Conference Session

CE Capstone: Innovations in Learning & Assessment

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlie Quagliana, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Michael Doran, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Rod Hassett, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Greg Harrington, University of WIsconsin-Madison

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

documents.Class presentations to peers and formal presentations to judges also are important groupactivities. The class fosters essential joint learning activities such as role-playing, small groupdiscussion, and collaborative problem-solving. Mutual responsibility for the overall team effortand work product is cultivated within the group setting.The capstone design class is intended as a melding of components from multiple mid-levelcourses that connects and uses prior accumulated knowledge, background, concepts andexperiences. Prior course experiences, such as Technical Presentation and Writing, are linkedwith base knowledge from courses such as Construction Systems, Geotechnical Engineering

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht; Lasich Debra; Barbara Moskal

disabilities to interact with their peers. Ethanol Marketing Study Teams investigated the market potential for an ethanol product, specifically from cellulosic biomass. Potato Flower Mold Presentation The teams designed, developed and constructed a food prototypical mold (something like a cupcake pan) to bake several whipped potato flowers at a time.Table 1. Description of Second Year Design EPICS ProjectsC. Team FormationsA “team” in this study is composed of two or more students and requires the coordination

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

senior design course requires a large number ofother activities, such as mentoring and peer advising of sophomores, community service projects,report writing and presentation skills, professional ethics, and etc. – and all of these activities,which may be “good” activities, do not help the student integrate the “islands of knowledge” intothe “capstone project”. Other senior design courses have formal team projects with competitionbetween teams from different universities. Few, if any, of the teams have offices on campus orcoordinated class schedules to provide a time or place for the team to work together on theproject as a full team. Teams with equipment may have a workshop space, but usually notsecure office space for discussion, for planning

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

personal strengths and weaknesses, basicinterpersonal communication skills such as giving and receiving feedback and personal timemanagement strategies.Students conclude their experience by writing a team report on their roadmaps for success inSTEM disciplines. Participants, Faculty Mentors, RISE Fellows and members of the RISEAdvisory Board will be invited to a concluding reception where the students will receive RISEcertificates of accomplishment from the Dean of the Clark School of Engineering and the Deanof the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CMPS). Parents of theparticipants are encouraged to attend the reception based on the emerging evidence that parentalsupport and encouragement are important to the success of

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Liezl Van Dyk

WWW provides newopportunities for students to play a more active role in the acquisition of knowledge. For theWork-study course, students share the responsibility of identifying appropriate additionalresources for the course, as recommended by Collis (1998:377). These resources are sharedwith peer students by means of the presentation tool of WebCT. A wider selection ofresources and modalities of study materials can be distributed through WebCT. These includevideo clips and relevant computer applications. Exploitation of this WebCT facility isidentified as one of the opportunities for the WebCT classroom.3.3.3 Language of instructionFrom 2002, the Work-study course has to be presented in both Afrikaans and English. If thetraditional

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Boyce; Jung-Wuk Hong; Jaspal Sandhu; Eberhard Bamberg

Technology (MIT), has been undertaken. The new teaching paradigm, incontrast with the traditional lecture format, incorporates components of faculty-facilitated learn-ing, hands-on experiments, group discussion, web-enabled exploration, and peer learning. Amajor element of this educational reform is a collection of Web-based learning modules. The newteaching format is enabled by a mobile, wireless computing initiative that provides all studentswith laptop computers and a new classroom, built to meet the requirements of the new paradigm.Students were first taught using the new teaching methodology in fall 2001. This paper will dis-cuss the components of the new pedagogy and future steps in developing the course.I PedagogyWe have undertaken an

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Raper

Abilities:25. Ability to identify operation and production problems.26. Ability to carry out tests and experiments.27. Ability to develop optimal solutions.28. Ability to implement solutions for improved strategic competitiveness29. Skills required for effective performance as a member of a work team.30. Writing, speaking, listening skills required for effective organizational communication.31. Ability to analyze complex systems and formulate solutions using approximate qualitative and quantitative tolls and techniques.32. Skills for decision making, planning and controlling of the key resources of an organization – money and people.33. Skills necessary to critically analyze, evaluate, improve, or adapt existing

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Colin Grant; Brian Dickson

suggests that we produce a more “industryrelevant” student. External examiners say, “Distance Learning students add application to theirstudies”, which is perhaps not surprising since they bring that experience with them to the course Page 7.1057.5 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society of Engineering Education”and share it with their peers and our teaching staff. The IChemE accreditation panel review(2000) confirmed that “The quality of graduates is exceptional”, which is perhaps moresurprising since many will have left

Conference Session

Program Assessment in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maryanne Weiss; Mark Pagano; Margaret Weeks

. This approach to learning known asconstructivism purports that learning is an active endeavor rather than a passive one. Teachersencourage group interaction, where the interplay among participants helps individuals becomeexplicit about their own understanding by comparing it to that of their peers. The teacher(workshop leader and facilitators) no longer acts as the “talking head” expert, but assumes therole of mentor, guiding the students (participants). This perhaps is described best in the keytenets of constructivism as developed by Martin Dougiamas (A Journey Into Constructivism,1998)14: § Faculty members come to the workshop with an established world-view, formed by years of prior experience and learning. § Even as it evolves

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; George Wright; Joseph Morgan

their own merits, it is alsotrue that for most students the capstone senior design course is their first attempt at a true open-ended design problem where they pose the question and develop the answer. Without access tocontinual technical and project management review, valuable learning opportunities are lost. The EET/TET Programs have adopted a new approach to managing the capstone designsequence. The sequence is now divided into two courses. The first course has three primaryobjectives. The students - learn the fundamentals of project management including topics such as proposal writing, risk management, scheduling, financial management, etc… - find a real-world sponsored project and develop a preliminary design that is

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaishalee Naruka; Stephen Raper; William Daughton

for Engineering Education prejudice their success as managers. Sir Peter Walters, who began his BP career in the supply and development department when he was 24, rose to be Chairman of the company and, in 1986, president of the Institute of Directors. He has said that he first came to the attention of senior management through the ability to write a good report. A specialist may do brilliant original work in isolation, but if it is to have any practical application and benefit to the community, the ideas must be spread. They will be recognized and adopted in direct proportion to the clarity with which they are expressed.” (3)MethodologyThe specific purpose of the study was to answer the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wiesner; Karen Miu

filtering sites on the Webthrough a review process. One drawback of the Scout Reports is that they are issuedonce and not updated.Another approach to vetting websites is provided by an organization called Fields ofKnowledge, which claims that “…robotic keyword searches, popularity gauges, in-housegeeks, paid rankings in search-engine results, and by-chance browsing have gainedalarming leverage upon students' search for knowledge.” This organization urges thatprofessors and other accredited scholars must vet knowledge and asserts that academicauthority is being usurped by “technonauts.”10 Fields of Knowledge provides a Web-based industry-sponsored service called Infography that invites professors, librarians, andother research scholars to write

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Truax

of peer knowledge, to action-based learning, andfinally to the use of work-integrated learning in which students are asked to reflect on theory interms of their experience.5Integral to this process is an effort to provide a learning experience that meets the educationalneeds of the student from a technical perspective. In fact, this author contends that the laboratorydesign can address several of the accreditation process mandates. Specifically, accreditedprograms must demonstrate that their graduates have: • an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (ABET Criterion 3a), • an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data (ABET Criterion 3b

Conference Session

EM Program Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary A. Viola, School of Engineering, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

moral challenges. • Know how to address and reason through moral issues; how moral reasoning is different from reasoning in general. • Be familiar with several moral theories and how they can be used as tools in moral decision-making process. • Increase their self-awareness and desire to understand the broader world we live in. • Better understand their beliefs, ethical views and predispositions as well as their ‘way of knowing’. • Learn the value of self-reflection and improve their skills in reflective writing. Page 22.3.11III. Module 2: Art of Leadership: Influence, Empowerment

Conference Session

"Green" Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

faculty and the Board of Advisors and will be implemented with the annual assessment cycle. The main point of these standards is that the evaluation of students’ performance will based on samples of work in three categories of students: those in the upper 75 percentile, those in the 50 – 75 percentile and those below the 50 percentile populations. Thus the assessment results compiled are based on course performances and grades, exams, projects, presentations of students, and writings as required in some courses. Furthermore, each course specifically addresses the learning outcomes and relation between the course and the Program outcomes, the methods used for the evaluation of students’ performance

Conference Session

Modeling and Problem-Solving

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morris M. Girgis, Central State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

-solving skills. The test is a outcomes hybrid style of multi-choice and write-up questions.9. Oral Presentation At the end of the project, students present Assessing learningand Final Report their findings to their peers and submit a outcomes written final report.10. Post-project Get feedback and comments from the Assessing learningQuestionnaire students on benefits and pitfalls of the outcomes project. Page 22.159.7 Table 3. Active Learning Project OutlineIV

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

of linear momentum in the analysis of a bouncing ball. Page 22.218.11 • Apply central impact, inelastic impact, and the coefficient of restitution to a real problem. • Design experiments. • Carry out their experiments and to collect data using software found on the web. • Interpret data and relate results to what analysis had led them to expect. • Write report • Present reports orally • Work in group4.3. What students gained. They: • Engaged another dimension of learning by working on a hands-on project. • Discovered that, even though the project required a lot of time and energy, the project

Conference Session

K-12 Students and Teachers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Guill Liles, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University (Eng); Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University (Eng)

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. However, Bronfenbrenner’s most recent writings indicatethat in addition to context, proximal processes (i.e., ongoing human interactions over time),person characteristics, and time effects also must be considered. Bronfenbrenner’s ecologicaltheory indicates healthy development is dynamic and continuous, separate from discretedevelopmental milestones occurring at particular points in time. To conduct ecological research,Bronfenbrenner proposed the PPCT model, a model which facilitates systematic study of thefollowing: (a) person characteristics (b) proximal processes; (c) over-arching, as well asimmediate, contextual influences; and (d) time effects.Bronfenbrenner4,5,7,8,9 theorized that individuals bring important person characteristics to

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Morgan M. Bakies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Karen Seliah Lamb, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

Student Development

represented and promoted by the internationalorganization Junior Association for Development in Europe (JADE), established in 1992.According to the 2012 European Commission study of 2,500 recent college graduates, JEstudents obtain full-time employment after graduation more quickly than their peers due to theirbetter developed skills in adaptability, creativity, networking, and analysis.4 Junior Enterprisestudents are intrinsically motivated to take an active role in their education as engineers throughproject-based learning.At UIUC, Junior Enterprise gives students an opportunity to hone their skills outside oftheoretical instruction with experiential learning. The founders of UIUC’s Junior Enterprisebelieve that engineering students need more

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session I - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Sigrid Berka, University of Rhode Island; Walter von Reinhart, University of Rhode Island; Erin Papa, University of Rhode Island

Tagged Topics

Invited - Student Development

-level managers to deliver superior multilingual performance inspoken communication, reading and writing. “Our information exchange consists of business exchange, technology, laws, policies, and regulations. We, often times, work in global teams and interface with foreign customers and/or distributors to try to build new markets in areas where we think our products will thrive. We also have people in the field monitoring the political climate in many countries in order to help with our primary goals and objectives, especially, on issues surrounding privatization. This amount of foreign exchange on a daily basis requires that all of our upper-level employees have multilingual capabilities.”All MNCs agreed

Conference Session

Introducing Sustainability into Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean D. MacRae, University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

recommendations to EWB-UMaine on how to strengthen the project and approach.Students in the class also write a report and present on an “appropriate technology” of their Page 22.957.5choice and comment on its applicability in different contexts. All EWB members and the campuscommunity are invited to attend the presentations. A list of topics and readings used in the firsthalf of the course is shown in Table 2. The remainder of the course is spent discussing projects,best practices and developing recommendations for the EWB chapter.Table 2. Topics and Readings used in Sustainable Solutions for the Developing WorldTopic

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allan T. Kirkpatrick, Colorado State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Robert O. Warrington, Michigan Technological University; Richard N. Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; A. Kulacki, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; William J. Wepfer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Thomas Perry, P.E., American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

(faculty, space, andlaboratory) required with this approach. Many believe that their school’s senior capstone coursesdeliver project-based learning experiences. There was an interest in flexibility in the curriculum,so that students can take specialized courses such as entrepreneurship courses if they so desire.There was a stated need for text modules, not textbooks, to integrate innovative material into thetraditional courses. A recommendation was made to aggregate best practices from differentinstitutions to be shared among peers. Interestingly, department heads also mentioned that oneof the larger barriers to change within the curriculum and pedagogical approach is faculty.Another question was if the professional school model, similar to

Conference Session

Methods, Techniques, and New Programs in Graduate Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer H. Gross, Lehigh University; Donna M. Mohr, Lehigh University; Stephen Pessiki, Lehigh University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

% Very Total % Very Key Element % Well Well Well or Well Rate your preparation to enter practice compared 54% 32% 86% with peers from other schools Page 25.360.12 Table 14. Employer Survey – Effectiveness of Program at Meeting Goals Total % Very % Very Goal

Conference Session

Community Engagement in Engineering Education: Program Models

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carrie-Ann Miller LCSW, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

. During eachpart of the process students are asked to reflect upon their experiences. Reflectioncards are used to provide feedback for the students and the program administrators.Asking specific questions such as: What did you do this week? How did you do it? How do you feel about what you did? What could you have done differently? What resources do you need? What is the next step? Reflection teaches thestudents to value the process, not just the end result. Each student is asked to makea reflection note book. They are encouraged to be creative by writing poetry,essays, music or drawing etc.In addition, each group is given a small stipend to fund one or two field trips andpurchase supplies. The participants learn business skills by using their

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego; Terrance R. Mayes, University of California, San Diego; Nathan Delson, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

, students requested that a detailed map with directions be sentelectronically to them before the start of the program to ensure they could locate the check-in/registration area. One final recommendation was to make the program longer in order tofacilitate the peer building process (four days was too rushed). Finally, a student expressedconcern that the program overlapped with the freshman priority enrollment time. The studentcould never fully relax during the program because he/she was worried about not getting theclasses of his/her choice. Feedback from the participants about the various workshops consistently reported not havingenough question and answer (Q&A) time. Students were left with lingering thoughts andquestions about each workshop

Conference Session

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

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

Papers" should be included.3. Closure Letter to Hosting Firm - Include a copy of the letter you write to the hosting firm that: 1) thanks them for the opportunity to gain outstanding experience and; 2) identifies the last day you will be at their facility working for them. This letter should be submitted to your employer two weeks in advance of your last day.4. Presentation - Each intern will make a presentation based on his or her professional experience. The presentation format combines the formal presentation and round table discussion concepts. This should allow interactive participation from the audience and still permit the interning student to

Conference Session

Faculty Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela M. Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Ricardo Leon Gomez, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Phil Weilerstein, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 25.190.2    Introduction and BackgroundFaculty development has been defined as institutional or external activities used to renew or assistfaculty in their roles,[2] and enhance faculty member’s “knowledge, skills, approaches, anddispositions to improve their effectiveness in their classroom and organizations.”3 Facultydevelopment activities may be brief (a seminar or single-session workshop) or longer term innature.[3] Faculty development can also be described as a planned program to prepare facultymembers for their academic roles, including teaching, research, administration, writing and careermanagement.[4] It can be used as a mechanism to improve practice and manage change

Conference Session

Methods, Techniques, and New Programs in Graduate Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Jyothsna Kavuturu; Mehmet Cetin, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

size.ResponseThe qualitative nature of the cases is provided as added/shown in the Qualitative Description ofthe Cases. Due to space limitation only two cases are given. However, during the semester in theclass qualitative emphasis on all the cases was given.The following write up is added in the Feedback from the Students section demonstrating strongresponses from students on the qualitative nature of the cases. A wide range of qualitativedescriptions of the case studies was received from the students. Each step of the case studydemonstrated significant improvement on the breadth and depth of knowledge of ethics on theintricate details of the cases. For example, in the case of “Hyatt Regency Kansas City WalkwayCollapse,” majority of the students wrote

Conference Session

Mechanics Classroom Demonstrations

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josué Njock-Libii, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

bouncing ball using particle mechanics;  Apply the use of the conservation of energy in the analysis of a bouncing ball;  Apply the use of the conservation of linear momentum in the analysis of a bouncing ball;  Apply central impact, inelastic impact, and the coefficient of restitution to a real problem;  Design experiments;  Carry out their experiments and collect data using new software found on the web;  Interpret data and relate results to what analysis had led them to expect;  Write reports;  Present reports orally; and  Work in group.Part 3. What students gained [24]. They:  Engaged another dimension of learning by working on a hands-on project;  Discovered that, even though the project required

Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches for Software Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin A. Gary, Arizona State University, Polytechnic; Yegeneswari Nagappan, Unicon, Inc.; Supreet Verma, Delasoft, Inc.; Russell J. Branaghan, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

appointment, Gary has been working as Chief Software Architect in the Bioengineering Initiative of the Sheik Zayed Center for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., in the area of microrobotics for surgical applications. Gary has authored over forty peer-reviewed publications and received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, IBM, the Kaufmann Foundation, and the state of Arizona. He is an active member of the ACM, IEEE, and ASEE, and serves on a number of program committees for the community.Miss Yegeneswari Nagappan, Unicon, Inc. Yegeneswari Nagappan works as Software Developer at Unicon, Inc. She holds a master’s degree in