Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Erik De Graaff; Gillian Saunders-Smits

, analysis and designallowing students to combine research from several groups: e.g. Structures and Aerodynamics.Project typesBefore describing the projects at Aerospace engineering it is good to define the types ofeducational projects there are. Kolmos5 and later De Graaff and Longmuss1, 4 distinguish threetypes of projects with an increasing ‘ownership’ by the students. - Assignment projects (AP) – Projects characterised by considerable planning and control by teachers/supervisors, where problem, methods and subject are chosen beforehand. - Subject projects (SP) – Projects in which the teachers define the subject beforehand. Students have a free choice among a number of described methods. - Problem projects (PP

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne Hood; Elizabeth Bahe; Fonda Swimmer; Ingrid St. Omer

Hood, Administrative Director of Academic Affairs for the CET, is developing acomprehensive manual for advising and has initiated training sessions for faculty. NAU’s newGateway Center will also be charged with creation of a university-wide advising manual andvarious training programs. Many students indicated that providing programs of study beyond thestandard 4-year time frame would help them to better plan their academic path and assist withadvising.The discussion of persistence in the College reduced to two simple elements: determination andfamily support. In terms of difficulties encountered during their academic journey, the mostunexpected responses came from the Native American students. These students did not feel thattheir retention

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Meyers; Robert Weissbach

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2433 1) Reduce the focus of the thesis. Although the design of hybrid solar/wind energy system involves many areas, it is impractical to have one student work on all of these areas as part of one thesis. An alternative would be to have the student focus on just one area of the system, and then have succeeding honors students work on different areas to develop the overall system. 2) Have a defined plan for each student who goes through the honors program. This includes defining up front

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Harper; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

can opt for a different three quarter sequenceknown as Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (or FEH). Students are required to select oneof these sequences. The following topics are in both sequences – engineering graphics andCADD, MATLAB, hands-on labs, and a ten-week design/build project.1 Teamwork is requiredfor the hands-on laboratory exercises and laboratory reports and for the design project.2 Studentsreceive instruction on project planning, management, and documentation. At the end of thedesign project, the teams must submit a formal written report and do an oral presentation withvisual aids. For the Honors students, the third course deals with programming and real-time dataacquisition and analysis. The physics and mathematics are

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

delivered simultaneously tomultiple locations, students at both the originating site and the remote site(s) must be purposelycatered for. In particular, learning materials should be designed to capture and retain the attentionof students at both locations. In any case, the students at both sites must remain actively engaged.The successful televised course should not be like a commercial television broadcast, but rather amultimedia presentation including a mix of the following characteristics: • Active involvement by students at all participating sites • Multiple presentation media with planned change elements to help retain student interest • Planned silences are especially important to allow students to think • Animations

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Edwards; Lawrence Hochreiter; Laura L. Pauley

, independent, BS degree in nuclear engineering by taking an additional 20 creditsbeyond that required for the mechanical-engineering degree.Planning for the program is important since courses have to be taken in a particular sequence.The nuclear-engineering courses are offered only once a year, where as the mechanical-engineering courses are offered more frequently. Students who wish to participate in themultiple majors program have a detailed course planning session with Dr. Pauley, theProfessor-in-Charge of Undergraduate Programs in the Mechanical and Nuclear EngineeringDepartment, as well as Dr. Brenizer, the Program Chair of the Nuclear Engineering Program.With careful planning, the required additional courses for completion of both majors can

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wheeler

Page 8.1025.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationto the payload. The initial plan was to build a rocket skin of composites. On the basis of benefitanalysis, this was changed to building a nosecone. During the planning stages, the studentsinvolved several of their professors in considering the suitability of composites, determining whichcomposite to pursue, planning the fabrication and performing preliminary performance analyses.One professor was invited by the students to address the class in order to considerthese issues as a group. The result has been an object of great pride among the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox

invest the significant amount of effort required to learnall the nuances of the curriculum, to discover how financial aid works, to become familiar with theavailable campus resources, or to follow up on student actions and inquiries. The first changeinstituted was thus to establish the practice of having a single advisor for all undergraduates, withconcomitant release time. This person is available regularly throughout the semester to discussany issue that a student wishes. As registration time approaches, he/she maintains an extensiveschedule for registration advisement appointments. Each student receives careful, detailed,personalized advising that includes multi-year plans if needed or desired. Through experience,many potential problems are

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Egarievwe

assignments cover topics from the regular class sessions. The use of the CS laboratory and introduction to one or more programming languages are also included in the laboratory work. 4. Group projects. Students are assigned group projects to encourage and introduce them into working in groups. The group work takes about 15% of the course. Students from different disciplines are assigned to one group to foster interdisciplinary experience. 5. Field Trips. Students go on one or more field trips, depending on availability of funds. This accounts for about 5% of the course. Before the trip, students are shown videos that describe the industrial sector for the planned visit and the applications of computational

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Bellamy; Barry McNeill; Veronica Burrows

must waitfor return of graded materials. We propose that too much of the assessment of faculty bystudents (and of students by faculty) is based on affective elements (behavior, attitude) rather thancognitive elements (teaching and learning effectiveness).We have proposed in earlier work methods for assessing both affective2 and cognitive3 elementsof student performance, and for incorporating both of these aspects into course grading. In thiswork, we present a preliminary study of a method use to assist faculty with course planning, andbetter faculty self-assessment of teaching effectiveness, as well as for better student assessment ofthe learning effectiveness of faculty activity.Starting Point AssumptionsBefore presenting the assessment

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

Session 2475 Simple Advice: Get a Mentor and Learn to Teach Jerry W. Samples University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractNew faculty members, especially those in their first tenure stream assignment, enter the processneeding assistance in the development of research plans, professional development plans andteaching methods. Most have been exposed to the rigors of tenure and the demands of theposition; it is not until they are in the tenure race that they find it to be “difficult”.The “difficulty” of the process can be partially alleviated by developing a positive

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Scheff

to share experiencesand concerns regarding diversity in our programs. Together we will identify important,common, unresolved problems associated with this issue, as well as identify collaborative effortsto resolve these problems and the “deliverables” resulting from our efforts. This alliance,entitled the “Diversity Program Alliance”, in its infant stage right now, is plagued by manysocietal influences unique to the South. The University of Kentucky, a large public land grantuniversity, and a member of this alliance, plans to look into how women in engineeringprogramming is handled at other SEC campuses, and work toward collaborative programswhich will enhance all SEC campuses.Overview/Related Literature:Women are entering colleges and

Conference Session

Stops and Starts in the Development of Cooperative Education Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bryan E. Dansberry, NASA Johnson Space Center

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

98%Teamwork 93%Leadership 88%Technology 97%Work Culture 99%Organization/Planning 97%By assigning numerical values to the student responses in these areas, USRP project managers Page 25.596.5created a numerical score which provided a comparison of the learning benefits of individualinternship experiences as they relate to those core abilities defined in the ABET a-k criteria.Over time, as multiple students rated their learning opportunities under a single mentor, thisscore proved useful in identifying exceptional mentors

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

W. Vincent Wilding P.E., Brigham Young University; James K. Archibald, Brigham Young University; Paul Richards P.E., Brigham Young University; Steven L. Shumway, Brigham Young University; Brian D Jensen, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

faculty member in research and citizenship,in addition to teaching demands, it is difficult for faculty to devote large amounts of time todevelopment activities. This is particularly true for young faculty who are trying to establishstrong research programs.Fostering a culture of excellent teaching and planning efficient and effective seminars has been agoal in our college. There are many possible ways to structure a program for teacherdevelopment.1 Programs may vary in topics covered, expected time commitment, involvementof outside experts, and whether the programs are mandatory. The purpose of this paper is torelate the lessons learned in our efforts to develop such a culture and program, and it is hopedthat our experience will help to inform

Conference Session

Energy, the Environment, and Nano Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Kwadwo Mensah-Darkwa; Robin Guill Liles, North Carolina A&T State University; Mainul Kader Faruque, North Carolina A&T State University; Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

semester-longteam research experience. The students impacted by one and/or both of these initiatives areexpected to form an excellent talent pool for traditional graduate engineering programs, as wellas non-traditional graduate programs planned for the near future at our university, such as thegraduate programs of the ERC-supported Bioengineering Department and/or Joint School ofNanoscience and Nanoengineering. The content organization of the paper is as follows: (a)Development of Nanotechnology-I: An interdisciplinary nanotechnology theory-cum-laboratorycourse, (b) Development of Nanotechnology-II: A semester-long hands-on research-basedcourse, (c) Infusion of nanotechnology modules in existing undergraduate courses, (d)Organization of REU

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Alfonso Villasmil Urdaneta, Rochester Institute of Technology; Rob Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

button, thecircuit is run and the feedback is color coding of high and low pressures in lines and thedisplacement of valves, switches and actuators. The software includes multiple sensors (also asISO symbols) and plotting capabilities that feedback from the circuit operation to the students issimilar ways or better ways than currently available in the real laboratory.Lab Content and ScheduleBelow we present the lab session schedule we are following in the current investigation. Thereare three sessions planned to be held in a computer lab to introduce the basic features of thesoftware and discuss specific control and logic objectives of the circuits to be built during thecourse. There are seven sessions planned to be held in the laboratory to

Conference Session

Lessons learned

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Ramiro g Gonzalez, Boston Arts Academy High School; Cassandra Wallace, Boston Arts Academy High School

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of EBL in our courses, thechanges we have made, the obstacles we faced in integrating EBL into our chemistry andphysics/math courses, the results, students’ reactions and feedback, and what we have learned.We also present how we implemented our action plans we developed during the PD in ourclassrooms. One important lesson we have learned is to build capacity in the same high school,i.e. the more teachers who train and use the EBL methodology, the better and more effective theimplementation and the support system are as teachers can bounce ideas off of each other. Page 25.736.2 Introduction

Conference Session

Active and Project-based Learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Garrett Miles Clayton, Villanova University; Teresa Genevieve Wojcik, Villanova University; Aleksandra Radlińska, Villanova University; Noelle K. Comolli, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

containing 20 straws, 10marshmallows, a roll of pennies and a Styrofoam cup. In addition to these supplies, scissors andadditional pennies were available at the front of the room.Project Time: The amount of time given to the students was 25 minutes. This allowed for thenecessary introduction (5 minutes) and reflection and discussion (20 minutes). Note that a lectureon the design process was also planned to be given during the next class session.Student Designs: Some examples of student designs resulting from the project are shown inFigure 2. It is always interesting to see the diversity of bridge designs. Page 25.741.6 Figure 2: Example

Conference Session

Sustainable Product Development and Manufacturing

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devi K. Kalla, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

manufacturing courses from different universities in engineering technologyfield as future work. Moreover, the importance of embedding the concepts of sustainabilityprinciples in all relevant courses will also be highlighted in future. To put this idea into practice,more detailed mapping is required and an insertion plan for each course has to be drawn further. Page 25.776.6 Page 25.776.7Figure 3. Course flow for BSMET degree at Metropolitan State College of Denver.5. The plan for insertionMany opportunities currently exist to infuse mechanical/manufacturing engineering

Conference Session

First-year Programs Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Worley, University of North Dakota; Jeremiah J. Neubert, University of North Dakota; Naima Kaabouch, University of North Dakota; Mohammad Khavanin, University of North Dakota

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

progress was assessed through nine homework assignmentsand three exams. Students that completed the course and received a passing grade were allowedto register for calculus even if their original placement score would have prohibited them fromdoing so. Page 25.897.4Methods of AssessmentThe evaluation plan for the bridge program in this study centers on implementing assessmentmodels in three impact areas: student learning, engineering retention rates, and instructionaltools. Table 1 summarizes evaluation goals for each impact area, assessment method, or vehicleused, and performance indicators or markers for success of the participants.Table 1:Summer

Conference Session

Innovative Uses of Technology and Techniques for Laboratory Exercises

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirstie A. Plantenberg, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

“Final Experiment” is to give the students a chance to plan, design,conduct and analyze an experiment of their own using appropriate DOE techniques. The contextof the experiment is limited only by the student’s imagination. They may conduct experimentsdirectly connected to their research, a project that they are involved in at work, or they couldconduct a “household” experiment. Students use the knowledge that they have gained byrunning the previous in-class experiments to plan their own experiment. The “Final Experiment”gives them a real taste of everything that goes into planning and conducting an experiment on Page 25.905.6their

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; David J. Elton, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

highly prescribed timeline of project deliverables to keep thegroup interactions active and on schedule. The required deliverables ranged from quiteminor (e.g., documentation of confirmed planned meeting time for the group) to moresignificant (e.g., submission of draft report from one university to the other). A lessdetailed timeline was used for the first exercise in Fall 2011. The second interaction thatsame term reverted back to the highly prescribed timeline for collaboration, whichproduced more timely results.Team communications were monitored closely for evaluation of the project activities. Apublicly announced dedicated email account was established that was required to becopied for all email correspondence of the teams. This method

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Edin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

choose and adopted the Scrummethod for organizing their project work. In some cases, the company representatives hadexperiences from using Scrum or other agile methods in their software engineering groups,but Scrum had not previously been used in mechatronics design projects. In the capstoneprojects, Scrum applied to the student projects motivated the students to take a higher degreeof responsibility in terms of project organization, overall and detail planning and dynamic re-organizations. In all cases the student teams voluntary choose to base their projectorganizations on Scrum after being presented with this opportunity by the faculty.In this paper, results are presented of a study where the mutual learning outcomes have beeninvestigated

Conference Session

Faculty Development for Distance Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Donohue, The College of New Jersey; Christine Schnittka, University of Kentucky; Larry Richards, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

aspossible for the best outcomes; therefore, several STEM initiatives are targeting elementarystudents.1 - 3A signature outreach program at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and AppliedScience (UVa SEAS), the Virginia Middle School Engineering Education Initiative (VSMEEI),was created to address the need to engage students as early as possible in effective, empoweringinstructional activities introducing them to the engineering design process in order to motivatethem to study science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).4 – 6 VMSEEI’s primaryintervention instrument is the Engineering Teaching Kit (ETK). An ETK is a set of standards-based lesson plans designed to teach math and science concepts within the context of

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace and Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melany Ciampi, Organization of Researches in Environment, Health and Safety; Claudio da Rocha Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences

Tagged Divisions

International

implies several aspects such as the: qualityof classrooms, labs, libraries, communication systems etc; students ' services, qualification ofhuman resources; pedagogical scientific quality, credibility as a good institution. Good programshave good motivated teachers in addition to modern installations and dynamic planning. TheFaculty of any Institution of Education is one of the most important element, which provides ornot its qualification of excellence [02].In order to fulfill a lack of engineering educators for high education for engineering andtechnological fields in the country COPEC - Council of Researches in Education and Scienceseducation team has designed a new program in graduation level: the Port Engineering Program.The goal is to

Conference Session

Mentoring First Year Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Rippon, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

the camp and how it differs from othercollege freshmen camps. The paper also presents the logistical challenges of planning andexecuting a camp for over 700 freshmen as well as the role of undergraduate student mentors andtheir recruitment and training. Since the successful camp experience also depends onengineering faculty involvement, the paper will describe the creation and deployment of theFreshmen Teaching Academy.Finally the paper will describe detailed assessment results from two years of camp experience.The paper will also detail data regarding student retention and the first year experience for thefreshmen population as a whole as well as for female and underrepresented minorities.BenchmarkingThe notion of a freshmen engineering camp

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seema Khan, Sonoma State University; Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Page 15.45.9plans to improve and enhance IVLPs’ features.1. By design, IVLP allows only one user to have control over the application modules. In the future we plan to add a time-out feature to limit user access to IVLP to eliminate long idle connections.2. In this phase of the project we focused on development of IVLP using a central server. In the distributed IVLP design, we plan to support multiple seamless experiments from different sites. This is particularly useful when different institutions are collaborating together and each institution has limited test equipments.3. A major area of improvement in the future will be adding security features to the client database. For example, we plan to add permissions to user profiles so

Conference Session

DEED Potpourri

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nabila (Nan) BouSaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; William Heybruck, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Martin Kane, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Peter Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Deborah Sharer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Steve Patterson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Carolina. Dr. Conrad is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He is also a member of ASEE, Eta Kappa Nu, the Project Management Institute, and the IEEE Computer Society. He is the author of numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers in the areas of robotics, parallel processing, artificial intelligence, and engineering education.Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte G. Bruce Gehrig is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Contruction Management. His areas of interest/specialization are: Water Resources Planning and Management, Design and Construction Integration, and

Conference Session

BIM and Other New Construction Practices

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Althea Arnold, University of North Texas

Tagged Divisions

Construction

demographic research d. Research Environmental requirements e. Prepare a preliminary estimate and then revise the estimate in the second semester based on project progress f. Prepare a site logistics plan and site work layout plan (in phases as necessary) g. Prepare a preliminary schedule using Primavera, and revise the schedule according to work progress in the second semester h. Construct a 3-D Revit drawing of the project (or other project appropriate 3-D virtual model) i. Prepare a “green” analysis of the project.Milestones are given for each task which helps students schedule their time and stay on trackwith their project. A

Conference Session

Construction Classroom Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Namhun Lee, East Carolina University; Eddy Rojas, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Construction

used for 3D dynamic construction process simulations toeffectively manage complex construction operation processes in 3D virtualenvironments. In addition, 3D computer models have been used to increase thespeed and quality of design review. Simultaneously, 4D computer-aided designmodels as a construction tool have been developed to create more flexible anddynamic 4D simulation environments of construction progress. 4D modelingprovides a mechanism to visualize elements of 3D computer-aided design modelsbased on associated schedule intervals34. Through 4D simulation environments,project teams can virtually practice the construction of a unique artifact beforebuilding it in reality for the purpose of detailed work planning and coordination