Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Walker

“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2109and concepts become more densely networked.12, 13, 14Concept maps have been used as a learning strategy, an instructional strategy, a strategyfor curriculum planning, and a means of student assessment.15 In this study, we usedconcept mapping as: (1) a form of student assessment (i.e., a measure of students’conceptual understanding of the design process); (2) a learning strategy (i.e., studentscreated maps as a study guide for their final exam and summarized course readings inconcept map

Conference Session

FPD VI: Presenting "All the Best" of the First-year Programs Division

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorelle A. Meadows, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Elizabeth S. Hildinger, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

; and tobring them into the engineering community here at the University. It is a project-based class inwhich students work in teams and individually to master first-year level technical content in oneof the major engineering disciplines and to become competent in the major genres of technicaland professional communication.The current form of the course is the end result of a process that began in 1991, when the Collegeof Engineering faculty involved in the development and implementation of the communicationcurriculum, working with a small group of technical faculty interested in reaching out toengineering students at the beginning of their college careers, created a plan for a first-yearengineering class that would couple communication with an

Conference Session

FPD V: Increasing Engagement and Motivation of First-year Students

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville; Patricia A. Ralston, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

. Since 2006, entering freshman take an “Introduction to Engineering” course, a two credithour course that meets the university’s “freshman experience” requirement. The course also givesfreshman engineers an introduction to the engineering profession, engineering design, differentengineering disciplines, and critical thinking. In the fall of 2011, there were 450 students in 12 sectionstaught by an instruction team of four faculty and six graduate teaching assistants. Critical Thinkingbecame an explicit part of the course in response to the University’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP),and the introduction to engineering course is responsible for teaching students the critical thinkingframework adopted by the university. Another significant

Conference Session

Capstone and International Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rob O. Hovsapian, Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Juan Ordonez, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Jose Vargas, Universidade Federal de Parana; Necesio Gomes Costa, Universidade Federal de Itajubá

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

consortium is centered on theinternational capstone senior design project course. Under this arrangement, four U.S. students,two at each Brazilian university, traveled to Brazil in the fall, which is actually the Brazilian“Spring” term, where they participated in two of the international capstone design projects that Page 25.572.4were developed during the summer before their departure. In Brazil the students joined a groupof non-FIPSE Brazilian students to undertake the planning and design phase of their projects inBrazil. Concurrently, five Brazilian exchange students traveled to the US where they

Conference Session

How Are We Preparing Our Students for the 21st Century Workforce?

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Mikesell P.E., Ohio Northern University; David R. Sawyers Jr., Ohio Northern University; Jed E. Marquart, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

drivingevents and scores from written reports and oral presentations. Page 25.624.3SAE states that the object of the competition is “to provide SAE student members with achallenging project that involves the planning and manufacturing tasks found when introducing anew product to the consumer industrial market. Teams compete against one another to have theirdesign accepted for manufacture by a fictitious firm. Students must function as a team to notonly design, build, test, promote, and race a vehicle within the limits of the rules, but also togenerate financial support for their project and manage their educational priorities.” 6

Conference Session

Capstone and International Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob T. Allenstein, Ohio State University; Clifford A. Whitfield, Ohio State University; Bob Rhoads, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

demonstrate professionalism by exhibiting integrity, providing leadership in a project to ensure the project success • Students are to produce quality designs that represent not only of themselves but of the industry company and the college. The designs must satisfy the performance requirements and constraints • Students are to establish team relationships with other members on the team, the advisor, the program coordinator, and the industry sponsor. • Students are to manage the project schedule and the resources by monitoring their own expenditures, their work assignments, and their course plan. • Students are to apply their prior knowledge, research, and any ideas in addressing the problem when

Conference Session

Teaching and Learning Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Owe G. Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering; R. David Kent, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Christina Howe, University of Evansville; Mary B. Vollaro, Western New England University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

? Page 25.666.2What is often lost in the educational process is that businesses and organizations, at a minimum,must have some essential components. Among such essentials are: • A revenue stream • A business plan for profitability • LeadershipOne can argue about adding one or two more to the list. And, one can argue how best to phrasethe items on the list. But the essence of the list remains. Engineers, because of their criticalposition within companies, are integral to addressing those essentials at some level. How is thatbeing done in the typical engineering curriculum?The important questions presented in life generally have no single correct answer, and fewanswers that are dependent on mathematical

Conference Session

Integrating Research

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kellie Grasman, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Suzanna Long, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Sean Michael Schmidt, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

the hybrid/buffet course was offered to all sections on campus in both Spring 2011and Fall 2011, no control group was available to compare learning within a given semester.Therefore, baseline data from an offering of the course in the traditional format in Fall 2010 wascompared to data collected from the two hybrid/buffet sections.The assessment plan consisted of a comparison of student performance on eight exam questionscovering select fundamental learning objectives of the course. The exam questions werepresented to students in the final exam of all Fall 2010 sections delivered in a traditional manner.The same questions were then embedded in exams of the hybrid/buffet course in both Spring2011 and Fall 2011. The Instructor was the same for

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering, Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico College; Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

and theywere mixed in the same classroom. The focus of the Camp has been to strengthen collegepreparedness by offering hands-on experiences in STEM. At the same time a highlypersonalized tutoring in Math was offered to the students with a 5 to 1 student-instructor ratio.The hands-on experiences were in the form of a four-week project either in ComputerProgramming, Biology and Environmental Sciences. The camp concluded with a written reportand an oral presentation of the project.With the exception of the first STEM Summer Camp where students just took a traditional“lecture-based” math session, on the rest of the Camps the students were given a pre-test onMath that was used to develop a study plan for each student. The software used to prepare

Conference Session

Aircraft Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Dimitris C. Lagoudas P.E., Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

need; students will predict performance of the designusing mathematics and science principles; and project supports the engineering process2. The useof SMA wires in this project was introduced in a manner as to require minimal changes in theproject plan. In fact, the project description given to the students (as a “work request” or “requestfor proposal”, etc.) did not specify how the claw was to operate. The SMAs have beenincorporated into the second-semester freshman engineering course for two semesters. In thespring of 2011, students were given the option of using the SMA wires, and most did. In the fall Page 25.793.3of 2011, students were

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Paras Mandal, University of Texas, El Paso; Maria Veronica Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Juan Venegas

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

through using(1) the Tutor System and (2) the RP Simulator. Particularly, we are interested in exploring if anon-traditional instruction approach through the Tutor System and the RP Simulator cancompete with and/or substitute to the traditional method (i.e., a face-to-face class). There are twomajor activities in our data collection plan. First, for effectiveness of the use of the tutor system,the instructor used Adobe Captivate® 5 to develop and demonstrate the use of the medicalmodeling software called Mimics® then saved it as a Captivate file (i.e. .wsf). Then, it wasuploaded in the tutor system to allow students to download it. Basically, there are two groupsunder this activity – Control Group/Group A (i.e., using face-to-face instruction

Conference Session

Capstone Courses in Construction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohsin K. Siddiqui, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Sulaiman Dawood Alrasheed, Saudi Aramco; Abdul Rahman Mohammed, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Azfar Amaan, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Waheed Hussain Aljaroudi P.E.; Abdullah Ahmed Al-Jughaiman, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Fayez Mohsen Alsaikhan, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Bahir Mohamad Alhashem

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Construction Engineering and Management. This particular offering of the coursereported here was in the Fall semester of 2010. As a part of the capstone course objectives, thestudents link the integrative perspective of Construction Project Management to the knowledgeareas of Project Management that have been individually covered under various courses such asPlanning and Scheduling, Cost Estimating, Quality Management, Human RecoursesManagement and Risk Management. The expected output is typically a project proposal thatemphasizes the project management challenges for a project.Project SelectionThe students were asked to propose a project for the course for which they would prepare adetailed project management plan. The student team came up with seven

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley Marshall P.E., University of Colorado, Denver; Michael Tang, University of Colorado, Denver; Stephan A. Durham, University of Colorado, Denver

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2012-3526: INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SO-CIETY (STS) COURSES INTO THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUMDr. Wesley Marshall P.E., University of Colorado, Denver Wesley Marshall is an Assistant Professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado, Denver, and Co-director of the Active Communities Transportation (ACT) research group. He focuses on transporta- tion research dedicated to building a more sustainable infrastructure, particularly in terms of improving road safety, active transportation, and transit-oriented communities. Other recent research topics involve transportation planning, congestion pricing, human behaviors, parking, and street networks. A native of Watertown, Mass., Marshall is a

Conference Session

Spacecraft Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dimitris Vassiliadis, West Virginia University; D.J. Pisano, West Virginia University; Yu Gu, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

semester, the student team participates in testing and integration atNASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. The launch is followed by work on data analysis and preparation of afinal report. A brief description of the course procedures is given along with an overview of theexperiments conducted. A brief discussion of educational goals and positive outcomes of this activity forindividual students and annual teams is presented. Finally the lessons learnt in organizing the project andcourse are summarized since they may be useful for schools and organizations planning to develop suchprograms. 1. Introduction The Department of Physics at West Virginia University has sought to integrate project-based learningwith a regular classroom-based curriculum. One

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University; Gregory Stuart Rogers; Preston Jay Mendoza, National University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

teamcollaboration. 3.6. Data Entry and QueriesOnce the schema SQL script was executed, error free, within the MySQL workbenchenvironment, test data was entered. The original queries were taken from the Access databaseand altered (both in their commands and semantics) to fit the newly created schema residing inthe MySQL environment. Ultimately, the results of the queries populate the reports generated inthe web-based User Interface (UI) application or “front-end” for the database user to completethe task. The intent was to retain the original capability of the Access database (i.e. keep all thequeries for report generation) but use an open source SQL schema and a web-based applicationfor user presentation. In addition it was planned that any user based

Conference Session

Engineering Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann P. McMahon Ph.D., Ann P. McMahon, LLC

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

educators from Washington University, the Saint Louis Science Center, the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the Saint Louis Zoo in providing curriculum, professional development, kit materials, an interactive website, and a visiting science laboratory/classroom to schools throughout the St. Louis area. She serves on the national faculty of the National Science Resources Center’s Leadership Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER) strategic planning institutes. She was a 2008 and 2009 fellow in the Psychodynamic Research Training Program at Yale University’s Anna Freud Child Study Center. McMahon has a distinctive ability to translate cutting edge concepts from various disciplines in science, engineering, and education in an

Conference Session

The Teacher as Manager: Best Practices for Culminating Design Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tonya Lynn Nilsson P.E., Santa Clara University; Kevin D. Hall, University of Arkansas; Ronald W. Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

50%responding departments answered yes. Of 40% Percent Respondingthe two departments who responded no, 30%one plans to implement a capstone coursewithin one to two years. The other has no 20%plans to implement. 10

Conference Session

Innovations in Computing Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; James R. Lewis, DeVry University, Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

MainStoryboard.storyboard to plan Calculator layout. 3. Create a label and appropriate buttons for digits (0-9) entered as well as for four Page 25.985.13 operations (+, -, *, /) and Enter button. We need an Enter button because a RPN calculator puts all of its operands on a stack and then operates on them. Enter is used to push a number onto the operand stack. For example 3 Enter 4 Enter * results in 12 4. Control-click-drag from the label you created in the View window to the UILabel IBOutlet property display. 5. Control-click-drag from each button in the View window to the appropriate IBAction method. For each digit button, you

Conference Session

The Designer of 2020: Innovations in Teaching Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mikhail Gershfeld S.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Charles B. Chadwell, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

”. In2009, British Columbia adopted Wood First Initiative: Wood First Act (2009 LegislativeSession: 1st Session, 39th Parliament, 2009)[5]. This initiative requires that wood is consideredas the primary building material in all new publicly-funded buildings in accordance withapplicable building codes. This first step in Canada’s fascilitation of the wood use action plan isalso spilling into the United States. The Northwest states are debating similar initiatives and theState of Oregon attempted, although unsuccessfully, to adopt similar legislature in 2011.In February of 2008, the Wood Products Council (WPC), a cooperative venture of the majorwood associations in North America in partnership with research organizations and governmentagencies

Conference Session

Curriculum and Facility Developments for Innovative Energy Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University; Clifford R. Mirman, Northern Illinois University; Avinash Varma Gadiraju; Chester D. Kolodziej, Freedom Field Renewable Energy, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Composite Industries, RockWind LLC, Atometrics Micro- Machining, Wanxiang Energy, and Materials Modification, Inc. His recent peer-review experience in- cludes committees for the 21st Century Jobs Fund for the State of Michigan, the National Science Foun- dation, the Development Capital Network (Phase II), and the Fast Pitch Business Plans for the State of Illinois. He serves on the Board of Directors of three NFPs focused on renewable energy and efficiency technologies, and is a recent graduate of the NREL Golden Colorado’s EnergyExec program. He also consults for the regional economic development agency regarding CleanTech opportunities. Recently he was a speaker at the International Bio Energy Conference in Lidkoping

Conference Session

Thinking, Reasoning & Engineering in Elementary School

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cathy Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston; Christine Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

isused to check whether factors correspond to general learning objectives as we defined themearlier in the development process. We are currently planning to add item response analysis toour list of tools for analyzing the suitability of assessment items 20 .If all goes well, approximately half of the candidate items will be dropped, leaving four reliablescales with Cronbach’s alpha >.8—one scale for each of the general learning objectives. If not,further development is required, or else a decision to reduce the number of learning objectivesthat will be assessed.Further directions for explorationAddressing students’ learning of engineering, technology, and science concepts is only part ofthe goals of our curriculum. We also expect that

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanical Systems: What's New

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati, Kettering University; Richard Dippery, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Assessment ReportOne of the ideas for assessment followed by the authors was to generate a term by term summaryreport of the assessment data collected during each particular term. This is developed based on ameeting of the instructor with all faculty generally involved in teaching this course. The reportamong the other details reviews and documents the identified deficiencies of the concepts andthe difficulties faced by the students and the planned actions for recommendations andcontinuous improvement. For example, offering help sessions, or including recitation period to Page 15.1166.5the course credits (for example, 3 hours of lecture instead

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Ann McKenna, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

the problem. Students are asked togenerate ideas and a detailed project plan. The midterm report addresses alternative ways toachieve the objective, and students are asked to define the criteria they will use to evaluate theiralternatives. The final report exhibits a single product concept and includes a summary of themarket, technical feasibility, and analysis of the challenges to development, manufacture, anddelivery of product. Projects in this course ranged from the development of devices such as anathletic mouth guard that works with braces or a pelvic exam simulator for medical training, tothe creation of tools such as a computerized, user-directed posture correcting system. In the firststudy, the BME course contained nine groups of

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University; Dimitra Jackson, Iowa State University; Mary Darrow, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

acceptance to the program, students are invited to participate in the following menu ofoptions: EGR 100, Advising, Transfer Planning and grad Planner, Social network, Peer MentorInteraction, APP ad Transfer Recruitment Events, VEISHA Transfer Event, Engineering CareerFair, Connections with PWISE, Scholarships (ETEC & E2020).Research questions Page 15.553.3 1) What are the community college and university experiences of engineering transfer students? 2) What are the transfer and university adjustment experiences of engineering transfer students? 3) What advice would current community college transfer students in Engineering

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Wey Chen, Southern Taiwan University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

cognitive levels: Lexical and Syntactic, Semantic, Schematic, and Conceptual 15. The Lexical and Syntactic levels are self-explanatory. Syntax refers to mistakes in spelling, punctuation, and the order of words in a program. Syntax errors are frequently identified by the compiler, but the error messages may not give the students the information needed to fix the code. The Semantic level (as adapted to the programming domain) deals with the semantics of individual statements. The Schematic level, through the use of programming plans, allows multiple statements to be grouped into semantically meaningful knowledge units. The Conceptual level deals with definable functions within the problem domain of the

Conference Session

Energy Education and Industry Needs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jai Agrawal, Purdue University, Calumet; Omer Farook, Purdue University, Calumet; Chandra Sekhar, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

in a short paper of not more than five pages.3.1.6. Design Project Design project is the corner stone of this class. This is where the students apply all the learned principles and acquire the knowledge of components and subsystems available from the various vendors in the industry. The student is required to prepare the design of a solar energy system in the neighborhood area, select components and devise the plan for execution. A written report and power-point presentation are required at the end of this course. The design projects in the summer 2009 are listed below: 1. Solar cooking involving conduction /convection /radiation or combination (three projects) 2. Solar energy from

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yu-Wei Huang, National Changhua University of Education; Jieh-Shian Young, National Changhua University of Education; Chih-Hung Wu, Chienkuo Technology University; Hsing-Jung Li, National Chung Cheng University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

requirement, (2) a plan for their procedure, and (3) diagramsof system architecture. Students are encouraged to discuss to each other, and the teamsactively discuss the procedure in use. Based on the course design, students are asked tocomplete their own OBD implementation step by step. The students are expected tounderstand the practical aspect of an OBD, and have comprehensive exercises on OBDimplementation based on embedded system. This paper presents the course and hands-onOBD implementation designs, and the teaching experiences and student responses.LEARNING THEORYIn the process of experiments development, we reviewed the recent literature of engineeringeducation about laboratory courses. We found that some universities have stand-alonecourses

Conference Session

Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University; Bruce Harding, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

.” Curriculumcriteria are divided into several subject areas including communications, mathematics, physicaland natural science, social sciences and humanities, technical content, and cooperative education.The criteria for communications mentions the preparation of technical reports and the use oftechnical literature. These abilities are related to information literacy: a. Plan, organize, prepare, and deliver effective technical reports in written, oral, and other formats appropriate to the discipline and goals of the program. b. Utilize the appropriate technical literature and use it as a principal means of staying current in their chosen technology.In the case study, most types and forms of technical literature are used in the case study

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Reza Emami, University of Toronto; Michael G. Helander, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

-university engineering programshas changed course from wishful thinking to serious planning, thanks to the rapid advancementof web-based education, usually labeled as eLearning.The notion of eLearning as an evolution of Computer-Based Training (CBT) was initiallypromoted by the corporate world2. The academia, however, quickly recognized the potential ofeLearning as a complementary means of content delivery, and hence began to integrate it into thetraditional curricula, heuristically3 and systematically4. Whereas corporations have divergedfrom the original notion into eCollaboration as a tool for increasing project efficiency andimproving employee productivity, universities continued focusing on the content-delivery andadministration aspects of

Conference Session

Sustainability, Service Learning, and Entreprenuership

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Northrup, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

15.896.3During the classes preceding the travel, students studied reading material and the course met foran hour and a half every other week for lectures followed by in-class discussions. During the 7meetings the following topics were covered: Week 1 – Syllabus, course goals, establish teams, assign literature reviews, logistics and immunizations, personal travel after the course, and planning for fundraising. Week 3 – Lecture on history of Guatemala – plantations and land tenure, civil war. Week 5 – Lecture on people, language and culture. Week 7 – Lecture on geology, climate, fuel sources, and deforestation. Week 9 – Lecture on public health related to housing conditions. Week 11 – Lecture on construction