Conference Session

Best of the NEE

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

, Regarding grading, I often find it useful to retroactively change disasters into extra-credit opportunities. That is, I explain that the problem won't count against anyone's grade, but that those students who managed against all odds to solve (or make substantial headway toward solving) a very difficult (or impossible) problem will be rewarded with extra-credit points.Students should not expect assignments to be perfect. Several instructors made the point that inthe real world, requirements are incompletely specified, change during the project, etc. As KathyRoberson9 put it, Up front, and several times during the semester, I explain to my students that they are preparing for a career where they will frequently be

Conference Session

Undergraduate Space Design and Project Courses

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Kuhlman, West Virginia University; Donald Gray, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

flight travel to Houston and participate in the entire RGSFOPexperience, and return to campus with a greater self confidence, energized to moreaggressively pursue their professional careers. They experience a world of opportunityaround them that we cannot show them as dramatically here on campus, and they respond tothis experience. Program participants have moved on to successful careers in aerospaceengineering. Some have gone on to graduate school; two former MRT3 team members inparticular have completed graduate degrees at WVU, working on spray cooling andcontinuing their reduced gravity flights through collaboration with a team of thermalresearchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio17-19. From thisinformation, we are

Conference Session

Innovative Programs - Structure, Delivery, Evaluation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tristan Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

in Austria havecreated a training program open to all “teaching teachers”. Participation is voluntarily and oftenused as a means of continuous professional development to support career development.Successful completion of their program leads to professional registration as ING-PAED IGPP(International Professional Engineering Educator).IGIP, together with SEFI, the European Society of Engineering Education14 (the equivalent ofASEE in the US) represent the largest network of higher education engineering institutions andof individuals involved in engineering education in Europe. It promotes information exchangeabout current developments in the field of engineering education between teachers, researchersand students in the various European

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

recognize the importance of teaming and writing skills fortheir careers. Table 15: Summary of Grades for Individual Assignments Ind. Assign Type %1 Avg. 2 SD3 Miss4 HW#1 survey 1.0 4.0 0 0 HW#2 resume 1.0 4.0 0 0 HW#3 demo 0.5 3.82 0.83 3 HW#4 IP & C&S 2.0 3.51 1.24 6 HW#5 specs 3.5 2.43 1.15 7 HW#6 ethics 1.5 2.93 1.35 11 HW#7 economics 2.0 1.82 1.24

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zarjon Baha, Purdue University; Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

and female students were admitted to the Faculty of Engineering at KabulUniversity, and Kabul Polytechnic Institute, through a general University Entrance Examthat was conducted by the Ministry of Higher Education. Among the applicants,Engineering Faculty was the third favourite career of higher learning after the Medical andLaw faculties in the country.In addition to Faculty of Engineering at Kabul University, and Kabul Polytechnic, severaltechnical community colleges and vocational high schools existed in Afghanistan wheretechnicians and skilled workers in various fields of technology were educated. There wasalso a well-established two-year telecommunication college within the Ministry ofCommunications which trained technicians for the

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering for a Flat World

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Mariasingam, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Thomas Smith, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Tagged Divisions

International

profession,and the profile of the engineer of the future. Consequently, the engineers of tomorrow will beexpected to function differently from today as they face new changing work environments.Kenney and Dossani5 say, The career of the engineer of the future is likely to take one of two directions. Engineers employed in organizations will necessarily be required to coordinate projects having global workforces. The critical words in the previous sentence (to which current engineering education pays little attention) are “coordinate” and “global.” [Italics added]The new profile of an engineer requires new set of skills. Engineering education has to change toimpart this new set of skills. Industry has begun to respond to the

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer - II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jesse Huguet, University of Alabama; Keith Woodbury, University of Alabama; Robert Taylor, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

computational problem solvingearlier in their college careers by developing Microsoft Excel-based modules to be used asteaching tools in the sophomore and junior-level thermodynamics and heat transfer courses. TheMS Excel package was chosen as a software platform for this purpose because of its ubiquitousnature and its ability to utilize Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros in a spreadsheetformat.In the sophomore-level thermodynamics course, much of the class material focuses on theproperties of steam and ideal gases. Therefore, a suite of Microsoft Excel functions to computesteam and ideal gas properties and assist in analyzing properties of states and processes has beendeveloped. A number of Excel packages that pertained to the computation of

Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

William Jordan

prime mover behind getting the grant, and he had a greater apparent need for the money.People who believe in a utilitarian theory could argue for either decision. Smith should take themoney for he has a greater need for it and he is the main person on the project. Alternatively,Smith should not take the money for if he was exposed it would hurt his career. A potentiallyruined career is not worth a month of salary support.Duty theories could also argue the point either way. Some would say that Smith has a duty toprovide for his family. Others would argue that Smith has a greater duty to be honest withBrown and tell him about the salary support.People who believe in rights theories would probably criticize a choice by Smith to keep themoney

Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

Bill Elmore; Stan Napper

prime mover behind getting the grant, and he had a greater apparent need for the money.People who believe in a utilitarian theory could argue for either decision. Smith should take themoney for he has a greater need for it and he is the main person on the project. Alternatively,Smith should not take the money for if he was exposed it would hurt his career. A potentiallyruined career is not worth a month of salary support.Duty theories could also argue the point either way. Some would say that Smith has a duty toprovide for his family. Others would argue that Smith has a greater duty to be honest withBrown and tell him about the salary support.People who believe in rights theories would probably criticize a choice by Smith to keep themoney

Conference Session

FPD4 - Teaching Methods for First Year Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Stan Cronk, Louisiana Tech University; Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mark Barker, Louisiana Tech University; Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Laboratory Improvement grant allowed us to extend the curriculum to all 280 freshman engineering students taking ENGR 120 in the fall of 2007. Approximately 400 freshman students have enrolled in the course sequences based on the Living with the Lab curriculum during the current 2007-2008 academic year. During efforts to develop a formal assessment plan to determine the effectiveness of the new courses, we realized that we needed a set of guideposts to help us determine if our strategies were effective not only in teaching students, but also in preparing them for their engineering careers. We realized that the work sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering to identify attributes of “The Engineer of 2020”17 aligned closely with our efforts

Conference Session

STEM Pipeline: Pre-College to Post-Baccalaureate

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gillian Nicholls, University of Pittsburgh; Harvey Wolfe, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

volume of data required was judged to be impractical. Instead,existing data sources that could be adapted for the purposes of this analysis were sought.Extensive research has been performed about students’ educational experiences in high schooland college so several sources were considered. Among them were a series of longitudinalstudies conducted by the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics(NCES) collecting information about students as they progress through secondary education andcollege. The most recent of these studies to be completed is the National Education LongitudinalStudy of 1988 (NELS:88)11 which collected extensive demographic, experiential, attitudinal,educational, and career data from students at set

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Anthony, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Marjory Palius, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Carolyn Maher, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Prabhas Moghe, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

include design of cell-interactive biomaterials, nanobiotechnology, and cell and tissue engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), member of the Editorial Board of the journal Acta Biomaterialia, and a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and Johnson & Johnson Discovery Award. He is the coauthor on a recent book on Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering published by Academic Press. He received a B.S. (Distinction) in Chemical Engineering from University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT), University of Bombay, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (Bioengineering) at the University of Minnesota, and postdoctoral

Conference Session

Innovative K-12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Michael Khoo, University of Southern California; Ellis Meng, University of Southern California; Joseph Cocozza, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

their students. Thisexperience facilitates the conveyance of these standards to their students and help makescience and engineering interesting and relevant to them. The university faculty expectthat this in turn will encourage more pre-college students to pursue science andengineering studies in college by increasing their understanding of engineering andtechnological innovation and getting them excited about careers in STEMS fields. Wewill be measuring the level of science interest of the K-12 students whom the teachersteach to measure program success over time.Specific Experiences for RET TeachersEach of the BME laboratories involved in the BMERET program has a tradition of anddedication to the education and preparation of postdoctoral

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Callie Ruben, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Women Engineers. Her awards are based on her mentoring of students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE and ASEE Fellow, she is the PIC IV Chair and a frequent speaker on career opportunities in engineering, especially for women and minority students.Callie Ruben, Arizona State University Callie Rubin is a Senior in Aerospace Engineering at Arizona State University. She is an active member of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and the Society of Women Engineers. Callie was the Assistant Program Coordinator for Engineering Diversity Programs and the Summer Minority Engineering Program during

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Wittenborn, Purdue University; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Craig Miller, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

data, qualitative data were also collected. Thesedata were obtained through short questionnaires throughout the course as well as follow-upinterviews with students two months after the conclusion of the course. These interviews helpedto enrich the quantitative data by providing explanations of students’ experiences in the class inmore detail and investigating how well the course content relates to their career. The two-monthfollow-up interviews with students also provided insight on the transportability of the coursecontent into the employees’ job tasks after completion of the course. The goal of this research isto determine if the teaching of PLM theories and high-end CAD skills can effectively be taughtin a blended learning

Conference Session

Topics in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Goldberg, Buffalo State College; Paul Siciliano, Buffalo State College; Clark Greene, Buffalo State College; Steve Macho, Buffalo State College

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

-related career paths awareness.”190 students found the instructors to be “good” or better, with 180 students noting the materialswere “good” or better. 94% of the students noted they would participate in EOF courses againnext summer if available and 96% said they would recommend EoF courses to colleagues. Thecontent of the courses was found relevant and useful by 96%.Feedback from Instructors for future DECS workshops: Instructors noted that theparticipant group consisted of a wide variation in subject-matter expertise. It was suggested thatfuture workshops be structured for beginner and advanced participants. It was also suggestedthat EoF provide participants with “refresher” opportunities.In a situation where the coursework consists of numerous

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics - Courses and Curricula

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald McEachron, Drexel University; Sheila Vaidya, Drexel University; Stacey Ake, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

. Multiple writing assignments arebuilt into each WI course with the proviso that each assignment go through multiple drafts.Students work with specially trained tutors who review each draft and work with students toimprove their writing as the students proceed from draft to draft. Thus, unlike a term or researchpaper which may have at most two drafts and often only one, these writing assignments arereviewed and revised several times to ensure that lessons about effective communication arethoroughly learned. By selecting courses in a developmentally appropriate manner, students’progress in communication skills can be tracked over their academic careers. This provides fortimely intervention should adequate progress not be observed. In addition, the

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosario Gil, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Elio Sancristobal, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Sergio Martin, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Antonio Colmenar, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Gabriel Diaz, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Martin Llamas, Universidad de Vigo; Edmundo Tovar, Polytechnic University, Montegancedo; Alfonso Duran, Carlos III University of Madrid; juan peire, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Manuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

country and their own interests. ̇ Academic aspects, this is the most important part, or at least it should be. Studies aimed at the more practical or vocational clashed with the design of some careers in particular with the traditional engineering degrees.Beyond these commonalities, each country must deal with various obstacles wherever its currenteducational system differs from the new European model. In Spain, the current model hadmainly two types of degrees: “Diplomatura” and technical engineering (3-year); and“Licenciatura” and engineering degree (5 or 6-year). 3-year degrees would be equivalent to aBS/BSc and 5-year degrees would be equivalent to a MA/MSc. However, these degrees are notexactly equivalent. 3-year degrees

Conference Session

Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shanna Daly, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

continue to presentdefinitions of design, it is more interesting to point out that none of these definitions thatcould be presented come from professionals who design on a regular basis as a part oftheir careers. The lack of understanding design from this perspective prompted theresearch study presented in this paper. My search to find a research approach to addressthis question of how professional designers understood what it means to design lead toinvestigations on an approach called phenomenography. This approach yielded resultsthat contributed to understanding the broad picture of what it means to design. Theintention of this paper is to emphasize the design and outcomes of phenomenography as aresearch approach. Presenting the research design

Conference Session

Professional Issues in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

as a technical course that requires a labcomponent. The underlying thought being that engineering students will have numerouslaboratory experiences within their engineering academic career and being able to get acourse on the history of modern engineering which counts toward a core requirementearly in their career will provide them an unique insight into engineering. Additionally,the creative hands-on laboratory experiences and associated data collection willencourage some of the non-engineering students to consider switching to engineering!The presentation of engineering in the modern world within ENGR 1200 at UT Tyler alsoincludes laboratory experiences for the freshmen engineering students. These laboratoryexperiences come from the Summer

Conference Session

ERM Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Snyder, Taylor University; Elise Romines, Taylor University; Rachel Dodge, Taylor University; Jason Kruegar, Taylor University; Travis Booth, Taylor University; Josh Gates, Taylor University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

14.907.2Background of Program For four years, Taylor University’s HARP program has been providing students withthe opportunity apply their technical science and math instruction to interesting and relevantproblems. The unique experience of a high-altitude balloon launch, including team-basedproblem solving, prototyping, construction and testing of experimentation, and the “hard”deadline of a launch, gives students a taste of real-world project experience, and has helpedTaylor students be competitive as they pursue education and career goals beyond theundergraduate level. A student participant in the HARP curriculum component of a 2006Introduction to Electronics class said, “Working on the balloon project was an excellentopportunity to put theory

Conference Session

International Study Abroad Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Hornfeck, Lafayette College; Antonia Gohr, Jacobs University Bremen

Tagged Divisions

International

significant part of their undergraduate career. With the program now five years into itsexistence, the Engineering Division at Lafayette, along with the Off-Campus Study Office, mightwell consider a comparative study of engineering graduates at the 5-year mark in their careers,and the effect that studying abroad has had on their personal and professional lives.The tailor-made program described in this paper has been designed according to specificrequirements and conditions of both Lafayette College and Jacobs University. As shown, such aprogram is shaped by complex structures. However, the successful elements presented here canserve as guidelines for other institutions that plan to establish similar partnerships. Table 1 belowsummarizes the key

Conference Session

Early Engineering Design Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn S Jordan, Purdue University; Nielsen Pereira, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

EngineersAbstract Hands-on learning experiences and interactive learning environments can be effective inteaching K-12 students. Design, in essence, is an interactive, hands-on experience. Engineeringdesign can be taught in the classroom using innovative hands-on projects, such as designing andbuilding serve to teach design, promote creativity, and provide opportunities for hands-onproblem solving, in addition to giving students experience working in cooperative teams. In turn,these experiences could encourage students to consider future careers in engineering and science. This paper explores findings from data collected during the authors’ recent experienceteaching a group of fifteen 4th – 6th grade students enrolled in a 6-week Saturday

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Sanders, Virginia Tech; Thomas Sherman, Virginia Tech; Hyuksoo Kwon, Virginia Tech; James Pembridge, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

fact that nearly half (47.4%) associated their programs with “vocational” rather than“general” education. This is likely due to the fact that a large majority of states have alwaysadministered Technology Education under the heading of “Vocational Education” or, morerecently, “Career & Technical Education.” Moreover, many probably don’t consider high school“engineering education” (e.g., PLTW) as vocational in nature, because it typically leads to apostsecondary vocational track rather than to a vocation in the trades immediately upon highschool graduation.Table 3: Teachers’ Beliefs Regarding the PURPOSES of Technology Education Purposes of Technology Education Rating Rank

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Oakes, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Participation: A student can participate in an EPICS team for more than one semester and even their entire career. ≠ Variable Credit Hours: An EPICS student can earn one or two credits per semester. ≠ Multidisciplinary Teams: In the 2007-08 academic year, 30 different majors participated in EPICS. ≠ Start-to-Finish Design Experience: EPICS provides a start-to-finish design experience for students. Projects begin with problem identification done by the students and moves through delivery of the project. The long-term structure allows EPICS to provide support for fielded projects, an additional value to the community partners

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships, Teaching Strategies & Collaborative Networks (IUCEE, IFEES, LACCEI.... )

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andy Ward, Ohio State University; Ann Christy, Ohio State University; Robert J. Gustafson; Jessica D'Ambrosio; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

International

engineeringprograms and experiences for their students, which can take many forms including dual degrees,exchange programs, extended field trips, extension activities, internships, mentored travel,partner sub-contracts, project based learning / service learning, and research abroad1. Withrespect to African partnerships, some of the programs have linked U.S. engineering students withcounterparts and projects in Benin5,6, Ghana7, South Africa8, and others. It has been suggestedthat all engineering students should have a passport before they graduate and be prepared towork in various parts of the world throughout their career, rather than in only one nation orcontinent. Prior to graduation, how international experience might be provided prior tograduation might

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phil Rawles, Purdue University; Anthony Smith, Purdue University; Raymond Hansen, Purdue University; Jeffrey Sprankle, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

, malware and SPAMcontrol, the continued evolution in wireless networks, and support for new applicationdevelopment and deployment models keep IT educators busy ensuring their courses andcurricula are kept in sync with changes in the industry.In addition to changes in the industry, there are changes in the student body. Today’s students aremuch more technology savvy than those entering the program just five years ago. These studentsare also taking internships earlier in their college careers, creating a need to ensure they areprepared for these earlier industrial experience opportunities.As part of our ongoing continuous improvement process the faculty in the Department ofComputer and Information Technology at Purdue University has recently

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

, including those specifically spelled out in the Title IX implementingregulations, as well as identifying promising practices to promote gender equity:27 admissions,recruitment, outreach and retention; faculty advising and career counseling; research participationand classroom experiences; treatment of students and faculty on the basis of parental/maritalstatus; safety policies; and sexual harassment policies.17,18,19,20,21 NASA’s reports make clear thatthe agency examined admissions statistics, retention statistics, data relevant to the utility ofparticular policies such as family leave, and more. Where NASA identified potential problems,such as the chilly or toxic climate in one physics department, it did take into account the opinionsof

Conference Session

Sustainable and Urban Development

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farshad Rajabipour, University of Hawaii, Manoa; Aleksandra Radlinska, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

with more general and conceptual ideas.We also sought opinion from the industry advisory boards (IABs) on what new skills wouldbenefit the civil engineering graduates the most in their career. Their common answer was thatwhile CE graduates are good in numerical solution of traditional engineering problems, theyoften lack creativity in defining new problems and in offering innovative solutions. In the IABs’opinion, two areas of particular importance in near future will be (a) design and construction ofgreen buildings, especially as outlined by LEED, and (b) development and rehabilitation ofrobust civil infrastructure7. In addition, CE graduates need to improve their communication andwriting skills and should be able to work in interdisciplinary

Conference Session

Engineering Courses for Non-engineers

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Blake, Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

system work. The story includesmany examples where engineers, operating under constraints, identify and solve problems.October Sky tells an autobiographical story of a group of young men who, after a long learningcurve with many failures, develops the technology to make very successful small rockets. Whilethis is a story about high school students, it reflects the perspective of an author who went on toan engineering career with NASA, and the story is a useful study for technological projects atany level. Moving to fiction and a setting in the distant future, Forbidden Planet tells a story ofthe enticing benefits of new technological marvels. It also explores the risks of unintended andunanticipated consequences. While these movies illustrate