Conference Session

STEM and ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khosrow Ghadiri, San Jose State University

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #10374Developing and Implementing Effective Instructional Stratgems in STEMDr. Khosrow Ghadiri, San Jose State University K. Ghadiri is with the Electrical Engineering Department, San Jos´e State University, San Jos´e , CA, 95192-0084 USA (phone: 408-924-3916; fax: 408-924-3925; e-mail: k.ghadiri@ sjsu.edu). M. H. Qay- oumi, is president of San Jos´e State University, San Jos´e , CA, 95192 USA (e-mail: Mo.Qayoumi@ sjsu.edu). E. Junn is provost and vice president of academic affairs at San Jos´e State University, San Jos´e, CA, 95192 USA (e-mail: ellen.junn@ sjsu.edu). P. Hsu is associate dean of College of

Conference Session

FPD 2: Building Community

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betsy F. Willis, Southern Methodist University; David A. Willis, Southern Methodist University; Mark Fontenot, Southern Methodist University

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #10916Developing Leadership Skills and Creating Community in Engineering Stu-dentsDr. Betsy F. Willis, Southern Methodist University Dr. Betsy F. Willis is the Director of Undergraduate Advising and Student Records in the Lyle School of Engineering. In this role, she oversees academic records of over 1000 students and advises first year pre-engineering students. Dr. Willis holds Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in Food Process Engineering from Purdue University.Dr. David A. Willis, Southern Methodist University David A. Willis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Southern Methodist

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division New Ideas Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christy L. Bozic, Purdue University; Nathan W. Hartman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #9349Case-Based Instruction for Innovation Education in Engineering and Tech-nologyChristy L. Bozic, Purdue University Christy Bozic is the Director of Workforce and STEM Education for the College of Technology at Pur- due University in West Lafayette, Indiana. In this role, she leads interdisciplinary workforce education initiatives for the Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center. She has worked in university engagement and technology transfer for the Purdue Technical Assistance Program and Purdue College of Technology Statewide. Prior to joining Purdue, Bozic has been a small business owner

Conference Session

Discipline Specific Topics and Techniques

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth J. Stewart, University of Michigan; John G. Younger, University of Michigan; Michael J. Solomon, University of Michigan

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Graduate Studies

Paper ID #10717Impact of a graduate elective in Microbial Soft Matter on interdisciplinarylearningMiss Elizabeth Jeanne Stewart, University of Michigan Elizabeth J. Stewart is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Her primary research relates to the study of bacterial biofilms, a field at the intersection of engineering and microbiology. Elizabeth also pursues engineering education research to advance the understanding of interdisciplinary graduate education, an area familiar to her due to her experiences nav- igating the intersection of two disciplines.John G. Younger

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William Travis Horton, Purdue University

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #10119Integration of a First-Year Learning Community with a Vertically-IntegratedDesign ProgramDr. William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette William (Bill) Oakes is the Director of the EPICS Program and Professor at Purdue University. He is one of the founding faculty members in the School of Engineering Education with courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering as well as Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. He has received numerous awards for his efforts at Purdue including being elected as a fellow of the Teaching Academy and listed in the Book of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Jones; Karen Berger; Tamara Knott

major engineering concepts of problem solving and teamwork. Exploring Engineering Dayaimed to promote engineering as a stimulating, exciting, and rewarding field of study as well asto dispel the idea that engineers must wear hard hats or work on trains. It was also our goal tohave the children see that engineering is not just for men but to show the young women that theytoo can pursue a career in the fields in engineering, math, and science.Previous experience has indicated that educational outreach events such as ExploringEngineering day benefit not only the participants but also the volunteers involved in the project.This paper provides details of the organization, planning and implementation of the event, aswell as an analysis of the

Conference Session

Advice for Dual-Career Couples

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Hyer; Catherine Eckel; Margaret Layne; Elizabeth Creamer

increasing theparticipation and success of women in academic science and engineering careers, a committee offaculty and administrators collected information on services provided to dual career couples atother institutions, reviewed Virginia Tech’s existing practices, and drafted guidelines for dualcareer hires. In addition, the Advance project’s assessment team interviewed 20 Virginia Techfaculty members who were identified as dual career hires about their experiences with the hiringprocess, satisfaction with their current positions, and the receptivity of their colleagues to dualcareer hires. The study is currently being expanded to include faculty at three other ADVANCEinstitutions. This paper will describe the development of guidelines for dual

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Janet L. Yowell; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan; Lawrence E. Carlson

for Engineering EducationThis paper examines the model of teachers teaching each other in professional developmentworkshops offered by a university engineering program. The workshops combine engineeringsubject matter with teachers’ understanding of teaching pedagogy to make a significant impacton their content knowledge and confidence to take engineering back into their K-12 classrooms.Introduction: Why Train Teachers?Teachers are bombarded with the latest theories of how students will best learn in theirclassroom. And yet, a disconnect exists for teachers between what is pedagogically the trend andwhat can actually be accomplished in the classroom [1]. Often, teacher professional developmentexperiences are deemed “too theoretical” and not

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Carrera; David DiBiasio; Natalie Mello

success requires four elements:authentic learning environments, authentic student assessments, knowledge integration outside ofengineering, and commitment to multidimensional assessment.In this paper, we briefly describe our academic structure and concentrate on the assessmentprocess. Throughout the paper we’ll use one project from our Venice project center as arepresentative example, specifically one from the summer of 2002 when three studentsconducted a boat wake energy impact study (1). This was one of six projects completed inVenice that summer, and one of several during the past few years that investigated the motoondoso problem.BackgroundFor many years WPI has found ways to graduate socially conscious, globally literate engineers.We do this

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Williams

the use of a programming language or technical software package witha steep initial learning curve. A student working hard to retain subject matter may be severelyhandicapped by underdeveloped problem-solving skills and the need to learn a seemingly arcaneprogramming language at the same time.A successful instructional technique is presented which introduces complex topics through theuse of a series of comprehensible examples of escalating sophistication that are easilyimplemented using standard computer engineering tools and techniques. As one example, publickey cryptography (essential to the fields of computer engineering and security) is highlydependent on the generation of very large prime numbers. The rich topic of primality testing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

that treatelevated temperature behaviors are available, fewer yet really treat the thermal gradients present inthese environments or their inherently dynamic nature. This paper describes the development andimplementation of a laboratory experience to improve undergraduate students understanding ofcomplex issues related to mechanical behavior in the presence of thermal gradients. Laboratoryprocedure for the experiment is described in detail.The laboratory allows students to observe changes in the mechanical properties of materials as afunction of temperature, thermal gradient and strain rate. Those rare experiences with materials at hightemperatures previously available to students typically stress the need for uniform temperaturesthroughout

Conference Session

MET Student Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

R.L. Alan Jordan

technology programs.Design is and should be introduced at the earliest stages of the technology education; however,“real” design projects are rarely included in the student’s education. Instead, fictitious and“sanitized” projects that fit the level of understanding and education of the student are assigned.Many times these projects are selected and written to allow completion in one semester. This paper will discuss design projects that undergraduate students have been involved in withindustrial clients. The projects were “real world” because they were real problems that theseclients had. They were not prior selected for the students and the project scope was not selected forcompletion in one semester. The paper discusses how these projects were

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Darin Ridgway; Valerie Young; Michael Prudich

ability to identify the statistical appropriate tool to accomplish a specific dataanalysis task. This paper describes the undergraduate course of instruction in statistics in thechemical engineering program at Ohio University. This course of instruction begins with a basicintroduction to linear regression which takes place in a freshman-level chemical engineeringcomputing course, includes a junior-level course devoted to statistical analysis and experimentaldesign, and ends with the application of statistical data analysis tools in the senior-level unitoperations laboratory course sequence. Spreading the exposure to statistical analysis across thecurriculum permits longitudinal reinforcement of important concepts and skills. Specialemphasis is

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery

students' learning of course material as it betterenables students to follow along with the lecture. This paper will discuss the effect of usinglaptops on student learning in ENGR 106, Engineering Problem Solving and Computer Tools, atPurdue University in the spring of 2002. A pilot was conducted with a class size of 48 students.To control for the effect of class size, a separate section of equal size was taught using thetraditional lecture format. To minimize lost time at the start and end of each class to deploy thelaptops, the lecture schedule was amended from two 50-minute lectures to a single 110-minutelecture per week. Results show that while students in both of these small classes were moresatisfied with the course and performed better in

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Yaw Owusu

Section 2457 Concurrent Engineering in Total Quality Management Yaw A. Owusu FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Florida A & University, FloridaAbstractThe philosophy of concurrent engineering is to change the pattern of "redo it until itright" into “do it right the first time.” In this paper, a model has been developed thatcombines the concept of concurrent engineering and total quality management for animproved product design and manufacturing. The model emphasizes five integratedcomponents of total quality program, namely: employee involvement

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert J. Voigt

Navy operational commands listing the top ten areas where ourgraduates could use more emphasis in their education. Of those top ten, we developed a course,which addressed seven of the areas. These areas include Networking, the Internet,Communications Theory, Software, Databases and the World Wide Web. The diversity of thetopics and the target audience meant that we were not able to go particularly deep in any onearea. One of our main goals was to bring a non-technically oriented student up to aconversational level on the topic areas and to provide them with a foundation and a desire to seeka deeper understanding on their own. The initial target audience for the course is anyone who hashad two semesters of Physics. As a result, we had ten

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana G. Somerton; Craig W. Somerton

) development of university/industry CQI partnerships.The focus of this paper is to share the CQI process that has been developed and the results fromthis process following two years of implementation.The paper begins with describing the rationale of implementing a CQI process for undergraduateeducation. Details of the development of the process are provided, including identification ofconstituent groups, governing principles of the process, and start-up of the process. Finally, thepaper looks at the assessment data gathered over the first two years of the process and theprogram changes that have occurred due to this data and the review processes.II. Rationale and MotivationThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has dramatically

Conference Session

Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Carnahan; Bruce Vojak; Raymond Price

operated jointly with electrical engineering or computer science.Computer science resides within some colleges of engineering but certainly not all of them.Thus, it is possible that the disciplines that generate the most alumni and research funding willlikely also be those that produce the largest number of engineering academic leaders whoparticipate in these surveys. While we have not studied this quantitatively, one could argue thatsome of the observed results could be accounted for in this manner.Further, it could also be argued that, given their size, these two disciplines represent the largestnumber of technical contributions to society in recent history. As such, the visibility ofdepartments in these disciplines might easily draw attention

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

April Brown; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

Women at Georgia Tech, 1993-19981, and Enhancing the Environment for Success: Reportfrom the Task Force for Opportunities for Women in Engineering2, established baseline data thatnow allow us to evaluate changes that have occurred in the subsequent two years. They alsohelped to raise the awareness of gender issues on campus, and to establish an agenda forinstitutional change. In this paper we report the findings and recommendations of these twoinstitutional self-studies, and review the progress Georgia Tech has made over the interveningtwo years.Integrating Gender Equity and Reform (InGEAR)In 1995, the National Science Foundation awarded a research grant to a consortium of fiveinstitutions of higher education in the State of Georgia3 to

Conference Session

FPD V: Gender and Engineering Education: A Panel Discussion and Workshop

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Caitrin Lynch, Olin College of Engineering; Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lynn Andrea Stein, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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First-Year Programs, Women in Engineering

between the experiences of women in undergraduate engineering programs and their malecounterparts.1-5 Many existing explanations of women’s under-representation in engineering andphysical sciences are based on differences in intrinsic values, psychological needs, preparation,work-related values, family obligations, and lack of “critical mass.”3,6-14 Without ruling out thepossible significance of these factors, this paper explores an alternative factor, one over whichthe engineering profession itself might have greater control: the culture of our classrooms. Inparticular, we introduce several frameworks from the psychology and gender studies literaturethat shed light on how classroom climate plays a role in student experience and, in turn, in

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona; Carla Firetto, The Pennyslvania State University; L.J. Passmore, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2011-2623: IMPROVED TEAM FUNCTION: STUDENT-DRIVEN TEAMRULES AND CONSEQUENCESPeter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus PETER J. SHULL is Professor of Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. After a successful career in the technical field of Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE), and having worked at the prestigious Nation Institute of Standards and Technology, Dr. Shull made the decision to return to academia and began his career in education. From the first day, Dr. Shull noted an apparent lack of sound educational practice at the higher educational level. This is reflected in a statement made by Dr. Shull’s Ph.D. advisor regarding teaching”If you know the material well, you’ll be a great

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine McComas, Cornell University; Nancy Healy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

technologies; and 3) disseminating the outcomes of SEI research atNNIN and in the broader nanotechnology and scientific community. This paper will provide anoverview of these endeavors, including lessons learned through the process.SEI orientation at NNIN sitesNNIN has developed an SEI component for its new user orientation, which is required of all sitesto gain access to the research facilities. Beginning in 2007, the users were required to view avideo developed by Dr. Douglas Kysar, then of Cornell University, entitled Societal and EthicalImplications of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (http://nnin.org/nnin_ethicstraining.html). InFall 2008, the NNIN surveyed its SEI orientation coordinators and found mixed support for thevideo presentation yet

Conference Session

Software Engineering Projects

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Reichlmayr, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Agile process these activities occur in more tightly wound incremental and iterativetime boxes. Agile has also introduced variations on existing software development practices suchas test first design or the frontloading of testing activities early in the development life-cycle.The paper addresses the benefits and limitations of the adoption of Scrum by a student projectteam and proposes recommendations for a pragmatic process framework – the Student Scrum –based on the contributions of agile processes and practices.IntroductionProminent among the outcomes for our undergraduate program in Software Engineering at theRochester Institute of Technology is:“By the time of their graduation, all students will have demonstrated the ability to work in

Conference Session

Capstone Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Edin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

student preparation for a futurecareer as mechatronics product developers. It is also shown that this prepares the studentswith a larger flexibility to handle the increased complexity in mechatronics productdevelopment and thereby enabling the project teams to deliver results faster, more reliable andwith higher quality.IntroductionThe experiment described in this paper is based on a capstone course in Mechatronics given atKTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, since 1984. The challenge of today’s capstonecourses and projects at KTH are not the specific technical competencies but ratherorganizational issues, as it has been experienced it over many years. The projects arebecoming increasingly complex and based on knowledge and competencies in

Conference Session

Social Media and In-class Technology: Creating Active Learning Environments

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gonca Altuger-Genc, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Yegin Genc, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

. The advantages of SNTs to lifelong learning are twofold. First they provideeasy and fast access to relevant information even after formal education. Second theyallow keeping social ties with people having similar professional interest and possiblyaccess to their extended network. This paper will focus on a senior year PlasticsEngineering course students’ utilization process of discussion boards in dedicated andgeneric technological platforms, alongside their challenges, response and overall reactionto social network based learning platforms.IntroductionTechnology and Life-long LearningThroughout the last decade many higher education institutions implemented self-directedlifelong learning into their course curriculum. Some of the implemented

Conference Session

Research in Engineering Education I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hanjun Xian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

academicactivities. However, the overall collaboration patterns and what factors contribute to the breadthof collaboration remain largely unknown. In this paper, we reveal the collaboration patternsamong engineering education researchers based on bibliographic data analysis. We select 7,732NSF awards related to engineering education from EHR-DGE, EHR-DRL, EHR-DUE, andENG-EEC. We then develop a keyphrase extraction algorithm to determine the main researchtopics of an award and utilize a name disambiguation system to precisely identify co-authorship.Our findings show that EER awardees collaborate more than researchers in the generaldisciplines of engineering and education. Also, average number of awardees per award is highlycorrelated with the number of

Conference Session

Tablets Large and Small

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso; Virgilio Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso ; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso

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Computers in Education

and society core curriculum classes specifically for incoming fresh- man with a STEM background. Perez has eight years of professional experience working as an electrical and computer engineer, providing technical support to faculty and students utilizing UGLC classrooms and auditoriums. Perez is committed to the highest level of service to provide an exceptional experience to all of the UGLC guests. Perez strongly believes that by providing exceptional customer service that UGLC patrons will return to make use of the various services the university offers. Perez enjoys work- ing on the professional development of the student employees at the UGLC. He shares with his student employees his practical experience in

Conference Session

How Are We Preparing Our Students for the 21st Century Workforce?

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald H. Brown, Marquette University; Thomas F. Quinn, Marquette University; George Corliss, Marquette University; Jay R. Goldberg, Marquette University; Mark Nagurka, Marquette University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

natural gas demand. The GasDay Project functions as an extracurricular learning laboratory that incorporatesseveral student-centered learning methods including active, collaborative, and project-basedlearning. It provides students with experiential learning opportunities similar to those associatedwith co-op, internship, and research experiences. Students learn about entrepreneurship,teamwork, and dealing with customers, which prepare them for successful careers. This paper describes the pedagogical approaches to student learning employed by theGasDay Project as well as the educational benefits to students including (i) hands-on learning ina business setting with real-world consequences for successes and failures, (ii) direct contactwith

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Futuristic Planning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffany Fisher, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indiananpolis; Wanda L. Worley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Eugenia Fernandez, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Page 25.1447.2AbstractThere is increased discussion over the idea of incorporating tools typically used for socialinteractions, such as Web 2.0 and Social Networking Technology (SNT), into educationalsettings. Do faculty and students have the same views on the subject? This paper investigateswhether there is a difference between the perceptions of Engineering and Technology faculty andstudents in regards to the effectiveness of using Web 2.0 and SNT in university settings. Data inthe study was obtained from a survey sent to all faculty and students in a School of Engineeringand Technology at a large urban university in the Midwest. The 30 question survey was intendedto determine the faculty and students’ current uses and familiarity with SNT

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Armstrong; Paul Rousseau; Katharine Fulcher; Carlo Felicione; Steve Beyerlein; Donald Elger

of success, recall.” Based on findings such as these, Woods has spentmany years developing a problem-solving strategy. In his most recent paper, Woods (2000)reviews basic problem-solving strategies and presents the MPS (McMaster Problem Solving)program. For problem solving, five sets of knowledge/skills are identified: (1) subjectknowledge, (2) tacit knowledge (3) links and clues to subject knowledge, (4) pattern recognitionskills, and (5) generic problem-solving skills. Regarding skills for problem solving, Woods(2000) presents an extended list of metacognitive, cognitive and attitudinal skills. Woodsstresses the importance of learning problem solving as a nonlinear process.Polya (1973) presents a well-known model for problem solving in the