Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James D. Bowen, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Peter Thomas Tkacik, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Kimberly Warren, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

offer an alternative design experience (design of a Page 22.339.11coagulation/sedimentation basin) that will hopefully retain many of the desirable features of theexisting project while providing course content closer to the interests of environmentalengineers. This new project will, as we have done in the past, will attach engineering analysisand computer programming to a hands-on design project. Using the results of our ongoingcourse assessment, we will continue to develop the computer programming portion of the courseso that students achieve the learning objective. As with the current project, we plan to useassessment of student designs in

Conference Session

Hardware Applications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alisa N. Gilmore, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jose M. Santos, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Aaron Joseph Mills, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

. This is just one example of how GPI developersneed to continue to work closely with students and educators to get a clear idea of how they hopeto use the software in school curricula. Looking forward, many other exciting tools and featuresare being planned. One which will probably come up in the near future is scheduling and thecapability for multi-threaded programs, something that should be neatly facilitated by theexisting chainlike form of user programs. Page 22.364.16 Figure 7Field Tests and Future PlansThe beta versions of the CEENBoT™ API, GPI and TI Calculator Interface were all deployedinto the

Conference Session

ECE Division Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University; Mahmudur Rahman, Santa Clara University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

methods to solvethe problems.We plan to collect and collate all similar concepts questions (generated by others and ourselves)and build up an ECCI test database that can be used in every offering of Circuits course at alluniversities who wish to participate. We also encourage other faculty to adopt the test. This testfulfills the United States Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)requirement for assessment. It also helps track the effectiveness of teaching styles by testingwhether the students are learning the basic concepts in the course.In this paper, we first review some assessment instruments used previously in the Circuitscourses. We classify the major ideas and concepts that need to be tested. Then we present

Conference Session

ELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Huettel, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

., surveys of student opinions) and quantitative data(e.g., course performance). Baseline data (e.g., student surveys) were available from previousyears for comparison. Students reported that the projects positively contributed to theirunderstanding of course material. We also found that students’ awareness of the GrandChallenges and the role that signal processing can have in finding solutions increased. A numberof students indicated that they plan to pursue more in-depth projects inspired by what theylearned during the laboratory.1. IntroductionThe National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has identified a set of fourteen Grand Challengesfor current engineering research and practice. These include such diverse topics as reverse-engineering the brain

Conference Session

Teaching Circuit Theory and Electronics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Kane, University of New Hampshire and Cypress Semiconductor; Thadeus Paul Kochanski, Vital Electronics Institute; Andrzej Rucinski, University of New Hampshire

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

developing specifications, ensuring interoperability among devices and services, and educating the market about NFC technology. http://www.nfc-forum.org/aboutus/2. Brig (Dr.) RS Grewal, VSM (Retd.), Vice Chancellor of Chitkara University, “Imperatives for an Operative Engineering Pipeline“ presented at the "9th Annual ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education“ in Singapore, article in Tribune of India, [edition pub in Chandigarh, India] http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110208/edu.htm#2 ] and private communication.3. Objects and Plan of an Institute of Technology, William Barton Rogers Papers, MIT Libraries. T171.M44 1860 (MC 1), box 12, folder 183, See also MIT Corporation Records (AC 278), box 1, vol. 1, pp. 43-44.4. http

Conference Session

Integrating Technical Research into Professional Development and K-12 Classrooms

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Landis, University of Pittsburgh; Christian D. Schunn, University of Pittsburgh; Monica Christine Rothermel, University of Pittsburgh; Scott Shrake, University of Pittsburgh; Briana Niblick, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

effectiveness of this program.AcknowledgementsFunding from the National Science Foundation (award #0808675) supports the University ofPittsburgh’s RET Site.Bibliography1. NSB. A National Action Plan for Addressing the Critical Needs of the U.S. Science,Technology, Education, and Mathematics Education System. In. Washington, D.C.: NationalScience Board; 2007.2. Katehi L, Pearson G, Feder M. Engineering in K–12 education: Understanding the statusand improving the prospects / Committee on K–12 Engineering. Washington, DC: NationalAcademies Press; 2009.3. Doppelt Y, Mehalik MM, Schunn CD, Silke E, Krysinski D. Engagement andachievements in design-based learning. Journal of Technology Education 2008;19(2):21-38.4. Mehalik MM, Doppelt Y

Conference Session

They're Not "Soft" Skills!

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruth Wertz P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Meagan C. Ross, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael Fosmire, Purdue University Libraries, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, and information literacy is crucial todeveloping those skills. For example, Shuman, et al, when describing requirements for lifelonglearning, explicitly includes informational components, expecting students will Demonstrate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills Demonstrate an awareness of what needs to be learned Follow a learning plan Identify, retrieve, and organize information Demonstrate critical thinking skills Reflect on one‟s own understanding1.There is substantial overlap between Shuman‟s lifelong learning competencies and thoseidentified by the Association of College and Research Libraries in their Information LiteracyCompetency Standards, which include Determining the extent

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Nanette Veilleux

can extend his/her learning to new areas(synthesis and design). These four skills represent different, progressive, levels ofunderstanding, that fall along an abridged hierarchy as that outlined in Bloom’s Taxonomy ofEducational Objectives1.This paper describes a method of designing in-class exams and take-home projects for afreshman computer science course. Here, the design of the test questions and projectrequirements makes explicit use of this abridged version of Bloom’s Taxonomy of EducationalObjectives. The in-class tests described in this work evaluate the depth of a student’sunderstanding by incorporating a planned variety of questions, ranging from those easilyanswered by a student who has understood basic lectures and reading to

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura A. Miller; Keith A. Miller; David J. Beebe

interfaces for two-way audio and video instruction. Research in this area hasshown that a well-planned distance education course could provide students with an educationcomparable to that of on-site instruction 1,2,3. Page 4.350.1In recent years, the World Wide Web has presented an unprecedented opportunity to disseminateinformation in various formats to people all over the world. Some researchers have investigatedthe claim that the World Wide Web can liberate teaching and learning from the time restraints ofcourse schedules and the physical limitations of the classroom. They propose that thecontribution of the Web must be evaluated in terms of its

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

David S. Kelley

course, students may be given an assignmentto design a floor plan for a residential building. Within this project, students may be givencriteria for the design and for the project as a whole. When the instructor evaluates the project,it is common to give a grade based on the design and the quality of the work. Occasionally,students are given the option to improve their grade on the assignment.A problem with the above approach to teaching is that it can allow some students to progresswithout meeting certain minimum standards. For an architectural project, a student may notproperly design a kitchen; for a mechanical drafting assignment, a student may not apply rules ofdimensioning correctly. Allowing students to progress without meeting standards

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

David R. Haws

foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory, Englewood Cliffs, NewJersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.3Kirkpatrick, D. L., (1996). Evaluating training programs: The four levels, San Francisco: Berrett-KoehlerPublishers4Kaufman, R., (1997). A strategic-planing framework: Mega planning, in Kaufman, R., Thiagarajan, S., &MacGillis, P (Eds.). The guidebook for performance improvement: Working with individuals and organizations,San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.5Schunk, D. H., & Zimmerman, B. J., (1997). Social origins of self-regulatory competence, EducationalPsychologist, 32, 195-208.6Csikszentmihalyi, M., (1991). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience, New York: Harper Perennial.7Schunk, D. H., & Hanson A. R. (1987). Self-modeling and

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil D. Opfer; John Gambatese

based on a perceived need. Another pathto take could have been to initially create and offer the construction graduate courses in theexisting MSE program and then create the Master’s program. Offering the courses first wouldhave allowed time for the courses to populate on a regular basis and generate an intrinsic needand interest in a Master’s program.Finally, consideration should be given to the faculty teaching loads and schedules at programstart-up. Planning should be undertaken in anticipation of the graduate courses being cancelledas a result of low enrollments. Faculty teaching capabilities, course schedule overlaps, and theavailability of courses to teach should be considered in order to minimize problems in meetingminimum teaching

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert E. Bruninga; Dave D. Myre

in the classroom.There is ample reason for every engineering student to have these types of experiences, but evenmore so for future Naval Officers less than a year from graduation and commissioning as NavyEnsigns and Marine Corps Second Lieutenants.Future plans include the development of an attitude control laboratory, finalizing laboratoryprototypes used during the first two years of the course and integration of a high fidelity UFOspacecraft simulator into the electronic classroom. Upgrades and enhancements to Altairis willprovide easier access to the mission control software, improved functionality and the addition ofstand-alone subsystem modules. These modules will allow students to build system constraintsusing a concept in systems

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

N. Yu; Peter K. Liaw

demonstrations are planned for the graduatecourse that will be lectured in Spring ‘98. Furthermore, lab projects using the unit will bedesigned.Internet-Based Educational TechnologyIn recent years, modern computer technologies, including hypertext techniques together withmultimedia resources (namely, hypermedia), open a new avenue to effective learning and teaching.For example, when students read on-line hypertext documents, they can click key subjects or keywords for computer-activated cross references that contain detailed information about the topic thestudents just selected. This technology enables the students to quickly access the desiredinformation rather than thumbing through several journals, conference proceedings, and/or reportson their desks

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Penny L. Hirsch; J. Edward Colgate; David M. Kelso; C. Yarnoff; Barbara L. Shwom; J. Anderson

majors and isexpected to culminate in a prototype with detailed plans, specifications, and calculations.There are, however, many good arguments for teaching design to freshmen andsophomores, especially since detailed design is only one aspect of the design process.Design involves general activities that freshmen can learn, such as gathering information,generating alternatives, obtaining feedback, balancing competing requirements, and makingdecisions. Moreover, introductory design courses help students develop thecompetencies they need throughout their education and in industry–such as the ability towork in teams and to communicate effectively with clients, customers, andsupervisors—and generate the excitement and motivation that theoretical

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorraine Holub; G.V. Loganathan; Craig Moore; Bill Greenberg

requires formulation of actionitems to achieve the goal.Curriculum Change and Instructional MethodsUniversities all over the country have embarked on various plans for better teaching of calculus.These may be grouped into three categories: (1) introduction of innovative instructionalmethods/aids, (2) reordering and in general minor additions and deletions of topics to serve awider class of students, and (3) integration of mathematics, physics and chemistry with focus ona particular field such as engineering. Categories 2 and 3 deal with alteration of the syllabuswhereas category 1 focuses mainly on instructional methods.Barrow and Fulling4 and SimCalc (http://www.simcalc.umassd.edu/simcalc/curriculum)curriculum are two good examples for category 2

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica D. Hinton-Hudson; Brenda Hart

was also noted that the persons who these studentsindicated as motivating them the most were either their teachers, parents or friends.Now that these 23 students have completed their first term in college, the authors will conductanother survey to assess how many of these students actually enrolled in college and how manyactually followed through with their initial choices of college major as noted at the time theyparticipated in the program. The authors also plan to survey the members of the pilot group whoare in the class of 2000 in high school to see if their interest in engineering, science, or a mathrelated career field continues.IX. General Guiding PrinciplesAlthough teaching specific concepts of industrial engineering was an element of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael T. Hertz; Luna P. Magpilli; Michael E. Gorman

other, but the new contract would forbid this practice. Monsanto anticipated difficulties in enforcing their contracts in developing countries where seedtrading had always been the common practice. Hence sales to these countries were somewhat limited. TheDelta and Pine Land Company developed a potential technical solution to this legal problem. This solutionwas to add a gene to the seeds that would render them sterile after the first generation, a process for whichDelta and Pine Land Company and the USDA had received a joint patent. The case method involves putting the students into dilemmas faced by companies or individuals.One of the dilemmas we plan to use with students is the issue of whether Monsanto should go forward

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Dianne Martin; Edmund Tsang; Rand Decker

inquestionable areas in the city, they were required to travel in teams of least two people to anysite.After preliminary site visits, each team then had to organize their research plan to include suchdata collections techniques as structured interviews, surveys, observations, and content analysisof historical documents. During the course of the semester the teams were required to present awritten and oral progress report and then a final oral presentation and written report with theirfindings and recommendations.Results of the Service Learning Experience: When comparing the reports of students fromthis cohort to students in previous years, it became apparent that doing a project with acommunity service component provided a much more powerful learning

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry W. Samples

rated from 2.6 (Student-Teacher Relations) to 3.9(Women’s Issues in Academia) in value and 3.4 to 4.4 in conduct, respectively. Data onadministration and logistics, and conduct of instruction were also captured in this survey for usein planning and conducting future courses.Two short open-ended questions were handed out, and collected, on the final day that sought anoverall self-assessment of participant’s improvement in teaching, if any. A sampling of theparticipants’ comments follows: “Yes, my teaching has improved. I think the greatest improvement is in my ability toorganize a lecture, know how long it’s going to take...At first I was skeptical about howtransportable this would be ... Once we started doing it, though, I could see

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Roland Jenison; Rebecca Sidler Kellogg

interest in learning as theytake possession of their product. Many teams perform beyond expectations and turn in reportsthat exceed the requirements provided to the students. Future DirectionsBased on the results of the surveys, plans are being made to strengthen the areas of the projectthat are weak as well as develop the communication aspects of the project so that students betterrecognize how this project enhances their skills in this area.Approximately 600 students take this course at Iowa State each year. Therefore, effort to de-velop new product dissection projects is ongoing. Currently, several new products are being in-vestigated and new projects are being designed

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; David Silverstein, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

. Starting very shortly, presentationswould bring more than certificates and token prizes – or cost more than momentaryembarrassment. But in addition to the students’ enjoying the competition, perhaps the mostsalutary result was that the design spine instructors present in the audience were struck thatalthough some students were quite accomplished, some others displayed a distressing lack ofskills. The instructors all said they would either continue to have the workshops offered to theirclasses or begin to do so (that is, instructors who had not yet requested workshops planned to inFall 2009). The 2010 competition will be announced early in the spring semester to give widervisibility to the efforts of the WCC workshops and student success. The first

Conference Session

Retaining Women Engineering Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Suzanne Brainard, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

not traditional engineering students to the field. Developing a more flexible,creative and socially connected curriculum is a necessary step to achieve this objective.However, non-traditional engineering students will only enroll and persist in the major if theculture of the engineering school provides a place where students want to learn, are inspired tolearn and have the opportunity to interact with faculty in a positive manner.Finally, the next steps of this project are for the participating institutions to complete aFramework for Action based on their individual PACE reports including findings andrecommendations. The PACE team plans to follow-up with each participating institution threetimes during the next year and a half to track their

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

ReportsWe plan to develop reports that quantify participation in individual interactive exercises for allthe modules of the course. While log files are kept for activities in all modules, such data are notuseful real-time analysis. Thus far, only in modules 6 and 7 are student activities in theinteractive exercises processed for immediate use in the DDL. Figure 4 shows a snapshot of thereport providing quantified information on overall class use of interactive exercises in module 6. Page 15.1313.6 Fig. 4 Screenshot of Module 6 Assignments and Students Report 6The instructor will also be

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Vaccari, Stevens Institute of Technology; Siva Thangam, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

scholarly research, in which thesustained contributions and the scholarship of the doctoral degree recipients play a crucial role.Lacking a crystal ball, the academic vision and foresight of the thesis advisor is also seen to playan important role in the long term impact of the thesis.From the authors’ perspective, the use of a rubric is to be considered essential for evaluating theoutcomes of all doctoral theses. The authors plan to use the rubric for a variety of additionaldoctoral theses to validate and refine the approach.References:[1] ABET, Inc. http://www.abet.org[2] Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Page

Conference Session

Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jennifer Karlin, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cassandra Groen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

relationship2. Depending on the type of relationshipdesired, a mentor may be a colleague but not necessarily a friend to the mentee and vice-versa2.Some mentoring programs follow a group construct where a group of multiple mentors andmentees may hold discussions and assist one another in that sense. Specific mentoring paradigmsare described in the next section.“Formal mentoring” is the term used to define a planned mentoring process2. Individuals aregenerally placed together in various mentoring groups and attend scheduled meetings2. Meetingtimes and other scheduled events are logged, and financial costs can be documented to help theinstitution assess whether or not the program experiences continuing success. Informalmentoring relationships are

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering Ethics into the Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Glynn, Villanova University; Frank Falcone, Villanova University; Mark Doorley, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

have time available to devote to such a newendeavor. The long range plan is to hold this Workshop every other year during this time periodand to hope to attract different faculty members at each successive offering. It is worth notingthat the week prior to graduation is a very popular time to hold committee meetings, departmentmeetings and other campus-wide workshops on such topics as teaching effectiveness. ManyCoE faculty members could not attend the Workshop because of other commitments.In order to address the full range of issues deemed necessary by the Workshop organizers, twofull days of instruction/interaction were required. In addition, a day of reflection was includedbetween these two days in order for participants to consider the

Conference Session

Faculty Set the Preliminary Standards for Co-ops

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Mark Schreck, University of Louisville; Angela Cline, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

. Marketing was interested inperformance, cost and when the product could be launched to the market. Finance trackedproduct cost and project costs. Legal was concerned about patent protection, and whether theclaims to be made about the pump performance in the product ads were legal. III. EMPLOYER BENEFITS As discussed in Part II, the student was assigned to the project team to develop the newModel 2000 pump. The design has progressed through production release, and currently is goingthrough pilot runs in manufacturing. If the development testing is successful, full customerlaunch is planned in late 2009. The Model 2000 is forecasted to result in significant financialbenefits to XYZ, Inc. Since the Model 2000 is

Conference Session

Online and Web-based Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget Smyser, Northeastern University; David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

importantthing to consider when planning a course like this is to spend as much time as possible exploringall the capabilities of the tools. The available tools guided the selection of course activities to alarge extent. In addition, our university has a well developed instructional technology centerwhich was able to provide prompt technical assistance and advice whenever needed. Attemptingsuch a course would be very difficult without this infrastructure.ConclusionsTeaching this course was a very enlightening and rewarding experience. Any online course willhave to work to provide sufficient interaction between the students and the instructor. Additionalclass time may be necessary, beyond what this course had, in order for students to perceive that

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University; Oranuj Janrathitikarn, Pennnsylvania State University; Lyle Long, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

endeavors involve teams scattered across continents, workingtoward a common purpose. Corporations are recognizing that synergized, distributed expertisecan bring both needed engineering and cultural knowledge to a project”2. These objectives areachieved using a variety of active learning methods, including lecture, demonstration, problemsolving, collaborative work, formal team work, and peer learning. The assessment plan providedfor formative assessment via oral and written reports and tests; and summative assessment withthe completion of software system for the final grade. Surveys and focus groups were conductedto obtain feedback from the students on their perception of the learning experience.Course DescriptionIntroduction to Software