Conference Session

Track 1b - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Marjaneh Issapour, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

: Successful Collaborations to Improve High School Student Achievement” Accessed on 3/10/2014 from Los Angeles County Office of Education http://apep.gseis.ucla.edu/bestla/BEST-InsideSchlUnivPartnerships.pdf 7. Ing, M., Huang, P., LaCombe, N., Martinez-Lopez, Y., and Haberer, E. D., 2012, “Creating Opportunities for Reflection: Analyzing Middle School Student Work During a Service-Learning Course on Solar Cells”, International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Vol.7, No.1, Spring 2012 8. Bagiati, A., Yoon, S. Y., Evangelou, D., and Ngmabeki, I., 2010, “Engineering Curricula in Early Education: Describing the Landscape of Open Resources”, Journal of Early Childhood

Conference Session

Track 1b - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Henry W. Kraebber, Purdue University, West Lafayette; E. Shirl Donaldson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Katie Mae Hackney

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

review details of the upcoming trip. Elements include: flight time, schedulewhile abroad and what to pack. Students forge connections and relationships that continue afterthe trip is over and everyone returns to the university.Class sessions were held after returning from Germany to debrief and complete reflections onwhat was observed and learned. Photographs are shared as part of the documentation. Studentideas about the mechanics and logistics of the journey are gathered during these sessions toimprove the expedition for the next year. The combination class/trip provides a comprehensivestudent experience. Students are enriched academically, professionally, culturally, and socially.2013 Impact SurveyDuring the ten years since the first trip

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Pune Innovation Centre; Gautam Akiwate, University of California, San Diego; Ayano OHSAKI P.E., nnovation Center for Engineering Education, Tottori University

Tagged Topics

Student Development

egoless in theircareers, and were assured full confidentiality of their inputs.Reliability AssessmentIt is important to conduct a thorough measurement analysis on the survey instrument. It gives assurancethat the findings reflect accurate measures and that the results are trustworthy. Test reliability furtherindicates the extent to which individual differences in scores can be attributed to ‘true’ differences. Weused the most popular measure - Cronbach Alpha for assessing reliability of the collected data. Table 2shows the Alpha values, calculated using Minitab Version 16, for the data collected for each of thesubsets. TABLE 2: CRONBACH ALPHA VALUE FOR THE INSTRUMENT Subsets

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Robert W Fuessle, Bradley University; Amir W Al-Khafaji, Bradley University

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

institutions abroad. In 1996,the Bradley University’s International Program was limited to the summer months. Theinvolvement of engineering students and faculty was extremely limited for at least two reasons.First, many course offerings were for language studies or general education. A more importantreason was that most engineering students preferred or were obligated to work during thesummer months. Summer employment was important to gain experience and for financialreasons as Bradley is a private institution. Yet faculty and students could benefit greatly frominternational exposure. More importantly, the internationalization program inspired the facultyto modify the curriculum to better reflect the changing realities of our engineering

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Steven Chingnam Goh, University of Southern Queensland

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

reflections Figure 1. A proposed learning journey for professional engineering programConclusionsThis paper argues the case for the establishment of a global accord for the postgraduatelearning journey of engineers. The establishment of agreements covering educationalqualifications in engineering and competence standards for practicing engineers have resultedin increased engineering mobility and improved global standards. However, the papersuggests that the capability to perform provided by these competencies agreements do not Page 21.3.8ensure the professional development of engineers are complementary and adequate for them

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

William Robinson, Stevens Institute of Technology; Michael Pennotti, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

leaders had been told that thecompetition was a “must win” project for their business, and the pressure that created appearedto inhibit them from reframing the problem when the design teams got into trouble. Instead, theyresponded to each successive difficulty by making the best of a bad situation. In the end, theleaders realized that they had missed numerous opportunities to press reset, redefine the problem,and move off in a new direction. We called this the “Leadership Box.” Page 21.9.6Finally, the Customer Simulation revealed the problem had one more dimension, one that wasidentified by the acquisition professionals themselves. Upon reflecting

Conference Session

Partner Organization Plenary II

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Michael E. Auer, International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP)

Tagged Topics

Partner Society Plenary

with a technical background should acquire the necessary professionalcompetences of an engineering educator. These general professional competences consist oftwo main groups:  Technical expertise  Specific engineering pedagogical competencies.Educational theory offers different lists of competences7. The IGIP concept of engineeringeducational competences is to be summarized as follows:  Pedagogical, psychological and ethical competences  Didactical skills and evaluative competences  Organisational (managerial) competencies  Oral and written communication skills and social competences  Reflective and developmental competencesOther categorizations might operate with the terms “technical expertise

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session I - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Thomas Lachlan Goldfinch, University of Wollongong

Tagged Topics

Invited - Faculty Development

. Page 21.39.77. Ang, S. and L. Van Dyne, Handbook of Cultural Intelligence: Theory, measurement and applications. 2008, Sharpe, M.E.: Armonk, NY. p. 391.8. Deardorff, D.K., Assessing Intercultural Competence. New Directions for Institutional Research, 2011. 149.9. Spitzberg, B.H. and G. Changnon, Conceptualizing Intercultural Competence, in The SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence, D.K. Deardorff, Editor. 2010, SAGE: Thousand Oaks, CA.10. Hofstede, G., Culture's Consequences (2nd edn.). 2001: Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.11. Matsumoto, D., Reflections on culture and competence, in Culture and competence: contexts of life success, R.J. Sterberg and E.L. Grigorenko, Editors. 2004, American Psychological

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session I - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Eleonore Lickl, HBLVA for Chemical Industry

Tagged Topics

Invited - Student Development

of autonomous learning and knowledge management (learning to learn and to use what has had been learned),  connection between theoretical-conceptual learning and learning through action and experiments.Student focused approachFaculty were mentioned in that ministerial guideline for diploma projects only marginal: as far asthey should support the projects they are interested in (and the students are interested in); theirrole lie in the subject competence as background, but mainly in providing assistance withstructuring of planning and decision-making processes, to help with methodological expertise, towork on intergroup dynamic processes and to help with evaluation and reflection

Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Hoffmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Inez Hua, Purdue University; Ernest Blatchley, Purdue University; Loring Nies, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

own include sustainability in their curricula.” “I am confident that I can identify effective ways to 3.7 4.0 include environmental sustainability concepts into the courses that I teach.” Participants were asked to rate their level of agreement with the statement on a scale of 1-5: 1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = neither agree nor disagree, 4 = agree, 5 = strongly agree Statistical method notes: Data listed in the table reflect results from 14 participants with paired before and after responses. Significant differences between before and after responses for the first four questions were observed using a paired t-test at the 95% confidence level

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brenda Hart, University of Louisville; Fashaad Crawford, University of Louisville; Katheryn McAnulty, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

enrollmentfor fall 2007 was 1,293 students and only 218 were female (16.86%). Overall enrollmentof female students at the Speed School has averaged 18 percent since 2006 and finallyrose to 20 percent for fall 2009. National statistics reflect the same patterns.For more than 20 years the Speed School has had an active chapter of the Society ofWomen Engineers (SWE) with the Director of Student Affairs serving as its long termfaculty advisor. Various programs have been conducted to introduce young women andother under-represented minorities (URMs) to careers in engineering with varied amountsof success. In 2005, the president of the SWE chapter approached the faculty advisorwith a new idea – the notion of inviting incoming female students to an

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz, University of Hartford; MirGhulam BarizHosaini, Herat University in Western Afghanistan; Alnajjar Hisham, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

International

implementation of block grants relied onpartnerships. The fist partnership was built on an unusual and existing relationship through theRotary Club between Nangarar University and San Diego State University. After the firstpartnership was signed, the new spread through word of mouth and Afghan Academics inuniversities in the US and UK began to contact the Ministry of Higher Education directly.A new leadership in the Ministry of Higher Education and the creation of a strongerimplementation team in the summer of 2006 were the turning point toward building effectivepartnerships between Afghan and foreign institutions of higher learning. Table 1 reflects theUniversity Partnership Program.The partnership between the University of Hartford (UH) in West

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Verleger, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

a required first-year engineering course with enrollments of as many as 1700 students in agiven semester. The earliest MEA implementations had student teams write a single solution to aproblem in the form of a memo to the client and receive feedback from their TA. For researchpurposes, a simple static online submission form, a static feedback form, and a single databasetable were quickly developed. Over time, research revealed that students need multiple feedback,revision, and reflection points to address misconceptions and achieve high quality solutions. As aresult, the toolset has been expanded, patched, and re-patched multiple developers to increaseboth the functionality and the security of the system. Because the class is so large and

Conference Session

Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Esmaeily, Kansas State University; Anil Pahwa, Kansas State University; J Thompson, Kansas State University; Donald Watts, Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

International

considered in any plan, keeping in mind that the educationalimprovement should be structured to eliminate these conflicts in long term. As an example, an Page 15.271.4instructor, teaching in Dari, may raise the sensitivity of Pashtun students in the same class or viceversa. Switching the instructional language to a neutral language such as English may addressthe issue. However, the other side of the problem considering the conservative religious nature ofthe society should carefully be studied for a proper decision.Some observations were reflective of the religious, yet mostly traditional teachings. As example,despite the low quality of instruction

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Engineering Ethics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan, DeVry University; Abdul Qadeer, Urdu Science University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

the fabrication of: - New catalysts - Heat reflection layers - Aerogels for transparent damping layers in solar architectures - Super thermal insulators - Transparent layers showing resistance against wear and abrasion or anti-damping propertiesEnergy Nanodevices will allow cleaner

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

existing theoreticalframeworks most relevant to my research questions are 1) the history and pedagogy ofengineering education, which is widely supported through organizations such as ASEE;2) STSE (formerly STS) education and 3) Teacher Identity. The selection of STSE andTeacher Identity have been informed by my own experience conducting research withpre-service and new science teachers, and their use of an STSE approach in their teachingof science. However, acknowledgement of context is critical in educational research, andas I reflected further on these theoretical strands, I realized the inherent challenges inutilizing theory from the K-12 realm in the framing of my post-secondary researchproject

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Glover; Frank Claydon; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft; Julie Trenor

Working Pizza Dinner: 4:30 - 7:30 Finish Robots, Presentations Figure 1. GRADE Camp Schedule from 2004.Demographics A total of 129 girls have participated in the GRADE Camps to date (44 in 2003 and 85 in2005), and another 100 are anticipated in the 2005 Camps. The ethnic diversity of theparticipants over the two summers reflects that of the diverse city of Houston; seven differentethnic groups have been represented, and 60% of participants come from a minority group.Figure 2 describes the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benson Tongue

.”How are these pieces integrated over a semester to motivate and hopefully attract students?What needs to be created at the start of the class is a thread of continuity that lets thestudents realize there’s a big picture as well as each weekly “little picture.” The sequence ofseminar discussion topics should reflect this larger framework in such a way that the studentscan see how each week’s work has more completely limned the overall theme of the seminar- in this case automotive-bicycle technology.The first day of the seminar is used to introduce the philosophy and goals of the course.Being a freshman seminar, and therefore only a single credit course, I’ve found it to beimportant to indicate clearly what I’ll be expecting of the students

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim McLernon; David Hughes

articulation of assessment criteria forsuch knowledge and learning.Knowledge, therefore, can take many forms and can be defined in many ways. Knowledge andlearning go hand-in-hand. Assessment of student learning should consider what knowledge is tobe brought to bear on the assessment task. Should the assessment be restricted to formal learningof propositional knowledge defined by the curriculum or should it be designed to be moreflexible to encourage manifestation and application of the individual student’s personalknowledge?If student learning is to be assessed, there must be clarity as to what constitutes student learningand what knowledge is to be learned. The higher education curriculum is now more reflective ofemployers’ wants and requirements

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

broadlearning helps persuade the student that engineers, the designers of technology, do not design ina vacuum and the products they create reflect their creators. Thus they learn that technology isnot neutral.4 Fourth, breadth encourages a focus on fundamentals that are broadly applicable.Even when the technological details change (as they frequently do), the student in full commandof fundamental principles is well prepared to tackle the next big thing, whatever it might be.Fifth, a broader experience prepares students to work in more than one area (perhaps evenoutside of engineering). In today’s work world, career changes are common, so this preparationcan be vital. In fact, employers who hire for a very narrow set of skills may consider thatemployee

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar; Cameron Wright; Robert Kubichek; Raymond Jacquot

  e − jβz + Γe jβz  V(z) = Vg    jβ L − jβ L  (5)  Z in + Z g   e + Γe where Γ = (ZL - Z0)/(ZL + Z0) is the complex reflection coefficient. The time domain solution forthe voltage at any location on the line is v(z, t ) = V(z) cos(ωt + ∠V(z)) (6) Page 10.306.4Due to the complicated nature of relations (3) and (5) computer assistance is necessary to have aclear picture of what is happening. A careful look at these relations will indicate that, in general

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Haig Vahradian; Veekit O'Charoen; Teresa Hall

EducationFigure 14. Terminology used is clear Figure 15. Satisfaction with information arrangementQuestion 11: How would you rate ToolTRAIN© software for the ease of use?The ease of use question reflects both the effectiveness and the efficiency of the interface andsoftware. The range of the questions was given from 1 “very difficult” to 9 “very easy”. 37students answer ranged between 7 and 9. The results indicate that the interface was effective andthe system was easy to use (Figure 16).Question 12: Were you satisfied with the time the experiment took using the software?Time is a critical issue in learning. When a student accomplishes a certain job in less time, it canbe concluded that the student has high cognitive skills i.e. has the

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Jackson; Jesse Petway; Doreen Lawrence; Patrick Dessert; Barbara Oakley

important than accuracy in mathematics,rather than realizing that accuracy is a often a reflection of understanding. (Quibblingaside, it is clear that a student who “understands” why multiplying three times two resultsin six, but who often answers seven or ten instead, cannot do multiplication.) Anothercommonplace error on the part of elementary school teachers was that they believedstudents should not be encouraged to do problems quickly—spirited discussion arose tothis effect during one of the initial Kumon training sessions. When an engineeringprofessor opined in response that an engineer earning $100,000 a year—a fairly typicalsalary—could hardly be expected to take a year to do the mathematics involved indesigning a simple circuit, the

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Wick; Bradley Bishop

reflect a 2:1 or1:1 gain as required by the overall circuit function of Vlight – 2*Vrange. - 10 kΩ From GP2D12 + Vrange 20 kΩ 20 kΩ From CdS 20 kΩ - 20 kΩ - Vlight + Vout + Page 10.199.5 Figure 4: Basic circuit to

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wally Peters; Michelle Maher; Nadia Craig; Veronica Addison

toemphasize both the simplicity and complexity of the problems that they will encounter asengineers. The Shewhart Cycle was used as a tool for continuous learning and improvement inthe design of this course.9 The Shewhart Cycle consists of four continuous steps: Plan, Do,Check, Act, and then repeat as necessary. If we discovered that the students did not learn whatwas intended in the check portion of the cycle, we would move through the cycle again underslightly different conditions. The syllabus reflects the Shewhart Cycle, because it leaves roomfor change by keeping the subjects somewhat vague, such as “Pit and Pit’um Laboratory” orComplex Systems (see the class web page at http://www.me.sc.edu/courses/U101E/). Thisallowed room in the course for

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Freeman; Anita Persaud

on recent research. Review of Educational Research, 45, 89-125.[7] Tinto, V. (1982). Limits of theory and practice in student attrition. Journal of Higher Education, 53, 687-700.[8] Tinto, V. (1987). Leaving college: Rethinking the causes and cures of student attrition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.[9] Tinto, V. (1988). Stages of student departure: Reflections on the longitudinal character of student leaving. Journal of Higher Education, 59, 438-455.[10] Tinto, V. (1999). Retention and persistence in postsecondary education: A summation of research studies. Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation.[11] Upcraft, M. L. and Gardner, J. N. (1989). The freshman year experience: Helping students survive and succeed in

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

T.G. Stanford; S.J. Tricamo; R.N. Olson; R.E. Morrison; P.Y. Lee; L.M. Coulson; K. Gonzalez-Landis; J.P. Tidwell; J. O'Brien; Isadore Davis; H.J. Palmer; Gary Bertoline; Eugene DeLoatch; Duane Dunlap; D.H. Quick; Albert McHenry; Jay Snellenberger; Michael Dyrenfurth; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

DevelopmentThe pace of U.S. technological innovations is reflected by U.S. competitiveness in global markets and ournational security posture. This in turn is directly dependent upon the continued professional developmentof the creative and innovative capability of our high-caliber domestic engineering leaders in industry.Development of technology-based systems is a deliberately planned process requiring expertise indefining the need, defining the specifications, planning the technical project/program/system, throughconceptual design and development for feasibility, through advanced development and programmanagement to get the job done.The resulting outcomes of development programs are new technologies in the form of new/improvedproducts, processes

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Holt; Keith Williamson; Paul Kauffmann; Tarek Abdel-Salam

30 Students Page 10.486.6 Fig. 2 Reports and final exam grades Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationTo explore these trends further, exit writing data was examined to see if reflected the sametrends. Although the exit writing data does not distinguish between DE and non-DE students,data for Engineering Technology students was used as a proxy for DE

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas DiStefano; P. Aarne Vesilind; Richard Kozick; Thomas Rich; James Baish; Xiannong Meng; Margot Vigeant; Daniel Cavanagh

project was slightly better, at 3.42/5.0.The fairly large standard deviation on these scores (1.0 for both) indicates that student opinionwas split between those who enjoyed and those who hated the final segment of the course.Student comments give us relatively little guidance on how to improve the popularity of thismodule. Many comments specifically complaining about ethics simply request that we omit itentirely. The low ratings are likely a reflection of the inherent difficulty of teaching engineeringethics to first-year students, many of whom do not yet fully appreciate engineering or think ofthemselves as engineers. On the positive side, students do agree (4.0/5) that the course hasimproved their understanding of the ethical and professional

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kun-jung Hsu

role played by the head of Li; and the idealistic-level-benefits represented by the academia; all the above-mentioned phenomena demonstrate one thing, they are the optimum choices made by distinct participating individuals. Economically, the dilemma resulting from the contradiction of marketplace values and community values will be reflected in different resource constraints, the divergence of the production probability curve, and different preferences among the various the actors. The Dilemma: Marketplace Value vs. Community Value From general theory of economics, we know that with perfect market information, an optimized demand-supply market adjustment can bring forth an efficient result. But