Conference Session

Integrating Engineering Economy into Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath J. LeBlanc, Ohio Northern University; Bryan O'Neil Boulanger, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

increasedstudent appreciation and awareness (based on student reviews) of the effort required to fully bidout a proposal and the economic factors involved in actual cross-disciplinary projects. Studentswere evaluated independently and as a member of their respective group or “company”.Evaluations included generation of project documents and assessments, as well as performancereflection pieces at the conclusion of the project assignment.The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discusses the origins of the idea tofoster cross-disciplinary interactions across departments at the authors’ institution. Section 3provides a description of the phantom company Orange Inc. created to facilitate the projectassignment and gives an overview of the

Conference Session

Using Student Competitions to Enhance Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Carroll, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Conference Session

Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca K. Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Hossein Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Larry Everett Pearson, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

simulation solution to thetraditional calculation, and; 2) do not get frustrated trying to get information properly enteredinto the simulation program or have to guess what information to enter. Minimizing thesefrustrations will help the students better relate what happens in the process simulator to thecomputations that they have learned to perform by hand and will establish a better connectionbetween the simulation and traditional calculations. This is one advantage of introducing processsimulation across the chemical engineering curriculum, rather than exclusively in the seniordesign courses.Use of Stoichiometric Reactor to Assess Heat Effects of ReactionsIn Chapter 4 of Smith et al., heat effects associated with chemical reaction are

Conference Session

Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey Beddoes, Purdue University; Corey T Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Women in Engineering

Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program and the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in chemical engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering with a Ph.D. minor in women’s studies from the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of Purdue University’s AD- VANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Femi- nist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at the website http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new models for thinking

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Shealy, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Catherine Mobley, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Clemson University; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

/NSC_Signature_Report_2.pdf.2 Li, D. (2010). They need help: Transfer students from four-year to four-year institutions. Review of HigherEducation, 33(2), 207-238.3 Wintre, M. G., & Morgan, A. (2009). Transferring post-secondary schools: Student perceptions, rationales, andexperiences. Journal of Adolescent Research, 24(6), 726-749.4 Avakian, A. N., MacKinney, A. C. & Allen, G. R. (1982). Race and sex differences in student retention at anurban university. College and University, 57(2), 160-165.5 Porter, 1999. Assessing transfer and native student performance at four-year institutions. Paper presented at the39th Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research, Seattle, WA.6 Anderson-Rowland, M. R., Banks, D. L., Zerby, D. M., &

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

Session 2003-2531 AN INDUCTIVE APPROACH TO TEACHING COURSES IN ENGINEERING Robert P. Hesketh, Stephanie Farrell, and C. S. Slater Department of Chemical Engineering Rowan University 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, New Jersey 08028-1701 Reviewer Comments: This was an interesting and informative paper. One thing that I would like to see is an assessment of student learning using the inductive approach vs. the deductive approach. This

Conference Session

FPD XI: Tidbits and Cookies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Thomas Tkacik, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Jae Hoon Lim, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Patricia A. Tolley P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Kimberly Warren, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

an Assistant Professor of civil and environmental engineering with a specialty in geotechnical engineering. Her civil engineering research projects typically involve testing geosynthetic materials, as well as instrumenting and monitoring large-scale civil engineering structures constructed with geosynthetic inclusions to determine their performance behaviors in the field. Warren has more re- cently become involved in the educational research arena and is currently implementing classroom inno- vations in a core civil engineering undergraduate course to determine and assess the impact of interactive learning as part of a course, curriculum, and laboratory improvement grant

Conference Session

Problem-based and Challenge-based Learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Brett D. Jones, Virginia Tech; Philip R. Brown, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Infusing Creative Thinking into a Project-Based Learning and its Page 25.702.15 Assessment Process, in PATT14 International Conference2004: Albuquerque, NM. p. 21.11. Cambridge-MIT Institute. Project-Centered Learning Symposium 2008. 2008 [cited 2009 20 March 2009]; Available from: http://web.mit.edu/cmi/ue/workshop2008/.12. Jones, B.D., et al., Engineering students’ engagement in a problem-based learning project (Poster), in Annual

Conference Session

Research in Engineering Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David F. Radcliffe, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ji Hyun Yu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sadia Nawaz, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Luo, Purdue University; Jea Hong Choi, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Faculty and Program Developments, Exchanges, and Best Practices

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

International

of an educational activity and expect theseto be as relevant at the end as they were at the beginning. Being responsive to students’experiences of learning makes your assessments of your effectiveness as a teacher partlydependent on students’ perceptions of what is taking place in the classroom. Suchcontextual notions of effectiveness do not always sit well with the administrative desireto standardize effectiveness through a series of replicable indicators. Trying to understandhow students experience learning, analyzing one’s own practice to attempt to takeaccount of this understanding, and reframe one’s objectives, methods, and evaluationcriteria as the dominant themes or concerns emerging from the students and theclassroom set up, is

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jumoke O. Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

online teaching environment, creating modules, the role ofdiscussion, technology integration and assessment. The main goal of the “Online Course DesignWorkshop” is to teach instructors interested in developing and teaching online courses how todivide the course into modules that last approximately one to two weeks. These modules have tofurther be divided into sub-modules with topics that students can work through in about an hour. All courses were required to conform to “The 2008 – 2010 Quality MattersTM (QM)Rubric” [12]. This rubric outlines many of the practices that are generally accepted for teaching Page 25.1003.5engineering courses

Conference Session

Student Attitudes and Perceptions

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin Micomonaco, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Special Session: Innovation through Improv

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Ludovice, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lew Lefton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Richard Catrambone, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Page 15.706.14Figure 6 illustrates that, unlike the previous test, students believed that this exercise maypotentially help them with their design project (the average answer for question 6 is statisticallydifferent from the neutral answer of 3). This occurred despite the fact that there was notstatistical difference between the attributes of the second and the first. While only significant tothe 90% confidence level, the only statistically significant difference between these two studieswas in question 6 regarding the usefulness of this exercise for the design project. This likelyoccurred because only the second study was able to produce suggestions for the specific designproject. Our initial qualitative assessment is that a two stage process

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Davidson; Mark Johnson; Douglas Eschbach; Curtis Watson

-correlation program, called examiner,to provide a detailed listing of blocks of similar code. Based on this information and manualinspection of student code, the instructor is equipped to make decisions on where plagiarism hasoccurred, confront the students, and assess penalties.Tokenization of VHDL codeIn order to compare the structure of two VHDL source code files, one must eliminate anyinformation in the files that won’t affect the semantics of the code. This is accomplished bytokenization. Tokenization refers to the process of identifying syntactically significant elementsand representing those elements in a form that is convenient for parsing. The parser in a compileror HDL synthesis program exams the sequence of tokens to determine the semantic

Conference Session

Diversity in K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Nilgun Melek Ozer, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Nick Patrick Rentsch, San Francisco State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

24 33.8%Computer Engineering 7 7 4 5 23 32.4%Electrical Engineering 2 0 3 3 8 11.3%Mechanical Engineering 5 6 2 3 16 22.5%Total 16 20 17 18 71 100.0%3.4 Student Survey Results: Student Attitudes Towards SEITo assess the effects of participation in SEI on student attitudes about engineering, theirconfidence in succeeding in college, and SEI's impact on their selection of an engineering major,pre- and post- program surveys were administered. The surveys include items in which studentsresponses are in the following

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jian Yuan, Beihang University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

through “external assessment” … Some universities saw accreditation as a project with the MOE label and thought they should do whatever the government mandates. They simply saw “passing accreditation” as the end rather the means for program development.21In this sense, the policy borrowing process in China is a process of reassembly as it adds Chinesesocialist politics to policies from elsewhere. In practice, changes have been made to the originalABET accreditation procedure so as to maintain the government’s power in developing andimplementing education policy. That is, Chinese policymakers believe that without centralizedadministration in guiding accreditation procedures, it is difficult to motivate state

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui Pan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

Conference Session

Summer and Cohort Programs for Minorities: Student Success

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; Christina Seimetz Wade, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

. Amelink, Virginia Tech Dr. Catherine Amelink is Director of Graduate Programs and Assessment, College of Engineering, Vir- ginia Tech. Page 24.561.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Examining the Transition To Engineering: A Multi-Case Study of Six Diverse Summer Bridge Program ParticipantsAbstractThe first year of engineering is critical as students often find it difficult to make the transitionfrom being high school seniors to college freshmen. In an attempt to mitigate this transition,many colleges offer summer

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hadi Ali, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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College Industry Partnerships

Conference Session

Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Creativity

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Conference Session

Computing in the First Year

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Anthony Vernier, Ohio State University; Patrick M. Wensing, The Ohio State University; Craig E. Morin, MindWare Technologies; Andrew H. Phillips, Ohio State University; Brian Rice, Ohio State University; Kevin Robert Wegman, Ohio State University; Chris Hartle, Ohio State University; Paul Alan Clingan, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Richard J. Freuler, Ohio State University

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Computers in Education

programs chosen at Replaceable battery modules runtime Similar pricing to Handy Board1.3 Assessment of Available Replacement OptionsThe initial plan was not to design a new controller from scratch, but rather to identify an existingcontroller to be adopted by the FEH program. Many microcontrollers available at the time werereviewed. Table 1 contains a list of some candidates and their limitations. Table 1: Limitations of existing controllers. Microcontroller Source Limitations NXT Lego Very limited I/O, underpowered Blackfin Handy Board Dr. Fred Martin

Conference Session

California on the Move: A Robust Array of Student Success Initiatives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nick P Rentsch, Cañada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

, but showed the strongest dedication of his group. This student alsosought assessment of his work and recruited two students from the Civil Engineering group, whohad no familiarity with the Haptic Paddle hardware, to test the effectiveness of his assemblyinstructions. Figures 4a and 4b show these two students following the assembly instructions andcompleting the Haptic Paddle. a) b) Page 24.716.14Figure 4. (a) Civil Engineering intern students testing the Mechanical Engineering group’sassembly instructions. (b) Happily finished with their assembled Haptic Paddle.Throughout

Conference Session

Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

developments of the 1960s, as would seem to be confirmed by thefact that the National Science Foundation has funded dozens of studies over the last twenty yearson disability-focused teaching and learning in STEM contexts, covering many academicdisciplines and a range of disabilities.11However, the development and assessment of inclusive STEM pedagogies, including the use ofassistive technologies, is not having as wide an impact as might be desired. Commitments to theprincipals of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which aim to prevent marginalization bydesigning universally accessible materials and worksites in the first place, remain rare inuniversity science and engineering programs despite their proven benefits for learners of allkinds. Limited

Conference Session

Culture, Race, and Gender Issues

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

of Wisconsin, Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of Purdue University’s ADVANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Femi- nist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at the web- site http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new models for thinking about gender and race in the context of engineering education. She was awarded a CAREER grant in 2010 for the project, ”Learning from Small Numbers: Using personal narratives by underrepresented undergraduate students to promote institutional change in engineering education.” She received a Presidential Early Ca- reer Award for Scientists and

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogies 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan F. Campanile, Illinois Institute of Technology; Frederick Doe, Illinois Institute of Technology; Elana Rose Jacobs, Illinois Institute of Technology; Norman G Lederman, Illinois Institute of Technology; Eric M Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

conducted all interviews. Three independent educatorsestablished content validity of the assessments. There was unanimous agreement that theassessment items covered content that the research question intended to measure. The constant comparative method developed by Glaser and Strauss in 1967 was used toanalyze the survey and interview data. The constant comparative method is used to analyzequalitative data by constructing themes and/or categories. The interpretations of the emergentconstructs constitute the findings of the study. Units of data from the student responses, from thesurvey and interview, deemed relevant to the study were constantly compared with one another.The reoccurring incidents and patterns in the data were constructed into

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John McMasters

education system. Assessment tools and R&D; small-group environments. practices. Knowledge retention & transfer.2010s? Large-scale distributed projects. More choice in curricula. Diverse tracks and LSI. Outsourcing design as well as career choices. Need for substantial “societal” production. issue experience in engineering education.The Boeing Welliver program, over the years, has been very effective in bridging majordisagreements and building the confidence needed to institute effective and well-focusedchanges. We surveyed the “Welliver Alumni” (107 to-date) with 5 questions, shown at left. Theresponses are discussed

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Frehill

NMSU. Specifically, it can be quite difficult to secure funds toretool or improve laboratories that may became “dated” as faculty progress through their careers.Hence, mid-career faculty who remain productive within their fields are attractive recruits forother institutions. In terms of gender, as all engineering schools face the challenge ofdiversifying the faculty, “cherry picking” of such faculty poses special challenges forinstitutions.On the other hand, beyond this preliminary assessment, because of how the ADVANCE Program Page 10.1314.15is operating to improve the climate of the institution for all faculty, it is too soon to discern

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

the use of assignments that foster these same principles, including the use of reflectivejournaling “as a vehicle for personal and professional development.”9 Assessments from theteam project show that structures like vertical integration and assignments like reflectivejournaling facilitate students’ transition toward self-authorship, creating “intentional learners”who are empowered, informed, and responsible lifelong learners.Following the frameworks of Baxter Magolda and Lave and Wegner, we show how a freshmanthrough senior vertically integrated team design project (VITDP) helps to provide a communityof practice for engineering students, enhances learners’ development on multiple levels, andmoves them toward self-authorship. Drawing on data

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Kathryn Neeley

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Baladi; P. David Fisher

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationVII. AcknowledgmentsThis work was supported in part by the General Electric Fund through a grant entitled“Reforming the Early Undergraduate Engineering Learning Experience: Phase II” and by NSFthrough a grant entitled “Enhancing the Bioengineering Opportunities for Engineering Majors.”Bibliography[1] Rover, D.T., and Fisher, P.D., “Cross-functional teaming in a capstone engineering design course,” Proc. of IEEE/ASEE 1997 Frontiers in Education Conference, November 1997.[2] Rover, D.T. and Fisher, P.D., "Student self-assessment in upper level engineering courses