Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Steven Eisenbarth, Baylor University; Cynthia Fry, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

International

Baylor InternationalTechnology Entrepreneurship (BITE) program.The BITE program is a six-hour multi-disciplinary, multi-national project-based course. Itcovers a broad range of topics that critically affect technology-based companies and technology Page 11.1271.4based start-up businesses. Primary emphasis is placed on the marketing concerns, intellectualproperty issues, economic analysis, and business plan preparation for these technology based e-businesses. Other issues to be investigated include identifying venture opportunities, conceptdevelopment, market analysis, pricing, budgeting, legal forms of organization, teammanagement, and business

Conference Session

Trend in Construction Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ifte Choudhury

Tagged Divisions

Construction

2006-1412: DEVELOPMENT OF AN UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM FORCONSTRUCTION EDUCATION IN BANGLADESH USING GENERAL LINEARMODELI. Choudhury, Texas A&M University Ifte Choudhury is an Associate Professor in the Department of Construction Science at Texas A&M University. He received a B. Arch from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, an M. Phil. in Architecture from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England, and a Ph.D. in Architecture from Texas A&M University. Dr. Choudhury has extensive experience as a consulting architect working on projects funded by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and some other Multilateral Development Banks. His areas of emphasis

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Ciocci, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

430 Number of sections 6 2 3 Maximum number of students 21 47 22 Minimum number of students 10 22 6 Exam percentage 40% 40% 30% Homework percentage 15% Written assignment percentage 20% 20% Team project percentage 35% 30% 50% Class participation percentage 5% 10% 5% Table 1 - Number of Sections and Students with Course

Conference Session

Building Communities for Engineering Education Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sally Fincher, University of Kent at Canterbury; Josh Tenenberg, University of Washington-Tacoma

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

tosupport education practitioners in Computer Science in undertaking high quality educationalresearch. The Bootstrapping model comprises a set of integrated activities focused on specificacts of collaborative research called experiment kits. An experiment kit is embedded in a one-week workshop, in which particpants learn and practice appropriate research methods.Participants gather data over the course of a year and twelve months later, join a second one-week workshop where they share results, analyze data, plan for reporting and dissemination, anddesign additional studies. We have run two of these projects in the United State, funded by theNational Science Foundation. We also discuss measures by which we might gauge the success ofthese capacity

Conference Session

Preparing Engr Students for International Practice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosalyn Hobson, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Divisions

International

Engineering Education, 2006 THE ROLE OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTAbstractThe role of science, technology, and innovation in international development hasbeen the focus of several recent studies, including ones produced by the NationalAcademy of Science, the World Bank, The RAND Corporation, the InteracademyPanel and the United Nations Millennium Project. These studies all cite theimportance of science and technology in addressing development challenges. Anumber of the issues are engineering related and thus require engineeringsolutions.This is especially relevant to engineering education in the U.S. As our students inthe U.S. will now be faced with finding viable relevant solutions to problemsfaced not

Conference Session

CE Poster Session in Exhibit Hall

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clara Fang; David Pines, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

transportation networks, and test hypotheses aboutthe effects of various driver behavioral, land use, and network decision on resulting traffic levelsand future network improvement decisions. As part of the learning experience offered by thiscourse, students have also applied their skills and knowledge gained from classrooms into a real-life service-learning project. The project was to use the learned theory in traffic models andemploy simulation to evaluate traffic operations along an important urban corridor in Hartford interms of existing, future, and future with improvement scenarios. The study results werepresented and communicated to the community public. It is believed that the simulationtechnology-enhanced learning activities can de-emphasize

Conference Session

Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

, communication, and teaming).Lewis et al. [14] correctly observed that if students are to develop effective teaming skills, thenteaming must be an explicit focus of the project. A metacognitive approach would encouragestudents to become conscious of their team skills. Thus, metacognition may be valuable forimproving an individual’s relationship not only to their own learning processes, but also to thelearning processes of others and to the collaborative learning process in general.Specific MethodologyWeinstein and Meyer [15] describe the importance of students’ understanding their own learningpreferences, abilities, and cognitive styles, and discuss how “learning how to learn” helps studentsdevelop knowledge of strategies required to achieve specific

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Travis Harrington; Keith Coleman; J. Douglas Sterrett; Robert LeMaster

industrial organizations.The Center gives faculty members in the Department of Engineering an opportunity to conductapplied research that is supported with undergraduate engineering students. The students areactively involved with projects that tie their coursework to the real world, and the center providesa necessary service to regional government and industrial organizations. The concept for thecenter began in the summer of 1999 when an Energy Management Administrator with theDepartment of Finance & Administration [1], contacted the School of Engineering. TheDepartment of Finance & Administration was looking for a resource that would provide the statewith independent third-party analysis and verification of new energy management

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

paper presents the design andimplementation of an undergraduate Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) course in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at Lamar University. The paper describes the courseobjectives, textbook and reference materials, detailed contents and topics of the course, andgroup projects to be solved by the commercial CFD software. The results from the survey ofstudents on the use of commercial CFX software are also provided.Introduction Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the art of replacing the integrals or the partialderivatives in fundamental governing equations of fluid dynamics with discretized algebraicforms, which in turn are solved to obtain numbers for the flowfield values at discrete points intime and/or

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shamsnaz Virani, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Iris B. Burnham, Da Vinci School for Science and the Arts

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

includes more than 30 years of teaching, designing curriculum and implementation of education programs for students of all ages including new teachers. Page 25.782.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Innovative Curriculum for Engineering in High School (ICE-HS)—Status UpdateAbstractThe ICE-HS was developed to address the need to define an engineering curriculum in a charterhigh school. The research team reviewed several vendor prescribed curricula such as project leadthe way and infinity, and digital libraries funded by NSF and ASEE such

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder

School of Science and Technologyprovided an opportunity to teach a hands-on, high school engineering elective course, targeted atinspiring students to explore engineering as a future career path. Through the support of an NSFGK-12 grant, the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program developed an engineering electivethat submerses ninth-grade students — most from populations traditionally underrepresented inthe field of engineering — in the creative engineering design process, including emphasis oncooperative teamwork, engineering design/build projects and making technical presentations.The goals of the Creative Engineering elective are to enhance student learning throughexperiencing relevant, hands-on, inquiry-based engineering; to instill

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Harris; M. Bramhall; Ian Robinson; David Hick

undertake. This module develops the students’ teamwork andleadership skills away from the university, by participating in a series of indoor and outdoortasks, with an inter-disciplinary design focus, spread over a weekend. Assessment is by bothstaff observation and student self-reflection with a ‘portfolio style’ evidence-based final report.The second module described in this paper uses ‘video conferencing’ between higher educationinstitutions, with postgraduate students at each university undertaking joint project work. Thesejoint projects are multi-disciplinary, for example engineering students working with businessstudents, or materials engineering students working with design students. This leads to thestudents’ greater understanding of the

Conference Session

BIM and Other New Construction Practices

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Korman, California Polytechnic State University; Lonny Simonian, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

AC 2010-23: USING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING TO TEACHMECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL, AND PLUMBING COORDINATIONThomas Korman, California Polytechnic State UniversityLonny Simonian, California Polytechnic State University Page 15.1320.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using Building Information Modeling to Teach Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing CoordinationAbstractThe coordination of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems has become a majorchallenge for project delivery teams. The MEP coordination process involves locatingequipment and routing Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) duct, pipe, electricalraceway

Conference Session

A Focus on Non-Traditional Students and Non-Traditional Course Delivery Methods

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Liesel Ashley Ritchie, Institute of Behavioral Science; Sandra Janette Mikolaski

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

served as Director of the South Carolina Advanced Technological (SC ATE) Center of Excellence since 1994, leading initiatives and grant-funded projects to develop educational leadership and increase the quantity, quality and diversity of highly skilled technicians to support the American economy. Currently serving as Principal Investigator, Mentor-Connect: Leadership Development and Outreach for ATE; Co-Principal Investigator, SC ATE National Resource Center for Expanding Excellence in Technician Education; and Co-Principal Investigator, ATE Regional Center for Aviation and Automotive Technology Education Us- ing Virtual E-Schools (CA2VES). The SC ATE Center is widely known for developing and broadly shar

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi

. Professional organizations are available but are nationwide andeven though Universities can have student chapters, the bond that is built by having a universityconnection does not exist. It is the author’s observation that these students need the nurturingfactor which can be achieved by creating a club they can relate to in their undergraduate years.There are a number of successful efforts that have worked on increasing the number of femalestudents in SET fields. GISET is a club that tries to provide the community outreach found in thefollowing projects while keeping the connection/bond to the school. These projects include: 1) The Northwest Girls Collaborative Project (NWGCP) [11]: This project brings together organizations in Washington and

Conference Session

Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Christensen; Scott Dunning

The University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center: Lessons Learned During the First Two Years of Operation By Thomas E. Christensen, Scott C. Dunning University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing CenterAbstractThe University of Maine’s College of Engineering has created an Advanced ManufacturingCenter with a student-oriented mission. This center provides a distinctive engineering approachto solving manufacturing problems and gives Engineering Technology students hands-onexperience working on engineering and manufacturing projects. With much of the center’s workcoming from off-campus businesses; the students gain

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nastasi; Leslie Brunell; Keith Sheppard

Designing an Enclosure for the Concorde – A Novel Multidisciplinary Team Project J. Nastasi*, L. Brunell** and K. Sheppard*** *Industry Professor – Product-Architecture Program ** Lecturer and Design Coordinator – Civil Engineering *** Associate Dean Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030 The evolution of methods and materials of design and engineering increasingly requirearchitects, engineers and manufacturers to work collaboratively from the outset of a

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Vollaro

introduction to the ‘language of materials science’ iskey to understanding and utilizing the concepts presented. The analysis of mechanical andphysical properties, the manufacturing process, the material specifications for a selectedapplication or component, and the advantages and limitations of selected material are the focusof the project and a technical poster presentation.From the point of view of an engineering educator, the “Annual Materials Science PosterSession” is a learner-centered activity, which is defined as ‘an activity which provides creativeexperiences for students with many different learning styles1,2. The students must demonstrate

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Urban; Debra Banks; Mary Anderson-Rowland

the computer basics course in order to apply software development skills during thesame semester. In addition, the wireless handheld Internet devices are addressed from thestandpoint of acquiring computer skills and the applicability to time management and studyskills. The paper concludes with a survey and retention data to support the concepts and futureresearch directions. The research reported in this paper was part of a larger project supported bya grant through the State of Arizona Proposition 301 program. Page 9.592.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Faux; Meredith Knight; Brian Gravel; Christine Cunningham

, and students to improve STEMeducation. These grants are also awarded with the mission of educating the future industry andprofessorial workforce on the culture and importance of K-12 STEM education. Tufts Universityreceived its first three-year GK-12 grant in 2000, called “GK-12 Engineering Fellows: A K-12Resource for Integrating Engineering, Math and Science.” The project was awarded a three-yearcontinuation in 2003 under the name “Tufts Engineering the Next Steps (TENS) GK-12.” Theseprojects developed a cohort of over 20 graduate students from various engineering disciplines(including computer science), who have worked to infuse engineering into existing math andscience curricula in K-12 schools.The model of GK-12 at Tufts University is one

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Johnson; Andrew Jackson

, 5S philosophy and techniques, and photographsof real-world examples of 5S. In this Fall 2004 freshman level course, students were divided into teams of 5 to 7members. They identified potential targets for 5S implementation and reviewed them with theinstructor. The instructor’s role was to help scope the project and to ask the team questions aboutresources, permissions, and schedules. The teams planned their projects and described their plansto implement 5S into each project. To plan their projects, the teams were given two one-hourclass periods to discuss their projects with each other and with the instructor, as needed. Twoadditional class periods were devoted to the team’s meeting and to conducting their 5Simplementation. It should

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Granlund

project based learning module the students were given a chance towork in project teams and design a desktop CD Holder and build a working prototype oftheir design. The module employed a series of 11 Knowledge and Skill Builder (KSBs)activities and gave students experience in the design process and evaluation along withmanufacturing techniques and materials and how they impact product design.The paper also describes a design project that was completed by freshman two-yearengineering technology students in their introductory engineering graphics/CAD course.This project required the students to design and generate a set of working drawings for anaccelerator pedal of the ASME Student Baja Vehicle. The ASME Baja Vehicle was builtby the Altoona College

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Satish Ranade; Howard Smolleck

. Faculty and industry advisors, workingjointly, carefully coordinate student activities. The Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) assumed the lead in helping toinitiate the program by committing internship positions and providing financial support for eachof the students. Three senior students, two juniors, and an exchange student initially joined theprogram and completed the first two power courses in the Spring 2002 semester. These studentswere employed by faculty during the Spring 2002 semester and three of them worked for PNMduring the subsequent summer, after which they returned in the Fall to complete the powersequence. The senior students from this group are also completing their Capstone Designsequences with projects

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

Development (AIAD) program, which covers all summeracademic programs at West Point, regardless of department or academic discipline. The firstprogram, the Cadet District Engineer Program (CDEP), is designed to introduce CivilEngineering majors to the function of a typical US Army Corps of Engineers District within thecontinental US and overseas. CDEP is an internship type program that does not provideacademic credit, and participation is voluntary. The program usually last between 3-5 weeks andstudents participate in various activities to include duties typically assigned to new engineerswithin the district. Some of these duties include: • Assistant Project Engineer • Quality Assurance Inspector • Project Manager

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Young

, American Society for Engineering EducationThe stock Dragonfly model (left) constructed from the factory kit and the aircraft as redesigned(note wing modification) by an MIT student for competition.DBF Project InceptionUnified Engineering is a required multi-disciplinary course for MIT Aero-Astro students enrolledin their second year. First developed and implemented in the mid-1970’s 1,2, Unified Engineeringis a two-semester course sequence, 24 credit hours per semester, that covers Materials andStructures, Dynamics, Signals & Systems, Fluid Dynamics, and Thermodynamics & Propulsion ina fast-paced curricular schedule that includes lectures, recitations, laboratories, and objective teststaught in an intensive 5 day/week schedule. Unified

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

Session 2260 Student Design for the Developing World Richard Vaz, Stephen J. Bitar Worcester Polytechnic Institute Timothy Prestero, Neil Cantor Design that MattersI. IntroductionThe Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI) has instituted a sophomore-level course entitled “ECE Design” to focus on teachingdesign as a process, with the specific intents of better preparing students for their senior capstonedesign projects, and at the same time

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Waters

projects undertaken by the ACCeSS members, and then discusses insome depth one of the technical projects performed by an undergraduate student at the U.S.Naval Academy with support from a faculty member as well as an engineer from a consultingcompany. The project is a physical hydrodynamic model test program for surface effect shipdesign and analysis. The project has served to engage students, faculty and industryprofessionals within and outside of the U.S. Naval Academy in an exciting, technicallychallenging, multidisciplinary effort that has application to the military and commercial industry.IntroductionThe Atlantic Center for the Innovative Design and Control of Small Ships (ACCeSS) is aconsortium of several academic and industry partners. The

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

Session 1333 Teaching the Design of Energy Conversion in Propulsion Systems Craig W. Somerton, Laura Genik, Todd Jammer, Dean Hagler, and Tomohiro Hamada Michigan State University/University of Portland/Michigan State UniversityIntroductionA design project has been developed and implemented in a senior-level thermal design coursethat addresses energy conversion as it applies to land-based propulsion systems. The sameproject has been used in similar courses at both the University of Portland and Michigan StateUniversity. An in-house computer program, TeachPiston, is utilized which allows the students toinvestigate several operating

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Emily Mowry

Declaration of Helsinki, Belmont Report, Nuremberg Code, etc. The BioethicsResource Center from the National Institutes of Health6 provided us with additional documentsand case studies. The Case Studies in Science website7 from the University of Buffalo providedus with the bulk of case studies used in the syllabus.Results We successfully created a day-by-day semester course syllabus (presented below for fall2003 dates). The course includes thirteen case studies, four guest speakers, three in-class movies,and a group project. Ethics in Biomedical Engineering Course SyllabusAugust 28 – Overview of syllabus; Guest speaker on bioethicsSeptember 2 – In-class video Miss Evers’ Boys; Introduction to the Tuskegee study and a

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Carrera; David DiBiasio; Natalie Mello

science majors from Worcester Polytechnic Institute optimized the boat cargo deliverysystem it operates in the Venetian lagoon and canals. The team combined sophisticatedgeographic information systems, clever data tracking, and carefully cultivated relationships withthe individual boat captains in the Consorzio to design a system that halves delivery times andthe attendant boat traffic, pollution, and canal damage. A follow-up team collected boat wakedata, analyzed canal traffic patterns, and developed a procedure for estimating canal wall damagefrom wake impact. The results of both projects provided the basis for the new cargo boatwarehouse and distribution center now under construction in Venice. And each student receivedacademic credit for