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Conference Session
Venturing Out: Service Learning, Study Abroad, and Criterion H
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Carol Barry, University Massachusetts Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; David Kazmer, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; William Moeller, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Cheryl West, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Tagged Divisions
Liberal Education
meeting real community needs. In engineering thestudents become better professionals and better citizens while the community benefits. There aremany other definitions in the literature, for example, service-learning is the integration ofacademic subject matter with service to the community in credit-bearing courses, with keyelements including reciprocity, reflection, coaching, and community voice in projects (Jacoby,1996)1. Service-learning (S-L) has been shown to be effective in a large number of cognitiveand affective measures, including critical thinking and tolerance for diversity, and leads to betterknowledge of course subject matter, cooperative learning, recruitment of under-representedgroups in engineering, retention of students, and
Conference Session
SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Russell Korte, The University of Texas-Tyler; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; William Jordan, CRL-Stanford University
Tagged Divisions
Educational Research and Methods
problem often reflected the presuppositions, preferences, and expectations of others in thegroup, along with the acceptable procedures and structures constituting the organization. Themethods participants followed for working on a problem or project depended on instruction andguidance from coworkers and managers reflecting the preferences and expectations of others inthe organization. The complexity and ambiguity of some of the problems reported by the newengineers in this study agrees with the descriptions of ill-structured problems provided byJonasson, Strobel, and Lee46. They characterized the everyday problems of engineering as ill-structured, having multiple, often conflicting goals and multiple solutions. Furthermore, non-engineering
Conference Session
Reaching Students: Innovations to Curriculum in ET
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sergio Sgro, Eastern Kentucky University; Steve Freeman, Iowa State University
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Technology
critical aspect of the UbD method is using appropriate assessments to gauge thelevel of apparent understanding. In the second stage of UbD, what and how students areassessed is determined. Evidence of learning must differentiate between understanding andsimply recalling facts. Wiggins and McTighe5 suggest that, “Real knowledge involves usinglearning in new ways (what is often called “transfer”). They [Bloom and colleagues] distinguishthis intellectual ability from knowledge that is based on recall and scripted use” (p. 40). Withthis knowledge “transfer” in mind, UbD presents the six facets of learning that reflect trueunderstanding: • Explanation: ability to thoroughly give an account of facts and data. • Interpretation: ability to
Conference Session
Design Project Based Learning
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
John Matsson, Oral Roberts University
Tagged Divisions
Mechanical Engineering
calculations in order to get computation timedown to a reasonable level. From the experiments the wave number was determined to be1 = 3.8 which is 43% higher than in the simulations. However, the simulations reflect thegeneral roll cell patterns observed in the experiments. The students have learned through thisprocess that it sometimes can be difficult to get good agreement between experimental andsimulated results.AssessmentThere were ten students enrolled in the ME 433 Heat Transfer course. Two projects were givenwith five students in each project. Each student had to write an individual project report at thetime of the completion of the project. The project contributed to ten percent of the final grade inthe course. One of the projects has been
Conference Session
New Ideas for ChEs II (aka ChE Potpourri)
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Bill Brooks, Oregon State University
Tagged Divisions
Chemical Engineering
demonstrate the utility of WISE as an assessment tool to identify misconceptions.Figure 1 shows a screen shot of the problem 1 . This problem was adapted from the Thermal andTransport Science Concept Inventory developed by Ron Miller and coworkers .16 The assignedproblem had 4 multiple choice options. However, unlike the Concept Inventory tests, nojustification is given for each choice. Rather, students are asked to provide their own justificationin a short answer text box that accompanies the problem (see Appendix B). We term this activity,a “short answer follow-up”. The use of short answer follow-ups offers students the opportunityto practice reflection on their selection of multiple choice answers. It has been shown thatdescriptions of one's
Conference Session
Developing Communication/Teamwork Skills in ChEs
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Joan Alabart, University Rovira i Virgili; Sibel Özgen, University Rovira i Virgili; Magda Medir, University Rovira i Virgili; Hans-Joerg Witt, Witt & Partner
Tagged Divisions
Chemical Engineering
. though unpopular.̈ … ̈ …Learning JournalsEvery team leader keeps a learning journal,23 which is shared only with the PMP’s instructoracting as his/her coach. Learning journals are kept electronically in the space reserved for thePMP course in the university virtual campus, being easily accessible to PMP instructors.Students are required to make at least one entry each week. These journals play a pivotal role inteam leaders’ leadership developmental process since they provide them with: 1. An opportunity to record and reflect on critical work events, either positive or negative. Exhibit 3 contains a few examples of these events as reported by team leaders. This
Conference Session
Continuous Improvement & Assessment of ET Programs
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Nirmal Das, Georgia Southern University
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Technology
Conference Session
Innovations to Curriculum and Program
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Michelle Jarvie, Michigan Technological University
Tagged Divisions
Environmental Engineering
to gain insights regarding the motivations ofminority students to study environmental engineering, as reflected by thequestions asked by the students.MethodsIn the summer of 2007, Michigan Technological University held a week longEngineering Explorations summer camp for minority high school studentsconsidering engineering as a major in college. Nine gender separated groups eachattended the hour and a half session about environmental engineering andwastewater treatment. The males were in four groups of 7-10 students each,including a total of 35 male students. The male students were composed of 30African Americans and 5 Hispanic students. The females were in five groups of 6-8 students each, resulting in a total of 36 females. The female
Conference Session
Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Knud Holm Hansen, Copenhagen University College of Engineering
Tagged Divisions
International
)• contains both technical and business-related problem formulations• must be written in EnglishThe final project demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature of the program and reflects the threemain disciplines of the program, which are engineering, economics, marketing (business studies)and foreign languages. The final project will often only treat one of the technical areas. Theproject must solve one or more essential problems for the company in question, with all parts ofthe project contributing to the solution of these problem(s). Page 13.1077.7Evaluation of the final project takes place within the following three areas: business studies,engineering
Conference Session
Innovations in Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Technology
applications in this course. This coursehas been taught four times during the past two years. This is a four-credit-hour course consistingof three credit hours of lecture and one credit hour of laboratory. The evaluation and feedbackfrom students show that it is considered as one of the fun courses they had which helps themunderstand many of the topics in computer and network security field, and gain some hands-onexperience and skills to defend computer systems.The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Section two discusses course developmentand describes the context, course objectives, references, and laboratory exercises. Section threepresents our teaching experiences and reflections and, finally, Section four presents ourconclusions.2
Conference Session
Multidisciplinary Course Innovation II
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Andrew Willis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Tagged Divisions
Multidisciplinary Engineering
uninteresting. The central concept which I seek to convey tostudents is the realization that All science was new at some point.With the vast attention to detail in many engineering classrooms, this truism is easily forgotten.This is reflected in the often omission of historical context of topics in both engineering textsand lecture halls. Some texts1 make attempts to provide brief sketches of famous scientists whomade fundamental contributions to the discipline, yet these descriptions are often superficial incontent and rarely enter discussion in the classroom. The proposed course will use excerpts fromthe original publications written by the magnates of science and mathematics who have madefundamental contributions to modern science. Since this course
Conference Session
Sharing Best Practices
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Charles McIntyre, North Dakota State University
Tagged Divisions
Campus Representatives
institution,this may be a direct reflection of the philosophical beliefs (related to teaching) or theadministrative priorities of the Dean2.References1. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE web site), http://www.asee.org/2. McIntyre, C., “Campus Representative Activities that Promote Engagement and Active Participation in ASEE,” 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, June 2007. Page 13.553.8
Conference Session
ECE Poster Session
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas at El Paso; Brian Carter, University of Texas at El Paso; Frederick Kautz, University of Texas at El Paso; Alexandria Ogrey, University of Texas at El Paso; Robert Preston, University of Texas at El Paso; Arthur Walton, University of Texas at El Paso
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
the synthesis level.After the adoption of Java as the principal teaching language at UTEP, procedural languageswith explicit memory management were principally relegated to a language survey course thatcompare abstractions provided by various languages. C permits explicit pointer arithmetic andthus has semantics reflecting the behavior of the underlying memory system that appears arcaneand inordinately complex when viewed through the lens of formal language abstractions.Despite Java’s syntactic similarity to C, faculty teaching upper-division systems-oriented coursesand potential employers of our graduates observed that students primarily trained to program inJava have increased difficulty understanding and composing programs in C. Faculty at
Conference Session
Instrumentation and Measurement: Innovative Courses
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
John Marshall, University of Southern Maine
Tagged Divisions
Instrumentation
modernize our program, we need to focus on both the curriculum and thefacilities. Strong industrial support in the form of money, equipment, and advice enabledsignificant facility upgrades. While substantial amounts of faculty time and effort wererequired for curriculum revisions, historically lecture and theory based courses, havebeen dramatically upgraded to reflect the concepts and skill sets need by today’sgraduates. Page 13.1276.5OutcomesUniversity administrators routinely visit the project based problem solving learningenvironment with distinguished guests to highlight the innovative learning approach. Thefacility has also assisted in topic
Conference Session
ET Leadership, Administration, and Articulation
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Gary Crossman, Old Dominion University; Guido Lopez, Old Dominion University; Anthony Dean, Old Dominion University
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Technology
will be able to describe contemporary approaches to management and demonstrate management and marketing skills relevant to the motorsports industry. 9. Students shall demonstrate effective verbal, oral and written communication skills applicable in a business setting. 10. Student will demonstrate acceptable ethical behaviors and interpersonal skills that reflect an understanding of diversity and teamworkThe ODU - NCI Partnership and Common GoalsFrom its inception, the mandate of the New College Institute (NCI) has been to respond to theeducational needs of the City of Martinsville, and its surrounding counties5. NCI has
Collection
2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting
Authors
Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus
: An International Journal, vol. 25, no. 5/6, pp. 253-278, 2019, doi: 10.1108/TPM- 05-2018-0035.[12] V. Bodolica and M. Spraggon, "Incubating innovation in university settings: building entrepreneurial mindsets in the future generation of innovative emerging market leaders," Education+ Training, 2021.[13] L. Bridgestock, "Six reasons to participate in student competitions," 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.topuniversities.com/blog/six-reasons-participate-student-competitions.[14] A. James and S. D. Brookfield, Engaging imagination: Helping students become creative and reflective thinkers. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, 2014.[15] C. Kayastha, "Enabling innovation through community and
Collection
2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting
Authors
Suzanne Keilson, Loyola University Maryland
Tagged Topics
Diversity
framework for such reflection is the threequestions of what went right, what went wrong, and what might be done differently. Most of thelessons learned again focused on the need for care, attention to detail and the challenges oftroubleshooting a project. The question of troubleshooting a project is an interesting one thatdoes not seem to be much researched in educational literature. The logical chain of deductionabout where to look for problems, what to check first, is often a matter of implicit understandingand heuristic rules developed through experience. It would be useful to have an explicit set ofrules and experiences to pass on to students. For example, it was at first a humorous comment totry turning the computer off and on again, but one
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2003 GSW
Authors
Khosrow Behbehani; Kevin D. Nelson; Robert C. Eberhart
) surgery, and deposit of micro-size peptide dots on biological substratesusing jet ink technology. At the conclusion of the internship experience, the student prepares areport on the project and presents it to the faculty advisor and the industrial mentor.The student and industrial partner mutually agree upon the level of student participation in theinternship program. Specifically, the student may work part- or full-time. Three BME IndustrialInternship Courses at 3, 6, and 9 credit hour levels have been established. Each semester, allinterns, with the faculty advisor’s approval, register for the internship course at the credit hourlevel that reflects the degree of their participation in the program. For instance, if during asemester a student is
Conference Session
Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Paul Ross, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Tagged Divisions
Liberal Education
practice apply to portfolios as to any other professional communication;the standards for the professional résumé provide some good general guidance for portfoliocontent: both require excellent overall design and organizational planning, and both must avoidcontent that violates the formal and informal rules for personal information under employmentand privacy regulations.Constraints on portfolio content may also reflect well-understood professional limitations thatmost professionals already work with: intellectual property, confidentiality, and issues offinancial interest. Page 13.860.3Accreditation and ethics will continue to provide an
Conference Session
Teaching Engineering and Public Policy
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Philip Dunn, University of Maine; Kenneth Nichols, University of Maine
Tagged Divisions
Engineering and Public Policy
resulting in laws and regulations. Thebureaucracy administers these regulations through programs created to benefit the constituents.Political influences often affect the programs and priorities can be changed to reflect theinfluences. As priorities shift, stakeholders make the process more fluid sometimes moreflexible and sometimes more unstable. Depending upon the level of bureaucracy, thebureaucratic process can be multi-layered. A complex bureaucracy may require several stages inthe decision process, often involving extended formal and informal public input, and oftenextending the decision process far longer than desirable.5 Engineers tend to be lineal thinkers and follow systematic processes in developingsolutions to problems. They use
Conference Session
Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Shripad Revankar, Purdue University
Tagged Divisions
Nuclear and Radiological
students participated in various chemicalengineering related projects in the past three years along with eight nuclear engineering students.At conclusion of the research projects the students were asked to give feedback on their overallexperience in nuclear engineering department and on the particular projects. Here some ofstudent’s feedbacks are summarized that reflect the need to integrate some of the chemistry,chemical engineering and nuclear engineering topics in undergraduate education (1) The nuclear engineering undergraduates expressed strong interest in taking advanced chemistry courses in reaction kinetics as it helps them understand the chemical reactions and models. The current curriculum lacks higher chemistry
Conference Session
Embedded System Design
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Daren Wilcox, Southern Polytechnic State University; Steve Wilson, Southern Polytechnic State University; Gerd Wöstenkühler
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
. Embedded Design ExamplesPresented are two embedded designs which reflect common student projects. The first is an “automatedbeverage server”. In this project, two sophomore students modified a toy remote controlled car to servebeverages about a room. The beverage server is shown in Figure 5. The remote controlled car platformserved as the system to be controlled. Toys are very inexpensive platforms to build embedded controlsystems around. All of the mechanical aspects are already in place. Some of the electronics such aspower transistors are also available. The student can reverse engineer the digital control lines to the Hbridge transistor arrays. By monitoring the voltage levels on the lines as the vehicle is signaled to goforward, reverse, left
Conference Session
Teaching Engineering and Public Policy
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Peter Boerger, Engineering Economic Associates, LLC
Tagged Divisions
Engineering and Public Policy
between those problems lies, asociety must make such divisions. The mere fact that we have a field called “public policy”implies that there are matters that lie outside of the public sphere, and making that distinction,while not always easy, is necessary and is in fact done. Figure 2. Level 3 of the taxonomy: public vs. private technologically related problems. Page 13.123.47. The fourth level: two kinds of public problemsSome might think that all “public” problems having an engineering component are the domain ofengineering. But upon reflection, it should be evident that not all public problems are candidatesfor inclusion in the class of EPP
Conference Session
CAD/CAM in Manufacturing Education
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Somnath Chattopadhyay, Pennsylvania State University
Tagged Divisions
Manufacturing
frictionas a function of the relative velocity of sliding for the idealized situation as depicted bythe signum function, as well as those employed in the investigations by Popp and Stelter(1990), and Feeny and Moon (1989). The function used in this study is a modifiedversion of that of Feeny and Moon (1989) and reflects a falling and rising characteristictypical of machine tools.The mathematical expression of the function used in this work is given by, µ(v) = [ µ2 v 2 + ( µ1γ − µ2 ) sec hβ v]tanh α v (1)Here µ2 is the dynamic coefficient of friction and µ1 is the static coefficient of friction. vis the non-dimensional relative velocity between the slider and the guide way. α, β and γare fitting parameters.The equation of motion of the X
Conference Session
Computer Simulation and Animation I
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Othoniel Rodriguez-Jimenez, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Carlos Pacheco, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Nelson Reyes-Aviles, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Marisol Mercado, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
Tagged Divisions
Computers in Education
of thesyllabus sections in a database allows for the generation of reports or documents across thewhole set of syllabi. Some of the reports or documents generated can include actualized list ofthe short course descriptions suitable for incorporation into the catalog and/or school website, listof textbooks for the campus bookstore, list of bibliographic references for the campus library, amapping of where are the program outcomes being reflected throughout the curriculum, and alist of faculty responsible for the various courses.The Universal Syllabus ApplicationThe above list of problems and the advantages notedfor automating the syllabus authoring process,prompted the decision to develop a dedicated webapplication.The Universal Syllabus
Conference Session
Graduate Student Experiences
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Elizabeth Van Ruitenbeek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tagged Divisions
Graduate Studies
in such a class.The Gradate Teacher Certificate (GTC)8 program is administered by the Center for TeachingExcellence. Participating students must teach for at least two semesters, receive feedbackmultiple times on their teaching, and then reflect on that feedback. They must also participate inteaching development workshops and programs. This program focuses on using practicalteaching experiences to improve an individual’s teaching ability. However, this program makes Page 13.674.4no efforts to foster community among graduate students interested in teaching.After evaluating existing campus resources, an ASEE student chapter can have maximal
Conference Session
1553 FPD3 - Computer & Programming Tools in First Year Instruction
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
W. David Harding, University of New Haven; Samuel Daniels, University of New Haven
Tagged Divisions
First-Year Programs
Figure 1: Format for Schedule Development in Microsoft ExcelThe students evaluate the weekly schedules by comparing the actual recorded activities with thescheduled activities. The schedule is then adjusted to better reflect the actual priorities andschedules and the process is repeated. After a one-month period of self-assessment, studentshave completed the Success4Students program and have refined their schedules for the semester.In the final two weeks of schedule adjustments, the students use the schedules as a basis forestablishing teams. Those with similar free time for scheduled meetings are grouped togetherand Outlook is introduced.Managing Individual Student’s SchedulesIndividual students can create and manage their schedules within
Conference Session
Methods & Techniques in Graduate Education
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Joy Colwell, Purdue University Calumet
Tagged Divisions
Graduate Studies
(neither parent attended college). Minority students comprise about 30% of thetotal body and female students comprise 57% of the student body. Most of the students arecommuters, with a small but increasing percentage of residential students. 1In Lake County, where the campus is located, only about 16% of the population over age 25 hasa four-year degree or higher, compared to a rate of 19.4% for the state overall, based on 2000census data. The county ranks twenty-first in the state in post-secondary education, even thoughit is the second most populous county in Indiana. While the total enrollment is 9,300, graduateenrollment for the campus for 2007-08 is 1021, with 835 part time graduate students, and 186full time students. This is reflective of
Conference Session
Curriculum in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology: Part I
Collection
2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Technology
, andhow to select an operating system for a particular application (i.e., real-time industrialcontrollers).Though OS is one of the fundamental and core courses of computer science or computerengineering disciplines, it is not commonly offered in CET programs. This paper describes anoperating system course taught to CET/EET students. The remainder of this paper is organizedas follows. Section two discusses course development, including course context, courseobjectives, course content and laboratory exercises. Section three presents our teachingexperience and reflection, and Section four gives the conclusion.2. Course Development2.1 Curriculum Context and Course ObjectivesIn our CET curriculum, Computer Architecture, Object Oriented Programming
Conference Session
Sustainability and Environmental Issues
Collection
2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Catherine Skokan, Colorado School of Mines
Tagged Divisions
Multidisciplinary Engineering
evaluation included daily workshop reflections and a debriefingsession. At the end of each day of the summer workshops, the teachers were asked to discuss to thefollowing questions: 1) What have you learned in today's workshop? 2) What questions do you haveconcerning the content that was presented? and 3) Is there any information that was discussed that youwould like to know more about? The teachers' responses to these questions were used to prepare the nextdays' activities. An anonymous Keep/Quit/Start survey using 3x5 card was employed twice during theweek, as well. For the summative evaluations, participant questionnaires and pretest/posttest results havebeen used. For the previous workshops, the pretest/posttest results have indicated an