Conference Session

Research Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David G. Rethwisch, University of Iowa; Soko S Starobin, Iowa State University; Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University; Melissa Chapman Haynes, Professional Data Analysts, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

school courses. Based on the results from the five-year assessment of PLTW strategic objectives, 80% ofthe PLTW students intended to pursue a postsecondary education (Walcerz, 2007). Further,Bottoms and Anthony (2005) found that the PLTW students were more likely to plan to pursue abachelor’s degree than those who enroll in Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs.While students’ intent to pursue postsecondary education may indicate as the evidence of thePLTW program success, there still is critical information that is unknown –whether those PLTWstudents actually attend college. Thus, the purpose of this study is to measure transition rates ofPLTW and non-PLTW students into postsecondary institutions. More specifically, this

Conference Session

Intercollegiate and Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University; James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University; Lynne A Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University; J.Kevin Taylor; David W. Hey, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

3 0 1 Low-Medium17 Pop a Wheelie 2011 2* 1† 1 MediumTotals 52 9 33 NANote: Students who reported 'extensive prior experience' to people with disabilities (* = 1 male / † = 1 female)Comments that are specifically related to the Kinesiology student collaboration are providedbelow based on three themes: (a) the Etiquette Presentation (b) Planning and Scheduling, and (c)Improving Future Projects: Communication between the Disciplines. Names have been changed,but are consistent with the gender of the engineering student.Theme 1

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve E. Watkins, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

experience in follow-oncourses. The course serves the departmental plan to better integrate instruction in electrical andcomputer engineering topics and to facilitate flexible degree content through more accessibleelectives, minor programs, and dual-degree options. In particular, many students are pursuingthe dual-degree option that is promoted in part by this course. Students seem to readily use thecontent for projects, senior design, etc. Future work is planned in providing additional courseresources such as on-line problem examples and design content in the laboratory. The OpAmplectures are being revised for more clarity and for added examples. The course is a prerequisitefor proposed upper-level course work in device physics, sensor

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

, customizable method developed by Ranky for customers to identify theirneeds, and then offer them (software and other) engineering solutions that satisfy theirrequirements within a competitive environment. Furthermore, the method is successfullyapplied in design, manufacturing, industrial, software, IT, and even biomedical-engineering and related engineering management fields.CORA is a generic Team Oriented Problem Solving (TOPS), method, aimed atminimizing dissatisfaction, and financial loss due to poor communication andmanagement. CORA is applied during the electronic support system planning stages of aprocess, and then updated on a regular basis to document changes in requirements and/or engineering solutions ([4] and [5]).CORA is an iterative

Conference Session

What's New in Industrial Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

systematic method developed by Ranky for disassemblyprocesses to identify and minimize potential failure risks / failures of disassembled sub-assemblies, objects and components, and their effects on the customer (meaning internaland external customers). DFRA is a Team Oriented Problem Solving (TOPS), method,aimed at minimizing dissatisfaction, and financial loss.DFRA is applied during the planning stages of a disassembly process, and then updatedon a regular basis to document changes. It addresses negative quality and is primarilyconcerned with potential events, that can make the disassembly process, or the harvestedcomponents fail. Our approach is component-oriented, meaning that as we disassemblythe product the DFRA Team focuses on each

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jucain Butler

analysis [1] to evaluate student progress. With a properly designed web-based evaluationtool, it should be possible not only to measure if students have acquired simple skills, but also tofollow students through their work on complex problems to see if the path to a solution makessense. In doing this, the instructor can evaluate and even quantitatively measure, the degree towhich students have mastered the process of solving, e.g., design problems that requireintegration of understanding and knowledge by the student.The ”deliverables” of this project will be complete plans, materials and purchased equipment list Page 8.144.1for a ~0.5 l

Conference Session

TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

william mullett; Gary Mullett

educational and business and industry partners in the planning andorganization of the proposal from the very beginning.When Dr. Abeles visited the campus, the college president, the chief academic officer, members ofthe development office, and this author met with him and some of his staff. At the time, webelieved that the meeting had been very productive for both parties since we learned more aboutthe Next Step Program and they learned more about STCC and its capabilities. Shortly thereafter,an RFP for a seven million dollar program was issued by NYNEX to all 2- and 4-year colleges inNew England. STCC successfully brought together a group of community colleges across theNew England footprint, submitted a proposal on behalf of the “partner schools

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Williamson; Randy Winzer

issues are considered in all concept phases of the student work. Eachteam provides formal reports, both written and oral, to management (the professors) throughoutboth semesters. Each team must prepare a budget and a program plan for all segments of theirproject. Student teams are allowed to follow their own ideas even if the professors think it maynot work. Learning from failures at this level is often a better educational tool than being Page 8.13.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Renken; John Reisel

studentsidentified the specific goals of their projects, formulated their design action plan, researched possiblesolutions, performed the engineering analysis, interacted with PNIC staff, government officials, andindustrial personnel, prepared the final report, and formally presented their results.The use of this open-ended feasibility study allowed the students to use a great deal of creativity insolving and analyzing a problem in a real-world setting with realistic constraints. Details of thestudents' final designs, cost analyses, and recommendations as well as the educational experiences ofthe mechanical engineering undergraduate students who worked on these projects are described.Background1The Pettit National Ice Center (PNIC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

activities of planning, communicating, and self evaluation. 4) reinforce appropriate interpersonal, group, and/or presentational competencies introduced in the oral communication course. 5) reflect the strategies for evaluating interpersonal, group, and/or presentational competencies introduced in the oral communication course. 6) allocate at least 30% of the course grade to oral communication assignments. 7) require students to participate in at least 15 minutes of graded oral communication assignments. 8) teach students to use oral communication skills as a way of learning and thinking critically in a discipline.Therefore, the course syllabus was developed to outline new

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Shad Reed

manyof these results. Figure 6 illustrates that the turbine design was very successful in some respectsand not as successful in others. As figure 6 shows, only 21% strongly agreed with the statementthat the project contributed to their ability to apply the conservation laws, while 57% agreed withthe statement. This could indicate that most students could see how the concepts applied, but didnot actually perform the analysis required to design their turbine. This is supported by several ofthe open-ended question responses. An example comment from a student: “More importance should have been placed on the actual planning of the design. We went into the building process with only a bare understanding of our objective, and this

Conference Session

EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Thompson

pay offExposure to music prior to or during --> Better athletic performanceClasses outside of major --> Better grades than major classes 2 Need to beMore extracurricular activities --> Get more sleep careful; someSittting in the back row --> Lower GPA attention to selectedSingle room --> Higher grades areasStudents with part time jobs --> Lower GPANot on meal plan first year --> Better grades 1 PotentialDorm greater distance from clinic --> Likelihood to go for treatment problem(s), butFrequency & quantity of alcohol use

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Bruning

foundation for this type of instruction isknown as inquiry-based science and experiential learning or the application of constructivisttheory.Inquiry-Based ScienceWith inquiry-based/centered science approach, the real world is brought into the classroom andthe lives of students (National Academy Press, 1997). The National Science Education Standards(1996) defines inquiry as conducting activities such as making observations; posing questions;examining sources of information; planning investigations; reviewing what is known based onexperiential evidence; using tools to gather, analyze, and interpret data; proposing answers,explanations, and predictions; and communicating the results” (p. 8). An example of inquiry-basedscience of math would be a lab

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sterling E. Skinner; Eric G. Chapman; Sheldon Jeter

a decision matrix to select the best of the remaining designs.Design Evaluation: Using the performance measure formula as a starting point, eachteam was to come up with a set of objectives and constraints that their potential designsshould try to meet. A weighting factor was to be associated with each objective. Usingthese objectives and constraints, a decision matrix was developed which would later beused to evaluate and compare the team's different developed designs.Task Planning: Teams were given the due dates for the project, including dates whenprogress reports were due, the competition date, and the presentation dates. They wereassigned to develop a list of tasks that needed to be completed prior to each due date andthen develop an

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Silliman Stephen; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; Catherine Pieronek

particularly significant impact on the retention of women. The data also suggest that changes in the content and presentation of the course may affect the timing of student decisions to drop. Course changes between the 2001-02 offering and the 2002-03 offering appear also to have impacted both the retention of women and the timing of student decisions to drop.Follow ThroughNotre Dame’s College of Engineering created the EG 111/112 course sequence to improve thequality of the first-year learning experience for engineering intents and to incorporate a morelearning-centered paradigm into the program. The availability of student response data hasprovided a valuable resource for assessing and planning the course sequence, as

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruth Davis

craftsman and apprentice tradition came with the beginnings ofelectrical engineering. With electricity one no longer could depend on immediate sensoryinformation. Since measurement was indirect, mathematics became essential to assure effectiveand safe application. The laying of the Trans-Atlantic cable around 1860 put the shop-versus-school approach to engineering in stark contrast. The first models of the telegraph (around 1835)were seat-of-the-pants affairs: try something and see what it does. Marconi was of this opinion,while Michael Faraday and William Thomson supplied many of the theoretical underpinnings oftelegraphy.As the practitioners formulated their plans to lay a cable from Dover to Calais, Thomson andFaraday were able to predict that

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Walker

“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2109and concepts become more densely networked.12, 13, 14Concept maps have been used as a learning strategy, an instructional strategy, a strategyfor curriculum planning, and a means of student assessment.15 In this study, we usedconcept mapping as: (1) a form of student assessment (i.e., a measure of students’conceptual understanding of the design process); (2) a learning strategy (i.e., studentscreated maps as a study guide for their final exam and summarized course readings inconcept map

Conference Session

FPD VI: Presenting "All the Best" of the First-year Programs Division

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorelle A. Meadows, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Elizabeth S. Hildinger, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

; and tobring them into the engineering community here at the University. It is a project-based class inwhich students work in teams and individually to master first-year level technical content in oneof the major engineering disciplines and to become competent in the major genres of technicaland professional communication.The current form of the course is the end result of a process that began in 1991, when the Collegeof Engineering faculty involved in the development and implementation of the communicationcurriculum, working with a small group of technical faculty interested in reaching out toengineering students at the beginning of their college careers, created a plan for a first-yearengineering class that would couple communication with an

Conference Session

FPD V: Increasing Engagement and Motivation of First-year Students

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville; Patricia A. Ralston, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

. Since 2006, entering freshman take an “Introduction to Engineering” course, a two credithour course that meets the university’s “freshman experience” requirement. The course also givesfreshman engineers an introduction to the engineering profession, engineering design, differentengineering disciplines, and critical thinking. In the fall of 2011, there were 450 students in 12 sectionstaught by an instruction team of four faculty and six graduate teaching assistants. Critical Thinkingbecame an explicit part of the course in response to the University’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP),and the introduction to engineering course is responsible for teaching students the critical thinkingframework adopted by the university. Another significant

Conference Session

Capstone and International Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rob O. Hovsapian, Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Juan Ordonez, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Jose Vargas, Universidade Federal de Parana; Necesio Gomes Costa, Universidade Federal de Itajubá

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

consortium is centered on theinternational capstone senior design project course. Under this arrangement, four U.S. students,two at each Brazilian university, traveled to Brazil in the fall, which is actually the Brazilian“Spring” term, where they participated in two of the international capstone design projects that Page 25.572.4were developed during the summer before their departure. In Brazil the students joined a groupof non-FIPSE Brazilian students to undertake the planning and design phase of their projects inBrazil. Concurrently, five Brazilian exchange students traveled to the US where they

Conference Session

How Are We Preparing Our Students for the 21st Century Workforce?

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Mikesell P.E., Ohio Northern University; David R. Sawyers Jr., Ohio Northern University; Jed E. Marquart, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

drivingevents and scores from written reports and oral presentations. Page 25.624.3SAE states that the object of the competition is “to provide SAE student members with achallenging project that involves the planning and manufacturing tasks found when introducing anew product to the consumer industrial market. Teams compete against one another to have theirdesign accepted for manufacture by a fictitious firm. Students must function as a team to notonly design, build, test, promote, and race a vehicle within the limits of the rules, but also togenerate financial support for their project and manage their educational priorities.” 6

Conference Session

Capstone and International Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob T. Allenstein, Ohio State University; Clifford A. Whitfield, Ohio State University; Bob Rhoads, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

demonstrate professionalism by exhibiting integrity, providing leadership in a project to ensure the project success • Students are to produce quality designs that represent not only of themselves but of the industry company and the college. The designs must satisfy the performance requirements and constraints • Students are to establish team relationships with other members on the team, the advisor, the program coordinator, and the industry sponsor. • Students are to manage the project schedule and the resources by monitoring their own expenditures, their work assignments, and their course plan. • Students are to apply their prior knowledge, research, and any ideas in addressing the problem when

Conference Session

Teaching and Learning Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Owe G. Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering; R. David Kent, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Christina Howe, University of Evansville; Mary B. Vollaro, Western New England University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

? Page 25.666.2What is often lost in the educational process is that businesses and organizations, at a minimum,must have some essential components. Among such essentials are: • A revenue stream • A business plan for profitability • LeadershipOne can argue about adding one or two more to the list. And, one can argue how best to phrasethe items on the list. But the essence of the list remains. Engineers, because of their criticalposition within companies, are integral to addressing those essentials at some level. How is thatbeing done in the typical engineering curriculum?The important questions presented in life generally have no single correct answer, and fewanswers that are dependent on mathematical

Conference Session

Integrating Research

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kellie Grasman, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Suzanna Long, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Sean Michael Schmidt, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

the hybrid/buffet course was offered to all sections on campus in both Spring 2011and Fall 2011, no control group was available to compare learning within a given semester.Therefore, baseline data from an offering of the course in the traditional format in Fall 2010 wascompared to data collected from the two hybrid/buffet sections.The assessment plan consisted of a comparison of student performance on eight exam questionscovering select fundamental learning objectives of the course. The exam questions werepresented to students in the final exam of all Fall 2010 sections delivered in a traditional manner.The same questions were then embedded in exams of the hybrid/buffet course in both Spring2011 and Fall 2011. The Instructor was the same for

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering, Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico College; Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

and theywere mixed in the same classroom. The focus of the Camp has been to strengthen collegepreparedness by offering hands-on experiences in STEM. At the same time a highlypersonalized tutoring in Math was offered to the students with a 5 to 1 student-instructor ratio.The hands-on experiences were in the form of a four-week project either in ComputerProgramming, Biology and Environmental Sciences. The camp concluded with a written reportand an oral presentation of the project.With the exception of the first STEM Summer Camp where students just took a traditional“lecture-based” math session, on the rest of the Camps the students were given a pre-test onMath that was used to develop a study plan for each student. The software used to prepare

Conference Session

Aircraft Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Dimitris C. Lagoudas P.E., Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

need; students will predict performance of the designusing mathematics and science principles; and project supports the engineering process2. The useof SMA wires in this project was introduced in a manner as to require minimal changes in theproject plan. In fact, the project description given to the students (as a “work request” or “requestfor proposal”, etc.) did not specify how the claw was to operate. The SMAs have beenincorporated into the second-semester freshman engineering course for two semesters. In thespring of 2011, students were given the option of using the SMA wires, and most did. In the fall Page 25.793.3of 2011, students were

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Paras Mandal, University of Texas, El Paso; Maria Veronica Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Juan Venegas

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

through using(1) the Tutor System and (2) the RP Simulator. Particularly, we are interested in exploring if anon-traditional instruction approach through the Tutor System and the RP Simulator cancompete with and/or substitute to the traditional method (i.e., a face-to-face class). There are twomajor activities in our data collection plan. First, for effectiveness of the use of the tutor system,the instructor used Adobe Captivate® 5 to develop and demonstrate the use of the medicalmodeling software called Mimics® then saved it as a Captivate file (i.e. .wsf). Then, it wasuploaded in the tutor system to allow students to download it. Basically, there are two groupsunder this activity – Control Group/Group A (i.e., using face-to-face instruction

Conference Session

Capstone Courses in Construction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohsin K. Siddiqui, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Sulaiman Dawood Alrasheed, Saudi Aramco; Abdul Rahman Mohammed, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Azfar Amaan, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Waheed Hussain Aljaroudi P.E.; Abdullah Ahmed Al-Jughaiman, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Fayez Mohsen Alsaikhan, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Bahir Mohamad Alhashem

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Construction Engineering and Management. This particular offering of the coursereported here was in the Fall semester of 2010. As a part of the capstone course objectives, thestudents link the integrative perspective of Construction Project Management to the knowledgeareas of Project Management that have been individually covered under various courses such asPlanning and Scheduling, Cost Estimating, Quality Management, Human RecoursesManagement and Risk Management. The expected output is typically a project proposal thatemphasizes the project management challenges for a project.Project SelectionThe students were asked to propose a project for the course for which they would prepare adetailed project management plan. The student team came up with seven

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley Marshall P.E., University of Colorado, Denver; Michael Tang, University of Colorado, Denver; Stephan A. Durham, University of Colorado, Denver

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2012-3526: INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SO-CIETY (STS) COURSES INTO THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUMDr. Wesley Marshall P.E., University of Colorado, Denver Wesley Marshall is an Assistant Professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado, Denver, and Co-director of the Active Communities Transportation (ACT) research group. He focuses on transporta- tion research dedicated to building a more sustainable infrastructure, particularly in terms of improving road safety, active transportation, and transit-oriented communities. Other recent research topics involve transportation planning, congestion pricing, human behaviors, parking, and street networks. A native of Watertown, Mass., Marshall is a

Conference Session

Spacecraft Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dimitris Vassiliadis, West Virginia University; D.J. Pisano, West Virginia University; Yu Gu, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

semester, the student team participates in testing and integration atNASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. The launch is followed by work on data analysis and preparation of afinal report. A brief description of the course procedures is given along with an overview of theexperiments conducted. A brief discussion of educational goals and positive outcomes of this activity forindividual students and annual teams is presented. Finally the lessons learnt in organizing the project andcourse are summarized since they may be useful for schools and organizations planning to develop suchprograms. 1. Introduction The Department of Physics at West Virginia University has sought to integrate project-based learningwith a regular classroom-based curriculum. One