Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Soldan, Kansas State University; Don Gruenbacher, Kansas State University; Noel N. Schulz, Kansas State University; Blythe A Vogt PE, Kansas State University; William Bowes Hageman, Kansas State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #6258From Defense to Degree: Accelerating Degree Opportunities for Military Vet-eransDr. David L. Soldan, Kansas State UniversityDr. Don Gruenbacher, Kansas State University Currently serving as department head and associate professor, Dr. Don Gruenbacher joined the Kansas State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1997. He was promoted to as- sociate professor in 2002, and has served as the graduate program coordinator of electrical and computer engineering since 2004. During his career at Kansas State University, Dr. Gruenbacher has chaired and served on various committees at the

Conference Session

RET Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; Rebecca P. Blust, University of Dayton; Suzanne Franco, Wright State University; Renee Beach; Sandra M Preiss, Dayton Regional STEM Center

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of this six week program for K-12 STEM teachers and pre-serviceteachers entitled Engineering Innovation and Design for STEM Teachers was to enhance theknowledge of teachers and pre-service teachers about engineering innovation and design so thatthey can facilitate inspirational engineering and innovation experiences in their classrooms aswell as better inform their students of potential career fields and societal needs related to STEM.During the first and second summers of this program, ten teachers and five pre-service teacherswere placed on teams with an engineering student, engineering faculty and an industrial mentoror community partner. Each team participated in an introductory engineering innovation anddesign project as well as a more

Conference Session

Robotics and Automation

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas B. Stout, Tidewater Community College; Steve C. Hsiung, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

autonomous vehicle designed and manufactured by faculty at a localuniversity and community colleges to provide interest to students in embedded controls. Thevehicle also met a need that a school system had for up-to-date automation and roboticsequipment. It is hoped that the results of this collaborative effort will lead more high students totake an interest in STEM related fields to sustain the nation’s need for additional young people toenter the career fields of sciences, engineering, and engineering technology, and also improvethese students academic abilities in a robotics and automation. Developing partnerships between public schools, community colleges, and universitiesare critical for students to achieve success in STEM programs and

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Perry Deess; Clarisa Gonzalez-Lenahan; Vladimir Briller; Raymond Calluori; John Carpinelli

tutoring program (as tutors or recipients, depending on their GPA) • The Student Support Services Program (SSSP) Winter Intersession (an intensive 2-week skills and confidence building session) • The professional development workshops and career fair run by NJIT’s Career Services Division • The annual colloquia and lecture series presented by the Albert Dorman Honors College, the Newark College of Engineering, the College of Science and Liberal Arts, the School of Architecture, and the School of ManagementSince research consistently supports students’ involvement in academic societies and professionalorganizations, the ELA Program was instrumental in helping ELA participants to establish abalance between

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw

paper presents the learning environment, its associated assessment mechanisms and analysisof formative evaluation results.IntroductionThe professional in Information Technology (IT) is faced with an ever-changing and diverse fieldthat demands that they pay heed to constant technological advances. The student in an IT fieldmust develop during their college years a pattern of ‘life long learning’ so that they can keepabreast with the changes and evolution that will inevitably take place while in their career.The practice of life long learning is essential for a successful career in IT; without it theprofessional would inevitably become obsolete and become an unprofitable employee for theircompany. “Lifelong learning has become a necessity, [and

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daphene Koch

Session # 2549 Session # 2549 It’s not kid stuff anymore Daphene Cyr Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI)IntroductionIt has been shown over time that when the economy is bad more people turn to education tochange careers or grow within their current job. Many times these new students are non-traditional, or over 25 years of age. These students have some different needs that educatorsshould be aware of to insure the success of the student. The following paper will help defineandragogy as it

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Yang

-wired, making changes difficult andexpensive. Programmable logic controllers, PLCs, have dramatically altered this picturesince their initial applications in 1960s. Because of their functionality and versatility,PLCs are playing ever-popular and critical roles in modern manufacturing systems. Missouri Western State College is a public, state supported institution providing ablend of traditional liberal arts and sciences and career-oriented degree programs.Professional education programs such as teacher education, nursing, engineeringtechnology, and business have played an important role at Missouri Western for manyyears and have come to be seen as an area of strength for Missouri Western throughoutthe northwest Missouri region. The

Conference Session

Developing Young Minds in Engineering: Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeremi S. London, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Porsche Amanda Williams; Cameron Michael McGhee, Purdue University

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Minorities in Engineering

25.908.4exchanges based on their research interests. In some cases, faculty-mentor relationships lastmuch longer than the summer- or year-long tenure of the LSAMP research experience. Newopportunities result from the mentorship, like the inclusion of students on peer-reviewedpublications and continued mentoring throughout graduate school and STEM careers. LSAMP Indiana facilitates academic and social integration among its Scholars3,4; this isanother asset of the program. Some LSAMP Indiana institutions partner with and share activitieswith other organizations on their respective campuses (e.g., McNair Scholars Program, MinorityEngineering Program). Moreover, the establishment of a one-credit hour LSAMP professionaldevelopment seminar is one of the

Conference Session

Rethinking Traditional Pedagogical Strategies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University; Dimitra Jackson, Iowa State University; Soko Starobin, Iowa State University; Mary Darrow, Iowa State University

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Two Year College Division

for practice and policy to facilitate femaleparticipation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Page 15.436.2Introduction and BackgroundThe nation’s public two-year colleges play a critical role in providing access to education beyondhigh school. Referred to as community colleges, these institutions are comprehensive in natureand offer diverse curriculum including developmental education, liberal arts, career and technicaleducation, and lifelong learning (Cohen & Brawer, 2008)5. The transfer function, in particular,provides students with the opportunity to pursue the first two-year of their general

Conference Session

IE and Manufacturing

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rashpal Ahluwalia, West Virginia University; Atul Phadke, West Virginia University; Gary Winn, West Virginia University; Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University

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Industrial Engineering

National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0525484. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and donot necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.learning and designs with more than one possible correct outcome depending on designconstraints; and because students could compete against their peers using the same designconsiderations.In 2009, the West Virginia University Engineers of Tomorrow research team reviewed regionalliterature on STEM career opportunities for Appalachian students, and noted, "It has long beensaid that high tech industries with higher paying jobs would improve the lives of residents of theAppalachian region. Careers in the sciences

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Luks

relocate one hundred families. Significantfunds still have not been allocated for remediation.Introduction to Chemical Engineering Course The University of Tulsa course catalog describes the introductory class forfreshmen studying Chemical Engineering as: Overview of the chemical engineering curriculum, professionalism, career opportunities, and issues of safety and the environment. Introduction to chemical engineering calculations; units, dimensions, and conversion factors.Most students enrolling in the course are new to the university and have selected themajor based on the fact that they liked chemistry and math in high school. They typicallyhave no idea what a chemical engineer does. This course is intended to

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Murray Teitell, DeVry University, Long Beach; William Sullivan, DeVry University

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Mathematics

to the academic and career goals of thestudent. This began the active learning process. An example of “The Frame” is illustrated in Figure 1. The student has an interest in howdiseases spread. The student’s career goal was to go into a biomedical field. The studentresearched the process and found a set of differential equations that model the spread of diseasefor a particular and general case.5,6Figure 1. “The Frame” utilized in the context of the spreading of disease. Susceptible βI Infected g Recoveredβ = transmission rate, B = birth rate, d = death rate, R0 = reproductive rate (rate that infectedpersons cause new infected persons), g = recovery rate, S, I and R are the populations of thethree

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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Two Year College Division

policies for the acceptance of transfer students and forthe validation of courses taken for credit elsewhere.”5This situation invites two-year colleges (TYC’s) to take proactive actions to support their four-year partners in their quest to meet ABET accreditation criteria. A listing of these criteria alongwith some possible ways TYC’s can adjust their programs to meet the criteria may be helpful inhelping four-year institutions obtain accreditation while also strengthening their partnershipswith local community college programs.ABET Accreditation CriteriaCriterion 1. StudentsCommunity college program are also obligated to evaluate student performance, provideadvising for students regarding curricular and career matters, and monitor student’s

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vicki V. May, Dartmouth College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

- sity in San Luis Obispo. Page 24.368.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Design it! Build it! A Summer Engineering Workshop for High School Students to Foster Creativity and Change Perceptions of Engineering (Work in Progress)BackgroundA survey of over 1,000 high school students conducted by Penn Schoen Berland found thatstudents were more likely to consider engineering as a career if they had been exposed toengineering and better understood the role of engineers1. Additionally, students who had notbeen exposed to engineering were more

Conference Session

An Examination of Methods to Enhance Transfer Student Enrollment, Retenion, Persistence, and Outcomes

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Laier, University of South Alabama; Sally J. Steadman, University of South Alabama

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Two Year College Division

work to covertheir tuition costs. The program also includes a seminar for first time students and amentoring program, to enhance the academic success of transfer students. Page 24.724.2The USA-LINK seminar emphasizes academic success skills (such as time management andstudy skills). The students explore engineering majors through problem-based applications,gaining essential experience with engineering problem solving. The seminar also focuses onsocial involvement and interpersonal skills. Students are introduced to career andresearch/internship opportunities and to job placement skills so they are well prepared to enterthe technical workforce.An

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland; Zulema Naegele, University of Portland; Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Increasing Retention in Engineering and Computer Science with a Focus on Academically At-Risk First Year and Sophomore Students1. IntroductionThe program described in this paper seeks to increase retention rates for engineering andcomputer science students and to evaluate the effectiveness of best practices for retention ofacademically at-risk students. The main hypothesis is that students who fall behind their cohortearly in their college career are less likely to be retained in engineering and computer science.As such, we focus this project on the academically “at-risk” student group defined as first-yearcollege students who are not

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

undergraduate students to the concepts and practices ofentrepreneurial thinking. Using a combination of lectures, case studies, student led discussions,team business plans, and investor presentation formats, the course teaches life skills inentrepreneurial thought and action that students can utilize in careers ranging from startingcompanies to initiating R&D projects in large company entrepreneurial endeavors. Major coursethemes include: Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Idea Generation and Feasibility Analysis, andBusiness Planning. The table 1 also shows the content of the course3.Course objectives include exploring the entrepreneurial mindset and culture that has beendeveloping in companies of all sizes and industries; examine the

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janice Miller-Young

class norms, the lessons become part of the deep structure Page 10.886.4of their class experience as their first introduction to a career in engineering. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationKurfiss12 examined a wide range of successful courses devoted to teaching critical thinking, andderived eight principles for designing a course to support critical thinking. The instructionsactivity is novel and extremely useful, as it incorporates five of the eight principles in a shortassignment at the

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Feodoroff

Technology throughout theprogram.IntroductionNew England Institute of Technology is a private, non-profit technical college founded in 1940that provides over 29 specialized associate and bachelor degree programs that prepare studentsfor technical careers. Most associate degree programs can be completed in 18 months, andBachelor of Science programs in 3 years. The academic year is divided into four (4) ten weekquarters with a six week intersession period during June and July. NEIT’s open enrollmentpolicy requires entering students to be assessed for skill in reading, writing and mathematics todetermine their readiness to begin standard college work. NEIT offers technical programs thatmeet the career-oriented needs of students with emphasis placed on

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Hill

accomplish this goal, PLTW, which is not-for-profit corporation, has created a series of five yearlong high school courses. These coursesintroduce students to engineering as a career and provide them with the critical thinking andanalytical skills they will need to succeed as engineers. These courses also bring into them thenecessary math, science, and language arts skills and teach these skills in the context of the pre-engineering classes. Thus, students can see the application of these subjects, many of which arenot normally taught in context, such that they can understand their value and use.These five courses are Introduction to Engineering Design (IED), Digital Electronics (DE),Principles of Engineering (POE), Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Jackson; Mani Mina

electricalengineering class at Iowa State University. Discussion of classroom, laboratory, and out-of-classlearning is included, along with some of our results.IntroductionThe increasingly rapid growth of the various fields of engineering has led to great challenges ineducation, and many proposals have been made regarding changes in curriculum1-3. The needsof first-year university students have especially changed; quickly changing and evolvingtechnology demands more than ever that students continue to learn efficiently throughout theirprofessional career. To this end, a first year course must provide the student with a number ofobjectives:• Identify the scope of the particular field which he or she has chosen to study;• Begin to learn the process of

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rockland; Levelle Burr-Alexander; Howard Kimmel

equipment that are integral to the implementation of theprogram. All teachers may communicate with other PLTW teachers nationwide through theInternet and receive year-round technical support through the staff at the state affiliates,National Technical Training Center located at Rochester Institute of Technology, andnational PLTW office. Nationwide, 2,138 teachers have trained in one or more of the PLTWcourses. Guidance counselors must attend at least one annual conference held nationally orlocally. The goal of the annual conference is to inform counselors from existing andpotential PLTW schools about the program and careers in the field of engineering. To fostercollaboration, a partnership team is established within each PLTW school that

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Taylor

career. • The entrepreneurship program provides a forum for learning and experiencing business firsthand from professionals • The certificate process builds teamwork and communication skills in interdisciplinary project teams • The student who desires to launch a business is provided with foundational knowledge, experience, and mentoring. • The student who decides to pursue an engineering or management career goes into the work place with working knowledge of business and as a more valuable employee • Mississippi and the surrounding states enjoy a higher level of economic development. Figure 1. Vision of the Jack Hatcher Engineering Entrepreneurship Program. For students with higher

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Autar Kaw

. Fortunately, his cancer went into fullremission and in the following semester, he made an “A” in the course. Efed gives the benefit ofthe doubt to the student. As he gains experience, Efed is able to distinguish between genuine andlame excuses. For special and extreme cases those that stretch Efed's time or are beyond his capability ofhelp, Efed does not hesitate to refer students to the campus career counseling services. The contact with student during office hours is very important to Efed. It is an Page 8.1011.3opportunity for teaching students how to learn on their own. Rather than just solving the problemProceedings of the

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What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Crago; Dale Flowers

the formal measures described above, we systematically gather feedback from ourcorporate partners in the program. Two samples include:From Don Richards, Managing Partner of the Chemicals Industry Practice, Accenture:“Consulting careers – similar to traditional engineering organizations – increasingly requirebroader business skills to be successful. The content of the MEM degree is exactly what themarket is looking for; adding business and management disciplines to the heritage of outstandingtechnical and analytical education provided by engineering.”In the short history of the degree program, Accenture has hired two full time consultants fromthe program, the second to start in May 2004.From Helen Rapp, Manager of Engineering Support

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Recruiting and Building Diversity

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Kane; Carla Purdy

; • advisors' own unpleasant graduate experiences, which they may have come to view as necessary to their success; • lack of oversight of faculty supervisors and of administration support for programs that would improve the quality of graduate student life; • lack of information about how to prepare adequately for comprehensive exams; • lack of training in necessary skills such as giving a presentation or writing a grant proposal; • lack of career guidance; • competitiveness or hostility among research group peers; • lack of feedback on progress towards the degree; • unclear and often unreasonably long timelines to degree completion; • budget constraints which lead to low stipends

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Adrezin; Marty Wood; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

development in telecommunications, photonics, laser safety,fiver optics, manufacturing, plastics and composites. Finally, the ATE grants havesupported faculty externships in cutting edge industries that have been used for integratingindustry applications into the classroom and laboratories.NASA Space Grant The College of Technology is also a member of the CT NASA Space GrantConsortium. Through this initiative, the COT students at the community colleges have theopportunity to participate in a number of career awareness programs offered throughoutthe year. In addition, ten $500 scholarships are awarded to College of Technologystudents who plan on continuing their education at a four year institution in engineering,science or technology.Outreach

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ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenda Kelly; Martha Absher; Gary Ybarra

learning mathematical concepts by capitalizing on children’s naturalaffinity for plants and animals. It was predicted that teaching mathematics in this hands-onintegrated way over the course of this 3 year program would contribute to an increase in theNorth Carolina Standardized End-of-Grade (EOG) Math Test Scores, an increase in self- reportsamong children and adolescents of enjoyment of math and science, an increase of self-report inbeing good in math and science, an increase in viewing math as important to everyone’s life, anincrease in self-report of a wish to work in a career in math or science, an increase in a wish todo more math, and an increase in the percentage of students eligible to take Algebra by the 8thgrade.Program descriptionFor

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Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Holcombe

and creative endeavors. • Girls are not discouraged from pursuing engineering and technology, but they are not encouraged to select the engineering fields either. • The computer culture that attracts young men does not attract young females because of the violence, redundancy and tedium associated with video games. They dislike the narrowly and technically focused programming classes. • They have a perceived lack of technological skills and avoid them to save face.A survey by Professors Holcombe and Hoffman [2] (Purdue University), asked women in the ETfield, what were the top 5 motivators in choosing their career. Of the 65 respondents the mostcommon answers were: • Eighty percent responded that their family

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Johnson

organizations likeASEE, MESA, IEEE, NASA, and Boeing. Engineering Information Foundation and Project LeadThe Way are involved in activities to promote engineering in the pre-college education system.However, in spite of all of these efforts, enrollments in engineering programs are still falling.With the allotment of H-1b visas rising from 65,00 in 1998 to 195,000 in 2001, there are concernsabout the lack of interest and preparation of American students especially in the engineeringfields. This paper discusses another approach to informing K-12 students aboutengineering as a creative and fulfilling career choice. Presently, three factors suggest a means ofencouraging California’s students to be engineers: • The California Commission on Teacher