Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Projects

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Gary, Arizona State University; Harry Koehnemann, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

thatstudents are making progress toward achieving the learning outcomes of the capstone project,and by extension progress toward degree program outcomes? This is a serious and difficultquestion often raised as “how do I assess the individual working within the project team?” [2][7].But it is more than how to arrive at a grade. For the instructor, s/he wants to provide formativefeedback early and often during the project to help the student understand the larger context of aspecific issue and how it applies in the real world. For the student, gaining an awareness of thecause-and-effect of her/his choices and actions within a team, and how those judgments translateto the real world is important. For example, consider a project that is falling behind

Conference Session

Track 1b - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Valentina Cecchi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Mona Azarbayjani, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Brett Tempest, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

perspective, our design leveraged the principles of radianttemperature control, first pioneered by the Romans, and the concept of the roof-pond coolingsystem, born out of the University of Nebraska during the environmental movement of the1970’s. The team coupled these technologies and designed a unique system that passivelychills the concrete walls during the cooling season. Thermal energy in the form of radiation isabsorbed in the high-mass walls throughout the day, and stored. The system makes use of thecapillary tubes – already embedded in the walls for curing the concrete (i.e. multi-usecomponent) – as a vessel to circulate thermal fluid. The capillary tubes provide a vesselthrough which to circulate water and expel stored heat (a.k.a radiant

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Shankar Muthu Krishnan, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

engineeringchallenges and be successful professionals contributing postitively to the global community. Page 20.12.9AcknowledgementThe author wishes to acknowledge the participation and support by various hospitals and medicaldevice companies in Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, Singapore, France, Canada and Germanyfor hosting co-op/internships. The author expresses his thanks to H. C. Lord Fund at WIT, RachelKeen, Adityen Sudhakaran and Adam Paczuski for assistance in the manuscript, and numerousstudent participants.References1. Luzzi, David E. "Beyond the Classroom." ASEE PRISM. ProQuest Central, 20 Dec. 2010.2. E. S. Sovilla. “Co-op's 90-Year Odyssey

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Krishnanand Y Maillacheruvu, Bradley University; Amir W Al-Khafaji, Bradley University

Tagged Topics

Faculty Development

Rivers and Lakes in India: Balancing Societal Priorities with Technological Possibilities. In Comprehensive Water Quality and Purification. Elsevier Press. 49 pp.4. Al-Khafaji, A.W. and Elhouar, S.E. (2014). Preparing Engineers for Global Challenges. Third Annual ASEE International Forum, Indianapolis, IN (in press)5. Suresh S., Roden S.J., Al-Khafaji A.W., Renukappa S. (2009). The key drivers for leadership skills development practices in the UK construction industry: An empirical study. COBRA 2009 - Construction and Building Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. pp. 278-288.6. Suresh S., Al-Khafaji A.W. (2009). Teaching and learning activities through the use of mobile phone technology. Association of

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session I - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Robyne Bowering, Monash University

Tagged Topics

Invited - Student Development

of their personal professional skills. 3. Analyse and respond to Nair et al.’s ‘Re-engineering graduate skills - a case study’.[21] A study of the 2007 Monash University survey of employers’ satisfaction levels of their Engineering graduates. The students are reassured that the findings are typical for similar surveys conducted throughout the world, and certainly not unique to Page 21.46.4 Monash or Engineering. In their response, the students need to state whether they agree or disagree or are surprised with the survey findings and back up their statements with relevant examples from

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

courses. In the assessment process, we found surprising results,particularly in the summative assessment process of collecting data for continuous improvementand ABET outcomes. Some possible explanations for the results will be offered.BackgroundIn the late 1990’s, engineering and technology educators received perhaps the greatest shock oftheir careers – accreditation was changing to outcomes-based assessment from a decades-old listof topics. After the shock wore off, it took several years of hard work for most educators just tounderstand outcomes-based assessment, let alone perform any meaningful assessments.The difficulty most engineering and technology educators have with outcomes-based assessmentcan be easily understood by studying the mental

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Bryan Norman; Jayant Rajgopal; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

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Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Steif

PSYCHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A STATICS CONCEPT INVENTORY AND ITS USE AS A FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT TOOL Paul S. Steif Department of Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213AbstractA multiple choice test, the Statics Concept Inventory, is used to measure conceptual progressof students in Statics. This paper reports on detailed comparisons of the results of this test tostudent performance on class examinations. Reasonably strong correlations are foundbetween concept-specific sub-scores in the inventory and scores on related types ofexamination problems or solution errors involving similar concepts. With these findings weset the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Drummer; James Frendewey; Sheryl Sorby; Kris Mattila; John Sutherland; Leonard Bohmann

theimportance of engineering applied to the service sector.5 An outcome of the workshop was thecreation of the Service Enterprise Engineering program within the NSF Division of Design,Manufacture, and Industrial Innovation in recognition of the need for engineers to work withinthe service sector in order to improve this sector’s productivity. Tien and Berg note that “despitethe growing role that services play in the U.S.’s economic well-being, productivity in the servicesector has shown limited growth.”10 They further note that one of the reasons that the servicesector is such a large part of our economy today is due to its inefficiency – especially in terms ofgovernment services. However, as other countries begin to provide services, our own

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Plesha; Gary Gray; Francesco Costanzo

compression, we expect the solution to Eq. (1) to give FBC > 0, which it does. • You should verify that the solutions are mathematically correct by substituting FBC , Ax and Ay into all equilibrium equations to check that each of them is satisfied. However, this check does not verify the accuracy of the equilibrium equations themselves, so it is essential that you draw accurate FBDs and check that your solution is reasonable.Example from Dynamics: Kinetics of a Two-Particle SystemProblem Statement A student throws a pair of stacked books, whose masses are m1 =1.5 kg and m2 = 1 kg, on a table as shown in Fig. 3. The books strike the table withessentially zero vertical speed and their common horizontal speed is v0 = 0.75 m/s

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaishalee Naruka; Stephen Raper; William Daughton

10 0 s ed g e n in y tio ng at as lv nt ca

Conference Session

Innovations in Library Management

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Weiner; Honora Nerz

for getting there?” The best way to bring about a change in one’s work life is to be the driving force behindmaking it happen, by being the one to assess the situation, identify the problem(s) if there areany, and prescribe it the solution (or take responsibility for the search for it). This proactiveapproach will be more likely to get a positive response from senior management and provides amuch greater feeling of control over one’s work life. An element of the planning that should not be ignored, but all too often is, relates to thenext job. We should always be able to envision the next job and have a sense of how long it isappropriate to stay in the current one and/or with the current organization. People often thinkthat if

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Newcomer

assignment serves to get students to look at work tasks with an eye toward ergonomics.Students are only required to observe the work task, but many try different methods of assess-ment such as video tape or still photography, and they, almost all, also interview their subject(s)to get a better understanding of the task and its difficulties from the worker’s perspective. Whenwork tasks are very rapid, such as the case of a grocery cashier, students find that they muststudy different aspects of the task at different times, so students might spend half of their timedocumenting wrist posture and half documenting back and neck posture. Students more oftenthan not find some risk factor in the work task; this is probably in part a selection effect, for

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marlin Thomas

Page 10.694.11the facility and the complexity of the modules.Reconnaissance Information: Based on the information from the damage report by the crisesaction team, the probabilities of each of the four modules being the source of the failure of theventilation system are estimated at p j , 0 ≤ p j ≤ 1, i = N,S, E, W. Further estimates of timest N , t S , t E , and t W required to test each module; and the probabilities α N , αS , α E , and α W of therepair crew overlooking a failed module given that it is in fact the source of break down wasmade by the emergency maintenance crew.Emergency Diagnostics Strategy: The objective is to find the failed module as soon as possibleand the strategy will be to continue trouble shooting until it is

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

like to acknowledge theNational Science Foundation for their support of the offering of several pilot courses in ourMulti-Disciplinary Engineering Foundation Spiral curriculum.8 References 1. Collura, M.A., B. Aliane, S. Daniels, and J. Nocito-Gobel, “Development of a Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Foundation Spiral”, Submitted to the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2004. 2. Mikic, B. and D. Grasso, “Socially-Relevant Design:the TOYtech Project at Smith College”, Journal of Engineering Education, 91(3):319-326, 2002. 3. John Hopkins Virtual Laboratory, Bridge Designer, http://www.jhu.edu

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Mancine; Scott Harper; Ryan Scott; Hassan Rajaei

NetRNG; a templatized, thread-safe circular buffer structure whichimplements the Mesa monitor semantic. Its size is a construction-time parameter. When it is fullthe thread(s) calling put() is(are) blocked, and when the buffer empties the thread(s) calling get()is(are) blocked. This construct provides following services: Page 9.1098.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education BoundedBuffer(unsigned short) ~BoundedBuffer() get(T& ) : bool put(T ) : bool

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wesner; Cristina Amon

projects to the students, so that teams can indicate on which project(s) they would like to work. • to participate (ask questions) in the two Design Reviews • on the last day of class, to hear the Final Reports of all the teamsOccasionally a sponsor representative will manage only the first and last of these. At the otherend of the spectrum, some sponsor representatives come to nearly every class. These peopleoften get drafted to make a presentation during the semester on some topic relevant toEngineering Design, such as describing the Product Realization Process used in their company,or speaking about Intellectual Property issues.The Projects ThemselvesProjects have mostly sought a design solution to a hardware problem. A few have

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Allameh; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

number ofsubsystems including a drive mechanism for generating load, a load measurement unit, adisplacement measurement subsystem, and their related controls. Fig. 1 shows the schematic ofthe microtensile tester developed after an original design from Johns Hopkins University2 whichwas modified to accommodate measurement for large strains. The load train started with amotorized Velmex (Velmex , Inc., Bloomfield, NY 14469) unislide drive equipped with agearbox of 1500:1 ratio, connected to a linear stage providing strain rates as low as 10-4/s. Aswith nearly all variable speed motors, lower speeds could be achieved, however, load capacitydropped below the desirable levels. An “L” bracket machined and installed on the unislide drivemade it

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Goo; Maura Borrego

use 6% Somewhat disagree clickers. 18% Neither agree nor disagree 34% Somewhat agree 20% Strongly agreeAcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank USC’s NICE-PRS discussion group members, includingChris Gould; USC Center for Scholarly Technology staff members Rick Lacy, SueGautsch, Otto Khera and others; and Brooks-Cole sales rep Sylvia Sotomayor.References1 Hestenes, et al. “Force Concept Inventory.” The Physics Teacher 30 (3), 141, (1992).2 Danielson, S. “Developing Statics Knowledge Inventories.” 2004 Frontiers in Education Conference

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Goodman; Maurice Aburdene

. Athanasios Papoulis and S. Unnikrishan Pillai,Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2002.6. Jay L. Devore, Probability and Statistics: For Engineering and the Sciences, Duxbury, Pacific Grove, CA, 2000.7. George R. Cooper and Clare D. McGillem, Probablistic Methods of Signal and System Analysis, Third edition, Oxford University Press, 1999.8. Maurice F. Aburdene and Richard J. Kozick, “A project-oriented course in probability and statistics for undergraduate electrical engineering students” Proceedings of Frontiers in Education Conference, 1997, pp.598 - 6039. Leonard Kleinrock, Queueing Systems, Computer Applications, The Academic Press, Vol. 2, 1976.10. William

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Adams; William Manion

Alumni/Employer s than (N = 6/8) AdequateWritten Faculty 34% 55% 12% Alumni/Employers 44% 32% 24%Oral Faculty 30% 56% 14% Alumni/Employers 30% 63% 7%Visual (ability to design Faculty 34% 51% 14%information, including Alumni/Employers 35% 46% 19%complex displaysof data)These

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Craig; Maurice Aburdene

instructor(s) should complete the same survey form, indicating his/her opinion of the extent to which each course outcome has been achieved by the students, and enter the data in Column Q. If different sections of the same course were taught concurrently by two or more faculty, either their individual responses to the survey form could be averaged and transferred to the spreadsheet, or each instructor’s class could be assessed separately. Page 10.100.8 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for

Conference Session

Systems Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Widmann

strength of the preference is given in the scoring of the questionnaire.Each of the four categories measure strengths of two opposite preferences: 1) Source of personal energy/focus of attention: Those individuals who have apreference for gaining energy through interactions with others are considered to have aExtrovert (E) preference while those who relate best to their inner self and gain energyfrom being along with their thoughts indicate a preference for Introvert (I). 2) How information is gathered: Those individuals who like to gather facts andpay particular attention to details indicate a preference for Sensing (S) while those whohave a preference for speculation, imagination or would rather “see the big picture

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lennard Lema; Zbigniew Prusak; Peter Baumann

representative data, processinginformation and drawing conclusions. Development of Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI)described by Angelo and Cross 3 is very good, although a tedious approach, in laying out themap of ‘where we are’ versus ‘what needs to be done’. Thoroughly developed TGI helpsestablish commonalities between programs and specialties. Detailed TGI was developed for the Page 10.735.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationManufacturing ET program at CCSU in the late 1990’s and was evaluated by

Conference Session

Accreditation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Brannan; Kevin Bower

. Page 10.724.115. Davis, W.J., Bower, K.C., and Mays, T.W (2005). “Implementation of a Course Assessment Process for Continuous Improvement and Outcomes Assessment.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Southeastern Section Conference, Chattanooga, TN, April 4-6.6. ABET, ABET 2004-2005 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore, MD.7. Dods, R. F. (1997). An Action Research Study of the Effectiveness of Problem-Based Learning in Promoting the Acquisition and Retention of Knowledge. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 20(4), 423 - 437.8. Johnstone, K. M., & Biggs, S. F. (1998). Problem-Based Learning: Introduction

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brij Agrawal

constellation. The reflector and thephased array structures are designed for high stiffness and low thermal distortion and lowthermal gradient. The two-axis solar array drive is used to keep the solar array normal to thesun’s rays. Lithium Ion batteries are used for power storage. S-band is used for TT&C, V-bandfor X-link antennas and Ku-band D-link. Because of large X-link and D-link data, large on-board processing capacity is required. The feed array temperature gradient has to be kept in avery narrow range because of dimensional stability requirements. Table 6 gives the spacecraftmass budget. The estimated mass is based on the selection and use of actual equipment masses.The technology drivers for the spacecraft are payload, structures, and on

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald; Scott Starks

, 2001.4. National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Indicators. National Science Board. Arlington, VA, 1998.5. Starks, S, S. Blake and M. Tshoshanov, “Using Rockets to Stimulate Interest in Science and Mathematics,” Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, CD-ROM, Big Sky, MT, Feb. 2003.6. NASA, Mission Mathematics: Linking Aerospace and the NCTM Standards, Washington, DC, 2002.7. Twiggs, B., Getting Started with Space Craft Hardware, Colorado Space Grant Consortium Workshop CD- Page 10.1137.12 ROM, Boulder, CO, 2002.8. Blake, S and M. Tshohanov, Final Report, Texas PreFreshman Engineering Program, August

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mysore Narayanan

., & O'Brien, M. J. (1994, June). The building blocks of the learningorganization. Training, 31 (6), 41-49. Page 10.231.10“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Berk, Ronald A. (2002) Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator; Evidence-BasedTechniques in Teaching and Assessment. Herndon, Virginia : Stylus PublishingBlack, L. J. (2000). Fear and desire in course and student portfolios. Journal onExcellence in College Teaching, 11 (1), 43-55.Bloom, Benjamin S. (Ed.) (1956). Taxonomy of educational objectives : Theclassification of

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

D. Reinhard

Session: 2176 Longitudinal Evaluation of Innovative Technology Based Curricula: Integrating the Learning of Mathematics with Applied Science and Engineering Dianna L. Newman, Kenneth S. Manning, Mark Holmes, Robert Spilker University at Albany SUNY/ Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteThe role of technology as a support to instruction and curriculum is now a major concern ofhigher education faculty. An increasing number of students and instructors are using technologyboth in and out of traditional classroom settings. As these changes are being integrated andimplemented, developers and

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann McKenna

this paper. Future work will describeeach course in detail and provide the results of each course assessment plan.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers Program of the NSFunder Award Number EEC-9876363.References1. Hsi, S., and Agogino, A. M. (1994). The impact and instructional benefit of using multimedia case studies to teach engineering design. Journal of educational hypermedia and multimedia, 3(3/4), 351-376.2. Engineering Deans Council (1994). The Green Report: Engineering Education for a Changing World. American Society for Engineering Education, http://www.asee.org/publications/reports/greenworld.cfm3. http://www.abet.org4. http://www.vanth.org/5. Bransford, J. D., Brown