Conference Session

Programs that Serve Industry & Academia

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Dickson, University of Strathclyde

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

communication4 Written communication Involvement Work under pressure Accuracy5 Loyalty, integrity Learning ability Take responsibility Adaptability6 Specific knowledge Specific knowledge Teamwork Teamwork7 Involvement Fitness for work Assertiveness Work under pressure8 Critical thinking Initiative Adaptability Concentration9 Adaptability Tolerance Initiative Time management10 Tolerance Teamwork InitiativeTable 4. The 10 Most Common Competency Gaps Europe Japan1 Planning & organising Problem solving2 Negotiating

Conference Session

Innovation & Assessment in the delivery of IT/IET

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Stienecker, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, and other alternatives to give the students an array of experience. ̇ The KUKA I/O, other than a few discrete points near the tool mounting plate, is brought out of the DeviceNet connection in our particular model. This is unlike some robotic systems made by KUKA and others. This was not necessarily a failure, but an added planning point for the author. Allen-Bradley [9] CompactBlock I/O systems are used to make the discrete I/O accessible to the student via DeviceNet. Successes ̇ During the second year of building the laboratory a portable dual monitor tree was installed near the robot, shown in figure 2. One monitor was connected to the robot and another

Conference Session

The Pipeline

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Plotkowski, Grand Valley State University; Mary Ann Sheline, Grand Valley State University; Margo Dill, Grand Valley State University; Jessica Noble, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

. Sheline has a BS in Biology from Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pa., MA in Natural Science from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Pa., and Ed.S. in Education Administration from the University of Nebraska at Kearney.Margo Dill, Grand Valley State University Margo Dill is a Program Coordinator for the Regional Math and Science Center at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Grand Valley State University. Her work with K-12 education is focused on planning, directing, and facilitating student programming and teacher professional development in science, technology and mathematics. She has eight years of experience with collaborative student programs such as; the Science, Technology and

Conference Session

Electrical ET Curriculum and Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Spezia, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

assessment criteria.The project assessment plan consists of five components: individual task technical evaluationusing a memo format, informal oral task/project presentations, individual formal technicalreports, peer assessment of technical and self-management skills, and self-assessment oftechnical and self-management skills. For the first assessment component, each team memberreports task progress to the instructor three times during the project schedule in the form of abusiness memo with task deliverables attached. The instructor assesses student work based onthree criteria: 1) adherence to schedule milestones, 2) technical and grammatical correctness, 3)completeness of presented work when compared to the expectations defined in the

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Friauf, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Steven Reyer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

final designreports, detailing the exact design, and including test plans and results. These three reportsrequire significant team cooperation to produce – defining tasks, assigning work, meetingdeadlines, agreeing on technical aspects, integrating ideas, and managing the writing project.The quality of the reports typically improves as the quarters progress, with the teams meshingbetter and polishing their writing skills. It is important that each team report have a formal“editor” – the person who not only proofreads the report, but ensures that the tone and style ofthe writing is consistent. When this is not employed, the authors have often observed an abrupt“jump” in tone from one chapter to the next.Formal presentations are required at the

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jin-Hwan Lee, University of Cincinnati; Ali Asgar Bhagat, University of Cincinnati; Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

communication skills with sufficient understanding andknowledge of their research topics. At the end of spring quarter, senior students prepared andperformed a final senior project presentation well. A team-based project allowed peer learning,teaching, and tutoring as well as expository instruction. Through multidisciplinarycollaborations project, senior students could experience not only BioMEMS research but also theimportance of safety issues, improvement of communication skills between team members and Page 13.1042.7activities, and careful schedule planning to reduce dead time. After finishing the two projects,one of three students

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Three

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thorsten Wagener, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

couple students said that a little more real world applicationwouldn’t “hurt” but that the course already had a lot of connections. Another reason that thepercentage is still high is that some students misinterpreted the question. While the questionspecifically asked if there needs to be a stronger link to real-world examples in the course, basedon some of the responses, it appears that some students read the question as “Do you think thereneeds to be a strong link to real-world examples?” We plan to revise this item in future surveysto avoid this misinterpretation.While not one of the highest rating items on the rating scale, some students expressed thatincreased interest and attention is one of the benefits of completing the case studies

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Kyun Lee, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer; R. William Graff, LeTourneau University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

subjects, andthat engineering classes must contain enough material to motivate students. Page 13.1013.12 Graph 15 Graph 166. Goal after graduationGraphs 17 and 18 show the students’ goal after graduation by years and by total numbersrespectively. While 22 % of students are undecided, 62 % of students plan to join industry and14 % plan to study at graduate schools. However, the number of students who considergraduate schools is actually decreasing from freshmen to seniors. This fact needs more study

Conference Session

Enhancing K12 Mathematics Education with Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wendy Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Barbara Brizuela, Tufts University; Peter Wong, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

are embedded in some greater context that makes the design work have a purpose, and (2) the activities make mathematics a necessary means to designing an effective product or process.For example, in the Amazon Mission unit (consisting of three week-long design challenges thatcan be done throughout the year), students read a one page introduction that invites students to Page 13.759.2imagine that they are planning to visit an indigenous people group in the Amazon rainforest.Students learn that many Yanomami people suffer from malaria and that their first designchallenge is to design a prototype of a medicine carrier that can

Conference Session

Potpourri II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Waterfall, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Elizabeth Albrecht, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

grows and he/she eventuallyemerges as a mature functional professional capable of standing on his/her own. In that vein,King states that “Developmental academic advising is both a process and an orientation. Itreflects the idea of movement and progression. It goes beyond simply giving information orsigning a form.”3 Raushi also suggests, “to advise from a developmental perspective is toview students at work on life tasks in the context of their whole life settings, including thecollege experience.”4 “Crookston believed that higher education provided opportunities forstudents to develop a plan to achieve self-fulfilling lives and that teaching included any

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Technical Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Anand Lakshmikanth, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; John Cundiff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrew Fulton, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

Engineering Education (EngE) and Page 13.107.2the bioprocess wing of the Biological Systems Engineering (BSE) at Virginia Tech was launchedin September 2004. The first project was awarded in Fall of 2003 and became a planning projectfor the second funding from NSF for the DLR. This DLR project, funded in Fall 2004, focusedon reformulating the engineering curriculum for specifically bioprocess engineering program inthe Department of Biological Systems Engineering in conjunction with the freshman program inthe Department of Engineering Education and School of Education12. The formed committeeassessed a need for students improving their skills by having

Collection

2008 GSW

Authors

Matthias W. Pleil

engineer. Here are some examples ofstudents who have kept in contact: - Shannon C. – was working at a micro power company and is now working as an intern at Sandia National Laboratories while pursuing a Mechanical Engineering degree. - Linda P. – working full time at a micro optical startup MEMS company and is currently completing her two year degree in Manufacturing Technology with a MEMS concentration. Linda was home schooled and now plans to continue her education in engineering with the ultimate goal of joining NASA and participating in future Mars missions. - Brian S. – completing his two year AAS degree and plans to pursue a degree in engineering. - Paul T. – completing a

Conference Session

Focus on Under-Represented Women

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Donohue, University of Virginia; Larry Richards, University of Virginia; Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

curriculum, faculty, administration, degreerequirements, course schedules, plans of study, instructional techniques, access to researchopportunities and mentoring/advising relationships in order to neutralize barriers toretention/persistence most effectively. In other words, the Victorian, industrial model oftechnical education in which students are processed like so many widgets is no longer viable andmust be reassessed. The persistence of this out-of-date model is a testament to, among otherconsiderations, institutional inertia; no other industry would tolerate overall “wastage” (notretained to graduation) of roughly half the “product.”53Calls for institutional reform are not new in the engineering education community; see, forexample, the

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Panchul, UTSA; David Akopian, UTSA

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

constant flow of the students who has their very first experience with not only Page 13.428.8cell phone programming, but also with programming in general. That is why the toolkit includesmeans for own software application development. If beginners can use included libraries for theexperimenting without any additional programming, then advanced users can use ourdevelopment templates to include their own algorithms. The basis of the application and itsbuilding blocks could be dissected to show how it works inside and why it was the best way todo it.Development and debuggingThe development of the application has the cycle: planning, writing the code

Conference Session

Sustainability and Environmental Issues

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Achintya Bezbaruah, North Dakota State University; Wei Lin, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

needed for an environmental manager.Assignments, Tests, and Hands-on Model DemonstrationsFive to seven homework assignments and three to four tests are planned during a semester.Student inputs are being used to decide on the nature of assignments and tests. Assignments aredesigned to help the students learn additional topics not extensively covered in the class and todevelop the ability for critical analysis and problem solving. In-class tests were done away withafter the first year based on student feedback and instructor’s own evaluation. It was felt that theclass time spend on in-class tests can be better utilized for course discussion. Presently all testsare take-home and more extensive than the conventional in-class ones. The questions in

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lyubov Kurkalova, North Carolina A&T State University; Keith Schimmel, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephen Johnston, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

previousexposure to economics. Another source of diversity in the courses is the presence of internationalstudents from a number of different countries. To aid with overcoming these challenges, aconcise economics primer has been developed that students are required to go through andanswer questions about before the first meeting of EES 810. Since some students have had someeconomics coursework previously while others have not, the primer is intended to help “level theplaying field” in terms of economics background among these students. To this point theaccountability for going through the primer has only been in terms of the questions in it being thefirst homework assignment in the course. In the future, we plan to provide a course pre-test toprovide a

Conference Session

Institutional and Curricular Reform

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Gardner, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Amy Moll, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, which has many other priorities. For example, the future ofone of our centerpiece efforts, supplemental instruction in math, is on hold. The extensiveassessment yielded evidence of success on the part of the participating students, student surveysindicated this was their favored method of supplemental support (as opposed to the traditionaltutoring center, going to the professor's office hours, and other methods) and that it boosted theirconfidence in math. Yet this SI program is expensive (at least $50,000 a year to support Pre-calculus through Calculus II). Still, the tutorial services director is an advocate of this programand the associate vice president for undergraduate studies has already funded training for SIdirectors and plans to move

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Doboli, State University of New York-Stony Brook; Eddie Currie, Resonance Publications, Inc.; Patrick Kane, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation; Dave Van Ess, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

it hard to explore the open-ended aspects of their projectdescription, as well as the correlations between the precision – speed – and memoryrequirements of the subsystems.Student suggestions for improvement included an overview presentation of popular embeddedarchitectures (including FPGAs) and summaries of the strength and weaknesses of each.Students also indicated that the work requires very good coursework planning so that the labwork and course project work do not become overwhelming.Another aspect that we plan to further detail is the impact of constraints such as power andenergy consumption on reconfigurable embedded design. We are considering the presentation ofmodels for power and energy consumption in analog, digital hardware and

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ram Mohan, North Carolina A&T State University; Vinaya Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; Ajit Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Page 13.590.7interdisciplinary course such as this is that the teaching or mentoring rarely ended with the end ofthe semester or even with an ‘A’ grade. The statistical concepts introduced to the students havemade them realize that in a research study the time to see a statistician is not when the data hasbeen collected but when planning for the data collection. This was found to be the case in fewcase study observations. Few examples of such experiences are: ‚ “John Smith” came to see me this summer when he started planning his study to discuss his research design and its validity and of course the type of data he plans to collect and the appropriate methods to analyze. ‚ “Jane Jones” knew she would need to use regression

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mihaela Radu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Clint Cole, Washington State University, Pullman; Mircea Alexandru Dabacan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Shannon Sexton, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, teaching in the areas of digital and data acquisition systems. His current research interests include data acquisition systems, FPGA design, and new educational methods to teach digital systems design.Shannon Sexton, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology Shannon Sexton received her B.S. from Ball State University in 2001 and her M.A. degree in Experimental Psychology from Indiana State University in 2003. She has completed 59 hours toward her PhD in Social Psychology from Northern Illinois University. She currently works as Director of Assessment at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where she assists faculty in planning, conducting, and analyzing

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Slater, Wright State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

standard building blocks, and thuseasily built, and rebuilt, until success is achieved, or in many cases directly from plans. Plans fortrebuchets abound on the Internet, and the impression becomes one of engineering as followingplans for construction. Unfortunately for them, the design requirements for the competition preclude using a “canned”design, and the problem is one of multi-dimensional constrained optimization. Of course thereis no expectation that the phrase “multi-dimensional constrained optimization” would mean any-thing, but it was surprising how much resistance existed to using computational tools in the wayengineers do. One of the requirements was that the arm length be below what turned out to be arather ridiculously long length

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Forsberg, Hofstra University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

course led to theextension of KSB usage to the ENGG 170 laboratory course.The ENGG 170 laboratory course is taken by mechanical engineering seniors. Therewere twelve (12) students in the Spring 2008 offering of the course. This paper describesthe course and the use of KSBs in detail. It includes one of the KSB documentsdeveloped for the course. It also discusses the students' responses to the use of KSBs andoutlines planned future work.BackgroundKnowledge and Skill Builders (KSBs) were originally developed for middle schoolstudents. They are a progression of short, focused activities by which students increasetheir knowledge and skill base before addressing a specific design problem. The KSBsare an integral part of the "informed" design process

Conference Session

Instructional Innovations in AEC Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stan Guidera, Bowling Green State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

project calledfor an integrated and “explicit” – i.e. visible - structural system. The structural system was tosuggest a structural skin via a two directional system with “logical” spacing. Students had theoption to develop the structure as an exterior system, an interior system, or any combination ofboth interior and exterior.Upon completion of the initial design task, students were required to submit representations oftheir proposals. These included rendered orthographic views of the top (plan), a side view(elevation), and a sliced view (section). Two 3-D renderings were also submitted. Allrepresentations were to include a light source, shadows, and generic materiality, and allrepresentations other than the top (plan) view required human-scaled

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra Brockway, Stevens Institute of Technology; Elisabeth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Mercedes McKay, Stevens Institute of Technology; Dawna Schultz, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

incorporating modules from the Museum of Science, Boston’s Engineeringis Elementary (EiE) curriculum last year after participating in EOFNJ professional developmentactivities. And there are plans to implement a module in grade 5 classes in the near future.Implementation at the elementary level involved recruiting interested teachers to be lead teachersin their schools. These teachers participated first in the professional development activities andbe the first to implement the module in their classrooms. Following this initial implementation,the remaining teachers received professional development training from EOFNJ trainers, atraining session that was also attended by the lead teachers to provide an opportunity for them toshare their experiences with

Conference Session

Projects and Problems in First-Year Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Ganesh Balasubramanian, Virginia Tech; Ishwar Puri, Virginia Tech; Scott Case, Virginia Tech; Roop Mahajan, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

engineeringeducation experts. In this paper, we discuss the proposed modules that are being/alreadyimplemented in support of the spiral theory based nanotechnology option within the ESMprogram. Additionally, we cover implementation details of a freshman module that is targeted atintroducing basic nanotechnology concepts. This module, which sits at the bottom of the spiralframework, was successfully implemented in a freshman engineering course with ~1500 studentsin Fall 2008. Finally, we discuss our plans for implementing the remaining components of thenanotechnology spiral. Page 14.1192.4   Nanotechnology Option

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaobo Peng, Prairie View A&M University; Katie Grantham Lough, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Benjamin Dow, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

participating campuses, the plug-in needs to be downloaded and installed on the client computers. This process can take much longer and can be more complicated than you imagine. For instance, at MS&T the request to install any software in computer labs must be submitted to IT three months in advance. We did not realize this until the project started. This caused some delay for the students to start using TcC.(3) It is essential to ensure that the same versions of the software are used by the teams. If not, how to make the data compatible should be taken into account when planning the project. In pilot project 2, PVAMU has NX3 and MS&T uses NX5. The students at PVAMU encountered problems while using the models created by

Conference Session

Experiments in Remote-access Laboratories

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Diong, Texas Christian University; Jamie Smith, Lockheed-Martin Aeronautics; Edward Kolesar, Texas Christian University; Rene Cote, Texas Christian University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

may allow less well-equipped laboratories the capability to perform the same experimentas other more privileged laboratories.Typical reservations concerned the shortcomings of specific aspects of this remote experiment’simplementation rather than the fundamental concept, e.g., “see the changes of the MEMS occurin real time versus [snapshots],” and “need [a better, more accurate] way to measure changes indeflection.”VII. Project ImpactThis project is making a positive contribution to the infrastructure for research and education.Both students and researchers are, or will be, benefiting from the MEMS remote experimentationsystem. We also plan to use it to increase the public’s awareness of how science and technologyaffects our daily lives

Conference Session

Introduction to Materials Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Materials

motivations and interests. Csikszentmihalyi captures the personal andenvironmental aspects of creativity well in his statement that, “creativity does not happen insidepeople’s heads, but in the interaction between a person’s thoughts and a sociocultural context.”9Conceptualizations of AutonomyDeci and Ryan define autonomy as “volition – the organismic desire to self-organize experienceand behavior and to have activity be concordant with one’s integrated sense of self.”10 In hiswork in self-directed and lifelong learning, Candy describes autonomous individuals as thosewho are able to conceive of goals, exercise freedom of choice in thought and action, resistinward or outward constraints, self-reflect, fearlessly implement plans of action, exercise

Conference Session

Learning as a Community

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sondra Miller, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Amy Moll, Boise State University; Melissa Wintrow, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

scholarship were provided with additionalfunding for University Housing costs to encourage participation in the ERC because communitybuilding is one of the scholarship’s tenets. Academic eligibility for this scholarship is relativelymoderate, giving financially needy students with diverse backgrounds the opportunity to attendcollege. In this way, students participating in the ERC and NSF scholarship recipients arerepresentative of our engineering student population. Participation in the ERC by NSFscholarship recipients included: 10 of 28 in the fall 2007 semester, 9 of 26 in the spring 2008semester, and 6 of 22 in the fall 2008 semester).Each RC community is supported by a program assistant (PA) who works in close relationshipwith the FiR in planning

Conference Session

Getting Started: Objectives, Rubrics, Evaluations, and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

degree of how a customer’s want is influenced by a technical characteristic. Moredetailed descriptions can be found in references 10-15. Prusak described use of QFD inassessment of course activities for learning outcomes in 5 sophomore, junior and senior coursesin Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology programs plus industrial co-op 15. Materials Processing classroom / lab Sophomore Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing classroom Junior/Sophomore Computer Aided Planning classroom / computer lab Junior Manuf. Process Planning and Estimating classroom / lab on occasion Senior Design for Manufacture classroom / lab on