Conference Session

Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Leadership CommunicationThe focus on communication has been a part of the Rose-Hulman Leadership Academy since itsinception. Recently we have adopted the “difficult conversations” approach as a way to givestudents’ development in leadership communication special attention. Specifically we saw thatwe had an opportunity in the Leadership Academy to move students beyond the communicationtasks and projects that are a part of our two required writing courses (Rhetoric andComposition—for first year students, Professional and Technical Communication—for third yearstudents). We wanted to provide to students concrete strategies they could use as they negotiated“difficult conversations” that are often a feature of leadership interactions.The book Difficult

Conference Session

Beyond Students: Issues of Underrepresentation among Parents and Professionals

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University, San Marcos

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

an opportunity to show my son how I totally trust his common sense today. The project today, I could have figured it out, but I really did not want to do that. So I said you’re smart enough, you can do it yourself and he did it. So I was able to instill that confidence in him, and when I peeked over he had it. Parent 18: Se me hace muy divertido compar el trabajo con mi niña; le gusta mucho explorar con el agua (I find it really fun to share the work with my daughter, [we] explore much with water)DiscussionA report from the National Research Council (NRC) reveals that informal scienceenvironments and experiences play a crucial role in learning. 34 The Committee onScience and Learning in Informal Environments, which contributed to

Conference Session

Beyond Students: Issues of Underrepresentation among Parents and Professionals

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Golf Coast University; Gerardo Javier Pinzon PE, Texas A&M International University; Anju Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

workshop consisted of 5 full days. Three of the days were dedicated to the three fields ofengineering, chemical, electrical and systems engineering. Each engineering day consisted ofthree parts. The first was an introduction to the field including salary expectations, the type ofwork they do and any other pertinent information the presenter finds valuable. The second partincluded a short presentation of some of the fundamental concepts in that field. The last partincluded a hands-on project where the participants got to perform some actual engineering work.The rest of this paper includes the details of the three engineering parts of the workshop.The workshop consisted of the following. In day 1 the participants were introduced to the generalfield

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos R Morales, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Perry Lucas Cox; Matthew John Farrenkopf; Robert Eric Knorr, Purdue University; Erick Morales; Christopher Gaeta; Martin Jerome Durchholz

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

servers. See figure 1 for an overview. Page 23.420.2 Figure 1. System overviewOn the production end of the pipeline, the team used a Blackmagic ATEM/2 switcher connectedto a document camera and a Panasonic AG-AF100 via HD-SDI at 1080p. This set up made atremendous impact on both the visual quality of the videos and increased the efficiency duringthe encoding and streaming phase of the project. The resolution of the videos (1920 x 1080)provided ample resolution for showing details.To maximize the quality of the encoding, the team insured the video produced at this stagewould be uncompressed and sampled at 4:2:2. This

Conference Session

Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Chingnam Goh, University of Southern Queensland

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

; factors affecting innovation and technology transfer(I&TT) in regional micro-manufacturers, and describes an intervening investigationinto the I&TT process in the SME sector within a University-Industry collaborationcontext. The research initially focused on the manufacturing factors such as increasingproductivity through work study and work-flow analysis, and introducing semi-automation and flexible manufacturing methodology. As the project progressed,however, several non-manufacturing factors were identified as major influences in theI&TT process within the targeted micro-manufacturer. The ability for firms to progressin improving the manufacturing factors is often dependent on these factors, which arecategorized as very personal

Conference Session

Minority Student Success

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terrell Lamont Strayhorn, Ohio State University; Leroy L. Long III, Ohio State University; Joseph A Kitchen, Ohio State University; Michael Steven Williams, Ohio State University; Meg E. Stentz, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Teaching Associate with the First-Year Engineering Program and continues to work on research projects in the Movement Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also currently the Vice President of the OSU American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Student Chapter. His research interests include diversity, inclusion, retention and success with a particular focus on students in STEM fields.Mr. Joseph A Kitchen, Ohio State University An Ohio native, Joseph ”Joey” Kitchen earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology (minor in International Studies) as well as a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Ohio State University. He is now a doctoral student in the Higher Education and Student Affairs

Conference Session

Materials Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

intensityfactor range (the so-called Paris Law), and use this to analytically estimate the number of loadcycles required to grow an existing crack from an initial size to a final size. The students aremade aware of the fact that Paris Law is applicable for stress intensity factor range higher thanthe threshold value ΔK th, a material parameter that is available in literature [1, 2] Page 23.193.2As a complementary exercise to the rotating beam fatigue test, an analytical activity has beenintroduced as a lab project to obtain the S-N curves for typical steels. In this activity thestudents construct S-N curve analytically using the crack propagation

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

toobtain higher percentages of both bachelor and engineering degrees over other minoritygroups; the next-generation of college students; the projected future populations; andsome possible solutions to increasing the numbers of women minority students to benefitengineering.Literature SearchA great deal of information has been written on minority females in education.Unfortunately, much of this information is inaccurate or misleading. Most often, minoritygroups are not differentiated. Therefore, all minority females are combined and while theoverall increase in engineering for the entire group may look promising, the increases inthe specific racial groups are not. NSF1, for example, states, “While overall undergraduateengineering enrollment has been

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Broderick Boxley; Chris Kobus; Barbara Oakley

Pontiac and Related Programs Elsewhere In early 2001, faculty from Oakland University approached Dr. Walter Burt, theSuperintendent of the Pontiac School District, with the proposal that the district considerusing Kumon in their classrooms. Dr. Burt was not only willing—he immediatelysuggested a number of different ways in which the program might be experimentallyintroduced. Eventually, it was decided to try a twenty-week Kumon pilot projectinvolving 120 students at two elementary schools, which could be operated as part ofPontiac’s after-school Synergy program. Project Synergy is a voluntary after schoolprogram, scheduled in ten week sessions, that includes four content areas: tutoring,enrichment, dinner type meal and homework help. Kumon

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Dokachev; John Carpinelli

; Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationPartial funding for this project was provided by the National Science Foundation through theGateway Engineering Education Coalition.Bibliography1. Wallace, C. S. “A Suggestion for a Fast Multiplier,” IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computing, vol. EC-13, no. 2, Feb. 1964, pp. 14-17.2. Carpinelli, John D. Computer Systems Organization and Architecture. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley (2001).3. Carpinelli, John D. “The Relatively Simple CPU Simulator,” ASEE Computers in Education Journal, April-June 2002, pp. 20-26.4. Carpinelli, John D. “The Very Simple CPU Simulator,” Proceedings of the IEEE/ASEE 2002 Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA, November

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Baty; Erdogan Sener

life-cycle (7, 12). According to Yudelson (15), several hundredbuildings have been registered for LEED certification and so far 20 projects have receivedcertification representing about 6 % of the total commercial and institutional buildings in 2001. It isexpected that a comprehensive energy strategy could save $ 100 billion annually in energy bills forbuildings by doubling energy efficiency and cut the carbon emissions in half in the process (7).Awareness of local and federal programs will assist building operators and owners to maximize theirsavings. Federal and state governments also promote green design. The EnergyStar program, fundedby the Department of Energy (DOE), provides initiatives for buildings displaying efficienttechnologies like

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Kremer

will be addressed in some detail since they are very important to the usefulness of thetemplates.Prior to assessing student achievement of an outcome, students should have experienced multiplelearning activities related to the outcome (in previous courses and/or in multiple points within thecourse where the outcome is actually assessed). Learning activities are the instructionaltechniques and activities that are use to help the students master a certain topic or skill. Commonlearning activities include readings, lectures, discussions, demonstrations, active learningexercises, homework exercises, and even projects for which sufficient formative feedback isgiven. Pedagogical research has shown that mastery learning techniques that use lots

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

D.J. Marshall

Page 8.1205.2instructor at IPFW and assistant curator of the Museum of Fort Wayne. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3260Greg Pierceall is a professor of Landscape Architecture at Purdue University in West LafayetteAssessmentsBecause students were going to receive college credit for this program, a number of projects wereestablished in order to place some empirical validity on their grade. The most effective way toaccomplish this, without unduly compromising the unique experience of actually

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

and learning and issues ofsocial structure and power and so on.18 But whichever way you approach it, there remains a richdiscourse in pedagogy and associated areas that engineering educators, as a community, are Page 8.439.4currently only on the periphery of.“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Uncritical InnovationFaculty accept as a given that when embarking on a new research project or investigation or forthat matter a new engineering project, you should find out what is already

Conference Session

Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nihat Gurmen; John J. Lucas; Dean R. Malmgren; H. Scott Fogler

this project is provided by NSF (Grant: DUE-0126497). Page 8.669.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. Fogler, H. S., and S. E. LeBlanc, “Strategies for Creative Problem Solving”, Prentice Hall PTR, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (1995).2. Kepner, C. H., and B. B. Tregoe, “The New Rational Manager”, Princeton Research Press, Princeton, New Jersey (1981).3. Woods, D.R., “A Strategy for Problem Solving”, 3rd ed., Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwell students learned course material. The value of exams as a learning tool has always beenquestioned. Some courses use papers or projects as the basis for evaluation instead.These methods possess the advantage of directing the attention of students to their writing buthave the disadvantage of providing the instructor with no opportunity to evaluate how well thestudents mastered the basic ideas and skills being taught. (2)In lecture based courses it is even more difficult to replace exams with other means of evaluationespecially when the course is problem solving in nature. Therefore exams

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Polly Piergiovanni

://www.agresearch.cri.nz/scied/search/biotech/trad_ceese03.htmPOLLY R. PIERGIOVANNIPolly Piergiovanni is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Lafayette College. She received a B.S.from Kansas State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston, both in Chemical Engineering. Herresearch interests include cell culture and fermentation , and the LEGO project. Page 8.1015.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Student Issues - Present & Post Graduate

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Coral Nocton; Ismail Fidan

SAEJournal of Manufacturing and Materials. Dr. Fidan is the recipient of 2003 Tennessee Tech University ExemplaryCourse Project Award, 2003 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 2002 Provost 'Utilization ofTechnology in Instruction' Award, 2002 Technology Award by The Institute for Technological Scholarship, 2001NAIT Outstanding Professor Award. His teaching and research interests are computer integrated design andmanufacturing, electronics manufacturing, and manufacturing processes.CORAL NOCTONMiss Coral Nocton is the president of the Tennessee Technological University’s Society of ManufacturingEngineers student chapter. Keeping her plate full, she is also the Chair of Engineering Week for the EngineeringJoint Council. During the 2000

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi

weeks of tutorials and practice problems, the students weregiven a final project in which they selected a computer-based design problem from the SystemDynamics and Controls textbook used in the lecture-based course. Such problems are nottraditionally assigned in a lecture-based course, due to their broad scope and time restrictions.Thus, faculty saw as a good opportunity to use such problems as the basis for a longer-termproject. Student groups were given a list of selected problems from a wide range of applicationsand asked to select their top three choices. Faculty then assigned the problems such that eachgroup was working on a different problem. Three weeks of laboratory sessions were reserved forthe students to work on the problems and

Conference Session

Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yusong Li; Eugene J. LeBoeuf

communicates results back to the database.After the completion of simulation, results in the form of tables and graphs are available as webpages displayed on user’s web browsers, including Excel (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond,Washington) tables and graphs. Input and Output Interfaces and Help and Tutorial systems areeach introduced in the following sections.Input Interfaces The objective of the input interface is to assist users in defining the mass transferproblem, followed by step-by-step instructions on data submission. A set of interactive inputinterface web pages are logically presented to lead users through the simulation process. Usersare provided the opportunity to input project descriptions, define the reactor configuration,determine

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan C. Campbell, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

coverage of these important broader considerations, andthus to provide opportunities for broader ways of thinking in engineering education. Commonapproaches to teaching engineering design incorporate some of these ways through project-basedlearning, which finds instantiation in senior capstone design projects [6, 7], first-year cornerstonedesign projects [7], and service learning [7, 8]. Closely related, the Aalborg problem-based learning(PBL) model also focuses on contextualizing learning and problem-solving [9]. Litzinger et al.’s[10] discussion of expertise and engineering education emphasizes the importance of the “context-rich, multifaceted problems” commonly embedded in all of these approaches.Empirical research on engineering design

Conference Session

Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raslinda Ghazali, Purdue University; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

students to develop team, communication,ethical reasoning, and societal and global contextual analysis skills. Therefore it issuggested that engineering schools focus more on outcome-based approaches bypromoting flexibility and creativity in student projects.2 In some ways, theserecommendations denote a growing emphasis on design and open-ended problem solvingas opposed to the traditional close-ended problems.To respond to these recommendations, it is crucial to prepare engineering GTAs toperform effectively in new and challenging learning environments. Since training isconsidered an important part of the GTA experience, it would be very beneficial tounderstand the training needs that can contribute to GTAs’ professional growth.Generally, there

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara L Christe, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Steven J. Yelton P.E., Cincinnati State Technical and Community College; Roger Bowles, Texas State Technical College, Waco

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

harmonize academic programs. This extensive project will offer a set ofvoluntary guidelines that be used by institutions to develop course content and prepare studentsfor national certification. Combined with an overarching discipline name, hospital and industryemployers hope to better evaluate programs and graduates.1 Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). (2011). What is a BMET? Retrieved fromhttp://www.aami.org/resources/BMET/whatis.html2 ABET. (2012). Accredited Programs Search. Retrieved fromhttp://main.abet.org/aps/Accreditedprogramsearch.aspx3 ABET. (2012). ABET Member Societies. Retrieved from http://www.abet.org/abet-member-societies/4 BMES. (2012). About BMES. Retrieved from http://www.bmes.org/aws/BMES/pt

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Arturo A. Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Robert A. Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

becausethis project is in progress. The purpose of this work is to increase passing rates, reduce thenumber of students that drop, and increase the average grade of the students that pass Statics;consequently, improving retention of engineering students. The online assessments intend toengage students in solving problems about fundamental concepts throughout the semesterinvolving not only recently studied concepts but also integrating previously learned concepts topromote knowledge retention and emphasize its relevance in subsequent parts of the course.There is great satisfaction when students in Statics are able to analyze and solve a variety ofmachine, frame, and truss problems applying and integrating the fundamental concepts andprocedures they

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University; Patrick lee Kirby, Drexel University; Bailu Xu

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

concepts related tothermo-fluids and heat transfer areas.Course Development and ImprovementThermodynamics and Heat Transfer Laboratory is a three hour-credit junior to seniorundergraduate core curriculum course designed for all Engineering Technology (ET) students. Page 25.843.3Our ET program majors range from mechanical engineering technology, electrical engineeringtechnology, industrial engineering technology and biomedical engineering technology. Also, thiscourse is one of the main precursors of the capstone Senior Design course. The Senior Designencompasses a student-led team project that has as a main outcome demonstrating a workingprototype

Conference Session

Innovations in Computing Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Pantaleev, State University of New York, Oswego; Adrian Ieta, State University of New York, Oswego; Carolina C. Ilie, State University of New York, Oswego

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Politehnica University of Timisoara, Timisoara, in 1992, and a M.E.Sc. degree and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of the Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He was with the Applied Electrostatics Research Centre and the Digital Electronics Research Group, the University of Western Ontario, where he worked on industrial projects and taught. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, State University of New York at Oswego. Ieta is a member of Professional Engineers of Ontario.Dr. Carolina C. Ilie, State University of New York, Oswego

Conference Session

Engineering Education and Comparative Studies at Universities throughout Asia, Far East

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel Ratnajeevan Herbert Hoole P.E., Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

International

Kilinochchi were alienated by thegovernment for the faculty.It was the time when civil engineering was booming through river diversion projects in SriLanka and jobs in the Middle East and Africa. Thurairajah had come from an older era wherecivil engineering had large labs with models of fluid channels almost 40 m long. Accordinglyland had been allocated as recommended. But Thurairajah could not build up the faculty eventhen. Although the government approved the faculty with the assumption of protection from theIndian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), the Tamil Tiger rebels began an insurgency against theIPKF disrupting the region with a bloody secondary conflict.5 Thurairajah was wooing this writeron a visit to California in 1989 to come as a department

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Gregerson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sean Franey, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

educationalprocess, including methods of classroom assessment.In their seminal book on the reasons students give for leaving STEM fields, Seymour and Hewittfound that engineering students cited a ‘curriculum overload’ and ‘overwhelming pace’ incourses as being key factors in the decision to switch majors for 45% of students surveyed [3].Workload-related complaints were the second most common reason for engineering students toleave their field and ranked significantly higher for engineers than for science and math majorswho cited it only 25% of the time.In engineering courses, the period of greatest overload often comes in the final weeks of thesemester, when students must wrestle with homework assignments, semester-long projects andresearch papers, and end

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Linsey, Texas A&M University; Christina White, Columbia University; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin; Kristin Wood, University of Texas, Austin; Daniel Jensen, United States Air Force Academy

the workshop and the PHLIpS Method. Overall the workshop feedback was verypositive and avenues for improvement to the PHLIpS Method also resulted.IntroductionMany professor are aware that active learning is a more effective approach than traditionalengineering lecture courses1 but they often lack the tools and time necessary to implement activelearning in their classrooms. As part of an NSF CCLI Phase II project, completed in 2008, theauthors developed, tested, and validated active learning products in the specific domain ofengineering mechanics 2. Over 25 active learning products (ALPs) were created anddisseminated as part of this collaborative effort. In addition, a general and repeatable approachto developing the active learning products

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDS in Engineering - Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Castilleja, The Boeing Company; Rachel Jackson, Rice University; Natalia Salies, Rice University; Brent Houchens, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

pursue higher education and careers in theSTEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. Rice Universityundergraduate and graduate engineering students (mentors) volunteer weekly withunderrepresented high school students (mentees) at three Houston public schools to solve aspecified engineering design problem. The design project mechanism allows mentor/menteerelationships to form naturally, and thus opens up communication regarding college, financialaid, and futures in engineering. Perception and Environment Surveys (P.E.S.) are administered tothe mentees at the beginning and end of the DREAM program, each semester, in order to gaugementee knowledge of college admissions, financial aid, careers, and long-term earning