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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Diandra Leslie-Pelecky; Rochelle Payne Ondracek

their research to thegeneral public, a skill that they will carry with them throughout their careers. ScienceWorksnow has over 30 hands-on modules and multimedia presentations describing a variety of basicand applied scientific principles, from biology and chemistry to engineering.FormatScienceWorks activities take two forms: hands-on modules and multimedia presentations. Forgroups of 2-15 participants, we have several hands-on activities, including modules on polymers,seatbelts and airbags, failure and fracture, DNA and the human heart. These activities allowparticipants to discover science concepts through their own activity and have the advantage ofone-on-one interaction between participant and presenter. Two of our most popular hands

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordon Silverman

EE programs to besupplanted just as the ‘electronics’ based EE degree has supplanted the EE power engineeringdegree.II. Professional Demographics.Recent career and professional trends in the United States reflect technological changes thathave taken place over the past decade. 2,3 The U.S. Department of Labor projects the need forover 350,000 Computer Engineers and Scientists over the next decade. While EE has replacedMechanical Engineering as the predominant (engineering) field, computer (hardware/software)engineering is growing rapidly. (In government surveys, 11 percent of all engineers reportsoftware engineering as their primary field .2 This discipline was not even reported in 1972.). Arecent survey of mid- and large-size companies

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Warenna Millon; Eric Sheppard

Session 2570Discussion and Plans for the FutureOne of the most critical concerns in TU CEAPS is student retention to graduation. There may beseveral causes of high attrition rates, amongst which are: insufficient secondary preparation incore science and mathematics courses, insufficient preparation in study and learning skills,inadequate motivation toward engineering as a career choice, and lack of adequate financialresources. It is crucial that the reasons for the low retention be established in more detail so thatthey may be addressed.Efforts at TU CEAPS include plans to track students individually as well as in their incomingclass and discipline cohorts. Both academic and survey data will be used. This is critical inassessing the causes of

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Chi-Wook Lee

an increased appreciationof the common technical interests with a growing awareness of the significant mutual benefits.In addition to the element of collaborative research activity, consideration should also be givento the inclusion in the alliance of placement of engineering graduates in career positions,cooperative education and continuing education2.Students, who are the principal product of universities, should be the most effective means oftransferring knowledge from universities to industry. However, in evaluating the capabilities ofemployees who are recent graduates from engineering schools, aerospace industry sees severalprominent shortcomings: (i) New hires must serve excessively long apprenticeships before theyare fully productive

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith V. Johnson

labor yielded success. Since becoming a faculty member, the author’snew philosophy is smart labor yields success. This philosophy reflects the authors new found beliefthat just because you work hard, you are not guaranteed to achieve your career goals. Too often, theburden of being committed to so many committees and trying to keep up with regular duties can beextremely frustrating. Committee assignments can become a burden if they are taken out of perspective, and onedoes not anticipate the amount of work and time involved. As a new faculty member, there is a Page 4.504.3strong possibility that one may be encouraged to serve on

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Shaw

describes howwe are using conferencing tools, discussion groups, case studies and design projects in anasynchronous collaboration. We have moved traditional lecture materials to media accessible onthe web and focus our valuable face-to-face class time on creative problem solving. Thecollaboration that we have developed essentially becomes an asynchronous network for acommunity of users focused on specific outcomes.Collaboration takes place within the traditional academic setting where students interact withother students and faculty as well as later in their careers where success is often dependent oneffective relationships with other professionals in business organizations. Our goal in this paperis to extend the concept of collaboration among

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard E. Pfile; Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto

interfacing, all focusing on thepropulsion system. Unlike traditional power electronics courses where the design methods areapplied to generic scenarios, focusing on such a high-profile modern plant helps motivatestudents because they see the lessons as real, relevant, and career oriented. The paper includes acomprehensive description of the high-power electronics subsystems and the solid state devicescommonly used in power electronics, and it discusses the range of laboratory experiments andprojects that students are assigned throughout the semester. The paper also discusses the dataacquisition system that was developed using LabView for students to safely monitor highvoltages and currents from the propulsion system and the ABC150 battery charger

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick L. Walter

2.352.1ground receiving station for demodulation and interpretation. Although hypothetical innature, this scenario represents a typical challenge encountered by the author during hisindustrial career. The design of the acceleration and pressure measurement systems served toprovide a basis for a two semester Capstone experience for the first TCU senior engineeringclass.The fact that measurement systems can provide logical design projects to a general (electrical& mechanical emphases) engineering program is explained as follows. The input to ameasurement system is typically a mechanical measurand, e. g., temperature, pressure,acceleration, strain, displacement, humidity, etc. The mechanical measurand is observedwith electromechanical transducers. The

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa A. Riedle; Jill M. Clough

their academic careers. In developing a groupproject for new students, several desirable attributes were identified. 1) A successful project would beviewed by students as interesting and challenging. 2) Students would have ready access to information.3) The project’s scope would allow for some in-depth investigation, but not require detailed analysis. 4)The project would be open-ended and encourage students to be creative as well as analytical. 5) Theproject would provide a hands-on experience related to engineering. 6) Students would be able toprepare informative reports to build written and verbal communication skills. 7) Students would giveshort, oral presentations using at least two different visual aids.With such a project, students might

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard E. Pfile; William R. Conrad

Session 1348 Bring Realism Into the Classroom Through Your Consulting Richard E. Pfile Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology William R. Conrad Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology Indiana University-Purdue University at IUPUI Indianapolis, Indiana Abstract The half-life of an engineering degree is said by some to be approximately five years. Ina teaching career that may span

Conference Session

Program Development and Pipelines for Recruitment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University; Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

and industry.IntroductionA Master of Science in Engineering Management degree is designed to help technicalprofessionals take the next step in their careers as they ‘graduate’ to a management orientedcareer. Such a degree prepares technical professionals to deal with topics such as costmanagement, world-class manufacturing, workplace safety and ergonomics, leadership, andquality control. This paper deals with a curriculum development effort which was recentlyundertaken at a university in the southeast United States for development of a concentration insafety engineering.Any degree in engineering management with a concentration in safety engineering is generallyfound to be targeted towards principally four kinds of audiences. The first type of

Conference Session

Two-Year College Potpourri

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

should beevident in students’ ability to understand and demonstrate mastery with these technologies.Rewarding careers are available for trained students in advanced manufacturing programs. Students mayseek jobs opportunities as a CAD drafter or 3D model designer, CNC or CAM programmer, CNCoperator or a composite of these technologies.Implementing required technology coursework in advanced manufacturing programs in South Texastechnical colleges will significantly improve educational standards and career opportunity for students inSouth Texas. The long term impact of integrating advanced manufacturing programs withCAD/CAM/CNC training will increase both science and technology literacy, while increasing standardsof living and improving the quality

Conference Session

Measuring the Impacts of Project-Based Service Learning on Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shi-Jer Lou, National PingTung University of Science and Techno; Shun-Yuan Chuang, National Kaohsiung Normal University; Hsiang-jen Meng, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology; Ron Chuen Yeh, Meiho Institute of Technology, Taiwan; Kuo-Hung Tseng, Meiho Institute of Technology; Chi-Cheng Chang, National Taipei University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

International

Page 15.98.2understand the possibilities for their future career paths3. In Taiwan, since the pressureof high school and college entrance exams still exist, learning and instruction are stillbased on cognition. As to secondary education, with limited instructional hours,teachers can only briefly describe the teaching materials. Although the lecture-basedinstruction allows students to acquire knowledge, it cannot enhance their skills andabilities to apply the knowledge to problem-solving. There are few STEM programs inpublic K-12 schools even that teachers think STEM lessons are required andimportant4.Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a model that organizes learning with projects5. PBLis a systematic approach which allows students successfully to

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Engelken

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

coauthors, and sometimes the primaryauthor. In recent years, almost all of the undergraduate research assistants have madepresentations, typically multiple ones, at regional conferences. Several have won awards for thebest undergraduate presentation within given disciplinary categories. Several have also beenrecipients of specifically student grants, for example, from NASA and the Arkansas ScholarsUndergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program. Several have gone-on to successfulgraduate education experiences at larger institutions, with four having received Ph.D. degrees,and numerous ones having received master degrees in electrical engineering or closely relatedareas. Essentially all have gone-on to successful engineering careers, either with or

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morgan Hynes, Tufts University; David Crismond, The City College of New York; Ethan Danahy, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

ideas needed to solve design problems. As defined in anNSF-sponsored 2007 national symposium on the topic, there is a “need to develop, pilot test,refine, and deploy professional development models” that can help STEM teachers develop thecapability to infuse engineering into K-12 classrooms9. Developing such models can enhance the“pipeline” by getting students excited about STEM careers, in particular those related toengineering. Partnerships between K-12 and engineering schools may help in improving students’preparation for careers in engineering. Creating materials and contexts that support a scalablemodel for such partnerships would serve to improve this pipeline and the STEM communityeven more. Such collaborations involve players whose

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Progress Reports: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

improvecurriculum that prepare graduates for careers in a wide scope industry and supporta broad spectrum of technology. The EET program is collaborating with GEAviation to offer a graduate certificate in Test Engineering. This certificaterepresents a good model of collaboration between industry and academia. Thedemand for electrical and computer engineers who are equipped with testengineering skills continue to rise. Unfortunately, the curriculum has not yet“caught up” to industry needs and the role of academia in meeting industryexpectation of test engineering skills has not been sufficient. Only a fewuniversities have test engineering incorporated in their curriculum. To meet thisgoal, the School of Technology is stepping up to this challenge and

Conference Session

Thinking, Reasoning & Engineering in Elementary School

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston; Cathy Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

to engineering and engineering careers. Thispaper investigates whether the EiE curriculum impacts these perceptions.MethodsTo measure elementary students’ attitudes and perceptions toward engineering, an instrumentwas developed and administered to a “test/EiE” group of students who used the EiE curriculum Page 15.1237.2(students were taught an EiE unit and related science) and a “control” group whose studentswere taught related science, but did not use EiE materials. Data about student sex, race/ethnicity,and free and reduced lunch status were also collected from students in six states in a pre/postdesign.Student SampleResponses from students

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Shields, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Curriculum Content Standard 9.1: 21st Century Life and Career Skills describes skillsthat prepare students to engage fully in civic and work life. The standard includes six strands,which reflect the Framework for 21st Century Learning. 4 For the purpose of this study and asmentioned above, we are focusing on the skills of collaboration and communication, although itis expected that engaging the students in a variety engineering activities will also improve theirability to think critically and solve problems. That topic will be addressed in a larger study of allof the students whose teachers are part of the NSF funded PISA2.Partner ClassThe partner school is located in Jersey City, the state’s second largest city. The school districthas 28,218

Conference Session

Assessing Students and Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christa Moll Weisbrook, University of Missouri; William Schonberg, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

sustainable assessmentplan that is straightforward to implement and easy for faculty to comprehend.II. Definitions and ConstraintsTo set the stage for the procedures and assessment methods to be presented, definitions andgoverning constraints for objectives and outcomes as prescribed by ABET are provided.3A. Program Educational ObjectivesABET defines program educational objectives as “broad statements that describe the career andprofessional accomplishments that the program is preparing the graduates to achieve.” InCriterion 2 Program Educational Objectives, ABET also prescribes that “each program for whichan institution seeks accreditation must have in place: (a) published educational objectives that areconsistent with the mission of the institution

Conference Session

Manufacturing Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig T. Evers P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

evolution.IntroductionThroughout his career in the automotive and electronic industries, the author has seen therole of quality in manufacturing change significantly. From the introduction of suchbasic tools as Statistical Quality Control – SQC (and its subsequent evolution intoStatistical Process Control – SPC) to the Six Sigma philosophy and methodologies,“quality” has gone from something done because “the customer said so” to a corporatesurvival strategy. Many formal tools (such as those listed in the Abstract above) havebeen developed to standardize the concepts and vocabulary of quality. Page 22.162.2In an informal survey of employers on three continents over a 25+ year

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phil Schlosser, Ohio State University; John Merrill, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2010-1906: FIRST-YEAR STUDENT EXPERIENCES, ATTITUDES ANDOUTCOMES IN A SEMINAR ON INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIPPhil Schlosser, Ohio State University Dr. Schlosser teaches First-Year Engineering courses and Freshman Seminars at The Ohio State University. He graduated from Ohio State University with B.Sc. degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering. Early in his career, he was Professor of Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering at OSU where he taught courses and conducted research in nuclear medical imaging systems. Over the past two decades, he has started several successful companies in the central Ohio area. He holds 22 U.S. and foreign

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Goldade, University of North Dakota; Tessa Haagenson, University of North Dakota; Hossein Salehfar, University of North Dakota; Mike Mann, University of North Dakota

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

travel experience includes a summer study trip to Iceland through Bemidji State, a month teaching English at a summer camp in Spain, and three months in Argentina taking intensive Spanish language classes through a Rotary International program. Following seasonal employment with an environmental engineering and consulting firm in Nebraska, Tessa returned to school to supplement her academic background and pursue a career in engineering. She is currently enrolled in the electrical engineering program at the University of North Dakota and is enjoying opportunities to gain familiarity with the technical aspects of renewable energy systems.Hossein Salehfar, University of North Dakota Hossein

Conference Session

Opportunities and Challenges in Developing International Engineering Research

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shih Kuang Hou, National Taiwan Normal University; Ching-Ho Huang, Nangang Vocational High School; Jin-Fu Chen, NTNU

Tagged Divisions

International

competiveness.Survey method was mainly used in this study to collect the individual personality trait data of 80respective competitors and their instructors who participated in skills competitions, and statisticalanalysis was then employed to understand their unique personality traits. For skills competitioncompetitors and instructors, the study adopted Leader Attributes Inventory (LAI) Scale andAdult Career Cognitive Scale respectively as the research tools. Through statistical analysis, theskills competition competitors have shown such unique characteristics as “rhathymia,” “cyclictendency,” “inferiority feeling,” “depression,” “objectivity,” and “cooperativeness.” On the otherhand, the instructors have demonstrated better than average norms in dimensions

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rupa Iyer, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

≠ Combine practical, hands-on biotechnology training with cutting-edge biotechnology research and teachingThis major will prepare students for: ≠ Graduate school or entry into a research laboratory ≠ Entry into the biotechnology industryTwo curriculum tracks, Bioprocessing and Bioinformatics were offered to give students theflexibility to tailor their degree based on their interests, educational background and career goals.These tracks, in combination with core courses, were intended to provide our students with abroad exposure to the field of biotechnology. The presence of the Texas Medical Center in thegreater Houston area and a growing biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry places thisprogram at the forefront of Biotechnology

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Melissa Divonne Dean, Mobile Area Education Foundation; Judith French Duke, Mobile Area Education Foundation

) √ Attention to specific engineering careers or fields related to the lesson/activity Other (please describe below)Provide a description of how you will explicitly address these aspects of authentic engineering inyour workshop (maximum 2,000 characters):Both the EYE Module development process and the MAEF Model of communityengagement are iterative processes which follow very closely to the engineering designprocess taught by the EYE STEM Curriculum. During the workshop, participants will beintroduced to the Engineering Design Process initially during the exploration of the “Don’tGo With the Flow” EYE Module as they understand how students apply the engineeringdesign process to develop solutions to a real-world environmental engineering

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Cristian Gaedicke, California State University, East Bay; Saeid Motavalli, California State University, East Bay

/improvement Attention to specific engineering habits of mind Attention to engineering practices (as described in the NGSS/Framework and as practiced by engineers) Attention to specific engineering careers or fields related to the lesson/activity Other (please describe below)Provide a description of how you will explicitly address these aspects of authentic engineering inyour workshop (maximum 2,000 characters):All proposed case studies in the workshop use experimentation and the engineering designprocess to develop a product. In particular, the industrial engineering case study fully focuses onthe improvement of an engineering design (e.g., paper airplane) and measurement of the learningcurve.The case

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

David Heil, David Heil & Associates, Inc.

”. Check allthat apply: X Use of an engineering design process that has at least one iteration/improvement X Attention to specific engineering habits of mind X Attention to engineering practices (as described in the NGSS/Framework and as practiced by engineers) X Attention to specific engineering careers or fields related to the lesson/activity X Other (please describe below)Provide a description of how you will explicitly address these aspects of authentic engineering inyour workshop (maximum 2,000 characters):Using activities from the Family Engineering program, workshop participants will personallyexperience a number of authentic engineering challenges, concepts, practices and habits of mindand explore

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; John Glime, Granite School District (UT)

within the first four listed, below; i.e., do not only check “other”. Check allthat apply: Use of an engineering design process that has at least one iteration/improvement Attention to specific engineering habits of mind Attention to engineering practices (as described in the NGSS/Framework and as practiced by engineers) Attention to specific engineering careers or fields related to the lesson/activity Other (please describe below)Provide a description of how you will explicitly address these aspects of authentic engineering inyour workshop (maximum 2,000 characters):The workshop will introduce authentic engineering through the use of real world systems levelengineering problems that are

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Jessica S Ward, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Adam K Fontecchio, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Robert Shultz, Drexel University; Gabriel Burks, Drexel University

must be within the first four listed, below; i.e., do not only check “other”. Check allthat apply: Use of an engineering design process that has at least one iteration/improvement Attention to specific engineering habits of mind Attention to engineering practices (as described in the NGSS/Framework and as practiced by engineers) X Attention to specific engineering careers or fields related to the lesson/activity Other (please describe below)Provide a description of how you will explicitly address these aspects of authentic engineering inyour workshop (maximum 2,000 characters):Many of these aspects of authentic engineering are directly addressed during the “build” phase ofthe workshop. Applying

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Tagged Topics

Diversity, International Forum

attributes at each stage of an engineer’s development (upon completionof high school/secondary school; university; early-career professional), the importance andproficiency levels of each attribute varied, as follows:The most important/proficient attributes for the secondary school graduate are:1. Demonstrates an understanding of engineering, science, and mathematics fundamentals2. Maintains a positive self-image and possesses positive self- confidenceFor individuals at this stage, the need to have sound preparation in the disciplinary fundamentalsis needed for successful transition to and success in university-level engineering educationprograms. Furthermore, student retention and success in most first-year university engineering