Conference Session

General Topics in Graduate Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne M. Kresta, University of Alberta; John A. Nychka, University of Alberta; Roger Graves, University of Alberta

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

introductory mate- rials engineering service course to many disciplines of engineering. John is active in the departmental Teaching Enhancement Committee which is mandated with improving the quality of teaching within the department. He has organized and co-organized teaching workshops to bring international speakers to the University of Alberta on topics of Assessment,and he is very active in student outreach at all lev- els. John’s passion is in the visualization of materials concepts through demonstrations and experiential learning through hands on exercises.Roger Graves, University of Alberta I am Director of Writing Across the Curriculum and the author, co-author, or editor of eight books and 20 articles, including

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Engineering in 2010. His research interests include success in first-year engineering, introducing entrepreneurship into engineering and engineering in K-12.Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Daniel M. Ferguson is a graduate student in the Engineering Education Program at Purdue University. Prior to coming to Purdue he was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before assuming that position he was Associate Director of the Inter-professional Studies Program and Senior Lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology and involved in research in service learning, assessment processes and interventions aimed at improving learning objective attainment. Prior to his University as

Conference Session

Issues Affecting Engineering Program Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miguel Angel Ramos, University of Houston; Lauren Chapman, Boston College; Mac Cannady, Boston College; Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2011-1649: EVALUATION RESULTS OF AN E AND ET EDUCATIONFORUMMiguel Angel Ramos, University of Houston MIGUEL ANGEL RAMOS is the Assistant Dean for Assessment and Accreditation for the College of Technology at the University of Houston. His primary focus has been the practical application of assess- ment and evaluation strategies to enhance educational quality in the college and university. Prior to joining the University of Houston, Dr. Ramos worked as a researcher for the Southwest Educational Develop- ment Laboratory, and as an Evaluator for Boston Connects. He earned a Ph.D. in Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation from Boston College in 2004.Lauren Chapman, Boston College Lauren Chapman is a

Conference Session

Computer and InformationTechnology-Related Issues

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Li Tan, Purdue University, North Central

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

achieve their learning objectives in ourECET curriculum via developing their computer game assignments and projects as a vehicle. Asa result, the sequence essentially establishes a bridge between computer game courses and atraditional digital signal processing (DSP) course with multimedia applications offered in ourECET program. In this paper, we first outline the sequence content and present our pedagogy forteaching the sequence courses. Then, we examine course assessment and analyze outcomes ofstudent learning effects in their upper level course study. The performance comparisons with thepros and cons, between the students who have completed the game and multimedia sequencecourses and the traditional students who are used to do paper exercises

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A. Karanian, Stanford University, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gregory Kress, Stanford University; Tessa Price, Stanford University; Regina Getz-Kikuchi, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

take part in creating this online community. Our collaborative research team includesmembers from the areas of engineering, design, psychology and communication. Our need-findinginteractions with users both inside and out of the IMVU environment have given us insight into the roleof avatars, creative expression and social interaction in the virtual world. We assess how users manipulatetheir social identity and exercise their influence to achieve personal fulfillment online. The fullexperiment offers compelling implications for creating effective design interventions in team-basedengineering and design classes, particularly those involving distributed collaboration, as well as for thosepursuing compassion, empathy and social change by

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Potpourri II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chirag Variawa, University of Toronto; Susan McCahan, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

that is unfamiliar to them, the word creates a barrierto understanding. This barrier may inhibit learning, or compromise the validity of assessment ifthe student’s lack of understanding is not addressed. Some vocabulary (course specificvocabulary) is explicitly taught. However, when unfamiliar vocabulary is used, and notexplicitly taught, it creates a misalignment between the learning environment and the learner.The learner experiences this as a barrier to accessibility of the learning environmentA potential solution to the issue of inaccessible language might appear to be the use of plainlanguage. Plain language is the notion that clear and simple language is the most accessible andlogical way of communicating with one another. There is

Conference Session

Mechanical and Architectural Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy K Lape, Harvey Mudd College; David L Harris, Harvey Mudd College; Matthew Joseph Keeter, Harvey Mudd College; Madeleine S Ong, Harvey Mudd College; Zachary Dodds, Harvey Mudd College

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

optimize robots tocompete in a “Capture the Flag” style game. This paper will describe the course content andsummarize assessment results from the Fall 2010 pilot course.IntroductionIn Fall 2010, Harvey Mudd College began offering a new core curriculum with more electivity,including, for the first time, an elective in the fall semester of the freshman year. Most existingelectives have prerequisites and are not aimed at first-semester students. As part of thiscurriculum revision, HMC faculty have created a variety of new courses tailored to incomingfreshmen. The authors have recently completed teaching one of these courses, titled E11:Autonomous Vehicles, which offers an interdisciplinary hands-on introduction to engineeringmotivated by a robot

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan P.E., Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Assess Undergraduate Research Experience,” J. Higher Educ., Vol. 74, 2003, pp. 210-230.2. Bischof, G., Bratschitsch, E., Casey, A., and Rubeša, D., “Facilitating Engineering Mathematics Education by Multidisciplinary Projects,” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, 2007.3. Boylan, M., “The Impact of Undergraduate Research Experiences on Student Intellectual Growth, Affective Development, and Interest in Doing Graduate Work in STEM: A review of the empirical literature,” Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,, Oct. 2006, Last accessed: November 15, 2010: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/cheri/conferences/doctoralEducation.html4. Fitzsimmons, S. J., Carlson, K., Kerpelman, L.C., and Stoner, D., “A

Conference Session

Electromechanical Capstone and Design Projects in Engineering Technology

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael D. Johnson, Texas A&M University; Ram Prasad Diwakaran, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

as those found in Rynne and Gaughran 13.This conclusions associated with this work should be viewed in light of some limitations. Onelimitation of this work was the lack of sharing of models for alteration between the expert andnovice users. Having novice users alter and assess expert original models might provide a moreinformative analysis. This is an opportunity for future work. Another limitation of this work isthe lack of explicit rationale behind the modeling and alteration procedures. The data are used toinfer what may have been the rationale, but this is not as explicit as using the “think aloud”method to capture what thought process led to certain decisions. To better understand the skilldevelopment of expert users, future work

Conference Session

Post Graduate Experiential Programs and Insights

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeremi S. London, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shree Frazier; Ana T. Torres-Ayala, University of South Florida; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

questionnaires. Recently, the potential of using less obtrusive and lessexpensive methods to gather the necessary information to conduct this kind of studies has beenexplored. A group of researchers assessed the utility of the CV as a data source for examining thecareer paths of scientists and engineers as part of the Research Value Program of the School ofPublic Policy of the Georgia Institute of Technology14.Being an almost-universal type of document, the CV provides a rich source of information; it Page 22.324.3keeps chronological record of relevant professional and academic achievements and importantundertakings, portraying a longitudinal picture of

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jody T. Hoesly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Anne C. Glorioso, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

most faculty members.3” In Engineering, we have transitionedour journal subscriptions to online only as quickly as they become available in that format. Ourjournal weeding analysis focused on identifying journals with reliable online access, reviewingelectronic licenses, summarizing backfile options, withdrawing campus duplicates, and selectinglow usage journal runs that could be sent to storage or other libraries.To help communicate the logic used in our analysis, we created a weeding decision tree. Byfollowing the flow, it could be assessed whether journals could be withdrawn, sent to storage, orkept on the shelf. Using this logic, we reviewed our journal collection. Our initial analysisconfirmed that we could reduce the journal collection

Conference Session

Enhancing Instructional Effectiveness in Civil Engineering: Case Studies

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Fonseca, Brigham Young University; Steven E. Benzley, Brigham Young University; James Nelson, Brigham Young University; A. Woodruff Miller, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

describes a new civil engineering MS management option currently beingimplemented in our program. The option consists of two new graduate courses that provide arich experience in leadership, management, and professional practice outcomes. This option alsoincludes a coupling with our undergraduate culminating design class wherein graduate studentscan gain an effective leadership experience by mentoring undergraduate culminating designprojects. It also summarizes preliminary assessment of the class and student evaluations as ameans to determine the option’s effectiveness. The motivation for this new option comes from1) a desire to strengthen our undergraduate culminating design experience, 2) a strongrecommendation and support from our advisory board

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Francesco Costanzo; Gary L. Gray

what we are trying to do, how we are doing it, some of the problems we haveencountered, as well as early assessment results can be found in references [5–8]. The purpose ofthe present paper is to present a range of the activities we have used in the course. We will do sowith sufficient detail so that other instructors can use them or projects, problems, and/or experi-ments like them in their own courses. Page 4.127.12 ActivitiesAs with a traditional dynamics course, Interactive Dynamics uses traditional “chalk-and-talk”lectures 40–50% of the time. It is the other 50–60% of the class time that profoundly differenti-ates Interactive Dynamics

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson

and assessments ofprogress.The cooperative group problem solving exercises ranged from 20 to 50 minutes in length, withan average length of approximately 30 minutes. These exercises were designed to require thestudents to elaborate, summarize, or practice the material presented in the lecture/discussionsegments. For instance, in an exercise intended to elaborate on a qualitative presentation of theBoltzmann Transport equation for neutrons, students were asked to develop the precisefunctional forms for the terms in equation. The students were first given five minutes toconsider the problem individually. The students were then given approximately 25 minutes todevelop a cooperative group solution. During this period, students also prepared an

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecil Beeson; William Gay

include installation and configuration of network softwareand hardware and a full range of network administration duties. Lecture material is supplementedwith a variety of lab and research assignments. A+ certification test topics relevant to this courseare covered. Page 5.4.3The PC Systems Troubleshooting course introduces the student to the important role oftroubleshooting PC hardware, software and networks. Topics include assessment of problemsymptoms, use of popular troubleshooting tools, location of vendor product information,elements of customer interfacing and satisfaction, and warranty issues. Again, A+ certificationtest topics relevant

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica Ramirez; Saleh M. Sbenaty

distance. Thus, a wide range of values that requires measurement andanalytical methods must be sensitive enough to measure highly diluted material.In recent years, ambient air monitoring has become an important part in order to satisfy therequirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. This has made air quality surveys evenmore complex, requiring adequate planning to assure that prescribed objectives can be attained inthe shortest possible time and at the least cost.II. Objectives of Air MonitoringAir quality monitoring is usually undertaken to characterize air quality in urban areas, near largepoint or line sources of pollution, or where there are sensitive environmental receptors. Theability to assess the air quality of an area depends on

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica D. Hinton-Hudson; Brenda Hart

5-week, held consecutively, Saturday morning program, designedby the Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management faculty and some key JCPS highschool teachers for prospective Industrial Engineering students, with an emphasis onunderrepresented minority students. The program was designed to promote engineering andscience interests in African American students very early in their high school study of math andscience. In addition, the program, consisting of a combination of short course instructionalsegments, hands-on laboratory experiences and motivational and self-assessments, provides thestudents with a “taste” of the industrial engineering discipline.The Department of Industrial of Engineering at the University of Louisville offers a

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne C. Christensen; Robert B. Roemer; Donald S. Bloswick

loading Mechanics and • Slip and fall protection Kinetics • Properties of floor surfaces and optimal coefficients of friction • Biomechanical assessment of musculoskeletal system Health hazards of segmental and whole-body vibration Fluid and Gas • Ventilation of air contaminants Dynamics • Design and hydrostatic testing of sprinkler systems • Safety properties of cryogenic fluids Electrical Theory and • Protective and system grounding Systems • Lockout/tagout-Zero energy state

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren D. Seider; J. D. Seader; Daniel R. Lewin

Assessment, it is necessary to have completed a course in process control.The emphasis throughout the text, and especially in Parts I, process invention, and II, processsynthesis, is on the steps in process creation and the development of a base case design(s). Forthe former, methods of tackling the primitive design problem, collecting data, and preparing thesynthesis tree of alternative flowsheets are covered. Then, for the most promising flowsheets, abase case design(s) is developed, including a detailed process flowsheet, with material andenergy balances. As discussed in Part III, the base case design(s) then enters the detailed designstage in which the equipment is sized, cost estimates are obtained, a profitability analysis iscompleted, and

Conference Session

Enhancing Environmental Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jess Everett, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

, variables, equations, images, definitions, articles,examples, exercises, etc. The modular nature of the storage allows content to be efficiently used,reused, rearranged, reordered, and improved.PathFinder has been used in three different courses in the Civil & Environmental EngineeringDepartment at Rowan University: Civil Engineering Systems (CES, Fall 2008 and 2009),Environmental Engineering I (Spring 2009), and Freshman Clinic I (Fall 09). In each coursePathFinder was used to administer multiple choice and calculation exercises. Multiple choiceexercises made up Preparation Assessment Tests (PATs), used to get students to read coursematerials before covering them in class. Calculation exercises were used as homework (HW) toprovide students

Conference Session

Sustainable Construction Practice

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Shaurette, College of Technology, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

assessment was accomplished through a meeting of fourmembers of the demolition industry who serve as an education committee of the NationalDemolition Association Board of Directors. This NDA advisory committee is made up ofdemolition company owners and senior managers from small, medium, and large firms operatingin geographically diverse areas (Pacific Northwest, South, Midwest, and National). The meetingtook place in September 2008 on the university campus to assure that business interruptions werekept to a minimum.Table 1 includes the results of the process to identify demolition topics that should be included in Page 15.1227.4the demolition and

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Osman Cekic, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

University. She obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Williams, University of Virginia; Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of Virginia

addressesthis learning dimension by suggesting a preferred path through each learning module while alsoproviding hierarchal knowledge maps and overviews accessible to all but directed to help theglobal learner. Proficiency is assessed at discrete points in the instruction regardless of thelearning style, but the student enjoys significant flexibility in the path between these points. A third of the four remaining dimensions represents learning style variation betweenconcrete and abstract. Concrete instruction provides greater focus on data, facts, and solutionapproaches while abstract instruction offers more theory and heuristics. Wherever feasible, twoexpository presentations are provided to satisfy this learner preference. Each student can

Conference Session

Opportunities and Challenges in Developing International Engineering Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin McGarvey, Rowan University; Michael Panko, Rowan University; Michael Kerbaugh, Rowan University; Gabriel Posluszny, Rowan University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Anthony Cavalier, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

International

, similar to theenvironment that may be encountered by many engineering students after graduation. Thelayout of the Engineering Clinic program can be seen in Table 1. Page 15.524.2Table 1Overview of general technical topics in the eight-semester engineering clinic sequenceYear Engineering Clinic Theme Engineering Clinic Theme (Fall) (Spring)First Year Engineering Measurements Competitive Assessment LaboratorySophomore Multidisciplinary

Conference Session

Student Engagement in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergey Makarov, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Reinhold Ludwig, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Stephen Bitar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

the presented approach has created a relatively high level of student interest and hasresulted in consistently high class evaluations. Furthermore, the approach has also created aninterest and support among the non-ECE engineering professors.As an example, Table 1 lists the student assessment (case in point - stimulation of interest in theECE) for three comparable consecutive classes (Spring terms of 2007-2009, juniors and seniors)with nearly 130 students each. Page 15.1048.13Table 1. Assessment results for three nearly identical non-major classes with circa 130 studentseach (Spring of 2007-2009). Grade from 0 to 5.00

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Valenzuela, Auburn University; Jeffrey Smith, Auburn University; Ben Reece, Auburn University; David Shannon, Auburn University

Industrial Engineering Department at Auburn University. He is also member of IIE.David Shannon, Auburn University David Shannon has a Ph.D. Research Methodology and Statistics from the University of Virginia in 1990 and is currently the Humana-Germany- Sherman Distinguished Professor at Auburn University. His research has focused on assessment issues, program evaluation and methodological issues. Dr. Shannon has published over 50 articles in refereed journals since joining the Auburn faculty in 1990. Page 15.759.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Integrating Computer Programming

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Rowland, Dept. of Civil & Mechanical Engineerint at United States Military Academy; Andrew Bellocchio, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

the individually constructed gliders and results are formalizedin a report. The impact of the project on student capstone performance and its contribution toaircraft design education is assessed through student surveys and degree of capstone progress.Introduction For over fifteen years now instructors at the United States Military Academy (USMA) atWest Point have made use of an inexpensive hands-on glider design project to practically applyaircraft design concepts covered in class. Through the years the project has evolved into arelatively simple but conceptually robust method in which students can practice implementing allaspects of aircraft design. Because the project is repeated over a short course sequence, lessonslearned from

Conference Session

Mentoring & Outreach for Girls & Minorities

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Backer, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

packets ≠ Meeting with external evaluators Page 15.644.4 ≠ Create surveys and send to IRB ≠ Create assessment schedule June 2009 ≠ Interview camp counselors and IT mentors ≠ Collect the application packets ≠ Send confirmation letters to HS students ≠ Confirm motivational speakers ≠ Load software in the computer lab ≠ Review curriculum materials ≠ Submit camp materials for duplication

Conference Session

High School Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Kaiser, Montana State University; Peggy Taylor, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Howard Tenenbaum, La Jolla High School, San Diego Unified School District; Seth Hodges, St. Michael Indian School, St. Michaels, AZ

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

licenses. Taylor holds a BS in Biology with Chemistry minor, MS in Science Education, and Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction.Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University Carolyn Plumb is the Director of Educational Innovation and Strategic Projects in the College of Engineering at Montana State University. She works on various curriculum and instruction projects including instructional development for faculty and graduate students. She also serves as the college’s assessment and evaluation expert, currently evaluating the success of various programs and projects, including the Designing Our Community program, the Providing Resources for Engineering Preparedness program (funded by the U.S

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

International

of doctoral students with respect toacademic research. The focal variables for their analysis were subscription to the academicnorms as described by Merton 23, and subscription to the counternorms, based on Mitroff’s work24 . A replication of the wording used for norms and counternorms is given in Table 1. Theirfindings are based on a nationwide survey of students in chemistry, sociology, microbiology andcivil engineering, with main comparisons based on gender, discipline and nationality. Table 1. Component Items of Norm and Counter Norm Scales. Reproduced from Anderson22 NORMS COUNTERNORMSUniversalism- Scientists evaluate research Particularism- Scientists assess newonly on its