Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Harris, Northeastern University; Carrie Boykin, Northeastern University; Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Fall 2008 = 2.85 (B- grade equivalent)Total Semester Hours Average for Fall 2008 = 15.75 (normal semester hours total= 16,maximum semester hours without overload = 19, and 20 semester hours and above are due totransfer credit)Special Note: One student achieved a 4.0 grade point average for Fall 2008Spring 2009 (39 students enrolled – 2 withdrew for health reasons)GPA # of students # of semester hours3.0 – 3.99 15 (38%) 8-192.0 – 2.99 19 (49%) 13-19Below 2.0 5 (13%) 12-16Total GPA Average for Spring 2009 = 2.92 (B- grade equivalent

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Wangping Sun

throughout the US, few students achieveany degree of fluency33,34. Because of the language barriers, less information is gathered, translation isrequired and misunderstandings are more possible28. The meager lingual abilities prevent a typicalAmerican engineering student from being able to discuss the work with others around the globe33. Asidefrom language, differences in thoughts and opinions are another obstacles in communication as well3.B. Limit of resourcesEven though globalization makes international experience important, it is often difficult to achieve it asa part of engineering curriculum35. In recent years, there has been a movement among Americanuniversities to offer students a global experience. However, this movement has been stagnated

Conference Session

Advances in Engineering Economy Pedagogy

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Jablonowski, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

example, when simulating sequential intervalson an individual well, one must specify whether the outcome for a deeper interval is conditionalon the outcome of a shallower interval, or if they are independent of each other. In mostempirical studies, the simulated variables are often assumed to be statistically independent tosimplify the analysis, that is, Prob(A|B)=Prob(A). In many cases, this assumption is reasonable.That is, even in cases where one interval has significant problems, the next interval can beassumed to be independent after the previous interval is secured (with steel casing and cement).However, this is not always an appropriate assumption. For example, problems in a shallowinterval may lead to an early casing setting depth and

Conference Session

Research on The First Year II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Dagley-Falls, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Cynthia Young, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Page 15.734.2outcome of many of the early learning community experiments.Learning communities “represent an intentional restructuring of students’ time, credit, andlearning experiences to build community, enhance learning, and foster connections amongstudents, faculty, and disciplines”22 (Smith et al., p. 20). The majority of all learningcommunities can be grouped as follows: (a) curricular learning communities, (b) classroomlearning communities, (c), student-type learning communities, and (d) residential learningcommunities23. Learning communities typically have students grouped together through sometype of co-enrollment23 but can have a cross between types utilizing components of each toenhance student outcomes. The program discussed here

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

best selling product, your boss, the Base hiring manager, has taken the opportunity to follow Agitator Motor her lifelong dream and go on a safari in Africa, while the only other process engineer who knows this process has recently left the company for a Water Return pH competitor. Sample Port B

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Steiner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Richard Alben, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Lester Gerhardt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Cheng Hsu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

everyone on your team. List the names ofeach member of your team, including yourself. For each team member you should describe theirperformance and contribution to the overall team effort. For each team member identify a keystrength, identify an area for improvement for each team member, and suggest how this might beachieved. Finally, if you were in a position of assigning a grade to each individual on the teambased upon what you have observed to date, what would the grade be? Please use the followinggrading system: A=4, A-=3.67, B+=3.33, B=3, B-=2.67, C+=2.33, C=2, C-=1.67, D+=1.33,D=1, F=0.Questions that you should consider for each team member include: 1. Did they attend meetings, follow through on their commitments, and meet deadlines? 2

Conference Session

BME Laboratory and Project Experiences

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela Bhatti, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jessica Falcone, Georgia Institute of Technology; James McClellan, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

signalprocessing course that have also focused on filter banks. Examples are touch-tone telephonedecoding and music decoding. One advantage of using the hearing application for a lab project isthat it motivates further study of advanced digital signal processing courses where labs related tospeech processing and the auditory system are enthusiastically pursued by the students. a) b) Figure 2: a) A cochlear implant signal processor serves to separate the sound content in an acoustic signal into distinct frequency bands. Similar to chiming the keys on a xylophone, a cochlear implant activates distinct frequencies in the cochlea through electrical stimulation of auditory nerve

Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Slifka, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

learning points taken from each.Question 1: Have you ever worked with lathes, mills or drill presses? Page 15.121.3 - Hands-on experience with machine tools - Inputs that are required to operate machine tools - Consumables - Costs - Operator training - Part geometries - Secondary operations - SafetyQuestion 2: What are your learning expectations of this course? - General discussion of manufacturing familiesQuestion 3: Which is a larger tolerance zone? a. ± .005 b. + .000 / - .012 c. + .006 / - .002 - What is a tolerance - Why

Conference Session

Robotics in Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chiraag Nataraj, Conestoga High School; Sanjeev Reddy, Radnor High School; Mark Woods, Villanova University; Biswanath Samanta, Villanova University; C. Nataraj, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

, 2006, pp. 721-726.7. Bagnall, B. Maximum LEGO NXT Building Robots with Java Brains. Variant Press. 2007.8. Sahin E. Swarm Robotics: from sources of inspiration to domains of applications. Swarm Robotics WS 2004, Sahin, E. and Spears, W.M. (Eds.), LNCS 3342, 2005, pp. 10-20.9. Garcia, E., Antonia, M., De Santos, P. G., and Armada, M. The evolution of robotics research from industrial robotics to field and service robotics. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 2007, pp. 90-103.10. Ercan, M. F., Partawijya L., and Fung, Y-F. Collective search and exploration with a robot swarm. Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2006.11. Cheng. K. and Dasgupta, P. Dynamic area coverage using faulty multi-agent

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs & Issues

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

is not another source of sound present. Both sources produce asound, with amplitude of A, a wavelength of λ, and these sources are in phase (meaning,the sources start to produce the sound at the same time)Assume that the amplitude of the sound reminds constant.Answer the following questions:1) If the distance “a” (from source #1 to the microphone), is equal to the distance “b”(from source # 2 to the microphone), the amplitude of the sound wave that Mic receivesis (circle one answer), I) Zero II) A III) 2 times A IV) 3 times AExplain which kind of interference is taking place in the position of the microphone.2) If the distance “b” is equal to the distance “a” + λ/2 the amplitude of the sound wavethat Mic

Conference Session

Design Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

challenge of making theSAE Baja all-terrain vehicle as shown in Figure 12. Page 15.39.64. Student PerformanceFinal grade distribution is given in Table 1 below. Table 1: Student final grade distribution for Production Engineering Grade Fall „06 Fall „07 Fall „08 A 37.5% 81.8% 40.0% A- - 18.2% 40.0% B+ 25.0% - - B 12.5% - - C+ 12.5

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Althea Smith, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth Parry, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

to build a mobile device that would travel the furthest distance using paper, circular candies and straws as materials. Figure 1 (a) shows the final competition of vehicles who traveled the furthest with a gust of air. 4) Magnetic Accelerator Students were given an introduction to the properties of magnets. The students were then instructed to build an accelerator using 2 magnets, tape, a ruler and small steel balls (Figure 1 (b)). As they increased the number of magnets on the ruler this increased the speed that the ball traveled. (a) (b)Figure 1. (a) Students lining up for the Puff Mobile race, (b) Students explainingand testing their Magnetic Accelerator

Collection

2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sunghoon Jang; Kenneth Markowitz; Aparicio Carranza

93-100 4.0 A- 90-92.9 3.7 B+ 87-89.9 3.3 B 83-86.9 3.0 B- 80.82.9 2.7 C+ 77-79.9 2.3 C 70-76.9 2.0 D 60-69.9 1.0 F 59.9 and below 0.0Course OutlinesThe course contents for EET 4212 senior capstone project course is a mixture of classpresentations by students and instructor and

Collection

2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Sunghoon Jang; Kenneth Markowitz; Aparicio Carranza

93-100 4.0 A- 90-92.9 3.7 B+ 87-89.9 3.3 B 83-86.9 3.0 B- 80.82.9 2.7 C+ 77-79.9 2.3 C 70-76.9 2.0 D 60-69.9 1.0 F 59.9 and below 0.0Course OutlinesThe course contents for EET 4212 senior capstone project course is a mixture of classpresentations by students and instructor and

Conference Session

IE and Manufacturing

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Pitts, Morgan State University; Ricardo Camilo, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

students enrolled in the following two existingundergraduate manufacturing courses: (1) Industrial Robotics and Automation and (2) AdvancedMaterial Handling Systems. An array of assignments and projects will be assigned andfacilitated to allow a framework of design that can be researched and presented in these subjectareas.In the Industrial Robotics and Automation course, students are exposed to topics including (a)robot geometry; (b) robot motion and drive systems; (c) motion control, performancespecifications, and precision of movement; (d) robot tooling, sensors and sensing capability; (e)designing for automation process stabilization; and (f) control systems and industrial logic.These topics deal with the study, programmability, and general

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Jacquelyn Kelly, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

into curriculum. At this point in the discussion, manymainstream faculty metaphorically throw their hands up and say, “I do not have the time tochange everything, including all of my teaching and testing methods.” We claim that eachprofessor does not have to re-invent the wheel. In fact, by a limited literature search many topicsnow have active learning templates that are easy to follow and integrate.Two diverse student populations from two geographically distant campuses were surveyed.Faculty from two different universities, a mid-size HBCU population, University A and a largestate school, University B, implemented the following three easy-to-employ active learningtechniques: 1) Process Oriented class worksheets, 2) Concept-in-Context

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; David Elton, Auburn University; Gary Welling, California Polytechnic State University; Daniel Pitts, Auburn University; Daniel Butler, Auburn University

inconventional engineering laboratories. A collaboration was established between two universitiesin the U.S. for this collaboration: California Polytechnic State University and Auburn University.California Polytechnic State University is a predominantly undergraduate institution, whileAuburn University is a Tier 1 research institution. The new teaching methodologies emphasizethe use video technology (both video conferencing and video production).This paper provides progress on this extensive investigation including a) new activities that havebeen conducted at the universities (teamwork activities and archiving of video modules), b) newactivities that have occurred between the universities (video conferencing and sharing of studentlearning modules), and

Conference Session

Women in Biomedical Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Naomi Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice University; Sangeeta Bhatia, MIT; Gilda Barabino, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Science Resources Statistics, Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2009, NSF 09-305 (Arlington, VA; January 2009). Available at http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/.13 A National Analysis of Diversity in Science and Engineering Faculties at Research Universities," Dr. Donna J. Nelson, Norman, OK. January, 2005. Available at http://chem.ou.edu/~djn/diversity/briefings/Diversity%20Report%20Final.pdf14 Handelsman, J., N. Cantor, M. Carnes, D. Denton, E. Fine, B. Grosz, V. Hinshaw, C. Marrett, S. Rosser, D. Shalala, and J. Sheridan, Careers in science. More women in science. Science, 2005. 309(5738): p. 1190-1.15 Svarovsky, G.N. and D.W. Shaffer, Engineering girls gone

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian German, Georgia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

and briefly describe at least three of these challenges and describe how they were solved by Kelly Johnson and his engineering team. Some of these challenges were discovered during the evolution of the conceptual studies that preceded the SR-71 design, and others were identified after the aircraft was initially fielded. Your descriptions should be concise; target approximately 1-2 paragraphs for each challenge. b. Provide a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) of the resulting SR-71 configuration. Create a table that summarizes configuration parameters of interest to a performance engineer, e.g. wing parameters, weights, sea-level static maximum thrust, etc. Make sure that

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamad Ahmadian, Eastern New Mexico University; Tom Brown, Eastern New Mexico University

Evaluation ≠ Critical Communication and Credit ≠ Collections ≠ Product Advances and Market Trends ≠ SummaryEffectiveness and AssessmentAdams argues that “the hypothesis of the model regarding team effectiveness is thateffectiveness (E) is defined as a function of team performance (P), members’ behaviors (B) andmembers’ attitudes (A) and can be represented by the equation E = f (P, B, A).” 2 Theeffectiveness parameters mentioned above are measured through the final report and weeklypresentations and a questionnaire. The questionnaire was specifically developed to gatherinformation about the students’ time management, work hours, social life, scholarship effect ontheir education, and the S-STEM

Conference Session

Curriculum in Electrical Power Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiyoung Lee, Pennsylvania State University, Berks

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

real world techniques for thedrive stepper motor to students. The STP-DRV-4035 micro stepping drive from AutomationDirect4 and the 1746-HSTP1stepper controller module5 are used for this lab. The experimentalsetup of the stepper motor drive and a sample PV550 screen are shown in Figure 1. (a) Stepper motor drive setup (b) Sample PV550 screen developed to control a stepper motor Page 15.400.5 Figure 1. Experimental setup of the stepper motor drive and PV550 screenIn order to control the stepper motor properly, the I/O data tables of the stepper controllermodule must be

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

: American Society for Engineering Education, 2001). 7. Sepahpour, B., and N. L. Asper, “A Promising Model for Integrating Design in Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum,” Proceedings, 2001 ASEE Annual Conference (Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education, 2001). 8. Byam, B. P., “An Enhanced Educational Experience for Capstone Design Projects: Using SAE Student Groups in An Industry Sponsor Role,” Proceedings, 2002 ASEE Annual Conference (Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education, 2002). 9. Porter, J. R., Morgan, J. A. and B. Zoghi, “Integrating Project Management into the Capstone Senior Design Course,” Proceedings, 2002 ASEE Annual Conference (Washington, DC: American

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ECET: Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Ossman, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

reports, and writing assignments both within thedepartment and from the humanities department are assessed. Figure 1 lists the courses in thecurriculum used for assessment as well as which rubrics are used in the assessment process.Courses were chosen from freshmen to senior year in order to assess student progress in meetingprogram outcomes and to allow early identification of any problem areas; a strong curriculum isbuilt on good foundation courses with a focus on program outcomes. Page 15.141.2 COURSES a b c d e f g h i j k Year 1Elements

Conference Session

Faculty Set the Preliminary Standards for Co-ops

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Joseph, Pace University; Mabel Payne, Consultant

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

and context.This suggests that in any cooperative education experience multiple modal and contextualassessment methods are needed to evaluate learning as well as learning transfer within andbetween academic knowledge and the skills developed in the work place. Moreover, Bradford etal6 reported “a solid research” finding: To develop competence in an area of inquiry, students must: (a) have a deep foundation of factual knowledge, (b) understand facts and ideas in the context of a conceptual framework, and (c) organize knowledge in ways to facilitate retrieval and application.They further emphasized that “[a]ll new learning involves transfer based on previous learning,”but that this transfer of learning across knowledge domains is

Collection

2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

William J. Kelly

,but would be contingent upon the student reapplying to Villanova directly for one of thoseprograms. Part of the student’s admission evaluation would be based on their performance inthese two classes, especially if the student had a science background (BS) as compared to anengineering background (BS). The Piloting of the partnership occurred in the 2008/09 academicyear, where five students successfully completed the upstream processing course (CHE8588)and four of those students completed with B+ or higher grade both CHE8588 and CHE8589.These four students had some undergraduate engineering experience, whereas the fifth studentdid not.The CHE8588 course is currently running in the Fall of 2010 semester with 18 in-classstudents, 6 US De students

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Lorelle Meadows, University of Michigan; David Lorch, University of Michigan; Cinda-Sue Davis, University of Michigan; Guy Meadows, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

academic year or during the summer between the first and second year, and ≠ A $3,000 financial incentive for full participation and for maintaining a B average.These components were designed to incorporate a variety of research-based best practices andprovide students with resources necessary to overcome challenges that can often result in studentattrition.5,6,7 In particular, the six-week intensive summer transition program provides studentswith the opportunity to learn resources and best practices for success in college and to beaffirmed in their capabilities.8,9,10 The transition program provides challenging learningopportunities, encourages students to work collaboratively across racial groups, and fosters anatmosphere of trust within

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Cynthia Young, University of Central Florida; Alfred Ducharme, University of Central Florida; Cameron Ford, University of Central Florida; Kim Small, University of Central Florida; Patrice Lancey, University of Central Florida; Divya Bhati, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

research methodology, application of technology in classroom settings, and research related to human performance. Page 15.1387.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 YES: A NSF S-STEM Scholarship Program Experience at the University of Central FloridaAbstractAccording to a study conducted by J. D. Angrist (MIT) and colleagues1 involving 1,600 studentsat a large Canadian university (the equivalent of an American state university with heavilysubsidized tuition), the combination of participation in (a) a scholarship program and (b)academic support services resulted in higher grade

Conference Session

Research on the First Year I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Cassady, University of Arkansas; Gigi Secuban, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

. ≠ 80% of the students who earned a grade of A in GNEG 1111 (which we believe indicates a reasonable work ethic) and attempted a MATH class in the Fall Semester of 2007 earned a passing grade in that MATH class. 52% of the students who earned a grade of B in GNEG 1111 (which we believe indicates a mediocre work ethic) and attempted a MATH class in the Fall Semester of 2007 earned a passing grade in that MATH class. 22% of the students who earned a grade of C or worse in or withdrew from GNEG 1111 (which we believe indicates a poor work ethic) and attempted a MATH class in the Fall Semester of 2007 earned a passing grade in that MATH class. ≠ 75% of students who attempted CHEM 1103 in the Fall

Conference Session

Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

thoseuniversities.A quick review of the ASEE literature alone documents and reviews numerous summer campprograms with a broad array of scope and emphasis. The literature typically indicates four typesof summer camp programs. These are loosely grouped here as: a) Introduction to Engineering programs that expose the student to the broad and many Page 15.1319.2 aspects of engineering, while hoping to kindle interest and enthusiasm in these students to become engineers, and try to help them understand the value and importance of engineering.3-7 b) Topical programs that concentrate on a specific technical area or field. These can

Conference Session

Innovation in ECET Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luciano Boglione, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

testing. Only manufacturing hasbeen outsourced to a commercial vendor located in Canada, in line with common practices of thisindustrial sector.The pedagogical approachThe opportunity provided by ECETDHA demanded a review of the current syllabus in order tomaximize the students’ understanding of the class topics through the execution of a real–worldproject within the standard 14 weeks.The experiential learning approach 4 is considered with great favor by the author as a guideline 5a) for teachers to facilitate the student’s understanding of a subject; and b) for students to learn Page 15.369.3through experience how to handle unforseen challenges