Conference Session

Engineering Accreditation Around the World

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Peterson, ABET; Kathryn Aberle, ABET

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International

facilitate the training of evaluators. • Promote and facilitate each other's participation in seminars and workshops about accreditation systems worldwide • Exchange information including documents, papers and surveys concerning accreditation processes and higher education quality assurance • Explore the feasibility of mutual recognition based on the collaboration, exchange, and assessment of their respective accreditation systems. • Negotiate and mutually agree upon any expenses associated with the implementation of this Memorandum of Understanding prior to the execution of any projects or services. Country Organization

Conference Session

Learning as a Community

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sondra Miller, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Amy Moll, Boise State University; Melissa Wintrow, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

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First-Year Programs

. Journal of College Student Development. 2002. 43(3): p. 395-402.6. Inkelas, K.K. and Weisman, J.L. Different by Design: An Examination of Student Outcomes Among Participants in Three Types of Living-Learning Programs. Journal of College Student Development. 2003. 44(3): p. 335-368.7. Pascarella, E.T. and Terenzini, P.T. How College Affects Students. San Francisco: Josey-Bass, 1991.8. Arms, V.M. A Learning Community for Professionals: The New Engineering Curriculum. Metropolitan Universities, 1998. 9(1): p. 63-72.9. Tinto, V., Love, A.G., and Russo, P. Building Learning Communities for New College Students: A Summary of Research Findings of the Collaborative Learning Project. University Park, PA.: National Center on Postsecondary

Conference Session

Emerging Issues in Materials Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Jacquelyn Kelly, Arizona State University

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Materials

at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of bridging engineering and education, design and selection of materials, general materials engineering, polymer science, and characterization of materials. His research interests are in innovative education in engineering and K-12 engineering outreach. He has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design. He has also co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for assessing fundamental knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes.Jacquelyn Kelly, Arizona State University

Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mia Markey, University of Texas, Austin; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin; Wonsoon Park, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

AC 2009-793: A TALE OF TWO CITIES: DISTANCE-LEARNINGTECHNOLOGIES IN AN INTERINSTITUTIONAL BME DEPARTMENTMia Markey, University of Texas, Austin MIA K. MARKEY is an Associate Professor in The University of Texas Department of Biomedical Engineering. The mission of her Biomedical Informatics Lab is to design cost-effective, computer-based decision aids. The BMIL develops decision support systems for clinical decision making and scientific discovery using artificial intelligence and signal processing technologies. The BMIL's research portfolio also includes projects in biometrics. Dr. Markey’s primary interests in improving engineering education are the identification of effective strategies

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; Amanda Funai, University of Michigan; Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

can implement similar support programs andlearn from our work. Materials, including the physics and chemistry help sheets, will beincluded in the appendix.BackgroundWomen continue to be underrepresented in engineering, earning only 19.3% of bachelor’sdegrees in engineering1 and holding only 11% of engineering positions.2 Despite being asacademically prepared and academically successful as men, they can lag behind men byexhibiting lower levels of academic satisfaction and lack of self-esteem.3 Traditionalassumptions about career options have been reinforced in society and have projected stereotypesthat discourage talented women from continuing in engineering. This is evidenced by researchthat has found a dramatic drop in women’s self-efficacy

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill Nelson, George Mason University; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

primary areas of the study (transfer of procedural and conceptualknowledge of sequence and series, design of in-class formative assessment), several relevantquestions emerge for continuing research. Further analysis in students’ transfer of mathematicalknowledge will consider additional problems in order to more clearly understand how thestudents work with multiple variables as well as moving between the frequency and timedomains in signals and systems. In addition to examining a wider range of problems, we plan tocorrelate in-class problem performance with students’ performance on related exam questionsand class projects. Further study in design of formative assessments will investigate the role ofthe instructor and how to best construct and

Conference Session

Been There, Done That: Advice for NEEs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed Moaveni, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Deborah Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Karen Chou, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Policies for Faculty”, Society of Women Engineers Conference, October.5. Curtis, J.W. (2004) “Balancing Work and Family for Faculty: Why It’s Important”, Academe: Bulletin of AAUP, Nov/Dec.6. http://www.advance.iastate.edu/7. http://ucfamilyedge.berkeley.edu/8. Bird, S.R. and Debinski, D.M. (2008) ISU ADVANCE Collaborative Transformation Project: First Round Focal Department Synthesis Report (March 2008) by Sharon R. Bird and Florence A. Hamrick. Iowa State University ADVANCE Program. Report available online at: http://www.advance.iastate.edu/resources/resources.shtml.9. Quinn, K., Lange, S.E., and Riskin, E.A. (2004) “Part-time tenure-track policies: Assessing utilization”, WEPAN 2004 Conference, June 6 – 9, Albuquerque, New

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Laboratories

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Schreiber, California Polytechnic State University; Andrew Kean, California Polytechnic State University; Glen Thorncroft, California Polytechnic State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

ethics and engineeringscience(1,2,3,4). MEA research uses open-ended case studies to simulate authentic, real-worldproblems that small teams of students address. As part of a collaborative, large-scale NationalScience Foundation project, this paper describes our first efforts to develop MEAs whichincorporate a laboratory or hands-on component.We will explain more about MEAs momentarily, but first wanted to provide more motivationsfor this specific effort. When teaching thermodynamics on the quarter system, we typicallycover the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics for both open and closed systems in thirty50-minute class sessions. Due to the rushed nature of this class, there are many fundamentalconcepts which do not get the care and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Hulme, State University of New York, Buffalo; Edward Kasprzak, Milliken Research Associates; Kenneth English, State University of New York, Buffalo; Deborah Moore-Russo, State University of New York, Buffalo; Kemper Lewis, State University of New York, Buffalo

”.8Exploring advanced techniques such as quasi-static vehicle analysis, RVD 2 builds on RVD 1.The course emphasizes the impacts of suspension design, including ride comfort and handling.Students investigate the oscillations of the sprung and unsprung masses. Taught in a more open-ended format than RVD 1, the course incorporates independent student learning, with severalpaper reviews, in-class presentations and projects throughout the semester. Dr. Kasprzak taughtthis course in Spring 2007, Spring 2008, and is adapting the material for a System Dynamicscourse in Spring 2009.High-Fidelity Simulation, Advanced Gaming SettingThe scenarios incorporated into RVD 2 provided a more advanced context for student learning.Each scenario gave the student specific

Conference Session

BME Curriculum Development

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Regina Nelson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Naomi Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

and learning opportunities within their discipline.Bibliography1. Nelson, R.K. (2008). Physiology and the biomedical engineering curriculum: How approaches to physiology instruction advance subsequent learning of BME topics. Unpublished report.2. ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission (2007). Criteria for accrediting engineering programs.3. National Academy of Engineering (2004). The engineer of 2020. Washington DC: The National Academies Press.4. Silverthorn, D.U. (2002). Developing a concepts-based physiology curriculum for bioengineering: A VaNTH project. Second Joint EMBS/BMES Conference. Houston, TX: IEEE.5. Linsenmeier, R.A. (2003). What makes a biomedical engineer? IEEE Engineering in Medicine and

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina; Bethany Fralick, University of South Carolina; Jennifer Kearn, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the Southeastern United States with apopulation of about 350,000. Three of these schools were classified as urban, two as rural.Thirty-two classes were given the EISC survey and twenty-eight the SISC survey. Although arelatively large number of students were surveyed, this study is based upon a sample ofconvenience. The survey respondents were future participants in a National Science Foundation– funded Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) program at the authors’institution.The GK-12 program that is associated with this study provides fellowships to graduate studentsin engineering and in science to work one or two days a week in middle school scienceclassrooms, enhancing science education through inquiry and design projects

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics, Academic Integrity

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

corollaries in the expectations for practicing engineers. There are additional questionsbased on the case studies and the engineering exemplars on the Online Ethics website. Ethics arealso discussed in the context of the course projects such as the CVEN exploration ofcontroversies and disasters and the EVEN drinking water evaluation project.Student perceptions of cheating behaviors were indicated by their anonymous responses to 18questions from the PACES-1 survey1. Students rated each behavior as either: cheating; unethicalbut not cheating; neither. The demographics of the students in the courses and the respondents,if known, are summarized in Table 1. Each course had about the same number of students, witha significantly higher percentage of female

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianno Coller, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

offeedback control systems, “Thread the Needle” created “attenuation of input” instead. Both deepand shallow attempts to solve the problem could produce similar outcomes in the game.Moving ForwardThe game-based dynamic systems and control course is being offered again in Spring 2009. Thechallenges and exercises in the new course are more similar to the Pendu-Car project describedpreviously. Instead of having students achieve specific performance metrics, we focus more onqualitative aspects. In devising a control strategy for the Pendu-Car, for example, one needs tothink deeply about how the feedback architecture is constructed. How can one simultaneouslycontrol two strongly coupled dynamic states (pendulum angle and car position)? Ourengineering

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Dannenhoffer, Syracuse University; Joan Dannenhoffer, State University of New York, Morrisville

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

GPAs ranging from barely passing to the top performers. The studentseach worked at a separate computer in a computer cluster. The evaluation session began with a30-minute introduction to the project and the software, including the solution of a typicalproblem by the instructor. Each student was then asked to solve one tutorial problem and thentwo new problems; the instructor walked around the room and was available to the students toanswer questions.Their initial impressions of the software were mixed. Some like to try anything new, especiallyif it involves the computer, and they quickly became proficient in using the system; thesestudents easily solved the two problems in about a half hour. Others were rather hesitant at first,and needed to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics, Academic Integrity

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shobi Sivadasan, Stevens Institute of Technology; Brian Sauser, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

. Overall, the survey results clearly revealed that students are aware ofacademic plagiarism and its resulting consequences. Regardless, academic plagiarism Page 14.1296.3continues to be a major problem.Plagiarism in the academic environment has plagued universities for a long time. Whilemost commonly committed by students, professors and researchers have been guilty aswell. According to R. Murray Thomas4, Professor Emeritus, University of California,Santa Barbara, “Students have plagiarized book reports, term papers, essays, projects, andgraduate-degree theses. Teachers—including college professors—have plagiarizedjournal articles, course materials, and

Conference Session

Focus on Faculty

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlie Law, Pennsylvania State University, Schuykill; David Younger, Rice University; Ann Saterbak, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

at Rice University were women. In addition, none of the winners were women in thescience or engineering faculty, whereas eight men in these areas were winners. The purpose ofthis project is to investigate the reasons for the underrepresentation of women faculty,particularly the women faculty in science and engineering, in the most prestigious teachingawards at Rice University.We explored the process for administration of the G. R. Brown Teaching Awards. Only tenure-track and tenured faculty are eligible for this award; seven total awards are given each year. RiceUniversity alumni who graduated two and five years ago vote on the award winners. The votingis done by mail through ballots. During the last four years, 11-14% of alumni have

Conference Session

Topics in Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York, Binghamton; Caroline Baillie, Queens University, Kingston

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

various cases and your responses as an engineering professional and anengineering educator. Case: The Next Generation Landmine Part I.Ms. Jane Enaj is a project manager at a multinational corporation which has just beenawarded a contract to develop and produce the next generation land mine. She is also amember of the Design Review Committee. The committee’s responsibilities includereviewing and approving design changes, procedural changes and submittingperformance reports to various U.S. Department of Defense agencies withrecommendations.Today Jane finds herself in a difficult situation. DRC is meeting to finalizerecommendation concerning the new land mine. It offers significant

Conference Session

Graphics and Visualization

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

neurosciencecannot be underestimated and the application of these findings is required for areorganisation of the education system 10.As far back as 1964, Smith outlined that procedures used for admittance toeducational institutions are heavily weighted to those with superior verbalintelligence12. He argues that a considerable proportion of students with advancedspatial abilities are being prevented from partaking in advanced educational courseswhere this ability can be nurtured and developed. The Irish education system hastaken cognisance of this research and the assessment of project based work in alltechnology based subjects now forms approximately forty percent of the overallgrade. An example of this change in focus is evident in Design and

Conference Session

Meeting the Needs of Engineering Faculty, Researchers, and Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

from a slot planto the current titles plan. They mention the disadvantage of losing older content when the newyear begins.Since the study, Texas A&M has moved from two to four and now six simultaneous users. It isconsidering subscribing to the complete file.Wallace4 (2006) wrote a journal article discussing the use of Safari for selected course reserveswith an existing slot system at the University of North Texas, Denton. He also did a similarconference presentation5 at ASEE in 2005. At the beginning of project, the university libraryhad three simultaneous users and 750 slots. To cover the anticipated use increase, the computerscience department paid for an additional simultaneous user. To avoid access challenges,professors explained to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics V

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Oliver, University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

prosecution of Mr. Siemaszko was met with skepticism by many. For example, theUnion of Concerned Scientists claimed that Siemaszko was “being used as a scapegoat" and that"[FENOC] and the NRC deserve the blame, not an engineer who was simply trying to do his joband keep the plant safe."21 Even the federal judge that presided at Siemaszko’s trial had hisdoubts stating that the conviction was "a close case".22 For its part in the deception, FENOC “agreed to pay $28 million in penalties, restitution,and community service projects as part of an agreement to defer prosecution of the company”23. Case 2: Boeing’s Purloined Papers In the late-1990’s McDonnell-Douglas and Lockheed Martin were in competition over along

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Stefanie L. Lozito; Karen M. Bursic; Cynthia Atman

objective of the larger study is to documentstudent problem solving processes by obtaining detailed descriptions of those processes. In this paper, we showhow this objective is obtained by demonstrating the usefulness of verbal protocol analysis through a detailedapplication of the method to one subject in our study. The Experiment In this study, students were asked to give a verbal protocol as they solved a playground design problem.This problem is a revised version of a term-long design project used by the University of Maryland (part of theNational Science Foundation’s ECSEL coalition)(5). The text of the problem is presented in Figure 1. The experimental procedure consisted of several

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin 'Quincy' Cabell VI; Javed Alam; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

locatedat distant locations. The number of users and Internet hosts are growing at an exponential rate and there does notappear to be an end in sight. The Internet offers a great potential for the rapid, cost effective exchange ofmassive amounts of information. The introduction of hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) used in the currentWorld-Wide Web (WWW, or the Web [1, 2]) project allows the FEMur development team to createinformation material in hypermedia format. It is a combination of Hypertext [3, 4] and multimedia. It allows oneto combine information from such diverse sources as plain text, pictures, sound clips and animation/video clipsto-create hypermedia documents using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). These documents are placedon a

Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Morris, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

ideas, including “intentionally destroy dying heart tissue over time, so that the bodycan more easily compensate” (3.1), “add an additional heart to the body” (4.1), “implantsmall pumps in various parts of the body where flow is decreased to help maintain flow”(6.7) and “utilized enzymes to ‘eat’ the plaque build-up” (7.2). The full list is shown inPart B of the Appendix.Some of the new ideas developed using this process may already exist, but were notencountered during research. During the project, several ideas were developed whilegenerating ideas and then later found in literature upon further research. Due to a limitedknowledge-base of the authors in medicine, not all ideas could be fully researched.Though an important step before starting

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna Dollar, Miami University; Paul Steif, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

learning process. One benefit is the possibility of including less routine activities, e.g., problem based learning, design projects or study of real engineering applications, case studies, ethics, and more advanced critical thinking and problem solving. And, to take greatest advantage of the feedback from OLI, more engaging in-class activities that target identifiable concepts and skills need to be developed.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSSupport by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation through the Open Learning Initiative atCarnegie Mellon University, by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie MellonUniversity, and by the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department at MiamiUniversity is gratefully

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynita Newswander, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Page 14.683.2innovation have been recently proposed in initial plans for graduate education. Specifically, we 1examined 134 funded NSF IGERT proposals for 120 unique IGERT sites (14 were renewalproposals), and examined their proposed organizational structures and any university support orexplicit plans for sustaining the project beyond the five-year funding period. Our analysis of theproposals was guided by the following questions, which are more thoroughly treated in thesections below: 1. What proportion of successfully funded interdisciplinary graduate education proposals specifically addressed sustaining the program after the funding

Conference Session

ASCE Policy 465: Raising the Bar

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy; Jeffrey Russell

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

through master’s-level study, is also a significant sourceof strength, as it reflects a trend toward a higher level of specialized knowledge. The BOK’semphasis on risk and uncertainty is an appropriate counter to the notion that engineeringknowledge is “too exact.”15 Enhanced professional practice breadth strengthens the professiononly insofar as the specified topics represent specialized disciplinary knowledge; e.g., bidding,quality-based selection, and construction project management. General knowledge ofcommunication skills, public policy, business, and similar topics are of considerably less value instrengthening the BOK, because they are neither theoretical nor specific to the civil engineeringdiscipline.Freidson also notes that an ideal

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

audiences typically emphasizeuse of engineering design methods of problem solving21. Engineering design is a common themeof introduction to engineering courses for first-year undergraduates as represented by someintroduction to engineering textbooks23-25.A strength of focusing on engineering design for either K-12 students, beginning engineeringstudents, or the general public, is that the design process emphasizes the central aspect ofengineering and technology which is the creation of physical objects of some type to solveproblems or provide for specific needs. Carrying out design projects allows students to be activeand engaged. Design activity can utilize a variety of materials from simple to sophisticated. Thepresentation of the basics of

Conference Session

Implementation of Experiments in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Dawn Spencer, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

traditional manufacturing processes through the book-making processes. Thisexercise increases an appreciation for manufacturing topics, and helps students understand thecomplex nature of many production processes.IntroductionWhile it is relatively easy to deliver a broad conceptual picture of the manufacturing processes inlectures, accomplishing this is somewhat more challenging in a laboratory environment. Inprevious years, a semester-long project incorporated a number of traditional manufacturingprocesses to produce a working device like a wind vane, a scale, or a desk lamp. However, ittook a whole semester to build such a device; therefore, a “large picture” was not provided to thestudents at the beginning of the semester. Some of the engineering

Conference Session

Active Engagement: From the New Engineering Librarian's Perspective

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Jane Dooley, Dalhousie University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

program.Strive to foster two-way communication.”7 She has successfully improved faculty-libraryrelationships, and increased her number of teaching and research assistance opportunities.Collaborative projects are now initiated by her teaching faculty because they know what toexpect from her. These opportunities have enhanced her career portfolio and were no doubt afactor in her successful reappointment and promotion to Librarian II in the summer of 2007. Theongoing development of her liaison work will strongly support her application for appointmentwithout term, and promotion to Librarian III in the fall of 2009.The author learned most of what she knows about networking and collaboration since she beganworking professionally. Overcoming challenges, and

Conference Session

Getting Started: Objectives, Rubrics, Evaluations, and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin; Mia Markey, University of Texas, Austin; Wonsoon Park, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Biomedical Engineering. The mission of her Biomedical Informatics Lab is to design cost-effective, computer-based decision aids. The BMIL develops decision support systems for clinical decision making and scientific discovery using artificial intelligence and signal processing technologies. The BMIL's research portfolio also includes projects in biometrics. Dr. Markey’s primary interests in improving engineering education are the identification of effective strategies for coordinating instructional technologies to reinforce learning and the recruitment and retention of a diverse student body.Wonsoon Park, University of Texas, Austin WONSOON PARK is a doctoral student in the College of Education at the