Conference Session

Student Engagement and Motivation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Howard, Illinois Institute of Technology; Daniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2008-1414: STIMULATING AND DEVELOPING REFLECTIVE THINKING INUNDERGRADUATE STUDENTSElizabeth Howard, Illinois Institute of Technology Elizabeth Howard is a second-year Ph.D. candidate in the Industrial/Organizational Psychology program at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. She is working with the IPRO program as a research associate.Daniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology Daniel M. Ferguson, MBA, MSIE, is a Senior Lecturer in the IIT Stuart School of Business, and Associate Director for Research and Operations of the Interprofessional (IPRO) program. He was

Conference Session

Unique Student Opportunities in BME

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Jean Alley, Vanderbilt University; Penny Hirsch, Northwestern University; Stacy Klein-Gardner; Julie Greenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mark Bourgeois, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

orientation because students wouldsoon be dispersed to different locations and interacting primarily through teleconferencing.During the orientation students also participated in laboratory and industrial field trips so thatthey were exposed to the variety of career choices available in bioengineering and related fields.At the end of the orientation, students went to their different sites to begin their research projects.2.2 Coordination across sites Coordination across sites was vital to the success of the program. Overall coordinationwas done at Vanderbilt with one administrator who handled the orientation program, publicity ofthe program, recruitment of students, financial management, and overall record-keeping. Eachsite also had a

Conference Session

Issues in the Professional Practice of Faculty Members in Civil Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Welker, Villanova University; Frank Falcone, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

battalion, a SEABEE Regiment, and all Reserve CEC officers for the Atlantic Division of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. He is a retired Captain in the Civil Engineer Corps (CEC) of the U.S. Naval Reserve. Page 13.1004.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Professional Practices in Civil Engineering: Meeting and Exceeding the New Civil Engineering Program CriteriaIntroductionThe emerging global nature of the worldwide marketplace for products and services coupledwith the exponential rise in technological advancement in the industrialized world has led to thenear-term, long-term, and

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

resonated personally and enabled them to connect an outside interestwith ethical principles and methods of analysis they learned in the class. This item met courseobjectives related to critical thinking and acting reflectively in the world.Table 2: Student topics for action essays (left) and resultant actions (right)Should the college’s design clinic accept projects from Interviews with and recommendations to Designdefense contractors who place restrictions on the Clinic and Program Directors; personal decisionparticipation of international students? about participating in project when fellow team member was excludedHow should the town community

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

approaches. The PDI program entails a set ofinterdisciplinary, undergraduate courses and degree options that span engineering, the humanitiesand social sciences (H&SS), design disciplines, and management. Initiated in the mid-1990s,PDI was motivated primarily by the desires 1) to combine the strengths of various disciplinaryapproaches to social problem solving and 2) to revamp undergraduate engineering curricula byincluding systematic analysis of the social context of engineering problems. By beingintegrative, interdisciplinary, and systematically attentive to the social context of engineeringwork, PDI addresses fundamental shortcomings in the H&SS-electives model of traditional

Conference Session

Careers and Professional Development in BME

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guruprasad Madhavan, State University of New York-Binghamton; Aimee Betker, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Jennifer Flexman, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; Barbara Oakley, Oakland University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

covering an introduction to bioengineering and the related spectra ofcareer and professional development opportunities could be integrated into course thatshowcases bioengineering at the undergraduate level. A discussion course on the legal, political,ethical, and international socio-economic issues for bioengineers along the lines of the 2007session titled “Biomedical Engineering and Society” would serve to teach students to appreciatethe broader impact of the profession. Participation in the conference as a volunteer-leader or as a student panelist cultivatescommunication skills. These skills are translatable to the effective description of a student’sresearch in a paper, oral presentation or poster. Communication skills remain critical

Conference Session

Case Studies & Engineering Education Around the Globe

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

International

within the traditional lectureapproach. Fifth, some members have stressed the point that the success of any active learningstrategy requires students’ active participation, raising the question whether students are readyand willing to become active participants in the process? Sixth, most faculty members weremindful of the time and energy required to become a more effective instructor; and, at the sametime, apprehensive and concerned that teaching is often undervalued in comparison to research.The interviewed faculty members have been teaching undergraduate classes at their present Page 13.941.6institutions for a minimum of five years. Most of

Conference Session

Design: Content and Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University; Mieke Schuurman, Pennsylvania State University; Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University; Samuel T Hunter, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2008-679: AN INVESTIGATION OF GAPS IN DESIGN PROCESS LEARNING:IS THERE A MISSING LINK BETWEEN BREADTH AND DEPTH?Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University Christine B. Masters is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at The Pennsylvania State University. She earned a PhD from Penn State in 1992. In addition to raising four children with her husband of 20 years, she has been teaching introductory mechanics courses for more than 10 years, training the department graduate teaching assistants for 7 years, coordinating the Engineering Science Honors Program undergraduate advising efforts for 5 years and currently participates in a variety of engineering

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Greg Waidley, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Jason Bittner, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

the level of vice president or director] from area firms and public agencies toassess industry support for an interdisciplinary transportation program. All were in agreementthat an interdisciplinary transportation degree, though a non-engineering degree, would bevalued by their organizations. There also seemed to be a consensus that the interdisciplinaryapproach would help satisfy a need for a workforce with a broader perspective needed inmanagement-level positions. It should be noted that this group was almost entirely engineers. 10Approaches to Interdisciplinary EducationThis paper is not an inventory of transportation degrees and certificates currently being offered.Nor is it an assessment or an evaluation. This section of the paper simply

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University; Paul Bosela, Cleveland State University; Rosemary Sutton, Cleveland State University; Joshua Bagaka's, Cleveland State University; William Beasley, Cleveland State University

engineering mechanics and civil engineering courses.Results from surveys and focus groups of both students and faculty are presented, along withrecommendations for improving assessment instruments and processes. The students enjoyedthe case studies and believed that they contributed to learning the course material. The casestudies stimulated their interest. Most faculty who had participated in the one-day case studyworkshop and who responded to the survey had made at least some use of the cases in theircourses. All fourteen respondents that had used case studies believed that the benefits justifiedthe cost.Introduction Failure case studies may be used in engineering courses to address technical topics aswell as non-technical topics, such as

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Scott Moor, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

thatthey more easily accommodate these approaches. Ten years after the Seven Principles werepublished Chickering and Ehrmann14 noted that we could use “technology as a lever” to helpimplement these principles. The large-scale technology of the learning space itself can be onesuch lever.Examples of Alternative Learning SpacesDifferent groups are starting to transform some learning spaces to accommodate morecooperative and active learning approaches.15A prime example of using redesigned space to enhance learning is the SCALE-UP project(Student Centered Activities for Large Enrolment Undergraduate Programs).16 While thisproject has broader interests, its initial focus has been introductory physics. It is a joint projectof a number of universities

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurship, so that at the end of their formalstudies, the students will become “Innovation Ambassadors” who think and lead innovatively. Several different related courses, workshops, approaches and programs have been developed,implemented and assessed over the past years at FAU. Among these are: Page 13.750.3 1. “Eight-Dimensional (8D) Methodology for Innovative Problem Solving.” (Raviv 2002a) It is asystematic and unified approach that stimulates innovation by effectively using “both sides” of thebrain. It builds on comprehensive problem solving knowledge gathered from industry, business,marketing, math, science, engineering, technology

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent Nelson, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

the ability to function on multidisciplinary teams as anessential skill for current engineering students to develop. Many engineering programs try toachieve multidisciplinary student experiences through design classes that bring together studentsfrom different fields within a discipline, or occasionally different departments withinengineering1,2. A broader level of multidisciplinarity can be achieved in Biologically-InspiredDesign (BID), which refers to the use of natural organisms and systems as inspiration fordesigning solutions to engineering challenges3-6. Such design inherently requires trulymultidisciplinary collaboration, incorporating knowledge both from the biological domain inorder to identify natural sources of inspirations as well

Conference Session

Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurialmindset in engineering, science, and technical undergraduates. Participation in the network islimited to private institutions with ABET accredited engineering programs and is by invitationonly. As of January of 2008, the KEEN program involves fourteen private institutions (primarilyin the Midwest) and provides access to vital resources for building quality entrepreneurshipeducation programs that engage engineering and technical students. KEEN provides asynergistic combination of grants, faculty fellowships, capacity building workshops, networkingopportunities, and resources. KEEN provided financial and developmental resources to granteeinstitutions for the development of entrepreneurship curricula, modules, and extracurricularactivities like

Conference Session

Fluid Mechanics Experiments and Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MURAT OKCAY; BILGEHAN UYGAR OZTEKIN

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

and safety concerns of using Class 4 lasers prevent this technology being used in the undergraduate and graduate laboratory teaching. Recently, however, a relatively inexpensive, and safe for classroom use ‘educational Particle Image Velocimetry’ (ePIV) system with web based interactive software was developed. This novel technology is an instrument that can be used in diverse educational settings because of its effectiveness as an education tool, high-tech appeal, compact size, low cost and safety. In this paper we introduce ePIV, describe its components in detail and provide examples of how it can be used to enhance undergraduate and graduate laboratory experience.1. IntroductionCreativity is essential in generating scientific