Conference Session

Research on the First Year I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Tarnisha Green, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Robert Ricks, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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First-Year Programs

-learning community;(2) a multi-tiered student mentoring program that includes peer-to-peer mentoring, facultymentoring, and practicing-engineer mentoring; (3) an innovative Introduction to Engineeringcourse; (4) common cohort classes for several courses; (5) a new developmental mathematicscourse for underprepared students; (6) peer tutoring; and (7) a six-week Summer Bridge Programfor at-risk students. This paper focuses on one initiative, the Summer Bridge Program.The Summer Bridge Program is designed to integrate first-year students into the socio-academicenvironment of the COE at an early stage. The program consists of non-credit bearing workshopsfocusing on an intensive pre-calculus math review, an engineering science preview, and afreshmen

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jammie Hoskin; Brad Wambeke; Ronald Welch

Session 3515 Classical Analysis Techniques Set the Stage for Mastery of Computer Analysis Techniques MAJ Brad Wambeke MAJ Jammie Hoskin COL Ronald W. Welch United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes the successful use of classical analysis techniques by the ABET-accredited CE program at the U.S. Military Academy to assist students in unlocking themysteries embedded in commercial structural analysis programs that are based on theDirect Stiffness Method. We believe that students

Conference Session

FPD 10: Teamwork

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura K Alford, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Stephanie Sheffield, University of Michigan

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #8444Evolution of Student Attitudes Toward Teamwork in a Project-based, Team-based First Year Introductory Engineering CourseDr. Laura K Alford, University of MichiganDr. Robin Fowler, University of MichiganDr. Stephanie Sheffield, University of Michigan Dr. Sheffield is a Lecturer in Technical Communication in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Page 24.554.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Evolution of Student Attitudes Toward Teamwork

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES)

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. His research interests have been in image and video processing, medical imaging, data analysis and pattern recognition. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical journal and conference papers on these topics. He is a senior member of IEEE and member of ASEE. Page 24.322.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Correlating Experience and Performance of On-Campus and On-Line Students Assisted by Computer Courseware: a Case StudyAbstractStudies on student surveys can reveal student learning experience, but the results are generallysubjective. In this paper

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach and Out-of-School Time Engineering Programming and Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Reed Campbell, Robert Morris University; Sarah Marie Riordan, Robert Morris University; Stephanie Abbott; Sarah Mukui Mutunga, Robert Morris University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #8977Impact of a 5-Week Collegiate Level Residential STEM Summer Program onSecondary School Students (research to practice)Dr. Benjamin Reed Campbell, Robert Morris University Ben Campbell holds a BS in physics and MS in electrical engineering from Penn State and a PhD in en- gineering from Robert Morris University. For the first decade of his career, he worked as a laser engineer at the Penn State Electro-Optics Center. In 2011 he joined Robert Morris University as an Assistant Pro- fessor of Engineering. Since 2005, Dr. Campbell has served as faculty for the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences (a

Conference Session

WIED: Pre-College Student Experiences

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica R. McCormick, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Terri L. Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Charles Feldhaus, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #10539Increasing Female Participation in Engineering: Evaluating *CAMP NAME*Summer CampMs. Jessica R McCormick, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Jessica McCormick is the Academic Program Coordinator for the Engineering Dual Degree Program (EDDP), a partnership between Butler University and the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI. In this position she coordinates and runs all aspects of the program; including advising current students, program alumni relationships, and prospective and admitted student contact. She also manages the internship program for all EDDP students. She is the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela Maass; Kesa Black; Heather Storace; Anne Ranes; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

with theProfessors is a result of ASU-SWE’s goal to focus on academic and research opportunities.Also aligned with the goal of increasing academic support, ASU-SWE plans to implement atechnical paper competition in the spring. SWE members will present their presentations tojudges and receive feedback before submitting their work to the region. This will increase the Page 10.1263.9number of students that apply for the regional and national technical paper competitions. It will Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bianey Ruiz Ulloa; Stephanie Adams

many variables present during the process of teaming, they will be able to succeed inany team situation. In order to achieve this understanding, a training program oriented to thisgoal could make the difference in helping students to become real team players in the classroomand in the corporate world. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework that shows theelements to consider when designing team training programs to help students to becomeeffective team players. First definitions on teams and team effectiveness are presented, followedby an overview of the need of team training. Then, a summary of the team training literature isshown and finally the Effective Team Player (ETP) - Team Training Framework is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Blaine Lilly; John Merrill

Session 2793 A Curriculum Collaboration Model: Working with Upper Division Students to Improve a First-Year Program Blaine Lilly, John Merrill, Omer Masud, Stuart Brand, Michael Hoffmann, Anita Ahuja, Vamsi Ivaturi The Ohio State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an overview of a quarter-long design-build project in the Fundamentals ofEngineering (FE) course sequence, which is part of the First-Year Engineering Program at TheOhio State University (OSU). The current design-build project is discussed

Conference Session

Sustainability and the Environment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Olivia Dees; Saeed Foroudastan

muchneeded to confront these problems. An alternative to the damaging effects of monocultureis intercropping.A number of solutions can be implemented in order to combine different areas of interestfor a common goal. Engineering advances, through the use of even the most basicformulas, may brighten our socioecological future with a confident sense of economics.It is highly important that current engineering students are introduced to the methods ofagricultural and biological engineering that are described in this paper. The world’spopulation grows rapidly while its resources deplete just as quickly. If engineeringstudents are introduced to innovative methods of agricultural and biological engineeringearly on, some may decide to pursue a career in

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Albee; Laura Dillon; Jonathon Oleszkiewicz; George Stockman

Session # 2620 CS1 and CS2 Pr ogr amming Exams for Assessing Lear ning and Teaching G. Stockman, P. Albee, L. Dillon, J . Oleszkiewicz Michigan State Univer sityAbstractIn the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Michigan State University (CSE/MSU),we use timed programming exams in our introductory programming courses to assess bothindividual student programming skills and course instruction. Administration and design ofthese exams presented challenging problems. In this paper, we describe these problems andhow we solved them in our programming exam system. Additionally, we describe

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus L. Carter; Amy G. Yuhasz; Misty Loughry; Matthew Ohland

in engineering education. The table below makes the need for work in this area clear.Some instruments have no published validity or reliability testing at all.Instrument Validity testing Reliability testing FormatBESTEAMS None published None published Likert scale, paper-and-pencilTeam Developer™ Trained observers Inter-rater reliability Likert scale, Convergent / discriminant Internal consistency computer-basedThompson Faculty observation None published Not described

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Reynolds; Macy Reynolds

questions that they felt reluctant tostate in class but could communicate easily in an email. By the middle of the term they weremore comfortable saying that they were not understanding a concept and were happy to set up aconvenient time to meet before they got too far behind. Another unanticipated outcome was thatmany improved the tone and content of the emailed journals. Based on anecdotal evidencegathered throughout two semesters, this paper will promote journaling as a key communicationand teaching tool for adjuncts teaching computational classes.IntroductionIn 1997 adjunct faculty represented 47 percent of the teaching staff in universities and up to 60percent in community colleges. In schools of engineering, they hold about 36 percent of

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Baratuci; Angela Linse

Session 3413 Heat Transfer On-Line William B. Baratuci, Angela R. Linse University of Washington Department of Chemical Engineering / Center for Engineering Learning and TeachingIntroductionThis paper describes a project in which the internet was used to deliver a core course in theDepartment of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington (UW). This web-baseddistance-learning section of Transport Processes II, commonly known as “heat transfer,” wasoffered in Spring 2001. The distance

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Cooperstock

demand an unreasonablewhich they are intended for use. While the cognitive amount of attention from the instructor (or skilleddemands on an instructor necessitate a user interface that technician) to be widely accepted by the teachinginvolves minimal interaction and poses minimal distraction, community.we often find that performing a task as simple as playing a This paper describes our response to these problems, whichvideo tape requires over a dozen steps through the has been to augment electronic classrooms in the Faculty ofclassroom control system. Thus, instructors often find the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Yellamraju; Kurt Gramoll

technological changes and shifts in educationalpractices, the education system is challenged with providing increased educational opportunitiesand providing for lifelong learning. However the implementation of such systems has beendifficult due in part to the lack of proper organization and administration by educationinstitutions and student access to the useful programs. Web based learning essentially usesspecial capabilities of the Internet to deliver methods for learning to improve the way thatengineering students can understand engineering principals. This paper discusses an innovativeuse of delivering course content for Static’s and Dynamics over the Internet so that otherinstructors have access to the material and can be used in their own

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Jeruzal; Brenda Henderson; Ahmad Pourmovahed

computer graphics and computer generatedpresentation material.3. The topic was explained in sufficient detail. Experimental Analysis Evaluation1. Ability to apply fundamental concepts.2. Ability to apply error analysis to results.3. Ability to comprehend and discuss results. Design Project Evaluation1. The report included a sufficient discussion of published papers and other resources.2. The report was organized in a clear and logical manner.3. The component or system was described sufficiently using well-designed experiments.4. The appropriate analysis tools were applied in the design.5. The results were interpreted correctly.Table 2. Evaluation forms used in the assessment process. Each

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

Session 3630 The ExCEEd Teaching Workshop: Participants’ Perspective And Assessment Ronald Welch, Janet Baldwin, David Bentler, David Clarke, Shawn Gross, Joseph Hitt United States Military Academy/Roger Williams University/ University of Kentucky/ Clemson University/Villanova UniversityAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of the ExCEEd (Excellence in CivilEngineering Education) Teaching Workshop (ETW) through daily documented thoughts,feelings, and impressions of one team, consisting of four participants with

Conference Session

Engaging Families and Exciting Girls with Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie S. Ivey, University of Memphis; Paul J. Palazolo, University of Memphis

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

attrition from engineering programs. Dr. Ivey et al. received the 2005 Best Research Paper award from the ASEE Midwest Section, and the 2006 award from ASEE Zone III for the preliminary publication from the learning style project. She teaches courses in transportation engineering and engineering statistics and conducts research in the area of sustainable community development and freight modeling. She is a lead faculty instructor for the Herff College of Engineering’s targeted outreach program, Girls Experiencing Engineering, since its inception in 2004, and has also served as program faculty in other co-educational outreach programs. She has experience as a high-school math/science teacher, is the faculty advisor for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janice M. Margle, Pennsylvania State University, Abington; Catherine L. Cohan, Pennsylvania State University; Yu-Chang Hsu, Boise State University; Jill L. Lane, Clayton State University; Amy Freeman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Javier Gomez-Calderon, Penn State University; Dhushy Sathianathan, California State University, Long Beach; Renata S. Engel, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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NSF Grantees

, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Introductory Biography for Amy Freeman Amy L. Freeman is the Assistant Dean of Engineering Diversity at The Pennsylvania State University serving as an advocate for racially underrepresented students and women in Engineering. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Management from Washington State University and com- pleted a Master of Science degree in Architectural Engineering at Penn State. In 2009, she will complete a Ph.D. in Workforce Education at Penn State with a dissertation focusing on underrepresented graduates in technical fields. Along the way, Amy Freeman has served the interests of underrepresented students and the field of Engi

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education and K-12

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University; Runchang Lin, Texas A&M International University; Ramesh Hanumanthgari, Texas A&M International University; Sri Bala Vojjala

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

based on iterative, interactive, and incremental development, where requirementsand solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing and cross-functional teams;i.e., software development and user-experience design of the ViTAS. Also, the researchconsiders that the teams are working cooperatively rather than collaboratively and thiscooperation is implemented via articulation work, meaning that the developers had additionaltasks to ensure that the user-experience design is accomplished. Overall, the paper provides aninsight into a culture where developers and user experience designers work together, addsevidence to support the Agile principle of self-organizing teams and recommends the recognitionof interaction tasks as valuable

Conference Session

Techniques in Improving Mathematics Education in STEM Curricula

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Vandenbussche, Southern Polytechnic State University; Christina R. Scherrer, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Mathematics

UniversitySystem of Georgia, with close to 5000 students enrolled. Many of the students arenontraditional. The school’s mission is to offer both traditional and nontraditional studentsbachelors and masters degrees and continuing professional development in the sciences,engineering, engineering technology, applied liberal arts, business, and professional programs.Despite the technical focus of the degrees at SPSU, typically around 40% of incoming studentsare placed into College Algebra by the university’s mathematics placement exam. Retainingthese underprepared students pursuing engineering or engineering technology degrees atinstitutions similar to this one and providing them with a strong mathematical background is anessential component of increasing

Conference Session

Innovations in Computing Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javad Shakib, DeVry University, Pomona

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Computing & Information Technology

provides support in this respect, this can be realized very easily.However, most real-time Java products and specifications do not follow the requirements ofindustrial control applications; hence, special attention that has to be paid to these aspects isdiscussed. Page 25.194.2This paper is to present a practical teaching module that introduces and exposes Javaprogramming techniques to electronics engineering technology in a junior-level course. It alsoattempts to serve as an innovative way to expose technology students to this difficult topic andgive them the fresh taste of Java programming while having fun learning the IndustrialApplications.1

Conference Session

Assessments, Assessments, and Assessments

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Meredith, Pennsylvania State University, Fayette

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New Engineering Educators

course outcomes have been linked to not only Programoutcomes but also ABET outcomes will be reviewed. While discussing the selection of an appropriate evaluationmethod, I will also discuss some of the topics that do NOT lend themselves to timed tests. Suggestions onalternative methods of evaluation for those topics will be offered.This paper will focus on how to prepare good True/False and Multiple Choice questions to test knowledge andskill. It will also present a simplified version of the method psychometricians use to evaluate the quality of thesetypes of exam questions for both difficulty and discrimination. Since many engineering and technology questionsinvolve calculations, a test evaluation method that works for me will be discussed. This

Conference Session

Understanding Our Students I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna F. DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Kathryn W. Jablokow, Penn State University; Sven G. Bilen, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Andras Gordon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Educational Research and Methods

dispersed environment. Page 25.1310.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Impact of Cognitive Style on Concept Mapping: Visualizing Variations in the Structure of IdeasAbstractThe aim of this exploratory study was to determine whether any links exist between cognitivestyle and the ways in which students organize their ideas in concept maps. In particular, 77undergraduate and 51 graduate engineering students completed separate concept maps based on“common knowledge” topics and relevant engineering course topics, respectively; this paper willfocus on the

Conference Session

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph A. Wright, University of Wisconsin, Stout

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Construction

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Integration of Building Information Modeling and Integrated Project Delivery into the Construction Management CurriculumIntroductionThe requirements of a construction program accredited by the American Council forConstruction Education (ACCE) encourages the inclusion of the latest best practice in theconstruction industry through the integration of the construction process throughout thecurriculum. The purpose of this paper is to explore the current best practice of BuildingInformation Modeling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), to discuss avenues for theintegration of such knowledge into an undergraduate program in construction, and to exploreways in which BIM and

Conference Session

Capstone and International Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard S. Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; William C. Barott, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Salamah Salamah, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

unfamiliarity of students withconcepts of other disciplines, and the lack of students’ awareness of the hands-on nature ofcapstone courses and the expectations associated with these courses. Also, the unfamiliarity ofinstructors with the abilities, work ethics, and personal issues of the current cohort of studentswithin the class makes it harder to assign students to teams.This paper introduces the notion of Mini-Projects within a capstone course as applied forstudents in the Department of Electrical, Computer, Software, and Systems Engineering atEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Mini-Projects are small projects that aim at introducingstudents to basic concepts of different engineering disciplines, while at the same time provideinstructors with

Conference Session

Ethics and Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christa Walck, Michigan Technological University; Jacqueline E. Huntoon, Michigan Technological University; Jim R. Baker, Michigan Technological University; Jean S. DeClerck, Michigan Technological University; Nora Allred, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Ethics

internal evaluator for the project. She conducts applied research in the areas of science and engineering education, as well as basic research in the geosciences.Dr. James R. Baker, Michigan Technological University Jim Baker is Executive Director of Innovation and Industry Engagement at Michigan Technological University, with responsibilities including industrial sponsored research contracting, technology trans- fer, startup business development, and corporate philanthropy. In addition to the intellectual property ethics module described in this paper, he also teaches undergraduate courses on technology commercial- ization and intellectual property law. Baker is a licensed Patent Agent and holds a Ph.D. in environmental

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Mumtaz Usmen; John Raad; Haluk Aktan

Session 1526 A Laboratory for Non Destructive Evaluation of Civil Structures John Raad, Haluk Aktan, Mumtaz Usmen NSF ASEE/Wayne State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the modifications made to the civil engineering materials laboratory courseto include non destructive testing procedures. The materials course is required in theundergraduate program and taken at the junior level. The materials course as it was offeredprimarily covered the design and properties of Portland cement concrete, steel and asphalticconcrete. Additionally, testing for the properties of wood, plastics and

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Bowe; Daniel Jensen

working on a reverse engineering /redesign project. During this half of the semester, 75% of the lectures now have asignificant hands-on component. The primary purpose of this paper is to report on theeffectiveness of this hands-on content. In addition, we will provide an overview of thedivision of the course into redesign and original design sections. The primaryassessment tool being used is a survey which students fill out after each lecture. Eachstudent survey took approximately a minute to complete and was designed todifferentiate between four things: 1) student’s interest in that lecture’s subject matter, 2)that day’s learning experience, 3) their ability to apply material covered that day and 4)their interest in exploring that lecture’s