Conference Session

Training and Support for NEEs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vishwas Narayan Bedekar, University of Arkansas; John DUPE Lee, University of Arkansas; Douglas E. Spearot, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

the dots between classroom learning and real worldapplications. We assessed this program informally during tests, projects, and an industry visitduring the first semester, and then formally via an online evaluation in the second semester of theprogram. This manuscript presents the outcome of the teaching mentorship experiment. Ourapproach could provide a pathway for new engineering faculty to become effective teachers andsuccessful mentors.I. Introduction and BackgroundThe 2lst century has seen a significant shift from bricks to clicks, from simultaneous to non-simultaneous engineering and communication cultures. 1-2 Traditional classrooms, in the walls ofbricks, have transformed with integration of software and design tools, digital

Conference Session

Beyond Students: Issues of Underrepresentation among Parents and Professionals

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University, San Marcos

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

the elementary years: Frameworks for curriculum and instruction. Washington, DC: National Center for Improving Instruction.29) (Blanton & Knuth, 2013 a). Grade 3 Longitudinal Assessment. Project. LEAP NSF DRK-‐12 #1207945. Accessed on July 1, 2013

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Seshadri, Purdue University; Tahira N. Reid, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Joran W. Booth, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, customer-oriented design methods used in design engineering.These include, but are not limited to, emotional design, user-centered design, human centereddesign, empathic design, and co-design. They consider different aspects of both customer andcontext, and provide valuable information in different ways.2.1 Emotional DesignEmotional design was described by Don Norman13 as including three levels of design: visceral,behavioral, and reflective. These levels are influenced by human cognition and emotion. Thevisceral level assesses preferences as perceived through the senses. They are fast and automatic,often based on “gut level” reactions. Emotional design is usually based on the aesthetics (e.g.,visual, auditory, etc.) of an artifact. The

Conference Session

Diversity Redefined: Nontraditional Views in Traditional Environments

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrissy Hobson Foster, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Minorities in Engineering

re-identified engineering practice and have created urgency inrethinking about how engineering students are trained for the profession1,18. Vest writes in thearticle entitled “Engineering of 2020 and Beyond” 1, “Engineers of today and tomorrow must beprepared to conceive and direct projects of enormous complexity that require a highly integrativeview of engineering systems”. Engineering systems is a modern view of engineering wherecomplex, dynamic social and technical interconnections are core to conceptualizing engineeringproblems and solutions, and thus core to conducting engineering practice. These realities ofengineering have forced a re-assessment of how students are expected to learn engineering. Inthe traditional educational model

Conference Session

Student Learning, Problem Solving, & Critical Thinking 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole P Pitterson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

had been exposed to in their instruction. This finding proved that students who were taughtusing a constructivist approach had well organized learning structures as the activities employedin the classroom were better at facilitating connections between new conceptions and pre-existing knowledge within the students’ cognitive structures and hence promoted betterperformance on the assessment instrument. Students who engage in constructive activities wouldthen have better retention of the material since as they engage with the information and applytheir own meaning through the activities they are required to conduct they commit this newknowledge to their long term memory

Conference Session

Thermodynamics

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Karimi, University of Texas, San Antonio; Randall D. Manteufel, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Page 23.343.3uniform scale for the assessment of student knowledge, Inst. 6 collaborate with Instructors 1 and2 in fall semester 2011, in writing the exam questions and grading exams [8]. Figure 1 showsthat the ABC rate for the Inst-6 sharply dropped during that semester.On the surface it is not clear whether the higher passing rate is the result of superior teachingskills or due to a more lenient grading policy. Therefore, the same grade awarded by variousinstructors, might not be a good representation of the depth of knowledge gained by studentscompleting the course. To find an answer to the question whether grades assigned by variousinstructors teaching the same course accurately represents the students’ depth of knowledge, thispaper

Conference Session

It's Elementary

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Ann Marasco, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary; Laleh Behjat P.Eng., University of Calgary

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

). Recent research on gender and educational performance. London: OFSTED.3. Bussière, P., Cartwright, F., & Knighton, T. (2004). The performance of Canada’s youth in Mathematics, Reading, Science and problem solving: 2003 first findings for Canadians aged 15. Ottawa: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, Council of Ministers of Education, Canada and Statistics Canada.4. Capobianco, B. M., Diefes-Dux, H. A., Mena, I., & Weller, J. (2011). What is an engineer? Implications of elementary school student conceptions for engineering education. JEE, 100(2), 304-328.5. Cunningham, C. M., Lachapelle, C. P., & Lindgren-Streicher, A. (2005). Assessing elementary school students’ conceptions of engineering and

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Andrew Almodovar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kyle Mattson, Timken; Evan Karl Day, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Sean McKibben, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Richard Yoo; Johnson Samuel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; David E Silverman

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

candidatemicro/nano-scale manufacturing technologies that are being used as the basis of developing this Page 23.61.2module. Section 4 describes the components of the module focusing on the interactivepresentation and the design of the LegoTM-based micro-scale machine tools (mMTs). It alsopresents some of the initial survey instruments that are being developed to assess the impact ofthe module. This is followed by Section 5 that presents the initial observations from the use ofthis module in classrooms and high-school outreach activities. Finally, Section 6 presents theconclusions that can be drawn from this work.2. Outreach Module DesignThe three main

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Askia Hill, Purdue University; Cordelia M Brown, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt Univer- sity, her M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Tuskegee University. Her research interests include assessment of instructional methods, laboratory design, collaborative learning, and retention and recruitment issues in engineering education. Page 23.165.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 An Examination of the Relationship of Intellectual Development and Learning Preferences in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Conference Session

Information Literacy, Computer Efficacy and Readiness

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Isabel Zelaya, Clemson University; Kapil Chalil Madathil, Clemson University; Jeff Bertrand; Tianwei Wang, Clemson; Anand K. Gramopadhye, Clemson University; John R. Wagner, Clemson University; Sabarish V. DUPE Babu, School of Computing, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

Mechanical Engineers.Dr. Sabarish V. Babu, School of Computing, Clemson University Page 23.182.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 An Investigation of the Information-Seeking Behaviors of Two-Year College Students Enrolled in Technology ProgramsAbstractFew studies have assessed the online educational information seeking behavior of the technicalcollege students in the Automotive and Aviation technology programs in South Carolina. Asurvey was designed to inform how technical college students with different demographics usethe Internet to gather such information. This

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Weber; John Prados

diagnostic quizzes were given on-line as multiple-choice problems in the universities coursemanagement system “CourseInfo”. The quiz consisted of questions that assessed the student’sability to handle unit manipulation, data analysis, interpolation, and curve fitting. Figure 2 showsa typical question from the quiz. On Planet AR-4 orbiting the star Arcturus, the acceleration of gravity is 19.6133 m/sec2. An object with a mass of 10.0 kg on Earth (where the acceleration of gravity is 9.80665 m/sec2) will have a mass in kg on AR-4 that is most nearly: a) 10.0 b) 62.4 c) 98.1 d) 196

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

D.J. Marshall

thereby kept them available to accompany groups of students wishing toinvestigate “the Rome of Romans after the tourists went to bed”.The results from these assessments were better than are typically found in a classroom situation,but a realistic appraisal could predict this merely on the basis of Teacher/Student ratio.Student FeedbackSo, what do the students say about the quality of their learning experience? On paper there werethe usual approvals (Rome’s awesome) along with the usual criticisms ( visit fewer churches ).And though this empirical collection of responses and comments from the students is getscollected in course evaluations, it doesn’t tell the real story of many students’ visit to Rome.When a student is able to step outside the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

written communicationsskills to present data and conclusions.While working in teams to solve the case, the student navigates through an exciting story thatindirectly focuses his/her attention on solving the main problem. The student is asked also to solvesmall problems or “challenges” throughout the case, which are designed to stimulate criticalthinking and logic reasoning abilities. The complete case is available fromhttp://www.nsti.tec.tn.us/SEATEC/.V. Field Testing ResultsThe students worked on the pizza case for about a three-week period, mostly outside theclassroom. They presented their findings in teams both orally using PowerPoint and in writtenformat. In order to assess the effectiveness of the case method, the author has devised a

Conference Session

EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Neslihan Alp

employeeshave been through the Six Sigma training. The employees were engineers, shop floor supervisorsand some managers who attended the 10-day “green belt course”. Approximately 80%employees responded to the written survey that was handed out. The survey was designed to ask Page 8.993.2questions assessing the employees understanding of the certification process, and the rewards andrecognition provided by the certification.The survey consisted of 27 questions designed in most cases to elicit descriptive responses ratherthan yes/no answers. 22 of the questions required more than a Yes or No response. 3 of thequestions were background questions that did

Conference Session

Laboratory Developments and Innovations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Voigt; Robert Ives; Jesko Hagee

digital communications and networks. Our class sizes are small and there isa great deal of interaction between the students, working in teams and individually. In this paperwe shall address the preparations required to offer this course including the equipment set-up, theroom layout, the syllabus, lesson objectives and scheduling of the rooms. The assessment of thesuccess of this model will be addressed, although it may be years before we gather enough datato have any statistical significance. We illustrate the importance of cooperative and collaborativelearning in this environment and show how we have integrated these concepts into the courses.Finally, we present an overall assessment of this course from both the students’ and instructors’points

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tarek A. Shraibati; Ahmad Sarfaraz

technical literacy amongthe general student population with the added benefit of increased resources.Future PlansAssessment of the MSE 105 courses will be performed by asking students about their experiencein the course, their perceived technical literacy, their educational preparation in math and science,their comfort in communicating with engineers, their satisfaction with the course, applicability ofthe course material to their major field of study, their comfort level taking an “engineering”course, and why they took the course in the first place. The results of this assessment should beavailable for the purpose of improving the quality of the general education courses offered by theMSEM department

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Reel; Christine Allard; Deborah Kaminski; Linda McCloskey

shake a student’s preconceptions of the ideaunder discussion. Exercises are followed by a debriefing and discussion period in whichstudents process the results of the exercise. Several self-assessment tools are used to helpstudents gain personal insight. The level of feedback is high so that students internalizethe material. Student participation in class is an important component of the course gradeand no student is allowed to fade into the background. Skills and topics covered in PDI include effective communication and feedback,managing personality differences, conflict management, risk-taking strategies, and ethicaldecision-making. Both written and oral communication skills are developed

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ross

precision: Future work should define the nature of technical leadership in detail and evaluate the interests and motivations of engineers to develop skills in technical leadership; the relationships between traditional management and technical leadership must be examined; the interests of engineers and of business and industry in career development for “technical leaders” must be assessed. Additionally, the continuing task of improving online education for technical professionals will continue to be a challenging area of development.The development of “Communicating Technical Information” has three stages.Stage 1 – a largely completed task: the infrastructure of the online setting had to beunderstood and

Conference Session

Laboratory Innovations

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Aflaki, Christian Brothers University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

and compare them with the results obtained from theoretical analysis.These experiments have been developed recently and only a small group of students have beenexposed to them. While a statistical analysis is desirable to assess the effectiveness of these tools, Page 25.555.10at the present time, there is not sufficient data to perform such analysis. However, theoverwhelming responses and comments from students have been positive and encouraging.ConclusionTwo experiments are developed to expose students to the application of strain gages and dataacquisition system by measuring the applied load to a beam. Students are able to use theconcepts

Conference Session

Curriculum Exchange II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sonja Turner, North Carolina A&T State University; Narayan Bhattarai, North Carolina A&T State University; Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

fibers/Nano fibers [2, 3].Seeing is believing……. In order for middle/high school students to understand the concept ofturning macromolecules into fibers, the actual making of cotton candy during a science class isan excellent way to get the point across. This procedure takes approximately 5-10 minutes,excluding clean-up, and is fairly easily. Using sugar, light corn syrup, water, vanilla flavoring,food coloring, vegetable baking spray, and a few classroom and kitchen items, students will beamazed how easy it is to go from macromolecule to fibrous materials in minutes all the whileenjoying a wonderful treat.To assess how well students understand the electro spinning technique and the collaborationbetween disciplines it takes to produce nano

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Teaming and Collaboration

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad Milewicz, University of Southern Indiana; Zane W. Mitchell Jr., University of Southern Indiana; Kerry S. Hall, University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

conference and results/findings will be made part of the presentation thatwill be given there.Program AssessmentWe are currently developing formal assessment tools to measure the entrepreneurial and businessoutcomes of this program. The process we present here forces students to be immersed in a team-oriented (often with interdisciplinary teams), problem-rich, and ambiguous experience.Furthermore, faculty and corporate partner members experience the interdisciplinary immersionof the program.Assessment of Phase II of the program is currently ongoing. The Phase II team is composed ofsenior engineers in their capstone design course. They have completed their preliminary designreview milestone. The preliminary design review was on par with peer design

Conference Session

FPD X: Addressing Retention in the First Year

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew G. Green, LeTourneau University; Alan D. Niemi, LeTourneau University; Melanie Roudkovski, LeTourneau University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

the logistics and challenges of starting up this mentoring program, andpresents qualitative and quantitative assessment results, with the intention of contributing ourexperiences and materials to the dialogue on retention initiatives. Details include: creatingconducive mentoring groups, identifying and recruiting ideal mentors, empowering student peeradvisors to “own” the relationship (and the accompanying logistics), jumpstarting conversationswith first-year students and mentors, and program results. Results include data from one focusgroup and surveys of first-year students, student peer advisors, faculty mentors, and industrialmentors. Results to-date are very encouraging and include recommended improvements.1 Introduction and

Conference Session

Information Literacy in Context: Enabling Real World Problem Solving

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Fosmire, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David F. Radcliffe, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

Information-Rich Engineering Design (I-RED) Integrating Information Literacy with Design ActivitiesAbstractLibrarians and engineering faculty have long understood that design is one of the definingprocesses of the engineering profession. In an increasingly knowledge-driven society, studentsneed to efficiently locate, assess and integrate relevant information into their design process so thatthey can develop innovation solutions to emerging complex, global grand challenges. Increasingly,engineering curricula are incorporating design as early as the first year, but a question remains asto how effectively information literacy is being integrated into these early experiences of design.For example, the Engineering Change study found there has

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David C. Che, Geneva College; David Allen Clark, Geneva College; David W. Shaw, Geneva College; James S. Gidley, Geneva College

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, by going to the competition thestudents would have so much fun that they would not want to miss it anyways. Many of thestudents expressed their excitement in one way or the other that the few days at the competitionwere a highlight of their four or five years of college education experience.As Wang pointed out18, the capstone design course is the most important course in the wholeengineering curriculum for outcome assessment as it covers almost all of the ABET outcomes Athrough K. For outcome assessment during the first and second year, we have been using facultyevaluations as our main tool to evaluate each student‟s performance. Each student will have twoopportunities to present their work – one at the end of their first semester of senior

Conference Session

Online Learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan L. Miertschin, University of Houston (CoT); Carole E. Goodson, University of Houston; Barbara L. Stewart, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

AC 2012-3521: MANAGING TIME IN ONLINE COURSES: STUDENT PER-CEPTIONSProf. Susan L. Miertschin, University of Houston (CoT) Susan L. Miertschin is an Associate Professor teaching in the Computer Information Systems program at the University of Houston. Her teaching interests are in the development of information systems ap- plications and the complementary nature of back-end developer and front-end developer skill sets. Her research interests are program and student assessment, the impact of instructional technology on student learning, and the improvement of e-learning environments and experiences.Dr. Carole E. Goodson, University of Houston Carole Goodson is a professor of technology at the University of Houston. As

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K. Joseph Hass, Bucknell University; Juliana Su, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

and after executing a functionand observing the function’s execution time on an oscilloscope. By initializing all RAM locationswith a known value the students can clearly see how the stack grows when a function is invokedwith different parameters, and they are able to correlate this observation to the number of registersthey chose to save on the stack in their functions. During the laboratory session the students arerequired to record observations such as these, and to provide brief interpretations of the data, onlaboratory worksheets.A second in-class assessment technique is that students are often required to demonstrate theirwork for the lab instructor. Of course, the students must demonstrate that any software orhardware they created

Conference Session

New Ideas for the ChemE Core

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca K. Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Carlen Henington, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

arereviewed for each of the case studies. This module builds on companion modules examiningcentrifugal fields and their impact on fluid boundary layers/velocity profiles and heat transferresistances.ImplementationThe module was used during the Fall 2012 semester. The module is designed to be used in astand-alone format (currently Powerpoint slides), structured for use as a single lecture in therequired chemical reactor design course. However, it could also be used as a supplement totraditional course material and assigned as a homework exercise; current efforts are focused ondeveloping a multiple choice quiz to accompany the module that could be used to assess studentmastery of concepts. During this coming summer, the module will be transferred to

Conference Session

Critical Issues in IT and IET: Focus Group

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Ram Prasad Diwakaran, Texas A&M University; Justin Zsiros, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

diagram with alternative gate locations shown.The manufacturing of the tensile test specimens was carried on a table top injection moldingmachine from AB Machinery – the AB 400 (see Figure 2a). The machine allows for the setting Page 15.322.3of injection temperature, injection pressure, clamp pressure, injection time (packing time), andclamp time. The students were given an insert that corresponded to the gate location for theirgroup and asked to mold four usable specimens. They were told to record the processingparameters used to produce the four usable specimens. The instructor or a teaching assistant wasavailable to assess the usability of the

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiangchun Cheng, Zhejiang University of Technology; Min Chen, Zhejiang University of Technology; Rong Gu, WWW.ZJUT.EDU.CN; Yingzhen Weng, Zhejiang University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

. Fig.7 shows themain results. Table 1. Main Assess Results Page 15.110.8Discussion and ConclusionIn this study, we investigated the framework and the training process of the AEVAS in virtuallearning environments for assembly skills training. Virtual learning environments offer thepossibility to recreate the real world as it is, providing virtual experience that can help people inunderstanding concepts as well as learning the process of performing special tasks, where thetask can be repeated as often as required and in a safe environment10.The AEVAS is a virtual assembly system on automobile engine based on VR and

Conference Session

Spatial Ability and Visualization in Graphics Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

in communication graphics,problem solving and critical thinking is a primary aim of Design and CommunicationGraphics in the Irish second level system. In addition to this, students are providedwith an appropriate learning environment where they can plan, organise and presentcreative design solutions using a variety of skills, techniques and media [4]. Assessmentof the subject is in two components: A design assignment (worth forty percent ofmarks) that assesses students on elements that cannot be readily assessed through theterminal examination that is worth sixty percent of marks.Core to both components is the development of “Concept Driven Competencies”,where students are expected to develop an ability to engage in “metacognition”[18]where