Conference Session

First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan L. Hart, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

AC 2011-540: AN INNOVATIVE MECHANISM TO ESTABLISH POSI-TIVE ASSOCIATION WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR OF CIVIL ENGINEER-ING CURRICULUMMegan L. Hart, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng. Dr. Hart is an assistant professor in the department of Civil Engineering at Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO. Dr. Hart worked professionally as an environmental engineer in the areas of stormwater, wastewater and drinking water prior to joining St. Louis University. Her area of applied laboratory expertise is stormwater, geotechnics, membrane design, shallow groundwater and structural interactions including remediation, and structures with unsaturated soil interactions. Her pedagogical pursuits include the first year experience

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

ofimpacts and collisions [6].The impact process between a ball and a hard surface involves a change, albeit temporary, in theshape of the ball [1]. A frame-by-frame study of the pictures of bouncing tennis balls obtainedusing high-speed cameras (2000 frames per second) in our laboratory demonstrated that thisprocess consists of four separate and distinct phases: initial contact, deformation of the originalshape, restitution and recovery of the shape of the ball, and separation and takeoff [6]. Page 22.218.2In general, impulses that act on the ball during the deformation phase are different in magnitudeand direction from those that arise during

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Kirk Love, Utah Valley University; Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, University of Pennsylvania; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

Technology:The Rochester Institute of Technology has started a Woman in Technology (WIT) program in2003 to help retain female Engineering Technology students with the goal of increasing thenumber of female graduates of their Technology programs20. Their program consisted of foursupportive activities for the first three years: 1. “Study groups facilitated by adjunct faculty 2. Peer tutoring by juniors and seniors 3. Purchase of academic laboratory kits for the first and second year students 4. Support for students attendance at the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) national conference.”20Since 2003, retention of their first-year women students has increased from 84% to 96%. In2007, they developed a new program that consists of a

Conference Session

Special Session: Next Generation Problem-Solving

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Tamara Moore, University of Minnesota; Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; Andrew Kean, California Polytechnic State University; Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota; Jack Patzer, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University.Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University Brian Self is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Prior to joining the faculty at Cal Poly in 2006, he taught for seven years at the United States Air Force Academy and worked for four years in the Air Force Research Laboratories. Research interests include active learning and engineering education, spatial disorientation, rehabilitation engineering, sports biomechanics, and aerospace physiology. He worked on a team that developed the Dynamics Concept Inventory and is currently

Conference Session

The New ABET CE Criteria - Program Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Meyer, United States Military Academy; christopher conley, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy; Steven Hart, United States Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Cornell University (1980, 1983). He has served as a Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. In his 15 years on the USMA faculty he has taught a variety of courses in the civil and mechanical engineering programs, and has collaborated on research with Army laboratory personnel at ERDC, ARL and ARDEC.Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy Scott Hamilton is an active duty Army officer and Assistant Professor and Group Director in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the US

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Mills, Texas A&M-Kingsville; Anuradha Nagaraj, Texas A&M-Kingsville; Srivenu Seelam, Texas A& M University-kingsville; Ali Pilehvari, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

-based educational tools have been developed (15-22) for specific areas, such asprocess control, laboratory experimentation, thermodynamics, and process design. To obtainrealistic solutions for multiphysics problems in two or three spatial dimensions, one must usemore advanced approaches for solving coupled systems, which are usually based on the finiteelement method. This requires a good understanding of the basic theory behind the method, asolid knowledge of linear algebra, and a host of other supporting techniques that are related todiscretization, mesh generation, nonlinear equation solvers, numerical stability, to name a few,along with computer science skills for implementation. These skills are often beyond the scopeof the typical

Conference Session

Design in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Pacella, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

correlations than my class did.Tuning a Design during Prototype Construction and Evaluation: This past semester’s project also differed from previous projects in that manygroups chose to spend much greater amounts of time in an available laboratory testing thevarious phases of their designs. Because the design criteria specified a very narrowacceptable temperature drop range many groups spent as much time as possible tuningtheir designs to achieve a desired result. As I was supervising many groups while theywere using the available laboratory, I observed a dramatic increase in their ability to uselaboratory equipment (pumps, spargers, power supplies, etc.) As this is the observed caseI would greatly recommend giving freshman engineers more

Conference Session

Enhancing CE Learning Through Use of Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Parhum Delgoshaei, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Chelsea Green, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

engineering freshmen, particularly with prior programming experiments(about 50 % of freshmen in our program), did not appreciate the drag and drop programmingapproach adopted in Alice for learning fundamentals of object- oriented programming.Furthermore, students did not perceive direct engineering applications of Alice in futureengineering courses. Hence, Alice was replaced with LabVIEW beginning in 2007 in the courseLabVIEW ProgrammingLabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench) is a visualprogramming language from the National Instruments. This software uses a dataflowprogramming model in which the output of each computation node is calculated when all theinputs are determined for that node. The calculations take place

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 2 - Student Development

Collection

2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Jennifer DeBoer, SPEED

Tagged Topics

Track 1 - Student Development

GC 2012-5626: ENGINEERING EDUCATION AROUND THE WORLD: ASTUDENT PERSPECTIVEDr. Jennifer DeBoer, SPEED Page 17.22.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Engineering Education around the World: The student experience from the students’ perspectives Jennifer DeBoer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Teaching and Learning Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, USA

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Projects

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Long, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

technology education focuses on applied science and engineering and application of theory in real-world problems. Courses are aimed at preparing graduates for practice in a specific field of the technological spectrum. Courses are laboratory based and have a high component of practical practice and practical application. Hands-on experience is stressed in an educational environment targeted at producing “job ready’ graduates. As a degree program in Software Engineering Technology, the developed curriculum offerslaboratory based courses in hardware construction and design and software construction anddesign. Class sizes are targeted at 20 students. Laboratories are taught by the professors givinglectures. All students

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Leiffer

electrical students. This is alaboratory to teach students how to design and build electrical systems, with an emphasis on thepractical use of theory in the creation and testing process. In this laboratory the instructor (RWG)is careful to choose pairs of students or singles if an odd number is enrolled. Part of the teamformation is related to perceived growth needs of the student. Three students should never be puton one team because one will be left out. Students are allowed a voice in choosing a partner butthe instructor will veto a decision if there is a difference of two letter grades between them, usingthe previous lab grade as a measure. For instance, A-B and C-D students can work together butnot A-C or B-D. Experience has shown that female

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Hladysz; Robert Corey; JASON ASH; Glen Stone; Dale Skillman; Charles Kliche; Larry Stetler; David Dixon; Larry Simonson; Stuart Kellogg

development effort. Other programs foundthat many of these same gains can be obtained through incorporating freshman design projectsand laboratory exercises [6-11]. For programs which incorporate vertically integrated teams,newer developments include the use of a service learning component within the designexperience [12-13]. Most recently, programs are expanding the first year engineering experience toincorporate experiential learning through the co-curriculum. Such programs might collaboratewith Student Affairs [14], through freshman grouping in the dormitories, or through formaldevelopment of learning communities [15-16]. Page 10.1033.1

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

they participate in a series of laboratory activities provided by studentsand faculty in the departments of Electrical, Industrial and Systems, Mechanical, andMicroelectronics Engineering. The young women also spend the night on campus with RITstudents. Attendance has grown in recent years, and RIT hosted over 40 girls for the 2004 SWESleepover.Colleges and Careers DayColleges and Careers Day is an annual summer event targeting high school students betweentheir 11th and 12th grade years. It is an institute-wide recruitment event designed for male andfemale students. Students interested in engineering are able to participate in hands-on activities

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Noah Salzman; Christopher Emery; Kevin Kloesel; Sandra Cruz Pol; Omnia El-Hakim; Kathleen Rubin

• Shortcoming of modern radar systems • How CASA will allow for better tracking of severe weather eventsRadar Kit (30 minutes) Noah Salzman • Radar applications (air traffic control, police radar, satellite mapping of other planets) • The Doppler effect • Demonstration of a speed radar assembled from a kitMIRSL Tour (30 Minutes) • Teachers toured the Radar laboratories at the University of Massachusetts • Spoke with undergraduate and graduate students about the projects that they are working on • Demonstration of a radar • Learned about and saw a truck with radar developed by the university used for chasing tornadoes in OklahomaCurriculum Project Session (120 minutes) • Time to work on grant proposals and brainstorm

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Urbani; Juan Iglesias

electromagnetics: A geometrical approach for problems with plane symmetryDa Silva, J.A.P. (Applied Electromagnetics Laboratory, Escola Politecnica, Universidade de Sao Paulo); Rossi, LuizNatal; Cardoso, Jose Roberto; Silva, Viviane Cristine; Lebensztajn, Luiz Source: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,v 38, n 2 I, March, 2002, p 1313-1316Teaching electromagnetic fields and FEM for undergraduate studentsLebensztajn, L. (Escola Polit. da Univ. de Sao Paulo); Silva, V.C.; Rossi, L.N.; Cardoso, J.R. Source: IEEETransactions on Education, v 44, n 2, May, 2001, p 209LMGA-2D: A software package to teach FEA conceptsAbe, Nancy M. (Escola Politecnica da Universidade de Sao Paulo); Cardoso, Jose R.; Clabunde, Douglas R.F.;Passaro, Angelo Source: IEEE Transactions on

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gad-el-hak; Judy Richardson; John Speich; James McLeskey

laboratories usedin traditional engineering courses.Many of the examples currently used in Engineering curricula seem better suited to the "GreatestGeneration" than to the students in school today. While some of these examples are stilleducationally sound, twenty-first century students need twenty-first century examples. Ourexperiments are intended to promote learning through guided inquiry. There is a constant battlein educational circles between traditional explicit instruction where students are told what theyneed to know and then expected to know it and discovery learning where students are given afew parameters and then given the chance to “play” and figure out the way things work. Theformer seems more expedient and most engineering faculty seem

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Goo; Maura Borrego

conceptualquestions. Data analysis is provided to begin to evaluate the effectiveness of this method,and future work collecting more detailed data and combining concept inventories withlecture sessions is discussed.Course-Specific Background and MotivationTable 1 outlines the topics included in University of Southern California (USC) MASC110, Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering. Unlike many introductorymaterials science courses, this course includes significant chemistry content andsubstitutes for the first-semester chemistry requirement for aerospace, mechanical,electrical and industrial engineering majors. A chemistry textbook is used9, and materialsscience concepts are introduced through laboratory activities and lectures later in

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Craig; Maurice Aburdene

issue of assessment itself, it cansimplify the necessary recordkeeping and provide consistency within an educational program.BackgroundAs our department began to prepare for a visit by a team of ABET evaluators, we discovered thatthe evaluation process had changed. Instead of counting square feet of laboratory space andlooking at the age of our equipment, the emphasis had shifted to setting educational outcomesand measuring how well they were met. The assessment of outcomes had become a key issue. Page 10.100.1The results and analysis of those assessments were to guide us in revising course content and “Proceedings of the 2005 American

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Athula Kulatunga

technologies are taught, one may findstudents from different levels such as undergraduates in senior level, graduates with no ability totake electrical and/or mechanical measurements, and students from industry with little or noexposure to newer measuring instrument and techniques.This paper introduces several laboratory activities that could be replicated to teach students howto take accurate measurements of electrical, light, air flow, and heat flow parameters beforeconducting energy audits. The focus of these labs is not to introduce how to save energy but tointroduce many aspects of the energy management. For example, predictive maintenance is anintegral part of energy management. Ultrasonic and power quality measurements may not beused directly

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

possible andthe educational template for the workforce of tomorrow be solidified. If possible, acquisitionseditors for electronics texts should be invited to observe the outcomes of these workshops.Thereafter, the marketplace will provide the necessary filtering of the next generation of texts.What about today’s laboratory experiments and exercises? Recently, several new texts haveappeared that integrate fundamental concepts with devices and systems. This should be the paththat is followed. Too many of today’s basic electronics laboratory manuals are without anycontextual basis whatsoever. Furthermore, higher level courses should embrace complex projectswith emphasis on the integration of systems and cross disciplinary topics.How will all this

Conference Session

Retention Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

active experimentation for experiences both in and outside of theclassroom/laboratory environment9. Traditional laboratory work is being augmented to includeevening and weekend workshops associated with students’ assignments, but designed to havestudents consciously move from “receptor” to self-directed learners who are at ease with learningas an experiential process that actively involves them in establishing learning goals, choosinglearning strategies that are most likely to help them achieve their goals, and assessing the resultsof their efforts10.Redesign efforts are expected to result in improved passing rates, students having successfulmastery of the theoretical and applied learning that will be required of them in Upper Divisioncourses

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bertini; Steven Hansen

, vehicular delay, travel time, and travel time variance, to name afew. The extent of data available to the student and researcher now allows for flexibility andcreativity that was not always available in a standard classroom environment.IntroductionPortland, Oregon is known for its unique multimodal transportation system, and thereforestudents are drawn to study here, with the advantage of a laboratory right outside the classroom.Current students of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Urban and Regional Planningprograms at Portland State University may someday hope to plan, design, manage and/or buildthe transportation infrastructure necessary to provide adequate mobility in our cities. It is criticalthat we educate and train a new generation of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

attitudes towards service activities using the“Community Service Attitudes Scale” which was developed and validated by Shiarella,McCarthy, and Tucker1. During the fall of 2004, 78 students and 34 faculty responded to thisassessment instrument. Student data were collected in the first semester of the MultidisciplinaryEngineering Laboratory course sequence, a required course taken at the start of students’sophomore year before they have the opportunity to participate in the newly revised servicelearning courses. Faculty completed the attitudes survey during the first faculty meeting of theacademic year. This paper describes and compares student and faculty attitudes with respect toservice activities prior to the proposed intervention. Attention is

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Rogers; Ferdinand Walbaum

lecture and laboratory experiences for certificate training.· Provide bus passes and possible tickets for swimming, theme parks and week-end excursions. Invite others to escort the group and take them to places of interest, (A social mentor or sponsor should be assigned with a plan of activities for week-ends.) Give them instructions on job safety and advice on personal safety.· Arrange a certification ceremony and luncheon prior to departure.Once the students had begun work at Siemens-Westinghouse, they were taken on an orientationtour of UCF and they began a series of lectures and lab sessions specific to U.S. methods ofdesign, prototyping, manufacturing, CAD/CAM, drawings and specifications and were assignedprojects in UCF

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yusuf Khan; Wei Sun; Mohamed Attawia; Michele Marcolongo; Frank Ko; Dhirendra Katti; Cato Laurencin

Page 7.1210.6population that is roughly 76% underrepresented minorities (64% African-American, 12% Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationLatino), a majority of the applicants will be from these groups. The course will consist of 5once-daily lectures on basic biomaterials and applications as well as daily laboratoryexperiments. The goal of the lectures will be to introduce the students to the field of biomaterialsand to provide them with an exposure to an exciting area in the field of Bioengineering. Thegoal of the laboratory experiments will be to allow the high school students to get “hands-on

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Megat Johari Megat Mohd Noor

it was only an AdequacyAudit, the participation and involvement by the staff to ensure a presentable workingenvironment was enormous. Laboratories that were previously not well attended to weregiven a ‘spring cleaning’ and careful attention. The School building complex and itssurrounding were given a new face-lift. More attentions were thus given to the workingenvironment. The success at the Adequacy Audit was a milestone for the School as it hadalso converted many skeptics into supporters of the quality system.The path towards the Compliance Audit was thus made much easier with the successful Page 7.962.4Adequacy Audit, although the

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Schmucker; Charles Camp; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Susan Magun-Jackson

Experiments,” The Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 7-9. 10. Phillips, A., Palazolo, P. and C.V. Camp. “Team Teaching Technical Topics: An Innovative Approach to an Introductory Civil Engineering Course,” Proceedings, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 2000, Session 473. 11. Engineering Criteria 2000, 3rd edition. Engineering Accreditation Commission. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD Pub. No. 98- AB-7a, 1998. 12. Schmucker, Douglas G. Structures Demonstration Laboratory. http://diamond.gem.valpo.edu/~harvey/models/strdemo.html 13. Schmucker, Douglas G. Manila File Folder Project. http://diamond.gem.valpo.edu/~harvey/classes/ce202/project.html

Conference Session

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Blust

a list of questions for employees to ask potential child care providers. · Abbott Laboratories - After taking an employee survey, Abbott Laboratories offers job sharing, flextime, and telecommuting. · These plans work for women who want some relief from the stresses of trying to do it all. Now instead of spending time on the weekends running errands and doing chores, job-sharing allows her to accomplish these on her day off so she can spend time during the weekends enjoying family and friends. Women who job-shared earned 60% of their former salaries, but benefits were retained and their working

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Billy Smith

Engineering EducationMidshipmen. It provides funds for component purchase and construction, travel insupport of testing and integration, coordination with DoD/NASA laboratories oruniversities for collaborative projects, and guides the Midshipmen through the DoDSpace Experiment Review Board (SERB) flight selection process.The satellite development process is a multi-semester effort requiring the contributions ofMidshipmen from several consecutive graduating classes. The process begins in thespring semester with identification of the mission and determination of requirements,followed by development of the conceptual design. Students in subsequent classes takethe satellite through feasibility study, final design, construction, testin g, and

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mani Mina

: explain energy manipulation with discrete elements; filters, transformers, discrete elements, and circuitsIn the laboratory students utilize tools like C programming and Matlab to solve engineeringproblems. They also work on circuits, systems, and practice basic electrical engineeringmeasurements. They need to work with partners, evaluate the partnership, and qualify theireffectiveness in their reports. Students are encouraged to change partners frequently to learnother people’s perspectives.Finally there is a demonstration part of the laboratory. Demonstrations consist of opening upelectronic and electrical instruments. Transformers, VCRs, CD players, blenders, electricmotors, laptop computers, hard drives, and other equipment are taken