Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Wey Chen, Southern Taiwan University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

higher level.The Cognitive TheoryIt is widely known that programming, even at a simple level, is a difficult activity to learn. Why isthis so? Are novice difficulties really inherent in programming or are they related to the nature ofthe programming tools currently given to novices? Bonar and Soloway11 presented evidence thatcurrent programming languages do not accurately reflect the cognitive strategies used by noviceprogrammers. Instead, Bonar and Soloway11 have found that novice programmers possessknowledge and experience with step-by-step specifications in natural language. This knowledgeand experience gives them powerful intuitions for using a programming language. Programminglanguages, however, are not designed to appeal to these

Conference Session

Educational Research & Methods Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Ryan; Nhut Ho; Shelley Bartenstein

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Page 15.413.8higher scores for only three criteria (one criteria was the same, and R1 had to leave thepresentation early and was not present for the Q/A session, and thus did not respond with respectto Criterion 7). This is consistent with scores from the HPV presentation, and appears to reflect asystematic difference between these two reviewers.With respect to the comparison of faculty and alumni scores, the most significant differencesoccur for Criteria 1, 7, and 9 (Organization, Questions and Answers, and Problem Definition).The alumni’s familiarity with the FSAE competition may help to explain their more generousevaluation of Criteria 1 and 9. The higher alumni score given to the Question and Answercriterion is consistent with the student

Conference Session

Communication in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Mellodge, University of Hartford; Fouad El Khoury, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

technology in a professional setting.Within engineering education, wikis have been used in several ways at several different levels.One example is the creation of ePortfolios in a freshman engineering design course8. Thestudents were given writing assignments in which they reflected on the human implications ofdesign. Another example can be found in a team-based capstone design project in which thewiki was used to document social knowledge and assess group performance9. A third example isa student-written online textbook5. In a senior level chemical engineering process controlscourse, an open-source text was written, edited, and reviewed by the students to allow them tolearn the course content though teaching it.This paper describes the use of a

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Crown, University of Texas, Pan American; Arturo Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Robert Jones, University of Texas, Pan American; Rajiv Nambiar, University of Texas, Pan American; Deborah Crown, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

thisinteractive online learning environment is to encourage students to think reflectively on coursefundamentals. Although providing students with access to a complex artificial intelligencefocused on course fundamentals is a valuable byproduct, the greatest value lies in the studentmotivation and engagement associated with development of the knowledge base. Studentinvolvement in the process of building Anne's knowledge base has proven to be instructional andfun. The knowledge base is built from individual and cooperative student interactions. As part ofassigned coursework students formulate questions based on their perceptions of coursefundamentals and attempt to provide responses that are consistent with their own knowledge andin a way that other

Conference Session

Launching Successful Academic Careers

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Fleishman, Western Washington University; Janet Braun, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

, which has many aspects that are new tothose coming from industry. The process requires development of teaching skills, as reflected incourse evaluations provided by the students and peer evaluations, scholarly activity, as reflectedin research and publication of professional documents, and service at the community, universityand departmental levels. The tenure requirements were listed in an informal prioritized order, asunderstood by the authors. As previously indicated, the task of developing course content can bechallenging in areas that are not immediately within the area of industrial expertise. Add to thisthe challenge of having to present the material in a sound pedagogical approach, the need toquickly adapt to the classroom environment

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

engineering degree requirements to 128 credithours. Faculty must carefully design degree programs that reflect these directives and at thesame time minimize the potential effects of such directives on the public’s health and safety.Elizandro and Matson1 have presented a systematic methodology for administering degreeprograms in this type of environment. That approach extends the ABET Criteria for AccreditingEngineering Programs2 by defining curriculum effectiveness and efficiency. Effectiveness refersto the achievement level of ABET Program Outcomes and Program Objectives, and efficiencymeasures the portion of the curriculum devoted to each Program Outcome and ProgramObjective

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

studentsin evaluating their ethic and moral decision-making. This model is designed with theassumption that there are some givens in our institutions and society. Our institutionsmay have a Code of Ethics similar to the Professional Engineer’s Code of Ethics includedin some coursework. Some corporations have Value Statements and Statements ofIntegrity stressing the importance of ethical decision-making. Our society holds all of usaccountable for certain norms and expectations, reflecting our requirements of being agood citizen. This model also considers personal values, attitudes, principles, andperceptions as powerful influences on decision-making. However, this model is designedto show that most decision-making is made in a split second, a moments

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Al-Ansary; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

teamwork, problem solving, professional and ethicalresponsibility, communication skills and the use of modern tools received relatively higherratings, which reflects the trends in the workplace requirements. Figure 4 clearly shows thevarying levels of satisfaction of graduates with respect to their preparation in the college. Thedata is stratified with five-year increments (nominal duration for graduation). The collegegraduates prior to 1995 consider themselves not prepared for most of the outcomes.Significant improvements in the level of satisfaction of the graduates after 1995 is due to theefforts of the college to improve design education and its integration in the programs.Furthermore, in the latter years, there has been an increased awareness

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Coffin; Catherine Almquist; Amit Shukla; Michael Bailey-Van Kuren; James Kiper; Christine Noble

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Seek new challenges and take informed risks. Understand that knowledge is gained through making connections with faculty and other students and among different disciplines, courses, and experiences.The resulting faculty goals to meet this mission are: Set high expectations for learning in your courses. Reflect critically on your own teaching and students’ learning. Enhance the role that the Miami Plan principles play in your courses, even in the large- enrollment ones. (The Miami plan is a broad set of distributed course requirements which encourages students to think critically, engage with other learners, understand contexts, and

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

evaluation. If not, the class gets a poor one.Id. Good evaluations can be reflections of something other than good teaching: they cansometimes be the result of teachers pandering to students’ prejudices, or never challengingstudents. Id.Evaluations also do not necessarily have a high correlation with how much students havelearned: while correlations may be positive when objective indices of student learning are usedas criteria, many are weak in magnitude or modest. [5] Some researchers have found thatevaluations are influenced by the halo effect by things irrelevant to student learning, such asgrading leniency. [6] However, it is the authors’ opinion that this “halo effect” in summativeassessments can be mitigated by careful structuring of the

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

Page 9.558.2factors, albeit at a more detailed level, in her model for self-directed learning. 11 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationCandy, in his extensive review of self-directed learning, summarizes the characteristics of theself-directed learner from many sources. 12 These characteristics fall into two sets, personalattributes and skills, that are analogous to Flammer’s “will do” and can do.” Candy’s lists are: “Will do” Attributes: curious/motivated, methodical/disciplined, logical/analytical, reflective/self-aware, flexible, interdependent/interpersonally competent

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Mark Pullen

facilities as well. Little extra effort is required to teachthe online students, although their added numbers are reflected in grading and mentoring effortsjust as much as if they were physically present in class. Most importantly, synchronous Internetcourse delivery opens up availability of higher education to a whole new sector of our societyand correspondingly opens up a whole new market to the university. Furthermore, the studentpopulation reached, and the corresponding market, becomes even larger when asynchronousoffering of recorded synchronous courses is considered. However, these gains have not beenachieved without some pains.The authors have supported experimental synchronous Internet access to courses at GMU forseveral years, starting with

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

great deal from one another; collaboration, if harnessed appropriately, is apowerful tool in learning. Finally, for many subjects in the sciences or technologies, physicalreferents or manipulatives can serve to enhance learning. Instructional methods which drawtogether many of these techniques have recently been introduced in Statics3.Implications of Conceptual Difficulties Associated with StaticsWhile the techniques alluded to above can be valuable, how should Statics instruction reflect theconceptual difficulties which are peculiar to Statics? Statics instruction faces the followingdilemma. There are a significant number of concepts, which go beyond those addressed infreshman physics, which students must learn and use, in combinations, to

Conference Session

The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Barnes, James Madison University; Susan Kubic Barnes, James Madison University; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 24.393.3metabolisms, biological (cycles of nature) and technical (cycles of industry), provide anunderstanding of systems of nature, how phenomena in nature exist, and how humans think thoseenvironments ought to be. The concept deals with the integrative relationship of how sciencestarts with a problem and is guided by theory and reflective experience, while technology resultsin solutions which in turn help generate new theories, a new way of thinking about complexsocial problems called naturalistic sustainability3. Not infrequently, the solutions in themselvesgenerate subsequent downstream problems that also must be considered. Having students learnhow to construct and use mental models is essential to develop a new way of thinking

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James M. Widmann, California Polytechnic State University; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

process is beingemployed. An initial mass-pulley demonstration was developed that mimicked question 13 fromthe DCI (DCI – Q13) and was presented to an Intermediate Dynamics Class as a demonstration.Based on initial feedback, the IBLA was finalized and deployed as a hands-on activity tostudents in an introductory Dynamics class. Student learning through the IBLA is supported by ahomework problem assigned during the same week as the activity. Assessment of effectivenesswas provided through pre-post DCI results, in class quizzes, embedded midterm problems andwritten student reflections. At the same time, the authors videotaped individuals from separatecohorts to better understand and identify sources of student misconceptions and how they mightbe

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Tech.); Radian G. Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

including vibration, acoustic emission, cuttingdynamometers (existing equipment) are used for remote process monitoring and control. Dataacquisition and processing for tool breakage and quality control of machined parts has beenadded to the course curriculum. MET316 reflect the competitive trend in the evolution ofmanufacturing towards increased flexibility, high speed machining, remote quality control,sensors, and Internet-based information and communication technologies using CNC systemsand simulators. Students will be able to study parametric programming techniques to run in-process gauging and tool setting probes. The students will convert a CNC machine tool into acoordinate measuring machine, which will eliminate post-process part inspection

Conference Session

Enhancing Success/Peristence at Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

Algebra. The next program iterations includedIntroduction to Computing and then Introductory Physics as substitutes, along with self-pacedcomputer-based math enrichment programs such as Plato. The substitute courses did not providetransferable credits (for STEM degrees) however, and as enrollments remained flat we continuedto seek new program innovations. One of the annual modifications that turned out to be verypopular was a robotics project. This element has become a permanent fixture of the program.During this period a multitude of engineering summer bridge programs were introduced inalmost every school across the country and in our area 8,9,10, 11. The students had multiple choicesto spend their summers and enrollment reflected these

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Huiping Guo, California State University, Los Angeles

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

goal under realistic constraints Week 8 –network with optimal performance: 2) Be able to reflect the knowledge and apply skills Week 10An open-ended design project that acquired thru the previous projects to develop design planrequires the student teams to define 3) Develop ability to find and evaluate available technicaltheir design goals, do research on information from various sourcesvarious network components, consider 4) Be able to present the design clearly in both oral andpractical needs and constraints, present written formattheir design plan, do simulations and 5) Be able to use OPNET to evaluate the performance andselect the best design with optimal validate the

Conference Session

Spatial Ability & Visualization Training II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yingjie Victor Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

information systems as a new informationvisualization subdomain that complements the focus on analytic tasks, and also providesanalytics, awareness, social, and reflective sights.A Collaborative Design Process The mini-challenge of “Situation Awareness Display Design” started in the beginning ofMay and its submission deadline was on July 8, 2013. We organized a team with two ComputerGraphics Technology (CGT) students, three Interaction Design (IXD) students and two faculties.The seven team members started to actively work on these challenges from the middle of May.The two faculties, one come from CGT, one come from IXD, served in multiple roles –supervisor, teacher, collaborator, and researcher to study the collaboration process. The

Conference Session

Enhancing the Underrepresented Student Experience

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Kevin C. Bower PE, The Citadel; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Elizabeth Connor, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

ExCEL-SCstudent cohorts comprised of robust student enrichment components focusing onacademic performance, academic growth, academic success, directed academic reflection,life skills development, learning community participation, and supportive facultyguidance.Objective 3: To provide an enhanced leadership development program focusing onprincipled leadership in civil engineering, as well as developing professional leadershipskills. To develop student leadership skills through a broad-based program for ExCEL-SC student cohorts including interaction with professional mentors, meetings withengineering leaders, involvement in community service projects, engineering field trips,and participation in forums on leadership aspects of overarching

Conference Session

Evaluation of Ethical Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill L. May, Illinois Institute of Technology; Alan Mead, Illinois Institute of Technology; James Kemp Ellington, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

practical application. Moreover,most of the work on applied ethics has focused on individual level development.4 Little attentionhas been paid to how students think about ethics and make decisions at a team level. This lack of Page 24.537.2emphasis on different levels of ethical understanding may not be reflective of how applied ethicsare used in real life situations.Creating assessments for engineering ethics has presented a significant challenge. Assessmentsare often created for single interventions and cannot be applied consistently across thecurriculum.5 Little research has focused on how to effectively assess ethical interventions in

Conference Session

Construction Safety and Risk Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Essam K. Zaneldin P.E., United Arab Emirates University; Amr M.I. Sweedan, United Arab Emirates University; Munjed A. Maraqa, United Arab Emirates University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

. Page 24.589.6 Figure 1: Background Information about the Surveyed EngineersSome of the surveyed engineers are nationals of countries outside the MENA region but theygraduated from universities in the MENA and worked in the region. Also, more than 65% of therespondents graduated in the year 2000 and after and, as such, the overall opinion of thesurveyed engineers is likely to reflect the current situation in terms of construction safetyeducation. It was also found that, 57% of the surveyed engineers have a degree in civilengineering while 22% have a degree in architectural engineering. The remaining (21%) have adegree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or other engineering disciplines.When

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Turner Ralph Swanson, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society; Justin Matthew Collins, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jill Frey, Sweet Water Foundation; Joey Zocher, Escuela Verde; Matthew J. Traum, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

students will work in small groups with ΤΒΠ members andSWF staff to brainstorm problems and potential solutions for sustained human exploration ofspace.Module 2 - The Formal Engineering Design Process: To show students how engineers solvetechnical problems, they will be introduced to an eight-step formal engineering design process:1) customer needs identification and quantification, 2) knowledge search, 3) brainstorming, 4)down-selection, 5) detailed design, 6) fabrication, 7) testing, and 8) reflection. ΤΒΠ memberswill draw upon their own design experiences, sharing personal examples from project courses,senior design, and industry internships. Using the tropism machines featured in later modules asthe ultimate product goal, Escuela Verde

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Garrick A. Aden-Buie, University of South Florida; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida; Ram Pendyala, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

and design a test that"elicits the kind of behavior reflected in [that] definition"4.From an administrative perspective, CR examinations can be one to several orders of magnitudemore costly to implement and score than MC examinations, especially as the size of theexaminee population grows3. CR items are generally considered more reliable than MC items, asstudent guessing is minimized and more nuanced scoring is possible; however, maintainingvalidity and consistency requires strict maintenance and fair application of a grading rubric1. Asa result, CR items require allocating students more time during the examination and increase theadministrative demands in preparing for and scoring the examination and providing feedback tostudents. Scoring

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University, Media; Sheila Katherine Lascano Farak, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María ; Jared Roberto Ocampo, Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana; Roberto Viganò, Politecnico di Milano; Jorge W. Duque-Rivera Duque-Rivera, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral; Carlos A. Rodriguez, EAFIT University

Tagged Divisions

International

". Several researchers observed deficiencies inthe performance of students in the various activities of PBL, referring to self-directed learningskills and metacognitive knowledge12,13,14. Therefore, strengthening metacognitive skills andreflection in students is essential in such innovative learning environments to help them to adoptstrategies and reasoning processes that enable them to define, plan and self-monitor theirthinking and learning style. In this sense, metacognitive and reflective skills of students betterrely on social learning environments13. Social interaction promotes the development of cognitivestructures of individuals, when individuals reconcile the differences between their own ideas andthe ideas of others, and when they ask

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey A Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

achieveinstitutional recognition and gain support needed to send students abroad. The new program canuse existing in-country partnerships instead of having to develop brand-new relationships.However, the experience of the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship programshows that the new program frequently has different educational outcomes than the existingprogram. Specifically, HESE’s experience reflects a growing concern about how students canimplement their solutions in country. While creating the International Sustainable DevelopmentProjects Clinic supported teams encountering legal obstacles, many other projects have found Page

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

DeLean Tolbert, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

intelligence [13-15].Literature ReviewOf the four concepts of our theoretical framework, which are introduced above, this literaturereview will focus on the use of video data to observe convergent and divergent thinkinginstances. Mathematical modeling and fixation will be discussed briefly but we anticipate morefully exploring how video data support observing those concepts in future publications. We focuson convergent and divergent thinking because it reflects our desired primary focus duringobservations where field notes were recorded, where this focus was chosen based on ourhypothesis that students with increased mathematical background would engage in moredivergent thinking. The researcher looks for instances of convergent and divergent thinking

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scottie-Beth Fleming, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

coauthoredwith individuals located at the same universityversus those publications featuring authorsfrom multiple universities (F(2, 91) = 9.715,p<0.001). Further, a Tukey MultipleComparisons test shows that a difference inmeans exists between authors with anengineering education department and thosewho do not have an engineering educationdepartment (Figure 2). Authors affiliated with Figure 2. E-I Index by Availability ofan engineering education department have a EER Resourcessignificantly lower E-I Index, however thepositive index value reflects that most authors Page 24.279.7tend to collaborate outside their collocated

Conference Session

Computing in the First Year

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meagan Eleanor Ita, Ohio State University ; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Katlyn Elizabeth Ashley, Ohio State University; Brooke Morin, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

overcomputer-based examinations, the student performance results do not reflect this test modepreference. Interestingly, in a study conducted by Koch and Patience where Likert-type scalesregarding general test preference were administered to students, students preferred computer-based tests more often than paper-based.9 Similar to results shown here, no correlation could bemade between student test mode preference and exam performance.Individual exam questions were additionally analyzed for statistical significance using aWilcoxon rank-sum test. From all three exams, five questions exhibited significantly differentstudent performance between computer and paper portions of identical questions. These fivequestions, a description of each, computer and

Conference Session

DEED Melange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Libby Osgood P. Eng, Dalhousie University and University of Prince Edward Island; Clifton R Johnston P.Eng., Dalhousie University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

accurate responses and provides a shallow assessment. For example, a student mayscore very poorly on a report because of their communication skills but have a very advanceddesign. An instrument is needed to target the different aspects of a students’ design ability.Various less-traditional tools that are utilized include qualitatively observing behavior6,analyzing creativity7, responding to sample design scenarios8, coding design journals9, and focusgroups10. The Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education (TIDEE) project11produced the most comprehensive tool that utilizes a short-answer pre-knowledge exam, teamdesign assignment, reflective essay, and self-assessment. This tool, while thorough, requiresintensive analysis of the