Conference Session

Models of community engagement practices

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Mazzurco, Purdue University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is Assistant Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He is also an Associate Director of Purdue’s Global En- gineering Program, leads the Global Engineering Education Collaboratory (GEEC) research group, and is the recent recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Dr. Jesiek draws on expertise from engineering, computing, and the social sciences to advance understanding of geographic, disciplinary, and

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

R. William Graff; Paul Leiffer

Student Observations over the Last 25 Years R. William Graff, Paul R. Leiffer LeTourneau UniversityAbstractMost engineering faculty who have taught for over ten years have raised a question atsome point: “Is it me, or have students changed since I began teaching?”Using input from university statistics, faculty, staff, and student surveys, publishedliterature, and course grade records over twenty-five years, the authors have identifiedtwelve trends and observations regarding current students that impact student success andpreparation for engineering careers. While many of these trends are positive and shouldbe encouraged, a few are disturbing and should be

Conference Session

Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacqueline Isaacs

of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”EvaluationUnder the direction of Eric Heller, Ed.D., the Research and Evaluation Group of the University ofMassachusetts’ Donahue Institute will conduct the evaluation of the courses. The evaluation will beorganized around the questions of the extent to which the education activities of the CHN increase publicawareness of the importance of science and technology to society and prepare undergraduate and graduatestudents in the participating institutions for careers in research as well as manufacturing related tonanotechnology. The assessment will be addressed from both an

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

learning: 95% SL versus 77% CL • Knowledge is structured around major concepts/principles: 100% SL versus 46% CL • Learning is shaped by the context in which it appears: 53% SL versus 0% CLIt was very apparent that while the CL students were aware that they were doing something, theSL students were more aware that they were learning and of how that learning impacted theirengineering career. It is likely that the SL first-year students have created a better understandingof the major concepts that create the structure for learning engineering because of theirinteraction with the upperclassmen and mentors.Attitude Toward ExperienceThe last element we considered in our comparison was the attitude of the students toward theexperience. Cronbach

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Livesay; Kay C Dee

the change observed in the same student population between the testand retest administrations of the ILS. Overall, students reported the same general preference forthe visual learning, but were less active, more sensing, and less global in the retest as comparedwith the test. It seems expected that learning style preferences of engineering students mightchange to some degree throughout a college career, since as faculty we would expect studentexperiences and skills (e.g. problem solving, etc.) to develop with time (we hope!). However,for test-retest administrations within the same semester, large changes in the learning stylepreferences would likely not be expected. At the same time, the 1st administration in the presentwork was conducted on

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

resources mature. The stated goal of thismodel is to allow undergraduate majors in Information Systems and Computer Science toassume positions in careers that evolve through technical knowledge areas and into management Page 10.215.4of information security. The resulting curriculum draft defines programs of one to four coursesand presents a linear spectrum of options that has in one extreme the single-course approach and “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”the track approach in the other. The

Conference Session

Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sonia Sanchez; S. Khalid Latif; Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler; Kazem Kazerounian

date. These content areas are dynamic in nature and will evolve astechnology itself evolves.In the second section, Engineering Tools, its focus is to address the necessary tools required toimplement the Content Standards. As stated, the goals outlined in the Engineering Toolssection consist of the following statements. “Engineering tools are essential in the simplification, management, and communication of complex tasks ranging from academic inquiry to personal application. Due to the complexity of these content standards, many of these tools are required for their meaningful exploration. Proficiency with these tools is expected to be acquired cumulatively over the tenure of a high school career.”It is important

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education 1) The senior design sequence of courses are core courses and must be taken by all undergraduate engineering students, regardless of their career interests or abilities and 2) Even on entrepreneurial teams, not all team members are intending to follow an entrepreneurial path after graduation The authors observe that the teams and individuals which do better in their performance on these deliverables are always a combination of bright, excited and diligent. This also is a fair description of the student entrepreneurs in the classes

Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Cecil

areasincluding Anthony in Texas. The first phase of this outreach approach involved (a)introducing students in grades 4 – 12 to virtual reality technology through miniworkshops (duration: four to eight hours) and use it as a vehicle to kindle their interest inengineering careers, (b) introducing teachers in middle and high schools to cutting edgesoftware technologies and train / educate them in virtual engineering so that they can inturn train/educate their colleagues and students.As part of Soaring Eagle, a collaborative partnership is being undertaken between theVirtual Enterprise Engineering Laboratory at NMSU and the Mescalero Apache Schoolsin the Mescalero Apache Reservation. While Native American students from otherreservations have also

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Gabriele

educate students for careers innew product invention and development with a sense for both the technical and social issues.PDI is a dual major program satisfying the requirements for the Bachelor of Science programs inMechanical Engineering, and Science, Technology and Society (STS). PDI prepares students tobecome innovative designers who can integrate contemporary technologies with changing socialcontexts for a new generation of advanced product designs.PDI aims to balance the traditional approaches of Architectural/Industrial Design andEngineering Design - often governed by the aesthetic and the technical - with the approach ofScience and Technology Studies (STS) - the social. Students develop a set of general engineeringskills through meeting

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; P.K. Imbrie; Tamara Moore

exposure to nanotechnology, including innovations implemented at University of NotreDame (NSF 0304089), California Institute of Technology (NSF 0304713), and Ohio StateUniversity (NSF 0304469). The NSF Nanotechnology in Undergraduate Education (NUE)program continues to support the development of first-year course innovations.With the support of a 2003 NSF NUE, a nano-themed seminar was implemented in the PurdueUniversity First-Year Engineering (FYE) Program to raise first-year engineering students’awareness of nanotechnology and related educational and career opportunities. The developmentof this nanotechnology theme across all of the introductory engineering discipline seminars alsoserved the purpose of providing a model for the introduction of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Robert Hinks; Mark Henderson; Chen-Yaun Kuo; Chell Roberts; Darryl Morrell; Robert Grondin

. Courses are delivered not as lengthyexercises in theory but as integrated opportunities to apply knowledge in real-world projects. The Page 10.429.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Table 2. Student Objectives and OutcomesStudent Objective AGraduates will successfully transition into a broad range of flexible career options, including industry, government,and graduate engineering and professional education.Student Objective BGraduates will apply their strong

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Davari; Amir Rezaei

decadeof the 80’s and the first half of the 90’s brought changes in the service region, including changesin the mix of business and industry employing graduates and major changes in the technology,mainly in computer technologies found in the workplace. As a relatively small state-assistedinstitution with an open admission policy, WVU Tech provides access to higher education forthe citizens of the nation, state and its local region who seek careers in engineering, engineeringtechnologies, sciences, business, general education and health professions. Graduates,particularly in engineering have been very successful in their careers and the alumni support isvery strong and widespread. The rigorous curricula and the dedicated faculty at WVU Tech

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela J. Théroux; Gary Gabriele; Brad Lister; Deborah Kaminski

student characteristics influence which successful learningoutcomes, and how. Yet, the sheer weight of evidence acknowledging that learners bring amultitude of approaches to learning compels the educator to be responsive to learner needs.According to Felder & Silverman (1988), receiving an education that is mismatched to theirlearning style can hinder an engineering student’s performance in the classroom as well as theirattitude toward engineering as a field of study and career. Armed with the information that acertain percentage of students learn in a manner often ill-served by the traditional engineeringclassroom and curriculum, this study carefully examined evidence of a link between studentlearning characteristics and student academic

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

a wide variety of careers in related fields. 2. The program will provide training at the individual topic, individual course, and certificate level for individuals interested in learning mechanical engineering technology topics regardless of a traditional degree goal. 3. The program will provide technical assistance in mechanical engineering technology related areas to local businesses.Note that this mission supports METS Department goals 1 and 2 listed previously.Moving further down the support structure, one of the MET program educationalobjectives with a specific linked outcome that supports the MET mission items 1 and 2above is shown in Table 1 below

Conference Session

Support and Partnership Opportunities

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

sustained funding (see sectionbelow), faculty from Marketing and Management, Computer Science, MechanicalEngineering, Economics, Sociology and Design Arts have formed a team to developproposals for research in the economic, social and technical aspects of entrepreneurshipand the development of enabling technologies that assist globally dispersed productdevelopment teams.Educational outreach: The Integrated Product Development program has teamed withLehigh’s Iacocca Institute for Global Entrepreneurship (www.iacocca-lehigh.org/cap/) tosponsor Career Awareness Programs (CAP) for highly qualified, underrepresented highschool students. The focus of these one-week summer programs included business,engineering and design arts, all with a technical

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiu Choi

fortheir future career or graduate study in control engineering.II. Equipment used in the controls laboratory courseIn this section we list the equipment used in the controls laboratory. The purpose is to inform thereaders what equipment was available to the students.There had been eight stations of equipment housed in the controls laboratory. In spring 2004, thelab was moved into a bigger room in the new engineering building. There are now thirteen stationsof equipment in the new laboratory. Each station consists of the following:1. one Feedback Mechanical Unit, model # 33-100 [1]2. one Axiom M68HC912B32 microcontroller evaluation board, model # CME12B/BC [2]3. one Feedback Analog Board, model # 33-110 [1]4. one oscilloscope (either Tiepie

Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

mission is to educate our students for careers of service, leadership anddistinction in biomedical engineering or other fields by using a participatory, learn by doing,“hands-on” laboratory, project and design centered approach.The program will accomplish this goal by building on the historic strengths of the college at thebachelors level and the individual strengths of participating faculty. The application ofengineering to medicine and biology underpins a strong and growing segment of the industrialsector, is the basis for a number of federal conversion efforts and continues to be an area ofinherent interest to students. The need for well educated professionals in this interdisciplinaryarea has become more acute as the technology being applied

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Stroud Rossmann; Clive Dym

mechanics.This course is well positioned to demonstrate the connections between solid and fluid mechanics,as well as the larger mathematical issues shared by both fields, to students who have not yettaken courses in fluid mechanics and/or strength of materials. The context and foundationprovided by this course are available to students as they specialize (by choosing electives, byselecting career paths, or by going to graduate school) in either solid or fluid mechanics, orspecialize in the connections themselves by returning to a deeper study of the overarching field ofcontinuum mechanics.Over four academic years, we have had success in introducing this subject at such an early pointin the curriculum. Such a course could replace statics and first

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

venue.An example of a project completed by a recent graduate is given to support this thesis.Foundational NeedsStudents, at all levels, acquire concepts more easily by putting in a sufficient amount of time inthe art of practice. This idea may seem trivial, but many experts have said that continued practiceis a major contributor to being successful in any field. Students can be made proficient in this artif they are required to present technical ideas in professionally prepared reports.Industrial experience has proven that communication skills will be the largest contributor toenhancing a student’s technical career and advancement. Instilling this concept into studentsearly on should be a top priority. In order for students to prepare properly

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

they are not at the beginning of their careers, they may have invested wisely and donot feel that salary is as important as it once was. Further, improved flexibility and/or less stressmay now be very important. But each individual’s situation is unique and a decision can be madefor a wide range of reasons. The point here is that the experienced new faculty may be lookingmore for intrinsic rewards then extrinsic (remuneration) rewards.Table 1 contains a synopsis of the primary differences between industry and academia across alarge number of attributes. The higher the attribute in the table, roughly the greater thedifference. So, mission is at the top. In industry, it is very clear why you are there and that is tomake money for the company. At

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports; Carolyn Fausnaugh; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

delivered. In the product-to-market sense, they represent the documentation generally developed for the principal gates of a traditional stage-gate system, and are relevant to what entrepreneurs must consider, formally or informally, as they bring their new products to market. There are two caveats: 1) The senior design sequence of courses are core courses and must be taken by all undergraduate engineering students, regardless of their career interests or abilities and 2) Even on entrepreneurial teams, not all team members are intending to follow an entrepreneurial path after graduation The authors observe that the teams and

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Doherty; Gerald Gannod

maintaining course projects in an engineering curriculum. In treating acourse as a targeted product market domain we have been able to apply the same techniques usedin software product line development to course development. At Arizona State University we are currently developing a concentration track in embeddedsystems1. As part of the curriculum we are creating a course in Embedded Systems Engineering £ This research supported in part by NSF Experimental and Integrative Activities Grant EIA-0122600. Ý This author supported in part by NSF CAREER Grant CCR-0133956. Þ Contact Author. Page 8.1237.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Anderson; Mani Mina

classes. Due to theemphasis on using computational software, students will become familiar with numerical andmathematical tools and will be able to use them for their careers in engineering as well as otherclasses. Finally, because of the freedom in learning and variety of examples and learningopportunities, we will see more conceptual thinking rather than manipulation to get the answers.All in all, we believe students will become more satisfied with their EM education and becomebetter engineers for it.5.4. General areas of concernMany instructors and programs are not comfortable with this method of teaching and, if not doneright, with a large-scale perspective it will not be very useful. Most instructors confusemathematical rigor with

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Agnew; Ka C Cheok; Jerry Lane; Ernie Hall; David Ahlgren

IGVC on a yearlybasis. The relevancy of the IGVC challenges orients participating students toward careers in theunmanned systems technology area. Page 8.760.8The Society of Automotive Engineers' Interest in the IGVCProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe SAE, as a supporter of the automotive industry, is primarily concerned withautomotive vehicles such as passenger cars, trucks, busses, and off-road vehicles, aswell as the features that can enhance their use. Safety is a major concern

Conference Session

Sustainability and the Environment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Olivia Dees; Saeed Foroudastan

muchneeded to confront these problems. An alternative to the damaging effects of monocultureis intercropping.A number of solutions can be implemented in order to combine different areas of interestfor a common goal. Engineering advances, through the use of even the most basicformulas, may brighten our socioecological future with a confident sense of economics.It is highly important that current engineering students are introduced to the methods ofagricultural and biological engineering that are described in this paper. The world’spopulation grows rapidly while its resources deplete just as quickly. If engineeringstudents are introduced to innovative methods of agricultural and biological engineeringearly on, some may decide to pursue a career in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

(CSM) offers a design-oriented,interdisciplinary, accredited non-traditional undergraduate program in engineering withspecialization in a branch of civil, electrical, environmental, or mechanical engineering. In theDivision, we have a tradition of innovation with respect to interdisciplinary curriculum, a Page 9.616.1young and dynamic faculty (currently five NSF Career awardees), and relative freedom from Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringState control on credit allocations. This provides us with

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

understanding of and competence in goal setting, personal time management, communication, delegation, personality types, networking, leadership, the socio-political process, and effecting change. Page 9.624.8 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education” In addition to the preceding, professional development can, include career management, increasing discipline knowledge, understanding business fundamentals, contributing to the

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Marionneaux; Michael Edmondson; Matthew McDaniel; Jay Daly; Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

of the engineering workforce, we must look to the elementary and secondarygrades.Though much attention has justifiably been focused on elementary and secondary students’proficiency in math and science, there is also a compelling need to increase their awareness ofengineering as a career path and their interest in engineering as an academic program of study.In responding to these challenges, we must also address the common student misperception thatengineering is appropriate only for the “technically elite.”4There is no single best answer to this challenge. In the absence of a well-coordinated nationalprogram, engineers and educators have responded with a variety of creative grass-rootsapproaches.5,6 We propose another such approach

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Krause

Page 9.397.3all researchers come to a consensus. The next to last step was to pilot test the rubric with data. In Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationorder to examine how well the rubric captured the data, we selected two students for preliminaryevaluation. One of the selected students was a male and the other one was a female. We analyzedtheir data using the scoring rubric. As a result of this evaluation, we added two subcategoriesunder the transfer to the classroom category, engineering as a career and critical perspectives.The final rubric included 46 specific categories for the six