Conference Session

FPD5 - Teaming and Peer Performance

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arlisa Labrie Richardson, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

collegestudents whose high-school SAT math scores were at least 650 and who started their collegecareers in natural science, mathematics or engineering. The interviewees were selectedrandomly by the participating colleges and universities. Approximately half of those interviewedhad switched majors out of science-math-engineering (SME) programs by their senior years. Theother half of those interviewed were still SME majors as seniors and planned to graduate with adegree in natural science, mathematics or engineering. They found that the greatest contributionto the loss of students in Science, Math and Engineering fields was due to problems associatedwith the structure of the educational experience and the culture of the disciplines. They alsofound that

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Fluid Mechanics Experiments and Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Calvin Hsieh, Portland State University; Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University; Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

this flaw so that we can obtain a better measure of student attitude toward the inquiry-based and conventional laboratory exercises.Future WorkUsing the knowledge gained from implementing the inquiry-based experiment in the fluidmechanic laboratory class, we will improve the inquiry-based laboratory exercises for usesubsequent academic terms. Further analysis is required on the survey data collected for Fall2007. In particular, patterns of responses amongst subgroups in the study need to be identified. Inthe future we plan to conduct interviews with students to further clarify and refine the surveyquestions.Acknowledgements This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation underGrant No. 0633754. Any

Conference Session

Fluid Mechanics Experiments and Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MURAT OKCAY; BILGEHAN UYGAR OZTEKIN

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer - II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Philip Gerhart, University of Evansville; Robert Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University

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Mechanical Engineering

and I wish that I had been aware of the amount of information that would be covered in the course before I planned out my semester. I suffered in other courses as well as this one trying to keep up.”One student wanted an additional credit hour to adequately cover the current material, plus onemore credit hour to add more material: “There is way too much information to cover in 3credits. I think the class should be (5) five credits and cover more material.” Another studentsuggested an additional course in thermodynamics: “I think an ‘intro’ course might be morebeneficial than an extra credit hour to accommodate all the material covered. An extra credithour for examples is a plus too, but there is still way too much

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education

get involved in addressing Worked with campus climate action group, gotclimate change? involved in planning strategies and eventsHow can the college Bicycle Kitchen help to increase the use Worked with bicycle kitchen on campaign to offerof bicycles on campus? free bikes on campus (disallowed by public safety)How should a Design Clinic team approach ethical concerns Consulted with student team and participated inrelated to their project restoring a local stream and brainstorming about ethics concerns.ecosystem damaged in part by previous actions of engineers?Should the U.S. invest dollars in space when poverty, Letter to congressperson

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Philosophy of Engineering Education: Epistemology and Ethics

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gayle Ermer, Calvin College

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Liberal Education

these can be avoided in the future.4.1 Helios Airlines Flight 522On August 14, 2005 Helios Airlines Flight 522 departed from the Larnaca airport in Cyprus on itsway to Athens. Ground control cleared the plan for a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. A fewminutes later, the pilots contacted the company Operations Center to report an air conditioningproblem and a take-off configuration warning alarm. After communicating with a Ground Page 13.1312.7Engineer for approximately 6 minutes, contact with the aircraft was lost. The plane continued tofly on its programmed path to the Athens airport and entered into a holding pattern. Two Greek

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; Margaret Bates, Northeastern University; Brittany Damon, Northeastern University; Alison Reppy

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New Engineering Educators

implementation, lessonscan be successfully embedded into well-planned activities to illustrate and/or supplement the courselecture content to effectively educate students as young engineers2 and simultaneously challenge andinspire them5. However, with the current trend of incorporating more active learning into our curricula,we are mindful that a “one size fits all” approach may not be the best option to achieve the most successfor all classes and levels in engineering. This research sets out to identify the framework for aproportional profile of learning modes across academic levels in engineering, starting with the freshmanyear and tracing on through to the senior year. Strong correlations between the infusion of carefullyselected and implemented

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dominic Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Nicholas Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Robert Johnson, Oral Roberts University; James Wanjiku, Oral Roberts University

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Design in Engineering Education

engineer, and this is not a recentphenomenon. From ancient times, nearly all peoples have recognized the eutaxiological aspectsof nature and attributed it to some mind or deity. As philosopher Michael Corey notes in hisbook God and the New Cosmology, the eutaxiological argument predated the Christian religionby some 500 years. At that time, a Greek named Anaxagoras of Clazomenae was probably thefirst philosopher in the west to attribute the obvious order in the universe to the larger plan ordesign of a Mind. Socrates and Plato believed that in addition to providing the initial order to theuniverse, Mind also acted to sustain it at all times. Plato’s student, Aristotle, made the jump to

Conference Session

Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinay Kumar Domal, University of Western AustraliaUWA; James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

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International

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Special Resources and Activities for Minorities

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University

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Minorities in Engineering

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Engineering in Middle Schools

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Schnittka, University of Virginia; Larry Richards, University of Virginia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

on a well-defined set of concepts in science. All lesson plans include a final designchallenge. The middle school students must use the scientific and mathematical knowledge andmethods they have learned to design, build, and test a working artifact to achieve a goal.Teachers felt that improvements could be made with each kit to enhance student engagement andlearning, and some teachers enacted changes during their course of teaching with the kit.Teachers perceived that all three kits increased students’ engagement and learning in science.Students enjoyed each of the three kits, thought learning with them was fun, and understood theteachers’ learning objectives. Students thought that the best part of the entire unit was the designand

Conference Session

Tools of the Trade

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Niewoehner, U.S. Naval Academy; Craig Steidle, US Naval Academy; Eric Johnson, US Naval Academy

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Engineering Management

damage the strike might have caused,Intercenter Photo Working Group members alerted senior Program managers by phoneand sent a digitized clip of the strike to hundreds of NASA personnel via e-mail. Theseactions initiated a contingency plan that brought together an interdisciplinary group ofexperts from NASA, Boeing, and the United Space Alliance to analyze the strike. Soconcerned were Intercenter Photo Working Group personnel that on the day theydiscovered the debris strike, they tapped their Chair, Bob Page, to see through a requestto image the left wing with Department of Defense assets in anticipation of analystsneeding these images to better determine potential damage. By the Board’s count, thiswould be the first of three requests to secure

Conference Session

Creative Engagement and Developmental Tutoring Method

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Walden, University of Oklahoma; Cindy Foor, University of Oklahoma

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Minorities in Engineering

Conference Session

MIND: Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S.K. Sen, Florida Institute of Technology; Gholam Ali Shaykhian, NASA

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Minorities in Engineering

Page 13.871.16originally used to model population development in a fixed (limited) environment. In dictionary, the word “logistic” isthe adjective of the word “logistics” meaning “detailed planning and organization of a large, especially military,operation”.(ii) Consider dx/dt = ax − x3. For any value of a the origin is an equilibrium point. Itseigenvalue is equal to a, so it is stable for a < 0 and unstable for a > 0. For a > 0 there aretwo equilibrium points at ±√a. Both these equilibrium points have eigenvalue −2a so theequilibrium points are stable. A bifurcation occurs at a = 0 since at this value, theequilibrium point at the origin changes its stability type and two new equilibrium pointsare created. Hence it is called a

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to ME Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Turns, Pennsylvania State University; Laura L. Pauley, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University

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Mechanical Engineering

on an active-learning exercise, I found that many more students raised theirhands when I asked a question. In previous semesters, student participation in class was oftenpoor. To increase student participation in the past, I prepared simple questions to ask during thelecture, but asking these questions did not significantly improve student participation. Addingactive-learning components in Fall 2007 required some planning before class, but not any morethan I had done previously in preparing questions to ask the class. The resulting studentparticipation, however, was greatly improved when I added the active-learning exercises. Theauthors encourage others to also try these simple techniques to improve student participation andstudent learning