Conference Session

K-12 Students and Teachers

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Guill Liles, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University (Eng); Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University (Eng)

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Educational Research and Methods

for comparison. IRB approval, including camper and parentalinformed consent, were obtained prior to data collection.ResultsBioengineering summer camp participants ranged from 14-17 years old (M Age=15.5), and mostparticipants reported having just completed the 9th grade (n=7). Participants were predominantlymale (n=11) and African American (n=14). See Figure 1. All participants indicated that they (a)held US citizenship and (b) planned to attend a 4-year college. Further, most participants (n=11) Page 22.225.5stated they intended to pursue degrees in either bioengineering or STEM-related disciplines. SeeFigure 2. The majority of participants (n

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David H. Jonassen, University of Missouri

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Engineering Ethics

processes engaged by problem solving and models and methods for supporting those processes during learning, culminating in the book, Learning to Solve Problems: A Handbook for Designing Problem- Solving Learning Environments. Page 22.226.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Arguing to Solve Engineering Ethics ProblemsABET, Inc. (formerly know as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology,1997, p.1, p.2) includes in their criteria for accrediting engineering programs a requirementthat graduates must demonstrate an understanding of professional and

Conference Session

Simulation and Virtual Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Rochester Institute of Technology; Prafull Purohit, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

design with a strong emphasis on hands-on experience for the students.The last module in the sequence is being taught as a capstone course that is geared more towardsindustrial like applications and industrial design environment. This includes project managementtechniques, version control and project sign-off milestones.Based on the above guidelines, we are developing a design experience for the students based ona popular commercial computer architecture such as the ARM processor[1, 2]; the flexibility ofextending this architecture by creating hardware accelerator blocks by the integration of a highdensity FPGA; and by the addition of off-the-shelf sensor components that are interconnectedthrough the popular I2C communications bus.During the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sydney Rogers, Alignment Nashville; Sandra Harris, Alignment Nashville and PENCIL Foundation; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; David McNeel, Education Consultant

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NSF Grantees

STEM fieldsand professional women from local STEM-related businesses to serve as “mentors.”4. Art2STEM ActivitiesArt2STEM activities are created and planned by the coaches. Session dates and times are thenentered into the project calendar for additional planning and tracking. Snacks and drinks areprovided at the beginning of the two-hour, after school club meetings. One of the early activitiesof each project phase is Rapid Prototyping, which will be described in this section6.In one session, students create hand-made models using Play-Doh. During this time, studentsform any kind of Play-Doh animals or creatures using their brainstorming and creativity skills.See Figure 1. Figure 1: Play-Doh ActivityIn the

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Keri Lynn Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lauren Elizabeth Sawarynski

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Complex ConceptsAbstractIn a sampling of several thousand slides from engineering and science, almost two-thirdshad a topic-phrase headline supported by a bulleted list of subtopics.1 Because slides areused so often by engineering educators to communicate research, to teach students, and tohave students demonstrate what they have learned, the question arises how effective thistopic-subtopic structure is, compared with other slide structures, for helping audiencesunderstand and remember the information. This paper compares students’ learning from apresentation that relies on this commonly used topic-subtopic slide structure versusstudents’ learning from a presentation that follows an assertion-evidence slide structure.In the assertion-evidence

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy S. Wilson, Western Kentucky University; Mark E. Cambron, Western Kentucky University; Michael L. McIntyre, Western Kentucky University

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Design in Engineering Education

Project Management Plan shown in Figure 1, the students define the attributes of theproject in an effort create a detailed statement of work. A more thorough description of thecomponents of the Project Management Plan is provided in the referenced documents.1,2I. Project Management Plan A. Project Requirements 1. High level overview of project 2. Identification of stakeholders a. Technical sponsor b. Faculty sponsors name B. Scope 1. Product description 2. Product acceptance criteria 3. Project deliverables 4. Project exclusions 5. Project constraints 6. Project assumptions 7

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Laboratories I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory J. Michna, South Dakota State University; Stephen Gent, South Dakota State University

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Mechanical Engineering

Spring 2010 students. Althoughthe sample size was small, the comparison of the survey results shows that the changes improvedthe course significantly.1. IntroductionIn the National Academy of Engineering’s The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in theNew Century1, strong analytical skills, practical ingenuity, creativity, good communication skills,mastery of the principles of business and management, leadership, high ethical standards, a senseof professionalism, dynamism, agility, resilience, flexibility, and an attitude of lifelong learningare identified as attributes that will be required of successful engineers in the 21st century. Manyof these attributes, including practical ingenuity, creativity, and communication skills, are

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacquelyn E. Kelly, Arizona State University; Andrea Marta Eller, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University

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Materials

strong variance due to the nature of human behaviorbeing difficult to predict, a scatter plot was produced to explore the relationship betweeninstructor RTOP scores, number of slides, and time on activities. To better examine trends,linear trend lines were created to see if there were any clear trends from the longitudinal data.This graph is shown in Figure 1 below. It is shown that RTOP scores generally decreased overthe two week time frame. This is consistent with our experience, two fold. First, activitiescreated near the beginning of the semester were stronger and had been more refined than thoselater as the semester progressed. Second, the instructor became increasingly concerned abouttiming and worried that content may not be covered in

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Kirk Love, Utah Valley University; Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, University of Pennsylvania; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

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Information Systems

as physics and chemistry, and are closely tied to particular careers.Both disciplines are evolving rapidly and require students to stay on top of new technologies. Inthe schools studied, biology enrollments by females were equal to or higher than maleenrollments while enrollments of females in computer science in these schools continued todrop7, 9 .Reports from the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicates that there is a “troubling declinein the number of US citizens who are training to become scientists and engineers, whereas thenumber of jobs requiring science and engineering training continues to grow”1. It is crucial thatmore students are attracted to science and engineering fields in order to prevent creating asignificant shortage of

Conference Session

Introducing Programming in the First Year

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Virgilio Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso

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First-Year Programs

applying it to practical uses. Thecritical changes will be the first few weeks, and in preparing the right reference sheets so thatstudents can gain momentum quickly. The later periods of the semester will cover the originalmaterial at a faster pace. The proposed new content is: A. Introduction, installation of python environment (Jython) and interface. (1 hours) B. Simple plots using arithmetic, iterations and “if-then” statements. (2 hours) C. Use of summation and linear operations applied to image transformations. (2 hours) D. Functions and example of class definition. (2 hours) E. Application to simulation of simple mechanical systems. (2 hours) F. Application to simulation of basic electric circuits. (3 hours) G

Conference Session

Educational Research

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruth Streveler, Purdue Universtiy; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Karl Smith, University of Minnesota; Tameka Clarke Douglas, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

will be emphasized in the development of CLEERhub.IntroductionIn 2004, the National Science Foundation sponsored three projects to build capacity in engineeringeducation research: Rigorous Research in Engineering Education: Creating a Community of Practice(RREE) [DUE-0341127], Strengthening HBCU Engineering Education Research Capacity, [HRD-0411994], and the Institute for Scholarship in Engineering Education (ISEE), an element of theCenter for the Advancement of Engineering Education [ESI-0227558]. These programs attractedtremendous interest, with participant applications outweighing available slots by a ratio ofapproximately 3 to 1. The engineering education research communities that RREE and ISEE helpedto foster have expanded and now have

Conference Session

Research on The First Year II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junqiu Wang, Purdue University; P.K. Imbrie, Purdue University

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First-Year Programs

score.IntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)1 Engineering Criteria 2000requires engineering students should “be able to function effectively in a multidisciplinary team”.The question is: how can students’ team skills be taught and assessed2,3,4? In a previous study,we defined student’s team skills through a three-construct theoretical model: interdependency,goal setting and potency. This model entails possible application in both pedagogy andassessment. Peer evaluation has been used as an effective instrumentation tool to assess students’team skills and performance5,6,7,8,9. We developed a 9-item peer evaluation questionnaire tomeasure student’s individual perceptions on their teammates along our three-constructstheoretical

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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Minorities in Engineering

students in engineering and computer science. Additional students in the FultonSchools major in construction. Additionally, located in the ASU/Maricopa County area is one ofthe largest community college districts in the nation, the Maricopa County Community CollegeDistrict, serving over 250,000 students each year in ten independent colleges. Over 300 transferstudents enter the Fulton Schools of Engineering each year. Many ASU students have need offinancial need. In 2007-08 more than 70 percent of all ASU students received some form offinancial aid. In 2008-09, ASU awarded over $500,000 in all types of financial aid to more than46,000 students.1 In spite of this, traditionally, 80% of ASU students work

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heublein, Kansas State University, Salina; Kenneth Barnard, Kansas State University, Salina

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Mathematics

teaching experience is used qualitatively inobserving student mathematics preparations and motivation changes over time. From experience,we have also tried different pedagogy methods, have agreement that the current “millennial”students are visual learners with technical shrewdness, and prefer active engagement activities.Limitations of study: We have a small faculty, N = eight, in the K-State at Salina aviationdepartment, therefore the data survey collected is very small and lacks validity. Having said that,these two faculty members have broad based observation level experience, as well as depth ofexperience. The faculty survey (Attachment #1) supports the stated hypothesis.Review of the literature:There has been an abundance of discussion and

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent Nelson, Northern Arizona University; Constantin Ciocanel, Northern Arizona University

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Mechanical Engineering

regress in their conceptual understanding, regardlessof their academic performance within the class.1 Students frequently fail to understand how toapply mathematical concepts to real problems.Within mechanical engineering curriculum, heat transfer is considered a notoriously difficultcourse for students.2,3 Concept inventories have been developed to assess students’ level ofconceptual understanding; reported student scores on these inventories have been quite low, withaverage performance in the range of 50%.2,4 The incorporation of active learning approacheswithin classes and programs have been shown to increase conceptual understanding of corecontent,5 but are infrequently utilized in core content engineering courses such as those in thethermal

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Pierce, Sweet Briar College; Hank Yochum, Sweet Briar College

larger society.1 Engineers are often accused of implementingtechnology for its own sake, with little consideration of sociological issues. This view issupported by numerous historical examples in which a lack of understanding of social forces hasresulted in unanticipated, damaging effects of the use of technology.2 The importance of socialconsiderations as a significant component of an undergraduate engineering education isembodied in ABET Outcome h, “…to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global,economic, environmental, and societal context.”3 Despite the inclusion of this outcome in the Page 15.468.2ABET criteria, research by

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Design in Engineering Technology: Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Leonard, Rochester Institute of Technology; Robert Merrill, Roch Inst of Tech; Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

practicing professionals in industrywhere problems are posed, but solutions are not. The program controls the process withoutimposing solutions by exposing students to proven tools and techniques of effective problemsolving. The solution to these problems require students to be creative and innovate as theyapply knowledge gained from previous courses and experiences. Furthermore, these activitiesextend them beyond course material covered in traditional courses. To accomplish this, severalintegrating experiences in required coursework that are focused on developing student problemsolving skills have been developed. The program qualifies these as integrating experiences asfollows. 1. The activity must involve solving an open ended problem. 2. The

Conference Session

Signal Processing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hanjun Xian, Purdue University; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University

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Computers in Education

professions because of the gap between real-world scenarios and scale of the dataused within the classrooms. Diverse and non-standard software interfaces to sensors compoundthis problem significantly. Our goal is to document and make available data from a large varietyof real-world sensors to engineering students through the iPhone and iPod Touch. Our projectaddresses this problem by implementing a middleware framework in the application server and aclient on iPhone to facilitate access to sensor data.The primary research questions that this paper will address are: (1) How can sensor data beincorporated into current engineering learning environments effectively? (2) What are theproblems of utilizing large-scale data within the scope of an engineering

Conference Session

Structure and Form in Architectural Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Powell Draper, Manhattan College; Edward Segal, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger; Robert Sicurelli, Princeton University

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Architectural

, andthen build to scale physical models of them. This project is intended to augment the ways thatstructural engineering is traditionally taught.BackgroundThis project was inspired by work done at Princeton University and other schools in whichphysical models of structures have been used to provide examples of exemplary works ofstructural engineering and to demonstrate engineering principles. At Princeton, for example,models of structures have been used either for museum display or previously built models areused for structural experiments.1 Here we instead sought to examine how a student designingand building a model for loading, experimentation, and display could provide an opportunity fora different type of learning experience.This project was

Conference Session

Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College; Sharon Jones, Lafayette College; Christopher Ruebeck, Lafayette College; Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University

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Environmental Engineering

educational games and simulations. The followingparagraphs briefly review what is known in these areas of inquiry and relate them to simulationexercises in general and our work in particular.Behavioral theory is based on the belief that we learn that certain behaviors are good (or bad)based on the rewards, and/or punishments we receive for repeated actions; in other words desiredbehavior is repeated until it is learned.1 Skinner (1976) suggests that students learn better whenthey are forced to practice certain actions until they reach mastery.2 The behavioral theory oflearning became a key part of the early design of technological teaching aids (includingsimulation) for the military because of the ability to ask the user to repeat tasks multiple

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Phys

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Evan Lemley, University of Central Oklahoma; Baha Jassemnejad, University of Central Oklahoma; Matthew Mounce, US Navy; Jamie Weber, Parsons; Sudarshan Rai, Unknown; Willy Duffle, University of Central Oklahoma; Jesse Haubrich, University of Central Oklahoma

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Engineering Physics & Physics

significant studies1,2 concerning senior engineering capstone experiences have beenconducted in North America since the 1990's. The study by Todd et al.1 was conducted in 1995and included a array of 360 responses from engineering departments. There are many interestingfindings in the report, including the small number of programs with interdepartmental seniordesign courses and that a significant number of capstone experiences were individual rather thanteam projects. The authors suggested two “areas of improvement in engineering education,”including and increased practice of teamwork and involving industry in order to give studentspreparation for “real-world engineering practice.” There is little doubt that this study impactedengineering programs to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dmitriy Garmatyuk, Miami University

electricalbehavior of high frequency components. Four parameters were selected to isolate and runsimulations to determine their influence on the resonant frequency: the cross sectional radius,helix radius, helix pitch, and the number of turns. Each parameter was altered and tested bycomparing the increase and decrease of the selected parameter to a control. The control waschosen from the parameters that MIT utilized and then three larger increments and three smallerincrements of the parameter were run comparing each alteration to determine the overall effect ofthe isolated parameter on the resonant frequency. Figure 1 illustrates the simulation setup and thetopology drawn in Ansoft HFSS and the simulated dependence of the resonant frequency of thehelix coil

Conference Session

Web-based Learning in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sumit Dutta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Shreya Prakash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David Estrada, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Eric Pop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Electrical and Computer

controlled by a computer for data capturevia the IEEE-488 general purpose interface bus (GPIB) or through Ethernet ports utilizing theVXI-11 protocol.1 This has ushered in an era of remote instrument control for virtual laboratoriesas the World-Wide-Web (WWW) and WWW-capable instruments have become ubiquitous.While web-based remote instrumentation control has been investigated for over a decade, theseenvironments have generally centered on Java server software, PHP Hypertext Processor (PHP)server scripts, or direct control via LabView.1-4 Previous LabView implementations of remoteelectronic measurements require users to download either a ~100 megabyte LabView plug-in ora specific Java Runtime Engine,5 in addition to having a compliant browser.6

Conference Session

Enhancing Environmental Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alanna Storey, Western Kentucky University; Andrew Ernest, Western Kentucky University; Jana Fattic, Western Kentucky University

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Environmental Engineering

residentialdwellings (See Figure 1). Its economic base is primarily from antique retail establishmentslocated within a community Historic District. The surrounding area has seen some growth withsubdivisions being developed to support the Elizabethtown urban area. No centralizedwastewater services exist, and the proliferation of on-site residential units, along with the Page 15.824.3existing base of older installations has limited the expansion of the retail establishments due toreluctance by the Health Department to permit new septic units in the “downtown” area. TheGlendale community lies within…miles of Valley Creek, which is one of the 39 segments listedin

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Aidsa Santiago Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

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Mechanics

underrepresented populations. She also teaches introductory engineering courses such as Problem Solving and Computer Programming, Statics, and Mechanics. Page 15.679.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Implementing an Inverted Classroom Model in Engineering Statics: Initial Results1. IntroductionThe “Inverted Classroom” is described by Lage et al. as an environment in which “eventsthat have traditionally taken place inside the classroom now take place outside theclassroom and vice versa”1. Typically, Inverted instruction requires students to completepreparatory activities and

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching and Assessment Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Brophy, Purdue University; Sensen Li, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

begins with the development of declarative and procedural knowledge for boththese tools and specific domain knowledge8. As expertise develops a person‟s knowledgedevelops to an efficient level where their ability to fluently use knowledge for routine proceduresis demonstrated. An expert who has learned to use this knowledge adaptively will illustrate theirpotential for generating new ideas7. If we consider the knowledge for both must co-development,and the knowledge develops through a partially linear transition from declarative to strategic (oradaptive), then the Framework in Figure 1 could demonstrate a relationship that illustrates apathway for how students with various knowledge skills can develop their conceptualunderstanding of tools and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon Johnson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Venkat Allada, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Susan Pariseau, Merrimack College

materials and new teaching strategies, thesustained support offers multiple opportunities for feedback and discussion as well asopportunities to be actively engaged in creating new knowledge, a model that addressesimportant learning principles5. We held 4 workshops, 1 in June 2007 and 3 in June 2008, andalso provided follow up support (see the Implementing at Diverse Sites section) and case studydevelopment opportunities (see the section entitled Case Studies). We developed materials tosupport wider recruitment efforts for the second year, including a brochure and website to thatprovide a short description of the project and the responsibilities of participants, and anapplication form and process for reviewing applications.A summary of the

Conference Session

Design Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin McCarthy, University of Auckland

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Manufacturing

textbook problems in which the data required to solve the problem is presentedunambiguously and in its entirety. There is ongoing debate about the effectiveness, orotherwise, of this traditional didactic teaching approach and Hargrove and Dahleh 1 believethat engineering educators must develop more innovative methods for learning in order toreplicate real-world problem solving. Indeed, many practitioners have supplemented theirlectures and tutorials with project-based and problem-based learning activities in an attempt toprovide variety and alternative learning mechanisms for students 2-6. Page 15.441.2The problem with this procedural approach to

Conference Session

Innovations in First Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Curran, University College Dublin; Colleen Doyle, University College Dublin; Enda Cummins, University College Dublin; Kevin McDonnell, University College Dublin; Nicholas Holden, University College Dublin

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First-Year Programs

-ordinator beforemeeting their teams to ensure a clear understanding of their responsibilities during the semesterincluding the assessment of student performance. The role of the mentors is not to providespecific technical guidance but to advise according to a timetable of activities (Table 1). Adiscussion is held with the module co-ordinator in the second week on developing informationresearch skills in order to find reliable and useful documents for the project. The next few weeksare spent on compiling the relevant information and developing a small number of alternativedesigns. Students must also consider the scale-up of the design for a specific situation, e.g. a graywater treatment system for a typical suburban house.Materials are located and

Conference Session

New Methods and Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Ernest, Western Kentucky University; Jana Fattic, Western Kentucky University; Ni-Bin Chang, University of Central Florida; Shalini Chitrapu, Western Kentucky University; Paige Davenport, Western Kentucky University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2010-1879: WRMT CASE STUDY: GIS WITH RULE-BASED EXPERT SYSTEMAndrew Ernest, Western Kentucky UniversityJana Fattic, Western Kentucky UniversityNi-Bin Chang, University of Central FloridaShalini Chitrapu, Western Kentucky UniversityPaige Davenport, Western Kentucky University Page 15.1386.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 WRMT Case Study: GIS with Rule-based Expert System for Optimal Planning of Sensor Network in Drinking Water SystemsAbstractThis paper provides a case study in the application of the concepts of the WaterResource Management Technologies technology transfer concept presented at the2009 conference.The Technology Transfer Model[1