Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roland Kempter, University of Utah; Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Nick Safai, Salt Lake City College; Neil Cotter, University of Utah; Lee Brinton, Salt Lake Community College

Tagged Divisions

International

classes have adefinite advantage over their peers in the admission process. However, the transfergrades are not used when calculating the graduation GPA. Students have claimed thatthe earlier classes were easier to obtain high grades in at both schools, so not being ableto include those early class grades in their final GPA puts them at a disadvantage atgraduation. Obviously, this raises fairness concerns and may lead to discomfortamongst the student body.B. Sustaining academic standards – problems with grading on the curve From our teaching experience, we feel that discrepancies exist between thematerials taught at some of the non-accredited institutions compared to the UofU. This is

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Soda, U.S. Air Force Academy; Gregory Toussaint, U.S. Air Force Academy; Albert Batten, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

consequence on the other, the teams were able to roughly identify how high arisk was posed by a particular item. The difficult part of this exercise was getting theteams to realize that not every aspect of a design project will always be 100% successful.Students, like inexperienced engineers, assume that every design challenge can be solvedin a matter of hours if they work hard enough, and that everything will be available whenthey need it. Each team was tasked to develop a test plan and write a technical report for theproject. The test plan was to identify the specific verification methods and proceduralsteps to certify that their final product satisfied the requirements of the problemstatement. The technical report was to document the design

Conference Session

Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maurice F. Aburdene, Bucknell University; Marie Catherine Pizzorno, Department of Biology, Bucknell University; Alexander P Thompson, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

students to the NCBI databasePlease download the power point slide for class meetings 8 and 9.Open another browser.Open MATLAB.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgiExplore and look at direct links to some of the organisms commonly used in molecular researchprojects.1) Search for an organism of interest to you. For example, search for “oryza sativa”. Get theaccession number and write it down, as you will need it later.2) Click on “nucleotide direct links” along the right hand side of the screen.3) Click on “GenBank” in the first entry listed. Study this page.4) Click on “FASTA”. Study this page.5) Click on “Graphics”. Seek help from the biology students or professor in the class to interpretthis graph!6) Click on “GenBank”. We are

Conference Session

Outreach Along the K-12 Pathways to Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet L. Yowell, University of Colorado Boulder; Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Page 23.689.2As stated by Turner and Lapan, youth begin the formation of their career identities as early as 3rdgrade, according to their understanding of gender-appropriateness of certain occupations. 1,2Therefore, the need exists to create a solid foundation for understanding the benefits and rewardsof an engineering career before students, particularly young girls, become misinformed by publicperceptions. Recent research found that K-12 students and teachers have a poor perception ofwhat engineers do.3 Whose responsibility is it to properly inform the public?Despite continuous improvement between 1990-2006 in math and science performance, U.S.students still fall short in these subjects as compared to their peers in other nations.4 In someK

Conference Session

iSTEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. David Burghardt, Hofstra University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

opportunity to think about and discuss the challenges and benefits of engineeringin science pedagogy, 71% of teachers said they found it very interesting, and all teachers found itat least somewhat interesting. Page 23.797.10   Teachers also expressed confidence in their ability to explain, teach, and meet newscience standards using engineering pedagogy. Approximately 62% of teachers felt at leastsomewhat confident in their ability to explain to a peer how engineering can support scienceinstruction. Additionally, over 71% of teachers felt at least somewhat confident in their ability toteach a lesson with added engineering components, and

Conference Session

New Teaching Pedagogies: Methods and Assessments

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin W. Caldwell, LeTourneau University; Colleen M. Halupa, LeTourneau University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics

cumbersome, one student (14%) thought it was very cumbersome and57% had no problem submitting handwritten homework. For those that did have problems, itwas because they did not have a smartphone or scanner available to them at all times since some Page 24.86.9also were on vacation. One student had some trouble because he had a broken arm and had tohave his mother write out his assignments. All of the students (100%) noted the professor wasflexible and accommodating regarding this issue.Students were required to take their tests online in the Blackboard LMS and enter final answersonly. This test was timed to ensure academic honesty. Immediately

Conference Session

Engaging Minority Pre-College and Transfer Students in Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea M. Ogilvie P.E., Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

students. Specifically, this literature review seeks to answer the followingresearch questions: 1. What is known about the experiences and educational outcomes of engineering transfer students? 2. What opportunities exist for further scholarship to increase understanding of transfer student pathways to engineering degrees?Scope/Method To find peer reviewed articles on engineering transfer students, a search was performedusing Engineering Village, an interface designed to simultaneously search three engineeringdatabases: Compendex, Inspec, and National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Combined,the databases index: 1.) more than 5,000 engineering journals; 2.) journal articles, conferencepapers, books, dissertations

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer L.W. Carter, Case Western Reserve University; Brian Yuhnke Jr, Case Western Reserve University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

the score criteria. Students had to be reminded bi-weekly that theywere allowed, and encouraged, to discuss the topic with their peers prior to answering a clickerquestion.For the weekly team-based learning activities, students chose to stay in the same group of three forthe whole semester, with some minor shifting of groups. The instructor allowed students to startthe activity whenever a group of three students naturally synthesized. Therefore, students wouldgravitate towards pods with one or two students already present so they could start the assign-ment early. In this study we did not keep track of the group development, but this is something tomonitor in the future. The team-based learning activities were generally well received

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences in Mechanical, Materials and Thermal Systems

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison L. Sieving, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Marcia Pool, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Trisha Eustaquio, Purdue University; Rajtarun Madangopal, Purdue University; Alyssa Panitch PhD; Kate Stuart, Purdue University; Ann E Rundell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Scott Alan Jewett

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Technical Committee on Healthcare and Medical Systems. She has co-authored more than 30 peer reviewed articles, is a senior member in IEEE, and received the NSF CAREER award in 2009. Page 23.434.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Development of Verification and Validation Engineering Design Skills through a Multi-year Cognitive Apprenticeship Laboratory ExperienceAbstract:In this study, a sophomore-level Biomaterials and Biomechanics laboratory, junior-levelBiotransport laboratory, and senior-level Professional Elements of Design

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mario Medina; Louis Thurston

defend their ideas. In sodoing, the students create their own unique conceptual frameworks and don’t rely solely on aninstructor’s or a text's framework. In a collaborative learning environment, students have theopportunity to actively interact with peers and instructors by presenting ideas, exchanging variedviewpoints, and question others. A second important factor was to keep the use of technology assimple as possible. The idea was to use the mentioned tools to learn, rather than to devote much Page 8.894.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

triggering learninghow engineers and managers interest, learning from others, and working in teams.solve real-world problems. - Asynchronous learning opportunities, such as solving challenging problems, accessing vast information sources, learning discovery- based educational experiences safely, and enhancing peer-to-peer education. Table 1: Educational Objectives to Achieve Project Goals Page 8.459.33. Development of Case StudiesProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

mostfaculty in engineering schools are not even familiar with these types of writing much lessunderpin their teaching practice by them. The exception to this generalisation is the growingnumber of faculty who have been exposed to these through professional development programsand now Graduate Certificates in Eduction.Engineering education has much to learn from and contribute to the wider, philosophical andempirical literature in higher education. The higher education community has recognised thedistinct characteristics of different disciplines when it comes to university teaching and studentlearning.15-17 It can be argued the whole concept of educational theory is problematic as it opensup more basic questions about what we understand by knowledge

Conference Session

Faculty Career Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; D. Patrick O'Neal, Louisiana Tech University; Lori L. Bakken, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. Prior to moving to academia in 2005, he led several industrial nanomedicine-based development projects as PI on NSF (SBIR), NIH (STTR), and NIST (ATP) grants. With a research focus in biomedical optics, he has published peer-reviewed articles in basic cancer research, biomedical electro-optic instrumentation, clinical cancer therapies, and mathemati- cal techniques for dealing with complex biological systems. Based on experiences instructing courses like Biomedical Engineering Senior Design and his previous experience in the medical device industry, he has developed a strong interest in optimizing gender interactions and productivity in engineering projects and

Conference Session

Focus on Faculty

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, AZ State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

students and learningabout their struggles and how they handle them, information about graduate school andresearch on campus, meeting people from industry and graduate students helped me toget focused, learning about Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs), gettingprepared for a career fair, learning how to write a good resume, meeting with professors,learning that it is important to do research to find out whether research is an area theywould like to pursue.Additional topics listed by the men included: the suggestions of note taking and studying;the meetings; hearing professional recruiters come and talk about opportunities, whatthey are looking for, and how to get a job; meeting with the panel of graduate students;emphasis on course work

Conference Session

Engaging Students in Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

HuiRu Shih, Jackson State University; Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Tzusheng Pei, Jackson State University; Gordon Skelton, Jackson State University; Evelyn Leggette, Jackson State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

(concerning with comparing their performance to others). The instructors instruct students to shift their focus from comparing their performance to peer to self- comparison toward mastery goal orientation. The mastery goal orientation can also be reinforced by the expandable intelligence concept.6.3 Promote Self-Regulated LearningSelf-regulation is a continuous and integrated process. To promote students to develop self-regulated learning skills, the conceptual SRL model and its strategies have to be explicitlyintroduced to students in the classroom and integrated into their learning activities. Step two ofthe instructional strategy is to implement the following two types of instruction strategies.6.3.1 Direct Instruction

Conference Session

California on the Move: A Robust Array of Student Success Initiatives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Catherine Baker Lipe; Brandon Price

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

11 11 Total Number of Awards 21 37 41 41Building Academic CapitalInsufficient academic support is another barrier to student success. To help overcome thisbarrier, Cañada College has developed a number of academic support programs for STEMstudents including tutoring, Academic Excellence Workshops, study groups, peer instruction,and research internship opportunities. Many of these support services have been previouslydeveloped through the MESA Program. Other programs were developed through grant-fundedprojects that led to the creation of Cañada College's STEM Center, a campus hub for all STEM-related programs, activities, and support services. The STEM Center provides

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg L. Fiegel, California Polytechnic State University; James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; Nazli Yesiller

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Prepare progress reports; interview graduate students; (3) Summarize -Describe the principal findings of the project present findings to mentors and both the technical -List the attributes of a successful graduate student peers; offer feedback on and experiential improving the program; co- aspects of the -Describe a typical workday for a graduate student author technical papers and research -Write an effective technical paper or report reports; prepare research posters; experience

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela J. Théroux; Gary Gabriele; Brad Lister; Deborah Kaminski

accommodators, make up about one-fifth ofthe TFI student population. These non-dominant learning style students prefer feeling andwatching (divergers) and doing and feeling (accommodators). Kolb and colleagues provideextensive empirical work that relates learning style to subject disciplines. Divergers tend to be increative disciplines such as writing or the arts, and accommodators tend to be in professions thatrequire intuitive thinking, such as teaching. Convergers tend to be in applied fields (scientists,lawyers) and assimilators prefer academic pursuits such as pure science or mathematics. Thus itis not surprising that 80% of the students in this course fall into the converger and assimilatorcategories

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasar Demirel

compare and do they predict academic performance? Educat. Psychol., 20, 365 (2000).19. R. M. Felder, How to Survive Engineering School, Chem. Eng. Ed., 36, 30 (2002).20. Recommendations for Action in Support of Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Project Kaleidoscope Report on Reports (2002). (http:/www.pkal.org/template2.cfm?c_id=387)21. J. C. Bean, Engaging Idea. The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco (2001).22. N.J. Buch, T.F. Wolf, Classroom Teaching Through Inquiry, J. Profess. Issues Eng. Ed. Practice, 126, 105 (2000).23. R.M. Felder, R. Brent, Effective Strategies for Cooperative

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthe last decade. This trend is evident at NAU as well; the 2000 edition of Open Doors citedNAU as among the top twenty institutions in its peer group in terms of students studying abroad,with the largest segment participating in language acquisition programs in Mexico, Spain,France, Germany, China, Germany, China and Japan. Clearly, more and more students,including engineering students, are highly motivated to participate in focused languageacquisition, programs that bring them to linguistic and cultural competence quickly, efficiently,and early in their

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

work.The students will complete many of the requirements for designing and developing models andexperiment, using the scientific method, and presenting their research to their peers andteachers. Additionally, they will be forced to determine the efficacy of different approaches aswell as use cost and time analysis as decision making tools. In learning about the processes usedin making MEMS, the students will also have a chance to see the environmental impact of thefabrication techniques. Overall, in a short course, the student not only achieves many of thestandards expected in their grade level, they get a chance to see the relevance of their work inclass to the “real world”.Although they have frequently had advanced coursework in the sciences

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Baratuci; Angela Linse

using their experiences to improve the course.The HTOL students were divided into two small groups and asked to write answers to thefollowing questions: § What helped you learn in this course? Please explain or provide specific examples. § What changes would make the course more helpful? Please suggest specific ways to alter the course.The two groups worked together for about 5 minutes on each question. Then the classparticipated in a whole class discussion; the out-of-town student answered the questionsindividually, then contributed to the whole-class discussion. As the students reported theiranswers, Linse created a master list of strengths and suggestions for change. After the interview,the comments were divided into themes based on both

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karthik Ramani; Anderson David; Alexander Lee

a competitive market.Development of Computer-Aided Design and Prototyping Course (ME444)With the availability of CAD tools, our curriculum at Purdue in 1991 began formulating meansby which undergraduates could learn to use advanced software in the design process. InteractiveCAD software was introduced in the laboratory while, at the same time, the course coveredvarious theories including geometric modeling, numerical analysis, optimization, and someaspects of finite elements. Students also learned to write interactive graphics programs. In timewe realized that the industry required engineers to do design with CAD. For this reason,engineers with only undergraduate degrees were seldom called upon or trusted to run analysissoftware

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Schneider, Cornell University; Maria Terrell, Cornell University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

AC 2011-176: IMPACT OF COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING WORK-SHOPS IN ENGINEERING CALCULUS COURSE ON APPLIED MATH-EMATICALLisa Schneider, Cornell University Lisa Schneider has been the Director of Engineering Learning Initiatives in Cornell University’s College of Engineering since 2002. Learning Initiatives’ programs enhance the educational environment of the College by facilitating opportunities for collaborative learning, undergraduate research, teaching skill development, peer instruction, and leadership development. Schneider received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell in 1997. Before taking her current position, she taught Sociology as an assistant professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and then served

Conference Session

Pedagogical Innovations in Laboratory Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyn Marie Turner, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Shirley Dyke, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

goal, because it relates to a large literature oninequality in the engineering field among males and females at all stages of the academic ladder.4In particular we document the extent to which females report learning less as a result of theshake table experiment than their male peers. The plan of the paper is as follows. First, we briefly describe recent developments inbench scale shake tables and teleoperation and teleobservation technologies designed to allowstudents at institutions without shake tables to be able to perform real-time exercises in structural Page 22.883.3dynamics and earthquake engineering. Second, we introduce

Conference Session

Sustainable Product Development and Manufacturing

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guanghsu A. Chang, Minnesota State University, Mankato; William R. Peterson, WRP Associates

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

reasoning including skillssuch as classification, sequencing, planning, and comparison. Creative thinking involves creatingand generating something new or original. It also involves the skills of brainstorming,modification, attribute listing, and originality. The purpose of DFA creative thinking is tostimulate curiosity among students and promote product structure simplification. Bloom'sTaxonomy provides a useful structure in which to categorize DFA learning objects whenassessing student learning outcomes. Asking students to think at higher levels is an excellent wayto stimulate student's thought processes. In DFA learning process, the purpose of writing

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jia-Ling Lin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Manuela Romero, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jennifer Binzley, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Eman A. Zaki, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

dynamics. Each semester, about 160 students enroll in SI, and 60 or more signup in three or four sessions that support calculus-based intro-level physics. The program is opento all students who enroll in courses for which SI sessions are offered. It is structured as smallstudy groups offering a peer-instructional and cooperative problem-solving environment, astructure that models many features of genuine engineering practice. A few characteristics of the 132 survey participants should be mentioned. First, all are SIstudents and thus voluntarily signed-up for SI's zero-credits and to spend two extra hoursworking on physics each week. Therefore participants are considered “motivated” or “highly

Conference Session

Expanding Access and Opportunities for M/30

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

and differences students perceivebetween these majors in terms of the knowledge and skills used in the profession.Table 3. Similarities and Differences in the Architectural, Civil, and Environmental EngineeringCurriculum at CUTopic (credits) Architectural Civil EnvironmentalRequired courses in 4 semesters math, 2 semesters physics, 1 semester chemistry + labcommon (52) Engineering computing, Statics, Thermodynamics, Fluid mechanics Writing / social science or humanities (SSH) electivesAREN: CVEN Engineering drawing, Geomaticsrequired courses in Introduction to Constructioncommon (15) Mechanics of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Jacquelyn E. Kelly, Arizona State University; Dale R. Baker, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Perry Samson at the University of Michigan. This site will be sustainable into the futuresince it is now a company that grew out of a 2005 NSF CCLI grant. LectureTools converts PDFor PPT files to JPG files, which are stored in the “cloud” (a high capacity server). The instructorcan use a mouse pointer or tablet writer to write or do calculations directly on his/her JPG slideswith the script appearing immediately on the screens of all students, each of who has their ownaccount (cost is $15/semester). This account also gives them access to their own slide file set foreach class with immediate access to both the instructor slide set and their own slide set anytimeand anywhere. They can also take notes in a box on their own slide file and interact

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

develop prediction equations.9. Team work and collaborative learning (between participant and participant, participant and graduate assistant, and participant and faculty mentor).10. To visual aids in communicating the test responses.11. Writing and presentation of technical reports.In each of the three “research-oriented” projects conducted in this REU Site unique contributionswere made by each group. The microconcrete group developed prediction equations (empirical)for compressive strength, split cylinder tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, and MOR flexuraltensile strength, and a mix design methodology for high strength concrete. The use of neoprenepads as dampers in bolted moment connections demonstrated by the steel connection group