Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering: Educational Policy and Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Clark P.E., Aston University; Jane Andrews, Aston University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of the project – meaning that each stage of the longitudinal study continues to be used to inform and guide the next. Throughout the study, data-analysis is on-going, reflecting a purposefully designed flexible approach that enables the research team to make strategically grounded empirical decisions regarding the suitability of each research tool on a contemporaneous basis. Findings: Interviews with Engineering-First Staff - Organisational Portfolio The initial exploratory study identified Engineering-First as one of the main Primary School level engineering education for-profit providers in the UK[1]. The organisation is unique in that it does not directly provide any engineering education interventions, but instead trains

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

May Alzawawi

revolutionize and and Dresner (2001) suggests the following: “It has been lessen the ecological effects at low cost. Regulations also suggested that suppliers can help to provide valuable ideas include export countries by giving tax reductions to used in the implementation of environmental projects, but encourage green practices. One example of the regulations they generally do not act as a direct driving force” [31]. in the US is the California Transparency in Supply Chains Thus, suppliers are not considered as a key driver; Act (2010), which requires companies to unveil their however, they have a very important role when it comes to

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Yuanyao Liu; Zhengping Wu

. Mortazavi-Asl, Q. Chen, U. Dayal, and M.C. Hsu, “ [17] Salfner, Felix, Maren Lenk, and Miroslaw Malek. "A survey of online FreeSpan: Frequent Pattern-Projected Sequential Pattern Mining,” Proc. failure prediction methods." ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Vol 42, ACM SIGKDD Int’l

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Brian Arnold; Jodi Reeves

trip the circuit breaker? What assumptions would youhave to make? What equations and data would you use? Look around your home at some commonappliances - a toaster, fan, space heater, television, computer, etc. Which appliances would you predictdraw a lot of current to operate? Which appliances would you predict take a lot of power to operate?Extra credit project: if you would like to investigate this, there is a device called Kill-A-Watt that canmeasure current, voltage, and power when electrical devices are plugged into them. Measure 10-15devices in your home and write a mini lab report describing your data and lessons learned by takingthese measurements. And finally, the examples below are for thermodynamics and fluid dynamicsthreaded

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Nancy Warter-Perez; Sevak Ghazaryan; Jerardo Martin

nanotube composites.The activities developed are tied to 6th – 8th grade California math standards and provide studentswith an opportunity to see how math can be used to solve authentic engineering researchproblems. Pre and post-surveys were conducted to measure the impact of the visitingengineer/scientist and the research-related activities on students’ perceptions towards engineersand their desire to pursue a career in engineering or science. The results related to this particularresearch will be presented as well as the results and findings for all fellows during the 2012-13school year.Carbon Nanotube Composites – An Authentic Research ProblemOverview. The main objective of this research project is to create composite materials with acarbon

Conference Session

Graduate Ethics Education & Professional Codes

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech; William Joseph Rhoads, Virginia Tech; Siddhartha Roy, Virginia Tech; Erin Heaney, Clean Air: Organizing for Health and Justice; Glenn Andrew Ratajczak, Clean Air Coalition of Western New York; Jennifer Holly Ratajczak, Clean Air Coalition of Western New York

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Ethics and the Pub- lic.” She is co-PI on a National Science Foundation (NSF) research and education project developing an ethnographic approach to engineering ethics education.Mr. William Joseph Rhoads, Virginia Tech William Rhoads is a PhD student in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech working with Dr. Marc Edwards and Dr. Amy Pruden. His research focuses on various aspects of opportunistic pathogens in potable and hot water plumbing systems and implications of green buildings on public health. William is currently the vice-president of a joint American Water Works Association and Water Environment Federation graduate student group and is the recipient of the Via Doctoral Fellowship.Mr. Siddhartha

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

when thestudent has passed a satisfactory examination on these fundamental principles and their variousnon-technical applications is he permitted to work on engineering projects.” (p. 58). Howeverthe report questions this approach, defining the value of practical work early in the curriculum:“Practical engineering work is essential for the freshman not only because it appeals to hisprofessional ambition, arouses his enthusiasm, and gives him training in practice, but alsobecause it helps him to master the theoretical work more fully and more quickly.” (p. 88).Despite the emphasis on practice, engineering programs are distinguished from the moreapprentice-based model of medicine and law by their academic character: “In engineering, onthe other

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

, delegating andaccepting responsibility, and dealing with the interpersonal conflicts that inevitably arise—maybe more vital to the success of a project than technical expertise” [5, p. 18]. Whether these aremore important than technical expertise may be debated—the best approach to teamwork maynot solve the problem if no one on the team has the requisite knowledge and experience—butperhaps the two can be seen on an equal footing as necessary-but-not-sufficient conditions forsuccessful engineering design.Lee, in a paper presented at the ASEE Southeast Section Conference in 2002 [6], pulls nopunches when it comes to stating the role of an understanding of philosophy of science inbattling junk science, or fraud, as part of engineers’ responsibility to

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Trivett P.Eng., University of Waterloo

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

thenundertake the tasks in order to gain points, moved a level-up to work through a progressivelynot having the tasks themselves as central to more challenging task.the game as was indicated by Thatcher14.Gaming StrategyThe modified course was designed to motivate students to contact the course material at theirown pace, and use the model of game levels of increasing complexity and challenge. The modelwas similar to ones described by Goehle20 and by de Feitas19. In those projects, there were visualand software elements of a video game, such as unique graphics, and increased “powers”available to players as they gained experience points. In the Thermodynamics game describedhere, the author did not attempt to build a custom game platform, but

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer II

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy J. Jacobs, Texas A&M University; Jerald A. Caton, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

(UW-Madison), Dr. Kevin Kirtley (General Electric Waterand Power), and Professor Robert Lucht (Purdue University). The co-principal investigators onthe project, Dr. Jeffrey Froyd and Professor K. Rajagopal, are acknowledged for theircontributions and assistance to the concept inventory. Faculty colleagues at Texas A&MUniversity Department of Mechanical Engineering are acknowledged for their assistance inadministering the concept inventory to their respective courses; these colleagues includeProfessor Michael Pate, Professor David Staack, Professor Andrea Strzelec, Mr. Joshua Bittle, Page 24.174.12and Dr. Jacob McFarland. Finally, the data

Conference Session

WIED: Curricular Undergraduate Student Programs

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen B. Coletti, Northeastern University; Emily Olina Wisniewski; Rachel Lauren Shapiro, Northeastern University; Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; Melinda Covert, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

24.323.9females who used one or more forms of supplemental instruction increased this year by 6%compared to last year; the percentage of males was unchanged from last year. These differencescan be attributed to some students receiving better grades than their trigger point for seeking helpand some students not seeking help when they projected they would.This year 47% of honors males and 48% of honors females indicated at the beginning of thesemester that they would seek out extra help with grades of B or C. We found that at the end ofthe semester these honors students sought extra help with grades of B or C, as they projected.The average threshold value was slightly lower, closer to a grade of C, for honors students thanfor non-honors students. 90% of

Conference Session

Flipping ECE Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jia-Ling Lin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Paul Imbertson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Conference Session

Program and Curriculum Design Initiatives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria Ann Hill, Numeritics

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Conference Session

An Examination of Methods to Enhance Transfer Student Enrollment, Retenion, Persistence, and Outcomes

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Inger M. Bergom, University of Michigan; Brian A. Burt, University of Michigan; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division