Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina A. Pantoja, Campbell University; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

. Through narrative inquiry and a novel,boundary-spanning framework, we explore the career stories of women who have leftengineering after having worked in industry. We make sense of the participants’ career decisionsby considering their career journeys through the lens of the unfolding model of turnover, a theoryfrequently used by organizational psychologists yet not fully applied to the study of women’sengineering career decisions. In this paper, we describe the engineering career journey of Louise,one of three participants from our larger study [1]. We invite you to come alongside us as weexplore Louise’s engineering career story through the shocks (jarring events), scripts (plans ofaction), and image violations (violations of goals and values

Conference Session

ECE Division Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miguel Alonso, Jr., Miami Dade College; Sarah Hug, University of Colorado, Boulder; Heather Thiry, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

demonstrate the ability to create the appropriate development environments for various mobile platforms. 3. The student will demonstrate the ability to compile and run sample applications. 4. The student will demonstrate the ability to plan the development of a mobile application. 5. The student will demonstrate the ability to implement mobile applications that solve practical problems. 6. The student will demonstrate the ability to test mobile applications. 7. The student will demonstrate the ability to design a functional User Interface (UI). 8. The student will demonstrate the ability to build, create, and program multimedia and graphics animations to run on mobile platforms. 9. The student will

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Amithraj Amavasai; Jyothsna Kavuturu

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

demonstrated a 13.2% improvement on the average grade of the class over the traditional grading method. The result was statistically significant. (2) An exponentially decreasing relationship was demonstrated between the number of students asking hints and number of hints asked as the students proceeded through the steps of the problem. (3) The authors plan to use this strategy in three other courses over the next three years. The method presented in this study may be used at other institutions with appropriate modifications in order to encourage students by rewarding their levels of knowledge. Bibliography1. Lahaje, U. and Tittenberger, P. 2006. Kolb’s Learning Styles, http://hdl.handle.net/1993/232.2. Papacostas

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Murray, Pittsburg State University; Randy Winzer, Pittsburg State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

participate in activities designed to strengthen their academic ability, character, social skills,and awareness of career opportunities available to them upon high school graduation.Program proposals are solicited by the Kauffman Scholars management each year frominstitutions of higher education, museums and other organizations. These proposals must includea rough outline of the pedagogy and academic plan the students participating in the particularsummer institute will follow and other details such as transportation, housing and mealarrangements. A specific budget must be submitted along with the plan for funding of thesummer institute. Once a specific proposal is selected for funding, Kauffman managementworks with the hosting organization to adjust

Conference Session

TAC/ABET Related Outcome Based Assessment Methods and Models

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nripendra N. Sarker, Prairie View A&M University; Mohan Ketkar, Prairie View A&M University; Cajetan M. Akujuobi, Alabama State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

their matriculation through the program. This translatesthat the students are supposed to attain the above qualifications at the time of their graduation.This statement has clear scope of reducing faculty burden by emphasizing assessment on somekey courses rather than spending energy and time on many preparatory courses, like, AC, DC,Logic Circuits, and Computer Applications on MS Office, etc., offered particularly at thefreshman and sophomore levels. In fact, these fundamental courses at the preparatory level donot have adequate scope to measure the student outcomes.Mapping a-k Outcomes to CoursesFigure 1 is an example of mapping a-k outcomes to courses for some arbitrary degree plan. Asexplained in the last sentence of the previous section

Conference Session

Descriptions of Outreach Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; Krishan Kumar Bhatia, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

will be a highly visible national model that will generateexcitement in engineering education.This project is unique in that the activities are developed or selected entirely by engineeringstudents and delivered to school districts by students/faculty. The College of Engineering atRowan University currently has six professional engineering student chapters. These are IEEE,ASCE, ASME, AICHE, SWE, and EWB. Engineering students develop and pilot the activities,lesson plans, and handouts, for the Engineers on Wheels project. The professional chapters travelto select school districts throughout the academic year to expose the challenges and excitementof engineering to K-12 students and educators. Travel is conducted in colorful vehicles

Conference Session

Structural Education Applications in Architectural Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cole C. McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Graham C. Archer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Blake A. Roskelley, CYS Structural Engineers, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

in each model. Page 22.682.2Case StudyThe students investigated Unit 5 of the Engineering West Building 21 (EWB Unit 5) located onthe campus of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (see Figure 1). The two-story building is rectangular in plan with dimensions of 60′ in the north-south (short) directionand 160′ in the east-west (long) direction. The floor and roof diaphragms are 4½" thick concreteslabs. The shear walls in the north-south direction are composed of reinforced masonry. Theshear wall in the east-west direction is composed of reinforced concrete. After reviewing theplans for the building, the students walked

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines; John L. Falconer P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

., University of Colorado, Boulder Page 22.336.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Collaborative Research: Integration of Conceptual Learning throughout the Core Chemical Engineering CurriculumOverview and ObjectivesWe will report on the progress of the first 9 months of a recently funded CCLI project. The goalof this project is to create a community of learning within the discipline of chemical engineering(ChE) focused on concept-based instruction. The project plan is to develop and promote the useof a cyber-enabled infrastructure for conceptual questions, the AIChE

Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nina Robson, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

assistive device designdocuments. They were reviewed by engineering professors and health-care professionals. The reviewcriteria consisted of overall solution, cost, ease of use and implementation, safety features, quality Page 22.462.5and accuracy, function, plans for testing and evaluation, as well as innovation. Interactions of each team with the customer/user of the assistive device and with the collaborators were also taken into account. Assessment The proposed and implemented for the first time in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution engineering project aims to take the study of mechanical design to

Conference Session

Active and Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John S. Lamancusa, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Laura L. Pauley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

 (verbal, written, electronic)  5) Reinforce and improve CAD/Solid Modeling skills  6) Develop and practice skills in project planning, budget management, resource allocation  and scheduling  7) Instill a philosophy of professional and ethical behavior  8) Provide guidance in applying engineering principles to open‐ended problems  9) Provide an introductory knowledge of business practices, economic viability,  environmental sustainability, and the social consequences of technology  Most of our students are not as abstract or reflective as the typical professor, and learn moreeffectively in more active modes. Dale 6 reports that after two weeks, people generallyremember 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, 30% of

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Rochelle Payne Ondracek

the computer laboratory. Ideally, thestudent groups will be composed of several laboratory students as well as students not taking thelaboratory so that all groups may benefit from knowledge gained in laboratory exercises.One of the first virtual laboratories planned involves the case of a snowmobile accident. Figure1 shows this initial screen. The group of students will read the accident report filed after afictional snowmobile accident in which a snowmobile rider was killed. Through the story, theylearn that the snowmobile rider lost control of his snowmobile shortly before crashing into a tree,killing the rider. A jury is now reviewing the case as the victim’s family decided to sue thecompany for negligence. The students learn that a

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Patterson

assessmenttools chosen were portfolios, student surveys, oral presentations, and the Student Developersystem of self and team member rating. These probably would not be the right set of outcomesand assessment tools for another program since a unique best combination of outcomes and toolsshould exist for each program’s objectives. The ABET team evaluating a program will judge howappropriate these choices are. The publication "Stepping Ahead: An Assessment Plan Development Guide" by Rogersand Sando(9) gives a step-by-step process for developing an assessment system based on chosenobjectives, outcomes, performance measures, and feed back channels. The guide breaks theprocess down into manageable pieces so that it does not seem overwhelming.Revision

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Sallie (Lee) Townsend; Howard A. Canistraro

manufacturing team assisting with planning and designing, analyzing the cost-effectiveness of production methods, drafting plans for proposedmachines or parts, testing manufactured goods to ensure quality and supervising the work of skilled mechanical craftsmen. 8rqv 8yh Ghi 8hp 8rqv 8yh Ghi 8hp8rÃIhr C C C C 8rÃIhr C C C CSEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2EN 111 English I: Expository Comm 3 3 0 3 MTH 122 Math for Technolog II 3

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ying Lu; Vincent Singh; Steven Palmer; Sarah Bergstrom; Nicolai Ramler; Mikir Bodalia; Martins Innus; Jami Meteer; Contessa DuBois; Aleli Mojica-Campbell; Martha E. Sloan; Ashok Goel

to their satisfac-tion with the program. Both years students were very positive in their assessments of the pro-gram including their research experiences, interaction with other participants and faculty, andthe effect the program had had on their interest in pursuing graduate education and careers inresearch. We also surveyed the students by e-mail in the spring after the first year program(and plan to do so again this spring for the second year participants). Their opinions of theprogram continued to be high. Almost all participating students felt that this undergraduateresearch experience had greatly enhanced their overall education. Most participants hadaccepted or were looking for industrial research positions or were planning to attend

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

thisreluctance has been due to the perceived difficulties of the administrative tasks necessary for arrangingand planning these matches between student teams and company projects. Admittedly, in preparingproject activities, there are numerous administrative tasks that transcend normal teachingresponsibilities but if these tasks can be clearly outlined in advance then they can be made manageableand can lead to effective design education experiences. It is the purpose of this paper to identify the necessary steps for soliciting, screening, andselecting the types of company projects that will enhance educational objectives and further industrialpartnerships.Introduction Industrial/Academic partnerships are essential for technological

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ingrid H. Soudek

to learn about their ethical obligations to society, their employers, andthemselves. This paper discusses a teaching plan used at the University of Virginia School ofEngineering and Applied Science to turn undergraduate engineering students into ethicalpractitioners of engineering. The faculty of The Division of Technology, Culture, and Communication in theEngineering School teaches all undergraduate engineering students in a series of four coursesdesigned to teach students to communicate clearly, both in writing and in speaking, about a varietyof topics, including their own technical expertise. We also teach students engineering ethics froma half a semester to a semester and a half. While students are introduced to ethics in their

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjeeve Sharma; Robert Thompson; Akihiko Kumagai; Aju Mathew; S. A. Chickamenahalli

islocated compared to the vertical center line, the sharpness of turn is calculated.The program development for this navigation scheme is done using C++ to customize the visionsoftware called Hlimage++. Since the summer of 1998, the vehicle has been autonomouslyfunctional using the navigation scheme described above. The current navigation developmentgroup consisting of three students has the following plan to improve the navigation capabilityincluding obstacle avoidance.• Use of multiple horizontal lines for line profiling. The purpose of this modification is twofold. The first is to increase reliability in white line detection in case one line profile failed to detect it. The second is to obtain more spatial data for navigation.• Study

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Shaw

, Page 4.125.2courses in quality engineering are typically a core requirement for engineering managementprograms and are not offered in either management programs with the design focus thatengineers are looking for or from reliability engineering programs with the organizational focusneeded by engineering managers. Project management is another example of a field of studyuseful to many students and key to engineering management success. We find that projectmanagement from management schools covers project planning and control but typically leavesout requirements engineering, lifecyle costing, or systems engineering issues.Our collaboration with academic programs allows us to use the core MBA courses taught so wellin the business schools to

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganesh Pandit; Gopal Mohan

students in the sample. Kramer, et al. (1994) hypothesized that moststudents did not have sufficient information when they chose their academic majors. They foundthat students who entered colleges did not plan adequately and had no decision-making skills. In Page 4.6.1another report, Mariani (1996) found that the career choices of college students were stronglyinfluenced by their parents. The students in Mariani’s report also mentioned that they already hadthought about their career, either before entering the college or during their college lives. Also,Ahmed et al.’s (1996) results showed that in New Zealand, students who chose

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald J., Jr. Fournier; Cyndi Gaudet

inenvironmental affairs, safety and training. With faculty assistance, they developed aquestionnaire designed to identify current and future positions in these areas, current and future Page 4.149.3educational levels, current and future specialized training, future hiring plans, and openness toestablishing internship positions. Over 60 responses were received and analyzed. Responsesprovided valuable input related to curriculum content in the technical core areas. However,equally important, the responses provided a target audience of individuals interested in theprogram. Letters were sent to 35 of these respondents inviting them to participate on

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Rex E. Ward; Erdogan Sener

• Articulations between vocational programs and apprenticeship programs • The Indiana Plan for Equal Employment • AGC Supervisory Training Program • ABC Apprenticeship Programs • Company-based training programs • Hispanic centers/Community Centers • Indiana Department of Workforce DevelopmentThe Suggested SolutionWhen the construction industry is looked at in a systems approach it is evident that the need forpeople in the industry should be matched to the process that educates and trains people for theindustry. When the construction industry human resource need is matched against humanresource development through a “pyramidal system” one realizes that the two hierarchy diagramsof need and resource are

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Enno Koehn

3.1 3.9Presents carefully planned and helpful lectures 3.6 4.0Makes attending class worthwhile 3.4 4.0Answers students’ questions effectively 3.5 3.9 Page 5.147.3* Based on 4=A, 3=B, 2=C, 1=D, 0=FThe respondents were also requested to comment on the course. A representative sample of thecomments is listed in Table 2. As shown, comments 1 – 6 and 8 generally state that the classwas interesting and informative and could be of assistance to the respondents in the future.However, there may be a

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

. This collaborative initiative wasvoluntarily undertaken by these educators to maximise their teaching effectiveness in order tominimise first year undergraduate transitional issues. Therefore, this paper seeks to promotethe strengths of this alternative approach to professional development in relation to theimplementation of a common first year civil engineering subject ENG1201.2.The short comings of linear professional development.As the need to address the effectiveness of learning and teaching has become a nationalconcern, The Monash Learning and Teaching Operational Plan [1] has been created toredirect academic staff to personally assess their current teaching practices in conjunctionwith the professional development short courses

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert H. Mayer

and maintenance of theRooster Island complex, including provisions for a minimum acreage of intertidal wetlands toenhance wildlife habitats. Each proposal included design drawings and specifications, estimatesof project costs including annual maintenance expenditures, and a cost-benefit assessment thataccounted for intangibles.@ Shoreline Enhancement and Stabilization. Arundel Estates is a family housing unit of theSevern River (MD) Naval Complex that borders a 1200'-long bank of the Severn River inAnnapolis. Erosion of the shoreline is a current concern. Accordingly, design teams were taskedto develop plans for the shoreline restoration, protection and environmental enhancement.Design efforts included an investigation of the erosion

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

John A. Orr; David Cyganski; Richard Vaz

university,and a substantial evaluation plan is in place. Course materials will be disseminated via theWorld Wide Web, as well as by publication of a textbook. The course is intended for first orsecond-year students who are not majoring in electrical or computer engineering; the formalprerequisites are intentionally kept to a minimum. They are: knowledge of college algebra andexperience with any computer programming language. While formal prerequisites are few, it isdefinitely the intent that the course build on students’ previous experience, particularly including:mathematics, computer use, communications skills, and science knowledge.The course has been developed based on some rather fundamental principles and practices whichcan be referred to as

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa S. Tooley

. Pairing female underclassmen with female upperclassmenis also a good way to initiate freshmen into their department's professional organizations,providing a sense of belonging.WIN PROGRAM BACKGROUNDThe WIN Program was conceived, planned and implemented by a graduate student as a way tofulfill the mentoring requirements of the William Randolph Hearst Fellowship for Women andMinorities. The expenses of the program have been fully supported by the College ofEngineering. In addition, a grant has recently been awarded to the College of Engineering fromthe Alcoa Foundation for the purpose of supporting the WIN Program.To gauge interest in the program, a survey was sent to all the female undergraduates and graduatestudents (approximately 235 students

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Hossein Moini

Page 3.67.1electromechanical systems has been rapidly increasing. Integration of active materials andmicrocontrollers provides a proper synergy for further size reduction and improvement ofadaptive capabilities of modern electromechanical systems.DEVELOPMENT PLANThe goal of establishing the ISL is to meet the changing needs of students and industry forimproved training in the area of design of advanced electromechanical and intelligent systems. Inaddition, EGME 457L is a course with a right focus to provide education on the theory ofintegrating electronics and smart sensors/actuators with conventional mechanical systems. Itfurther complements students' knowledge by hands-on experience. The development plan for thelab has included acquiring

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan B. Wicker; Rolando Quintana; Michael Camet

the degree plan mandates. The majority of the advisors contactedindicated that the students could have taken the course any time during their junior or senioryear. The length of time a given instructor has been teaching the course also contains room forerror. While some instructors teach engineering economy every semester, many teach the coursesporadically. Consequently, results obtained using the parameters timing and length of timeteaching must be studied more closely.Table 1 - Programmatic Parameter Data CollectedInstitution Weighted Timing Mandatory Length of Time Required to Mandatory FE Engineering Tarquin Problem- Teaching Take FE Exam Review Economy

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Leung; Cathy Godbois; Richard Ciocci

delivered seven presentations andworkshops at national conferences seeking reaction and comments on the materials and theinnovative approach. Three more presentations are planned during the first half of 1998.MethodologyThe primary focus of the work is to foster collaborative learning through experimentation. Thelab instructions are written for the students to explore the physical phenomena to determine whatmust be measured, what relationship exists between variables, and what function best describesthe relationship. Beyond the written materials, the faculty team is developing a course in appliedalgebra using the same focus, and the college will offer that course as a special topic.TextThe text is divided in eight chapters with the titles of

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

William Gay

Session 1547 Aviation Technology An Example of Collaboration Between Education and Industry Associate Professor William Gay University of Cincinnati Clermont College Initial Concept When the University of Cincinnati Clermont College was only in the planning stage, one ofthe possible technical programs for the new college was a commercial pilot training program.Proximity to the Clermont County airport was certainly a consideration. The airport runway isabout 400 feet from the College campus. The