Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Miles, United States Military Academy; C.M. Chewar, United States Military Academy

sub-tasks andassembled the various parts. Most students had demonstrated mastery of the key concepts at thislevel of learning. However, the instructors were interested to see whether the course had resultedin students “learning how to learn” new programming skills. An inquiry arousal approachseemed perfect for this type of student assessment.6.1. Inquiry Arousal Assignment:A final project was designed using the inquiry arousal approach. The students were given aprogram for a game that worked, but with limited functionality. The code that they were givenwas not significantly longer than any other program they had already written, but it used a fewconcepts that had not been covered by the class. However, the textbook owned by all of thestudents

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Laguette, University of California-Santa Barbara

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

integrated manufacturing system for a medical deviceThese projects were relatively successful in terms of meeting the studentaccomplishments, course requirements, and company expectations.The least successful project was the integrated manufacturing system. Upon review, thecompany was not located locally and required a one hour drive each way for the students,required the integration of electronics and software, and may have been beyond the scopeof the students. It was mutually decided that we would not pursue another student projectat this time.We were successful in retaining three of the four partners for 2006/07 and integrated fouradditional partners for the following projects: - a test system to assess deployable spacecraft structures

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don Millard, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Frederick Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mohamed Chouikha, Howard University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

the “big ideas” and designinsight associated with engineering. We are exploring and assessing the proper “mix” of lecture,paper & pencil, computer module and experimental activities that best helps the student to graspthe fundamentals and achieve the desired learning outcomes. These new templates of multimodalactivities will continually be evaluated and refined throughout the project and will ultimately bedisseminated in a manner similar to that which Rensselaer’s original studio model was introduced,adapted and since adopted by others. David Kolb found that the four combinations of perceiving and processing determine the fourlearning styles. According to Kolb, the learning cycle involves four processes that must be presentfor

Conference Session

FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Mathias, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Lalit Gupta, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Jale Tezcan, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Ronald Caffey, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Bruce Chrisman, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Chris Pearson, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Ernest Lewis, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Kathy Pericak-Spector, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Hasan Sevim, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

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First-Year Programs

designated sections of courses, a summer math course, andrevisions to the math curriculum. The new non-academic programs consist of: creating anengineering residential college, and mentoring by peers, faculty, and practicing engineers.Figure 1 outlines the various aspects of both programs included in this project. A description ofthe two programs as well as the methods to assess the total overall project is presented in thefollowing sections.Academic Programs:Introduction to Engineering Course:Currently, each department in SIUC College of Engineering offers their own introduction toengineering course. These courses vary widely; one department introduction to engineeringcourse teaches computer software programs, another course has laboratory

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Lin, North Dakota State University; G. Padmanabhan, North Dakota State University; Scott Pryor, North Dakota State University; Dennis Wiesenborn, North Dakota State University

. Two points were allocated for a correct answer and one point was given toany competing team who chose the correct answer after an initial incorrect response. Gift cardsto the University bookstore were offered to the game winners as further incentive to participateand think more about questions that they didn’t immediately know the answer for. Questionswere designed to gauge student background knowledge in biofuels-related topics. The gameserved not only as a pre-assessment tool, but also as an engaging forum for educating thestudents about potential biomass energy sources and the related economic and environmentalimpacts. This was seen as especially beneficial for the students from the group who would beworking on projects other than bio-fuel

Conference Session

Educational Software

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Chonacky, Yale University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

computation, be treatedas a supplementary "add-on", for example assigned as a homework exercise, or should thematerials and presentations be "re-thought" in the light of computational possibilities? A relatedquestion is whether part of the grade for a course should be determined based on computationalacumen of students, or should the computations be treated more like illustrative examples thatmay help understanding and appreciation, but for which students are not separately assessed andevaluated? Another consideration is the degree of students' preparedness. At entry, most all haveused computers. However a prevalent if not predominant use, most particularly for males, is ingaming. The primary academic computational context in high school has most

Conference Session

Engineering in Elementary Schools

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Euridice Oware, Purdue University; Brenda Capobianco, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

ideas about engineering. 8,9 , 10 , 11 For example, researchers at the University of South Carolina used a “Draw-an-Engineer”instrument and semi-structured interview in pre- and post-tests of 3rd -5th grade students in aclassroom with an engineering graduate student visiting instructor. The researchers found thatstudents generally presented fewer “misconceptions” of engineering on post-assessments thanpre-assessment drawings and interviews. Researchers at the Museum of Science in Boston andTufts University developed a Draw an Engineer Test for students from grades 3-12. The drawnresponses included images such as tools, cars, computers, trains, and desks. Drawings andinterviews enable students to communicate their ideas about

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angel Martinez, Kansas State University; Steve Warren, Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

. A screenshot ofthe virtual oscilloscope customized for the needs of the RASCL unit is shown in Figure 6. Figure 6. StudentScope: a LabVIEW virtual instrument built for the RASCL kit.Initial Learning ExperienceTo gauge early student responses to the RASCL platform and to assess its potential as a learningtool, the authors of this paper prepared an extra credit laboratory for the Fall 2006 section ofEECE 512 – Linear Systems, a course with an enrollment of 38 students. The exercise, intendedto take approximately two hours, briefly addressed different areas of RASCL functionality byrequiring students to build a predefined circuit and analyze its properties. Specifically, studentswere asked to (a) build a 2nd–order, lowpass, voltage

Conference Session

Communication and Professional Skills in BME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Ebenstein, Bucknell University; Joe Tranquillo; Daniel Cavanagh

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

encourages the students to make use of the machine shop and prototypingfacilities when developing their initial design plans, and allows rapid transition from design toconstruction or prototype. This application of skills from the earlier courses in the sequence is Page 12.499.9self-motivated. 8AssessmentThis four-course sequence will be completed for the first time in the Spring of 2007. Hence,there has not yet been opportunity for rigorous assessment of the impact of this approach on theBiomedical Engineering Curriculum. Observationally, it is clear that students are applying theskills that they

Conference Session

Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy; Fred Meyer, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

engineering because of theacademic rigor, hard work, and long hours of study required. There is little chance they remainin these programs because of the same factors. A reputation for inspiring students, will likelyaddress the underlying reasons that recommendation 14 is included.ABETABET continues to strive to improve the accreditation process as reflected in the existence ofboth a criteria for 2006-2007, as well as a proposed criteria for 2007-2008. Completeinformation is readily available on the ABET website. Of special note in Criterion 3: ProgramOutcomes and Assessments (in 2006-2007) and Outcomes (in 2007-2008) which states (i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learningThe importance of life long

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidar Malki, University of Houston; Michael Gibson, University of Houston; Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

organizational perspective in achieving improved performance in the information or technology-based workplace. Students will learn the role assessment and evaluation in developing world class project teams.Course Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the different levels within which project teams work. 2. Identify best practices for project teams from an individual level. 3. Identify best practices in project team development from a team level perspective

Conference Session

Approaches to K -12 Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach, Humboldt State University; James H. Johnson, Howard University; Chris Brus, University of Iowa; Dan Giammar, Washington University; Bette Grauer, McPherson High School; Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Liesl Hotaling, Stevens Institute of Technology; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein, Morgan State University; Steven Safferman, Michigan State University; Tim Wentling, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the diversity of engineering students and improving education for all engineering students. Some of Beth’s current projects are: an NSF planning project for the Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research, an AAUW project assessing the effectiveness of Expanding Your Horizon’s Conferences and a water resources curriculum project using CADSWES software. She is the Frontiers in Education 2006 Program Co-Chair.James H. Johnson, Howard University Dr. Johnson is the Samuel P. Massie Professor of Environmental Engineering and dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences at Howard University. Dr. Johnson received his B.S

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valerie Maynard, Northwestern University; Matthew Hsu, Northwestern University; Katherine Chen, California Polytechnic State University; R.P.H. Chang, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

project. (The characteristics arepaired with their effects.) real-world connection → motivation; lack of specific constraints →student choices; testable product → data for evidence-based reasoning; and iterative →evaluation → re-design.11The teacher has the following assessment rubric: (For brevity’s sake, only the OUTSTANDING column is completed here.) ASSESSMENT OF DESIGN PROJECTS CRITERIA OUTSTANDING GOOD ADEQUATE POOR NOT ACCEPTABLE 10 points each 9 points 8 points 7 points 0 points problem Students presented

Conference Session

Teaching Innovation in Architectural Engineering I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Theodoropoulos, University of Oregon

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

examination of schoolperformance related to relevant student performance criteria used in theaccreditation process. It includes a review of the seismic design content ofarchitecture programs and the methods used to teach seismic design in an effort tochart how students learn seismic design concepts at various institutions. Findingsinclude information about regional influences and the professional profile ofinstructors as well as faculty assessment of currently available teaching materialsand identification of future teaching materials needs. Most significant is evidencesuggesting that although most schools of architecture address the concepts centralto seismic design across the curriculum in a variety of courses, there are barriersthat may prevent

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valentin Razmov, University of Washington; Richard Anderson, University of Washington

2006-1770: EXPERIENCES WITH AGILE TEACHING IN PROJECT-BASEDCOURSESValentin Razmov, University of Washington Valentin Razmov spends time in the classroom as often as he can. He is interested in methods to assess and improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning. Valentin is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (Seattle), where he received his Masters degree in Computer Science in 2001. Prior to that, in 1998, he obtained a Bachelors degree with honors in Computer Science from Sofia University (Bulgaria).Richard Anderson, University of Washington Richard Anderson is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Flynn, The College of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

7 8: Union Meeting 2 8 8: Committee 2 8 7, 8: Office Hrs 2 8 7,8: Class Prep 2 7, 8 7,8: Contact 6 7, 8 TOTAL RAT ~50Figure 3: Summary of a Demand Log JamThe Load Budget can also be used to assess the effect of proposed changes in policy related tofaculty load. For example, almost every semester, demand difficulties will cause the Registrar tocancel a number of sections after registration opens and try to redistribute

Conference Session

Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

De'Jeune Antoine, Xavier University of Louisiana; Mica Hutchison, Purdue University; Deborah Follman, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Women = 4.3, IP = 4.4, and non-IP = 4.5). Analysis of (1) students’ definitions of success in the program and (2) the factors cited asexplanations for their confidence in overall program success and their assessment of their currentsuccess in the program, reveled seven overarching categories. A description and example ofeach category are presented in Table 2.Table 2. Categories developed to describe students’ responses to open-ended survey items.Category Title Description Example “Finishing the project.” Student discussion of completion of or an Completion

Conference Session

Student Misconceptions and Problem Solving Abiltiy

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruth Streveler, Colorado School of Mines; Monica Geist, University of Northern Colorado; Ravel Ammerman, Colorado School of Mines; Candace Sulzbach, Colorado School of Mines; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Olds, National Science Foundation and Colorado School of Mines; Mary Nelson, University of Colorado

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

2006-1653: IDENTIFYING AND INVESTIGATING DIFFICULT CONCEPTS INENGINEERING MECHANICS AND ELECTRIC CIRCUITSRuth Streveler, Colorado School of Mines RUTH A. STREVELER is the Director of the Center for Engineering Education at the Colorado School of Mines and Research Associate Professor in Academic Affairs. Dr. Streveler holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Master of Science in Zoology from the Ohio State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Indiana University at Bloomington. She is co-principle investigator of three NSF-sponsored projects: Developing an Outcomes Assessment Instrument for Identifying Engineering Student

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Malicky, University of San Diego; Ming Huang, University of San Diego; Susan Lord, University of San Diego

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Smith, Johnson, and Johnson’s model, cooperative learning must include individual accountability, mutual interdependence, face-to-face interaction, appropriate practice of interpersonal skills, and regular self- assessment of team functioning4. Felder14 provides a summary and recommendations for adopting cooperative learning. Collaborative learning need not be as structured and may not include all of the features of cooperative learning. Individual accountability is not a necessary element of collaborative learning. Many examples of these types of learning are found in the literature. The experiences could range from simple in-class exercises where students form temporary groups and work on problems to cooperative

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University; Barrett Myers, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

vehicles.Human Services:Locations: Purdue University, University of Notre Dame and the University of Wisconsin-MadisonCommunity Partner: Habitat for Humanity International Having EPICS programs at multiple universities has created the opportunity to collaborate on commonprojects across campuses to address needs of regional, national, or even international scope. A Memorandum ofUnderstanding was signed in 2002 between EPICS and Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) to developnational-scale projects. The first multi-site project was a database for local HFHI affiliates to use for gathering,storing, and analyzing assessment data of homeowners from across the country. This project was jointly developed

Conference Session

Integrating Research Into Undergraduate ECE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Wicker, U.S. Air Force Academy; Erlind Royer, U.S. Air Force Academy; Allen Arb; Daniel Pack, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

“customer” and provides feedback at all formal reviews and status briefings. In additionto these two faculty members, the faculty course administrator participates in and assesses allformal reviews and reports. The faculty team mentors the students on both the technical andprogram management aspects of the project. Page 11.75.2Project Description Students InvolvedFormula SAE Car Develop, integrate and test an engine control, 3 Electrical EngineeringElectronics electronic gear shift, and telemetry system for the 1 Computer Engineering

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Engineering Courses of 2020

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Olivia Graeve, University of Nevada-Reno (Eng)

Tagged Divisions

Materials

.12Assessment Plans Page 11.1040.11To date only qualitative assessment of the modules have been carried out. Written feedback onstudent evaluations have indicated that, in general, most students enjoy learning about thetechnologies and working on the projects. Students also recognize and appreciate the fact thatthe fundamental material is repeated in the modules helping them see it from differentperspectives and understand it at a deeper level. Negative comments indicate some students arebothered by not following the textbook order and having to learn extra material outside of thetext. Extensive quantitative assessment is planned for the 2006-2007

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Schleter, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Richard Bennett, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

quiz as a traditional paper quiz with the results entered via opticalscanning of bubbles on an answer form. Their claim is that this approach did much more thandiscourage or inhibit students from copying or cheating on exams – it allowed them to makeconsiderable use of quizzes as unannounced tasks at the end of lectures, thus resulting in a largedecrease in absenteeism and correlating positively with student performance. In addition, theymade use of this technology by allowing students to rework problems missed on exams forpartial credit – thus turning the summative exam assessment into a formative assessment tool aswell.There does not seem to be a consensus in the literature on whether or not online homework canproduce a measurable

Conference Session

Civil Engineering in the Classroom

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christy Jeon, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adjo Amekudzi, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

ofTechnology. CEE 3000 focuses on applying systems and sustainability concepts and analyticaltools in planning, design, operations, maintenance and renewal of civil infrastructure facilities.These concepts are introduced in three modules. The first module exposes the students tosystems and sustainability concepts through directed readings and discussions of global trends inpopulation growth, composition and urbanization, human resource consumption and wastesgeneration; environmental impact assessments, social equity analyses, and infrastructure assetmanagement tools. The second module presents mathematical optimization methods forevaluating system performance and a third module introduces engineering economic analysistools. A term project requires

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Minnie Patel, San Jose State University; Anuradha Basu, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurship concepts and skills to engineeringand science students is to encourage them to participate in extracurricular activities that helpfoster their entrepreneurial skills. This approach has been tried at SJSU through the Neat IdeasFair, a campus-wide forum to celebrate creativity and innovation.The purpose of this paper is to describe and assess the extracurricular approach to fostering anentrepreneurial perspective among students, to assess the level of interest in learning aboutentrepreneurship among engineering students, and to describe a process of selecting appropriatecourse material based on the engineering student responses. Page

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 2

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

school teachers connecting math, science and engineering.Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University Amaneh Tasooji is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Materials at ASU and has been teaching and developing new content for materials science and engineering classes and laboratories. She has developed new content and contextual teaching methods from here experience as a researcher and a manager at Honeywell Inc. She is currently working to develop new assessments to to reveal and address student misconceptions in introductory materials engineering classes. Page 12.540.1© American Society

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogy in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac W Wait, Marshall University; Jeffrey T. Huffman P.E. P.E., Marshall University; Christopher T. Anderson, Huntington (WV) Sanitary Board

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

known. Students are alsodirected by the instructor to additional sources of information, such as plat maps from the countyGIS office, publicly-available aerial photography, and field visits to the project area, which isapproximately two miles from campus.Students are asked to first develop a schematic understanding of how stormwater flows over andthrough the project area. This includes a site assessment of how many residents currently haveconnected roof drains, student-estimated rational runoff coefficients for lots, the flow capacity ofthe existing drainage network, and time of concentration relationships.After gathering information and documenting a conceptual hydrologic scheme for the area, thisinformation is translated into a computerized

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

issues that truly interest them.24Using this understanding of the prevalent issues that appear to hinder the effectiveness ofengineering ethics instruction, and potential paths to improve effectiveness, a new course wasdesigned to support the ethical decision making of industrial engineering students at MSU, aCarnegie I Research University.Course DesignAs part of the assessment and subsequent major redesign of the industrial engineering curriculumat MSU, the need for additional student exposure to management materials was identified. Inorder to substantially close this gap, an existing two credit junior level course on professionalpractice and ethics was redesigned to a three-credit course focused on engineering managementand organizational

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogy in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chuang Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Kimberly A Warren, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

of material for a given purpose (evaluation)1. In addition to content learning, the inquiry-based pedagogy claims to develop importantskills that include critical thinking, problem solving strategies, self-regulated learning, andcollaborative learning in teams, the skills which are not always assessed in traditional, lecture-based classrooms. Some studies suggested that the inquiry-based approach is an effectivepedagogy to help students become self-regulated learners and develop problem-solvingskills15,27,31. Other studies noted some weakness of this pedagogy. Dahlgren and Oberg arguedthat the students generated very few solution-oriented questions (only 6% of the total number ofquestions)9. The majority of the questions generated by

Conference Session

Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard G. Helps, Brigham Young University; Scott Pack

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

analog and digital sensors andthen communicates to the Internet through a webpage. The simple webpage is hosted by a web-server on the microcontroller, which illustrates both the capability and the limitations of a typicalCPS system. Thus the students experience several aspects of CPS and are encouraged to developcognitive relationships between CPS and IT. Details of the lab design are included in the paper.Pre- and post-assessment tests were carried out to evaluate the degree of student understandingof the lab concepts and their relationship between IT and CPS. Proposals and justification forincluding CPS as part of an IT curriculum are presented.IntroductionEmbedded or Cyber-Physical computer systems are gaining increasing prominence in