Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barrett Caldwell, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

/ assessment / improvementinto a variety of hospital operations. This student already has experience with a campus-basedtechnical assistance / business extension program supporting healthcare facilities, and thus hasthe capability of understanding the organizational contexts of healthcare quality improvements.However, the organizational complexity of a large, internationally recognized specialty centerincorporates opportunities for student learning experiences that are not available in a short visitor remote research analysis project.Towards a Continued Model of Engineering ResidenciesRecent economic climate shifts, combined with growing concerns for healthcare costcontainment and information technology integration, continue to increase incoming

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Esther Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Samuel Lakeou, University of the District of Columbia; Wagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Amarachukwu C Ukaegbu, University of the District of Columbia; Lily Kemathe, University of the District of Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

gathered at the project site. The data loggingis used for an assessment of the correlation between the local weather and the electric powergeneration.IntroductionThe focus of the project is to provide a continuous monitoring channel for the 4.54KW hybridrenewable solar/wind power system and its electrical console, comprising of IO module“Grundfos 102” Controller , which has the property of combining both DC and AC to provide asingle DC output signal, and is used to combine the total power from the solar and the windturbine; EZ Wire 120 amp Controller system which combines two DC inputs and outputs thecorresponding DC signal, Transformers, deep cycle batteries, 120V Xantrex inverter whichtransforms a DC input signal into an AC signal, and the Solar

Conference Session

Leadership and Strategic Planning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Keynton, University of Louisville; James Fiet, University of Louisville; Pankaj Patel, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurs who were responsible forlaunching approximately 50 ventures, and restrospective evaluation of business plans. Thesestudies showed that successful ventures were due to more than just entrepreneurial alertness, asasserted by the majority of earlier studies on entrepreneurship [1-7]. The goal of the searchmodel is to improve the odds of aspiring entrepreneurs to discover and exploit valuable ventureideas by systematically searching in areas where they already have prior, specific knowledge.The assessment of the model will be accomplished in part by a novel, theoretically-basedapproach for evaluating the wealth creating potential of business plans resulting from theprogram. This approach has been used by researchers to successfully classify

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rupa Iyer, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

researchuniversities, 1998. State University of New York-Stonybrook, Stonybrook, NY. [6] Wyckoff, S. Changing the culture of undergraduate science teaching. J. Coll.sci.Teach.29:409-414, 2008 [7]Roppel, T. A., Hung, J. Y., Wentworth, S. W., and Hodel, A. S. An interdisciplinarylaboratory sequence in electrical and computer engineering: curriculum design and assessment results.IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 43, issue 2, 2000. pp. 143-152 [8] Biernacki, Joseph J, and Wilson, Christopher D. Interdisciplinary laboratory in advancedmaterials: A team-oriented inquiry-based approach. Journal of Engineering Education, 2001 [9] Iyer, Rupa S. and Fitzgibbon, William. Building the future biotechnology workforce: AUniversity of Houston Model. Journal of

Conference Session

Track 1 - Student Development

Collection

2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Fabian Zender, Georgia Institute of Technology; Daniel P. Schrage, Georgia Institute of Technology; Greg Jensen, NSF Center for e-Design –BYU Site; Barry McPherson, The Boeing Company; James Fehr, The Boeing Company; Matthew M. Symmonds, The Boeing Company; David E French, The Boeing Company

Tagged Topics

Track 1 - Student Development

communica- tion behaviors of informal groups of learners. He has 25 years experience teaching engineering courses in Page 17.6.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 the workplace, designing assessment tools, and developing courseware and curricula used in training en- gineers in the commercial and defense product lines. Dave is also committed to helping improve Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math education for K-12 students to grow the supply pipeline of our future technical workforce. Recent projects include development of engineering programs in advanced aircraft

Collection

2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Jessica S Ward, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Adam K Fontecchio, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Robert Shultz, Drexel University; Gabriel Burks, Drexel University

effective and usable in theclassroom. They will also take away experience with alternative assessment techniques,including the application of scientific principles in an engineering design challenge setting, aswell as the process of reviewing learned material to construct new lesson plans.Workshop Description. Please provide a detailed description of the proposed workshop that, atminimum, explicitly addresses the following (maximum 4,000 characters): a. Learning objectives b. Hands-on activities and interactive exercises c. Materials that participants can take with them d. Practical application for teachers and outreach staffa. Participants will explore the field of statics in a hands-on setting, apply statics

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Russell D Jamison, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Topics

International Forum

. Page 19.34.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Teaching Design for Constrained Environments: Partnerships with Non-Governmental OrganizationsBackgroundSenior capstone design is an essential element of most undergraduate engineering curricula.It provides an important opportunity for faculty to assess the ability of students to applytheir acquired technical knowledge to the solution of real engineering problems before theyenter professional practice.A rich source of real, challenging engineering problems, including those described by the Na-tional Academy of Engineering as “Grand Challenges,” resides in the developing world.Such problems are frequently notable for the

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Tagged Topics

Diversity, International Forum

attributes. In 2015, the Attributes of a GlobalEngineer Project formally concludes its work, having benefitted from prolonged engagementwith and input from globally-representative stakeholder groups of academicians and industrypartners. This paper will describe the process to develop attributes of a global engineer; present asummary of key results; discuss how attribute outcomes can assessed in engineering educationglobally; and provide recommendations for a variety of stakeholders, with particular emphasis onlessons learned from the multi-year Project.Introduction and ContextThe American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Board of Directors established theCorporate Member Council (CMC) to convey the ideas and views of corporations to

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasiliy Ivanov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Mansur Galikhanov, Kazan National research Technological University; Alina Guzhova, Kazan National Reserch Technological University

Tagged Topics

Faculty Development

implementing the Program showed that many university teachersrequire further training to ensure compliance with the modern education, science and industryrequirements. Therefore, the university assumed additional costs and included teachers into thetraveling abroad study groups.Upon completion of all stages of the program, participants were given the final questionnaire, whichhad the following objectives:- assess the quality and effectiveness of the program as a whole; separate its theoretical andpractical components; Page 20.35.3- evaluate the effectiveness of internships;- evaluate the efficacy and feasibility of using educational technologies

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

degree that he or she can quickly assess what needs to be done, can acquire the tools needed, and can use these tools proficiently.” [2] Robotics engineering returns practitioners to good old-fashioned engineering marked by the absence disciplinary boundaries or silos. When confronted with a new challenge, it is never, “Not my job.” [3] • “Works with anybody anywhere—has the communication skills, team skills, and understanding of global and current issues necessary to work effectively with other people.” [2] Robotics is a global enterprise; robotic systems may incorporate motors, sensors, circuits, hardware, and software from global suppliers. • “Imagines and can make the imagination

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session II - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Richard F. Vaz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Faculty Development

with local gov- ernmental agencies and civic organizations to advance sustainable community development, especially in South Africa’s informal settlements. Jiusto regularly prepares students to research and manage projects, develop proposals, presentations and reports, and engage in intercultural exchange, and has traveled with and advised students in Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the US. In Worcester, he works often with student project teams to advance campus and community sustainability, particularly in areas of energy and climate, and sustainability policy, assessment and communications. He also contributes to WPI pro- fessional development programming for faculty engaged in project advising

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Chris Groscurth, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

development will be discussed.Overview of Engineering Curriculum DevelopmentsThe quality of engineering education and the ability to recruit a U.S. engineering workforce hasbeen a growing concern among engineers in university and industrial settings. In the 1990’s,ABET, the engineering accreditor of postsecondary degree-granting programs, revamped theprogram outcomes and assessment criteria to improve quality by implementing the EngineeringCriteria 2000 (EC2000).5 Beginning in 2001, all accredited engineering programs were requiredto demonstrate that their graduates possess the following eleven skills (known as a-k): ≠ Ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering; ≠ Ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lewis, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Pittsburg, PA, June 22-25, 2008.8. Jianyu Dong, and Nancy Warter-Perez, “Project Based Learning Using Tablet PCs: A Practice to Enhance Design Components in Engineering Instruction”, Proceedings of the 114th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Honolulu, HI, June 24-27, 2007.9. Veronica Diaz, Vic Piscitello, Mike Sechrest, and Laura Small, "Integrating Tablets and Mobile Technology: Breaking down the Large Class Through Active Learning, Practice, and Faculty Engagement," Proceedings EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 29-31, 2006.10. Dave Berque, “Assessing the Use of

Conference Session

Retention Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra Gupta

in other student surveys at RIT, and are being addressed by the RITadministration. EMC2 faculty assessed the dinners to be a highly successful event promotingcamaraderie and pride.Each quarter, the Program Administrator reviews the academic performance of each scholar. If ascholar’s quarterly GPA falls below 2.50, he/she is asked to meet with the departmental EMC2faculty advisor to identify and enroll in an appropriate academic support program7. RIT has anexcellent support infrastructure to meet students’ academic and non-academic needs. Theretention data in the previous section shows that this quarterly review process has been effective.Last two Spring quarters, we wanted to hold a year-end get-together. However, we were unableto find an

Conference Session

Retention Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Baurin; Annita Alting; Ardie Walser

: • Poverty determines in a major way the quality of education received by children and in turn determines the interest in science and engineering. Poor students are less likely to become scientists and engineers. • African Americans, Native Americans and Hispanics are underserved by our educational system. This is evident by NAEP assessment results and SAT scores. • African American and Native American women are much more likely to attend college than African American and Native American men. And like all women they are less likely to choose a STEM major. • African

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rogers; J. Ricky Cox

, Barr and Taggdescribed a paradigm shift in higher education where institutions should exist to producelearning rather than to provide instruction1. Since this article, there have been many initiativesthat have embraced this learning-centered approach. A few examples include GreaterExpectations2 and the Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign3. Note that ABET’s Criterion2000 is an example of this paradigm shift as engineering programs must now assess how wellstudents are learning and not what we as instructors are teaching.An important question that should be addressed is the role of the lecture format in the learningparadigm. Many individuals in this reform movement have used terms and words such as “sageon the stage” and “passive” in regards to

Conference Session

Mathematics Potpourri

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruno Osorno

apply it. Then homework is given toreinforce the concept. While this approachis not perfect the response of the studentshas been positive and induced a betterunderstanding of the material than theclassic mathematical approach used in thepast.We will start documenting, assessing, andthe results of this approach will be betteras soon as we get significant data. So farwe have used feedback from students ininformal conversations. VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY[1] Chapman, “Electric Machinery Fundamentals,” McGraw-Hill, 2004, Third Edition.[2] V. Prasad Hodali, “Engineering Electromagnetic Compatibility,” Textbook, IEEE press, 2001[3] A report of the IEEE Magnetic FieldsTask Force, “Magnetic Fields from Electric Power Lines

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Richard Keltie

passing and not matriculating. Page 10.286.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationOptions for Intervention: In fall 2004 our goal was to use a pilot study to begin developing acomprehensive, and scale-able, “math intervention process” for the college. Of the ~1250entering engineering students per cohort, roughly 50% start in Calculus-I. Thus, in fall 2004 wedecided to target this student population first. After assessing the effects of intervention on thispopulation we plan to expand the intervention to

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Magun-Jackson

first reexaminetheir teaching role by helping students to experience cognitive conflict and take a socialperspective. This may be accomplished in the following fashion.1. Know where your students are developmentally: The faculty should understand or attempt tounderstand the different developmental characteristics/stages present in their students. This isespecially important since the average age of students in higher education has increasedsignificantly and within any given engineering classroom one can have students in most of thestages. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways.Moral reasoning can be assessed with an instrument, the Defining Issue Test (DIT)12 thatmeasures how people reason morally about social problems. It is a multiple

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rockland

students to provide both a problem statement andalternative problem statements, depending on the nature of the problem. Students also wererequired to write down various other steps used in problem solving that will be detailed in thispaper. In addition, the author will review preliminary assessments on the effectiveness of thismethodology.IntroductionFor most technical professionals, problem solving is a primary job function.1 According toGoldsmith2, we must develop different skills -- the two most important being creativity andproblem solving.However, the concept of problem solving often is confused with the ability of students to solveproblems. Student's skills in problem solving can be measured by examining the processfollowed to solve a

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Turns Jennifer; Atman Cindy; Angela Linse; Karl Smith

the AustralasianEngineering Education Conference in 1998: • Legislators (in public institutions) • National Science Foundation: Career Development Award, Shaping the Future • Professional Accreditation – ABET: Assessment, Synthesis & Design • Financial – especially the growing gap between the falling public support and the rising costs • Employers and Workforce Development Agencies: Workplace Basics, Global Engineer • University Administration Professional Organizations: Renewing the Covenant, Greater Expectations • Boyer Commission Reports: Educating Undergraduates in the Research Universities, Scholarship Reconsidered • Educational Research: Active, Interactive &

Conference Session

Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sullivan; Janis Terpenny

Summary and RecommendationsThere is little doubt that engineering economy studies should be conducted on an after-tax basis.But a large percentage of economy studies in actual industrial applications stop short with onlybefore-tax assessments. The assumption is apparently that the rank ordering of mutuallyexclusive alternatives is not affected by income tax considerations. Or could it be that thesubject of income taxes is too intricate to be part and parcel of the analysis performed byengineers on operational/tactical types of projects? If the capital investments being consideredare large and complicated, the accounting/financial people will normally prepare the after-taxrecommendations for upper management to review.Our example revealed that

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Osman Akan; Fredrick McKenzie; Sushil Chaturvedi

, Vol. 87, No. 3, 1991, pp. 277-82. 4. Goodson, C. E. and Miertschin, S. I., “Development and Implement of Web Based Courses for Engineering Technology,” Proceedings 1998 ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE 1998, Session 1547. 5. Rutz, E., “Use of Distance Learning for Continuing Education of Engineers: Results of an Educational Needs Assessment,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 89, No. 3, 2000, pp. 261-264. 6. Verma, A., Stanley, W. and Crossman, G., “Televised Instruction in Engineering Technology: The 2+2 Program at Old Dominion University,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 20-23, 1993. 7. Verma, A. and Richards, L., “Televised Instruction in Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Harper

needs and limitations before they can determine what is both appropriate andfeasible in terms of the organization’s values, without sacrificing or ignoring their own. In eachworkshop, we encouraged students to assume or become aware of a variety of roles, to gain adeeper sense of the parts different individuals play or played in the systems life-cycles of real-life cases: (1) “’Getting the Water Right:’6 Restoring the Kissimmee and Reclaiming the Everglades” (focusing on competing social goods) (2) “The Creation and Destruction of the World Trade Center” (focusing on human factors and risk assessment)Method and Presentation More flexible and personal than the case study method, PBL is, in the words

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lobaugh

had written a total of 5 large reports andapproximately 200 homework questions. The university uses an assessment system for studentsatisfaction called Student Rating of Teaching Effectiveness (SRTE) in which the class studentsrate both the course material and the instructor. The averages for both the course and theinstructor have been 5.5 out of a possible 7.0 or about a 79% satisfaction.Present Practice: During the spring of 2003, a pilot program was introduced for this lab, which wasintended to enmesh more of the applied engineering concepts of the processes into the processitself. In groups of 3, the student’s were required to reverse engineer an existing design (a smallpneumatic engine) and manufacture a replica with all of the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

LOKESH JOSHI; James Sweeney; Edward Hall; Alyssa Panitch

cycled through two consecutive semester offerings in2004. This course has provided a structure and forum for interested faculty in ASU’s I.A. FultonSchool of Engineering to participate in a series of class meetings focused on a range of topics inmodern biology. In each of its first two offerings at ASU, the Bio-Basics short course hascapped out its enrollment at its desired maximum of forty participants per semester. This paperdescribes the objectives, design, implementation, as well as initial and ongoing assessment andevaluation of the Bio-Basics faculty short course.Short Course ObjectivesThe Fulton School at ASU has committed its strategic planning to a range of use-inspiredresearch themes (e.g. human health, communication systems

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Mecum; Leslie Wilkins

the Maui Economic Development Board, a private, non-profit organization. While most federal funding for such programs comes from either the National Science Foundation or the U.S. Department of Education, WIT is the first program of this kind to be funded by the U.S. Department of Labor as a workforce development project.During its initial assessment phase, a review of the existing literature on the under representationof girls and women in STEM and an analysis of best practices and model programs wasconducted. This review convinced the WIT team to focus on systemic change by addressingequity issues directly through equity training for educators and employers and through gender-equitable programs to encourage girls in

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tilo Winkler; Rudolph Mitchel; Jose Venegas

Simulator Simulation Figure 3. Questionnaire for the assessment of the students’I learned many theoretical issues from the … responses to the realistic simulator, the computer simulation, and theI learned many practical skills from the … debriefing. The students were asked to use a scale from 1 (disagree) to 5I learned complex

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karyn Biasca

. Interactive psychrometric chart.The tutorial concludes with a short quiz on the material. Four multiple choice questions about theconcepts on the chart and the use of the chart allow the students to test their understanding of thematerial. Students’ performance on the quiz is not part of their grade.This tutorial is accessible on the internet at http://www.uwsp.edu/it/tlrn/LOs2003/paperlo/Our development team is very interested in feedback on the tutorial, which may be addressed tothe author (email address is given in the biography).Assessment of the TutorialThe first group of students to use the tutorial was a senior level “Mass Transfer Operations”course in the Fall Semester of 2003. I asked the class of seventeen students to use the tutorial

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John McGuire; John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

” section states in“Criterion 3. Program Outcomes and Assessment” specifically that “Engineeringprograms must demonstrate that their graduates have: (a) an ability to apply knowledgeof mathematics, science, and engineering; (b) an ability to design and conductexperiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data; (c) an ability to design a system,component, or process to meet desired needs; (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams; (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems;(f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility; (g) an ability tocommunicate effectively; (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact ofengineering solutions in a global and societal context; (i) a