Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

adaptability in the design of engineering curricula. Page 5.571.3Some engineering programs here in the U.S., still debate the wisdom of the proposed changesgiven that: It worked before, nothing has fallen off the table, if it isn’t broke don’t fix it ,principles are non-changing, why should we. However, if the engineering program is viewedas part of a dynamic system and every thing changes around it, then it would be reasonable toexpect reflections of these changes in the curricula. Paradoxically in some nations of thepacific rim engineering programs are more aggressive in promoting rapid innovation and earlyspecialized training.ABETBy December of the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Mackay; George DeLancey; Richard Cole; Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard; Gerald Rothberg

-W. halogen spot lamp to simulate solar radiation and an infrared-reflecting film (tominimize infrared heating of the cells) add an additional dimension to the experiment. To Page 5.174.7determine the efficiency of conversion of radiation from the lamp into electrical power, it isnecessary to integrate the radial variation of light intensity over the rectangular area of the solarpanel. This is a worthwhile, practical, and non-trivial application of integral calculus. Theexperiment is intended to emphasize energy flow and conversions but is too early in the se- Halogen

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jasper L Steyn; Tobia Steyn

includes aspects relating to the social, physical and experience environment.· Information processing reflects on general and specific learning, summarizing and reading strategies, critical thinking and understanding strategies like the optimal use of sketches, tables and diagrams.In Table 5 the results of a step-wise regression analysis taking the fields of the SOM asindependent variables and the performance in the first semester calculus course as dependentvariable are given for the 2000 and 2001 groups respectively. Page 7.144.10 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Confere nce & Exposition

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Wild; Michael Ryan

thestudent’s “Introduction to Engineering” course grade. The first meeting is integrated intothe Opening Day program (described above) ensuring that contact is initiated. Studentsprepare a brief reflective writing exercise for this meeting that focuses on how they cameto be in engineering, and on their images of engineering. These responses provide aspringboard for conversation and provide mentors with an initial sense of how deeplycommitted and well informed each of their mentees is regarding the pursuit ofengineering. The second meeting takes place about one month into the semester. Thefocus at this time is to identify arising issues and help connect students to appropriatesupport resources as needed. The third meeting is near the end of the

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip McCreanor

Page 7.363.2industry. In a TDR measurement, a rapid rise voltage spike is applied to the sensor. The “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”measurement instrumentation then analyzes the reflection of the voltage wave. The shape andcharacteristics of the reflected voltage wave can be used to determine a variety of materialproperties including moisture content. In a TDT measurement, a rapid rise voltage spike isapplied to one end of the sensor. The measurement instrumentation then evaluates the timerequired for the voltage spike to arrive at the other end of the sensor. This arrival time

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Klegka; Robert Rabb

scale of 1-5,the lowest rating was 4.00 in AY99 for increasing the abilities to communicate orally and inwriting. The non-engineering students in the survey are the humanities or science students whotake a significant number of writing and reasoning courses. On the other hand, the non-engineering students recorded a high rating of 4.46 in AY99 for understanding the engineeringthought process, followed closely with a 4.44 for the ability to apply engineering principles.Additionally, exposed to the engineering design process for the first time, the non-engineeringmajors were not so confident with the process although they understood it. In AY99, therelatively high ratings reflect a high degree of acceptance, curiosity, and motivation

Conference Session

Technology Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Markham; Russell Thomas; Roger Debo; Angus Kingon

businessfor themselves; students seeking to join an entrepreneurial venture; students who wish to get intothe venture capital field; and students likely to become involved in technology management in alarge corporation.” These variants are typically reflected within the elective offerings. The electiveofferings, and in fact the entire flavor of the entrepreneurship program in a school, can also beinfluenced by the culture within the business school. For example, in some schools,entrepreneurship is strongly linked to the field of strategy, with a resultant strong emphasis on‘intrapreneurship.’A further point to note with respect to the teaching of entrepreneurship within business schools, isthe ease with which ancillary topics/skills can be included

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Feland

Thinking Styles 8The Johnson Conflict Survey assesses how students cope with conflict in teaming situations. Itprovides students with an assessment of their typical response to conflict in five paramountareas, Accommodation, Collaboration, Compromise, Avoid/Withdraw, and Force. Examiningthe balance of these factors, students can anticipate how their team and they themselves willreact to the inevitable conflicts that arise.The students aggregated their results into a one-page summary. This was done before the resultswere explained in an effort to limit the "gaming" of the assessments. In class the threeassessments were explained and the students were encouraged to share their results with teammembers. Then, as a reflective exercise, the students

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Masaaki Mizuno

attendants who tried to study VC++ through booksbefore attending the course. Many VC++ books on the market teach VC++ programming bygoing through hands-on exercise problems. Interestingly, their comments can be almostunanimously characterized by the following three points:1. They had difficulties in following C++ solution code in the books.2. By following step-by-step instructions in hands-on exercises, they could develop programs. However, when they tried to develop their own programs even slightly different from the exercise programs, they did not know where to start.3. Even though they managed to create their own programs, they could not debug the programs once they encountered bugs.The last two comments exactly reflect the instructor's own

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Scott; Robert Knecht

levels of theireducation and from various disciplines on campus have directly participated in the process ofcreating a noise abatement wall from recycled tire bales. As we write this report we summarizethe progress of the various teams and reflect on the value of the project to their overall learningobjectives. Two questions evolve from this project that focus our discussion on the relationshipbetween an authentic engineering design and the mission of the engineering design stem at CSM: Ø How does this project represent an authentic engineering design experience for engineering students? Ø What value does an authentic engineering design experience offer to engineering students and design courses

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitchell Neilsen

88 2 NA NAWeb Resources NA NA NA NA NA NA 65 5Students rated course processes using a 5-point scale – 1=Definite weakness 2=More a weakness than a strength, 3=In between, 4=More a strength than a weakness, 5=Definite strength. Percent Positive reflects ratings of 4 or 5; Percent Negative represents ratings of 1 or 2. Percentages may not equal 100 because those responding “in- between” and those omitting the items are not reported.1 Includes ratings of assignments and homework.2 Only evaluated in modules where labs were required.4.2 Student LearningStudents rated their knowledge prior to completing the course (2-6 items), amount

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

once in the curriculum, allow sufficient time for reflection, and be integratedwith technical courses. It is natural to extend these constraints to the teaching of all skills. Page 7.288.1 Proceeding of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationStudents have difficulty transferring skills from stand-alone courses to other areas, e.g.,transferring writing skills from English composition or even technical writing to engineering labcourses. They often cannot apply the skills in other contexts 2. Teaching skills as a

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shlomo Waks; C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw; Barry Lunt

Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)3 has identified a great need for ITworkers such as those described in this paper. They report that “The rapid spread of computersand information technology has generated a need for highly trained workers to design anddevelop new hardware and software systems and to incorporate new technologies. Theseworkers—computer systems analysts, engineers, and scientists—include a wide range ofcomputer-related occupations. Job tasks and occupational titles used to describe this broadcategory of workers evolve rapidly, reflecting new areas of specialization or changes intechnology, as well as the preferences and practices of employers.” and also “As computerapplications continue to expand, these occupations are

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

course include helping studentsfollow the process of invention from start to finish, through all the potential influences andfactors involved, and to do as much of this as possible through active learning techniques. Highpriority is also placed on helping students to develop enhanced interpersonal and intrapersonalskills, including metacognitive skills (e.g. reflection and self-analysis), and the appreciation ofothers’ creative behavior based on a better understanding of differences in creative style.4.0 Overview of Course ContentThe course content is based on two primary themes. The first theme addresses ten factors thatinfluence the invention or creative design process from initial idea inception through final designimplementation. These

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Brose, Hamburg University of Technology; Christian H. Kautz, Hamburg University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

are identified as moments due to a set of several forces, such that the resultant forceis zero while there is a (non-vanishing) resultant moment. Most often one considers two forces ofequal magnitude and opposite direction having different lines of action. The resultant force iszero, but a non-vanishing moment is induced (which can be calculated by adding the momentsdue to each single force with respect to a given point). The non-vanishing moment that arises inthis example is called a couple, or force couple, likely reflecting the fact that it can be thought of Page 22.792.3as the result of two opposing forces whose net moment does not

Conference Session

First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Kuder, Seattle University; Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

graded report is returned, their focus has likely shifted to the next assignmentand they may not even reflect on the feedback received. Peer-reviews were implemented in twoCivil Engineering laboratory classes: Mechanics of Materials and Soil Mechanics. The primarypurpose of these reviews was two-fold: (1) students were required to think more holisticallyabout their own writing and the writing process and (2) students were exposed to the technicalwriting process, which includes rough drafts, reviews and revisions. Students preparedpreliminary drafts of their reports and then exchanged reports with classmates for review. Thereview feedback from their classmate was then used in the preparation of the final report. Finalreports were submitted to the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine McComas, Cornell University; Nancy Healy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Page 22.851.3facilitating SEI research on NNIN users and technologies. It opens itself to outside SEIresearchers from outside the network for data collection, ethnographic study, experimentation,and other types of research. A fundamental objective of the federal SEI initiative is to developnational self-awareness and self-reflection regarding the impact of NSE research. We believethat this approach will allow for responsible development of this emerging field which has thepotential of influencing and impacting many aspects of society.To attain its broad-minded goals, NNIN has designed three primary activities to address SEI: 1)providing SEI education and engagement opportunities for NNIN users; 2) stimulating SEIresearch on NNIN users and

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott A. Curtis, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

several formatsthat other researchers have grouped under grey literature, as well as a grey literatureclassification (e.g. separate classifications for government documents, patents, technical reports,and standards). If these findings were combined, Eckel’s data would indicate that, for allMasters’ theses in all majors in the College of Engineering, citation of grey literature wasroughly 25-30% of all citations in the theses. Eckel was also able to show that Ph.D. dissertationscontained more journal articles, fewer web sites, and on average had older resources over a Page 22.876.5longer span of time than the Masters’ theses, perhaps reflecting a

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Arthur Brown, Penn State University ; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, this program is important because if students mistake “factual” claims as“value-neutral” claims then they will not be able to reflect upon the value-laden nature ofthe claims.However, the goal of the program in another way is quite modest because it does notpresume to teach students to evaluate ethical questions in depth. Developing in-depthskills to evaluate ethical questions raised by environmental controversies is beyond thescope of this program because there is not usually enough time in the courses that thisprogram targets to devote to teaching deep ethical reflection about environmentalproblems.The program also seeks to develop a teaching module that will allow transferability tofaculty colleagues, who are not trained in ethics, to teach

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Laboratories II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M Mativo, University of Georgia; Natasha Smith, University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

having thefreedom to engage through a thought process from theory, design, execution, and reflection. 1. In what way did this course enhance your learning of Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat Transfer? 2. What do you consider advantages and disadvantages of active learning (open ended) as have been done in this class? Advantages (Strengths)- Disadvantages (challenges) – 3. How would you compare canned laboratory exercises versus active learning process? Page 22.1005.154. How did the fact that you were developing an experiment for others affect what you learnt and how you considered your design?5. What type preparation did

Conference Session

Software Engineering Projects

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Reichlmayr, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Iteration Zero) that is needed at the beginning of the project to create the initialversion of the Product Backlog, develop the architecture or high level design and perform anyother activities needed to support the start of the first sprint. It is during this period that requiredproject artifacts and their content are identified.The Product Backlog is prioritized by the order in which features are to be added to a sprint fordevelopment. There may be a variety of characteristics influencing the backlog priority –business value, time to market, technical dependencies, etc., but the Product Owner is ultimatelyresponsible for the ordering of the backlog. The completeness of user stories in the ProductBacklog reflects their relative priority. Stories

Conference Session

Female Faculty, Learning, NSF, and ABET Issues at Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A. Koonce, Ohio University; Cynthia D. Anderson, Ohio University; Valerie Martin Conley, Ohio University; Christine Mattley, Ohio University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

than four-year institutions in the state of Ohio. Of the115 public institutions in Ohio, 36 are two-year institutions. We excluded all regional and branchcampuses affiliated with the major state universities, leaving 27 community and technicalcolleges. Next, we used IPEDS’ location variables to break down institutions by degree ofurbanization: urban (city large, city midsize, city small), suburban (suburban large suburbanmidsize, suburban small), and rural (town fringe, town distant, town remote, rural fringe, ruraldistant, rural remote) containing 8, 10, and 9 potential institutions, respectively. From this list weselected nine institutions that reflect different student and faculty demographics as well asgeographic region of the state.Once

Conference Session

Mentoring Minority Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine S Grant, North Carolina State University; Tuere Bowles, NC State University; Olgha Bassam Qaqish, North Carolina State University; Rex E Jeffries, North Carolina State University; Barbara Smith, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Page 23.8.6 program as intended and the program as actually implemented. The implementation of a program is reflected in concrete form in the program processes that it puts in place. An important evaluation function, therefore, is to assess the adequacy of program process: the program activities that actually take place and the services that are actually delivered in routine program operation (p. 170). In this work, the BMCA program fidelity is addressed by using onsite observations and aclear program description of program execution and delivery. In addition, empowermentevaluation approach is used throughout the evaluation process. Empowerment evaluation wascoined by David Fetterman in the early 1990s

Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Curriculum Development, Improvements, and Partnerships

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt M. DeGoede, Elizabethtown College; Momodou Jain

Tagged Divisions

International

the work we do with the local communities (see companion paper at thismeeting ASEE 2012). In far too many cases humanitarian service projects have resulted in littleproductive change, because of a short sighted vision not integrated with the community. 16 Thesetruths speak both to the project based learning activities in the curriculum and the developmentof the curriculum itself.The National Academy of Engineering supports this claim through the findings of their report onEngineering in the new century (The Engineer of 2020) – the alumni magazine for the Universityof Michigan reflected beautifully on this report: “Engineers in 2020 must…understand the worldand the problems people have living in it…good engineers don’t solve problems in

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Cross-cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt M. DeGoede, Elizabethtown College; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Momodou Jain

Tagged Divisions

International

) internship atthe site working for the partner NGO. One challenge for Stanford, and undoubtedly others, isthe burden of proof for meeting design requirements of the program to the satisfaction ofaccreditation requirements with service learning projects.Educational Goals can mislead aid. What is the priority? Putting the customer need first can bethe educational objective – reflecting real world customer driven design. Conflict betweeneducational goals of the learning experience and goals of serving a community was identified asa major factor in the failure of previous service learning projects. 4 This team also identified the Page 25.434.8tendency

Conference Session

Model Eliciting Activities

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Open-Ended Mathematical Modeling ProblemsI. IntroductionModel-Eliciting Activities (MEAs), a special case of open-ended mathematical modelingproblems1,2, can be exploited so that the inherent complexity and nature of a problem can beharnessed to promote effective learning across a wide variety of learning objectives. MEAs canbe used to provide first-year engineering students with opportunities to engage not only incomplex and iterative authentic problem solving but also guided problem formulation3, peerfeedback4, and reflection on team solution progress - all with an overarching emphasis on thedevelopment of effective teaming5 and communication skills.MEAs, which are a manifestation of the models and modeling perspective2,6, were

Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches for Software Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Colin J. Neill, Pennsylvania State University; Joanna F. DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Raghvinder S. Sangwan, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

(or team) mental model convergence4. While we have established thatthe collaborative model aids a team in achieving its purpose, we still wanted to test whetherimproved team outcomes also implied improved individual learning for each student. That is tosay, do the team outcomes reflect individual learning in the team members?The implications of this, if not the case, are broad. Grades assigned to individuals based upon ateam project would be inaccurate representations of those students’ true attainment and the roleof team projects would be questioned. Of course, one could still argue that provided a teamdelivered a successful product or project, one that is analogous to ‘real world’ software projects,the goal of the educational program is

Conference Session

Outreach, Engagement, and Undergraduate Research

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie Barrett, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

roadtransfer and they will have opportunity for reflection in their learning portfolio where they willreflect on three problems for high road transfer.Uncover the hidden game- Several strategies will be used to make the implicit explicit. Studentswill be given authentic tasks like the open-ended problem assessment for the third learning goal.In addition, I will use narrated modeling to help students discover the underlying rules of theproblems. Scaffolding will be used to help students to surface previously learned material that isrelevant to the problem being worked. Again, students will have a chance to articulate the stepswhen they present a problem as a group. Finally, students will be able to reflect on their processin their learning

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian M. Wade, U.S. Military Academy; Robert J. Rabb, U.S. Military Academy; R. Clayton McVay, U.S. Military Academy; Peter Hanlon, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

, for students to reference.Test Preparation Activity Survey ResultsNot all students have equal schedules, so time results were normalized to reflect the percentageof time students devoted to each activity rather than the number of minutes. Instructors compiledthis data from students and correlated it to the grades that each student earned on the exam.They then provided the compiled results from the entire course back to the students for them tocompare their individual efforts against the course averages. This was done both shortly after theexam and again before the next exam to help remind students of what they had learned from theprevious survey results as they prepared for the next test. Students were given aid in interpretingthat data, but

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenny L. Lo, Virginia Tech; Tamara W. Knott, Virginia Tech; Thomas D. Walker P.E., Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

. As a coordinator, encourage GTAs/faculty to gobeyond the normal teaching experience by discussing educational research and possiblyconducting an educational research study.Try to have weekly routines for GTAs to follow. In order to help prepare GTAs for theirupcoming teaching experiences, run the weekly “training meeting” as a workshop; have theGTAs do what you want the students to do. It is important to conduct short surveys or receivefeedback from GTAs to determine things that worked well or did not work well in workshops.This gets them in the habit of reflecting on their teaching and provides the coordinator quickfeedback. Also, provide opportunities to all GTAs through anonymous surveys to express theirconcerns regarding course (lecture