Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Philip J. Parker, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Michael K. Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Barb A. Barnet, Univeristy of Wisconsin - Platteville

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

infrastructure of the United States is exceeding its design capacity and is aging, requiringmaintenance and renovation. In order to meet this challenge, a need exists to produce civil andenvironmental engineers who have a broad understanding of the pressing needs of the infrastruc-ture of the United States. With this in mind, the faculty of the Civil and Environmental Engi-neering (CEE) Department at [institution] reviewed the program curricula (for the first time in atleast 20 years) and decided to redesign the curricula with an infrastructure theme. A DepartmentLevel Reform planning grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) was used to plan anoverhaul of the curriculum that infuses an infrastructure theme throughout.Once the curriculum planning

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric W. Tisdale

control the experiment as well from a remotecomputer as can be done from the computer itself. Sound and video transmission is necessary toinsure safety and to make sure it doesn’t seem like just another simulation. This results in ahardware laboratory that has a limited number of responses available. Speed can be adjustedand robots can be controlled. Only one operator can participate at a time and most unplannedmistakes cannot happen. It is not possible to plan for everything a student may try. Safetyrequires that some changes cannot be allowed in an experiment unless the instructor is close athand. The requirement of a computer controlled experiment is that it be configured and thesolution is achievable. The requirement for a more challenging

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William Durfee

offered jointly in theCarlson School of Management, the Institute of Technology, and the Department of BiomedicalEngineering at the University of Minnesota. The course brings together students, faculty andrepresentatives from client business firms to design and develop new products and business plans.Teams of six to ten students, half second year MBA's and half graduate level engineers, worktogether for the entire academic year (September to June) to develop a product and businessconcept. By June, each team is expected to deliver a working physical prototype of the product andan extensive business plan which details production, marketing and financial considerations for theproduct. Between four and six projects are undertaken each year.The

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

R. J. Helgeson; Troy Henson

design, to extend the understanding of concepts, and to prove or disprove a hypothesis. Table 4. Candidate Written Communication Content Levels Written Communication Content Levels Beginning• Written homework assignments (word processor)• Formatted engineering analysis assignments Intermediate• Typed assignments using text, tables, and graphs• Formatted laboratory reports Advanced• Project reports• Research and design (R&D) proposals• Comprehensive project reports (analysis, text, drawings, plans, appendices, etc.) Table 5. Candidate Oral Communication Content Levels

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James Stice

turned out to be a problem. These engineeringeducators are a bunch of travellin’ dudes--getting all of them together in the same place at thesame time is impossible! First, Chuck Roth will fill you in on the Personalized System of Instruction, or PSI, aself-paced system of instruction best known as the Keller Plan. Fred S. Keller developed thismethod in the 1960s in Brazil, and he and Gil Sherman refined it later at Arizona StateUniversity. Billy Koen at the University of Texas first applied it to engineering education in1969, and his success encouraged Larry Hoberock, Chuck Roth and Gerry Wagner to use themethod in their classes. Later, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provided a sizable grant toexpand this activity, and ultimately, 19 PSI

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

May Movafagh Mowzoon; Mary Aleta White; Stephanie L. Blaisdell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

math from sixth to twelfth grade [1]. Students report that mathbecomes more difficult, that they receive less support from parents, teachers and peers forstudying math, and that math becomes more anxiety provoking over time. Female studentsreported that math was more difficult than did male students, and females rated themselves asmore anxious in quantitative situations than males, even though their mathematical ability wasapproximately equal [2]. In fact, as early as the seventh grade, boys plan to study more maththan girls do [3]. High school girls perceive math to be less useful than boys do [4], and valuemath less than boys do [5]. Research supports the idea that the factors that keep minorities fromentering these fields are largely the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Stevenson

used their recently acquired abilities in three-dimensional AutoCAD modeling to solvefree-form problems. It turned out that it was notably easier for them to solve these descriptivegeometry problems, faster and more accurately, and with much more comprehension, than theauthor did, doing these problems himself in school with paper and pencil. Figures 1 through 6show a problem in finding the true angle between a line and triangular plane. Side-by sideviewports are used, with the right one showing a constant pictorial view. The majority of theconstruction takes place in the left panel. The construction makes extensive use of AutoCAD’sUCS (user coordinate system) manipulation features and viewing control features such as PLAN.[3]1. The given top

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Regina Nelson; Aldo Morales

laboratorysession. The semester at Penn State consists of 15 weeks. The course outline is providednext.IV. Introduction to Local Area Networks course outline1. PC Fundamentals Review2. MS-DOS operating system fundamentals3. Fundamentals of Windows 954. Local Area Networks Fundamentals • Networking Standards and the OSI model • Communication Protocols • Networking components5. Types and topologies of Local Area Networks (LANs) • Type of LANs: Peer-to-peer, Client-Server. • Network topologies (star, ring, bus, etc.). Advantages/disadvantages6. Introduction to Windows NT: Windows NT specific network planning Page 4.192.2 • Computer hardware

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Pike

and a definition of the division of labor among the groupmembers within the first few weeks. These ideas will improve the chances for success and alsocan be used with any of the other formats.The multi-term format There are various forms of a multi-term project, but the one the author has experiencewith was a three-term course sequence. This format was used exclusively for projects of thestudents’ choosing. As a result, the first course was a one-credit planning and proposal course. Page 5.135.2This course was a faculty guided self-study pattern where the students would accomplish threegoals. The first goal was to choose the

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles C. Adams

developed in this paper.The most effective vehicle for overcoming the two-cultures problem in UE education and forenabling students to properly distinguish science from engineering design, is for UE professors toconvey to their students a positive attitude with regard to the H&SS and teach their particularsubjects holistically. In this paper consideration is given to how that positive attitude may beconveyed inside the classroom: the kinds of incidental or planned activities will effectuate thatconveyance.The humanities and social sciences play an important role in undergraduate engineeringeducation. That role is not limited to providing “well-roundedness” in individual engineers, butis also a fundamental part of identifying, formulating, and

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

backgrounds who did not attend the program as a comparisongroup for the study. Fifty- four comparison group managers returned the same questionnaire. Allthe participants were requested at the exit to return the three-month posttest questionnaires fromtheir job site. Thirty-two participants returned such questionnaires. The sixteen member faculty were also requested to return the same questionnaire forcomparing learning styles, collective profiles, and leadership behavior profiles. Eleven facultyreturned the completed questionnaire. Originally interviews were planned with the participantsand faculty members. However, it was suggested by the program administrators that, due to thebusy schedule of participants and faculty members, actual

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

William J. de Kryger; David A. Lopez

grouptravels to Russia, the project hardware and software is carried in their luggage. There have been noproblems with customs so far! Upon arrival, the students and faculty work together, as much aspossible, to complete the practical application. In most cases, however, the Russians complete thisportion of the project after the Americans have left. As the project moves toward completion, itusually requires continued international communication until it is finalized, months perhaps, afterthe American group has gone home.This year, as an example, due to the size and technical diversity of the CMU group, two projectswere planned, one for the electronic students with a manufacturing application and another for theautomotive students. The electronic

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Hrudey; Stanley Varnhagen; Shelley Lorimer; Roger Toogood; Bill Lipsett; Art Peterson

Survey question: “In general, howcomputers, uncertainty about when to appropriate did you find the computer format in [thetake notes, and various aspects of the three indicated areas]?”program design4.Although it is not possible to draw very strong conclusions about the efficacy of the modules, itwas noted that the Spring Session class obtained a better overall class average than any similarclass for the past several years. In addition, the instructor felt “more relaxed” once the pressurefor planning and preparing daily lectures was somewhat reduced. 3 The “they” in the title of this paper refers as much to academe as it does to students! 4 One student indicated that the feedback was uniformly “too

Conference Session

Learning by Doing

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Morgan, Texas A&M University; Luciana Barroso, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

level.Summary of Degree Plan Common CourseworkBoth MS and ME degree plans have the following common requirements: 1. Engineering Mechanics – 9 semester credit hours ≠ CVEN 633 Advanced Mechanics of Materials ≠ CVEN 657 Dynamic Loads and Structural Behavior ≠ A course in Finite Element Analysis (specific course varies for each degree) 2. Structural Element Behavior and Design – 6 semester credit hours Students must take at least two of the following courses: ≠ CVEN 671 Behavior and Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures ≠ CVEN 659 Behavior and Design of Steel Structures ≠ CVEN 621 Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design ≠ CVEN 670 Behavior and Design of Composite StructuresThe MS degree further requires one math course and two

Conference Session

Opportunities and Challenges in Developing International Engineering Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; Gisela Coto Quintana, SINAES; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Oscar Harasic, Organization of American States; Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

International

) and ECUK(United Kingdom) were represented at the workshop. The perspectives of engineering deans and chairs were also presented and ANFEI(Mexico), ASIBEI(Iberoamerica), ACOFI(Columbia), and CONFINI(Perú- Industrial Engineers) were represented at the workshop. The workshop included four round tables to develop an action plan for Latin America and the Caribbean. There were over 40 participants at the workshop representing 13 countries. The cost of the workshop was $5000. Part of the workshop was funded by the University of Turabo and funding for travel for the OAS speaker was provided by OAS- EftA. Outcomes

Conference Session

Computer Gaming and Virtual Reality for Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Brown, University of South Alabama; Michael Doran, University of South Alabama; David Langan, University of South Alabama; Tom Thomas, University of South Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

might be to replace a statement like “capture cue ball” with “capture theclosest ball.” By simplifying their original script, participants typically earned a sub-optimalscore. A better solution is to reorganize the script so that the maximum number of points, basedon remaining balls, can be earned.Strategy games such as Robo-Billiards can help to engage students in activities that are fun andsupport STEM concepts. As observed in the student behaviors, the most successful results occurwhen a clear and defined plan (algorithm) is used to form the necessary script. Even in the faceof a fault, it is the ability to adapt to the new circumstances that allowed further success. Therobot’s design likewise impacts the potential STEM learning

Conference Session

Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

McRae Banks, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

to an organization. In the finalmarketing class period we focused on globalization to help students understand that what worksin one market does not necessarily work in another market, and there are other issues that need tobe addressed, as well.The initial outline in the Accounting and Finance area was aggressive. In addition to teachingstudents about income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, along with theinterconnections, we planned to include both horizontal and vertical analysis and budgeting.Managing cash flow and various methods of financing and the time value of money were part ofthe outline, as well.How It Played OutClearly what one plans is not always how things play out. This section of the paper will reviewwhat

Conference Session

Sustainability, Service Learning, and Entreprenuership

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anouk Desjardins, École Polytechnique de Montréal; Louise Millette, École Polytechnique de Montréal; Erik Bélanger, École Polytechnique de Montréal

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Montréal’s First Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development.Erik Bélanger, École Polytechnique de Montréal Erik Bélanger has worked on the development of the course Sustainable Development Capstone Project. Since then, he has contributed to the evolution and the teaching of the course. He obtained his engineering bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from University of Sherbrooke in 1999. After graduating he worked in industry as a design engineer before completing a Master’s of Applied Science Montreal at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. Since 2004 he has worked at Ecole Polytechnique as research assistant for sustainable development projects and as a lecturer

Conference Session

Including Engineering Economy in All Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leland Blank, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

education internationally in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Hungary, China, Japan, and South Africa. In addition to his academic appointments, Dr. Blank worked in industry for Southwestern Bell Telephone, GTE Data Services, and San Antonio Public Service. Lee has authored nine engineering textbooks for McGraw-Hill on the subjects of engineering economy and engineering statistics. His current book is the 7th edition of Engineering Economy (in preparation for 2011 release). His primary areas of interest are engineering economics, international higher education, and strategic planning

Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, onestudent conducted the lesson while the rest of the team members sat with small groups of students tointeract informally and assist with the lesson activities. Materials developed for activities include anonline repository, lesson plans, supply lists, activity descriptions, and other supporting documents [2, 3]. In this paper, we present lessons developed by three Mechanical Engineering majors in the areas ofpipe design layout, computer vision systems, and plastic production, based on the students’ professionalexperiences. The students acquired the necessary background for their lessons while participating in theUniversity of Cincinnati’s co-operative education (co-op) program. In addition, two of the studentsattended the 2009 ACM SIGCSE

Conference Session

Case Studies, Engineering Education and Outcome Assessment Around the Globe

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Ricardo Mejia, Universidad EAFIT; Carlos Rodriguez, Universidad EAFIT

Tagged Divisions

International

operatingmode in recent years for the product development industries with the aim of optimizing designcycles, improving quality and reducing design and production time in bringing new products intothe global market3.The process of integration of economies and societies as well as the rapid advances intechnology are constantly changing the world’s business environment. Outsourcing, in-sourcingand off-shoring design and manufacturing operations are very common practices nowadays formany industries, making the international collaboration not only a common but also a necessaryactivity4. This global collaborative approach requires permanent communication among themembers of the product development team for project planning and execution, and for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

carryout the new concentration requirements at the AAS and BS degree levels. The best plan forintroducing concepts of alternative and renewable energy will be injecting information into theexisting courses. For example, new concepts will be introduced in Information SystemsTechnology by adding courses on computer networking and programming for power gridmanagement and Optical Systems Technology will develop courses on photovoltaic and solarenergy and establish a laboratory with a solar panel array. A capstone course in alternative andrenewable energy would incorporate the following: guest lecturers from industry; field trips toinvestigate operating solar, nuclear, wind and conventional power sources; laboratory instructionat ASU’s Photovoltaic

Conference Session

Alternate Energy

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luces Faulkenberry, University of Houston; Wajiha Shireen, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

planned projectsthrough the spring semester of 2010. The success of the program will be decided by evaluationof the student talks by the Power Company contacts, and by student comments on the value tothem of their participation in the program.Initial ContactIn April, 2008, late in the spring semester, a representative of the local electrical powercompany, CenterPoint Energy, contacted the College of Technology at the University ofHouston, to inquire whether the faculty of the College had an interest in mentoringundergraduate students who would participate in projects concerning plug-in hybrid electricvehicles (PHEVs). The local electrical power company, CenterPoint Energy, had developed aninterest in PHEVs, and wished to convert a hybrid SUV into

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University, Vancouver

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Table 1 Robotics Course Content Week  Topics covered  1 Sub-systems and components of a robot Mechanical, electrical, process, control, sensor and planning sub-systems; robot arms; robotic actuators; transmission elements. Spatial Descriptions and Transformations Position, Orientation and frames; Mappings; Transform operator. 2 Spatial Desc. and Trans. (cont’d) Rotation operators; Transform equations; Absolute and Relative transformations. 3 Spatial Desc. and Trans. (cont’d

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Laboratories I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Forsberg, Hofstra University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

enhance the students’ comprehension of the usefulness of dimensionalanalysis in the planning of experimental programs and the interpretation of the experimentaldata. The intent is to have students actively participate in the performance of the demonstrationsand the gathering of data. They would also correlate the data during the class period usingsoftware such as Excel, Matlab, or MathCad. The class session would be lively, with muchincreased student participation and active learning.Accordingly, we have developed a fluid mechanics experiment dealing with the flow of fluids(i. e., water and air) through nozzles of different sizes. The pressure drops across the nozzles aremeasured for a variety of flow rates. Using dimensional analysis, the

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather Nachtmann, University of Arkansas; Kim LaScola Needy, University of Arkansas; Emily M. Evans, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

year? What is the average number of students in each offering of your Engineering Economy course? Is your Engineering Economy course a Semester or Quarterly course? How many credits is your Engineering Economy course worth? In your department's recommended plan of study, what year is your Engineering Economy course taken? Are there any prerequisite courses for your Engineering Economy course? In addition to your Engineering Economy course, are there other courses in the Engineering Economy field available to students within your department? Student Perspective In general, do your students believe that Engineering Economy is an important course at the time the course is

Conference Session

Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Dowling, University of Southern Queensland

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

engineering technologist• When they graduate 74% of the students plan to enrol in another program, with 57% percent of those students planning to study a Bachelor of Engineering program, and 11% a Bachelor of Technology program.• Most of the students believe it is very important (63%) or important (27%) that their program is accredited by Engineers Australia.Some of the other important findings were:• The four major influences on their decision to study engineering were: I like building things; I like finding out how things work; Good employment opportunities; and Good pay when I graduate.• The four major influences on their decision to study their current program were: To advance my career; It has the specialization I want; The

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

G. Padmanabhan, North Dakota State University; Robert V. Pieri, North Dakota State University; Carol Davis, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

experience an immersionin the native culture.NDSU Camp for TCC StudentsThis camp has two tracks, one for students and another for the TCC faculty and high schoolteachers. Besides academic sessions, laboratories, and industry visits, students at the camp areprovided opportunities to participate in the activities of the university multicultural studentservice center, student chapter of American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and otherlocal NA organizations. The TCC faculty and teachers work with university professors todevelop lesson plans for the Sunday Academy sessions and high school summer camps. One ofthe unique features of this camp is both tribal college faculty and the students come together onthe university campus. Though the faculty

Conference Session

Introducing Programming in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Virgilio Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

programming skills that the students acquire through the degree plans. This is morecrucial to the Electrical Engineering area where we proposed this intervention. There are severalfactors that negatively affect our students, including the methodologies used to teach computerlanguages. The Computer Science department developed an introductory course in programmingtitled “Computational CS-Zero” (CCS0) or also called “Introductory Computational Systems”ICS5 used in the entering program4 that has shown its effectiveness in the past8, 9, 10 . Therefore,we proposed the modification of our engineering course incorporating some modules from CCS0and adding more relevance by applying the assignments to the simulation of electric circuits orother physical

Conference Session

Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alisa Clyne, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Page 15.768.4implemented that incorporated development of skills in key areas for career development, astructured values-based approach to career planning, and instruction in scholarly writing. Mostparticipants enjoyed several key meaningful outcomes, including structured short- and long-termcareer planning; development of close, collaborative relationships; development of skills innegotiation and conflict management, scholarly writing, and oral presentation; and improvedsatisfaction linked to participants’ decisions to remain in academic medicine 19. These types ofmentoring models may produce organizational change that benefits men as well as women 17.Since 2003, the Drexel University College of Engineering has hired and retained 35 new