Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Huettel, Duke University; April Brown, Duke University; Leslie Collins, Duke University; Kip Coonley, Duke University; Michael Gustafson, Duke University; Jungsang Kim, Duke University; Gary Ybarra, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

temperature sensor and how to build a circuit to condition the signal generated bythe sensor and how to extract useful information from that signal to control another part of thesystem. The benefit of being able to use more realistic experiments in the laboratory also leads tomore comprehensive discussions in the classroom and an overall more integrated experience.Through this approach, students are presented a holistic view of the field of ECE, which moreaccurately reflects real systems, and develop a greater understanding and appreciation of thisinterdependence. Page 11.90.42.4 Design ExperienceThe importance of design experience in an

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Annette Mallory Donawa; Clifton Martin, Morgan State University; Carl White, Morgan State University

brain/left brain functions30. That is, each cognitive stylerepresents two opposing extremes, such as impulsivity and reflectivity or field dependent andfield independent31. At the one extreme, impulsive individuals have a tendency to act spontaneously, givingthe first answers that come to mind. At the other extreme, reflective individuals tend to take timeto explore the plausible alternatives to respond to questions and resolve problems32. Fielddependent individuals tend to depend on global perception and demonstrate a need for an“inordinate” amount of concrete referents to work through problems (actual objects, pictures,graphs, diagram, and so on)33. Further, they tend to be holistic and focus on the totalenvironment, giving credit to

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meetu Walia, Polytechnic University; EDWIN YU, Polytechnic University; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic University; Magued Iskander, Polytechnic University; Noel Kriftcher, Polytechnic University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Sensors in High School Living Environment Labs: A GK-12 Project1. Introduction In a series of recent op-ed pieces in The New York Times and in his latest book The WorldIs Flat,1 Thomas Friedman points to an urgent need to develop a strong and technologicallytrained workforce to ensure the American leadership in scientific discovery and technologicalinnovation. This call to action has been joined by business and government advisory groups suchas the American Electronics Association,2 the National Innovation Initiative,3 and the NationalAcademy of Engineering;4 and reflected in the remarks delivered by industry captains such asBill Gates at the 2005 National Education Summit on High Schools.5 In a recent letter6 to

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Bower, The Citadel; Kenneth Brannan, The Citadel; William Davis, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

documentation, with the over-arching goal ofestablishing a better system for comprehensively tracking improvement items.Systematic tracking of improvements is structured to occur at both the individual classlevel as well as allowing meaningful aggregation at the curriculum level, reflective of theentire program.The objective of this paper is to highlight the usefulness of the thread (outcome linkagebetween specific course goals and sub-areas) as a framework for assessment. This paperdescribes the process used to develop threads and provides an example course goal andoutcome thread for the environmental engineering curriculum within the Department ofCivil and Environmental Engineering. In addition, the paper addressees the subsequentchanges that have

Conference Session

DB & Information Integration

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Wilson, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; John Fernandez, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

, interest, surprise,contempt, disgust, shame, fear, anger, distress, sadness, and anxiety. Richard Lazarus (ascited in Priesmeyer et al.15) confirmed many of the basic emotions in this list through hisown research and provided much discussion about the interaction of emotions thatdirectly contributed to the interpretation and analysis of emotional dynamics in theEmogram system. An important step in the development of Emogram was the creation ofprecise photographs depicting varying degrees of the eleven basic emotions.The Emogram system provides measures of each of the emotions by combining responsesto low, medium, and extreme expressions of each. It also computes an overall EmotionalQuality (E-Quality) score that reflects the overall emotional

Conference Session

K-12 Activities

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leilah Lyons, University of Michigan; Zbigniew Pasek, University of Windsor

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Museum, a children’s science center. Informal learningenvironments, like museums, align well with outreach efforts because they share manygoals: to intrigue, educate, and inspire visitors. Science museums in particular havebecome more conscious of their role as an auxiliary to the education that occurs intraditional classrooms, striving to encourage interest in science10 and to present sciencepolicy issues9 that might not get addressed in the classroom.This exhibit is divided into three parts, reflecting three interrelated fields required tobring a product to market: design, manufacturing, and marketing/business.6,8 Each of thethree parts of the exhibit was designed to emphasize the processes, tools, and careers ofits field, through an

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

W. Lawrence Neeley, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Larry Leifer, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

picture of the state of mechanicalengineering education. It was from these schools that the programs discussed in this paper weredrawn as subjects of an even narrower investigation into mechanical engineering designeducation.Our working definition of engineering design was drawn from a recent article in a special issueof the Journal of Engineering Education focused on engineering education research: Engineering design is a systematic, intelligent process in which designers generate, evaluate, and specify concepts for devices, systems, or processes whose form and function achieve clients’ objectives or users’ needs while satisfying a specified set of constraints.3This definition, along with the research perspective it reflects, operates

Collection

2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Daniel T. Bennett

of life-long learning.StudyStudents used for the survey were from two different classes, 63 from EE 301 (junior and seniorlevel core electrical engineering course for non-EE engineering majors) and 161 from IT 105(freshman level introductory Information Technology Course). The students who took thesurvey received scores broken into four categories, see (1), ranging from -11 to 11 each foractive/reflective learners, sensory/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global where -11 meanshighest to the left category and 11 means highest to the right category. The absolute value of thedifference between each of their scores versus their respective instructor’s score in the samecategory was then taken. Those four differences were then added. The

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum & non-Technical Skills

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Suckarieh, University of Cincinnati; Kathleen Ossman, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, the students worked on assignmentsdesigned around three key themes: • A reflection of how the experience has affected them personally • A paper that focuses on working in partnership with the community • A paper about sharing experiences with others in their communityThe class helped the freshmen form friendships before school even begins. It helped inbreaking down some of the apprehensions the students have with their professor in a waythat they have not experienced in a classroom [3]. The College of Applied Science is the college of technology at University of Cincinnati.Its campus is located at a short three miles from University main campus. Every yearabout two hundred freshmen are accepted

Conference Session

What's New in Mechanics of Materials?

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nashwan Younis, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

are aimed to facilitate the understanding of these concepts for both learningand industrial practice. Thus, the objectives of the proposed images are to demonstrate to thestudents the followings: • The assumptions (Saint-Venant’s theory) made in developing the axial stress formula • The development of axial stress in a member • The effect of bearing stress on a member • Interaction between axial, bearing, and contact stresses • An application of optics in engineeringBasic theoryThe optical method of reflected photoelasticity (photostress) is utilized to achieve the goals inregard to the above objectives. Photostress is a technique for measuring surface strains todetermine the stresses on a part or structure during loading. With

Conference Session

Moral Development, Engineering Pedagogy and Ethics Instruction

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christan Whysong, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

three main moral theories studentsstudied were utilitarianism, ethical egoism, and rights ethics.Students also reflected on ethics as part of an electronic portfolio assignment. This electronicportfolio is owned by the student while he/she is enrolled at this university. BSE intends to useelectronic portfolios to encourage students to reflect on and maintain a record of theireducational experiences. Lastly, students worked in teams to perform research and present ethicsrelated material within the context of recent concerns and events related to natural disasters suchas hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes; this presentation assignment is presented in acompanion paper. 3 This basic ethics instruction creates a foundation for ethics instruction

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deanna Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University; Robert Heard, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

reflection of their own use and disposalof products enlightens them further to the intricacies of technology and the environment.Life cycles of technology development, launch, and replacement highlight the rapid growth anddissemination of technology products. While strides in technology have scaled down the size ofproducts, it has also shortened time to obsolescence. For example, desktop computers havebenefited from the developments in circuitry miniaturization that have significantly reduced the Page 11.673.3materials requirements for significant increases in memory and speed. However, computers areeffectively a disposable item and are typically

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Anthony Gaddini, Illinois Institute of Technology; Nishi Gupta, Illinois Institute of Technology; Daniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology

participant teams scheduled a 45 minutefeedback session to review and discuss the results. These discussions were led by a persontrained and experienced in facilitating group discussion. We decided that this person should notbe the faculty advisor, since some sources of tension arise with the role or style of that person;and that it not be an undergraduate student. Some faculty advisors chose to remain for thediscussion; others decided not to attend. The discussion leader (usually one of the evaluationspecialists for the program) distributed the reports to each of the team members, emphasizingthat the results reflected simply how they, collectively, evaluated their team experience at thatpoint. Discussion questions centered on whether results were

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder

exemplars to read about:LeMessurier, Inez Austin, or Fred Cuny. Inez Austin was a whistle-blower for environmentalconcerns at Hanford, WA. Cuny was a disaster relief specialist who did humanitarianengineering work in Chechnya, Ethiopia, Bosnia, Somalia, etc.During the in-class discussion, a number of students had selected the Cuny case and stated thatthey hadn’t previously considered the application of civil engineering to refugee camps fromnatural and conflict disasters. In their reflective essays on Civil Engineering that are due in theirJournals at the end of the semester, some students commented on the Cuny case study. Forexample, one male student in 2003 noted: “I mostly enjoyed learning how Civil Engineeringimpacts communities. The case study

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martha Green, Texas A&M University; Parag Ravindran, Texas A&M University; Rita Caso, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Froyd; Xiafeng Li, Texas A&M University; L. Alan Minnick, Texas A&M University; Ram Shukla, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

improved by video-taping team activity. Also, scoringwith a combination of a standards-based rubric and a content or observations analysisseems the best way to assess the design preparedness of the students. In addition, morequestions could be included to reveal the group dynamics. A reflective interview with allthe students may also be an appropriate tool to consider for capturing the attitudinal andconceptual learning, and particularly the perceived change or growth that has occurred inthe students over two semesters of learning. Some of these ideas are already beingimplemented in the 2005-06 academic year.Acknowledgement1) The authors wish to thank the Boeing Company for its financial support of the projectand its evaluation, upon which this

Conference Session

Industrial Collaboration & Applications in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Stuart, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

experience.Just like a vine or a fruit tree, it may take several years from the time of planting to the harvest offruit; but relationships properly nurtured can provide a bountiful harvest.ArticulationArticulation, as defined in ‘The Concise Oxford Dictionary’ is an act of joining. When we workon getting articulation agreements, we are trying to find common, yet properly justifiable coursesof study that can be transferred. The academic process of forming articulation agreementsbetween community colleges and four year colleges, like a gate, can control the transfer processor stop altogether. It is important to reflect on how successful an articulation program anyinstitution has. OIT has articulation agreements with many of the community collegesthroughout

Conference Session

Recruiting and Retention

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janice Girouard, University of Hartford; Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford; Natalie Segal, University of Hartford; Dr. Sallie 'Lee' Townsend

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

student population in the threesmallest majors in the College.IntroductionEngineering and technology educators and administrators have written about retention issuesextensively.1-9 An important factor in retention is the first-year experience.1 The body of workfor increasing retention is differentiated by two types of instruction, one that offers lecture style,passive learning environments and the other that provides experiential learning with hands-onexperience. Each institution should reflect and examine it’s own internal dynamics and reasonswhy students leave engineering technology programs as suggested by the study.5 This impetuswas the motivation for the assessment of retention issues in the smaller technology programs inthe College of

Conference Session

Introducing Active Learning into ME Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gul Kremer, Pennsylvania State University; Madara Ogot, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

discoverquadrants.2.2.1 EnquireEngineering educators have long noted that lectures though efficient at delivering large amountsof analytical information, encourage passivity in students who come to expect the instructor toprovide all the required knowledge.10 Johnson et al.26 noted that: “lecturing at best tends to focuson the lower-level of cognition and learning. When the material is complex, detailed or abstract;when students need to analyze, synthesize, or integrate the knowledge being studied; or whenlong term retention is required, lecturing is not such a good idea.” Other researchers have foundthat lectures tend to alienate active and reflective learners – the active learners do not do

Conference Session

Curriculum Development & Assessment in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byron Thinger, Diablo Canyon Power Plant; Altaf Memon, Excelsior College; Li-Fang Shih, Excelsior College

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

interest. A faculty mentor evaluates the body of information in theportfolios and provides students with feedback throughout the process, and ultimately aqualitative grade.The ITA is a primary assessment tool with several important functions. The ITA processrequires the student to reflect on past academic and professional experiences and to usethe information gained from this reflective exercise to demonstrate they have met thedegree program Learning Objectives. [6] It completes the picture of students who theschool may know only from dialog at a distance to this point. It serves as quality checkon the student evaluations performed by the advisors. It also demonstrates to the facultyand staffs the efficacy of the student body’s achievement of the

Conference Session

Biology in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Coppinger, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon Sexton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

. Active/reflective learning: Does the student prefer to learn something by actually “doing” it (active learner), or do they prefer to think about it quietly (reflective learner)? 2. Sensing/intuitive learning: Does the student prefer using facts and well- established methods for solving problems (sensing), or do they prefer learning abstractions and general concepts (intuitive)? 3. Visual/verbal learning: Does the student learn best using diagrams, pictures, charts, etc. (visual), or by reading the textbook and listening to lectures (verbal)? 4. Sequential/global learning: Does the student learn best when the information is

Conference Session

Integrating Research Into Undergraduate ECE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Daniel, Ohio State University; Ronald Reano, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

engineering faculty/student partnership involved exposing theundergraduate to a small scale research project designed to reflect typical activities experiencedby graduate students. The student went through the entire cycle of design, simulation,fabrication, and test of a working device prototype. Through this approach, the studentexperienced a microcosm of graduate school while interacting with graduate students,experiencing the difference between laboratory and simulation work, and developing technicalwriting skills through the development of the electronic portfolio.IntroductionA program referred to as "Research on Research" has been developed to expose undergraduatestudents to academic research. The program is instituted through the Technology

Conference Session

Building Communities for Engineering Education Research

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sally Fincher, University of Kent at Canterbury; Josh Tenenberg, University of Washington-Tacoma

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

term bootstrapping is short for “pulling oneself up by the bootstraps” and has a specificmeaning within computing. “In computers, this term refers to … processes whereby a complexsystem emerges by starting simply and, bit by bit, developing more complex capabilities on topof the simpler ones.” 9In naming our project, we used the metaphor in three distinct senses, reflecting our goals toimpact three distinct, though interacting, levels: • bootstrapping the novice CSEd researcher by providing entry points into the theory and methods of carrying out CSEd research; • bootstrapping a community of practice of CSEd research practitioners with similar skills, practices, and language for engaging in shared research endeavours; and

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Methods and Practice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Zhao, Mercer University; Laurie White, Mercer University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

integrate knowledge gained from the required core courses offered in afour-year period. According to CC2001 1, this course is supposed to cover software systemdesign, software processes, key activities in software development lifecycle, and software projectmanagement. The traditional approach to teaching a Software Engineering course, as reflected inclassical textbooks 11, 10, usually starts with an introduction to software process models, which isthen followed with discussions on highlevel activities in various phases of a generic softwarelifecycle template that can accommodate all possible programming paradigms. Although updatedmany times since their original editions, those texts are not well adapted to the latest paradigmchanges (such as object

Conference Session

Research in Minority Issues

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Angela Linse, Temple University; Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Matt Eliot, University of Washington; Jana Jones, Microsoft Corp.; Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

andacademia. We begin with a brief description of the Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program(ETPP) and then discuss the structure and goals of the diversity component of the program.A. The Engineering Teaching Portfolio ProgramIn a teaching portfolio, an educator documents their teaching through statements about his/herteaching and annotated artifacts that provide evidence of the themes presented in the statements.The Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program provides participants with the opportunity toexamine, reflect, and revise their beliefs and goals as teachers through a series of eight portfoliodevelopment exercises, weekly meetings and peer review. The exercises included a programoverview, identification of portfolio design specifications

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Cox, Purdue University; Alene Harris, Purdue University

from alternative data gathering methods(i.e., sample of real-time coding vs. videotaped class sessions). Finally, Study 5 examineswhether an index of “HPLness” discriminates between courses that are known to use HPL-basedversus traditional pedagogy.Validity Study DescriptionsStudy 1- Content Validity of the Classroom Interaction Observation Portion of the VOS Content validity examines “the extent to which a measurement reflects a certain intendeddomain of content.”8 The purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which eleven contentexperts familiar with the HPL framework agree with current classifications of the fourdimensions of the HPL framework (knowledge-centered [K], learner-centered [L], assessment-centered [A], and

Conference Session

Engineering Education & Capacity Building in Developing Countries

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinay Kumar Domal, UWA; James Trevelyan, UWA

Tagged Divisions

International

argues that professional education should be centred on enhancing thepractitioner’s ability for ‘reflection-in-action’ to create new knowledge (Schön 1983). It isthat process that allows us to reshape what we are working on, while we are working on it.Engineers are described as technology workers. The engineers that Schön describes are seenonly as inventors dealing with technology issues, and he may have overlooked most elementsof professional engineering work such as organization of people to produce useful productsand services.Zussman (1985) combines detailed observations of organizations both in advanced and oldindustrial settings with intensive interviews of American engineers within those organizations.He observed that engineers believe

Conference Session

Computer ET Projects and Applications

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Steffen, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

into the CPET Local AreaNetworking course of the curriculum.Student PortfoliosCustomarily, portfolios have been used as a tool to showcase for artist’s accomplishments.Maintaining a portfolio in the classroom today has been found to have many uses both to theinstructor and student. A portfolio created either written or in electronic form contains astudent’s work from start to finish that allows the instructor as well as the student, to evaluate thestrengths and weaknesses of a project. The contents of such a document can be very diverse andcan reflect the students’ creativity. A well defined portfolio can demonstrate studentcomprehension of the student and serve as an excellent assessment tool.A student portfolio is a collection of evidence

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Hensel, West Virginia University; Ye Sun, West Virginia University

generalizationof the familiar scalar operations, and finally array computations, presented as a generalization ofarray computations. The presentation of the material supports the application of constructivistlearning theory as evidenced in both object and process scaffolding pedagogy by leading thestudent, in small, distinctly defined steps, from the familiar “calculator-like” scalar operations ofMATLAB® to the more complex array operations. The text also presents the basic programmingconcepts within the context of solving a variety of technical problems and uses examples from awide range of engineering applications.Fifth, the way student achievement in the course is assessed reflects the collaborative andprocess-related goals of a constructivist learning

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum and ABET Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glen Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Renee Rogge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

interactions with the junior design teams (“What sort of questionsare being asked, and what assistance are you providing?”) and also speculated as to what theythought were the underlying reasons for the questions (“What aspects of the design processappear to be unclear, or present challenges?”). Seniors also completed assignments in whichthey were asked to reflect on their own experiences in design (cast largely in terms of questionsregarding the junior teams), as a way to guide them through a process of ‘closing the loop’ ontheir own capstone design experience. Summative feedback was obtained from the seniors at theend of the term, both on the mentoring process and interactions, as well as the overall biomedicalengineering design sequence.Results

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jun Luo, Ohio Northern University; Robert Hovis, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

of thelanguage. 3) Each paper must cite and explain an application coded in the language. The codeshould reflect the main features of the language. 4) Each paper must cite at least three references,including books, conference or journal papers, or web sites. 5) Each paper should be free ofspelling or grammar errors. 6) The paper layout should be effective and visually appealing. Allthe guidelines will be included in the course syllabus.Weeks 2 & 3: The procedural programming paradigm. In class, the instructor discusses datatypes in a variety of languages; binding, scope, visibility, and lifetime of variables; type checking;overloaded operators; flow of control statements; data abstraction and process abstraction;subprogram implementation