Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joyce Allen, National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #7087Connecting Rural Teachers and Students to Nanoscale Science and Engineer-ing through Teacher Professional DevelopmentMrs. Joyce Allen, National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Joyce Palmer Allen is the assistant education coordinator for the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) and works at the Nanotechnology Research Center at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her job includes planning, developing and implementing educational outreach programs in nanotech- nology and representing the NNIN Education and Outreach office at local and national conferences and meetings. She also helps to

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yeu-Sheng Shiue

of applications are shown in the class, students still havedifficulties grasping the whole concept of kinematics analysis and understanding its importanceto the mechanism design. Of course, some software tools are a great help in kinematicssimulations, such as Working Model 2D and some other software that come with the textbook1 .Several issues are raised while learning the position, velocity, and acceleration analysis ofmechanisms. First of all, students can perform kinematics analysis for the assigned mechanismson paper. However, they might show some frustrations while working on the accelerationanalysis. Nevertheless, some students still have no idea how significant their results are. Theyhave difficulty relating the results to the

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Debra Fowler; Jefferey Froyd; Don Maxwell

tookthe LASSI at the beginning of the academic year. Improvements would normally be expectedafter two years in a challenging engineering curriculum. However, data on several different scalesappears to indicate that improvements are smaller than might be expected.IntroductionThe Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) requires in Engineering Criteria2000 (EC2000) that engineering programs must demonstrate graduates have “a recognition of theneed for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.”1 The requirement leads to a need fordefining and assessing lifelong learning and is being approached in a variety of ways at the postsecondary level.2,3 For the purposes of the present paper, lifelong learning is defined as having

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

to the instructor weekly, the instructor must brieflycomment on the report and then it is returned to the team to include in the team’s portfolio.Peer Evaluation ReportsEach member of the team evaluates other members of the team weekly. The purpose of thisreport is to get an insight of the team members of each others strength and weaknesses for givenassignments.Weekly QuizzesThis is traditional testing component of the overall assessment package. Construction studentsneed to be trained in the technical context area thoroughly. The quizzes are kept short andrelevant. The subject matter and topics are covered from the previous week’s learningassignment.Portfolio ReviewThere are two types of portfolios considered for the overall assessment. The

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

Session 3160 A Comparison of the Curriculum of Civil Engineering at the University of Florida and The University of Engineering & Technology Lahore, Pakistan Mudassar Mehtab Alam, Dr. Fazil T. Najafi Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida/Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of FloridaAbstractThe objective of this paper is to compare the curriculums and the methodology of teaching of theCivil Engineering (CE) departments of the University of Florida (UF) and the University ofEngineering &

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Henry Welch

Session 3530 How Well Do Students Self-Assess? Henry L. Welch, Ph.D., P.E. Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractIt is the goal of this paper to examine the hypotheses that students are poor self-assessors of theirtechnical ability and that their ability varies with maturity and level of technical competence. In thewinter of 1999-2000 faculty members in the computer and software engineering programs at theMilwaukee School of Engineering

Conference Session

Curriculum Exchange II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devin R. Berg, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Lucas A. Harder, University of Minnesota; Arthur G. Erdman, University of Minnesota

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

pursueinterests in these areas1. This is evidenced by the proliferation of STEM schools and increasingrequirements at the state level to provide engineering education at all ages2. The end goal ofefforts in these areas is to produce a larger quantity of students who ultimately pursue post-secondary education in STEM fields and thus advance the technological capability of oursociety1. Similarly, the goal of the work presented in this paper is to demonstrate a method forgenerating interest in the applied engineering field of medical devices with primary-school agedchildren in a non-academic setting.MethodologyIn order to provide an interactive way to engage children and educate them in the field ofmedical devices, a modified, life-sized version of the game

Conference Session

Spatial Visualization

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaomin Dong, Kettering University

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Engineering Design Graphics

, 2012 Lessons Learned in Engaging Engineering Students by Improving Their Spatial Visualization SkillsAbstractResearch has shown that students with enhanced spatial visualization skills, the ability to see andthink in 3-D, are more successful in engineering, technology, computer science, chemistry andmathematics courses. These skills can be developed with training and practice. KetteringUniversity is one of the 10 selected schools in the NSF – ENGAGE Group(http://www.engageengineering.org). The three main themes of the ENGAGE grant are FacultyInteraction, Everyday Engineering Examples, and Spatial Visualization. This paper presentslessons learned in an approach to improve students’ spatial visualization skills

Conference Session

Outreach Activities and Introductory Materials Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber L. Genau, University of Alabama, Birmingham

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Materials

experience also included a multi-day engineering design project. On the first day,students were given a crash course in composites and model rockets. They were then asked todesign, fabricate and assemble their own rockets, using carbon or glass fiber composites to Page 25.915.3replace the cardboard and balsa wood parts provided in a standard model rocket kit. On the finalday, students’ family and friends were invited to watch the launch. Local media was alsoinvited, providing excellent exposure for the program and the department with footage of theevent shown on three local news stations and a photo spread in the local paper. The rockets werejudged

Conference Session

Instructional Innovations in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamalee Brady, California Polytechnic State University; Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University

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Architectural

,engagement and mental processing habits as proposed by Curry1. In this research wehypothesize: ≠ There is a correlation between learning style measures and different engineering disciplines. ≠ Preferred learning styles are related to engineering discipline selection. ≠ Learning styles of engineering education and engineering practice both influence gender preference for discipline.This paper presents the demographic data that initiated the study, documents the results of thepreliminary survey and discusses the scope of the more detailed survey to be administered tostudents in engineering majors

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Luks

acclimate thestudent to the college environment, teach them the most basic skills required byengineering students and introduce them to chemical engineering as a career. Studentsmeet with local representatives from industry and are encouraged to attend plant tours.New freshmen can also begin to “do” chemical engineering interpreted as the creativeapplication of science. A successful approach to teaching students the differencebetween science and engineering has been to discuss technical challenges, conductscience experiments relating to the challenge then brainstorm solutions and discuss (orattempt) implementation. Searching current events for problems to tackle keeps theproject interesting for everyone.Introducing the Project Early in the

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samantha Brunhaver, Stanford University; Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Micah Lande, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

education is to prepare students for engineering in the 21stcentury. Yet critics of engineering education point to the lack of preparation students obtain inschool. This paper examines the career supports and barriers that one cohort of recentengineering graduates experienced in the workplace. Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT)describes supports and barriers as environmental factors that individuals perceive as having thepotential to either aid or hinder their pursuit of a particular career goal.1 In this study, supportsand barriers are identified in the engineering departments of four U.S.-based companies. Thedata were gathered from semi-structured interviews with 59 newly hired engineers who hadrecently graduated from college. In two of the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Zeytinci; Philip Brach

the systems of roadways, water supply, waste disposal, energydistribution (gas and electricity), communication networks (wired and wireless) and myriadsubsystems that are necessary to provide a quality environment. The engineer is an essentialmember of the team of professionals that are responsible for the planning, design, constructionand operation of efficient, effective, safe and secure facilities. The Civil Engineering discipline isthe appropriate professional arena to meet these needs and civil engineering education is theappropriate educational foundation to prepare students to serve as engineers for the UrbanInfrastructure. This paper presents some of the current problems associated with the urbaninfrastructure and suggests the role

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDS in Engineering - Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Jerome Lavelle, North Carolina State University; Louis Martin-Vega, Saigal

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

minorities have not increased significantly. This paper proposes an approach toengineering pedagogy starting in K-12 that presents engineering as a series of connected worldchallenges rather than a set of disconnected curricular areas. We create a structure to map thestandard K-12 course of study to the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges forEngineering in the 21st Century. This framework allows engineering as a discipline to be usedas an integrator in the learning of key engineering skills (mathematics, science, humanities,social studies, culture, design, etc.) rather than an add-on topic. Such a framework helps usimprove how we talk about engineering among ourselves and to the general public. Byexpanding the realm of engineering into

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

community college.This communication gap thus possesses the potential to significantly and adversely affect theprogress of engineering students through the proverbial pipeline.At this time there is no ABET accreditation process for two-year Engineering Science programs,as there is for two-year Engineering Technology programs. Apart from a few state or localinitiatives, no other institution, organization, or agency is known to provide either a generalframework or specific guidelines for helping Two Year Colleges establish a correspondingreview process that would connect with the University Programs and assist with the accreditationprocess and development of effective transfer programs.The paper attempts to provide some guidelines to help Community

Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lily Laiho, California Polytechnic State University; Nikki Adams, California Polytechnic State University; Kristen Cardinal, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; Matthew Burd, California Polytechnic State University; Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Trevor Cardinal, California Polytechnic State University

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Biomedical

Award1, we have developed a unique interdisciplinary MS degree specialization inStem Cell Research. This paper describes the structure of this new program. Theinterdisciplinary nature of our program stems from the involvement of faculty and students fromthree departments that span three academic units at our university - Biomedical Engineering,Biological Sciences, and Animal Science. The goals of our program are to prepare students forcareers in stem cell research by providing them with 1) broad technical skills, 2) critical thinkingand problem solving skills, 3) familiarity with current research, 4) familiarity with the ethics andtheory of stem cell investigation, and 5) presentation and communication skills.To accomplish these goals, students

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ciezki; Brian Jenkins; Samara Firebaugh

Session 1532 A Comprehensive Laboratory Design Project for Teaching Advanced Circuit Analysis Samara Firebaugh, Brian Jenkins, and John Ciezki United States Naval AcademyAbstractThis paper describes a design project for sophomores learning advanced circuit concepts relatedto frequency response. The objective of the design project is to design a row or column detectorfor a touch-tone keypad. The project is conducted in small groups of two to three students. Eachgroup designs and builds a detector for a single row that will produce a logical “high” when abutton from

Conference Session

Best of Computers in Education Division

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Melanie M. Cooper, Michigan State University; Kevin C. Haudek, Michigan State University; Jennifer Julia Kaplan, University of Georgia, Department of Statistics; Jennifer K. Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Paula P. Lemons, University of Georgia; Carl T. Lira, Michigan State University; John E. Merrill, Michigan State University, Biological Sciences Program; Ross Nehm, Stony Brook University; Luanna B. Prevost, University of South Florida; Michelle Kathleen Smith; Maryanne Sydlik, Western Michigan University

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Computers in Education

Paper ID #9856Expanding a National Network for Automated Analysis of Constructed Re-sponse Assessments to Reveal Student Thinking in STEMDr. Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University Mark Urban-Lurain is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Engineering Edu- cation Research at Michigan State University. He is the lead PI and project director of the AACR project. Dr. Urban-Lurain is responsible for teaching, research and curriculum development, with emphasis on engineering education and, more broadly, STEM education. His research interests are in theories of cognition, how these theories

Conference Session

Student Beliefs, Motivation and Self Efficacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nora B. Honken, University of Louisville; Patricia A Ralston, University of Louisville; Kate E. Snyder, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #8649Exploring Engineering Students’ Beliefs on Effort and IntelligenceNora B. Honken, University of Louisville Nora Honken holds degrees in industrial engineering from Virginia Tech and Arizona State University. She will receive a PHD in Education Leadership, Foundations and Human Development from the Uni- versity of Louisville in May 2014. She has held positions in engineering and management for Axxess Technologies, Varian, Amoco and Corning, and has taught in industry, at community college and at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Her research interests include engineering student performance and

Conference Session

Industry Collaboration in Construction Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa M. Holliday, University of Oklahoma; Matthew Reyes, University of Oklahoma; Kenneth F. Robson, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Paper ID #8755Faculty Internship: Providing New Skills for Construction EducatorsDr. Lisa M Holliday P.E., University of OklahomaProf. Matthew Reyes, University of Oklahoma Matthew received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Texas A&M University. After working for several years in the construction industry both in the field and in management, he joined the Construction Science faculty at the University of Oklahoma in 2012. Along with his research interests in earthen construction and the Latino workforce in construction, he is interested in teaching students to improve their visuo-spatial skills and

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rex C Kanu, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Paper ID #7476Assessing Manufacturing Capital Investments in the Global MarketDr. Rex C Kanu, Ball State University Dr. Rex Kanu is the coordinator of the manufacturing engineering technology program in the Department of Technology at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he teaches courses in plastics materials and processing. Page 23.212.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Assessing Manufacturing Capital Investments

Conference Session

Bringing Biology into Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur Johnson

nomenclature and taxonomy. 3. illustrate the many possible means to utilize living things. 4. demonstrate the relevance to engineering. 5. be interestingIn this paper will be described progress in achieving this set of goals.Course ApproachA course, presently called “Engineering in Biology,” has been taught for several years at theUniversity of Maryland. This is a survey of the entire field of biology from an engineeringperspective. The course has evolved based upon comprehensive and detailed survey data fromstudents who have taken the course. Some included material, therefore, may reflectshortcomings of other courses taken or not taken at Maryland, about which the students felt theyneeded

Conference Session

Information Integration

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Moore; Jeffrey Richardson; Michelle Perry

The Effective use of Visualization in Delivering Microcontroller Fundamentals Jeffrey J. Richardson, George E. Moore, Michelle D. Perry Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University, West Lafayette, INAbstractThis paper introduces the concept of integrating custom animations that are an abstraction ofactual circuit operation with traditional lecturing techniques to enhance the learning experience,by allowing students to visualize the key concepts relative to embedded microcontrollers.Custom animation is used to visualize the dynamic behavior of digital subsystems in embeddedmicrocontrollers to a level not

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

programmable microprocessor [3]. Integration of the SV203C with the LEGO RCX controllerpromised to be an excellent way to provide an expanded, dual processor controller with a muchwider range of input/output capabilities. Experience with the LEGO system clearly demonstratedthe benefits of its robust packaging and plug-and-play interconnections; this same philosophywould guide the design and packaging of our expanded controller.This paper describes the development of the LegoPlus dual processor controller, its capabilitiesand design features, and its planned incorporation into our design course.Motivation for ChangeThe structure of our LEGO based design course provides a rich technical environment for active

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Miller

Problem Solving in the Research Laboratory —A Workshop for Graduate Students Michele H. Miller Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractGraduate students often struggle to overcome the obstacles inherent in experimental work.Through practice over the course of a graduate program, many students will transition fromnovice to expert problem solvers even though they receive little explicit instruction on how to dothis. This paper describes a workshop whose purpose is to give graduate students tools to usewhen encountering unexpected problems in the lab. A pilot two-hour version of the workshopwas delivered to nine graduate

Conference Session

Advice for Dual-Career Couples

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce; Lori Bruce

profession. A sympathetic ear andsomeone who “truly” understands your workplace frustrations can sometimes be the only thingto keep you going. Sometimes, the town that is really just a small dusty Main Street looks prettygood after all.In this paper, we will elaborate on our trials, tribulations, and triumphs as two engineeringeducators in the same department. We will share our mechanisms for establishing ground ruleswith the department head, department staff, other faculty, and students. We offer no “silverbullets”, but are happy to share our experiences, positive and negative, as we try to “ride off intothe sunset”.Maintain separate professional identitiesDual-career couples obviously commensurate and advise each other. Most couples do, dual

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shauna Rae

advanced student can simulate an entire design or project. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThis paper demonstrates how to integrate co-simulation of VHDL and SPICE into existingcourseware. It also highlights the benefits of using co-simulation in conjunction with traditionalwaveform-based simulations across all levels of digital design.Introductory Digital Logic CoursesEducators have found that students who are used to working with circuits and components canhave difficulties adapting to a hardware description language7, 13. With co-simulation, studentsand instructors can create a component

Conference Session

IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Palmer; Terri Lynch-Caris; Laura Sullivan

disciplines, acquiring the analytical skills and methods of each, theyexperience themselves as investigators and search for truths that cut across the interests andbiases that lie within a single disciplinary perspective.” (1997, p. 140) Collaborative ability, in addition to design skills and technical intelligence, is of growingimportance for today’s engineering graduates. Engineers of the future must not only becomfortable with technology outside of their own discipline, they must also be experienced withcollaborative problem solving tools. A spirit of cooperation, rather than a spirit of competitionwill drive innovation. As Sally Helgesen writes in The Female Advantage, Fearlessness, a thirst for combat, single-minded devotion to an

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thad Welch; Robert Kubichek

, “Communications Measurement Laboratory.” This new course was designed to reinforce student knowledge of their course work in signals and systems, digital and analog communication systems, and digital signal processing. The primary course objectives were to familiarize students with vector signal analysis and develop a thorough understanding of I and Q-based demodulation techniques. This paper provides an overview of this course and describes student projects that utilize a vector signal analyzer (VSA) to detect, localize, and record decimated I and Q data as would be available at the output of an intermediate frequency (IF) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) stage of a software defined radio (SDR).1 IntroductionThe

Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

diverse and many of the students need materialthat is very visual compared to standard textbooks. The latest alternatives are the use ofasynchronous modules that can be used at the students selected time and at the pace thatis best for them. Although the material can be developed, the faculty has the problemthat the students view the material from a different context and the effort done by thestudents is unknown. This paper is based on the initial results of a human movementmodule, which proves information on both student learning styles, pre and post –examinations, and the time each student spent using the module as well as the use ofvideo clip of the various motion.Background Biomedical engineering requires the learning of multiple