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

Sustainability, Diversity, and STEM in Contemporary Energy Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Amber C. Spolarich, North Carolina State University; Clair Ellen-Ann Wilson, RAMP-UP; Laura Elizabeth Ganson, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

assessment at the back of the Engineering is Elementary workbook, “Catching theWind.” [2] The students were sufficiently spaced to avoid cheating and the test tookapproximately 30 minutes.At the second meeting, the students were introduced to the engineering design process (asdescribed in the Engineering is Elementary workbook) and wrote it in their journal. TheGraduate Fellow then showed them a prototype of a windmill made from a milk carton,dowel, foam, popsicle sticks and index cards and explained the goal which was to seehow quickly they could raise the “bucket” (a Dixie cup) off the floor to the height of thedowel. The students worked individually or in groups of two or three to ask, imagine,and plan (the first three steps of the design process

Conference Session

Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Ida O'Connor, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Linda Young, MSOE School of Nursing; John D. Gassert, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

student life club.. As such, the projects are planned and organized from the States, but overall itis more of a hands-on,on, travel based commitment. This design was not created by chance, for thestudents’ intentions were predicated on the strengths of similar developed prog programs; rams; however,the design was tailored to meet the specific needs of the student body. Moreover, HWB isdistinctive in the collection of undergraduate majors involved. True, the founding members werebiomedical engineers, but their aim was to create a serv service ice solution

Conference Session

Tablet PC use in Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shreya Kothaneth, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Glenda R. Scales, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

technology.This prevents them from getting introduced to complicated features and/or software if they arenot yet ready.The IT team plans to use identify interested users by targeting specific users from those who‟veattended any of the Tablet track offered by the FDI. Once they are identified, the IT team plansto offer additional training to the faculty members. The IT team also wants to extend the use oftablet PCs to graduate courses. If faculty members are interested, the entire class could be loanedtablet PCs too. Finally, there is a four-year longitudinal study on currently on faculty membersand their instructional strategies. The results of that study will be analyzed and used to guidefurther actions by the IT team.References 1. Garland, K. P

Conference Session

FPD X: First-Year Design with Projects, Modeling, and Simulation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifford A. Whitfield, Ohio State University; Philip Schlosser, Ohio State University; John A Merrill, Ohio State University; Elizabeth Riter, Ohio State University; Kuldeep Agarwal, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

or competition; • Understand and map the design space of operational parameters and performance constraints relative to how students would go about their designs; • Develop methodologies to measure the energy efficiencies of such hybrid vehicles; • Develop several advanced energy hybrid model-scale vehicles that can be used to introduce the course material and train teaching faculty and staff; • Given the successful completion of the proposed project, develop a plan to incorporate the advanced energy vehicle design-and-build project into the first-year engineering curriculum.The short- and expected long-term impact of the AEV design-build project for the first-yearengineering students are to

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Design Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Reed, Purdue University; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, College of Technology, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

projects, with an emphasis on planning and design alternatives to meet cost,performance, and user-interface goals. One of the course requirements is the completion of theconceptualization and initial development phases of an electronic device that accomplishes astudent-defined task or solves a student-defined problem. Student projects are taken tocompletion in two subsequent self-directed laboratory courses, Project Design and Development,Phase I and II. The students who volunteered to participate in the study (n=40) ranged in agefrom 21 to 35, and most were white, non-Hispanic males from within the state, with nearly halfof them starting as freshman in the ECET program. The cohort included 1 female, 3 African-Americans, 3 Hispanics and 1

Conference Session

Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Corporation; Martina Y. Trucco, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Francisco Enrique Andrade, Hewlett-Packard Mexico

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

Center.These challenges are being addressed by asking the Government for a no-cost extension intoearly 2011 and by planning the research projects matching process with an earlier timeline, to Page 22.175.6be better aligned with HP Labs’ own internal research portfolio reviews.ConclusionsIn developing external research collaboration programs, HP Labs targets one or more of theour key outcomes of Open Innovation: bringing together minds, ideas and resources, while atthe same time bringing value to all involved stakeholders. GUAPO is also helping HPMexico develop a new operation with a high added-value to the company, thereby increasingits competitiveness as

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Linda C. Schmidt, University of Maryland, College Park; Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

not directly assessed orvalidated. Studies that have directly measured gender orientation have typically selectedstereotypically sex-typed tasks based on previous work on gender differences and thenvalidated those assessments on a pre-test sample. To illustrate, tasks based on sports,changing oil, and designing a tool shed were rated to be more masculine, whereas tasks basedon flowers, cooking a meal, and designing a store window were rated to be more feminine23.In addition, Wentworth and Anderson24 utilized pre-tested masculine (investment decisions),feminine (wedding planning), and gender-neutral tasks (advising a married couple on how tospend an inheritance).Given the discussion above, it is clear that design tasks can be perceived to have

Conference Session

Middle School Engineering Programs, Curriculum, and Evaluation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johnny Thieken, Arizona State University; Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

5481 4 31.16 1.119Have a positive effect on people’s lives 5493 4 30.53 1.120Problem solvers 5489 4 35.09 1.096Must be smart to get into the field 5482 4 31.83 1.138Builds, constructs, and makes things 5456 5 38.09 1.132Designs, draws, and plans things 5464 5 34.28 1.146Good at math and science 5470 5 35.92 1.141Hard working 5495 5 45.17 0.989As we examined words and phrases that describe engineers and engineering, we begin to see aclear distinction between

Conference Session

Knowing Ourselves: Research on Engineering Education Researchers

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie M. Gillespie, University of Miami; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Russell Pimmel, National Science Foundation

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Rubric Item Year All Sampled Funded Non-Funded Aspects of Intellectual Merit 2005 90% 100% 86% Organized plan 2009 92% 100% 89% 2005 96% 96% 96% Final product would enhance student learning 2009 94% 100% 90% 2005 82% 100% 74% Expected measurable outcome 2009

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsheen Mozammel, Purdue University, Calumet; Lash B. Mapa, Purdue University, Calumet; Susan Scachitti, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

meeting for NSDs redundant,reducing the amount of non value-added conversation regarding nurse and patient updates.ControlIn the control phase, the improvements that were identified during the improve phase weredocumented and thoroughly captured. A roadmap of solving the problem was established.Implementation plans as well as change management procedures were suggested to ensure thesuccessful transition of the solution to the team that was ultimately responsible for the process. Inorder to maintain the sustainability the gains made from the process improvements it wassuggested that the use of new technology and the implemented solutions be monitored by theNSD and results tracked in NSD’s performance appraisals.Project ResultsAfter one year of the

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Wayne Helmer; Damon Mobbs

Way high schools in the USA.Proceedings of the 2011 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for EngineeringEducation 7Figure 6. Dimension Uprint10RepRap is a 3D printer that is also called a “self-replicating machine” - one that anyone canbuild (and duplicate). The RepRap project was conceived and developed by Dr. AdrianBowyer, a senior lecturer in engineering at the University of Bath, UK. It has been describedas a “small manufacturing plant in your own home.” The plans for the RepRap 3D printerand detailed tutorials are available for free on their web site. The RP unit again uses the FDMmethod. See Figure 7. The parts cost about $750. It

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kenneth J. Fischer; Christopher D. Depcik; Lorin P. Maletsky; Robert M. Sorem; Ronald L. Dougherty

requested at the design review. Then,the emphasis shifts to ordering materials and fabricating a functional prototype. In particular, adetailed budget is presented at the design review, with the students ordering parts (afterinstructor review and approval or modification) early in the third semester. With respect tomanufacturing, students are expected to perform as much of the fabrication themselves aspossible with departmental resources while taking advantage of the Engineering machine shop.In addition, they must plan and complete testing of their prototype in order to evaluate itsfunctionality. Of course, the students must also generate a final oral presentation and writtenreport for their client and the instructor.Discussion of Advantages and

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Julia L. Morse

progression mayimprove their acquisition and practice of “ability to engage” skills across the undergraduatecourse sequence.Mourtos selected the following measures for the component of student recognition of the needfor lifelong learning: Proceedings of the 2011 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2 • Willingness to learn new material on their own. • Reflecting on their learning process. • Participation in professional societies’ activities. • Reading engineering articles or books outside of class. • Attending extracurricular training or planning to attend

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wright Brown; Kofi Nyarko; Kevin Peters

career paths in science, mathematics, computer science, engineering, education or seekprofessional employment.During the four-week period the girls partook in exercises and activities to cultivate researchskills. The girls showcased their research projects and technology skills through a PowerPointpresentation recapping their summer experience. The program objectives included: 1. Strengthening the mathematics and science skills using constructivist classroom methods and instructional strategies; 2. Adapting the curriculum and lesson plans according to the students’ multiple intelligence strengths; 3. Providing students with instructional technology to enhance learning through the production of a web page and a power

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Richard Y. Chiou; Michael G. Mauk; M. Eric Carr; Bret Davis

& S.S. Pande 2003, ”WebRobot: Internet based robotic assembly planning system,”Computers in Industry 54 (2004) 191–207.2. Melinda F. Robinette, Associate Member, IEEE & Rachid Manseur, Member IEEE, ”ROBOT-DRAW,an Internet-Based Visualization Tool for Robotics Education,”IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 44. No. 1, Feb 2001.3. Angeles, Jorge, “Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems: Theory, Methods and Algorithms,”Springer-Verleg, New York, Incorporated Date: 2002.4. SME – Machine tools begin connecting to the Internet Manufacturing, 9/2001.5. Higley, J., McLees, C., and Zahraee, M., “A Case Study in Laboratory-Based Online Courses – TeachingCNC Programming,” Proceedings of IMECE’03 2003 ASME International Mechanical Engineering

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Tony Kerzmann; Gavin Buxton; Maria V. Kalevitch

nation to fully embrace a clean energy future.Now, that means continuing our unprecedented effort to make everything from our homesand businesses to our cars and trucks more energy-efficient. It means tapping into ournatural gas reserves, and moving ahead with our plan to expand our nation’s fleet ofnuclear power plants. It means rolling back billions of dollars of tax breaks to oil companiesso we can prioritize investments in clean energy research and development.”Obama’s words ring loud and clear in the Pittsburgh area. There has been an economicboom in the Pittsburgh area that is directly related to the Marcellus Shale natural gas wells. 112In a recent study done by researchers at Penn State

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Carol Siri Johnson

of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers. These changes in divisions and disciplines were accompanied by changes in thesociety’s structures and publication processes. In 1942 a new publishing plan was created:seven subsidiary Publications Committees were developed to decentralize the society bothgeographically and by discipline. The papers were vetted by the local expert committeesand the by a main publications committee that would create a “uniformity of standards andan equitable balance in the allotment of publication space and financial resources ofvarious groups.” (p. 439, 1947). In the bound volumes of TAIME, all published papers weremixed – no attempt was made to organize them into fields or divisions until 1927

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Barrie Jackson

is fundamental to many aspects of engineering.Chemical process design depends to a great extent on project planning, economics, regulatorycompliance and fundamentally Process Safety and Loss issues. A capstone design course isusually quite labour intensive for faculty and is best conducted by someone with extensiveexperience in the design field. This assessment of how change over the years has resulted in curricula that in my view isunbalanced, where fundamental science seems to have crowded out the issues of ProfessionalSkills. This then brings up the question of increasing competition in the field of EngineeringEducation. There is a question that I often ask myself. “What are we doing that can’t be done in a“trade

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

Higher Education,” Center for learning and Teaching Excellence, http://clte.asu.edu/active/clinhighed.pdf12 Kohn, Alfie Kohn, “Punished by Rewards. The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes” (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993 / 199913 Aronson, Elliot, History of Jigsaw, Social Psychology Network, http://www.jigsaw.org/history.htm14 Mel Silberman, Active Learning to Teach Any Subject, P 111, Allyn and Bacon199615 Criteria for Evaluating Engineering Technology Programs, ABET, 2011-2012 http://www.abet.org/Linked%20Documents-UPDATE/Criteria%20and%20PP/T001%2010-11%20TAC%20Criteria%2011-3-09.pdf 46216 Prince, M., “Does Active Learning Work? A

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bhavna Sharma; Birdy Reynolds

618The required deliverables included:a) a proposal letter written to the principal of a school to propose use ofthe module in a class; b) a detailed outline of the module, which also served as a teaching plan; c) anassessment tool(s); and d) a presentation and poster, which was presented at the MCSI summerUndergraduate Research Program (URP) symposium. Through iterative design, the interns refinedtheirmodules and associated materials to achieve the final product. The interns were given the flexibility to workon the deliverables in any order, while the deadlines remained fixed. In addition to the green building tour, thestudents also participated and interacted with undergraduate and graduate students in several activities overthe five weeks

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Nicholas Monsu; Kevin Timko; William Caracciolo

winds that could potentially move the rig and damage the drilling equipment.After the oil rig motion problem was solved, drilling could be planned. The drillingprocess uses a drill bit that pumps water down through the pipe, and as the bit chewsfurther into the ground, the water exits the bottom of the pipe. This water that is nowtravelling up the shaft, outside of the pipe but inside the newly drilled hole, carries theremoved soil out of the well being drilled and onto the ocean floor. A blowout preventeris installed during the process to control the pressure build up in the drill lines and releasethe pressure when necessary to prevent an uncontrollable rush of gas or oil to the surfaceof the water. Copyright ASEE Middle

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Scott Bronikowski; Christopher Lowrance; Kenneth Viall

todetermine their own level of success in our courses. Certainly, we strongly encourage andmotivate our students to devote time to studying outside the classroom and offer our personalassistance if they encounter any problems. However, if they fail to take advantage of theseopportunities, then their grade will accurately reflect their level of commitment to the course.For future study, we plan to continue the longitudinal study with the selected courses and assessthe trends on final exam grades and instructor time. Our institutional survey results of allstudents will be analyzed with targeted questions related to the use of cadet time, theeffectiveness of the quiz method, and student preference for the method versus traditionalhomework assignments

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kalyan Mondal

April 29-30, 2011, Farmingdale State College, SUNYmany functions (resp. direct port program lines) are actually recoded by direct port programming(resp. using functions). We have not mechanized the speed of coding in this assessment yetwhich is planned for the future.3. Conventional Timing versus Interrupt Based Designs: This outcome is assessed by providingstudents a functional program that uses “delay” functions and conventional looping techniqueand asking them to convert it using real time interrupt or some other appropriate clock-timerbased interrupt mechanism. Many students find this code conversion challenging and first timeassessment results in poor score. The score improves by the time of final examination afterstudents have done

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Stacy Gleixner; Elena Klaw PhD; Patricia Backer

planning, implemention and evaluation of the project; developing outcome measures;and documenting, analyzing and interpreting outcome data.Renewable Energy Engineering Class Service Learning Project DetailsThe students go through several milestones throughout the semester for the Renewable Energyservice learning project. First, the students are assigned to a renewable energy technology (suchas solar cells or wind power). Students are surveyed on their preferences and teams are assignedthat balance the student’s choice while also diversifying student majors and level(undergraduate/graduate). Next, students individually write an overview of the technology thatreferences at least three media articles. The goal of this assignment is to build in each

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Fariborz M. Tehrani

and practice experiences include structural analysis and design, earthquake resistant design, building materials and construction, road and bridge design, and project management. His research on sliding seismic isolation resulted in a patented methodology, Sliding Foundation System with Safety Margin, which was applied in construction of a small building in 1998. He has contributed to the engineering design of more than fifty structures and infrastructures, management and planning of nearly $150 million projects, and several research projects and proposals. Fariborz holds membership of American Society of Civil Engineers, American Concrete Institute, and Engineers without Borders. He is currently an Assistant Professor in

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Wayne C. Pilkington

recordingsIntroductionLecture capture, the recording of face-to-face classroom lectures in digital format, and makingthese recordings available for asynchronous first-time viewing or reviewing by students, is animportant and beneficial tool for engineering education that has been in use for several yearsnow; but that has experienced a slow adoption rate. In the 2010 National Survey of InformationTechnology in Higher Education[1], a survey of senior campus information technology officersfrom 523 public and private colleges and universities across the United States, more than sixtypercent of the survey participants either “agree” or “strongly agree” that lecture capture is animportant part of their plans for developing and delivering instructional materials. However

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Matthew R. Stein

competition in which the winning device must perform wellFigure 3 Schematic of the course design project. on both days. Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  Figure 4 Best performing device, 2008. Figure 5 Best performing device, 2010.MilestonesInitial offerings of the course that trusted the maturity of senior level students to analyze requirementsdocuments and plan accordingly yielded disappointing results, perhaps not surprisingly. Top studentsperformed

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Biswanath Samanta

theirapplications. The students applied the CI algorithms in their term projects. In addition, an exploratoryproject to provide research experiences on swarm robotics to high school students was initiated. A groupof three simple mobile robots (Lego NXT) was used to study search and rescue operation. PSO was usedas the main algorithm. Figures 5(a) and (b) respectively show the two assembled LEGO NXT robots andthe paths of the swarm of three such robots [47]. Undergraduate students are also engaged as summerinterns for research experiences with university and external support. The author is working on offering asimilar elective course on CI at the graduate level in his current university. The offering of summerinternship is also being planned for

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Buket D. Barkana; Nelson Ngoh; Allen Cook

transmission of light raysbrought about digital imaging and seeing. Students realized practically how the convex andconcave lenses were used to correct myopia, hypermetropia as well as astigmatism and diplopia.Our original plan was to explain rather general mathematical principles of logic, algorithms andrecursion formulas used in computer engineering, and then illustrate these principles in light ofspecific content materials in the course. Our first meeting concentrated on truth tables, basicprinciples in Boolean algebra and elementary circuit design, with specific problems involvingsimple series and parallel circuits. For some of the students the material was a review, othersfound it a bit challenging.While all had backgrounds in various sciences