Conference Session

Assessing, Developing, and Enhancing the Engineering Experiential Education Experience

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emilia Andreeva-Moschen, FH Joanneum University of Applied Science, Graz; Adrian J. Millward-Sadler, FH Joanneum University of Applied Science, Graz

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

language (English),and a large practical component. Neither the industry nor the alumni expected thatBachelor’s degree graduates would be able to operate in research and development.Instead, they would act as assistants, laboratory or test bed supervisors, ordesigners; to be responsible for technical documentation or customer care. Only aMaster’s degree would qualify them to become fully fledged engineers who couldbear project responsibility and work autonomously on new technological researchand development.Two further questions were also significant in the design of the new curricula: How important and useful was the knowledge gained in a diploma degree of study for the graduates when starting their career? How important and useful was the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Lewis Millard

. Figure 11. Sample "Jetsons" ScreenV. ILM UtilizationThe prospect of using the ILMs in the classroom required us to rethink basic pedagogy. At Rensselaer, 5we have turned to the studio classroom for educational delivery. In this format, we eliminate largelecture classes. Instead, 40 to 60 students participate in sessions that integrate lecture, laboratory, andrecitation sessions. Classes focus on student problem solving, not on presentation of materials. Theinstructor acts as mentor and adviser in a classroom designed for hands-on cooperative learning. 6Rensselaer has successfully pioneered

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John Parsons

CreditsCH 101, 102 General Chemistry I and Laboratory 4 CH 201, 202 General Chemistry II and Laboratory 4E 100 Introduction to College of Engineering 0 ENG 112 Composition and Reading 3E 115 Introduction to the Computing Environment 1 MA 241 Analytical Geometry & Calculus II 4ENG 111 Composition and Rhetoric 3 PY 205 Physics for Engineers & Scientists I 4MA 141 Analytical Geometry & Calculus I 4 Physical Education Elective - Activities Course 1PE 1_X Fitness and Wellness 1Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahador Ghahramani; Stephen A. Raper

Systems in the U.S., Washington, D.C.: IVHS America, 1993.[8] K. Wark, and C. F. Warner, Air Pollution: Its Oriin and Control, 2nd ed. New York: HarpersCollins, 1981.BIOGRAPHYDr. Bahador Ghahramani Dr. Bahador Ghahramani is an Associate Professor of Engineering Management in the School ofEngineering at University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). Prior to joining UMR he was a Distinguished Member ofTechnical Staff (DMTS) in AT&T-Bell Laboratories. His work experience covers several years of academics,industry, and consulting. Dr. Ghahramani has presented and published numerous papers and is an activeparticipant and officer of various national and international organizations and honor societies. He holds a patent,“Eye Depth

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan K. Karplus

, MechanicalLaboratory Technician, Mr. Peter Bennett, Mechanical Laboratory Machinist, and by JasonMisiaszek in the recording of data.Bibliography:ALAN K. KARPLUSAlan K. Karplus is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Western New England College, Springfield,Massachusetts. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Tufts College, a Master’s degree from Iowa State University and aPh.D. from Colorado State University. He has been involved with the freshman engineering program, coordinatesthe senior mechanical engineering laboratory program, teaches Materials Science and supervises M.E. SeniorProjects. His interests include materials and design. He is a member of ASME and ASEE. He has contributed tothe National Educators’ Workshop and ASEE Annual Conference for several

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson

an accelerated training program offered at the Bettis AtomicPower Laboratory. The program is similar in level and content to a masters degree program innuclear engineering. All students entering the program have a baccalaureate degree inengineering, science, or mathematics. Approximately 21 percent of the students held degreesbeyond an initial baccalaureate degree in the eleven classes prior to the use of cooperativegroups. However, 50 percent of the students had degrees beyond an initial baccalaureate degreein the two classes in which cooperative group methods were implemented. Thus, a rivalhypothesis is that the observed results were due to the more accomplished student population.In the cooperative classes, the average grades on the unit

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica D. Hinton-Hudson; Brenda Hart

5-week, held consecutively, Saturday morning program, designedby the Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management faculty and some key JCPS highschool teachers for prospective Industrial Engineering students, with an emphasis onunderrepresented minority students. The program was designed to promote engineering andscience interests in African American students very early in their high school study of math andscience. In addition, the program, consisting of a combination of short course instructionalsegments, hands-on laboratory experiences and motivational and self-assessments, provides thestudents with a “taste” of the industrial engineering discipline.The Department of Industrial of Engineering at the University of Louisville offers a

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald E. Yoder; D. Raj Raman

the second semester, and have five studentsenrolled in Agricultural Engineering 433: Bioprocess System Design and Analysis. Only one ofthe five students has taken the previous semester’s offering, while the other four are new to theproject. Furthermore, one of the students is a graduate student. Classes meet three times a week,in two 50 minute lecture sessions and one 150 minute design session.The design problem statement is the same as last semester, but in light of the extensive workdone by the first semester’s class, the focus of this semester is on refinement of the design,including laboratory testing of some aspects of the design. The course technical content has beenexpanded slightly from last year, but with greater emphasis on applying

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne C. Christensen; Robert B. Roemer; Donald S. Bloswick

two basicways to include safety and health material in the engineering curriculum. One is by thedevelopment of elective and/or required undergraduate courses focusing on the engineeringaspects of product, system, and occupational safety. The second is the development of coursematerial which can be used by engineering faculty in "traditional" required undergraduate 8engineering classes. Rossignol and Hanes noted that the material to be integrated into existing 9classes can be in the form of lecture material, case studies, or laboratory materials. Dembesuggested that safety and health principles can be presented

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert E. Magowan; Azmi Bin Ahmad; Deborah Hochstein

product cost, and shorter product design and development time.” (Montgomery,1991). In short, familiarity with methods of experimental design provides engineers with yetanother tool to use to solve problems in a cost effective and timely fashion.Concepts of the Taguchi Method Taguchi developed a method of optimizing the process of experimentation in an effort toimprove R&D productivity and enhance product quality while working for the ElectricalCommunication Laboratories in Japan, (similar to our Bell Laboratories). While there, heobserved first hand the large amounts of time and effort being spent on experimentation andtesting and came to believe that through creative brainstorming the expenditure of resources inthis endeavor could be

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

V. Coppola; K. Powell; D. Hyland; B. Cosgrove; A. Waas; A. Messiter; Joe G. Eisley

software and laboratory technology into courses. 5. Introduce synthesis/systems/design perspective at an early level and reinforce it through later work. The “Aero Curriculum 2000” committee was charged with designing a framework for anew undergraduate curriculum for the department that helped the department accomplishits mission by addressing the goals and objectives listed above. While the college-wideCurriculum 2000 initiative instigated the formation of the committee, the opportunity wasused to design a curriculum that addresses issues raised by alumni surveys, industry feedback,the departmental review, and faculty discussions. Besides the inputs mentioned above, thecurrent curricula at MIT, GA Tech, Maryland, Ohio State and Purdue

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann D. Christy; Marybeth Lima

: homeworks, laboratory reports, midterm exam,individual student presentations of biological engineering applications, team design project, andother optional items of the students' own choosing. Two approaches were used for the designproject. Some students chose to work on a design project defined by the instructor; this year'stopic was the biological treatment of landfill leachate and directly followed a leachate collectionsystem design project many of the students had performed in conjunction with a local consultingfirm during the prior quarter's soil and water engineering course. The second design projectapproach was for the students to choose their own biological engineering topic. Each student wasrequired to complete one design project and make

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

P. David Fisher

modified and new ones would have to be created.During these deliberations in the fall of 1996, it became clear that the ABET-2000 document wassilent in a very important area. It made no mention of the need for Course Learning Objectives.We concluded that each key course in the engineering-student's program of study needed to havelearning objectives associated with it. While traditional course-catalog descriptions and coursesyllabi each has its purpose, they were not course learning objectives. Catalog descriptionsdescribe topics covered in a course. The course syllabi describe reading assignments, the flow oflectures/laboratories, grading policies, etc. Course learning objectives identify what students areexpected to learn during the course. The

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Howell, San Jose State University; Patricia Backer, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

this course appeals to non-STEM students. This courseemphasizes hands-on activities so that students have an experiential approach. The combinationof lectures, demonstrations, and short laboratory activities is designed to give the students amore in-depth understanding of the material. Since much of the class is focused on electricaland electronic technologies, the students should be able, after the completion of Engr 5, to applytheir knowledge to other technologies and technological situations in real life. Completeinformation and a detailed syllabus are available on the course website athttp://www.engr.sjsu.edu/thowell/E5.htm.Each unit has class activities, labs, and/or homework sets that require students to usequantitative and analytical

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah McCubbin-Cain, University of Kentucky; Bruce Tschantz, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

others. Consultant and advisor on dam safety to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (1986-2001). Chief of Federal Dam Safety Program (on 1-year leave from University of Tennessee), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Washington, D.C., 1980. Consultant and Advisor on Dam Safety to Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Washington, D.C., 1977-79. Hydrologist consultant (GS-12)to U.S. Geological Survey, Knoxville, Tennessee Branch, 1973-76. Sanitary Engineer (GS-11), U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Albuquerque, N.M., Summers 1962-63. Civil Engineer (GS-11), Engineering Division of

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Vaccari, Stevens Institute of Technology; Siva Thangam, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

, Page 15.78.3 irrespective of how it was acquired - in laboratory through experiments, by 2 generalisation of practical experience through measurement, by study of archival materials, or theoretically. This new information should contribute to the development of knowledge as well as to practices, and should be statistically or otherwise objectively documented. The new information should also be compared to the state of knowledge at the input, i.e. the period during which work on the dissertation was begun. It is recommended that the results of the dissertation be at least partly published or otherwise

Conference Session

Measurement Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Nelson, Purdue University; Alice Pawley, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

laboratory or it can be a metaphorical site such as a looselyconnected group of Internet blogs. To begin, social environments have three requisitecomponents: place, actors, and activities.2 However, the complex question already identifies bothactors and activities. In considering the question of “How do engineering education researchersresearch gender?” we asked a question that had “engineering education researchers” as the actorsand “research gender” as the activities. The social environment we choose to answer this Page 15.1343.3question must include both engineering education researchers and people researching gender.However, a researcher has many

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

AC 2010-858: NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN: A REPORT ON THE EXPERIENCESIN BOEING’S WELLIVER FACULTY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMKenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University Dr. Van Treuren is a professor on the faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Baylor University. He teaches the capstone Mechanical Engineering Laboratory course as well as courses in heat transfer, aerospace engineering, gas turbines, fluid mechanics, and wind power. His research interests include energy education and gas turbine heat transfer. He can be contacted at Kenneth_Van_Treuren@baylor.edu. Page 15.912.1© American Society for

Conference Session

Opportunities and Challenges in Developing International Engineering Research

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin McGarvey, Rowan University; Michael Panko, Rowan University; Michael Kerbaugh, Rowan University; Gabriel Posluszny, Rowan University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Anthony Cavalier, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

International

engineeringmeasurements as a common thread. The second semester focuses on the reverse engineering of acommercial product or process. Sophomore Clinic I combines a 1-credit multidisciplinaryengineering laboratory with a 3-credit college composition and rhetoric requirement and is co-taught by engineering, composition, and rhetoric faculty. The 3-hour laboratory for the course isa semester-long multidisciplinary design project, with an emphasis on parametric design.Sophomore Clinic II follows the same structure as Sophomore Clinic I, with public speakingtaking the place of the composition portion as the 3 credits of required technicalcommunications4,5,6. Students enrolled in the Junior/Senior Engineering Clinic work in teams tocarry out independent, open-ended

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Reisel, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Marissa Jablonski, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Hossein Hosseini, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Ethan Munson, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Networks Laboratory at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Hosseini has published over 120 papers in reviewed journals and conference proceedings, has received funding from NSF and industry, has graduated nine PhD and over 60 MS students.Ethan Munson, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Ethan V. Munson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he is also the Director of the Multimedia Software Laboratory. He received the M.S. (1989) and Ph.D. (1994) in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Munson is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, as well as four

Conference Session

Issues and Directions in Engineering Technology Education & Administration: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

isin a laboratory or project based setting. The bulk of circuit design should be left to the electronicssystem designers not technicians. If EET programs continue to place theoretical focus on thecomponents, one loses the big picture of the systems that they are part of. Today, electroniccomponents are arranged into basic building blocks and connected together to create morecomplex systems that eventually are marketed as products. These electronics systems areeventually headed towards architectures of digital cores and/or processing centers surrounded byinterface circuitry (i.e. ADC and DAC, voltage and power level converters and drivers, etc). Thisbeing the case, the product’s system functionality is what needs to be emphasized. A basic

Conference Session

Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Green, University of Maryland

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). Dr. Green serves as the Editor for the ASEE Entrepreneurship Division and as an evaluator for annual conference submissions. Prior to Mtech, Dr. Green provided business development and product management to WaveCrest Laboratories (acquired by Magna International, NYSE: MGA), an innovative start-up in next-generation electric and hybrid-electric propulsion and drive systems. At Cyveillance (acquired by QinetiQ, LSE: QQ.L), Dr. Green served in operations, client service, and product development roles for this software start-up and world leader in cyber intelligence and intelligence-led security. He provided brand intelligence, fraud

Conference Session

Mentoring & Outreach for Girls & Minorities

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Backer, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

theparents and children sat in quiet apprehension until we started the welcome ceremony. Only 21out of 25 students arrived; this would require us to call “alternate” students that would arriveTuesday morning. In total, 23 students attended the SVCC; thirteen boys and nine girls. Threestudents were African-American and nineteen were Hispanic. The average age of the SVCCparticipant was fifteen years old.Once the parents left, we led the students to the engineering computer labs to start their week ofcomputer lessons. We used the Engr 10: Introduction to Engineering laboratories for thisproject. In 2007-2008, the College invested over $300K in updating the Engr 10 laboratories.The Engr 10 labs consist of two adjacent rooms with computer workstations on

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

teamworking with the US Air Force developed Matlab models for thermal analysis of small satellitesunder high heat loads. The team presented their project at the 2010 Small Satellite Conference in(Do we know where this happened?). The team funded by Boeing worked at the Land Air andthe Space Robotics (LASR) laboratory. They developed calibration models for the Phasespacecamera and designed and manufactured hardware for testing Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV)prototypes.The Multidisciplinary Experiences for Undergraduates (MEU) was established in fall 2010 withfocus to expand the SEI and offer undergraduates multidisciplinary team project experiences thatcover a wide range of engineering applications. Currently, two MEU projects have been offeredto students

Conference Session

Technological Literacy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Lauren Aprill; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, and designsystems. The goal of the class is to help students who are not from engineering background tounderstand how everyday things work. This includes engines, electricity, magnetism,communication, manufacturing, energy systems, and other technological items such as phones,the internet, and other related topics of interest to the students. This class does include hands-ondemonstrations and laboratory exercises.Implementation of Concept MapsIn the Survey of How Things Work, the students carry out an exercise to determine the principleof operation of a technical system and then apply this knowledge to analyze a different butrelated situation. The exercise involves a ring thrower apparatus based on Lenz’s law. Studentsoperate the device and

Conference Session

First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan L. Hart, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

AC 2011-540: AN INNOVATIVE MECHANISM TO ESTABLISH POSI-TIVE ASSOCIATION WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR OF CIVIL ENGINEER-ING CURRICULUMMegan L. Hart, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng. Dr. Hart is an assistant professor in the department of Civil Engineering at Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO. Dr. Hart worked professionally as an environmental engineer in the areas of stormwater, wastewater and drinking water prior to joining St. Louis University. Her area of applied laboratory expertise is stormwater, geotechnics, membrane design, shallow groundwater and structural interactions including remediation, and structures with unsaturated soil interactions. Her pedagogical pursuits include the first year experience

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

ofimpacts and collisions [6].The impact process between a ball and a hard surface involves a change, albeit temporary, in theshape of the ball [1]. A frame-by-frame study of the pictures of bouncing tennis balls obtainedusing high-speed cameras (2000 frames per second) in our laboratory demonstrated that thisprocess consists of four separate and distinct phases: initial contact, deformation of the originalshape, restitution and recovery of the shape of the ball, and separation and takeoff [6]. Page 22.218.2In general, impulses that act on the ball during the deformation phase are different in magnitudeand direction from those that arise during

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Kirk Love, Utah Valley University; Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, University of Pennsylvania; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

Technology:The Rochester Institute of Technology has started a Woman in Technology (WIT) program in2003 to help retain female Engineering Technology students with the goal of increasing thenumber of female graduates of their Technology programs20. Their program consisted of foursupportive activities for the first three years: 1. “Study groups facilitated by adjunct faculty 2. Peer tutoring by juniors and seniors 3. Purchase of academic laboratory kits for the first and second year students 4. Support for students attendance at the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) national conference.”20Since 2003, retention of their first-year women students has increased from 84% to 96%. In2007, they developed a new program that consists of a

Conference Session

Special Session: Next Generation Problem-Solving

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Tamara Moore, University of Minnesota; Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; Andrew Kean, California Polytechnic State University; Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota; Jack Patzer, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University.Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University Brian Self is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Prior to joining the faculty at Cal Poly in 2006, he taught for seven years at the United States Air Force Academy and worked for four years in the Air Force Research Laboratories. Research interests include active learning and engineering education, spatial disorientation, rehabilitation engineering, sports biomechanics, and aerospace physiology. He worked on a team that developed the Dynamics Concept Inventory and is currently

Conference Session

The New ABET CE Criteria - Program Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Meyer, United States Military Academy; christopher conley, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy; Steven Hart, United States Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Cornell University (1980, 1983). He has served as a Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. In his 15 years on the USMA faculty he has taught a variety of courses in the civil and mechanical engineering programs, and has collaborated on research with Army laboratory personnel at ERDC, ARL and ARDEC.Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy Scott Hamilton is an active duty Army officer and Assistant Professor and Group Director in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the US