Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jensen

Page 9.34.11globally applicable.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIn the future, we plan to perform a comprehensive study of hands-onapproaches/experiences to include documenting, categorizing, dissecting, and analyzingthe different approaches. This work may be based exclusively on a literature review or itmay also include empirical work. During this extensive literature review, we would hopeto extract principles and guidelines of successful hands-on approaches and artifacts. Also,we hope to be able to generalize this design methodology to include concept generation ofhands-on activities across Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv; Rosalyn Berne

sacred by the local, native Apache people.The University news officials report that in the mid 1980’s the Forest Service carried outcultural surveys on Mt. Graham. Two shrines were located on Hawk and High Peaks.Additional surveys were carried out on Emerald and Plainview Peaks, and nineteen localtribes were contacted to see if they had concerns. Four tribes, the Ak-Chin, Hopi, Zuni,and the San Carlos Apache responded but raised no objections to the proposed plans forthe telescopes. The shrines were protected and the telescopes were located near EmeraldPeak on a site with no known adverse cultural impact. In 1990, two years after thecompletion of the final environmental impact statement, some members of the San CarlosApache tribe raised

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

elsewhere and did not take advantage of that opportunity. For the next version of this class, we plan to ask students if they did so on the end-of-course evaluation and questionnaire.12. Peer evaluations. To promote learning from peer appraisals, on the last day of class we had each student anonymously evaluate each of the other students. The instructors then consolidated the feedback and sent each student their results, including any comments written about them by other students. Although this is valuable feedback, it could cause discomfort if a student’s perception of their own value differs significantly from the perceptions of others. It also is not clear whether a single round of anonymous peer evaluations at the end of

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ronna Turner; Greg Salamo

exist in an isolatedtechnical environment. The fact is that many products require a high level of technicalsophistication to even evaluate if it is the proper product for an application. As a result, todaythere must be more interaction between the developers of a new technology product and thecustomer. The scientist or engineer is therefore forced into active participation in such areas ascustomer negotiations, marketing and business planning, and manufacturing support. While theirneed for technical competence is not being reduced to support their primary task, their need forother non-technical knowledge is being increased by the many secondary roles that they arebeing asked to play.From the large industry perspective, the need for a broadened

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education · To expose students to executive management and decision making processes; · To give students opportunities to experience and participate in corporate approaches to both day-to-day problem solving and strategic planning; · To require students to be active contributors (not just observers) of typical business practices; · To prepare students to become leaders of companies conducting business centered in product and informational technologies.These goals are achieved by placing students in ten-week (minimum) paid internships thatrequire them to work in a position at

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Pimpida Punnakanta; Craig D. Lewis; Cynthia Atman

with any associated product informationsuch as material specifications, instructions for use, and any supplementary devices (e.g., extrarazor blades). In addition, teams are provided with worksheets to document their designdecisions and activities. Specific prompts include: defining each team member’s role andresponsibilities, recording the steps the teams used to complete the acitivity (a design log), listingand explaining customer expectations for the tool, identifying and justifying the most essentialcustomer expectation, and describing a complete testing procedure to address this customerexpectation. This procedure may include sketches and plans for data collection or analysis.Our study goal is to identify the level of cross-validity

Conference Session

Collaborations with Engineering Technology

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

PK Raju; Chetan Sankar; Glennelle Halpin; Gerald Halpin

Kennedy the MTIrecommendation that STS 51-L launch should occur as planned. Mueller, a NASAadministrator, asked if everyone supported this decision, but no engineer from MTI responded tothis question. NASA proceeded with its plans to launch STS 51-L on January 28 th, 1986. The preceding narrative shows that the problems with the Solid Rocket Motor were wellknown and documented since 1977. It took national prominence when the Challenger disasterhappened. The students are provided this case study in a three-part series and asked to defendthe options of “launching the shuttle,” “not launching the shuttle,” “becoming a consultant andmaking a recommendation,” and “deciding as NASA managers.”(b) Adding Competency Material In order to help

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Alejandro Scalise; Dan Budny; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

following section describes several models to predict the characteristics of graduatingseniors. To do this, both linear and logistic regression were used with data from our attitudinalsurveys, including data from the Senior Exit SurveyÓ, completed by all seniors when they applyfor graduation.Graduating GPASeveral models have been developed in an effort to relate graduating GPA to a number of factorsincluding EC-2000 outcomes. Independent variables included outcome measures obtained fromthe Senior Exit SurveyÓ, SAT scores and high school class rank, and variables representingeducational enhancements while an undergraduate including internship, co-op, undergraduateresearch assistantship, study abroad, and plans to attend graduate school. For example

Conference Session

First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

of the students who chose to attend the EWBmeeting were 36%, 22%, 16%, and 4% in 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010, respectively. The trendof declining interest in EWB over time was somewhat surprising. About half of the studentswho attended the EWB meeting stated that they would be interested in joining the CU studentchapter of EWB.The bulk of the homework 7 essay assignment required that the students consider various aspectsof civil engineering and ultimately state if they planned to pursue a career in civil engineering.The students were asked to define civil engineering, talk about what they learned about the civilengineering profession from the guest speakers, describe aspects of being a civil engineer thatwere personally appealing and

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

responsibility for trainingthe first group belonged to the universities and for the second group to the technical colleges.The Committee criticised day release and evening study because it gave too little attention to thefundamental sciences in the earlier stages. It not only thought that 1500 engineers per annumshould be trained to the highest level in the technical colleges but that the aggregate length of theacademic course should be the same as that of a university programme, and that it should beinterwoven with a planned course of works practice. The sandwich (cooperative) courses thatemerged were a refinement of this principle and occupied four years of interwoven academicstudy and work experience.1000 of the 1500 would be educated via the higher

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine G. Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Council also listed these same skills as critical for the future ofengineering, noting attributes that a “global engineer” should possess.6 Similarly, theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers posited the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge Page 22.875.2for the 21st Century 7 that echoed these sentiments and demands from undergraduateengineering programs.Other studies that focused on engineering skills highlight attributes that might not betypically considered in a description of general engineering work or in a plan foreducation. For example, Trevelyan observed a key attribute of effective engineers asbeing the ability to work with and influence “other

Conference Session

Aerospace First-Year Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Olsen, University of Michigan; Peter D. Washabaugh, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

academicstanding, they can declare into a variety of programs. Consequently, the students who areenrolled in any first-year course may have a strong to weak interest in any particular topic. Since Page 22.879.6the first offering of the blimp course, the instructors have held informal exit interviews with each student and student team. One of the questions has always focused on future academic plans, and there are at least two populations in the course: Those that have a passion for their vehicle, and those that have other interests. We discovered that even while we

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Martin, University of Texas, Austin; Pat Ko, University of Texas, Austin; Stephanie Baker Peacock, University of Texas, Austin; Jennifer Rudolph, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

applications of basic principles and thendevelop a general solution plan. Several researchers5, 12, 13, 14 have referred to this difference asnovices reasoning backwards from the solution goal to the problem specifications, while expertsreason forwards from the whole problem to generate a solution.Routine and adaptive expertiseOther research has demonstrated how experts can differ on their level of flexibility. Hatano andcolleagues15, 16, 17 studied expert abacus users who could mentally add ten multi-digit numberswith only 2 seconds between each. While these experts were highly proficient at the task, thebreadth of their expertise was narrow and they did not seek to apply their skills to new problemsor expand their domain. Hatano and colleagues

Conference Session

New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne R. Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Rebecca K. Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Christopher Dawson, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

andacademic), and we now meet weekly to talk. We also sat down to plan his classes for the nextsemester; he listed his current classes and the grades he expected, which tallied to a GPA of 3.85.The lesson here is that if I had allowed that generalization, “African-American students justaren’t as well prepared,” to couple with his assertion that he wasn’t doing as well as he wanted inhis classes, I probably would have come to the conclusion that he was close to failing a class.Engineering tends to weed out weaker students, but being swayed by a generalization mightprevent someone from putting forth the effort to learn about a student’s actual background andtheir individual circumstances. A poor reaction on my part may have facilitated the nextMeredith

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Foster, George Fox University; Justin R. Vander Werff P.E., Dordt College

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

attended a teaching workshop in summer 2009, but the workshops had distinctdifferences.Known to many in the ASEE, the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI) has convenedThursday–Saturday prior to the ASEE Annual Conference since 1991. 1 The application of thematerial is biased toward engineering education, yet a few instructors from other areas (e.g.,physics, math) also attend. The content for the NETI focuses around four core areas: Page 22.1415.3understanding students (both their learning process and their hangups), course planning andassessment, developing teaching strategies, and other professional concerns. A recent paper by theworkshop

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Santosh Devasia, University of Washington; Jim L. Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Jae-Hyun Chung, University of Washington; Jiangyu Li, University of Washington; Amy Shen, University of Washington; Nathan Sniadecki, University of Washington; Junlan Wang, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

Conference Session

Standards and K-12 Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara J. Moore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Micah S. Stohlmann, University of Minnesota; Jennifer A. Kersten, University of Minnesota; Kristina Maruyama Tank, University of Minnesota; Aran W. Glancy, University of Minnesota

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

improve our daily lives. Students in K-12 can begin to understand and use varioustechniques and skills through design-oriented activities including plans, background research,prototypes, drawings, and Computer Aided Design (CAD) programs.The work of engineers is central to the development of technology. However, high schools thatprovide technology education are becoming more rare38. It has been recommended thattechnology education should be refocused on engineering design16, 39. Several benefits have beenproposed for technology education to focus on engineering design including that engineeringdesign would elevate the field of technology education to a higher academic level andengineering design provides an ideal platform for integrating

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Karen M. Bursic, University of Pittsburgh; Natasa S. Vidic, University of Pittsburgh; Nora Siewiorek, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

of conceptual learn-ing, gender and the student’s grade point average (GPA). This suggests that development ofmodeling ability may be constrained by the naiveté of one’s personal epistemology. Finally,metacognition, or ‘thinking about thinking,’ has an impact on the development of modelingstrategies of students, when the impacts of four metacognitive dimensions are considered:awareness, planning, cognitive strategy and self-checking. Students who are better at self-checking show higher growth in their modeling abilities over the course of a year, compared tostudents who are less proficient at self-checking. The growth in modeling abilities is also moder-ated by the cognitive strategy and planning skills of the student. After some experience

Conference Session

Research in Engineering Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Nicola Wendy Sochacka, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Data, and ii) a flexible typology of fundamental processes ofvalidation (theoretical, procedural, communicative, pragmatic) and the notion of processreliability. Both of these aspects of the framework are illustrated with examples from theaforementioned study. Future work is planned to further develop the conceptual framework as alanguage for the engineering education community to engage in a discourse around shared,contextual and flexible understandings of research quality.Introduction: Questions of quality in qualitative engineering education researchEngineering education research is an inherently interdisciplinary endeavor [1-3] that is currentlybeing undertaken by a community of engineers, social and educational researchers with diverseand

Conference Session

Thinking About the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Mark H. Somerville, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kerri Ann Green, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

for Faculty Affairs and Research. Somerville joined the faculty at newly-founded Olin College in 2001. At Olin, he served on the committee that designed the inaugural curriculum for the institution, and has played leadership roles in strategic planning, as Chair of the Engineering program, and as Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Curricular Innovation. Somerville’s interest in engineering education focuses largely on facilitating change processes and on the application of collaborative design techniques to curriculum revision; in this capacity he has worked closely with a variety of institutions, both nationally and internationally. His educational background includes a Ph.D. and master’s in electrical

Conference Session

CoED General Technical Session I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; J. Lane Thames, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert Donald Wellman Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology; Dazhong Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sungshik Yim, Georgia Institute of Technology; David W. Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Engineering Educator (Ing-Paed IGIP).J. Lane Thames, Georgia Institute of Technology Lane Thames is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in electrical and computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He obtained his B.S. in computer engineering with Highest Honors in Dec. 2003 followed by his M.S. in electrical and computer engineering in May 2006, both from Georgia Tech. Thames is currently planning to defend his dissertation during the Fall of 2011. His core research is centered around three primary thrusts: distributed active-response firewall systems and architectures enabling globalized Internet security, detection of computer and network attacks using computational intelligence and hybrid intelligence systems, and

Conference Session

Android TA: Course Automation and the Fate of the Professor

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

opportunity.The commonality of the available tools described or named in this paper is being able tostimulate individuals and, more powerfully, a group, such as a planning, design, research,marketing, or other project or task team, to think more deeply and widely—to generatemore ideas. More specifically, the methods in the toolbox stimulate additional right-brainuse to complement left-brain activity, yielding more creativity/innovation, rather thanrelying only on what athor Gerard Nierenberg4 calls “accidental creativity.” These toolsfacilitate intentional creativity and innovation by engaging both cranial hemispheres.They stimulate both hemispheres and synergism between them. Some of the methodspresented here build on the principle that a problem well

Conference Session

Contextual Competencies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan E. Canney, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

; 2) the ability to analyzeissues and identify the “key players” as well as their beliefs and values; 3) the ability to usescientific problem-solving skills to investigate these issues to identify the facts surrounding themand their social, economic, political, legal and ecological ramifications; 4) the ability to evaluatethe issues and determine the most effective means of resolving them; 5) the ability to use adecision-making model to develop an action plan that can be implemented to resolve or helpresolve the issues; and 6) the ability to execute the plan if it is consistent with the student’spersonal value system. Tenants 1 through 4 are tied into the new Professional SocialResponsibly Development Model to describe the development of

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wallace T. Fowler P.E., University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

so that thestudents have easy access to the information.Blackboard Postings – UT Austin has adopted the Blackboard electronic course managementsystem. All course documents including the syllabus, course timeline, sample proposals, samplepresentations and reports, suggested outlines for presentations and reports, special references,etc., are placed on the website. This is an efficient way to communicate with teams.Spacecraft Subsystems Information – In the late 1980s, the instructor also taught a graduatelevel space mission planning course. As part of this course, he had the graduate students in theclass create a document that characterized the various common subsystems on a spacecraft. Thegoal was to identify the parameters that determine

Conference Session

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisol Mercado Santiago, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

impossible to do. There was-- this was a very visible policy Page 25.124.8 when it came out. There were people waiting for it to come. It was delayed in coming out from when it was originally promised. [A8/ Policy Administrator 1]Given the high profile nature of the parental leave policy at the university and the time sensitivityof its implementation (some cutoff date had to be given for when the policy went into effect, sothose who were pregnant or had a pregnant partner were anticipating its implementation)systematic training became too cumbersome to coordinate. There are plans for more systematictraining to come, but at least

Conference Session

Understanding Our Students II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven; Viktoria Zelenak, University of New Haven; Michael J. Hollis, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

me staying up a little later; I’m exhausted to go to work in the morning.” “I stay up until like two in the morning every night, and I get up at seven, because that’s Page 25.136.11 when my 21-month old gets up.” Financial planning and resource utilizationThe adult students in our interview pool are economically diverse, with reported annual incomesranging from $10,000 to $100,000. Four participants specifically mention strategies for fundingtheir education through scholarships, the G.I. Bill, and personal savings before entering college. “And now I have the G. I. Bill that’s providing tuition costs for me, so

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Karimi, University of Texas, San Antonio; Randall D. Manteufel, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

% 55% lecture materials and doing homework problemsTable 5 and 6 present the results of student responses at the start and the end of semester,respectively, to the questions related to the amount of time spent in engineering courses. At thestart of semester only 29 % of students indicated that they were planning to spend more than 6hours per week for ME 3293. At the end of semester that number was increased to 39%. At thestart of semester 55% students indicated that they would spend less than 4 hours per weekoutside the classroom preparing for the course.Results of the survey conducted at the start of the semester regarding solution manuals aresummarized in Table 7. The numbers used in the headings are based on the following definitions

Conference Session

Reflections on the “Raise the Bar” Initiative (Part II) - Using a Decade of Experience to Chart the Future

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon D. Nelson P.E., Tetra Tech, Inc; Monte L. Phillips P.E., Americal Society of Civil Engineers; Craig N. Musselman, CMA Engineers, Inc.; Michael J. Conzett, HDR, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

serves on the National Board of Governors of the Order of the Engineer.Craig N. Musselman, CMA Engineers, Inc. Craig N. Musselman, P.E. is a practicing civil and environmental engineer and is the Founder and Pres- ident of CMA Engineers, a consulting engineering firm with offices in New Hampshire and Maine. He holds B.S.C.E. and M.S.C.E. degrees from the University of Massachusetts and has more than 35 years experience in the planning, design and construction administration of public works facilities. Mussel- man is a former member of the New Hampshire Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and was actively involved in the National Council of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors (NCEES) through committee

Conference Session

Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin P. Pintong, Binghamton University; Douglas H. Summerville, Binghamton University; Kyle Temkin, BInghamton University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, or any of the other toolsprovided to them. In order to mitigate those concerns, a few basic tutorials regarding labequipment were provided in 2011 and more robust tutorials are planned for the 2012 course. Itshould be noted that for many students, it is their first time using this equipment. The typical oncampus course has many teaching assistants to assist students, but we frequently found thatstudents would not contact online teaching staff for assistance for the laboratory portion.A point of concern that some faculty may have is the use of a virtual oscilloscope and functiongenerator. It could be claimed that this equipment is not an accurate representation of their "realworld" counterparts. The user interfaces presented are far simpler

Conference Session

K-12 Teachers: PD, Implementation, and Beyond

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Leigh McFarland Kendall, Tufts University; Kristen Bethke Wendell Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Boston

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

teacherprofessional development program.24 These beliefs are then responsible for guidingteachers’ behaviors that influence how successfully their students learn. Because teacherbeliefs can be resistant to change,25 it is important to discover what beliefs teachers holdbefore beginning a professional development course in order to plan effectiveinterventions.22,24For effective science teaching, research supports curricula that incorporate a variety ofstrategies to maximize student learning through experience. These strategies includereflection in student science journals,26,27,28 authentic practices such as science processskills and the engineering design process,29,30,31,32 motivation and engagement throughgoals that are personally meaningful to students