Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kendra Seniow, Oregon State University; Eric Nefcy, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

to their strategy in the project since it can help guide students and is oftentaught as part of a correct scientific approach. Other teams vary in problem scoping techniquesand depth, such as the number literature citations, shown in the journal and reports. Team Ainitially proposed the use of a Design of Experiments (DOE) to optimize operating parameters,but chose not to implement this idea due to its complexity. Page 15.1030.10Figure 6. Problem Scoping. The team lists data from multiple literature sources, though only a small portion is shown here. The originally plan to conduct runs based on a DOE, but decide

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching and Assessment Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Judith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

knowing how to articulate the implications of the skills or how to usethem in instruction. The rubric and the supplemental teaching guidelines will help them gradestudents’ presentations and teach the students how to improve. We designed these tools with theexpectation that they will be useful by faculty or teaching assistants, in varying engineeringsubject areas, and in varying types of institutions. In the near future we will continue the testing of the tools, first focusing on theapplication of the tools by teaching assistants. We plan to evaluate the tools’ effectiveness byusing them to assess student presentation performance in undergraduate engineering courses. Asa next step, we hope to integrate these instructional tools with the

Conference Session

Design in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Pacella, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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First-Year Programs

: Since the implementation of the ENES 101 design project, which includesassigned design groups, students have consistently rated “cooperation with teammates” tobe amongst the highest rated course outcomes on the end of semester survey, andaccording to data from 2008 (see Table 1) the addition of this communication skillscomponent did not have a statistically significant impact on this rating. Nonetheless, Iwould argue that as long as the design project is sufficiently simple enough to alloweasily constructed designs this additional communication component should be effectiveat fostering further inter-group communication, which will certainly become relevant tostudents planning to work for large industrial companies. As part of the formal

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics & Structural Modeling Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha Smith, University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

professional communication. At the same time, lab exercises can help introduce orsolidify engineering concepts presented in the classroom. Agrawal presents objectives forlaboratory courses which include critical thinking in the planning and execution as well as for theevaluation of models and experimental data, in addition to effective communication5. Thesepedagogical purposes should be harmonious but may not be if students' attention is focused onlearning too many new concepts at the expense of reasoning through the experiment itself. This Page 15.1173.2is of particular concern for students new to standards of engineering reasoning and reporting

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erika Murguia, Arizona State University; Erin Kube, Arizona State University; Jennifer Bekki, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Bianca Bernstein, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

Page 15.263.11 different disciplines on this project. ≠ For each of the following, describe what you have learned (knowledge and skills) through participating in the CareerWISE project, how you have applied what you have learned in settings outside of CareerWISE, and how you do, or plan to, use this learning in your career o Interdisciplinary teams o Disciplinary cultures o Gender issues in educational and career settings o Creating instructional materials for online ≠ Of the skills and knowledge you have learned, how have you applied them in settings outside of CareerWISE? Please be as specific as possible ≠ One of the objectives of the research held in CareerWISE is to

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marilyn Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

aerospace students2. GIT AE alumni3. NASA and industry new employees getting oriented4. Engineers refreshing pre-requisites for Distance Learning graduate school5. GIT AE graduate students taking courses across technical disciplines6. Graduate students preparing for PhD Qualifying Examination7. NASA and industry experienced engineers working on new proposals/ projects8. Cross-disciplinary project teamsEXTROVERT GatewayAs planned, the first two years of the project are devoted to intense resource development, whilethe final year will be devoted to user and peer assessment, refinement and publication. A basicstructure to facilitate content addition and user experience has been designed and implemented.The EXTROVERT gateway serves as the portal to the

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Topics

International Forum

Amigo initiative based on the Capability Maturity Model [4], see Figure 2,an extension of an integrated process improvement model with the goal to increase the processcapability of an institution’s educational processes. The process capability is the inherentability of a process to produce planned results. This engineering model was used to map theactivities required to complete accreditation to an appropriate level of capability of theaccreditation team. Everyone starts at Level 1, where the process are adhoc and results dependon the individuals involved. By applying Project Management techniques a Disciplined Processis developed, leading to Level 2, where the results are repeatable. At Level 2, EngineeringManagement principles are applied to

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Arnold Neville Pears, Uppsala University; Mats Daniels, Uppsala University; Åsa Sofia Cajander

Tagged Topics

Student Development

 online  meetings  in  which  the  team  reports  on  progress.  Assessment  here  focuses  on  the  ability  of  the  team  to  plan  realistically  and  work  towards  reaching  the  milestones  they  have  defined.Problem  analysis  and  specification  documents  are  requested  early  in  the  project  and  critiqued,  they  also  form  the  foundation  of  part  of  the  final  team  grade.  Teams  are  asked  to  provide  an  implementation  timeline  in  the  form  of  a  Gantt  Chart,  in  which  the  major  sub-­project  dependencies  should  also  be  identified.  An  open  source  project  management  tool  (Redmine)  is  used  to  track  “billable  time”,  and  adjust  workflows  as  time  mis-­estimations  become  apparent  over  the

Conference Session

Partner Organization Plenary III

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Lyn Brodie, University of Southern Queensland; Frank Bullen, University of Southern Queensland

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Partner Society Plenary

research to teaching which lead to measurable improvements ineducational outcomes and high quality publications. The Association is operational managedthough an Executive Committee elected by the members at its annual general meeting held atits annual national conference. As indicated earlier both ACED and EA have representationon the Executive group. It is the Executive that awards the annual conference on a Page 21.7.6competitive basis, plans the annual workshops and bids for funding from ACED. Theoutcomes for 2010 to 2012 are listed in Table 2. It is also worth noting that the tyranny ofdistance has not deterred its effectiveness, which is an

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session II - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Anna Friesel, Technical University of Denmark Ballerup Campus; Denis GENON-CATALOT, Grenoble Alpes University; Jean-Marc THIRIET, • Univ. Grenoble Alpes; CNRS, GIPSA-lab, F-38402 Grenoble; Michael Helmut Werner DUPE Hoffmann, Inst. of Microwave Techniques, University of Ulm, Germany

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Faculty Development

, skills, and competences, and todevelop better behavioural practices that will be of use to them in the planning, establishmentand subsequent running of their own business. The objective of the ELLEIEC project was toestablish the framework for the VCE, to create a small number of modules and undertakeexperiments to assess its effectiveness.The VCE offers three modes of study by which learners can develop their enterprise knowledge,skills, and competences:1. Mentor supported learning in which a student completes a module with the support of a mentor who may or may not be in the student’s institution. The mentor also undertakes the assessment of, skills, and competences at the end of the module.2. Self-study modules individuals can take at

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session II - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Danielle Marie Dowling, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Morgan M Hynes, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Faculty Development

thebenefits of our classroom communication system. In the fall of 2011, we started the first leg ofour project by collecting data from our Design Team members. Informed by an analysis ofinterviews with and observations of our teachers, we formulated a set of design principles thatcalled for technology that (1) could use existing resources within any classroom environment,thus minimizing its technological footprint, (2) would make students’ thoughts readily visible sothat they could engage in discussion and collective knowledge building, and (3) would helpteachers focus on student thinking. The result was the “Thought Cloud,” a Web-based platformthat aggregates and shares students’ ideas. Before class, a teacher constructs a lesson plan, ormodule

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Projects

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Long, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

required of softwareengineers in the United States. A recent project put up for bid in the Rent-A-Coder web site(www.rentacoder.com) came in with qualified developers willing to take on the project for Page 15.934.3$0.15/hr USD2. A similarly qualified software developer in the United States cost $25.00/hr. Apoll taken in 2006 indicated that of all polled companies located in the Unites States, 61% weremanaging active software development outsourcing projects. Of this 61%, only 7% planned todecrease future software development outsourcing activities3. The economic downturn of 2009certainly impacted the software development outsourcing market

Conference Session

Student Attitudes and Perceptions

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dazhi Yang, Purdue University; Aidsa Santiago Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Ruth Streveler, Purdue Universtiy; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; James Slotta, University of Toronto; Michelene Chi

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Educational Research and Methods

same way. They run towards thedoor at about the same speed and have the same goal of just exiting the door. Second, theindividuals are all acting and interacting independently of one another simultaneously: they areall just trying to move forward toward the door, and in doing so, they may bump into and pusheach other. Third, no single individual's running or pushing another person resulted in a jam atthe door and the individuals aren't really pushing each other with the intention of causing thejam. The jam is caused by all the people simultaneously trying to run toward the door. Fourth,all the people want to do is run to the door to get out. They were not planning to create a jam atthe door, or their interactions are not necessarily directly

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Throne

the response of our model are shown.We were trying to have the second cart match a one cm step input. Page 10.643.16 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”AssessmentAt the conclusion of the course, the thirteen students taking the class were asked to completequestionaires designed by Rose-Hulman's Office of Institutional Research, Planning, andAssessment. These questionaires had two types of questions: survey questions and questionsabout the level of knowledge and confidence in various course

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brett Hamlin; Gretchen Hein

favorable experience, but ata lower rate than the women.The Department of Engineering Fundamentals plans on continuing this survey to see if the trendschange over time. This research will continue to seek out the qualitative and quantitative factorsthat effect and/or enhance the success of women engineering students.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the ENG1101 and ENG1102 students who voluntarily completethe optional questions each semester. They thank the Department of Engineering Fundamentalsfaculty for asking their students to complete the survey. Without the students and the facultyinput, this study would not have been possible

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

not have the data necessary for a longitudinal analysis of this type. Work in this areais planned for the future.Assessing “Soft” Skills with Formative Assessments Page 10.230.5Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2150Soft skills, such as communication, teamwork, and diversity, have been assessed in a variety ofways. Part of the assessment includes traditional methods such as quizzes, tests andassignments. The

Conference Session

Documenting Success

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

purpose of assessing our learningcommunity initiative.Surveys. We have found surveys to be an easy, efficient, and effective way to gatherinformation from our learning community participants. A combination of forced answerLikert-type questions combined with open-ended questions provides us an opportunity toassess our target objectives and to gather meaningful reflective comments from thestudents. The data is useful for program planning on a semester-by-semester basis. Inaddition, we have maintained continuity in the survey tools, which has allowed us tocompare data from year to year.Focus Groups. We began using focus groups in the Fall 2000 semester as a method toaugment our survey data. Focus groups are a qualitative research method which

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

counterparts. Those who do enroll are far less likely toremain.12 Historically, some reasons that have been cited are lack of confidence in their mathand science abilities, and lower levels of self confidence and self-efficacy, resulting at least inpart from their lack of technological experience in college compared to men.18Students often fail to consider career-relevant decisions until shortly before they graduate. Thewomen students in this course are encouraged to create a personal road map to careerdevelopment and planning by which they can better navigate their subsequent semesters of workand study at Purdue.ProceduresThe following section describes the initial efforts of a study that we conducted to gauge theeffectiveness of our freshman seminar

Conference Session

Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nalini Bhushan; Glenn Ellis; Eleanor Ory

education. Their use is based onthe theory that meaningful learning is an effortful process involving the construction ofrelationships between the learner’s existing knowledge and new knowledge. They have beenused in a wide variety of ways including for assessment11, 12, 13, 14, as planning tools15, 16 and forproblem solving17, 18. Figure 1 illustrates a procedure reported by Ellis et al18. for using teacher-generated concept maps to organize ideas in engineering curricula. Based upon this approach wehave developed a concept map for philosophy of the mind that is useful for structuring AIknowledge and is developmentally appropriate for the high school classroom. The map wascreated by an interdisciplinary team of engineers, educators and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hilary Lackritz, Purdue University; Laura Demsetz, College of San Mateo; Olivia Graeve, University of Nevada-Reno; Amy Moll, Boise State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University

objectives and assessment tools createdalong with the lab exercises. Page 10.473.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe overall goal is to develop a diverse set of modules such that faculty could choose themodules based on the learning objectives appropriate to their class and the technologies ofinterest to their students. Development work began in the summer of 2004. This paper willexplain the full plan for the three year project as well as provide detail on the development

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

outcomes arerealized within the curriculum, and thus the mapping from the program outcomes and ultimatelyto the program curriculum becomes important. An effective assessment of the program outcomesincludes an analysis of the correlation of the program outcomes to the minimum course set thatcomprise the program curriculum.At Gannon University, we correlate the individual course objectives of all required electricalengineering courses to the program outcomes. With this correlation of each course’s objectivesto the program outcomes in place, we have a plan for how the program objectives will be met Page 10.1429.2within the curriculum. Thus, one

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramachandran Venkatasubramanian; Brian Skromme

potential; the total electron and holeconcentrations; the excess electron and hole concentrations; the electron, hole, and total currentdensities (Jn, Jp, and J); the net (Shockley-Read-Hall, SRH) recombination rate (Rnet) as afunction of position; and the separate drift and diffusion components of the electron and holecurrent densities. Another sheet shows miniature, side-by-side versions of all these plots, so thatthe interrelationships among the various quantities can be more easily visualized. The abruptdepletion approximation is currently used for the electrostatic quantities, although we plan toincorporate the exact electrostatic solution as well in a later version. The currents and excesscarrier densities in the bulk regions of arbitrary

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel

competitive in the marketplace, and tocontinue to attract the highest quality students, our faculty have developed new laboratoryresources for DSP instruction.Our goal is to develop a signal processing laboratory that will serve sophomore- through senior-level students in core, topic, and design courses. Many institutions have created DSP laboratoriesfor their ECE students, and we have adapted material that has been successfully used elsewhere.In typical DSP laboratories, upper-level students gain direct experience with programming DSPchips in order to solve engineering problems. However, our planned laboratory has twoinnovative aspects. First, we will integrate the laboratory vertically throughout the curriculum, toenhance or replace existing

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Newcomer

time of lecture (before 10:00 a.m.) andthe textbook.Conclusions/Future WorkAt this time there are no significant changes planned for the MESH course. There will be someminor adjustments, but overall the course appears to be meeting its goals according to both as-sessment data and observation. As a result of the new structure with active learning assignments,students are engaged in the course and are developing a grasp of the material to the desired levelfor an introductory course. The six active learning assignments—task assessment, lifting as-sessment, work station design, interface design, OSHA standard report, and accident report—arethe heart of the course, and they are the reason that the course is able to meet its goals.Bibliography1

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tadeusz Majewski; sudhakar vadiraja

participating faculty members should be repeatedly made aware that the success of the team-taught module depends on the combined effectiveness of the team performance. • In planning the tutorials, it is best to involve and divide the responsibility among members of the teaching team, instead of passing the assignment to other department staff. • It is necessary and important for the coordinator to do internal control and adjustment should a disruption arise during the semester owing to the failure of a team member to deliver the anticipated performance. Page 9.1158.5 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wiesner; Karen Miu

developments intersect. Power andenergy is just one of these. A pathfinder may only be able to provide a partial set ofsources for beginning queries. In technical areas, users may need tutorials for orientationand to fill gaps of knowledge needed to mine sources.The Power Engineering Society offers instructor-led sessions on power and energy basicsat its conferences and plans to continue and possibly expand this effort, perhaps online.Tutorials targeted at a specific audience (including students, the general public, andregulators) could be effectively coordinated with online reference material, includingthose contained in pathfinders. For the IEEE, Web-based tutorials will enable engineers

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gad-el-hak; Judy Richardson; John Speich; James McLeskey

actually doing it you can see what goes on;”“When you actually see it, you understand it;” “Putting things in context adds a lot more gravityto it.”The students were very excited to have an opportunity to “do” as well as to listen and read. Theyappreciated seeing and manipulating so that they could really understand how the theory works.That was why they wanted to see if they could keep the Stirling Engine going past the taskassigned. “I liked that Dr. McLeskey is going for this hands-on stuff:” “I’m the kind of personthat I have to see and feel something to understand it.”The students expressed much enthusiasm for the activities. It made the subject more interestingfor them, especially because they were planning to be mechanical engineers and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wesner; Cristina Amon

, four of five project sponsors plan to return in the spring, and more than 20% of thestudents have signed up for a second semester (under a different course number). Page 9.291.10 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgementThe authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Pennsylvania Infrastructure TechnologyAlliance (PITA), a partnership of Carnegie Mellon, Lehigh University and the Commonwealth ofPennsylvania’s Department of Community and Economic Development.References 1

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Goo; Maura Borrego

the exam?” This level of analysis is tentatively planned for futuresemesters. Page 10.334.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationStatistical analysis was run using SPSS statistical software14. Pearson correlations (2-tailed significance) were calculated for all pairs of variables. Independent samples t-testswere employed to compare groups (In all cases students were split into just 2 categories,in part due to the relatively small sample size.). A stepwise linear multiple regression wasalso run to see if

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Lancaster; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

: Falmer Press.18. Tobin, K., Garnett, P. (1987). Gender-Related Differences in Science Activities. Science Education, 71: 91-103.19. Morse, L.W., Handley, H. M. (1985). “Listening to Adolescents: Gender Differences in Science Classrooms. In L.C. Wlkinson and C.B. Marrett, eds., Gender Influences in Classroom Interactions, Madison, WI: Academic Press.20. Gallego, Juan C. (1995). A Survey of Native and Nonnative TA’s Office Hours: Importance, Attendance, and Content. Research in Education, Sept. 1997.21. Ware, N.C., Dill, D. (1986). Persistence in Science Among Mathematically Able Male and Female College Students with Pre-College Plans for a Scientific Major. San Fransisco, CA: Paper presented at