AC 2012-4475: INCREASING THE RETENTION OF UNDER-REPRESENTEDSTUDENTS IN ENGINEERING THROUGH CONNECTIONS WITH ANINDUSTRY ADVISORY COMMITTEEDr. Karen T. Marosi, Bucknell University Karen Marosi has been Associate Dean of Engineering at Bucknell University for 11 years. She has worked extensively in the area of student success in undergraduate engineering programs and has played a major role in the launching of the Engineering Success Alliance Program at Bucknell. Marosi holds a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and is a 2011 alumnus of the HERS Women in Higher Education Leadership Institute.Ms. Barbra Steinhurst, Bucknell University Barbra Steinhurst is the Director of the Engineering
AC 2012-3038: PERCEPTIONS OF ENGINEERING DOCTORAL PRO-GRAMSDr. Joy Watson, University of South Carolina Joy Watson is currently a STEM education consultant working with private industry, academia. and the U.S. Navy to develop a logistics/IT course for low-income, high potential middle and high school students. She completed her Ph.D. in the College of Engineering at the University of South Carolina in Aug. 2011. She obtained her B.S. and M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Before entering the doctoral program, she worked as a process engineer in the pulp and paper industry and as patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. At the University of South Carolina
as a Process Engineer, and nine years as a private consultant and researcher. His interests are rooted in industrial-academic relationships, quality manage- ment system development, and production/operations management. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Page 25.1124.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Responding to the Call: Extending the Rose-Hulman Relationship via Continuing EducationAbstractIn August 2010, Indiana State legislators passed the Continuing Education Rule (Indiana Code25-1-4), requiring Professional Engineers
AC 2012-4202: ENGINEERS SERVING EDUCATION: BRINGING MATHAND SCIENCE TO LIFE IN THE K-8 CLASSROOMStephen Rippon, Arizona State University Steve Rippon is the Assistant Dean of Student Services in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Ari- zona State University. In this capacity, he oversees the engineering schools’ K-12 outreach, undergraduate student recruitment, undergraduate engagement programs, and the Engineering Career Center.Dr. James Collofello, Arizona State University Page 25.565.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Engineers Serving Education
AC 2012-4142: THE FIVE MAIN REASONS BEHIND STUDENT ENROLL-MENT AND LATER DROP-OUTDr. Emilia Andreeva-Moschen P.E., University of Applied Sciences Joanneum Emilia Andreeva-Moschen is Head of the Department of Automotive Engineering and teaches electrics, electronics, and methods of signal processing at the University of Applied Sciences Joanneum in Graz (Austria). She is also a visiting lecturer at the haculty of transport of the Technical University of Sofia (Bulgaria). She graduated with a degree in medical electronics as well in technical journalism from the Technical University of Sofia and received her Ph.D. from the Technical University of Graz (Austria). She gained industrial experience in automation of
AC 2012-4513: THE USE OF DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING ACTIVI-TIES TO ENHANCE ENGINEERING STUDENTS LEARNINGMr. Muhsin Menekse, Arizona State University Muhsin Menekse is pursuing a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in the Science Education program at Arizona State University concurrently with a M.A. degree in measurement, statistics, and methodological studies. He had research experiences in the areas of conceptual change of naive ideas about science, argumentation in computer supported learning environments, and video game design to support students’ understanding of Newtonian mechanics. Muhsin is currently working under the supervision of Dr. Michelene Chi to develop and implement a classroom-based methodology with instructional
AC 2012-4069: ENGINEERING STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM ON SUS-TAINABLE INFRASTRUCTUREDr. Steven J. Burian, University of Utah Steven J. Burian is an Associate Professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Utah, where he teaches and conducts research in the areas of water resources, energy, and sustainability. He earned a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a M.S.E. in environmental engineering and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Alabama. Burian is active in numerous professional societies including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Meteorolog- ical Society (AMS), American Water Resources Association (AWRA), Water Environment
UniversityDr. Tewodros Ghebrab, Texas Tech University Assistant Professor of construction engineering Page 25.674.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Globalization and the New Challenges for Construction Engineering EducationAbstractThe world has been transformed in past decades by a phenomenon affecting us all, what we callglobalization. Globalization brought a critical inquiry into the shifting ground of ethical thoughtin the changing climate of the global economy. The need to educate engineering students on howto work in a globalized
Department at Eastern Washington University. He earned his B.S. in ceramic engineering from the Ohio State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in materials science and mineral engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He then joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of New Mexico, where he taught materials science, thermodynamics, manufacturing engineering, and technical communication. Weiser then joined Johnson Matthey Electronics/Honeywell Electronic Materials, where he held positions in technical service, product management, Six Sigma, and research and development. He is inventor on a dozen patents and patent applications and has published more than 30 papers and book chapters on
AC 2012-5469: INTERDISCIPLINARY PEDAGOGY FOR PERVASIVE COM-PUTING DESIGN PROCESSES: AN EVALUATIVE ANALYSISDr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa McNair is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech where she serves as Assistant Department Head for Graduate Education and co-directs the Virginia Tech Engi- neering Communication Center. Her research includes interdisciplinary collaboration, communication studies, identity theory, and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include: interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design, writing across the curriculum in stat- ics courses, and a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios
AC 2012-4805: ASME VISION 2030’S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ME-CHANICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATIONDr. Allan T. Kirkpatrick P.E., Colorado State UniversityDr. Scott Danielson P.E., Arizona State University, Polytechnic Scott Danielson is the Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Technology and Innova- tion at Arizona State University. Before assuming that role, he had been the Interim Chair of Engineering Department and the Chair of the Engineering Technology Department. He has been active in ASEE in the Mechanics Division and the Engineering Technology Division. He has also been active in ASME, being awarded the 2009 Ben C. Sparks Medal for excellence in mechanical engineering technology education, serving as a
engineering camps are held during the summers of every year at Southern PolytechnicState University. The camps are designed for middle and high school students. In this paper, weoutline the benefits, challenges of starting the camp, recruitment strategies, camp activities andsome feedback. Conducting AE camps has proven fruitful for the students, the university, andthe camp director. Some of the effective teaching techniques and potential areas of improvementare highlighted.IntroductionAerospace Engineering (AE) is often thought of as ‘Rocket Science’ that is theoretical andextremely difficult for a common student to understand. On the contrary AE is one of the specialdisciplines of Engineering in which theory is often developed based on the
AC 2012-3772: MEASURING THE IMPACT OF AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOUTREACH PROGRAM ON STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD MATH-EMATICS AND SCIENCEKelly L. Lundstrom, Colorado School of Mines Kelly L. Lundstrom is a graduate student at Colorado School of Mines, seeking a master’s degree in applied statistics. She is interested in research relating to educational assessment, and she is a Teaching Fellow in the Bechtel K-5 Educational Excellence Initiative.Dr. Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines Barbatra M. Moskal, Ed.D., is a professor of applied mathematics and statistics and the Director of the Trefny Institute of Educational Innovation at the Colorado School of Mines. Her research interests include measurement, evaluation
AC 2012-4358: COLLEGIATE SOLAR BOAT PROJECT PREPARES TO-DAY’S ENGINEERING STUDENTS FOR TOMORROW’S ENERGY CHAL-LENGESDr. Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University Saeed Foroudastan is the Associate Dean for the College of Basic and Applied Sciences (CBAS). The CBAS oversees 10 departments at Middle Tennessee State University. He is also the current Director for the Master’s of Science in Professional Science program and a professor of engineering technology at MTSU. Foroudastan received his B.S. in civil engineering, his M.S. in civil engineering, and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University. Additionally, he has six years of industrial experience as a Senior Engineer
AC 2012-3059: INTRODUCTION OF ”MICROFLUIDICS” TO UNDER-GRADUATE FLUID MECHANICS COURSESMr. Onursal Onen, University of South Florida Onursal Onen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Acoustic Transducers Laboratory at the Department of Mechan- ical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla. His research interests are acoustic transducers, ultrasound applications, bio/chem sensors, and engineering education. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, both in mechanical engineering.Dr. Rasim Guldiken, University of South Florida Page 25.850.1
AC 2012-4357: PROGRAM OFFERINGS AND CURRICULUM CONVER-GENCE BETWEEN THE DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (DIT)AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY (UMBC)Dr. Brian E. Reed, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Brian E. Reed is a Fulbright Scholar, Dublin Institute of Technology, an educator in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, UMBC.Dr. Julia M. Ross, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyDr. Brian Bowe, Dublin Institute of TechnologyMr. Gavin Duffy, Dublin Institute of Technology Gavin Duffy is a lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering Systems in the Dublin Institute of Tech- nology since 2002. Before that, he worked in industry as a Chemical Engineer and Control
AC 2012-3021: DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND IMPLEMENTATION OFEDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS ACTIVITIES FOR K-12 STUDENTSDr. Can Saygin, University of Texas, San Antonio Can (John) Saygin is an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering and a research investigator in the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Systems (CAMLS) at the University of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA). He is also the Director of the Interactive Technology Experience Center (iTEC) and the Director of the Manufacturing Systems and Automation (MSA) Laboratory. He received his B.S. (1989), M.S. (1992), and Ph.D. (1997) degrees in mechanical engineering with emphasis on manufacturing engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, in Turkey. In
AC 2012-4620: CIVIL ENGINEERING EDUCATION AT THE ANNA UNI-VERSITY, INDIA, AND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDADr. Rajarajan Subramanian, Maryland State Highway Administration Rajarajan Subramanian is currently working as a Transportation Engineer at Maryland State Highway Administration. He earned his Ph.D. and master’s degree in engineering from the Department of Civil & Costal Engineering, University of Florida. He has 20 years of experience with government, academia and industry. He was a Senior Lecturer at Annamalai University, India, teaching civil engineering for nine years. He also worked in Linton Institute of Technology as a Senior Lecturer in Ipoh, Malaysia, for three years. In Watertown, Mass., he
AC 2012-3561: AN INTERNATIONAL MULTIYEAR MULTIDISCIPLINARYCAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTDr. James L. Ellingson, University of Saint Thomas James Ellingson received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota. Honors include a full-year Fulbright Grant for work at the Technical University of Denmark and an NSF-JISTEC grant for summer research in Japan. He worked for more than 10 years in industrial automation, instru- mentation, and process development at 3M, Boston Scientific, and PPSI. In 2009, he returned to academia, joining the engineering faculty at the University of Saint Thomas, where he teaches courses in embedded systems, digital electronics, micro controllers, and machine design.Dr
AC 2012-3312: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN THE U.S.: TEXT-BOOKS AND PROGRAMSDr. Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo Jane M. Fraser is Chair of the Department of Engineering at Colorado State University, Pueblo. She was formerly on the faculty at the Ohio State University and Purdue University. She has a B.A in mathematics from Swarthmore College and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California, Berkeley.Dr. Abhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science & Technology Page 25.1230.1 c American Society for
the College of William and Mary in 2010. He worked as a member of technical staff at Bell Labs China, Lucent Technologies, for four years from 1999 to 2003, mainly on the development of a web-based distributed service management system for an intelligent net- work.Dr. Weiying Zhu, Metropolitan State College of Denver Weiying Zhu received a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va., in Aug. 2006, a M.S. in communication and information engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in June 1999, and a B.S. in biomedical electronic engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in July 1996. She worked as a Software Engineer
AC 2012-4224: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM FOR EDUCATIONIN HYBRID AND ELECTRIC DRIVE VEHICLE ENGINEERINGDr. Wayne Weaver, Michigan Technological University Wayne Weaver received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from GMI Engineering & Management Institute in 1997, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical en- gineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was a Research and Design Engineer at Caterpillar, Inc., Peoria, Ill., from 1997 to 2003. From 2006-2008, he also worked as a researcher at the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC), Construction Engineering Research Lab (CERL), in Champaign, Ill., on
AC 2012-3189: GOT RISK? THE ROLE OF RISK ANALYSIS IN HIGHSCHOOL EDUCATIONMs. Eva Andrijcic, University of Virginia Eva Andrijcic is a third-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia. Page 25.675.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Got Risk? The Role of Risk Analysis in High School Education 1. IntroductionThe purpose of this paper is to focus on an important aspect of systems engineering, namely riskassessment and management, and to present a case study of a class in which high school studentswere
AC 2012-3861: UMES STEM FACULTY, STUDENTS, AND STAFF COL-LABORATE TO ADDRESS CONTEMPORARY ISSUES RELATED TO EN-ERGY, ENVIRONMENT, AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTUREDr. Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Abhijit Nagchaudhuri is currently a professor in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences at University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. Nagchaudhuri is a member of ASME and ASEE professional societies and is actively involved in teaching and research in the fields of robotics and control, remote sensing and precision agriculture, and biofuels and renewable energy. He received his M.S. degree from Tulane University in 1989 and Ph.D. degree from Duke University in 1992.Dr. Madhumi Mitra Ph.D
AC 2012-3515: UTILIZING PROJECT-BASED MULTIDISCIPLINARY DE-SIGN ACTIVITIES TO ENHANCE STEM EDUCATIONDr. Andy Shaojin Zhang, New York City College of Technology Andy S. Zhang earned his master’s in mechanical engineering from the City College of New York in 1987 and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1995. Zhang’s research area includes materials testing, product design and prototyping, CAD/CAE, and mechatronics. From 2007 to 2009, Zhang served as a member of the Pre-engineering Advisory Commission of Advisory Council for Career and Technical Education of NYC Department of Education, which was designed to help high schools to enhance existing technology
AC 2012-4490: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROMOTING DESIRABLECHARACTERISTICS IN ENGINEERING PH.D.S: PERSPECTIVES FROMINDUSTRY AND ACADEMIADr. Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West LafayetteMiss Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette Jiabin Zhu is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She obtained a B.S. in physics from East China Normal University, a M.S. in optics from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and a second M.S. in biomedical engineering from Purdue University. Her primary research inter- ests relate to comparative study methods and frameworks in engineering education, global engineering, professional development, and mentoring of engineering graduate students. She is
AC 2012-4083: PARTNERING TO IMPROVE ENGINEERING LEARN-ING AND PERFORMANCEDr. Donald Plumlee, Boise State UniversityDr. Steven W. Villachica, Boise State UniversityDr. Linda Huglin, Boise State UniversityShannon Rist, Boise State University Shannon Rist is a Graduate Assistant in the College of Engineering. She will complete her master’s degree in instructional and performance technology from Boise State University in 2012. Page 25.1028.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Partnering to Improve Engineering Learning and Performance Engineering Education Research
, diversity, and leadership. Her research interests include statistics education, concept inventory development, assessment/evaluation of learning and pro- grams, recruitment and retention, diversity, equity, and cultural humility. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Education, various foundations, and industry. Reed- Rhoads is a member and Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and a member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Industrial Engineers. She serves as an ABET EAC Evaluator for ASEE.Dr. Amanda G. Idema, Michigan State University Amanda G. Idema is the Assistant to the Dean for Academic Services at the College of
AC 2012-4150: THE INTERLACE PROJECT: EXAMINING THE BAR-RIERS TO IMPLEMENTING COLLABORATIVE, INQUIRY-BASED IN-VESTIGATIONSDr. Morgan M. Hynes, Tufts University Morgan Hynes is a Research Assistant Professor in the Tufts University Education Department and Ed- ucation Research Program Director for the Tufts Center of Engineering Education and Outreach. Hynes received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 and his Ph.D. in engineering education in 2009 (both degrees at Tufts University). In his current positions, Hynes serves as PI and Co-PI on a number of funded research projects investigating engineering education in the K-12 and college settings. He is particularly interested in how students and teachers engage
AC 2012-4393: SUBWAY MAP VISUALIZATION TOOL FOR INTEGRAT-ING THE NAE GRAND CHALLENGES FOR ENGINEERING INTO THEPHILADELPHIA AND KENYAN HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY CURRIC-ULAMr. Jared P. Coyle, Drexel University Jared Coyle is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at Drexel University. He earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Drexel University in 2008. Coyle is a former NSF IGERT Fellow and current NSF GK-12 Fellow who has spent two years bringing modern scientific perspectives to Philadelphia High School for Girls in the School District of Philadelphia. Coyle’s current research includes the study of wearable power generation and display technologies.Dr. Adam K. Fontecchio, Drexel University