Conference Session

Lessons for New Engineering Educators

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amani Salim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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New Engineering Educators

intend to pursue a career in academia.Typically PRs enter their faculty roles without teaching experience or the knowledge and skillsnecessary for course development. It is essential for PRs to acquire the needed knowledge andskills during their training to ease their transition to becoming a productive faculty member.This paper explores the experiences and challenges faced by a PR who had the chance to engagein instructional activities. She is a member of a team responsible for teaching assistantprofessional development with mathematical modeling problems taught in a first-yearengineering program. Model-Eliciting Activity TA professional development was the PR’straining site.I. IntroductionA career in academia continues to be the choice of many

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik N. Dunmire, College of Marin; Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College; Kate A. Disney, Mission College, Santa Clara

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Two Year College Division

time totransfer, and discouraging students from pursuing engineering degrees. Additionally, the recentbudget crisis has forced many community colleges to cancel low-enrollment classes and high-cost programs including those in engineering. This paper addresses the factors that have led tothe gradual erosion of the lower-division core curriculum and the effects that these curriculumchanges have had on community college engineering programs. It also explores the implicationson the future of the engineering education system, and discusses ongoing attempts to address thisgrowing educational crisis.IntroductionThe California Community College system has grown to be the largest system of highereducation in the world, with 112 colleges serving close

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; David S. Cottrell, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Candace E. Mazze, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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NSF Grantees

Paper ID #2108Research in Progress: Transforming and Integrating: Evolving ConstructionMaterials & Methods to the Next LevelChung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Dr. Chung-Suk Cho is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Engineering Technology. His teaching and research focus on project scope definition, pre-project planning, sustainable construction, project administration, construction safety, construction simulation, and project management. He has prior teaching experience at North Carolina A&T State University in construction management and

Conference Session

Engineering Education and Comparative Studies at Universities throughout Asia, Far East

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhang Lei, University of Florida; Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida

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International

. He has more than 300 research papers published and presented to international, national, and local organizations. Dr. Najafi is a member of many professional committees and several professional societies. His areas of specialization include transportation planning and management, legal aspects, construction contract administration, and public works. Page 25.311.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 CIVIL ENGINEERING EDUCATIONAT THE TONGJI UNIVERSITY, CHINA AND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Page 25.311.2AbstractThe civil

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Curricula and Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simin Hall, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Deyu Hu, Virginia Tech

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Mechanical Engineering

sites and recorded lectures for futureplayback. However, feedback from students indicated that students with extensive travelschedule or a heavy work load during the week have been unable to take these classes. Inaddition, we received many frequent requests to transmit classes to sites that cannot support highresolution live video teleconferencing. To address these requests, we decided to move thegraduate certificate courses online. This paper presents the development and implementation ofour online graduate nuclear engineering courses using asynchronous and synchronoustechnologies with the education grant from Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Discussionfocuses on the instructional design employed, which is informed by theories, principles

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Curricula and Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benita M. Comeau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rohit Karnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sang-Gook Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2012-3392: DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH OF AN UNDERGRAD-UATE MICRO/NANO ENGINEERING LABORATORY COURSEDr. Benita M. Comeau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Benita Comeau is a Technical Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, where she teaches a laboratory course on nano/micro engineering. She is a Chemical Engineer and received her B.S.E. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was an NSF Research Fellow and a member of the Georgia Tech Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership (STEP) GK-12 program. Before graduate school, she worked as a Product Engineer for Procter & Gamble and Agere Systems

Conference Session

Study Abroad, International Exchange Programs, and Student Engagements

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron G. Ball, Brigham Young University; Alan R. Parkinson, Brigham Young University; Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University; Randall Davies, Brigham Young Univeristy; C. Greg Jensen, Brigham Young University; Holt Zaugg, Brigham Young University

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International

, virtual teams, and test item measurement analysis using item response theory and confirmatory factor analysis. Page 25.28.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Comparative Evaluation of Global Virtual Teams to Traditional Study Abroad Programs in Engineering EducationAbstractA number of credible voices within the engineering community have expressed the need forengineering graduates to develop global competence. Many colleges of engineering haveaddressed this need by developing various technical study abroad programs. Typically theseprograms are resource

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-oriented Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibraheem A. Kateeb, North Carolina A&T State University; Larry Burton, North Carolina A&T State University; Naser El-Bathy P.E., North Carolina A&T State University; Michael S. Peluso, North Carolina A&T State Univerisity

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Computing & Information Technology

understanding of the core technologies underpinning today’s communication networks. This understanding will help drive the maximum benefits into the world’s communication resources. Page 25.1300.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Future of the Basic Building Block of Telecommunications NetworkAbstractThe most basic building block of the Telecommunications industry is the cabling systems thatmake up the wired networks. Over the years we have seen tremendous change in the reliabilityand effectiveness of this core technical component of the network. This paper will provide a

Conference Session

Remote and Network-based Laboratories

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Matthew Long, Deakin University; Ben P. Horan, Deakin University; Robynne Hall, Deakin University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

mobile robotics. He is currently a lec- turer in the School of Engineering, Deakin University, where he teaches various electronics and robotics units.Ms. Robynne Hall, Deakin University Robynne Hall spent 13 years in the photographic industry designing cutting edge commercial print labo- ratories throughout Australia, maintaining and teaching silver halide and digital printing machines. As a mature age student, she returned to study and in 2002 completed an advanced diploma in electronics. She has since spent 12 months at the Gordon Institute of Technology in Geelong as a Laboratory Technician and tutor. During the past eight years, Hall has been at Deakin University as the Technical Officer for electronics

Conference Session

FPD I: Research on First-year Programs Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shelley Lorimer, Grant MacEwan University; Elsie Elford, Grant MacEwan University

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First-Year Programs

datashowing “double-digit” participation for the MBTI types ESTJ and ISTJ, which arose in threeseparate databases. These databases, which were derived from the literature cited in their paper,came from a substantial number of longitudinal studies conducted in both the U.S. and Canada.Many of the articles referred to background summary of this article address the uniqueness of theengineering students as a cohesive group. It is this uniqueness that is being explored using theStrengthsFinder assessment tool. Page 25.1180.4This article examines the connection between MBTI typing and StrengthsFinder signaturethemes, presents data showing a possible

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

James C. Hermanson; David J. Olinger

. Since many concepts in fluids andheat transfer are difficult for students to grasp, we felt that an approach that substantially andmeaningfully extends simple classroom lecture and textbook work was needed. Theimplementation of this approach at WPI is the subject of this paper.1.1 ObjectivesThe objectives of the innovations reported here were to:• Bring the excitement of discovery into the engineering classroom by stressing real-time acquisition of data and student 'discovery' of fundamental concepts in non-traditional lectures, thus increasing students’ interest in the thermal/fluid sciences.• Allow students to understand relationships between physical phenomena and concurrently developed theory through non-traditional lectures

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

assessment systems. One possible explanation of this fact is that in thecountries where these systems were developed, the political and economic systems are quitestable, i.e., the external conditions of functioning of academic institutions do not change sorapidly.In this paper we propose a set of criteria that characterize the effectiveness of past activitiesaimed at adjusting to the changing environment and the preparation of an institution forcontinuous changes in the future. As this proposition is based on our experiences with therestructuring of the system of study at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology,Warsaw University of Technology, we start with a brief review of the latest changes in thissystem.Some of the proposed

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

S. A. Tennyson; R. J. Eggert

introductory design activitiesexperienced as a freshman, and to develop enhanced design skills, readying students for seniordesign and eventual practice.New multi-media courseware, such as Bedford & Fowler’s Engineering Mechanics (1995)which incorporates Working Model simulations, utilizes prepared learning modules to simulatethe behavior or performance of bodies subjected to various forces and moments. While thesesimulations are $open-ended# they have little, if any, design content. Rather, what is needed, isan overall context, a firm foundation of how open-ended problems and simulations serve thewhole design process.This paper describes one dynamics example as prepared by Bedford & Fowler and a custommodule that models a bungee jumper. Then

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna Li; Haifeng Wang, Penn State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

Paper ID #41927Board 147/Innovative Advances: Triboelectric Nanogenerators Powering Pacemakers:A High School Student ReviewJoanna LiProf. Haifeng Wang, Penn State University Dr. Haifeng Wang has received degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering (2014). Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at Penn State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Review of Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Powering Pacemakers Joanna Li1. Haifeng Wang2Abstract Triboelectric nanogenerators were

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui, Sam Houston State University; Nazia Tasnim, University of Texas at Austin; Iftekhar Ibne Basith, Sam Houston State University; Suleiman M Obeidat, Texas A&M University; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

Paper ID #44040Board 46: Integrating AI in Higher-Education Protocol for a Pilot Study with’SAMCares An Adaptive Learning Hub’Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui, Sam Houston State University Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering TechnologyNazia Tasnim, University of Texas at AustinDr. Iftekhar Ibne Basith, Sam Houston State University Dr. Iftekhar Ibne Basith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA. Dr. Basith has a Ph.D and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Windsor, ON,Dr. Suleiman M Obeidat, Texas A&M

Conference Session

Advancing Online and Hybrid Learning in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gleb Tcheslavski, Lamar University; Julia Yoo; Selahattin Sayil, Lamar University

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

Paper ID #42546Implementing Collaborative Online Lab Experiences to Facilitate Active LearningDr. Gleb Tcheslavski, Lamar University Dr. Tcheslavski received his engineer-developer degree in Electronic Engineering from Bauman Moscow State Technical University and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. At VT, he was a member of the Digital Signal Processing Research Lab. After graduation, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of Houston involved in Biomedical Image Acquisition and Processing. Currently, he serves as an Associate Professor in the Phillip M. Drayer Department

Conference Session

Learning Mechanics through Visual and Tactile Modalities

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brandon Clumpner, United States Military Academy; Kevin Francis McMullen, United States Military Academy; Elizabeth Bristow, United States Military Academy

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Mechanics Division (MECHS)

Paper ID #41550Pull, Twist, and Break: Helping Engineering Students Visualize MaterialFailuresBrandon Clumpner, United States Military AcademyDr. Kevin Francis McMullen, United States Military Academy Kevin McMullen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Connecticut. His research interest areas include bridge engineering, protective structures, and engineering education.Elizabeth Bristow, United States Military Academy ©American

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann Saterbak, Duke University; Eric Stephen Richardson, Duke University; Harris Solomon, Duke University

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

Paper ID #41853Board 71:Work in Progress: Creation of Teaching Materials to Support Identificationof Authentic Needs that Inform Engineering-Design ProjectsDr. Ann Saterbak, Duke University Ann Saterbak is Professor of the Practice in the Biomedical Department and Director of First-Year Engineering at Duke University. Saterbak is the lead author of the textbook, Bioengineering Fundamentals.Eric Stephen Richardson, Duke UniversityHarris Solomon, Duke University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 WORK IN PROGRESS: Creation of Teaching Materials to Support

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amirreza Mehrabi, Purdue University; Jason Morphew, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #42439Board 73: AI Skills-based Assessment Tool for Identifying Partial and Full-Masterywithin Large Engineering ClassroomsMr. Amirreza Mehrabi, Purdue University I am Amirreza Mehrabi, a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University, West Lafayette. Now I am working in computer adaptive testing (CAT) enhancement with AI and analyzing big data with machine learning (ML) under Prof. J. W. Morphew at the ENE department. My master’s was in engineering education at UNESCO chair on Engineering Education at the University of Tehran. I pursue Human adaptation to technology and modeling human behavior(with

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Greg Stephens

andorganizational role. The paper will include results from a survey taken during the TilfordDiversity Storytelling project, provide examples and strategies for using stories, and include areview of literature to show how storytelling can be an effective mode of communication.Storytelling in Organizations TodayIn an age of ever new technologies to enhance classroom teaching, the “sage on the stage” maybe making a comeback through the power of stories and the technique of storytelling.Once thought to be mostly for children, or for library programs, storytelling is now appliedwidely in the business and corporate world by management and human relations departments foremployee training, knowledge transfer, and cultural change and in academic settings by

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

Solving Beam Deflection Problems using a Tradition Approach Joseph J. Rencis/Hartley T. Grandin, Jr. University of Arkansas/Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstract This paper presents a new approach to solving beam deflection problems. The approachinvolves the direct application of derived force-deformation formulas, a procedure commonlyused with axial and torsion bar problems. This direct application of derived force-deformationformulas, referred to by the authors as Method of Segments, is extended to beam deflectionanalysis in order to provide a solution procedure for beams that is consistent in philosophy andapplication with

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Chris Papadopoulos; Adeeb Rahman; Josh Bostwick

, Oxford University Press, 2002. 3. Gunnink, Brett, and Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Writing, Critical Thinking, and Engineering Curricula, 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, November, 2002, http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2002/papers/1386.pdf. 4. Bean, John C., Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom, Jossey-Bass, 1996. 5. Kanaoak, Masao, A Technical Writing Course Aimed at Nurturing Critical Thinking Skills, Cambridge Language Consultants, 1999. 6. Paul, Richard, and Linda Elder, How to Study and Learn a Discipline: Using Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools, Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2001. Foundation for Critical

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir De Delva, Rowan University; Muhammed Iftikhar, Rowan University; Keith McIver, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Katherine Whitaker, Rowan University; Mariano J. Savelski, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University

focusing on pharmaceutical aspects of science andengineering. Previous teams have focused on the production of problems for students ranging ineducational level from late middle school to the second year of a baccalaureate degree. Theteams this semester have been focused solely on the revision of old problems and production ofnew problems for students of introductory chemical engineering courses, usually taught duringthe freshman or sophomore year.This paper presents the problems developed during this semester for use in these courses. Theformatting, layout, style and focus of the problems are based on those of Felder and Rousseau’sElementary Principles of Chemical Processes1, a widely-used textbook for these types ofcourses. Courses taught with a

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; William Oakes

to integrate service-learning into its first-year courses. This paper describes the current status of these efforts as wemove to institutionalize the service-learning component and is a follow up to the initial paper24which described the program and presented the results of the first year. A companion paper25presents qualitative data from student participants from the 2003 academic year. This paperseeks to share lessons learned and the rationale behind the decisions we made and also to providean example of service-learning that has yielded positive results with first-year engineeringstudents.Purdue University’s First-Year Engineering Program Purdue University’s Department of Engineering Education has responsibility for all ofthe

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jared Erickson; J. Ledlie Klosky; Stephen Ressler

Session 2115 AIM for Better Student Learning: Using Instant Messaging to Facilitate Improved Instructor-Student Communication Dr. J. Ledlie Klosky, COL Stephen J. Ressler, CPT Jared Erickson United States Military AcademyIntroductionThis paper describes an experiment in which the instructors in two different undergraduateengineering mechanics courses used America Online Instant Messenger (AIM) as the principalmeans of communication with their students outside the classroom. Following a brief summaryof current trends in instant messaging, we

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Hofle; Ken Bosworth

topics covered, adescription of the resource materials developed for use by the workshop participants in theirrespective classrooms, and follow-up school visits by ISU College of Engineering student-faculty teams. We conclude the paper with our thoughts on future extensions and improvementsin this program.Motivation for the project:It has been nationally recognized, and well documented, that the United States is facing alooming shortage of citizen engineers and scientists in the coming decades.1 Since the SecondWorld War, the US has relied on “technological innovation” in preserving our preeminent standin the world economy, and in ensuring our own security. The basis for this technologicalsuperiority has been our ability to train and retain

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alicia Townsend; Renate Fruchter

paper presents an ongoing study that is at the intersection of three thrust areas – culture,information and collaboration technology, and distributed, cross-disciplinary project-basedteamwork and learning. The focus is on the relationship between multi-cultural dimensionsand communication channels in a rich multi-modal collaboration and information technologyenvironment deployed in a cross-disciplinary, geographically distributed teamwork courseorganized by the PBL Lab, at Stanford. The study focuses on the cultural dimensions thatcharacterize distributed Architecture, Engineering, Construction (A/E/C) cross-cultural teamswork together to design a building using collaborative technologies. We aim to answerseveral questions.· What are key

Conference Session

Design and the Liberal Arts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Patton; Richard Bannerot

have proficiency in the basic languages of math and science in order toaffect the physical world. Engineers must understand phenomena on an elemental levelas they seek to pilot the laws of nature. Consider that -- the laws of nature are based onuniversal principles of order, organization, and efficiency – all basic tenets of design.Design mediates between tangible and intangible forces. It fuses the immediacy of thephysical world with the illusiveness of beauty. Design is driven by a museful urge tocreate; and, it is tempered by the physical limitations of the material world. In this paper,we explore design theory and design process in the context of art as a means to structurecreative processing into engineering curricula. Our perspective is

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Design Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; James Loren Christian, University of Michigan; Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State University; Colleen M. Seifert, University of Michigan; Richard Gonzalez, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods

conceptual designs. Please consider both the ways of capturing the light, and the structural variety of the concepts.Also included in the student packets was an information sheet that briefly summarized wayssolar energy could be converted to thermal energy (see Appendix). This was included to avoidproblems with a potential lack of technical knowledge about solar and thermal energy. Thewritten directions instructed students to generate as many concepts as they could, and to drawone concept per page and label aspects of their ideas.After concept generation, on a separate preformatted post-it© note, students wrote a shortdescription of each idea, and reported on the origin of the concept by answering the question,“Where did the idea come

Conference Session

Innovations in Computing Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aidsa I. Santiago-Román, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Nayda G. Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Cesar A Aceros; Brandeis H Marshall, Purdue University; Eric T. Matson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computing & Information Technology

. problem-based learning was not conducted into the final stage and it was not donecollaboratively), we suggest that integrating these two approaches as a pedagogical method canserve as a scaffolding framework for guiding students through the solution of a computationalproblem-solving task. Further studies will be conducted to test the efficacy of the proposedframework to not only guide students through their learning process, but also as a framework thatcan help instructors evaluate how students approach computational problem solving tasks.References:1. Henderson, P. B., Cortina, T. J., & Wing, J. M. (2007). Computational thinking. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 39(1), 195--196.2. Wing, J. M. (2009). Computational Thinking. Paper presented at