Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gesink; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

establishing project needs • Establishing, developing and writing design specifications • Developing design concepts • Testing the validity design concepts with physical and mathematical models • Feasibility: physical, economic and design team compatibility Page 8.189.4"Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education" • Human factors • Intellectual Property (patents, copyrights, trademarks, service marks, etc.) • Engineering Design Methodologies • Project Planning

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

developing knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) within students that are useful in designingand crafting a quality problem statement. Some assessment rubrics were identified but theseseemed to focus more on formatting than content. Little guidance was identified relative tolesson plans for developing problem statement design KSAs. This paper, describes some initialefforts toward developing problem statement KSAs within senior engineering students that havebegun from some exploratory research and classroom experiences. BackgroundThe East Carolina University (ECU) initiated its first ever engineering program in 2004. Theprogram culminates in a two semester capstone design project based learning experience

Conference Session

Online Learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan L. Miertschin, University of Houston (CoT); Carole E. Goodson, University of Houston; Barbara L. Stewart, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

(Nikitina, 2009)7 ultimate goal Spend time thinking and planning your life and work so that you are not always in “crisis” mode (Cross, 2008)8 Page 25.911.3 Keep a journal of time use to establish a baseline of how time is being used Coach yourself with questions such as, “What is the best (Kane, 2007)9 use of my time now?” “If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first” (your “frog” is your biggest, most important task, uglier means bigger and more important) (p.2)10 (Tracy, 2007)10 “If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn’t pay to sit and look at it for

Conference Session

Laboratory Exercises for Energy, Power, and Industrial Applications

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John V. Fishell, Science and Technology Education Partnership; Arman Hovakemian, Naval Surface Warfare Center; Douglass Sugg, Naval Surface Warfare Center; Elizabeth Gentry, National Conference of Standards Laboratories International

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

fieldof metrology. The essence of the Navy Metrology and Calibration Program including its vastlaboratory structure are provided as a foundation to illustrate skill sets and disciplines involvedgenerally with metrology. Then, MEC’s partnerships and other activities to educate peopleabout metrology and to inspire students to consider metrology as a career field are presented.Also, specific examples of projects with professional societies and other organizations involvedwith metrology are highlighted and discussed. Included are MEC’s various STEM outreachefforts highlighting metrology that align with DoD’s STEM Outreach Strategic Plan as well aspartnerships developed with local colleges and universities. The intent of the paper will be toprovide a

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pao-Chi Chen, Lunghwa University Science and Technology; Kwannin Kuo, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology; Meei-Ruey Hsu, Ming-Chuan University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Page 15.523.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010To Establish an Importance Index of Basic Chemistry Competence in theUniversities of Science and Technology, Taiwan1. Introduction In order to facilitate the intellectual industry and innovation ability, the government inTaiwan has proclaimed a “National Development Plan” since 2002 (Council for EconomicPlanning and Development, 2005). One of the targets in the plan is to increase highlyqualified manpower, to fuel the desperate demands from the electronic engineering, greenenergy, chemical engineering, and biotechnology fields. From the viewpoint of the futuredevelopment, nanotechnology, communication technology, green energy, environmentalindustry, optoelectronic industry and

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jo Howze; Jefferey Froyd; Kristi Shryock; Arun Srinivasa

that design projects must followto help students build tighter connections among the three subjects. A comprehensiveassessment and evaluation plan has also been designed and implemented. This paper willdescribe the integration mechanisms, project specifications, and systems to address study skills,as well as data that has been collected and analyzed to date. Future assessment plans andstrategies for expanding the program for more students and extending it to two additional first-year engineering tracks will also be described.IntroductionFirst-year engineering curricula have been identified as significant opportunities to improve four-year engineering curricula, and many institutions have addressed the opportunity in differentways. At Texas A

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary First Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University; Amanda Idema, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Carmellia Davis-King, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Orleans levees in hurricane Katrina. As Associate Dean, he oversees curriculum, advising, career planning, study abroad, early engineering and other related initiatives.Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University NEERAJ BUCH is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University. He is also the Director of the Cornerstone Engineering and Engineering Residential Experience program at Michigan State University. He earned his M.S. degree in pavement engineering in 1988 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his Ph.D. in pavement and materials engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 1995. Dr. Buch began his academic

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Ross, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

library system. Referencelibrarians work with students individually and in at least one hands-on workshop on researchtools. Other competencies have to do with elementary project management for a researchproject: project planning, formal proposal, literature review, draft, and final project document.In addition, the course requires at least two technical oral presentations, one using PowerPoint.Table 2 summarizes the general syllabus for the TC freshman comp courses – but with theadditions to the FIGs course with a focus on space exploration.Table 2: The General Syllabus with Educational and Professional ImplicationsGeneral Course Syllabus: 2-credit Technical Communication course in the COE UW – MadisonBased on the general syllabus, focus is on

Conference Session

Gender Perceptions and Girls in K-12 Engineering and Computer Science

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shreya Kumar, Michigan Technological University; Linda M. Ott, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

computingand career plans. Amongst the selected students, there were only four that had little or noexposure to programming. Most of the girls had taken a high school computing course and insome cases they had two or three years of computing instruction. Two of the girls had taughtthemselves how to program. The most frequently mentioned language that the students knew wasC++, followed by Java. Other languages mentioned included Basic, Pascal, HTML, Alice,Python and Scratch. Five of the girls indicated plans to go into computer science as a career.Many were trying to decide between computing and other scientific or engineering fields.When asked what led to their interest in computing or programming, most of the students cited ageneral interest in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad M. Laux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

A.S.E.T/B.S.E.T Plan of Study (Supply[5]. This issue is further complicated by the fact that food and Chain Source: ISO 22006)foodstuff production and manufacturing is becoming increasingly complex and is requiring moretechnically skilled employees [6]. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Career Guide to Industries, 2008-09Edition, Food Manufacturing, stated: “Fierce competition has led food manufacturing plants to invest in technologically advanced machinery to become more productive. The new machines have been applied to tasks as varied as packaging, inspection, and inventory control, but the processing of animal products remains a labor-intensive activity that is resistant to automation efforts. As a result

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University, Northridge; Dale S. Deardorff, Rocky Peak Leadership Center

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

TechnologyEntrepreneurship is increasingly being recognized as an important part of engineering education.However, it is also seen that establishing of a traditional business plan that was taught toengineers, is not considered as “the cutting edge” of doing entrepreneurship. Despite the businessplan being a core element of most engineering entrepreneurship curricula, there are new conceptsin entrepreneurship such as “The Lean Startup” which are being increasingly talked about. Alongthese lines, the faculty in The College of Engineering and Computer Science at California StateUniversity, Northridge are working with industry leaders and professionals to continuouslyimprove the entrepreneurship curriculum being taught to the engineers of today & tomorrow.One of

Conference Session

DEED Melange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ang Liu, University of Southern California; Stephen Y. Lu, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, Project Assignment, Planning, Deliverables, Evaluation Criteria Team assembly (who) 3 09/10/2013 Overview and purposes of EBT Read Chs 6-7, do worksheet 4 09/17/2013 Discuss team worksheets; meaning and value of People Involvement Read Chs 8-9; do list of purposes 5 09/24/2013 Demonstrate group process of Purposes phase Redo list and hierarchy of Purposes 6 10/01/2013 Review purpose hierarchy and decide step Read Chs 10-11; list Future Solution 7 10/08/2013 Demonstrate group process of Future Solution phase

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven H. Billis, New York Institute of Technology; Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology; Marta A Panero, New York Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

International

Paper ID #8887Global Competency: Are Engineering Students Ready?Dr. Steven H. Billis, New York Institute of Technology Steven H. Billis, Ph.D, is professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences (SoECS) at New York Institute of Technology. He is also the Director of As- sessment and Planning for the SoECS and in this regard responsible for accreditation and reaccreditation of the School’s programs. he earned his Ph.D. from the Polytechnic Instiute of Brooklyn in 1972 in the area of Quantum Electronics. His present area of expertise is digital design.Dr. Nada Marie Anid

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach and Out-of-School Time Engineering Programming and Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Reed Campbell, Robert Morris University; Sarah Marie Riordan, Robert Morris University; Stephanie Abbott; Sarah Mukui Mutunga, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

to get information to support my opinions. 8. I usually have more than one source of information before making a decision. 9. I plan where to get information on a topic. 10. I plan how to get information on a topic. 11. I put my ideas in order of importance. 12. I back my decisions by the information I have on hand. 13. I listen to the ideas of others even if I disagree with them. 14. I compare ideas when thinking about a topic. 15. I keep my mind open to different ideas when planning to make a decision. 16. I am aware that sometimes there are no right or wrong answers to a question. 17. I develop a checklist to help me think about an issue. 18. I can easily tell

Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches in Construction Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiong Hu, Texas State University, San Marcos; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University, San Marcos; Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University, San Marcos

Tagged Divisions

Construction

&McTaggart [20] was utilized to guide implementation of the research presented in this case Page 24.707.7study: 1) [carry] out a plan of action to improve what is already happening, 2) [take] actionto implement the plan, 3) observe the effects of action in the context in which it occurs, and4) reflect on these effects as a basis for further planning, and subsequent action.Research QuestionsOne of the goals of this research project was to investigate the effects of new formativeand summative assessment instruments upon student learning in the PBL-infused course.These instruments were designed and incorporated in the third offering of the

Conference Session

Addressing the NGSS, Part 3 of 3: Supporting High School Science Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy and Engineering-Science Connections

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rodney L Custer, Black Hills State University; Julia M. Ross, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Jenny Daugherty, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

supported by the National Science Foundation Under Grant No. 1158615In addition to aligning with the cognitive science and teacher professional development research,an engineering concept driven approach to teacher professional development provides a commonbasis for teachers to define and understand engineering. The concepts also provide a point ofcomparison to differentiate engineering from science. And perhaps most importantly,engineering concepts provide entry points for their inclusion into the existing science curriculum.Thus the development of a conceptual foundation has been critical to every aspect of the project,grounding the research and activities, including institute planning, instrumentation development,research design and project

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J Henderson, U.S. Military Academy; Kenneth McDonald P.E., Dept of Systems Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

Management at the United States Military Academy at West Point and the Associate Director of the Center for Nation Reconstruction and Capacity Development. He has authored and co-authored over 20 technical publications to include book chapters and refereed publications on infrastructure, capacity development geotechnical engineering, engineering management, and value modeling. Dr. McDonald earned his BS degree from the United States Military Academy in Civil Engineering (ABET), a MBA-Information Systems (Oklahoma City University); MS degrees in City and Regional Planning, Geography (Western Kentucky University) and Environmental Engineering (Missouri Univer- sity of Science and Technology); and a PhD in Geological

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wang

competitive strength is itsassurance that it will be able to meet these challenges, but it cannot stand still. Withoutcontinuing progress, the nation will suffer setbacks that might have been avoided had moreprofessionals possessed the requisite knowledge to understand larger issues and contexts. TheMinistry of Education (MOE) of Taiwan, in response to the challenges of the new century, hasproposed new directions for the development of higher education to serve as the basis for theadministration of higher education. Among these initiatives, the arts and the humanities havebeen re-emphasized in universities’ planning and development processes (MOE, 1998). Because Taiwan faces unprecedented challenges of economic and social transition and aclear need

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Todd; Spencer Magleby

students taking the course. This phase also involves developing all of thedocumentation for the course, much the same as detailed engineering drawings, bills of materialand manufacturing process plans are developed for a manufactured product.Some of the typical documentation for a capstone course includes a detailed syllabus, selectionor development of a textbook, descriptions of any deliverables or reports to be submitted by thestudents, detailed lesson plans, lab activities, quizzes and/or examinations, grading criteria and ahost of other items such as project sponsor agreement letters, policy statements concerningintellectual property, liability, and etc.Once the design has been completed, including its documentation, the design can begin to

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; P.K. Imbrie; Tamara Moore

% (57%) 7% (8%) disciplines. I have talked with someone or have seen a presentation (or show) that has 3% (4%) 13% (8%) 22% (27%) 45% (44%) 17% (17%) captured my imagination about the engineering discipline I have chosen. For the engineering field I am currently planning to pursue, I believe I will have 35% (28%) 43% (41%) 14% (21%) 5% (8%) 3% (3%) little interaction with people from other engineering disciplines. I believe to be a successful practicing engineer I will have to know a little 3% (3%) 9% (9%) 24% (33%) 40% (39%) 24% (16%) about a lot of things rather than a

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Muci; Jonathan Weaver

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationstudents need to have a good understanding of the process, methodologies, and tools commonlyused in industry to design and develop products, good written and oral communication skills, theability to work in an effective and efficient fashion in multidisciplinary teams, good planning andtime management skills, an understanding of ethical and societal issues, and the list goes on.Also, they must be exposed to meaningful practical experiences that closely resemble the “realworld” practice of the engineering profession. In this regard, two approaches that have beenwidely used to provide undergraduate

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Leah Jamieson; Katherine Banks; Kamyar Haghighi; John Gaunt; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

toward developing Engineering Education programs, it appears at thistime that no single institution or engineering education center encompasses all of the componentsthat are being considered here. Centers shown in Table 1 do contain some aspects of what SEEDwill strive to accomplish but lack academic programs in engineering education. In addition,Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University recently received an NSF Bridges inEngineering Education planning grant (NSF Award No. 0342000) to, in part, "develop a newdegree program in education to enable engineering graduates to earn a master's degree while alsoqualifying for licensure as technology teachers in the Commonwealth of Virginia5

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Knox; K. Muraleetharan; G. Miller; D. Sabatini; Randall Kolar

$750,000 9/1/98 8/31/03 9872505 Agenda Curriculum EEC- Planning Pilot Study for a “Course-less” $100,000 1/1/03 12/31/03 0230681 Grant CurriculumPrior to this NSF support, several of the authors had experimented with integrated design projectswithin a course. Success with this venture (23, 24) led to a pilot study (first row in Table 1), whichexplored the possibility of applying this idea to multiple courses. Thus, 1996, the year of the pilotstudy, represents the “founding” of Sooner City. Further success with these early projects led tothe large Action Agenda proposal, which funded the full development of Sooner City, details ofwhich are given below

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Ross; Patrick Giordano; James Blanck; Dona Johnson; Peter Jansson

industrial and commercial energy conservationtechniques as part of this innovative laboratory experience. The results they have generated arecreating motivation for a broader introduction of these concepts into the engineering curriculum.Background As our university's enrollment grows, new buildings are constructed and we increase ouruse of technology, we create a significant increase in our use of energy. In 2001 our universityadministration joined 46 other colleges and universities across New Jersey in endorsing aSustainability Greenhouse Gas Action Plan for the state that calls for a 3.5% reduction ingreenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 20053. This commitment as well as ongoing

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamara Knott

, Virginia Tech (BEEVT) is to create a contemporary framework forundergraduate engineering pedagogy. Among the issues being studied by the collaborative is theuse of ePortfolios in the education of engineers. Several BEEVT investigators and selectedengineering students participated in a pilot of the Virginia Tech Electronic Portfolio (VTeP) infall 2003. This paper presents a review of studies on the use of portfolios and summarizes thefindings of the pilot. The future plans of BEEVT investigators targeted at developing guidelinesfor the use and evaluation of ePortfolios for improving both student learning and engineeringprograms are also briefly discussed.1. IntroductionIn fall 2003, a group of engineering and education faculty at Virginia Tech

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sasha Pasulka; Sandhya Pillalamarri; Milica Milovancevic; Michael Wagner; Meena Nimmagadda; James Adams; Anjali Gupta; Mary Anderson-Rowland

computer during the free time. In this study, unless the girls were assigned aspecific time on the computers, the boys monopolized the computers 8. As early as the seventhgrade, boys plan to study more math than girls do 16. From sixth to twelfth grades there is anoverall decline in both male and female students' liking and enjoyment of math 17. Studentsreported that math became more difficult, that they received less support from parents, teachers Page 8.1091.2and peers for studying math, and that math became more anxiety provoking over time. FemaleProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Denny Davis; Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili

capstone courses and byindustry concerns about workplace preparedness of engineering graduates5,6, many degreeprograms across engineering disciplines have adopted industry-sponsored projects, most of whichextend over an academic year7. At a time when student learning and assessment in capstonecourses are increasingly important to program accreditation, capstone course instructors are beingchallenged by the need to plan, facilitate, and assess student learning where expected capstonecourse outcomes are uncertain and differ significantly from those of traditional engineeringscience courses8.Establishing suitable capstone course learning outcomes is essential for facilitating and assessingstudent achievement related to many ABET criterion 3 outcomes

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

Session 2238 Learning Theories: Applications for Instruction in Constraint- Based Solid Modeling and Other Engineering Graphics Topics Nathan W. Hartman, Theodore J. Branoff Purdue University/North Carolina State UniversityAbstractConstraint-based modeling tools, as well as computer graphics tools in general, offer the usermany choices in commands and techniques for creating graphics, which forces the user to have astrategy or plan as they proceed. The formulation of this plan is often dependent on theintegration of existing knowledge and current factors, such as customer specifications

Conference Session

Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

accountability for the entire assignment), and problem-based learningand similar approaches (teaching material only after a need to know it has been established in thecontext of a complex question or problem, which increases the likelihood that the students will Page 9.1226.1absorb and retain it). Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Our focus next shifts to planning courses and measuring learning outcomes. We begin bydefining and illustrating learning objectives—explicit statements of what

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Krause

) course, became aware of the changes in their understandingof DET. Weekly reflection papers, weekly written pre and post tests and lesson plans were usedas data sources. A rubric linking the course outcomes with six major categories (engineering as adesign process, gender and diversity, societal relevance of engineering, technical self-efficacy,tinkering self-efficacy and transfer to classroom teaching) was developed to code text. Severalpasses through the data led to the refinements for the six categories that allowed the coding ofalmost all of the text. We specifically looked for shifts in understanding over a 15-week periodand an awareness that these shifts were taking place (e.g. “It’s not that I had a bad attitude abouttechnology to begin