Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

perspectives:Analytical Outcomes, Application Outcomes, Interpersonal Outcomes, and ManagerialOutcomes. Analytical outcomes are most closely aligned with idea of subject matter knowledge.Application Outcomes reflect the graduate’s ability to apply knowledge to accomplish goals.Interpersonal Outcomes include several of the a-k abilities that reflect the team-oriented natureof modern engineering practice. Managerial Outcomes were specifically recommended byseveral members of the Advisory Board as being crucial to successful practice of the engineeringprofession. These generally describe abilities related to leadership and planning in anengineering setting. As the existing POs were sorted into these four perspectives, it became clearthat none of them were really

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

;punctuation with lists; and where does the punctuation go in figures and tables. A few grammarrules presented in the context of technical documentation to an engineering course at thebeginning of each semester or quarter will, in most cases, eliminate many of these mistakes.A third concern among readers of student text is the flat dull quality that comes from much ofthe text that is produced by students. This quality reflects a lack of flow in the wording, acondition similar to reading a list that indicates no apparent connection among the various partsof the list. This lack of connection makes a reader quickly begin to wander, sometimesbecoming lost in personal thoughts far from the actual text. The three items that may helpimprove all student text

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

tosurvey our students about their achievement of specific course objectives.On their course-end feedback, the students have been extremely supportive of completing open-ended projects, especially for a real client. Relevant data are provided in Figures 5-7. Fig 5shows CE489 (client-based projects course listing) student responses to USMA-standardquestions that relate specifically to the quality of instruction and student learning; nonetheless,we also believe these particular responses also reflect student satisfaction with the coursedescribed in this paper. Baseline values are averages for CE489 and USMA-wide responses. TheUSMA baseline responses have been extremely stable over time. Last year we had two projectswith extremely low scores on the

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

in maturation of team citizenship [3] and promotes reflective evaluation [10]. Student-basedassessments were taken three ways in the initial course offering. First, students provided qualita-tive mid-semester course evaluations and suggestions. Specifically, they provided feedback onwhat instructional methods are and are not “working” for them, which course topics have beenclearly understood, and which topics are still confused. Students were encouraged to provide sug-gestions to improve the remainder of the course. I adopted my teaching style as much as possibleto further engage the students in the assessment process. Second, students provided weekly quan-titative team citizenship and participation assessments of their teammates and

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

for common global grounds for quality standards, fair employmentpractices, and useful application of human resources goes on. That this section of thepaper is not longer is less a reflection on the importance of this theme than it is of the lackof real progress that has been made over the past three years.The social imperativeWhile students from around the world strive to acquire the strongest possible technicaleducation in engineering, some older hands persist in proclaiming that the ill-named “softskills” are the ones which will ultimately be key to the successful practice of engineeringby up-and-coming engineers. But the list of “soft skills” too often is limited to things suchas public speaking techniques, management skills and the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wook-sung Yoo; Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

Number Instructor name Term General instructions… Course Objectives/Assess Methods This option is always available Assess Course-Exit Survey This option is available from date to date Figure 8: A specific course pageFrom the student perspectives, on-line surveys possess several advantages: 1. Ease of access: Students are not required to fill out the form during the class time but the survey form can be accessible from any location on the campus network at any time. Thus they get more time to reflect on the questions (days/weeks as opposed to 10 minutes with no time to prepare). This encourages more honest, thoughtful (and occasionally

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

K Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; Dee Fink; Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Carolyn Ahern; Kurt Gramoll

the quantitative responses and a discussion of the themes that emerged inthe “reasons for your answer” responses.5. Evaluation Results5.1 Student Questionnaires1. Course ObjectivesOverview: The most important finding about the Course Objectives has been that most of thestudents agree that these objectives had been met in Sooner City courses. These major conceptsare at the heart of Sooner City and appear in some form in the questionnaires of all Sooner Citycourses. They reflect the goal of producing engineering graduates who: a. Have developed strong design skills through repeated practice, beginning in the freshman year b. Can perform critical thinking and know how to go about solving complex, open-ended

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo Hubbard McWilliams

numberof students who completed the first semester but did not continue into the second semester,indicated that they felt that the vast majority of other students within the course had superiorprogramming skills and these students had a significant advantage in terms of completing theprojects. The third issue was student assessment that the lectures were of limited value with respect tothe content of the course. This assessment was dramatically reflected in the low attendancenumbers observed during lectures in the latter portion of the course (often falling below 50%). The details of our reaction to these issues are detailed in a companion paper at thisconference (McWilliams et al.12) and a thorough discussion of the gender issues impacting

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bruno; Alistair Greig; Robert Mayer; Jennifer Waters

Cockney College”, because of its aim to extend access to universityeducation from the very rich to the growing new middle class.The first academic sessions of the University started in October 1828. Chairs were established inseveral subjects which had not previously been taught in English universities, for instancemodern foreign languages and English language and literature. The systematic university studyof law began at UCL. Instruction at UCL was primarily by means of lectures and writtenexaminations - reflection of practice in Scotland and Germany rather than Oxbridge. Theteaching of engineering was pioneered at UCL, the first Professor of Mechanical Engineeringwas appointed in 1847. Also the first undergraduate teaching laboratories in

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Loren Limberis; Bijan Sepahpour

their chances for receivingResearch/Teaching Assistantship or Full Scholarships in graduate engineering programs. Theauthors hope that their efforts in this project reflect on a successful example for implementationof the proposed approach/model.II- OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECTThere were four major objectives to be achieved as outlined below; 1. To develop a modular lumped mass experiments for integration into control systems, vibrations, mechatronics and other potential engineering courses, 2. To create an opportunity for collaborative research and design efforts between engineering student(s) and faculty, 3. To generate a modular, cost-effective, reproducible apparatus with outstanding design

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Garcia-Saenz

Page 9.214.2cost of each apartment stays fixed. The market rate used is 17%, which reflects the risk of the “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”market. Results show again that the NPV is negative for both alternatives, and then accordingwith the rule, this project cannot be build. No body wants to loose money.Suppose you can buy the land, build 3 units this year and wait to see what happens in a year toanalyze the behavior of the market and decide to build or not to build. Managers can developsome scenarios and get results from them but they

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdel Mazher

formats (interviews, questions, tests, exams, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 8.206.14 Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationquizzes, oral presentation, etc.) to express quantitative measures that reflect the degree ofachieving objectives. Evaluation should supply the instructors with the corrective measures tochange the material in the lab and to remedy the deficit in instruction techniques employed.Learning at distance, doing experiments at distance, or virtual labs, and using a computer networkwill facilitate using

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Val Stamboltsian; Robert Dennis; Khy Huang

examined knowledge maps and concluded that different mapping techniquesprovided different pictures of students' knowledge. Ruiz-Primo and colleagues found thatapproaches that require students to construct maps as contrasted with formats that onlyasked students to complete partially constructed maps, “… provide students with moreopportunities to reflect their actual conceptual understanding…” and also better reflectsthe differences in student knowledge [22]. Evidence of the validity and reliability ofknowledge maps as assessments have been reported in many content areas and atdifferent grade levels [2, 3, 6, 8, 11-14, 16, 20, 22]. Page 7.1165.2

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Almstead; Karen Williams; James Hedrick

session was covered by themedia.C. Reflection Paper: This consisted of a two page individually written paper which included apersonal assessment of what the student had gained by participating in the workshop. Studentswere asked to summarize their experiences by describing what they learned, what was new tothem, what they liked and disliked, and what they enjoyed most.VI. Program AssessmentAt the end of the workshop, students were asked to complete an evaluation form which askedthem to rate each of the program components; to make comments about their collegeexperiences, staff members, and the length of the workshop; and to make suggestions forimproving the workshop for future students.While the program was carefully planned before it began, some

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Hise; Jim Clark; Bryant Kiedrowski; Aaron Jennings

electronics and specificallyby items such as portable CD players that have high power demands. Efforts were made duringthis time to introduce rechargeable consumer batteries, but it does not appear that rechargeablecells have cornered a large fraction of the (previously disposable) consumer battery market.Battery sales have not been as successful since 1999. Growth slowed to 5.2% in 2000 and mayhave been as low as 1.1% in 2001 (Worldofinformation, 2003). This may reflect some successin the rechargeable market, but is more likely attributable to the use of accumulated Y2Ksupplies and the impact of a cooler economy.U.S. battery manufacturing is dominated by Duracell, Eveready/Energizer (uses both brandnames) and Rayovac who produces batteries in the

Conference Session

A Focus on Industry Partnership

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena

while I said, “This is great!” …They basically gave you books, gave you a job, and you could ask people, what the heck is this and what is binary and I studied hex and I don’t know, it was self taught, there were no classes at that time. The reason they said they hired me was because there were not enough people graduating from any computer science courses in 1976, there were a few but the aerospace industry was going into computers big time and there weren’t enough people so they just hired anybody and if they could do it ok. So, anyway I did that for about three years. (Schoenhals 2001)Bob reflected on how his easiness with foreign languages played a big role in the way he learnedcomputer languages

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shah Galib Habib; Arif Sirinterlikci

FEMcode, has a wide variety of modules responding to different needs and scales. DEFORM systemsare based on a flexible automatic and optimum mesh generation criterion [2]. The meshing systemworks well with large deformation. The DEFORM systems also include equipment models tobetter reflect the real life hardware conditions. They can simulate corner unfill, load requirements,die pressures, deformed mesh structure, nodal velocities, and other field variables. They can alsoconduct thermal and coupled thermal-deformation analyses. The DEFORM systems include thefollowing versions: DEFORM-3D for 3-D process analysis, DEFORM-2D for axisymmetric andplane strain process analysis on workstations and PCs, DEFORM-PC PRO for axisymmetric andplane strain

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Velegol; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant

the need to first introduce many specific technical skills.2.B. & 2.C. In-depth seminarsIn these two segments ,the students opted to take two out of six seminars offered. The studentswere given a brief description of each seminar and asked to rank the seminars from 1-6. Theywere also asked to weight their choices with a dollar amount (for a sum of $100). All of thestudents received their first choice and 75% received their second choice. Although the majorityof the students were accommodated by their first and second choices, there was a small butsignificant number (~20) who were assigned to both their first choice and their third, fourth, orfifth choice seminar.While it was not the goal of the seminars to reflect a specific major, most

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

a boiler plant whose thermal efficiency is 70+%.Discussion: there is a realistic limit as to how high thermal efficiency can reach. However, tohave thermal efficiency of 70 +% is truly a reflection of inelegant engineering design. It must besecond nature to engineers to maximize this number by optimizing insulation, feedwater preheat,and the amount of combustion air, etc.12. Design an automobile with 15% energy efficiency.Discussion: to say it is OK to live with 85% loss in energy transformation in today’s vehicles is toaccept a quite inelegant way of engineering. Much elegance can be achieved by working toreduce the substantial engine losses as well as losses due to idling and standby14.13. Design using rules of thumb.Discussion: it is

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas K. Miller; Catherine E. Brawner; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

* 1993 1994 Cohort Year Figure 2. Persistence in College of Entry by Entering Cohort (Earlier Study) Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 8.64.8 Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationMost students chose their ECE major because of a general affinity for computers and/or electricalwork. Students taking the EEP who changed majors changed into the ECE department from otherengineering majors and from PAMS. This is reflected in Figure 3

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey

beings)as reactions to the outer environment”, which would include responses to other people,systems and procedures or in the terms of this study responses to the “practices”. Behaviorsrepresent the “lived experience” or “enacted” aspect of the culture. In this category I haveidentified sections on• Behaviors in the academic learning environment – which included workload, co- operation vs competition, classroom behavior and strategies for support• Language – including humor, and the ways language reflected value systems either directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally and its power to include or exclude from the culture• Relationships – and their importance to academic and personal “success”• Critical incidents – from

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Sudhir I. Mehta

) areimportant tools for monitoring learning. Several CATs like the Minute Paper, Muddiest Point, Page 5.469.3and One Sentence Summary are suggested by Angelo and Cross (1993). Mehta and hiscolleague have also developed several classroom assessment methods for getting quick feedback(Mehta, 1993, 1995, 1997; Mehta & Schlect, 1998).8. Incorporate service learning. Service-learning has been defined as “a form of experientialeducation in which students engage in activities that address human and community needstogether with structured opportunities intentionally designed to promote student learning anddevelopment. Reciprocity and reflection are key

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Kelly; Etienne Khayat; Fouad T. Mrad

temperature measurement, the second to errors in strain measurement, andthe third to errors in voltage source measurement. These three panels are analogous as far asthe menu bar and various functional buttons and display boxes are concerned. Somefunctional differences arise due to differences in the intrinsic properties of the specifictransducers used (Figure 19).The user selects a complete circuit, starting with the transducer itself including its type, thetype of terminal block used, if any, the type of SCXI module and ending with the type of dataacquisition card used. These selections are made from a menu bar lining the top of all threepanels (Figure 19).A status bar continuously reflects the selections being made by the user from the menu

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Jeruzal; Brenda Henderson; Ahmad Pourmovahed

and worked outproblems. The exam format was chosen for two reasons: worked out problems more effectivelymeasure learning in the synthesis and evaluation cognitive learning domains, and forced-choiceproblems better reflect the testing environment encountered on the FE/EIT exam. Althoughpreparation for the FE/EIT exam was not a specific objective of the course, students in the courseare preparing for this exam and the course serves as a review for questions related to energysystems. Report development is one of the most effective methods for allowing students to participatein the entire engineering process, thus allowing for synthesis and evaluation including theacquisition of data, the analysis of data, the formulation of results, the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahadur Khan Khpolwak; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz

funds to improve the Faculty can be includedin this category. Mentoring of younger teachers is another aspect that can be counted as service.Scholarly work can be assessed based on the teachers’ own effort in his/her professionaldevelopment in the form of consulting and publications. Given the wealth of data that have beengenerated by all the domestic and international NGOs in the past fifteen years and in the future, itis not very difficult to come up with short research papers reflecting the compilation andinterpretation of those data. As an example, by compiling and interpreting the data from all theshallow and deep wells that are installed in various parts of the country, one can write a paper onthe status of groundwater in different

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joan Walker

knowledge, and integrating an array of diversecompetencies into the curriculum. One potentially useful tool for achieving these goals,across all engineering fields, is concept mapping.Invented during the 1970s by Novak and his colleagues at Cornell University, a conceptmap looks like a flow chart. However, instead of “mapping the linear or logical structureof knowledge, concept maps reflect the psychological structure of knowledge." 2Theoretically, knowledge functions as a semantic network.3 Thus, learning is not only theacquisition and understanding of concepts but also the construction of meaningful linksamong concepts.4 Consistent with these theoretical perspectives, concept maps arecomposed of interrelated elements: nodes, lines and labels

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch; Stephen Ressler

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana Dabby

benefits of such a course in an engineering environment might be summed up with the Page 6.539.1mnemonic CREATE:Creative process illustrated in art, science, and their intersectionRevelatory passions that speak to generationsEnhancement of individual creativityActive learningThinking through concepts, symbols, imagery, analogies, and designExamples for reflection and development.The following sections address each of these benefits, though in a different order from that givenabove. Rather, the flow arises from how the course segues from one study to the next, startingwith those whose work most combined art and science (Nabokov and Leonardo) to

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya D. Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder; Jana B. Milford, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

BOLD/GoldShirt studentsin Andrews Hall. These mentors have collaborated with other student leaders in the hall as wellas BOLD team leaders to introduce new culturally diverse activities. The cultural relevance ofthe artwork in of Andrews Hall became an issue on the radar to address. Student mentorsselected artwork for study lounges and common areas which reflect the cultures of students whoreside there. Other activities, such as a Mardi Gras celebration, are planned for the springsemester. These enhancements to the appearance of and activities in Andrews Hall will create amore welcoming environment for diverse students and an opportunity to share diverse cultureswith all students in Andrews Hall.Peer Mentoring ProgramA new peer mentoring

Conference Session

Focus on Capstone Experiences in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

% 20% 10% 0%Figure 7. Adoption of textbooks. For a particular author, multiple editions may berepresented.The changes in course topics are reflected in changes in textbook coverage and the use of thosechapters. Figure 8 shows the usage of particular chapters in Fogler in both 1991 and 2010amongst those institutions reporting adoption of the text.There is general satisfaction with existing texts on the subject, though some would like to see amore concise textbook containing one semester’s coverage. Some express an interest inadditional coverage of safety topics and bioreactors. Some cite weak areas in specific textbooksin coverage of mixing, reaction kinetics, and non