Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Global Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christan Whysong, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

trade of transgeniccrops. Because Europe has strict labeling laws, the United States may not be able to sell itsherbicide-resistant corn to Spain.Analyzing ethical case studiesAlthough fundamental moral theories are important, students must also be presented with basicmethods for analyzing ethical situations which can be used as important tools throughout life.Similar to flowcharting, a concept map was introduced as one of these analysis tools. A conceptmap is a diagram connecting concepts with labeled arrows, in a branching structure andrelationships between concepts are often expressed utilizing linking phrases. To create aflowchart or concept map, the student analyzes each possible decision that could be made givenan example. The student can

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Engineering Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

characterized by a focus on technologyfamiliar to the students in their everyday life, use of visual and graphical explanationssuch as concept maps, and inclusion of information that helps to establish a sense ofempowerment upon understanding the technology. Incorporating this “how things work”approach into introduction to engineering will help achieve engineers that exhibit“practical ingenuity,” and an ability to communicate technical issues to non-engineers,two critical attributes of the Engineer of 2020 as identified by the National Academy ofEngineering. This work suggests that the visual and concept map approach is analogousto the engineering design technique of functional analysis or functional decomposition.Functional analysis provides a

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in Student Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Peterson, Lamar University; David Cocke, Lamar University; Jewel Gomes, Lamar University; Hector Casillas, Lamar University; Morgan Reed, Lamar University; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

havebeen produced that examine the learning process at greater depths. Commencing mid-20thcentury, Bloom’s Taxonomy11, has been widely used to illustrate levels of learning. Nearly threedecades later, Kolb12 furthered Dewey’s idea of a cyclic learning process by incorporatingpreferred modes for perceiving and processing information, and grounding it in experience.Teaching and learning styles have been examined with a motivation to provide a better matchbetween these and improve engineering education13-18. The upshot today is to make available more content in our curricula to which access isguided by interlinked multidimensional concepts19. Concept mapping, developed by Novak20 atCornell University in the 1960s, as being expanded by our

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in undergraduate and graduate programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University; Zachry Kraus, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Froyd, Texas A&M University; Jean Layne, Texas A&M University; Mahmoud El-Halwagi, Texas A&M University; Charles Glover, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Reactive US-S Nonreactive Molecular species balances S-S Nonreactive Figure 4. Results on the Conservation of Mass Concept Inventory Administered as a Pre-TestClassroom Assessment ActivitiesIn addition, students have participated in an in-class activity of concept mapping. Student teamsof four were given 30 material balances concepts to be mapped together. Students enjoyed theactivity and every team member participated enthusiastically. Concept mapping helped us tofurther diagnose student misconceptions in CoM. Rather than reproduce the concept maps thatthe students created, we have distilled their maps into more compact representations. In thecompact representation

Conference Session

Potpourri Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Titus-Becker, North Carolina State University; Sarah Rajala, Mississippi State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University; Jo-Ann Cohen, North Carolina State University; Kala Bullett, North Carolina State University; Susan Grant, North Carolina State University; Fay Cobb Payton, North Carolina State University; Adrianna Kirkman, North Carolina State University; Barbara Kirby, North Carolina State University; Wendy Krause, North Carolina State University; Carrie Thomas, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

methods implemented when theVillage first began. Table 1: Program and participant goals for the WISE program WISE Participant Goals Evaluation Methods Begin to develop an identity as an Administer Pittsburgh Attitude Survey (Pre-and engineer, mathematician or scientist Post-); Additional customized surveys, concept mapping Meet women with common interests Conduct focus groups semi-annually and build lasting friendships Increase self-awareness through Administer gender identity instrument acknowledging personal strengths (BEM Sex Role Inventory

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 2

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

should be applied duringthis step and more than one conceptual design solution should always beevaluated. At this point, any and all ideas, no matter how radical, should beconsidered. Brainstorming sessions are an effective process for a team ofstudents to create and evaluate different design concepts. Conceptualdesigns require students to identify and acquire the knowledge or skillsnecessary to translate functional requirements into physical specifications.This gives students the opportunity to practice their self-directed learningskills.Conceptual design solutions can be developed by utilizing concept mapping techniques tosketch out the physical structure of a design solution7. Concept maps provide a visualframework for guiding creative out-of

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Portfolio Assessment,Concept Maps and Freewriting. In the portfolio assessment, students were given portfolioassignments to include all iterations of the design specifications in reverse engineering acomputer disk and a final specification along with detailed text. These assignments wereevaluated using a rubric which has a set of six criteria and students were rated on a five pointscale. In the Concept Map assessment technique, students were asked to list all words they couldassociate with the concept design on their first day of class, and then to map those words into astructure showing links and relationships. The same procedure was repeated at the conclusion ofthe course and the baseline maps were compared to the end of term maps. In the

Conference Session

Optical and Wireless Communication Systems

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Caverly, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

. Page 12.435.6 Figure 4 Concept map showing the topic flow for design of RF circuits with an emphasis on MOS circuit technology for high mixed signal integration.AcknowledgementThis material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.0203459. A special note of thanks to Dr. Carol Weiss of VITAL (Villanova Institute forTeaching and Learning) for assistance with course and track sequence assessment.References[1] “2006 Update: Radio Frequency and Analog/Mixed Signal Technologies for Wireless Communications”,International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, http://www.itrs.net/, 2006[2] "Introducing Undergraduate Research Results in RF Microelectronics into the Undergraduate ECE Curriculum",R

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Wang, University of Nevada-Reno; Jeffrey LaCombe, University of Nevada-Reno; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada-Reno

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

are essentially open-ended (design) problems that the students must build and program a robot to solve. During theweeks in which a design challenge is held, students bring their robotic designs to class and areevaluated based on performance, creativity and the content of their programs. Students are givenat least one week to design, build, program, and test their designs. About half of the designchallenges are in the form of robot competitions. The course culminates in a final robot battle.A concept map (Figure 3) was developed to summarize the activities for the semester. Theconcept map indicated the seven skills required for the final competition (indicated in 2nd row ofboxes), the design challenges which were used to assess the skills

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianno Coller, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

group of students who took more tradi-tional non-game-based numerical methods courses from four different instructors at two differentuniversities.Since different instructors emphasize different techniques, and since they motivate the materialdifferently, it is difficult to devise an objective test that could be used to distinguish the two groupsof learners. Therefore, rather than test students on specific course content, we asked them to tellus, in the form of a concept map, what they learned in their numerical methods course.The purpose of the exercise is to get a snapshot of the structure of students’ knowledge of the coursematerial within the last two weeks of the semester, before they typically begin studying for finals.As Chi et al.9

Conference Session

BME Assessment and the VaNTH ERC

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Schreiner, Western New England College; Judy Cezeaux, Western New England College; Diane Testa, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

, attitudinalsurveys, open-ended surveys and structured student interviews, focus groups, competencymeasurements via surveys, student journals, concept maps, verbal protocol analysis, intellectualdevelopment, and authentic assessment4. Many of these measures require additional resourcesfrom the program to implement surveys and assess portfolios that are beyond the scope of thestudent’s coursework. To simplify the process, we decided to utilize as many measures thatalready existed within our curriculum that provide a direct assessment of a particular outcome.These measures are therefore derived mainly from exams, quizzes, homework, and reports. Anadditional benefit to this approach is that the faculty is inherently directly involved in theassessment system

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deniz Gurkan, University of Houston; Alan Mickelson, University of Colorado at Boulder; Driss Benhaddou, University of Houston

] Driss Benhaddou, Deniz Gurkan, Harshita Kodali, Ed McKenna, Alan Mickelson and Frank Barnes,``Online Laboratory for Optical Circuits Courses: Effective Concept Mapping,'' in Proceedings of the 2006ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, 2006.[3] Richard Franzl, Deniz Gurkan, Driss Benhaddou and Alan Mickelson, ``E-Learning Laboratories forOptical Circuits: Separation of Imperfections in Technology and Teaching Methodologies,'' in Proceedingsof The 2006 IJME – INTERTECH Conference, 2006. Page 12.1114.19

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Venkata Seshada Aluri, University of Arkansas; Javed Alam, Youngstown State University; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

this is in agreement with themechanics of materials solution. Figure 6: Sample view of prototype e-Simulation webpage showing the simply supported beam deflection created during half-symmetry finite element analysis.Dissemination of FEMur The discussed FEM general resources and Finite Element Method Learning environmentare a part of bigger effort to develop the open access Finite Element Method universal resource.They are integrated into the FEMur website using Macromedia Dreamweaver. The sitemap ofthe FEMur website is created based on concept map using the open sources software Cmap toolsof HCMI for easy access to various sections of FEMur site.Conclusion and Future Work In this work, an attempt to develop the e

Conference Session

Service-Learning in Developing Communities

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Wittig, City College of the City University of New York

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

solution and justify why certain approachesare better than other, and develop diagrams, lists, and concept maps to support and illustrate thedesign to the larger group. Page 12.1184.6Group report and whole class discussion: Each design team compiles a written report andpresentation which identifies the problem, the considered methods of solution, available data,design assumptions, material specifications, and the final design complete with quantity ofmaterials and tools needed to implement the design. Before permission to travel is granted, thereport must be reviewed and approved by the EWB-USA technical advisory committee, and thestudents must

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Durward Sobek, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Meuse focused on general teamwork skills in their computer-based “TeamDeveloper.”3 For assessment related to their interdisciplinary certificate in productrealization, the University of Pittsburgh uses The Team Developer, but also uses astudent course evaluation, concept maps, and a project scoring rubric. The rubric is usedby industry and academic judges and has four primary areas and 12 elements, includingproject goals, creativity and innovation, prototype, organization and clarity of the oralpresentation, and ability to answer questions.4 Another rubric was developed at ColoradoSchool of Mines to assess their Engineering Projects in Service (EPICS) final reports.5Others have recommended using pre- and post- student questionnaires as well as

Conference Session

Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

associated with taking charge of the discourseassociated with one’s own professional identity. Page 12.1608.6The issue of agency and the discomfort it can create is latent in the above passage, in that thestudent is finding she needs to make a choice about how to best represent the strength of heraffiliation with engineering. The passage below suggests a different type of discomfort, adiscomfort that stems from asking a difficult question.Q. Just generally how did you make your portfolio? I meanyou've got a concept map there about processes, what was theprocess that you went through in making your portfolio?A. Uh, I I started with, um, what

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Switzer, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

software and hardware that person used, or she mightsketch out a concept map of the book to make sure she has a solid understanding of the contentshe will need to include. The higher her expectation that she can successfully write the book, thehigher her motivation will be. According to VIE Theory, all three elements must be present for motivation to exist. Fora person to want to perform a behavior, the behavior must be associated with one or more goals,and there must be some expected valance (value coming from the behavior itself and/or one ormore of the goals), and there must be instrumentality (belief that the behavior does contribute tothe progress toward the goals), and there must be expectancy (belief that the behavior is withinthe

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane Brown; Devlin Montfort; Kip Findley

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

ideal gas law, Part II: A microscopic perspective," American Journal of Physics, vol. 73, pp. 1064- 1071, 2005.[11] P. S. Steif, "Comparison Between Performance on a Concept Inventory and Solving of Multifaceted Problems," in ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Boulder, CO, 2003.[12] L. C. McDermott, Physics by Inquiry vol. I & II. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996.[13] A. A. diSessa, "Toward an Epistemology of Physics," Cognition and Instruction, vol. 10, pp. 105- 225, 1993.[14] J. Turns, C. J. Atman, and R. Adams, "Concept Maps for Engineering Education: A Cognitively Motivated Tool Supporting Varied Assessment Functions," IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 43, pp. 164-173, 2000

Conference Session

Cognitive and Motivational Issues in Student Performance II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Froyd, Texas A&M University; Larissa Pchenitchnaia, Texas A&M University; Debra Fowler, Texas A&M University; Nancy Simpson, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

interactions change if the decision maker shifts focus among natural science, social science, humanities or combinations of the three.‚ Given the context of a design challenge and an identified system, identify various system components and describe interactions among the system componentsBloom’s Level: Analyze (deconstruct, organize, break into parts…)‚ Given the context of a design challenge, create a concept map that depicts the system parts, its boundary, its environment, and the relationships among them.‚ Create a chart that illustrates the effect of at least two decisions on the parts of the system and the interactions among the parts.‚ Describe how interactions between the system and its environment might influence decisions made in

Collection

2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel

analysis, a qualitative research tool, Qualrus from Ideaworks, was utilized. Itallowed coding of texts and multimedia materials (including the drawings) and provided avariety of tools in the development of theory out of data, including a concept-mapping tool.E. Results and DiscussionThe findings of the first study can be structured into two areas: (1) problem solving processesand (2) reflections and extensions of the design theory of problem solving. 1) Problem solving processes: The two projects could be broadly categorized as a designand troubleshooting problem in the process of setting up a steel mill and adjusting the steel millconfigurations for different needs. However, several aspects emerged that put the preliminarycategorization of