Conference Session

Manufacturing Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; Jay Porter, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

project-related work near the end of thesemester. The project management part of Six Sigma helps the students to conduct theirproject at an even pace. Instead of working in the “fire-fighting” mode near the end of thesemester, they spent more time preventing fires from happening early on. The facultymember kept track of teams’ progress by holding weekly review meetings. The studentsalso learned other basic skills such as teaming voting, writing meeting minutes,brainstorming, and using affinity diagrams. The students were required to do ademonstration for their prototype, give a presentation, and write a final report for theirproject.2.3. Assessment The assessment of teaching Six Sigma consisted of two parts: one for the students andone for the

Conference Session

Supporting Diversity in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lyndsey Alyssa Wright, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

sun to the plants, to the animals and then to people. When asked about the energy that is stored at the center of the earth, Susie indicated that this came from the sun too—during the Big Bang.  At the age of 5, Susie did not learn to read at the same rate as her peers. Her kindergarten teacher raised concerns. Science was not an emphasis of class and discussions began as to whether Susie should remain in kindergarten for another year. Her mother had her intelligence tested. Susie is gifted.  At the age of 6, Susie continued to struggle in reading and was tested for a disability. Susie is dyslexic. The early advances that Susie displayed in science were no longer apparent. Susie’s teachers argued that she

Conference Session

Environmental engineering pedagogy and innovation

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sukalyan Sengupta, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Jeffrey A Cunningham, University of South Florida; Sarina J. Ergas, University of South Florida; Ramesh K. Goel, University of Utah; Dilek Ozalp, University of South Florida; Teri Kristine Reed, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

; Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. He has authored or co-authored nearly thirty pa- pers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. When not at work, he enjoys spending time with his family and watching baseball.Dr. Sarina J. Ergas, University of South Florida Dr. Ergas is a professor and graduate program coordinator in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida. She received a BS in Environmental Engineering from Humboldt State University and MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, Davis. Her re- search focuses on environmental biotechnology, including wastewater treatment and bioremediation. She was a 2007 Fulbright Fellow at the Technion Israel

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hatem M. Wasfy, Advanced Science and Automation Corp.; Tamer M. Wasfy, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Jeanne Peters, Advanced Science and Automation Corp.; Riham M. Mahfouz, Thomas Nelson Community College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

University, Indianapolis (IUPUI). Wasfy is also the Founder and Chairman of Advanced Science and Automation Corp. (founded in 1998) and AscienceTutor (founded in 2007). Wasfy’s research and development areas include flexible multibody dynamics, finite element modeling of solids and fluids, fluid-structure interaction, belt-drive dynamics, tires mechanics/dynamics, ground ve- hicle dynamics, visualization of numerical simulation results, engineering applications of virtual-reality, and artificial intelligence. He authored and co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and gave more than 65 presentations at international conferences and invited lectures in those areas. He received two ASME best conference paper

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pete Hylton, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Wendy Otoupal-Hylton, IUPUI

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

not likely to result in newengineering courses examining the collected works of Shakespeare, writing poetry, or teachingverse in iambic-parameter. On the other hand, anything is possible. We engineers need not be seen as bland. Nor must we fear to reach out to our peers, Who teach of things we do not understand. Let us reach out and overcome our fears. Then shall we strive to find a common ground, And train a grad whose skills are found well round.References[1] Snow, C. (1956). “The Two Cultures.” New Statesman, 6 October 1956.[2] Snow, C. (1959). “The Rede Lecture.” Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[3

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Programs and Courses Session 5

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yan Xu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Introduction to the engineering design process Form teamsWeek 1: Problem Laboratory LEGO MindStorm NXT (project hardware)Definition LEGO NXT/Robot C (project software) Entrepreneurial Teamwork Thinking Deliverables The problem definition Study controllers, sensors, motors, chassis and Lecture other physical structures of robots Write an engineering design specificationWeek 2: Hands-on labs for

Conference Session

Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Capstone Design Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Joshua Konstantinos

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

sequence aims totrain the students in identifying projects of relevance to the society, in planning and scheduling asolution, and in entrepreneurial activities that may result from the project. The course is worththree credit hours per quarter offering. The course is also intended to cover an industrial projectstarting from the proposal writing and conceptual design to final prototype building and conceptrealization steps. The course is focused on proposal and project progress report writing,prototype fabrication as well as design improvement and optimization. Each quarter, studentteams must submit a progress report and demonstrate a physical working prototype at the end ofacademic year. During fall and spring quarters, they conduct an oral

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Denice Denton; Sheila Edwards Lange; Eve Riskin; Kate Quinn; Joyce Yen

senior colleaguesmentoring junior faculty.9 Moreover, two of Creamer’s four elements in the environment thatmay assist women to become highly productive scholars are: (1) opportunities for developmentof skills required for competence in scholarly research, writing, and publication and (2) anetwork of collegial relationships within and outside the institution, often through professionalassociations.10This paper describes several mentoring programs for women faculty in SEM at the University ofWashington. The program goals are to help junior women SEM faculty advance to seniorpositions and to model a pathway for senior women SEM faculty to advance into leadershippositions.The paper begins with a discussion of the literature on mentoring faculty

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sanders; Charles W. White; Sanju Patro

systems planning and she spoke about the futureplans for Michigan’s Information Technology.CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION TEAMSKettering University formed an interdisciplinary team of individuals from: • Academic disciplines -- Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, Business, Supply Chain • Corporate Offices -- Media Relations, IT Technical staff, Asynchronous Learning Video Studio Staff, Administrative Assistants • Students – involved in conference event management on the floor, in writing and presenting technical papers to an international audience, and in networking with peers around the globe. • BeehiveFund/Noaber Foundation teams: o Handled the USP conference website o Oversaw the web enabled registration process o

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Chesler; Leslyn Hall; Mark Chesler

which they could openly and usefully discusstheir career struggles and possibly find solutions.II. MethodsThe principles of participatory theater as a strategy for building a temporary community anddiscussing the career struggles of women faculty were explored with a small sample (n=9) ofuntenured women faculty in engineering. This self-selected group of participants traveled to aremote location for three days, away from both work and family, and shared all activities duringthat period. The theater activities were complemented by comments by and interactions with asenior academic woman engineer (at the level of dean), writing activities facilitated by aprofessional technical writing consultant, a free-form pottery workshop and informal social

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Zion; Ronald Fulle; Carol Richardson

, business or engineering situations. Students conclude with theirrecommended solution to the moral dilemma and must justify their solution to their peers--eitherthrough the use of basic moral principles &/or by asking: “Would I agree to be treated in theway that I am treating those involved?” This Project “E” helps students gain experience with theinvestigation and analysis of ethical problems and brought their study of Ethics to an appliedpractical conclusion. It also facilitated peer review of pertinent aspects of Ethics.Recommendations, Summary and ConclusionIt is necessary for today’s Engineering Technology graduate to possess certain so-called “softskills.” Yet, our ET Programs are already packed with priority technical and other

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virgil Cox; Stephen Kuyath

college faculty are also reaching out to the community by conducting workshopsand seminars to promote science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers andeducation. Research has concluded6 that students rely on the advice of their parents, theirteachers, career counselors and their peers in making decisions about their future, such as whichcollege program to enroll in (or to help decide if they will even attend college), and what type ofcareer to pursue. Therefore, it is extremely important to ensure that these sources of advice havethe correct information.To determine how students made the decision to enroll in engineering technology programs, weconducted random student interviews. We discovered that many students did not make

Conference Session

Design in the CHE Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Turton; Joseph Shaeiwitz

group’s output is another group’s input. We believe this to be tantamount to working on amulti-disciplinary team. Additionally, there are always required pieces of equipment that were Page 8.825.2not treated in routine undergraduate classes, particularly if solids handling is required. In order Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationto complete the project, students must learn how to design these units on their own. Since thebatch-processing project is not complete, as of the writing of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Williams; F. Edwards; E. Egemen; Adrian Hanson

define a problem, solve the problem, andpresent the solution to the client. However, due to time and resource constraints, a number of steps in the“real life” engineering design processes, such as interactions with clients, permit applications,specifications, contract documents, etc. have traditionally been omitted from capstone class syllabus. Thispaper describes the authors’ approach to present a complete overview of the design process to the students.For this purpose, engineering consulting office was used as a model. The students were asked to completethe design assignment just like in a consulting office, where they would be required to meet with theclients, interact with the regulators, turn in time sheets, regularly meet with their peers

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric W. Tisdale

parameters as calculated in typical homework problems. ElectronicWorkbench displays parameters as shown on laboratory equipment.Comparison of the answers is still a problem for the student. The homework, simulators, andequipment in the laboratory all display answers in a different format. An ability to write the Page 3.236.2parameter displayed on an oscilloscope as a mathematical term consistent with a homeworkcircuit problem solution is a course objective. Communication requires that a representativenumber is found for each parameter of a circuit. Both of these simulators are valuable in thecalculations / laboratory / parameters education

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Deborah Hochstein

faculty to maintain a level of scholarlyactivity. The nature of involvement is expected to vary significantly among faculty dependingupon their commitments and interests, but he has stressed the importance of peer reviewedvehicles of expression to disseminate knowledge and cultivate creativity. “As we expand thedimension of faculty roles that we should recognize, it is essential that we learn to respect eachother for the various roles assumed, whether we contribute through classic scholarship orscholarship applied to learning and to the community around us.”11 The University of Memphishas adopted this expanded view of scholarly activity. This vision has permeated through thecolleges and departments

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

P.J. Fisher; N.J. Quick; S.J. Steiner

. It is a project-based activity where thestudents are organised into teams, spanning all three years of the students’ undergraduatestudies. The project acts as an integrating theme through a course module entitled “TotalDesign”, and requires the students to acquire a number of transferable skills. Theseinclude information gathering, report writing, presentation skills, time management,project planning, teamwork, and managing meetings. This paper describes the year onyear structure of the PAMS project, and the acquisition of the mentioned transferableskills, with particular reference to team working, and the subsequent implications for thestudents as they enter industry on graduation.I. IntroductionThe School of Manufacturing and Mechanical

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes; William LeBold; William Oakes

single department, FreshmanEngineering, and then matriculate to the engineering professional schools after completing thefreshman requirements. Page 4.287.1The individual advising interview is designed to help each freshman develop a personalizedacademic program tailored to the student’s abilities and interests. The advising effort is carried-out by a diverse advising staff that includes faculty, professional counselors, graduate students,peer undergraduate students, and support staff. Student abilities are accessed based on highschool grades, SAT or ACT scores, and the results of AP exams, Purdue placement exams, andthe a trigonometry and algebra

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

-SURVEY - RANK ORDER OF IMPORTANCE (N=78)IMPPREX DESCRIPTION MEAN SDIMPRE6 Building trust with peers, superiors 4.50 .55IMPRE25 Establishing priorities, setting goals 4.46 .66IMPRE31 Writing: expressing ideas correctly 4.42 .79IMPRE41 Understanding clientele (customer) needs 4.42 .88IMPRE12 Budgeting my work time 4.39 .69IMPRE2 Having Flexibility: Varying behavior 4.37 .77IMPRE42 Making oral presentations: impact 4.36 .99IMPRE8 Taking initiative to assume responsibility 4.31 .61IMPRE1 Directing program/project implementation 4.29 1.08IMPRE19 Delegating,coaching,providing follow-up 4.27 1.00(b) PARTICIPANTS PRE

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Rob Wolter; Cliff Goodwin

thePurdue School of Engineering and Technology and were coached and facilitated by the professor.The professor supervised the research and writing of this paper. The student learning teamprovided distribution and pick-up of the survey and Scantron© answer forms to all of theschool’s departments. Survey answer forms were tabulated, and statistical analysis performed,by the Integrated Technologies Department of the universityDefinition of student work groups/teams Page 3.520.1 Well-structured student work groups/teams are very similar to high performance teamsfound in business and industry. Katzenbach and Smith surveyed industry and found that

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Justice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rodney W. Trice, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

engineering leaders from across the United States and abroad and to prepare themfor work in technical fields. As evidenced by employers’ interest in our graduating engineersand consistently high rankings by its peers and national news magazines, Purdue University doesa good job of imparting technical knowledge to its students. However, while technicalcompetence is necessary, it is not a sufficient condition for the engineer of 2020 to be successful,as noted in a recent NAE document,1 and as acted upon recently in the College of Engineering.2Within the engineering and scientific community, it is difficult to overestimate the importance ofacting with high ethical standards in global, social, intellectual and technological contexts.When this attribute

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adriana Popescu, Princeton University, Engineering Library

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

evolution is reflected inthe departmental affiliation noted for each publication in the collection. Many of the centers,departments or laboratories that issued reports during that period of time are no longer inexistence, either due to consolidations or due to completion of projects. SEAS reports wereproduced mainly as a record of publicly funded research undertaken at the University. Whileresults of the research were often published in peer-reviewed literature, the reports frequentlycontain results of experiments, computations and primary data that are not included in thepublished literature. Some reports, especially those in high demand, have been catalogedindividually and holdings information has been accurately maintained for retrieval purposes

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott P. Schaffer, Purdue University; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel Gandara, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

stakeholders and partners that teams workwith. All of the programs see design for others as a very appropriate space to domultidisciplinary teaming9.6. Continuous peer assessment as formative feedback and for grading is a best practice. Theprograms differ on their emphasis of individual, team, and client in peer assessment andevaluation but they all see this form of assessment as integral to cross-disciplinary learning.  Toward a Framework for Best PracticesBest practices for multidisciplinary project team learning and performance may be thought offrom the perspective of both the program and the learners or more precisely the interactionbetween the two10. The program perspective includes structures, processes, and outcomesintended to help learners and

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan A. Burtner; Laura Moody

learning environment in the classroom as well as the development ofcooperative faculty teams. Guskin 3 observes, "to create learning environments focused directly on activities that enhance student learning, we must restructure the role of the faculty to maximize essential faculty-student interaction, integrate new technologies fully into the student learning process, and enhance student learning through peer interaction." (pp. 18-19)Evidence of the paradigm shift appears elsewhere in the literature related to teachingengineering. ABET’s Engineering Criteria 2000 is a reflection of the new philosophy.Participants at engineering education conferences deplore the excessive use of “chalkand talk” lectures and commend the

Conference Session

Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Brooks, Temple University; Tony Singh, Temple University; Hossein Rostami, Philadelphia University; Fernando Tovia, Philadelphia University; Amithraj Amavasai, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Kodkani4 stated that active learning approach implies that the student is adynamic participant in his or her acquisition of skills and knowledge. Bonwell and Eison5defined active learning as anything that involves students in doing things and thinking about thethings they are doing.” They stated the importance of active learning as: “students are involved inmore than listening; less emphasis is placed on transmitting information and more on developingstudents’ skills; students are involved in higher-order thinking (analysis, synthesis, evaluation),and students are engaged in activities (e.g., reading, discussing, writing).” The attention span ofan average student wanes quickly in traditional lecture formats. Active learning environmentscan

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elhag Shaban

established torectify it. We suggest to make changes in syllabi contents, stress design in courses andexams, select and retain oriented engineering faculty, show cases in courses,examinations, and laboratories that assist the students to practice design. This paperoutlines suggestions and recommendations that may substantially improve the capstonedesign in undergraduate electrical engineering to satisfy the r igorous challenge of ABETrequirements.IntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) is a privateprofessional agency responsible for peer review of engineering programs to meetminimum standards set forth by the agency and to enhance the existing and developfuture educational programs. Accredited programs provide the

Conference Session

Innovations in First Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zane Mitchell, University of Southern Indiana; Marco Lara Gracia, University of Southern Indiana; Ronald Diersing, University of Southern Indiana; Glen Kissel, University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

simulations on higher order control problems. Furthermore,he/she was able to take the HJB equations and find Riccati equations and a corresponding linearcontroller. This is paramount, as further studies of this work will be to extend the results to fourcumulants and possibly other players instead of just a controller.The program continued in the fall semester, though on a limited basis. The main goal for thesemester was for the student to formalize and write a conference paper detailing the technicalresults from the summer. Since there wasn’t as much time to do detailed research and thesummer research was a combination of our work, it was important for the student to write andformalize his/her thoughts and results. The conference paper was one way of

Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Ramachandran; Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Automated Approach to Assessing the Quality of Project Reviews AbstractPeer review of code and other software documents is an integral component of a softwaredevelopment life cycle. In software engineering courses, peer reviewing is done by other studentsin the class. In order to help students improve their reviewing skills, feedback needs to beprovided for the reviews written by students. The process of reviewing a review or identifying thequality of reviews can be referred to as metareviewing. Automated metareviewing ensuresprovision of immediate feedback to reviewers, which is likely to motivate the reviewer to improvehis work and provide more useful feedback to the authors. In this work we focus

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University; Robi Polikar, Rowan University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Richard J. Kozick, Bucknell University; Robert M. Nickel, Bucknell University; Steven H. Chin, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

peer-reviewed publications. He is also interested in developing educational paradigms that allow undergraduate and entry-level graduate students to participate in rigorous computational intelligence research. Polikar is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.Dr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is an Associate Professor of chemical engineering at Rowan University. He received his B.S. from WPI in 1992 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1998, and joined Rowan in 1999. He has received the Joseph J. Martin Award, the Raymond W. Fahien Award, the PIC-III Award, the Corcoran Award and the Mid-Atlantic Section Outstanding Teaching Award from ASEE.Dr. Ying Tang, Rowan University

Conference Session

Capstone and Online Courses in Construction Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol L. Considine, Old Dominion University; Michael W. Seek, Old Dominion University; Jon Lester, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

be open-minded about sharing their life, work andeducational experiences. Visual barriers that hinder some students are eliminated, and studentshave time to reflect in preparation of written responses. Since most course correspondence is bywriting, students must be able to communicate clearly through writing. Students need to be self-motivated and self-disciplined to stay on schedule with the course materials and assignments.When they have problems with the course content or assignments, they need to speak up.Instructors are not able to recognize student problems from visual interactions and cannot help ifthey are not notified of problems. Students need to recognize that they are responsible for theirlearning and need to be proactive. On