Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Van Wie; Kristin Wood; Robert Stone; Julie Linsey; Matthew Green

weregiven the set of functions for customer needs and the additional guideline to generate ideas byfocusing on finding solutions to the functions stated. The instruction sheets for all participants,both the experimental and control groups, included a description of the problem, a set of rules tofollow, and a set of customer needs. The instructions were partially based on the basicbrainstorming rules6 of seeking a large quantity of ideas along with encouraging “wild”(uncommon) and diverse ideas. The instructions also indicated that the students should solve thedesign problem by writing down their solutions with words and/or pictures, the solutions couldmeet one or all the customer needs, and the goal was to maximize the quality, quantity, novelty

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

their chosen field; and opportunities for interaction andsupport from fellow students, faculty, and peers through liaisons with student groups, industrycontacts, and support services.The 4-year Electrical Engineering program curriculum has been developed and is presented inTable 2. Engineering and other related courses (with prefixes of ENGR and TECH) are taught by Page 10.434.9faculty from the E&D Department. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 2. Electrical Engineering

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Nicola Ferralis; Leanne Avery; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

before starting. Clear documentation of the people who havebeen interviewed, the length of the interview, and notes on the circumstances of theinterview together with a reference to the tape are important for citation purposes and forkeeping track of pseudonyms. Document and artifact analysisDocuments include the formal (letters, public e-mails, press releases, grant proposals,school district newsletters, etc.) and informal (shared personal e-mails, handwritten notes,writing on the blackboard, and other less permanent material) written material thatsurrounds and infuses a project. Artifacts include the devices such as computers orscanners, material for “hands-on” activities, the lab space at a university that is beingtoured by middle

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Leanne Avery; Angela Lueking; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

are Page 10.995.5talking about the waste and how it helps the evierment. You cost one boes not work write. The web was so cool butyou need games to play on it.” Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education“14 i think it was all good some could be better. 13 i think it was cool. 1 i looked like someone oure age made it.But great info.”The quotes support the qualitative data collected regarding the students experience of thewebpages. They enjoyed the sites, and they seemed to agree

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Matthews; Perry Heedley

MethodologyThe design team methodology adopted here closely parallels that used successfully by theauthors while working at several different semiconductor companies, and has been adapted to theuniversity environment. It involves a multiple phase process, with reviews by peers and advisorsat strategic points during the IC development to insure success by identifying issues andcorrecting potential problems as they occur. This is particularly important for student designteams, which lack the experience of professional engineering teams and are therefore more proneto errors. Presentations are given by each student for their individual circuit block, with theentire team as well as faculty and industry advisors in attendance. These reviews typically occurat

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

Listener, Fact Seeker, Innovator and GoalDirector). While roles such as these speak to the group process part of the ideally functioningteam, engineering educators have overlooked another set of important team roles. These areroles related to the accomplishment of the engineering project and require specific skills such asdesign (“Design Specialist”), construction ability (“Builder”), report writing (“TechnicalWriter”), or computational expertise (“Number Cruncher”). These roles are distinguishable fromthe group process roles noted above which directly impact group dynamics and harmony.Adoption of specific functional roles by students in teams can impact their subject mattermastery. Unlike the team model typically used in the corporate world that

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

-ended survey items) was conducted via open coding15. We marked segments of data by attachingcode words (abbreviation of key words) to those segments, and retrieved all segments identifiedby the same code or by a combination of code words. Examples of codes generated from studentinterview data included “RW-APP” and “PRAC-EXP”. These codes indicated that studentsassociated the MEA’s as providing “real world appeal” or “practical experiences.” We thenorganized and re-organized our segments of coded data into categories. To determine theplausibility of our categories, we employed the process of peer debriefing whereby we consultedwith other members of the research team. These consulting sessions allowed us to uncoverpatterns and emerging themes

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

consideration? o Is fuel source renewable? If not, can natural gas or coal be an alternative fuel source for oil? • Select the optimal solution Page 8.1060.9 • Write specifications • CommunicateProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationLet’s hope that the new generation of engineers being educated in, and equipped with knowledgeof, energy sustainability will make the engineering reflected in the above 15 energy cases, andmany others, better by being more engineering elegant. In a world where we

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

interactive group projects and group discoveries. The responsibilityof learning is placed on the student rather than on the instructor. Students are responsible fortheir reading assignments and lectures are not provided on the material except for spot lectures inresponse to questions. Critical questions provided before the reading and activities following thereading are used to assess the level of student understanding. Group activities require eachstudent in a group to have read an assignment to be effective participants. The students arerequired to utilize various methodologies such as reading, writing, presenting, and problemsolving. They are also required to assess their weekly performance and the performance of theirgroup.Elements of the PE

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa A. Haston; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher; Diane Rover

, whether the task isworking on code or circuitry, writing part of a report, gathering research materials,brainstorming, or boosting team spirit." One student used the saying "it's not what you know, it's Page 5.435.5who you know" to describe the synergistic effect of having team members with diverse skills toapply to a project. For some students, the CFT experience has changed their outlook on anengineering career, since they see engineering design as less isolated in single individuals anddisciplines.Students who have participated in multidisciplinary projects or multidisciplinary teaming tend toachieve a greater appreciation for the concept of CFT

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

: Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 7.440.10 Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAn ENGINE in a new car can be turned ON if:(The KEY is ON) AND (BATTERY is ON) AND (The A/C is OFF OR The LIGHTS are OFF)Use smallest number of NAND and NOT Gates to implement the “ENGINE ON” function.This example relates to dimensionality, modification, similarity, and experimentation strategies.b2.3) Computer Science exampleFind the general solution to the “Tower of Hanoi” problem. Write a program that will producethe solution for N disks (N< 10

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sullivan; Harpreet Singh; Kimberly Sward; Janis Terpenny

instance, Currently Available links tothe page where current industry project descriptions reside. Project Teams is a link to the pagewhere team memberships and contact information is found. Project Planning & Managementlinks to resources that instruct students on how to plan, manage and succeed as a team. DueDates links to important dates for project teams, somewhat different for each university based oninstructor preferences of desired milestones and timing. Project Reports provides guidance ongood report writing and specific requirements. • Form student project teams The formation of teams will vary from self-selected to instructor assigned as deemed appropriate by the instructor. • Select an industrial problem

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch; Stephen Ressler

, then have students work through one or more problems involving the analysis of arelatively simple structure. In every case, the students perform the Direct Stiffness Methodmanually, but use Excel spreadsheet software to perform matrix manipulations and MathCADcomputational software to perform mathematical computations. This presented educationalmethodology is effective for peering inside any type Black Box tool as long as the key learningsteps are clearly delineated and common computer tools are used only to perform the mundane,time consuming tasks.Specifically, students solve each problem as follows: · Use MathCAD to define local element stiffness matrices. · Use MathCAD to transform the local element stiffness matrices to global

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

objectives. Theirpresent classroom experience is writing out conscious thoughts (i.e., continuous notes). This isgreat for developing the thought process, but not necessarily for development of efficient board Page 6.1003.4notes that increase/motivate student learning. I hope they will apply our techniques when they Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationreturn, in return they will get complimentary comments from their students, while arousing theinterest of other professors in their departments or

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

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randall D. Manteufel, University of Texas, San Antonio; Amir Karimi, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

suspected that it wasn’t because of superiorlearning on the part of the students.Assessing Adjunct PerformanceWhen an instructor teaches a class, the performance of the instructor can be evaluated using anumber of sources including feedback from students taking the class, peer evaluations fromwithin the department, and final overall course grades which are often publically available.The student feedback is almost entirely collected through end-of-semester course surveys whichcan have some shortcomings, such as they: typically occur before the end of the semester; don’tfocus on how the instructor can improve their performance; and often have low studentparticipation when the surveys are conducted online. Student feedback can be finicky andstrongly

Conference Session

Best Practices in K-12 Engineering: Partnerships

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Schnittka, University of Kentucky; Elizabeth A. Parry, North Carolina State University; Lizette D. Day, Rachel Freeman School of Engineering; Augusto Z. Macalalag Jr., Stevens Institute of Technology; Albert Padilla Jr., Jersey City Public Schools; Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Patty Ann Quinones, Skyline High School

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the importance ofteamwork in engineering. As students move through the sequence of courses, they are engaged inincreasingly complex hands-on design projects that peer into a variety of engineering disciplines.The focus on the iterative design process allows students choose the topic that interests themmost and learn about engineering disciplines through those choices. Through the Academy,students are engaged during the school day, making science, technology, engineering, and mathpart of their world every day.The first four-year STEM Academy cohort to graduate will do so in 2013. Evidence that theSTEM Academy is moving students beyond the average level of academic preparation are the2011 school wide state NCLB assessment test results, which

Conference Session

Broadening Participation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Cruz, Great Minds in STEM; Lupe Munoz Alvarado, Great Minds in STEM

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the number of STEM professional Page 25.268.8development opportunities for teachers. The professional development offered educatorsopportunities to gain resources and learn interactive techniques to be used in the classroom. Inaddition, there was an increase in the number of near-peer role models from local colleges anduniversities and an expansion of the partnership with the Society of Military Engineers (SAME).The SAME partnership supported elementary school STEM activities efforts and goals. Theseindicators of institutionalization increased both the depth and scope of the Initiative.Option Year 3Today, STEM-UpTM serves 13 elementary schools

Conference Session

FPD XI: Tidbits and Cookies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jesse J. French, LeTourneau University; Paul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

- first semester, 3 credit hours) Part II - Engineering Cornerstones (first semester, one hour credit – Introduction to the university mission and values, including study skills, lifelong learning, critical thinking) Part III - Manufacturing Processes Lab (first semester, one credit – Introduction to hands-on processes in the Machine Tool lab and in the Welding lab) Part IV - FIG groups – First-Year Interest Groups – Groupings of students by major/concentration with a Peer Advisor and faculty mentor of the same discipline Part V - Introduction to Engineering practice II (second semester -An introduction to the design process, communication, and further professional skills)Approaches to freshmen coursesA number of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James P Becker, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Richard A. Revia, Montana State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

discussion,and peer group studying. Prior to taking the pre-survey, students were informed about theproject with an introductory paragraph on the survey and asked to agree or disagree toparticipate—in other words, participation was optional. All but two students opted to participate.After the survey data were collected at the end of the course, the project evaluator conductedtwo-sample t-tests on all of the survey questions to determine whether the students’ perception oflearning was higher at the end of the semester than it was at the beginning. Within-subjects testscould not be used because of the anonymity of the data. The two-sample t-tests produced thefollowing results on the outcomes questions of interest and the learning style questions

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University; Kaitlyn J. Bunker; Nilufer Onder, Michigan Technological University; Raven Rachaun Rebb; Laura E. Brown, Michigan Technological University; Leonard J. Bohmann, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

25.1401.4out of doggedness (a strong determination to complete their degree) regardless of theirconfidence, level of enjoyment, or satisfaction13.The academic background that students receive from their high school education has an effect ontheir persistence in engineering. Jackson et al. showed that there were no differences in highschool GPA, ACT or SAT scores, or family background between students who persist than thosewho switch majors. However, the results also showed a difference between men and womenstudents with respect to their academic background. Women students tended to rank themselvesas having lower academic ability in science, math, and writing compared to other high schoolstudents9.In 2009, Pierrako et al. completed focus groups and

Conference Session

Leadership, Design, and Entrepreneurship

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahad Ali, Lawrence Technological University; Donald M. Reimer, Lawrence Technological University; Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

wasdriven by the nature of the senior design project itself. The faculty advisor often has a stronginfluence on the creation of an environment that fosters the selling of ideas and innovation. Thestudent team leaders are also responsible for promoting the importance of idea generation andselling those ideas among all team members. Student leaders often have a strong influence overtheir peers. Page 25.1113.9 16 14 12 Responses 10 8 6 4 2

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial and Innovative Mindset

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; Buford Randall Jean, Baylor University; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

number of competitively selected professors from U.S. 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. There have been 149 university participants since the establishment of the program in 1995.”The

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

: Page 6.946.12 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationAn ENGINE in a new car can be turned ON if:(The KEY is ON) AND (BATTERY is ON) AND (The A/C is OFF OR The LIGHTS are OFF)Use smallest number of NAND and NOT Gates to implement the “ENGINE ON” function.This example relates to dimensionality, modification, similarity, and experimentation strategies.b2.3) Computer Science exampleFind the general solution to the “Tower of Hanoi” problem. Write a program that will producethe solution for N disks (N< 10). In this example students experiment with a small-scale hands-on solution (segmentation