Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce DeRuntz, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Rhonda K. Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; John W. Nicklow, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

Page 24.672.6step to ensure everyone’s complete understanding of our vision and mission and to affirm buy-infor each of the student participants. The LDP’s vision and mission statements have beendeveloped over the past seven years.Vision Statement: To become the premier university program that develops the United States of America’s future technical leaders.Mission Statement: Through teamwork, we push harder, faster and further than anyone thought possible, achieving world-class resultsKey Strategic ObjectivesThe team is then asked what kind of Key Strategic Objectives would reflect our proficiency inachieving our vision and mission. The students have the opportunity to amend the current KeyObjectives

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Kline, Western Michigan University; Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University; Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Western Michigan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

desirable when compared to other engineeringschools because they have a shorter on-the-job learning curve as a result of the practicalexperience they gained. Faculty members engaged in industry-supported research usuallyinvolve undergraduates. Thus, the graduate profile reflects the College vision of “A scholarlycommunity dedicated to excellence through student-centered education and researchemphasizing professional practice in engineering and applied science" and the College missionof preparing “job-ready graduates.”Background on S-STEM Scholars ProgramBegun in 2010, the S-STEM Scholar Program increases opportunities for financially needy butacademically talented students. These students: • Come into the S-STEM Scholar Program as first-time

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.)

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Materials

systematicallycollecting feedback from students. Improving learning through formative assessment dependsbasically on three key factors (1) effective feedback to students; (2) active involvement ofstudents in their own learning; and (3) adjusting teaching to take into account the results ofassessment. In exams for all course offerings, an entering knowledge test on sustainability andeco design will measure what students are expected to know prior to taking the course, while thefinal exam will reflect content objectives and expected student knowledge acquisition from thecourse. The predetermined assessment criteria will be communicated to students at the beginningof the instructional period. A Likert type scale questionnaire will measure how students feelabout

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Deborah Tihanyi, University of Toronto

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

in Drama. She has published articles on performance and on communication, and has edited journals and anthologiesMs. Deborah Tihanyi, University of Toronto Deborah Tihanyi is a Senior Lecturer in the Engineering Communication Program at the University of Toronto. Page 24.802.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Intersections of Humanities and Engineering: Experiments in Engineering Specific Humanities Electives and Pedagogies1. Introduction:A significant amount of research, reflected in the 2000 ABET requirements, has acknowledgedthe importance

Conference Session

Innovations in Pedagogy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mansoor Nasir, Lawrence Technological University; Joseph Seta, Lawrence Technological University; Eric G. Meyer, Lawrence Technological University

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Biomedical

prosthetics is a popular entry point intoBME for many high school students. The technology used to restore mobility to amputees andthe advancements in biorobotics makes this area of study more accessible and relevant to newstudents. It is also easier to communicate some of the future job opportunities where BME areimproving outcomes for people. The Experimental Biomechanics Lab is equipped with a Viconmotion capture system and the topic was initially presented through the historical use of suchsystems in gait analysis and automobile accident research. One student was prepared for 3Dmotion analysis by attaching 39 retro-reflective markers to the body segments defined by theVicon “Plug-in Gait” biomechanical model (Fig. 1). After calibration, a number

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yakut Gazi, Texas A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods

emergence of new global cultural forms, media, and technologies ofcommunication, the relations of affiliation, identity, and interaction within and acrosslocal cultural settings have been reshaped, which is termed globalization (Burbules &Torres, 2000)[6]. Although globalization in education is highly recognized and upheld byscholars and educators, the target needs of students in global education courses are stillseen as content and language focused. The experiences, beliefs, and cultural expectationsof students from a variety of backgrounds are not yet reflected in the pedagogy andevaluation practices (Pincas, 2001)[27]. One of the outcomes of increasing access toeducation at a distance through global online courses, as Moore (2006)[23] points

Conference Session

Teaching Approaches for Ethics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Raridon, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Deborah K. Nykanen P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Marilyn C. Hart, Minnesota State University- Mankato; Winston Sealy, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Engineering Ethics

ethics in a disciplinary context and included anextensive discussion with a philosophy professor about ethical frameworks. The learningapproach was through ethical case studies, long used as an approach to teaching ethics (e.g.,Harris et al., 2013)11. Discipline-based teams discussed and critiqued ethical case studies andwrote reflections. The multidisciplinary context was examined through 1) class-wide discussionsand 2) multidisciplinary, small group discussions where students presented their discipline-basedcase to fellow scholars in other STEM disciplines. The second semester (fall 2013) usedmultidisciplinary projects to explore the broad topic of “garbage”. This is a topic important tosociety that STEM students, especially engineers, will

Conference Session

Off the Beaten Path

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University; Randy L. Vander Wal, Pennsylvania State University

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New Engineering Educators

Copyright © 2012 American Society for Engineering Educationliterature. This seeming panoply reflects the originality of information, innovativeness oftechnologies, high societal, political and commercial interests in light of an unconcluded path.The professor noted that remarkably many of the ScienceDaily articles that are of academicorigins turn into peer-reviewed journal articles, but a year later, further highlighting the present-day status and accurate targeting of this particular source. Yet expecting students to locate, readand keep current with these types of references is unrealistic. We requested funding to design amulti-media format to organize and easily distribute these references to the students for currentand future use.With the whole

Conference Session

Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Ramirez Apud Lopez Zaira, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

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Chemical Engineering

the MAI was used as a measuring tool in aresearch that examined the effects of teaching metacognitive strategies to 60 students in aphotography class. The results of the MAI exhibited an increase in the total mean score, from 65to 68 out of 100. The MAI was answered before and after assignments with instructions andpractice in reflection, planning and evaluation15.MAI has also been used at the faculty of Odontology in Malmö University in Sweden, for aproject focusing on students’ proficiency to learn in a problem-based curriculum. Students tookpart in different workshops; they watched a tutorial that was followed by discussions and workedin small groups designing cases. After the workshops the MAI-data from students taking part inthe project

Conference Session

Institutional Transformations

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; D. Patrick O'Neal, Louisiana Tech University

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Women in Engineering

in the faculty lunches, but in more depth and with moreopportunity for engagement and reflection. Others have been designed for administrators andother key (male) leaders in the college in an effort to educate them about gender and climateissues in a non-threatening environment. Topic selection is influenced by popular sessionsfrom the monthly luncheons, faculty requests, issues of interest that surface from evaluation ofother programs, as well as serendipitous opportunities.As suggested by the formative project assessment to date, this approach appears to haveencouraged changes in attitudes and behavior related to climate issues in both women andmen STEM faculty. For example, Dr. Scott Page delivered a lecture on diversity in October2012

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna Tsenn, Texas A&M University; Daniel A. McAdams, Texas A&M University; Julie S Linsey, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

found in Figure 1. For each task-specific self-concept, a nine-item scale was developed using the design process. The first item asked for the participant’sself-percept towards conducting engineering design as a whole (giving the engineering designscore) while the other eight items reflected each step of the engineering design process (averagedto be the engineering design process score)2. Page 23.30.3 Figure 1. Steps of the engineering design process12.Self-efficacy affects a person’s behavior towards an activity, and their self-percepts can affectthe thought patterns and neurophysiological reactions13. Those with high self

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Loving; Joyce Yen

Cultural Change Program (CDCCP) which was developed with ADVANCE Visiting Scholar Chris Loving. The program’s structure reflects the need for skills development and frequent, ongoing opportunities to address cultural change. Emphasized is exploration of cultural change concepts and acquisition of related individual and leadership skills. Concurrently, these concepts and skills are used to create and implement specific initiatives to improve the climate for everyone in the department. This paper will describe the CDCCP theoretical framework, program structure, and resulting impact.Introduction and BackgroundMore than three decades ago, researchers began to study the differential experience of womenfaculty

Conference Session

Pedagogy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Shapiro

functioning, including interpersonal communication, listening, learning to be positive and supportive, conflict resolution, and encouraging all members to participate. • Group processing. Specific attention was also paid to having groups assess their functioning and effectiveness. In part this was done through the progress reports, but it was addressed explicitly in class as well. Mid-term assessments included reflection on the groups and feedback was provided. Also, at times individual groups had issues that they brought up with the professor. Those were handled by first making sure that the group had used appropriate processes to try to resolve the conflict. When necessary, though, the

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Reid Bailey

– Time intensive for 800+ • Performance assessment.Video of design teams “in + Can be at individual and students per year!action” or reflecting on team levels – Only linked toprocess application level of Bloom’s taxonomy.It is clear that each approach in Table 2 has strengths and weaknesses. Not being at theindividual level is a big weakness of both design reports and final designs, with final designs alsobeing hampered because they are not process-focused. Using video would require a prohibitiveamount of time to watch and reliably score the tapes. The remaining option, having

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackson Denise; Charles Aikens

focus andprocedures. During implementation, the coach observes evidence of achievement, and the use ofstrategies and decision-making procedures. During analysis, the coach mediates by having thestudent reflect upon what has been accomplished. The student will summarize impressions andassessment of the event, recall information that supports impressions and assessment, compareplanned with performed strategies and decisions, compare planned with achieved results, andinfer relationships between goal achievement and strategies. During application, the coachmediates by having the student synthesize new learnings, prescribe new applications, reflect onthe coaching process, and recommend refinements.3.5 Developing a Student Assessment PlanIn addition

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hamilton; Gregor Novak; Evelyn Patterson; Brian Self

just before it willbe used, for example in a laboratory exercise or an assigned project. JiTT, on the other hand, is atechnique used to enhance the interactivity of a lecture period by creating a feedback loopbetween the instructor and the student.The JiTT strategy reflects recent efforts in cognitive psychology, developmental psychology,social psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, as well as education research in general and inspecific disciplines, such to understand how people learn. A recent report by Bransford(4)discusses what principles of knowledge organization underlie people’s problem solvingcapabilities, how people transfer learning in one setting to another, and how these results can beused to design new and better learning

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell

Page 10.1478.2allows for the easy declaration of most of the preconditions, in terms of declaring the purpose ofeach parameter and, if necessary, any constraints upon that parameter. Correspondingly, the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationJavadoc @return tag provides a mechanism to describe the meaning of the returned value, thepotential range of values and how special circumstances that may occur are reflected in thereturned value. Given that the card game assignment described here is targeted toward first-yearstudents, attempting to have them incorporate comprehensive documentation could

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lonnie Welch; Karin Sandell; Chang Liu

and managed by student teams. Since this was an open-endedrequirement, we added creativity as one of the grading criteria to award innovative ideas.Students were highly motivated and came up with many surprising and effective ways tocover their topics. Providing this flexibility allows students with different learning stylepreferences, such as those represented by the VARK learning inventory (Visual-Auditory-Read/Write-Kinesthetic), to develop learning materials that reflect their optimallearning situations 13 . The different learning orientations that are reflected in thepresentations of the individual student teams provide a rich and diverse set of learningexperiences for students in the course.For example, one team was assigned to cover

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Jones; Karen Berger; Tamara Knott

event are provided in the sections that follow.Activity DescriptionsThe activities for the event were chosen from activities previously used for VT-SWE’s long-standing “Girl Scouts Exploring Engineering Day.” This provided us a set of establishedactivities that had already been tested with a similar audience and were known to be effective.We selected the activities to reflect our budget, a need for simplicity in set-up (because of Page 10.616.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationconcerns

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

) ability to critically interpret the results of the problem solving; and (f) ability tocommunicate the results of the problem solving. Underlying and pervasive through this processis the ability to work in a team towards the problem solving goal.Undergraduate engineering education as reflected in engineering curricula in the United Stateshas focused strongly on criterion (a) above to the detriment of the other items in the list. Indeed,many if not most engineering classes have focused on a thorough grounding in the “basics” of agiven discipline as delivered through lecture. This slow but steady evolution to greater relianceon lecture about more and more material is a reflection of exploding amounts of knowledge inthe engineering disciplines over

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Hebrank; Glenda Kelly; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

contexts. It has beenrecognized in the development of the National Science Education Standards as an essential partof teaching K-12 science in this country.3 Thus inquiry is more than just a scientific approach toinvestigating questions and enhancing knowledge process and content. It has far broader socialimplications by teaching and modeling cooperation and communication skills while solvingproblems, sharing and reflecting on new discoveries, and disseminating those discoveriesbroadly for the good of society. Inherent in the inquiry model is a non-competitive, respectfulattitude towards the uniqueness of individuals and the wonder of the inquisitive minds ofchildren. Inquiry is particularly well suited to fostering team building and team

Conference Session

Advice for Dual-Career Couples

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Hyer; Catherine Eckel; Margaret Layne; Elizabeth Creamer

department or other departments.In this department, I think it’s very friendly” to “I have to be a little careful, frankly. I’m theextra one here; my wife was the one hired”. The language used in the department to describe adual hire situation reflects departmental attitudes: “Some view spouses as an opportunity; some people view them as a problem. The way it’s phrased here is it’s a two- body problem…. I wish they would view it more as a two- body opportunity.” (Male, first hire)Some of the faculty interviewed felt that spousal hires had to overcome a perception that theywere not as highly qualified as their colleagues: “I do think that there is a stigma associated with it. It’s probably with everybody; it’s probably

Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen High; Ben Lawrence; Cynthia Mann

seem to be a non-threatening forum for feedback.The last 12 weeks of the semester integrated the Pizza Project into the class activities. Theywere placed in teams of four and given a scenario in which they were all design teams workingfor a company that had been contracted by Fred’s Pizza. Unlike design problems that request acourse of action given a well-defined problem, the students were instead given a symptom toalleviate: Customers of Fred’s Pizza are calling in to complain that delivery pizzas are arriving cold, and that grease is leaking through the boxes and staining tablecloths.This open ended statement was developed to reflect the nature of industrial problems.Unlike textbook exercises, in industry, we are not given all of

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Charles Winton

Botball KitThe Botball kit has been a work in progress since the early 90’s when KISS Institute for PracticalRobotics (KIPR), a non-profit organization focusing on learning and skills development throughthe application of technology, particularly robotics, was founded. In its current form, the kitincludes the Handy Board [14] (with charger and serial interface), LEGO RCX (with serialinterface), DC motors (both LEGO and modified servo motors), servo motors, touch sensors (3types), light sensors (general, break beam, and reflectance), proximity sensors (both optical andSONAR), a modified CMUcam and over 1900 pieces of LEGO, mostly LEGO Technic. Crosscompatibility between the Handy Board and RCX environment is maintained where reasonable(e.g., at

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stoian Petrescu; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant; Daniel Cavanagh

skills” (4.1/5), “I used graphics” (4.0/5), and “Thisproject made clear the relevance of economic considerations” (4.2/5). Student commentsgenerally reflect that the project was a positive experience and that they felt they had learnedboth about engineering and about the ADA and issues facing those in wheelchairs. Field Hockey Field

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

innovation (along with building faculty reward systems that predominantly reward federallyfunded scientific research), it has become extremely difficult for many university faculty andadministrators to undergo required change and to reflect the modern process of purposeful, systematicengineering innovation for needs-driven technology development. As Barwise and Perry have noted:“Different organisms can rip the same reality apart in different ways, ways that are appropriate to theirown needs, their own perceptual abilities and their own capacities for action.”53. The Concept of CultureJuran noted that understanding the concept of different cultural patterns is extremely important inimplementing effective breakthrough innovations and creating change

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Robert Choate

competence with these outcomes. Theoutcomes of the course reflect intended exposure to the appropriate measurement methods,principles for further study, and extension beyond the course materials via open-ended problemresolution, documentation of experimental results and proper reporting based on audience, anduncertainty analysis associated with laboratory investigation.These assignments were matched with the course outcomes. A target score of 8.0 for alloutcomes is proper, based on the grading methodology and first time preparation. Studentperformance and student self-assessment indicate that students achieved the course outcomeswith a student assessment of Outcome 2 being slightly less than target, which is discussed below.Student assessment of

Conference Session

Topics of Interest-Nuclear Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Deinert; K. Bingham Cady; Joshua Barratt; Erich Schneider

vector, while that at right reflects theactinide composition after 60 MWd/kg of burnup. V:BUDS normalizes the bar graphs such thatthe total neutron consumption rate in the unit cell equals unity. Additionally, there is a user-specifiable option, visible in Figure 2, to limit the display to those species contributing more thana given percentage to the total. In Figure 4, this percentage was set to 5%; hence, a number ofactinide and other species not crossing this threshold are lumped into the ‘Other’ category. Page 10.192.7Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

cycles,whereas nonferrous metals show no such point. For nonferrous metals, a value of 5x108 cycles isusually assigned as the fatigue limit. There are several theories available for prediction of failuredue to cyclic loading [6]. Depending on the situation at hand, the designer must apply thesuitable theory as no one theory will optimally address all design requirement. However, all ofthem reflect on the fact that this type of failure is not yet completely understood and extra caremust be taken when dealing with fatigue phenomenon. Shigley and Mischke present a rathercomprehensive view of the issues involved with the variations of behavior of different materialsin the fatigue analysis process [7]. The goal in the current experiment is to create

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Schielack; Carol Stuessy; George Nickles

3 RPs with peers & reflect/ revise/ report research partners classroom teachers in electronically and face-to-face a Mentoring/ Action during a summer throughout the two-year Research graduate conference period course VI Teachers V follow their RPs to Teachers