Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne DeGroat; Jeffery Radigan; Jeff McCune; Andrew O'Brien; James Beams; Matt Gates; Craig Morin; John Demel; Richard Freuler

mathematics of theprevious academic quarters. Working in teams of three or four, the students are required todemonstrate and present the results of their efforts by submitting progress reports, participatingin performance reviews, writing a formal project report, and making an oral presentation abouttheir project. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.589.2 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe controller currently used for this robot design project is the Handy Board controllerdeveloped at the MIT Media Lab by Fred G. Martin

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sasha Pasulka; Sandhya Pillalamarri; Milica Milovancevic; Michael Wagner; Meena Nimmagadda; James Adams; Anjali Gupta; Mary Anderson-Rowland

science teachers treat girls andboys differently in the classroom, including making more eye contact with the boys, paying moreattention to the boys, and challenging boys to find the right answer, while girls get sympathy 1.Astin and Astin found, as have other studies, that boys tend to operate the equipment while thegirls record data and write reports. They saw that a loss in self-confidence from differentialtreatment appears to begin around the seventh grade and continue through high school 1. Themost striking differences between boys and girls are not in achievement or opportunities to learn,but in their attitudes toward science and mathematics 2. Research has continually shown thatwomen are significantly less confident than men in their math

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

detail.Cultural-Historical TheoryMost key ideas within cultural-historical learning theory have been attributed to Lev Vygotsky.His writings are evidence that he was deeply concerned about the relationship between the socialexperiences of children and how they learn 2. Cultural-historical theory is concerned about howone’s individual developmental history interacts with political and social relations. Theseinteractions with social environments influence both how we think as well as the development ofour language. As one develops more complex cognitive structures, one is able to express thoughtsas cognitive wholes. As one moves toward mastery, higher order structures are created andreplace previous structures. These higher order structures allow

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malika Moutawakkil; Lisa Hunter; J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

nation’s STEM workforce.10 In the fall of 1992, two-year colleges accounted for 41% of allundergraduate STEM courses offered for credit, and 34% of all undergraduate STEM courseenrollments.4 Students in STEM at two-year colleges are more likely than their non-STEM peersto be enrolled full-time and have higher academic aspirations than their peers.1One of the more important roles of two-year colleges in STEM education is as a bridge betweenhigh school and four-year colleges for students who need additional academic skills or who findtwo-year colleges an inexpensive means of completing the first two years of their collegeeducation. 3, 5, 10 There are no national statistics that specifically address the transfer rates of two-year college students to

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

responses in categories that would help identify the differentlevels of student responses. After students’ responses are sorted, the teacher writes very specificreasons why each of the responses was put in the respective category. Then, for each category,the teacher writes a specific student-centered description of the expected response at that level.These descriptions constitute the scoring rubric to grade new responses.The two methods (analytic and holistic) are not interchangeable, and the clear advantage of theanalytic rubric, compared to the holistic rubric, is that it provides a more objective way ofassessing students’ strengths and weaknesses. Also, the analytic rubric can give teachers aclearer picture of the areas where students have more

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt DeGoede

and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationDiscussion: This problem was rather difficult for this level. However, many students did do wellon the problem by asking me appropriate questions. I was always very supportive on theseproblems, which were very challenging for many of the students, strongly encouraging studentsto ask questions and to get help from me or peer tutors. We used Blackboard heavily for thiscourse and these problems were frequent topics on the discussion board. Depending upon thequestion, I would reply to questions privately or post the question and answer on Blackboard.Chapter 8 discusses electrostatic forces:Do the experiment “Moving Water Without Touching It” found at

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt O'Connor; Kathleen Simione; Dale Jasinski; Chad Nehrt

lot of effort into the plans. While the teams made incredible strides from last fall, to me, the ending results do not really read like business plans. The problems range from writing skills to content and organization. Since I would ultimately like to have outside experts review the plans and provide feedback, I am reflecting on ways we can improve the Page 9.191.8 finalized business plans." “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education To make the plans more

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Washington Braga

everything in human society has a pedagogical intention and theneed to share what we know with those who do not know it is part of our nature. So, teachingand learning are what we do the most, perhaps not always efficiently. However, there is nowa different student and a different economic scenario; it is not important who or what comesfirst. As a consequence, a new teacher capable of adjusting the learning process accordinglyis becoming more and more necessary. It has been stressed in literature that nowadaysstudents need to know more about collaborative work, self learning, must have good readingand writing skills, computer literacy and so on. Therefore, teachers have to grasp a deeperunderstanding on such pedagogic topics and also on how people

Conference Session

Engineering Design in Pedagogy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kyungsuk Park, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and passing judgment on a possible or planned solution to theproblem. Evaluation (EVAL): Comparing and contrasting two (or more) solutions to theproblem on a particular dimension (or set of dimensions) such as strength or cost. Decision(DEC): Selecting one idea or solution to the problem (or parts of the problem) from among thoseconsidered. Communication (COM): The participants’ communicating elements of the designin writing, or with oral reports, to parties such as contractors and the community. Other: None ofthe above codes apply. See table 1.Table 1Coding Scheme and Description Code Description of Code Problem Definition (PD) Define what the problem really is, identify constraints

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josh Tenenberg, University of Washington, Tacoma

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

retains full responsibility for all academic aspects ofthe course: planning and writing the syllabus, developing the assignments and examinations, andassigning grades. The practicing professional joins the faculty member in the classroom orremotely via electronic communication on a regular basis, interacts directly with the students,and provides feedback on a sample of the student work. Targeted courses are those tied closelyto professional practice. In these courses, students produce tangible representations of authenticpractice, which serve to mediate the interaction between students, the teacher, and the practicingprofessional.Instantiating the modelI have instantiated Industry Fellows three times with three different industry fellows in

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ricco, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

seminal work left unread by engineers dabbling in phenomenology and existentialism.(20) Aswith some great works, the actual writings of Husserl on philosophy are as revealing as how heoutlines previous philosophies to differentiate himself. Husserl argues that there are fourimportant revolutions in history of thought: Socratic/Platonic arguments based on logos and itssubsequent development into scientific thought; the Cartesian revolution; the transcendentalrevolution of Kant, whereby the only source of necessity is subjectivity and thus followsknowledge; and finally, the phenomenological revolution, which incorporates the form of andcontent of acts of knowing into a subjective framework. Descartes, according to Husserl’s history, believes

Conference Session

Issues and Answers in Mathematics Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

theirpersistence from one semester to the next. Table 8 is a comparison of the persistence rates ofCañada students and 2009 Math Jam participants. Over the last several years, a study of firsttime fall semester Cañada students shows persistence rates of 55% for the following springsemester, 38% for the fall of the following year and 32% for the spring semester of the secondyear. For the 2009 Math Jam participants, the corresponding persistence rates were 93% forspring 2010, and 76% for fall 2010. At the time of writing this paper, the spring 2011enrollments had not been completed. With much higher persistence rates, the degree-completion and transfer rates for these students are expected to be much higher as well.Two important variables that are commonly

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karinna M. Vernaza, Gannon University; Theresa Vitolo, Gannon University; Scott Steinbrink, Gannon University; Barry J. Brinkman, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

“StudentOrganizations and Leadership Development” (SOLD) office and the “Student Success Center”(SSC) that are each available to all GU students having the desire to partake of the servicesoffered. The SEECS seminar utilizes SOLD and the various resources of the SSC in order toprovide content that job- and graduate education-seeking students may need, as well as needededucation in skills required to succeed at Gannon.The SSC houses the university Math Center and the Writing Center, each of which provides freetutoring for students choosing to use those resources. In addition, the SSC fosters ExperientialEducation and general career development activities. SEECS makes great use of these latterresources. In particular, we have utilized the SSC staff to provide

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard James Choquette, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Payam Matin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Pocomoke City, Md.Dr. Payam Matin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Payam Matin is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES). Matin has received his Ph.D. in mechanical en- gineering from Oakland University, Rochester, Mich., in May 2005. He has taught a number of courses in the areas of mechanical engineering and aerospace at UMES. Matin’s research has been mostly in the areas of computational mechanics and experimental mechanics. Matin has published more than 20 peer- reviewed journal and conference papers. Matin worked in Auto-industry for Chrysler Corporation from 2005 to 2007.Dr. Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan

Conference Session

Social Media and In-class Technology: Creating Active Learning Environments

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald C. Gannod, Miami University; Kristen M. Bachman, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

during the creation of theartifacts in those genres 4. Genre in software engineering refers to categories or types ofcommunication that occur in recurrent situations. In this context, generic situations includeactivities such as definition of a software project/problem, elicitation and specification ofprogram requirements, creation of a design document, and so on. Table 2 lists the commongenres as defined by Carter et al. While we often think of creation of specific artifacts alongwith these genres, various reading, writing, speaking, and teaming/collaboration communicationmodes are employed. For instance, one might read program requirements to meet a number ofgoals such as determining what needs to be known to generate designs, to revise

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; John Nastasi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

13th 2012. 5. https://acc.dau.mil/CommunityBrowser.aspx?id=406165&lang=en-US, Retrieved January 19, 2011. 6. Beyerlein, S., Davis, D., Trevisan,M., Thompson, P. and Harrison, O., “Assessment Framework for Capstone Design Courses”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, 2006, 2006-144. 7. Sheppard, K., Dominick, P. and Blicharz, E., “Peer and Self Assessment in Developing Team Skills in a Core Design Sequence”, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Austin, TX, June 2009 8. Allen, S. & Knight, J., “A Method for Collaboratively Developing and Validating a Rubric”, International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning ,http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl, Vol. 3, No. 2 (July 2009

Conference Session

Research Projects, Course Development, and Industry Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wolter J. Fabrycky PE P.E., Virginia Tech and Academic Applications International

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

.3. Demonstrate professionalism. Grow professionally through continued learning and involvement in professional activities. Contribute to the growth of the profession. Contribute to society through ethical and responsible behavior.4. Communicate (read, write, speak, listen, and illustrate) effectively in oral, written, and newly developing modes and media, especially with stakeholders and colleagues.Outcomes from GRCSE are statements about the competencies possessed by a graduate uponcompletion of the program. Ideally, outcomes are derived from objectives. Graduates of amaster’s program that aligns with the GRCSE recommendations will achieve a specified list of13 outcomes. These are reminiscent of the outcomes character of

Conference Session

Stakeholder Perspectives on Community Engagement in Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Bull, Brown University School of Engineering; Maureen Kay Sigler, Brown University; Michael Lye, Rhode Island School of Design

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

AC 2012-4493: ALIGNING THE AGENDAS OF THE ACADEMY ANDTHE COMMUNITYDr. Christopher Bull, Brown University School of Engineering Christopher Bull is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Engineer at the Brown University School of Engineering. He teaches, writes, and researches topics ranging from appropriate technology and neural implants to the university’s role in the larger community and how that might overlap with engineering education.Maureen Kay Sigler, Brown University Maureen Kay Sigler is a lecturer in education and Director of the History/Social Studies Education pro- gram at Brown University. Before coming to Brown, Kay Sigler worked for several years teaching in Washington, D.C., in both a public

Conference Session

CoED General Technical Session II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan M. Hill, University of Hartford; Ying Yu, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Ying Yu received the B.Eng. degree from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, in 2000. She received the M.Eng. degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Brown University, RI., USA, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. Since 2008, she has been teaching as an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Hartford. Her current research interests includes digital signal processing, speech processing, and teaching with new educational methods, which includes peer instruction, clickers, video games, and state-of-the-art CAD tools. Page 25.1281.1

Conference Session

Capstone and International Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard S. Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; William C. Barott, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Salamah Salamah, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

paper also includes studentfeedback regarding the process derived from student surveys and their peer evaluations. Finally,suggestions are made regarding how these projects would be used for future academic years.BackgroundPrior to the development of a multidisciplinary capstone for the ECSSE Department, eachdiscipline has addressed the senior design experience differently. For the past 12 years,computer engineering and software engineering have had a common senior design. Theirprojects have primarily focused upon autonomous systems such as ground robots and unmannedaircraft. For this course, the students have followed an agile design process based upon theCrystal Clear and Crystal Yellow software design processes defined by Alistair

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wheeler; Dr. Rose Marra; Dr. Jack Mitchell; Dr. Charles Croskey

the payload structure, the payload power systems and harness, thedata encoder and the S-band transmitter. One of the experiments was a deployed rigid sphere.This “bowling ball”, including the onboard transmitter, data encoder and the patch array antennawere entirely student designed and built.The four instruments included a pair of Langmuir probes, a miniature mass spectrometer(purchased from Faran Scientific, Inc.), an photodiode array (built by SUNY students), and therigid sphere. The mass spectrometer quadrapole apparently burned up due to the rocket’s lowerthan expected altitude. The other instruments were not as pressure-sensitive and performed well.Students at Penn State and SUNY continue data analysis efforts as of this writing. Except

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

the details: (a) You are to keep a 8rhvrÃUuvxvtÃEhy throughout this course. (b) You are to write for at least 10 minutes in your journal every day, starting today and ending on the last day of class. (c) You may use any format for your journal, including the Thinking Expedition Journals that I will make available to you during our first class meeting. (d) For those of you who have never journalled before, we will discuss the process of journalling further in class. I will also put several books about journalling on reserve in the library. Content: • Your 8rhvrà Uuvxvtà Ehy is your personal “backpack” of ideas, thoughts, ques- tions, and comments related to this course

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Williams; James Hedrick

varying computer skills. A collegelevel research paper and presentation have been an important part of the workshop since itsinception and both require a high level of computer competence. Thus, we cover the computerskills that students need to write a clear, concise, easy to read research paper. The Netscapebrowser and search engines are used to locate data relating to AIDS on the WWW, and their use iscovered in class. The reliability of all data must be evaluated regardless of source and some Page 6.1101.3guidelines for evaluating information found on the WWW are presented. After discussing some ofthe tools for finding reliable data the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Edgar Conley; Linda Riley

mechanical or industrial engineering; 2) to provide students with elementary tools and methods useful in the design process and to encourage students to apply these tools by means of carefully crafted design exercises; 3) to develop teaming, interpersonal, time management and creative thinking skills; 4) to further refine communication, writing and presentation skills; and 5) to begin the process of relationship building among individual students, the instructor teaching the course, and the student’s home department.From a faculty perspective, achieving these objectives with a group of freshmen may seemdaunting. Nevertheless, such a course is often the student’s first exposure to discipline-specificmaterial, thus an improperly

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

, including yourself? Include technical, analytical, organizational, documentation, creativity, research, leadership, construction, etc. 3. Rate your opinion of yourself and each of your groupmate understands of the concepts Page 5.622.5 involved in this project, on a scale of 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). 4. Comment on your interaction with other group(s) that your group heavily relies on.This peer evaluation has been a very successful way for faculty advisors to identify anyteamwork problems within a particular group and with other groups.6. Team and Group StructureAt the beginning of the academic year the team was divided into the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell D. Massie; Cheryl A. Massie

. Additionally,they found that in every ineffective team, without exception, the reason for failure was in someway related to the goal.13 Specific goals help a team assess their performance and track theirprogress. A team should write a clear statement of their goal and purpose14 and then continue arefinement of the goal and objectives through the life of the project.15However, having a clear goal in and of itself is not enough to ensure the success of the team.The goal must be specific, challenging, reasonable, and measurable so that one can tell when ithas been achieved. If for instance, you want to lose some weight, you are far more likely to besuccessful if you set a reasonable goal. Someone who says, “I want to lose ten pounds in thenext three

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

. A t test between these two averages found this to be statistically significant atthe p < .01 level.Interviews with SI Leaders and ShadowsIn addition to the above results data, we also conducted brief, loosely structured interviews withthe SI leaders and SI shadows from Fall ‘96. The goal of these interviews was to determine bothhow the program had worked during the current semester, as well as to gather ideas forimprovement from these key participants.Both the shadows and the leaders were overwhelmingly positive about the program. The leadersadmitted that getting up in front of their peers was a “bit scary” at first, but this feeling quicklydissipated as they gained experience. One leader commented that he actually began to “enjoy”the

Conference Session

Diverse Pathways: Exploring Inclusive Practices and Outreach in Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lexy Chiwete Arinze, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Jacqueline E McDermott, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Janet M Beagle

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

success, such as navigating mentor-mentee relationships, sense of belonging, and findingsupport services, but additional opportunities exist to help prepare them for academicparticulars such as grant writing and publishing (RQ2)Navigating mentor-mentee relationshipsThe second highest average of the measures that were evaluated was the collection of questionssurrounding “Navigating future mentor-mentee relationships” (Fig 2). Alumni from theGradTrack program highlighted how their participation in GradTrack influenced how theyapproach mentoring during their time as a graduate student. Alumni said that GradTrackprovided them with a foundation to establish relationships with other mentees and mentors. Onealumnus who is now a mentor, mentioned the

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 4 - Design, Participation, and Projects

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eliot Bethke, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Ali Ansari, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Joe Bradley, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Holly M. Golecki, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

undergraduates summarize thedetails of the team’s past progress and their future plans in a short write up which gets sent to theM.Eng. student(s). These informative reports help the M.Eng. students stay fully aware ofdetailed progress. The M.Eng. students then pass along the information along with theirconsiderations for timeline and resources to the project sponsors. Faculty are copied on theseregular communications, and students are given credit for completing and sending these reportson time. The undergraduate teams meet with a course instructor every two weeks for a 30-minutecheck-in meeting, which serves to monitor team progress and help students stay on track as thesemester progresses.M.Eng. Roles Throughout the course, M.Eng. students

Conference Session

Transfer issues between 2-year colleges and 4-year Engineering and Engineering Technology programs 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory L. Heileman, The University of Arizona; Chaouki T Abdallah, Georgia Institute of Technology; Andrew Karl Koch, John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

America. He has published 7 books, and more than 300 peer- reviewed papers. His PhD students hold academic positions in the USA and in Europe, and senior technical positions in various US National Laboratories. Professor Abdallah is a senior member of IEEE and a recipient of the IEEE Millennium medal. He is also active in the IEEE Control Systems Society most recently serving as the general chair of the 2008 Conference of Decision and Control CDC 2008.Dr. Andrew Karl Koch, John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education Dr. Andrew K. Koch is the President and Chief Operating Officer of the non-profit John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education. A leading advocate for making