Conference Session

Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mazen Hasna, Qatar University; Abdelmagid Hamouda, Qatar University; Boualem Boashash, Qatar University

Tagged Divisions

International

outcomes are realized.1. Introduction, Perspective and Guiding Principles1.1 Population SizeAccording to the latest census, the total population of Qatar is 1.58 millions of which Qatarinationals represent only 20%. Considering the male/female ratio of the population we notice thatfemale constitute only 22% of the population which reflects the fact that a large ratio of thepopulation is of labor nature. The two major industries in Qatar that attract this kind of labor arethe oil and gas, and the construction industries. But, in an apparent paradox,the ratios within theuniversities in Qatar, we notice that female students are dominant: about 70% of QU students arefemales. Even in the College of Engineering, females constitute 60% of the student

Conference Session

Learning about Power Systems and Power Consumption

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Baumgartner, LeTourneau University; Timothy Hewitt, LeTourneau University; Edgar Licea, LeTourneau University; Nolan Willis, LeTourneau University; Matthew Green, LeTourneau University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

aspirations.1 Introduction and BackgroundMany engineering schools are now employing a service-learning approach to globally-basedhumanitarian projects3,4,5. The importance of integrating both globalization and social needs intothe engineering curriculum is acknowledged by the ABET criteria6, and human need is a clearpriority of the engineering profession, as indicated in the NSPE creed*,7. However, the majorityof North American engineering students are not familiar with the contexts in which vast needsexist, such as those among the physically disabled or the estimated 4 billion people living on lessthan $2 a day (PPP)8. These conditions represent a formidable “frontier design environment”, orenvironments outside the experience and expertise of most

Conference Session

Research on The First Year II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy O'Connor, Villanova University; Gerard Jones, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

.”1 Harvard University andUniversity of Virginia researchers, after examining the question of whether students who hadtaken AP courses in high school performed as well in college as AP advocates said they should,concluded that “doing well in an Advanced Placement science course in high school does notguarantee that a student will do equally well in an introductory college-level course in the samesubject.”2A study at Notre Dame University examined the question of how students with AP credit forcalculus compared with students who arrived at the university without having had the APcalculus experience. “In Calculus III, those students who arrived with AP credit for the first twocalculus courses outperformed those students who took Calculus I and

Conference Session

Simple Classroom Demonstrations for Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Kunberger; Kristine Csavina; Robert O'Neill

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

they will construct inclass and then solve for the variables of kinematic motion.Most engineering students are visual, sensing, active, sequential and inductive learners 1 whilemost teaching is verbal, intuitive, sequential and deductive 2. In an effort to change the teachingstyle to address the students preferred learning styles, the K’NEX projects and subsequent in-class worksheets address visual, sensing, active and inductive learning styles. To assess studentlearning, comparisons will be made of students with no model usage, students who createdmodels but did not utilize the model/worksheet in-class activities, and those students who notonly created, but also were exposed to hands-on activities using models during the dynamiclessons

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Shelley, United States Air Force

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

for developing the advanced skills in students that industryfinds valuable and that are necessary to differentiate ones own engineers from thosetrained elsewhere. Efficient educational processes can be created through the application of CPI by:1) reducing variability in learning outcomes by having a higher percentage of studentsdemonstrate the skills and learning outcomes required to pass the class; 2) eliminatingnon-value-added activities from the learning process for both students and faculty in andout of the classroom; and 3) improving the satisfaction both of the industry customer byproducing graduates with stronger skills who have more confidence in their basicengineering skills, and of the student products with their educational

Conference Session

Faculty Set the Preliminary Standards for Co-ops

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Mark Schreck, University of Louisville; Angela Cline, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

until three co-op training sessions are completed as shown in Figure 1below. Division of General PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL OF Engineering Studies ENGINEERING Division of Basic Studies Higher Studies First Year Second Year Basic Studies -1 Basic Studies -2 Graduate Program Academic Academic CO-OP Academic Studies Studies Studies Academic Academic CO-OP Academic

Conference Session

Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Schaffer, Purdue University; Daniel Gandara, Illinois Institute of Technology; Xiaojun Chen, Purdue University; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Jill May, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

their learning. The following questions helped drive theselection of theories: 1. How do individuals become effective team members? 2. How do projectteams become high performing teams (and what does a high performing team look like)? 3. Howdo such teams effectively adapt to project and situational demands? Some of thedisciplines/fields and theories that inform the evaluation framework include: experientiallearning and project-based learning in education1; design theory and cross-disciplinary learningin engineering2,3,4; teamwork and diverse teams in psychology 5,6; design theory in management7,8 ; socio-cultural systems and organizational learning in system theory 9,10.Evidence from team research studies indicates that design task complexity

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Chasnov

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

be written as the product of three contributing factors: 0net = 0thC0fcC0ec (EQ 1)where 0th is the cycle thermal efficiency, 0fc is the fuel conversion efficiency, and 0ec is theelectrical conversion efficiency, students were asked to find at least one of the non-computedvalues on the right-hand-side (RHS) of equation EQ 1 and compute and compare the remainingunknown efficiency.Students were then given an alternative fuel source to research. When the alternative fuel was a“heat producer” (i.e. either a hydrocarbon or nuclear), students were asked to assume that theircoal plant could be simply converted for use of their alternative fuel. Clearly, this approachwould not work for

Conference Session

Launching Successful Academic Careers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Engelken, Arkansas State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

experience and often without) as a professor, andinject their knowledge, innovations, and standards. The difference between this situationand that discussed above is that the person now usually already has (1) some idea ofweaknesses in the program and faculty (at least from a former student’s perspective), (2)a genuine loyalty and concern for, and desire to improve, the program, and (3) personalrelationships with his/her former professors. However, he/she still often doesn’t knowwhat he/she doesn’t know about behind-the-scenes operations and, thus, has only a partial Page 15.1265.6view of realities (political, logistical, bureaucratic, interpersonal, and

Conference Session

Measurement Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dina Banerjee, Purdue University; Alice Pawley, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

; transnational feminism and globalization; and sociology of developing nations. In her doctoral dissertation she has examined the effects of sex-segregation and racial/ethnic segregation on the job-related well-being of women workers in U.S.A. She is also associated with the Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University. Before coming to the U.S. as a graduate student, she worked as a lecturer in the University of Calcutta (Kolkata, India) teaching courses on gender, industry and labor market; gender and social change; women and development; and sociological theories and methods. Address: Discovery Learning Research Center, Suite 228, 207 S. Martin Jischke Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907, 1-765-494

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hoffbeck, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

higher than the range of interest, but this effect cannot be completely eliminated inpractice because it requires an ideal lowpass filter.In order to motivate students to master the theoretical descriptions of quantization and aliasing, itis useful to provide an opportunity for the students to see and hear these effects for themselves.A 3-Bit Flash ADC Circuit to Demonstrate QuantizationThe ADC circuit shown in Figure 1 is a 3-bit flash ADC which is designed to demonstrate theeffect of quantization. The ADC is set up so that input values near 0 Volts are converted to thebinary number 000, the input values near 1 Volt are converted to the binary number 001, theinput values near 2 Volts are converted to the binary number 010, and so on up to 7

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Rodhouse, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Benjamin Cooper, Savant LLC; Steve Watkins, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Know” Sections are includedwith an assortment of shortcuts and interesting facts to make them both more informative andmore interesting. The summary page from the second tutorial is shown in Figure 1. Note thesidebar on getting more information on Squeak. Special consideration is needed for the intended Page 15.992.4young audience.Page 15.992.5 Table 1: Organization of the Tutorials Tutorial Tutorial Tasks Concepts Taught1. Getting Started Use Built-in Squeak Objects Basic Programming Rulesin Squeak Create an Etch-A-Sketch” Basic Squeak Historical

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

and address a serious issue facing our students that could possibly affect their behavior.The author hopes to share his experience and some results of this effort to accomplish some ofthese goals through HB101.The ProblemThe fact that many young adults abuse alcoholic beverages, and especially beer, is not recentnews or surprising to most people, especially those who work at colleges or universities.Research has found that the “vast majority of college students drink alcohol, and over half can beclassified as moderate or heavy drinkers.” 1 “High alcohol consumption has been linked to arange of adverse effects, including high blood pressure, heart disease, and cirrhosis of the liver.”2More disturbing is the prevalence of binge drinking

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sherrill Biggers, Clemson University; Marisa Orr, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

innovative and challenging sophomore coursethat integrates Dynamics and Statics. Details regarding implementation of this course are thefocus of this paper. Challenges to achieving success in this new course have been many anddemanding. These include (1) development of a dedicated textbook, (2) development of learningexercises to foster student comprehension, (3) reorganization of topical content including topicdeletion and added emphasis on certain topics, (4) preparing faculty for change, (5)accommodating limited student maturity, and (6) dealing with widespread misgivings about theproject. Some previously presented data are shown to indicate that the new approach and newcourse have been effective in terms of improved student performance on a

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

underrepresentation in the context of Purdue, and creating new models via institutional ethnography. Her past research has focused on using the metaphor of a boundary as a tool to better understand how faculty determine what counts as engineering, and to identify how engineering might be understood as a gendered discipline. Address: School of Engineering Education, 701 W. Stadium Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907, 1-765-496-1209 (v), apawley@purdue.edu.Karen Tonso, Wayne State University Karen L. Tonso, an Associate Professor of Social Foundations in the College of Education at Wayne State University, uses approaches common to cultural anthropology to study the structure of schooling, especially the

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Measurement Innovation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Loker, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

. Grading for the project consists of 60% based on meeting all of Page 15.450.2the engineering requirements (no partial credit is given), 30% based on the content of the report, and10% based on spelling, grammar, and writing style. There is a 10% reduction for late submittals. Alisting of the projects for the course is shown below. • Lab 1: Software-defined Calculator Project (2 weeks) • Lab 2: Thermocouple Project (2 weeks) • Lab 3: Waveform Generator Project (2 weeks) • Lab 4: Digital Multimeter Project (3 weeks) • Lab 5: Elevator Control

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Goulet, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

deflections. Euler columns, repeated loading and connection. Co-requisite Lab: 1 credit hour ENGR 247.The principle learning objective of the course is to develop and refine the student’s problemsolving skills. Therefore the syllabus for ENGR246 states: Course Learning Objective: Problem Solving Skills The principal objective is to learn, develop and refine problem solving skills. Therefore most of the work of the course will involve out-of-class problem solving assignments that require knowing and applying the principles governing (the basic engineering sciences or statics or the mechanics of materials).The method of course delivery generally follows the traditional teacher-centeredlecture/homework/exam format

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jonathan Hicks, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Osman Cekic, Purdue University; Rocio Chavela Guerra, Purdue University

Graduate Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering's Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE).© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Page 15.554.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Experiences of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Engineering Laboratories: Content Analysis Using the “How People Learn” FrameworkAbstractIn higher education, graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) have undertaken different instructionalresponsibilities, particularly in science and engineering laboratories. Herein, we utilized the HowPeople Learn (HPL)1 as an overarching framework to evaluate GTAs

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Ian Gravagne, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

candidate needed to think through the impact and cost of theirpolicies. President Obama has described several key issues in energy and the environment thathe has pledged to work towards in his administration. Called the “New Energy for America”plan, it consists of the following2.1) Help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future.2) Within 10 years save more oil than we currently import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined. Page 15.379.23) Put 1 million Plug-In Hybrid cars -- cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon -- on the

Conference Session

The New ABET CE Criteria - Program Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Devine, CURRENTLY UNEMPLOYED

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

effectively; (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact ofengineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context; and (j) aknowledge of contemporary issues.1 An hypothesis of the assignment is if students take on anendeavor that practicing engineers are currently also doing as well as produce meaningful valuein the work product for their efforts. The evidence of the student work and student surveyresponses indicates that students can take on such an effort. The meaningful value of the workproduct is not so evident.BackgroundCivil Engineers are the care takers of infrastructure. The first priority strategy of the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers (ASCE) listed in the ASCE Strategy Management2 is

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

“Desired Attributes of an Engineer” which has helped shape theABET assessment process (see Figure 1)4. Boeing’s commitment to the engineering educationprocess is evident in the unique program called The Boeing Welliver Faculty FellowshipProgram. This is a program that grew out of a series of Boeing-University workshops held inSeattle in February and July of 1994. The program selects university professors to “intern” atBoeing for two months during the summer and this program has been operated by Boeing everysummer since 1995. Page 15.912.2 Figure 1 Desired Attributes of an Engineer4The Welliver program is a unique program

Conference Session

Design Projects across the Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Thomas, University of South Alabama; Michael Doran, University of South Alabama; James Sakalaukus, University of South Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Page 15.145.5own. Figure 1 shows a front view and a rear view of the JagBot with the outer skin removed. Front view Rear View Figure 1 : JagBot with outer skin removed4.2 SoftwareTwo laptop computers were used to host the high-level software. One computer was dedicatedto the task of speech recognition and synthesis. The other computer was used to map tour routes,interpret sensor inputs, and provide high-level control of robot motion. The decision was jointlymade by the CIS and ECE students to use ETHERNET and a dedicated hub to communicatebetween the real-time control system and the laptop computers. Two of the graduate students,one from CIS and one from ECE

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Simmons, University of Utah; Susan Sample, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

oral communication, and emphasized again in lectures onwritten communication. We also established methods, such as instructor consultations withindividual teams and soliciting students’ responses with TurningPoint software, which we canbuild upon and expand in future semesters as we work toward increasing active learning as a wayto enhance engineering education.Student FeedbackStudent feedback about the course and instruction was solicited via course evaluations. Studentswere asked to respond to several prompts regarding instruction on a 1-5 likert-type scale with 1being strongly disagree and 5 being strongly agree. Because we implemented a revisedcurriculum this Fall, we were especially interested in comparing student feedback from Fall

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Patterson, University of Alabama; Nicholas A. Kraft, University of Alabama; Susan Burkett, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

Technology Society, a non-profit organization, has a rich history.Established in 1953 as a Committee on Vacuum Techniques when fifty-six scientists andengineers determined a need for a community of scholars with knowledge centered aroundvacuum technology and corresponding applications.1 Understanding how to create, measure, andmaintain a vacuum became something of a discipline in itself. The first symposium, held in1954, attracted 295 participants from several countries.1 The American Vacuum Society (AVS)evolved from this original group, elected a Board of Directors, and established society by-laws.A unique feature of this initial group, which is still true of the AVS community today, is thatsymposium participants come from a variety of disciplines

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Daniel Kirk, Florida Institute of Technology; Tein-min Tan, Drexel University; Sridhar Santhanam, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

. and international universities to key elements and the business realities of industry by enabling them to "look over the shoulder" of working professionals at several levels of the technical, business, and management career paths. They will leave the program with an understanding of Boeing's business including its research needs, with an improved understanding of the practical application of technical and business skills and with a network of contacts within Boeing and among their faculty peers that can form the basis of long-term relationships”1In all, 149 faculty from around the globe have participated in this program since its inception.The objectives of the Welliver Program are1: 1. To

Conference Session

Think Outside the Box! K-12 Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Wendell, Tufts University; Kathleen Connolly, Tufts University; Christopher Wright, Tufts University; Linda Jarvin, Tufts University; Mike Barnett, Boston College; Chris Rogers, Tufts University; Ismail Marulcu, Boston College

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

give educators reasonto conclude that engineering design tasks can truly foster science learning? In Table 1, we reviewthree approaches to design-based science instruction at the elementary and middle school level inNorth America: design-based modeling by Penner, Giles, Lehrer, and Schauble,13 engineeringfor children by Roth,12 and Learning by Design™ by Kolodner and colleagues.2 We focus onthese approaches because they are representative of the field, and because information isavailable about their theoretical background, their principles of curriculum design, and theirfindings on learning.A variety of science content areas have been addressed through these three approaches to design-based science instruction. The design tasks chosen to

Conference Session

Online and Web-based Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget Smyser, Northeastern University; David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

change in format. Finally, the instructor kept track of time required toadminister this course. If the course was found to be comparable to similar courses in terms ofinstructor time, more instructors might be encouraged to use this approach.Course Features and FormatThe content of the course was broken up into weekly topics and subtopics. The general outline ofthe course was as follows: ≠ Week 1: Structures ≠ Week 2: Crystallography and Mass Transport ≠ Week 3: Mechanical Behavior ≠ Week 4: Midterm Exam ≠ Week 5: Phase Behavior and Processing ≠ Week 6: Environmental Interactions ≠ Week 7: Final ExamThe topics were used as the organizational scheme for the website. A folder was set up in theBlackboard™ site for each

Conference Session

Research on the First Year I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javarro Russell, James Madison University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Megan France, James Madison University; Ronald Kander, James Madison University; Robin Anderson, James Madison University; Heather Watson, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

projects that constitutes PBL practice. The lack of integration is furtherdiminished by the deficit of assessment studies used to describe the efficacy of the PBL inassisting students in achieving learning outcomes. With a focus on a PBL-based freshmanengineering course, in this paper we present: (1) The novel use of a PBL classification framework grounded on dimensions of structuredness, complexity, and team environment. (2) Assessment strategies for analyzing the alignment between the PBL learning experiences and the intended student learning outcomes. (3) The classification and assessment of a freshman PBL project focused on reverse engineering a hand-held mixer. (4) Suggestions on how PBL projects such as the

Conference Session

Signal Processing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Leiffer, LeTourneau University; Joonwan Kim, LeTourneau University; R. William Graff, LeTourneau University; Don Willcox, LeTourneau University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

the tropical-band frequency range. DRM allowsbroadcasters to transmit FM-quality audio over AM-grade ranges, and as such, is of particularinterest to non-profit broadcasters such as HCJB.DRM BackgroundThe Digital Radio Mondiale system was developed by a consortium of over seventy broadcastersand broadcast organizations to satisfy the need for a digital broadcast standard for frequencybands below 30 MHz. 1, 2 It was approved by the European Telecommunication StandardsInstitute in 2001 and has been extended to frequencies up to 174 MHz. 3,4 A number ofbroadcasters began digital transmission in 2003, and seven DRM receivers were developed thatyear. 5An advantage of DRM over analog radio, in addition to reception quality, is its ability to

Conference Session

Introducing Programming in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Gordon, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

. Page 15.1321.2IntroductionThe need for a workforce with expertise in the Science, Technology, Engineering andMathematics (STEM) disciplines is widely recognized. 1 Multiple national advisory committeesand blue ribbon panels have cited the need for engineers and scientists familiar with modelingand simulation approaches to scientific exploration, design, and management as a necessary thirdleg of knowledge advancement, along with theory and experimentation. 2,3 A Council onCompetiveness survey of chief information and chief technology officers indicated that 97percent of major companies could not function without high performance computing andcomputational science. 4Modeling and simulation is ideally suited for the implementation of inquiry