Conference Session

Engineering in Middle Schools

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Schnittka, University of Virginia; Larry Richards, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

on a well-defined set of concepts in science. All lesson plans include a final designchallenge. The middle school students must use the scientific and mathematical knowledge andmethods they have learned to design, build, and test a working artifact to achieve a goal.Teachers felt that improvements could be made with each kit to enhance student engagement andlearning, and some teachers enacted changes during their course of teaching with the kit.Teachers perceived that all three kits increased students’ engagement and learning in science.Students enjoyed each of the three kits, thought learning with them was fun, and understood theteachers’ learning objectives. Students thought that the best part of the entire unit was the designand

Conference Session

Tools of the Trade

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Niewoehner, U.S. Naval Academy; Craig Steidle, US Naval Academy; Eric Johnson, US Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

damage the strike might have caused,Intercenter Photo Working Group members alerted senior Program managers by phoneand sent a digitized clip of the strike to hundreds of NASA personnel via e-mail. Theseactions initiated a contingency plan that brought together an interdisciplinary group ofexperts from NASA, Boeing, and the United Space Alliance to analyze the strike. Soconcerned were Intercenter Photo Working Group personnel that on the day theydiscovered the debris strike, they tapped their Chair, Bob Page, to see through a requestto image the left wing with Department of Defense assets in anticipation of analystsneeding these images to better determine potential damage. By the Board’s count, thiswould be the first of three requests to secure

Conference Session

Creative Engagement and Developmental Tutoring Method

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Walden, University of Oklahoma; Cindy Foor, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Conference Session

Academic Boot Camp

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorja Kimball, Texas Engineering Experiment Station; Bryan Cole, Texas A&M University; Margaret Hobson, Texas Engineering Experiment Station; Karan Watson, Texas A&M University; Christine Stanley, Texas A&M Univeristy

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

cumulative grade point average(CGPA). The largest number of students 887, or 76%, completed CBK requirements andprogressed to upper division status in either two or three semesters. These results align with thedegree plans of the five TAMU Engineering majors in this study, which allocate approximatelythree semesters for completion of CBK. Figure 1: Number of Students per Semester Progression to Upper Division Status by Completion of CBK 600 500 477 400 410 300 Number 200

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Benitez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Juan Jimenez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Yesenia Cruz, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Marta Rosa, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Alexandra Medina-Borja, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

method Page 12.1159.5Before choosing a strategic teaching method, faculty need to understand the way the brain solvesmost design engineering problems. Within any strategic plan for engineering, various tactics areavailable including design methods such as brainstorming, morphology, evaluations, finiteelement analysis (FEA), features-based modeling, rapid prototyping, etc. But according to Eder,engineering tactics can be applied as learning techniques for anyone.Eder9 also proposed that problems are a constituent part of a design project. The simplestproblems have essentially one solution and are well-characterized by the mathematicalhomework

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sylvanus Wosu, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Page 12.1198.4 engineering major throughout their years in the program; Career Exploration Workshops I helps students take career interest inventories, learn about engineering and science careers through guest speakers and discuss financial aid options. Parental activities (such as picnics and workshops) were sponsored to enhance a parent’s ability to 3 monitor their child’s academic performance and assist with college planning; Cultural Awareness is designed to help students embrace and value diversity; and Individualized peer-mentoring between high-achieving University of Pittsburgh students and the 11th-12th grade high school students. Selected University of Pittsburgh upper class

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle Amatore, Oregon State University; Edith Gummer, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Part 2

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, University Of Minnesota; Karl Smith, University of Minnesota

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

educational development of the undergraduate is the degree to whichthe student is actively engaged or involved in the undergraduate experience. His researchfindings suggested that curricular planning efforts will reap much greater payoffs in terms ofstudents' outcomes if we focus less on formal structure and content and put much more emphasison process, pedagogy, and other features of the delivery system, as well as on the broaderinterpersonal and institutional environment and culture in which learning takes place.Richard Light reached similar conclusions in his intensive interviews with a randomly selectedsample of Harvard undergraduates (interviewed during their first and last year).6 He wrote in thepreface to the Harvard Assessment Seminars

Conference Session

Retention Issues

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gypsy Denzine, Northern Arizona University

beexplicitly stated as an important outcome in higher education55-57. Self-regulatory learning isdefined as the self-generation and self-monitoring of thoughts, feelings, and behavior in order toreach a goal48,49,52,58-60. Self-regulated learners tend to set specific learning goals, use a widevariety of learning strategies in order to learn, frequently self-monitor their own learning, assessobstacles that may arise and potentially interfere with their learning, develop plans for sustainingtheir motivation, have a good sense of their emotional makeup and have strategies for managingtheir emotions, and systematically use strategies for evaluating their own progress towards agoal61. In contrast to learning styles models, which posit the learner as less

Conference Session

Factors Affecting Student Performance

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy; Leslie Brunell, Stevens Institute of Technology; Gunnar Tamm, U.S. Military Academy; Ozer Arnas, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Approaches to K -12 Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia; Larry Richards, University of Virginia; Anaïs Miodek, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

accommodate the variation in math and science preparation, theITE instructors design a curriculum that is challenging yet feasible for participants with differentlevels of grounding. The professors and teaching assistants that serve as instructors for the ITEclasses are drawn from the various relevant disciplines at UVa and all have extensive experienceteaching during the academic year.The calculus workshop is based around a hands-on topic that can be completed in the week spanof the program, assuming no prior knowledge of calculus. In 2005, the instructor used theexample of running a banana split stand in order to teach calculus-based optimization. Thestudents were tasked with coming up with a plan to maximize the profits of the commercialenterprise

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science for the 21st Century

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Kitto, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

,“learner centered” course. While we did indeed invest a great deal of time and energy thus far tocreate this comprehensive transformation, we believe that the students enjoy materialsengineering to a higher degree, are more involved in their own learning, and score somewhathigher, as a group, on certain classical examination questions. Unfortunately, our sample sizesare still small, but we will continue to build an assessment data base for this course as wecontinue to teach and modify this course. Because the initial assessment data is at leastencouraging, we plan to continue making changes to the course that encourage activeinvolvement of the students in their own learning. Since it is a rare student who has no contactwith or interest in music

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robi Polikar, Rowan University; Ravi Ramachandran, Rowan University; Linda Head, Rowan University; Maria Tahamont, Rowan University

appreciation and futureinterest in the BME field. The pre-class survey asked students to indicate their interest and plans in various BMErelated activities, such as their interest in following popular and academic media on BME topics,their interest in taking other BME related courses, and their interest in future BME careers and/orgraduate school. Their answers were normalized and averaged to obtain a pre-class BME interestfactor. Similar questions were also asked in the post class survey, along with additional questionson whether they felt the class raised their interest, awareness, knowledge and skills in BME. Allanswers were normalized with respect to the number of questions, so that the additionalquestions in the post-class survey would not

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to ME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Rhoads, Michigan State University; Craig Somerton, Michigan State University; Brian Olson, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Terry Ballinger, Lansing Catholic High School

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

into their device, as well as any materials necessary tomend device damage incurred during Lesson 3. Following approximately thirty minutes of cali-bration and testing, the students reconvene and attempt one shot at each of two targets spaced anindeterminant distance between five and fifteen feet. The group with the smallest composite targeterror is declared the competition’s winner.Learning Assessment: Given the nature of the project and the duration of the interactive presenta-tion, a group discussion on the results of this project is typically omitted. Likewise, as the students’weekend is filled with other planned activities, homework is not assigned.Unit Assessment: Despite the fact that the control systems unit is the most technical unit

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bowa George Tucker, UMass Lowell; David O Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; Annie Soisson, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

doing a micro factory layout and a business plan for them to start producing some of the products that we’ve worked with them on for income generation and skills development and technical training"Another participant states: “We work with some villages in Ghana and we are working with them right now to start a business, smokeless cooking fuels. They take biomass corn or something else and they create ethanol and then from the ethanol they gel the ethanol into a thick jelly and they use that to cook.”The faculty motivation for learning through service was not only to motivate students to acquiredisciplinary content knowledge, but also determining how and where to extend such knowledgeto solve problems in

Conference Session

New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

onlinesimulations for nanotechnology. The project partner served as the client and set the criteria bywhich the project solutions could be judged for success. The nanotechnology project requiredstudent teams to create an interactive learning module relating nanotechnology to grades 11 or 12science and mathematics topic as listed in the state standards. To achieve this goal, students wereasked to plan and create a fully developed graphical-user interface (GUI) utilizing MATLAB.10The students were given access to the project partner’s online environment so they could furtherunderstand the client for the project (nanoHUB.org). The ultimate project goal was to upload thedeveloped educational tool to nanoHUB’s site and make it available for high school students

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chehra Aboukinane; Daniel N. Moriasi, USDA-ARS; Ann L. Kenimer, Texas A&M University; Kim Dooley, Texas A&M University; James DUPE Linder, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

, distance education, learner-centered instructional design, delivery strategies, technological change, and international agriculture development and education.James Linder, Texas A&M University Dr. James Lindner is a professor at Texas A&M University, He earned his bachelor’s and M.B.A. from Auburn University and Ph.D. from Ohio State University. His research focuses on planning and needs assessment, distance education, international development, and research measurement and analysis. Page 23.613.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Fostering Creativity in

Conference Session

Issues of Outreach and Interest in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Joshua M Frey, Elizabethtown College

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Caucasian males are the majority in the engineering major, but I did not think that we had to try to push others to become engineers to diversify the major. As you can see, I am very skeptical.” “I'm not one for forcing under represented groups to do things strictly for the sake of some statistics. So I don't plan on trying to get more females to be engineers and things like that. I would much rather go somewhere and talk to the kids who want to be engineers whether they be male or female, black or white, whatever. It's not my job to balance that out, nor do I have the power to do it. But what I can do is help the people who really want it. I can show them what I did and how I did. If I one day own my own company I can

Conference Session

Integrating Art, Humanities, and Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Marcus Shaffer, Penn State Architecture; Elisha Clark Halpin, Penn State University, School of Theatre, Dance Program; Amy Dupain Vashaw, Center for the Performing Arts @ Penn State; Dorothy H. Evensen, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

prototype for an entrepreneur as part of their capstone project may partner with ateam of business students who develop a business plan for the same sponsor, or engineeringstudents might work with a team of students in Information Science and Technology (IST) tocreate use cases and develop specifications for a new product data management system for anindustry sponsor. While this is by no means unique the Learning Factory, it has enabled theengineering capstone teams to work with students in six other colleges over the past five years:Arts & Architecture, Business, Communications, Earth & Mineral Sciences, Health & HumanDevelopment, and/or IST. To date, most of these cross-college partnerships entail only twocolleges (and usually

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Elizabeth G. Creamer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

INT. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Partnerships, and Implementations

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Barnes, James Madison University; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Susan Kubic Barnes, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

International

processInstitute How to integrate biomimicry into design and bring nature’s genius to the design table How to work in interdisciplinary teams How to integrate biomimicry into an engineer’s process How to communicate biomimicry with engineers and business people How biologists gather and research information and how that information can inform other disciplines What considerations go into a successful business plan What are the fundamentals of business design and decision-making Understanding intellectual property issues Applying biomimicry methodology

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

DeLean A Tolbert, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Mathematics and Family EngineeringMathematics and engineering situated within family’s decision making and activities allow forthe development of unique mathematical skills for the child. Families serve as effective learningsettings for students. Goldman and Booker posit that “parents are the primary, most committedand effective educators of their children”22. It is in this environment students may gain initialexposure to mathematics, engineering and problems solving in out-of-school settings throughbudgeting, grocery shopping, and family cell phone plan shopping22. Problem solving andtrouble-shooting that is situated in the family setting provides mathematically relevant problemsthat that each member can connect with22. Depending on the structure of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew E. McFarland, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Shealy, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Catherine Mobley, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Clemson University; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

planning the transfer process, withthe resulting smoother transitions. Our future qualitative analysis will allow us to explore this Page 23.39.12relationship in more depth.Finally, the students in our sample show moderate evidence of GPA shock. Fifty percent of thosesurveyed experienced a decline in their GPA using our broad measurement categories. However,many of the students in the sample remained in the same GPA bracket, demonstrating at leastthat their academic transition, as measured by GPA, was somewhat smooth. Additionally, only6% reported transfer ecstasy, or an increase in GPA from the sending institution to the receivinginstitution

Conference Session

Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhiyong Gu, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Bridgette Maria Budhlall, University of Massachusetts; Hongwei Sun, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Carol Forance Barry, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Alfred A. Donatelli, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Identity 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Hatten, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tiago R Forin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

efficient day productive and everything; and the – the other side says that, you know, after the first hour I’ll probab – I’ll there’s a chance that I’ll get an email that will make me upset or there will be other tasks to do, within – with my, umm, planned day that will bother me ‘cause I’ll have leave what I'm doing and, umm, it’s – it’s a – it’s a change in the mood, or change in the tasks, or change in the people I see, or I dunno’ things – things that – that change from one to another throughout the day.” [Kyra] The picture of the black and white face which Kyra supplied is not literal, butmetaphorical. The photo allows her to speak of her disposition, in that she starts her days

Conference Session

K-12 Robotics

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Ayar, TUBITAK; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Fatih Ugurdag, Ozyegin University; Alpaslan Sahin, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

passes the challenge, then it is shared with the other groups what they have done and which method they have used to do so. I think I have a good relation with my partner and the organization team members. I worked with my partner over night to solve the challenges as friends. Meantime, the atmosphere at the camp was warm enough to develop friendship with other participants and even with undergraduate students. Elif: I did not see such competition either. Instead, we developed friendship although we came from different school at different locations across the country. We talked about ourselves, our schools and our future plans after high school.Robotics activities as a means to nurture student interest in

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Virginia Lea Ferguson, Mechanical Engineering; University of Colorado; Boulder, CO; Alyssa Nicole Berg, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Student

research. In a subsequent reflective question response, she describesthe working environment she creates with Annie: I’d like to keep the experience positive and manageable but sometimes I feel like I have trouble determining the right balance…when we have a short meeting things don’t go quite as planned I get concerned that the student is having a discouraging research experience…I try to welcome and explain all my student’s questions.Mia’s consideration for Annie is clear in the importance she places on keeping her experiencebalanced and not too boring or too complex. The focus is on Annie’s interest in the research, noton the research itself. Mia continues: She [Annie] has been doing good work and I feel like