Collection

2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David Hergert

received from the camera, the individual pixels must be converted to abarcode. A method to do this is described in by Lamarche [4]. The process begins with readingthe pixel from a current location. Assuming a user touches the screen on a barcode, the currentlocation of the touch can be found from in Objective C by:CGPoint centerPoint = [touch locationInView:[self view]]; float x=centerPoint.x; float y=centerPoint.y;Next the photo needs to be reflected to an image space. The code below shows how to do this,assuming imagData is the image space.CGImageRef imageRef = [view1.image CGImage]; NSUInteger width = CGImageGetWidth(imageRef); NSUInteger height = CGImageGetHeight(imageRef); CGColorSpaceRef

Collection

2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Deborah Ihezie; S. Keith Hargrove

systemmaintenance procedures, equipment downtime and uptime and the severity of preventivemaintenance in the organization. In Lean Manufacturing, preventive maintenance is highlyemphasized upon, since losing any equipment due to unexpected downtime in a cell would resultto stopping the operation in that cell which is a cost. [9]Layout & Material Handling: The questions in this section evaluate the space allocated toinventory, type of plant layout, and material movement around the facility. A poor factory layoutand the resultant material handling can create difficulty and significant waste in a productionprocess. Layout also reflects the effectiveness of other factors such as purchasing and thecompany’s scheduling policy [8].Suppliers: In a Lean

Collection

2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

W. Riddell; S. Bakrania; K. Bhatia; J. Courtney; K. Dahm; R. Harvey; L. Weiss

course that allowed the students a moregradual introduction to parametric design8. In addition to being shortened, the Hoistinatorproject was modified9. An additional constraint that the crane be constructed as a truss wasadded. This change meant that the sophomores could completely analyze their design. Writingassignments and grading rubrics were adjusted to directly reflect the objectives listed in Table 2.The design process involved students brainstorming potential ideas for trusses. Each initial ideawas then used to define a family of truss shapes. A family would have the same number ofnodes, joints and member connectivity, but different members of the same family would havedifferent locations of specific joints. Student teams used MatLab

Collection

2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Scott C. Pender; Andrew J. Foote

AIG’s revenues for 2008 after a steady growth patternduring preceding years. This drop reflects the decline present among all of the top companies inthe financial sector. While this is probably the most devastating loss in any industry in recentyears, it is important to note that performance in the finance sector is dependent uponperformance throughout all US industries. In reality, performance is not the true issue as muchas perceived performance. To illustrate, we can begin considering manufacturing industries bynoting GM’s performance since 2006. GM has faced large setbacks due to rising oil prices,increased cost of labor, and a lack of innovation relative to consumer needs. As a result of initiallosses, investors lose faith and the company

Collection

2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Deborah Ihezie; S. Keith Hargrove

systemmaintenance procedures, equipment downtime and uptime and the severity of preventivemaintenance in the organization. In Lean Manufacturing, preventive maintenance is highlyemphasized upon, since losing any equipment due to unexpected downtime in a cell would resultto stopping the operation in that cell which is a cost. [9]Layout & Material Handling: The questions in this section evaluate the space allocated toinventory, type of plant layout, and material movement around the facility. A poor factory layoutand the resultant material handling can create difficulty and significant waste in a productionprocess. Layout also reflects the effectiveness of other factors such as purchasing and thecompany’s scheduling policy [8].Suppliers: In a Lean

Collection

2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

W. Riddell; S. Bakrania; K. Bhatia; J. Courtney; K. Dahm; R. Harvey; L. Weiss

course that allowed the students a moregradual introduction to parametric design8. In addition to being shortened, the Hoistinatorproject was modified9. An additional constraint that the crane be constructed as a truss wasadded. This change meant that the sophomores could completely analyze their design. Writingassignments and grading rubrics were adjusted to directly reflect the objectives listed in Table 2.The design process involved students brainstorming potential ideas for trusses. Each initial ideawas then used to define a family of truss shapes. A family would have the same number ofnodes, joints and member connectivity, but different members of the same family would havedifferent locations of specific joints. Student teams used MatLab

Collection

2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Scott C. Pender; Andrew J. Foote

AIG’s revenues for 2008 after a steady growth patternduring preceding years. This drop reflects the decline present among all of the top companies inthe financial sector. While this is probably the most devastating loss in any industry in recentyears, it is important to note that performance in the finance sector is dependent uponperformance throughout all US industries. In reality, performance is not the true issue as muchas perceived performance. To illustrate, we can begin considering manufacturing industries bynoting GM’s performance since 2006. GM has faced large setbacks due to rising oil prices,increased cost of labor, and a lack of innovation relative to consumer needs. As a result of initiallosses, investors lose faith and the company

Conference Session

Project-Based Service Learning

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Czekanski, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

quantitative in nature and do notcontribute to the scope of this paper. The results of the survey questions are shown in Table 4and reflect results taken from villages centered around the larger population centers of Nebaj andSalquil, both of which are in the heart of the Ixil Triangle, as well as those villages in the vicinityof the much larger department capital of Santa Cruz. Table 4 – Survey addendum results pertaining to socio-economic issues in Quiché 3 Average Highest Level of Families with Region of Location # of

Conference Session

Project-Based Service Learning

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; Ethan LaRochelle, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

concept that EWB is modeled on is the ability to work with acommunity to identify, formulate, and solve problems within –and sometimes beyond– theengineering domain. Typical EWB field challenges require brainstorming outside our ownsocietal norms and are further served by reflection on implemented projects. This requirementfor ingenuity has the potential to offer students lateral and complex problem skill development.This can be more demanding and challenging in comparison to participation in the customaryprojects offered by the current standard engineering coursework or local fieldwork. Page 14.597.13 Photo 7: EWB

Conference Session

Aerospace Workspace: Current and Future 2

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Guerra, NASA; John A. Christian, University of Texas, Austin; Wallace Fowler, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

processes to be exercised 1further in the work environment. As stated in the first lecture: the course is not trying to makeeveryone who takes the course a systems engineer, but trying to give aerospace engineeringstudents a systems perspective. The success of that goal is reflected in numerous quotes from thestudents in the pilot class, such as ≠ “It was a ‘big picture’ view of what we may be involved in as engineers of the future.” ≠ “Taking this course makes an engineer realize there is much more to engineering than designing a given component to a set specification. This course really teaches all the factors that go into producing a viable space system, and some tools to achieve

Conference Session

Student Attitudes and Perceptions

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

factor in their lives. It seemsclear that the college experience has done nothing to close the confidence gap, and perhapscontributed to its persistence. We now turn to students’ own reflections on their engineeringeducation for an explanation.Results from student interviews:In their senior year, 15 of the APS students participated in an in-depth, semi-structuredqualitative interview. Some questions in the interview were designed to elicit students’reflections on their experiences as engineering undergraduates. Others were designed to elicitstudents’ conceptions of engineering and themselves as engineers now embarking on theirprofessional careers. In this section, we complement the findings from the PIE survey with a richpicture of students

Conference Session

Project-Based Service Learning

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Chris Swan, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

in both courses and extracurricular EWB andsimilar service projects and trips. The exercise can benefit the student by forcing them to reflecton the experience, serve as a “catharsis” to vent when negative experiences occur, etc. Mostservice-learning pedagogy explicitly indicates that student reflection is a necessary part of thelearning process. Without thoughtful reflection, the full value of the SL experience may not berealized.23 These same reflective essays can serve as an assessment instrument. They yield richqualitative information beyond the student learning of technical topics, and indicate changes inattitude and identity of the students. These essays can be coded to yield quantitative findingsfrom the qualitative student statements

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Sanders, Virginia Tech; Thomas Sherman, Virginia Tech; Hyuksoo Kwon, Virginia Tech; James Pembridge, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2009-2090: TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES:TEACHERS' BELIEFS AND PRACTICES IN PERSPECTIVEMark Sanders, Virginia TechThomas Sherman, Virginia TechHyuksoo Kwon, Virginia TechJames Pembridge, Virginia Tech Page 14.1170.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Technology Education in the United States: Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices in PerspectiveSince changing its name in 1985, the field/school subject known as Technology Education hasworked to transform its curriculum and teaching practice from one dominated by craft andindustry-related technologies, to “a curriculum to reflect technology.”1 Over the past threedecades

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Vince Bertsch; John Krupczak; Kate Disney; Elsa Garmire; Tim Simpson

. With this came the recognition that no one standard coursemodel could be developed for a single course on technological literacy. Rather, four standardcourse models were established and slated for development as part of the follow-on NSF/NAETechnological Literacy for Undergraduates Workshop, which was held in March 2007 [1,2].The four standard course models are: (1) Technology Survey Course, (2) Technology FocusCourse, (3) Technology Design Course, and (4) Technology Critique, Assess, Reflect, orConnect Course. The framework described here was created to serve as a guideline fordeveloping these standard course models but also as a means to evaluating existing technologicalliteracy courses.Description of the Proposed FrameworkThe framework was

Conference Session

Special Session: 19 years of NETI-- A Tribute to Jim Stice

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Felder, North Carolina State University; Rebecca Brent, Education Designs Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

them to become involved in instructional development. 3. Did the NETI motivate participants to join the ASEE? Question 18 asked whether the participants were members of the ASEE and whether the NETI motivated them to join. 4. Has the NETI promoted scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning? Questions 5, 6, 16, and 18 asked (a) whether participants had engaged in practices that characterize scholarly teaching (reading education-related papers, attending education- related seminars, workshops, and conferences, using classroom research to assess the effectiveness of their teaching, and reflecting on and attempting to understand the processes of teaching and learning in general and their

Conference Session

Classroom Engagement

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Cardella, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University; Amber Oliver, Purdue University; Matthew Verleger, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

the semester, just after the Teaching Assistants have provided feedback tostudents on their first draft solution to the Paper Plane Challenge MEA, and near the end of thesemester, just after giving students feedback on their first draft solutions to the third MEA,Student Travel Modes. These interviews were conducted with individual Teaching Assistants,lasted approximately 30 minutes, and were audio-recorded. The interview protocol for the firstsemi-structured interviews is presented in Appendix B. The second interview followed the sameprotocol, but the interview participants were also asked to reflect on any changes (in theirexperiences with grading the MEAs, such as changes in what they found challenging aboutgrading the MEAs, changes in

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

colleagues assigned with the responsibility of promoting interest and enthusiasm for learning. Instructors are also encouraged to act as cognitive coaches who can nurture an environment that can support open inquiry. (Barrows, 2000). It is important that the aims and objectives of problem-based learning are reflected in every aspect of the learning environment created. Problem-based curriculum should document accomplishments at the upper levels of Bloom's Taxonomy Triangle. (Boud & Feletti, 1991). Scholars in the area of cognitive science and educational psychology have identified four features that clearly separate a problem-based curriculum from a traditional, topic-based curriculum. (Nickerson, et. al. 1985). In this

Conference Session

Instructional Innovations in AEC Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stan Guidera, Bowling Green State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

, engineering, and project delivery. There has been “an extension of the formalfreedom in architecture” [2]. Writing on the topic of “Engineering Form”, Kloft stated that “theemerging digital design and production environment, combined with new materials and moderntechnologies, makes possible unprecedented challenges in the repertoire of formal language”adding that “boldly curved shapes, a few years ago thought of as unrealizable and thought of aspure fantasies, can now be built.”These advances reflect contemporary discourse in architecture, which has seen a shift towards amore topological conception of form and towards non-Euclidean shapes and non- discretevolumes that would have been inconceivable without advanced computational tools [3] [4

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Town Hall Meeting: Supporting University Priorities

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

three phases. First the students focus on the creative design of anairplane based on assorted candy and small office supplies. Secondly, the instructors announcethat the design phase is over and a manufacturing phase starts. The students are now tasked withmanufacturing as many planes as possible, identical to the first prototype while constantly beinginterrupted by process upsets such as loss of raw materials, employee injury etc. The third phaseinvolves reflection and feedback.2. Spelling TestWeaver and Muci-Küchler have reviewed a large amount of literature in the area of creativityexercises and developed a series of exercises proven to be effective in providing distinct teachingpoints that can result in a student’s ability to apply a

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Endeavor

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Herkert, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Jameson Wetmore, Arizona State University; Heather Canary, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Karin Ellison, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

responsibility and skill necessary tocommunicate science to the public. Different students have different interests and can be drawnin by different topics.To further make sure that we are covering topics of interest to the students, and thereby motivate Page 14.763.3them to more fully participate in class and reflect on the issues, we let the students play animportant role by choosing the readings and projects we engage in. In some versions of thecourse we have a different student choose a popular news article each week that can helpfacilitate a conversation about an important and timely topic. In other versions of the course wehave students develop

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zorica Nedic, University of South Australia; Andrew Nafalski, University of South Australia; Ozdemir Gol, University of South Australia; Jan Machotka, University of South Australia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

supply project) remains at the similar level as inprevious years (2006 and 2007). A large majority of students (95%) agreed or strongly agreedthe project motivated them to learn more and 80% of them were highly satisfied with the project-based laboratory. Page 14.90.12The chart presented in Figure 12 shows that mechanical engineering students and particularlycivil engineering students are significantly less satisfied than the electrical engineering students.All students are supervised by the same supervisors and taught by the same lecturers. Responsesto questions 4,5,7 and 8 reflect student perception of students-staff relationship. Interestingly

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University; Bret Swan, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

goalsin technical disciplines.This hidden assumption of product orientation in engineering and technology capstone courses isa significant issue because building a product or system for a customer provides an authenticlearning experience for the students. (“Authentic” here is used in the instructional design sense,IE a learning experience that closely reflects the professional practice the students will enter intoupon graduation.) Students pursuing authentic experiences in this manner show great enthusiasmfor learning both because the degree of control they perceive that they have over the process andbecause they sense that they are engaged in projects that are important to a real customer, IE theyare aware of and motivated by the authenticity of

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christy Moore, University of Texas, Austin; D'Arcy Randall, University of Texas, Austin; Hillary Hart, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

environmentalmovement; homeowners in a new subdivisions, who have discovered there isn’t enough water tokeep their new lawn alive; a farmer, Curtis Peterson, who remembers the way things were;Willie Nelson, who compares Austin to Maui; William Greider, a reporter for Rolling Stone, whobelieves that developers in some sense embody the can-do American spirit; and an oncologist,Judah Folkman, who explains the difference between the growth of cancer cells in the body andhealthy growth. The film’s conclusion seems to be that urban growth in itself is not bad, butunhealthy growth, such as the overdevelopment that threatens the environmental health of theTexas hill country, is like cancer. The conflict portrayed in the film is a reflection of similarconflicts arising

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arturo Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Robert Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American; Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Cristina Villalobos, University of Texas, Pan American; Stephen Crown, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Olga Ramirez, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

’ Page 14.730.4need to see Relevance of Studies to the Real World. CBI, a form of inductive learning, has beenshown to be a more effective approach to the learning process than the traditional deductivepedagogy. The implementation of CBI is built around the framework of the STAR Legacycycle, which is comprised of six main components: reflecting back and looking forward,generate ideas, multiple perspectives, research and revise, test your mettle, and go public.Research consistently points to the following factors as reasons for minority-STEM students’decision to drop-out or transfer out of STEM undergraduate fields of study: insufficient financialresources 16, 25, feelings of isolation 4,24, academic under-preparedness2, and a need to see

Conference Session

Sustainable and Urban Development

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjaya Senadheera, Texas Tech

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

hasevolved to encompass a wider group of disciplines including economic development,environment, agriculture, energy, and infrastructure. Taken in a global context, sustainability isnow presented as a concept that allow societies to develop and sustain resources such that theirmembers can use creative and innovative means to achieve their full potential and leave thenatural ecosystem in a sustainable mode for future generations. This is reflected in the mostwidely quoted definition of stating that sustainable development means “meeting the needs of thepresent without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” 2.Wackernagel et al. (2002)3 suggested that sustainability requires living within the regenerativecapacity of the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Hulme, State University of New York, Buffalo; Edward Kasprzak, Milliken Research Associates; Kenneth English, State University of New York, Buffalo; Deborah Moore-Russo, State University of New York, Buffalo; Kemper Lewis, State University of New York, Buffalo

of this change.Figure 3 shows a typical understeer gradient plot from this task. In this figure the ends arenoticeably curved, reflecting the effect of the nonlinear tire model. Students universallycommented on how much more realistic this model felt compared against the bicycle model withits linear tire model. 80 60 400 40 200 World X-coordinate, ft Steering Angle (deg

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Heyer-Gray, University of California, Davis; Jean McKenzie, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa Ngo, University of California, Berkeley; Karen Andrews, University of California, Davis; Emily Stambaugh, California Digital Library

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

and statements can vary among the campuses, therecords for the titles in the union catalog need to be consistent and display the shared printlocation. Cooperation and input among NRLF staff, the UC Berkeley systems department, andthe California Digital Library was vital for allowing this to happen with a minimum of delay.Below are two examples of records from the union catalog that reflect combined UC Berkeleyand UC Davis contributions.IEEE Micro holdings and MARC 852 field display in the Melvyl union catalog:NRLF UC Shared Print-1 Circ status University of California Libraries - Building Use Only v.1(Feb 1981)-24(2004), 26(2006)-27(2007)852 |a GLAD |b UL01 |j XXX Shared Print-1 |3 v.1

Conference Session

Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverley Pickering-Reyna, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

awareness, role-playing, team building, andcreativity. IT-LSCD advocated leadership development, knowledge of social protocol, andunderstanding the value of constructive life choices. The system supported multiple formalreasoning for decision-making, analyses, and problem solving. Exposure to information aboutemployment trends, employer expectations, and employee rights provided minority young adultswith an additional access level. The method expected minority young adults to learn to dress forsuccess, understand the interview process, and network with what they had learned. As such, IT-LSCD consistently employed the talents of leaders who reflected the service population.The presumption existed in the IT-LSCD method that minority young adults

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Gilbert, Iowa State University; Pam Shill, Iowa State University; Kevin Saunders, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

interns, helping the faculty and graduatestudents with ongoing projects. This approach is valuable, but can lead to a sense of isolation ifthe participants cannot easily reflect with each other on their new experience. Other programsassign small groups of students to labs in order to decrease the potential for isolation. Thisresearch reports on the structure of a highly-successful REU site with a relatively rareconfiguration: 15 participants are co-located in a single lab but grouped in teams of three, andeach team works on an existing research project. This approach attempts to establish a intenselearning community1,2 within the REU, as discussed by other REU Site principle investigators3 inwhich students learn not only the relevant research

Conference Session

Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean-Pierre Bardet, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

innovative and exemplary Bloom’s work was for its era (1956), the materialnow used in support of his work has become outdated and does not fully exemplify the peda-gogical and curricular expectations required for education engineers with global foci per NAE. Ithas been found to be lacking in multidimensionality particularly at college and university levelsin terms of meeting the increasing challenges facing higher education faculty. This is particularlytrue in the case of research universities with engineering schools where engineering educationresearch is of focus. Professional organizations associated with the field of Civil Engineering in-cluding ASCE have clear expectations for preparing engineers who are globally focused leaderswho and reflect