Conference Session

Think Outside the Box! K-12 Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal Corbett, Louisiana Tech University; Galen Turner, Louisiana Tech University; David Hall, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

strategies, providing an opportunityfor in-class competitions. These hands-on projects buildexcitement and foster the development of student confidenceand creativity.While careful planning ensures that this curriculum is not intimidating to teachers, it is importantthat the curriculum be rigorous and challenging. Additionally, the authors recognize that it mustbe appropriate for and within the grasp of high school students and must meet local and stateeducation standards. Collaborative partnerships developed with area high schools ensure that allof these conditions are met.The crucial component of implementing a project-based hands-on curriculum in schools is theteachers. Master teachers for the pilot curriculum were chosen from three schools that

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Messervey; MAJ Dave Borowitz; LTC Keith Landry; Ronald Welch

. Page 9.1095.10 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Bibliography1. Educating Future Army Officers for a Changing World, Office of the Dean, United States MilitaryAcademy, West Point, NY 2002.2. Dick, Walter and Lou M. Carey. The Systematic Design of Instruction. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996.3. Gagne, Robert M., Leslie J. Briggs, and Walter W. Wager. Principles of Instructional Design.Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 19924. Wankat, Phillip C. and Frank S. Oreovicz. Teaching Engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.5. Lowman, Joseph. Mastering the Techniques of Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995.6

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shelley Goldman, Stanford University; Maureen Carroll; Molly Bullock Zielezinski, Stanford University; Aaron Loh, Ministry of Education, Singapore; Eng Seng Ng, Stanford University; Stephanie Bachas-Daunert, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

succeed in the 21st Century. Aaron also holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Cambridge, and a Masters in English and American literature from Stanford University.Mr. Eng Seng Ng, Stanford UniversityStephanie Bachas-Daunert, Stanford University Page 24.440.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014Grade Level: 6-8Authors: Shelley Goldman, Maureen Carroll, Molly B. Zielezinski, Stephanie Bachas-DaunertAuthor Contact Information: sgoldman@stanford.edu, mbullock@stanford.eduNext Generation Science Standards: MS-LS2-5 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and DynamicsActivity

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Ressler, U.S. Military Academy; Catherine Eve Bale, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #9807Curriculum Exchange: Cantilever BridgingDr. Stephen J. Ressler, U.S. Military Academy Stephen Ressler, P.E. Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus from the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point and currently serves as President of the Board of Directors for Engineering Encounters, a non-profit organization founded to promote K-12 engineering outreach. He earned a B.S. degree from USMA in 1979, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University in 1989, and a Ph.D. from Lehigh in 1991. As an active duty Army officer, he served in a variety of military engineering assignments around the world. He

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi; Wael Ibrahim

the real instrumentation. To facilitateonline education for engineering disciplines, virtual labs have emerged to give the students thepractical experience.The results of the Sloan survey of online learning1 show that the growth rate for onlineenrollment continues to increase from 2003 to 2004. The survey results1, classified by type ofinstitution, show that the Associates degree granting institutions have the largest number of Page 10.973.1students taking at least one online course, representing about half of all the students studyingonline. Associates schools are followed, in order, by Masters, Doctoral/Research, Specialized

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ram Mohan; Narayan Radhakrishnan; Guoqing Tang; Kenneth Murray; Ajit Kelkar

mathematics, high performance parallel and scalable computing, scientific modeling andsimulation, data visualization, and domain areas such as physical science and engineering, lifesciences, agricultural and environmental sciences, technology and business. The aim of thisprogram is to provide students with an opportunity to (a) master high performance computerprogramming tools as well as data acquisition and processing techniques; (b) acquirecomputational modeling, simulation and visualization skills; (c) relate acquired computationalscience and engineering knowledge and skills to specific application fields of science,engineering, technology and business; and (d) learn to develop novel and robust computationaltools and methods to solve scientific

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Khaled Mansy

user will control all the skyconditions through the use of a LABVIEW program (or “virtual instrument”), which will providea simple and user-friendly interface to the sky dome. The LABVIEW interface will in turncommunicate with the master PIC, through a serial (RS232) interface, which will coordinate theoperation of slave PICs which ultimately control individual light sources. The inter-integratedcircuit (I2C) protocol is used for the communication between master and slave PICs. This is asynchronous protocol using two wires: the serial data line (SDA) and the serial clock line (SCL)as shown in figure 11. Figure 11: Block Diagram of Communication NetworkEach of the slave PICs, shown in figure 11, can independently control

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nastasi; Leslie Brunell; Keith Sheppard

, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Master of Engineering in Product-Architecture & Engineering degree program issupported by The Product - Architecture Lab and integrates the study of Product Design,Computational Architecture and Engineering with production methodologies andemerging materials. A Bachelors of Science degree in Engineering, Industrial Design, ora Bachelor in Architecture is needed for acceptance to the master’s program. Applicantswith undergraduate degrees in other engineering or design disciplines may be required totake appropriate undergraduate courses before being formally admitted into the program.The Master of Engineering in Product-Architecture and Engineering degree requires 30credits. Fifteen of the credits

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Gruntman; Joseph Kunc; Dan Erwin

graduate courses are taught by adjunct faculty who are top experts working in the spaceindustry. The Master of Science degree and Graduate Certificate are available through the USCDistance Education Network (DEN), reaching students anywhere in the world through webcast-ing. We describe the origin and academic focus of the program that was recently reorganized asan independent academic unit in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.Aerospace WorkforceThe acute need to improve space-related education has emerged as a major challenge for theAmerican space enterprise.1 One-third of the technical workforce of the space industry and gov-ernment research and development centers will reach retirement eligibility within the next sev-eral years. NASA’s

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Moody

class. As an Army officer with eight yearsof experience, I have presented my share of information briefings to various audiences.Teaching, however, is different than briefing. Teaching, within the C&ME model, is a highlyphysical and interactive performance. The foundation is clear verbal communication supportedby clearly written chalkboards. These are augmented with demonstrations, models, slides andoverheads as appropriate, and the entire delivery is infused with enthusiasm and energy.Throughout the class, students are kept involved by the use of meaningful and directed questions. As a new instructor, the two areas that I had to invest the most energy and preparationwere mastering the material and lesson performance. During the seven

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Slack

means the questionis faulty).When a teacher wishes to determine whether the students have mastered the outcome, a testcontaining the questions dealing with that outcome is appropriate. Of course most quizzes willcontain questions from more than one category and will apply to more than one outcome. Afterthe students have taken the test, the teacher can go to the question database, view those questionfor a specific outcome, select those that were on the recent quiz, and gather the statistics on theirperformance. Thus, the teacher can have an objective measure backing a statement that thestudents have mastered a topic. More importantly, perhaps, the teacher can compare results fromsemester to semester and then judge the results of modifications to

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Pietryga; Gregory Dick

of C vis-à-visFORTRAN. Students experience more difficulty in mastering these elements. Typicalproblem areas have to do with those language elements that generate subtle errors.Examples include, among others: Confusion of logical conjunctions (i.e., && and | | ) with bitwise Boolean operators (i.e., & and | ) Confusion of the replacement operator “=” with the relational operator “==” Misplacement of the semicolon punctuation mark.Specific examples include: if (a = b) { conditional statements }This code phrase is syntactically correct and will compile and execute without error orwarning. However, it will not test to determine if “a is equal to b” as the neophyteprogrammer

Conference Session

Retention of Minority Students

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadine Macauley; Edward Golovatch; Annita Alting; Ardie Walser

. Page 8.1183.8 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationANNITA ALTINGAnnita Alting has a Masters degree in physics from Groningen University in The Netherlands and a PhD inphysics education from Eindhoven University of Technology. She taught physics and mathematics inDutch secondary and higher education, and worked as an educational researcher and academic advisor in theareas of science and engineering. After her arrival in the United States, she was a research associate in IBMResearch in Hawthorne, NY, for three years. Since 2001 she works as ABET accreditation specialist in theSchool of Engineering of the City College of New

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose Saldivar; Ighal Mehmedagic; Siva Thangam; Richard Cole

Technology. He also serves as theinterim Director for the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Associate Dean of Engineering. Dr. Thangamreceived his Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madras, Masters degree from theIndian Institute of Technology and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University.JOSE SALDIVAR-OLAGUEJose Saldivar Olague is currently a doctoral student at Stevens Institute of Technology. He received his Bachelorsdegree in Mechanical Engineering from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and Masters degree inMechanical Engineering from the University of California, Davis. In addition to research, Jose is a laboratory teachingassistant for the thermal and fluid sciences courses.RICHARD B

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld

inCosta Rica, but only in English in Puerto Rico. In both places, language has been anissue, and at times, critical to the success of a project.However, in Puerto Rico, the knowledge of English is so widely spread that studentsalmost never encounter problems in the office. The culture of organizations is similar towhat they might encounter in the U.S., so the university is able to send large numbers ofstudents there with the assumption that they will be largely unhampered by the lack ofSpanish. Moreover, mastering the culture in Puerto Rico is not critical to performing thework effectively, for the most part because of the way the mainland U.S. culture coexistswith Puerto Rican cultureYet, there have been numerous instances in which translators

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Patton

Engineering EducationEstablish indicators that objectives are being achieved - Faculty were asked to define theindicators that would tell them that the overall course and curricular objectives were beingachieved. These indicators are the signs that students have mastered specific intellectual tasksrequired for a course. Specific exam or homework grades indicate mastery of these concepts.The concepts represent the specific course objectives and are quite detailed. Each specificcourse objective is mapped to the ABET “a-k” criteria in a database and on the web page. In thisway, we immediately see which specific course objectives are contributing to the overallsatisfaction of the “a-k” criteria. From the web page, we can sort the specific course

Conference Session

Intra-college Graduate Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Watkins; Richard Hall; Martha J. Molander; Josh Corra; Bethany Konz; K. Chandrashekhara; Vicki Eller; Abdeldjelil Belarbi

. Sponsoredresearch and educational activities incorporate various combinations of technologies asillustrated in Figure1. Smart structures projects require the integration of sensing, materials, andstructures. Associated educational projects apply educational innovation and Web-basedmethodologies in the context of the component disciplines. The projects described in this paper were conducted by masters students who had takenthe supporting interdisciplinary course. These example projects are listed below.· Smart Composite Bridge: 3 An instrumented all-composite bridge for highway loads was laboratory tested and manufactured with the involvement of several government and industrial partners. It featured an integral fiber-optic-sensor network

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Collins; Alisha Youngblood

Session 3642 Engineering Management Program Re-evaluation Terry R. Collins, Alisha D. Youngblood Department of Industrial Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractThe University of Arkansas is in the process of re-evaluating the content, structure, and focus ofthe Master of Science in Engineering Management program offered within the IndustrialEngineering department. An evaluation of 17 prominent Engineering Management programs isconducted to identify consistencies in core courses, degree

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerard Foster

universities have become National TrainingAffiliates with RIT. These six institutions are Ferris State University, New HampshireTechnical Institute, Purdue University, University of Houston, University of New Havenand University of Southern Florida.All teachers must attend a two-week summer training session at a National TrainingCenter for each course they teach. This session is the core of the training. Each class ofapproximately 21 student teachers is instructed by at least two master teachers or by anaffiliate professor and a master teacher. A steering committee of affiliate professors andmaster teachers directs the development of teacher training. Potential master teachers areselected from the group of teachers who have completed training and are

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

Educational Software ToolsMost of these tools are inexpensive but usually have one or more of the following drawbacks.They do not have a graphical user interface (GUI), are limited in capability, or despite theireducational intent, they are difficult to learn or use.For both of these broad categories, the Nintendo generation’s expectations are not met. Whatthey want is a third category that largely resembles a computer game until they have seen theutility of investing their time and effort to master the subject material or the requiredsoftware/hardware tools needed to support their study of the subject material. This type of toolmay be thought of as a transition tool that facilitates the initial use of one of the other twocategories of tools.It may

Conference Session

Students' Abilities and Attitudes

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kendrick T. Aung, Lamar University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

incoming graduate students. It is a core course for graduate students inmechanical engineering providing coverage of a range of mathematics topics required tosucceed in the graduate studies. The class is a required course for all mechanicalengineering graduate students with the non-thesis option in their Masters’ degreeprogram and a required course for all Doctor of Engineering students. In addition,students from other engineering disciplines can also take the class to fulfill their core Page 22.1371.2mathematics requirement.Background and Motivations College of Engineering at Lamar University offers Master of Science (MS, coursework option), Master

Conference Session

Engineering Education for Modern Needs Part I: Non-traditional Learning Methods and Expanding Student Markets

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Dickrell III, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

engineering undergrads. Theenrollment fluctuates between 400 to 500 students across semesters. The course is considered one ofthe “bedrock” engineering courses in the college and covers many of the most basic analytical skills thataspiring engineering undergraduates must master before graduation.Previous to this work, the course was split into three different sections with approximately 150 studentsper section. Each section would be instructed by a tenure-track faculty member of the Mechanical andAerospace Engineering department (MAE) and would have 2-3 graduate teaching assistants assigned toit. Each lecture would have several homework problems assigned that would be due by the followinglecture that the TA’s would physically collect, grade, and

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Danny Bee

University of Wisconsin-Stout undergraduate manufacturing engineering program iscurrently one of the largest in the United States and Canada. It will remain so in the future andwill continue to graduate forty to fifty students per academic year. After receiving the ABETaccreditation in undergraduate manufacturing engineering in 1999, UW-Stout immediately began Page 6.229.7development of a masters of science in manufacturing engineering. An initial needs surveyProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition ©2001,American Society for Engineering Educationidentified an urgent need for

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Monson H. Hayes; Lonnie D. Harvel

Session 2532 Distance Learning Into the 21st Century Monson H. Hayes and Lonnie Harvel School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332AbstractThe Georgia Institute of Technology is in a unique position of having a campus locatedacross the Atlantic in the heart of the Lorraine region of France. Offering masters degreeprograms in electrical and mechanical engineering, Georgia Tech Lorraine (GTL) mustdeliver more courses than can be staffed by resident faculty. Consequently, GTL mustoffer courses by

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori S. Cook; Lawrence S. Aft

specified location at a specified time. Beginning in the fall of 1997, SPSU beganoffering its Master of Science with a major in Quality Assurance on the Internet. As a pilotprogram within the University System of Georgia, the process was viewed as an opportunity toevaluate and assess the Internet as a medium for delivering a complete degree program viadistance learning. The following paper discusses a variety of issues including programadministration, curriculum development, and initial student/faculty reaction. INTRODUCTIONThe role of teaching is the transfer of knowledge and to date the most common form of learningwas through apprenticeship. This one-on-one training is too labor intensive for the

Conference Session

Perspectives in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zachary Rasmussen, University of Utah; Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Teach” surveys focus on a particular core chemical engineering courseeach year and have recently covered topics of Capstone [1], Material and Energy Balances [2],Kinetics and Reactions [3], Intro Classes [4], Thermodynamics [5], Unit Operation Labs [6],Process Control [7], and Transport [8] individually. However, fundamental limitations arepresent with any survey, such as non-response bias, and misrecollection.This work serves to complement department surveys using three sources of publicly availabledata: 1. the ground truth of published course schedules; 2. Faculty numbers and position fromstaff pages on department websites; and 3. Each program’s recommended 4-year BS program,BS/MS program, and masters program. Data was collected from the 2022

Conference Session

Cultivating Community, Wellness, and Character Development

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

relevant code associated with the themes emerging from the text. Initially, onecode book was kept by the author upon the first time reading the responses. Next, the authorconsolidated similar codes to develop a master code book. This master code book was then usedduring a second time reading the responses, and codes from this master code book were assignedto appropriate portions of the text responses.When analyzing responses toward investigating RQs 2 and 3, the “master” code book wasdeveloped as described above for protocol coding of the responses. The author then sortedstudent responses into each of the predetermined code “buckets” and kept track of the tally.2.5. PositionalityThe author of this study is a middle-aged white male who has been

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel W. Walsh, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lanny Griffin, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Robert S. Crockett, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Engineering, and MaterialsEngineering students to progress toward the terminal applied MS in Engineering degreeappropriate to their interests, or in existing specializations in Biochemical Engineering,Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Integrated Technology Management, while stillundergraduates.This paper summarizes the results of an early assessment of the attainment of several educationalobjectives by the MS graduates of the Biomedical and General Engineering Department. Theassessment is evolving and is focused on a determination of the professional progress of thesegraduates. Data indicates that the program has provided benefit for its participants, and remainsstrongly supported by students, faculty and industry.IntroductionThe Masters of

Conference Session

Faculty and Program Developments, Exchanges, and Partnerships

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sowmya Narayanan, VIT University; Muniratnam Adithan, VIT University, Vellore; Robert C. Creese, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

International

AC 2011-760: FACULTY DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEW GLOBALIZEDERA THROUGH INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA PARTNERSHIPSowmya Narayanan, VIT University SOWMYA NARAYANAN is an Asst. Professor in Academic Staff College at VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu India. She is a WIPRO Certified Master Trainer. She has obtained her Cambridge Inter- national Certificate from University of Cambridge U.K. She is pursuing her research studies in Bloom’s Taxonomy as applied to Engineering Education, Business and Management Education. She did her B.Sc in Physics and her Masters in Public Administration.Adithan Muniratnam, VIT University, Vellore M. Adithan, Vellore Institute of Technology Dr. M. ADITHAN, is Director, Academic Staff college at VIT

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Fransen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

first year of graduate school, most students are asked to do a literature searchfor a class, or are beginning to look at prior work as they decide on a focus for their thesis,dissertation, or Master‟s project. At that point, they realize that they will not be able to findeverything they need with their current set of Web-searching tools and skills.Engineering librarians are challenged to engage with these new students at just the right time.Properly marketed, online tutorials may provide part of the solution. This paper explores how theauthor used citation analysis and discussions with faculty, students, and colleagues to design aset of tutorials that teach graduate students both how to find what they need, and why they needit in the first