Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Kathryn Neeley

andpractices acquire what the historian of technology Thomas Hughes (1987) has termed“momentum,” a quality that is “analogous…to inertia of motion.” Williams (2002) argues thattechnological drift usually causes work to get “reconfigured in technological terms.” Once thisreconfiguration happens, the work, in this case the process of planning and deliveringpresentations, tends to be “profoundly shaped by the logic of the supporting technologicalsystem. The rules that govern the technology start to govern everything else.” Eventually, wecome to feel that the technology controls us rather than us controlling it. Choice is theoreticallypossible, but seems practically difficult if not altogether impossible. At a minimum, tools make it easy for us to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Backer

Technology) and Unit 2 (Technology and Work), provides a stronger historicalcontext to this course and subsequent discussions of technology and society.Originally, the plan was for this new unit on the history of technology to also be developed as amultimedia CD. This plan was changed early in the development cycle. The two existing unitsmake extensive use of video clips as an adjunct to the content in the course. However, since thehistory of technology module was designed to focus on the history of technology prior to theIndustrial Revolution, there were fewer video clips available. Therefore, the developmentshifted to a web-based delivery system.The old version of Technology and Civilization course began its historical view of technologyand

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Joseph Hoffman; Gary Pertmer; Chandra Thamire

and with inputs from the faculty, the officers of various studentorganizations, the ABET Committee within the Department, the ABET Coordinator for theSchool of Engineering at UM, and the Board of Advisors for the Department. Periodic reviewsare planned every five years to review the objectives, using the same process, and refine ormodify the objectives and consequently the curriculum, if necessary. These UM ME objectiveswere reviewed and reformulated for the collaborative program, as the goals of the program areslightly different from other programs offered by UM.The program educational objectives for the program area: 1. The program will prepare students for successful engineering careers. 2. Students will learn the fundamentals of

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Froyd; Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson

in changing strategic or curricular plans. Within this kind of environment,people feel free to experiment and grow, but there is an expectation that what they learn,especially if it could help others in their development, should be shared. Even if somebody is going to go off and do their own thing, the rest of the institution has to support it. We have people in this department who do their own thing different[ly] than other people in the department would do. But the support that they have from the rest of the department is real support. It’s not “Well you do that and I don’t want to have anything to do with you,” it’s “Oh, you’re going to teach that course that way? Fine, that’s really neat. I’ll

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Spray; Lori Donath; Nancy Thompson; Theresa McGarry; Elisabeth Alford

plans. Instruction andinternalization appear to occur during half the session, more or less.Not surprisingly, both critique and elicitation appear to be present throughout the entire session;however, negotiation occurred towards the end of the session when participants discussed S1’slesson plans, letters of recommendation, S2’s poster abstract and a related topic involvingaudience analysis.Notably, explanation of students’ own research also seemed restricted to those topics. Onereason for this might be that the session was less focused toward the end, such that participants’roles were less strictly defined so that all participants may take on a relatively equal role as co-negotiators.In addition to the types of interactive contributions studied

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Anderson; Marc Hoit; Richard M. Felder; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

several timesduring each semester “workshops” on specific topics (e.g. spreadsheeting, statistical analysis, androtational motion) were team-taught by the full faculty. Weekly homework assignments, four classtests, and a final examination were given in each of the four mathematics and science courses.Weekly homework assignments were given for the first half of each semester in the engineeringcourses, and progress reports on the engineering projects were due several times during thesecond half of each semester. The IMPEC faculty met for 30–60 minutes each week to review theprevious week's progress and plan the homework assignments and class activities for the comingweek.The course made extensive use of cooperative (team-based) learning, both in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosa Pinkus; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Mark Sindelar; Larry Shuman; Carl Mitcham; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

EducationThis approach is similar to that of Cogito, in which 88 subjects used both the Cogito system andthe interview process. Neural net models were then fit to this data and, as noted, correlationswere obtained that were judged to be sufficient for aggregate program assessment measurementsof groups of students over a long time periods. We plan to report on these results next year atASEE.References1. Augustine, N and Vest, C. Engineering Education for A Changing World, Joint Project by the Engineering Deans Council and the Corporate Roundtable of the American Society for Engineering Education, ASEE, 1994.2. National Science Foundation. Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus on Change, Division of Under- graduate Education, Directorate

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Long

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdel Mazher

systems do not behave without restriction.Specific laws and rules, in the form of norms, values, commitments, obligations, rights,permission, responsibility, etc are imposed on the system. Dynamics differ according the natureof the laws and the rules that describe the system. There are two types of social systems, artificialand natural. Social system dynamics depends of the type of system used.The behavior of an artificial society follows logical and rational rules. Individuals follow specificrules without thinking or interpreting implied social meaning of signals. The rules, laws, bylawsand constitutions are planned or artificial, i.e. set by the planers/programmer and not discoveredfrom a real society. The designers, or the planners, of the

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Storch; Catherine Scott; Cynthia Atman

usually are thought to be quicker and less expensive than the qualitative methods,especially if the surveys are developed by the researchers rather than by professional marketingassociations. However, “most ‘home-grown’ surveys take much longer than planned, and therebyengender hidden costs” (p. 291).1Contextual inquiry allows the researcher to interview and observe the customer in action.According to Terninko, “viewing the context that shapes customer requirements is an essentialstep for creating appropriate designs” (p. 7). 3 Both interviews and observations complement eachother and provide greater insights than either used alone. Interviews help to focus theobservations and gain information that may not be readily observable. Observations

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph D. Torres; Tom Cummings

address workforce needs and professionaldevelopment of EMS students, and 3) enhancing public teachers’ ability to teach mathematics,science and technology. The program has developed several collaborativeinitiatives/partnerships with two-year post-secondary institutes statewide and with public schoolsfor the purposes of increasing the participation rate of New Mexicans in post-secondaryeducation by increasing the number of statewide public schools that participate in thesecollaborative efforts.I. IntroductionThe MEMS recruitment and retention program consists of seven core components: I) A SummerBridge Program, for 50 topnotch high-school students admitted and planning to enroll at UNMin the Fall. This intensive four-week program

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Purvesh B. Thakker; Gary R. Swenson

, check the schedule, and sign upsince they can do it from any Web browser. They do not have to make a special trip to the lab.The page makes it much easier for the professor and TAs to check and print out hard copies oftheir schedules as well. An electronic system will additionally allow instructors to better enforcecertain guidelines. For example, the electronic system can be locked so that students do notmove their times around without instructor approval. A changing schedule makes it difficult forinstructors to plan their days and also might leave a review team without a project to review. Inaddition, students are supposed to only sign up for slots when their TA is available. Onesemester, out of a sample of twelve teams, five signed up for

Conference Session

Active and Inquiry-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhsin Menekse, Arizona State University; Glenda Stump, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Michelene T.H. Chi, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

assignments).In preparation for our research, we classified the nineteen overt activities that were used as beingactive, constructive or interactive and based on Chi’s 24 framework.We selected two units, atomic bonding and crystal structures, to be used for this study. Afternegotiating with the faculty, we agreed on the type of activities (active, constructive, orinteractive) that would be offered within each unit. We planned only one type of activity perclass period, regardless of how many activities were offered, so that we could test for learningthat could be attributed to one particular type of activity. We planned the types of activities sothat a contrast could be made between active and interactive learning in the atomic bonding unit,and

Conference Session

Broadening Participation of Minority Students in and with K-12 Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhao Chad Kong; Angie Martiza Bautista-Chavez, Rice University; Andres J Goza, Rice University; Rachel Jackson, Rice University; Kurt Kienast, Rice University; Sam Oke; Juan A Castilleja, The Boeing Company; Brent C Houchens, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Minorities in Engineering

thecantilever project in spring 2011, mentees applied the concepts they learned in the mini-lecturesimmediately to their project designs.Mentees’ intuition and ability to predict the outcome of physical situations (i.e. statics in the2010-2011 implementation) are measured via Intuition Inventories (I.I.). Previous research onDREAM suggested that mentee understanding of pre-engineering concepts is improved by Page 22.814.4coupling hands-on learning with informal teaching of these concepts. Mentors deliver theseteachings in a uniform manner consistently across campuses by following lesson plans such asthose included in Appendix C. Although the informal

Conference Session

Extending a Hand Back: Older Students Inspiring Younger Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noah Salzman, Purdue University; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

a senior Manufacturing Systems Engineering course.29Although not measured, the authors mention several benefits for undergraduate studentsparticipating in the program, including the development of project management experience,experience with fabrication and prototyping, and proposal writing. The course also served as ameans of building connections between the university and the high school, and as a means ofrecruiting students for the engineering program at the university. The university also planned todevelop a freshman level introduction to robotics course that would be made available to highschool students through an agreement between the two institutions.In addition to mentoring FIRST Robotics Competition teams at local high schools

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conrad, Portland State University; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

. Student PractitionerMain GenresReports 86 74 Cover letters with reports 18 18Technical memoranda 51 27Proposals 20 20Project-related e-mails 16 120Lab reports 105 N/AEssays on an engr topic 42 N/ASite visit reports 44 20Additional practitioner genres: Plan sheet notes, Special provisionsTable 1. Corpus of Student and Workplace Texts in Civil Engineering as of January 2011 Page 22.1169.4The passive voice analysis was

Conference Session

Software Engineering Projects

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James N. Long, Oregon Institute of Technology; Linda Sue Young, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Page 22.1091.5 project progress, changes in scope, changes in design, and defects.5. Assess risk, probability of the risk, triggers and formulate contingency plans.6. Construct a statement of work with appropriate acceptance criteria.7. Describe the relationship between Testing and Quality Assurance.8. Describe the Quality assurance practices appropriate for each part of the development life cycle.9. Create user based requirements and engineering requirements.10. Describe traceability and be able to map a requirement through all project artifacts.11. Describe different modeling techniques and where they apply.12. Describe the different architectural views and assign them to parts of the life-cycle.13. Asses risk and develop risk

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna M. Zajicek, University of Arkansas; Shauna A. Morimoto, University of Arkansas; Aparna S. Terdalkar, University of Arkansas; Valerie H. Hunt, University of Arkansas; Joseph J. Rencis, University of Arkansas; Rodica Lisnic, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

of the Cohort 1 institutions, the University of Colorado at Boulder represents themost interesting case. Similar to UW, the University of Colorado at Boulder had recruitmentefforts in place before they received the ADVANCE grant, but in contrast to other strongperformers, its ADVANCE program did not contain any comprehensive set of recruitmentinitiatives. Specifically, in 2001, Colorado reported on the efforts of their Faculty Recruitmentand Retention task force (http://www.colorado.edu/academicaffairs/fac_recruit/findings4.html).Further, in 2003, Colorado’s engineering college implemented a Strategic Plan for Excellence,which included efforts to “hire outstanding and diverse candidates through targeted recruitment,competitive salaries and

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa M Frehill, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

soonas possible, J. Stanford Smith, a Vice President of General Electric in 1972 stated the logicbehind this need succinctly: [I]t takes fifteen to twenty-five years for people to rise to top leadership positions in industry. So if industry is getting one percent minority engineers in 1972, that means that in 1990, that’s about the proportion that will emerge from the competition to the top leadership positions in industry….(J. Stanford Smith, Page 22.1085.6 speech at Engineering Education Conference, June 25, 1972, quoted in The Planning Commission for Expanding Minority Opportunities in Engineering

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron D Dempsey, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

professors not only have teaching experience but also the industry experience which adds to the quality of teaching. Engineering programs have a long way to go to perfection. They do not teach skills to students.7 See Purdue’s ET program at http://www.tech.purdue.edu/MET/academics/undergraduate/MET/plan-of-study.cfmor UNC-Charlotte’s ET programs at http://et.uncc.edu/undergraduate-programs/electrical-engineering-technology/4-year-academic-plan-of-study.html.8 ABET, the engineering accrediting body for U.S. programs, has separate commissions (the EngineeringAccrediting Commission and the Technology Accrediting Commission) with separate criteria for accrediting

Conference Session

The Role of Robotics in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Can Saygin, University of Texas, San Antonio; Timothy T. Yuen, University of Texas, San Antonio; Heather J. Shipley, University of Texas, San Antonio; Hung-da Wan, University of Texas, San Antonio; David Akopian, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

teacher workshops, and 1-day and 5-day engineering camps forstudents. Each activity is designed following a 5-step Active Learning Cycle (ALC) model. Theactivities are developed as a sequence with varying depth and technical content using the Lego®MindStorms NXTTM platform.In order to develop an effective educational robotics program, the sequence of activities must bebuilt on creative, accessible, and affordable materials in order to truly engage a child’s interest inSTEM and to build a comfort zone for STEM teachers. Several factors must be taken intoaccount during program development. The factors include teacher time constraints, teachertraining, age-suitable academic materials, ready-to-use lesson plans, and affordable educationalrobotics

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chuan Yue, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Weiying Zhu, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Gregory Lynn Williams, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Edward Chow, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

those four lab exercises. We also detail the survey results and analyze the implicationsof those results. The experience presented in this paper is valuable for our faculty members tomove more lab exercises into the cloud. We believe our experience is also valuable to othereducators who plan to use cloud computing services such as Amazon EC2 in their computerscience and engineering courses. The link to our complete lab manuals and instructions is listedat the end of the bibliographic section.1. IntroductionThere is no doubt that cloud computing has become a reality. People talk about it, spend moneyon it, and gain substantial benefit from it. In response to this significant trend in computing, ourcolleges encourage faculty members to use cloud

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Ann Rursch, Iowa State University; Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University; Andy Luse, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

year that a chat room was implemented to support the remote setup andconfiguration of student competition networks was for the 2007 CDC. At the writing of thispaper, the authors have five years of chat log files archived which can be examined using contentanalysis. This paper focuses only on the first year in which the authors have data, 2007, and isthe first attempt at using content analysis to evaluate the program. Since content analysis is anovel approach for evaluating inquiry-based learning and chat logs, the authors view this paperas a way to frame the use of content analysis in understanding inquiry-based learning programs.As discussed in the Conclusions/Future Directions section, the authors plan to use what islearned in this analysis

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative Energy Courses and Concepts

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania; Phillip Barnett, York College of Pennsylvania; Paul Isaac Deysher, York College of Pennsylvania; K. Vaisakh, Andhra University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

other purposes such as lubricant and creating manmade substanceslike plastics. To join into this effort of producing the future engineers with alternative energy background,a course is developed at York College of Pennsylvania for the undergraduate studies. The objectives ofthis course are to provide students with theoretical and practical knowledge reinforced by hands-onexperience. To obtain these objectives, a semester long photovoltaic system project is included in therenewable course. This paper presents the course structure, project report, and student survey of thecourse, as well as plans and expectations for future success. The project report discusses the teamstructure, component selection, system simulation, and experimental results

Conference Session

BME Laboratory and Project Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Lynn Brugnano, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Kevin Andrew Richards, Purdue University; Marcia A. Pool, Purdue University; Allison L. Sieving, Purdue University; Juan Diego Velasquez, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sherry L. Voytik-Harbin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ann E. Rundell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

physical education teacher. He has also co-authored multiple papers and conference presentations related to physical education teacher professional development.Dr. Marcia A. Pool, Purdue University Marcia Pool is an Instructional Laboratory Coordinator in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. She is responsible for overseeing and assessing junior level laboratories, bioin- strumentation, and biotransport, and is involved with teaching and mentoring students in the senior de- sign capstone course. Recently, she has worked with colleagues to plan and implement a problem-based learning approach to the biotransport laboratory to improve students’ experimental design skills and has modified

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Penelope Peterson; Frank Fisher

: expectations that the students had concerning theirengineering education, their experiences in both classroom settings and design projects, and theirfuture plans upon graduation. The interviews were approximately one hour in length, and wererecorded for subsequent transcription and analysis. The interviewer was unaware of the student’sadaptive expertise score at the time of the interview.Table 4 shows selected quotes from the student interviews. In most instances, interview datavalidated the measurements obtained; students with higher scores on the adaptive expertise surveyseemed to indicate higher levels of adaptiveness in the interviews. Occasionally a particular studentresponse may not support the score obtained from the survey, but taken as a

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Judson Singer

than 1.5 tons."Unknown: "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.""Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all of its students"Accessibility The professor’s accessibility can be demonstrated in a multitude of ways. The Internetprovides an efficient channel to permit students to post short biographical sketches aboutthemselves and the teacher. Simply maintaining an informative Home Page for students istantamount to a form of accessibility from anywhere at any time. Human beings generally tend torelax and have more fun enjoying those whom they perceive to be transparent and accessible.Information on the course web site about the professor’s personal and professional past andpresent as well as his hopes for the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vipin Kumar; Margaret Wheeler; Gregory Branch

” in the students memories. Wankat andOreovicz wrote about “Marker Events” in the February 2000 Prism Online; “When thinking backon our past, we often have deeper memories of planned events-whether they be weddings,graduations or birthday parties [or planned Labs]—that serve as important milestones in ourdevelopment. You, the professor can provide your students with such a ‘marker event’ to helpthem remember your class long after….” During these labs many students showed great surpriseto see the deflections caused by putting the same weight on the three cantilevers of the samegeometry. All the students were surprised by manually twisting the open section and similarsized closed tube (the ¾ inch size tube tested is more than 100 times stiffer

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Borchert; David Yates; Daniel Jensen

FEELING MANNER IN WHICH A PERSON COMES TO CONCLUSIONS Focus is on timely, planned Focus is on adaptive process of J conclusions and decisions. decision making. P JUDGEMENT PERCEPTION2.1.1.2. VARK Learning Style PreferencesThe present work also builds on student learning style preferences, as obtained from aninstrument called the VARK Catalyst. Rather than being a diagnostic tool for determining astudent’s learning preference, the VARK test serves as a catalyst for reflection by the student[Bonwell]. A student’s VARK descriptor is based on a simple 13-question test that is aimed atdiscovering how the

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 14

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hayaam Osman, Purdue University ; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)