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

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

Session 1649 What math do we really need? John Robertson, Richard Newman College of Technology & Applied Science, Arizona State University, 7001 E Williams Field Rd, Mesa, Arizona 85212AbstractThe Microelectronics program in the Technology College at ASU was totally restructuredin 2001. The courses are entirely new and have novel (web + class) deliveryarrangements. There has also been substantial industry input both for planning andcontributions in the class-room. As a result, we have been able to execute a strategy thataligns the skills and capabilities of the graduates with the

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernard Amadei; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt

, research,and practice in the understanding of the interaction between natural and non-natural systems atmultiple scales from local to regional and global, and (3) create an action plan to implement therecommendations. More specifically, the workshop addressed the interaction of natural systemswith the built environment. Research, education and outreach were addressed throughout theworkshop. The workshop participants unanimously proposed the following definition of the“engineer of the future”: “The engineer of the future applies scientific analysis and holistic synthesis to develop sustainable solutions that integrate social, environmental, cultural, and economic systems.”The workshop participants also recommended that there is a

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Williamson; Carol Considine; Paul Kauffmann; Tarek Abdel-Salam

other groups within the company have developed. This includesa summary of projected operating costs, a staffing plan, and other related information includingrestraints on the amount of cash that is available from the proposing company.Using the RFP documents and the provided data, students must develop an after tax cash flow Page 10.1013.4analysis and use this to develop a proposal to the government for the privatized waste watersystem. This proposal must be presented in a formal written report and also presented in a Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

their final grade. There isstill scope to improve this course with some hands-on and fun type activities in theelectrical/electronics area. This year our colleagues in the Computer Engineering Technologyarea agreed to arrange such lab activities but could not carry them out due to schedule conflicts.We are planning to resolve this issue by next Fall and also improve upon the stress-strainexperiments. We have a 3-D scanner in the department and plan to use it to measure thedimension off the specimens supplied by PASCO so that additional specimens can be reproducedusing our Fadal CNC machine. The author intends to include the demonstration of the 3-Dscanner as part of the ET 1840 lab activities for the Fall of 2005. In October, 2004 we

Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Patten, University of California at Berkeley; Sara Atwood, University of California, Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

plan in a specified format - A two-minute “elevator speech” demonstration for their peers, teachers and science center staff - Feedback on the project day from the elementary school students and science center staff as well as from course instructor and graduate student instructors - A write-up which detailed the project development, evaluation and lessons learned - Team members’ evaluations.The undergraduate students were asked to think about their exhibits from the point of view of the5th graders. Each group was asked to develop their learning objectives, explain their “hook” (how Page 15.236.6they planned to draw

Conference Session

A Systems Thinking Approach to Solving Problems

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University; Fadi Deek, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Raghvinder Sangwan, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

Engineering Education, 2010 Promoting Effective Communication in Global Engineering ProjectsAbstractEffective communication plays a key role in the success of engineering teams. However,achieving a high level of communication when developing projects globally can be challenging.An organization’s learning capacity, its familiarity with the cultural diversity of its teammembers, and its information technology support for project planning, data management, groupcommunication and collaboration among geographically distributed teams, are some key factorsthat can help overcome this challenge.IntroductionThrough a study conducted in 2008 by NASA, communication was identified as one of the fivetop level themes their highly valued Systems Engineers

Conference Session

Technology-Enhanced Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

explanation (short essay)of a scenario regarding a particular course concept.Quantification of Participation – a measure of contribution to course discussions. Students aregiven specific instructions on the discussion board topics including the timeframe ofparticipation and the number of expected contributions. Student grades are dependent onmeeting these participation expectations.Personal Development Plan – serves as the final assignment. Students are required to submit aplan that describes how they intend to continue to develop interpersonal skills. The plans arespecific to the skills they have identified as important to their professional development.Interpersonal Skill DevelopmentOne of the initial assignments requires students to consider

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

goal actions. The support for this category comes fromcooperative learning theories (Johnson, Johnson, & Smith, 1991) and “how people learn”literature (Bransford,& Donovan, 2005) that describe goal-setting and self-monitoring as criticalcomponents of learning. Examples of goal-oriented actions are clarifying assignments,monitoring time, and suggesting a project plan. The second category is relationship actions.This category is driven by the social cognitive theory indicating that supportive socialinteractions and persuasions can affect behaviors and achievement through the mediation of self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997). Examples of relationship-oriented actions include acknowledginggroup members’ contributions and asking for others

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henry Louie, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

number of questionsneed to be asked, perhaps three to six, and therefore the time spent on the survey is minimal.Carefully crafting each question of the survey and the possible responses is fundamental inempowering the students but also limiting their opinions to a reasonable range. As a rule, thestudents should only be surveyed on course policies that the instructor is amenable to changing,otherwise the students may resent the survey as a waste of time. As an example, assume that theinstructor for a course has planned for the midterm exam to count toward 30 percent of the finalgrade. To gauge whether or not the students agree with this policy, the following Likert

Conference Session

Think Outside the Box! K-12 Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brittany Luken, Georgia Institute of Technology; Stacey Mumbower, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Transportation Engineering. Duringthis session, six graduate students facilitated the three abovementioned activities. Severalimportant lessons were learned during the first implementation of the activities. First off, whenusing them in rotation it was determined that Activity 3 was shorter than the other two activities.Thus, to compensate, that lesson was expanded on by letting students make an original plan forhow everyone gets to their destinations and then posing questions that made some change theiroriginal plan. For example, students were questioned on whether or not the direction they hadtheir car traveling would be affected by rush hour traffic. By posing this and similar questions,students got to explore more factors that go into logistics

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

earlier. The biggest mismatch seems to bein understanding the importance of learning good proposal-writing skills and also inunderstanding the importance of managing one's career and learning the unwritten rulesof the institution where one is employed.Thus, although the survey is not yet complete, we already have some good pointers forhow to improve our program as we adjust to the changes in the UC Engineering academicstructure. We will need to add more panels to program, where faculty and students caninteract and where the importance of having five- or ten-year career plans is stressed.And we will probably start requiring attendance at UC's day-long grant-writing workshopfor all participants. More practice in teaching should also be easier to

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lily Laiho, California Polytechnic State University; Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University; James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

feedback. Thelecture and lab topics covered in order during the 30 weeks of the course are as follows:Lecture LabDesign Process and Methodology Background Research/Requirements/SpecificationsTeamwork: Theory, Skills, Practice Team Building ActivitySystems Engineering QFD – House of QualityCreativity and Idea Generation Creative Problem Solving ExperienceConceptual Modeling Shop Orientation/Hand Tools ExperienceIdea Selection/Decision Schemes Teamwork Revisited: Personalities, CommunicationProject Planning Engineering EconomicsSafety and Risk Basic

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

with some consultants to help to developthe new material, but their input into this course is in evaluating, not planning. A betterintegration of the consultants into the development plan should be included.” (3) “The proposal is a good start towards developing a means of providing atechnical education for non-engineers but it is weak on implementation.” (4) “We are concerned that students will not learn much about engineering”. (5) “This course doesn’t build anything — what references do they leave theclass with, how will they teach themselves in the future.” (6) “There is some concern that this will be a course without an audience. Thereis no indication that students would want to enroll, and no plan on how to

Conference Session

Library Instruction Forum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Derby; Bruce Reid

, Page 9.1113.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education● providing a list of freely accessible digital spatial database centers such as the Pennsylvania Spatial Data center (PASDA), Federal Geospatial Data Center (FGDC), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Geodetic Surveys (NGS) and many others, and● planning system maintenance protocols.Most of these issues are administrative in nature. Major administrative decisions regarding theacquisition and dissemination of geospatial data had to be handled at senior levels within thelibrary system. Other decisions such as hardware configuration

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid; Elaine Cooney

havetraditionally been measured by engineering technology faculty the same way they are evaluatedin the workplace: “I know it when I see it.” While this method may lead to a letter grade (“Thatpresentation was pretty good – I’ll give it a B”), this is not truly assessing the student, thepresentation or the degree program. Meaningful assessment of the student or of the presentationshould include constructive feedback, and assessment of the degree program should includequalitative measurement of the necessary characteristics of a good presentation. Goodassessment practices also recommend that data be “triangulated”, or measured in more than oneway.Gloria Rogers1 has recommended a variety of assessment techniques for a comprehensiveassessment plan. All