Conference Session

Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University; Lisa Stapley Randall, Arizona State University; Johnny Thieken, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

-school. By encouraging early STEMeducation we hope to influence high-school coursework, as well as career and educationalpathways. The real world applications of engineering and the inquiry-based, hands-on nature ofthe engineering design process can serve as a means to integrate mathematics and science inways that connect youth to the joy of learning, and to applying knowledge and skills to sociallyrelevant challenges.3,4Recent science education reform focuses on the concerns that students are not gaining the skillsets necessary to maintain America’s economy.5 There has been a general call to change schoolexperiences to prepare students’ for life and work in today’s global economy.6 Meadows5 statedthat learning science by inquiry is central to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Marchese, Colorado State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

question, “The teacher was enthusiastic about the course.” Several of thecomments are included below: I like the speakers! Fast track [the textbook] was very expensive and may be unnecessary. Reading load was a bit much. Good course overall. One thing I would change is the addition of class discussion about the reading material. It was interesting, but I think most of the students stopped reading after the first few weeks. Speakers were a beneficial addition to the class. I think the course provided a real eye-opener for students that a whole other type of career/endeavor exists. It was also highly motivational for. The difficulty (obviously) is teaching multiple subject areas to multiple backgrounds

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Francesco Costanzo; Gary L. Gray

State.However, not all majors perceive the Engineering Dynamics course content as useful to them in Page 4.335.8their engineering careers. This often causes a non-negligible number of students, randomly dis-tributed among the various sections of the course, to view the course as a “necessary evil” thatthey have to endure in order to graduate. By including in teams members whose major requiresthe course as the basis for further curricular developments (e.g., Mechanical or Aerospace Engi-neering), we hope that a healthier degree of “perceived interest” in the course is fostered.3.2 Teams and Collaborative LearningThe course has been structured to

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald V. Richardson

few developments from my own Page 4.390.2experience in college teaching and private consulting. After changing careers to college teachingin 1969 the wide variety of projects that I took on in the Aerospace industry, faded away. It tooka while to fully familiarize myself with the electrical machines lab at the old Waterbury StateTechnical College (WSTC). Soon it became obvious that this was a well equipped laboratorythat had not been fully developed. The apparatus was versatile but the laboratory experimentswere being presented to the students only by using the Hampden Inc. apparatus prepared labdirections. These were the usual post WW II

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Brizendine; Laora E. Dauberman-Brizendine

model shown in Figure 1 with the categories of(1) teaching (45 %), (2) scholarship (25 %), and (3) outreach, professional development andservice, OPS (15 %). Each interface is worth 5 % to bring the total to 100 %. The report Page 4.443.11indicated that the faculty in the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction at BradleyUniversity “felt that for the first time in their careers they have a fair and equitable policy theycan relate to and believe in because it reflects their interests and meets departmental needs.”Figure 1. New Model for Faculty Assessment in the CEC Department at BradleyUniversity (from ASCE, 1998.)An Analogous Model for

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa L. Hein; Dan Budny

can identify or feel empathy. A characteristic question of this learning type is "Why?" TypeI learners respond well to explanations of how course material relates to their experience, theirinterests, and their future careers as engineers. These individuals learn well through discussionand they excel at brainstorming. To be effective with Type I students, the instructor shouldfunction as a motivator. Thus, the instructor should develop ways to motivate these students andshow them how the course material fits into the big picture. Divergers want to interact personallywith the instructor and to be recognized as individuals. An instructor should monitor and witnessthe students' personal growth. Type I students also benefit through the use of such

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Shih-Ming Lee; Sergio Martinez; Anabel D. Ramos; Martha A. Centeno

term inadvance. It would allow time for the instructor to get familiar with the tools and methods thats/he and the students will be using. In addition, instructors should be given the opportunity toattend workshops on assessment techniques as part of their career development. This willfamiliarize

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Gearold R. Johnson; Dueb M. Lakhder

knowledge and skills for their professional career growth and advancement.Proposed Programmes of the Satellite Universities of Science and TechnologyThese universities will have the opportunity to use the available courses available in the marketat the beginning of their operations. These courses are available for sale or hire and areproduced in commonly used international languages such as English and French. However,after a certain period of operation they may start their own production of educationalprogrammes. In this case, the following points should be carefully considered:Ç Distance learning courses need significantly more preparation and detailed planning than traditional lecture courses.Ç Distance courses should be

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Ruthie Lyle; Ranil Wickramasinghe; Lisa Schaefer; Kevin Nickels; Jodi Reeves; David Noyce; Annie Pearce

they will continue touse them. This paper itself is evidence of participants' progress in their understanding ofeducational pedagogy and in their confidence of implementing innovative approaches in theclassroom. Participants credit EESP with an early opportunity to "learn the ropes" of the Page 4.121.11academic career including insights into the hiring process, mentoring, promotion and tenure,and writing grant proposals.Preliminary results15 from the comprehensive, three-year (1996-98) evaluation are nowavailable. Nearly half of the participants (56 of 116, or 48%) have responded to an email survey.Over half of the participants (regardless of

Conference Session

Engineering Education in India, the Far East, and Central Asia

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J Thompson, Kansas State University; Ata M. Nazar, Kabul University

Tagged Divisions

International

lives. Manymembers of the faculty and graduates of the program made their way to the US or Europe andtook up successful Engineering careers. Some are supporting the present rebuilding effort in avariety of ways.During the civil war the engineering building was used by the military and laboratory equipmentwas scrapped and sold for funds to support the war effort. Even the plumbing and electricalwiring was stripped out of the building. During the Taliban administration the engineeringprogram was restarted, but with little resources. Following the fall of the Taliban a number ofinternational agencies have provided some assistance for rebuilding the engineering programincluding some renovation of the building and the contribution of some equipment

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Schneider, Cornell University; Maria Terrell, Cornell University Math Dept.

to measure undergraduate students’ self-efficacy related to succeedingin the engineering curriculum, as well as feelings of inclusion in the academic environment,ability to cope with setbacks or challenges related to the college environment, and expectationsabout engineering career success and math outcomes. The original use of the instrument wasfocused on self-efficacy among undergraduate women engineering students, and specifically onthe relationship of self-efficacy and the other related constructs to students’ persistence inengineering (Marra et al., 2004). Following its development in 2003, the LAESE was used asthe primary instrument for a longitudinal multi-institution study of self-efficacy among male andfemale engineering students at

Conference Session

Classroom Engagement

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Parikh, Stanford University; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Kenneth Goodson, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

those occurring with very small length and time scales. Goodson is a co-founder and former CTO of Cooligy, Inc., which builds microfluidic cooling systems for computers and was acquired by Emerson, Inc., in 2005. Goodson received the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer Outstanding Reviewer Award, and now serves as an Associate Editor for this Journal. Goodson serves as Editor-in-Chief of Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering. He has received the ONR Young Investigator Award and the NSF CAREER Award. Ken received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT.Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard is the Burton J. and Deedee McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shaobo Huang, Utah State University; Ning Fang, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

, allowing education researchers andpractitioners to “see” how the predicted results are generated, and thus the predicted results canbe interpreted in a reasonable and meaningful way 11. For example, Green 12 developed a set oflinear regression models for three mechanical engineering courses to predict a student’s finalexam score from the student’s scores in mid-term quizzes. A modest correlation was foundbetween a student’s final exam score and mid-term exam scores. Yousuf 13 developed amultivariate linear regression model to predict student academic performance in ComputerScience and Engineering Technology programs. The predictor/independent variables ofYousuf’s model 13 included a student’s career self-efficacy belief, math-SAT scores, high

Conference Session

Curriculum in Electrical Power Engineering Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Edwards, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, and mustfall on the characteristic curve for the fan. Whenever a fan is attached to a system a certainamount of back pressure on the fan will be created. This backpressure depends on the amount offlow going through the system. In order to determine the actual operating point the engineermust know the characteristic curves for both the fan (fan curve) and the system (impedancecurve). The operating point is the point at which the two curves intersect (Figure 1). Since it islikely that an engineer will have to select a fan at some point in his/her career it is important tounderstand this concept.Learning about how to determine the operating point for a fan in a system is enough to make thisa worthwhile activity. However, there is a broader

Conference Session

Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Hill, University of Detroit Mercy; Patricia Pena, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Tagged Divisions

International

project as 3 out of 5. The benefit to the outcomeof the project of the presentation on Cultural Awareness was rated only slightly higher at 3.14out of 5. However, the students felt that the presentation on Cultural Awareness would be usefulin their future career as indicated by their average rating of 4.57 out 5.Technical Subject MatterThe authors in general feel that the students were even more successful in their learning of thetechnical subject matter than they were in learning about inter-cultural collaboration. Thestudents learned many valuable lessons about practical issues with control system design that arenot typically encountered in textbook problems. One example was that the students gained anunderstanding of the inherent nonlinearity

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Reisel, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

new faculty member, into aclassroom and told to teach a class. The person may or may not have any experience as ateacher, and if they do have experience it may be limited to having Teaching Assistant duties.They may or may not be given a course that is a fundamental aspect of their research, but hasmany details that they have not given much thought to in many years. They may be given some Page 15.609.3assistance by another faculty member when starting to teach a new course, but generally aregiven no formal training unless they had sought such training on their own before beginning theirfaculty career. At the same time, this person is also being

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Susan Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Melissa Roberts, Michigan Technological University

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First-Year Programs

Conference Session

Service Learning and Societal Issues in the First Year

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Sevier, Boise State University; Seung Youn Chyung, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

impact of a SL method on student learning and retention. This study investigated students’ motivational attitudes and self-assessment of engineering abilities. It is hypothesized that positive motivational attitudes and self-assessment of abilities would result in deeper understandings of engineering and continuous motivation to pursue engineering as a career. More research should be conducted to test the hypothesis. ≠ Design engineering curricula with instructional strategies such as SL that contribute to meeting ABET program outcomes. As shown in the literature review, engineering educators have successfully designed and implemented SL in their curricula to achieve ABET program outcomes. This study

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joao Paiva, Politecnico de Viseu

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International

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simin Hall, College of Engineering at Virginia Tech; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech; Sam Conn, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Systems at Regis University in Denver, Colorado from 1999 to 2008. In this position he led the university's move to online education in graduate and undergraduate programs. Sam also served as co-director of the online joint-degree program with the National University of Ireland in Galway, Director of the Center for Database Research, and Co-Director for the National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence. Sam has worked in higher education since 1999 after completing a 23 year career in the field of information systems and technology. Sam maintains a publishing track in Information Systems and eLearning research

Conference Session

Student Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Otto, Stanford University; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

-graduate plans and shaping the college experience. But confidence relates to the experiences oneseeks out (which may in turn build confidence), and these experiences in turn are likely to affectfuture plans and opportunities. Employers are increasingly calling for well-developedprofessional skills in engineering hires and ABET Inc. has established a set of six professionalskill outcomes that engineering baccalaureate graduates should possessii,iii. Motivation, whatdrives one to pursue something, also influences how one chooses to spend time both in schooland in career planning.In this study, we test the explanatory power of framing undergraduate engineering populationsaccording to measures of their intrinsic psychological motivation and

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Schnittka, University of Kentucky; Michael Evans, Virginia Tech; Brett Jones, Virginia Tech; Carol Brandt, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

development of UScitizens in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Consequently, theresearchers addressed this effort by exposing young people to STEM careers while focusing ondesign issues and concepts related to energy conservation and the environment.In this paper, we describe the results of the initial implementation of Studio STEM in aninformal setting for underserved youth: an after-school Boys and Girls Club in a ruralAppalachian community. The curricular package used for this pilot study, called Save thePenguins, has been used in the past in formal, in-school settings with advantaged youth.3,4 Inthis iteration the researchers selected a different population and added an informationcommunication technology (ICT) component

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and the Educated Person

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. William Graff, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTouneau University; Martin Batts, Le Tourneau University; Maria J. Leiffer, LeTouneau University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

publication/career, political correctness, continuedfunding, or one’s pet theory.5. The general public rather than the scientific community votes on what is worthstudying and funding.6. The public loses trust in scientific research.7. The scientific method is abandoned because the results are “obvious.”8. No one cares how things really work.9. We move to an age of magic and mysticism.Lewis wrote:“Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law inNature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief hasdied: it will be interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity survives it.Two significant developments have already appeared—the hypothesis of a lawless sub-nature, and the

Conference Session

Faculty and Program Developments, Exchanges, and Partnerships

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl F. Zorowski, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

International

., interact with a host institution, identify an industrialsponsor and spend six weeks away from home is more than most faculty in the midst of theiracademic careers are likely to undertake. If global interaction experience with other cultures isan opportunity to be provided to US engineering students greater levels of tangible support mustbe made available through university, government and industry leadership. In addition theremust be greater recognition and reward for faculty to take on the sizeable responsibility requiredto conduct such programs. It then becomes a matter of priorities as to where resources will be orshould be allocated in educating our future engineers for US industry to be competitive andsuccessful in what has become a global

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Xiongjie Dong, Kansas State University; Tim J. Sobering, Kansas State University; Jason Yao, East Carolina University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

sensitiveCapability?  1. RASCL will be neat if all the bugs are figured out in advance. 2. Use of LabVIEW significantly limits the uses of device because of the price, and it can't be used widely without the full license. It cannot be used but in class projects. 3. Need a cover or case to prevent the board being destroyed. 4. The highest frequency the function generator can reach. 5. Higher sampling rate and bandwidth. 6. More functions, such add a digital dial on the function generator. 7. Isolation circuit does not operate properly. What is the most you would pay for a system like this if it were used in several classes over the course of your undergraduate career? (Note: An engineering

Conference Session

Laboratories and Projects in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

are playing an increasingly important role in research and Page 22.98.13design (8, 10, 16 23, 33). Although programming languages will come and go, the ability   12  to think algorithmically is a skill that engineering undergraduates will need, not only infor their first job, but throughout their 40+ year career (9, 10, 30, 32). It is thereforeimportant to teach algorithmic thinking as a critical thinking skill.In this paper we have proposed Coding to Think as an extension of Writing to Think, andIdea to Code as a practical way for students to learn Coding to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

example, therace to the moon coincided neatly with the original Star Trek television series. The interchangebetween creative work and technical development is especially fun to examine in the field ofartificial intelligence, where there are many examples ranging from Isaac Asimov stories toWall-E to intelligent artificial agents within many games.The course goals of AI & SciFi include 1) presenting students with a fun opportunity to improvetheir writing, 2) exploring the social impact of the field of AI, 3) preparing students to deal withethical questions that will arise in their professional careers, 4) connecting students to thebroader culture of the technical community, 5) exploring connections between creativity in artsand in computer

Conference Session

Design Tools & Methodology I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pedro Renato Acosta, University of Texas, El Paso; Rafael Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

promote the development ofcreativity skill in their students. Traditional engineering curricula is focused mostly in technicaldevelopment; 13 this practice has shown a decreasing level of creativity in students rather thanincrease while they are moving forward in their career. The teaching of idea generation(ideation) methods could enhance the student’s designer creative capacity; this has been shownby multiple research studies14,15,12 . Learning about ideation methods can tackle creativedeficiencies. Although various Ideation Methods exist (e.g. brainstorming, mind-mapping,synectics, lateral thinking or morphological analysis16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 ), engineering educationinstitutions as well as industry tend to prefer quick and simple methods

Conference Session

ELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour, College of New Jersey

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

career choice." 1Two of the (original three) students involved in the design and development of this project havesuccessfully completed their graduate studies. Additional students have continuouslycontributed to the improvement of the project and redesign of several components and aspects ofthe apparatus.IV- Design of the Experiment and the Apparatus1. PedagogyThis project has been designed for sophomore level students. Pedagogical measures have beentaken for its realistic effectiveness (nation-wide). Therefore, the framework of the project hasbeen set at a level that sophomores may: a) succeed in its implementation and b) develop somedegree of understanding and appreciation for the optical measurement processes and potentialapplications.2

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David H. Jonassen, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

ethicalresponsibilities based on economic, environmental, ethical, social, and political constraints.Although ABET criteria provides an extrinsic rationale for addressing ethics issues inengineering education, the most compelling rationale is the omnipresent nature of ethicalissues in engineering practice for which students are preparing. The ethical problems thatengineers encounter throughout their careers influence the businesses they work for, thepublic at large, and the health and safety of society[1]. Engineering ethical problems arise inroutine engineering practice and are often integrated with technical, engineering issues.If ethics instruction is essential to the preparation of engineers, then the engineeringeducation community must determine the goals