, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, St. Lucie Campus, Port St. Lucie, FL Contact Information: Ravi Shankar, shankar@fau.edu, (561) 297-3470 589AbstractWe offer a compelling vision for bringing together like-minded faculty members across our severaluniversity campuses and colleges, to develop smart phone/ mobile applications in domains that areunderrepresented but have substantial potential to succeed, with social, economic, or technologicalimpact. A university is uniquely qualified to address such Apps given the close proximity of experts innon-overlapping and distinct fields. However, the close proximity is offset by silos built
AC 2011-27: CHALLENGES IN ASSESSING INTERDISCIPLINARY EN-GINEERING PROGRAMSMeg Krudysz, City College of New YorkDr. Ann Wittig, City College of the City University of New York Page 22.318.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Challenges in Assessing Multidisciplinary Programs between Engineering and Non-Engineering SchoolsAbstractProgram accreditation by ABET requires that faculty assess and evaluate student performance todemonstrate that a program achieves its outcomes. For a conventional single-disciplinaryprogram, these assessments are challenging to conduct because they require a substantial
, VLSI signal processing, and electromagnetics. He is a senior member of IEEE and a PE registered in the State of IndianaMangilal Agarwal, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Mangilal Agarwal received his B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering from Louisiana Tech Uni- versity, Ruston, LA, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Upon receiving his Ph.D. degree, he was employed by Louisiana Tech University, as a Post Doctoral Research Associate, followed by appointments as Research Staff and Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Micromanufacturing, the largest campus-wide interdisciplinary
AC 2011-849: INTEGRATION OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEUR-SHIP TOPICS IN TO DESIGN COURSES EXPERIENCES AND LESSONSLEARNEDRaghu Echempati, Kettering University Raghu Echempati is a professor of Mechanical Engineering with over 25 years of teaching, research and consulting experiences in Design and Simulation of Sheet Metal Forming Processes. He has published several educational and research papers at ASEE, ASME and other International Conferences. He has delivered many invited and keynote lectures, gave workshops, and organized technical sessions at SAE and other International Conferences. He is an active reviewer of several textbooks, research proposals, conference and journal papers of repute. He is member of ASME
Food Engineering CoursesAbstractThe How People Learn (HPL) framework1, 2 was used to redesign two food engineering courses,Introduction to Engineering Design (EI-100) and Food Chemistry (IA-332), to further promotean interactive classroom while integrating multiple formative assessments by means of Tablet PCtechnologies3, 4. The HPL framework highlights a set of four overlapping lenses that can be usedto analyze any learning situation. In particular, it suggests that we ask about the degree to whichlearning environments are knowledge, learner, community, and assessment centered1, 2. TheVaNTH Observation System (VOS) is an assessment tool developed to capture qualitative andquantitative classroom observation data from teaching and learning
AC 2011-2461: WIND TURBINE FOR AUTOMOBILESSham Tickoo, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech) Sham Tickoo is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue Univer- sity Calumet, USA. He has been teaching CAD/CAM, AutoCAD, Drafting, and Design since 1987. His general research interests are in the design and development of wind turbines. He has authored/coauthored several books on CAD like CATIA, NX, Pro/E, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Autodesk Inventor, 3ds max, ANYS, and AutoCAD. Page 22.1689.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011
AC 2011-1574: TIME TO TRANSITION: FINANCIAL CALCULATORSAND CLICKERS IN THE CLASSROOMGillian M. Nicholls, University of Alabama,in Huntsville Gillian Nicholls is an Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering & Engineering Manage- ment and a 2009-2010 Gray Faculty Fellow at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Her research interests are in applying statistical analysis and optimization to supply chain management, transportation management, and engineering education. She holds the B.S. in Industrial Engineering (Lehigh Univer- sity), Masters in Business Administration (Pennsylvania State University), M.S. in Industrial Engineering (University of Pittsburgh.), and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering
AC 2011-585: DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION AND ACTIVE LEARN-ING ENVIRONMENTSJohn Marshall, University of Southern Maine John Marshall received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and is the Departmental Internship Co- ordinator at the University of Southern Maine. His areas of specialization include Power and Energy Processing, Applied Process Control Engineering, Automation, Fluid Power, and Facility Planning. Page 22.500.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Differentiated Instruction and Active Learning EnvironmentsThe
AC 2011-1009: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND SPACECRAFT SUBSYS-TEMS MODELING AS PREREQUISITES FOR CAPSTONE DESIGNLisa Guerra, NASA Headquarters Ms. Lisa A. Guerra Research Fellow NASA / Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Lisa Guerra has 25 years experience in the NASA aerospace community. Ms. Guerra is currently working with the UTeach Engineering Program. She recently completed a 4-year assignment from NASA Head- quarters to establish a systems engineering curriculum at The University of Texas at Austin, as a pilot for national dissemination. Ms. Guerra’s most recent position at NASA Headquarters was Director of the Directorate Integration Office in the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. In that position, her
AC 2011-2742: ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM: IN-TEGRATION OF ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEER-INGAhmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming Dr. Ahmed Cherif Megri, associate professor of architectural engineering at the University of Wyoming (UW), teaches several HVAC and energy courses. Dr. Megri is also teaching a course titled ”Compre- hensive Performance of Building Envelope and HVAC Systems” for Summer School at UW, and ”Smoke and Fire Dynamics” during summer session at Concordia University, Canada. His research areas include airflow modeling, zonal modeling, energy modeling, and artificial intelligence modeling using the support vector machine learning approach. Prior to his actual position at UW
AC 2011-25: IMPACTS OF THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY RESEARCHEXPERIENCE FOR TEACHERS PROGRAM 2008-2010: ANALYSIS OFSTUDENT SURVEYS REGARDING MOTIVATIONAL IMPACTStacy S Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University Stacy Klein-Gardner is the Director of STEM Outreach for Peabody College and the School of Engineer- ing at Vanderbilt University. She is an associate professor of the practice of Biomedical Engineering, Teaching & Learning, and Radiological Sciences.Amber C. Spolarich, North Carolina State University Amber Spolarich is currently a senior at North Carolina State University majoring in chemical engineering with a concentration in green chemistry. She has worked with outreach programs through the university that have
AC 2011-666: IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME (AND STAY): RE-CRUITING AND RETAINING WOMEN AND UNDERREPRESENTED MI-NORITY STUDENTSHyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University Hyun Has been working as a graduate assistant on the Engineer of 2020 research grants that the Center for the Study of Higher Education received from the National Science Foundation at Penn State.Rose M Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia Rose M. Marra, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. She is Director of Research of the NSF-funded Assessing Women and Men in Engineering (AWE) and Assessing Women in Student Environments (AWISE) projects, and a co
AC 2011-670: IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME (AND STAY): RE-CRUITING AND RETAINING WOMEN AND UNDERREPRESENTED MI-NORITY STUDENTSHyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University Hyun Has been working as a graduate assistant on the Engineer of 2020 research grants that the Center for the Study of Higher Education received from the National Science Foundation at Penn State.Rose M Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia Rose M. Marra, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. She is Director of Research of the NSF-funded Assessing Women and Men in Engineering (AWE) and Assessing Women in Student Environments (AWISE) projects, and a co
become Future FacultyAbstractAn alliance was developed among three Midwestern universities to increase the number ofunderrepresented minority (URM) students receiving doctoral degrees in the science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. To achieve this goal activities encompass thethree areas that include recruitment, retention, and enrichment. Recruitment initiatives focus onstrategic partnerships, discipline-based events, student collaborations, summer research programsand visitation programs. Retention objectives are directed at scholars, tutoring, summer transitionprograms, and a faculty mentoring network. A primary goal of the Scholars enrichment programis to encourage Scholars to pursue careers as faculty members
AC 2011-636: ROLE MODELS IN ENGINEERINGCraig J. Gunn, Michigan State University Craig Gunn is the Director of the Communication Program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. His duties include the integration of communication skill activity into all courses within the mechanical Engineering program, including overseas experiences. He works closely with the Cooperative Engineering Education Division of the College of Engineering to monitor the com- munication skills of students who co-op during their college years. He is currently the editor of the CEED Newsbriefs and is co-author of a number of textbooks focusing on engineering freshmen orientation
AC 2011-143: REWARDING LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE IN GRADUATESTUDENT EXAMSRobert M. Brooks, Temple University Dr. Robert M. Brooks is an associate professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Temple University. He is a registered professional engineer in PA and a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. His research interests are Civil Engineering Materials, Transportation Engineering, and Engineering Education.Mr. Amithraj Amavasai Page 22.1258.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 REWARDING LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE IN
notpedagogical reasons. Apart from reasons specific to large-scale laboratory experiences (hydraulicsystems, HVAC systems, mechanical testing load frames), this work explores an alternativemodel of all individually-based data acquisition and experimentation activities in a mechanics-of-materials laboratory course. The main goal of the course was to expose every student to asmuch data acquisition and hardware/software/experiment interaction as possible whileminimizing the cost required as much as possible.The CourseThe Mechanics-of-Materials Laboratory (MoM lab) curricular requirements are explicitlydelineated as: experimental characterization of the mechanical properties of engineeringmaterials, precision instruments design, computer-based data
Paper ID #2108Research in Progress: Transforming and Integrating: Evolving ConstructionMaterials & Methods to the Next LevelChung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Dr. Chung-Suk Cho is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Engineering Technology. His teaching and research focus on project scope definition, pre-project planning, sustainable construction, project administration, construction safety, construction simulation, and project management. He has prior teaching experience at North Carolina A&T State University in construction management and
, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Software Engineering in the School of Graduate and Professional Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to entering academia she worked in industry and government as a software and electronics engineer. Her research interests include problem solving in software and systems design, team learning, and project management. Page 22.838.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Improving Team Learning in Systems DesignAbstractA detailed statistical experiment to study the effect of the cognitive collaborative model (CCM
School ofEngineering Mathematics and Science (SEMS) energy curriculum. In the fall semester of the2010 school year at Robert Morris University, SEMS began laying the groundwork for whatis now an alternative energy minor. This is an interdisciplinary minor that was developedthrough the combined efforts of engineering and science faculty. The curriculum was basedon the currently available expertise in environmental science and engineering. Theinitiative began as a collaborative effort and after multiple meetings and the consent of theuniversity registrar; the minor was offered to the students and has achieved a verypromising enrollment in the first semester of its offering. The alternative energy minor iscomprised of three capstone courses and two
204 Structural Engineering for Architecture and Construction Management Students James Guthrie, SE California State Polytechnic University San Luis ObispoIntroductionArchitecture and construction management students can often graduate with a weak foundationin structural engineering leaving them less than fully prepared to take on their future roles inindustry. The California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) is wellpositioned to fill this potential gap. The Architectural Engineering
Pedagogical, Curricular, and Institutional ReformIntroductionThis paper surveys and analyzes a range of progressive engineering reform efforts that extendfrom explicit concerns with social justice, or what Joe Herkert has usefully called questions of“macro-ethics” in engineering. 1 The paper categorizes these efforts and shows how they work atvarious levels of reform: material change through reforms in how and for whom technologies aredesigned; situated educational interventions, including both pedagogical and curricularexperiments; professional community-building interventions; and lastly scholarly contributionschallenging how “engineering” is typically understood and how new understandings mightprompt better attention to questions of social
AC 2011-242: WRITING CHALLENGES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTSIN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGYJoy L Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech) Joy L. Colwell, J.D., is an Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and Supervision and Director of Graduate Studies at Purdue University Calumet. She regularly teaches graduate courses in Leadership and Ethics and the Directed MS Project for the MS in Technology program at PUC.Jana Whittington, Purdue University Calumet Jana Whittington has a Ph.D. in education with a specialization in instructional design and online learn- ing. Additionally Jana has a MA in studio art and humanities, BFA in painting, and AA in graphic design. She has taught a variety of courses for 15+ years
AC 2011-1311: FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING LEARNING SPACE EN-HANCING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCEDiana Quinn, University of South Australia Diana is a medical scientist who has worked academic development (online teaching and learning) since 2000. In 2006 Diana commenced working with the first year engineering team at a suburban university campus of the University of South Australia to support their research in curriculum renewal, online en- vironments, student communication, new student orientation, learning space development and evaluation and supporting students at risk of failure.Elizabeth J Smith, University of South Australia I am currently a lecturer at the University of South Australia in the School of Natural and Built
Design and DeliveryAbstractIt is often said that a crisis is an opportunity in disguise. When faced with declining enrollments,the Electronic Engineering Technology (EET) faculty at Rock Valley College responded bytapping into two modern trends: the burgeoning field of sustainable energy systems, and themove towards online education. By adding a sustainable energy emphasis to the EET degree, thedepartment prepares its students for the next generation of energy technology. By modifying itscourses to be delivered in a hybrid format (lectures online, labs in person), the program offers acompatible option for students who have jobs and families that require more flexible coursescheduling. There is a bold new mission for EET in the area of
AC 2011-76: WEB-BASED MAGNETIC DESIGNTaufik Taufik, California Polytechnic State University Dr. Taufik received his BS in Electrical Engineering with minor in Computer Science from Northern Arizona Univ. in 1993, MS in Electrical Engineering from Univ. of Illinois Chicago in 1995, and Doctor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Cleveland State University in 1999. He then joined the Electrical Engineering department at Cal Poly State University in 1999 where he is currently a tenured Professor. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and has done consulting work and has been employed by sev- eral companies including Capstone Microturbine, Rockwell Automation (Allen-Bradley), Picker Interna- tional, Rantec, San
AC 2011-1292: ASSESSING ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ READINESS TOCOLLABORATE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN: AN OPEN ACCESS INSTRU-MENT FOR EXPERIMENTATIONLinda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University Linda Vanasupa is a professor of materials engineering and co-director of the Center for Sustainability in Engineering at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.Dr. Qiong Zhang, University of South FloridaJames R. Mihelcic, University of South Florida Dr. James R. Mihelcic is a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and State of Florida 21st Century World Class Scholar at the University of South Florida. He also directs the Peace Corps Master’s International Program in Civil & Environmental
AC 2011-1493: AN APPLICATION-BASED GRADUATE COURSE IN AD-VANCED QUALITY TOOLSCraig T Evers, PhD, PE, Minnesota State University - Mankato Craig T. Evers currently I am an assistant professor at Minnesota State University Mankato teaching un- dergraduate and graduate courses in the Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering department. I have over 30 years experience in the manufacturing industry, mostly in automotive related positions. Some of my past employers include John Deere, Robert Bosch Corporation, Intel and IBM. Previous positions include tooling manager for a Fortune 500 electronics company, production engineer for fuel components line with $125 million annual sales, manufacturing engineering manager, and
AC 2011-1687: ISU ADVANCE SUSTAINING AND INSTITUTIONALIZ-ING EFFORTS TO ENHANCE RECRUITMENT, RETENTION AND AD-VANCEMENT OF WOMEN FACULTY IN ENGINEERINGKristen P. Constant, Iowa State University Kristen P. Constant is a Professor in Materials Science and Engineering. Her physical research is in the area of photonic materials and her academic research is related to Gender in the Sciences. Page 22.980.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 ISU ADVANCE – Sustaining and Institutionalizing Efforts to Enhance Recruitment, Retention and Advancement of Women Faculty in
AC 2011-990: REVISED AERODYNAMICS CURRICULUM AND INSTRUC-TION FOR IMPROVED STUDENT OUTCOMESValana L Wells, Arizona State University Dr. Wells is Program Chair for Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Arizona State University. She teaches the first course in aerodynamics, as well as undergraduate and graduate courses in aircraft design, aircraft flight mechanics, numerical methods, acoustics and rotary-wing aerodynam- ics. In addition to engineering curriculum innovation and reform, her interests include rotorcraft noise suppression, rotorcraft aerodynamics and high-speed rotorcraft design.Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University Jenefer Husman received a doctoral degree in Educational Psychology from