Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

its goals include: (1) introducing underrepresented populations of high schoolstudents to computing topics, field of study, and the profession in a fun but challenging way, and (2)training computing undergraduates to mentor youth and teach computing topics. The team of 7 undergraduate mentors and a professor visited a Cincinnati Public School district highschool mathematics class. The class of twenty 11th and 12th graders was 50% female, 73% African-American, and 8% Hispanic. The team developed and taught 7 lessons that related computing topics toeveryday life and showcased career opportunities. The lessons were aligned with Ohio Department ofEducation Academic Content Standards for math, science, and technology [1]. For each visit

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford; Tom Eppes, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Page 15.1271.3The same templates are used by all departments with exhibits posted online so faculty and staffcan view what has been prepared across the College. Department Chairs and Program Directorsserve as prime movers for much of the work and maintain consistency in style and content toharmonize efforts and facilitate communication. We were aided by a wide range of ABETmaterials published on the web by other institutions, making it easy to find best practices1,3,5.Figure 1 shows the CIP flowchart for the Mechanical Engineering (ME) program, and illustrateshow the multiple missions and strategic plan support the PEOs and POs.Program Educational ObjectivesPEOs, developed based on input from the constituencies, describe the 3-5 year career

Conference Session

Design in BME Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gettens, Western New England College; Michael Rust, Western New Engalnd College; Diane Testa, Western New England College; Judy Cezeaux, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

much faster than for other engineering disciplines.2 Reasons for thisprojected rapid increase include the demand for more technically sophisticated medical devicesdue to an aging population, and concern for the development of more cost effective medicalprocedures.2 This increased demand coupled with an existing trend of engineers going to themedical device industry necessitates a change in the academic setting to better prepare and train Page 15.1335.2these engineers for careers in biomedical device and related industries. The objective of thispaper is to present an experientially-based pedagogical method using the senior capstone designcourse to

Conference Session

Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

applications.Monterrey’s Electronic School (Escuela Electrónica Monterrey ESEM): ESEM is a technicalschool located in downtown Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, in the Northern Mexico area. The curriculashould prepare students for a variety of employment opportunities. ESEM offers short, objective,and productive courses. The school offers the 10 most requested technical careers requested bycompanies; the program durations are four, five, or six semesters long depending on specialty.The programs are short compared to professional careers, and they are practical because theprograms are combined with theory and practice, taking place in workshops and laboratories ofthe institution.The “Machining and Tooling Technician” program offered by ESEM requires 69 credit hours

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David G. Rethwisch, University of Iowa; Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University; Melissa Chapman Haynes, Independent External Evaluation Consultant, Professional Data Analysts, Inc.; Soko S. Starobin, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

A Longitudinal Evaluation of Project Lead The Way in the State of IowaAbstractThe State of Iowa has implemented Project Lead The Way (PLTW), a sequence of pre-engineering courses for students in middle and high schools. The intent of PLTW is to increasestudent interest in STEM careers through a rigorous, project-based curriculum. Despite thepopularity and rapid expansion of PLTW program in Iowa, little is known about its efficacy.This is partially due to the lack of studies with robust data, such as comprehensive statewide K-12 and postsecondary databases, or the lack of a control group where pre-existing differences instudent demographic characteristics, PLTW course enrollment, academic performance, andstandardized tests are considered

Conference Session

Alternative Energy Laboratory Experiences

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik A. Mayer, Pittsburg State University; Albert Leroy Powell, Bowling Green State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

sink circuit, developed the LabVIEW program, loaded theappropriate firmware into the DAQ, programmed it, and acquired I-V curves. This was doneover the course of a summer, and the student previously had only a freshman electronics classand no prior experience with LabVIEW or op-amps.The student outcomes for this lab were to make the student more aware of renewable energytechniques, in particular the use of solar cells, and what role they played in the generation ofenergy. Student outcome assessment was performed with a questionnaire with the followingquestions: How did this experiment influence your career choices? Are you more likely toconsider a career in renewable energy in the future? How did this experiment affect yourawareness of

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead MacNamara; Clare Olsen; Laura Steinberg, Syracuse University; Samuel Clemence, Syracuse University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

creativity in engineering students. The principal aim of thetrans-disciplinary course under discussion here is to investigate the degree to which theintegration of architecture and engineering pedagogy is successful in producing desirableoutcomes for either group of students. Given their different but potentiallycomplementary skill sets, engineering and architecture students are a natural fit forinvestigations into creative pedagogy. In fact, the practices of both disciplines areintimately related and, yet, students whose careers may be so closely linked, rarely haveopportunities for cross-disciplinary interaction in their formative years, least of all indesign contexts where dialogue and collaboration could be so productive for both.2

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Hunt, Norwood High School; Regina Lamendella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Sara Garrison, Norwood City Schools; Andrea Burrows, The University of Cincinnati; Mike Borowczak, The University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, The University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

research to an understandable andinteresting K-12 level. This process instills better communication skills in the STEP Fellows andbreaks any reservations of working with the K-12 environment once employed as a university Page 15.626.2faculty member. The secondary goal of Project STEP was to impact student learning by relatingSTEM content to urban city issues through the use of hands-on, technology-driven, inquiry-based projects that also relate to desired curriculum standards. Students need an understanding ofSTEM and the reasons to pursue STEM careers; over 3,000 students have been exposed toSTEM lessons in the past three years with Project STEP

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Cotae, University of the District of Columbia; Esther Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Lily Kemathe, University of the District of Columbia; Suresh Regmi, University of the District of Columbia; Kamden Patrice Kouam, The University of the District of Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

cited in Who’s Who in American Education, Who’s Who in America, and in Who’s Who in the World. He has been nominated two times for the best teacher award (2005 and 2006) in the College of Engineering at UTSA. He is the IEEE Director and IEEE ComSoc chair Whasington DC Section. He is Faculty Fellow for ONR-ASEE Summer Faculty Research Program.Esther Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia Dr. Esther T. Ososanya is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of the District of Columbia. During her career, Dr. Ososanya has worked for private industry as a circuit development engineer and as a software engineer, in addition to her academic activities. She

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Mark Kennedy, University of Portland; Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland

Tagged Topics

International Forum

outcomes addressing global literacy cross the campus. Develop a preliminary proposal to present to the Shiley School’s faculty and obtain feedback in small group settings. Obtain feedback from the Shiley School’s advisory council, comprised of approximately 20 senior engineers in a variety of engineering sectors. Meet individually with particular alumni who have extensive global experiences as part of their career. Meet with our international partners in China and Austria who are helping institutions to develop student programs. Combine the feedback into a refined proposal to present to the Shiley School faculty for discussion and vote. This affirmative vote occurred in January 2015

Conference Session

Track 1b - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Henry W. Kraebber, Purdue University, West Lafayette; E. Shirl Donaldson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Katie Mae Hackney

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

investment in thestudy abroad opportunity. 72 participants agree or strongly agree that they want to return toGermany. The responses include extensive comments on the key concepts learned and how theybenefited from the study abroad experience. Short-term study abroad trips are valuable learningexperiences that provide positive impact to the participants beyond graduation.Key Words: problem solving, global economy, culture, career, technology, engineeringBackgroundA Google search of the phrase “global economy” returns over 767 million results. With thatbeing said, the global economy is impacting all of us. More of the products we buy includematerials, subassemblies and finished products being made outside of the United States.Competition from foreign

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

William Robinson, Stevens Institute of Technology; Michael Pennotti, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

Design Simulation, involved twenty-eight early-career engineers whohad been selected for the Leadership Development Program of a large, international technology-based company. The students were enrolled in Stevens’ Systems Engineering Graduate programand were located in five geographically dispersed locations. This initial simulation provided thebaseline system design used in all of the subsequent simulations.The Design Simulation was initiated by defining specific roles. Class instructors acted as the“Customer” for the system being designed, developing the requirements and Statement of Work(SOW) for the system and making all the key program-level decisions, e.g., competitionwin/loss, throughout the simulation.The students’ functional leaders

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marc Garland; Abdel Bayoumi; Travis Knight

participate in and contribute to new and growing national research initiatives innuclear engineering. The program covers a broad spectrum of academic interests through therecruitment of faculty with differing research backgrounds and interests and the strategic use ofadjunct faculty from the surrounding professional nuclear community. Both internal andexternal funding is leveraged to provide support for the hiring of tenure-track faculty, adjunctfaculty, and graduate student assistants. A dynamic and innovative distance educationcomponent is built into the program enabling students to enroll in classes and obtain degreeswithout having to relocate. This serves well those nuclear professionals seeking post-graduatedegrees to further their career goals

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pierre Larochelle

Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career” [21]. • NSF Sponsored Chautauqua Short Course by Prof. Landis (May 1998). Goal: “To develop and document an Introduction to Engineering course designed to enhance student success by addressing five primary themes: community building; professional development; academic success strategies; personal development; and orientation to the university and the engineering program.”These themes have lead to the development of a curriculum that is based upon providinga foundation cornerstone design experience to first year students. This cornerstoneexperience lays the foundation for the engineering sciences and the capstone designexperience of mechanical engineering students

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Marshall

Document 2005-744 Programmable Logic Controllers in the High Schools Improves College Enrollments John Allen Marshall, Ph.D. School of Applied Science, Engineering, and Technology University of Southern Maine Gorham, Maine 04038IntroductionToo few high school students understand that a technical career path can genuinely beexciting and neat. Some have the short-term view that good paying jobs are plentiful, sowhy take the really difficult courses. Many sell their own abilities short and convincethemselves that it is too difficult a

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Davis

moneystarts arriving. Many funding resources are available for new faculty which can help kick-startyour research program. Research Initiation grants are common within academia throughuniversities, conferences, and societies. Often the funding rate is much higher on thesethan from the standard funding agencies, although the dollar amount is usually fixed andis much lower. The length of the written proposal is also shorter, enabling many more tobe written within the same time. Early in a new professor’s career, quantity of grants ismore important than the dollar amount on them. Once you get tenure, then the dollaramounts are expected to go up.6. Advertise A part of a new professor’s success is networking. Successful professors

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordy Skattum; Clifford Mirman

mustprovide educational programs, there is an overriding need to provide accessibility to studentsfrom all of the communities served. To provide students with this type of access, in which theycan chose the career direction, Rock Valley Community College (Rockford, Illinois) andNorthern Illinois University (NIU) have developed a unique series of programs within theTechnology realm. As part of this program, students can choose their desired degree path andstopping point; after 2-years or 4-years. In addition the students can determine the appropriatelevel of Technology that will suit their educational needs. As a result, students will be able toobtain the needed technical knowledge to obtain employment after two years at RVC or continuetheir education

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Visser; Carrie Steinlicht; Teresa Hall

industry jobs has been in response to wage differentials,valuation of the dollar, and a shortage of engineering and technology program graduates.1 Thetraditional career path sought by engineering technology program graduates was to seekemployment at a mid-to-large size corporation with the implied opportunity to climb thetechnical/managerial ladder during a lifetime of commitment to that single employer. Thisscenario is a thing of the past as multinational corporations downsize, outsource, and streamlinemanagement hierarchies and thin the ranks of technical professionals.At the same time, the growth in small businesses by entrepreneurs and small start-ups providingcomponents to larger companies has provided an alternative career path for newly

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Olufemi Omitaomu; Adedeji Badiru

information system projects' unique characteristics and cautions to take whenusing available techniques. Such inclusion will help to place engineering students in a morecompetitive position for their future career goals.Intr oductionThere has been a continued integration of information systems into all fields of engineering,especially industrial engineering. Several academic departments have changed their names toreflect this integration and others have started courses that integrate information systems intotheir traditional areas of teaching and research. Information systems (IS) are powerful andvaluable tools that support communication and decision making in an organization1. They useinformation technology (hardware and software) to capture

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Evans; Shekar Viswanathan

development of both ‘in classroom’ andinternet-based ‘online’ delivery formats are highlighted.Introduction Engineering Management leadership has become a highly sought out skill intoday’s competitive global technological marketplace. It is now a well recognized professionin most industries. Almost half of all engineers enter a management position within 10 yearsof graduation. In addition, an average engineer changes careers about five times as a result ofbeing trained on different skills and areas of specialty during her/his professional life time [1].Half of all registered professional engineers primarily utilize management skills rather thanpurely technical skills [2]. From small companies to giant global institutions

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Powell; Michael Kwinn

different levels18% Gained an appreciation for other cultures12% Learned value in teamwork 9% Insight gained on direction of future military programs 9% Realized the role civilians (commercial companies and academic institutions) play in military readiness 9% The AIAD experience assisted in determining military career field 6% Need better two-way communicationThe feedback reveals the AIAD program is a very rewarding experience for cadets; and areflection of the direct correlation between the objectives desired in a work-based educationprogram. There were additional unforeseen benefits not articulated in a work-based educationprogram such as insight into career field designation and the valuable role of a

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fengfeng Zhou

knowledge essential for a career in science andengineering. It showed clearly that mathematics played a very important role in an engineeringscenario. Quite obviously, integrating math and physics together in an engineering circumstanceis an effective teaching approach. Its advantage can be seen more clearly by comparing it with aroutine teaching approach. The author once observed a class of teaching Coulomb’s law inwhich the teacher asked students to solve problems one after another using the law. In eachproblem, three or four electric charges with different quantities were placed at arbitrary locations.Although variations were made as to each charge’s quantity and location, students soon becametired because they were just repeating a tedious work

Conference Session

New ET Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Crossman

designed to accept courses and experiential learning from various disciplinesto be applied toward lower-level credit. The upper-level curriculum requires some specificcourses from an existing engineering technology discipline and courses required to obtain aminor in Engineering Management. This curriculum would assist the graduate in advancingwithin his/her company or branching into other careers such as sales engineering and plantengineering. Since the GET program is relatively new, the major population of students in theDepartment of Engineering Technology (both on and off campus) is still within the accreditedprograms. A few students (less than 20) who came from non civil, electrical or mechanicalbackgrounds have entered the GET program

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Lawrence; Michael Warner; Douglas Bayley

Page 7.1127.7the class. The project must have some complexity to require engineering a nalysis (which“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”should be able to be performed by even non-technical cadets), and yet it must be capableof being built by cadets in a single semester timeframe within a tightly constrainedbudget and minimal sub-contracting. The required engineering analysis must reflectmaterial that cadets have learned in the core engineering classes throughout their USAFAcademy career. The project is best if it can be broken into individual subsystems. Also,the instructor needs to have a possible solution to the

Conference Session

Pedagogical Best Practices

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell Guillaume; Crist Khachikian

course or the duration of a student’s academic career? 4. Does previous performance in school affect students’ attitudes and, in turn, their future grade?The current study was undertaken to address the last three questions. A recent study by Petr 2shows that a student’s performance on an exam is related to his or her confidence whenanswering each question on the exam. Another study reported in Angelo and Cross3 shows thatby surveying the students’ self-confidence in a class and making them aware of the results canhelp build self-confidence and competence in the classroom, although the competence was nottied specifically to performance. This work examines the correlation between the student’soverall attitudes in a single class to his

Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

increasingly more important as students compete for positions in the real world.Early in every student’s academic career the thought of breezing through assignment uponassignment has been short circuited by the amazingly easy process of simply failing to read andfollow the instructions given in that assignment. This is compounded when the assignmentsbecome more critical for one’s grade or the test that is being taken veers away from the objectivebecause the test taker has failed to follow numbers 1, 5, and 8 in the list of steps to accomplishthe task. We see on a daily basis student after student who arrive at one’s office hours trying toargue for a “better” grade because they failed to read the single line that said either “documentyour work” or

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

publications4 . In first place, it is necessary to stress tothose faculty members who believe they do not need to create scholarly publications that although itmay not be necessary to stay on their current positions, they may help them at the time of seekingpromotion within their institutions at the same time that they will add to their mobility betweeninstitutions. In second place, it is necessary to revisit the concept of publishing scholarly work tomake it more integrative of the various disciplines that comprise the engineering and engineeringtechnology careers. We need to dispel the myth that publishing equals to writing basic researchpapers available only to faculty in research-oriented institutions.What is scholarly work?One of the first

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melinda Gallagher; Lawrence Genalo

per year in the undergraduate course and 20 inservice teachers in the graduatecourse. In addition about 1000 K-12 students per year experience a one to two hourworkshop and others, who are in classes taught by teachers who have been in thesecourses in previous years, get a longer, more in-depth experience. The Toying WithTechnologySM Program maintains a web site at http://www.eng.iastate.edu/twt/. Thistechnology literacy course provides students with an appreciation for the technologicalinnovations that surround them. Studies have shown that students form many of theiroverall career and educational attitudes as early as elementary school7. Elementary (andeven secondary) schoolteachers who have an appreciation for technology will likelyconvey

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Zhang; Jennifer Kadlowec

school and their future Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationengineering career. The topics include review of high school mathematics and unitconversions, use of the spreadsheet like Microsoft Excel to analyze data and drawfigures, and practice of writing reports and making presentations. The format for coveringthese topics fits into a one-hour lecture at each Monday for the whole semester. The other part of the clinic is to introduce different disciplines of engineering to thefreshmen. There are four departments in Rowan Engineering: Mechanical Engineering(ME), Electrical and Computer Engineering

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg

provided by the US Air Force for similar jobs in the armedforces, we learned that, for instance, about 10% of the aircraft mechanics in the Air Force areAfrican-American.It is the opinion of the authors that people from all demographic backgrounds have talents andskills important to the aviation industry. Sound information on race, ethnic background, andgender is very helpful as efforts are made to understand the statistical disparity that exists for thisindustry. As we attempt to interest young people in an aviation career, it is a worthy goal to reachacross the boundaries of race, ethnicity, and gender and extend to these groups the opportunitiesthat are available. It is time to increase the pool of potential interested students.IV. Aviation