Conference Session

Program Criteria, Assessment, and Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

years. Thecapstone rubrics at UT Tyler provide direct assessment of almost every outcome, but theresults are for team projects. Therefore, the use of embedded indicators (direct measures)provide the best direct measurement of student demonstration of each outcome bycollecting results for the best student, the average student, and the worst studentperformance leading to a better collection of data representing students demonstration ofeach outcome.2.0 Direct Assessment Process at UT TylerGenerally the assessment process is a lonely job performed by one or maybe two facultyin a program. Many faculty do not know who is doing the work and they really do notcare. The person in charge (even if the chair) begs peers to submit their assigned input ina

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Potpourri I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

individualaction. These developments are viewed in light of three primary areas: self efficacy, outcomeexpectations, and goals10.Self efficacy refers to a student’s belief about his or her personal abilities, which may includeperceived ability to achieve academic milestones or overcome performance hurdles. Individualsdevelop their sense of self-efficacy from personal performance, learning by example, socialinteractions, and how they feel in a situation9, and these beliefs are constantly changing based oninteractions with others or changes in the environment. Examples of self efficacy in graduateschool may be the ability to conduct independent research, write a paper, or present work toothers. Undergraduate students may develop self efficacy for graduate

Conference Session

FPD VIII: Crossing Bridges and Easing Transitions into the First Year

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Judith A. Garzolini, Boise State University; Gary LeRoy Hunt, Boise State University; Joe Guarino, Boise State University; Doug Bullock, Boise State University; Susan Shadle, Boise State University; Cheryl B. Schrader, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

advised of theSTEM core courses they must take in an overview presentation. Next, students were categorizedby specific discipline for individualized course advising using peer advisors and STEM faculty(32 advisors over the summer). The objective was to help the students identify as a STEMmajor, begin connecting them with an advisor, and to identify the STEP project coordinator andother resources available to them.The advisors assisted students in selecting the appropriate math course, promoted the use ofALEKS, a mathematics online learning module (described in part 4), and encouraged enrollmentin Student Learning Communities (SLCs). To continue support and assistance, advisorsaccompanied the students to a computer lab to complete online course

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-Year Programs in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James J. Sluss Jr., University of Oklahoma; Chad Eric Davis, University of Oklahoma; Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

students selecting engineering, discussed in the CAEE research, ismentor influence. This motivator was not as large a factor as the three previouslymentioned, but it was much more significant for females than males 8, 9. With this inmind, ECE female students were sought out to help. As a result, eight different femalestudents have volunteered to participate in female outreach and recruiting activities overthe last two years. The level of interest in ECE by females appears to have gone upsubstantially as a result. OU-ECE female enrollment trends will be analyzed in the futurein order to measure the effectiveness of this area of our program. Hopefully, it willcorrelate with other studies that show that actively engaging females, especially peers

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

instructors’ self-evaluation such that more direct assessment of students’ learning outcomes is obtained. A set of standards for instructor’s self-evaluation will be prepared by the faculty and the Board of Advisors and will be implemented with the annual assessment cycle. The main point of these standards is that the evaluation of students’ performance will based on samples of work in three categories of students: those in the upper 75 percentile, those in the 50 – 75 percentile and those below the 50 percentile populations. Thus the assessment results compiled are based on course performances and grades, exams, projects, presentations of students, and writings as required in some courses. Furthermore

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

understandingthat the university wanted to help the CCs with their recruitment and retention of pre-engineeringand computer science students and to assist their students with transfer only after they could gono further in their engineering studies at the CC.Representatives from ASU and MCCCD worked together for several months writing a grant forthe National Science Foundation. The primary objective of the project was to work together on aprogram to encourage more potential and actual CC students to consider engineering. The firstauthor had discovered through her research that of the engineering transfer students in Fulton,many of them had gone to a CC with no particular major in mind and had decided on engineeringor computer science after they had

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Schneider, Cornell University; Maria Terrell, Cornell University Math Dept.

AC 2010-774: APPLICATIONS AND CONFIDENCE INVENTORIES FORASSESSING CURRICULAR CHANGE IN INTRODUCTORY ENGINEERINGMATHEMATICS INSTRUCTIONLisa Schneider, Cornell University Lisa Schneider has been the Director of Engineering Learning Initiatives in Cornell University’s College of Engineering since December 2002. Learning Initiatives’ programs enhance the educational environment of the College by providing opportunities for collaborative learning, undergraduate research, teaching skill development, peer instruction, and leadership development. Schneider received her PhD in Sociology from Cornell in 1997. Before taking this position, she taught Sociology as an assistant professor at Hobart and

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Pawley, Purdue University; Karen Tonso, Wayne State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

individuals, how they described themselves in the article, and how they were described in relation to men. • How was the relationship between women, men, and engineering work described? In particular, how did women describe their work as engineers, and how did men describe women’s engineering work? • How did the article’s author frame the import of the article? In other words, what is “of note” in this situation that the article was deemed worthy of writing and publication?For this project, data constituted both quotations from articles (including headlines, captions, andbody text of articles) and from images published alongside such articles. We collected text andimages of articles that helped us think through

Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Aston, East Tennessee State University; William H. Blanton, East Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Reseachers Figure 9. small, especially for advancedcourses, and so self-publishing seems appropriate. For 50 years or more teachers haveself-published text material. In one of the author’s experience in 1960 one of his professors didan entire undergraduate service course in engineering on “dittos”, with hand writing, typing andhand sketches. The advent of the Xerox machine in the 60’s made it possible to incorporate partsof printed text material, especially figures, graphs and tables, and university reproduction centerscould use offset printing to provide alternative text material. Now Modern computer-generateddocuments using a word

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock Barry, United States Military Academy; Jeffrey Braun, United States Military Academy; Mark DeRocchi, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. That is, they typically need assistance with identifying the deliverables andpossible resources available for the project. Further, Blumenfeld, et al.4 describe that studentsmust have the competence to complete a project satisfactorily or they will try to simplify theproblem and potentially provide less effort, striving to meet only the minimum requirements.Each of these project characteristics influence the level of interested held by students’ in theproject and whether or not they will enjoy the experience or simply suffer through a list ofrequirements. Gehringer 5, writing on the subject of independent studies, states that wiselychosen projects play a large part in students’ development because they typically engagestudents at a higher

Conference Session

Early Engineering Design Experiences

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Prins, James Madison University; Eric Pappas, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, develop, and use cognitive tools in authentic domain activity” (p.39);that is, using tools increases cognitive activity and ability. Salomon writes of his disagreementwith Brown (above), and argues that the interaction between a human being and an intelligenttool (computer) results in a favorable “cognitive residue” (p.5) that does not result from theinteraction between a tool user and a non-intelligent tool (“situated”).7 The “cognitive residue”that results in these situations is that the use of intelligent tools may result in thinking skills beingtransferred to other dissimilar, or at least similar, situations (but the author notes that too littleresearch has been done in this area).Vygotsky’s notion that understanding is social in origin,8

Conference Session

Early Engineering Design Experiences

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Oppliger, Michigan Technological University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

to real-world expertise and mentoring from professionals in academia andindustry. HSE teams write business plans, solve real-world problems, perform testing andanalyses, build prototypes, manufacture parts, operate within budgets, and manage their projects.Each spring, HSE teams showcase their work alongside college students at the University’sUndergraduate Expo. At the conclusion of their HSE experiences, it is expected that the studentswill demonstrate proficiency in applied workforce skills, they will be more disposed to enterSTEM careers, and they will be prepared to undertake the training and education needed to enterthose careers.HSE is modeled after Michigan Technological University’s highly successful and nationallyacclaimed

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

. Palmer M., Bell J: Teaching Writing Skills in a First-Year Engineering Course, Liberal Education Division, ASEE Conference 1996 Page 7.218.11 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education14. Flemings M. C., Sadoway D. R.: Frontiers of Materials Education; MRS Proceedings v66, ©1985.15. Linden B., Vanasuppa L., Heidersbach R.: The Structure of Materials Engineering: A New Model for Materials Engineering Curricula; TMS Annual Meeting, Education Symposium (1996).16

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Loc Vu-quoc; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; R. Keith Stanfill

. Much coaching was needed to guide the team, as mentioned above, andthese students, in particular.The mid-project review, called the System Level Design Report (SLDR) presentation to theindustry participants, was a success, as reported to us by the industry participants themselves,and by representatives of LMCO, in particular. Another point worth mentioning is that before theformal SLDR presentation, the team had to go through a practice presentation before facultycoaches and other IPPD students, and to receive critiques about their presentation. Such apractice (or peer-review) session instilled a sense of competition among the teams, and helpedthis team to improve their own presentation.Most other IPPD projects funded by LMCO had physical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tia Sharpe; Robert Maher; James Peterson; James Becker; Bradford Towle

questionnaires, student performance with oral and writtencommunication, and peer review of course materials and grading policies. Page 10.447.10 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education (Excerpt from "ECEBot Assembly Guide"…) Soldering Step 1: Attach the 32-pin Socket (Back of Board) First, hold the board with the front side up and oriented so that you can read the printed silk screen labels from top to bottom, like in the next figure. Now turn the board over

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Soulsby

of experience in teachingFreshman courses lamented the inability of many current students to manipulate even simplealgebraic expressions, such as Ohm’s Law (V = IR), or the Ideal Gas Law (PV = nRT), andrelated how this lack of ability has hindered teaching the conceptual ideas represented by theseequations.The question became one of whether the University should make an effort to write a “new andimproved” Q-course Readiness test with questions aimed at evaluating students’ abilities inquantitative reasoning. The Committee immediately realized this process would be fraught withdifficulties. What would be the areas of coverage of the new exam? How would the test beconstructed and delivered? How would it be graded, and by what standard would it

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Toshiyuki Yamamoto; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationin groups to tackle an engineering topic relating to daily life. Each group chooses an engineeringtopic related to daily life, defines its domain, and solves problems that may have multiplesolutions. After choosing a topic, the students in a group hold brainstorming sessions, define thedomain of the topic, work on the most optimal solution and its design, refine the design, presentthe results in class, and evaluate each group member’s contribution by peer evaluation. Mostgroup activities go beyond the in-class meeting hours. The following photos are snapshots takenin the study lounge. Students are actively engaged in their projects. Figure 1. Snapshots of Group Activities in the 24-hour

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

because they had developed many curiosities over the course of theunit. Many students designed their own projectiles with fins of all different shapes and sizes;two groups tried to test the precision of the system; and one student worked on trying to apply aformula to predicting the length of the launch.At the Campus School on the second to last day, I mixed the students up into groups of four withstudents from different research groups. The goal that the students had was to look at their dataand graphs and write down a hypothesis for each of the variables to help them with their Page 10.873.7consequential task. This activity was very

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

because they had developed many curiosities over the course of theunit. Many students designed their own projectiles with fins of all different shapes and sizes;two groups tried to test the precision of the system; and one student worked on trying to apply aformula to predicting the length of the launch.At the Campus School on the second to last day, I mixed the students up into groups of four withstudents from different research groups. The goal that the students had was to look at their dataand graphs and write down a hypothesis for each of the variables to help them with their Page 10.874.7consequential task. This activity was very

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

results. Competitions should be "against nature" rather than against peers. Finally,for middle school students beginning design projects with a clearly outlined prototype design Page 15.371.3rather than with a "blank slate" improves engagement. Similar considerations are brieflydiscussed in project selection in a college freshman design course8.For capstone design courses (typically taken by college students in their senior year) a number ofpapers have mentioned aspects of successful design projects as part of a summary of theeffectiveness of capstone courses. The factors reported as leading to a successful project include"being viewed as

Conference Session

Engaging Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junko Munakata-Marr, Colorado School of Mines; Jennifer Schneider, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines; Jon Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

. During the almost weekly discussionsof the case study, both the regular (technical) course instructor and the liberal arts (nontechnical)instructors met with students in class to coach them through the process of writing a case studyas well as to elicit feedback on the case-study module process. A timeline of the case-studymodule activities is summarized in Table 1. The weeks without content in this timeline coveredtechnical course material. As the timeline indicates, elements of the case-study module spannedmost of the semester, allowing students the opportunity to revisit these concepts throughout thecourse. Page 15.26.5Table 1. Case-Study

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Maria Nandadevi Cortes-Rodriguez, ​ Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics National Zoological Park

Tagged Topics

Diversity, International Forum

Education Forum (WEEF) – Cartagena, Colombia) 2013 UMET-Puerto Workshop: Writing for Dr. Kevin Omland, Dr. Rico Publication Renetta Tull, Nandadevi Cortes (UMBC) 2014 UMBC Panel: Global Pathways to Representatives from The Careers Fulbright Program, the U.S. Department of State, and Instituto Tecnológico y de

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Ruth Rodriguez Gallegos, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

of potential variables to study. It aims to highlight the step in the diagrammodeling the “real” situation or pseudo-concrete (Text of the exercise) to a graph / qualitativerepresentation of the evolution of the amount of interest.Part II: Idenitification of the Mix Mathematical Model in its analytical representation (DE).Through the writing of the activity, the students are guided in the theoretical explanation of thetank model (chart-> DE). What is mainly discussed is the way in which the concentrationchanges over time according to the law of conservation of matter. In this step, based on themodeling diagram, the student goes from the Pseudo Concrete Model (statement) to the physicalmodel (diagram tank) and / or the "virtual physical

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard G. Helps, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Education of the ACM (ACM-SIGITE) conferenceproceedings supports this conclusion, with the majority of the published papers focusing on newtechnology developments that could be introduced into the classroom, with little or noconsideration of the educational curriculum architecture required or affected by these changes16.When it comes to rewards for educational design faculty tenure and promotion decisions incomputing disciplines are commonly based on successful research and peer-reviewed Page 22.874.3publication; upgrading curricula is seldom well recognized and rewarded for faculty in highereducation academic environments. Thus, in a rapidly

Conference Session

Design Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James M. Widmann, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lynne A. Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; J.Kevin Taylor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Apply current industrial design practice and techniques such as DFX, FMEA and/or TQM to engineering design problems. 12. Construct and test prototype designs. 13. Develop and implement a design verification plan and report. 14. Communicate and present engineering design project results orally, graphically and in writing 15. Students will improve their ability to discuss and take a stand on open-ended topics involving engineering ethics and product liability 16. Discuss engineering professionalism and its responsibility to society 17. Understand the codes of ethics and their implications in engineering practiceWhile the students are engaged in designing adapted physical activity solutions to their

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Menezes Oliveira, Michigan Technological University; Ivan T Lima Jr., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Global Programs

their classes and laboratories. In addition, the home campusesalso benefit from the return of the students to the home campus, since they share theirinternational experience with home university peers.6. Feedback from participating studentsEach student participating in the program write a final report on the overall programparticipation, which includes description of the courses taken, language improvement, culturalproficiency, difficulties, and suggestions for program improvement. The summary of thestudents’ comments in different categories follows below:Facilities: Students stated that libraries, laboratories, classrooms are accessible for furtheringone’s education at both Brazilian institutions. Both Brazilian institutions have one main

Conference Session

CEED - Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen P Kelley, Northeastern University; Steven Thomas McGonagle, Northeastern University Gordon Engineering Leadership Program

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

College of Engineering. Using students work experiences, she instructs students in the development of career portfolios to illus- trate their skills and achievements to potential employers. She also currently serves as a consultant to the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program at Northeastern University where she is writing curriculum to develop and expand students’ leadership skills in the workplace. Karen has presented on a local and national level at the Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration and the American Society of Engineering Education on a variety of topics including, Co-op Reflection, Electronic Portfolios and Cre- ative Job Development. In fall, 2004, Karen was also awarded the Camp Dresser and

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Tawfik, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Elio Sancristobal, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Sergio Martin, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Rosario Gil, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Alberto Pesquera Martín, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Tovar Edmundo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; Martin Llamas-Nistal, University of Vigo; Gabriel Diaz Orueta, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Juan Peire; Manuel Castro, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED)

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

of the Higher Technical School of Telecommunication Engineers, University of Vigo , Spain. From 1999 to 2003, he was the Head of the ICT Area of the University of Vigo. He is author or co-author of more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed international refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has directed several national and international research projects in telematics and technology-enhanced learning fields. He is very involved in activities within the IEEE Education Society (IEEE ES). He is Vice President of IEEE ES for Publications, elected member of the Board of Governors, and member of the Strategic Planning Committee. Since its founding in 2004, he has been a member of the IEEE Ed- ucation Society

Conference Session

Engineering Education Ties and Engineering Programs in the Middle East and Latin America

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lourdes Gazca, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla

Tagged Divisions

International

Mexican private institution of higher learning committed to first-class teaching,public service, research and learning in a wide range of academic disciplines including businessadministration, the physical and social sciences, engineering, humanities, and the arts. Since1959, the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)has accredited UDLAP in the United States. Most of the undergraduate engineering programsfrom UDLAP are accredited by the Consejo de Acreditación de la Enseñanza de la Ingeniería(CACEI), which is the peer-accrediting agency of the US Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET) in Mexico.UDLAP lives in a spirit of continuous improvement in the quality of academic programs

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David O. Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Katie Bardaro, PayScale, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

datais difficult in practice. A second significant assumption is that the theory of human capital doesnot explicitly model the intellectual ability, emotional commitment, or educational quality at theindividual level. Again, the influence of some of these determinants on the value of humancapital and economic value added of engineering education may be studied, but is not theprimary focus of the current work.Analysis MethodologySalary Data: Salary data was derived from the Payscale’s database, the world's largest store ofindividual employee compensation profiles. Each compensation profile is provided byindividuals motivated to gain access to peer salary comparisons for negotiation purposes. Thedatabase contains profile data for about 4% of the