Conference Session

Design in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Bennett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Will Schleter, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Forms Page 15.1063.8To facilitate grading in a large class, much of the feedback from the projects is obtained by theuse of online forms. Each student is required to fill out an online form as part of their grade.The online forms are used both for students to record their data, as well as to reflect on theirperformance as a team.The first team project that the students accomplish is usually an estimation project (e.g. Paint theJumbotron Orange). The feedback form for this project focuses on the performance as a team.The questions asked are:  List all the members of your team.  Did your team choose a leader?  Did your team make a plan

Conference Session

Innovations in First Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Ringenberg, University of Michigan; Marcial Lapp, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

bebrought into the classroom and aid in the delivery of the course content.To further study the effectiveness of the competition, we intend to interview several focus groupscomprised of students from a variety of different backgrounds. Since the results of our initialsurveys indicate that the competition was an effective study tool, but was only marginallyenjoyable, it is our goal to make the competition more enjoyable by incorporating the feedbackthat we receive from these interviews.In addition, we plan to further refine our survey, such that we can improve the feedback processfrom the entire class instead of relying solely on the focus groups. A final area that we wouldlike to explore is whether or not the students that are presenting score

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanja Magoc, University of Texas at El Paso; Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso; Francois Modave, Central Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

impossible to understand using only analytical techniques, thus enabling students to approach real-life problems that they previously could not tackle.Our planned evaluation will examine both the effectiveness of the course in achieving studentlearning objectives, and student interest in continuing multi-disciplinary studies that includecomputation and programming.Computation for Science and EngineeringThe new curriculum of the CompSE will be offered for the first time in the Spring of 2010. Bythis curriculum, rather than focusing on syntax, CompSE will immerse students in problemsolving and incrementally introduce language features in an as-needed manner. Python isselected as the initial programming language due to its simplicity to convey

Conference Session

e-Learning Course Development and Instruction

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

. Generate a charter statement. 4. Attend a half-day class. There are typically 4 – 6 participants with a very wide variety of cases. Review charter statements and plan next steps. Page 15.1208.6 5. Initial dialogs in company and information review. 6. Revise the charter statement and distribute to other course participants. 7. Determine the basic story-line with supporting documentation. 8. Identify key decisions in the case and decide how to present them. 9. Second half-day class. This is 4 – 8 weeks after the first class. It is devoted to presentation of the outcomes for each case. 10. Reflections from

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - College Courses and Minors

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelli Huser, Iowa State University; Thomas Kelly, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Seth Ballou, Iowa State University; Joseph Crispin, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

technology that define this course.This student’s passion for this subject matter within her technological literacy educationinfluenced her classmates and her future in a positive manner. During the class she wouldsuggest assignments involving sanitation, drinking water and irrigation, and her interest andknowledge of the subject matter influenced several class discussions that drew in relatedtechnological areas of city planning, flood retention, and agriculture. Her interests influencedtwo other students to pursue topics related to water resources for their final papers. As of thiswriting, this student intends to pursue a career in the law, focusing on laws related to the waterresources and the technologies that she learned in this class. Her story

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida

asingle packet of STEM material.The first is the challenge for the Fig ure 1: sTEm at Work Puzzle Examplestudents so they can see why scienceand math are needed in a technicalcareer. The second is actually more important than the puzzle itself. The role of thesecond is to assure that the teacher has a clear understanding of the specifics of the puzzle.STEM will work as a strategy only when the science and math teachers buy in and useSTEM focused examples blended into their lesson plans. That will happen when theteachers are really comfortable with the examples. For K-12 teachers that comfort levelshould not be assumed just because the teacher has experience teaching science and mathin K-12 classrooms. Talent, training, time, and

Conference Session

Sustainable Construction Practice

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyuksoo Kwon, Virginia Tech; Yong Han Ahn, East Carolina University; Hyun IK Shin, Kumoh National Instute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Construction

education.Sustainable education is becoming one of the most important subjects areas of constructioneducation along with other key subjects including estimating, planning and scheduling, projectmanagement, etc. [4, 11, 12, 13 & 14]. Several scholars have already studied the importance ofsustainable education in several countries such as the U.K., the United States, and Australia.Along with presenting the importance of sustainable education, the purpose of this study was to Page 15.1206.3identify factors affecting undergraduate student’s attitudes toward sustainability in order tosuggest the most efficient way to change construction student’s attitude toward

Conference Session

Issues and Directions in Engineering Technology Education & Administration: Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Spang, Burlington County College; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

industrial sectors. This shortage of qualified employees directly affects the ability of theUS as a whole to compete in the global economy. Additionally, in a similar report8, theConference Board examines the basic knowledge of applied skills of workers and found thatmany of new entrants to the workforce lack skills essential to job success, skills that employersexpect young people to already possess. This report particularly notes that employers surveyedsee the educational system as primarily responsible for workforce readiness, and acknowledgesthe great role that parents play in instilling in their children the importance of learning, work, andcareer.The needs of industry for skilled technologistsA one-day Planning Conference with some of New

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Cambron, Western Kentucky University; Stacy Wilson, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

ProjectIn EE Design III, students are assigned to teams. Each team is assigned a unique design projectand must solve and implement a design problem throughout the semester. These projects areoften industrially supported. Recently, some projects have been extended into the senior year.EE300 is taken in the spring semester before the year long senior design sequence and is animportant foundation to the senior project experience.The first course of the senior year experience is EE Design IV. During this course, studentsthoroughly plan their capstone project. At the beginning of the semester, students are placed onteams and are assigned projects. Each of these projects has a sponsor external to the EE faculty.Some of the projects are funded through

Conference Session

Build Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renee Baker, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

opportunities when qualified candidates are found ≠ Serve as a bridge in the transition from graduate student to faculty member ≠ Assist in preparing future faculty for a career at the university.Future Faculty Career Exploration Program StructureSince the program’s conception in 2003, a certain procedure has taken place to execute thenecessary planning and preparation of each year’s program. These procedures are set in stagesthat stretch throughout the entire year, beginning at the end of the current year’s program. Table1 provides a breakdown of these stages. FFCEP Highlights (Table 1) PHASE STEP ACTION Recruitment of applicants: Advertising

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Bowen, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Performance Recently, department faculty have implemented several measures aimed at improvingstudent preparation for the exam. The following four-part plan has been implemented: 1. Offer a formal weekly FE review class taught by department faculty, and require all seniors to attend the course, 2. Offer a four-hour FE mock exam on a Saturday morning two or three weeks prior to the actual FE exam, 3. Hold a “signing-day” ceremony attended by department faculty, with a presentation by a prominent alumnus, where students obtain the signatures needed for the FE exam application, and 4. Encourage department faculty teaching the Civil Engineering core curriculum to give some “FE-exam-style” questions

Conference Session

Computer & Web-Based Instruction

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Rhode; Allen Jaedike; Michael Hennessey

students, and witnessing the result of the projectefforts, a number of specific recommendations and associated rationale have emerged tomaximize the learning, fun, and project success: • Project scale and complexity level must be appropriate for the number of students and project time allocated (typically 2-3 students over one month) -- too simple and the students don’t learn very much, too difficult and students become frustrated and the project is of low quality. • It is advisable for each team to have an overall strategy, or “game plan” before beginning the detailed modeling for how to model each component (part or assembly) and its features plus the organizational structure of the entire assembly

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

Develop content Deliver & evaluate Figure 2: Procedure to expand requirementsDerivation of a work-plan from a set of high level specifications is a familiarmethodology so the industrial contributors were able to join in and quickly driveprogress. However, the approach does make an important contribution to our widermission to “Reinvent Technology”. The top-down identification of requirements leads tothe complex interaction of skills implied by the framework component of figure 2. Wecan then “pull” the necessary components of science, math and engineering to do the job.This process can be considered as an application of the just-in-time production concept toeducation. The disadvantage

Conference Session

Web-Based & Distance Instruction

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yolanda Guran-Postlethwaite; David N. Pocock; David Dutton

% campus.V. Future WorkThe project is a success for distance education efforts at OIT. This is in spite of all thechallenges related to new hardware and software, networking problems, and the newconcept of taking measurements from home. The EET department’s future plans includethe following: 1. The development of complete laboratory courses available over the web.We will begin to develop the sophomore level analog electronics laboratories:“Introduction to Amplifiers and Semiconductors”, “Transistor Amplifiers”, and“Frequency Response of Amplifiers.” These web laboratories will be available tostudents in addition to the classroom labs conducted at OIT.In parallel with designing the laboratory projects, we will start an effort to develop

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gillian Saunders-Smits

: Additional competencies Specialist Manager A. Ability to change (x2) 4.5 5.0 B. Ability to work in teams (x6) 3.7 4.3 C. Social skills (x5) 3.3 4.6 D. Planning and Organizing/Systematic Planning (x2) 4.0 4.0 E. Continuous education (x2) 5.0 4.5 Table 3: Most suggested additional competencies by the expert panel and their importance to engineering managers and engineering specialists (1

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Waffle; Donald Martel; Peggie Weeks

for high schooltechnology teachers in materials/manufacturing and information technologies; (4) encouragestatewide dissemination and implementation of exemplary technology education instructionalpractices; and (5) create a transportable and sustainable model of professional development.In the spring of 2003, a planning group comprising the project management team and the Page 10.1023.3Professional Development Collaborative (PDC) leadership teams (secondary school Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wayne Whiteman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

maintained by theGeorgia Tech Office of Institutional Research and Planning,http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Peer%20Institutes.html. Nineteen schools were investigated to obtaina sample size of ten schools with combined BS/MS programs. This figure implies that about onehalf of our current peer mechanical engineering programs have a dual bachelor and master’sdegree program. Table 2 shows a list of the schools included in our study. GT Peer Institution with BS/MS Programs Stanford University Johns Hopkins University Carnegie Mellon University Virginia Tech

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton; Ogai Ahmadi, Kabul University

Tagged Divisions

International

 introduction will have a major effect on education system. As the learning resources such as fully stacked  libraries  and  fully  equipped  computer  laboratories  are  rare  in  the  country,  careful planning is required to prioritize the introduction of ICT into the mainstream education including  Page 15.1251.3higher education.While  the  world  has  changed  dramatically  in  the  past  few  decades  and  will  continue  to  do  so with  an  accelerating  pace,  the  learning  environment,  i.e.  the  classroom  has  not  changed  but  it will change in the near future. The education system in Afghanistan must follow its international

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

alternates (backup plans)takes the lower risk. And multiple lower risk scores statistically reduce the overall probability offailure.Purchasing RiskPurchasing parts is a useful strategy to reduce the dependence on internal resources while allow-ing a manufacturer to focus on their core business strengths. But any part purchased outside, orproduced internally carries some element of risk. The ranking system below provides a quick wayto apply a score to each part in the design. Obviously the scoring should focus on special parts inthe design. It would be wise to ignore commodity parts such as surface mount discrete compo-nents, nuts/bolts/washers, generic raw materials, etc. 0 You have the thing 1 Commodity item - available now 2 Commodity item

Conference Session

Design Projects across the Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibibia Dabipi, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Christopher Hartman, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; James B. Burrows-Mcelwain, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

sciences programs to structure projects related in some ways to both programs. This is done to advance engineering principles as well as proof of concept, as the case may be in its application to the aviation program. The benefit for students is that they are able to engage the faculty both as clients and instructors that result in a variety of learning modes. For this project, the class groups of two distinct teams that completed identical projects for the same client. Engineering design concepts with emphasis on various aspects of planning, developing and product design via hands-on approach was the key to this course experience. It also enhanced the students’ communication skills and teamwork. Product visualization utilizing computer software

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, USF

research interests include modeling, analysis and control of discrete event systems, production planning and control, industrial information systems, data analysis and knowledge discovery, and engineering education research. He has taught courses in the areas of systems modeling and analysis, information systems design, production planning, facilities design, and systems simulation. He has publications in the areas of control of automated manufacturing systems, transportation systems, and autonomous vehicles, business process modeling, freight transportation systems analysis, people logistics, manufacturing and service information systems, and engineering education research. He also co

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationnumber of reasons including the student focus on grades instead of focusing on the process oflearning3,4,5. Faculty members on the other hand, have a tendency to give higher grades toachieve better student evaluation6, 7. A number of academic institutions in the US have moved toan outcome-based education framework to move away from the grade point average drivenacademic framework. Outcome-based education is a method of teaching that focuses on whatstudents can actually do after they are taught. All curriculum and teaching decisions are madebased on how best to facilitate the desired outcome. This leads to a planning process that

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Elizabeth Birmingham, North Dakota State University; Ann Burnett, North Dakota State University; Roger Green, North Dakota State University

and/oradopted by ADVANCE institutions. The committee met monthly to discuss goals and strategiesfor achieving institutional transformation through recruiting, retaining, and advancing women,particularly in the traditional science and engineering disciplines at North Dakota StateUniversity. The group applied for the grant but was unsuccessful in 2005; however, afteradditional research and honing of project plans, the group re-applied and received the grant in2008. In the meantime, during the 2002-2008 time period, the FORWARD group also advocatedfor and succeeded in obtaining additional childcare facilities, lactation rooms, and changingtables on campus.In this same time frame, North Dakota State University had been poised for change, making

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology; Arthur Ritter, Stevens Institute of Technology

of the computer lab series, preliminary assessment from studentgroups, and subsequent improvement and deployment plans. The development and deploymentof this software is partially supported by an NSF CCLI grant.Introduction“Medical Imaging” is an important subject in most bio-medical and bio-engineering curricula. Itis a multi-discipline subject involving studies in biology, physics, mathematics, electricalengineering, and computer science. A comprehensive medical imaging course may coverfundamental science and engineering principles (e.g. atomic and nuclear physics, Fourieranalysis and reconstruction, and computer assisted tomography), medical imaging modalities(e.g. x-ray radiography, x-ray CT, nuclear medicine gamma imaging, magnetic

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Ohland, Purdue University; Misty Loughry, Georgia Southern University; Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Hal R. Pomeranz, Deer Run Associates, Inc.; David Woehr, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Eduardo Salas, University of Central Florida

collected through user and heuristic evaluation, a variety of edits to thesite were recommended and implementation is planned. Page 15.1069.6DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIAL FOR TRAINING VIGNETTESThe use of critical incident analysisThe development of training vignettes is a central strategy for this project. Our plan was to use acritical incident methodology to identify a wide variety of team behavior to include in thevignettes. Originally developed by Flanagan (1954), the critical incident technique gathersspecific, behaviorally focused descriptions of work or other activities. Bownas & Bernardin(1988) assert that “a good critical incident has four

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Stevie Clark, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth Parry, North Carolina State University; Ryan Smith, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

not have the resources tocomplete the project on their own and the responsibility has fallen on the teachers toassist them. Four years ago, the program recognized the teachers’ need for assistancewith the economically disadvantaged students and pledged to help. In 2006, the programwas new to the process and did not act quickly enough to help more than two students.However, much was learned and we were able to plan earlier for 2007 when wesuccessfully helped 12 students. The greatest reward that year was seeing one of the boysstanding proudly in front of his display in the cafeteria with a huge smile on his face.The following year we assisted 16 students and in 2009 we were only able to assist 12due to snowstorms that cancelled two days of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janice Margle, Penn State Abington; Javier Gomez-Calderon, Penn State New Kensington; Yu-Chang Hsu, Pennsylvania State University; Amy Freeman, Pennsylvania State University; Dhushy Sathianathan, California State University, Long Beach; Renata Engel

program,although slightly different at each campus, involved tutoring services for introductorymathematics courses. Table 2: Coalition Campuses and Their Math Tutoring and Toy FUN-damentals Start Dates. Math Tutoring Toy FUN-damentals Campus College Program Program Connection- Bridge Coalition Campuses Started Started Programs Spring Fall Fall Planned Planned 2009 2009 2009 for 2010 Summer 2010 1 Abington √ √ 2

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noe Vargas Hernandez, The University of Texas at El Paso; Jose Davila, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

IntroductionEngineering design is defined as a complex cognitive activity in which the main objectiveis to change from a current to a desired status, through a planned and organized processthat involve: multiple disciplines, social collaboration, open-ended solutions, technicalknowledge and advanced skills. Our mission as educators is to cultivate design skills andabilities in our students to achieve the highest competency, but design methodologies canbe difficult to implement pedagogically, therefore the student struggles to learn, anddevelop design skills.The objective of this paper is to propose a model to improve the engineering designeducation experience by building a prescriptive relation between a desired skill todevelop in the student and a specific

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadia Kellam, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Tracie Costantino, University of Georgia; Bonnie Cramond, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

(Freshmen). The main objective of the first year of the Synthesis andDesign Studio is to introduce engineering undergraduate students to design through anexperiential group design experience and to teach them observation, modeling, the use ofmetaphors, and creative thinking strategies through an ill-structured sustainability design project.Management and Communication (Sophomores). The second year of the Synthesis and DesignStudio will continue with project-based learning and will focus on learning strategies formanaging teams that are working on large-scale, complex issues. Within their design project, thestudents will develop a business plan that includes scope, time, performance, and teammanagement. The course is intended to develop students

Conference Session

Mentoring & Outreach for Girls & Minorities

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ehsan Sheybani, Virginia State University; Giti Javidi, VSU

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

scared of or frustrated by technology, to report thattechnology increased their ability to learn new things, to report being more likely to enroll in STEM-related courses,and to have more positive feels toward technology in general. Digispired students also reported a much greaterinterest in pursuing careers in scientific research or engineering than their comparison peers (59% to 45%).Participants were more certain about their post-high school plans than non-participants; they primarily planned toattend 4-year college or university programs (78% versus 49% of comparison students).Students’ comments indicate that they enjoyed the program, for the most part, and that they increased theirknowledge and skills through their participation. Students