Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica R. McCormick, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Beverly Radloff, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Nancy Lamm, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Terri L. Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

school’s student council. She received her Bachelor’s in General Studies and M.S. in Adult Education at IUPUI. She is currently working on her dissertation toward an Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration at Indiana University. Page 22.1172.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Preparing Engineering Graduates for the Real-World: The Butler University and Indiana-University Purdue-University Indianapolis Joint Engineering Dual Degree ProgramAbstractEngineers of today must understand the social, political

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eckehard Doerry, Northern Arizona University; Bridget N. Bero, Northern Arizona University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2011-222: MAKING IT REAL: SCALING UP INTERDISCIPLINARYDESIGN TO MODEL REAL-WORLD ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEUR-SHIPEckehard Doerry, Northern Arizona University Eck Doerry is an associate professor of Computer Science at Northern Arizona University. His research interests fall within the broad area on ”Groupware support for Online Groups”, with active research in portal-based tools to support distributed scientific communities, groupware tools to support small, dis- tributed engineering design teams, and distance education tools and environments. He has been a long- time advocate of realistic, interdisciplinary team design projects as a key element in engineering educa- tion, and has been managing advanced project

Conference Session

Female Faculty, Learning, NSF, and ABET Issues at Two-Year Colleges

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas Massa, Springfield Technical Community College; Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University; Judith F. Donnelly, Three Rivers Community-Technical College; Fenna D. Hanes, New England Board of Higher Education

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Two Year College Division

AC 2011-1769: CREATING REAL-WORLD PROBLEM-BASED LEARN-ING CHALLENGES IN SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES TO INCREASETHE STEM PIPELINENicholas Massa, Springfield Technical Community College Nicholas Massa is a full professor in the Laser Electro-Optics Technology Department at Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, MA. He holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Western New England College and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership/Adult Learning from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Massa is currently Co-Principal Investigator on the NSF-ATE STEM PBL Project of the New England Board of Higher Education.Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University Michele Dischino is an assistant

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Preparing Students for the Real World

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eugene Barsky, University of British Columbia; Annette Berndt, University of British Columbia; Aleteia Greenwood, University of British Columbia; Carla S Paterson, University of British Columbia

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Engineering Libraries

behaviours among the undergraduate engineering population. Thisliterature forms the backdrop to our study.Information-Seeking Behaviour of StudentsErcegovac 2 have confirmed findings by Kerins, Madden & Fulton 1 that students in general tendto “prefer quick, easy, and convenient” sources (e.g. Internet search engines, friends), makingaccessibility of information and ease of use key issues. Evidence also suggests that the issue ofsalience, “the perceived applicability of information to a problem that [the student] faces” 3, alsobecomes a key factor in information-seeking behaviour.Several studies that looked at the information habits of undergraduates suggest that Google,Google Scholar (GS) and Wikipedia are the students’ “discovery tools of

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Preparing Students for the Real World

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patsy Hulse, University of Auckland; Dahlia Dantang Han, University Auckland, Engineering Library; Emil Melnichenko, University of Auckland; Susan Brookes, University of Auckland, Engineering Library

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Engineering Libraries

AC 2011-589: IT’S A WRAP: A REAL-LIFE ENGINEERING CASE STUDYAS THE FOCUS OF AN ONLINE LIBRARY TUTORIALPatsy Hulse, University of Auckland Patsy Hulse, University of Auckland. Patsy Hulse is the Engineering Library Manager and Civil and En- vironmental Subject Librarian at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Patsy has an undergraduate degree in German and History and a postgraduate library qualification. She has been in her current posi- tion for 20 years and prior to this was in the Cataloguing and Acquisitions Departments in the University of Auckland Library for many years. She is a member of the New Zealand Library and Information Asso- ciation Professional Registration Board. She has travelled to 93

Conference Session

Pedagogical Issues in Computing

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tumkor Serdar, Stevens Institute of Technology; El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven K. Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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Computers in Education

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Educational Use of Virtual Worlds for Engineering StudentsAbstractOne possible way for increasing student motivation is using computer software and simulations,such as a game-based learning and training platform. There already exist many web-basedlearning games, which may be based on pre-defined interaction scenarios. In recent years, suchinteractions have occurred in virtual worlds, where the users of these virtual worlds (avatars)debate, negotiate, simulate the consequences of various scenarios and solve simplified real-worldproblems. This virtual setting may provide an effective learning experience for students, and itmay also capture and hold their attention. Virtual worlds

Conference Session

Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Ida O'Connor, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Linda Young, MSOE School of Nursing; John D. Gassert, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Biomedical

developingcountries and share their abilities by building healthier communities on a global scale. As a team,members have created an environment where students can put their skills to use and challengethemselves to try new things, experience different cultures, and develop a new world view. Withthe experiences provided by HWB, students have the opportunity to explore even further than“beyond the classroom” and discover ways they can contribute to global welfare by applyingtheir education to real world needs. HWB promotes goodwill and understanding between allareas of the world, and provides an equal opportunity to all those interested in making adifference in worldwide health care

Conference Session

Hardware Applications

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven F. Barrett, University of Wyoming; Amos L. Purdy; Cameron H. G. Wright P.E., University of Wyoming

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Computers in Education

with the release of the secondedition.Laboratory Exercise Development Approach To get practical experience, the graduate student interned with Infinity Power andControl of Rock Springs, Wyoming. This company is an industrial controls company that workswith oil and natural gas companies, such as British Petroleum (BP) and Shell, to installmonitoring and control systems on drilling platforms. The following is the graduate student’sreview of the internship: “Working as an intern at Infinity, I learned real world applications of industrial controls. The first month I got acquainted with the field work and installation of industrial controllers. My work entailed installing the wiring for the control system from start to

Collection

2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Victoria Schuele; Ronald Edwards; Don Gillich; Andrew Kovanen; Brian Moretti

project sponsor at the end of the year. Additionally,cadets give a poster presentation at USMA’s annual Project’s Day held during the Springsemester each year.ConclusionThe pyroelectric crystal accelerator at West Point provides the cadets in the Department ofPhysics and Nuclear Engineering a unique opportunity for outside the classroom, discoverylearning. Cadets can apply classroom skills to real world applications while gaining valuableresearch, critical thinking, and problem solving skills. This project will help them to be moreproductive in future academic endeavors as well as in future career fields.1. Naranjo, B., Gimzewski, J.K., and Putterman, S., “Observation of Nuclear Fusion Driven by a Pyroelectric Crystal”, Letters to Nature

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in ECE

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Peyton Jones, Villanova University; Connor W. McArthur, Villanova University; Tyler A. Young, Villanova University

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Electrical and Computer

have the potential to transform the use of robotics or otherembedded applications in education, enabling students to undertake more complex andchallenging problems while focusing on the high-level pedagogical goals rather than low levelissues.In this paper, a new rapid prototyping toolbox, the Villanova University LEGO Real Time target(VU-LRT) is presented. The toolbox enables high-level designs coded in the Matlab/Simulinkenvironment to be automatically cross-compiled for execution on the low-cost but remarkablycapable LEGO MindStorms NXT brick. The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discussestarget hardware selection, as well as software alternatives, rapid prototyping tools and the choiceof the Simulink design environment for this

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith E. Hedges, Drury University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

.   Overall Significance of the StudyCivil engineering education strives for broader exposure to the humanities and social sciences.This course enlisted topics such as Haitian history and political structures which are inside thefoundational knowledge areas of the humanities and social sciences, respectively. This classroomexperience places the students, “In a position to understand the physical world and the behaviorsof its inhabitants.”[25] The student outcomes of scholarly papers, posters, and presentationsillustrate the importance and incorporation of the humanities and social sciences. The courseoutcomes demonstrate the knowledge, comprehension, and application levels of achievement ina manner that is coupled with technical content. In

Conference Session

Project-Based, Inquiry Guided, and High Performance Learning Environments: Effective Approaches

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph J. Biernacki, Tennessee Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

students (about 1/3) thinkthat course/lab related teams are a “simulation,” that is, they are not actually real teams. Forclarity, a “simulation” is a depiction of reality, not reality; the equivalent of play acting orinteracting with a computer game; it’s World of Warcraft *, not really war; if you get killed in asimulation, you don’t really die. If we want students to be prepared to perform well on teamsfrom day-one on the job, we must not permit students to think that course/lab related teams aresimulations or to treat them as such. The following discovery-based team training strategy is anattempt to change this and other ineffective classroom teamwork perceptions

Conference Session

Topics Related to Telecommunications

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washinton University

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Engineering Technology

signal. For the two-computer model, the computer set fortransmission can have an iPod (or a microphone) connected into its mic input and the headphoneoutput will have the transmitted data. This data should be connected into the mic input of theother computer designated as the receiver. 3. Setup as a ReceiverWhen two PCs are available, the second can be assigned as the receiver and must be connectedto the transmitter through a wired line. A simplified version of the lab is to use a single computerhaving a transmitter and a receiver. However, it is a more proper setup to utilize two PCs as thetransmitter/receiver model mimicking a real-world communication environment. The computerset as a receiver must have the code shown in Figure 2

Conference Session

Computer Science Applications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Li, Northern Arizona University

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Computers in Education

objectives. Section 3describes the practice-oriented methodologies in details focusing on several selectedsample projects. Section 4 presents student assessment methodology, the assessmentfindings, and selected course evaluations. Finally, concluding remarks along withdirections for future improvements are presented in Section 5.2. Course Outcome and ObjectivesData mining is an elective Computer Science course taken by juniors and seniors inComputer Science at Northern Arizona University (NAU). The overall course outcome isoutlined in the syllabus as “Successful completion of this course will provide a studentwith the necessary skills to design basic data mining algorithms to solve a variety of real-world applications.” In Fall 2010, we offered this

Conference Session

Computer Science Applications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan J. Meuth, University of Advancing Technology

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Computers in Education

thesedemonstrations are clearly beneficial, as they serve to both break the monotony of an endlessstream of theory and equations, and to tie symbols to real-world phenomena, solidifying theirmeaning in the minds of pupils.5Hands-on laboratory work is highly regarded as a method for reinforcing learning by exposing Page 22.1648.2students to real-world applications and interactions. This is particularly important in theengineering disciplines, as there is a great deal of engineering culture that surrounds theoreticalphenomena under study (e.g. resistor color codes, the use of compilers and tools, etc.). Theseinitially mystifying and often confusing conventions

Conference Session

Faculty Tools

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles J Lesko Jr., East Carolina University

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Computers in Education

taken advantage of thetechnology‟s capabilities including social presence, persistence and the visual presentation of thevirtual environment. Emphasis has focused on the visual presentation or building out theseenvironments for pedagogical deployment in an effort to develop virtual classroom and meetingspaces that not only replace the actual real world academic experiences, but also maximize theinherent unique functionalities that the new VW provides. Yet once the spaces are in place therecomes the need to communicate course content; there inlays the impetus behind a growinginterest in the use of VW environments as delivery media for presenting content bothsynchronously and asynchronously.This case covered the course delivery involving three

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Komives, San Jose State University; Moira M. Walsh, Independent Scholar

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2011-2571: APPLICATION OF CLASSICAL REALIST PHILOSOPHYPRINCIPLES TO ENGINEERING ETHICSClaire Komives, San Jose State University Claire Komives earned her Ph.D. degree at the University of Pittsburgh in Chemical Engineering. She worked at DuPont Research and Development before starting at San Jose State University, where she is currently an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering. She teaches Process Safety and Ethics currently. She took an interest in ethics when teaching a freshmen seminar course, Biotechnology and Ethics. Her research interests are in whole cell bioprocesses and biochemical engineering education. Moira Walsh received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1998, where

Conference Session

Industrial Collaboration and Applications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Technology

real time, enabled by online learning software.Due to the rapid changes in the technological world, faculty involved in teaching must keepinformed of advances in technology currently used in the industry. On the other hand, industrywants to have qualified and well-educated employees who are ready to implement theirknowledge on day one of their employment. As a result, while academia needs to be fully awareof the current state-of-the-art knowledge requirements: industry must be driving the curriculumdevelopment. We intend to strengthen an existing link between the University and industry inorder to stay current. This partnership is a “two-way street” and advantageous for both parties.ConclusionAcademic programs in the School of Technology

Conference Session

Industrial Collaboration and Applications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Niaz Latif, Purdue University, Calumet; Nick L. Wilson, Morrison Container Handling Solutions

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Engineering Technology

committed to 70 internship slots for the students. Internship inindustry augments students learning by providing real life experience in an environment that thestudent will encounter after graduation Page 22.864.8Student success at the national level design competition The program has 23 students as of Fall 2010. Two years in a row, students from theprogram participated at the national design competition sponsored by PMMI. In 2009, at thePACK Expo in Las Vegas, PMMI introduced the first-ever competition, which required collegestudent teams to address a unique, real-world packaging challenge. Through a member of theDEC, the institution was

Conference Session

Industrial Collaboration and Applications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Joanne E. DeGroat, Ohio State University

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Engineering Technology

]. Page 22.333.7New Course 2: Topics in Programmable Logic Design ( 3 Cr hrs, Class 2 hrs, Lab 2 hrs)Course ObjectivesDue to industry’s increased demand for FPGA designers, the intention of this course is to givestudents real-world experience in FPGA logic design and give them the necessary training withdesign tools widely used in industry. Tools used will include Altera’s Quartus® II developmentsoftware and FPGA design implementation on Altera’s DE2 FPGA evaluation board. The long-term objective of this course is to provide a learning opportunity that will result in researchactivities focused on FPGA design. This research will provide more in-depth training for seniorstudents and engage undergraduate students in applied research

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsheen Mozammel, Purdue University, Calumet; Lash B. Mapa, Purdue University, Calumet; Susan Scachitti, Purdue University, Calumet

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Engineering Technology

from real-world laboratory experiences. The MS degree program in the School ofTechnology offers applied job-related skills and professional growth opportunities that makestudents very appealing to future employers1. This degree requires that all students conduct adirected project as a requirement for graduation. The directed project is an applied researchproject that is more extensive and sophisticated than a graduate-level independent study and lessformal than a master’s thesis. The overall objective of the requirement is to engage each graduatestudent in a study, typically industry or business focused, which is sufficiently involved as torequire more than one semester to conceive, conduct, and report. The focus is to be placed on atopic with

Conference Session

Computer Science and Information Technology in K-12 Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura E. LeMire, Community College of Baltimore County

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

meaningful to astudent’s personal experience. It is easier for them to relate to how a city or a bridge isconstructed than an abstract geometry problem or even a science experiment. Engineering is aproblem-solving discipline that through iteration, experimentation, inquiry and research cancapture the interest of a student.5Project Lead the Way Project Lead the Way is a not-for-profit organization that has developed pre-engineeringcourses for middle and high school students and provides training to teachers who deliver thecurriculum. Students are offered real-world learning in a variety of areas, including engineering,biomechanics, aeronautics, and other applied math and science areas. Started in 1997 with ahandful of New York schools, PLTW

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University; Chyna Kristin Vaughn

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Systems Engineering

systems engineering graduate levelcurriculum. This helps students understand and embed the efficient processes and proceduresinto real world problems. Students are tasked to pick a few tools and use them to address a reallife problem. The tools used in this study include requirements analysis, conformance,architecture development, and standards identification, use case analysis, analysis of alternativesand others. This process encourages learning the implementation of systems engineering in aneducational environment. This technique of educating students not only helps them learn andretain the material, but it also helps address important issues. It provides a broad systemsperspective to domain specific problems. Problem

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul G. Flikkema, Northern Arizona University; Kenji Ryan Yamamoto, Northern Arizona University; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont; Tom Weller, University of South Florida

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Electrical and Computer

is a real-world problem. We’ll see something similar to this control systemafter graduation. The thought process learned from this project will apply.” Another stated,“This is a fairly realistic controls problem with the same types of issues hitting on interactions.There are multiple noise sources and we have to consider everything and then decide what wecan deal with and what we can’t.” Related to this, students appreciated having a “physicalsystem” to work with instead of “only numbers or data on a screen” and the opportunity to applywhat they had learned from other PWM systems.Additionally, they felt that the approach of building and testing parts of a system first beforebringing them together in the final project was applicable to how

Conference Session

Structural Education Applications in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pyo-Yoon Hong, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Architectural

between the textbook solutions, which are generally in 2-dimensional planes, and the real-world physical phenomenon. Brief qualitative solutions aregiven by the instructor about the deviation to quench possible curiosity. Page 22.1362.8Implementation of Comprehension Model – Hello, Reality Small-scale modeling, balsa wood truss contests and plate girder contests were found to be the most effective and yet enjoyable. These components have received the strongest supports from the students in the evaluations and surveys. The experimental performance data and team presentation material have been documented every

Conference Session

Structural Education Applications in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead MacNamara, Syracuse University

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Architectural

extract the besttechnical help possible from their team. To this end, a solid grasp of the fundamentals ofstructural engineering is vital. An intuitive understanding of structural engineeringgrounded in real world examples is vital to inculcate structural innovation in architecturestudent’s future work. Using historical precedent is an extraordinarily powerful way to dothis. It provides a framework for how structural innovation has happened in the past and apresents a rubric for how bowing to the physical forces at play and activating the capacityof the material in question can lead to efficiency and elegance of form. It is particularlyimportant to use historical precedents that represent the very best and most innovativeexamples of structural

Conference Session

Structural Education Applications in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cole C. McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Graham C. Archer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Blake A. Roskelley, CYS Structural Engineers, Inc.

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Architectural

any given earthquake, the rigid and semi-rigid diaphragm models could produce largevariations in base shear. However, since the design spectrum in the code represents the predictedeffect of any future earthquake and both models predicted a relatively high natural frequency,there was negligible difference in the two base shear values. Their predicted story drifts wereunder-predicted in the rigid diaphragm models by 200-300%. However the semi-rigiddiaphragm model results were still within the limits prescribed by the code.Conclusions - Lessons LearnedThis exercise provided the students with a hands-on learning environment that challenged themto apply concepts and techniques from several courses to one practical, real-world case study.The

Conference Session

Structural Education Applications in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead MacNamara, Syracuse University

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Architectural

, Georgia Tech) that introduced design thinking through project-based learning in their first year programs.3 Most of these schools reported a positiveimpact on retention for those students who had taken some form of first year“cornerstone” engineering design course. Dym et al further argue that such courses havea positive impact on student interest and performance in later engineering courses.Capstone design courses at the end of engineering programs likewise represent an Page 22.1145.2opportunity for students to take both design work and a whole real world structure. Intheir other courses however the common engineering teaching paradigm divides

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cherrice Traver, Union College; Douglass Klein, Union College; Borjana Mikic, Smith College; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Ari W. Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Gillette, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

develop experience and comfort with riskand uncertainty. Interaction with technology developers in incubators, with entrepreneurs, withcommunity members as customers, and with real-world applications motivates students.d. Programs that Span the Curriculum – While many reforms necessarily focus on existingengineering degree programs, wiping the slate clean and proposing entirely new programs isanother model that should be studied for its potential to transform engineering education.Examples include existing prototype projects that result in engineering programs built arounddesign, innovation, and Grand Challenge problems, multi-disciplinary learning communities, andintegrated dual-majors. These projects integrate engineering and the liberal arts

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda M. Head, Rowan University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Integrated CurriculumIntroduction and BackgroundThere have for many years been efforts to bridge the gap between educational experiences inengineering and the liberal arts and sciences. Such efforts typically take the form of coursesdesigned to promote technological literacy for liberal arts majors, or courses designed toencourage engineering or science majors to consider the social and political implications of theirprofessions.Technological literacy for non-technology majors has been addressed in a variety of ways. Onevery popular version is to provide a course for students, early in their collegiate career, to learnan engineering application that has direct relevance to their lives. This approach has been used atYale University in the course