Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C Smith, University of Virginia; Barry Horowitz, University of Virginia; Thomas S. Brett, Dept of Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science

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Systems Engineering

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Conference Session

New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

 in  critical  thinking,  in  mathematical  reasoning  and  analysis,  a  firm  grounding  in  scientific  and  engineering  methodologies  and  knowledge  to  address  the  complex,  multidisciplinary,  and  multidimensional  problems  that  humanity  faces  now  and  will  in  the  future.  Of  course,  educators  in  all  fields  are  actively  trying  to  change  and  be  more  effective.  However,  most  engineering  schools  have  not  gone  through  fundamental  changes  since  1970’s.    Although  engineering  is  fundamentally  pragmatic,  hands-­‐on,  and  project  and  application  driven,  engineering  education  has  been  drifting  away  from  that  approach  since  1970-­‐80s.      By  the  end  of  1980’s  most  major

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Flaten, MN Space Grant / Univ. of Minnesota

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Aerospace

general, and toward both aerospace and engineering inparticular. The seminar has also been useful in recruiting students to participate in extra-curricular high-altitude ballooning, and other MnSGC-sponsored aerospace projects (seeAppendix A), in subsequent semesters.Freshman Seminar OrganizationSpaceflight with Ballooning (Freshman Seminar) has the following (brief) course description: Outer space, sometimes called the Final Frontier, has always been difficult to reach due to the tremendous expense of rocket launches and the limited number of launch opportunities. In this hands-on course we will design and build mini-spacecraft and use (relatively) inexpensive helium-filled weather balloons to carry them into “near-space” – the upper

Conference Session

Computational/CS Initiatives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric A Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso; Kien H. Lim, University of Texas at El Paso; Sharie Kranz, Coronado HS-EPISD; Catherine Tabor, El Paso ISD and University of Texas at El Paso; Jeremy L Ramirez, University of Texas at El Paso

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

disposition. Dr. Lim and colleagues are currently developing, testing, and refining a survey instrument to assess students’ impulsive-analytic disposition. They have been investigating instructional strategies, such as use of prediction items and classroom vot- ing with clicker technology, to help students become aware of their impulsivity and to elicit and address mathematical misconceptions. Dr. Lim is also exploring the use of mathematical tasks to provoke stu- dents’ intellectual need for the concepts they are expected to learn. Lately, Dr. Lim has been involved in the iMPaCT-Math project to investigate the use of programming activities to foster student learning of foundational algebraic concepts.Mrs. Sharie Kranz

Conference Session

Culture, Race, and Gender Issues

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy E Foor, University of Oklahoma; Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma; Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

practice engineering technical andprofessional skills while engaged in competitive, design/build projects. Increasingly, SELECTare fore-fronted as the hallmark of engineering programs and are commonly featured in materialsshared with prospective students and donors. Teams, especially successful ones, featureprominently in alumni newsletters, recruiting brochures, outreach and recruiting tours, andpromotion of college activities. For example, when a SELECT member interviewed for thisproject was asked, “(D)o you believe your department, the College of Engineering and theuniversity value SELECT,” the student responded "Oh yeah, yeah. For sure, it makes ’em lookgood. The college always likes to throw out statistics, like, ‘Oh, we're number this or

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session I - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Reginald Vachon P.E., American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Robert O. Warrington Jr., Michigan Technological University; Robert D. Kersten, University of Central Florida

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Invited - Faculty Development

DMI optical strain technology. He served as President of the American Society of Me- chanical Engineering. He is a licensed attorney and admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court. He has international project experience in Venezuela, Honduras, Nicaragua, Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, Egypt, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Cameroon and Belize, He has conducted research and devel- opment projects with the US Army, US Navy. NASA ,DoD, EPA, ERDA (predecessor to DOE), DOE, NSF and other agencies, as well as with industrial clients such as IBM, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Polish Air Force Institute of Technology, RUAG, Halliburton and others. He was the president of the engineering firm that was the

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jesse Pappas, James Madison University

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #7256Multisource feedback for STEM students improves academic performanceDr. Jesse Pappas, James Madison University Jesse Pappas studied self-insight, intentional self-development, and the role of emotion in self-perception at the University of Virginia, where he received a Ph.D. in social psychology. His dissertation project involved adapting established professional development tools to facilitate the personal and academic suc- cess of college students and others. As a research fellow in the School of Engineering at James Madison University, Jesse currently leads efforts to equip future scientists and

Conference Session

CEED - Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui Pan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

. CredibilityInformation levels explicitly stated. of the source and timeliness of the information is always an issue. Given by an authority May have to invent a new method as part figure, usually to of the problem solving process.Solution methods reinforce material recently Authority figure often projects his/her presented. Veracity and solution as the method of approach

Conference Session

Robots and K-12 Computer Applications

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl D. Seals, Auburn University; Earl B. Smith, Georgia Southern University

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Computers in Education

learning 4.Our plan was to introduce STARS Computer Clubs into all Auburn City Schools. In the first fiveyears of the project, we focused our activities on Auburn Elementary and Middle Schools and inthe upcoming year plan to incorporate Auburn Junior High and High School to provideenrichment activities to get students excited about education. Auburn University’s department ofComputer Science and Software Engineering started computer clubs in the elementary schools atthe 3rd, 4th and 5th grade levels. We studied students in their usage of computing technologyand found that these experiences have a positive effect of getting students excited about learningto utilize new technology, and excited about demonstrating their understanding of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

reshape engineering education the medium of instruction needs to bemodified to play a significant role in engaging students to learn the complexengineering concepts in a useful format. Instruction modes need to allow studentsto grow as critical thinkers with proficiency in learning, and in creative problemsolving for increasingly complex and uncertain engineering environments.For example, students are shown to learn more effectively when actively involvedin the learning process11, and such active learning strategies promote higher orderthinking. As a result, several non-traditional learning approaches, such as project-,problem-, or case studies-based learning, have been developed and applied inengineering courses. These approaches allow students

Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan K Donohue, University of Virginia; Ali Bouabid, Khalifa University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

all facets of a system, such as stakeholder values, risk, quality, and policyimplications in addition to the process or physical system, and develop sets of recommendationsand action plans. The value of these KSAs to industry, government, and academia can be seen inthe growing demand for systems engineers, with one source anticipating a 45% increase indemand for practitioners from 2009 to 2019.1 However, systems engineering is not the onlydiscipline in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields calling forincreased numbers to meet projected demands, and therefore face competition for and potentialshortage of students.2 A root cause for this shortage is that the traditional K-16 pipeline has notprovided sufficient

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning through Laboratory Experiences

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa I Jaksic P.E., Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

game console from Microsoftconsisting of a 3D camera (depth sensor), color camera, and an array of microphones. Theexperiment included two tasks. The first task was to install all the necessary software andprogram the DaNI robot to perform obstacle detection and avoidance using its ultrasonic sensor.The second task was to improve the obstacle detection and avoidance capabilities of the DaNIrobot by adding another computer connected to a Kinect sensor. Working in pairs and as acollective, students were able to complete the two tasks, develop their design/programmingskills, and learn about some complexities of “real” engineering projects. In addition, they gaineda better understanding of sensors and their applications including sensor

Conference Session

First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela Renee Lockwood, West Texas A&M University; Emily M. Hunt, West Texas A&M University

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First-Year Programs

Page 23.513.3simply not feasible to constantly integrate course material in a learning community as eachcourse has its own objectives, but with curriculum flexibility and careful planning, faculty havebeen able to integrate the courses with consistent periodic activities and projects throughout thesemester. Our experience indicates the more consistent the integration, particularly in the firstsemester courses, the more likely the students are to be engaged in the community. Problemstaken from Introductory Mathematics for Engineering Applications developed by Wright StateUniversity are used in both the Precalculus and Calculus courses of the learning community as ameans to link mathematics concepts to engineering applications [11]. Problem

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session II - Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Brad Rogers, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Kiril D Hristovski, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Nalini Chhetri, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University; Benjamin L. Ruddell, Arizona State University; Mark R Henderson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; John H Takamura Jr, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Curriculum Development

world. While at ASU he has taught more than 40 different courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in engineering and in social entrepreneurship. He has also worked in industry in both conventional and alternative energy conversion systems. Since 2007 in his capacity within GlobalResolve he has initiated programs and managed in-country student teams from ASU and partner universities in the developing world that have worked on multiple projects. Examples include the design and construction of a microbial fuel cell composting latrine in West Africa, installation of a gelled ethanol plant that produces clean cooking fuel in a rural Ghanaian village, the development of highly ef- ficient gelfuel stoves, a

Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger V. Gonzalez P.E., The University of Texas at El Paso; Elsa Q. Villa, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso; Joseph A Ramos, The University of Texas at El Paso

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Systems Engineering

humanitarian endeavors. He founded and currently serves as CEO and President of LIMBS International (LIMBS.org) a non-profit entity which develops low-cost pros- thetic devices for under-developed areas of the world. Gonzalez has worked with students in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and Latin and South America on various international engineering research and hu- manitarian projects. He also has been awarded the American Society of Engineering Educators Teaching Award and the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Award as a Texas Piper Professor of 2008. He also serves as an engineering program evaluator for ABET (Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology).Ms. Elsa Q. Villa, University of Texas, El PasoDr. Peter Golding

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammara Ramírez, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

Tagged Divisions

International

project involving a decision-making/strategic performance problem (students had to identify dietary deficiencies of differentpeople and generate proposals for improving their health) was implemented.MethodologyThe course Introduction to Food Engineering is offered to students in their first semester of theFood Engineering Licenciatura (BS) at UDLAP. The studied course was conducted in twoweekly sessions of 75 minutes each during fall 2011 and 2012 semester in which eight (6women) and five students (4 women) were enrolled, respectively. One weekly session wasdedicated to reviewing theoretical basics of the discipline at introductory level, such as theconcepts of food quality, food safety, food spoilage and stability, food preservation, food

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bosco Mansel Oliver, Clemson University; John R. Wagner, Clemson University; Elham B. Makram, Clemson University; Rajendra DUPE Singh, Clemson University

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Electrical and Computer

B. MakramDr. Rajendra Singh, Clemson University Dr. Rajendra Singh is currently D. Houser Banks Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Center for Silicon Nanoelectronics at Clemson University. With proven success in operations, project/program leadership, R&D, product/process commercialization, and start-ups, Dr. Singh has over 33 years of industrial and academic experience of photovoltaic (PV) and semiconductor industries. From solar cells to integrated circuits, he has led the work on semiconductor and PV device, materials and processing by manufacturable innovation and defining critical path. He has published over 340 papers in various journals and

Conference Session

Real and Virtual - "New" Approaches to Teaching "Old" Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darinka del Carmen Ramirez, Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), México; Manuel E Macías, ITESM, Campus Monterrey

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #8178Solving Material Balance Problems at Unsteady State using a Remote Labo-ratory in the classroomDr. Darinka del Carmen Ramirez, Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey (ITESM), M´exico Dr. Darinka del Carmen Ram´ırez Hern´andez has been a professor in the Chemical Engineering Depart- ment of Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey (ITESM) in Campus Monterrey, M´exico since 1996. She also works on the Virtual Laboratory Project at ITESM. Dr. Ram´ırez earned a Ph.D. in Innovation in Education from ITESM in 2011, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from ITESM in 1989, and a B.S. in Biochemical Engi- neering from IT La Paz in 1987. She teaches to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mona Itani, American University of Beirut

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #6422The effectiveness of videos as a learning tool in an engineering ethics course:A students’ perspectiveMs. Mona Itani, American University of Beirut Mona Intani graduated from the American University of Beirut in 2006 and began a profession in com- puter and communications engineering. Itani has worked for multinational telecommunications compa- nies for four years. After earning her master’s in Engineering Management, she joined the engineering management program at the American University of Beirut. She currently teaches engineering ethics and is working on several research projects related to engineering

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

John Paulino; Jesús García; Joshua Lohse; Hector Prado; Atul Balani; Sridevi Lakshmipuram; Cheng Chen; Amelito G. Enriquez; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser

most sophisticated computers. ICperformance has dramatically improved since their first creation. However, with scaling of ICs toNano-scale, an ideal integrated circuit delivering reliable performance over its lifetime is almostimpossible. All ICs experience degradation over time due to the aging of underlying transistors.Working on latest technology issues is typically an opportunity available only to graduate levelstudents working on related research projects. To address this gap, using a NASA CurriculumImprovements Partnership Award for the Integration of Research (CIPAIR) grant, we havecreated a summer internship program that engages community college students in researchprojects on the latest challenges of circuit design in nano-scale

Collection

2013 GSW

Authors

Amir Karimi; Randall D. Manteufel

: tutoring, mentoring, learning centers, first-year students,at-risk students, academic advising, and career awareness.Much has been done to understand and improve the retention of students6-10. Universities useproblem solving recitations, and the integration of math/science/engineering into more excitingengineering courses with more active design project for students. Much of these efforts havelimited success and can often be overwhelmed by changes in the student body attending theuniversity, changes in faculty teaching key engineering courses, and changes in seeminglyinsignificant aspects such as classroom scheduling. In many cases, modest changes impact therate of progress through particular classes and the overall program.In this work, it is

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University; Runchang Lin, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

for theinstructors and to provide an interactive learning environment outside the lecture period for thestudents. Using ViTAS, students will be able to submit the homework assignments online, toengage in anonymous homework review, and to discuss with their peers. The idea of studentsgrading the homework assignments of their peers is very beneficial, because during the processof grading other’s homework, the students get the opportunity to learn/review their ownwork/mistakes. Also, the instructors finalize all grades and post them on the website to confirmthe students’ learning activities. In particular, this project focuses on the Agile systemdevelopment process, which is a group of system development methodologies based on iterative

Conference Session

Delivery Methods in Mechanical Engineering Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Mason, Seattle University; Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University; Kathleen E. Cook, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

effectivemeans to promote such intellectual growth3,4,5.Learner-centered instructional methods encompass a wide range of approaches that includeactive and collaborative learning, problem-based learning, and project-based learning6.Incorporating student-centered learning into the classroom can improve student learning6,7; canimprove student attitudes5,6; can be of particular benefit to those students whose personalitytypes and preferred learning styles impair their performance in traditional educationalenvironment8; and can improve students’ ability to solve open-ended problems9.While learner-centered methods hold the promise of improved education they do have a cost.The methods require educators to make time for the learner-centered activities and so

Conference Session

Engineering in K-12 Science and Mathematics Standards

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth A Parry, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

educational area symbolized by the vowel in STEMremain ill-defined in the educational standards that teachers and administrators use as they planthe day to day classroom experience. As a result, engineering can still be viewed as only a careeror as a way to incorporate building projects in after school programs or when time allows. Thereis a temptation to define engineering simply as an approach to solving problems with nospecialized knowledge or to define it as the various fields of study that college and universityprograms offer. The state of North Carolina has chosen to take a different view and to define theknowledge and skills associated with engineering from kindergarten through high school for allstudents, similar to the way that mathematics

Conference Session

K-12 Professional Development II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bette Grauer, Kansas State University; Karen L Roberts, Upward Consulting; Tom C. Roberts P.E., FASEE, FNSPE, Kansas State University; Gary A. Clark, Kansas State University; Amy Rachel Betz, Kansas State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

experience in secondary education. Seventy-six percent of the participants hadtaught more than 10 years, with 12% teaching between 5 and 10 years, 11% teaching between 3 Page 23.505.6and 5 years, and 1% had taught less than 3 years. The teachers who attended the Manhattanworkshop represented 21 school districts across the state. Education disciplines represented andthe numbers of teachers in each were (a) physical science – 13, (b) biological science – 10, (c)mathematics – 12, (d) gifted education – 3, (e) counselors – 2, and (f) Project Lead The Way – 1.The Overland Park workshop participants represented 12 school districts, mainly in thenortheastern

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogies 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan F. Campanile, Illinois Institute of Technology; Frederick Doe, Illinois Institute of Technology; Elana Rose Jacobs, Illinois Institute of Technology; Norman G Lederman, Illinois Institute of Technology; Eric M Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

Students in Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Research ExperiencesAbstract This study investigated a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at aMidwest research university that had two community college student participants in the summerof 2012. In the 10-week summer program, under the supervision of a faculty member, thecommunity college students were paired with a graduate student and an experiencedundergraduate researcher to work on a biomedical engineering research project. The researchquestion of this study was, “What do community college students’ gain from an undergraduateresearch experience?” As this was the first year community college students participated in theREU, a case study approach was used

Conference Session

Panel: Opportunities & Methods to Encourage More Women Toward Research Commercialization

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Babs Carryer, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Abby Thompson, Mississippi State University ; Louise C. Dunlap, DunlapBrowder

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation, Women in Engineering

training at the National Collegiate Inventors and In- novators Alliance (NCIIA). Babs is a serial entrepreneur and active in multiple entrepreneurial activities. She blogs about entrepreneurship on New Venturist. Babs taught entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for 15 years, where she maintains an adjunct position. Formerly, Babs was embedded entrepreneur for CMU’s Project Olympus and innovation advisor for CMU’s Institute for Social Innova- tion. For seven years at the University of Pittsburgh, Babs taught the Benchtop to Bedside new technology commercialization course. Babs is President of Carryer Consulting and co-founder of LaunchCyte, which has a portfolio of five companies. Babs has a Masters in

Conference Session

Engineering Identity 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine E Winters, Virginia Tech; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT); Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

skills.Framework and Situation in Current LiteratureOverall our research project is broadly situated in social cognitive career theory (SCCT) 6. Thistheory suggests that a variety of factors contribute to career choices. Of particularly importancein the SCCT model is the role of self-efficacy beliefs. In accordance with SCCT, self-efficacybeliefs are an individual’s beliefs with regard to their capability to succeed in a particular career6 , in this case engineering. People with positive self-efficacy beliefs regarding engineering aremore likely to pursue a career in engineering. However, before we can begin to understandengineering self-efficacy beliefs as they relate to career choice, we must understand what itmeans to be an engineer what types of

Conference Session

Creating and Maintaining Effective Communication Learning in the Curriculum

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark W. Milke P.E., University of Canterbury; Creon Upton, Unaffiliated; Glen F Koorey, University of Canterbury; Aisling Dominique O'Sullivan Ph. D., University of Canterbury; Keith Comer, Chalmers University of Technology

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Civil Engineering

the University of Canterbury. Prior to joining Canterbury in 2004, he worked for ten years as a transportation engineer and traffic researcher for Opus International Consultants. Dr. Koorey’s wide- ranging experience includes considerable research and consulting work on road safety modelling, speed management, sustainable transport planning, crash analysis, and the design and operation of rural two- lane highways. At Canterbury, he has taught professional design project courses since 2006. He has also delivered oral and written presentation skills to students for many years.Prof. Aisling Dominique O’Sullivan Ph. D., University of CanterburyDr. Keith Comer, Chalmers University of Technology

Conference Session

Computing in the classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan R. Goyings, Civil & Mechanical Engineering Department at The United States Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy, West Point; Bobby G Crawford, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Education, 2013 iPads in the Engineering Classroom – Boon or Bane?Introduction As iPads and similar touch-screen devices continue to flood the market, engineeringprograms are seeking to integrate these platforms into student education. With total marketpenetration of perhaps 125 million iPads sold to date and nearly half a billion smartphones (allbrands) shipped in 2011 alone1 for a total of just over 1 billion smartphone users currentlyholding active accounts worldwide2, the transition to highly-mobile touch screen computing isupon us. Further, the Pew Internet and American Life Project estimates that 66% of thosebetween 18 and 29 years old own smartphones, with the likelihood of ownership increasing withhigher incomes3