Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

humanistic courses extending throughout an engineering student‟sundergraduate years.6In 1940 and 1944 there were then the two Hammond Reports, the first on the “Aims and Scopeof Engineering Curricula,” and the second for planning the postwar reconversion of engineeringeducation at the end of World War II.7 The 1940 report was responsible for giving articulation tothe notion of there being parallel scientific-technological and humanistic-social “stems” inengineering education. As important, it defined a specific set of objectives for the humanistic-social portion of the curriculum (as well as for the scientific-technological portion), establishinga learning outcomes based model of education within the engineering education community thatwould be

Conference Session

Focus on Entry Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

have. … So I decided to get a degree in chemical engineering so if one day I have to go back to med school, I would go. (B1) I originally wanted to do premed, but then, my uncle who’s an engineer kinda talked me out of it. He was like, well, what if you don’t get into medical school your first year? What are you gonna do? And he was like, if you come to engineering, you’ll get all the credentials that you need in order to go into medicine, but you’ll also have a fallback if you decide that’s not what you want to do, or …if you want to take a break, or something like that. So, he kinda persuaded me. Moderator – And are you still planning to go to med school? I’m thinking I want to take a

Conference Session

Pay It Forward: Critical Thinking, Reflection and Faculty Engagement Promote Success in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R Goldberg, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology; Rory A. Cooper, University of Pittsburgh; Dan Ding, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology; Alicia Koontz, Human Engineering Research Laboratories

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

center outreach initiative which links middle school and high school SWDs to careers in STEM through job shadowing, robotic camps, and internships with local businesses, plants a seed in middle and high school students about the REU program. Four SWDs in the past who were Tech-Link robotic campers and are now in college have participated in the REU program and solidified their career and/or graduate school plans in associated disciplines. o Recruitment efforts to veterans with disabilities are emphasized. QoLT REU’s partner internship program, ELeVATE (Experiential Learning for Veterans in Assistive Technology and Engineering), an initiative designed to re-integrate veterans with

Conference Session

Active and Inquiry-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

diagram simulation. Asking her about that duringthe interview provided further insight into how hands-on activities benefited her learning. Inaddition to the planned questions, additional questions were asked during the interview toexplore additional topics that arose. In some cases these led to questions that were added to theinterview guides for the remaining students. Each interview lasted 20-30 minutes and wasdigitally recorded.All interviews were transcribed verbatim by an external transcriptionist. Analysis was conductedby coding each significant statement in the transcript with a brief descriptive tag. These codeswere generated by asking of the data questions such as “What is this an example of?” or “Howdid learning occur in this instance

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Design Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. However, there are many examples cited in the literature that point to alack of understanding of the user or an understanding of the way in which the product would beused that contributed to its failure8,10-11. According to Damadaran8: Without effective user involvement in all stages of planning and design the organization is simply storing up problems for the future. When the problems emerge post- implementation they are likely to be serious and more intractable because system changes become more expensive as the design progresses and ‘hardens’. (p. 365)How is it, then, that engineering programs should go about developing “design thinking” and theskills needed for human-centered design? What experiences contribute

Conference Session

They're Not "Soft" Skills!

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Candice Stefanou, Bucknell University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; John Chen, California Polytechnic State University; Jonathan D. Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

time. Thus we are conducting an investigation of how pedagogical choices influencestudent attitudes and behaviors related to self-regulated learning in engineering classrooms.Research BaseDefining Self-Regulated LearningSelf-regulated learning has been defined by Boekaerts as “a complex, interactive process involvingnot only cognitive self-regulation but also motivational self-regulation” 14( p.161). Alternatively,Zimmerman8 defines SRL as “…self-generated thoughts, feelings, and actions that are planned andcyclically adapted to the attainment of personal goals” (p. 14). Pintrich 15 defined four assumptionsof self-regulated learning (SRL) models. The four are (a) learners are active participants inlearning, constructing meaning from

Conference Session

Frontiers in EM Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ertunga C. Ozelkan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Agnes Galambosi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

design and optimization. His current research interests are the modeling of supply chains and production planning systems, and their applications in different industries.Agnes Galambosi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Agnes Galambosi has a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. She is currently employed at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte teaching several engineering courses. Page 22.1151.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Perception and Preferences of Faculty for Online

Conference Session

FPD VII: Innovative Curriculum Elements of Successful First-Year Courses

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald W. Recktenwald, Portland State University; David E. Hall, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

withmicrocontrollers does not mean that students will respond positively. Instructors used the “buzz”about the Arduino to motivate students, by indicating that the students were using a new andpopular technology. Instructor observations of student reaction showed that students were notuniversally inspired by or interested in the technology. This makes sense because the definitionof “cool” is not uniform for engineering students. Assessment was performed with an end-of-term survey of student attitudes toward thecourse and how it affected their career plans. Students were asked whether the use of theArduino platform changed their attitude toward computer programming and electromechanicalsystems. The complete survey is included in Appendix B. Results from

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura R. Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christina Matta, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Technical Communication Program

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, students do not immediately see the relevance of the skills that they’vedeveloped in a previous course because they are struggling to understand the new context.Understanding how previously learned skills apply to that new context becomes a secondaryconcern. Of course, some students will see the patterns and leap that skills gap themselves, but agood number of them may need help recognizing the pattern and seeing its relevance in the newcontext.Skills transfer of any kind can be complicated by unpredictable enrollment patterns and bystudent tendencies to compartmentalize their education. The pre-requisites for our upper-levelcommunication course and advising/course plans try to mandate that students enroll in ourTechnical Communication course in

Conference Session

Digital Technologies and Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Ben Uriel Sherrett, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

required to accomplish an authentic task(maximize reactor performance) with very little procedural or strategic information provided.This increase in cognitive demand in the strategic domain is facilitated by a decrease in demandin the haptic domain. Instead of spending time and cognitive resource setting up equipment andensuring functionality of instrumentation for a limited experiment, students are able to use theresources previously dedicated to these types of actions on other activities. Students mustmanage a budget, create and carefully plan the project strategy, and analyze and assimilate theinformation from multiple experiments that were easily run; the process of running the reactoronce, measuring selected wafers, and exporting the

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Potpourri I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa M. Abrams, Ohio State University; Robert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University; Sharnnia Artis, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

about teaching in general. Page 22.693.11Although it was not an initial objective of this exercise, it was useful for students to learnvaluable teaching strategies as well as validate what they were learning in the class. Studentscame back with a robust set of observations and indicated that they learned teaching techniquesthat they plan to use. Plans are in place to repeat this exercise with a new set of students andfaculty members. Caution will be used such that faculty interviewed and emailed in this studywill not be contacted again.Bibliography1. ENGAGE Strategy Research Brief2. Astin, A. W. (1993). What Matters in College: Four Critical

Conference Session

Open-Ended Problems and Student Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nora Siewiorek, University of Pittsburgh; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Rosa Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, entrepreneurship, and modeling. She has served as an associate editor for the JEE and is currently associate editor for the AEE Journal.Rosa Goldstein , University of Pittsburgh Rosa Goldstein is an Undergraduate Industrial Engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh. Ms. Goldstein has been an active member of the University of Pittsburgh’s SHPE (Society of Hispanic Pro- fessional Engineers) chapter and currently holds the position as President. She recently studied abroad for a semester in Spain at Saint Louis University in Madrid. She will be starting her career this summer at Accenture and is hoping that her research experience this past year will reinforce her plans to attend graduate school in a few years

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth McManis, University of Louisiana

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

of engineering.” As reviewed in Outcome 3, the University of Louisiana’s core curriculum includes 9-hours of behavioral science electives; a history elective, an Industrial Economics and Finance course (CIVE 430), and a free elective from any of the behavioral science areas. The faculty is very confident that students completing the program will have significant appreciation for the importance of incorporating economic principles in design and planning. However, performance in other social science areas may vary for the same reasons given above under Outcome 3. The selection of history and social science elective courses, in general, are being reviewed with consideration for those which would provide a better appreciation for

Conference Session

Student Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University; Eric Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Chia-Lin Ho, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-373: COMPUTATIONAL THINKING: WHAT SHOULD OUR STUDENTSKNOW AND BE ABLE TO DO?Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University Dr. C. Dianne Raubenheimer received her PhD from the University of Louisville and is Director of Assessment in the College or Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Adult and Higher Education at NC State University. Within the College of Engineering she serves as the coordinator of ABET and other accreditation processes, acts as an assessment & evaluation resource/consultant to faculty in different programs, develops and implements assessment plans, and serves as the primary educational assessment data analyst on the Dean’s

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Engelken

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

lives tooptimally handle and limit necessary responsibilities. That is, although capable of doing goodwork in short bursts, it‟s difficult to get them to focus, persevere, innovate, and endure over thelong run, further reducing both quantity and quality of the research. Many just do not considerthe research position a “real” job since it is only part-time within the university, is indirectlyrelated to their formal course education, and is not micromanaged. This allows some torationalize and excuse their tardiness, absenteeism, minimal planning, procrastination (verycommon), and less-than-maximum effort.Related to this is an overall decrease in true intellectualism and scholarly mindset. Very fewmodern students, including research assistants

Conference Session

Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

associations and professional societies,government agencies, national standards bodies, and international standards agencies.” Hardingand McPherson (2009) 7 describe the present sphere of standards organizations in his ASEEpaper.Two surveys describe the libraries’ best practices for standards. The original plan to do a surveydid not appear necessary after finding these two surveys. Both surveys cover large academiclibraries. Brian S. Mathews (2006)8 wrote about “top engineering schools” while Lorraine F.Pellack (2004)9did a survey of 34 libraries that are members of the prestigious Association forResearch Libraries (ARL). In 2003, Pellack’s survey indicated that there are many librariesdoing special ordering with format half of the libraries buying

Conference Session

Programs Using New Instrumentation Concepts

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Keska, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

author observed very similar effects, which resulted in poorlearning outcomes for the laboratory session. This was related to poorly developedstudent activities before they came to the lab. As a result, the lab experiment turned into amechanical exercise of following the lab manual instead of an exercise where thestudents actively built meaningful knowledge during the process. Over the next semester,structural changes are planned which will intensify the pre-lab activities, and which willrequire the students to be much more prepared before coming to a laboratory session.This should ultimately make the students’ learning process more successful and efficient

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jade Mitchell-Blackwood, Drexel University; Manuel Figueroa, Drexel University; Chatchai Kokar, Drexel University; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

fabricating surface enhanced Raman scattering substrates. Starting August 2010, Chatchai will be attending St. George's University School of Medicine where he plans to earn his M.D.Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University Dr. Adam Fontecchio is an Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head in the Drexel University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and an Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, Co-Director of the A. J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, an affiliated member of the Materials Engineering Department, a member of the Center for Educational Research, and his research focuses on the area of nanophotonics. He is the recipient of a NASA New Investigator Award, the Drexel Graduate

Conference Session

Educational Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

' Educational Engineering 2008 survey student Experiences and College and Career Education interviews Plans in an Ethnically Diverse Learning Environment5 Characterizing Design Learning: A Journal of July closed-ended design Mixed Methods Study of Engineering 2008 survey scenarios and Engineering Designers' Use of Education questions lab problems Language6 K-12 Outreach: Identifying the Journal of July pre-post test, focus groups Broader Impacts of Four Outreach

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent A Nelson, Northern Arizona University; Constantin Ciocanel, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

previous experiences at the rate expected by the professors. Accordingly, it may berequired that in future implementations, at the beginning of the open-ended assignments eachgroup will discuss with the faculty their plan of action and where necessary, supplementaryguidance will be provided.4.3 Survey ResultsRegarding learning in ME450, the survey results were largely consistent between the currentiteration and the previous implementation of the design project, as shown in Tables 4 and 5. Theincreased number of students identifying the lecture as the most impactful on their learning maybe due to increased experience of the instructor in the course, who was teaching it for the firsttime during the first implementation of the design project

Conference Session

Collaborative Learning, Project-Based, Service Learning, and Impacts on Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Bruce Elliott-Litchfield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Laura D. Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Aaron Daniel Lewicki, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Valeri Werpetinski, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Seung Won Hong, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

International

challenge and for a practical purpose.Practical ingenuity Skill in planning, combining, and adapting.Creativity A use of invention, innovation, and thinking outside the box.Communication Effective use of language to achieve engineering objectives with and through multiple stakeholders.Business & management Connecting engineering to technological, economic, and social factors in decisions and policy making.Leadership Providing professional direction in various ways, including contributing to management and policy decisions.Ethics & professionalism Making effective and wise choices that take economic, social

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josue Orellana, Washington State University; Fabiola Quiroa, Washington State University; Ala' Ibrahim Abu-Lail; Nehal I. Abu-lail, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

stimulate the interests ofother instructors to introduce such active-learning hands-on modules in their classrooms for bothgraduate and undergraduate students.Future PlansOur future plans include implementing these modules in the classroom again next year. One ofthe main concerns addressed by the students is the time commitment to such hands-on moduleswithin a 3 credit-hours lecture course. Currently, the BE faculty are addressing the need to add acellular bioengineering laboratory to the curriculum. If approved, these hands-on modules will beimplemented in a three hours lab period that will be added to the 3 credit-hours lecture course.The course will be assigned 4 credit hours. If a lab was added to the curriculum, two additionalhands-on modules

Conference Session

FPD X: First-Year Design with Projects, Modeling, and Simulation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mario Gomes, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

were created for each team instead of a monetary budget for each team. This was done to reduce the amount of time required students to attain mate- rials, to emphasize planning their designs before construction, and to increase student Page 22.149.3 creativity. Figure 1: Upper and lower boundaries on test area sizeFigure 2: A student team taking photographic data on test day Page 22.149.4 • Integration of Matlab programming as an integral component of the final project. Previously the Matlab programming project consisted of a 2D elliptical orbit simulation

Conference Session

Engaging Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College; Sharon Jones, Lafayette College; Christopher Ruebeck, Lafayette College; Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

; and to secure the national defense.” (NSF Act of 1950). The NSF Grant Proposal Guidesuggests several ways that this criterion can be met. One of these is “by advancing discovery andunderstanding while promoting teaching, training, and learning”. In response, researcherstypically describe the number of students involved in the research project as evidence. Anothersuggestion by NSF is to broaden dissemination to enhance scientific and technologicalunderstanding. Here, researchers often describe plans to present research results in formatsuseful to students, scholars, members of Congress, teachers, the general public, etc. In otherwords, it is common for researchers to point to activities that involve student education asevidence that there are

Conference Session

Learning By Doing in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Golter, Washington State University; Bernard Van Wie, Washington State University; Gary Brown, Washington State University; David Thiessen, Washington State University; Baba Abdul, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

will treat you as practicingengineers in industry. By the end of the course you should be competent to analyze and design fluidmechanics and heat transfer systems in a simulated “real world” environment.Procedure (How do we plan to achieve our goals?)This course will center around two activities. First, a case study will be analyzed that represents a Page 15.1062.15completed ‘real world’ design encompassing the individual course concepts. Secondly, a design projectwhich spans the semester will provide the framework for integrating the various course concepts. Justas in industry, most of your work will be in groups. We will employ the

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session II - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Edward J. Berger, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Student Development

. GCOs 3(c) and 4(d)engage students in retaining "composure and equanimity when they don't have information tocope with uncertainty (tolerance for ambiguity)" and coping "with frustration, adversity, orchallenging circumstances (resilience)", both of which once again express the great challenges ofpracticing engineering in a global context. While the GCOs are written for the entire universityand all its disciplines, it is clear that many of them have a special resonance for engineeringeducation and practice.Pre-Departure Planning and the Beginning of the S.A. ExperienceThe student lifecycle for study abroad experiences at our university takes the following format.In brief, students are introduced to available programs via advertisements, flyers

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Chris Groscurth, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

granted to domestic students is declining? These questions are fundamentalto the work of engineering educators and engineering educational researchers. At universitieslike the University of Michigan (U-M), recent curriculum plans have been developed to helpfaculty think about reshaping and revamping the curriculum to best train and developundergraduate students for the 21st century.7In an attempt to understand how to recruit and retain Millennial engineers, Chubin et al. (2008)analyzed data from the Academic Pathways Study to describe the Millennial generation’s—students born between 1982-2002—knowledge of engineering prior to college, their motivationfor choosing engineering, and their perceptions of their needed and gained skills.8

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; George Bodner; William Oakes

freely admitted that they really didn't know whatengineers do. Lance described it as, "Designing something or helping with the efficiency ofsomething. Getting planning done" and then paused and said, "I don’t know. Just makingthings work better". Page 10.77.6 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education" Many students like LaShawna said that engineering is "Math and science and applying itto whatever you’re doing". While others had a similar understanding of what engineering was itwas also

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maya Place; Markus Flury; Jennifer Shaltanis; Geoff Puzon; Brent M. Peyton; James Petersen; Candis Claiborn

mentoring a youngerresearcher. The participant will be responsible, in consultation with his/her major researchadvisor, for devising a research plan for the undergraduate student and to monitor that student’sprogress. Moreover, the graduate student must be responsible to help the undergraduate preparea presentation at an undergraduate research competition and a publication of his/her work.3.6.2. Instructional MentoringUnder the direction of the major research advisor, the graduate student prepares course materialsand delivers lectures for a significant portion of one of the courses for which the research advisorhas instructional responsibility. Thus, responsibility for the course still resides with the facultymember, but the graduate student

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena

experience all the different aspects of building an airplane. However, accordingto John, he got assigned to “chase” engineering orders of parts that came out of engineeringdesign and moved to planning then to purchasing and finally to production. In order to deal withthis challenging task, he created a chart that linked the flow of orders between differentfunctional divisions with color-coded dots and lines. John’s dots and lines connected functionaldivisions in the ordering of parts in new ways. In 1982, most aerospace companies, includingJohn's employer, were still organized around clearly defined functional divisions. However, Page