Conference Session

Spatial Ability and Visualization in Graphics Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

hemisphere” visual attributes to reduce theinfluence of the symbolic “left hemisphere” [27].The ability of the cognitive architecture to retrieve information through “distalaccess” [26] of the symbol system, where the processing of one symbol evokes furtherprocessing of other symbolic structures, is significant in terms of teaching andlearning in technology education. The construction of a mechanism or pedagogicstructure to help students maintain, access and transform symbolic structures that arenot immediately driven by sensory input or motor output has significant implicationsand has the potential to transform teaching and learning in areas such as design,problem solving and communication graphics.MethodologyThe approach for this research project

Conference Session

Innovations in First Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lewis, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Hieb, University of Louisville; David Wheatley, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

overall critical thinkingprogram, how this relates to ABET outcomes, and the critical thinking goals of the Introductionto Engineering course. Section three describes the critical thinking instructional component ofthe Introduction to Engineering course, including changes made based on analysis of previousyears implementation. Some conclusions and future directions for the ENGR 100 course arediscussed in Section four.2. A critical thinking agenda for the School of Engineering.The i2a initiative is a broad and comprehensive multi-year plan to improve the overall criticalthinking abilities of students that spans general education courses, discipline specific courses,capstone projects, and community engagement1. Dr. Joe Hagerty, of the Civil

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betty Harper, Pennsylvania State University; Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; Alexander Yin, Penn State University; Patrick Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

highest degree offered (bachelor's, master's, or doctorate), andtwo levels of "type of control" (public or private). The total sample of 32 four-year colleges anduniversities was “pre-seeded” with nine pre-selected institutions. These included six case studyinstitutions that were participants in a companion project (Prototyping the Engineer of 2020: A360-degree Study of Effective Engineering Education23) and three institutions with generalengineering programs. Since one of the six case study institutions offers only a generalengineering degree, three institutions with general engineering programs were purposely selectedfor the sample. Penn State’s Survey Research Center selected 23 additional institutions atrandom from the population within the

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Management

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

decreases, our actual cost per hour increases. 8. We are on a true, Toyota Production System “Lean Journey,” which we began in July this year. We are at the midpoint of Phase 1, the first six months of an expected three-year project. So far we have made great strides considering the short time. If we achieve target of 15% cost and lead time reduction by the end of January our Lean consultant will be assigned the next phase in this Die Factory System. 9. Use of digital product definition and model based definition to drive the manufacturing process and inspection, development of automation to assist in readying models for manufacturing and entry into ERP system. 10. Many items have already

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

method for publishing that could eventually generate rev-enues similar or greater than those for textbook authors without the need to locate a publisher anddo all related activities, such as promotion. It also eliminates the need to maintain page counts oradhere to traditional book formats. In simple terms it allows us to spend our time generating con-tent as academics, share it with people freely, but still generate income from our works. Page 15.67.7References1. Jack, H, “Engineer on a disk”, http://engineeronadisk.com2. MIT Open Course Ware, http://ocw.mit.edu3. Merlot Open Textbook Projects, http://taste.merlot.org/opentextbooks.html4

Conference Session

Two-Year College Potpourri

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bertram Pariser, Technical Career Institute, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

instrumental in merging Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Society into the ASEE.In addition, Dr. Pariser Co-Founded 5 venture companies, and as a management consultantsuccessfully catalyzed over $100 million of new shareholder value in client businesses. Bert ledcross-functional client teams in projects to find and capture value-creating profit and growthopportunities. Bert received a PhD, MS from Columbia University and a BS from MIT inElectrical Engineering. bert.pariser@tcicollege.edu Page 15.852.10

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Satterfield, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Susan Heller-Zeisler, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

7the teachers, they area valuable resource as to what worked and what did not to encourage themto study science and engineering. Additionally, since SURF students are involved in researchwith NIST scientists they are often in the process of learning about how science is done and arereadily able and willing to explain what they are learning. SURF students who volunteer to meetone-on-one with the teachers are usually easily able to explain their project, demonstrate someexperiments, and show off their labs in ways some of the NIST scientists have long ago movedbeyond.When NIST staff (i.e. scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, etc.) and SURFstudents volunteer to participate in the NIST Summer Institute one-on-one visits they are

Conference Session

Alternate Energy

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Santiago; Hazem Tawfik; Yeong Ryu; Kamel El-Khatib; Devinder Mahajan

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

ourfuture work.Impact in Engineering Technology EducationEmerging technologies such as those involving alternate forms of energy are expected to play amajor role in modern engineering technology curricula. The results presented in this paperinvolve expertise from multidisciplinary teams in our school of engineering technology; inparticular, technology of fuel cells, control systems, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, andsoftware applications. Major parts of this work were performed as student projects by the firstauthor who is a student in the school of engineering technology. Namely the student wasinvolved in setting up the fuel cell system, developing code for control algorithm and dataacquisition, and running the experiments at Brookhaven National

Conference Session

Curriculum in Telecommunications Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

sends critical information within thehospital premises. There is still wide scope future expansion of this project in the medicalfield. For example, other vital parameters of the patient such as blood pressure andtemperature can be sent remotely to the nurse desk or directly to the doctor’s computer tomonitor the patient’s health condition any time.Bibliography1. K.J. Ayala, “The 8051 Microcontroller “, 3rd Edition, Microcontrollers Pros Corporation, 2004.2. Single –Chip Low Cost Low Power RF Transceiver CC1100 Data Sheet, Texas Instruments, http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/cc1100.html, May 2009.3. Atmel AT89S8253 is an 8051 based Full Static CMOS controller Data Sheet, Atmel Corporation, http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

F. Carl Knopf, Louisiana State University; Kerry Dooley, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

(incomplete module) which writes measured and reconciled values on a figureembedded within the Excel file. Improved versions of the modules were utilized in Fall 2006,and the average solution time decreased to 5.9 hr. Most recently (2009), overall studentsatisfaction with the project was scored 4.8 in the Spring, and 4.9 in the Fall (0-5 scale). Theseare well above (by at least a full point) historical scores for a lab class at LSU. The experimenthas been independently evaluated by the LSU Cain Center for STEM Literacy and studentfeedback shows that this module is considered the best of all the junior lab experiments and theone most representative of an assignment for a beginning engineer.Junior Year (2nd Semester): In the second undergraduate

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Trainor, United States Military Academy; Daniel McCarthy, United States Military Academy; Michael Kwinn, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

(US Army) is an Academy Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has a B.S. degree from USMA in Organizational Leadership and an M.E. degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. He also holds a PhD in Management Science (System Dynamics) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include systems design, new product development, system dynamics, decision support systems, project management and curriculum development. He has taught and served as the course director for numerous engineering courses in Systems Design, System Dynamics and Production Operations Management. He

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

whatever we wanted; really to do whatever we wanted. So I joined Bell Laboratories. My department head said, “Steve, you can do whatever you want. It doesn’t even have to be physics. All we ask is that you don’t go to a high-energy accelerator and do high-energy physics, because that would be hard on the stockholders.” (My thesis project, and when I was working as a post-doc, addressed a high-energy physics problem.) He said, “And by the Page 15.1189.5 way, don’t do anything immediately. Spend six months. Talk to the peoplearound the labs, and just keep an open mind.” This was a devastating experiencefor me

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Richard Helps

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

curriculum development effortsonto the institutionally recognized reward system – typically published research and grants.The goals of this research project and report are more modest. They are to reliably evaluate some Page 15.1109.2current practices, using recognized educational theoretical bases so that the current situation canbe understood in an instructional design context and key indicators of the design process can beidentified and that methods of improvement can be based on a correct understanding of theinfluences at work in the process. A deeper understanding of what is happening will create afoundation upon which future designs or

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain

, entropy, specific heat atconstant volume, and the specific heat at constant pressure for twelve chemical species ofthe carbon-hydrogen-oxygen-nitrogen (CHON) system. The MathCAD functions weremade available for students in ME 448/548 Internal Combustion Engines to use in theirhomework and projects. The CHON functions were generated to ease the complicationof using tabulated data for ideal gas properties and were used by the students to easilydetermine aspects of combustion such as the heat of combustion of a fuel, adiabatic flametemperature, equilibrium constant, and equilibrium compositions of reacting ideal-gasmixtures. The details and usage of the CHON-MathCAD functions are discussed, andspecific examples of their application to problems in an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

insights. For example, usinga process simulator, one can create a detailed model of an isothermal reactor and use it tosolve many textbook problems, but never realize how difficult it is to design and build areactor that is truly isothermal. For these reasons, we are developing wet-lab experimentsthat complement the computer experiments.Since time, space and money limit the number of wet-lab experiments that can beincluded, the intent of this project is to design two experiments that, between them, meetas many pedagogical goals as possible.Previous WorkAn experiment investigating the following competitive-parallel reaction scheme hasalready been developed:(1) H2BO3- + H+ ↔ H3BO3(2) 5I- + IO3

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Lisa A. Nutt, Robert Morris University; Tony Lee Kerzmann, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

International

travelled to Bremen andmet with some faculty from the University of Bremen. While staying in Bremen they visited withUniversity of Bremen professors that were working on ecological sustainability projectsincluding a project called ReviTech where reused coffee bags were packed with organic materialand seeds that would allow plant growth in almost any environment (as shown in Figure 7).These bags were designed to stop the spread of deserts and in some cases even reclaim portionsof the desert. Bremen also served as a home base for the group, where they were able to travel toand from the nearby city of Bremerhaven. Bremerhaven is arguably the leading city in offshorewind turbine production throughout the world. The group was able to tour some of the

Conference Session

Preparing Future Educators

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Paper ID #8691Applying Research-Based Principles and Theory to Practice: The redesign ofa graduate student instructor seminarMrs. Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Mary Lynn Brannon is the Instructional Support Specialist at the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education, College of Engineering, at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. She has a Master of Arts Degree in Education and Human Development specializing in Educational Technology Leadership. Her work focuses on projects that measure and assess student perceptions of learning related to their experiences with

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Fatin Aliah Phang, Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Aziatul Niza Sadikin, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Syed Ahmad Helmi, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Mohd Johari Kamaruddin, Centre of Lipids Engineering & Applied Research (CLEAR), Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

skills” Teams QuotationsTeam 1 The next thing needed is good communication skills. This is important to express ideas, to deal with bosses, clients, city councils and authorities. It is important to communicate with colleagues and other engineers as engineers cannot work alone.Team 4 Engineers also need to have excellent communication and leadership skills. They need to convince and explain the upper management as much as possible to make a project happens.Team 6 Engineers should also be equipped with soft skills such as communication and leadership skills to coordinate activities within a team, highly social, and have to

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy E. Study, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

pretest and posttest as part of regular classroom activities and themean scores for these students are similar to the expected mean for freshman engineers based onprevious research. Course content includes multiview projection, dimensioning, workingdrawings, creation of design solution alternatives, and CAD. Instruction techniques includesketching and the use of manipulatives along with lecture, demo, and CAD tutorials.In phase 2, the assessment of haptic tendencies of college students who plan to becomeelementary or secondary STEM teachers will be undertaken. Recruitment of subjects will beginlater in 2014. The primary reason for this testing is to determine if the haptic tendencies of thesefuture teachers are similar to students self-selecting

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University; Pavel M. Polunin, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

pp.Brief narrative of procedure, measured Individual); Technical Analysis,data, deduced and analyzed data, plotted Economic Analysis, Recommendationresults with discussion and conclusions. for ActionME 391 – Mechanical Engineering ME 412 – Heat TransferAnalysis Design Project Documentation: FormalReading, thinking, and teamwork Report (1 @ 10 pp. + App., Individual) Memo Reports (X @ 2 - 5 pages App.IndividualME 451 – Controls (Senior)Laboratory and Project Reports: Laboratory Experiment Written Reports (2 Formal Reports,Individual); Abstract, Nomenclature, Introduction, Analysis, Results, Discussion

Conference Session

Research Experience in Stormwater Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter McDonald, Virginia Tech; Randel L. Dymond, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech; Daniel S. Brogan, Virginia Tech; Richard Lee Clark Jr., Virginia Western Community College

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrology, and water resources. In a major ($1M+, NSF) curriculum reform and engineering education research project from 2004 to 2009, he led a team of engineering and education faculty to reform engineering curriculum of an engineering department (Biological Systems Engineering) using Jerome Bruner’s spiral curriculum theory. Currently, Dr. Lohani leads an NSF/REU Site on ”interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering” which has already graduated 56 excellent undergraduate researchers since 2007. This Site is renewed for the third cycle which will be implemented during 2014-16. He also leads an NSF/TUES type I project in which a real-time environmental monitoring lab

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Florian Misoc, Southern Polytechnic State University; Jeff Wagner, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

engineering, power systems engineering,where energy conversion concepts are the foundation of those programs, emphasis on powerelectronics requires an in-depth knowledge and skills, which can only be acquired through abalanced lecture-lab combination. While courses of power electronics have been an integralcomponent of electrical engineering and/or engineering technology programs, the lecture &project scheme has been the dominant method of course material delivery. Thus, it is uncertain todetermine what practical skills were acquired, through any power electronics course that does notinclude a formal laboratory component.Previous researchPrevious research has determined that the practicum/laboratory experience is instrumental in thegraduates

Conference Session

Orienting Students for Lifelong Learning Success

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Spence, University of Toronto; Jason A. Foster, University of Toronto; Robert Irish, University of Toronto; Patricia Kristine Sheridan, University of Toronto; Geoffrey Samuel Frost, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

learning indirectly from their teammates didnot give them sufficient understanding to be able to use the skills.Second, students found that having Stations at specific physical locations constrained teams fromexploring the spectrum of resources available in the library. For example some students mightspend the entire activity at a computer terminal or in the book stacks, and never visit physicaljournals or the reference desk. Having the students restricted to a given physical location did notpromote exploration and serendipity.Third, despite that the activities were intended to link to the students’ upcoming design projects,the students did not always see the relevance of the Stations. The Station that received the mostnegative student response

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randy Dean Kelley P.E., University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

enforces the material in the students’ intellect.2Other objectives include working with others in groups. There exists a perception thatengineering students lack personal skills in social situations. Many times perception is reality.By working in groups, students develop valuable inter-personal skills that will greatly aid themin the future. Also in engineering, a students’ ability to develop solutions to complex problemsis extremely important for their future. By allowing them to struggle with a problem, developsthese types of skills.“Mini” Research Project GuidelinesTo limit the amount of extra work for the students and instructor, the “mini” research paperswere limited to five double spaced pages excluding cover page, table of contents

Conference Session

It's Elementary

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eduardo Alfonso Suescun-Florez, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Ryan Francis Cain, PS 3 The Bedford Village School; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Magued G. Iskander P.E., Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, Polytechnic Institute of New York University Dr. Vikram Kapila is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU-Poly, where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests are in K-12 STEM education, mechatronics, robotics, and linear/nonlinear control for diverse engineering applications. Under Research Experience for Teachers Site and GK-12 Fellows programs, funded by NSF, and the Central Brooklyn STEM Initiative (CBSI), funded by six philanthropic foundations, he

Conference Session

Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie L Taylor, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

difference may present challenges for engineers when they enter the workplace. Thus, thequestion becomes how do we adequately prepare engineering students for the diversity of values,ideas, and approaches to problem solving that characterize the workforce? The purpose of thisproject is to explore the concept of difference as represented through gender.A thematic qualitative analysis of data revealed that engineering students experience dissonanceand (re)negotiate their positionality of being an engineer in the presence of difference. Thesefindings not only have implications for how we model interdiciplinarity in the classroom, butmore importantly, results from this project show that acceptance of difference is conditional. Aseducators, we have more

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

R. William Graff; Paul Leiffer

importance in society, since the Internet offers freeaccess to technical information presented in an interesting format (unlike that of mosttechnical textbooks).3. CommunicationStudents communicate. 60% said they communicate with a professor at least once aweek8. They communicate with each other. E-mail and cell phones have madecommunication much easier.4. TeamworkThe emphasis on cooperation and working in groups, which has increased in our society,and which is being employed in K-12, has made the students more accepting to teamworkand group projects at the college level.5. DiversityStudents are more comfortable working together with those having backgrounds differentfrom their own; the trend toward diversity in our society, which has been

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anand Srinivasan; Steve Shooter; Soundar Kumara; Robert Stone; Timothy Simpson; Janis Terpenny

are reduced. Companies have a greater ability to tailor their products to theneeds of different market segments or customers. Product development time is reduced. Systemiccomplexity is reduced by cutting the number of parts and processes. Also, the loweredinvestment required for each product reduces the risk2. Platform planning can be used as aneffective project management tool by using common platforms in order to reduce design anddevelopment time4.In the early 1970s, Black and Decker had 122 different power tool models which required thirtydifferent motors, sixty different housings and 104 different armatures. The tooling, inventory,labor cost for assembly, and various other expenses made for high costs. Black and Deckeraggressively

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Freeman

course. This minor has now beenapproved, and many students are now enrolled through the Mechanical and IndustrialEngineering department. Currently, the topics covered in the course are:• History of Engineering and Industrial Engineering: Development and Scope• Manufacturing Engineering and Operations Planning• Facilities Location and Layout• Material Handling, Distribution and Routing• Work Design and Work Measurement• Quality Control• CAD/CAM. Robotics and Automation• Human Factors• Financial Management and Engineering Economy• Operations Research• Simulation and Queuing Systems• Project Management• Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, other current topics…These topics can change, but follow the

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Freeman

course. This minor has now beenapproved, and many students are now enrolled through the Mechanical and IndustrialEngineering department. Currently, the topics covered in the course are:• History of Engineering and Industrial Engineering: Development and Scope• Manufacturing Engineering and Operations Planning• Facilities Location and Layout• Material Handling, Distribution and Routing• Work Design and Work Measurement• Quality Control• CAD/CAM. Robotics and Automation• Human Factors• Financial Management and Engineering Economy• Operations Research• Simulation and Queuing Systems• Project Management• Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, other current topics…These topics can change, but follow the