Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

globalization of corporate economies has changed the face of engineeringpractice. In addition to core engineering skills, modern engineers must possess cross-culturalcommunication skills, team management skills, and the ability to perform on geographicallydistributed teams. We describe a novel curricular paradigm called the Global EngineeringCollege (GEC) that we are currently exploring under an NSF planning grant. The GEC conceptis based on the idea of seamlessly combining the curricula and educational opportunities ofseveral internationally-distributed engineering institutions to create a virtual engineering collegespanning multiple countries and cultures. We report on the technical, pedagogic, andadministrative challenges we have exposed in our

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Mente; Marian McCord; Joni Spurlin; H. Troy Nagle; Susan Blanchard

comparableoutcomes into a single statement. Examples of the changes that were made due to overlappingoutcomes are shown in Figure 3.While developing an assessment plan, consideration was given to developing assessmentmethods that would work for multiple outcomes, to using both direct and indirect measures, andto finding and using measures that were already in place. NC State University already has anumber of indirect assessment measures, e.g. senior and alumni surveys, in place that includequestions that have been mapped to ABET 3a-3k. These were included in the assessment planwherever they were considered to be appropriate.For direct measures, the BME Curriculum Committee turned to course-based assessment. Theplan based on the current curriculum uses six

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

Engineering Education· Identify a problem or question related to gender equity that they wanted to pursue or investigate at their school using action research, and to implement their plan,· Return to Georgia Tech for periodic SummerScape meetings, and· Submit a written report detailing their activities and modified lesson plans.Teachers were also encouraged to observe each other periodically in the classroom to check ontheir progress in providing equitable attention to all students, and to conduct a gender equityworkshop for parents at their school.Online CommunityAll professional development materials and teacher final reports were posted online on aSummerScape WebCT course. The classroom instruments and activities were all available aspdf

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tricia Lytton; Margie Haak; Edith Gummer; Dan Arp; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

figure below): I) Training andPreparation, II) In-school Engagement, and III) Extended Outreach. The details of each phaseare described below. This plan was designed with the participation of GK-12 Teachers, OutreachCoordinators, and Departmental Liaisons and reflects three years of experience with the currentproject. Each Fellow was paired with a GK12 Teacher from their school. This teacher acceptsthe responsibility to assist the Fellow in preparing for the in-school activities, offer guidancethroughout the year, and provide some assessment of the Fellows. The GK-12 Teacher is alsoexpected to be the primary beneficiary of the assistance afforded by the Fellow. TheDepartmental Liaisons assist in all three phases by providing disciplinary support

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

are identifiedby the team and community partner allowing the team to continue to work with the samecommunity partner for many years. Each undergraduate student may earn academic credit forseveral semesters, registering for the course for 1 or 2 credits each semester. The creditstructure is designed to encourage long-term participation, and allows multi-year projects ofsignificant scope and impact to be undertaken by the teams.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care ofadministrative matters, do project planning and tracking, and work on their project. All studentsalso attend a common one-hour lecture each week. A

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Jay Martin

their project. Once this isdetermined, the content of the small group meetings can be planned. For example,questions about fasteners are very common, so we ask someone from campus who is anexpert in fasteners to come in and teach the students about fasteners. The subjects that arediscussed are extremely wide-ranging and varied, depending on the project and the interestof the students.Philosophy in the types of projects that are selected and the clients that work best with thecourse and students: As has been described, the projects carried out by the students in thiscourse have always been authentic projects with real clients. Each of the individualsections meets with the client, develops a problem statement, brainstorms, designs, andfabricates

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Earley; Dave Lennig; Dave Campbell; Suguna Bommaraju

one of the projects forsenior design capstone course. Miami University started to participate in the RoboticsCompetition through the senior design course with Northwest High School (2001 and 2002), andLakota East High School (2003).FIRST, a nonprofit organization founded in 1989 by inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen6,inspires students to consider careers in engineering, technology, and science. The aim is to showstudents not only that the technological fields hold many varied opportunities for success and areaccessible and rewarding, but also that the basic concepts of science, math, engineering, andinvention are exciting and interesting.Learning to plan and implement the entire design process can take a long time, but it is the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore F. Smith; Sharif Rahman; P. Barry Butler

engineers at various sponsoring companies. Future visions of PEDE and plans foroperating PEDE in the 1999-00 academic year are also presented.1. IntroductionOne characteristic of the engineering discipline that distinguishes it from the science disciplines isengineering design. Practicing engineers in industry spend a considerable amount of time involvedwith design of a product, process, or system. It is, therefore, essential that undergraduate studentspreparing for professional careers in engineering be exposed to the concepts of engineering design.The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)1 defines engineering design as “… the process of devising a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. It is a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gulnur Birol; Todd Giorgio; Sean Brophy; Ann McKenna

the Bioprocess Technology course were to provide students withbasic principles in cellular and molecular biology of microbial and mammalian cells, give them aworking knowledge of bioreactor operations and microbial kinetics and their industrialapplications, and introduce product recovery processes of pharmaceuticals. In this course, wealso aimed to promote and help students develop lifelong skills such as adaptive expertise,presentation and communication skills in an active learning environment. Furthermore,integrating the new educational modules developed at Vanderbilt into class material of a courseat NU was the first attempt and required strategic planning. At the beginning of the course designprocess, the topics to be covered in the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

, appear to have subsided; and more genuine concerns reflecting the current mood arebeing openly debated. A wide range of issues have surfaced; included are: (i) the need torestructure present programs and curricula; (ii) the need to introduce organizational changes; (iii)the need to develop long-term connections with neighboring industries; and (iv) the desire tofoster proper engineering culture in the classroom and at the workplace.Contributors to this constructive debate have come from industry, faculty, administration, andstudents. As a consequence, ideas, directions and preliminary plans have emerged but not yetproperly jelled. The debate goes on, and forces of change are in the air. But there are counterarguments and counter measures that

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain

topics early.The second purpose is to help the students maintain focus on their experiments and ensure thatthey have not embellished the experiment so that it cannot be completed in the remaining four-week period. Students often over-design apparatuses or require expensive or unnecessaryinstrumentation. Thus, the oral proposals help to keep the students focused and the experimentssimple.Two weeks after the assignment of the project, the groups are required to submit a writtenproposal. In the proposals, the groups are expected to select the apparatus construction,materials, instrumentation, and test plan that minimize the expected uncertainty in their result.Students are expected to use uncertainty analysis with the appropriate physics to achieve

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Drake; Douglas Walcerz

is associated with oneor more educational outcomes, and students are encouraged to attach electronic copies of their actual work,e.g., reports, PowerPoint presentations, CAD files, spreadsheets, programs, digital pictures of designprojects, etc., to their descriptions. The descriptions submitted by instructors are used to generate a matrixof coursework vs. educational outcomes that is used for curriculum planning and evaluation. Thedescriptions that are submitted by students serve two primary purposes.First, students develop and maintain a personal, electronic portfolio that serves as an extended resume andcan be used for professional advancement. The usefulness of this extended electronic resume is theprimary motivation for students to

Conference Session

Design Spine

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salah Badjou, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

possible improvement and solution, the author, with the help of DTS (the Division ofTechnology Services at Wentworth), has introduced an online structure of virtual groupswhereby each group shares real-time editing capability and the possibility of videoconferencing.In the author’s mind, this would be especially helpful during Spring Break, for commuting groupmembers, and for the many students who work off campus. It helps students to save time andcomplete their reports more efficiently. It was expected that this would lead to improved timemanagement and efficiency, while making it easier for groups to manage and complete theirprojects. The planned assessment8,10,16,18 is based on 2 carefully designed anonymous surveys ofthe students, at the end

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A. Karanian Ph.D., Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, Stanford University; Jackie Liao, Stanford University; Zubair Ahmed

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

—what engages and captivates the audience?This paper explores motivational, attitudinal, and influential aspects of storytelling with anentrepreneurial streak and specific focus on the vulnerable introductory phase of studentresponses during classroom design challenges. What motivates students and the way they begintheir projects or start-ups are considered during the opening phases of each class, duringclassroom dynamics and during the introduction of an entrepreneuring story. Stories areexamined and informed by previous work. Storytelling is defined and measured by fourconcepts: self-motivated, ambiguity readiness level, passionate social connections, and empathy.A series of planned prompts alongside classroom work geared towards student

Conference Session

Identity and Culture

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida; Mirka Koro-Ljungberg, University of Florida; David J. Therriault, University of Florida; Christine S. Lee, University of Florida; Nathan McNeill, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, Justin and Amanda.This Discourse is reflected in discussions such as efficiency and other reflections oncharacteristics or behaviors crucial to the engineering field in general. For Amanda this isexemplified through her ‘organizer’ and ‘simplifier’ identities and in the importance of havinga plan in the problem solving process before attempting any calculations, and sticking to thatplan in order to achieve success. Amanda showed a preference for planning in her calculations. Page 25.471.9“What’s the point of solving for it now if I’m going to have to solve for it later, I might as well

Conference Session

Best of Computers in Education Division

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida; Gwen Lee-Thomas, Old Dominion University and Quality Measures, LLC; Duc T. Nguyen, Old Dominion University; Melinda R. Hess; James A. Eison, University of South Florida; Ram Pendyala, Arizona State University; Glen H. Besterfield, University of South Florida; Corina M. Owens, Battelle Memorial Institute

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

(http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu). He is the recipient of the 2011 ASEE Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2004 U.S. Florida Professor of the Year Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT). He has authored several textbooks on subjects such as composite materials, numerical methods, matrix algebra, and computer programming.Dr. Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida Ali Yalcin is an Associate Professor at the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department. His research interests include systems modeling, analysis and control, production planning and control, industrial information systems, data analysis and

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Kusbit Dunn, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

can work and live competently outsidetheir own culture. The phrase global competence has been adopted in engineering andtechnology fields, while intercultural competence, cultural competence, multiculturism, culturalintelligence and even global citizenship are used elsewhere [1]. Regardless of its label, the ideathat universities have a responsibility to promote understanding of other cultures has becomesomething of a buzzword in higher education. Lutz noted that ―more and more institutions ofhigher learning adopt global awareness as part of their strategic plans and QEP‖ [2]. It is in fact astrategic plan at the university in question that first brought the notion of global competence tobear on the Technical Writing course discussed

Conference Session

Engineering Education Ties and Engineering Programs in the Middle East and Latin America

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Acevedo-Barga, University of Washington; Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University; RunLu Li, WASEDA University

Tagged Divisions

International

,governments of Latin American countries have been aggressively pushing students to studyabroad by increasing the number of scholarships available. Just this year, the Braziliangovernment announced, “it plans to give 75,000 scholarships for local students to study abroadby 2014” along with, “an additional 25,000…from the private sector, [exclusive] to…science,technology, and engineering” 17. In Chile, a new program called Becas Chile “plans to offer30,000 scholarships by 2018” with a particular emphasis in language proficiency17. China hasbeen working with Latin America on, “mutual recognition of diplomas and academic degrees,and [increasing] the number of Chinese government scholarships for Latin American andCaribbean countries” 3. China’s

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy R.B. Taylor P.E., University of Kentucky; Johne' M. Parker, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

Page 25.1438.3 1.3) Plan the selection of new electric generation facilities within the power market structure of the utility 2.1) Apply public policy theory to engineering system policy issues 2.2) Plan the selection of new electric generation facilities within the current and future environmental regulatory environment. 2.3) Identify the unintended consequences of public policies 3.1) Communicate professionally within the utility industry 3.2) Describe issues within the utility industry using the general vocabulary of the industry 4.1) Understand how current and potential future market and environmental regulations affect the feasibility of engineering decisions and assumptions 4.2) Apply engineering

Conference Session

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol E. Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Stefi Alison Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

satisfaction with one’s position at the university.This paper is the second in a series that examines data from this study. Paper 1 [1] reported onthe distribution of RIT STEM faculty, outcomes of institutional processes of recruitment andadvancement, distribution of STEM faculty in leadership positions, allocation of resources forSTEM faculty, barriers to the recruitment and advancement of women, success of existingstructures at addressing these barriers, accomplishments over the grant period, and plans forinstitutionalizing various initiatives. This paper focuses on distillation of climate survey data toobtain useful and meaningful measures related to work/life balance, climate, value and influence.The paper also explores answers to the following

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education for Emerging Technologies and Competitiveness

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hung-da Wan, University of Texas, San Antonio; Firasath Ahmed Syed, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

dimensional objects quickly and in an intuitive manner. Varioustechnologies are currently available to deliver prototypes quickly1. The mainstream of RPtechnologies uses an additive manufacturing process that accumulates layers of material to forma three-dimensional prototype. This additive process “grows” a prototype directly from bottomup, instead of cutting one out of a solid block of material. As a result, RP does not requirecomplicated process planning or tool selection. Thus it is an excellent tool for students with littlemanufacturing experience to fabricate their designs. Another significant feature of RP, enabledby the layer-adding process, is the capability to perform freeform fabrication. RP is capable ofbuilding almost any geometric

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

this component/stage.The final component, Preparing for Action, includes two stages: Developing Solutions andBuilding Acceptance. In this component, students focus on giving promising ideas or options thebest chance of becoming successful solutions by considering sources of assistance and resistanceand looking for ways to overcome the latter. The final result of this component is a specificAction Plan for each idea to be carried forward. The CPS model forms the foundation for thesemester-long course project, which will be discussed further in Section 7.0. Page 6.1041.3 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Waleed Smari; Jon Stevens; Andrew Murray

project’s web site. The next two sections present the problem statementdeveloped by the team and summarize their final designs.2.1 Problem StatementStatement of Need: The University of Dayton’s School of Engineering resides in Kettering Labs, KL for short. The building houses the majority of the School of Engineering’s classrooms, offices, and laboratory space. Civil Engineering uses a lab space located on the first floor as storage space. The existing floor plan and an interior shot of the lab’s largest room are shown in Figure 1. This lab is situated in the middle of space otherwise used by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MEE). A recent space audit by the School of Engineering has advanced the notion of moving three

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Edgar Conley; Linda Riley

computer andemail systems. A small percentage of our classes focused on discipline specific engineeringtools. For example, in a couple of class during the semester the mechanical engineers studiedgears, bolts and 4-bar mechanisms while the IE students explored process improvementstrategies using such tools as Lego activities and simulation.Project design - We expended considerable effort in creating project assignments that containedthe ‘right’ assortment of task planning, logo design, hands-on fabrication, testing, and reportwriting. The assignments were undertaken in teams consisting of both mechanical and industrialengineering students and in all cases stressed informal and formal communication skills. Aswith any design class, the problem was

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Molly Johnson; Cathie Scott; Cynthia Atman

shown in the summary of the course syllabus in Table 1, the course was divided into threeparts. Several other topics that were deemed too important to exclude, such as teachingportfolios, teaching for diversity, ABET criteria, and course planning, were integrated intoclassroom activities during the term. These topics were covered in various ways, includinglectures given both by visitors and the instructors. The primary course text was McKeachie’sTeaching Tips.13 This text was extensively supplemented with selected readings. One additionalsignificant activity in the course was the writing of a personal statement of teaching philosophy.This activity was integrated into the last half of the course and took place primarily outside ofclass, although

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

D. Yogi Goswami

introduction to Photovoltaics (cells, arrays and College Email: aurora@crest.org systems).Solar, Heat Transfer, http://aurora.crest.org/basics/index.htm Basic information on topics of solar, heat transfer, electricity CollegeElectricity and Email: aurora@crest.org and energy consumption.Energy ConsumptionSolar Project http://www.picoturbine.com/projectlist.htm Describes and lists solar project plans and kits including Solar Grade 5 through Email: comments@picoturbine.com Stovetop Cooker Pattern, Basic Solar Electricity Education

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Frances S. Johnson; Carlos C. Sun; Anthony J. Marchese; Heidi L. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Roberta Harvey; Ravi Ramachandran; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm

faculty as part of a teaching team has on students’ perceptions ofthe importance of writing to engineering and the overall quality of student writing.Sophomore Engineering Clinic I, planned and taught by faculty from the College ofCommunication and the College of Engineering, combines argumentative discourse,technical communication, and engineering design labs. While the course is jointlyplanned, it had previously been individually delivered. Worth four credits, three creditswere devoted to writing and one to engineering design. As part of the present study,engineering faculty are attending 2 of the 4 writing sections. They actively join in classdiscussions, assist in peer critiques, ask questions, seek clarifications, and provide reallife

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Hajrudin Pasic; Gregory G. Kremer; Bhavin V. Mehta

learning styles, learning rates, and levels of understanding.V. Assessment and Evaluation We have mentioned assessment and evaluation throughout this paper, but its overallimportance warrants a special section. Assessment is an area of both current and future work.We have developed a student survey (and have already administered it to students in Dynamicsclass) to establish a baseline of data before the IPS is offered, and we are continuing to work onappropriate assessment questions and tasks. We plan to use surveys and evaluations (that are anintegral part of the IPS) along with focus groups and pre and post tests to determine what help ismost needed and how effective the IPS is in providing this help. Currently the determination ofthe needs

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jens Jorgensen; Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; John Lamancusa

working together to develop a new,practice-based curriculum and physical facilities for product realization andmanufacturing. The overall outcome is the development at each participating institutionof what we call The Learning Factory. In addition to describing the project's four majortasks and deliverables, we present the assessment plan, its principal elements, and thetools used for qualitative evaluation. Finally, the paper highlights some of the assessmentresults and reviews some of the elements that made this partnership a success. Theassessment strategy presented in this paper could be used as a model for similar multi-institutional, multi-task projects.BackgroundDuring the last decade, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has sponsored

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jens Jorgensen; Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; John Lamancusa

working together to develop a new,practice-based curriculum and physical facilities for product realization andmanufacturing. The overall outcome is the development at each participating institutionof what we call The Learning Factory. In addition to describing the project’s four majortasks and deliverables, we present the assessment plan, its principal elements, and thetools used for qualitative evaluation. Finally, the paper highlights some of the assessmentresults and reviews some of the elements that made this partnership a success. Theassessment strategy presented in this paper could be used as a model for similar multi-institutional, multi-task projects