Conference Session

Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

automatically created when the students login with their clickers. If desired, points can be assigned for attendance and sent to a CSV file thatcan be read by a spreadsheet.Review QuestionsOne of the strongest uses of the clickers in my opinion is for review questions during lectures.By asking questions and viewing the results, the instructor can gauge how well the students areunderstanding a concept. Just as importantly, students can see how well they are doing withrespect to their peers, because if the instructor desires, the CPS software will display bar charts ofthe results after the question has been completed. Figure 3 shows a series of questions that wereasked of students during the next class period after complex power was covered. The bar

Conference Session

Undergraduate Spacecraft Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael McGrath, University of Colorado at Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

graduatecurriculum. The class is intended primarily for aerospace engineering students, but mechanicaland electrical engineers along with engineering physics majors have taken the class. The oneprerequisite for the class is senior standing. Students are graded on the quality of their Phase Aspacecraft proposal, along with their formal presentation of the design at the end of the semester.The student’s individual grade comprises their individual contribution to the proposal, the overallquality of the completed proposal itself, and peer evaluations from their team. Ten years agothere was a homework component to the class, and each lecture had an assignment pertaining tothe lecture, but not related to the proposal effort. That homework has been removed in

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

Tagged Divisions

International

relationships,communications, and English proficiency regarding reading, writing, and speech. Projectmanagement, planning, team work, time and budget management are integrated intoprojects in American engineering curricula. Such an approach obviously makes goodsense to address issues like lack of training on problem solving skills, ability to deal withconflicts, team organization, and engineering way to organization, project development,finance awareness, and software for project management through a variety of academicactivities.The main goal of this enhancement is to help Chinese students to broaden their viewsfrom narrowly designed technical background, develop their critical thinking skills inproblem solving and prepare them for their future growth

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

experience, and one engineer from at an airconditioning manufacturing company with two years of experience. The four applicationengineers all have 15 or more years of system integration experience and are considered to beexperts by their peers. The latter two engineers work with automated manufacturing systems, buthave little system design experience; we consider them to be novices for the purposes of thisinvestigation.Procedure. The interviews were conducted as follows. The interviewer would:1. Introduce himself and describe the purpose of the interview (to gain a better understanding of system integration)2. Show the engineer a cell phone assembly consisting of eight parts (see Figure 1).3. Ask the engineer to think aloud about

Conference Session

Technology in the Physics or Engineering Physics C

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nataliia Perova, Tufts University; Walter H. Johnson, Suffolk University; Chris Rogers, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

Harvard University and B.S. from Rice University. He is a Chairman of Physics Department at Suffolk University. His research interests include neural networks, wireless motes, and ellipsometry. He has a strong commitment to teaching and integrating innovative technology to better reach his students, from streaming video and electronic writing tables for distance learning to using wireless mesh-networking devices in undergraduate research projects. His academic awards include C.W. Heaps Prize in Physics and Phi Beta Kappa from Rice University, Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard University, and Carnegie Foundation Massachusetts Professor of the Year in 2005.Chris Rogers, Tufts University

Conference Session

Developing Communication/Teamwork Skills in ChEs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Lefebvre, Rowan University; Loren Connell, Rowan University; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

- intrinsic: natural curiosity or interest in the activity itself - social: please the professor or peers - achievement: enhance position relative to others - instrumental: gain rewards beyond the activity itselfStudents motivated by intrinsic and social drivers will naturally engage in their education.Positive competition has been used in lecture settings to appeal to students motivated byachievement or instrumental drivers.13In the case of the protein production challenge: - In order to foster an inductive environment that mimics an “undergraduate research” experience, the project was given an open-ended structure in which students were challenged to develop their own optimized experimental procedure

Conference Session

New Ideas for ChEs II (aka ChE Potpourri)

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Birnkrant, Drexel University; Matthew Cathell, Drexel University; Priscilla Blount, Martha Washington Elementary School; Jean Robinson, Martha Washington Elementary School; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. Fontecchio is the recipient of a NASA New Investigator award, the International Liquid Crystal Society Multimedia Prize, and the Drexel ECE Outstanding Research Award. He has authored over 35 peer-review publications on Electro-Optics and Condensed Matter Physics. His current research projects include developing liquid crystal polymer technology for optical film applications including electro-optic virtual focusing optics, reflective displays, flexible displays, power generating MEMS arrays, and photonic crystal structures with tunable defects. Page 13.798.1Eli Fromm, Drexel University Eli Fromm is

Conference Session

Innovations in ME Laboratory Instruction

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Davis, Kettering University; Craig Hoff, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

course requires students to instrument and test drive vehicles on open roads.Because of this, each team is given opportunities to setup and use the equipment duringscheduled times outside of class hours. Typically, a week is dedicated for each laboratoryexercise. In order to facilitate this process and to provide additional responsibility, each teammust host one of the exercises. The requirements of a host team include:• Assembling the equipment• Testing equipment, including working with the professor to set up the test• Taking data (a data set must be taken and analyzed at least one week before the lab date). This data must be submitted to the Professor along with the lab write-up corrections so copies can be made at the copy center

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tony Jones, United States Army; Daisie Boettner, United States Military Academy; Anna Lambert, University of Memphis; Brian Novoselich, United States Military Academy; Stephanie Ivey

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Design Project. In addition to the change in themethod of data collection, there also may have been an element of peer pressure associated withthese findings; other group members were seen working in the background of the videotapes.The interview for group member six, though, was filmed in a different location and he was fairlystrong in his negative feedback. This would seem to discount the slight rise in positive commentsfrom 2/6 to 3/6 between the high stress and retrospective data points. Regardless, similar tocharacteristic two, there was a significant drop from the introduction data point for characteristicthree. Page 14.936.10TABLE #4

Conference Session

Introduction to Materials Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Materials

processes culminate in tangible, created products; and writing, music, dance, andart courses offer similar production of created works. Contributing to the idea that design coursesare the place for creativity is the growing body of educational research on students’ creative skilldevelopment in design settings. Design courses often serve as the focal piece for engineering Page 14.918.6studies of creativity, and engineering instructors have achieved good success with a variety ofapproaches to creativity. Lewis suggests that design projects are “ideal for exposing [students] tothe creative process”, and he emphasizes that techniques for flexible and

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

learning. There were also some secondaryobjectives of this effort: 1) Updating equipment and experiments, 2) Providing enoughequipment for six laboratory groups to simultaneously conduct the same laboratory, and3) Improving technical report writing skills as well the students’ presentation skills.These experiments and projects, as detailed in the next section support the followingspecific goals of our approach in teaching undergraduate power electronics course:1. To provide the students with an opportunity to gain design experience through thecompletion of the project. The project has five components to it: an analytic design, acomputer simulation of circuit operation using LabVIEW package, experimentalimplementation of the circuit, a written

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muge Mukaddes Darwish, Texas Tech University T-STEM Center; Mary Frances Agnello, Texas Tech

Tagged Divisions

Construction

, etc. Algebraic and other Algebraic and in a finite system; they functions that describe other math calculate the needed functions that changes to conserve sustainable buildings describe resources and preserve traditional various eco-systems buildingsLanguage Read, write, research Traditional Students embrace the Page 14.1108.8Arts listen to non-fiction curricular language of

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth Tadepalli, University of Texas, Austin; Cameron Booth, University of Texas, Austin; Mitchell Pryor

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

were found that quantifyprocrastination in a PSI course. These metrics would give researchers additional insights intostudent behavior and their response to self-guided teaching strategies.Proposed Procrastination MetricsHere we focus on three candidate metrics that give physical insight into the levels ofprocrastination that occurs in PSI courses.Margin of Safety Metric (MoS) - The MoS metric is the simplest metric. It is the ratio of thesuccessful final unit (R4 above) submission date and the last class day and is motivated by the Page 14.589.5scenario of a student who, for example, writes an assigned paper several weeks before it is due

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics, Academic Integrity

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

professional ethical dilemmas as distant and unlikely, they are intimately familiarwith cheating in an academic setting. Therefore, studying students’ perceptions of andengagement in cheating in academia is important. A number of studies have explored theseideas. Hall9 had senior civil engineering students review and write an essay on the ASCE codeof ethics, followed by an assignment to develop a similar code for undergraduate students. Hefound that students’ appreciation for ethics was improved by the exercise of linking futureprofessional standards to current conduct expectations for students. Harding10 found thatcheating behavior was self-reported more frequently by engineering students than humanitiesstudents and noted: “Differences between

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects in Developing Countries

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maya Trotz, University of South Florida; Amy Stuart, University of South Florida; Daniel Yeh, University of South Florida; Helen Muga, University of South Florida; Linda Phillips, University of South Florida; James Mihelcic, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

forsustainable development that is a global partnership, students will learn to understandhow to integrate and transfer the best and most appropriate knowledge,methodologies, techniques, and practices between the developed and developingworlds to ensure a sustainable future.” Examples of their answers are below: Page 14.913.6 4“Working, learning, and being with peers who focus on similar subjects allowspartnerships to be created easily, even on an international level. There were manyaspects of the project that were new for me; host family, working with such a diverseteam, field

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

space. with their laptop computers to write lab reports and papers. Figure 6. Collaboration A portion of the room is utilized as student project space. Students in area whiteboarding space. the courses that require access to hardware are assigned resources in the data center laboratory, as well as a set of commodity desktopcomputer systems for their use to complete class projects and research projects. Each studentstation consists of a cart (on wheels), a small gigabit Ethernet switch, monitor, keyboard, mouse,and four Dell Optiplex 260 computers. These project stations are on wheels, and students canwheel them out

Conference Session

OMCED Topics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manhar Dhanak, Florida Atlantic University; Ronald Yeung, University of California, Berkeley; Spyros Kinnas, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

and professional development opportunities • Emphasizing intern/mentor relationshipsMentors assigned to the projects supervise students as needed and monitor progress whichincludes a mid-term project review. During the internship, the students interact with studentsfrom other schools and are exposed to a number of design tools that significantly enhances theirhands-on education. In particular, participating students have undergone training in the use ofvarious industry-based software including one or more of the following: Advanced Surface ShipEvaluation Tool (ASSET), Ship Motion Program (SMP), Seaway Evaluation Program (SEP),Rhinoceros 3D Modeling Program, Bryce 3D Animation Program. Further, the students arerequired to write a technical

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheila C. Palmer; Pamela M. Norris

in the programreinforced their desire to pursue a career in academia. When asked if there were any drawbacks to participating in the program, all of the respondentscommented that the program was time-consuming. The time required for participation was, in some cases,an additional stress during a time when dissertation research and writing was nearing completion. However,balancing teaching and research commitments as a student provides good exposure to the expectations thatall new faculty face. Page 1.176.4 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; Andrew Biaglow, United States Military Academy; David Chang, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Outcome 4 (k)] 4. Design and conduct experiments to collect, analyze, and interpret data with modern 4 engineering tools and techniques. [ABET Criterion 3 Outcomes (b) and (k)] 5. Communicate solutions clearly, both orally and in writing. [ABET Criterion 3 4 Outcome (g)] 6. Work effectively in diverse teams. [ABET Criterion 3 Outcome (d)] 3 7. Apply professional and ethical considerations to engineering problems. [ABET

Conference Session

Best Practices in IE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Elam, Texas A&M University, Commerce; E. Delbert Horton, Texas A&M University, Commerce; Sukwon Kim, Texas A&M University, Commerce; Bob Wilkins, Texas A&M University, Commerce

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

Systems, E-Systems, Raytheon Systems and Stephen Meyers & Associates. He is a member of ASEE, Institute of Industrial Engineers and senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.Sukwon Kim, Texas A&M University, Commerce Sukwon Kim is an assistant professor of Industrial Engineering in the department of Industrial Engineering and Technology at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He has taught various courses in Industrial Engineering program and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in Ergonomics and Biomechanics Journals. He is a subject matter expert in Human Factors and Ergonomics. He is a member of the HFES, ISOES, and IIE.Bob Wilkins, Texas A&M

Conference Session

Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Conrad Zapanta, Pennsylvania State University; Keefe Manning, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

reliability and device testing. Special emphasis was placed on reviewingFDA protocols and applications for prosthetic heart valves and artificial hearts. A series oflectures were also presented on the artificial organ (medical device) industry. These lecturesincluded topics on careers in artificial organs in academia and industry, grant writing, andfunding streams.The remaining lecture portion of the course described different examples of artificial organs,drawing heavily on the concepts introduced previously. These artificial organs includedcirculatory support devices, drug delivery systems, artificial lungs and oxygenators, artificialkidney, pacemakers, neural prostheses, prosthetic heart valves, orthopedic implants, bioartificialorgans (tissue

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Upper-Level Physics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Mowry, University of St. Thomas-St. Paul

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

first is get studentsexcited about E&M. The second objective is to develop a flow/flux based understanding of the Page 11.72.5vector calculus as applied to E&M and fluid mechanics. The third objective is to develop theapplicable theory of several E&M topics enough so that laboratory measurement responses canbe understood. The fourth objective is to develop an order-of-magnitude understanding of the ofthe appropriate field quantities in each module.As the details of the metrology-based modular-pedagogy were formalized and distributed forpreliminary peer review, an interesting observation was made by a colleague whom teachesgraduate

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Grandin, University of Rhode Island

Tagged Divisions

International

, open to different cultural perspectives, sensitive andable to adapt to difference. Given the new and highly rigorous emphasis on engineering andscience education in the rapidly emerging economies of nations such as China and India, wherework can be done at a fraction of the cost and where a great deal of attention is paid to dealingculturally and linguistically with others, American students must be prepared to understand,work and communicate with their peers abroad. It is therefore critical that engineers be educatedas global citizens, trained to work in global teams, and prepared to develop and manufacture fora global market. Without these skills, they will fail and their work will be handed off to peersfrom other parts of the world where

Conference Session

New Horizons in Academic Integrity

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Jordan, Baylor University; Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

2006-1015: ENGINEERING ETHICS AND MORAL THEORIES: A STUDENTPERSPECTIVEWilliam Jordan, Baylor University WILLIAM JORDAN is Professor and Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He has an M.A. degree in Theology from Denver Seminary. His Ph.D. was in mechanics and materials engineering from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials oriented courses and his main research area deals with the mechanical behavior of composite materials. He also writes and does research in the areas of engineering ethics and engineering education. He is a registered metallurgical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

La Verne Abe Harris, Arizona State University; Rajeswari Sundararajan, Arizona State University; David Machado-Aranda, Northwestern University Medical School; David A. Dean, Northwestern University Medical School

Arizona State University. Before she became an assistant professor in the fall of 2004, she was a lecturer in the College of Technology and Applied Sciences, an appointment she held for five years. As a tenure-track professor, Dr. Harris has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Harris is the 2005 recipient of the Electronic Document Systems Foundation (EDSF) grant, and her paper The Personalization of Data for Website and Print Publishers is nationally and internationally published for industry professionals and academics in higher education. Her paper, The Leap from Teacher to Teacher-Scholar: the Quest for Research in Non-Traditional Fields, was

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip M Holmes, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Cynthia H McCollough, Mayo Clinic; Shuai Leng, Mayo Clinic

to the fields of cardiac, dual-energy, and photon-counting-detector CT, and quantifies the impact of new CT technologies on diagnostic performance. She has also contributed extensively to the measurement, management, and reduction of CT radiation dose and to the education of health care personnel and the public on the safety of medical imaging. Dr. McCollough has over 400 peer-reviewed papers related to CT imaging, is the principal investigator for multiple NIH grants, and is active in numerous professional organizations. She is a past president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and a fellow of the American College of Radiology, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and the American

Conference Session

Diversity and Inclusion

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Alejandro Mejia, Angelo State University; Renata A. Revelo, University of Illinois, Chicago; Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Which populations are being studied in engineering education using critical theoretical frameworks, and which populations are not being considered? 3. How are these critical theoretical frameworks used in the research methodologies?MethodsThe databases ERIC, IEEE Xplore, Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE PEER, Journal ofWomen and Minorities in Science and Engineering, and the Journal of STEM Education wereused to locate primary sources. The descriptors “critical theory,” “underrepresented minority,”“critical race theory,” “feminism,” “conciencia,” and “intersectionality” were used to locateprimary sources. These descriptors were also used in conjunction with other descriptors such as“underrepresented populations,” “Latino

Conference Session

Software Engineering Concepts

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hakam Alomari, Miami University; James D Kiper, Miami University; Gursimran Singh Walia; Katharine Zaback

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

CS1 and CS2 coursesusing test-driven learning (TDL) and test-driven development (TDD) methods [Frezza '02,Edwards '03, Janzen and Saiedian '06, Desai, Janzen et al. '09, Dvornik, Janzen et al. '11, Clarke,Pava et al. '12, Clarke, Davis et al. '14]. TDL is an approach that is used to teach computerprogramming that integrates automated unit tests throughout the CS and SE curriculum, and TDDis a disciplined development approach that is used with programmers or learners to write anautomated test then the code to make the test pass. These tests are usually small, testing only onemethod, and written with a unit testing framework such as JUnit. Other findings [S. Elbaum, S.Person et al. '07, Desai, Janzen et al. '09, Schaub '09] propose similar

Conference Session

CoED: Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Varun Agrawal, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

student’s specified skills, in addition to each student’s level of interest ina particular project. This is the period when students are expected to form teams for the CapstoneDesign course so that they can begin writing and submitting bids for various projects of interest.By gauging the mutual interest of other students in various projects as well as seeing whether theyhave complementary skill sets, students can reach out to these students via alternative means suchas email or in-person to discuss opportunities for team building and formation.Finally, as a team, students submit bids for projects they are interested in and assign a priorityrank for each of their bids, which ranks their willingness to take on a particular project. Thesebids are then

Conference Session

Career Development in Engineering: From Higher Education to Industry

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Mark T Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

grade. However, a job at this nexthigher level does not have an opening at this time. The individual, therefore, may have all of thenecessary personal tools to move up, but he or she simply lacks opportunity. If this conditionlasts for a prolonged period of time, the individual may seek other employment because he orshe cannot satisfy his or her personal goals, or, become complacent and loose site of their goals,resulting in performance degradation. This is a very real challenge in today’s flatterorganizational models. The solution to this is to provide peer-level, horizontal opportunities thatwill allow the individual the opportunity for personal growth and financial gain, without havingto move vertically in the organization.Ageing Slows