Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Pasek

write. • 90% of what they say as they do a thing (teaching others)).Throughout the class a number of in-class exercises are embedded in order to illustrate importantconcepts. One of these exercise used at the beginning of the first class is the “Signature Factory,”in which students task is to collect maximum number of signatures from their peers in a limitedamount of time (60 seconds). Initially the effort is individual (and chaotic), but on a second trystudents are asked to organize their effort to increase productivity. Another useful activity usedto illustrate the group decision processes is “NASA decision/survival exercise.” A number ofgood ideas for these in class activities are collected in a book by Baker and Paulson8, but

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Schwartz

and corresponds with other group members’estimates. Item 2 carries a lot of weight – on each student’s form, I write down all of the ratings Page 10.913.6each received from their teammates. I also write down the rating the student gave herself, but I “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”circle it, noting whether it agreed with the ratings given by the other students in the group.Students whose average rating is above 50 earn points, while those below lose points. If astudent is identified

Conference Session

Design and the Community

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Haden; John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

11 – 15Figure 2. Course Progression. Note: Typically, 12 or more teams are in one class.The course would culminate in a complex robotic project, requiring the efforts of roughly 12 to 15students in a single “megateam.” This “large project” (also known as the “final design project”)would only be addressed in the last five to six weeks of the semester. At least one oral presentationwas required of each student during the final project phase as part of one of three weekly megateampresentations. This presentation was accomplished in the context of a three-stage design process:Conceptual, detailed, and final design phases. With larger numbers of students working together, ananonymous peer review evaluation process was in effect within each

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ranjith Munasinghe

the material in the sequel to theclass? Undergraduate projects are for the capable students interested in penetrating thisunfortunate boundary.3. Many upper classmen, specially the students we would select for research projects, entertainthe idea of going to graduate school. Introduction to research by an undergraduate project canhelp them make this important career decision.4. Obviously, research projects promote team work and writing project reports and presentationsimprove communication skills.5. We must not forget the most fundamental goal of any research project. We conduct research tofind new ideas and invent new things. In fact, undergraduate researchers have a uniqueadvantage that sometimes could help them invent revolutionary

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

ICEE p n = 177 n = 71The course had a positive effect on my… Problem-solving skills 56.5% 77.1% 0.002 Study skills 45.2% 72.9% 0.000 Teamwork skills 83.1% 90.0% 0.165 Time management skills 59.9% 77.1% 0.010 Writing skills 42.4% 54.3% 0.089 Speaking skills 55.4% 57.1% 0.799 Computer skills

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

ICEE p n = 177 n = 71The course had a positive effect on my… Problem-solving skills 56.5% 77.1% 0.002 Study skills 45.2% 72.9% 0.000 Teamwork skills 83.1% 90.0% 0.165 Time management skills 59.9% 77.1% 0.010 Writing skills 42.4% 54.3% 0.089 Speaking skills 55.4% 57.1% 0.799 Computer skills

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Sandquist; Brian Moretti; Edward Naessens

demonstrate the necessary leadership and 4 depicts the Nuclear Engineering Program teamwork skills to work in multidisciplinary team environments. Outcomes. Each course in the nuclear 3. Graduates can effectively engineering program is matched against a communicate. set of these outcomes. Each course has a set • Graduates have the ability to communicate technical and of course outcomes that map to particular non-technical information to supervisors, subordinates, peers, customers, and the general public. program outcomes. A course concept map • Graduates have the ability to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Greta Zenner; Amy Payne; Aura Gimm; Wendy Crone

technical training, the interns gained valuable experience in cutting-edge scienceand technology through using MRSEC educational materials and interacting with MRSECpersonnel. Many of the professional development meetings included a technical portion, duringwhich interns learned about advanced and nanoscale materials and conducted basic labexperiments. In addition, when learning about their chosen nanotechnology topic, developingtheir instructional activities, and writing an article on their team topic for a lay audience, internsresearched related secondary and primary scientific literature.The interns also gained valuable experience and training in cutting-edge science and technologyby working in interdisciplinary teams and interacting with their

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Enke; Susan Murray

appearsin the notes as the lecture is given. When students see the red text they know it is not inthe lecture and is something they need to write down. Since the topic has been talkedabout it before the text appears, the note taking usually does not interfere much with thelearning, but helps to reinforce the concepts. An extra benefit of the red text note taking isthat it gets the students engaged in the lecture, even if only to get their body moving andtheir mind focused again. Certainly, the success of this technique depends on the type ofclass and the willingness of the students to become involved.Another technique used by some distance instructors is to withholding notes until justbefore or after the lectures. Students complained with fury, and

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

peer reviews1 of theextensive written reports that document the process and product of each team project. DuringMQP reviews in the mid-1990s, the ECE Department faculty, while noting that most of theeducational goals for the MQP were being met, discerned a number of areas for improvement: • Many design projects did not appear to be framed in terms of user requirements and technical specifications derived from those requirements; • Many project reports did not reveal appropriate design synthesis; rather, students tended to address design challenges by choosing a single likely solution and “making it work”; • Little attention was given, in many cases, to such fundamental design considerations as cost

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Natela Ostrovskaya; Jan Rinehart; Susan Metz

) writing down a formal plan for studentresearch; and 5) giving students at least one teaching experience (strategies 4 and 5 were also tiedin the ranking)., “Why these experiences are so important,” respondents particularly put importance on technicalconferences by reporting: “Technical conferences let students practice skills, with some guidance and some backup,before they are expected to do them on their own. Prospective faculty members must be able toprovide their own motivation and feedback. Gives insight into academia.” “Technical conferences are the heart and soul of research in academia. An understandingof how they work, what is expected, the networking experience is invaluable.” “Students must understand expectations. Students

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Subrata Roy; Karim Nasr; K. Joel Berry

. In a recent study by Kettering University CoreEngineering Team (CET)[1], a survey of engineering curricula at other universities was carriedout. Reviewed universities included all of Kettering’s Association of Independent TechnologicalUniversities (AITU) peers, Michigan universities with major engineering programs, anduniversities participating in the Foundation Coalition. This review[2-6] found that manyuniversities, including Kettering, continue to offer relatively traditional core curricula. Non-traditional or innovative programs are in place at a number of universities, but relatively few ofthese have been implemented for all students. Most remain in an experimental stage and areoffered to only a subset of the students and taught only by

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanley Kieta; Christopher Decock; Gregory Dick; Jerry Samples

Session Number 2150 Students Teaching Students: a Pedagogical Experiment Gregory M. Dick, Stanley J. Kieta, Christopher A. Decock. Jerry W. Samples University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractHow do you fill a course and laboratory instructor vacancy on no notice? What happenswhen the Adjunct Professor cannot arrange a schedule for the laboratory portion of thecourse? Peer tutoring has been utilized for years in the sciences, math and humanities. Isit possible to use an upper-class student to assist in an engineering technology laboratorysetting

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Bishop; Gary Lewandowski; Joel Fried; Carla Purdy; Anant Kukreti

exportable modules which can be used as is or modified to fit the needs of otherinstitutions and which cover elementary teaching skills, advanced teaching skills, proposal writing,time management, and preparation for the job search process. There is also a mentored teachingcomponent, which is individually structured for each student. Requirements for participation areset by each department. The program prepares students for the full range of academic positions,at research-intensive or more teaching-oriented schools. It also offers a forum for faculty toupdate their teaching skills and for the discussion of issues of diversity, learning styles, anddifferences in culture between instructor and students. In addition, an associated yearly lecture

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Stephen Ressler

formally learning to teach and introduces a model instructional strategy that will be a road map for the ETWII Principles of Effective Teaching and Learning: Introduces Lowman’s4 two-dimensiona model of teaching and provides a compendium of learning principlesIII Teaching Assessment: Covers student, peer and self assessments and separates myth from fact regarding their usefulnessIV Introduction to Learning Styles: Examines Felder’s Learning Style Dimensions5 and examines how to accommodate all styles of learnersV Learning Objectives: Introduces Bloom’s taxonomy6 of educational objectives and show how to write appropriate and useful learning objectivesVI Planning a Class: Offers a structured

Conference Session

Technology Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Emery; John Feland

· Teaching via the case method · Designing for experiential learningIn addition, journal articles will be highlighted to support educators with how, and why, to usevarious technologies to design unique learning experiences in the entrepreneurship classroom.Such examples include: · Online collaboration tools · Creating a classroom community online · Real-time case writing through teleconferencing · Cross-university collaboration · E-mentors: Transcending geographical barriers to provide real-world contentd. The CommunityIndividual comments regarding the challenges faced by entrepreneurship educators indicated thatmany faculty lack the time to review resources, and miss having a peer group with whom toshare

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Leo Smith; Hisham Alnajjar; Donald Leone; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; Ladimer Nagurney; Devdas Shetty

Learning Block Reading & Writing RLC 110 Page 6.612.2 Figure 1 – Freshman Year (First Semester)Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationShared Outcomes of First Semester FIGThe faculty of ES141 and RLC110 worked as a team to identify the shared outcomes betweenthe two courses. Then, they worked on identifying the activities, the technology to support

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanley Pisarski; Beverly Hunter; Kathy Bearden

department faculty. Use of a wide audience gives the students anopportunity to receive feedback from diverse viewpoints including their peers. The final defenseoccurs at the end of the semester. Students are required to write a detailed report and give aformal presentation to department faculty, students, sponsors and family. Juniors are encouragedto attend all presentations so that they can get a better idea of what will be expected of them.Where practical, support of senior project activities is embedded in senior level courses. Forexample, those that take Finite Element Analysis are required to do a final project for the courseand are encouraged to do a project related to their senior project activities.II. Recent Civil Engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Carels; James Howard; Charles Bersbach; Debra Larson

& Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2630During the spring of 2000, the three graduate students from EGR 686 were vertically integratedas project managers into NAU’s junior-level multidisciplinary project-driven design class that iscalled EGR 386 Engineering Design III. This integration, the practicum component of EGR 686,was combined with traditional class time, reflective writings, and mentoring to provide a balanceof theory with structured practice and guided reflection.The vertical integration was accomplished by structuring EGR 386 as a lightweight matrixorganization that

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Debbie Silver; Bill B. Elmore

secondary students were evaluated for appropriateness. Strengths andlimitations of a variety of teaching methods were considered. These methods and practices werethen modeled and assessed through the conduct of the course in classroom, laboratory, and in-service experiences. Methodologies included lecture, small group activities, whole groupactivities, individual participation, reflective writing, alternative assessments, cooperativelearning, demonstrations, and technology-based assignments.3. Course Objectives The objectives of our course included:• Discussing the importance of teaching problem solving in today’s elementary/secondary schools.• Enabling our students to display an increased capacity for solving problems

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Fredrick Jones; Charlene Yauch

., reading, discussing, writing). • Greater emphasis is placed on students’ exploration of their own attitudes and values.Each of the strategies listed above is aimed at the motivation needs of students. While theseneeds are very important (and active learning is an approach that we fully believe in), thehygiene needs of students should not be ignored. Attention to both hygiene and motivationfactors will best serve the needs of the students and increase our chances of retaining them in Page 6.677.2engineering by decreasing their dissatisfaction and increasing their satisfaction.Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosa Betancourt de Perez; Rosa Buxeda; Moises Orengo; Lueny M. Morell; Jose R. Lopez

performance and attitude changes as a result of innovation. They are also required to write a short paper in order to disseminate their experiences. These will be also posted on the PR-LSAMP website.V. Specific Examples & Outcomes of Curricular Innovations A. Cooperative Learning. One of the most successful strategies to reduce the attrition rate in SMET courses across the Alliance has been cooperative learning5,6. Many faculty have participated over the years in workshops and seminars, and success stories in reducing student attrition rates have been documented. For example, Figure 2 shows a comparison of improvement in the grade

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

M. R. Foster; H. Öz

, in agreement with what the Provost of the university has suggested. Such a number is also consistent with the results of a survey of the numbers of hours to graduation for aerospace programs at peer universities.• No student should be enrolled in more than 4 courses total in any quarter.• The senior year should allow students to explore their own interests through a set of electives.III. The Structure of the New CurriculumUltimately, we came to the structure shown graphically in Figure 1, with a tabular listing ofcourses in Table 1. Much of the first year and part of the second are taken up with science andmathematics, with some specific engineering core material on statics, dynamics, materials andstrength of materials in the

Conference Session

Collaborations, Accreditation and Articulation Issues for International Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morteza Sadat-Hossieny, Northern Kentucky University; Elizabeth Leibach, Northern Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

International

2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00EGT 320 Robotic Systems and Material Handling 2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00EGT 340 Applied Dynamics 2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00ENGD080 Writing Lab 2010-2011 Not Transferred 1.00ENGD090 Writing Workshop 2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00PHI 194 Global Ethical Viewpoints 2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00AELP000 Non-Credit/American English Lang 2010-2011 Not Transferred 0.00CHE 120 General Chemistry I 2010-2011 D Transferred 3.00CHE 120L General Chemistry I Lab

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Francisco Ruiz; Michael E. Gorman; Phil Weilerstein

seminar in thePsychology Department.A major objective of the course is for students to understand and adopt the cognitiveprocesses that guided the creation and interpretation of great inventors, in this caseusing a module based on the invention of the telephone7. Students try to improve onBell’s original telephone design and patent, using similar materials. The purpose of thismodule is to teach students how to invent: how to keep a notebook, conduct systematicexperiments, work in teams, draft a patent application and create a prototype thatdemonstrates proof-of-concept. As the course evolved, more-and-more scaffolding wasadded, in the form of additional materials on patents, on writing notebooks, and on otheraspects of the invention process. The

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard B Cole; Charles V. Schaefer; Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard

includes:Engineering Graphics (2-credit laboratory), Engineering Seminar (1 credit), and Engineering De-sign Laboratory I (1-credit laboratory).The major goal of these activities in the first semester is to provide the students an early bondingwith engineering and its style and task orientation as distinguished from science. They are aimedat initiating development of competencies that will build through subsequent design experiences:1. Ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs2. Ability to function effectively on multidisciplinary teams3. Ability to identify, formulate and assess alternative technical and economic solutions to en- gineering problems.4. Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively, both in writing and

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa S. Tooley; Kevin Hall

responsible for. When theprogress reports are turned in, a signature sheet is required with all their signatures, certifyingthat they have put in the number of hours shown for them on the progress report. Also, at theend of the semester, peer reviews are conducted wherein each person in the class evaluates themembers of their team. Each person is “given” $8,000 with which to “pay” the 4 members oftheir team, and asked to distribute the money based on each member’s contribution. Ideally, themoney would be evenly distributed among the team. The class is informed at the beginning ofthe semester that it is possible for team members to make different grades on the same project,and this gives the instructor the ability to do this if large disparities in

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

May Movafagh Mowzoon; Mary Aleta White; Stephanie L. Blaisdell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

math from sixth to twelfth grade [1]. Students report that mathbecomes more difficult, that they receive less support from parents, teachers and peers forstudying math, and that math becomes more anxiety provoking over time. Female studentsreported that math was more difficult than did male students, and females rated themselves asmore anxious in quantitative situations than males, even though their mathematical ability wasapproximately equal [2]. In fact, as early as the seventh grade, boys plan to study more maththan girls do [3]. High school girls perceive math to be less useful than boys do [4], and valuemath less than boys do [5]. Research supports the idea that the factors that keep minorities fromentering these fields are largely the

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Nick J. Kok

the head of department and, in consultation with the dean, a short list compiled according to qualifications, industrial and other experience and referees’ reports.C Informal interviews are subsequently held in the department concerned to expose applicants to their potential future working environment.C All applicants on the short list are then to lecture to a peer group of staff as well as experts from the Technikon’s Teaching Development Unit, who evaluate the applicant’s performance.C Subsequently a battery of psychometric tests is used to determine whether the applicant is a stable person capable of managing conflict, caring about others, etc

Conference Session

Curriculum in Telecommunications Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhammad Hasan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

memory as illustrated in Figure 4. However, different cache-tagging schemes havevaried hardware complexities and hit rates under different applications. Also, different cachereplacement policies and cache write-policies fit better in different situations.Memory Management Unit (MMU): MMU has a key role in virtual memory implementation.MMU takes care of the page table and the logical-to-physical address translation process. Pagereplacement policies applied to the page table updating comprise of various algorithms. Recentlyaccessed frame numbers can be stored in a cache called Translation Look-aside Buffer (TLB).This ensures fast access to the recently used pages