Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Valenzuela P.E., University of Evansville; Valerie A. Stein, University of Evansville

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, citing thecriticisms of employers of engineering graduates who lacked communication skills, businessacumen, and “an understanding of men.” [sic]1Sir Eric Ashy writes in 1959 that he sees a higher purpose to a humanistic education, not just intaking specific courses, but in making sense of the technology the engineer employs in itswholeness, what he calls the essence of “technological humanism.”2Samuel Florman in 1968 provides five reasons for studying the liberal arts in the introductorychapter “The Civilized Engineer” of his book Engineering and the Liberal Arts. Three of thereasons are for the personal benefit for the engineer, including an appreciation of beauty,enhancing the imagination, and the development of leadership characteristics. Two

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

increase thestatus or decrease the grading load of the instructors, and it perpetuated a reductionist conceptionof technical communication that persists outside of the field to this day. Perhaps the moststriking feature of the situation was described by Kynell: “A great irony in the evolution oftechnical communication in an engineering curriculum was the virtual second class statusimposed on the discipline by [emphasis added] those who taught it” (p. 93). They accepted aposition that they typically agreed was below both the teaching of literature and the teaching ofengineering—and they got out of it as soon as possible, or perhaps just got used to it. Onceoutsourcing was established as a dominant model, it has been very difficult to dislodge, both

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION ONE

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Rui Pan, University of Oklahoma; Cindy E Foor, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma; Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Topics

Corporate Member Council, Diversity

friends with boys better.Alice may have had an easier time integrating into the team because her gender expressioncontained elements that are more typically male. Alice's athleticism, especially her choice ofphysically demanding sports like field hockey, may have made her more acceptable in CTA’smale dominated team culture. We know that her physical appearance at her first CTA meeting(disheveled from sports practice) had initially impressed the team. Alice is also openly anddirectly competitive: I like to compete in all areas. One thing I have noticed, I used to think I had to be number one. I had to be the best at everything. I was valedictorian, I was super competitive with this one guy in school, we fought it out to the

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khalid El Gaidi, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH); Tomas Ekholm, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

in engineering curriculum: Students conceptions and performance. Journal of Engineering Education, 101(1): 138–162, 2012.[18] J. Hiebert and P. Lefevre. Conceptual and procedural knowledge in mathematics: An introductory analysis. Conceptual and procedural knowledge: The case of mathematics, pages 1–27, 1986.[19] J. R. Star. Reconceptualizing procedural knowledge. Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 36: 404–411, 2005.[20] L. Filipsson, M. Cronhjort, and M. Weurlander. Can peer instruction in calculus improve students’ learning? Proceedings of the 9th international CDIO conference, 2013.[21] K. Chappell and K. Killpatrick. Effects of concept-based instruction on students’ conceptual and procedural knowledge

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto, ILead; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

experiences into the curriculum. Leadership strategies that may feel uncomfortable to undergraduate students will become increasingly relevant as they gain experience with organizational contexts outside of the university classroom, but it can be overwhelming for them to wait until they leave university to learn these skills. Two historically popular strategies for integrating workplace learning into engineering education are semester long co-op terms and 16-month internships. If these two options are not feasible in a particular institutional Page 26.1519.12 context, it is possible to infuse meaningful experiential

Conference Session

Microcontrollers, Programming, and Data Acquisition

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Patrick Kirby, University Of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Julius Omokiniovo Ejenavi, Morgan State University; Payam Matin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

students are always challenged to apply their engineering knowledge and research skillsgained from an engineering curriculum toward design and implementation of challenging seniordesign projects. Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) is an apparatus that is used to studymaterials behavior under high speed deformation, where strain rate is very high. Hopkinson barsare usually custom made based on the needs of customers, who are mostly researchers inuniversities or research labs. In this work, in a form of a senior design project, the authorsprovided learning opportunities for engineering students to design a data acquisition system for asmall size split Hopkinson pressure bar previously designed by former students. The objectivesof this project are

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rami Jubrail Haddad, Georgia Southern University; Youakim Kalaani, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

course as illustrated in Figure 2. Figure 2- MATLAB Marina WebpageAs part of this model, students were also instructed to post their questions online in a discussiongroup with the purpose of initiating 2-way communication hub for students and faculty toexchange ideas and ask and answer questions in an informal setting. Participation in this activitywas required and students were assigned participation grades based on each their activity. Theseonline discussions were necessary to help the faculty prepare a 15-minute lecture review which isan integral part of this hybrid model. The lecture review was incorporated to provide interactivediscussion between students and faculty inside the classroom. After the lecture

Conference Session

Visualization Within Engineering Design Graphics Education Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Delson, University of California, San Diego; Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

diverse students at UCSD by serving on the faculty advisory board for the IDEA Student Center. Her research is focused on engagement strategies for large classrooms and the development of K-16 curriculum in earthquake engineering. Page 26.1595.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Tracking Student Engagement with a Touchscreen App for Spatial Visualization Training and Freehand SketchingAbstractThe Spatial Visualization Trainer (SVT) App was developed for an iPad to enable students tofreehand sketch isometrics and orthographic projections. The App consists of

Conference Session

First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tracy Jane Puccinelli, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison; John Murphy, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #14145Bringing technology to the First Year Design Experience through the use ofElectronic Design NotebooksDr. Tracy Jane Puccinelli, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison In 2011, I joined the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department as a Lecturer and Outreach Coordinator. As part of the BME design faculty, I work on curriculum development, as well as innovative approaches for teaching design. I coordinate BME outreach, advising BME seniors as they develop interactive hands- on activities for K-12 students that teach biomedical engineering concepts. Additionally, in 2012, I began teaching an

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monika Rummler, Technische Universität Berlin; Petra Nikol, Technische Universität Berlin

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

arereflected and support for successful transfer, and application is provided. Learning contractsinclude learning goals and change purposes of course participants.Some transferable elements for adaptability of our concept to other existing programs orschools are a clear task-oriented description for the change agents’ profile in the profession-specific area, an integration of this position into departmental structures and professionalnetworks with other change agents, a permanent support and assessment of the change agentsby tailor-made and general didactic continuing education, the development and evaluation ofteaching projects in the change agents’ and the departments’ professional teaching field. Thismodel curriculum for change agents can provide

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Lauren D. Thomas, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Richard Brown Bankhead III, Highline Community College; Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University; Kristine R. Csavina, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Douglas Karl Faust, Seattle Central College; Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Ken Yasuhara, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

started, I have reworked some of my teaching activities in this and otherclasses. Further, our department is holding one of our CPREE meeting/workshops specifically onissues related to group work in our engineering and pre-engineering classrooms. In our first plenarymeeting, we spent time talking about what our image of successful students is: what changes we wishto affect in them over the term. All of these were set off by the process of reflecting on reflecting. I do think this is actually connected to a fundamental issue in education - that the curriculum wegenerate for students is informed by an image of what sort of people we want to produce at the end ofthe educational or training process and that for instructors to take the time to

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hank D. Voss, Taylor University; Scott Henry Moats, Crown College; Bill Chapman, University of Arizona

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

jobopportunities and fairs. Presently, there exist a number of weakly connected 3+2 programs,transfer programs, 2 year Engineering Technology programs, and non-accredited programs.A baseline 2 year freshman and sophomore curriculum program is proposed based on casestudies, on research, and on alumni questionnaires. After a decade of SCU Engineering Physicsteaching experience it was also found effective by faculty to give closure to the 2 year programcurriculum with a sophomore-type “Cornerstone” class called “Principles of Engineering”. Thisintegrative class is essential for 2 year students to be effective in the workforce as an EngineeringTechnologist job applicant, as a competitive summer intern applicant, and in deciding on aspecific Engineering major

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant R. Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Temesgen Wondimu Aure, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

curriculum. All Bridge students enroll inSCLC. The SCLCs are one-credit courses, and the students meet twice a week for two hourswith an instructor dedicated specifically for the course. The students enrolled in SCLCs areprovided with additional instruction and time for problem-solving. This instruction requiresstudents to interact in heterogeneous groups of 3-4 to master the course material usingcooperative learning strategy23, 24, and grades are based on mandatory attendance andparticipation in the cooperative learning process. It further strengthens the learning communitybuilt in the Summer Bridge Scholars Program.NETWORKING The networking strategies include: academic assessment and monitoring program; monthlysocials; MentorNet; community

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seda McKIlligan, Iowa State University; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Colleen M. Seifert, University of Michigan; Richard Gonzalez, University of Michigan; Colin M. Gray, Iowa State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

educating student to generate creative concepts; 2. train instructors on how to teach Design Heuristics within existing engineering classes; 3. assess learning outcomes from Design Heuristics pedagogy from diverse instructors, courses and universities; 4. incorporate the lessons learned to develop an effective, easy-to-adopt pedagogy for educating students about how to generate creative ideas.Key research questions include: How do instructors’ emphases on concept generation change asa result of introduction to Design Heuristics at a workshop? How do instructors integrate DesignHeuristics in their courses? What similarities and differences exist in Design Heuristicspedagogy across course level and type? How do students

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Design and Entrepreneurship

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mona Eskandari, Stanford University; Barbara A. Karanian A., Stanford University; Ville Mikael Taajamaa, University of Turku

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 26.1498.8curriculum, review the readings, structure the exercises and craft the work, provide feedback,leading and coaching, and include the students in the entire developmental process. Storytelling Based Learning is intended to assist both the students taking a course and theinstructors teaching and creating the curriculum. Specifically, it guides and assists participantsbecause it fills the gap between disciplinary engineering learning, which is a cognitive processand embedded in logics of natural sciences. Storytelling is a socio-cognitive process. Yet it ismore so an experiential learning process where the hands-on or theoretical engineering learningis replaced by hands-on socio-cognitive experiential process of Tell/Make

Conference Session

Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part II

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica M. Cortez, Texas A&M University; Teri Kristine Reed, Texas A&M University; P.K. Imbrie, Texas A&M University; Sylvia E. McMullen, Blinn College; Jackie Perez, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

statistically overwhelming and this partnershiphas provided a collaborative opportunity to identify and remove academic, administrative, andtransfer barriers in-situ. As the engineering academy model is being created and refined throughthe research literature, the three main goals of the academies remain: 1) increase theparticipation and graduation of underrepresented groups interested in pursuing an engineeringdegree, 2) provide an immediate impact on the STEM workforce by minimizing the time tograduation through curriculum alignment between the two- and four- year institution, and 3)increase the number of awarded Associate degrees.The authors plan to expand the engineering academy model across Texas, while continuing tocontribute to the literature on

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

attributes such as structure, moisture content, and electrical charge. Thosecan be dealt with at a later time when the students are better able to cope with abstractions. Aspiral curriculum describes an approach to the design of the curriculum that is built on thisidea. Thus, in this example the students meet the concept on several occasions during theschooling and on each occasion more material is added to the understanding of the concept.Graduate student teachers including scientists and engineers find it difficult to defineattributes and values but the evidence is that when they are forced to think about thedominant features of a concept they find it to be an aid in the planning and implementation ofa lesson. It is also evident that part of the

Conference Session

Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

period. As the field of electronics technology entered themicroelectronics era, courses about integrated circuits, microprocessors, and digital logic wereadded to the biomedical curriculum to keep up with the rapidly changing technology. As wastypical of that stage in the evolution of electronics, the curriculum was extremely “parts centric”since biomedical (and electronics) technicians were expected to repair electronics based medicalequipment by troubleshooting faults/problems to the part/device level. This popular program ransuccessfully for approximately three decades during which time most of the medical facilities inwestern Massachusetts and regions in surrounding states (i.e. middle to north-central Connecticutand southern Vermont

Conference Session

Circuits and Systems Education 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Keith Holland, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

course concluded with a problem-basedproject, wherein student groups were required to select and address a problem of their choosingwith the development of an analog circuit.Student progress was evaluated and grades were administered based on homework assignments,three examinations, laboratory reports, and final project deliverables. Weekly homeworkassignments were comprised of two different question sets. The first set focused on the basicunderstanding and application of concepts covered in class while the second set posed morechallenging concept integration questions. Often, the second question set was framed aroundconsumer and industrial applications in an attempt to engage students with the relevance of thematerial. Similarly, the

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mustafa G. Guvench, University of Southern Maine; Mao Ye, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

including I.C. design, MEMS and semiconductor technology and its application in sensor development, finite element and analytical modeling of semiconductor devices and sensors, and electronic instrumenta- tion and measurement. He can be reached at guvench@usm.maine.edu.Mr. Mao Ye, University of Southern Maine Mao Ye is an electrical engineering student at the University of Southern Maine, and an equipment engi- neering intern at Texas Instrument, South Portland, Maine. He also worked at Iberdrola Energy Project as a project assessment engineering intern. Prior to attending the University of Southern Maine, he served in the United States Marine Corps as communications chief. His area of interests are microelectronics

Conference Session

Flipped Electrical and Computer Engineering Classrooms 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jia-Ling Lin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Paul Imbertson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Page 26.747.18a traditional classroom and flip classroom that used an intelligent tutoring system (Doctoral Dissertation), (2007).8 Jia-Ling Lin, Tamara Moore, and Paul Imbertson, “Introducing an Instructional Model in Undergraduate ElectricPower Energy Systems Curriculum-Part (I): “Monological (Authoritative)” vs. Dialogic Discourse in a Problem-Centered Learning Classroom”, the 120th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 23-26, 2013.9 M. Loftus. “Keep the lecture, lose the lectern: Blended Classes –– Mixing Traditional and Digital Teaching –– areGaining Converts”, Connections Newsletter, October, (2013). http://www.asee.org/papers-and-publications/blogs-and-newsletters/connections/October2013.html#sponsored10 Gregory S. Mason, Teodora

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone and Collaborative Projects

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miiri Kotche, University of Illinois, Chicago; Stephanie Tharp, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

oral presentations and written documentation.While team-based product design is part of the curriculum, formal and sustained interaction withend users to inform the design process is an integral of the Interdisciplinary ProductDevelopment capstone courses. The department of Bioengineering is jointly within both theCollege of Engineering and the College of Medicine, which facilitates student exposure to a widevariety of clinical environments with medical faculty engagement. The course is sponsored byan industry partner, who, in conjunction with faculty, provides project statements that are ofstrategic business interest. For this reason, all students participate under a Non-DisclosureAgreement. The first semester focuses on early front-end

Conference Session

Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mania Orand, University of Washington ; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Lauren D. Thomas, University of Washington

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

experiences is widely understood as an essential component oflearning and development of expertise for both educators and students. However, incorporatingreflection in a way that engages engineering students can be challenging, and educators seekways to design or introduce effective and efficient reflective practices that best address this issue.In this paper, we describe three example case studies that use the concept of probes and weanalyze their potential for stimulating reflection to help identify new ways of supportingreflection in engineering education. Our goal is to introduce engineering educators to the conceptof probes as a method to support students’ reflection and also to inspire and facilitatecollaboration between engineering educators

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 16: That Important Decision - Which Engineering Major?

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University; James Warnock, Mississippi State University; Amy Barton, Mississippi State University; Rani Warsi Sullivan, Mississippi State University; Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University; Jane Nicholson Moorhead, Mississippi State University

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First-Year Programs

vibration testing of full scale composite air vehicles.Dr. Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University Bill B. Elmore, Ph.D., P.E., is an Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Swalm School of Chem- ical Engineering. In his role as the Hunter Henry Chair, he serves as Undergraduate Coordinator for the chemical engineering program and Faculty Advisor for the student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. His research interests include biotechnology for renewable energy and innovation Page 26.867.1 in engineering education through integration of problem-based learning across engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yu Gong, Purdue University; Tugba Yuksel, Purdue University; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University; Lynn A. Bryan, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

simulation tools for quantum mechanics learning?Method and Research DesignThis work is part of Quantum Learning in Engineering And Physics (Quantum LEAP)project. The Quantum LEAP project aims to develop an integrated framework for the designand assessment of effective simulation-based learning environments for quantum educationbased on studies about engineering and physics students’ non-normative conceptions andmetacognitive learning strategies.Research Design. The presented study is guided by interpretive research design. Interpretiveresearch design enables the researcher to presume that knowledge and understanding areresults of interpretation and based on individual’s subjective experiences12. Interpretiveresearches consider that knowledge and

Conference Session

Engineering Economics Teaching Tools

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University; Matthew T. Stimpson, North Carolina State University; E. Downey Brill, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

-class contentdelivery—thereby opening up valuable face-to-face class time for substantial formalizedinteraction (peer-to-peer and student-to-instructor). Using this model students access coursecontent through videos (videos, podcasts, audiographs, vodcasts, and/or webinars2) andarchived on-line course materials prior to each class session on their own time.3,4 Active-learning, cooperative learning, collaborative learning and problem-based learning techniques5,6are then used in class to confirm, add-to, clarify, integrate, evaluate, synthesize and assessstudent learning. In this way the traditional model with in-class lectures and out-of-classactivities (homework, etc.) is “flipped” so that content is consumed outside of class andactivity and

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Ross, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

science.” While we are notABET evaluators, in our experience, all of the engineering students at our institution (we do nothave an engineering technology program) are required to take a year of calculus-based physicswith the associated laboratories. We will show how we can use the principle of operationaldefinition of fundamental concepts from calculus–derivatives and integrals, and incorporate theminto introductory physics courses. Page 26.1207.2Operational DefinitionWe use the term operational definition in a somewhat loose fashion. We are not trying todemonstrate the existence of the Higgs boson to six standard deviations, rather we are trying

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC; Ted Song, John Brown University; Will C. Holmes, John Brown University; Kyle Andrew Crouse, John Brown University; Zachary Jordan Lee, John Brown University; Cameron Drax Geiger, John Brown University

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College Industry Partnerships

Paper ID #12260Industrial Advisory Board Open ForumDr. Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC Charles E. Baukal, Jr. has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, an Ed.D., and Professional Engineering License. He is the Director of the John Zink Institute which offers continuing professional development for engineers and technicians. He has nearly 35 years of industrial experience and 30 years of teaching experience as an adjunct. He is the author/editor of 13 books on industrial combustion and is an inventor on 11 U.S. patents.Dr. Ted Song, John Brown University Dr. Ted Song joined the JBU engineering faculty in

Conference Session

ETAC/ABET Related Issues

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. William White AIA, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Veto Matthew Ray, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Elaine M. Cooney, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

in this paper is the result of anextensive rebuilding effort. Prior to the development of these tools and processes, the academicprogram faculty went through a period of re-establishing and clarifying a myriad of assessmentfundamentals. That is, establishing a sustainable assessment process integrating the program’sstakeholders with the curriculum, implementing process review policies, clearly defining courseoutcomes, and developing appropriate performance indicators. Additionally it came to beunderstood that the assessment process – no matter how sophisticated or well intentioned it maybe – would not stand up to the scrutiny of an on-site assessment without possessing a clarity andtransparency that is obvious to the on-site accreditation

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Innovative Course Offerings

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 26.1565.13This paper outlines a course that allows the integration of entrepreneurial topics before the seniorcapstone. But the PAC could be integrated into senior design, put earlier in the curriculum, beoffered as an interdisciplinary elective or serve as a thread that appears through a curriculum. Asthe PAC does not require a deep background in math and science, the framework could in principlebe used very early in the curriculum. The PAC can support many learning objectives that will beassociated with individual boxes, but because it is conducted on a real device, the canvas naturallycreates a way to bind together topics. In addition it will quite naturally touch upon nearly all softskills required by ABET 53,54 . There are several