Conference Session

Engineering Technology Design I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Michael Lobaugh, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

for students in other fields. There are several general types ofseminars in use today. These range from general information about the school (known asextended orientation types) to discipline specific, pre-professional types. All of them offeradvantages for first year students trying to get acclimated to college life. In addition toadvantages for the students, other positive outcomes have been shown to result from having aformal first year program for students. For example, improved peer connections, increased useof campus services, and increased out of class faculty/student interaction have been attributed tothese programs.Almost half of the first year seminars are offered as one credit courses. It can be challenging todesign a course with

Conference Session

FPD VII: Innovative Curriculum Elements of Successful First-Year Courses

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Elizabeth Carruthers, The Ohio State University; Paul Alan Clingan, The Ohio State University - EEIC

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

somewhat routine, and students learnedwhat to expect from these types of problems.In addition, a lecture was added to the course curriculum outlining the basic statistics required tostate a confidence level for experimental results. Each student was required to write a MATLABscript calculating a significance level for each confidence level. These programs were used tostate the confidence level of their experimental results. The course structure itself was helpful inthe discussion of validation and verification of CFD results – by solving for experimental andcomputational results in parallel, students were able to identify potential pitfalls of using eitherapproach as the “correct” solution.Open-Ended Design Using CFD SoftwareThe CFD portion of the

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shamsnaz Virani, University of Texas, El Paso; Iris B. Burnham, Burnham Wood Charter School District; Virgilio Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Miroslava Barua, University of Texas, El Paso; Elaine Fredericksen, Ph.D., University of Texas, El Paso; Sally J. Andrade, Andrade & Associates, Inc., El Paso, TX

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Alabama at Huntsville, where she taught undergraduate courses in industrial and systems engineering and served as the faculty advisor for the In- stitute of Industrial Engineering local student chapter. At RIMES, she is involved in developing graduate courses and exploring research opportunities in systems engineering. She has written research proposals to National Science Foundation, Locked Martin Aeronautical, Raytheon Energy Systems, Texas Higher Education Board, and Texas High School Project. She conducts research with a local charter high school assessing the attitudinal changes in high school students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. She has published in several peer-reviewed journals and conferences

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radu F. Babiceanu, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Daniel Rucker, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Hussain M Al-Rizzo, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

academic achievements he won the nomination by the University of New Brunswick as the best doctoral graduate in science and engineering. Since 2000, he joined the Systems Engineering Department, Uni- versity Arkansas at Little Rock where he is currently a tenured Professor. He has published over 35 peer- reviewed journal papers, 70 conference presentations, and two patents. He won the UALR’ excellence awards in teaching and research in 2007 and 2009, respectively. His research areas include implantable antennass and wireless systems, smart antennas, WLAN deployment and load balancing, electromagnetic wave scattering by complex objects, design, modeling and testing of high-power microwave applicators, design and analysis

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan P.E., Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

factors. This paper only discusses specific consideration for the tworesearch projects.4.2. The results and the benefitsAfter these REU projects, one of the student researchers became more interested in pursuing acareer in research related to STEM. He decided to change his major to pursue a BS degree fromElectrical Engineering and possibly obtain a graduate degree. He has applied for anundergraduate research scholarship from the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. Itis clear that through the projects the student researchers improved their communication skills,including presentation skills and technical writing skills. They also made significantimprovements in working effectively with faculty and graduate students and with peers on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay McCormack, University of Idaho; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Howard P. Davis, Washington State University; Michael S. Trevisan, Washington State University; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Javed Khan, Tuskegee University; Patricia Brackin P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Paul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University; Phillip L. Thompson, Seattle University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

) solution assets6. Each assessment instrument consists of a student writing assignment and ascoring rubric for instructors. In order to facilitate the management of multiple studentassignments, assignments to large numbers of students, and assignments of significant size, aweb-based system was developed for both student and faculty use where students log into thesystem to complete each given assignment. When submitted, instructors can log into the systemto see the student responses and provide feedback through web-forms that consist of theappropriate scoring rubric and comment boxes. The teamwork and professional developmentassessments have been more thoroughly tested. Instructional modules are not yet created for thedesign process and solution

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Jack McGourty

includes these outcome elements. Yet, for our purposes, each of these elements –cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral has substantial value and must be explored further.How do we define cognitive-related outcomes? Krotseng and Pike [12] note that mostuniversities relate cognitive outcomes to what the student learns in general; i.e., the “core”education courses in their academic major as well as such basic skills as writing or oralcommunications. With the exception of basic skills, cognitive outcomes are commonly relatedto knowledge acquisition. In addition, researchers acknowledge that there is increasing attentionin higher education to such higher-order cognitive skills as critical thinking [13]. The elevenlearning outcomes, as specified by ABET

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

overall retention rate ofunderrepresented minority students enrolled as FFF in the CEAS in Falls 93 and 94 wasapproximately 63% at the University level and only 50.5% in the CEAS. The last two years,after the addition of the Minority Bridge Program, there has been a significant improvement intheir retention at both at the university and the CEAS level. The Fall 97 engineering minoritystudents had a 80.7% retention rate at the university level and a 69.3% level at the college level.The Fall 98 engineering FFF were retained at 75.0% in the university and 66.9% in the CEAS.See Figure 1.Additional retention programs run by the OMEP include free tutoring, advising, workshops andseminars (such as time management, resume writing, and interviewing), and

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

include free tutoring, advising, workshops andseminars (such as time management, resume writing, and interviewing), and support of thestudent organizations AISES, NSBE, and SHPE. The Office of Student Affairs providesfinancial support to these, as well as other, organizations to help support a trip by many of thestudent members to their National Convention and Career Fair. The student organizations repaythe support by volunteering at the rate of $8/hour to assist in recruitment events sponsored by thecollege.18 Page 4.518.5 CEAS ASU

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecil Beeson; William Gay

problem he or she hadencountered. Some of the computer support technologist’s education should certainly be devotedto developing communication skills such as writing and speech, as well as exposure topsychology or sociology.III. Curriculum planningIt was decided to initially offer a four-course lecture/lab certificate program. This could be donewithout waiting for the rather slow associate degree program approval process to wind its waythrough the College, University and the Ohio Board of Regents (OBR). It would also test studentdemand for the program and employer demand for those students completing the certificate. Thecourses would also satisfy degree requirements for the associate degree program when it waseventually approved. Meanwhile

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

V. Coppola; K. Powell; D. Hyland; B. Cosgrove; A. Waas; A. Messiter; Joe G. Eisley

in teams, they should be able to accomplishsomewhat more in these courses than in the past. In addition to the technical content specific to the course topic (i.e. aircraft or spacesystem design), the following will be a part of each of these courses: l Team projects (with team grading and peer evaluation) and concurrent engineering; l Continued development of communication skills; l Economic considerations and customer requirements; l Discussion of manufacturability, maintainability and product life cycle; l Benchmarking techniques for comparing similar designs; l Legal, ethical and environmental aspects.Implementation of “Threads” in the new curriculum Written, oral and visual communication Engineering 100

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa S. Goldsipe; Martha J.M. Wells; Harsha N. Mookherjee; Dennis B. George; Arthur C. Goldsipe

measures that will be used todetermine the effectiveness of the engineering program include more than merely engineeringdesign and ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. Engineeringprograms must demonstrate that their graduates have & an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams, & an ability to communicate effectively, and & the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context.These outcomes reflect the student’s ability to communicate engineering and scientific principlesand concepts to his or her peers and to appreciate the perspective and knowledge otherdisciplines offer to solve societal

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering Ethics into the Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Glynn, Villanova University; Frank Falcone, Villanova University; Mark Doorley, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

students on a continuing basis? How do we replace ethics as a lecture during acourse with ethics as a way of life?” Some of these sample practices are as follows: • Students should personally sign their work. The mere exercise of signing your own work instills a sense of personal responsibility and ownership and helps to remove the general nature of academic submissions with personal and professional submissions. In professional engineering practice, deliverables are signed before submission. • Students review their peers’ assignments. Students can be asked to review and critique their classmates’ work. The review could be as

Conference Session

New Collaborations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University; Michael Fosmire, Purdue University Libraries -- PHYS

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

. ABET’saccreditation criterion 3.h, which requires that students recognize ‘…the need for, and an abilityto engage in life-long learning’, codifies the importance of these skills.3Certainly, lifelong learning requires strong content knowledge. Without fundamental subjectknowledge, there is no foundation upon which to learn new concepts and skills. However, asABET and the National Academy of Engineering above have noticed, students need to acquireother skills in order to be successful. Shuman, Besterfield-Sacre, and McGourty4 propose thatengineers undertaking lifelong learning need to ‘…demonstrate reading, writing, listening, andspeaking skills, demonstrate an awareness of what needs to be learned; follow a learning plan;identify, retrieve and organize

Conference Session

Implementing the CE BOK into Courses and Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Benzley, Brigham Young University; Ronald Terry, Brigham Young University; Rollin Hotchkiss, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

specific country. Completion of this project requires a recommend remedy that could reduce this problem. The Taking Sides project is another team effort that involves researching a current global controversy and reporting the facts of the opposing sides of the issue.Leadership: Level 2 – Comprehension determined from an exam question requiring the student to explain a concept of leadership. For example, “Considering Collin’s book, Good to Great, What are the two qualities that a level 5 leader must blend?” Level 3 – Application evaluated from a major writing assignment wherein a personal leadership theory is developed and explained. Application from a professional 360 instrument, that requires

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dave Sly, Iowa State University; Daniel Bumblauskas, Iowa State University; Frank Peters, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

sales techniques and strategies, from established technical sales programs toframe the syllabus for the course. A detailed course structure, with an associated lesson plan will be presented. A review wasconducted of peer institutions with similar technical sales engineering programs included the University of Florida, and PennState Erie - The Behrend College.Keywords: technical sales, sales engineering, industry collaborationDescription of the InnovationThe Iowa State University College of Engineering (COE) received a corporate gift from Trane corp. to establish anengineering sales program within the college. The original gift proposal initiated a review of sales and marketing positionsfor engineers, sales engineering programs at other

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; David Elton, Auburn University; Gary Welling, California Polytechnic State University; Daniel Pitts, Auburn University; Daniel Butler, Auburn University

environments. New team dynamics wereapparent with video content associated with assignments. The video conferencing provided anopportunity to evaluate student performance in an unscripted interaction with their peers atanother university. Specifically, the sand castle competition session (Figure 1) engaged thestudents and promoted team spirit for winning the competition. The soil mechanics principlesassociated with sand castles was discussed in relation to the activity. The winner of thecompetition was sent a school pennant of the losing team to hang in their laboratory for theduration of the term. This provided continuity to the term-long collaborative experience and aplatform for friendly discussions during the future video conference meetings. The

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

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

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

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