Conference Session

iSTEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Heil, David Heil & Associates, Inc.; Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering; Susan E. Burger, David Heil & Associates, Inc.

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

tech- nology education content standards developed by the International Technology Education Association.Dr. Susan E. Burger, David Heil & Associates, Inc. Susan Burger, Ed.D., leads the Research & Evaluation Division at David Heil and Associates, Inc. (DHA). Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, she plans and administers evaluations and research stud- ies for a range of non-profit, corporate, and government agency clients, including the National Science Teachers Association; the National Academy of Engineers; and a number of NSF, NIH, and NOAA- funded projects. Prior to working at DHA, Burger conducted evaluation studies in the Pacific Region and was a member of the Graduate Faculty at the

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education Cross-Cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudio da Rocha Brito, Science and Education Research Council; Melany M. Ciampi, Safety, Health and Environment Research Organization; Rosa Maria Castro Fernandes Vasconcelos, Universidade de Minho; Luis Alfredo Martins Amaral P.E., University of Minho; Victor Freitas de Azeredo Barros, Science and Education Research Council

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International

supply thecomprehensive understanding swiftly transforming field demands. It is a full-time PhD programthat lasts two years, offering classes conducted on an undergraduate-type schedule.It has a curriculum that addresses the time-crunch problem by integrating professional practicesinto the technical curriculum — that is, professional practices are contextualized in engineeringin ways that reinforce and strengthen students’ understanding and their ability to apply thatunderstanding to address engineering problems. Throughout their graduate program, studentswork to master the engineering body of knowledge and simultaneously become skillfulcommunicators, ethical decision makers, team leaders, creative thinkers and problem solvers.Today, engineers

Conference Session

Design Teamwork

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Cory Brozina, Virginia Tech; Benjamin David Lutz, Virginia Tech; Jintana Nina Phanthanousy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Design in Engineering Education

was originally designed, it doesrepresent an ambiguous, ill-defined environment in which faculty encounter a range of projects,personalities, and skill levels, and must often act in the moment to make quick decisions on classmanagement and pedagogical approaches throughout a class period or team meeting10, 11. Givenits successful use in engineering education by Sattler and Turns, CDM was used in the study tosolicit details of faculty practices that address both content and tacit knowledge within a givensituation, and explore how the knowledge was used to address the situation7.CDM employs a semi-structured, case based interview protocol in which the interviewer guidesthe participant in selecting an incident, providing a detailed account of

Conference Session

First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Zahorian, Binghamton University; Mike Elmore, Binghamton University; Kyle J. Temkin, Binghamton University

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First-Year Programs

major selection process: (1) Personal AcademicInterests; (2) Potential for Societal Contributions; and (3) Job Prospects. Students also had ahigh degree of support for “Decision Before Freshmen Program.”IntroductionAs at many universities, Binghamton University has a common first year for engineeringmajors. Binghamton University is a medium sized state-supported comprehensive university,with approximately 12,000 undergraduate students and 3000 graduate students . Engineeringdisciplines within the college of engineering and sciences include bioengineering (BE), computerengineering (CoE), electrical engineering (EE), industrial and systems engineering (ISE), andmechanical engineering (ME). Students with initial interest in any of these

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the advantage of doing so in thecontext of a global service learning program has been addressed by Shuman, Besterfield-Sacre & McGourty.6 Recent publications have reported on studies of portfolios used byundergraduate engineering students with regard to making personal sense of anddeveloping a professional identity for engineering as a career (Eliot & Turns7), whatconcepts students reveal about engineering as indicated by their written reflective entries(Dunsmore, Turns & Yellin8), and the development of self-awareness related to life-longlearning (Sattler, Kilgore & Turns9). Eris has proposed the portfolio as a way ofexternalizing the learning process of an engineering student, with the potential to promotedivergent inquiry

Conference Session

FPD 7: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part II: Perceptions and Paradigms

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University; Burford J. Furman, San Jose State University; Ping Hsu, San Jose State University; Patricia R Backer, San Jose State University

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First-Year Programs

students are different than the 2002 students. The students come to the universityknowing more about what engineers do and having more developed teamwork and technicalskills. This is an important consideration in evaluating the importance of the wow factor onoverall retention rates.Assessment of the “Wow Factor”A survey was administered to students who completed ENGR 10 during the previous 18 months,which explicitly explored why students originally chose engineering as a major, whether theyintend to continue in the major, and what factors were important in their decisions. The surveywas founded on work done by the NSF-funded Assessing Women and Men in EngineeringProject13 (AWE). The AWE project has developed assessment instruments for K-16

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

if one looks closely, one will discoverthat engineering faculty are sometimes more critical of what is presented to them than theircolleagues in English. As we look at thesis after thesis and dissertation after dissertation we see amass of red marks, most of which pinpoint writing deficiencies not technical deficiencies. Yes,these are one-on-one encounters with a graduate student and a faculty member and do not reflect thenumbers of students in an undergraduate course, but they do reflect on particular communicationissues that can be mentioned to undergraduates about their own writing. Students listen to theirtechnical faculty and when one says that writing is important, it means a great deal more than whenan English teacher makes the same

Conference Session

Secondary (6-12) Outreach

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ethan Alexander Peritz, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Morgan M Hynes, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

university students and faculty withopportunities for outreach and community involvement, incorporating a rare service record intothe heavily prescribed collegiate engineering track. In this paper, we discuss these issues as wellas the focus on engineering as more than a career path for students who are in accelerated mathand science programs, stressing the importance of the social functions and components ofengineering projects. We will also describe the four-year track that constitutes the “pre-engineering” program as an intentional progression from basic knowledge of structure, materials,and drafting to complete ownership over all components of an engineering service project in acapstone requirement. Each year builds an increasing awareness of

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron D Dempsey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

SPSU. The institution and faculty have used this component of boundary work as ameans of exercising Gieryn’s concept of expulsion where “boundary work excludes rivals fromwithin by defining them as outsiders.”53 The expertise of “applied” and “hands-on” educationalexperience has allowed the ET programs at SPSU to demonstrate their superiority overengineering. An ET faculty member writes They (ET degrees) train the students for real engineering jobs. They have hands on courses and students also learn computer packages and programs necessary for the jobs. Employers do not need to train the graduates. The graduates have found real engineering jobs because they have learned both theoretical and hands on stuff. The

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neelam Soundarajan, Ohio State University; Rajiv Ramnath, Ohio State University; Bruce W. Weide, Ohio State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

) greater interest in pursuing IT business ventures, and (3) more en- trepreneurial knowledge and skill than comparable students who do not participate in NEW- PATH? • Are NEWPATH students more likely to pursue IT startup career positions after graduation than comparable students? • Which NEWPATH program components are most critical at producing outcome effects?Quasi-experimental design: The outcome evaluation design consists of administering a pre-and post-test survey to each incoming cohort of NEWPATH students and to a comparison group ofstudents who attended the initial recruitment meeting but did not become members of NEWPATH,then administering a post-test survey at the end of the following academic year to both groups.The pre

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

learn about middle and high school engineeringcurricula, engineering career paths, the College of Engineering, and student preparation for thestudy of engineering. Teachers received 20 professional development hours and were eligible forone hour of academic credit. Travel, lodging, and meal expenses were provided along with a$500 stipend.The University Engineering Initiative ActIn 2010, the Kansas Legislature called for an increase in the number of engineering graduates tostimulate economic development. Industry leaders in the state expressed a need for moreengineers to support planned industrial expansion. According to the Center for EconomicDevelopment and Business Research, one engineering professional creates 1.78 additional jobs,and

Conference Session

Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Alex Kotlarchyk

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

academic background in biology and the environment, as well as computer science andengineering experience. The project included both graduate and undergraduate students so thatall could benefit at an early stage in their careers. The photo (Fig. 2) shows participants at anearly stage of the project gathered at the inventor’s residence for early experimentation. Figure 2. Early project participants Academic vs. Business Environment Michael Levine brings his entrepreneurial background to the project. As such, he isaccustomed to being surrounded by people devoting their full attention to his projects. In anacademic environment such single-mindedness is unrealistic to expect. Student participants

Conference Session

Global Competency and What Makes a Successful Engineer

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University; Miriam Regina Simon, Ohio State University

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International

engineering and those defined for all students of the University by the Office ofInternational Affairs at Ohio State University. The eight are: 1. Understanding of global cultural diversities and their impact on engineering decisions. 2. Ability to deal with ethical issues arising from cultural or national differences. 3. Proficiency in a second language. 4. Ability to communicate across cultural and linguistic boundaries. 5. Proficiency in working in an ethnically and culturally diverse team. 6. Understanding of the connectedness of the world and the workings of the global economy. 7. Understanding of the international aspects of engineering topics such as supply chain

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #7610The T-shaped Engineer: Connecting the STEM to the TOPProf. Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University Joe Tranquillo was the second faculty member in the new Biomedical Engineering Program at Bucknell University and helped build an accredited department with seven faculty and 60 undergraduate students. His teaching interests are in biomedical signals and systems, neural and cardiac electrophysiology, and medical device design. Nationally Tranquillo has published or presented over 50 peer reviewed or invited works in the field of engineering education. In 2012 he was a founding faculty member of the KEEN Winter

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hanjun Xian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

factors that influence their tendency to quit orstay in EER. Page 23.1110.2However, it has never been fully explored as to why among these newcomers, some eventuallybecome active contributors and even key players in the EER community, whereas some otherresearchers decided to opt out. Scholars’ decisions of whether to continue to pursue EER may beinfluenced by many factors such as faculty recruitment and reward standards, scholarlycollaboration, time limitation, funding support, awareness of EER fundamentals, andinterdisciplinarity3, 4. In this paper, we aim to provide an overview of scholar retention in EERand compare the academic profile of new

Conference Session

Best Methods for NEEs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James C. Squire, Virginia Military Institute; Turk McCleskey, Virginia Military Institute; Elizabeth White Baker, Wake Forest University; Anthony Evan English, Western New England University

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New Engineering Educators

interdisciplinary papers the authors have published with faculty from clinicalmedicine, bioengineering, finance, educational psychology, colonial history, business, sportsmedicine, and seismology. The paper includes five reasons to seek opportunities to applynumerical analysis to interdisciplinary problems, three common pitfalls of work in suchinterdisciplinary projects, and ten best practices for conducting numerical analysis ofinterdisciplinary problems.I. Reasons to seek interdisciplinary numerical analysis opportunities Interdisciplinary research often reveals low-hanging fruitAs a graduate student, one of the authors was the lone electrical engineer in a biomedical centerthat had a predominantly molecular chemistry emphasis. His specialty was analog

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lizabeth T Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Economy

review of time value ofmoney, investment evaluation, inflation, risk and return, financing decisions, corporateinvestment strategies, risk analysis and decisions incorporating non-monetary considerations.Historically this course was taught using an advanced text where the topics were coveredsequentially. A redesign of the course now includes the construction of a stock price predictionmodel for a company of the student’s choice. Through the model, the topics are covered anddiscussed in the context of the large model-building project. For instance, inflation is discussedwhen students collect historic data on the company’s performance and use that data to forecastinto the future. Issues of discount rate and variability in inflation become evident

Conference Session

FPD 4: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part I: Multimedia, Large Classes, and TAs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farshid Marbouti, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Hyunyi Jung, Purdue University; Alena Moon, Purdue University; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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First-Year Programs

Rodgers is currently a graduate student at Purdue University in the School of Engineering Ed- ucation. She is a member of this research team studying teaching assistants’ perspectives of their TA responsibilities. This team of graduate students with the help of their mentor are currently working on developing a survey based on these interviews to further this research.Ms. Hyunyi Jung, Purdue UniversityAlena Moon, Purdue UniversityProf. Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette Heidi A. Diefes-Dux is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Uni- versity. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Food Science from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Food Process Engineering from the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tolga Kaya, Central Michigan University; Kumar Yelamarthi, Central Michigan University; Brian P DeJong, Central Michigan University; Qin Hu, Central Michigan University; Shaopeng Cheng, Central Michigan University ; Steve Kettler, Alma High School; Daniel Chen, Central Michigan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

results will be given. Each projectwill be briefly introduced and outcomes will be shared. Finally, we will conclude with theoverall lessons we learned from this experience and discuss next summer’s plans as a result ofour analysis and self-reflections. We hope that our shared experiences (struggles,accomplishments, and mistakes, etc.) will help the engineering education community developmore effective relationships with K-12 by using the models we implemented.IntroductionOne of the biggest challenges for the engineering faculty in college is to teach the freshmen, i.e.students who have just graduated from high school. Student grades decrease in average due tothe transition from high school to the college. Engineering programs in particular face

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Penn State University; Victor A Atiemo-Obeng, The Dow Chemical Company (Retired)

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ASEE International Forum

Hydrometallurgy, Materials Processing, and Environmental Systems, Academic Press/Elsevier, an undergraduate-level textbook, in preparation – draft chapters used at Dept. of Chemical Eng., University of Toronto, Dept. of Materials Sci. and Eng., MIT (http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Kwadwo Osseo-Asare.html); K. Osseo-Asare, Chemical Principles in Aqueous Processing of Materials. Hydrometallurgy, Materials Processing, and Environmental Systems, a graduate-level textbook, in preparation - draft chapters used at UC Berke- ley. From 1998- 2010 he served as Editor-in-Chief, Hydrometallurgy, International Journal of Aqueous Processing. He has served as a member, Visiting Committee, Division of Materials Science and En

Conference Session

Challenges in Engineering, Models in Professional Programs, Capstone Design and Function Generator for Educational Environment

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russel C. Jones, World Expertise LLC; Bethany S. Jones, CQAIE

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International

. Whileboth agencies had previously flirted with international activities, neither one had accredited aprogram or college of education outside of the US and its territories. So in addition tomerging two accreditors and managing the implications of that merger at the federal, stateand institutional levels, an entirely new agenda is being prepared for offering accreditationinternationally. The double challenge is daunting. The law of unintended consequences,however, sometimes works in positive ways, as will be demonstrated in what follows.Over the past two or three decades many international students came to the United States toearn doctorates in education. These graduates then frequently returned home to becameuniversity faculty themselves, as well as

Conference Session

Classes in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

experiencesC. You are the user: mapping experiencesD. Activities to experience the meaning of simplicityE. Resourcefulness-based design: Making something from (almost) nothingF. Blue Collar designsG. “What’s in it for me” designsH. “Be there:” Empathy-based designsI. Designs that solve or re-solve existing problemsJ. Design QuickiesK. Use-based designL. Rethinking existing designs (“do not get used to…”)The meaning of user-based designThe following story epitomizes one of many that are being shared with the students. It is aboutdesigning a solution to an “unsolvable” problem. The story emphasizes the need to look atproblems and solutions from the customer’s point of view (web-ref 1).The plot deals with young gang members. The disobedient teenagers

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

features of the e-learning platform are the delivery of information and data, inelectronic format as didactical units e.g. courses, lessons and checking of the training results2.With this server-client approach our platform remains an open system for implementing newinformation in the future. The information – study area is adaptive to the user and the teachingcontents are listed in a tree structure, which enables easier orientation of the student during thestudying. The control and guidance of the students through the teaching contents has beenrealized using Petri Networks24,30-32. Each project user is able to log on to the server by simplyusing browsers e.g. Mozilla, Explorer or Netscape.Our system can be used for study of theoretical models