Conference Session

Research in Biomedical Pedagogy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renata Fortuna Ramos, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

themachieve a more in-depth understanding of the material (rather than just memorizing information).Since teaching requires a basic understanding of the material and a plan for conveying thismaterial, teachers often learn by (a) reviewing: working with the material while preparing toteach another, and (b) reformulating: organizing the content in a meaningful way that associatesthe material with what the student already knows. Research suggests that learning by teachingalso helps improve communication skills and that it provides the students with an opportunity toexperience realistic social interactions while applying their content knowledge in an appropriatelearning environment5, 10.Description of the Systems Physiology LaboratoryThe Systems

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joy Watson, University of Cincinnati; Maureen G. Schomaker, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

(HEI), and combine this learning withsome time spent in a workplace relevant to their program of study and career aims”5.Historically Freund’s description of what the student shall learn from a cooperativeeducation experience follows: …the cooperative student shall learn how science is actually applied in his profession and in industry; the student shall learn how engineering designs and plans are executed; the student shall become familiar with machines, structures and equipment by use and observation and with and with their construction, capacities, limitations, standards, power, maintenance, cost useful life, operating methods and practices.7For the purposes of this paper

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerardo J. Pinzon PE, Texas A&M International University; Jaime Rene Huerta

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

fromstrongly disagree, disagree, agree, and strongly agree. As indicated in the following graphs, thecompleted surveys show the impressive results, demonstrating positive responses wherein“strongly agree” and “agree” totaled in the 90th percentile. This feedback has played a major rolefor planning future programs. The complete results are shown in the following graphs: Student Parent1. I have learned a lot of during this GEAR UP eventStrongly Disagree 0% 0%Disagree 0% 0%Agree 25

Conference Session

Architectural Design Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shahnaz J. Aly, Western Kentucky University; Heli Shah, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

accurate plans, elevations, anddetails and can generate appropriate three-dimensional drawings [2]. The use of digital media toconceive of design ideas and representation has increased tremendously and its success isattributed to speed, accuracy and resulting perfection [3].An important and integral part of the generation/ creation of a three-dimensional model is therendering process that the model undergoes. According to Schillaci, “to render is to represent”.Representation has always been used to communicate to the masses but in the present dayrendering has become a very important component of winning architectural commissions and asuccessful rendering should be able to catch the viewers’ attention amongst all the other images[4] . Modern

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary B. Vollaro, Western New England University; Michael Brennan

Tagged Divisions

Materials

shown in column three. Rubric Question Rubric Proficiency Levels (Abbreviated) Scale on Rubric Based on Instructor’s Assessment 4-1 scale (4 as mastery) Instructor’s Assessment Identifying -addressed all objectives 4Functional Objectives -key goals match design plan -some analysis appear to be missingEngineering Analysis -the analyses that are described appear to be 3 and Methodology correct

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects and Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tim L. Brower, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

student timecommitment was limited.The scale of the project described in this paper is markedly bigger than that reported onpreviously.7 The project deliverable was an entire water tower apparatus and the student timecommitment was much greater.Faculty felt that an active learning component was important to keep in the current project. Anactive learning component is directly linked to ABET EAC8 Student Outcome (i), “a recognitionof the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.” The CU-Boulder /CMU MEPartnership Program performance criteria for this outcome are: 1) Plan, organize and assess learning: Achievable goals are developed individually. Work planning techniques are used to achieve results. Time management techniques

Conference Session

CAD Assessments, Trends and Applications

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth B Pidugu, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Mamdouh M. Bakr, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Swaminadham Midturi, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; George P Tebbetts, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

-ETAC oral, and graphical communication … criterion (f) Assessment Scores/ Performance: Excellent 0-1 , Good1-2, Average2-3, Below Average3-4, Failing4-5 *New indirect assessment method started beginning from spring 2009 The final and important phase of assessing Student Outcomes is to identify the generaland specific concerns and issues in student learning (outcomes), and to suggest appropriaterecommendations to correct the concerns, where needed. These corrective actions and plans areindicated for each criterion and for the selected course as shown in table 6 for student outcome f

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leo E. Hanifin, University of Detroit Mercy; Ross A. Lee, Villanova University; Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Kenneth F Bloemer, University of Dayton; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries (ELD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Tourino, North Carolina State University; Martin W. King, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

Paper ID #7475Engineering Librarians as Partners of Faculty in Teaching Scholarly Inquiryto Undergraduate Students through Curriculum Integration: The BiotextilesProduct Development Course BlogMr. Greg Tourino, North Carolina State University Greg Tourino is the associate director of Centennial Campus Research Services at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina where he shares responsibility for planning, delivering, and manag- ing library services to the large and growing number of faculty and students in the Colleges of Engineering and Textiles on Centennial Campus.Prof. Martin W. King, North Carolina

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Dunlap; M.L. Meier

Session xxxx Integrating the Financial Aspects of Laboratory Procedures into Electron Microscopy Courses at a Community College and Materials Science Courses at a University Mike Meier and Mike Dunlap Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of California, Davis Davis, CAAbstractBasic financial issues related to the cost of performing standard laboratory procedures andmaterials analyses have been incorporated into two courses in an attempt to teach students howto plan an

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins; Ambrose Barry; Nan Byars

. Instruction: Lectures and handouts cannot compete with the allure of the interactive computer screen. Faculty are well-advised not to try to compete, but to work with this apparent enthusiasm for the computer in planning instructional activities.Observations for Specific ApplicationsIn addition to the general lessons learned above, issues arose with specific software that weresomewhat unexpected. What follows is a summary of those findings. Calculators: It was interesting to note that more students overestimated their proficiency with graphing calculators than in any other area. A disappointing observation is that many students

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Stewart; Carole Goodson; Susan Miertschin; Luces Faulkenberry

Houston (UH) was formed, representing faculty in diverse programareas, to do college-wide assessment planning and implementation. A component of assessmentplanning was to consider issues related to SSTE, both from the perspective of what is containedin the literature about such instruments and with respect to results within the college. In order toaccomplish this goal, the ACI committee reviewed reported research results regarding teachingevaluations and analyzed our own instrument, process and results. This paper examines thisinformation, particularly what the literature tells us, the results of our own teaching evaluationimplementation, and how SSTE results can be used.What do Student Surveys of Teaching Effectiveness Measure?Because of ease of

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Boehm; Brackley Frayer; Joe Aldridge

courses like Introduction to Engineering Design. The concern in the selection of thesecourses is that they not have a list of prerequisites that will significantly increase the student’srequirements and thus prolong the time needed to complete the degree.Plans for the futureAs was noted earlier, the plan is to develop this program into a full major at UNLV. Weanticipate this will take two years after the minor is operating smoothly. Development of a newmajor requires that many more details be worked out than are needed for the development of aminor. Instituting a new major at our school requires Regents approval. Included in thisapproval process are data showing the need for the major, support by practitioners, and estimatesof the major’s impact

Conference Session

Building New Communities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberley R. Breaux; Heidi Loshbaugh; Ruth Streveler

from ethnic minorities. We invited these students to informational sessions,which included pizza, soda, candy, and APS basics. Interested and eligible students signedinformed consent documents and completed questionnaires, which we used in placing them intoeither the Study group, Ethnographic group, or Control/Comparison group (Appendix 1).Participants in the Study and Ethnographic groups receive $175 per academic year; those in theControl/Comparison group received $25.After these sessions, we still lacked enough females to complete our sampling plan and had hadno African-American attendees. Of the six incoming first-year African-American students, fivewere in majors eligible to participate in APS. We scheduled two more recruiting sessions

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

La Verne Abe Harris; Judy Birchman; Mary Sadowski

. Sometimes they begin in the middle. They have a tendency to be more impulsive andless planned.More male faculty in the study preferred a sequential ordering style. This is a logical andtraditional approach to organizing information. A plan is the blueprint of the process. Becausethey tend to organize information in a linear fashion –– step-by-step, the ordering style of thefemale faculty and the students who are random learners, appears haphazard to them.As concrete sequential learners, the male professors preferred not to change their plan andordered objective. Because they are not people-oriented, they focus on the outcome rather thanthe process, and therefore are product-oriented.Because the majority of the female professors and the majority of

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ana Kennedy; David Ollis

theirreading, speaking, and writing skills in Spanish. In particular, we survey how the lab component contributes to achievement offour of the six student learning objectives, namely that students will: 1. Learn vocabulary commonly used in engineering and technology context, 2. Develop the ability to comprehend and use Spanish in settings invariably encountered in our technological society 3. Interact in a more formal setting such as the presentation of a technological/culture project to class and guests, and 4. Explain in the target language the workings of a technological device. We conclude with lessons learned and plans for a final version

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

at least one of theconcentration areas must be completed in order for a student to graduate from the program. Thecurrent curriculum for students electing to concentrate on Transportation includes three requiredcourses: Elementary Surveying, Civil Computations (computer applications of surveying), andTransportation. In addition, students focusing on transportation are expected to take two morecourses offered to students as technical electives: Highway Surveying and Design and PavementDesign and Management. A CET graduate with concentration in the area of transportation islikely to be involved in one or more of the five major areas: planning, design (geometric andpavement), construction, operation, and maintenance of transportation facilities

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

. M. Gerla, P. Kuehn, and A. Lazar., New York: Springer-Verlag. (1990). 5. D. A. Menasce, & A.F. Alemeida, Capacity planning for web services: Metrics, models, and methods Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. (2002). 6. D.J. Lilja, Measuring Computer Performance: A practitioner's guide Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2000). 7. V.Paxton,.& S. Floyd, Wide area traffic: The failure of Poisson modeling. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 3(3): 226-244. (1995). 8. Cobern, W.W. Contextual constructivism: The impact of culture on the learning and teaching of science. In Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching. Lake Geneva, WI: NARCT. (19910. 9. J

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanislaw Maj; Anuradha Sutharshan; D Veal

processes. But even in the technicalarea, key activities are different than those of the developers [17]. To succeed in thisaspect of the enterprise architect's role, one must understand not only theorganization's business strategy and the rationale behind it but also the company ordivision's business practices, planning cycles, and decision making processes.Architects also need to understand business context of organization: competitors, theirproducts, strategies and product generation processes [17]. Architectures almostalways have many and diverse stakeholders, and will ultimately be used by manydevelopers. Often they are used across divisions and by developers in othercompanies. Actual users of enterprise architecture are development teams

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

http://www.mentornet.net/Community/Resources/Readings/m1.aspx Bernice Resnick Sandier (Accessed on December 2004)10) E-Mentoring: A Longitudinal Approach to Mentoring Relationships for Women Pursuing Technical Careers, Sara Wadia-Fascetti, Paula G. Leventman, Journal of Engineering Education, July 2000Biographical InformationADNAN JAVED: He is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering,University of Florida. His research focuses on Highway Pavement Material and PavSpec with theoverall knowledge of Public Works Planning and Management. He is currently working as aCivil/Transportation Engineer for Boyle Engineering Corporation

Conference Session

Advice for Dual-Career Couples

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Schulz; Noel Schulz

events, such as the annual ASEE meeting or ABET visits, requireboth of us to be out of town. By planning ahead we can either ask a family member to visit towatch the boys or have an in-house babysitter for these trips (more details on this below).Tip #3: Time Versus MoneyOften as undergraduate and graduate students, family budgets are tight meaning that couples domany things themselves, such as housecleaning, house maintenance, tax preparation and mealpreparation. Then the couple takes on the challenge of tenure-track positions and tries to balanceall these do-it-yourself home activities with the new job and all its requirements. There are notenough hours in the day to do both. One thing to consider is how much your time is worth.What is your

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Wollin; Ronald Bennett; Melanie Steinborn; Al Dombrowski

relationship between teacher and student tothe classroom.Graduate students typically have ten years experience before entering ourprograms. These students are highly motivated to continue their formaleducation. Most have full-time jobs, families and other civic duties, so they havehigh expectations of the graduate courses. They work in many industries thatcover many fields. Most have a formal engineering education, but many arepracticing in other business areas such as manufacturing, information systems,finance, strategic planning and mergers. With these backgrounds, they bring awealth of broad experience to the classroom.To provide value to this experienced, motivated, talented group of graduatestudents, our programs are structured to engage the

Conference Session

Experiences with Experiential Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Christensen; Scott Dunning

been uniquely challenging.As with any new business venture, an infusion of initial capital is necessary. To attract thecapital, a solid business plan is necessary that provides a corporate framework providingconfidence to investors. The business plan for the AMC succeeded in attracting the initialfunding. What has been difficult is meeting current client demand while at the same time Page 10.1330.4managing construction of a new facility, specifying new equipment purchases and continuing tomeet academic teaching demands. The first lesson we have learned is that it is important to “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Crowe; Kris Wood; Richard Crawford; Daniel Jensen

INTUITION Manner in Which a Person Evaluates Information T Focuses on objective facts and causes & effect. Focuses on subjective meaning and values. F THINKING FEELING Manner in Which a Person Comes to Conclusions J Focus is on timely, planned decisions. Focus on process oriented decision-making. P JUDGEMENT PERCEPTION Page 10.165.3 Figure 2: Overview of

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ram Mohan; Narayan Radhakrishnan; Guoqing Tang; Kenneth Murray; Ajit Kelkar

collaboration with CSEmaster’s students, CSE programs at other institutions, national labs and research centers, andhigh performance supercomputing community and industry. The program will attract studentsfrom a variety of disciplines with experience in industry, business, education, and government.The CSE program will also encourage enrollment of women and minority students such asHispanics, Caucasians, Asian and Native Americans. The planning and development of thecomputational science and engineering program and the enrollment of diversified studentpopulation are directly linked to the University’s Enrollment Plan to increase the population ofgraduate students, nontraditional students and working professionals, to increase participation ofwomen in

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George York; Daniel Pack

08 Oct 04for the major milestones in the robot • System Requirements Review 14 Oct 04 • Initial Design Review 21 Oct 04project is shown in the table to the • Draft Integration Test Plan 18 Nov 04right. The entire spring semester • Preliminary Design Review 09 Dec 04course is devoted to the project with • 1st Draft Technical Report 14 Dec 04major events being the completion • Second Semester Begins 06 Jan 05of the Critical (detailed) Design • Critical Design Review 08 Feb 05Review and the

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Hickey; Raluca Rosca

decidedto break into 3 smaller groups, two groups of 8 people each meeting at the same time on Mondayin two different locations on campus and one group of four people meeting on Tuesday. Fourstudents have announced via email that they have interest in the program, but time conflicts forthis semester and plan to participate in it in the future. Two other interested parties were off-campus students, so they were referred to the web-resources available on the University ofWashington web-site.While the number of the respondents (20) may feel very small, it is comparable in size with thenumber of 2004-2005 possible Ph.D. graduate students that take a first job in academia. Indeed,University of Florida graduated 127 Ph.D. in 20032 and historically about

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Derby; Stephen Frempong; Willie Ofosu

processes without incurring such expenses. An easy option is to plan aneducational trip to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT).PennDOT is responsible for all Federal and State roads within Pennsylvania. It is theresponsibility of PennDOT to conduct all surveys for road construction and to monitor bridgesand other infrastructure that are owned and managed by the State. As a federal agency, thedepartment has the resource to acquire the necessary equipment to enable it to perform it duties.Besides, the department is always involved with real world activities which apply most of theprinciples and processes that are taught in a surveying engineering program. Therefore, the fieldtrip to PennDOT serves to encapsulate a large component

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny

provide a description of the course design, highlights of specificprojects, and results and evaluation of the course. Conclusions and future plans are alsoprovided.2. Course DesignIt is our belief that future educators and practitioners must understand engineering design from aprocess perspective first, prior to focus on specific characteristics and methodologies of aparticular field of engineering. As such, an interdisciplinary, rather than discipline specificapproach is adopted throughout the course. Moreover, as design is a creative, team-based,problem-solving process, our future teachers and practitioners enrolled in the course arepresented with technical science-based methods and tools of analysis and decision-making, aswell as non-technical

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Khaled Mansy

there is no perfect answer, the most appropriate answerwas the use of a geodesic dome as a means to mount the light fixtures. The geodesic dome ismade of a number of triangles that, in turn, compose five identical sectors (in plan), see (Figure1). Although not all triangles are exactly identical in size, the geodesic dome provided the bestclose-to-uniform distribution of vertices. Differences in the length of different struts can beignored. Because the geodesic structure is a special open form, its selection eliminated the needfor a ventilation system to exhaust heat generated from the light fixtures.The frequency number of the geodesic geometry was selected to be an even number. Evenfrequency numbers result in a complete hemisphere, i.e., a