Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lari Garrison, University of Washington; Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Portia Sabin, University of Washington; Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

and technical writing, oh wait, wait, and English 131. And after that, you can apply to aerospace engineering program. …Uh, the process, I believe you have to pick up an application, write an essay, send in a transcript and, I’m not quite sure what else, probably recommendations from teachers. (Jane freshman year)Students were familiar with the stated “nuts and bolts” of the admission. They would have tosubmit to apply to their majors, an application, an essay, their transcripts and possibly letters ofrecommendation. Knowing what they had to submit however was different from knowing howthese submitted documents would be used to judge them. Furthermore, knowing what to submitwas not enough to alleviate the uncertainty

Conference Session

Service Learning Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cher Cornett, East Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Page 12.109.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Service-Learning Project in Digital Media Designed to Develop Professional SkillsAbstractIn well-developed instructional programs, professional skills such as business writing, teamorganization, project management, and oral presentation skills are built into courseworkthroughout the curriculum. Because of limitations of the classroom environment, theseexperiences only simulate those encountered in the field, making it difficult for students toappreciate the importance of these skills in their career preparation. In the Digital Media (DIGM)program at East Tennessee State University (ETSU), students often see professional skillsaspects of

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sylvanus Wosu, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Page 12.1198.3engineering career, and are within the top 25% of their class, or may be academically disadvantaged with“excellent” grades in weak K-12 science and math curriculum. CARE serves as a catalyst for higher academicperformance to ensure that students are academically prepared to enter a quality engineering program when they 2graduate from high school.Project CARE targets two groups-Pre-11th (CARE I) and pre-12th (CARE II). The goal of CARE I is to enrichacademic preparation in college algebra, engineering learning tools, and technical writing/reading of high schoolpre-11th grade students from the selected regions. The outcomes of CARE I are to: (1) increase the average score

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Eisenman, University of Maryland; George List, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

they finish at the end ofthe 3rd year, but the opportunity does exist. The new found independence from classes incombination with the daunting task of writing a dissertation often leaves the third yearstudents lost again. Students typically have a hard time defining the research in theirdissertation and getting started.The Third Year (and Beyond) StudentYou made is through two years, now is the tough part. By the third year you have shouldbe a fairly independent researcher. At this point you need to start working on yourdissertation. (Your own research problem and solution.) If your advisor is nice he/shewill help you get started by working with you to lay out your dissertation, but this is notalways the case. If your advisor doesn’t sit down

Conference Session

FPD12 -- Novel Approaches to First Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Rowe, Vanderbilt University; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

view “MultiplePerspectives” of others commenting on the challenge and possible ways to address it. Studentsthen participate in extended “Research and Revise” activities where data and information wouldbe gathered to help the student address the challenge, followed by “Test your Mettle” a formative Page 12.125.3self-assessment and “Going Public” where students solutions would be made public to peers andothers. While having been implemented in a limited, but growing, number of K-12 studies'2-3results were positive for students working with this design, referred to as the “Legacy Cycle”, bythe developers.The VaNTH Engineering Research Center (ERC

Collection

2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Fani Zlatarova

respective major. The forms could be different, such as writing essays or even anethics code of conduct; analyzing case studies and presenting the results electronically; creating finalsolutions such as programs, drawings, diagrams, information systems, websites, etc.; and using softwareproducts or integrated packages and CASE tools. This type of project has been broadly explored byinstructors.[4, 5, 10] The feedback obtained from former students shows how useful these projects are andthey should be considered as an important part of the students’ academic work. 3Research-Oriented ProjectsThe second type of projects, the research-oriented

Collection

2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Carol Siri Johnson

same resources as do wealthy schools. This isanother instance of institutionalized racism that is generally invisible to those who benefit. For example,at a recent Science Olympiad here at NJIT, I helped run the “Write It, Do It” competition, where one teammember, in a separate room, sees an object built of Knex™ and writes directions to recreate it. Thedisassembled Knex™ and directions are then brought to the next room, where the other team memberassembles it. As I was speaking to the kids who were waiting for directions, I discovered that most ofthem from the wealthy neighborhoods had been practicing with Knex™ for months whereas none of thestudents from the poorer neighborhoods had practiced with Knex™. Thus, the outcome of this contest

Collection

2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Howard Kimmel; John Carpinelli; Rosa Cano; Angelo Perna

and practices; and• Build on teachers' current classroom experiences, as well as new ideas.Our current professional development efforts seek to improve and enhance teacher skills and knowledgein the content areas and in the implementation of standards-based lesson plans that include the assessmentand documentation of students’ achievement of those standards in their lessons. Our endeavors includethe preferred practices described for professional development, where we:1) Focus on planning and instructional needs, while extending the model over time as new skills are practiced in the classroom; and2) Create a peer learning community to assist teachers with planning and implementing curriculum.Peer-learning communities motivate teachers to

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Mangement

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lahoud Hilmi, East Carolina University; Batts David, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

company’s premises. 13 Such tasks include providing secureauthentication, strong encryption methods, disaster recovery plan, and anti-corruptiontechniques.The end-user components include the host at the customer premises or any host that is used bythe customer. The major challenge is the location of the host itself and how the network engineeris going to be able to enforce the security measures on a computer that is not maintained by theorganization that is providing the service and does not fall directly under the network engineer’sdirect supervision. Such challenges include maintaining the latest patches, service packs, virusprotection definitions, clients, and even the basic rules of security as in writing the logon nameand password on a sticky

Conference Session

Innovative Mechanics Education Programs and Projects

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Morgan, Texas A&M University; Luciana Barroso, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

, students initially are overwhelmed and frequentlystate “I don’t know how to start the solution.” Active problem solving helps them piece togethersmaller problems that they do know how to solve in order to reach the solution of the complexproblem. This also leads to more efficient office hours, where students come as a group with anattempted solution to various problems. Instruction Team (PT, TA, Profs):A coordinated effort by the two instructors, teaching assistant, and peer teacher results in officehours that span the entire week. Students are repeatedly told they can see any person involved,including professor from other section. This team approach allows for students to get help moreeasily, as well as seeing different approaches to solve the

Conference Session

Bioengineering laboratories: Bringing research into the classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Barnett, Saint Louis University; Rebecca Willits, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

on the faculty-sponsored project withincreasingly positive results. In addition to developing clear expectations, the students arerequired to develop a project proposal, complete significant literature research, peer reviewfellow student projects, orally present and defend their written proposal, and ultimately composea technical article and present that work at a poster session. The entire sequence providesstudents with the opportunity to explore the forefront of biomedical engineering, develop theircommunication skills and their ability to critically analyze technical work, and to develop theskills and confidence to complete a demanding project.Over the past two years we have added steps to improve the course by providing

Collection

2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

management, micromanufacturing and leading edge advanced technology trends and also deal with energy issues, alternative fuels, and surveys of food chain supply matters. Students make presentations that are peer-graded and there is an emphasis on development of interpersonal communication skills. Assessment and grading are discussed.IntroductionAs a consequence of lifelong exposure to a wide variety of pedagogic experiences both as a pupil and asan instructor the author has successfully adopted techniques of industry in various undergraduate andgraduate courses. The concept of empowering students and encouraging them to be responsible for theirown learning was first reported at an ASEE Mid-Atlantic Region Conference at

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Kampe, Virginia Tech; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Matthew Stimpson, Virginia Tech; Brad Matanin, Virginia Tech; Amanda Martin, Virginia Tech; Cory Brozina, Virginia Tech; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

%)Program Likes/Dislikes: For both runs of both communities, residents were surveyed at the end of the fallsemester as to the aspects of the community that they liked best and least. This survey was Page 12.763.8administered by passing out 3x5 inch lined index cards and asking the students to write whatthey liked least on the lined side and what they liked best on the blank side of the card. TheseTable VI. The frequently cited best and least liked aspects of the living-learning communities. Hypatia Women Galileo Men Community 2005-06 2006-07 2005-06

Conference Session

FPD7 -- Service Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bert Davy, Morgan State University; Indranil Goswami, Morgan State University; Jiang Li, Morgan State University; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimen, Morgan State University; Charles Oluokun, Morgan State University; Arcadio Sincero, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

groups project grade. The weighed factor is calculated as shown inTable 5.Table 4. Peer Rating of Team Members Name__________________________________________ Project Group _________ Please write the names of all of your team members, INCLUDING YOURSELF, and rate the degree to which each member fulfilled his/her responsibilities in completing the project assignments. The possible ratings are as follows: Excellent Consistently went above and beyond—tutored teammates, carried more than his/her fair share of the load Very good Consistently did what he/she was supposed to do, very well prepared and cooperative Satisfactory

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ahlgren, Trinity College; Igor M Verner, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

would have helped me more if those goals were more streamlined… I think it is a good idea that should be used in the future.The post-semester survey focused on the effectiveness of the RST as a learning environment thataddresses Bandura’s three social principles. The survey presented five statements (Table 5) rated Page 12.336.7on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest). Responses to questions 2 and 4, connected to Bandura’ssecond principle (social models), indicated that the RST provided peer models and a constructivesocial environment. Responses to questions 1 and 3 pointed to a supportive environment inwhich help from other team members

Conference Session

Learning Needs and Educational Success

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Skurla, Baylor University; Steven Eisenbarth, Baylor University; Richard Campbell, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

avoiding student debt 6, 8 , o dealing with issues of social life within the university community 6.• work to improve career skills, including o resume writing 6, 8, o interviewing skills 6, o business etiquette 10.• increase participation in student organizations 1.• encourage undergraduate participation in research programs 1.• seek feedback from students and faculty 1.• increase student interaction/mentoring by peers, faculty, and industry professionals 1.Participants in these programs tended to achieve better grades and graduation rates amongunderrepresented minorities.Felder and Brent 11, in a review article about levels of intellectual development described, amongothers, the Baxter Magolda model that

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-849: ASSESSING LEARNING OUTCOMES OF SENIOR MECHANICALENGINEERS IN A CAPSTONE DESIGN EXPERIENCEOlga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech Olga Pierrakos is currently a National Academy of Engineering CASEE AGEP Postdoctoral Engineering Education Researcher (PEER) at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engineering Education. Dr. Pierrakos holds an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her Ph.D. work pertained to vortex dynamics in left ventricular flows. She has served as faculty advisor to over thirty mechanical engineering seniors involved in biomedical engineering design projects and taught several mechanical engineering fluid mechanics

Conference Session

Multimedia Tutorials and Web Development

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramin Sadeghi, Power & Water University of Technology; Ali Mehrabian, University of Central Florida; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

; • Using MS Word forms for research projects: http://www.rit.edu/~kecncp/160/cc-part- 1-2-research.doc; 2. Message Boards at NTID • Message Boards are being used in several courses for Deaf students at NTID. I have found them very useful for short writing assignments and for stimulating peer review of students’ work. College Writing -- http://www.rit.edu/~kecncp/discus (moderated by KEC) • Other professors have put them to use for job interview practice situations and for art seminar discussions. Job Search and Freshman Art Seminar -- 3. Chat Rooms General Audience: • Chat and Newsgroups are online for English second language students. • One-on-one

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Visser, South Dakota State University; Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

laboratory. A delineated project was assigned with the goal of developing bio-basedcomposite materials using biofillers and adhesives. After receiving appropriate training, the firsttwo weeks were essentially an open-ended investigation by the student to become accustomed tothe laboratory techniques, processes to be employed, and typical behavior of the materials. Atthis point in time, the student and research advisor, who was an ARS research scientist,developed a formal experimental design. The following eight weeks were then devoted toexecuting this experiment, collecting data, and writing a report. In fact, this report is currently inpreparation for submission to a peer-reviewed scientific journal – which in itself is an excellentopportunity for

Conference Session

Best Practices in Industrial Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Regena Scott, Purdue University; Edie Schmidt, Purdue University; Kathryne Newton, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

important as experience.A worthwhile college or university education will give students a foundation ofinformation that will propel them into the work environment ready to take onleadership roles. Katz, 1995, suggests a researcher specializing in the study ofleadership approaches, suggests that effective leadership in the workplacedepends on the leader having three personal skills. First there are the technicalskills are those, which demonstrate the leader’s proficiency in specific workactivities. Next, human skills or people skills that a leader uses with upper-levelmanagement, peers and subordinates and finally conceptual skills, those skills thatdemonstrate the individual’s ability to translate ideas and concepts in tosuccessful projects.Lab

Conference Session

Foster Excellence

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University; Neville Parker, The City College of The City University of New York

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

framework was used in theprevious project) with the other graduate students of the faculty member. These measures wereput in place to stimulate interest of STI students on conducting research. The authors believedthat young students learn effectively from their peers. Also, as can be seen in Table 3A, effortwas made to ensure that student’s communication and writing skills were assessed.Progressively, the students became excited to prepare asphalt mixtures including aggregatebatching and sieving, mixing of asphalt liquid and aggregate, and compacting of asphalt pillsusing the gyratory compactor. They conducted laboratory tests such as bulk and maximum

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Bramhall, Sheffield Hallam University; Keith Radley, Sheffield Hallam University

Tagged Divisions

International

12.1207.3initiative, ‘Users as Producers’, was introduced providing an opportunity for the students tolearn and develop skills in video and media production. The students were introduced tocamera skills, the language of television, interview techniques and editing skills. Each groupproduced their own video asset which was either embedded within a PowerPointpresentation, or placed into the Blackboard VLE for peer review. As well as developing skillsin media production there was also an opportunity for students to develop key skills such aspresentation techniques, project management skills and conflict resolution (whilst workingtogether in groups).The first student section related to materials, manufacturing or environmental processes.The second student

Conference Session

FPD10 -- Pre-Engineering and Bridge Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blair Rowley, Wright State University; Kumar Yelamarthi, Wright State University; Cory Miller, Wright State University; Thomas L. Bazzoli, Wright State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

“perceived lack of relevance of much of theircourse work.”Another study by Amenkhienan and Kogan suggested that individual effort andinvolvement, peer interaction, and faculty contact had a positive impact on their academicperformance.2 This study involved 34 second year students in nine focus groups selectedfrom 200 student volunteers. They were selected based upon gender, ethnicity, and GPA. Page 12.764.2Study habits, completing homework, willingness to seek outside help, study groups,networking, and faculty teaching styles and office hours were found to be important forsuccess.A study by Besterfield-Sacre, et.al. involved seventeen engineering schools over

Collection

2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Shaina Slonim; Richard Puerzer

entire faculty. Doing this supports an integrated curriculum. In “Fabulous Fridays”6, Susan Lord writes about what she incorporated into an optoelectronicscourse to measure the lifelong learning outcome. She had students explore areas in depth “by conductingliterature research including a paper and a presentation on a topic of their choice.” For a semester, Lordheld the last fifteen minutes of each Friday class open for students to lead discussions on an article theydistributed to the class on Monday. Lord also states that these ideas can be incorporated into any classthat must reach the lifelong learning objective.requirements When coming up with ideas, I had to meet certain criteria other than measuring the objective.One

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

students residing in or attending high schools in Newark, NJ. Asin the other programs, chemical engineering is only a part of the program and is alecture/ laboratory integrated experience. The lecture topics cover the theory ofexperimentation, statistics, units, dimensions, graphics, data collection andanalysis, oral presentation and report writing. The course also has a homework 3assignment component. The laboratory experience consists of experiments on thechemical engineering pilot plant size equipment. One aspect of the programinvolves the assignment of students to an intensive independent research projectin addition to their regular assignment. Students mentored by the authorsundertook intensive, six

Conference Session

Engineering in Elementary Schools

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate Hester, Museum of Science, Boston; Christine Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

students bring to the learning situation are recognized.Students are encouraged to share their initial ideas about the problems and to examine theseideas in light of new information and activities introduced by their peers, teacher, andexperiences. The pedagogical methods emphasized throughout the course include:Learning Cycle: EiE uses the five “E” learning cycle 23: In engagement, the students are drawn tothe challenge because it is interesting to them. The read-aloud stories that commence each unitare designed to capture students’ imaginations. Students share their ideas about the problemsraised in the story. In exploration, the students begin to explore related science and engineeringprinciples in brief activities. During this phase they

Conference Session

FPD11 -- Multidisciplinary Experiences

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John-David Yoder, Ohio Northern University; Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His areas of research include simplifying the outcomes assessment process, user interface design, and the pedagogical aspects of writing computer games. Dr. Estell is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon. Page 12.1122.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 One-Minute Engineer, Nth Generation: Expansion to a Small Private UniversityAbstractThe concept of having first-year students conduct ‘One Minute Engineer’ (OME) presentationswas presented at the 2006

Conference Session

Service-Learning in Developing Communities

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Wittig, City College of the City University of New York

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

that theirparticipation in EWB helped them to develop new skills not taught in the classroom, such asproposal writing, project management, multi-disciplinary collaboration, assessment of social andeconomic impact, and social responsibility. They also assert that EWB has provided a uniqueopportunity for them to refine their grasp of concepts learned in class by applying theirengineering and professionalism skills to important problems in real environments.Introduction Page 12.1184.2Engineers Without Borders (EWB-USA) is a non-profit humanitarian organization that partnerswith developing communities worldwide in order to improve their health and

Conference Session

Teaching Design in Manufacturing Curriculum II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bahram Asiabanpour, Texas State University; Chandrashekar Subbareddy, Texas State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

asked six quantitativequestions with possible answers between 0-10 (0 for “not at all successful” and 10 for“extremely successful”). These questions rated their knowledge at the beginning of semester.Additionally, some qualitative questions were asked. These questions were graded by using theevaluator’s template and an established scale. These responses established the quantitativebaseline of students’ knowledge at the beginning of the course. Step 2 took place at theconclusion of the semester. Students were asked the same questions as in Step 1. The questionsdealt with topics such as their understanding product and process development, design formanufacturing and assembly, writing, presentation, and project management skills. In both stepsa

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; June Marshall, St. Joseph's College

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

assignments that require an on-line response or chat room discussion. Anothermethod is to require each student to find a hosting firm and develop a case study (relatingto the content of the course) that is presented to the class. One more strategy formaximizing outside of class behavior relates to the time consuming activity of viewing Page 12.867.5audio visual materials such as DVDs. Require the students to view the materials on theirown time at the library (room use only) and write a three paragraph “executive summary”that is collected and serves as discussion points during class.Learning Technique Number 5 - Preparing to TeachDoyle in Integrating