Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Predecki; Albert Rosa; George Edwards

, local companiesand non-profits advocates to provide key lectures. Who we invite depends on the Issue. Oneperson we always invited was the Head of freshmen English who reminded students themechanics of how to write good policy papers. There are two teaching assistants assigned perquarter to help with the various duties especially setting up the laboratories and observing in theseminars.V. Course ContentThe following section outlines the content and syllabus for each module. Since the content ofthe first three modules remains mostly constant the following represents what has been deliveredthroughout the various yearly offerings. The Issue module varies greatly and what is describedrepresents a general philosophy of what is typically covered. A

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech University; Fisseha Meresa Alemayehu, Texas Tech University; Haileyesus Belay Endeshaw, Texas Tech University; Ricardo Cruz Lozano, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ekwaro-Osire’s research interests are engineering design, wind energy, vibrations, and orthopedic biomechanics. He has supervised more than 29 doctoral and master’s students. Ekwaro-Osire was recently a Fulbright Scholar. As a Summer Faculty Fellow, he has conducted research at NASA and the Air Force Research Lab. He has published, from his research efforts, more than 150 peer-reviewed technical papers, among which 44 of these in archival journals. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the state of Texas, and industry. He is a member of Texas Tech University’s Teaching Academy, which promotes and recognizes teaching excellence at

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheila Reyes Guerrero, Universidad de las Américas Puebla; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

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International

Design Projects Web Page developed by Dr. Richard Turton18, wasutilized for every assessed team. Students were asked to present a written report and to carry outa formal presentation of their solution methodology, obtained results and conclusions for thisdesign challenge. For assessment of their problem solutions we utilized three different ValueRubrics (Problem Solving, Oral Communication, and Written Communication) developed by theAssociation of American Colleges and Universities (AACU)19, 20. For the final presentations,every student performed a self-evaluation and peer-evaluation regarding oral communication andproblem solving skills using the corresponding rubrics. For the written report only two appraisalsby means of the corresponding

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kemper Lewis, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Deborah A. Moore-Russo, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Phillip M. Cormier, SUNY - University at Buffalo; Amy M. Johnson, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Wei Chen, Northwestern University; David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University; Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Charles Kim, Bucknell University; Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Education, 2014 Paper ID #8971 Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1994. His research interests include product family and product platform design, product dissection, multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO), and addi- tive manufacturing, and he has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers to date. He teaches courses on Product Family Design, Concurrent Engineering, Mechanical Systems Design, and Product Dissection, and he serves as the Director of the Product Realization Minor in the College of Engineering. He is a recipient of the ASEE Fred Merryfield Design Award and a NSF Career Award. He has received

Conference Session

Computer-Based Learning Models

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

regulation in higher education courses.Their efforts are discussed next.Contemplative practices in higher educationThe Center for Contemplative Mind in Society has spearheaded the inclusion of attentiontraining techniques in education. A book published in December 2013 103 explains the methodsused to teach attention regulation and aims to empower educators to adopt and teach them tostudents. The authors present arguments about the importance of learning how to self-regulateattention and explains that this can be facilitated by the sustained practice of introspective andcontemplative activities such as mindfulness meditation, contemplative reading writing, andlistening, mindful movement, and compassion practices. They present research about

Conference Session

Promoting Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

the heart ofthe technology and society debate [12, p 9].A further integration may be made if students work together in a team project in which they areinvolved in the appraisal. One of the complaints that industrialists have made of new graduates isthat many of them have no experience of working in teams. By participating in appraisals ofthemselves and their peers they should obtain some insights into human behaviour. Greaterinsight into human behaviour, particularly in organizations would come from exercises that focuson learning and perception.MethodClearly there has to be some closed instruction in a stage of romance, this may be taken toinclude formal reading. But the spirit of the stage is that of open-ended inquiry as a prelude

Conference Session

Future Career and Professional Success for Graduate Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e- portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the roles of engineers as communicators and educators, the foundations and evolution of the engineering education discipline, assessment methods, and evaluating communication in engineering. Page 24.652.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Graduate

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Van Wie; Kristin Wood; Robert Stone; Julie Linsey; Matthew Green

weregiven the set of functions for customer needs and the additional guideline to generate ideas byfocusing on finding solutions to the functions stated. The instruction sheets for all participants,both the experimental and control groups, included a description of the problem, a set of rules tofollow, and a set of customer needs. The instructions were partially based on the basicbrainstorming rules6 of seeking a large quantity of ideas along with encouraging “wild”(uncommon) and diverse ideas. The instructions also indicated that the students should solve thedesign problem by writing down their solutions with words and/or pictures, the solutions couldmeet one or all the customer needs, and the goal was to maximize the quality, quantity, novelty

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

their chosen field; and opportunities for interaction andsupport from fellow students, faculty, and peers through liaisons with student groups, industrycontacts, and support services.The 4-year Electrical Engineering program curriculum has been developed and is presented inTable 2. Engineering and other related courses (with prefixes of ENGR and TECH) are taught by Page 10.434.9faculty from the E&D Department. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 2. Electrical Engineering

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Nicola Ferralis; Leanne Avery; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

before starting. Clear documentation of the people who havebeen interviewed, the length of the interview, and notes on the circumstances of theinterview together with a reference to the tape are important for citation purposes and forkeeping track of pseudonyms. Document and artifact analysisDocuments include the formal (letters, public e-mails, press releases, grant proposals,school district newsletters, etc.) and informal (shared personal e-mails, handwritten notes,writing on the blackboard, and other less permanent material) written material thatsurrounds and infuses a project. Artifacts include the devices such as computers orscanners, material for “hands-on” activities, the lab space at a university that is beingtoured by middle

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Leanne Avery; Angela Lueking; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

are Page 10.995.5talking about the waste and how it helps the evierment. You cost one boes not work write. The web was so cool butyou need games to play on it.” Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education“14 i think it was all good some could be better. 13 i think it was cool. 1 i looked like someone oure age made it.But great info.”The quotes support the qualitative data collected regarding the students experience of thewebpages. They enjoyed the sites, and they seemed to agree

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Matthews; Perry Heedley

MethodologyThe design team methodology adopted here closely parallels that used successfully by theauthors while working at several different semiconductor companies, and has been adapted to theuniversity environment. It involves a multiple phase process, with reviews by peers and advisorsat strategic points during the IC development to insure success by identifying issues andcorrecting potential problems as they occur. This is particularly important for student designteams, which lack the experience of professional engineering teams and are therefore more proneto errors. Presentations are given by each student for their individual circuit block, with theentire team as well as faculty and industry advisors in attendance. These reviews typically occurat

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

Listener, Fact Seeker, Innovator and GoalDirector). While roles such as these speak to the group process part of the ideally functioningteam, engineering educators have overlooked another set of important team roles. These areroles related to the accomplishment of the engineering project and require specific skills such asdesign (“Design Specialist”), construction ability (“Builder”), report writing (“TechnicalWriter”), or computational expertise (“Number Cruncher”). These roles are distinguishable fromthe group process roles noted above which directly impact group dynamics and harmony.Adoption of specific functional roles by students in teams can impact their subject mattermastery. Unlike the team model typically used in the corporate world that

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

-ended survey items) was conducted via open coding15. We marked segments of data by attachingcode words (abbreviation of key words) to those segments, and retrieved all segments identifiedby the same code or by a combination of code words. Examples of codes generated from studentinterview data included “RW-APP” and “PRAC-EXP”. These codes indicated that studentsassociated the MEA’s as providing “real world appeal” or “practical experiences.” We thenorganized and re-organized our segments of coded data into categories. To determine theplausibility of our categories, we employed the process of peer debriefing whereby we consultedwith other members of the research team. These consulting sessions allowed us to uncoverpatterns and emerging themes

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

consideration? o Is fuel source renewable? If not, can natural gas or coal be an alternative fuel source for oil? • Select the optimal solution Page 8.1060.9 • Write specifications • CommunicateProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationLet’s hope that the new generation of engineers being educated in, and equipped with knowledgeof, energy sustainability will make the engineering reflected in the above 15 energy cases, andmany others, better by being more engineering elegant. In a world where we

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

interactive group projects and group discoveries. The responsibilityof learning is placed on the student rather than on the instructor. Students are responsible fortheir reading assignments and lectures are not provided on the material except for spot lectures inresponse to questions. Critical questions provided before the reading and activities following thereading are used to assess the level of student understanding. Group activities require eachstudent in a group to have read an assignment to be effective participants. The students arerequired to utilize various methodologies such as reading, writing, presenting, and problemsolving. They are also required to assess their weekly performance and the performance of theirgroup.Elements of the PE

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa A. Haston; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher; Diane Rover

, whether the task isworking on code or circuitry, writing part of a report, gathering research materials,brainstorming, or boosting team spirit." One student used the saying "it's not what you know, it's Page 5.435.5who you know" to describe the synergistic effect of having team members with diverse skills toapply to a project. For some students, the CFT experience has changed their outlook on anengineering career, since they see engineering design as less isolated in single individuals anddisciplines.Students who have participated in multidisciplinary projects or multidisciplinary teaming tend toachieve a greater appreciation for the concept of CFT

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

: Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 7.440.10 Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAn ENGINE in a new car can be turned ON if:(The KEY is ON) AND (BATTERY is ON) AND (The A/C is OFF OR The LIGHTS are OFF)Use smallest number of NAND and NOT Gates to implement the “ENGINE ON” function.This example relates to dimensionality, modification, similarity, and experimentation strategies.b2.3) Computer Science exampleFind the general solution to the “Tower of Hanoi” problem. Write a program that will producethe solution for N disks (N< 10

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sullivan; Harpreet Singh; Kimberly Sward; Janis Terpenny

instance, Currently Available links tothe page where current industry project descriptions reside. Project Teams is a link to the pagewhere team memberships and contact information is found. Project Planning & Managementlinks to resources that instruct students on how to plan, manage and succeed as a team. DueDates links to important dates for project teams, somewhat different for each university based oninstructor preferences of desired milestones and timing. Project Reports provides guidance ongood report writing and specific requirements. • Form student project teams The formation of teams will vary from self-selected to instructor assigned as deemed appropriate by the instructor. • Select an industrial problem

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch; Stephen Ressler

, then have students work through one or more problems involving the analysis of arelatively simple structure. In every case, the students perform the Direct Stiffness Methodmanually, but use Excel spreadsheet software to perform matrix manipulations and MathCADcomputational software to perform mathematical computations. This presented educationalmethodology is effective for peering inside any type Black Box tool as long as the key learningsteps are clearly delineated and common computer tools are used only to perform the mundane,time consuming tasks.Specifically, students solve each problem as follows: · Use MathCAD to define local element stiffness matrices. · Use MathCAD to transform the local element stiffness matrices to global

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

objectives. Theirpresent classroom experience is writing out conscious thoughts (i.e., continuous notes). This isgreat for developing the thought process, but not necessarily for development of efficient board Page 6.1003.4notes that increase/motivate student learning. I hope they will apply our techniques when they Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationreturn, in return they will get complimentary comments from their students, while arousing theinterest of other professors in their departments or

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

: Page 6.946.12 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationAn ENGINE in a new car can be turned ON if:(The KEY is ON) AND (BATTERY is ON) AND (The A/C is OFF OR The LIGHTS are OFF)Use smallest number of NAND and NOT Gates to implement the “ENGINE ON” function.This example relates to dimensionality, modification, similarity, and experimentation strategies.b2.3) Computer Science exampleFind the general solution to the “Tower of Hanoi” problem. Write a program that will producethe solution for N disks (N< 10). In this example students experiment with a small-scale hands-on solution (segmentation

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

6hours per week, with the number of hours varying widely between students, weeks of thesemester, and curricular demands. Each student is assigned one specific problem where s(he) isthe team leader, but is also asked to work with all other teams as needed. The specific problemmay run across years, and generally does. Examples: 1) Develop multimedia material from flowvisualization video tapes, to be used in modernizing courses (NSF project); 2) Extract vortexstrength from cross-flow image pairs (Army / NASA projects), 3) develop laser sheet imagingtechniques, 4)write JAVA user interface for an Air Force computer program, 5) design a 3-Dwind-driven manipulator. In each case, there is a PhD candidate assigned to “support” theproject, who needs the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Menart; Elizabeth Johnson; Gary Kinzel

EducationAppropriate software decodes the joystick commands and translates them to desiredCartesian velocity commands. Another level of software is used to translate Cartesianvelocities into joint velocities, to compare the desired joint velocity commands to the actualjoint velocity, to calculate the discrepancy, to calculate the desired motor input signals, andto write a proportional command to a motor chip. A control circuit interprets this commandand generates the desired voltage and currents to move the motors.A modified version of the final prototype for last year’s design is shown in Figure 2. Thegoal of the 2000-2001 design is to reduce the costs associated with producing the prototypeof Figure 2. In this year’s project, WSU is responsible for the arm

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Randall A. Yoshisato

allthe information and the power. As the relationship matures it will become more reciprocal andmutual as the advisor helps the student become an engineer and the student will in turn help theadvisor become a better teacher and mentor. As the years go by, the advisor/advisee relationshipwill give way to one of mutual respect as peers and professionals. Hopefully, the relationshipestablished in college will be a lifelong one where the engineering alumnus can work inpartnership with the former advisor and teacher to help train subsequent generations of engineers.High quality advising and the relationships that will result can make a significant improvement inthe life of each student. The student will better informed on their career options, the

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert George; Allen Soyster; John Lamancusa

requirements. These projects were typically something theinstructor was familiar with or already knew how to solve. Examples included football throwingmachines and recycling machines to sort glass by color. There was no interaction with industryand students worked only with peers in their same department.Beginning in the fall of 1995, our existing senior design classes were modified to utilize projectssupplied by industry. Efforts were also begun to form interdisciplinary project teams of studentsfrom ME, IE and EE departments. This was part of a new initiative at Penn State, the Universityof Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, University of Washington and Sandia National Laboratories, calledthe Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership (MEEP). The mission of

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jens Jorgensen; Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; John Lamancusa

- evaluated the project's deliverables. They participated in partnership meetings, visited the Learning Factory, completed the survey, or browsed course materials in national conferences and meetings.Implementation ScenarioAll stakeholders within the institutions involved were surveyed: faculty, students,industrial partners and other institutions. At the time of the writing of this paper, 181surveys had been completed. Highlights of the results follow.Evaluation HighlightsOverall quantitative accomplishments • New minors and formal options in Product Realization and Design/Manufacturing have been started at each academic partner. • 1333 students participated in MEEP courses and projects during year 2 of the 2

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard R. Schultz

teaching.• The projects provide hands-on experience, which is simply not attainable through writing a term paper or taking a final exam on the course material. This has long-term benefits to the students with respect to improving critical thinking abilities, unleashing their innate creativity, and appreciating the need for life-long learning.• Instructors who try to strike a balance between education and research will find that this teaching style is very satisfying, and although not all projects will be successful, some students wish to continue the research after the course. In this manner, education and research integration serves as a recruiting tool, enticing students to work on capstone design projects, independent

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology and the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing; Wesley Francillon; Robert W. Simoneau, Keene State College

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

collaboration, communication, informed decision making, and design of investigationsperform higher in both educational as well as the workforce than peers who have not had a LBDexperience11. As a result, Koldner et al. advocates deliberate reflective practice of targeted skills,such as learning in the context of doing that includes monitoring one’s doing and learning andone’s experience of learning, coupled with frequent, timely, and interpretable feedback. (note:Deliberate, in this instance, means that the skills are practiced in a context that promoteslearning; reflective means that their practice is discussed and lessons drawn out from thatdiscussion12). Figure 2 below summarizes the Learning by Design model

Conference Session

Enhancing Instructional Effectiveness in Civil Engineering: Case Studies

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morgan Reese, U.S. Military Academy; Joseph P. Hanus, U.S. Military Academy; Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy, West Point

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

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. Page 22.1685.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 When You Can’t Hear Me Now – Nonverbal Communication in Distance LearningAbstractGlobalization, a strong demand for continuing education and cost pressure on traditionaluniversity learning models are all