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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Tom Goulding

online asynchronously conference links. Much lessexperience. frequently they will use a WebEX or GoToMeeting tool to conduct synchronous conference.A one hour seminar can be extremely important ina low level mathematics class. Nevertheless,attendance seems to be mostly determined by a 4.0 SOCRATIC CAMPUS CLASSROOMstudent’s personal lifestyle and work schedule. Inaddition, attendance is often dictated by an online The Socratic campus classroom of the author hasinstructor’s skill at using a single hour to clarify similarities to his online classroom. Use of theconcepts found in an entire week’s lesson plan. Socratic GM

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ronald C. Lasky

intuitive math modeling skills.Another benefit of using the slide rule is that approximations become more evident. This may bewhy so few students seem to be familiar with the fact that sin x ≅ x for small x. If one uses aslide rule to calculate sin x, one quickly learns this truth as it is clear in using the scales. 5Almost all of my data are anecdotal. However, I plan to use the problems in the appendix as atest with volunteers to obtain some statistics. I hope to have the data by mid 2010.What is to be done?My thoughts, at this point, are that the following actions would be helpful to assure students havestronger math skills upon graduation with a BS

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Antonio F. Mondragon-Torres

. 6 REFERENCES [1] D. Chubin, K. Donaldson, B. Olds, and L. Fleming, "Educating Generation Net-can U.S. engineering woo and win the competition for talent?," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 97, pp. 245-257, 2008. [2] J. Holley, "Generation Y: understanding the trend and planning for the impact," in 2008 IEEE 32nd International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 28 July 2008-1 Aug. 2008, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2008, p. 2. [3] C. Jones, R. Ramanau, S. Cross, and G. Healing, "Net generation or Digital Natives: Is there a distinct new generation entering university?," Computers and Education

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Joanne Tuck

Nazisaccidentally left behind in their haste to abandon Auschwitz before the advancing Russians. 3Professor von Pelt had the expertise to read the plans and decipher the progression of thedesigns. It is an extraordinary film that truly captivates the students even more than the readingsdo. In the film the historian Gerald Fleming revealed his findings in the Russian Central Statearchive in file 17/9. None of this information was available to anyone from 1945 to the fall ofthe Soviet Union. Fleming wrote “In May 1993, I discovered documents detailing both the fate of these engineers and thefull extent of their knowing, sober participation in the Holocaust.” (Fleming 1) He uncovered interviews of

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Chitra N. Javdekar

process through guided andindependent scientific inquiry into the problem, and approaches, materials and methods used forsolving problem. New course modules draw from current social contexts such as health, sustainabilityand issues impacting human and social dynamics. Problems are open-ended and creativity andcommunication are emphasized. Specific examples of redesigned course modules, formal and informalstudent feedback and plans for future work are offered.Introduction:According to a recent National Science Board (NSB 2010) report, the Science and Engineeringcapacityhas grown over the past few years around the world and while it allows greater cross-bordercollaboration, and a larger pool of researchers, it presents “definite challenges to U.S

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Andrzej Zarzycki

, adiscussion of light can go beyond its purely visual character and touch on physical properties andquantities. With the introduction into physically based light analysis, students were able tocombine photometric data (IES files) from the light manufacturer catalogs with actual lightfixtures and consider their placement within an interior space. [fig.5] Students were asked torender a number of views, including floor plan projection with tabulated illumination numbers,in lux or foot-candle units, in order to further engage them with quantitative aspects of lightingdesign. This also became an opportunity to discuss various associated design issues, such aslevels of illumination and human comfort. We went as far as discussing the color bleedingphenomenon

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Rathika Rajaravivarma

stage of the course, the students are ready to read and interpret the problemand are familiar with the methods to progress with the solution using design tools.To realize their design models the LEGO Mindstorms was introduced. Studentsbuilt structures using LEGO kits and used them to code and test. Since the classmeeting times were limited to two hours, building the LEGO structures wereencouraged outside the class period. Two sessions of LEGO building forinterested and available students were planned. Many students were motivated tospend the extra hours they could in working with the LEGO. Meeting at the extrasessions outside the class hours was optional and was not mandatory. Studentswho did not participate in the LEGO building exercises

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Charles R. Sullivan; Mark J. Franklin

, with somestudents using 2.5 to 3.5 times as much fuel as the most economical runs. Because studentscompleted these runs after they studied fuel economy in the class, they may have subconsciouslymade use of what they learned. In future offerings of the course, we plan to complete this initial 4test run before any study of fuel economy, so that we truly see the effect of a betterunderstanding. Next, students drove the flat course attempting to maintain the constant speed that theyhad calculated would yield maximum fuel economy. This exercise generally confirmed thevalidity of the calculation, but also underlined how difficult it is to

Conference Session

Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen O'Brien, The College of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

also associated with low sciencelevels.18 A similar result is expected with the MST majors, except in addition to low levelsof math and science anxiety they should also have low levels of “T&E” anxiety, allowingthem to comfortably execute active, hands-on and technically-rich lesson plans for bothSTEM and non-STEM subjects. Page 15.108.10Table 3 The number of math anxiety measurements for three populations (MST, Math andnon-STEM majors) taken before and after two math classes (MAT105 and MAT202). Group Pre105 Post105 Pre202 Post202 MST 24 22 51 56

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Walters; Keisha Walters

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

' basicunderstanding of fluid mechanics principles, and follow-up contact with students regarding theirpost-high school plans. With the exception of the follow-up contact, all other assessments wereanonymous and voluntary with the pre-post evaluations correlated using cartoon names. Each ofthe 12 students elected to participate in the assessment activities.For each major course taught, a standard course evaluation was administered by the MGS staff.The students responded to nine statements about the course and the instructors. Responses werevalued from 1-4, corresponding to “strongly disagree”, “disagree”, “agree”, and “strongly agree”.Example statements included “The instructor seemed well prepared for class”, “The class was

Conference Session

New Methods and Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Melissa Grunow, Lawrence Technological University; Katie Hayes, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, and resources. At Lawrence Tech, the grant provided thefunding to integrate the existing entrepreneurial programs into a new innovative interdisciplinaryprogram focused on developing the “entrepreneurial mindset” on campus. The skills associatedwith the entrepreneurial mindset are communication, teamwork, leadership, ethics and ethicaldecision-making, opportunity recognition, persistence, creativity, innovation, tolerance forambiguity, risk analysis, creative problem solving, critical thinking, and business skills(including marketing, financial analysis, and strategic planning).1, 2LeadershipA leadership education program was initiated at Lawrence Tech in 2007 based on assessmentand program evaluation. First, a survey of employers of Lawrence

Conference Session

High School Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Benjamin Stein, University of Wisconsin; Allen Phelps, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineeering & Outreach Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Ciston, University of New Haven; Ellen Worsdall, Northwestern University; Jessica Swenson, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

: “STEP helped me to realize how much I enjoy building rather than theorizing. Buildingis not available in much of the physics department unless students are involved in a fewparticular research labs.” “The chance to do outreach and mentor prospective engineers is not available anywherein my degree program. Also, learning how to teach and create lesson plans, or how to organizeand run a very large event were very valuable skills I've learned.” “Absolutely! I gained tremendous leadership and teaching opportunities from STEP.These were useful for me throughout the rest of my career at the University, and I have no doubtthey'll be useful when I begin my job in management consulting.” “One of the really great things I learned

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nora Siewiorek, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Kara Santelli, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

involve the tradeoff between the environmentand human life; and how this may change depending on the type of trees.Dam Construction. This MEA concerns the actual proposed construction of a dam in the SouthEastern Anatolia in Turkey. Having approved the initial plans, the Turkish government, for Page 15.499.6economic reasons, now must reduce the dam’s budget. Alternatives include reducing the dam’ssafety factor by either decreasing its height, substituting certain material or lengthening the timefor completing the project. Targeted concepts include: multi-criteria decision making, economicanalysis, and international perspectives in economic decision

Conference Session

Programs Using New Instrumentation Concepts

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Thomas Adams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

undergraduates than any other. However wedo make the case in the following section that our work makes a contribution via a synthesis of Page 15.923.2the strengths of widely-used texts. Also, in recent years we have seen a steady increase in ouraccreditation program-outcome measures supported by our measurement systems course,although this material on piezoresistive sensors would contribute at most two hours of content tothe course. Based on these broad measures, we are satisfied that a presentation of sensoroperating principles like the one developed here contributes to meeting our learning objectives.We plan to develop an approach for measuring

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth McManis, University of Louisiana

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

of engineering.” As reviewed in Outcome 3, the University of Louisiana’s core curriculum includes 9-hours of behavioral science electives; a history elective, an Industrial Economics and Finance course (CIVE 430), and a free elective from any of the behavioral science areas. The faculty is very confident that students completing the program will have significant appreciation for the importance of incorporating economic principles in design and planning. However, performance in other social science areas may vary for the same reasons given above under Outcome 3. The selection of history and social science elective courses, in general, are being reviewed with consideration for those which would provide a better appreciation for

Conference Session

Student Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University; Eric Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Chia-Lin Ho, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-373: COMPUTATIONAL THINKING: WHAT SHOULD OUR STUDENTSKNOW AND BE ABLE TO DO?Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University Dr. C. Dianne Raubenheimer received her PhD from the University of Louisville and is Director of Assessment in the College or Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Adult and Higher Education at NC State University. Within the College of Engineering she serves as the coordinator of ABET and other accreditation processes, acts as an assessment & evaluation resource/consultant to faculty in different programs, develops and implements assessment plans, and serves as the primary educational assessment data analyst on the Dean’s

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Engelken

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Electrical and Computer

lives tooptimally handle and limit necessary responsibilities. That is, although capable of doing goodwork in short bursts, it‟s difficult to get them to focus, persevere, innovate, and endure over thelong run, further reducing both quantity and quality of the research. Many just do not considerthe research position a “real” job since it is only part-time within the university, is indirectlyrelated to their formal course education, and is not micromanaged. This allows some torationalize and excuse their tardiness, absenteeism, minimal planning, procrastination (verycommon), and less-than-maximum effort.Related to this is an overall decrease in true intellectualism and scholarly mindset. Very fewmodern students, including research assistants

Conference Session

Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

associations and professional societies,government agencies, national standards bodies, and international standards agencies.” Hardingand McPherson (2009) 7 describe the present sphere of standards organizations in his ASEEpaper.Two surveys describe the libraries’ best practices for standards. The original plan to do a surveydid not appear necessary after finding these two surveys. Both surveys cover large academiclibraries. Brian S. Mathews (2006)8 wrote about “top engineering schools” while Lorraine F.Pellack (2004)9did a survey of 34 libraries that are members of the prestigious Association forResearch Libraries (ARL). In 2003, Pellack’s survey indicated that there are many librariesdoing special ordering with format half of the libraries buying

Conference Session

Programs Using New Instrumentation Concepts

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Keska, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

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Instrumentation

author observed very similar effects, which resulted in poorlearning outcomes for the laboratory session. This was related to poorly developedstudent activities before they came to the lab. As a result, the lab experiment turned into amechanical exercise of following the lab manual instead of an exercise where thestudents actively built meaningful knowledge during the process. Over the next semester,structural changes are planned which will intensify the pre-lab activities, and which willrequire the students to be much more prepared before coming to a laboratory session.This should ultimately make the students’ learning process more successful and efficient

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jade Mitchell-Blackwood, Drexel University; Manuel Figueroa, Drexel University; Chatchai Kokar, Drexel University; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

fabricating surface enhanced Raman scattering substrates. Starting August 2010, Chatchai will be attending St. George's University School of Medicine where he plans to earn his M.D.Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University Dr. Adam Fontecchio is an Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head in the Drexel University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and an Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, Co-Director of the A. J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, an affiliated member of the Materials Engineering Department, a member of the Center for Educational Research, and his research focuses on the area of nanophotonics. He is the recipient of a NASA New Investigator Award, the Drexel Graduate

Conference Session

Educational Research

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

' Educational Engineering 2008 survey student Experiences and College and Career Education interviews Plans in an Ethnically Diverse Learning Environment5 Characterizing Design Learning: A Journal of July closed-ended design Mixed Methods Study of Engineering 2008 survey scenarios and Engineering Designers' Use of Education questions lab problems Language6 K-12 Outreach: Identifying the Journal of July pre-post test, focus groups Broader Impacts of Four Outreach

Conference Session

Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College; Sharon Jones, Lafayette College; Christopher Ruebeck, Lafayette College; Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

; and to secure the national defense.” (NSF Act of 1950). The NSF Grant Proposal Guidesuggests several ways that this criterion can be met. One of these is “by advancing discovery andunderstanding while promoting teaching, training, and learning”. In response, researcherstypically describe the number of students involved in the research project as evidence. Anothersuggestion by NSF is to broaden dissemination to enhance scientific and technologicalunderstanding. Here, researchers often describe plans to present research results in formatsuseful to students, scholars, members of Congress, teachers, the general public, etc. In otherwords, it is common for researchers to point to activities that involve student education asevidence that there are

Conference Session

Learning By Doing in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Golter, Washington State University; Bernard Van Wie, Washington State University; Gary Brown, Washington State University; David Thiessen, Washington State University; Baba Abdul, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

will treat you as practicingengineers in industry. By the end of the course you should be competent to analyze and design fluidmechanics and heat transfer systems in a simulated “real world” environment.Procedure (How do we plan to achieve our goals?)This course will center around two activities. First, a case study will be analyzed that represents a Page 15.1062.15completed ‘real world’ design encompassing the individual course concepts. Secondly, a design projectwhich spans the semester will provide the framework for integrating the various course concepts. Justas in industry, most of your work will be in groups. We will employ the

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Chris Groscurth, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

granted to domestic students is declining? These questions are fundamentalto the work of engineering educators and engineering educational researchers. At universitieslike the University of Michigan (U-M), recent curriculum plans have been developed to helpfaculty think about reshaping and revamping the curriculum to best train and developundergraduate students for the 21st century.7In an attempt to understand how to recruit and retain Millennial engineers, Chubin et al. (2008)analyzed data from the Academic Pathways Study to describe the Millennial generation’s—students born between 1982-2002—knowledge of engineering prior to college, their motivationfor choosing engineering, and their perceptions of their needed and gained skills.8

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud

documented evidence dates to 1915, and by 1920,his beliefs were sufficiently developed to announce them to the world via a series of articles inthe weekly Dearborn Independent, a Ford-owned newspaper. The 91 tracts were based on TheProtocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, an acknowledged forgery that details the Jews‘ plans forworld domination.28To ensure wide dissemination, Ford employees tucked copies of the newspaper in the glove boxof each new vehicle as it rolled off the assembly line.29 Eventually, the articles wereanthologized in four volumes as The International Jew, allowing some two million readers30 aglimpse of Ford‘s peculiar view of history as driven by fanatical Zionists.28The International Jew made its way to Germany in the early

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Progress Reports: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University; Danny Teachman, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

quality and even with the reduction in features it was still found to bevery functional for its intended use.Project Description and FrameworkThe senior design project course spans two consecutive quarters during the students senior year.The first quarter is devoted to the design and planning of the project. The second quarter isdedicated to refining the design and building a prototype. Some senior design projects weredetermined to be a perfect fit for applying the concepts of universal design and these wereconcentrated on for this pilot project.The senior design projects are selected by the faculty and chosen to give the students anassignment that would be typical of a task they could receive as a young engineer in theindustrial world. Great

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hubbard, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

26 9 User education 63 6 Library buildings and facilities 9 1 Administration or planning 2 31 Automation study 0 14 Other L&I service activities 11 1 Several interconnected activities 18 37Information storage and retrieval 33 12.8 96 25.0 Cataloguing 0 17 Classification and indexing 1 21 Information retrieval

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - College Courses and Minors

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Robert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University; James Young, Rice University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

. Page 15.418.9Figure 2: Engineers and Non-engineers Collaborate in Introduction to Engineering at Rice.The Rice Minor in Engineering Studies ProgramThe unique character of Rice University presents both opportunities and challenges inimplementing technological literacy courses and a minor. Minors are new to Rice, having beenapproved only in the past two years. Thus, although there are presently fewer than five minors,there is an interest in their creation, and each proposal generates significant publicity amongstudents and faculty. Many Rice undergraduates arrive with a solid background in high schoolmathematics and science, many with AP credit—even those who do not plan to major inengineering or science. It is expected that such students will

Conference Session

Engineering Education in India, the Far East, and Central Asia

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Olaleye, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Emmanuel Abiodun, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Joseph Olusina, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Francis Derby, where

Tagged Divisions

International

Total 20 ElectivePHE 207 Introduction to Swimming I 1 University of Lagos Penn State UnivCourse Title Credits Course Title Year 3 semester 1 Year 3 Semester 1SVY 305 Cadastral Surveying I 3 SUR 272 Cadastral Surveying©SVY 307 Spherical and Field Astronomy 3 SUR 341 Adjustment ComputatioESM 351 Applied Town Planning 2 SUR 351 Geodetic ModelsSVY 309 Adjustment Comp. I