Conference Session

Influences on Female Interest in Pursuit of STEM Fields

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn Mobley, Ecology & Environment, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

degrees inscience and engineering, with 85 percent matriculating into graduate and professional programs nationally.These students are now part of a pipeline that has begun to produce a stream of minority Ph.D.s, M.D.s, andM.D./Ph.D.s” [5].Their success is attributed to several factors: 1) successfully recruiting minorities with grade point averagesof 3.5 or higher and with SAT scores approaching 1220; 2) a summer bridge program for incomingfreshmen including training in analytical problem solving and study skills; 3) removing financial concernsby offering comprehensive merit scholarships; 4) involving faculty with a genuine interest in recruiting,teaching and mentoring the students; 5) “emphasizing strong programmatic values, including

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Schimmels, Marquette University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

of eachcourse is reflected in their respective titles. The first course in the sequence is titled,“Engineering: The Art of Creating Change”. The title of the second is: “Engineering Projects:The Practice of the Art”.Both courses use assigned reading followed by reflection, writing, and discussion related to adebatable question (or questions) posed by the instructor. Section size is limited to 25 students.A relatively senior member of the regular faculty and one teaching assistant facilitate classdiscussion using Socratic questioning.Both courses also use design projects as vehicles in developing student understanding of keyconcepts. In the first, the course requirements manage student-team project activities; in thesecond, the student-teams

Conference Session

Revitalizing Cooperative Education and Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Stwalley, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

practical experiences available at Purdue, it seemed to makesense to utilize the original mission of the university to classify the types of experiences. Purdueis one of the first Land Grant universities, with engagement, research, and traditional academicgoals. Students at Purdue can gain practical experience in service learning projects throughEPICS, research projects through employment in on-going laboratory projects with faculty, andwork experience through employment with various university partner organizations. It wasdetermined that we would use the term “experiential education” to describe this larger spectrumof practical experience. Unfortunately, Co-Op does not adequately describe all of the types of traditional workexperience

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Schreier, University of Dayton; Carl Eger, University of Dayton; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

laboratories, theystill can not provide the understanding gained through actually engaging with technology in itsworking environment. Taking fundamental theoretical concepts and applying them to real lifeengineering problems helped to solidify the students’ understanding of those fundamentals. Inmany ways this validation parallels the value attributed to undergraduate internship and coopprograms as well as other experiential learning experiences. The ETHOS experience providedthe participants with an increased awareness of how engineering impacts the daily lives of peoplein all societies.Another common outcome that the ETHOS experience provided to the participants was anunderstanding of another culture. Furthermore, most students indicated that the

Conference Session

Themes in Renewable Energy and ET

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Immanuel Edinbarough P.E., University of Texas, Brownsville

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

military. He is a hands-on manufacturing expert who has worked in several areas of engineering, manufacturing, and technical management including research, design, and production of mechanical, electronic, and electromechanical systems. Recognized trainer and resource person in the fields of CAD/CAM/CIM, Robotics and Automation, Machine vision, ISO 9000 and Lean Six Sigma. He has published several papers, in these areas, in various national & international conferences and journals. He has won several teaching awards including the academic excellence award, NISOD 2008, from the University of Texas at Austin

Conference Session

Innovations in Pedagogy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William H. Guilford, University of Virginia; Michael B. Lawrence, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

information ismissing. None of these are easily developed in a traditional classroom.We therefore included an additional objective, which is to develop a skill that is often desired ofstudents but the development of which is not supported by lecture or laboratory formats: 4. Explaining, defending, and forming positions on technical matters via oral argument. Page 24.38.2We used the Socratic method enhanced by online assessment and discussion tools to meet theseseemingly disparate objectives.Course structureThere were no lectures; rather, instruction relied entirely on preparation according to a case studygiven to students, and subsequent

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Friedman; Durgamadhab Misra; Fadi Deek; Kamal Joshi; Vladimir Briller

-Scale Systems. 23 Fuzzy Clustering Of Object Data And Relational Data. 24 T1 Wide Area Network Protocol Analyzer 25 Common Cancer Drugs: Computer Modeling And Phyphysiochemical Study Of The Halogenated Analogs 26 Case Study Of The Software Engineering Process As It Relates To Group Collaboration And Problem Solving 27 Resilient Packet Ring Access Protocol 28 A Computational Approach To The Search For A Treatment For Cocaine Abuse 29 Simulation For A Universal, Dynamically Adaptable And Programmable Network Router For Parallel Computers 30 Enhancing Access To IT For Persons With Disabilities. 31 A Methodology For Web-Based Interactive Laboratory 32 A Voice Controlled Text-To-Speech Web Page Reader. 33 Imaging And Image

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heimdahl Peter; Brenda Puck; Danny Bee

1997 camper, when asked in a newspaper interview about the most memorableWisconsin-Stout (UW-Stout), in partnership with the thing she had ever done.Society of Manufacturing Engineering EducationFoundation (SME-EF), initiated an outreach program for girls entering the seventh grade.“STEPS for Girls” is a one-week introduction to the world of manufacturing. The girlsmanufacture radio-controlled model airplanes from raw materials. The components arefabricated in various laboratory activities using real production equipment. Each girl has anopportunity to fly her airplane with the assistance of skilled radio-controlled aircraft pilots.“STEPS for Girls” campers gain

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

. Recognition of educational research and teaching as valuable scholarly activities Page 8.603.4 6. Provide two-way transfer of knowledge between universities, industry and government laboratories. 7. Target lifelong learning and graduate engineering educationImpact on Product Design CurriculumDesign activity involves a broader range of disciplines:The corporations have now realized that better and more functional products can be developed ifthe design team involves more expertise than just engineering alone. This allows the use of teamapproach and concurrent engineering practices.Globalization of engineering

Conference Session

Considerations for the Collection Conscious Librarian

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia E. Kirkwood, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

checklist. Carefully document the decision to remove items and retain all items removed for later review. 3. Review the active checklist to determine if it is representative of the publications of the user community and provides appropriate items to complete the evaluation. Questions that may be asked: Are the items in the checklist published in venues used by and on topics of interest to target group? For example, if the checklist includes articles on the education of elementary students and the main target group is research scientists in national laboratories, it may be appropriate to remove these items

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asaad Mohamed, Auburn University; Emily Reynolds, Auburn University; Chetan S. Sankar, Auburn University; P.K. Raju, Auburn University; Nanda Kumar B.S.

Tagged Divisions

International

won awards for research and teaching excellence from the Society for Information Management, NEEDS, Decision Sciences Institute, American Society for Engineering Education, Amer- ican Society for Mechanical Engineering, International Network for Engineering Education & Research, Computer World, Campus Technology, and the Project Management Institute. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education and the Managing Editor of the Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research.Dr. P.K. Raju, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE)Mr. Nanda Kumar B.S. Nanda Kumar B.S. is Assistant Construction Manager, Center of Excellence & Futuristic

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanorious Chalkiadakis; Mohammed Fahmy; Recayi Pecen

.He was also nominated for 2004 UNI Book and Supply Outstanding Teaching Award, March 2004.MOHAMMAD F. FAHMYDr. Mohammed F. Fahmy joined the university of Northern Iowa (UNI) in August 1983 as an Assistant Professor ofMaterials and Metallurgy. Currently he is a Professor and Department Head of the department of IndustrialTechnology. He has been serving as department head since 1998. During his tenure at UNI, Dr. Fahmy served onnumerous departmental, college, and university committees and task force commissions in different capacities asmember or chair. His services covered a wide spectrum of activities at both the undergraduate and graduate levels incurricular, administrative, and outreach matters. His research interests are mainly in applied

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Schildgen; Jon Duff

senior project topics.Finally, administrative considerations for making the senior project successful includeinstitutional funding for faculty mentoring, laboratory access, and archival capabilities todocument the results. Dutson 8 suggests that a modular approach might be implemented tocounteract administrative difficulties. Other authors, most notably Adams 4, entertain virtualteams as an alternative. As this study shows, support from the three constituent groups is criticalfor the success of a senior project initiative. Page 10.584.10 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luis Godoy, University of Puerto Rico; Pedro Covassi, National University of Cordoba (Argentina)

, structural stability, granular flow, computational mechanics, and plates and shells, and results of his research have been published in more than 150 peer-reviewed journal papers. At present, he has been awarded an NSF-CCLI research grant.Pedro Covassi, National University of Cordoba (Argentina) Pedro A. Covassi graduated as a Civil Engineer at the National University of Cordoba (Argentina) and is currently a doctoral student at the National University of Cordoba in Argentina working in the Geotechnical Laboratory. He has been awarded a scholarship from the National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology (FONCYT) in Argentina

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Simon, University of Nevada, Reno; Ted Batchman, University of Nevada-Reno; Christine Taylor, Lewis and Clark University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

presentations from industry leaders and policymakers—renewable energy is changing so quickly, that it is important for students to gain information from “top name” leaders in the renewable energy marketplace as well as from national and state policymakers who make rules that govern markets and create incentives.  Team-based problem solving. Students will work together to create optimal energy system designs for sustainable communities. The students will use a web-based free shareware program known as HOMER™, which is available for download from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)-- http://www.nrel.gov/homer/.  Class discussion. We will use the assigned texts, guest presentations and

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics & Structural Modeling Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Soutas-Little, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, Advanced Dynamics, Advanced Elasticity, Tissue Biomechanics and Biodynamics. He has won teaching excellence awards and the Distinguished Faculty Award. During his tenure at Michigan State University, he chaired the Department of Mechanical Engineering for 5 years and the Department of Biomechanics for 13 years. He directed the Biomechanics Evaluation Laboratory from 1990 until he retired in 2002. He served as Major Professor for 22 PhD students and over 100 MS students. He has received numerous research grants and consulted with engineering companies. He now is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ajay Agrawal; Zahed Siddique

basis. Although theprogram ventures far beyond the traditional classroom instruction, graduating students arebeneficiary of a life-long learning process. A successful capstone program can facilitateachieving the educational institutions’ goal, for example, of producing the most sought-aftergraduates by the industry.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank his colleagues teaching the Design Practicum Program in theSchool of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. In particular,the program structure has benefited from discussions with David Baldwin, David Miller, HaroldStalford, and Mitch Burrus. Page 9.625.11

Conference Session

Architectural Design Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa A. VanZee, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

Paper ID #8811Balancing Daylight, LEDs, and Controls: The Future of Lighting for Design-ersMrs. Lisa A VanZee, Purdue University, West Lafayette Lisa VanZee is an Assistant Professor in Interior Design at Purdue University. She began her career in computer visualization, where she was involved in computer graphics technology, artanimation research and teaching. She holds an M.S.in Computer Graphics Technology and an M.F.A. in Interior Design. Her previous work experience includes threedimensional rendering and animation for architectural and engineering firms. Her research interests focus on interior visualization and

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Casalena; Matt Weinstein; Borna Ghavam; Blake Robertson; Karen Thornton; David Barbe; James Green

research lab with the purpose of gainingexperience in the research and development process. The Hinman program supportsinternships with startup companies to help students become familiar withentrepreneurship processes and in selected faculty laboratories to help the students gainexperience in the R&D process. One particular student, Blake Robertson, is profiled hereas an example of the potential for creating an environment that opens the door to productdevelopment in the CEOs community.Blake began his journey into product development during a summer internship in 2002.After the internship was over, the faculty member hired Blake to continue working onprojects in his VLSI lab. Since then, Blake has worked on a number of projects. Amongthem, he

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wigal

. This paper also comments on what teaching strategies haveworked well in introducing systems engineering concepts and which have not.Systems and Systems Analysis For every complex problem there is always a simple solution. And it is wrong. –H.L. MenckenSystems analysis is fundamentally different than traditional forms of analysis. It begins withanalysis—separating a study into individual pieces—but emphasizes synthesis—looking at therelationships between parts to form new conclusions. Systems analysis is most often used whenconfronting complex problems with a variety of variables that cannot readily be quantified andwhose structures are not well defined. It uses ad hoc models to represent variables (theenvironment, components, and alternatives

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

) Page 10.38.3was secured and mounted on the roof of the four story Simrall Electrical and Computer Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering building at MSU. Sensors are multiplexed and transmitted via an eight-conductorCat5/RJ45 cable to the microprocessors laboratory on the third floor.The sensor signals represent six quantities in three signal categories: analog, digital closure, andfrequency. The weather sensor signals are described in Table 1. Analog sensors create a voltageoutput corresponding to their quantity, wind direction, air temperature, and wind directioncompass

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

the accelerated pace and highworkload expected of each engineering course9, 10. Many also report poor teaching within theSME (science, mathematics, and engineering) curricula10. Other curriculum-related factors thatdiscourage engineering students from persevering include restrictive curricula that require strictprerequisite structures, provide limited course offerings, and require additional laboratory work5.These curricula restrictions are particularly problematic for non-traditional students. Financialconstraints5, 9, 11 are also cited by students as reasons for leaving engineering.A reported lack of interest in engineering curricula9, 10 may be indicative of a more specificproblem as identified by Edward. He describes a discontinuity based

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

the accelerated pace and highworkload expected of each engineering course9, 10. Many also report poor teaching within theSME (science, mathematics, and engineering) curricula10. Other curriculum-related factors thatdiscourage engineering students from persevering include restrictive curricula that require strictprerequisite structures, provide limited course offerings, and require additional laboratory work5.These curricula restrictions are particularly problematic for non-traditional students. Financialconstraints5, 9, 11 are also cited by students as reasons for leaving engineering.A reported lack of interest in engineering curricula9, 10 may be indicative of a more specificproblem as identified by Edward. He describes a discontinuity based

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Hvid Nielsen

of basic research.That means, if a university leans against enterprise projects alone, the basic research together withthe students training in fundamental scientific methods will come to starve.As mentioned above, we are dealing with two different worlds, the life in an industrial enterpriseand in academia with different goals, criteria and success and reward systems. But, there is potentialsynergy in using industry as laboratories for lecturing, projects and research.A traditional contribution is a set of proposed decisions that represent an appropriate solution to awell-defined problem. However, an equally significant contribution may be structuring a complexissue and the pointing out of appropriate options available, leaving it to the

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy Carter; Paula Leventman; Katherine Ziemer

this step, but the funnel and cup combination that catches the watervapor can influence the net evaporation rate and should be part of this experimentation. It is not Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationuncommon during this experimentation for students to modify their prototype design as they gainexperience in running their system. This can be used to strengthen the concept of the design, testand evaluate, and redesign loop of the Engineering Design process (Steps 5 through 8 in Figure1) and to discuss the evolution of manufacturing processes from laboratory scale to pilot scale tofull

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ellen Litzinger; Barbara Bogue

the design of this course, especially given the potential for the “non-typical” female engineering student to experience instances inside and outside the classroom andlaboratory where her self-esteem could suffer.Self-esteem is the value or worth that an individual places on the descriptors that are used todescribe one’s self 18. These descriptors are accumulated through multiple experiences such asdaily living activities, classroom and laboratory experiences, and extra curricular experiences(e.g., summer camp, church or youth group activity). One common component shared by manyperceptions of self-esteem is the influence of social interaction 4, 7, 10, 11. Cooley emphasizes theimportant role that social interaction and the evaluation of

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

Copyright À2004, American Society for Engineering Education”oral examination of their project. Just as you really learn a subject when you are requiredto teach it, being subjected to questions throughout the student’s briefing by outsideexperts, stimulates increased understanding of the subject -- hopefully before the briefing,but always afterwards3].The Final Readiness Review (FRR) is the equivalent of the Prototype AcceptanceDemonstration (PAD) in the DoD procurement program. The FRR is a formal reviewthat all of the requirements of the program have been fulfilled. This includes the thermalbake-out testing, the shake test, etc. The satisfactory completion of this review means thesatellite is ready to be launched[3].By its nature, any design class

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Rossi; Herbert Ingley; Erik Sander; Dow Whitney; Marc Hoit; R. Keith Stanfill

Business Team. Concurrently, the Business Team will work with the Technology Team to produce collateral information such as a market analysis, business plan, and investor presentation to present in the annual UF Howard J. Leonhardt Business Plan Competition and similar investor forums. The net result of the project is a team of Engineering and Business students working collaboratively with “real world experience” in a truly entrepreneurial environment.Major pedagogical componentsContent and team formationThe IPPD program teaches the student participants the structured, top-down developmentprocess through two weekly just-in-time lectures with generic deliverable content, a trainingmanual with generic deliverable requirements

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Lord

event, engineering students often bringfriends and family which provides a venue for social interaction among engineering faculty,staff, and students.Freshman EngineeringA freshman engineering student entering USD must enroll in ENGR5: Introduction toEngineering. The course includes students interested in Electrical, Industrial and Systems, andMechanical Engineering. The catalog description for the course isENGR5 Introduction to Engineering (3 credits)Introduction to the field of engineering. Exploration of problem solving using the engineeringdesign process in lecture and laboratory projects. Introduction to engineering tools includingspreadsheets and graphics. Intended for majors in engineering or those exploring careers inengineering.The

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Asper; Bijan Sepahpour

fellowships. As the program develops, the view from the inside is that it can onlyget better.Table A-3, (Appendix: 3) displays the performance record of the students in the mechanicalspecialty of the engineering program at The College of New Jersey in regional, national andinternational student design competitions. The effectiveness of what we have proposed in thispaper may be measured through the results shown in this table.Bibliography1. Dale, E., Audiovisual Methods in Teaching, Dryden Press, NY, 1969.2. Johnson, D.W., Johnson, R.T., & Smith, C.A., Active Learning; Cooperation in the College Classroom, Interaction Book Company, Edina, MN, 1991.3. Finelli, C.J., et al., "Strategies for Improving the Classroom Environment," Journal of