Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University; Jimmy Faraon, National University

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Computing & Information Technology

flows. In thispaper we will discuss the transition to cloud computing approach considering strategicpreparation, planning and designing, implementation and migration and optimization.The strategic planning, evaluates security risk, focusing on protecting access andproviding on-demand security options within a service catalog for IT users. The planningand designing requires close coordination among the members of the IT team, advisers,and cloud vendors. Implementation and migration involves implementing the securitytechnology design, the security portal design, automated audit, and physical safety andsecurity designs. Proven methodologies, best practices, and deep understanding of thecore systems within the cloud environment can facilitate a

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Research Technical Session 7

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip M. Reeves, The Pennsylvania State University; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Elizabeth C. Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; D. Jake Follmer, The Pennsylvania State University; Jessica Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. The minor, which had been previously housed in theCollege of Engineering, had transitioned to a university-wide minor in the fall of 2013. As a partof the evaluation plan of the newly defined minor, all students enrolled in the core courses wereasked to complete a survey. The survey included an open-ended prompt which asked students todefine entrepreneurship. The survey was distributed during the first two weeks of the semesterto ensure that the students’ responses would not be influenced by the course content. Thesurvey was administered online using Qualtrics, a commercially available software tool. Data was also collected from instructors through the use of an online survey. The datawas collected as part of a larger study on faculty

Conference Session

Teaching Communication II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Jean L. Coco, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Mehdi Miri, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Robert W. Cox, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

workplace readiness, the design faculty will continue the current practice of asking apanel of local engineers to evaluate the students’ final presentations in the second senior designclass. To plan this project, the ECE design team and the CAC coordinator met twice during thesummer of 2011 to develop a standardized analytic rubric for use during the study. We thentested the rubric during a senior design presentation in October 2011 and revised it to improve itsusability.The impact goal of the proposed project was the creation of new pedagogy that is moreeffective in imparting oral communication skills to electrical engineering students in order toprepare graduates for oral presentations required for employability and professionaladvancement. The

Conference Session

Improving Introductory Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura-Ann Shaa Ling Chin, Villanova University; Justinus Agus Budi Satrio, Villanova University; Kenneth A. Kroos, Villanova University

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Chemical Engineering

. Figure 1 shows the timeline of a typical freshman engineering program at VillanovaUniversity’s College of Engineering. In the first semester, this freshman engineering coursebegins with a seven-week core lesson plan incorporating engineering fundamentals alongsidedynamic hands-on group micro-projects that bring classroom lessons to life. Following the corelesson plan, students are presented with the opportunity to select two of six interdisciplinary, 7-week hands-on mini projects. These mini projects that span the second half of the first semesterand the first half of the second semester have been designed to expose students to a minimum oftwo different engineering disciplines. By mid second semester, students select their preferredengineering

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Kim, Bucknell University; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Design in Engineering Education

process arisesorganically from experience rather than a typical textbook approach.Hands-on Design-Build-Test-RefineEngineering design cannot be divorced from physical realization. There are few (if any) virtualexercises that can replace a fabricated prototype to reveal implications of design decisions whilealso increasing student investment when compared to a paper design. Physical prototyping exposesovercomplexity, conceptual blindspots, and deficient planning. From a more positive perspective,students learn to communicate and think through prototyping to prove out concepts, principles, andform. Students learn the imperative of design details and the difference between a viable virtualprototype and model that simply cannot be built. Much of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashland O. Brown, University of the Pacific; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Joseph J. Rencis P.E., Tennessee Technological University; Jiancheng Liu, University of the Pacific; Kyle A. Watson, University of the Pacific; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Rachelle Kisst Hackett, University of the Pacific; Paul Henry Schimpf, Eastern Washington University; Chuan-Chiang Chen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Ismail I Orabi, University of New Haven; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; John J Wood, U.S. Air Force Academy; Brock U Dunlap, University of Texas, Austin; Ella R. Sargent, University of the Pacific

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

current focus of Dr. Wood’s research includes the development of robotic ground and air vehicle systems using innovative design techniques using cur- rent technology implementations, as well as futuristic projections. Dr Wood also publishes research on advances in the methodology for creative electromechanical systems design.Brock U Dunlap, University of Texas, Austin Brock Dunlap is currently a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin studying active learning and prototyping methodology. He plans to graduate in May 2014 with a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in design and manufacturing. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University.Ella

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Manufacturing

. There are signs that manufacturing practitionersare more positive than educators about manufacturing in general. This is reasonable given theongoing economic recovery.References1. Hugh Jack et al. “Curricula 2015: A Four Year Strategic Plan for Manufacturing Education,” June 2011.Available from http://www.C2015.com.2. Bennett, R., et al. “Workforce Imperative: A Manufacturing Education Strategy”, Society of ManufacturingEngineers, September 2012. Available from http://www.sme.org/WorkforceImperative/.3. Jack, H., "Perceptions in the Manufacturing Education Community", ASEE Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY,June 2010.4. Jack, H., “The 2011 State of Manufacturing Education”, ASEE Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, June 2011.5. Jack, H., “The 2012 State

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyler Cummings-Bond; Robin Adams

© 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe list of recipients is maintained on the ERM website [13]. Perhaps unlike the PhD, the AFGrecipients have been recognized for significant contributions to engineering education and maybe farther along in reaching their employment objectives. As such, this population may bedescribed as “medium-risk” and it is likely that the study results will illustrate mixed success inobtaining tenure or a professional academic position.Group 3 – National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Recipients. This grant is awarded totenure-track faculty to establish an academic research based and as such facilitate a successfultenure process. A critical aspect of each grant is a plan for integrating research and

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jensen

Page 9.34.11globally applicable.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIn the future, we plan to perform a comprehensive study of hands-onapproaches/experiences to include documenting, categorizing, dissecting, and analyzingthe different approaches. This work may be based exclusively on a literature review or itmay also include empirical work. During this extensive literature review, we would hopeto extract principles and guidelines of successful hands-on approaches and artifacts. Also,we hope to be able to generalize this design methodology to include concept generation ofhands-on activities across Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv; Rosalyn Berne

sacred by the local, native Apache people.The University news officials report that in the mid 1980’s the Forest Service carried outcultural surveys on Mt. Graham. Two shrines were located on Hawk and High Peaks.Additional surveys were carried out on Emerald and Plainview Peaks, and nineteen localtribes were contacted to see if they had concerns. Four tribes, the Ak-Chin, Hopi, Zuni,and the San Carlos Apache responded but raised no objections to the proposed plans forthe telescopes. The shrines were protected and the telescopes were located near EmeraldPeak on a site with no known adverse cultural impact. In 1990, two years after thecompletion of the final environmental impact statement, some members of the San CarlosApache tribe raised

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

elsewhere and did not take advantage of that opportunity. For the next version of this class, we plan to ask students if they did so on the end-of-course evaluation and questionnaire.12. Peer evaluations. To promote learning from peer appraisals, on the last day of class we had each student anonymously evaluate each of the other students. The instructors then consolidated the feedback and sent each student their results, including any comments written about them by other students. Although this is valuable feedback, it could cause discomfort if a student’s perception of their own value differs significantly from the perceptions of others. It also is not clear whether a single round of anonymous peer evaluations at the end of

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ronna Turner; Greg Salamo

exist in an isolatedtechnical environment. The fact is that many products require a high level of technicalsophistication to even evaluate if it is the proper product for an application. As a result, todaythere must be more interaction between the developers of a new technology product and thecustomer. The scientist or engineer is therefore forced into active participation in such areas ascustomer negotiations, marketing and business planning, and manufacturing support. While theirneed for technical competence is not being reduced to support their primary task, their need forother non-technical knowledge is being increased by the many secondary roles that they arebeing asked to play.From the large industry perspective, the need for a broadened

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education · To expose students to executive management and decision making processes; · To give students opportunities to experience and participate in corporate approaches to both day-to-day problem solving and strategic planning; · To require students to be active contributors (not just observers) of typical business practices; · To prepare students to become leaders of companies conducting business centered in product and informational technologies.These goals are achieved by placing students in ten-week (minimum) paid internships thatrequire them to work in a position at

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Pimpida Punnakanta; Craig D. Lewis; Cynthia Atman

with any associated product informationsuch as material specifications, instructions for use, and any supplementary devices (e.g., extrarazor blades). In addition, teams are provided with worksheets to document their designdecisions and activities. Specific prompts include: defining each team member’s role andresponsibilities, recording the steps the teams used to complete the acitivity (a design log), listingand explaining customer expectations for the tool, identifying and justifying the most essentialcustomer expectation, and describing a complete testing procedure to address this customerexpectation. This procedure may include sketches and plans for data collection or analysis.Our study goal is to identify the level of cross-validity

Conference Session

Collaborations with Engineering Technology

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

PK Raju; Chetan Sankar; Glennelle Halpin; Gerald Halpin

Kennedy the MTIrecommendation that STS 51-L launch should occur as planned. Mueller, a NASAadministrator, asked if everyone supported this decision, but no engineer from MTI responded tothis question. NASA proceeded with its plans to launch STS 51-L on January 28 th, 1986. The preceding narrative shows that the problems with the Solid Rocket Motor were wellknown and documented since 1977. It took national prominence when the Challenger disasterhappened. The students are provided this case study in a three-part series and asked to defendthe options of “launching the shuttle,” “not launching the shuttle,” “becoming a consultant andmaking a recommendation,” and “deciding as NASA managers.”(b) Adding Competency Material In order to help

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Alejandro Scalise; Dan Budny; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

following section describes several models to predict the characteristics of graduatingseniors. To do this, both linear and logistic regression were used with data from our attitudinalsurveys, including data from the Senior Exit SurveyÓ, completed by all seniors when they applyfor graduation.Graduating GPASeveral models have been developed in an effort to relate graduating GPA to a number of factorsincluding EC-2000 outcomes. Independent variables included outcome measures obtained fromthe Senior Exit SurveyÓ, SAT scores and high school class rank, and variables representingeducational enhancements while an undergraduate including internship, co-op, undergraduateresearch assistantship, study abroad, and plans to attend graduate school. For example

Conference Session

First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

of the students who chose to attend the EWBmeeting were 36%, 22%, 16%, and 4% in 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010, respectively. The trendof declining interest in EWB over time was somewhat surprising. About half of the studentswho attended the EWB meeting stated that they would be interested in joining the CU studentchapter of EWB.The bulk of the homework 7 essay assignment required that the students consider various aspectsof civil engineering and ultimately state if they planned to pursue a career in civil engineering.The students were asked to define civil engineering, talk about what they learned about the civilengineering profession from the guest speakers, describe aspects of being a civil engineer thatwere personally appealing and

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

responsibility for trainingthe first group belonged to the universities and for the second group to the technical colleges.The Committee criticised day release and evening study because it gave too little attention to thefundamental sciences in the earlier stages. It not only thought that 1500 engineers per annumshould be trained to the highest level in the technical colleges but that the aggregate length of theacademic course should be the same as that of a university programme, and that it should beinterwoven with a planned course of works practice. The sandwich (cooperative) courses thatemerged were a refinement of this principle and occupied four years of interwoven academicstudy and work experience.1000 of the 1500 would be educated via the higher

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine G. Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Council also listed these same skills as critical for the future ofengineering, noting attributes that a “global engineer” should possess.6 Similarly, theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers posited the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge Page 22.875.2for the 21st Century 7 that echoed these sentiments and demands from undergraduateengineering programs.Other studies that focused on engineering skills highlight attributes that might not betypically considered in a description of general engineering work or in a plan foreducation. For example, Trevelyan observed a key attribute of effective engineers asbeing the ability to work with and influence “other

Conference Session

Aerospace First-Year Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Olsen, University of Michigan; Peter D. Washabaugh, University of Michigan

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Aerospace

academicstanding, they can declare into a variety of programs. Consequently, the students who areenrolled in any first-year course may have a strong to weak interest in any particular topic. Since Page 22.879.6the first offering of the blimp course, the instructors have held informal exit interviews with each student and student team. One of the questions has always focused on future academic plans, and there are at least two populations in the course: Those that have a passion for their vehicle, and those that have other interests. We discovered that even while we

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Martin, University of Texas, Austin; Pat Ko, University of Texas, Austin; Stephanie Baker Peacock, University of Texas, Austin; Jennifer Rudolph, University of Texas, Austin

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

applications of basic principles and thendevelop a general solution plan. Several researchers5, 12, 13, 14 have referred to this difference asnovices reasoning backwards from the solution goal to the problem specifications, while expertsreason forwards from the whole problem to generate a solution.Routine and adaptive expertiseOther research has demonstrated how experts can differ on their level of flexibility. Hatano andcolleagues15, 16, 17 studied expert abacus users who could mentally add ten multi-digit numberswith only 2 seconds between each. While these experts were highly proficient at the task, thebreadth of their expertise was narrow and they did not seek to apply their skills to new problemsor expand their domain. Hatano and colleagues

Conference Session

New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne R. Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Rebecca K. Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Christopher Dawson, Mississippi State University

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Minorities in Engineering

andacademic), and we now meet weekly to talk. We also sat down to plan his classes for the nextsemester; he listed his current classes and the grades he expected, which tallied to a GPA of 3.85.The lesson here is that if I had allowed that generalization, “African-American students justaren’t as well prepared,” to couple with his assertion that he wasn’t doing as well as he wanted inhis classes, I probably would have come to the conclusion that he was close to failing a class.Engineering tends to weed out weaker students, but being swayed by a generalization mightprevent someone from putting forth the effort to learn about a student’s actual background andtheir individual circumstances. A poor reaction on my part may have facilitated the nextMeredith

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Foster, George Fox University; Justin R. Vander Werff P.E., Dordt College

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New Engineering Educators

attended a teaching workshop in summer 2009, but the workshops had distinctdifferences.Known to many in the ASEE, the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI) has convenedThursday–Saturday prior to the ASEE Annual Conference since 1991. 1 The application of thematerial is biased toward engineering education, yet a few instructors from other areas (e.g.,physics, math) also attend. The content for the NETI focuses around four core areas: Page 22.1415.3understanding students (both their learning process and their hangups), course planning andassessment, developing teaching strategies, and other professional concerns. A recent paper by theworkshop

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Santosh Devasia, University of Washington; Jim L. Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Jae-Hyun Chung, University of Washington; Jiangyu Li, University of Washington; Amy Shen, University of Washington; Nathan Sniadecki, University of Washington; Junlan Wang, University of Washington

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NSF Grantees

Conference Session

Standards and K-12 Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara J. Moore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Micah S. Stohlmann, University of Minnesota; Jennifer A. Kersten, University of Minnesota; Kristina Maruyama Tank, University of Minnesota; Aran W. Glancy, University of Minnesota

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

improve our daily lives. Students in K-12 can begin to understand and use varioustechniques and skills through design-oriented activities including plans, background research,prototypes, drawings, and Computer Aided Design (CAD) programs.The work of engineers is central to the development of technology. However, high schools thatprovide technology education are becoming more rare38. It has been recommended thattechnology education should be refocused on engineering design16, 39. Several benefits have beenproposed for technology education to focus on engineering design including that engineeringdesign would elevate the field of technology education to a higher academic level andengineering design provides an ideal platform for integrating

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Karen M. Bursic, University of Pittsburgh; Natasa S. Vidic, University of Pittsburgh; Nora Siewiorek, University of Pittsburgh

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

of conceptual learn-ing, gender and the student’s grade point average (GPA). This suggests that development ofmodeling ability may be constrained by the naiveté of one’s personal epistemology. Finally,metacognition, or ‘thinking about thinking,’ has an impact on the development of modelingstrategies of students, when the impacts of four metacognitive dimensions are considered:awareness, planning, cognitive strategy and self-checking. Students who are better at self-checking show higher growth in their modeling abilities over the course of a year, compared tostudents who are less proficient at self-checking. The growth in modeling abilities is also moder-ated by the cognitive strategy and planning skills of the student. After some experience

Conference Session

Research in Engineering Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Nicola Wendy Sochacka, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Data, and ii) a flexible typology of fundamental processes ofvalidation (theoretical, procedural, communicative, pragmatic) and the notion of processreliability. Both of these aspects of the framework are illustrated with examples from theaforementioned study. Future work is planned to further develop the conceptual framework as alanguage for the engineering education community to engage in a discourse around shared,contextual and flexible understandings of research quality.Introduction: Questions of quality in qualitative engineering education researchEngineering education research is an inherently interdisciplinary endeavor [1-3] that is currentlybeing undertaken by a community of engineers, social and educational researchers with diverseand

Conference Session

Thinking About the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Mark H. Somerville, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kerri Ann Green, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

for Faculty Affairs and Research. Somerville joined the faculty at newly-founded Olin College in 2001. At Olin, he served on the committee that designed the inaugural curriculum for the institution, and has played leadership roles in strategic planning, as Chair of the Engineering program, and as Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Curricular Innovation. Somerville’s interest in engineering education focuses largely on facilitating change processes and on the application of collaborative design techniques to curriculum revision; in this capacity he has worked closely with a variety of institutions, both nationally and internationally. His educational background includes a Ph.D. and master’s in electrical

Conference Session

CoED General Technical Session I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; J. Lane Thames, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert Donald Wellman Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology; Dazhong Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sungshik Yim, Georgia Institute of Technology; David W. Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

Engineering Educator (Ing-Paed IGIP).J. Lane Thames, Georgia Institute of Technology Lane Thames is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in electrical and computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He obtained his B.S. in computer engineering with Highest Honors in Dec. 2003 followed by his M.S. in electrical and computer engineering in May 2006, both from Georgia Tech. Thames is currently planning to defend his dissertation during the Fall of 2011. His core research is centered around three primary thrusts: distributed active-response firewall systems and architectures enabling globalized Internet security, detection of computer and network attacks using computational intelligence and hybrid intelligence systems, and

Conference Session

Android TA: Course Automation and the Fate of the Professor

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

opportunity.The commonality of the available tools described or named in this paper is being able tostimulate individuals and, more powerfully, a group, such as a planning, design, research,marketing, or other project or task team, to think more deeply and widely—to generatemore ideas. More specifically, the methods in the toolbox stimulate additional right-brainuse to complement left-brain activity, yielding more creativity/innovation, rather thanrelying only on what athor Gerard Nierenberg4 calls “accidental creativity.” These toolsfacilitate intentional creativity and innovation by engaging both cranial hemispheres.They stimulate both hemispheres and synergism between them. Some of the methodspresented here build on the principle that a problem well