Collection

2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Br. Henry Chaya

. The motivation of the students is the most important reason for this. This project hasdemonstrated that it is quite feasible to give undergraduate students the benefit of expert teaching skillsthat are otherwise unavailable to them. It is indeed the author feels privileged to have had thisopportunity.AcknowledgementsThe author wishes to thank Dr Saleem Zoughbi, coordinator for the CAIS program for giving him theopportunity to offer this course, and the support of Dr Gordon Silverman and Dr Richard Heist for theirencouragement and the released time to prepare this course.Br Henry Chaya is a De La Salle Christian Brother and an Associate Professor of Computer and ElectricalEngineering at Manhattan College. From fall 2003 to spring 2004 he was

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 8: Leadership and Persistence

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Susan Thomson Tripathy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Sumudu Lewis, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; nadia sahila, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

Nadia Sahila is a dedicated doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, specializing in research and evaluation in education. She holds a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction and a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing and Management. Currently, Nadia is a graduate research assistant with the River Hawks Scholarship Academy and a teaching assistant for the Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement program, as well as the Research, Academics, and Mentoring Pathways program. Her research interests focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly in educational settings. Recent projects have explored culturally responsive education and gender equity. Nadia has presented her research at

Conference Session

DSA Technical Session 8

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paula Francisca Larrondo, Queen's University; Brian M Frank P.Eng., Queen's University; Julian Ortiz, Queen's University

Tagged Topics

Data Science & Analytics Constituent Committee (DSA)

entity recognition [33]. While early automated feedback systemsrelied on domain-expert rules and were limited in addressing the diversity of open-endedassignments [34-36], data-driven approaches, though promising in highly semantically diverseresponses, often face challenges due to the lack of extensive training datasets [4, 37, 38].AFS based on LLMs holds the potential for a more effective and efficient solution. Applicationsrange from personalized hints for programming assignments [39] to reflective writing [40],including feedback on the appropriateness of the topic of a data science project proposal and thedescription clarity of goals, benefits, novelty and overall clarity of the report [41]. Despite thepromising results from studies like Dai

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Michael Korostelev; Ning Gong; Ralph Oyini Mbouna

class exercises,work is always done with this scenario as the foundation. In classes for majors, this is usually thereverse; students learn the tools first and apply them to real problems as capstone projects. Wefind our approach for the course yielded greater outcomes than the approach that is usuallyeffective for majors. Even though this reverse strategy seems sensible, students can still getdiscouraged or disengaged with some bland material. To address this and assure sustainableengagement in lessons, we use strategies we described in active learning: gamification and two-way teaching.4.1 Assignment Design based on GamificationThe gamification case study we present is a group assignment that focuses on protocol design.Through its completion

Collection

2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Todd Holden; Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; George Tremberger Jr; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

. Copyright ASEE Middle Atlantic Regional Conference Delaware April 20-21 2012ConclusionsThis explorative project shows that structural equation model is capable of providingquantitative information on the causative hypotheses/elements such as pre-requisites in asequence of courses. The LISREL software is fairly easy to implement and it is hopedthat the presented results would popularize the application of SEM in engineering andtechnology program pedagogy.AcknowledgementsPartial supports from several CUNY grants are gratefully acknowledged.References1. Bollen KA, Noble MD 2011, “Structural equation models and the quantification ofbehavior”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Sep 13;1082. LISREL softwarehttp://www.ssicentral.com/3. Taasoobshirazi, G. and

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Brian Linhares; Sharifa Happy; Hossein Rahemi

illustrate the various benefits that the components of the robot, such as sensorsand moving mechanisms, power sources, and the composition of green elements can benefit afield of crops (Figure 2). With the use of laser sensors, we will accurately measure the height ofthe crops by scanning the crops in an angled projection. This then allows for the robot to selfadjust its height to the height of the crop.The ultrasound sensor will be detecting if there is something in front before mechanisms areactivated. Controls will be using GPS guidance systems. Pullers, blades, and a conveyor belt willbe the rotating systems, grabbing, cutting, and extracting the crops inside the robot. The soilsensor will be a panel collecting and analyzing the soil components

Collection

2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sandeep Dilwali

technology continues to be a national issue. It is projected that there will be shortfallof the people needed to fill positions in science, technology and engineering and math(STEM) related disciplines for the next several years. Unless some significant steps aretaken to address this issue, this shortage will continue to grow to undesirable levels. Students coming out of high schools have major decisions to make in terms ofchoice of careers, and many postpone that decision to while at college or later. A largenumber of students begin college with a choice of major as “Undecided”, and hope thatfew years of college education will place them in a better position to be able a make aninformed decision. Also many students are concerned that the

Collection

2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert M. Brooks; Berk Ayranci; Keerthi Takkalapelli

, building peer network for group study and design projects, obtaining a mentor, and becoming an ASEE chapter officer were ranked 1 to 4 respectively, among the activities. 2. The student membership improved by 144% because of the top 4 activities. 3. t-tests and ANOVA tests indicated that the top 4 activities increased interest on ASEE at a statistically significant level of 0.01.RecommendationsEach year, student interest may be changing. Therefore, a preliminary survey needs to beconducted for adding new interests and removing insignificant interests from the list. Programsshould be scheduled and implemented representing the issues. Energies and resources should bespent according to the weighted priorities of the

Collection

2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

David A. Rogers; Orven F. Swenson

an established course in optical signal transmission.Students with majors in physics and engineering have learned professional optics techniquesfor evaluating the characteristics of optical fibers and obtained hands-on experience with opticalcommunications.IntroductionThe primary objective of the National Science Foundation (NSF) optics education project atNorth Dakota State University has been the development of an undergraduate optics laboratoryto serve the needs of a general optics course (Physics/ECE 411/611) that is the jointresponsibility of the Departments of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Thiscourse includes ten experiments in a lab that was established with the support of NSF andadapted from work done at New Jersey

Collection

2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John Mirth; David Kunz

Asking Better Questions – Making Connections Through Developing Inquisitiveness John Mirth, Ph.D. David Kunz, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Wisconsin – Platteville Platteville, WI 53818 “Could it be the questions tell us more than the answers ever do?” – Michael CardAbstract: The nature of engineering education tends to put students in a problem-solvingenvironment. Given a particular challenge, the student becomes focused on obtaining asolution to some homework problem, exam question, lab experiment, design project or othertask. Such exercises provide

Collection

2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Anoop K. Dhingra; Al Ghorbanpoor; Joe Rauter

et al. (1997)describe the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership project that was sponsored byDepartment of Defense’s Technology Reinvestment Program. They show that all constituentsinvolved in the program: students, faculty and industrial partners, benefited from theacademic/industrial interaction. The impact of the interaction described was essentially on thecurriculum, but it suggests benefits to the industrial partners beyond the involvement ofundergraduate students.The Graduate Internship Program (GIP) discussed in the paper is different from the partnershipsdiscussed above in the sense that we do not transfer research results from academia to theindustry. Instead, we are uniquely developing the research technology at the

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Paul Blowers

be built asadvisors bridge their own experiences to what the students will soon be experiencing.Questioning the student about why they are choosing their major also allows the advisor to selectappropriate exploration routes. If a student says they are choosing a discipline like engineeringbecause they love math and its applications, then the advising can direct students to findindependent research projects or summer programs where they will be exposed to these types oflearning. Finally, a complete student background can be done by filling in information about thestudents academic background on grades, extracurricular activities, courses taken, and workexperiences. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Robert M. Brooks; Berk Ayranci; Keerthi Takkalapelli

, building peer network for group study and design projects, obtaining a mentor, and becoming an ASEE chapter officer were ranked 1 to 4 respectively, among the activities. 2. The student membership improved by 144% because of the top 4 activities. 3. t-tests and ANOVA tests indicated that the top 4 activities increased interest on ASEE at a statistically significant level of 0.01.RecommendationsEach year, student interest may be changing. Therefore, a preliminary survey needs to beconducted for adding new interests and removing insignificant interests from the list. Programsshould be scheduled and implemented representing the issues. Energies and resources should bespent according to the weighted priorities of the

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Gautham Das; Sameer Shaik

Summary:Dr. Gautham P. DasWentworth Institute of Technology550 Huntington AvenueBoston, MA 02115Email: dasg@wit.eduTel: 617.989.4418Dr. Gautham P. Das is an Assistant Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Hisrecent projects include secondary mineral formation in coal combustion by-products, lowcost methods of treating wastewater effluents in developing countries, and geotechnicalimplications of constructing over retired ash basins. His teaching interests include, waterresources, water and waste water treatment, soil mechanics and applied fluid mechanics.He was a senior engineer at S&ME, Inc and at Parsons Corporation. His professionalactivities include membership and participation in the New England Water EnvironmentAssociation and the

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Jenny Au; Ololade O. Mudasiru; Kavitha Chandra

positions, the values are comparable with increase nonuniform case, the number of transducers has to increase.in N. The design considerations should take into account thistradeoff between the number of array elements and bound onthe variance of the sidelobes levels. ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Heading 5) Authors acknowledge support from NSF GK-12 Vibes and Waves in Action project(0841392). REFERENCES[1] S. Yi, Y. Pei, S. Kalyanaraman, On the Capacity Improvement of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Using

Collection

2012 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Todd Holden; Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; George Tremberger; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

. Copyright ASEE Middle Atlantic Regional Conference Delaware April 20-21 2012ConclusionsThis explorative project shows that structural equation model is capable of providingquantitative information on the causative hypotheses/elements such as pre-requisites in asequence of courses. The LISREL software is fairly easy to implement and it is hopedthat the presented results would popularize the application of SEM in engineering andtechnology program pedagogy.AcknowledgementsPartial supports from several CUNY grants are gratefully acknowledged.References1. Bollen KA, Noble MD 2011, “Structural equation models and the quantification ofbehavior”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Sep 13;1082. LISREL softwarehttp://www.ssicentral.com/3. Taasoobshirazi, G. and

Collection

2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Hussain AlHassan; Navarun Gupta

isfamiliar with the situation or a similar scheme3.MethodologyParticipantsThere were 10 participants in this study, including both males and females. Participants were allover twenty one. All participants voluntarily participated in the study and each signed a consentform. The participants were informed about the study and its procedure, as well as the aimbehind the project before the study took place. Participant brain signals were recordedthroughout the study using a monitoring device. First, the participants were asked generalquestions about themselves, then questions of a more personal nature. Next, the participants wereinstructed in methodologies of how to deal with unexpected situations. Finally, they were askedto repeat the procedure again

Collection

2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Linfeng Zhang

the current-voltage curves in the two modes.Therefore, the simulator can be widely used to replace a real PV module for the development ofMPPT converters and inverters.Key words: renewable energy, PV module, maximum power point tracker, converter, inverter1. Introduction PV module price has fallen 75% to below $1/w since 2008 [1, 2]. There are over 17,500MW of cumulative solar electric capacity operating in the U.S., enough to power more than 3.5million average American homes, 36%, over 49,000 installations, of all new electric capacity isfrom solar in Q3 2014. It means that a new solar project has been installed every 3 minutes. Thegrowth of solar industry boosts the economy and creates 174,000 jobs in the U.S. [3]. As a partof PV

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Gustavo J. Molina, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Papers

proposed that actualengineering examples and reporting of case-studies should be used. Similarly Gao [10] discussedthe Task-Based-Instruction and the Project-Based-Instruction pedagogies as learner-centeredapproaches to teach technical writing, the former being based on assigned writing tasks for eachlesson, typically to a student team, while the latter utilizes a team-project for most of thesemester. He emphasized that the core or focus for either approach is not the learning of anystructure and grammar points, but instead communicating the tasks involved in technical writing,although language proficiency still helps students, as it improves student completion of the tasks.Several innovative approaches have been proposed to teach technical

Conference Session

CANCELLED: Track 5: Technical Session 6: Think-Aloud Insights: Exploring QuantCrit Challenges and Diverse Survey Responses Among Undergraduate Engineering Students

Collection

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Sheila Kathryn Castro, University of Florida; Bruce Frederick Carroll, University of Florida; Janice Mejía, Northwestern University; Kent J. Crippen, University of Florida

Tagged Topics

2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

witha tendency toward an emic account from the institutional perspective given his many years inadministrative positions. However, he has strong personal sensitivities to individuals and familiesfighting for rights. Dr. Mejía is a Latina engineering educator and an immigrant in the UnitedStates. Prior to teaching in academia, she worked in for-profit and non-profit sectors to optimizetechnologies, processes, and policies in organizations. She provides unique emic and eticperspectives to the research problem. Dr. Crippen is a white male science educator whochampions change in educational systems to meet the needs of every student. He has worked onmultiple projects with engineering faculty but views himself as an outsider in engineering

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Janet Baldwin

homework assignments,a project, three exams, and a final exam.The online course is delivered as a hybrid: the lessons are conducted asynchronously, butoffice hours and exams are synchronous. I have offered the online course during twosemesters so far: I taught one section online in the winter intersession which ran for 6weeks, starting right after final exams. I also taught the online course during the regular14 week semester. This is important to note because the success of the online course hadmuch to do with when the students took it, as noted below.Overall, the online course was organized exactly like the face-to-face sections. Themajor difference was that instead of dividing the course into 28 lessons as in the twotimes per week offering, I

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

J. S. Shelley P.E.

on a tablet computer. When magnifiedfor broadcast, the results are a “stylized” writing that is a blurry low resolution image projectedat the main campus classroom. When the Elluminate whiteboard is viewed on its nativecomputer screen, the pixilation is not as noticeable. Writing with a stylus is still “stylized”, but itis legible and not blurry. After Fall 2006, the standard broadcast projects a native digital imagefrom the tablet computer in high resolution at the main campus. The difference in resolution ofthe projected image alone accounts for the improvement of perceived broadcast quality from 43to 16% dissatisfaction.) PowerPoint or other native digital text methods were not employed bythe instructor. Broadcasting Elluminate sessions

Collection

2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn L. Peterson, The University of Texas at Arlington; J. Carter Tiernan, The University of Texas at Arlington; Shanna E Banda, The University of Texas at Arlington; Karthikeyan Loganathan, The University of Texas at Arlington; Nila Veerabathina, The University of Texas at Arlington

faculty in bothinstitutional policy decision-making processes and the professional development initiatives that canempower them to meaningfully contribute to the change processes stemming from those decisions.Our own institution, UT Arlington, sent a team of faculty members to this institute to examine the roleof our Academic Professional Track (APT) faculty members, our term for non-tenure track faculty.The 4-day workshop was a great success and as a result, a year-long plan is formulated to focus onAPT faculty with a teaching mission to create institutional and far-reaching effects. The plan will beaccomplished by working groups, which will be formed to develop projects and examine identifiedissues. It should be noted that these activities will

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Karissa Tilbury; Mohamad Musavi; Cary James; Alex Friess

students in STEM disciplines. UMaine launched The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 3.9% growth ratethe NSF S-STEM funded Building Bridges to Engineering of engineering professionals in the United States over the nextStudents (BBEST) a program in 2023 to serve students studying 8 years. Furthermore, engineers enjoy the second lowestin any of the 12-ABET accredited engineering programs. We unemployment rate (2.5%) of all occupations [1]. More locallyhave recruited two of our three student cohorts and have foundthat monthly professional development workshops are an in Maine

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 2: Assessing the Entrepreneurial Mindset, Curiosity, and Workplace Preparedness

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meagan Eleanor Ita, Arvinas; Amanda Marie Singer, The Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

” of direct and indirect assessments for each of the 3C’s[17]. OSU’s established EMLOs have since guided EML curricular development throughout theundergraduate engineering program.Over the last two years, several changes guided by the EMLOs have been made to the FYEPhonors sequence. These include the implementation of an “EM workshop” that includesactivities on all 3C’s as well as chances to provide more emphasis on user needs and problem/opportunity identification on design projects [18]. Using assessments from our 3C’s toolkit, wehave also shown that students exhibit growth over the academic year in their self-perceivedabilities to make Connections and in their indirectly and directly measured abilities to CreateValue [19, 20]. These

Conference Session

Milhouse's Moment: Engineering Inclusivity, Everything's Coming Up Milhouse!

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Nhu Tran, University of British Columbia; Jessica Wolf, University of British Columbia; Shouka Farrokh, University of British Columbia; Katherine Lyon, University of British Columbia; Robyn Newell, University of British Columbia; Jenna Felice Usprech, University of British Columbia; Karen C. Cheung, University of British Columbia; Agnes Germaine d'Entremont P.Eng., University of British Columbia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UBC. Her research focuses on equity issues in engineering education, particularly looking at the impacts of engineering outreach programs on historically marginalized groups in STEM.Shouka Farrokh, University of British Columbia Shouka Farrokh is an undergraduate student pursuing Psychology at The University of British Columbia. She contributes as a research assistant in Engineering Education projects focusing on STEM Outreach initiatives.Dr. Katherine Lyon, University of British Columbia Katherine Lyon is Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Katherine’s research merges sociology of education

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 10

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

demonstrate the ways that these fourthreads are interwoven and interdependent.Research Approach: Systematic, Qualitative AnalysisThe biggest challenge of the research design for this project was the size and diversity of theLEES program in 2018: 13 technical sessions, 46 papers, 5 workshops and panels, and 2distinguished lectures. The complete program appears in Appendix A. The technical sessionsserved as the primary unit of analysis, which made the work more manageable but also requiredreading all of the papers associated with each session to discern each session’s unifying themes.   1  To capture at least some of what transpired in the

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2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

MERLYN XAVIER PULIKKATHARA, Physics Department, Prairie View A&M University; Kelvin K. Kirby, Prairie View A&M University; Richard T. Wilkins, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Paper ID #35816Online Nuclear Power Summer Institute and Day of Science: A two-prongedapproach to increasing girls and under-represented minorities towardsSTEM careersProf. MERLYN XAVIER PULIKKATHARA, Physics Department, Prairie View A&M University Dr. Pulikkathara’s research involves nanomaterials for aerospace and biomedical applications.Mr. Kelvin K. Kirby, Prairie View A&M University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University, Texas A&M Uni- versity System. Twenty-nine years of academic experience with twenty-two years of military service. Research projects sponsored by

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2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Salvatore Enrico Paolo Indiogine, Texas A&M University; Brandon Chi-Thien Le, Texas A&M University; Sidharth Dhaneshkumar Shah

media they want to be transcribed and download the documents without any manualprocesses needing to be done on the backend.Future work could include determining the efficacy and demand for the program by conducting asurvey to professors on their opinions on the resource. Currently, the program is in a prototype stageso it cannot be rolled out on a larger scale - once we are able to, we can then distribute a survey toprofessors who use the program. The results would help us determine acceptance rates of theresource if the project is worth the cost to transcribe the audio, and if the tool will be consistentlyutilized in the future.We plan on enhancing this computer application by adding indexing and online search features.This future project

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2023 Fall Mid Atlantic Conference: Meeting our students where they are and getting them where they need to be

Authors

Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; Sofia M Vidalis, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

generative AI while minimizing anynegative consequences. This includes understanding the ethical considerations surrounding AI andteaching students how to use these tools responsibly (Qadir, 2023).ChatGPT can be used in construction engineering education. For example, if project input parametersalong with expectations are given to the tool, then it can produce required documentation for variousaspects of construction. It will be a great AI tool to use for teaching construction engineering because itcan act like a “Construction Management Software Program”. It can help with iterative procedures toimprove the analysis and design of various structures to be built for different projects. Particularly tomake construction reports, it will help on the