Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon A. Driscoll

, make sure they know tobring it and be sure to have them use it regularly. Talking to the students about how you willorganize activities helps prepare the students for how you teach. Below are included specificactivities with comments and suggestions for the first week.(1) Go over the syllabus. The syllabus reflects the organizational characteristics of the class. Unclear rules and requirements can come back to haunt you. Put in grade information (how many points for homework, exam, etc.) and tentative test dates. State your policy on late work and make-up exams. State your policy on office hours and provide contact information such as office number, phone number, and e-mail address. Provide information on

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Bruning

order to analyze andunderstand more fully how young women come to know engineering.Purpose of the StudyThe purpose of the study is to examine the influential factors that have an impact or effect youngwomen when considering a non-traditional career field like engineering. Specifically, this studyfocuses on the career exploration process and the perceptions, a reflection of language andimagery, which constitutes young women’s contextual understandings of the engineeringprofession. Topics the study will explore include: · What are the ways in which meaning and perspectives are gendered? · What meanings and perspective does engineering information create and convey? · Is there correspondence and disjunct between the portrayal of

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jørgen Hansen; Arvid Andersen

criticism issometimes matched by a reluctance to aid education by provision of an adequate number ofindustrial placements and real projects. Also allocation of time and money, to be committedand engaged, is necessary. Engineering education should be a result of a partnership betweenthe academic and the industrial worlds. It is more important than ever, to be involved and toadjust and adapt to new circumstances.International teamworkInternational teamwork done in interdisciplinary project groups on EPS is a collectiveenterprise involving different cultures, functions and many disciplines. Specialists collaborateon their projects as they do in typical engineering product design projects i.e. systematicallyand reflecting activities of the design core

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Jalkio

Educationclasses and document accomplishment of objectives for accreditation purposes. Third, how dowe motivate student reflection on the material beyond memorization of formulae to theintegration of math, science, and engineering topics into their mental toolbox.The issue of grading has been addressed in several ways and is important because students oftenignore the stated course objectives and focus their attention on the specific work required to earna desired grade from the instructor. Traditional norm-referenced grading techniques reinforcethis tendency by suggesting that the students are graded on how well they perform on testscompared to their classmates1. Criterion-referenced grading rubrics used in engineering coursestypically assign grades based

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Mooney

where extensiveprofessional development in inquiry approaches to teaching has been ongoing for over 20years. The teachers in this district tend to be more familiar with inquiry based instructionalthough the mathematics teachers in all three settings tended to be unfamiliar withinquiry methods and how they might restructure classroom lessons to reflect this form oflearning. Urban teachers tended to be able to talk about inquiry but were in various stagesof actually utilizing that type of instruction in their classes.There has been a great deal of enthusiasm among math and science teachers towards AE.Many of the teachers expressed an interest in having engineering students in theirclassrooms as role models for their students. We require teacher

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia LaCourse; Barrett Rock

course outlined belowfollows some of their guidelines. Often the thesis presents even more difficulty for the international student, a considerablesegment of the graduate engineering population. A 2000 National Science Foundation studyreported that 52% of engineering doctorates were earned by international students. 9 It is evenmore of a cultural assimilation for those from Asia (more than half of the total foreign students in199910). When English is a second language, the disadvantage is not just in vocabulary, but instyle, expectations, experiences, perspectives, etc. When students are insecure about theirwriting ability, they approach the task under added stress. The written results of many months oflabor are meant to reflect

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sridhar Condoor; Richard Weber

Session 3261 Inquiry-Based Student Learning Sridhar S. Condoor, Richard G. Weber Saint Louis University/ Fairfield UniversityAbstractIn the traditional engineering curriculum, students are presented with and tested on factualknowledge. Very little emphasis is placed on their thought process, which is more important as itcan lead to inventions and innovations. This attitude is reflected in the commo n answer “I don’tknow” from the students who do not spend any effort or time to think. The engineering programsat St. Louis and Fairfield Universities have the common

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hui-Hui Wang, University of Minnesota; Tamara J Moore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota; Mi Sun Park, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

were conducted in between eachtraining day. The PLC activities were highly structured and closely tied to the training days. ThePLC session provided an environment to meet together and reflect on what they learned duringthe training sessions, and to share/learn to implement ideas from the training into theirclassrooms. Each PLC session required that teachers handed in some documents to theresearch/teaching team, such as lesson plans and samples of students’ artifacts and homework toshare their ideas and reflections about STEM integration with other teachers. The second PLCdocuments particularly focused on integrating engineering into science or mathematics teaching.Therefore, we provide some examples of teachers’ lesson plans and reflections

Conference Session

Automation Subjects in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

projects and how they relate tothe course syllabusRelated ResearchThis section briefly reviews related work on learning styles, industrial automation and theeconomy, education on automation and control, and project-based learning.Learning Styles. As described in Felder and Silverman1, there are different student learningstyles including (1) active/reflective, (2) sequential/global, (3) sensing/intuitive, and (4)visual/verbal. It has been suggested that different teaching styles can be adapted accordingly.Litzinger et al.2 extend the application of learning styles not only to engineering but also toliberal arts and education. Their analysis revealed that the engineering students are significantlymore sequential and more sensing than the liberal

Conference Session

Capstone Courses and Design Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nihad Dukhan, University of Detroit Mercy; Mark Schumack, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

conversion and cryogenics, to name but a few - relyheavily on thermal design. Actually one of the biggest current challenges is energy- itssources and conservation, which feeds into any kind of sustainable design. Lack of thermalprojects in capstone courses also may prevent interested students from making thermalsciences their focal area and future career. The relatively low number of thermal scienceprojects in capstone courses may be due to the fact that the instructors assigned to teachthese courses are specialists in other areas of mechanical engineering.This paper explores these issues through surveying capstone projects in a number ofuniversities. It probes capstone-teaching faculty and reflects on their attitudes towardthermal-science projects

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reid Bailey, University of Virginia; Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology; Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon, Boston College; Michael J Cabral, Virginia Commonwealth University; Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of Virginia; Marie F. Creager, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

disciplines 4. Critical Awareness: students must be able to reflect on the appropriateness and utility of taking an interdisciplinary approach for a given problem.Students apply for the TLP at the University of the Blue Ridge at the end of their firstyear and, if accepted, are in the program from their sophomore through senior years.These students major in one of three majors: computer, electrical, or systems engineering.Because the electrical and computer engineering programs are intertwined, it is helpful tothink of the TLP consisting of two main groups of students: systems (SYS) majors andelectrical/computer (ECE) majors.In the sophomore year, the main focus is on disciplinary grounding. Students take theirnormal introductory courses of

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for the Global Workplace

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian D. Koehler, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

International

to almost every question we asked always concluded with you must be able to write and communicate properly with others if you want to keep your job.” o “Our findings also reflected the previous CIW report indicating that oral and written communication were part of the employees’ job performance appraisals. The communication process was also considered to be an integral part of every activity in the workplace, as found in the last CIW report.” o “Each representative could not stress enough how important communication is in the workplace and how being able to communicate properly is one of the most valuable assets an

Conference Session

Information Literacy in Context: Enabling Real World Problem Solving

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adriana Popescu, Princeton University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

closely with our colleagues fromsocial sciences to ensure that our academic collections reflect and support the global aspects ofthe engineering curriculum?Moving into actionIn an attempt to answer these questions, the Engineering Library at Princeton University hasembarked on an initiative of raising awareness with all university library departments about theglobal engineering education efforts and to partner and cooperate with library departmentsoutside the Engineering Library to bring all relevant resources and services to the engineeringstudents. By analyzing the elements of the existing educational process for engineering students,the library has identified new areas of involvement. While the Engineering Library already hadin place services

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

within this environment. Class sizes must be small, or else it is possible for anindividual’s contribution to be lost to the team atmosphere. Even with small class sizes, asidefrom an exit survey, it can be difficult to assess the design skill of any given student.Design Outcome DistinctionTrue design requires open ended problem solvers, exhibiting the following attributes8,9:  Are willing to spend time reading, gathering information, and defining the problem.  Uses processes, as well as a variety of tactics and heuristics to tackle problems  Monitor their problem solving process and reflect upon its effectiveness  Emphasize accuracy rather than speed  Write down ideas and create charts / figures, while solving a problem  Are

Conference Session

Innovations in the IE Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise H. Bauer, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jessica L. Heier Stamm, Kansas State University; Lesley Strawderman, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

%), developing/writingfunctional specifications (56%), safety in product design (52%), and leadership (50%).Course design has been linked to student self-efficacy.7 In capstone design courses, problembased learning and reflective journaling have been shown to improve self-efficacy.2 By exposingstudents to the need for technical and professional skills, introducing them to the proper problemsolving approach, and allowing the course to support student development, students are morelikely to report high confidence in their own abilities.2This paper will build upon the previous literature and examine Industrial Engineering capstonecourses from across the nation. The researchers hope to identify characteristics of capstonecourses that positively affect

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Curriculum and Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kahina Lasfer, Stevens Institute of Technology; Arthur Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

to full-time NTTF. Figure 2. Main duties of SCSE full-time NTTF2. Comparison of the roles of SCSE full-time NTTF and TTTFAmong the 14 institutions that hire full-time full-time NTTF, 12 of them (85% response rate)provided the data needed to compare roles of SCSE TTTF and full-time NTTF within the last 5years. The comparison is summarized as follows: • 75% of full-time faculty at responding SCSE programs are TTTF, which is much higher than the corresponding percentage overall in US universities. • In 100% of the SCSE programs, TTTF are generally more active than full-time NTTF in research publications and research funding, reflecting the primary role full-time NTTF have supporting

Conference Session

FPD IX: Research on First-year Programs Part III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard M. Bennett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; William Schleter, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; D. Raj Raman, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

on students who scored below a 70, which was the range with the most difference inprogram requirements. In terms of participation, 82% of the students who scored below a 70participated in the SEP program in Fall 2010, while only 73% participated in Fall 2011. We arenot sure if this drop reflects a difference in attitude of the students, or is reflecting somethingabout the new program. However, 18 of the 80 students who participated in the Fall 2010 SEPprogram completed less than 25% of the requirements. If these students are not considered asfull participants, then only 65% fully participated in the program in Fall 2010, or slightly lessthan in Fall 2011. We conclude that the form of the SEP program did not have a significantimpact on the

Conference Session

Engineering Management Applications

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig G. Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Managers, and Campus Recruiters charged withsourcing and acquiring baccalaureate-level technical talent and the potential role of EngineeringTechnologists in meeting this need.IntroductionDuring the 2010/2011 academic year, the author participated in a collaborative project betweenRose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Ivy Tech Community College, Terre Haute campus.The opportunity sought to provide engineering and technology students with project experiencefocused on a new product development process that is truly reflective of the 21st centuryworkplace. A primary goal of the project was to provide students with an educational experiencethat mirrored their potential work environment in terms of technical rigor, managerialresponsibility, and

Conference Session

NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan F. Freeman, Northeastern University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

Background LiteratureService Learning and Service-Oriented Projects. Service learning as defined by the NationalService Learning Clearinghouse15 is “a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningfulcommunity service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civicresponsibility, and strengthen communities.” Building from this definition, we can identifyspecific elements of service learning which are identified in the book Service Learning:Engineering in your Community9 as possessing the following elements related to engineering: • Service: Service to an underserved area or people. This can be direct, and ongoing, or project-based, involve hands-on aspects or research and analysis. • Academic

Conference Session

What Are We Learning About Co-op and Experiential Education Experience?

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; Joseph A. Raelin, Northeastern University; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; David L. Whitman, University of Wyoming; Jerry Carl Hamann, University of Wyoming; Leslie K. Pendleton, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

. They were alsofound to value the instruction of their professors less once returning to class after their first co-opexperience – perhaps a reflection of the latter’s potential lack of current and real-worldunderstanding. Co-op students’ GPAs were also found to decrease less between the second andthird years than those of non-co-op students. The finding regarding the impact of co-op on workself-efficacy is claimed here to open up the so-called “black box of co-op” to articulate thepractices and behaviors of cooperative education that shape its contribution to the undergraduateexperience.The data pool for this study was constituted of all second year students in the colleges ofengineering from four participating universities. Student

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Punit Deotale, Texas A&M University; Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

system, consisting of two cameras mounted on a stereo head andan infrared (IR) pod (Figure 1). The IR pod emits infrared light, which is reflected off users’eyes; the reflection is recorded by the cameras to track the eye movements.A software package called Facelab 5.0, which comes bundled with the system, was used torecord data. A software suite called Eyeworks from Eyetracking Inc. was used along withFacelab for data collection and analysis. The Eyeworks suite includes three softwareapplications: • Eyeworks Design is used to design custom scripts to be used in the experiments. • Eyeworks Record records the data necessary for analysis. • Eyeworks Analyze is an analysis tool that can be used to do visual analysis on the eye

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Punit Deotale, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

20. Summary of student opinion survey data.Student Comments. Student comments can be summarized as follows: 1) Many students likedthe game. They felt being able to visualize the wiring and interfacing worked was very helpful.2) Some students suggested that adding explanations about why the wiring should be a certainway would be helpful. 3) Overall, students thought the game was helpful and supplemented thelecture well.Student Learning Style Survey. Felder and Soloman’s Index of Learning Styles (ILS) wasadministered to assess students’ learning styles [19]. The ILS is a 44-question survey that asksusers about their learning preferences. The Index ranks users along four attribute continuums:Active/Reflective, Sensing/Intuitive, Visual/Verbal

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven F. Barrett, University of Wyoming; Scott A. Morton, University of Wyoming; Jeffrey R. Anderson, University of Wyoming; Sandra Root-Elledge, University of Wyoming; Cameron H. G. Wright P.E., University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

by Eyler and Giles is provided followed by adescription of the program developed to link senior capstone design projects with the needs ofthe assistive technology community. A review of recently completed projects is then provided.The paper concludes with a discussion of benefits to all participants: the AT community, seniordesign students and engineering programs.BackgroundService learning as defined by the National Service-Learning Clearing House “is a teaching andlearning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection toenrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.”1 Whileservice learning programs may be quite diverse and employ students from a wide variety

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Carels; James Howard; Charles Bersbach; Debra Larson

like a4” manager whenworking with people in paradoxical cross-functional teams requires a seemingly innate ability tocreate instinctive strategies and to make spontaneous decisions. This“tacit knowledge5” cannot be mastered solely through the textbook or lecture. A combination oftheory and structured practice followed by guided reflection is needed to develop the practicalcompetencies required of a professional skilled in the management of multi-disciplinary projectteams.This paper describes a graduate-level engineering management course that incorporates anintensive practicum designed to build these competencies at the tacit level. In particular, wefocus our discussion on the use of a sociolinguistic technique called TeamTalk6, which provided

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Geoff Swan; S P Maj; D Veal

Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationOther students asked why we used the terminating resistors? They were encouraged to getanswers by adding or removing such effects from the equipment use and to note the results.They disconnected the resistors and observing the effects of the refected signals. This led onto a discussion of the method of finding where a break has occurring in a cable by noting thetraversal time of the signal to the break and its reflection back to the signal source. Why dowe use twisted pair wiring? Again lengths of the twisted pair cabling was untwisted and thedistorting effects on the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; Betsy Palmer; Rose M. Marra; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

students wererandomly selected during their first year and invited to participate in three hour-long interviewsessions. During the interview, each student reflected on his or her view of knowledge,education, and learning. The interviews were transcribed and sent to a rater experienced inassigning positions relative to the Perry Scheme based on student responses to these types ofquestions. While it was hoped that students would progress from simple dualistic views(position 1 / 2) through complex dualism (position 3) and relativism (4 / 5) to commitment inrelativism (position 6+), most students in this sample did not make it beyond position four. Thispaper will review the findings with an eye towards curricular activities that may or may

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilya Grinberg

area in the table.4. As usual, make conclusions.Every exam includes one more question about the technical article in the most recentprofessional publications. The answer is expected in the form a memorandum to their supervisor.Students should be current in their specialty from the beginning of their careers, right here, at theCollege. Development of their communications skills is also a target.At the beginning of the semester students are assigned a library research project. They canchoose topics freely as long as they are related to electrical engineering/electrical engineeringtechnology field. The structure of the project should reflect the following: 1. Why did I choose this topic 2. What did I know before I started my research 3

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

"revolutionize agriculture to increasecrop yields while reducing use of pesticides; to create tens of thousands of novel speciesof bacteria, plants, viruses, and animals; to replace reproduction, or supplement it, withcloning; to create cures for many diseases, increasing our life span and our quality of life;and much more." Joy explains, "We know with certainty that these profound changes inthe biological sciences are imminent, and will challenge all of our notions of what life is."Notions about the meaning of our human and earthly lives, and how we want to livetogether, are at the core of ethical reflection.4. Reaching through the MatrixTo bring into the engineering classroom the moral questions of these developing newtechnologies requires moving

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

M. David Burghardt

’ lives and toprovide opportunities for active reflection about these experiences. Hands-on science withoutminds-on reflection and discussion does not allow for updating prior knowledge. Finding outabout and having the student correct misconceptions is a vital part of science education.Children’s engineering provides synergistic ways to provide experiences through the engineeringdesign process which imbed reflection and collaboration.IV. Fundamentals of EngineeringEngineering predates science by millennia (Volti, 1995), as it is essential to our existence ashumans. Humans would be a good food source for many animals if it were not for ourcreativity and intelligence applied to the development of artifacts to protect us. To includeengineering at

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

. Page 5.238.1 Session 1566Traditionally, the “Dynamics” course is taught at the sophomore level in the MechanicalEngineering curriculum immediately following Statics. Emphasis is primarily on kinematics andkinetics of particles and rigid bodies. A typical course require the students to solve problemsinvolving a particular state of motion for a particle or a rigid body (e.g., analysis of motion of afour bar linkage at a particular crank angle, given angular velocities and acceleration of somelinks and their dimensions and relevant forces and moments when appropriate). While theseproblems are mathematically elegant they reflect just an instance of motion