Conference Session

Curriculum in Electrical Power Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Edwards, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, and mustfall on the characteristic curve for the fan. Whenever a fan is attached to a system a certainamount of back pressure on the fan will be created. This backpressure depends on the amount offlow going through the system. In order to determine the actual operating point the engineermust know the characteristic curves for both the fan (fan curve) and the system (impedancecurve). The operating point is the point at which the two curves intersect (Figure 1). Since it islikely that an engineer will have to select a fan at some point in his/her career it is important tounderstand this concept.Learning about how to determine the operating point for a fan in a system is enough to make thisa worthwhile activity. However, there is a broader

Conference Session

Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Hill, University of Detroit Mercy; Patricia Pena, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Tagged Divisions

International

project as 3 out of 5. The benefit to the outcomeof the project of the presentation on Cultural Awareness was rated only slightly higher at 3.14out of 5. However, the students felt that the presentation on Cultural Awareness would be usefulin their future career as indicated by their average rating of 4.57 out 5.Technical Subject MatterThe authors in general feel that the students were even more successful in their learning of thetechnical subject matter than they were in learning about inter-cultural collaboration. Thestudents learned many valuable lessons about practical issues with control system design that arenot typically encountered in textbook problems. One example was that the students gained anunderstanding of the inherent nonlinearity

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Reisel, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

new faculty member, into aclassroom and told to teach a class. The person may or may not have any experience as ateacher, and if they do have experience it may be limited to having Teaching Assistant duties.They may or may not be given a course that is a fundamental aspect of their research, but hasmany details that they have not given much thought to in many years. They may be given some Page 15.609.3assistance by another faculty member when starting to teach a new course, but generally aregiven no formal training unless they had sought such training on their own before beginning theirfaculty career. At the same time, this person is also being

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Susan Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Melissa Roberts, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Conference Session

Service Learning and Societal Issues in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Sevier, Boise State University; Seung Youn Chyung, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

impact of a SL method on student learning and retention. This study investigated students’ motivational attitudes and self-assessment of engineering abilities. It is hypothesized that positive motivational attitudes and self-assessment of abilities would result in deeper understandings of engineering and continuous motivation to pursue engineering as a career. More research should be conducted to test the hypothesis. ≠ Design engineering curricula with instructional strategies such as SL that contribute to meeting ABET program outcomes. As shown in the literature review, engineering educators have successfully designed and implemented SL in their curricula to achieve ABET program outcomes. This study

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joao Paiva, Politecnico de Viseu

Tagged Divisions

International

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simin Hall, College of Engineering at Virginia Tech; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech; Sam Conn, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Systems at Regis University in Denver, Colorado from 1999 to 2008. In this position he led the university's move to online education in graduate and undergraduate programs. Sam also served as co-director of the online joint-degree program with the National University of Ireland in Galway, Director of the Center for Database Research, and Co-Director for the National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence. Sam has worked in higher education since 1999 after completing a 23 year career in the field of information systems and technology. Sam maintains a publishing track in Information Systems and eLearning research

Conference Session

Student Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Otto, Stanford University; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

-graduate plans and shaping the college experience. But confidence relates to the experiences oneseeks out (which may in turn build confidence), and these experiences in turn are likely to affectfuture plans and opportunities. Employers are increasingly calling for well-developedprofessional skills in engineering hires and ABET Inc. has established a set of six professionalskill outcomes that engineering baccalaureate graduates should possessii,iii. Motivation, whatdrives one to pursue something, also influences how one chooses to spend time both in schooland in career planning.In this study, we test the explanatory power of framing undergraduate engineering populationsaccording to measures of their intrinsic psychological motivation and

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Schnittka, University of Kentucky; Michael Evans, Virginia Tech; Brett Jones, Virginia Tech; Carol Brandt, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

development of UScitizens in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Consequently, theresearchers addressed this effort by exposing young people to STEM careers while focusing ondesign issues and concepts related to energy conservation and the environment.In this paper, we describe the results of the initial implementation of Studio STEM in aninformal setting for underserved youth: an after-school Boys and Girls Club in a ruralAppalachian community. The curricular package used for this pilot study, called Save thePenguins, has been used in the past in formal, in-school settings with advantaged youth.3,4 Inthis iteration the researchers selected a different population and added an informationcommunication technology (ICT) component

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and the Educated Person

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. William Graff, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTouneau University; Martin Batts, Le Tourneau University; Maria J. Leiffer, LeTouneau University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

publication/career, political correctness, continuedfunding, or one’s pet theory.5. The general public rather than the scientific community votes on what is worthstudying and funding.6. The public loses trust in scientific research.7. The scientific method is abandoned because the results are “obvious.”8. No one cares how things really work.9. We move to an age of magic and mysticism.Lewis wrote:“Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law inNature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief hasdied: it will be interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity survives it.Two significant developments have already appeared—the hypothesis of a lawless sub-nature, and the

Conference Session

Faculty and Program Developments, Exchanges, and Partnerships

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl F. Zorowski, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

International

., interact with a host institution, identify an industrialsponsor and spend six weeks away from home is more than most faculty in the midst of theiracademic careers are likely to undertake. If global interaction experience with other cultures isan opportunity to be provided to US engineering students greater levels of tangible support mustbe made available through university, government and industry leadership. In addition theremust be greater recognition and reward for faculty to take on the sizeable responsibility requiredto conduct such programs. It then becomes a matter of priorities as to where resources will be orshould be allocated in educating our future engineers for US industry to be competitive andsuccessful in what has become a global

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Xiongjie Dong, Kansas State University; Tim J. Sobering, Kansas State University; Jason Yao, East Carolina University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

sensitiveCapability?  1. RASCL will be neat if all the bugs are figured out in advance. 2. Use of LabVIEW significantly limits the uses of device because of the price, and it can't be used widely without the full license. It cannot be used but in class projects. 3. Need a cover or case to prevent the board being destroyed. 4. The highest frequency the function generator can reach. 5. Higher sampling rate and bandwidth. 6. More functions, such add a digital dial on the function generator. 7. Isolation circuit does not operate properly. What is the most you would pay for a system like this if it were used in several classes over the course of your undergraduate career? (Note: An engineering

Conference Session

Laboratories and Projects in BME

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

are playing an increasingly important role in research and Page 22.98.13design (8, 10, 16 23, 33). Although programming languages will come and go, the ability   12  to think algorithmically is a skill that engineering undergraduates will need, not only infor their first job, but throughout their 40+ year career (9, 10, 30, 32). It is thereforeimportant to teach algorithmic thinking as a critical thinking skill.In this paper we have proposed Coding to Think as an extension of Writing to Think, andIdea to Code as a practical way for students to learn Coding to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

example, therace to the moon coincided neatly with the original Star Trek television series. The interchangebetween creative work and technical development is especially fun to examine in the field ofartificial intelligence, where there are many examples ranging from Isaac Asimov stories toWall-E to intelligent artificial agents within many games.The course goals of AI & SciFi include 1) presenting students with a fun opportunity to improvetheir writing, 2) exploring the social impact of the field of AI, 3) preparing students to deal withethical questions that will arise in their professional careers, 4) connecting students to thebroader culture of the technical community, 5) exploring connections between creativity in artsand in computer

Conference Session

Design Tools & Methodology I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pedro Renato Acosta, University of Texas, El Paso; Rafael Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

promote the development ofcreativity skill in their students. Traditional engineering curricula is focused mostly in technicaldevelopment; 13 this practice has shown a decreasing level of creativity in students rather thanincrease while they are moving forward in their career. The teaching of idea generation(ideation) methods could enhance the student’s designer creative capacity; this has been shownby multiple research studies14,15,12 . Learning about ideation methods can tackle creativedeficiencies. Although various Ideation Methods exist (e.g. brainstorming, mind-mapping,synectics, lateral thinking or morphological analysis16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 ), engineering educationinstitutions as well as industry tend to prefer quick and simple methods

Conference Session

ELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour, College of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

career choice." 1Two of the (original three) students involved in the design and development of this project havesuccessfully completed their graduate studies. Additional students have continuouslycontributed to the improvement of the project and redesign of several components and aspects ofthe apparatus.IV- Design of the Experiment and the Apparatus1. PedagogyThis project has been designed for sophomore level students. Pedagogical measures have beentaken for its realistic effectiveness (nation-wide). Therefore, the framework of the project hasbeen set at a level that sophomores may: a) succeed in its implementation and b) develop somedegree of understanding and appreciation for the optical measurement processes and potentialapplications.2

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David H. Jonassen, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

ethicalresponsibilities based on economic, environmental, ethical, social, and political constraints.Although ABET criteria provides an extrinsic rationale for addressing ethics issues inengineering education, the most compelling rationale is the omnipresent nature of ethicalissues in engineering practice for which students are preparing. The ethical problems thatengineers encounter throughout their careers influence the businesses they work for, thepublic at large, and the health and safety of society[1]. Engineering ethical problems arise inroutine engineering practice and are often integrated with technical, engineering issues.If ethics instruction is essential to the preparation of engineers, then the engineeringeducation community must determine the goals

Conference Session

Design Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin McCarthy, University of Auckland

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

-life jobs accuratelyand this perceived relevance of the material to future careers was also a motivator.The tasks followed a logical sequence both in engineering and chronological terms and, infact, may be viewed as one large, single, manufacturing system activity. This characteristicmeets one of the requirements of situated learning theory, i.e. that tasks provide a complex,coherent and sustained learning environment. Barab 27 points out that authenticity is providedby the dynamic interactions amongst all the components [of the virtual enterprise] and that,“authenticity is manifest in the flow itself….and not in any one feature in isolation.”To successfully deal with the indeterminate problems the students were required to frame theproblem

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

accomplish certain parts on my own.While another student said of Laboratory 7: This Lab applied skills that I can see myself using in my career. And allowed me to relate process control to statistical analysis of the process.There were many responses that connected a real world context to conceptual understanding asthose cited above. However, the following response indicates a student who has more difficultywith this approach: It (Laboratory 9) was the first lab where we already had an opportunity to grasp the concepts we needed to use in the lab before we started. so that instead of struggling to develop an understanding of the concepts while we were working through the lab we were able to preemptively apply our knowledge

Conference Session

Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Reeves, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Julia Ross, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-1952: A NOVEL APPROACH TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTRobert Reeves, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Robert Reeves graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2009 with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He will finish his MS in Chemical Engineering also from UMBC in May 2010 and will begin his career with OSIsoft, LLC. He has been working on the INSPIRES program for the last year.Julia Ross, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Julia Ross is Professor and Chair of the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her technical research interests are in the area of cellular

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American; Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Martin Knecht, South Texas College; Taylor Martin, Univ of Texas at Austin; Arturo Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Joan Walker, Long Island University; Araceli Ortiz, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

hastwo foci, student retention and the student’s development of adaptive expertise. Student RetentionResearch points to a need to see the relevance of studies to the real world1 as one of four keyreasons for minority-STEM students’ decision to drop-out or transfer out of STEMundergraduate fields of study. The need to relate their studies to the real world results becauseminority students lack an equitable number of career influencers and role models within theirfamilies and familiar networks. Thus, when minority students select STEM fields of study, they Page 15.397.2experience an immediate need to confirm the relevance and compatibility of

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Facciol, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Jason Foster, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

at four important areas: the student’sexposure to engineering design throughout their undergraduate career, the student’s perception ofengineering design in verbal and visual form, the qualities of a good engineering designer, andthe important topics to be covered in an engineering design course.The purpose of the sources identified prior was to generate the overall list of qualities and topicsshown in the tables within the instrument. The first list was created using the interview results.This list was then expanded upon using curricular requirements. The combination of theinterview results and curricular requirements were identified as the most important of the listsince they would reveal that the students were meeting the course

Conference Session

Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

years. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. 5. Atkinson, M. P. (2001). The scholarship of teaching and learning: Reconceptualizing scholarship and transforming the academy. Social Forces, 79 (4), 1217-1230. 6. Austin, A. E. (2002). Preparing the next generation of faculty: Graduate school as socialization to the academic career. The Journal of Higher Education, 73 (1), 94-122. 7. Barbe, Walter B. , Milone, Michael N., Jr. (1980). Modality. Instructor, 89, 44-47. 8. Barr, R. B., & Tagg, J. (1995, November/December). From teaching to learning: A new paradigm for undergraduate education. Change: The Magazine of Higher Education, 13-24. 9. Barrows, Howard S. (2000). Problem-Based Learning

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2 - Faculty Development

Collection

2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Prasad Edamana, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT M), India; Ajit Kumar Kolar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Pramod S. Mehta, Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Sujatha Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Track 3 - Faculty Development

relevant to engineering educators, and (ii) “hard disciplines [e.g.,engineering] place greater importance [than soft disciplines] on student career preparation andemphasize cognitive goals such as learning facts, principles and concepts [i.e., content]”12. Alarge percentage of engineering faculty members still believes that “subject knowledge” is theonly criteria for becoming an effective teacher in engineering institutions.Emergence of for-profit employers in faculty developmentDuring the last decade in India, major employers of engineering graduates have observed in theirrecruitment drives that while thousands of students graduated with an engineering degree, onlyabout 20% or less, were really “employable” directly. An analysis revealed that the

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Penn State University; Victor A Atiemo-Obeng, The Dow Chemical Company (Retired)

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

Page 21.16.7anecdotal notion that Africa is richly endowed with natural resources, many students at this stagein their academic career have little knowledge about their countries’ minerals resources and haveno idea where and how to access such information. In the US we often tell our students that thechallenge today is not lack of information, but how to use the ever-abundant information. For theAUST students, however, access to information was nontrivial. Library resources (physical plusonline) were extremely limited, access to the computer lab was restricted, and the availablebandwidth often made downloading a formidable task. In spite of the challenges above, thestudents’ response to the course was positive overall, as captured in this

Conference Session

Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Julia D Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Andrea Mazzurco, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sang Eun Woo, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

Student and Curriculum Development

in their careers.2-7These and many other reports and studies have also addressed questions about what specifickinds of attributes are important for the so-called “global engineer.” For example, one forward-looking NRC report published in 1999 outlined a “global engineering skill set” with four mainitems: “(1) language and cultural skills, (2) teamwork and group dynamic skills, (3) knowledgeof the business and engineering cultures of counterpart countries, and (4) knowledge ofinternational variations in engineering education and practice.”3 Many other authors and groupshave since compiled or created their own partially unique lists of attributes, and other efforts ofthis type are ongoing.9-22 Accreditation guidelines and curriculum reports

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session I - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Dirk Schaefer P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Invited - Faculty Development

professional registration, and hencenationwide recognition based on common standards.While the UK system mainly targets those teaching at university level, within the EuropeanUnion the focus is on all those involved with teaching technical, engineering-related subjects.The International Society of Engineering Education (IGIP) at their headquarters in Austria hascreated a training program open to all “teaching teachers”. Participation is voluntarily and oftenused as a means of continuous professional development to support career development.Successful completion of their program leads to professional registration as ING-PAED IGIP(International Professional Engineering Educator). IGIP, together with SEFI, the EuropeanSociety of Engineering Education

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Powers, Clarkson University; Bruce Brydges, SUNY Potsdam; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Mary Margaret Small, Clarkson University; Gail Gotham, St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES; Peter Turner, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

skill and content knowledge that exists forinstance when you have an elementary teacher, a middle school teacher and a high school teacherbringing their specific expertise and background to a workshop. It was an introduction in manycases to differential instruction.Faculty members have also benefited from their exposure to K-12 outreach activities byintegrating their experiences and lesons learned into their research grants, especially NSF. Forexample, an asst. professor from Mechanical Engineering who has been involved in our roboticsoutreach activities was recently received an NSF CAREER award that integrates K-12 outreach,and another professor has a new NSF CCLI grant that includes a high school component as afollow on to the Finding NANO

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; William Oakes

generous grant fromHewlett Packard Philanthropy Page 10.773.10 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education"BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION1. ASEE (1995). Educating tomorrow’s engineers. ASEE Prism, 11-15, May/June.2. Dahir, M. (1993). Educating Engineers for the Real World. Technology Review, pp. 14-16, Aug./Sept. 1993.3. Hissey, T. W. (2000) Education and Careers 2000. Proceedings of the IEEE, 88(8), 1367-1370, August.14. Astin, A. W. (1993). Engineering Outcomes. ASEE Prism, 27-30, September.4

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Smaill, University of Auckland

ofknowledge as being the primary purpose of lectures: what is now regarded as leading-edgeknowledge will soon become out of date, irrelevant, and perhaps even incorrect. This isparticularly true in technical fields. Even the entire current body of knowledge will not, in itself,be sufficient to see the students of today through careers that may span the next 40 years.Clearly, students will need to keep learning throughout their professional lives. They will alsoneed to be able to solve problems that do not currently exist and may be beyond currentimagination. For these reasons, universities should move towards an emphasis on problem-solving, understanding of fundamental principles, flexibility, adaptability, and lifelong learningand away from an