Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan M Caicedo, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

-evaluate the solution of theengineering problem. Decision worksheets are not graded to encourage students to express theirknowledge. Each AL exercise addresses key concepts to provide an acceptable solution to thedriving question. Therefore, assessment of individual concepts is performed after each ALexercises using homework assignments and at the end of the EFFECT with a final project. Thefinal project discusses the final engineering solution to the driving question and a reflection ontheir learning.EFFECTs are developed in stages. Key concepts are identifying during the first developmentalstage. AL exercises are designed to help students understand these concepts. Later stages

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elif Ozturk, Texas A&M University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Xiaobo Peng, Prairie View A&M University; Lauralee Mariel Valverde, Texas A&M University; Prentiss Dwight McGary, Prairie View A&M University; Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

essential part of modern design endeavors. Intoday’s industry, engineers use CAD models throughout their work. This makes CAD educationcrucial. However current CAD education has typically focused on narrow skills related toparticular CAD software. The skills necessary to adapt new CAD software and effectively utilizethe existing models in modified designs are not the primary emphasis in CAD education. In thispaper, the most recent findings of a three-year NSF supported iterative project are discussed. Theproject goals are to examine the role of adaptive expertise in CAD modeling and investigate theimpact of a learner-centered contextual exercise on students’ modeling behavior and othereducational outcomes.This paper builds on previously reported

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Bickart; Pam Newberry; Douglas Gorham

Session 2132 ABET and Standards for Technological Literacy Douglas Gorham The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Pam B. Newberry Project Lead The Way Theodore A. Bickart Colorado School of MinesAbstractPre-college students must be educated to make informed decisions in our technologicalworld. Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology andthe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology's Engineering Criteria

Conference Session

Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

engineeringprogram. Hands-on experiments are used to illustrate engineering principles and to obtain datafor analysis. Students solve algebraic and trigonometric engineering equations using aspreadsheet and they receive instruction on how to logically outline and solve engineeringproblems using a five step method (Read, Find, Known, Solve and Check) as outlined in theirPre-Calculus text. Within one semester, these students make the transition from not knowinghow to even start an engineering problem to being able to adequately communicate a solutionprocess. This paper outlines some of the projects students completed and how students appliedengineering tools and mathematical concepts to their solution. In addition, it shows how studentperformance was enhanced

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lauren Neal; Jr., Robert J. Clougherty; Ismail Fidan

, and is an environment for developing and delivering web-based educational activitiesand materials. It permits instructors to make tests, discussions, lecture materials, and sample Page 8.381.3solutions available via the web. Some course work such as homework, lab reports, and team “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education”projects, can also be submitted and controlled via WebCT. Figure 3 presents the main web pageto access WebCT materials developed for MIT3060 course. It is a requirement to have aTennessee Tech

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jefferey Froyd; Don Maxwell; Debra Fowler; Jim Morgan

-Construction Project Management (around 100 junior level students) and ENGR111/112Foundations of Engineering I and II (about 92 freshmen students). The intent was to providelinks to lecture notes and other handouts following a 16-week layout for each class. A log-onsystem was developed in order to restrict access to the notes to enrolled students and a fewguests.Since the site was entirely coded in static HTML, the site had to be recoded every semester asschedule and materials changed. Site maintenance was a major headache. In fact as much time Page 8.393.1was spent on HTML changes as in editing existing course material. Fortunately, the course

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Kline; Jerry Ku; Chin-An Tan; Trilochan Singh; Ronald Gibson

Objectives Have Been Achieved Fall Semester 2002” is for an entry levelcourse and provides an example of such a required report. For each of the course learningobjectives that had been listed in her syllabus, the course instructor must describe what measuresshe had used for a particular learning objective to assess the extent to which that learningobjective had been achieved (quiz or exam scores, performance on design projects, laboratoryreports, oral reports, etc.), what actual scores the students had achieved based on this measure,and, from the student surveys, report to what extent the students thought course learningobjectives had been achieved. The “Instructor’s Assessment of Extent…” report concluded witha listing of changes in the course or

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Neal Armstrong, University of Texas at Austin; Sherry Woods, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationenhance student learning through the appropriate use of instructional technology and goodpedagogy in engineering instructional practice.With respect to linking ABET EC2000 with engineering education excellence, the FIC is currentlydeveloping two Web-based systems that support a learner-focused approach: an electronicstudent portfolio project and a comprehensive syllabus tool. Created in conjunction with theMechanical Engineering Department, the portfolio system allows engineering students todocument and communicate key project and design work in a format easily accessible by others.The tool is being pilot tested and plans are underway to incorporate a student self-assessmentbased on ABET

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

engineering problems were presented anddiscussed. The content of this paper was also discussed at the ASEE/SEFI/TUB InternationalColloquium in Berlin, Germany in Oct. of 2002,In the project proposed in this paper, special capabilities of Flash and MATLAB have beenexploited to produce effective and powerful instructional modules for analyzing more involvedstructural engineering problems. The Flash files in these modules are produced in order tooutline and describe the theoretical formulation and the steps involved in the solution of theproblem in an organized and easy-to-understand manner using a multimedia approach. Thefunction of some of the various features of these Flash files is briefly outlined below. 1. Inserted short video clips in the Flash

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard O'Brien; Jenelle Piepmeier

helicopter orinverted pendulum. At the Naval Academy, these experimental products have been invaluable inthe controls education.It is important that engineering educators be aware of limitations of these canned experimentalproducts. Agrawal has correctly pointed out that the integration of the equipment can easilyoverwhelm limited resources of both time and departmental budgets [3]. Bissell has also notedthat some of the canned experiments are so carefully engineered that they become more of anillustration in theory and less of an experience in control system design [6]. Even with a well-equipped laboratory, there are courses and student projects for which this equipment is either notavailable or suitable.This paper discusses the use of a Simulink

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schemmel

. These images help to demonstrate and clarify steps involved in a project. Further, by responding to a few questions, the instructor can document the benefits and challenges of a lesson.5. Whenever possible, supporting materials should be included with the lesson plans. In addition to the lesson plans, the compact disk contains a list of grade appropriate books which can be referenced by the teacher. Also included are vocabulary lists for each grade level. Further, a library of relevant images (in jpg format) is provided. These resources extend the usefulness of the lesson plans to other aspects of the educational process, such as reading and spelling.6. The lesson plans and related resources must be easily accessible. The

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

13 4 2 2 5 Term 5 EGM 3520 Strength of Materials 3 Mechanic of Materials 11 4 2 0 5 SUR 2322C Project Develop & 3 Engineering Drawing 10 2 0 4 4 Visualization CGN 4101 Civil Engineering Cost 3 Engineering cost analysis 10 4 2 0 4 Analysis EML 3007 Thermodynamics 3 Thermodynamics 10 4 2 0 4 Term 6 CEG 4011 Soil Mechanics 4 Soil Mechanics I

Conference Session

Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Buchholtz; Reid Vander Schaaf

Individual Advanced Development (AIAD) program that encompasses allsummer academic programs at West Point.The first program, the Cadet District Engineer Program (CDEP), is an internship type programdesigned to introduce Civil Engineering majors to the functions of a typical US Army Corps ofEngineers District. Cadets assume various activities jobs within the Corps Districts throughoutthe continental United States and overseas for a 3-5 weeks period. Typical jobs cadets perform inthe district are Assistant Project Engineer, Quality Assurance Inspector, Assistant ProjectManager, Construction Representative, Field Engineer, and Project Officer.The second program is the US Air Force Academy’s (USAFA) Field Engineering and ReadinessLaboratory (FERL) in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Scheff

u u Males 4000 o 3000 1970 1980 1990 2000 2009 projected Years Graph #1Although

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Russell; Walter Peters

to use the MLE, some ecological knowledge is required. The engineermust know how the proposed project interacts with the local and global natural systems and theengineer must know the normal or historic rates of change of the key elements of the naturalsystems. This knowledge must come from other fields such as ecology and/or bio-geochemistry,requiring multi-disciplinary teams to carry out projects.8 The hypothetical strip mall example isa great simplification the design problems that engineers face today, but it does give an exampleof how the MLE can be applied. A valuable exercise at this point is to create a design problem and have the students apply the MLE to the problem. The storm water run-off example above can be

Conference Session

Exploration of Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyndi Lynch, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

statements), and a conceptual frameworkwith strategies that facilitate the transition from graduate student to assistant professor. Thispaper discusses the formative and summative assessment that occurs throughout the course inrelation to the three missions of research, teaching, and service. Project SignificanceDoctoral education has received many criticisms including time-to-degree, completion rates, andthat doctoral students are not prepared for career opportunities within the academy1-4. A majorconcern is that doctoral students are not prepared for and lack understanding of the varioushigher education institutional types and missions2. Faculty roles and responsibilities vary basedon institution type such as community college, liberal arts, or a

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie M. Little-Wiles M.S.M., Ph.D. (A.B.D.), Purdue University, West Lafayette; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Wanda L. Worley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Erich J. Bauer, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

and links to Adobe Connect.” Page 25.633.5The Gradebook tool was next on the list of examination. Researchers first wanted to know if thefaculty were using the gradebook to post assignment or project grades. Ninety percent (90%) ofthe respondents answered “Yes, always.” See Table 6. Table 6. Gradebook Tool Usage with Assignment/Project Grades Answer Percent Yes, always 90% Yes, some of the time 6% No, not at all 4%Finally, faculty were asked if they used the same Gradebook tool to deliver test grades

Conference Session

Professional Issues in Ethics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Islam H. El-adaway, Mississippi State University; Marianne M. Jennings, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

-authorship status. Fourth, the authorsanalyze the ethical issues governing status of authorship. Fifth, the authors propose a frameworkfor defining and refining co-authorship guidelines through analysis and evaluation.2. Types of AuthorshipWork to date has established types of co-author relationships that range from the classic exampleof partners in research such as Watson and Crick to department heads adding their name to allworks that originate in their departments.The Gift or Honorary AuthorshipIn this type of arrangement, those authors who have done the actual design, conduct, and writingof the research decide to bestow co-author status on someone who has had little or no affiliationwith the project [1]. This is a form of honorary authorship

Conference Session

Research and Graduate Studies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Lauren D. Thomas, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

calls help me feel connected tothe field by hearing about others’ projects, papers, and degree progress. As a student in anengineering education department, it is easy to become absorbed in a single view of the field; thepeer group assists in maintaining a broad view of engineering education research. Beyondbuilding connections, other valuable aspects of the program are accountability and peer review.Discussing research, teaching, service, and personal goals are often items that do not combine inother spaces. The peer-mentoring group has helped me set clear proximal goals as a developingprofessional. Our group reminds and motivates me to focus on the goals that can be overlookedand celebrate their achievement. Our group uses peer review to have

Conference Session

New Classrooms, New Challenges I: Novel Approaches to Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramirez Apud Lopez Zaira, Universidad de las Américas Puebla; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

reacting to a side product with no commercial value. The important reactions are: The kinetic laws for each reaction, which are referred to component B are: Determine the proper order to install both reactors. Figure 3. Example of a decision-making problem for IQ-407 course. Adapted from Tiscareño8.Problem solving learning environment assessmentThe initial implementation of the PSLEs in IQ-407 was exploratory, intended to provideformative evaluation along the course. However, a deep analysis for the final problem solution Page 25.737.5was conducted. The final project was assigned over the last week of the 2011 fall semester;students had a

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Improvement

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arlen Planting, Boise State University; Sin Ming Loo, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

totackle projects with little or no help, and provides the sense of accomplishment that leads astudent to exclaim “It blinked!” when he succeeds in causing an LED to blink. Soft coreprocessors run on an FPGA development board were used to implement changes to amicroprocessors course in order to achieve the desired goals. The use of soft core processorsallows configuration changes not possible in traditional microprocessors.Simplifying the processor, exposing the low level processor interactions, and adjusting theprocessor configuration as needed to best demonstrate the desired foundational concepts, areintegral to the updated microprocessors course at Boise State University. Course enhancements,including development and continuing augmentation of

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Yu Gu, University of California, Los Angeles

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

students and theirinteractions with faculty in science and engineering is fairly limited. Accordingly, the objective of this project is to examine the protégé-mentor relationshipsamong women doctoral students and their faculty members in the field of engineering. Morespecifically, I examine how protégé-mentor relationships support or limit women's aspirations topursue academic careers. To pursue these issues, I conducted thirty in-depth semi-structuredinterviews with female doctoral students in the School of Engineering at Western University—apseudonym for a large research university in the western United States. This university wasselected due to its strong engineering programs with sizeable graduate enrollments.Theoretically speaking, I

Conference Session

Attaining Academic Leadership Positions

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Chris S. Anderson, Michigan Technological University; Dianne Dorland, Rowan University; Sarah A. Rajala, Mississippi State University; Mary Roth, Lafayette College

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Liaison Officer to the Middle States Commission on Higher Educa- tion, the liaison to campus facilities department on capital projects and space assignments related to the academic division, and oversight of the academic division budgets. She coordinates the interdisciplinary programs and has served as project shepherd for a new interdisciplinary science building and renovation of existing commercial structures to be used as facilities for programs in theater and in film and media studies. Roth holds a Ph.D. in civil engineering and is a Licensed Engineer. She has taught extensively and conducted research in the area of geotechnical engineering

Conference Session

Distance and Web-Based Learning in ET: Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

cost associated for the end user.Since the Course Content Server’s implementation the lectures are being delivered 24-7. Thelectures are comprised of Spoken lecture voice along with the live interplay of screen video.This approach lends a very rich presentation medium which provides enhancements that include,color, font and size to the written characters. The instructor could design the software anddemonstrate the results along with the lecture. Any software simulation or project demonstrationcould also be incorporated as part of the lecture. The instructor can tap into the vast reservoir ofknowledge base that is available on NET and can make this an integral part of the lecture. Thisapproach has totally changed the paradigm of Pedagogy.The

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - College Courses and Minors

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelli Huser, Iowa State University; Thomas Kelly, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Seth Ballou, Iowa State University; Joseph Crispin, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

influenced the area he or she chose to research. Onestudent, a business major, decided to research currency and the impacts of this technologicalpractice. Another student, with coursework interests in water resources, chose to explorehistorical and current water technologies and how these technologies influenced societaldevelopment.The research paper was a semester long project intended to allow students to delve deeper into aparticular subject area of technology that interested them and would drive their interest for theentire semester. The general requirements were to select a broad subject area that related totechnology, cover the historical aspects of the technology, and address the impacts of thistechnology. All paper topics had to be approved

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Diane Rover, Iowa State University; Mack Shelley, Iowa State University

to their workload. Nonetheless, theyare excellent resources for the program and can provide guidance, mentorship, andspecial lectures to help strengthen graduate educators’ teaching skills and help thembecome more effective educators.This project aims to address this problem by more efficient utilization of the best possiblefaculty as mentors to eager graduate students who would be trained and mentored to bethe best educators they can be. We refer to these graduate students as graduate educators.Minor in Engineering Studies: Program ObjectivesTo have a better understanding of the classes that the graduate educators teach, weprovide a quick overview of the MES program.The main objective for the MES is to provide a technological education to

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui (Celia) Pan, Purdue University; Shih-Ping Kuo, Purdue University; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Practice basic design elements, (7 females; 39 (6 females; 22 principles, composition and males) males) typology to communicate visuallyCG01 by solving exercise problems and designing projects like identity logo, flyer, calendar, and postcard. Program: In Design 19 17 Design single and multiple- page (8 females; (6 females; 11 documents for business, advertising 11males) males) such as identities, flyers, brochures,CG02 forms

Conference Session

Instructional Strategies in AE Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stan Guidera, Bowling Green State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

abilities above average people tobe creative and resourceful professional.” 7 Therefore, spatial ability has been found to be apredictor for academic performance for engineering as well as related disciplines.8However, research has found that performance among students with lower levels of spatial skillcan be remediated with additional supplemental activities such as multi-view sketching andmodeling exercises.8, 9. Similarly, Esparragoza 7 proposed that “training to help the students todevelop and enhance their visualization skills can be done by means of problems and exercises inthe orthographic projection and axonometric drawings topics.” He cited the role of two multi

Conference Session

New Methods and Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duncan Moore, University of Rochester

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Engineering• Chemical Engineering• Electrical & Computer Engineering• Mechanical Engineering• Materials Science• Optics• Computer Science• Energy & the EnvironmentAll students are also required to participate in a semester long practicum experience. Under thedirection of an advisor, students will work with the Office of Technology Transfer. Students willutilize the office’s intellectual property to develop technology and business cases around varioustechnology patents. Students will participate in the strategy, design, and technology validationprocess. Students will also be required to write a business plan and present an accompanying oralpresentation. During this project students must work in teams to create a professional, well-written

Conference Session

Clearing up Student Misconceptions in Materials

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Rosenblatt, Ohio State University; Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

AC 2010-1276: STUDENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE MECHANICALPROPERTIES OF METALS IN AN INTRODUCTORY MATERIALS SCIENCEENGINEERING COURSERebecca Rosenblatt, Ohio State University Rebecca Rosenblatt is a graduate research associate in the physics department working towards a PhD in physics education at The Ohio State University. She is currently investigating the evolution of student understanding of force, velocity, and acceleration, and she is working on this project to identify and address student difficulties in learning materials science.Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University Andrew F. Heckler is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Ohio State University. His original area of research was in