Conference Session

Construction Education Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yutaka Sho, Syracuse University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

, the skilled labor, resources and experience required for such experiments aredifficult to find. Yet without the experimentation in affordable home construction, anymeaningful sustainable development is unattainable. And without local designers’ involvement,the knowledge will be lost when foreign designers depart. Students at University of Rwanda aretrying to change this trend. 1 UoR hosts the nation’s only architecture department and the mostprominent engineering school. Determined to rebuild their country and wrestling with pressure todevelop, students re-define and re-justify their roles daily. Using my teaching experience at UoRin 2011 and GAC’s prototype housing construction with UoR students in 2013, I criticallyexamine our work to

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce DeRuntz, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Rhonda K. Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; John W. Nicklow, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

the programcontinues to mature. The implications of integrating the X-matrix into a technical leadershipdevelopment program are many; (1) it becomes a motivational tool that helps participants relatetheir efforts to become a leader and its impact on their chosen student organization, (2) itdevelops their understanding of their responsibility to the larger organization, (3) it developstheir leadership communication abilities and (4) it develops their skill in using a valuableorganizational management tool that can be applied throughout their professional career.Training future technical leaders to apply engineering management tools while in college shouldlead to greater success for student development, their projects, their college, the

Conference Session

Issues in ET Education II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Austin Creasy, Purdue University (Statewide Technology)

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. These inventories forthese higher level courses have not received the recognition as seen by the statics course. Here Ipropose that in vibrations, the major concept inventories that students need to understand aredamping, natural frequencies, and mode shapes. All other covered topics are related in someform to these three fundamental concepts. Vibration textbooks cover these three conceptinventories and tend to start teaching the topic in one of three locations: 1) the distributed-parameter system, 2) simple harmonic motion (review from physics), 3) single degree offreedom systems (sdof consisting of a mass and spring that uses Newton’s laws or motions orenergy methods to obtain the equations), and/or a combination of the three.6-10 A lot of

Conference Session

Understanding our Students & Ethical Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Mee Joo Kim, University of Washington-Seattle; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Elizabeth Burpee

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Engineering Ethics

in the Pacific Northwest, classified as Doctorate-granting RU/VH (ResearchUniversity, very high research activity) and from a moderate size teaching institution in theMidwest, classified as Master’s L (Master’s Colleges and Universities, larger programs)according to the Carnegie Basic Classification.36 Three different populations of students fromthe two institutions were studied:• Public Research 1 (N = 92): these students were enrolled in a large, entry-level electrical engineering course (2011) and were provided with an article on waste electronics, as well as questions/prompts pertaining to the article. Students were then asked to, in exchange for extra course credit, write an essay on the article as guided by the provided

Conference Session

WIED: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, Youngstown State University; Leo H. McWilliams, University of Notre Dame; Catherine F. Pieronek, University of Notre Dame

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Women in Engineering

Page 24.675.2undergraduate engineering experience. Many prior studies that have considered these issues in 1  different ways and in different contexts served as critical foundations to the current study and aredescribed in the following paragraphs in terms of their relationship to the current study.Over two decades ago, Astin published the seminal work, Involvement: The Cornerstone ofExcellence, which indicated the critical link between student involvement, engagement andsuccess in undergraduate studies 1. Astin defined involvement in terms of physical andpsychological energy devoted to a specific context, and went on to outline a series of

Conference Session

Issues in ET Education II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Dupen, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

paper presents an analysis of the quality and quantity of feedback responses, with examplesof positive effects on the textbook over the past three semesters. Although the topic of the bookis Strength of Materials, this paper discusses techniques that can be applied to a variety ofundergraduate engineering textbook topics.IntroductionI spent a sabbatical semester writing a Strength of Materials textbook tailored to the needs ofArchitectural, Civil, and Mechanical Engineering Technology students at IPFW. The writingprocess is described in a previous paper,1 along with the reasons for writing the book: to makethe text more understandable and less wordy, to reduce textbook costs, to use standard Greeksymbols for shear and normal stress, to create

Conference Session

Models of community engagement practices

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Scott Bates, University of Utah; Karen J. Krapcho, University of Utah; Crystal Orantes, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

Retain Students using an Engineering Ambassador ProgramIntroduction The mission of the Engineering Ambassador Program, in the College of Engineering atthe University of Utah, is to recruit prospective students into engineering majors and to retainand graduate students who work as engineering ambassadors. The program, as implementedtoday, is a result of merging two existing programs: an NSF-funded mentor program and theAmbassador Program through the College of Engineering. With a growing need for engineers in the United States, universities aim to enroll, retain,and graduate more engineering students so they may provide more active engineers for theircommunity 1. Through previous studies it has been

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sudarsan Rangan, Texas A&M University; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

various different disciplines. From the 43responses received, the top five student expectations from an internship experience (with thefrequency in parantheses) are as follows: 1. Get real world experience (30) 2. Acquire knowledge about the companyv(16) 3. See applications of what they learn in class (9) 4. Build new relationships (4) 5. Gain hands on training (3)It is very interesting to see that pay or location or nature of the job do not make the list. It is allabout students getting a taste for what they going to face in the real world when they graduatefrom college2. The survey results here show that the students do no nevessarily decide on anintership based on the wages; However, the students expect at least theur

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Ames Iowa 50011 mmina@iastate.eduAbstractRecently,  there  have  been  valuable,  creative,  and  systematic  attempts  for  to  identify,  define,  and  work  on  a  philosophical  basis  and  foundation  of  engineering.    Researchers  in  the  area  believe  that  the  foundational  philosophy  (or  philosophies)  of  engineering  should  not  necessarily  be  the  same  as  the   1-­‐2  philosophies  for  sciences .  In  this  important  endeavor  to  search  for  and  identify  the  philosophical  basis  for  engineering  and  engineering  education,  a  fundamental  premise  exists.    The  assumption  is  that  having  a  better

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Osvaldo Mangual, Honeywell Aerospace; Marvi Teixeira, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Reynaldo Lopez-Roig, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Felix Javier Nevarez-Ayala, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

mixed-mode (MPI-OpenMP) parallel implementation, including performance and scalability studies, carried out inour 16-node, 64 processor cluster.Based on the prime factor decomposition of the signal length this algorithm, which is based on ablock diagonal factorization of the circulant matrices, breaks a one-dimensional cyclicconvolution into shorter cyclic sub-convolutions. The subsections can be processed,independently, either in serial or parallel mode. The only requirement is that the signal length, N,admits at least an integer, r0, as a factor; N = r0.s. The Argawal-Cooley Cyclic Convolutionalgorithm, has a similar capability but requires that the signal length can be factored intomutually prime factors; N = r0.s with (r0,s) = 1. Since the

Conference Session

Best of NEE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Shepard, University of St. Thomas; Alison B. Hoxie, University of Minnesota Duluth; Matt Anderson, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

anything moresevere. The university academic misconduct policy should be included on every course syllabusand it is a good idea to give students time to read this policy word for word on the first day ofclass and answering any questions that they have regarding the policy.Academic Misconduct Extreme Case 1: A new edition of a Thermodynamics textbook had justcome out and the instructor incorrectly assumed that it might take a few months before studentswould have found access to the solutions. Graded homework was assigned from the textbookand despite explicit instructions one student blatantly plagiarized the solution manual. When thestudent was called into the instructor’s office to discuss the matter they showed up with one oftheir relatives and

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University; Pavel M. Polunin, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

role model provides inspiration andmotivation to seek out accomplishments. Role models send messages about their beliefs by whatthey do and say.”1 If you ask engineering students, many will respond that that is what theirinstructors are. The effort should be then to convince faculty of their role (model) in theeveryday action of teaching.When you think about it, do any of these faculty ever mention the response that they receivewhen sending material into journals for review? With the amount of writing that is done, theamount of presenting that goes on, and the level of intellectual thinking that goes into the textproduced; it would seem natural that this kind of information would be enlightening to studentsin every engineering course. This

Conference Session

Developing the Design Skillset

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Paul D. Mathis, Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

is recognized as an essential skill for many engineers, especially in the context ofdesign and innovation projects1-5. While general creativity skills can be useful, research indicatesthat a special type of creativity is relevant for engineering work1,6. This view of engineeringcreativity indicates that solutions need not only be novel, but functional, practical, and feasible6-8 . Thus engineers must be able to (1) identify what new products, processes, and systems willaddress critical societal and technical problems and (2) realize those how those solutions can bedeveloped and implemented.While researchers and instructors have long emphasized improving engineering students’creativity2,3,9-13, results show that engineering students often do

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anirudh Roshan Sriram, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Karthik Ramani, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

providestudents with a more coherent and connected experience with learning engineering design andengineering analysis by facilitating the learning of both design and analysis through a natural,intuitive and portable pen-and-tablet-based system, called „IDEA-Pen‟.The aims of this project are as follows: 1. Enable intuitive creation and manipulation of sketches representing engineering mechanics and kinematics problems, and explore, through critical exploration, structural and kinematic “what-if” scenarios by using finite-element solvers and constraint solvers to run quick simulations. 2. Enable a visual dialogue between the student and teacher, and a collaborative learning environment among students, through easy, intuitive

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina Smith, Oregon State University; Alec Bowen, Oregon State University; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, especially forunderstanding variability in a student’s behavior”1(p409) because it leads to more “nuancedjudgments about the epistemological productivity of that behavior.” 1(p422) In a learningenvironment, a student’s epistemological frame influences how she/he interprets and approacheslearning activities and it plays a critical role in how the student experiences that context. Byidentifying frames and subsequently resources, educators can identify strategies to help studentsbuild more productive approaches to learning.1(p416)There have been several studies on student personal epistemologies conducted within theScience, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields, with the bulk of the workdone in physics and mathematics.2–4 Although there

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Cross, Carnegie Mellon University; Emily Hamner, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

canslip through the cracks, going unrecognized by their teachers and therefore receive insufficientsupport as their education progresses.1 We provide opportunities for teachers to better recognizeand support these abilities through the integration of a creative robotics activity, called Arts &Bots, into standard required middle school courses, such as earth science and health classes. Inthis paper we describe the partnership we have formed to evaluate the impact of Arts & Bots onteachers’ abilities to recognize and cultivate students’ engineering interests and talents and theon-going work of this three year project.Development of Arts & BotsArts & Bots, originally called Robot Diaries2, is based on a robotics kit that combines

Conference Session

Student-Centered Information Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer (Cong Yan) Zhao, McGill University; Tara Mawhinney, McGill University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

largest cohort from any givencountry. Engineering is the second most popular field of study for international students with 19%choosing engineering after business and management chosen by 22% .1 Similarly in Canadaover the past decade, the largest percentage of international students have come from China2 andengineering is the second most popular field of study with approximately 15% of internationalstudents selecting this field after business and management.3 Moreover, international studentsenroll in engineering twice as often as Canadian students. A recent Government of Canadareport on International Education4 advises doubling the number of international students inCanada from 239,131 in 2011 to more than 450,000 by 2022 and creating mechanisms

Conference Session

WIED: Medley

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna Wolfe, Carnegie Mellon University; Beth A. Powell, Tennessee Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

teammates’ behaviors, professional engineers used structured,semi-formal procedures and appealed to team and individual goals to drive the conversationforward. They focused on presenting solutions, rather than dwelling on problems, and avoidedmentioning feelings or needs to prevent appearing emotional. We also found that professionalwomen strategically used flattery to accomplish their ends and rehearsed difficult conversations.Such strategies need to be shared with engineering undergraduates to help them develop anddraw upon range of successful interpersonal strategies for handling difficult situations.1. Introduction I think we all start out—we want to communicate in the style that's comfortable for us and what comes natural…I think

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

needed to develop morecomprehensive ways of understanding design2. These kinds of experiences include internationaltrips to experience the culture of a partner community.This past summer EPICS offered an immersive design experience to a group of 13 students (12undergraduate, 1 graduate) from a variety of majors. The design team’s goal was to make a campmore accessible to children with physical disabilities through the design of an accessible treehouse and the adaptation of a sailboat to allow control of the steering through a switch (e.g., puffand sip or joystick). The students completed one week on campus, then traveled to the camp forchildren with disabilities for a week. During this week, the students ate meals and attendedvarious activities

Conference Session

Developing the Design Skillset

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

empathic design,where both their understanding of the design process and their understanding of the stakeholdersimproved simultaneously. We recommend the inclusion of short course immersive experiencessuch as this for teaching human-centered design.IntroductionDesign is a central and distinguishing activity of engineering [1] and one of the core criteria forevaluating and accrediting engineering programs [2]. In today’s globally competitive economy, itis more important than ever to develop effective design skills within the undergraduate years [3],[4] . Furthermore, developing a human-centered approach to design is vital to appropriatelypreparing graduates for the globally competitive workplace [5]. In response, design education hasreceived

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach and Out-of-School Time Engineering Programming and Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Reed Campbell, Robert Morris University; Sarah Marie Riordan, Robert Morris University; Stephanie Abbott; Sarah Mukui Mutunga, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the course of the program forthe overall group as well as key demographics of interest, such as females and minorities.Comments from students are also shared to express their impression of the program.Introduction A necessity of encouraging students to pursue engineering is to build their interested inscience, math, and technology. A properly trained engineer will have a fully integrated STEMeducational experience. The Accrediting Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)requires that engineering student educational outcomes include the ability to apply knowledge ofmath and science as well as use modern engineering tools (technology).1 Engineering cannot beisolated from science, math and technology; therefore education in these

Conference Session

Discipline Specific Topics and Techniques

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth J. Stewart, University of Michigan; John G. Younger, University of Michigan; Michael J. Solomon, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

included relevant fundamentals from microbiology, fluid dynamics, and materialscience. The class was co-taught by a faculty member from the College of Engineering and afaculty member from the Medical School. The course consisted of two segments. The firstsegment (weeks 1-9) was made up of lectures and in-class problems, alternating between the twodisciplinary perspectives, and the second segment (weeks 10-14) synthesized the understandingfrom the two disciplines through real world examples of the material highlighted by threeexternal speakers as well as a required course project by each student.Students were recruited by standard posting of the course description and through personalcommunications between the course faculty and graduate program

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn K. Byers, Quinnipiac University; Justin W. Kile, Quinnipiac University; Corey Kiassat, Quinnipiac University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

at the end of the course. The pre- and post-course surveys are providedin Appendix 1. The results of surveys are used to analyze the following four questions. Werecognize that students’ knowledge and interest are affected by their greater environment, mostnotably interaction with other students. However, we assume the knowledge gained through thecourse to have a greater effect on the students’ evolution of knowledge and interest, evaluatedthrough the pre- and post-course surveys.This paper investigates four topics: 1. Is there a correlation between a student’s initial desire to pursue a specific engineering major and their actual and perceived knowledge of that engineering discipline? 2. For those students who are interested in

Conference Session

K-12 and Precollege Engineering Curriculum and Programming Resources, Part 2 of 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pramod Rajan, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE); P.K. Raju, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE); John Timothy Gill, Lee-Scott Academy

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

learningabout the concept of design process. Page 24.694.2IntroductionThe problem of student motivation persists even today in the K-12 level of education and is afactor in issues such as student underachievement and retention7. Students have made realacademic strides in most states, but no state is on track to getting all students the STEM skillsthey need to succeed in college and career. Low-income and minority students lag farthestbehind. Over the past decade, almost $3 billion has been invested in educational technology. In2012, more than $1 billion was raised for educational technology to improve student motivationand learning processes8. With the investment in technology and the need

Conference Session

FPD 11: Culminating Considerations

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole L Hird, Ohio State University; Deborah M. Grzybowski, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

principles and to computational fluid dynamics(CFD) software. Students may alternatively enroll in a robotics design and build project,1 whichdoes not contain fluid mechanics material. Many of the engineering majors later require studentsto take classes which focus further on fluid mechanics. This paper seeks to answer the question:Does introduction to the subject of fluid mechanics including computational fluid dynamics(CFD) in a first-year engineering research and design course increase students comprehensionand performance in subsequent major-required fluid mechanics courses?The course is intended to give first-year engineering students experience with research anddesign while teaching concepts such as cell adhesion, cellular response to shear

Conference Session

Nanotechnology

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Sudhir Shrestha, IUPUI; Hazim A El-Mounayri, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Kody Varahramyan, IUPUI

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

enrolled in two graduate level nanotechnology courses by department.Percentages of underrepresented group enrollments are indicated in the parentheses (last row).On average of 28% of students between science and engineering were from underrepresentedgroups. Integrated Nanosystems Processes Nanosystems Principles and Devices Department/Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total1 2011 2012 2013 Total2 Electrical and Computer 17 5 15 16 53 1 4 5 10 Engineering Mechanical 11 11 19 9 50 4

Conference Session

FPD 2: Building Community

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Sudhir Shrestha; Kody Varahramyan, IUPUI

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

the students towards interests in nanotechnologytracks and research, and over 90% of the students indicate that they are enjoying themultidisciplinary activities of the program. This may be attributed to the “attached learning”when incorporating nanotechnology into real engineering applications, such as renewableenergy, medicine, quantum computers, and many others.1. IntroductionNanotechnology is a rapidly advancing field that shows promise in solving current science andtechnology challenges through the innovative materials, processes & devices, and theirapplications. Nanomanufacturing, including self-assembly, has become an important tool indeveloping nanoscale devices applicable in medicine, electronics, and energy. Nanomaterialssuch as

Conference Session

Spatial Ability & Visualization Training II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah M. Grzybowski, Ohio State University; Olga Stavridis, Ohio State University; Lisa A. Barclay M.S., The Ohio State University ; Lisa Abrams, The Ohio State University; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University; Jessica Thomas, Ohio State University; John A. Merrill, The Ohio State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

organization atOhio State. He teaches a Service-Learning course for Engineering students, which also involves projectson behalf of a rural orphanage and vocational school in Honduras. He is a two-time recipient of theCollege of Engineering’s Boyer Award for Excellence in Teaching.Address: The Ohio State University, 2070 Neil Ave., 244E Hitchcock Hall, Columbus, OH 43210-1278;telephone: (+1) 614.292.0650; fax: (+1) 614.247.6255; e-mail: merrill.25@osu.edu. Page 24.699.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Impact of Optional Supplemental Course to Enhance Spatial Visualization Skills in

Conference Session

Construction Materials and Technologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jake Smithwick, Arizona State University; Joshua Jason Mischung, Arizona State University - Performance Based Studies Research Group; Kenneth Timothy Sullivan, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

students’ hands-on lab. The hands-on lab was the assigned homework for theConcrete lecture. The researchers provided individual licenses, and licenses for the computerlab, for On Center’s On-Screen Takeoff (OST) software program. OST was selected due to theresearchers’ previous experiences with the software. There are numerous functions in OST; themajor functions (and those most frequently used by students in this study) include3: 1. Digital import of plans, or images with known physical dimension / scales 2. Network-based organization of projects and various bids (see Figure 1). Figure 1. Database of project files and associated bids. 3. Creation of length, area, and count takeoff conditions, which return a wide range of

Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammed Taqiuddin Taher, DeVry University, Addison; Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University, DuPage

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

hypothesis byinvestigating three key questions: 1) Does the use of simulation improve students ‘learningoutcomes? 2). How do faculty members perceive the use and effectiveness of simulation in thedelivery of technical course content? 3). How do students perceive the instructional designfeatures embedded in the simulation program such as exploration and scaffolding support inlearning new concepts?The paper also discusses the other aspects of findings which reveal that simulation by itself is notvery effective in promoting student learning, but simulation becomes effective in promotingstudent learning when used in conjunction with hands-on approach i.e. hybrid or combinationalinstructional strategy. Furthermore, the paper presents recommendations for