Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

the study were: 1. How well did the program experiences meet the 'needs' of the managers? Evidence used to answer this question was gathered using a follow up questionnaire. 2. What were the impacts of these experiences on attending managers and on their corporations? The impact of the training on the managers and their organization was analyzed. Theimpact was assessed using Kirkpatrick's ( 1987) four levels of evaluation of the training programfor effectiveness consisting of (1) Reaction (2) Learning (3) Behavior and (4) Impact or Results. 1. Reaction: Reaction is a measure of how well the participant liked the training programwith respect to its content and delivery. Reacting to a training program with

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

trying to engender in our students, improving writing requires practice using a variety ofacademic tasks and contexts. In an informal survey at the Colorado School of Mines, mostfaculty members noted that they wanted to include more writing in their courses but had severalconcerns, chiefly the increased grading burden and their perceived lack of expertise in evaluatingwritten work.The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of holistic grading as a method to helpengineering educators rapidly but reliably evaluate student writing in their courses. We will firstreview the concept of holistic grading as developed by professional writing teachers and thendescribe one course in which these techniques have been piloted and assessed

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Penson; Margaret Ross; Eur Ing

Page 3.71.4 4unlikely to be accomplished in less than two to three years. It is advised that such work basedtraining schemes are accredited by the appropriate professional institution. For those graduateswho are unable to access an accredited training scheme a period of self-managed learning willbe assessed on an individual basis to ensure that each of the objectives of an accredited trainingscheme has been met. For the Chartered Engineer the training programme should extend beyonda chosen specialist area to provide a broad appreciation of the organisations business needs andencourage effective communication with associated disciplines. It must include the exercise ofindependent technical

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Hrudey; Stanley Varnhagen; Shelley Lorimer; Roger Toogood; Bill Lipsett; Art Peterson

were available. In that course, the modules were used forprimary delivery of about half the course material, with computer labs alternating with standardlectures. Evaluation consisted of an initial survey/questionnaire, a mid-course discussion group,a final survey/questionnaire, and a final discussion group that was taped and transcribed. Theproject principals were not present at any of these evaluation sessions. The major purpose of thisformative evaluation was to identify operational bugs in the software and to assess the generalstudent response. 2 Our record for anticipated feedback options is 256 separate feedback responses by the

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Brizendine

Principles and Practices of Engineering (PE) exams. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Engineering Criteria2000 states, as part of Criterion 3: Program Outcomes and Assessment, that Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have …(i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.Continuing education , professional development, continuing professional competence, orlifelong learning - whatever term you choose - is and will continue to be an integral part of theengineering profession. Page 3.159.3 3

Conference Session

Learning by Doing

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Morgan, Texas A&M University; Luciana Barroso, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

peer design review will be requiredof the design teams, and time provided for individual teams to refine their designs based on peerfeedback. The program will be assessed by comparing the performance of ME students in thecore program courses that are part of both previous and new program requirements.IntroductionMost masters programs have two tracks: one track preparing students for industry and anotherpreparing them for research and future PhD. Though the needs of both groups have substantialoverlap, the specific goals are different. In a large program, it is possible to provide significantlydifferent learning experiences to the two groups and more specifically addressing their needs.The Structural Engineering program within the Department of

Conference Session

Design with External Clients

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Cross, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

(CAMP)8.CAMP projects typically involve vehicles and provide a student-oriented, hands-on design andengineering experience8. These projects generally worked well, but individual studentexperiences varied widely, which was considered to be suboptimal for those students whoseexperiences were at the lower end and for the continuous improvement in departmental offeringsexpected by the ABET. In particular, the final design reports and design fair presentations of thestudents in MET 465 are major contributors to the MME department’s outcome assessments.MET 465 is a primary source for assessment in areas c (optimally select material and designmaterials treatment and production processes), d (function well on teams), f (know professionaland ethical

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Wathen, Georgia Institute of Technology; William Hunt, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Peter Ludovice, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

taken by asking the students to write down one item about gravitationthat they remember from the formal instruction and one question they have remaining aboutgravitation. For the items remembered, the assigned Bloom’s category corresponds to the levelof question for which the answer would suffice. For the students’ remaining questions, theBloom’s categories were assigned as usual as if they were assessment questions by an instructor.Although there were fundamental and obvious misconceptions about the topic in several of theresponses, a category was assigned assuming there was no misconception present. Bloom’s taxonomy is a categorization of levels of learning. Learning at higher levelswithin the taxonomy is predicated on the knowledge or

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Gibbon, University of The Witwatersrand; Ian Jandrell, University of the Witwatersrand

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) and Chairperson of the Education and Training Committee from 1994-1997. From 1997-2001 Ian was a member of South Africa Qualifications Authority (SAQA) National Standards Body 06: Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology, representing the Engineering Professions. Since 1996 Ian has led accreditation teams in the assessment of numerous University Engineering Programmes on behalf of the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), and has been a team member for the assessment of many other programmes. Page 15.275.1© American Society for

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical Engineering Technology: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy Denton, Purdue University; Marc Williams, Purdue University; Joseph Kmec, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

concerns,experimental techniques, data analysis, and dynamic balancing methods to engineeringtechnology students. The purpose of this paper is to document the versatility of mass unbalanceand balancing as an instructional aid in an upper division elective course in machinery healthmonitoring. Examples of student assignments incorporating mass unbalance are presented.Results of ongoing assessment of related course learning objectives are provided.Technical BackgroundWorking from theory for a simple single degree of freedom vibrating system undergoing forcedvibration, the force due to a rotating mass unbalance is the product of the eccentric mass, m, andits rotational acceleration component, eωf2, where e is the offset distance from the center

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie Borror, Arizona State Universtiy; Douglas Montgomery, Arizona State University; Carmen Pena, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

summary statement describing lessons learning from this laboratory.The list of deliverables is the linkage between the learning goals and the evaluation of studentperformance using the rubric shown in Figure 4.The final component of this laboratory is assessment. Student performance for this laboratory isevaluated using the rubric show in Figure 4. Students were voluntarily asked to complete ademographic sheet and survey after submitting the laboratory. The survey focused on thestudents perceived understanding of the laboratory learning goals and confidence to implementlearning goals in real life. Page 15.1169.6Figure 4. SPC Lab 2

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical Engineering Technology: Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Udaya Bhanu Prakash Sunku, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

on ageometric end also causes students to concentrate on expedient platform specific means ofreaching that end.In this paper a methodology is detailed for teaching CAD in a manner that demonstrates theimportance of design intent. The production of models that are clearly organized and easilychanged is emphasized. Platform independent exercises which can be used to demonstrate andemphasize these goals are detailed. Data collected at the beginning and the end of the semesterto assess the students’ confidence with the parametric and feature-based nature of CAD arepresented. Students showed a significant increase in their confidence and ability to describeparametric and feature-based concepts.IntroductionComputer-aided design (CAD) tools have

Conference Session

Potpourri of First-Year Issues

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

into two parts: 50percent for completing the service-learning project and the rest for completing individuallaboratory assignments. In this section we mainly describe the assessment and gradingtechniques used to grade the service-learning project. Page 15.771.5In order to create a more dynamic environment, we announced that only the best projectwould receive a grade of A. The second-place project would receive a grade of A-, and soon. Thus, the project grading was strictly product-driven.Each project was evaluated by multiple judges, including special education instructorsand parents of the disabled children, according to the following

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ifte Choudhury, Texas A&M University; Farzana Sultana, Vaughn Construction

Tagged Divisions

Construction

, Cistern sizing, Rainwater HarvestingThe Problem and its SettingProblem StatementRainwater harvesting is the principle of collecting and using precipitation from acatchment area. The term is derived from a more general connotation of water harvestingthat denotes the collection, storage, and use of water mainly for the purpose of irrigation.Nowadays the term generally comprises the collection of run-off on micro-catchmentprinciples, such as roofs.The purpose of this study is to assess a sustainable rainwater harvesting solution formultistoried residential apartments in Dhaka, Bangladesh through an extensive review ofthe literature and collection and analysis of secondary data. The objectives of the studywere as follows: ≠ Identify and analyze

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benson Tongue, University of California, Berkeley; Daniel Kawano, University of California, Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

. Emphasis can be placed on the simulations and their interpretation oron design. For instance, the caber toss module has been used as a straightforward “model this Page 15.891.3system” and has also been used as “design a support delivery system that mimics that of theathletic competitor who is tossing the caber - a robotic caber-thrower.” The key is that MoveItprovides a good example of a project, one which has been fully tested in class, but that certainlycan be modified to fit the interests of the instructor/class.AssessmentThe first aspect of assessment that has been addressed has been a simple examination of whetherstudents reported

Conference Session

Focus on Faculty

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keisha Walters, Mississippi State University; Soumya Srivastava, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Jacqueline Hall, Mississippi State University; Kaela Leonard, Michigan Technological University; Amy Parker, Mississippi State University; Heather Thomas, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

2007 from MSU, and will complete her M.S. in Chemical Engineering this year. Heather’s research focuses on the life cycle assessment Page 15.753.1 (LCA) of wood pyrolysis. She is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA), and Sigma Xi.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010  Instructor and Student Perspectives on a Graduate Professional Development Course: Career Issues for Women in EngineeringAbstract  A discussion-based professional development course was developed and taught in Spring 2009 toa diverse group

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

, employabilityand transferability requirements. The team will select a team/project manger who will workdirectly with the Principle Investigator (PI) through each stage of the ATE development,implementation and assessment. This mutual effort by the consortium members will continuethrough to professional development, assessment, and articulation. Strengthening therelationships and partnerships between high schools, the community college, and university willensure long-lasting 2+2+2 articulation agreements as well as the sustainability of the program formany years. Table 1 identifies the list of topics that are slated to be developed as courses or newmodules for existing courses (highlighted courses) by the proposed consortium partners to

Conference Session

Online and Web-based Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

HsinPiao Hsu, Kainan University; Hui-Ying Wu, Ching Yun University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

of web communication which are admitted bythe International Society for Technology Education (ISTE). As noted in Table 1, the sixcompetency indicators are as follows: (a) setting project requirements, (b) planning site designand page layout, (c) understanding Adobe Dreamweaver interface, (d) adding content, (e)organizing content, and (f) evaluating and maintaining a site. Total scores of these sixcompetency indicators of web communication were 1,000 points. The minimum passing scorewas 630 points in this study, since the passing scores will periodically be adjusted dynamically,based on the total global examinees’ passing scores and could be used to assess students’ learningperformance of web communication (Certiport, 2009) 2.Table 1The Six

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hui-Ying Wu, Ching Yun University; HsinPiao Hsu, Kainan University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

of random numbers to select students randomlyaccording to their student ID number. Each group consisted of 48 to 52 students. Thirty items ona knowledge test of project-based English learning (PBEL) for e-commerce English content wereused to assess students’ performance. The paradigm for this design is presented in Table 1.Table 1Randomized Control and Experimental Groups Pre-test and Post-test Group N Assignment Treatment Pre-test and Post-test E 52 R X Y C 48 R T Y

Conference Session

Nanotechnology

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University; Mehmet C. Ozturk, North Carolina State University; Michael Escuti; John Muth; Veena Misra, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

’ educational experience throughout the program and after graduation, to assess theimpact of the program on their involvement with undergraduate research, industry internships,and career path decisions.Preliminary evaluation results from the introductory course show positive trends in students'attitudes toward nanoscience and technology. In surveys conducted at the start and end of thecourse, students were asked a range of questions including how likely they were to do thefollowing: take another course, conduct research, pursue a graduate degree, or pursue a career innanoscience and technology. Figure 3 shows responses at the start and end of the semester

Conference Session

A Focus on Non-Traditional Students and Non-Traditional Course Delivery Methods

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Bushey-McNeil, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University; Russell Andrew Long, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

Foundation and his team received Best Paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011. Dr. Ohland is past Chair of ASEE’s Educational Research and Methods division and a member the Board of Governors of the IEEE Education Society. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi.Mr. Russell Andrew Long, Purdue University, West Lafayette Russell Long is Director of Project Assessment at the Purdue University School of Engineering Education. He has extensive experience in assessment and student services in higher education and has worked for eight years as the Data Steward of the MIDFIELD project

Conference Session

CPD Technical Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyrus Habibi P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Ronald R. Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering; Andrew Lillesve, Iron Range Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

, 2014 Personal Improvement Plan: a professionalism assignment for engineering studentsAbstract:Iron Range Engineering (IRE) is an innovative project-based engineering program which placeshigh value on the integration of technical learning and professional skills. The IRE studentsmust enroll and complete one Professionalism course per semester (Professionalism I throughProfessionalism IV) during their four semester upper-division experience. As part of eachprofessionalism course, students complete and submit an assignment named PersonalImprovement Plan (PIP). Each semester, through various experiences within the project teamsand discipline-specific workshops, each student self-assesses his/her improvement in

Conference Session

Robotics and Automation

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Loker, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Stephen A. Strom, Penn State Behrend

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, read 5 tag IDs (usingthe GEN2 protocol), store the tag IDs to a file on disk, and add header information to the filecontaining the students’ names and a time & date stamp. A detailed listing of the command andresponse packets is provided, along with an example of the tag IDs. A summary of the contents ofthe student reference materials and the lab handout are also included. Assessment results showinggrading statistics, lab report format, and grading rubric are provided. An example of a student’sresults for the project is shown, and recommendations are included to help ensure student successon the project.Introduction to the Wireless Communications Systems CourseThe wireless communications systems course is a junior-level course for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Garret Nicodemus, University of Colorado, Boulder; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado Boulder; Will Medlin, University of Colorado, Boulder; Katherine Page McDanel, Dept Chemical & Biological Engineering University of Colorado Boulder; Janet L. de Grazia, University of Colorado, Boulder; James K. Ferri, Lafayette College; Christopher R. Anderson, Lafayette College; Michael Senra, Lafayette College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

them fromvideo lectures, and they have significant advantages that supplement textbooks and writtenmaterials. This personalized method of learning empowers students by giving them control overthe rate of information delivery and when they receive information. As of December 2013, thesevideos were watched/downloaded over 3.2 million times, and they have received anoverwhelmingly-positive response from students in our classes and from YouTube viewers.These screencasts are in the process of being validated by chemical engineering faculty. We arealso assessing their effectiveness in improving student learning gains and attitudes. Previousresearch by others showed that screencasts help minimize cognitive overload, increase studentconfidence, and

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tess Anne Hegedus, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Heidi B. Carlone, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Aundrea D. Carter, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

keeping with an ethnographic research tradition, we were mostconcerned about capturing students’ and teachers’ local meaning of “smart engineer” (i.e., themeaning produced by participation in classroom practices during the EiE unit) and theaccessibility of that meaning for a broad range of students versus trying to assess their affiliationwith engineering as a field or potential career. This approach is consistent with Lottero-Perdueand Brickhouse’s study12 of the cultural (local) definitions of “competence” attributed toemployees at a technical company called W.L. Gore & Associates.We attempted to hold brief check-in interviews with the teachers immediately following thelessons, however this occurred infrequently due to the rigorous demands

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Harpeth Hall School and Vanderbilt University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Engineer Test at the start and completion of the STEM Summer Institute. The Draw anEngineer Test (DAET) 13 was developed to help assess students’ ideas about engineering beforeintervention. Through the survey, students described their knowledge about engineering throughwritten and drawn responses. The survey included the following questions or prompts: “In yourown words, what is engineering?”, “What does an engineer do?”, and “Draw a picture of anengineer at work.”The Parents’ Engineering Awareness Survey (PEAS)1 was administered to all consented parents(one per participant) prior to and following the SSI. The PEAS survey includes knowledge,attitude, and behavior aspects; only the knowledge and attitude aspects were hoped to beimpacted by this

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Beverly Kris Jaeger, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

building prototypes to solve real-worldproblems sponsored by industry and research faculty. Industrial Engineers (IE), by the nature oftheir discipline, often work on problems that do not involve a physical object. Instead, thedeliverables may be simulations, facility layouts, procedural modifications, databases, or otherprocesses or products less tangible than a physical prototype. Previous work by one of theauthors presented a validated scheme for assessing Mechanical Engineering (ME) solutionsbased on examination of the Executive Summary document written three weeks before the end ofthe Capstone course. For the present work, this same evaluation scheme was applied to theIndustrial Engineering projects presented during the past seven years. The

Conference Session

Distance Learning in Engineering Technology

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian A. Alenskis, Purdue University, Richmond, Ind.

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

years. The placement of the two traditional lectures at the semester end wasanother cause for this assessment redistribution. The content of these two lectures had beenassessed in the third test and final exam previously, and with OLI were only addressed on thefinal exam.ResultsIn reviewing the results of this adaptation of the Purdue course, one quickly notes that theimplementation necessarily altered a number of important variables. Also, the most recentpotential comparison group of previous students would be a full year earlier, before the decisionto incorporate OLI resources. Few focused comparison measures were in place. Further, thenumber of students enrolled in Richmond statics sections does not enable dividing them intoconcurrent

Conference Session

Applications of Online Computing

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Fowler, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Paper ID #8479Talking Teams: Increased Equity in Participation in Online Compared toFace-to-Face Team DiscussionsMs. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Ms. Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She is also working on a PhD in Educational Psychology / Educational Technology, studying the teaching, learning, and assessing of the ABET ”professional skills.” Page 24.1154.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences with Signal Processing and Controls

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Jiang, Purdue University, North Central

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

TMS320C6713 DSK). Therefore, in this paper, we firstpresent a complete digital crossover platform, MATLAB design and simulations, developed Ccode inserted in both of DSP boards, crossover outputs and test results. Secondly, we address theoutcomes of students learning achievement including continuous applications of their acquiredDSP skills in other related courses and their motivations for continuing to pursue the upper-levelsignal processing related courses such as the advanced digital signal processing with multimediaapplications. More importantly, we examine the course assessment according to analysis of thecollected data from students’ learning outcome survey, project evaluation, and further addressthe possible improvements of the course content