Conference Session

A Global Engineer: International and Domestic Engineer

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac W. Wait, Marshall University; Andrew P. Nichols, Marshall University; Wael A. Zatar, Marshall University

Tagged Divisions

International

mistakenly assume boredom or alack of engagement from the seemingly passive listening displayed as a mode of preferredlearning for an Auditory student. Likewise, the learning materials and activities that an instructormight generally utilize with success, such as projected presentation materials, handouts of lecturenotes, hands-on demonstrations or laboratory experiments, and assigned readings of textbookchapters, can be less meaningful for students who exhibit a monomodal preference for Auditorylearning.When faced with an increased proportion of students who exhibit a preference for Auditorylearning, instructors may find increased success in their teaching by ensuring that main conceptsfrom the course are specifically described verbally in detail

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Jack McGourty

learning outcomes and hypothesize how ourfocus on each may result in an improved educational environment.To date, five engineering schools have gone through the pilot Engineering Criteria (EC) 2000reviews; twelve more have undergone EC-2000 reviews (fall 1998) and are waiting for finaldecisions. ABET had anticipated that 16 to 18 additional engineering schools would select thenew criteria next year [6], but apparently almost 40 institutions have elected this option. Clearly,it is time to reflect about the foundations of these learning outcomes before too many moreinstitutions proceed through EC-2000. No doubt, the new ABET criteria together with NSFsponsored engineering education projects (including the coalitions) have served as majorcatalysts

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John Parsons

memberspresent overviews of the biology and how it relates to engineering devices in these areas.Assignments from biomedical engineering are also selected to illustrate the importance ofbiological sciences in this area. One assignment concentrates on analyzing ventricular fibrillationdata from a swine heart. The data is part of research project comparing normal sinus rhythm withventricular fibrillation. The students analyze the data using both spreadsheets and a Fortran 90program. Another sample problem from Fall, 1998, analyzing a hypothetical problem on chillingblood for an operation is given in Appendix 1.Guest presentations and example problems from the environmental engineering concentrationalso show the integration of biological and engineering

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lee; Charles Sampson; Ingrid St. Omer

Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Population Projections of the United States by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1995 to 2050, P25-1130, by Jennifer Cheeseman Day. (Washington DC 1996). On-line: .6. National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Studies. Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards: 1996, Detailed Statistical Tables, NSF 97-329, by Susan T. Hill (Arlington, VA 1997). On-line: .7. University of Missouri-Columbia, Office of Student Life Studies. On-line: .8. National Science Board, National Science Foundation. Science & Engineering Indicators – 1998, NSB 98-1 (Arlington, VA 1998). On-line: < http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind98/start.htm>

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James Devault

Session 2220 Robot Stories: Interdisciplinary Design with Autonomous Mobile Robots James E. DeVault Electrical and Computer Engineering Kansas State UniversityAbstractOver the past seven years, interdisciplinary teams of engineering students have designed mobilerobots to compete in an annual robot contest. Open to all students that have completedengineering physics, the mobile robotics course requires teamwork, project management, and amixture of theoretical understanding and laboratory skills. Mobile robots are

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan W. Scott; M. A. Mannan; H. P. Lee; Brian J. Stone; A. Y. C. Nee

teaching and alsoSingapore students with Australian. Page 4.480.11. IntroductionIt appropriate to give some background to the two universities involved in this project. NUS isthe older of the two universities in Singapore. Singapore is an island state with a population ofabout three million. The history of the National University of Singapore can be traced back tothe establishment of the King Edward VII College of Medicine in 1905. It was merged withRaffles College of the Arts and Sciences to create the University of Malaya in 1949. It was laterchanged to the University of Singapore in 1962. It was merged in 1980 with the NanyangUniversity to form the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecil Beeson; William Gay

of meeting it. If it iscapable of meeting the need, it must construct a plan and begin securing resources required fordeveloping such a program. The University of Cincinnati Clermont College has undergone sucha process many times in its effort to provide its service area with up-to-date and substantial newprogram offerings. This paper chronicles the birth, growth, and projected future development ofone of UC Clermont College’s new technical programs: “Computer Systems Support (CSS).”For those considering development of a new, or significantly revised, technology-drivenprogram, this article can provide a framework for planning and implementation.UC Clermont College was founded in 1972 as an open-access two-year branch campus of theUniversity

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica Ramirez; Saleh M. Sbenaty

technique may influence the selection (favorablyor unfavorably). Accuracy, reproducibility, and speed of response are as important as cost,particularly in control installations. Proper selection of the best analyzer for a givenmeasurement requires a complete knowledge of the monitoring process variables such ascompositions, temperatures, and pressures. Selection is then based on a sound understanding ofthe principles of operation and an equally sound understanding of the chemistry and operation ofthe processes.This paper represents a survey that will aid in the selection and understanding of air pollutionmonitors and their basic operating principles. The main focus will be on gas pollutants. It is asummary of the author’s research project completed

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Alexandre Cabral; Rolland Viau; Denis Bédard

SITUATED LEARNING AND MOTIVATION STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE COGNITIVE LEARNING IN CE Alexandre Cabral, Rolland Viau and Denis Bédard Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, CanadaAbstractThis papers describes the results obtained and the main observations made during a year longresearch project whose main purpose was to integrate situated learning and some motivationaltools in an undergraduate civil engineering course (Soil Mechanics I). New teaching material wasdeveloped almost from scratch around a main theme and several secondary themes. Orienteddiscussions and exercises were prepared in order to help the students acknowledge the newprofessional skills they had acquired. The

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Cynthia Atman; Harvey Wolfe

playground design problem22. (This is a revisedversion of a term-long design project used at the University of Maryland as part of the NationalScience Foundation's ECSEL coalition)23. Students were asked to address this relatively un-structured problem, and were encouraged to ask the monitor for specific information or clarifica-tions during the experiment.Early results of the playground design experiment (based on 50 subjects) show that engineeringstudents have a wide variety of approaches when problem solving. However, one consistentfinding is that most student subjects, both freshman and seniors, do little information gathering.Although seniors asked for significantly more categories of information than freshmen, in generalstudents’ requests for

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

P. David Fisher

comply with ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 [1], [2]? What has changedin terms of the institutional self-study process? What important feedback has come fromconstituents? What benefits have been realized? What are some of the ongoing projects to furtherimprove the academic programs? And, finally, how much did this effort cost? IntroductionIn the April of 1996, I attended an IEEE-ABET/EAC Program Evaluator's Workshop in SanDiego, California. For me, this was a refresher workshop since I had previously been certified bythe IEEE-ABET/EAC as a Program Evaluator for electrical and computer engineering programs.Attendees were given a draft of ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 (ABET 2000), and it wasdiscussed for

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

J. N. Dahiya; B. F. Draayer

. Furthermore, interfacing through the parallel portteaches students the fundamentals of parallel port communication, multiplexing (since only 4 bitscan be read through a printer port at once), and data manipulation. After students complete theirparallel port A/D converter projects, they go on to interface a commercially available A/Dconverter to a microwave spectrometer. Although it may seem peculiar to not make use of the Page 3.153.3students' converters, we find the spectrometer requires a more user-friendly interface than whatthe students can provide if they are to finish their spectrometer projects in a reasonable amount oftime

Conference Session

Research on The First Year II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame; Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Sara Skiles, University of Notre Dame; Sean Kelly, University of Notre Dame; Leo McWilliams, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

scrutinize factors that affected enrollment and persistence in engineering.This longitudinal retention study thus began in the fall of 2001, with the development of a hands-on first-year engineering course sequence that continues today, although in modified form.Analyzing student demographic data, along with retention data and academic performance data,has become an important aspect of evaluating the success of that experiment on an annual basis.Brockman et al.17 and others 18,18,20 have described in detail the motivations for and structure of theIntroduction to Engineering Systems I and II (EG 10111 and EG 10112) courses. The coursesequence comprises a series of team-oriented projects conducted over two semesters, andemphasizes a student-centered

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mrinal Saha, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Bipul Barua, University of Oklahoma; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University

engineering concepts. For example, the materialsand manufacturing course is offered in both the University of Oklahoma (OU) andTuskegee University (TU) in a traditional style and is found that the students often havedifficulties understanding abstract concepts and lose their interests. The medium ofinstruction that engages students’ learning complex engineering concepts is necessary intoday’s changing world.Learning through a medium that combines course materials with interactive visualizationand simulation is proven to be a very powerful tool for engineering education. Accordingto recent NSF funded projects it has been found than students learn best when (i)presented with organized information that relates in some way to their own experiences,and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Reisel, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Marissa Jablonski, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Hossein Hosseini, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Ethan Munson, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

women to UWM's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She is focusing her dissertation on the policy and production of sustainable textiles. She has served as Co-chair of UWM’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders since its inception in 2007 in which time they have completed two water distribution projects in Guatemala. Marissa Jablonski was a 2008 recipient of the National Science Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention, the 2008 Wisconsin Water Association Scholarship, and the 2007, 2008, and 2009 UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student Awards. Marissa is a member of ASEE. She received her BS degree in Natural Resources and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Aurelio López-Malo, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Lourdes Gazca, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

which an engineering design challengechanges teachers’ conceptions of thermal energy and heat transfer? Page 15.461.3WorkshopFor over 10 years, professors from UDLAP have been working with the company CalizasIndustriales del Carmen (CALICA) on a community service project whose main objective is toprovide teacher development programs at an annual regional conference (sponsored byCALICA) in the state of Quintana Roo. These programs involve offering for 3 days,distinguished lectures, seminars, and workshops at no cost to teachers in attendance. Theprogram designed for each conference is always different and includes recent educationaldevelopments

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

periodic basis by faculty when teaching the courses indicated with an ‘A’ in Appendix 2.Program outcome assessment is performed by the course instructor. Common tools include Page 15.1152.5special projects, labs, lab reports, project reports, and or specific exam questions. The courseinstructor then gauges the attainment of the outcome based on a rubric. The instructor alsoprovides feedback, specifically if the attainment is lower than pre-set thresholds. A typicalprogram outcome assessment form is shown in Appendix 3. Faculty who are teaching coursessubject to program outcome assessment are given a blank program outcome assessment form atthe

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Jacquelyn Kelly, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

with essays, Likert type questions, and end-of-class reflections. Page 15.1390.3Module Usage Type 1. Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) ModulesThe POGIL method tries to engage students in the learning process by having them buildconceptual understanding of a topic rather than memorizing facts or applying algorithms.According to their website, this method uses guided inquiry – a version of the Socratic method inwhich students use carefully designed materials that guide them to construct new learning.5When one goes to the POGIL website (http://www.pogil.org/) project materials are availablecommercially for guided inquiry

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

N. Nezamuddin, Valparaiso University; Anurag Pande, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

development by generating student interest in the field at an early stage. The 8 framework for executing near-peer facilitated activities and assessing the resulting learning 9 outcomes could be adopted for other STEM fields as well.10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS11 This effort was partially supported by funding from the University of California Transportation12 Center (UCTC) consortium of which Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a member. We would also like13 to thank Drs. Rod Turochy, David Hurwitz, and Kristen Bernhardt of the National Transportation14 Curriculum Project who provided valuable feedback for refining some of these ideas.15 Page

Conference Session

Engineering Across the K-12 Curriculum: Integration with the Arts, Social Studies, Sciences, and the Common Core

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elise K. Morgan, Museum of Science Boston, Engineering is Elementary; Erin M. Fitzgerald, Museum of Science; Jonathan D. Hertel, Engineering is Elementary, Museum of Science, Boston

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

.”  “As a Curriculum Integration Specialist for my k-8 school, the workshop clearly reinforced a multitude of ways to easily integrate various content areas into project- based learning activities and engineering design challenges. I especially enjoyed meeting and collaborating with other professionals during the workshops.”In addition to the open-ended question, teachers on both follow-up surveys were asked to rankthe impact the workshop had on them. The majority of teachers reported that the workshop had a“great” or “slight” impact on how they integrated topics in their classrooms (see Figure 2). Forthe teachers who responded that the workshop did not make an impact, they stated that theyalready integrated

Conference Session

Data Analytics in Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Barton K. Pursel, The Pennsylvania State University; Anna Divinsky

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Paper ID #10058Mining Student-Generated Textual Data In MOOCS And Quantifying TheirEffects on Student Performance and Learning OutcomesDr. Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University ParkBarton K. Pursel, The Pennsylvania State University Barton K. Pursel, Ph.D., is a Research Project Manager at the Pennsylvania State University, focusing on the intersection of technology and pedagogy. Barton works collaboratively with faculty across disciplines to explore how emerging technologies and trends, such as MOOCs, digital badges, and learning analytics, impacts both students and instructors.Anna Divinsky

Conference Session

Sustainability

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E. Wilcox , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #9583Nature/Society: Situating student learning outcomes in a first-year Sustain-ability Studies courseMr. James E Wilcox , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute James Wilcox is a doctoral student in Science & Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where his dissertation project investigates the practices and politics of energy policy interventions. From 2011 to 2013 he was the Program Coordinator for Vasudha, an Undergraduate Living & Learning Com- munity dedicated to sustainability at RPI. Prior to coming to RPI, he served as an Education & Outreach Fellow in the Office of

Conference Session

Active Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott L. Post, Bradley University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

their tables. The largerand more complex circuits required students to work together to build them. He broughtmultimeters to class to lend out to the students to make the necessary measurements. He foundthat the course drop rate declined from 38% to 7% and pass rate also increased, compared toprevious offerings of the course that did not include the active-learning experiments. He reportsthat, “more than two-thirds of the class indicated that the in-class circuits significantly helpedthem to understand the circuit operation and analysis techniques that were being discussed on agiven day.” While there were other papers found in the engineering education literature thatdescribed some good examples for semester-long building projects,5,6 as well

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Floraliza Bornilla Bornasal, Oregon State University; Jessica Nina Lester, Indiana University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #9662Recollecting experience in interviews: the structure and organization of engi-neering ’interview talk’Floraliza Bornilla Bornasal, Oregon State University Floraliza B. Bornasal is a doctoral student in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Ore- gon State University. Her research is currently in engineering education focusing on the transference of expertise among working professionals and undergraduate students. Prior to pursuing her doctoral degree at OSU, she worked as an engineering intern and project inspector for Garfield County Public Works and as an AmeriCorps Volunteer-in-Service-to

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manghui Tu, Purdue University Calumet; Shiming Xue, Purdue University Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

(expected) Bachelor of Science in Computer Info Technology Department of Computer Info Tech Graphic Courses: Integrative Programming, Networking Technologies, Discrete Mathematics for IT, Applied Database Tech, Data Communication and Network- ing. Projects and Activities: Created a customer/employee management system with windows server 2008 R2 Created the database and few Web Pages that help to update, insert, and delete data for a customer and employees. Created a Minesweeper with the C# by Visual studio 2010 Created a minesweeper game, which can set mines’ number. Created a high school grade management system with the Basic C by Visual Studio 2010 Created a database for a high school which could help the school

Conference Session

Research in Biomedical Pedagogy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University; Robert A. Linsenmeier, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

of 2004, as well as 31 programs that were not accredited at that time.While these data have been presented in several forums, there has not been a publication on thistopic. In the interest of providing data that can be used by different constituencies, as well as asnapshot of the curriculum at a particular point to which changes can be compared, the data fromthat project are presented here in full. The results from the 2004 sample concerned coursesbeyond freshman math, physics and chemistry, which tend to be common across engineeringmajors, to focus on the courses required specifically for the biomedical engineering degree.Mechanics, physiology and design were the subjects required most frequently, at 90% or more ofthe accredited programs

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati, Kettering University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

(such as static equivalent of distributed loads, moments and couples, determining the axial and torsional stress components, etc.) „came back‟ quickly to their memory than drawing free body diagrams, finding centroid and moment of composite sections such a T-Section, internal loads, etc. Few help sessions were conducted by the instructor with poor attendance (due to various reasons). The majority of these students‟ performance on the two tests and three to five number of quizzes has improved slightly, but not significantly. However, their performance on the final project was significantly higher due to the fact that the instructor gave them time to correct the mistakes (to redo wrong work), and also due to the group effort

Conference Session

FPD 5: Course Delivery Methods and Issues

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Brooke Morin, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

thegrade breakdown shown in Table 1. Table 1: First year engineering grade breakdown for the first semester course. Grade Category % of Grade Preparation Assignments 10% Application Assignments 20% Laboratory Assignments 21% Journals 3% Design Project 5% Extra Weekly Assignments BONUS 3% Quizzes 6% Midterm Exams 20

Conference Session

Improving Laboratory Education in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

engineering students.” Transactions IChemE Part D, Education for Chemical Engineers 2 68-79 (2007).6. C. Crosthwaite, I. Cameron, P. Lant and J. Litster, “Balancing curriculum processes and content in a project- centered curriculum – in pursuit of graduate attributes.” Transactions IChemE Part D, Education for Chemical Engineers 1, 29-48 (2006).7. N. Spinks, N. Silburn and D. Birchall, “Educating engineers for the 21st century: the industry view.” Henley Management College, The Royal Academy of Engineering, available at https://www.raeng.org.uk/education/ scet/pdf/henley report 2011.pdf, last accessed January 2014.8. World Chemical Engineering Council, “How does chemical engineering education meet the requirements of

Conference Session

ECE Distance Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; David Michael Majerich, Century for 21st Century Universities; Nathan VerDon Parrish, Georgia Institute of Technology; Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, 2014 Use of a MOOC Platform to Blend a Linear Circuits Course for Non-MajorsAbstract: This paper describes a project where a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) wasdeveloped in order to blend a Circuits and Electronics course taught to non-majors at GeorgiaTech. The MOOC platform contains videos of all the course lectures, online homework, andquizzes. Over 400 students take this course on campus each term. Since these students werespread over eight to nine sections, consistency of coverage and of grading was a majormotivation for inverting this course. Another major motivation for the course inversion was to beable to introduce hands-on activities into the classroom so that students can get