Conference Session

The D/M/A of CE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Ella Willard-Schmoe, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Community Engagement Division

had significant positive effects on 11 outcome measures: academic performance (GPA,writing skills, critical thinking skills), values (commitment to activism and to promoting racialunderstanding), self-efficacy, leadership (leadership activities, self-rated leadership ability,interpersonal skills), choice of a service career, and plans to participate in service after college.In all measures except self-efficacy, leadership, and interpersonal skills, service-learning wasfound to be significantly more effective than service alone.12,13 This longitudinal study isongoing.Since the 2004 inception of the UMass Lowell Francis College of Engineering college-wideservice-learning effort (assisted by an NSF grant), 58 faculty members have taught at least

Conference Session

Engineering Management In The Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nora Honken, University of Louisville

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Engineering Management

As they start to plan the care for the patient, they learn through physician their experiences and the emotional involvement with their patients. Since they choose the plan of treatment, they begin to be more committed and their decisions start to involve risk. But they are not yet in a position to accept full responsibility since someone is still reviewing their treatment decisions.Proficient Specialist They are responsible for the outcome of their decisions and thus physician have greater emotional involvement and develop a deeper level of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andreas S Spanias, Arizona State University; Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan; Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Arizona State University; Mahesh K Banavar, Arizona State University; Suhas Ranganath, ASU; Xue Zhang; Deepta Rajan, Arizona State University; Girish Kalyanasundaram, Arizona State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

significantimprovement in student understanding. We plan to develop specialized assessment instrumentsto gauge the impact of the proposed e-learning platform and perform assessments during thespring and the fall 2013 semesters in the senior-level DSP class and the sophomore level Signalsand Systems class at Arizona State University (ASU). In the future, we plan to integrate thedeveloped assessments as a part of the e-learning interface and provide ways to encourage self-learning and self-evaluation among the students.Existing DSP Education ResourcesWe will describe in detail the existing computer and mobile DSP education resources that will Page 23.445.4form a part

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma; Dirk Ifenthaler, University of Freiburg; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma

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Design in Engineering Education

full advantage of those benefits. Some teams may even fail their tasks.Designing and creating learning environments which empower engineering students to learn howto learn is not an easy task. When students enter learning environments, most learners want quickanswers to questions they already have [43], [44]. Thus, students tend to like to be provided withsimple recipes and scripts – because they seem to be of more practical value at the time. Ourapproach to learning environments violates this quasi-need because we aim to bring aboutconceptual change. Clearly, we need to explore further the effectiveness of scaffolding of learningin this course and we look forward to doing so.We plan to explore the learner-centric paradigm in an undergraduate

Conference Session

Supporting Diversity in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chung Hyuk Park, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

sufficiently fast transfer rate.The Wiimote also has a BT module that can be interfaced wirelessly with the host PC. ThePC that controls the communication thus opens two BT connections, one with the NXT robotand the other with the Wiimote, handles the signals and manages the multi-modal feedbackprocess. Page 23.492.4Using this platform, programming instructions were developed that utilized screen readers torelay visually depicted information on the computer console and a lesson plan that provided1-on-1 instruction on basic programming syntax, compiling and downloading program to therobot, etc. The teaching protocol used was a modification on the NXT

Conference Session

Preparation of Professional Engineers Outside of the USA. What are the Education, Experience, and Exam Requirements?

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael K. J. Milligan P.E., ABET; Daniela Iacona, ABET; Joseph L Sussman, ABET

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

has been employed at ABET for eight years in a number of capacities. Currently, she oversees ABET’s engagement in its various mutual recognition agreements, memoranda of under- standing, and its relationships with organizations outside the U.S. She also manages the implementation of ABET’s global operations plan. Ms. Iacona earned her baccalaureate in International Relations from Old Dominion University.Dr. Joseph L Sussman, ABET Dr. Joseph L. Sussman is managing director for Accreditation and Chief Information Officer for ABET (formerly The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology), the recognized accreditor for col- lege and university technical education programs in applied science, computing

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

). Page 8.104.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Table 1. Palm Functions vs. Student Use Function Student Use Date Book (use to plan & schedule events) 11 Address Book (store contact information) 12 Note Pad (write notes and brief documents) 8 “To Do” List (track tasks by date, category, & priority) 9 Graffiti Writing (Palm hand

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley

was slowly added until the Tools for Schools Program from the Department ofDefense (DOD) was instituted. This program loaned machine tools to schools from DOD stores,and eight pieces were loaned to PUC. This program has now been discontinued. That is the statethe author found the lab in 1988 when he became responsible for the lab’s operation. Anymachinist from WWII would have felt very comfortable working with the existing equipment.The remainder of this paper describes the 1988 to 2000 transformation of this lab from WWIIvintage to modern. Courses that use the lab, other lab constituents, funding sources, andequipment selection are presented in the following sections.Courses that use the Manufacturing LaboratoryWhen planning, designing, or

Conference Session

TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rod Townley; Stephen Kuyath

formed RITC prioritized its activities as follows:1. Complete the initial research begun by the project director to determine current training needs in the Charlotte Region, but continue research activities to ensure the project stayed on target,2. Develop a plan to integrate the IT Skills Standards into curricula at member colleges by developing a new model for IT curricula,3. Begin integration of IT Skills Standards into IT curricula at member colleges, and4. Develop strategies to secure funding for the continuation of the project. Research: The RITC adopted a model for researching new occupational markets [1]. Using this model, the researchers conducted national scans, regional monitoring, and local surveys. National Science

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Griffin; Paul Griffin; Donna Llewellyn

, first to the class and then to the sponsor). This is aself-contained report that discusses the findings to this point, and an outline for theremainder of the semester. At this point the group continues to collect data and thenanalyze the data and develop initial alternatives. A final report and presentation are thengiven at the end of the first semester.During the second semester, the student groups continued to develop and evaluatealternatives. The best alternative is then chosen and an implementation plan developed.An interim and final report and presentation are given throughout the semester.Since semester conversion, student group sizes have ranged from 5 to 12, with an averageof 8. Faculty assigned to the course will typically advise 5

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan Gurocak

. Using this system we can offera course from the Vancouver campus to students at other campuses in real time.We plan to offer the ME 375 course to the other campuses of the university but the required Page 8.59.1laboratory component is a challenge to handle in a distance delivery mode. In an attempt to Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationaddress this problem, we recently finished development of an NSF-funded electronic laboratorybook called e-LabBook. The front end of the e-LabBook [1, 2] is on the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Raghavan Sudhakar; Hanqi Zhuang

stressing greatly on the hands-on experimentation using the equipmentstudents are likely to encounter when they enter their workplaces. The course alsoemphasizes an integrated system approach rather than on the specific algorithmimplementation. By doing so, it greatly enhances the students' ability to address and solvecomplete real-world engineering problems. The laboratory also supports a number of other undergraduate courses, including afreshman course (Fundamentals to Engineering), a sequence of senior Engineering DesignCourses, and a summer course ( Picture Processing) for the gifted high school students. B. LAB DEVELOPMENT PLAN The undergraduate laboratory development programs at other

Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cairns; Donna Farrior; Shirley Pomeranz

TMEA is a residentialacademy for rising 8th and 9th grade girls. No academic credit is given. Our academy is fundedby the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education through a competitive proposal process.For residential academies, a maximum of $525 per student per week can be obtained.Developing a Schedule for a Residential AcademyOne of the most daunting tasks originally confronting us was that of keeping rising high schoolstudents occupied productively for an extended period of time. The first step in planning asummer academy is to design a single day. Identifying blocks of time for instruction, recreation,meals, and rest for one day provides the basis for an overall plan. Setting up a structure for oneacademy day, will quickly make clear

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Kline; Jerry Ku; Chin-An Tan; Trilochan Singh; Ronald Gibson

benefit of “defining” a course by itsspecific course learning objectives became clear: this provided the best mechanism we hadencountered for allowing mechanics faculty to understand what was being done in individualthermal fluids courses, and conversely. Although it may not have been crystallized early on, onelasting achievement of our work on EC 2000 is that now all of our courses, those at BS, MS andPhD levels, have course learning objectives. Further, all courses through the MS level follow theABET process that will be described later in this paper.It eventually became clear to us during our EC 2000 planning stage, that the process ofreviewing proposed course learning objectives for each of our required thirteen courses and then,as a full

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt

working effectively with theirstudents and their faculty instructional partner. Additionally, some basics for teaching a class Page 8.1173.2such as developing a syllabus and lessons plans are also discussed as well as ethics in teaching. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe modules typically include a lecture or discussion with activities related to ENES 100 that aredesigned to apply knowledge or practice skills. Activities include case studies, simulations,demonstrations, and role-playing

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

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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

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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

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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