Conference Session

Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nestor J. Echeverria, U.S. Military Academy; Kenneth Scott Allen P.E., U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

Cross-disciplinary (18) Non-MSE only (6) 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 Figure 2: Breakdown of survey respondents’ results to the question, “To what extent did you learn something as a result of this project?” 1=I did not learn anything, 2=I learned very little, 3=I learned somewhat, 4=I learned very much. Page 24.8.7The quality of work from each of the 17 design teams, as reflected in their assigned grades, isgiven in figure 3. Once again, the results show that the quality of work improved as a functionof the percentage of

Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches in Construction Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suat Gunhan, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Construction

members’experience and capabilities but also their people skills are evaluated by owners. Team members’body language reflects both their respective role (superintendent, project manager, projectengineer, project executive, etc.) and their personality.Teaching MethodologyThe project delivery methods are first covered in a traditional lecture. In addition to theoreticalknowledge, students are also introduced to the Top Companies’ Lists of Design-Build,Construction Management at Risk, and Construction Management for Fee type of deliverymethods published by the Engineering News Record (ENR) Magazine8, 9. It becomes easier todeliver the content when actual data is incorporated from the industry because students are moreinterested with theoretical content when it

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

which the student design team’s memo presents design deliverables that are viable, elegant, and robust. Submitted work should be technically correct, yet also reflect a degree of down-selection and optimization that results from quantitative design tradeoffs (e.g., square versus round sections, hollow versus solid, best material selection, weight minimization). Velocity: A measure of the memo's communication efficiency and effectiveness at the paragraph- level. An efficient and effective writing style allows the reader to decode a document's message smoothly and at a speed in sync with the reader's ability to uptake information. On the contrary, poorly written streams of English

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Elizabeth G. Creamer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

the language used in each article to explain therationale for using mixed methods are included in the table, along with the category name. Only2 of the 16 articles contained no statement that could be identified to reflect a rationale foremploying mixed methods. Page 24.68.8 Table 1: Articles Using Qualitative and Quantitative Methods and Mixing PaperJournal Paper Title Year Why Collect Qual and Quant Data? Category

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 Group 1 Group 2 Group 3Figure 6 reflects the students’ view regarding the important question of this study and surveywhether “the mastering physics helps you to master the engineering physics concepts thecourse”. The majority of the students, about 75% felt that mastering physics helps them to learnengineering physics 2 concepts. Page 24.79.6 6 Figure 6 100 80 60 40 20 0 Yes NoConclusionMastering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Warren, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Chuang Wang, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

taughtbasic science in a more coherent way. The existence of various learning styles has also been well documented and multipleclassification systems have been developed. For example, the Felder-Silverman model12separates learning styles into four dichotomous categories: student learning can be 1) sensory orintuitive, 2) visual or verbal, 3) active or reflective, and 4) sequential or global. Parallel to thisstudent learning model, corresponding teaching styles are either 1) concrete or abstract, 2) visualor verbal, 3) active or passive, and 4) sequential or global. Evidence suggests that the currentstudent population has a diverse learning style. Therefore, the typical teaching approach(utilizing the abstract, verbal, passive, and sequential

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamiiru Luttamaguzi, Elizabeth City State University; Ka'Ren Ladoris Byrd; Akbar M. Eslami, Elizabeth City State University; Ehsan O Sheybani, Virginia State University; Giti Javidi, Virginia State University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

effective aperture area of the antenna, and  is the wavelength of the mean frequency ofinterest. Both TB and Fn are functions of direction. Accurate antenna temperatures are obtained bymodifying the step sizes while getting faster results. The rate of convergence in numericalintegration can be slowed down or even reversed due to a singularity at the boundary of theregion of integration in the integrand function or data.II. MethodologyThe recent development in computational capabilities, along with increased software reliability,made the numerical method and simulation approach more favorable. Examples of radiationpatterns can be used to evaluate the integrals that reflect different kinds of antennas, such astraditional versus a focused antenna

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary and Undergraduate Research in Engineering Technology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Weissbach P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Garrett LoVerde; James Bimber

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

appropriate documentation the car modifications could be accomplished during a semester Page 23.278.7 Absolutely. I tend to learn more working on projects as opposed to learning theory in a classroom, although this project would be impossible without previous microcontroller and programming experience in the classroom. I think this project reflects some current trends in the direction technology is heading which makes it valid and exciting. Projects near the cutting edge of technology make it possible for students to contribute in the future.Was the time spent appropriate? Yes. There was a large

Conference Session

Computer Based Grading and Learning Styles

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby G Crawford P.E., U.S. Military Academy; Lynn K Byers, U.S. Military Academy; Rebecca Zifchock, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

higher percentage of verballearners prefer MATLAB compared to their visual counterparts.IntroductionTheoretically, there are several different learning styles that can be observed in students. Oneway to assess these learning styles is to use the “Index of Learning Styles” designed by RichardFelder and Barbara Soloman2. The questionnaire assesses the students’ learning styles based onfour dimensions of learning: Active vs Reflective, Sensing vs Intuitive, Visual vs Verbal, andSequential vs Global. This study focused only on the Visual vs Verbal and Sequential vs Globaldimensions of the questionnaire. The purpose of this research is to determine the learning stylesof the students enrolled in Computer Aided Design, as taught in the Mechanical

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University; Devlin Montfort, Washington State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

materials.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program under Grant No. 0837749. Anyopinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material arethose of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.Bibliography1. I.A. Halloun and D. Hestenes, The Initial Knowledge State of College Physics Students. American Journal of Physics, 53(11): p. 6. (1985).2. S. Krause, J.C. Decker, and R.F. Griffin. Using a materials concept inventory to assess conceptual gain in introductory materials engineering courses. in Frontiers in Education. (2003).3. G.L. Gray, et al. The dynamics concept

Conference Session

Materials

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Kamal Hossain, Tuskegee University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Page 23.372.6Figure 5: CFRP Displacement ContourFigure 6: CFRP Displacement Contour Page 23.372.7Figure 7: CFRP Stress ContourFigure 8: CFRP Stress Contour Page 23.372.8Figure 9: CFRP Strain ContourFigure 10: CFRP Strain Contour Page 23.372.9The results of the finite element analyses, bending stiffness calculations, and torsional stiffnesscalculations are reflected in Table 2. The results of the steel frame analysis were as expected. Itexhibited the least amount of displacement and the highest resistance to deformation. However,its mass was the greatest. The mass of the aluminum-steel frame was substantially lighter.However, its resistance to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liping Guo, Northern Illinois University; Jingbo Han, Northern Illinois University; Andrew Wasonga Otieno, Associate Professor

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

anexcellent platform for the students to study the theory and explore different designs for the suntracking solar power system. After testing and verification using the simulation, a prototypesystem will be built in the laboratory.AcknowledgementPartial support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation's TransformingUndergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (TUES)program under Award 1140447. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation. Page

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Management

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

La Tondra Murray, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

defined in the context of four dimensions: spirit, trust,interaction, and learning as a common expectation5. Spirit represents the recognition that oneholds membership in a given group and reflects the bonding that emerges as individuals spend Page 23.396.2time together. Trust demonstrates the developing reliance that members have on one another.Interaction can be described as the degree to which individuals share more personalizedinformation to provide mutual support. Learning as a common expectation represents the unifiedgoal of the students and provides everyone involved with a focused outcome5.Ruth Brown’s theory about the community

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan L. Murray, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Terri M. Lynch-Caris, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

timely that the FE and PE exam specifications have been revisited to reflect changingpriorities within the profession. For academic departments to stay relevant and assist industrialengineering graduates to become PE licensed, modern curriculum should stay closely aligned tothe FE and PE exam specifications but not attempt to “teach to the test”. The paper concludeswith a discussion of how these specifications have been used to assess and update academiccurriculum.I. Background on Professional Licensure through NCEESThe National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) is a nationalnonprofit organization dedicated to advancing professional licensure for engineers andsurveyors. It develops, administers, and scores the

Conference Session

Integrating Curriculum and Labs in Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

weneed real-world skills and experiences. Page 23.57.5In order to modernize our program, we need to focus on both the curriculum and thefacilities. Strong industrial support in the form of money, equipment, and adviceenabled significant facility upgrades. Substantial amounts of faculty time and effortwere also required for curriculum revisions. Historically lecture and theory basedcourses, have been dramatically upgraded to reflect the concepts and skill sets need bytoday’s graduates.OutcomesUniversity administrators routinely visit the project based problem solving learningenvironment with distinguished guests to highlight the innovative learning

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Julie Ann Lorah, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

of the PACE surveys and the publication of the CTC report in 2008 results in aninteresting natural experiment. This paper examines changes at the PACE schools from 2008 to2012 specifically around survey items about perceptions of the engineering field, and perceptionsof flexibility in engineering. These particular items were thought to reflect the ideas in the CTCmessaging. The paper describes the activities at the schools that saw key improvements on theCTC related survey items, and those schools that did not see as many improvements. This Page 23.77.2research paper provides evidence of the influence of the CTC interventions at the PACE

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas E. Pinelli, NASA Langley Research Center; Cathy W. Hall, East Carolina University; Kimberly Marie Brush, NASA Langley Research Center; Jeannine B. Perry, Continental Research Associates, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

professionals.23,24,25 Some of the areas included are: oral communication, writtencommunication, science, mathematics, ethics/social responsibility, teamwork/collaboration,creativity/innovation, information technology application, professionalism/work ethic, self-direction, analytical thinking, reading comprehension, and critical thinking/problem solving.These go beyond basic knowledge in one’s area of expertise and reflect important skillsnecessary in today’s workforce as well as the workforce of tomorrow.23,25,26 These also representareas of weaknesses frequently cited by human resource personnel and senior executives withrespect to new college hires.24 There is definitely a need to provide opportunities for students todevelop these skills and to

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala; Mary Clare Robbins

and may need some clarification the next time thecourse is taught. Five questions had more than 10% of the students respond incorrectly. Thesequestions reflected the topics of: • when a student could repeat a course, • the number of departments and majors within the College of Engineering, • requirements for matriculation, and • understanding of their responsibility towards meeting prerequisite course requirements. Table 7: Assessment Findings and Improvement to Program Based on Outcome 6 Outcome 6: By the end of the semester, students will be able to discuss resources and opportunities on campus that assist in student’s goals. Assessment Findings

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Powers

knowledge into a project-based curriculum that meets the needs of the teachers, while also exciting the students.Lecture/workshops include: team work; components of an effective class and teacher; projectplanning and management; problem solving process; inquiry based learning, deductive/inductivelearning; creating unit/lesson plan; defining learning objectives; incorporating mentoring intoprogram; NYS standards and science exam; and, assessment techniques. Journals are used toencourage the fellows to reflect on their learning and own educational experiences. Anevaluation of the program by both Clarkson students and their partner teachers indicated that thistraining was appropriate for the students to enter the classroom as professional scientists

Conference Session

Computers in ME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Davin Swanson; Christopher Lynch

photo, a new page loads, shown in Figure 2. Now the image of thewaveform on the screen has changed, and the oscilloscope screen reflects the change in resolution(from 500mV/div to 1V/div). Page 8.1301.4Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1: Oscilloscope WebLab – Vertical Resolution Adjust – Before Figure 2: Oscilloscope WebLab – Vertical Resolution Adjust - AfterFigure 3 shows a page from the WebLab used for a system dynamics lab involving the study offorced and unforced response of a mass

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sivakum Venkatanarayanan; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

ion neutralization Raster scan ‘beating’At present, these fault conditions are based on straightforward variations of inputconditions. However, the goal is to link the menu to real-world experience and reflect thetypical incidence of faults. This contribution will come from our industry advisors. Page 8.634.8Proceedings of the 2003 American society for Engineering Eucation. Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education4. Applications and conclusionsCurrently, the MTF does not possess an ion implanter. If we need implantation fordevice fabrication, it is more cost effective to buy the service

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Debra Fowler; Jefferey Froyd; Don Maxwell

scores on theLASSI scales. Additional research could help to determine if the students are really notprogressing in their capacity for lifelong learning. Then if the students are truly not getting betterat the skills projected to increase the capacity for lifelong learning, one could further determinewhat interventions might be effective in changing this trend.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grantnumber 9802942. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.The author(s) would like to thank Eric Sandt for offering his freshman engineering

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Christe

only plausible and attractive alternatives as incorrect response choices. Good response choices are those that can help pinpoint student's knowledge. It is therefore best to include choices that reflect common misconceptions or errors in logic. Furthermore, when choices are obviously incorrect they are, for all practical purposes, not real choices. • Avoid giving clues to the correct option. Clues can take many forms: inconsistencies in grammar, sentence lengths, structure or style; use of words such as 'always' or 'never'; presenting exhaustive opposites; answers to other questions on the exam, to name a few. • Avoid interdependent items where the answer to one item is necessary to

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nikolai Dechev; William Cleghorn

. The constraints are added to limit the number of correctsolutions to the problem, and reflect real world constraints for similar mechanisms. For example, forthe automobile convertible top project, the problem specifies that the mechanism is to begin in the‘fully extended’ configuration shown in Figure 7. However, when ‘fully collapsed’, the mechanismmust fit within a region of specified position, length and width, as illustrated by the dashed rectanglein the lower right hand side of Figure 7. Figure 8 illustrates a typical student solution to the problemgiven in Figure 7. In addition to the completion of the computer simulation, each student is asked to submit a twoto three page report, in which they are asked to comment on the process of

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Bernal

developmenthas reflected increasing interest in usability evaluation, which is generally performed on newsoftware and hardware in the development stages. The concept of usability evaluation is to enableuser validation of all the system’s requirements, assurance of successful interaction dialogue, and Page 8.833.1verification of effective work production. By ensuring the valid occurrence of these elements, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationusability evaluation enhances product quality and customer

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Henry Welch

by twohypotheses: Page 8.641.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3530 1) A student’s ability to self-assess is reflected in their course grade. (i.e. There is a relationship between self-assessment and course grade.) 2) Self-assessment becomes more

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hank Javan; Mark Rajai

Educationcontains fundamental and all even harmonics, in agreement with mathematical presentation.Next in part 2, we discussed the principle and operation of a Time Domain reflectometer (TDR).A block diagram shown in figure 5 was first illustrated, then the theory of determining the natureof fault and its location were discussed using following equations; Figure 5. A simple block diagram showing the principle of TDR zl - zc Γ =  (5) zl + z cΓ is the reflection coefficient and z is the impedance of load and the characteristic impedance

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammoad Saifi; Julie Wang

Section 2071 Effective Teaching Methods in Lower Division Engineering Programs Julie Y.-Z. Wang and Mohammad Saifi Potomac State College of West Virginia UniversityAbstractOur teaching/learning strategy is to develop effective teaching and active learning methods forlower division engineering programs and prepare students for transferring to a four-year schoolsuccessfully. One of the student learning attitudes is described as “Tell me, I will forget; Showme, I may remember; Involve me, I will understand.” It reflects the way whether students canlearn effectively or not. In order to get

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lin Li, Prairie View A&M University; Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University; Lei Huang, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliography1. Allen, I. E.; Seaman J., “Class Difference: Online Education in the United States, 2010”, Sloan Consortium of Individual, Institution and Organizations Committed to Quality Online Education, http://www.sloan- c.org/publications/survey/staying_course, 20102. Bell, J. T.; Fogler, H. S., “Virtual Reality Laboratory Accidents”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 20013. Valera, A.; Diez, J. L.; Valles, M.; Albertos, P., “Virtual and Remote Control Laboratory Development”, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, pp. 35- 39, February 2005.4. Chen, X.; Song, G.; and

Conference Session

Service as an Element of Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Rippon, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

could trainthe teacher candidates to facilitate one activity per month throughout the school year.After choosing the activities, the coordinator then set out to develop the curriculum for teachingthe activities to the teacher candidates keeping in mind that the activity must support the mathand science standards, demonstrate the engineering design process, and provide a fun learningenvironment for the teacher candidates that reflected the fun that they could have with their ownstudents. The curriculum had also to take into account that that the teacher candidates had to, inturn, modify the activity in order for it to be appropriate for any one of first through eighth grade.Teacher candidate trainingThe iTeach “hub” approach to delivering the