Michael Escuti; John Muth; Veena Misra, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

nano-concepts merge to create systemswith unique functions and characteristics. Applications in different engineering disciplinesincluding mechanics, electronics, heat transfer, fluidics, photonics, and biotechnology are covered,making the course relevant to students coming from a variety of backgrounds.Technical ElectivesAfter completing the introductory course, the students must take three technical electives. Upon Page 24.925.5entering the program, students meet with the program administrator and prepare a plan of work.During this meeting, the students are advised on the electives based on their backgrounds andinterests. In some cases

Conference Session

K-12 Teacher Pre-Service and Undergraduate Instructor Training

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Crehan, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick; Donal Canty, University of Limerick; Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Investigation3 Design Evolution Design Focus, Initial Design Ideas, Plans, Sketches, Modelling, Testing, Consider Materials, Chosen Design, Plan of Work, Working Drawings,4 Realisation Manufacture, Assembly5 Evaluation Evaluation, ConclusionWhere a student used two or more headings in one category an average value was calculatedfor the importance which that student placed on the category overall.Phase two involved the analysis of the post design task models. As headings were providedduring this task, analysis of the data was required to quantify the value placed on each stageof the design process by

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Atadero, Colorado State University; Meena M. Balgopal, Colorado State University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, Colorado State University; Anne Marie Aramati Casper, Colorado State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

-experimental as students werenot randomly assigned to the sections; rather both sections were opened for enrollment, andstudents were allowed to register for the sections without knowledge of the planned intervention.Furthermore, students were prevented from switching sections after they learned of the researchactivities because both sections were full, and the department did not provide overrides forstudents looking to switch sections. The control and intervention sections were 86% and 77%male, respectively, and 5% and 7% ethnic minority students. The classes were primarilycomposed of mechanical (52% control and 46% intervention), civil (32% and 30%), andenvironmental (11% and 16%) engineering majors. Chi-square tests revealed no

Conference Session

WIED: Faculty and Gender Issues

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Cass, North Carolina State University; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Anita R. Vila-Parrish, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Interest SurveyBased on interest expressed at the group’s initial meeting, a survey was conducted to determinethe group’s top priorities and interests. The survey results from the initial group of NTT facultyare shown below in Figures 1-3: Page 24.1019.4To support the NTT Learning Community survey, the authors (in collaboration with NCSU’sOffice of University Planning and analysis) evaluated the results of the NCSU COACHE surveyin order to more clearly define our group’s challenges and goals and to develop an awareness ofhow NTT issues in the College of Engineering span the University. The Collaborative on

Conference Session

Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Edwin M. Odom, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jay Patrick McCormack, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Dan Cordon, University of Idaho, Moscow

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

projectlearning, (b) early prototyping that accelerates and improves the quality of final designs, (c)formal communication (oral and written) that allows clients to easily integrate design projectresults, and (d) cadre of graduate student mentors with exceptional technical leadership skills.Program operation outcomes include: (a) annual planning, oversight, and assessment thatproduces yearly improvements, (b) project results that delight all stakeholders, leading to follow-on projects in subsequent years, and (c) minimal cost to produce results, leading to increasedfinancial resources for infrastructure.Infrastructure development outcomes include: (a) locally produced, web-based design tools,rubrics, and quick references for just-in-time professional

Conference Session

Data Analytics in Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hon Jie Teo, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

online learning.Future research plans include the examination of the types of learner discourse and artifacts thatsupport the formation of recurring network motifs in online communities. In addition, furtherresearch will consider the occurrence of C-type and D-type motifs, which consist of all authorand all participant roles respectively. These were not discussed in this research as they make upless than 3% of the all network motifs. It may be useful to examine C-type and D-type motifs tounderstand the implications of these motifs, as well as the contrast against the learning processesthat underlie the occurrence of A-Type and B-type motifs.References [1] Atkins D. E. 2010.Transforming American education: learning powered by technology

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari Kozak, University of Iowa; Darlene Kaskie, The University of Iowa Lichtenberger Engineering Library

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

order to report trends in instructional service. According to the survey results,traditional methods for instruction are relevant but no single instruction method is most effective.“The use of a variety of instructional methods, reaching ever-widening audiences, and addressingever-changing needs, is preferred.”3Designing the sessionsWhen beginning to plan for these sessions to reach this ever-widening audience, the original planwas to have one topic taught each week for 15 minutes. Planning required that several keyelements had to be taken into consideration: classes offered, best time of the day, and instructors’availability. All of these elements had to come together for these sessions to work.The discussions of which classes to offer began

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lea Marie Eaton, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

the homework was: enjoyable, intellectually stimulating, relevant to the material of the course, relevant to the exam material, relevant to real life situations, relevant to your plans for the future, critical to your learning process of the material, fairly graded, graded and returned in a timely manner (see Figure 1 for layout). c. Finally, students were asked to type out what specific strategies the course used that made it a successful experience for the student.3. Negative Homework Course. All of the same questions as above, but relating to a homework experience in a STEM course that the student would describe as “negative.”4. Homework Grading. Questions about grading in courses in the STEM

Conference Session

Distance Learning in Engineering Technology

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian A. Alenskis, Purdue University, Richmond, Ind.

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Purdue course. It should be noted thatthe many years of investment in the OLI website by Dr. Anna Dollár and Dr. Paul Steif haveprovided an economical, yet credible, alternative to textbooks and video-recorded facultylectures.Course Design Page 24.1139.3Purdue’s course was not planned as a typical “flipped” class, in which the content is deliveredonline and the full lecture time utilized for other purposes. In this initial use, OLI replaced thelecture component entirely. Thus, OLI then was primarily used to effectively teach the conceptsof statics. The course planning identified two topics that were no longer in the current Purduecourse

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pete Hylton, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Wendy Otoupal-Hylton, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

BS program at its four year anniversary, the faculty and the IAB concludedthat not all students in the program were taking full advantage of all the experiential learningopportunities being offered. Therefore, the plan of study was revised and three one-creditpracticum courses were added. In each of these courses, students now participate in working onone of the school’s race teams while endeavoring to meet individual learning objectives. Thecourses do not involve traditional lectures or assignments. Rather, they resemble internshipopportunities, where the students are literally imbedded in an industry-like entity (in this case theuniversity race team) and undergo on-the-job training under the observation of faculty members,lab technicians

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Curriculum and Programming Resources, Part 1 of 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shakira Renee McCall, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Randi Michelle Taylor, Arizona State University; Odesma Onika Dalrymple, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

energy” [4].The STEAM Machines™ summer camp curriculum introduces students to the previouslymentioned science and engineering topics through the construction of Rube Goldberg-style chain reaction machines. After being given a simple task to complete (e.g. zipping azipper or hammering a nail), students learn and apply the engineering design process asthey plan and build their chain reaction machines. The construction of a chain reactionmachine is a powerful vehicle for introducing students to technical information becauseof the ability of these machines to capture students’ interest and to spark theirimagination. A 2007 survey of 319,223 students in the United States, Canada, Australia,and Mexico found that “a large portion of K-12 students who

Conference Session

Sustainability

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Caroline Carvill, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard A. House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jessica Livingston, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #10531The Grandest Challenge: Models for Communication Development in Tech-nical ContextsDr. Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assess- ment & Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research areas include techni- cal communication, assessment, accreditation, and the impact of pen-based technologies on learning and teaching. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, International Journal of En- gineering Education, IEEE Transaction on

Conference Session

General Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Michael Morse, Texas Tech University; Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University; Venkatesh Uddameri; Elma Annette Hernandez, Texas Tech University; David L. Ernst, Texas Tech University - Construction Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

interpolation, regression, numerical integration and solving linear systems ofequations. This course is not intended to cover all numerical methods students may need insubsequent courses in their degree plan but rather to provide a basic skill set they can build onthroughout their education. Table 1 lists the topics covered in the Introduction to Engineeringcourse. The first section of Table 1 lists the topics related to numerical methods and the latersection lists the topics related to programming. Page 24.1223.3Table 1. Introduction to Engineering Course Topics Course Topics Geometry and Trigonometry Review

Conference Session

Curriculum & Student Enrollment II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. William White AIA, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Veto Matthew Ray, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Dan D. Koo, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

faculty members accompany the organization on its field trips. 2. Leadership – Students who assume officer roles within the SSC encounter all of the challenges of leading a group of individuals, including building consensus, implementing Page 24.1224.6 plans / projects, running meetings, maintaining order and successfully collaborating. While leadership skills are a virtue regardless of the profession, construction management students particularly benefits from leadership experience as they proceed with their careers and assume the kind of responsibilities common within the industry. 3. Meeting management – In one of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division New Ideas Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David G. Novick, University of Texas, El Paso; Cory Hallam, University of Texas, San Antonio; Dorie Jewel Gilbert; Olivier Wenker MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Gary L. Frankwick, University of Texas at El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

andstudents. The certificate program has 17 modules and culminates in a concise business plan andproposal for seed funding to complete a proof of principle technology demonstrator (from PhaseII of this program). This program drives more technologies towards risk reduction and readinessfor investment by the UT Horizon Fund, the strategic venture fund of the UT System, whilebuilding a core experiential-based entrepreneurial competency15 in the UT System. Thesebusiness plans will also serve as the basis for any technology transfer office to assess the marketpotential of the innovation as part of their patenting and licensing process. While a fullevaluation of the program’s effectiveness awaits the project’s conclusion in 2014, feedback fromparticipants

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

about our scholarships and the support system that we provided. 2. A scholarship without additional instruction does not guarantee success. 3. Students need to be made to do what they need to do through assigned homework. A required Academic Success and Professional Development class with a scholarship is a very strong incentive to do the “right things”.Academic Support: 4. Academic help is needed. The Guaranteed 4.0 Plan is the best available.6 5. A minimum GPA of 3.0 for continuation of a scholarship is a strong incentive to spend the time needed for learning. 6. Transfer students should be in a study group for each class and need to be

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Thorsen, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Lori Sowa P.E., University of Alaska, Southeast

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

introduces students to the design process andcommon test/simulation/manufacturing tools available in the Electrical and Computer Engineering(ECE) department. Additionally the course content was augmented to provide an introductoryoverview of the core areas of electrical engineering taught at UAF: communications, power andcontrol, and computer engineering. Teaching the “essence of engineering” during a student’s firstyear is one of the recommendations of NAS Educating the Engineer of 2020 [2005]. Page 24.1278.3During the first half of the semester, students are introduced to design tools and the design cycle(plan, simulate, prototype, build, test

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tim Dallas P.E., Texas Tech University; Tanja Karp, Texas Tech University; Brian Steven Nutter; Yu-Chun Donald Lie, Texas Tech University; Richard O. Gale, Texas Tech University; Ron Cox; Stephen B. Bayne, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

notsuccessful in the initial recruiting effort and determined that a more organized initiative wasneeded to provide sufficiently trained engineers for the analog business units. A plan wasformulated to identify the top analog faculty in North America and to recruit and hire their topgraduate students. A list of 50 professors was identified. In 1997, the Analog University Programwas established and furnished with a multi-million dollar budget to fund graduate studentstipends during their studies. The agreement was that top MS and PhD analog students would befunded at a level consistent with other graduate fellowships and research positions at therespective universities, with the understanding the students would do an internship at TI, write athesis

Conference Session

Structural Education Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Craig Baltimore, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

rehearsal took approximately eight hours on the weekend, the actualassembly took about an hour and a half. The rehearsal was beneficial for discovering thatmore pieces were needed, some of the concepts on paper did not work as planned, andpieces did not go together as easily as anticipated. Because a 100 pound block ofconcrete was being suspended, the students developed a safety plan to protect the publicwhile the structure was displayed.Figure 12 shows the final structure constructed and on display. The structure wasprominently located and generated lots of curiosity and questions. It was reported in thelocal paper. The structure was dismantled later in the day and the thousands of pieceswere returned to their containers.The feedback from the

Conference Session

Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vamshi Krishna Bolly, Purdue University; John Springer, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; J. Eric Dietz, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Technology and a Director in Purdue’s Discovery Park, Dr. Dietz is responsible for the catalysis of the Purdue’s homeland security research, increasing the impact of Purdue research on society, and or- ganizing interdisciplinary projects within the university. Prior to his current responsibilities, Eric was on loan from Purdue to Governor Mitch Daniels to serve as the founding Executive Director for The Indi- ana Department of Homeland Security, a new state agency of over 300 people responsible for emergency planning, training, fire and building safety, and disaster response for 6.2 million Indiana residents. During this period, Eric led Indiana’s response to 7 Presidential Major Disasters and Emergency Declarations which

Collection

2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Hong Li; Ashwin Satyanarayana

. Students will be exposed to popular enterprise applications One Elective** 3 that they will most likely use in the workplace. Students will install, configure, and maintain Microsoft Exchange, Total 27 Enterprise Content Management Systems, Enterprise Resource The Networking and Security track covers aspects of all Planning Systems, Customer Relationship managements, astypes of networks including LANs and WANs, the Internet, well as Cloud Computing. In this track, students will not onlyand mobile networks, security considerations and principles in be exposed to the

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Varun Pande; Jayanta Paul; Manuel Curillo; Jani Macari Pallis

A basic CubeSat-based stage was launched which acknowledged necessities of LEO-relied science missions I. INTRODUCTION was made also two distinct science and altitude controller systems was made to satisfy both science missions. The DISCOSat-1 mission is the first CubeSat mission to passively measure the frequency, velocity, and directionality A. Mission Plan of the small (~≤1mm) component of man-made and Baseline is to launch CubeSat from the P-POD at 300-km meteoritic material in low Earth orbit (LEO). While larger

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Sithisone Kalaya; Hussain A. Alhazmi

relative to each other For many years, a lot of study has been done in mapping can be known.and exploration using single and multiple robot systems.Some of the earliest studies in the field have been developed A similar technique which combined in [4] [8] [9] [3]by [4], which implemented a single mobile robot with a was also developed in [10] which this technique was aimedcamera to exploit the visual information obtained by at implementing the robots to explore the whole map as ascanning a room to determine its size and shape, and pack. Each robot would maintain its communicationcontinually orient itself within it. The higher accuracy and throughout the exploration. Paths planning for each

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

, theinstitution. In this study, a section of freshman architecture design professional needs to understand 3-and construction management students is divided into two dimensional (3D) objects. This includes how 3Dgroups. Each group is given a spatial reasoning ability pre- objects are viewed in component form (exploded andtest. One group is then assigned to build scaled energy progress construction views), sections, plans,efficient framing models (physical models), while the other rotations and a variety of views (such as perspective,group is asked to develop 3D computer graphic models of aresidential structure. At the end of the semester, both walk-through and

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Leslie Chandrakantha

teachingpreliminary assessment shows that student learning is complex concepts of statistics. He used spreadsheet simulationenhanced by incorporating this approach in the classroom. to calculate the power of the tests as a planning tool. Hagtvedt et al. [7], [8] have developed a VBA based application tool Index Terms: ANOVA, Data Table, F statistic, that is integrated into Excel spreadsheets to simulate samplingResampling. distributions and confidence intervals. Their assessment showed that the students who used their

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Richard Steven Colon; Prabir Patra; Khaled Elleithy

interesting Further development, will be the software component thatto see the reference of a "mastermind" who plans and directs.) has the difficult task of performing “Concept Correlation”.Search word: inscription From the three randomly selected words, we now have a list ofConcept: write concepts. Which of the concepts should be selected? OurConcept: inscriptionConcept: epigraph/n/an_engraved_inscription selection criteria should be based upon some cohesionConcept: inscription/n/letters_inscribed_on_something between the concepts and potential for