Conference Session

Teaching Strategies for Solid Modeling

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Anthony Shreve, North Carolina State University; Theodore J. Branoff, North Carolina State University; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Jeremy V. Ernst, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

between students who watched the video demonstrations and those who didnot. The number of desired modeling concepts present in final projects was higher for studentswho watched more of the videos during the semester.IntroductionFoundations of Engineering Graphics, GC 120, is an introductory engineering graphics course atNorth Carolina State University. A majority of the students enrolled in the course are completingtheir second year of coursework in engineering. The course consists of a hybrid formatcontaining online instruction through video lectures and demonstrations coupled with face-to-face class time with an instructor. The course utilizes the Moodle learning management systemto organize and distribute course resources to the students

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Jyothsna K. S., St.Joseph's College, Bangalore, Department of English; Amithraj Amavasai

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

posing probingquestions to the students, with hints when needed; (3) increasing ability to analyze and criticallyevaluate ideas, arguments and points of view; (4) integrating labs with lectures; (5) providing thestudents with lecture objectives in each class; (6) thorough preparation for, and goodorganization of lecture; (7) providing useful feedback on exams, projects, and assignments; (8)maintaining course content that is consistent with the educational objectives of the course; and(9) facilitation of learning. While these practices are not new, the way in which they wereexecuted and integrated with each other was innovative.The way of integration of the nine best practicesThe authors believe that if students do not learn the material it is

Conference Session

Design Tools & Methodology I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Farris, Grand Valley State University; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Design in Engineering Education

focus on the medical device developmentHugh Jack, Grand Valley State University A Professor of Product Design and Manufacturing. His interests include Automation, Robotics, Project Management, and Design. Page 22.614.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Towards a More Rigorous Approach to Concept Generation and SelectionAbstractFree-form problem solving is an important part of undergraduate studies. Open-ended design is aparticularly poignant activity for engineering students.The Pugh concept selection matrix is widely taught for design concept selection. The power ofthis method is

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Fransen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Engineering Libraries

first year of graduate school, most students are asked to do a literature searchfor a class, or are beginning to look at prior work as they decide on a focus for their thesis,dissertation, or Master‟s project. At that point, they realize that they will not be able to findeverything they need with their current set of Web-searching tools and skills.Engineering librarians are challenged to engage with these new students at just the right time.Properly marketed, online tutorials may provide part of the solution. This paper explores how theauthor used citation analysis and discussions with faculty, students, and colleagues to design aset of tutorials that teach graduate students both how to find what they need, and why they needit in the first

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills in ET

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M. Robertson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Engineering Technology

Communicating with Hyper-tweetsAbstractImproving student writing skills is one of the most persistent challenges in technical education.The problem is too stubborn to expect a single solution but it is too important to accept the statusquo. This paper describes the results of a modest project to improve short reports.Concentration on this segment of the problem has intrinsic advantages because short reports aredemanded frequently and the topics can be tightly defined. Since they require only a fewhundred words, they qualify for the term ‘hyper-tweets’. A PowerPoint template has beenestablished to constrain the scope and present the content as a single image to encourage afocused visual effect. It can be easily converted to a Word document if required

Conference Session

Innovations in Design within BME Curricula

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gail Baura, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences; Tiffany Berry, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

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Biomedical

, three recent engineering education engineering initiatives wereidentified and investigated. The BME Council of Chairs held an educational workshop in concertwith the 2010 BMES annual meeting. While the workshop description stated that industryrepresentatives would participate, no industry presentations were given. 7 IEEE and IBM jointlyhosted a four day summit on Transforming Engineering Education in Ireland in 2010. In thesummary of the summit proceedings, a follow-on activity listed by the program chair was todevelop “a concrete list of ‘desired but missing’ skills, mostly by industry” by Spring, 2011. 8 Intheir Vision 2030 project, the ASME Center for Engineering Task Force was asked to “define theknowledge, skills and abilities that

Conference Session

Int. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, and Implementations

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yue-min Zhao, China University of Mining and Technology

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International

economic development. There are about 1800 undergraduates，500 postgraduatesand 100 doctors graduate from these universities every year. China has become a big powerof training professional personnel in the mineral processing field [1]. As one of the selected universities for the national ‘211 Project’ and ‘985 InnovationPlatform Construction Project’, CUMT has formed a discipline major system with a priorityto engineering, with the feature of mining, and combined with science, engineering, literature,management, law, economy and other multiple subjects developed harmoniously, developingfor more than 100 years. The discipline of mineral processing engineering of CUMT wasfounded in 1952[2]. Thereafter taking the processing and utilization of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Kaye, Baltimore City Community College; Yun Liu, Baltimore City Community College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

that to be globally competitive in the 21st century, the United Statesmust invest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) training andeducation to prepare a technically skilled and knowledgeable workforce. More academic andindustrial partnerships and collaborations that address K-12 challenges, post-secondary curricula,and workforce needs in STEM related fields must be created and supported to accomplish this.An urban community college, seeking to be a national leader in this effort, applied for and wasawarded an Advanced Technology Education grant from the National Science Foundation todevelop a Robotics Technology Curriculum. The goals of the grant project are to: (a) develop thecurriculum for a unique robotics technology

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joy Watson, University of South Carolina; Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina

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College Industry Partnerships, Graduate Studies

industry through an open-endedquestion, “What other abilities are essential?” Adapting and understanding the industryenvironment was mentioned by over 18% of the participants. Comments included workingtowards the company’s goals and “not investigating in detail an area of interest related to theproblem.” They also included understanding cost, quality, and project planning or projectmanagement. These comments suggest that the more successful Ph.D.s in industry are able toadapt and understand the industry environment quickly.Leadership, including interpersonal leadership, visionary leadership and lifelong learningleadership, as described in Watson and Lyons 14, was another theme mentioned by 10% of theparticipants. Comments included “the desire to

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William K. Durfee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Benjamin Adams, University of Minnesota; Audrey J. Appelsies, University of Minnesota; Pamela Flash, University of Minnesota

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

, for example that by graduation students must know and canapply basic principles of thermodynamics.At graduation, undergraduate students in mechanical engineering should be able to: 1. Apply knowledge of physics, mathematics, and engineering in their writing 2. Record and analyze activity related to laboratories and design projects 3. Visually represent designs and explain salient features of a part or concept 4. Synthesize and summarize key points 5. Strategize and demonstrate engineering project metrics such as productivity, costs and time to completion 6. Analyze the audience and create a document that meets the needs of the audience 7. Represent themselves professionally 8. Explain, discuss, and demonstrate

Collection

2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

A. M. Vollstedt; E. L. Wang

components. For assessment purposes,the instructors felt that the individual course grades needed to be adjusted to accommodate forthe portion of the grade that is defined by group work in these courses. Individual grades are areflection of a student’s actual work, whereas the group grade is easily confounded by the effectsof their team mates (positively and negatively).Assigning grades to individuals for a group project is important because instructors want toassign grades based on effort. Since all students in a group typically receive the same grade for agroup assignment (e.g. a group report), group grades have the undesirable effect of obscuring astudent’s true performance, especially if group work constitutes a large portion of the final

Collection

2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Xingguo Xiong; Hassan Bajwa; Lawrence Hmurcik

(SETs) [8], andnanoelectronics circuits based on quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) [9], etc. In EE 448 -Microelectronic Fabrication, we also introduced the fabrication of nanoelectronic circuits toprepare students for the challenges of next-generation nanoelectronics.3. Results and DiscussionsVLSI courses generally involve heavy design projects for students to get familiar with thevarious EDA tools. As a result, the computer support is very essential for VLSI coursecurriculum. The School of Engineering in our university has 6 general computer laboratorieswhich can be used for VLSI design and simulation. The computer labs totally have 135desktop PCs and 20 Ultra25 Sun Microsystems workstations. The PCs are equipped withWindows XP and Redhat

Conference Session

Professional Development from a Distance

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah L. Helman, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ryan J. Kershner, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Diana Wheeler, MA-LIS, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy L. Kindschi, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Steven M. Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Moira Lafayette, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Continuing Professional Development

currently consults with faculty and teaching assistants. She earned her Ph.D. in educational administration at UW-Madison. She is PI for the ”Aligning Educational Experiences with Ways of Knowing Engineering (AWAKEN): How People Learn” project. As a member of the man- agement team for the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), she is collaboratively responsible for a course about teaching science and engineering.Ms. Moira Lafayette, University of Wisconsin, Madison Page 22.817.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Implementing an Effective

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Martin, University of Texas, Austin; Pat Ko, University of Texas, Austin; Stephanie Baker Peacock, University of Texas, Austin; Jennifer Rudolph, University of Texas, Austin

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

object, such as a hair dryer, and predict the internal mechanisms of the machine. 3. Robotics Design Challenge: Design and build a robot to detect objects and transport them to a goal area. 4. Final Design Challenge: Develop and collaborate on a design project in groups (similar to a capstone design experience). Page 22.1612.3Using a within-subjects pre-post design, we tested the following hypotheses: 1. Does DBI improve teachers’ innovation and efficiency in engineering? 2. Does DBI increase teachers’ adaptive beliefs about engineering and learning?ExpertiseWhile research shows that content specificity is important to expertise

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Nicholas van Bloemen Waanders, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Mechanical Engineering; Andrew Kean, California Polytechnic State University; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Mechanical Engineering

fromthe MEA. Because the original goal was to help students understand the difficult concepts inmodeling processes this reflection has shown us that there is at least 63% of students reached thatgoal. These questions are from the students’ point of view and must be taken as such. Even withthe drawbacks, this method of analyzing MEAs has shown that the majority of students arelearning the hard concepts in addition to teamwork and other engineering skills.IntroductionStudents most benefit from a group project when they are able to learn from their work. Mostgroup projects have learning objectives that are meant to teach the students specific concepts. The

Conference Session

FPD 3: Research on First-year Programs and Students, Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Odis Hayden Griffin Jr. P.E., East Carolina University; Sandie J. Griffin

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First-Year Programs

information sessions, and departmental websites. Less valued sources includetextbook readings, hands-on course projects, and instructors. There were also gender differencesin value of sources, with women valuing departmental information sessions more than men, andmen valuing departmental websites more than women. Overall the process of major selectioncorrelates well with the happenstance theory of Krumboltz1.IntroductionA large engineering program is structured so that all entering freshmen are admitted as GeneralEngineering (GE) majors. Approximately 1300-1600 students enter the program each year andare required to take courses in English, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, and physics beforetransferring to a degree-granting program. As a part of

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Cross-cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel James Boland, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Michael V. Schaefer, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Carmen M. Langel; Taryn Michelle Tigges, University of Iowa; Fabienne Bertrand, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Marian Muste, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Zachary David Hingst; Timothy James Middlemis-Brown, IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of Iowa

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International

author or co-author of more than 150 technical papers and 75 re- ports. Dr Muste is an active international research and educator. He is expert for UNESCO’s International Hydrologic Program and World Meteorological Organization projects. He has extensive international ex- perience a three-time Fulbright Fellow (2004, 2006, and 2009) and grantee of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He is instructor of a unique course in the US International Perspectives in Water Science Resources and Management. He is member of the Council of the International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research.Mr. Zachary David Hingst BA in Global Studies, University of Iowa, 2005 MS in Urban & Regional

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment in SE Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nan Niu, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University; Kui Xie, Mississippi State University; Chris Smith, Mississippi State University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Construction Engineering and Management and Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Mississippi State University. He is a former U. S. Navy SEABEE Officer and has managed projects and programs worldwide. He has been accepted as an expert by the U. S. Court of Federal Contract Claims in the areas of Cost and Schedule. He is a former executive with Hill International and FTI Consulting and has been associated with the construction of Boston’s Central Artery Tunnel, Dubai Mall in the United Arab Emirates, and the U. S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Waste Treatment Plant at Hanford, Washington

Conference Session

Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Two Year College Division

Page 22.936.10author’s opinion a more natural fit for the ET/EET technician and technologist. However, therehas been little, if any, systemic support to the integration of this type of material into the ET/EETcurriculum or the curricula of the many technology disciplines that are rapidly becomingusers/adopters of this type of technology. For example, presently, the typical associate’s degreelevel Energy Systems/HVAC technology student does not take courses in networking or smartsensors/actuators. Therefore, this type of person most likely will have difficulty isolating aproblem or fault to the network or the complex electronics based sensor/actuator. At present,there is one active NSF ATE project that appears to be modifying and developing

Conference Session

Core Concepts, Standards, and Policy in K-12 Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Thomas M. Sherman, Virginia Tech; Hyuksoo Kwon, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Patricia Watson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

State University. For her last two years in Germany, Pa- tricia worked as a district coordinator for educational technology. As a PhD student, her research interests include integrating grade level appropriate science and math into technology education, elementary level technology education, and teacher professional development. Patricia also works as a graduate research assistant for the Technology Education Teaching & Learning Project. She is a member of the ITEEA Class of 2011 21st Century Leadership Academy. Page 22.595.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011

Conference Session

Enhancing Instructional Effectiveness in Civil Engineering: Case Studies

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Camilla M. Saviz, University of the Pacific; Abel A. Fernandez, University of the Pacific; Elizabeth A. Basha, University of the Pacific; Andria Patricia Ellis, University of the Pacific, School of Engineering and Computer Science ; Kristina Hammarstrom; Feliciano Leon; Jerry Bruce Hildebrand; Spencer Ton

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Civil Engineering

engineering education.Abel A. Fernandez, University of the Pacific Abel Fernandez is Professor and Director of the Engineering Management Program at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. He holds the Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida, M.E. and B.S. degrees in Electric Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and an M.B.A. also from RPI. Dr. Fernandez has over 13 years of system engineering and project management experience with TRW, Inc. and the Harris Corporation. His final position at Harris was Director of Product Marketing, a ex- ecutive level position in which he was responsible for all applications engineering and strategic planning

Conference Session

FPD IX: Research on First-Year Programs and Students, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiang Gong, Beihang University, Beijing, Institute of Higher Education; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Qing Lei, Beihang University, Beijing

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First-Year Programs

China’s Universities Universities Project Titles Tsinghua University Hsuch-Sen Tsien Mechanics Program, Andrew Chi-Chih Yao Software Engineering Program Tianjin University Engineering High-level Program Shanghai Jiaotong University Elite Engineering Education Program Tongji University Innovative Competence System for Engineering Students Huazhong University of Science & Experimental Zone for Engineering Education Reform Technology Zhejiang University Chu KoChen Honor College East China University of Science Total Engineering Education Program & TechnologyThe earliest recorded first-year engineering honors program

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudia Elena Vergara, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Thomas F. Wolff, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Cindee Dresen; Kysha L. Frazier, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce; Louise Paquette, Lansing Community College

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College Industry Partnerships

AC 2011-1050: COMPUTATIONAL EXPERTISE IN ENGINEERING: ALIGN-ING WORKFORCE COMPUTING NEEDS WITH COMPUTER SCIENCECONCEPTS.Claudia Elena Vergara, Michigan State University Claudia Elena Vergara. PhD Purdue University. Fields of expertise: Plant Biology and STEM Education Research. Dr. Vergara is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) at Michigan State University. Her research interest is in STEM education through research projects on instructional design, implementation and assessment of student learning, aimed to improve science, engi- neering and technology education.Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University Director of Instructional Technology Research & Development

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie A. Rursch, Iowa State University; Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University

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Two Year College Division

, learning objectives or student outcomes areequivalent across conferring institutions, especially when no outside accrediting body such asABET is used. In Iowa there are 15 community college districts, each offering their own versionof computer or information technology programs where the student earns an AAS degree.Although the Common Course Numbering Database was a project undertaken by the State ofIowa and the Iowa Department of Education to align all courses and programs offered across all15 community college districts in the state, a review of the database demonstrated the courses forthe two-year technical degrees (AAS) in computer or information technology are not in tandemand do not map well to traditional four-year degree programs in

Conference Session

K-12 Students and Teachers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Experiences for Students and Teachers project, Learning through Engineering Design and Practice (2007-2011), a National Science Foundation Award# 0737616 from the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. This project is aimed at designing, implementing, and systematically studying the impact of a middle-school engineering education program. Page 22.208.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Analyzing Subject-Produced Drawings: The use of the Draw-an-Engineer Assessment in ContextIntroductionIn this paper, an example of

Conference Session

Liberal Education Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

tendency forthe students to associate a good presentation with a “naturally” gifted presenter, even though it isa strong sign of a well rehearsed talk. On the other hand, without the correct technique evenrehearsing is not sufficient to deliver powerful presentation. Therefore, a senior elective coursewas tailored to reinforce our future professionals with the necessary steps to yield a compellingtechnical talk via judicious practice. Beyond exposing students to the topic, the ‘Introduction toNanotechnology’ course was designed with an additional skill-building objective: to teachstudents to present well. This paper discusses how this objective was attained via several classactivities, resources and assignments that culminated into a final project

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah A. Rajala, Mississippi State University; Robert A. Green, Mississippi State University; Rayford B. Vaughn, Mississippi State University

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NSF Grantees

institutions. Demographic data is being collected to betterunderstand exactly where these students would be transitioning out of military service and wherethey are likely to enroll in higher education. A consortium of geographically distributedindustrial and academic partners was developed to forge the necessary articulation agreementswith participating partners, conduct a needs assessment, develop head start curricula, andimplement pilot projects from which we can gain lessons learned in this overall effort. Thispaper describes the authors’ efforts to date in implementing these projects.IntroductionThe National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Engineering (Engineering Education andCenters) awarded an 18-month planning granti to the authors of

Conference Session

Making Elementary Engineering Work: Lessons from Partnerships and Practice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisabeth W. McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Carol Shields, Stevens Institute of Technology; Augusto Z. Macalalag Jr., Stevens Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

merely as an elective orextracurricular activity—has been a strategic goal of the Center for Innovation in Engineeringand Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology since 2004. Since that time,CIESE has been working with school districts throughout New Jersey to promote the positionthat all children should experience engineering as an integral part of their K-12 education. Froma small demonstration project in 2006 to the launch of an intensive five-year, statewide programtargeting 400 Grade 3-8 teachers in 2010, CIESE has impacted more than 3,500 K-12 educatorswith exemplary engineering curricula and associated professional development. Approximatelytwo-thirds of these teachers are elementary teachers, who have special

Conference Session

Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Sanghoon Lee, University of Virginia; Shing Wai Yam, University of Virginia; William H. Guilford, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

requirements, laboratory atmosphere, and miscellaneous preferences.Basic requirements included the academic year of the student, the students’ grade point averageand any threshold requirement the lab may set in that regard, majors and minors, the timecommitment expected, and what compensation (money, academic credit, or nothing) is offeredor desired, and when (fall, spring, or summer) research may be performed.Atmosphere describes the lab environment. This includes lab size, whether there are labmeetings or social get-togethers, and lab type – that is, research-based versus design-based, wetlab versus dry lab, and whether the labs usually undertake individual or team projects. It alsoincludes who does the undergraduate research mentoring for a given

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Educational Methods and Tools to Encourage Conceptual Learning I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy K. Lape, Harvey Mudd College

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Chemical Engineering, Educational Research and Methods

“implicit models made explicit”and begin to construct their own learning. While Hmelo and Guzdial’s work was focusedon software, this concept can clearly be applied universally.The aim of the approach presented in this paper is to maintain PBL’s advantages intraining students to address ill-defined real-world problems while providing sufficientscaffolding (in a manner similar to Hmelo and Guzdial’s glass-box scaffolding) toaddress cognitive architecture concerns raised by Kirschner et al. and Sweller et al. 1, 2.Tiered Scaffolding ApproachThe six-tiered approach shown in Figure 1 below was used to prepare students for PBL(here in the form of challenge problems and Thermodynamics Inquiry Projects) bymoving them up the levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy 10