Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malika Moutawakkil; Lisa Hunter; J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

nation’s STEM workforce.10 In the fall of 1992, two-year colleges accounted for 41% of allundergraduate STEM courses offered for credit, and 34% of all undergraduate STEM courseenrollments.4 Students in STEM at two-year colleges are more likely than their non-STEM peersto be enrolled full-time and have higher academic aspirations than their peers.1One of the more important roles of two-year colleges in STEM education is as a bridge betweenhigh school and four-year colleges for students who need additional academic skills or who findtwo-year colleges an inexpensive means of completing the first two years of their collegeeducation. 3, 5, 10 There are no national statistics that specifically address the transfer rates of two-year college students to

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

responses in categories that would help identify the differentlevels of student responses. After students’ responses are sorted, the teacher writes very specificreasons why each of the responses was put in the respective category. Then, for each category,the teacher writes a specific student-centered description of the expected response at that level.These descriptions constitute the scoring rubric to grade new responses.The two methods (analytic and holistic) are not interchangeable, and the clear advantage of theanalytic rubric, compared to the holistic rubric, is that it provides a more objective way ofassessing students’ strengths and weaknesses. Also, the analytic rubric can give teachers aclearer picture of the areas where students have more

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt DeGoede

and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationDiscussion: This problem was rather difficult for this level. However, many students did do wellon the problem by asking me appropriate questions. I was always very supportive on theseproblems, which were very challenging for many of the students, strongly encouraging studentsto ask questions and to get help from me or peer tutors. We used Blackboard heavily for thiscourse and these problems were frequent topics on the discussion board. Depending upon thequestion, I would reply to questions privately or post the question and answer on Blackboard.Chapter 8 discusses electrostatic forces:Do the experiment “Moving Water Without Touching It” found at

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt O'Connor; Kathleen Simione; Dale Jasinski; Chad Nehrt

lot of effort into the plans. While the teams made incredible strides from last fall, to me, the ending results do not really read like business plans. The problems range from writing skills to content and organization. Since I would ultimately like to have outside experts review the plans and provide feedback, I am reflecting on ways we can improve the Page 9.191.8 finalized business plans." “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education To make the plans more

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Washington Braga

everything in human society has a pedagogical intention and theneed to share what we know with those who do not know it is part of our nature. So, teachingand learning are what we do the most, perhaps not always efficiently. However, there is nowa different student and a different economic scenario; it is not important who or what comesfirst. As a consequence, a new teacher capable of adjusting the learning process accordinglyis becoming more and more necessary. It has been stressed in literature that nowadaysstudents need to know more about collaborative work, self learning, must have good readingand writing skills, computer literacy and so on. Therefore, teachers have to grasp a deeperunderstanding on such pedagogic topics and also on how people

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wheeler; Dr. Rose Marra; Dr. Jack Mitchell; Dr. Charles Croskey

the payload structure, the payload power systems and harness, thedata encoder and the S-band transmitter. One of the experiments was a deployed rigid sphere.This “bowling ball”, including the onboard transmitter, data encoder and the patch array antennawere entirely student designed and built.The four instruments included a pair of Langmuir probes, a miniature mass spectrometer(purchased from Faran Scientific, Inc.), an photodiode array (built by SUNY students), and therigid sphere. The mass spectrometer quadrapole apparently burned up due to the rocket’s lowerthan expected altitude. The other instruments were not as pressure-sensitive and performed well.Students at Penn State and SUNY continue data analysis efforts as of this writing. Except

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

the details: (a) You are to keep a 8rhvrÃUuvxvtÃEhy throughout this course. (b) You are to write for at least 10 minutes in your journal every day, starting today and ending on the last day of class. (c) You may use any format for your journal, including the Thinking Expedition Journals that I will make available to you during our first class meeting. (d) For those of you who have never journalled before, we will discuss the process of journalling further in class. I will also put several books about journalling on reserve in the library. Content: • Your 8rhvrà Uuvxvtà Ehy is your personal “backpack” of ideas, thoughts, ques- tions, and comments related to this course

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Williams; James Hedrick

varying computer skills. A collegelevel research paper and presentation have been an important part of the workshop since itsinception and both require a high level of computer competence. Thus, we cover the computerskills that students need to write a clear, concise, easy to read research paper. The Netscapebrowser and search engines are used to locate data relating to AIDS on the WWW, and their use iscovered in class. The reliability of all data must be evaluated regardless of source and some Page 6.1101.3guidelines for evaluating information found on the WWW are presented. After discussing some ofthe tools for finding reliable data the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Edgar Conley; Linda Riley

mechanical or industrial engineering; 2) to provide students with elementary tools and methods useful in the design process and to encourage students to apply these tools by means of carefully crafted design exercises; 3) to develop teaming, interpersonal, time management and creative thinking skills; 4) to further refine communication, writing and presentation skills; and 5) to begin the process of relationship building among individual students, the instructor teaching the course, and the student’s home department.From a faculty perspective, achieving these objectives with a group of freshmen may seemdaunting. Nevertheless, such a course is often the student’s first exposure to discipline-specificmaterial, thus an improperly

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

, including yourself? Include technical, analytical, organizational, documentation, creativity, research, leadership, construction, etc. 3. Rate your opinion of yourself and each of your groupmate understands of the concepts Page 5.622.5 involved in this project, on a scale of 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). 4. Comment on your interaction with other group(s) that your group heavily relies on.This peer evaluation has been a very successful way for faculty advisors to identify anyteamwork problems within a particular group and with other groups.6. Team and Group StructureAt the beginning of the academic year the team was divided into the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell D. Massie; Cheryl A. Massie

. Additionally,they found that in every ineffective team, without exception, the reason for failure was in someway related to the goal.13 Specific goals help a team assess their performance and track theirprogress. A team should write a clear statement of their goal and purpose14 and then continue arefinement of the goal and objectives through the life of the project.15However, having a clear goal in and of itself is not enough to ensure the success of the team.The goal must be specific, challenging, reasonable, and measurable so that one can tell when ithas been achieved. If for instance, you want to lose some weight, you are far more likely to besuccessful if you set a reasonable goal. Someone who says, “I want to lose ten pounds in thenext three

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

. A t test between these two averages found this to be statistically significant atthe p < .01 level.Interviews with SI Leaders and ShadowsIn addition to the above results data, we also conducted brief, loosely structured interviews withthe SI leaders and SI shadows from Fall ‘96. The goal of these interviews was to determine bothhow the program had worked during the current semester, as well as to gather ideas forimprovement from these key participants.Both the shadows and the leaders were overwhelmingly positive about the program. The leadersadmitted that getting up in front of their peers was a “bit scary” at first, but this feeling quicklydissipated as they gained experience. One leader commented that he actually began to “enjoy”the

Conference Session

BME Courses and Learning Activities

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge E. Bohorquez, University of Miami; Ozcan Ozdamar, University of Miami; Jonathon Anthony Toft-Nielsen, University of Miami

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

give immediate feedback to the students. Allobservations are collected and logged in a lab report after each session. In later labs, focus shifts to the microcontroller, specifically the 8051 modelmicrocontroller. Lab work shifts from building physical circuits to writing segments of code.Many students find programming portions of the course to be less immediately rewarding if theyare only manipulating digital values internal to the chip. In order to help ease the shift, as welland give students immediate physical feedback, the instructors for the class built a speciallydesigned test board. Each board was fitted with a port where the AT89C8051 microcontrollercould be plugged into after programming. Included on the board were a number of

Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana Bairaktarova, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

chosen representing both individualachievement (summative)18 and assessments to assist student learning (formative).18 Two kindsof summative individual assessments will occur in this course. On the first day of the course eachstudent will be presented with a short case to identify ethical dilemma, to name possible courseof action, and to evaluate the consequences of actions taken. Then again on the last day of classthe same case will be discussed with each student and the same questions will be asked. This willprovide students with a measure of progress in the areas of the content. The reflection journalsthat students will write throughout the semester will also act as a kind of informal summativeassessment. Grading will measure a student’s

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas E. Allen, Bucknell University; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2011-1863: BIG: UNITING THE UNIVERSITY INNOVATION ECOSYS-TEMDouglas E. Allen, Bucknell UniversitySteven B. Shooter, Bucknell University Steve Shooter, Ph.D., P.E. is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bucknell University where he has taught for design, innovation and robotics for 16 years. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers and been PI or Co-PI on grants from NSF, ONR, NIST, ARDEC in addition to industry. As a registered professional engineer he also consults extensively with industry on design projects and formulation of innovation strategies. Page 22.287.1 c

Conference Session

Assessing Student Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E. Bluman, U.S. Military Academy; Kathryn Purchase, U.S. Military Academy; Christopher Thomas Duling, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

topic. Students in Connor-Green’sclasses reported that they studied more consistently and came to class better-prepared, “Studentsappear to articulate their ideas more readily and clearly after writing their quiz responses, whichraises the level of class discussion.”8 However, Connor-Green did not realize any increase in thegrades of students who took scheduled quizzes.Literature Review: Other considerations On the other hand, Lowman 9 argues against frequent in-class quizzes because they canincrease anxiety about coming to class and can decrease the amount of learning that occurs inclass following the quiz. “…too frequent testing is costly in class time and in teacher time spenton grading; it also leads to an overemphasis on external

Conference Session

Certifying Teachers in Engineering or Integrated STEM

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

AnnMarie Thomas, University of Saint Thomas; Jan B Hansen, University of Saint Thomas; Sarah H. Cohn, Science Museum of Minnesota; Brian Phillip Jensen, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

remotely operated vehicle). (SeeFigure 9) Figure 8: (a) buoyancy lab, (b) Stokes’ law lab Figure 9: Styrofoam cup that has been submerged in approximately 3,000 meters of water, next to a comparison cupEngineering and Society (3 hour unit)The goals for this unit are for the students to:  Understand the societal and environmental impacts that engineering and its products can have  Be able to identify both positive and negative impacts of engineered systems  Discuss the ethical obligations of engineersIn preparation for this unit, students were asked to choose an invention and write a briefhistory of it. They were then asked to list 3-5 positive aspects of this

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt C. Gramoll

course orhomework. With only 20-50 students in the three courses described in the paper, there werenever enough students at any given time to make the chat rooms work effectively.The web board concept, while not new, is an extremely important component to the onlinecourses. With the web board, questions and discussions can be done similar to the interactionthat takes place in a normal classroom. In some respects, the web board discussions allowed Page 4.491.8more students to participate in asking questions since there was no time limit or peer pressure notto ask questions. It also allowed students to ask questions when the questions arose, i.e

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell D. Meier

often appreciate experiential reports from colleagues,however. This motivated me to write this paper. I will focus my remaining comments on how Iimplemented active learning in the large lectures of CprE 301 and CprE 310.III. How I Implemented Active Learning in Large LecturesStudents began actively learning during the first lecture of the semester. This was the initialexposure for many students to an active lecture environment. Naturally, some of them resistedan environment in which their opinions mattered. Imagine that! Active learning played a largerole in at least two of the three CprE 301 lectures each week, and in every CprE 310 lecture. Idid my best to carefully plan each active learning exercise by analyzing: • my purpose for

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Lia F. Arthur; Irem Y. Tumer

the supervision of a mentor,who provides guidance and critique to the doctoral students1,9. These programs, while rare, arestarting to attract a lot of attention among academia-track students and concerned faculty.The idea of team-teaching is slightly different than faculty mentoring. Specifically, in team-teaching a course, the doctoral students get an opportunity to work along with the facultymember in addressing all aspects of the course, hence being treated as a peer, instead of having amentor-student relationship. The main advantage of team-teaching is that both the student andthe faculty get to lecture as equals, thereby achieving two goals: (1) providing the undergraduatestudents with two different views on the lecture topics; and, (2

Conference Session

Implementing the CE BOK into Courses and Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

teams, communication, and public speaking. First year femaleengineering students were found to be less confident then their male peers on math and scienceabilities, but equally confident in professional and interpersonal skills8. Therefore, if femalestudents see the value of professional and interpersonal skills in the careers of engineers theymay feel more confident of their overall ability in engineering.Many students also want their college experience to provide a broad experience that preparesthem for a rich life. For these students, the rigid curriculum requirements in engineering can bediscouraging and may lead them to select other majors.13,14 At the University of Colorado atBoulder (CU) our civil engineering (CVEN) B.S. degree of 128

Conference Session

Mentoring First Year Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daina Briedis, Michigan State Univesity; Nathaniel Ehrlich, Michigan State University; Colleen McDonough, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

15.1221.3  peer assisted learning (PAL) for undergraduate COE students who study in targeted gateway core courses  course cross linkages, wherein concepts in problem sets and assignments are linked among target pre-engineering coursesThe fourth arm of the retention program is directed at increased faculty connections withentering students, primarily through designated Connector Faculty.Of the four retention efforts, the Connector Faculty (CF) program is the only one targeting theentire freshman intenders (FI), but is specifically aimed at the student who chooses to go toanother discipline even though academic achievement is not an issue. These “leavers” werestudied extensively by Seymour and Hewitt1, with a major conclusion

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonardo Rivera

Data. of Information Explore new applications in other fields, find new ways of doing Intuitive things, search in different contexts. Theories and abstractions. Visual Graphs, drawings, models, pictures and demonstrations. Effective perception of information Verbal They learn by listening, speaking, discussing, reading and writing. Inductive Show consequences and applications so the students can have Preferred intuitions about the general principle. They need motivation. organization of the

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhilasha Tibrewal; Tarek Sobh

minimum standards. Inthe United States, accreditation is a non-governmental, peer review process that ensureseducational quality. Educational programs volunteer to periodically undergo this reviewto determine if minimum criteria are being met. Accreditation verifies that a programmeets the criteria, ensuring a quality educational experience. In this regards, the Schoolof Engineering of the University of Bridgeport should define its mission and objectives tomeet the needs of constituencies. Below are some of the goals of the School ofEngineering, which guided the preparation for the accreditation process in Fall 2003. • The prepared educational objectives should be comprehensive, measurable and flexible, and clearly tied to the mission

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hamilton

random decision would repeat the point-plotting using the new coordinates. Miriamloved watching the students watch with puzzlement and pleasure as a fractal would unfold beforethem. Of course, she was not going to let on that anything unusual would be taking place. She ledthe discussion recapping the underlying concepts of random numbers and nested loops. She sentthe programming exercise to the class and watched them start.Some students get off to a quick start. Her first step was to do a run of thumbnail views of agroup of twenty students – she could peer into a subset of their screens with sufficient resolutionto see that several of them were off to the races. She touched the “encourage/correct so far” iconon her response palette and then

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula in ECE I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Bedrich Benes, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

peer evaluated by students in the classroom. Students are asked todiscuss the disadvantages of the presented method, such as weaknesses and possible extensions.The presentation allows showing the theoretical knowledge gained in the class in the context ofits practical applications to the contemporary CG scientific problems. An example of a studentproject is an implementation of Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm, or an implementation of a3-D static field defining an implicit iso-surface.Here we report students’ perceptions of their learning in the course and their perceived transferof such concepts and skills into practical situations. Focusing on student gained skills, theyreported a moderate perception of having learned the latest CG

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Education and Workforce Development Challenges

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven D. Hart, U.S. Military Academy; Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy, West Point; Joseph P. Hanus, U.S. Military Academy; Karl F. Meyer, U.S. Military Academy; Jason Allen Toth; Morgan Reese, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

West Point and recipient of ASEE’s 2010 National Outstanding Teaching Medal. Dr. Klosky writes regularly about engineering education, covering topics ranging from classroom tech- niques to curricular reform. Much of this work is focused on the use of internet communications and social networks for educational purposes.Joseph P Hanus, U.S. Military Academy Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Hanus is the acting Chair of the Civil Engineering Department at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. He received his BS from the University of Wisconsin - Plat- teville; MS from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; and PhD from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is an active member of ASEE and is a registered

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

lourdes gazca, American University, Puebla, Mexico; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, American University, Puebla, Mexico; Enrique Palou, American University, Puebla, Mexico

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

reading assignments.In addition, students are encouraged to write brief reflective journal entries to further solidify andreinforce their own understanding, and demonstrate that improved understanding for animproved quiz grade3.Food Chemistry (IA-332) is a course that is offered for students of sixth semester of FoodEngineering. This course was redesigned following the HPL framework to further promote aninteractive classroom while integrating multiple formative assessments by means of Tablet PCtechnologies4. It is a course that uses active and cooperative learning in everyone of its meetingsand activities. The grading scheme includes individual and group quizzes, individual and groupproblem-based exams, journal writing, peer assessments and the

Conference Session

Design Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin McCarthy, University of Auckland

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

engineeringmanagement or manufacturing systems. An ill-defined domain is categorised by Lynch,Aleven, et al. 8 as one in which there is a lack of a systematic way in which to determine if aproposed solution is optimal, and by King and Kitchener 9 as one in which problems cannotbe described with a high degree of certainty or completeness.Commenting on university courses in manufacturing, Sanderson 10 says that, “the type ofanalysis, modeling and decision-making required to integrate manufacturing into real-worldapplications are beyond the scope of traditional lecture and textbook materials”, whilstDessouky 11 writes that, “traditional pedagogy in manufacturing [courses] is ill-equipped forthe task”. Woolf et al. 12 maintain that, “New tools that go beyond

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Penn State University; Victor A Atiemo-Obeng, The Dow Chemical Company (Retired)

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

- gineering, Boston University since 2009. He is been an International Associate, National Institute of Science and Technology for Mineral Resources, Water, and Biodiversity, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil (INCT Acqua; since 2009. He writes a blog on AqueouSolutions (http://www.aqueousol.blogspot.com). Sample postings include the following: If You Educate a Girl, Page 21.16.1 Part IX, Aug. 8, 2011. Minerals as Materials, Materials as Minerals, Part 2, Feb. 1, 2010. Conversations about Mineral Industry Education: Prof. Richard Amankwah of UMaT, Ghana, July 13, 2009. Materials