Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus

isnecessarily broad, this is considered healthy. The keywords reflect both current concerns(e.g. assessment and ABET) and continuing concerns (e.g. teaching and design). Thus,according to Wankat, “the journal appears to be publishing papers of concern toengineering educators5.” Clearly, in the past 10 years, as the lack of research on theissues of K-12 education reveals, K-12 issues are not even on the engineering educator’s“research radar zone.”Recently, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has embarked on anambitious effort to promote and improve K-12 engineering and engineering technologyeducation. In the last three years the ASEE has created a new K-12 division dedicated toK-12 engineering education, created a guidebook for high

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Gerhart

split (or not sure) whetherthey wanted to study at college to be an engineer. On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 indicates theystrongly did not want to be an engineer and 5 indicates that they strongly did, the average studentresponse was 3.3, with a median of 3, and a standard deviation of 1.1. At the end of the week,their opinion did not change considerably with an average score of 3.2, a median of 3, and astandard deviation of 1.2. This result is not surprising since one week is unlikely to change theirinterest. More time and reflection would be more likely to decide on a career in engineering. Page 10.855.9 Proceedings of the 2005 American

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Gerhart; Andrew Gerhart

internal efficiency, turbine flow efficiency, mechanical efficiency, andelectrical efficiency.) The overall efficiencies used range from 5% to 50% with 5% increments.The 112 isentropic turbine cases with the 10 turbine/generator efficiency cases gives 1120 cases.Finally, the RC thermal efficiency can be determined. The steam generator (boiler) efficiency isunknown and was assumed to be 85%. Calculated thermal efficiency ranged from 0.01% to1.8%. Based on the experience of the authors, typical experimental thermal efficiencies rangefrom 0.05% to 0.2%. Combinations of parameters that yield calculated efficiencies in the rangeof 0.05% to 0.2% most closely reflect the actual performance of the RC. These results indicatethat the parametric study does

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Shooter; Soundar Kumara; Robert Stone; Timothy Simpson; Janis Terpenny

. An assessment of the REU program basedon student comments and feedback is discussed in Section 4. Closing remarks and plans forimproving our future offering of this REU program are given in Section 5. Page 10.187.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education2. Literature Review: Product Dissection and the UMR Design RepositoryFew would argue that engineers are more likely to be active rather than reflective learners6, andthe benefits of “hands-on” educational activities such as product dissection

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Georgiopoulos

classesconstitute the second component of our curriculum development efforts, and the focus of thispaper. .The CTML-I class will serve as the entrance point to our proposed curriculum. In this course anumber of our PIs will instruct the students on machine-learning techniques developed throughtheir current research and how it relates to other machine learning approaches. The approachtaken here for CTML-I is to create a course that is enthusiastically taught by the principalinvestigators (since it will always be relevant to their machine learning research), will reflect theever changing research interests of the machine learning community (the topics in this class will

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyler Cummings-Bond; Robin Adams

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Baladi; P. David Fisher

and computer engineering. This new course is entitled ECE 480—Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone Course4. It was modeled after the original EE482 course, with some changes to reflect lessons learned while offering EE 482 each semesterover a five-year period.One of the most important lessons learned since EE 482 was first introduced in 1997 has beenthat the area of embedded (computer) systems represents a very fertile framework for electricaland computer engineering students to acquire their major design experience. Analog, digital, andmixed-signal technologies have continued to evolve at a very rapid pace, with a large gapexisting between fundamental topics covered in introductory courses and the integratedknowledge and skills

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sedki Riad; Mostafa Kamel

university hostels residents 22,000 102,000 364 It should be noted that these figures do not include those for institutions that do not belong to the Ministry of Higher Education.The above figures, especially those related to the rate of growth of governmental universitiesmay seem quite impressive. They, however, do not necessarily reflect a similar growth patternin the quality of education. The fact is that different indicators on the quality of higher educationin Egypt show marked decline. Some factors leading to this decline is external to the highereducation system. They relate to the decline in the quality of High School Certificate graduates

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Mayes; John Bennett

Review of all of its programs, a number of peerinstitutions and knowledgeable experts were interviewed to gather information about “bestpractices” in the field of assessment and accreditation. This article summarizes data collectedfrom telephone interviews with thirty-three individuals from twenty-seven institutions. Twentyquestions asked respondents about their measurement methods for objectives and outcomes(advisory board input, alumni surveys, senior surveys, portfolios, FE exam, etc.), methods forengaging faculty and rewarding ABET coordinators, degree of college oversight, and methodsfor ensuring that a continuous improvement process is in place. The resulting data reflect a clearcommitment to assessment and continual improvement on the

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt; Jeannie Brown Leonard; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

Functional Roles on Engineering Student Teams: Preludeto Assessment.”Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References1. Barra, R. (1993). Tips and techniques for team effectiveness. Barra International, New Oxford, PA: BarraInternational.2. Belenky, M. F., Clenchy, G. M., Goldberger, N. R., & Tarule, J. M. (1986). Women's ways of knowing: Thedevelopment of self, voice and mind. New York: Basic Books.3. Fullilove, R., & Treisman, P. U. (1990). Mathematics achievement among African American undergraduates atthe University of California Berkeley: An evaluation of the math workshop program. Journal

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Scaroni; David DiBiase; Jonathan Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

. The objective ofthe course is to expose students to energy efficiency in day-to-day life to save bothmoney and energy thereby protecting the environment. This course provides studentswith the necessary knowledge and information on the main operating principles ofhousehold devices/appliances enabling the appropriate selection of energy efficient, costeffective, and environmentally responsible choices. The course relies on active learningcomponents to enhance the cognition of the fundamental concepts of heat transfer,principles of energy conversion, and thermodynamics. The course successfully generatedinterest in the student population as reflected in the enrollment increasing from 40students in the first semester to 600 plus students per

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Keith Clutter; Alberto Arroyo; Amir Karimi

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

. Questions were modified to reflect change in the time line and assess studentperspective of the course and their knowledge. In addition, nine of the ten sections were alsogiven the content-based questionnaire that consisted of the same problems as in the pre-coursequestionnaire. A return of 100% was again obtained for the completed questionnaires. Theassessment questionnaires were coded by an independent party and were blinded to all theinvestigators during the rubric and analysis process. Each investigator, in turn, was asked tocomplete the questionnaire as well. Rubrics were developed for each problem to assess thestudent's approach and the problem solving approach. Three sample answers were scored usingthe developed rubric. The scores were

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Yellamaraju; Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe consistent and positive findings in this study are also indicative of improvements in thesoftware design that were informed by initial research, and reflect the improving nature of thelearning technologies informed by iterative evaluation.7. Study 4: Instructional Multimedia as Support for a Traditional Lecture in Statics (Applied: Class Context)7.1 RationaleStudies conducted for the project such as the games experiments presented above provide strongevidence that the software can serve as an effective alternative to traditional lecture. This isconsistent with other research [18, 19], which indicated that

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

students' backgrounds from the student perspective as well aspreconceptions based on student opinion. Question topics include those about student majorselection, knowledge about engineering, prior level of physics, math etc., and prior computerskills. In the last week of the semester, the student survey was modified and given to all students.Questions were modified to reflect change in the time line and assess student perspective of thecourse and their knowledge. The surveys were evaluated and compared both within and acrossall sections.There was a 70.5% response to the post-course survey of the 316 freshmen that took ES130 inthe fall semester. Based on the responses received, the results are shown below: Changed engineering majors

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

paper submitted for the REU dynamics group. I think I was thestudent in the greatest need of technical writing skills. This was also reflected in the shearamount of red ink that was necessary to grade my paper. Well I'm writing you to let you knowthat it didn't go to waste. When writing my first lab report I referred back to my graded reportfrom this summer. To get to the point, I earned an A on my first lab report for the SolidMechanics lab. I'd like to thank you for putting forth the effort involved in grading my papersand showing me how to write technically.”VI. AcknowledgmentThe author would like to acknowledge the financial support of $117,948 by NSF for this REUSite (Award No.EEC-0196371), and cost sharing funds of $10,000 provided by UC

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristin Wood; Daniel Jensen; Alan Dutson; Matthew Green

“feelers”) comprehendmaterial better through hands-on experiences, rather than through abstract discussions or Concrete Experience (dissection, reverse engineering, case studies) Information 4 1 What Why? If? Reflective Active

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Phillips; Joseph Clair Batty; John Gershenson; Christine Hailey

systematicprocess to act upon assessment results as emphasized by Lohman.22 The purpose of this paper isto describe the curricular review process that we have developed for the Mechanical andAerospace Engineering (MAE) program at Utah State University (USU). It not only establishesperformance criteria and assessment methods, but also systematizes corrective actions tocontinuously improve the overall program. Our proposed review process is novel in severalrespects and has not been reflected in the current literature. It is also sufficiently flexible that itcan be applied to any engineering program seeking ABET accreditation. Our process provides aformal way of closing the feedback loop at all programmatic levels from the course level to theobjective level

Conference Session

Instructional Technology--What Works

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Kanabar; Rumen Stainov; Tanya Zlateva; Eric Braude

Conference Session

Comparing National Styles of Engr. Educ.

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Thibault; Rene Hivon; Danielle L'Heureux; Noel Boutin

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Renshaw; Joseph Ekstrom

particular interest. Focus groups were then formed for each area, usingemployees from industries involved in that particular interest. From the focus group, alist of knowledge, skills and abilities was built. We compared our curriculum againstboth lists and found good coverage of the industry requirements by our curriculum. Thedetails can be viewed in Appendix A. Many of the items identified in the list arefundamental concepts of networking. Some, such as “Knowledge of Windows NT” areinstances of the fundamental concepts that reflect technology currently used.Certain skills are expected of any IT professional in telecommunications or enterprisenetworking. One example of these fundamental skills is configuration of personalworkstations and their

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

June 19, 2001 June 20, 2001 June 21, 2001 June 22, 2001 9:00am Teamwork and Conflict (9:30am) Two Cases in (6:30am Departure!!!) Marketing Transportation Resolution Leadership Field Trip Prof. Allen and Logistics Mr. Wise Prof. Gruver Corning T113 Prof. Willoughby T012 T113 Corning, NY T113 1:00pm Operations Management (noon) Reflections Field Trip Managing Human Working with Emotional Prof. Willoughby Profs. Gruver & Stamos

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William M. Pottenger; Soma Roy; Shreeram A. Sahasrabudhe; Qiang Wang; Jeffrey J. Heigl; G. Drew Kessler; David R. Gevry

an account. One user could be an instructor,student, teaching assistant, librarian, or some combination of these roles, e.g., one user can be ateaching assistant in course A and a student in course B. Users are managed in an organizationtree according to their roles. This organization tree is similar to a “buddy list” in standard instantmessenger systems (e.g., Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger); however, these roles are pre-defined to reflect a given user’s participation and skill. We plan to use roles to let users tocontact group members without seeking a particular person, e.g., to find an available librarian. Figure 11: CIMEL client user interfaceThe instant messaging system is particularly useful in situations

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronna Turner; Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Richards

information collected, it is now possible to solve the problem.If you have not been referring back to Figure 1, do so now and look for the terms you find famil-iar. As you reflect on the lists, you will recognize that each course has its own special term for ageneric concept. You will find definitions in Figure 2 for the bold-faced terms used in the previ-ous paragraphs.The Accounting PrincipleThe underlying organizing principle for this approach is what I will refer to as the accountingprinciple. The key ideas here are that every system has associated with it numerous extensiveproperties and that the behavior of the system can be determined by monitoring changes in theseproperties. Any change in an extensive property within the system can be

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

reflective behaviour thatis at the heart of the liberal endeavour. But they also illustrate how complex thebehaviour of groups, let alone individuals is. It is consoling, therefore, to find that manyyears after these relatively simple pieces of qualitative and quantitative (survey) research,(with the odd bit of psychometrics thrown in), and all its limitations, the researchpublished since 1990 particularly in the US persuaded Pascarella and Terenzini “morethan ever that students’ in- and out-of-class lives are interconnected in complex ways weare only beginning to understan.”[40, p 603].Notes and references[1] The description given here is simplified

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Conference Session

New Faculty Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl B. Schrader, Boise State University; Seung Youn Chyung, Boise State University; William L. Hughes, Boise State University; Kotaro Sasaki, Boise State University; Teresa Cole, Boise State University, Computer Science Department; John N. Chiasson, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

the amount of faculty workload in, teaching and research8. Althoughvariation in faculty workload between teaching and research is healthy for ensuring qualityeducation in the classroom, as well as quality research productivity, variation in faculty rewardsdoes not reflect this variation in faculty workload8, 9, 10. When compared to the typical,quantitative reward system for research, which is based on funding and publication productivity,evaluation of teaching is difficult because of its qualitative and subjective nature and is oftenlimited to student course evaluations despite other available evaluation methods1, 4.In addition, „balancing‟ is an elusive and subjective concept. The balance between teaching andresearch can be defined and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

method atthe appropriate time. Understanding the pros and cons of the lecture method is a helpful startingpoint.Lectures have a number of characteristics that does make them, for the right subject matter,desirable in the classroom (14) .It does, to a great extent, depend on the abilities and experience ofthe lecturer. An able and committed lecturer can accomplish the following: 1. Relate the material proficiently and effectively, in a manner that reflects lecturer’s personal conviction and grasp of the subject matter; 2. Provide students with a thoughtful, scholarly role model to emulate; 3. Supplement the subject matter with current developments not yet published, or interject lecturer’s own views derived from his/her own