Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Virginia Westheider, University of Cincinnati; Sarai Hedges, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Green Belt. She has numerous publications and is a member of American Society for Quality (ASQ), American Statistical Association (ASA) and Project Management Institute (PMI) Page 15.455.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Employing Six Sigma as a Tool for Continuous Improvement in Engineering Technology EducationAbstractSeveral members of the College Assessment Committee interested in improving the collegeassessment plan for continuous improvement became interested in using Six Sigma methodologynot only for manufacturing processes but for learning processes in engineering

Conference Session

DEED Potpourri

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oscar Nespoli, University of Waterloo; Steve Lambert, University of Waterloo

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

industry partner as contributing authors. Typically thecase study source material has been collected and reviewed prior to this point, and thedevelopment team has been introduced. They have had time for preliminary discussionsregarding the broad educational goals and promotional benefits to all stakeholders.The case developer then develops a case plan document. The purpose of the case plan is toprovide an outline of the case study in order to obtain provisional approval. Obtainingagreement at this stage reduces the risk of investing work in developing a full case and then notbeing able to obtain approvals from the stakeholders at a later time. Figure 1 – WCDE Case Development Process (CDP)The case plan includes the following

Conference Session

Sustainable Construction Practice

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phil Lewis, North Carolina State University; Michael Leming, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

economic factors, safety, reliability,aesthetics, sustainability, ethics and social impacts. The construction process can also includethe design of temporary engineered systems and components.CE 469 seeks to provide a transition-to-practice experience preparing the student to be asuccessful practicing engineer. CE 469 emphasizes management-level decision making andlearning to "think like the boss – think like the client." Development of alternatives, riskassessment, evaluation of opportunities and potential problems, cost control, professionaldocumentation, and an analysis of cash flow are required. The students develop an appreciationfor identifying critical, "make-or-break" aspects of planning and bidding a project in a timeconstrained

Conference Session

Online and Web-based Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

HsinPiao Hsu, Kainan University; Hui-Ying Wu, Ching Yun University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

requirements, (b) planningsite design and page layout, (c) understanding Adobe Dreamweaver interface, (d)adding content, (e) organizing content, and (f) evaluating and maintaining a site.The results indicated that there were significant differences between students ofthe Information Communications Department and those of other departments inthe domain of web communication. Four competency indicators of planning sitedesign and page layout, understanding Adobe Dreamweaver interface, addingcontent, and organizing content were detected, and the findings were that the ICDepartment students outperformed the others. The students’ background variableson the influence of web communication competency were analyzed and resultsindicated that background variables

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs & Issues

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fleur Gooden, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Tremayne Waller, Cornell University; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-2224: AN ASSESSMENT OF LONG-TERM IMPACTS OF THREEON-CAMPUS K-12 ENRICHMENT PROGRAMSFleur Gooden, Virginia Tech Fleur Gooden earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a M.S. degree in Management Information Systems from the University of the West Indies, Mona. She is currently completing her Ph.D. In Planning, Governance and Globalization at Virginia Tech while working for the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) in the College of Engineering. Her research efforts are focused on reducing crime through the implementation of activities targeting at-risk youth.Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Collection

2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Allison L. Felix; Joel Z. Bandstra; William H.J. Strosnider

project plan during the two weeks, which is aprecursor to the integrative curriculum unit plan that will ultimately be implemented in theclassroom. The project plan template that was used comes from the Buck Institute for Education Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova University(www.bie.org). The project plan is the driver of the curriculum unit plan, which is designed toenhance and provide a context for existing content lessons rather than supplant existing lessons.The ProjectThe project challenged high school students in a high school summer outreach academy andmiddle and high-school teachers in a two-week summer science institute to design and constructa system to remediate water impacted by acid

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ECET: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Youakim Al Kalaani, Georgia Southern University; Shonda Bernadin, GSU

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

improvement whose results areused to constantly update and evaluate the program for sustained improvement and continuedsuccess. A plan must exist that details program-level continuous improvement, as well ascourse-level continuous improvement.In this paper, we describe an ABET-driven assessment plan that was originally developed toaddress some weaknesses and concerns identified by program evaluators during a previousaccreditation visit. However, faculty of the Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) seized thisopportunity to embark on a major program revision making use of its newly organized IndustrialAdvisory Board (IAB). As a result, a five-step process that consists of 1) program assessmentplanning, 2) data collection, 3) data analysis, 4

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Hyman, University of Missouri; Jim Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Yuyi Lin, University of Missouri

insight to, andexperience with, many aspects of real-world engineering projects. Simultaneously, capstonedesign projects will be advanced further towards industry implementation andcommercialization.The refinement activities in the pre-capstone courses are being planned and managed by studentsenrolled in a new senior/graduate course in management of design, working under the directionof the pre-capstone course instructors. This approach makes it feasible to systematicallyintegrate project-based learning into engineering education without requiring major curriculumreforms or new faculty resources.In this paper, we first describe the process we went through to select the capstone designrefinement opportunities, identifying the pre-capstone courses

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Page 15.1104.22-1. OVERVIEWAs engineers mature into mid career planning and leadership positions and assume greaterresponsibilities, they must learn new skills, develop new abilities, and act in moderately complexsituations. Mid level leaders/planners are progressing towards becoming the engineering profession’shighest level thinkers, executive practitioners, and leaders of change for continuous corporateimprovement and innovation.2-1-1. Engineering Education: A Lifelong Growth Process ─ The National Collaborative Task Forcefor Engineering Graduate Education Reform has deliberately taken a broad, holistic approach thataddresses the overall professional education of the engineer as a lifelong developmental and self-studygrowth process that is

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

William Jemison; Christopher Nadovich

itselfis limited. Project management tools such as milestone and Gantt charts areintroduced; however, high-level task planning is still done by the faculty for thestudents. Typically, students work in the usual lab-pair teams. Each team ofstudents has the same design requirements, but the teams are discouraged frominter-collaborating.The first semester of senior design would be almost indistinguishable from atypical undergraduate lab assignment if it wasn’t for one critical difference: thescope of the project requires a multi-week effort. For the two-student teams tohave any chance of success, they need to plan ahead, spreading their work over amultiple weeks. In addition to the scheduling challenge, our first semester seniordesign also emphasizes

Collection

2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

William D. Jemison; Christopher T. Nadovich

itselfis limited. Project management tools such as milestone and Gantt charts areintroduced; however, high-level task planning is still done by the faculty for thestudents. Typically, students work in the usual lab-pair teams. Each team ofstudents has the same design requirements, but the teams are discouraged frominter-collaborating.The first semester of senior design would be almost indistinguishable from atypical undergraduate lab assignment if it wasn’t for one critical difference: thescope of the project requires a multi-week effort. For the two-student teams tohave any chance of success, they need to plan ahead, spreading their work over amultiple weeks. In addition to the scheduling challenge, our first semester seniordesign also emphasizes

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Management

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

a time.Traditionally little time was spent during the product definition phase, instead considerable timewas exhausted throughout the design phase, and even more time was expended redesigning theproduct. “The key to shortening the overall design time is to better define the product and betterdocument the design process” (Morse & Babcock20, 2007, p. 221). Concurrent engineering (CE)spends more time initially planning and designing the product in order to avoid laterinterruptions and speed up the entire process. Concurrent engineering can be “defined as theearliest possible integration of the overall company’s knowledge, resources, and experiences indesign, development, marketing, manufacturing, and sales into creating successful new

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Management

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Czuchry, East Tennessee State University; Michael Parker, Bristol Tennessee Essential Services; Robert Bridges, B&W Y-12 Technical Services, LLC

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

literature refer to atriple bottom line comprised of financial, environmental, and societal factors.5 Hitchcock offersa guide for creating and implementing sustainability plans.6 When Dr. Harry Hertz gave hispresentation at the 2009 Excellence in Tennessee Conference, the lead author was frustrated by Page 15.119.4the “simple” change in the Baldrige definition of sustainability in the 2009-2010 “Glossary ofKey Terms”; because Dr. Hertz went on to say that there was no corresponding change in thecriteria themselves.7 In a hallway conversation, Dr. Hertz was kind enough to explain that the“triple bottom line” had been around for a long time. The

Conference Session

Alternate Energy

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan; Velina Zlatkova; Azeem Mohammed; Adnan Walid

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

(ECET-390, Product Development: 8-Weeksession) students research, plan and develop a project proposal. And in the next three seniorproject courses (ECET-492, ECET-493 & ECET-494: three 8-Week sessions) studentsimplement a project plan by building and testing a prototype. The format of paper (sections II-XIV) parallels the required written report format of the capstone course at DeVry University.DeVry University’s Senior Project Capstone Course SequenceDeVry University’s Electronics Engineering Technology/Computer Engineering Technology(ECET) program senior project is a four 8-Week sessions course sequence in which studentssynthesize knowledge and skills learnt in the previous courses. In the first course (ECET-390,Product Development

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Craig Johnson

, the use and effectiveness of video in a modified „traditional‟ introductory castingcourse is explored. First, specific video equipment is listed, and the creation and editingprocesses described. Then the videos were used in casting classes, and the students wereallowed access outside of class.A positive educational impact due to the videos was evidenced by instructor and studentfeedback. A casting operations metric was presented, with measures including time-on-taskanalysis. A more rigorous pedagogical use and assessment of educational impact is planned for aclass in the spring of 2010.IntroductionMotivation for this project was to improve both the education experience and the speed at whichstudents would acquire necessary skills and concepts

Conference Session

New Collaborations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University; Michael Fosmire, Purdue University Libraries -- PHYS

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

. ABET’saccreditation criterion 3.h, which requires that students recognize ‘…the need for, and an abilityto engage in life-long learning’, codifies the importance of these skills.3Certainly, lifelong learning requires strong content knowledge. Without fundamental subjectknowledge, there is no foundation upon which to learn new concepts and skills. However, asABET and the National Academy of Engineering above have noticed, students need to acquireother skills in order to be successful. Shuman, Besterfield-Sacre, and McGourty4 propose thatengineers undertaking lifelong learning need to ‘…demonstrate reading, writing, listening, andspeaking skills, demonstrate an awareness of what needs to be learned; follow a learning plan;identify, retrieve and organize

Conference Session

Sustainability, Service Learning, and Entreprenuership

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randall Brouwer, Calvin College; Steven VanderLeest, Calvin College; Paulo Ribeiro, Calvin College; Robert Medema, Calvin College

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

out. The learners within thiscontext are often driven by a need to understand the “why” before they can be engaged on the“what” and “how” of engineering. The justification and explanation for technical topics andconcepts are embedded in the broader context provided by a general engineering education.Finally, the paper concludes with an initial assessment of results and plans for expanding thebusiness topics into intermediate engineering courses.I. Introduction: Why is this subject interesting and important?The multidisciplinary approach of general engineering programs (a distinct category ofengineering degrees that ABET accredits without program-specific criteria) provides aparticularly good foundation for entrepreneurial education. First

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

effective two-way communication. But it also requires the engineer-leader to beaware of individuals, their personalities, and their circumstances. Only one disgruntled team-member isrequired to undermine a project, so this is a critical responsibility for the effective engineer-leader. B ─ OPERATING ACTIONSOperating actions in the con text of effective engineering leadership refer to planning activities or goalsetting, completing those tasks that accomplish the established goals, and using appropriate metrics toensure that the goals have been achieved. The responsibility of the engineer-leader is to ensure that eachproject team member fully understands the project goals, how they are to be achieved, and

Conference Session

Culture, Society, and Co-op

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Jenkins-Stark, Iridescent; Tara Chklovski, Iridescent

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

design, and how to present the overall concept. Volunteers use an onlinecollaboration site to comment on lesson plans, reflect on their teaching, and post new ideas andmaterial.Volunteer engineers come away from their experience with three main areas of impact. 1) Theyare empowered by inspiring others. “It is really a big deal to be working with students at ayoung age so they can be excited about what they're learning and {so these students can} bereally ambitious for the future." 2) They learn important lessons in management and publicspeaking. One volunteer observed, “This is a really useful skill because I’m sure later on in mycareer I’ll have to explain what I do to an audience that doesn’t necessarily have a background inmy field.” 3) They

Conference Session

Online and Web-based Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Miertschin, University of Houston; Carole Goodson, University of Houston; Susan Schroeder, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

byindividual instructors, they are limited in how much they can provide. There are, after all,multiple demands on an instructors’ time. The instructor must serve as subject matter expert,course manager, course developer, technology help desk for the course, etc.4. A system of onlinetutoring to support a variety of courses and instructors has advantages related to economies ofscale and utilization. However, this system requires planning and thoughtful execution.In the College of Technology at University of Houston, the availability of an InstructionalSupport Services (ISS) Lab, including trained tutors, provides a stronger basis for offering abroad online tutoring program than the tutoring program that is offered by an individualinstructor. The ISS Lab

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito Enriquez, Canada College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

coincide with Cañada College’s breakbetween the end of spring 2009 semester and the beginning of the summer 2009 session.Morning sessions were mostly devoted to studying math either in groups or individually usingMyMathTest10, an online system developed by Pearson Education for developing mathplacement tests and short math refresher programs. Note that the first week of the program hadmore workshops related to resources and skills needed for college success. Many of theworkshops planned for the second week were either cancelled or made optional as a result of amid-program focus group that indicated that students wanted to devote more time to studyingmath, and less on these workshops.2.2 Profile of 2009 Summer Math Jam StudentsThe 2009 Summer Math

Conference Session

Advances in Engineering Economy Pedagogy

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University; Stephanie Sullivan, East Carolina University; Gene Dixon, East Carolina University; B.J. Kim, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

concepts contained in each are not linked to clearly illustratehow these courses together represent an essential, integrated, and complementary body ofknowledge. This presents a lost opportunity in reinforcing concepts in areas such as projectvaluation, variation in estimates, statistical risk, expected value and similar real world topicswhich are essential in a project engineering workplace. This paper presents a curricular plan toaccomplish integration of key topics in these courses in a focused and effective manner. Itbegins with examining general concepts in engineering curriculum integration. Next it examineskey curricular topics in engineering economics, statistics, and project management courses andmaps specific areas which can be

Conference Session

Faculty Development for Distance Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering; Beverly Davenport Sypher, Purdue University; Steven R. Abel, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Teri Reed-Rhoads, Purdue University; Brenda Berkelaar, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

campuschange or developing programs that lead to change. Attendees discussed institutional anddepartmental challenges; the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) needed to affect change;and methods of motivating other faculty members to develop those KSAs. In addition, theattendees presented examples of their own successes and failures in implementing change. Westrove to gain information from the experiences of change leaders in attendance in order to helpframe an implementable program for developing change leadership skills. Attendees providedfeedback both in person and through an online post-workshop survey. All attendees wereexpected to develop and execute related plans on their home campuses and to report on thoseactivities. We had expected that

Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Developments and Implementations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Tront, Virginia Tech; Jeanna Stewart, Virginia Tech; Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

International

Engineering at Virginia Tech. Jeanna provides support to several initiatives within the College including the International Programs Faculty Committee, International Programs Alumni Planning Board, Student Engineers’ Abroad Council (SEAC), International Internship Program and the International Programs Ambassador Club.Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech Dr. Glenda R. Scales serves as both Associate Dean for International Programs and Information Technology and Director of the Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program (CGEP) in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. As Director of CGEP, Dr. Scales manages a state-wide distance learning program that has a long history – over 25 years

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Carl A. Erikson

several other faculty offer Science,Technology and World (STW) writing courses in “Exploring Electrical Technology” and“Appropriate Technology”. The FYS courses are limited to 18 students while the STW writingcourses are limited to 25. The Engineering major’s writing requirement is covered in twoseminar courses instead of one. Engineering Seminar I discusses various articles and readingsfrom two books culminating in the student’s essay, ”What is Good Engineering?”. Writingprinciples are reviewed and interventions in various phases of their essay are performed. InEngineering Seminar II, practical aspects such as job searching, resume writing, graduateschools, and financial planning are discussed with the course reviewing writing principles

Collection

2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Carl A. Erikson

several other faculty offer Science,Technology and World (STW) writing courses in “Exploring Electrical Technology” and“Appropriate Technology”. The FYS courses are limited to 18 students while the STW writingcourses are limited to 25. The Engineering major’s writing requirement is covered in twoseminar courses instead of one. Engineering Seminar I discusses various articles and readingsfrom two books culminating in the student’s essay, ”What is Good Engineering?”. Writingprinciples are reviewed and interventions in various phases of their essay are performed. InEngineering Seminar II, practical aspects such as job searching, resume writing, graduateschools, and financial planning are discussed with the course reviewing writing principles

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Amelito Enriquez

resources and skills needed for college success. Many of theworkshops planned for the second week were either cancelled or made optional as a result of amid-program focus group that indicated that students wanted to devote more time to studyingmath, and less on these workshops.2.2 Profile of 2009 Summer Math Jam StudentsThe 2009 Summer Math Jam recruited 40 participants, with 34 of them successfully completingthe program. Table 4 is a summary of the demographics of the 2009 Summer Math Jam 34participants who completed the program. The gender distribution of 64.7% female and 35.3%male is very similar to the College’s overall gender distribution (63% female, 34% male, and 3%unknown). The biggest ethnic group is Hispanic representing 61.8% of Math Jam

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineeering & Outreach Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arlisa Labrie Richardson, Estrella Mountain Community College; Maria Reyes, Estrella Mountain Community College; Marge Goodman, Intel Corporation

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

by Hispanic students. Thesefigures have basically remained steady since 1995.In an effort to address the growing issue of under-representation of Latinas in science,technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), Estrella Mountain Community College andIntel Corporation collaborated to host a conference specifically aimed at closing the gender anddiversity gap in the STEM fields. Estrella Mountain, a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI),partnered with Intel to plan and design the Hermanas: Dise a Tu Futuro conference. IntelCorporation collaborates with educators in communities around the Valley to improve the qualityof STEM education by providing commitments of time, programs and resources to help studentsrealize their full potential.Hosted by

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2010 ERC

Authors

Michael Carron

NGI Partners and Regional Collaborations northern gulf institute  Sources of Regional Collaborations northern gulf institute  Geographic Distribution of the 5 Partner Institutions Geographic Distribution of the 5 Partner Institutions  Location, location, location, location, location  NGI Project Development northern gulf institute  and Management Processes and Management Processes  Year 1­3 Initiatives and Year 4 Work Plan •• Base funded annual work

Conference Session

Instructional Strategies in AE Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suining Ding, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

involved in this preliminary study include freehand sketching or freehanddrawing for perspectives or floor plans or isometric drawings with line drawings. The second stepis to scan the freehand drawn line drawings and make them PDF files. The third step is usingPhotoshop to edit the scanned drawing and applying materials and gradient fillies. Finally, acomparison list of both freehand drawing and transformed digital drawing is presented in thispaper.Freehand Sketching is a means of communication for designers. Students and practitionersfrequently call upon freehand drawing skills to communicate ideas or support a point of viewwith clients, colleagues and instructors. At other time, freehand drawings will be utilized tobetter understand aspects of