Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing Courses for the Future

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javier Rubio-Herrero, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

analysis is: when is the impact of SP felt the most? Inother words, when is Sb − Sa maximized? Note that any positive value of this difference indicatesa reversal, an occurrence of SP. For example, consider that the weights wm , wh , and the totalnumber of homework asigments n are given by the course syllabus and that a student has ahomework average ∑ni=1 hi /n after n assignments. Then, the effect of SP, if felt at all, will bedirectly proportional to the score of the dropped score and inversely proportional to the grade in −1his or her midterm exam. If we write ∑ni=1 hi /(n − 1) = (∑ni=1 hi − hn )/(n − 1), the functionSb − Sa is linear with respect to the worst homework hn and the midterm grade m

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Braddom; Charles Campbell; Shad Reed; Robert Floersheim

supported by other current research. Poindexter, Heck and Ferrarinifound that putting course administration documents online was beneficial by assisting studentswith their organization. Whereas paper copies of administrative documents were quickly lost orburied in folders, electronic copies could be accessed at will and were reviewed weekly by moststudents.7 Schweitzer and Reed found that for administrative documents (assignments, syllabi,etc.) engineering students typically preferred to receive them in electronic rather than paper form.This study shows that the format of documents such as the syllabus is extremely important interms of how useful they are to students. A poorly organized electronic syllabus is no better thana paper copy.8

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Mena Souliman

). Average Max Min[4] Brown, D. G. Hybrid course are best [Online].Available at: Fall 2014 Fall 2016http://www.wfu.edu/~brown/Syllabus%20Articles/SylHybr Fig. 2 Student grade performance on first midterm examid%20Courses.htm. Chronology of hybrid learning (whiskers denotes for standard deviation)activities at NJIT. (n.d.) [Online]. Available at:http://media.njit.edu/hybrid/pilot.php (2001). 20[5] Dodero, J. M

Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Developments and Implementations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmundo Tovar, Polytechnic University, Montegancedo; Nelson Piedra, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja; Manuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Martin Llamas, Universidad de Vigo

Tagged Divisions

International

refers to the course information, studentsyllabus training and support materials, syllabus and other resources available to the user as they enter the course. The OCW course orientation, along with the course syllabus, plays a very important role in an OCW course because both the orientation and the syllabus provide a student with critical course and support reference information. To OCW course, an online orientation is required. There are several things to consider when designing the orientation. For example

Conference Session

FPD IV: Innovative Curriculum Elements of Successful First-year Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin A.M. Hensel Ed.D., West Virginia University; Ordel Brown Ph.D., West Virginia University; Mary L. Strife, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

andtechnical papers which not only inform their research11,12 but provide high quality examples ofvarious types of technical communication13.The first engineering problem solving course that first-year students take at West VirginiaUniversity, a large land-grant university in the mid-Atlantic region, requires students to write atleast two technical reports. Students, typically, have difficulty with the following: (1)understanding the parts of a technical report; (2) defining and avoiding plagiarism; (3) evaluatingtheir online sources; and (4) finding appropriate sources from which to perform a literaturesearch for background information on their assigned topic.To address these issues, engineering faculty collaborated with campus librarians14,15 to: (1

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Schweitzer; Shad Reed

be designed to do,what should appear on a course website and how it should be formatted. Survey data arepresented illustrating the effectiveness of two different course websites and the websites areexamined to determine what characteristics led to their success or failure.Introduction Technology has undoubtedly changed education. Many universities have created virtualclassrooms where students can remotely logon, attend online lectures, turn in electronichomework, and take online tests[1,2]. While web centered courses offer many distinctadvantages, they face many challenges and are not yet ready to supplant traditional courses[3].Courses that integrate the internet into an existing conventional classroom environment stand

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division WIPS 3: Courses and Curricula

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Paul Summerfield, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Will Cashel-Cordo; Hadi Kazemiroodsari, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

means to study andwork as a civil engineer.The syllabus states “Through a series of hands-on laboratory experiments, students will developworking knowledge in the use and application of modern engineering tools and techniques requiredfor engineering practice.” The syllabus is admittedly too vague and was partially adapted from aprevious version of a first-year engineering course. The authors will revise the course objectivesfor future versions of the course to be more in line with the three goals listed above.Design of CourseTo meet the three course goals described above, we used the following simple approach to designthe course modules: 1) identify a subdiscipline of civil engineering, 2) identify a physical conceptthat is relevant to that

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Curriculum and Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Muthu Govindaraj, Thomas Jefferson University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

domains.IntroductionConcept maps, as facilitative tools for learning, was developed by Novak and others in the late1970s [1]. The idea was to represent ‘knowledge domains’ in a visual, logical sequence with anemphasis on the relationship between the various elements or ‘concepts.’ At the very least,concept maps help to organize the contents of a knowledge domain. At its best use, concept mapshelp students recollect prior knowledge, link the various courses in liberal arts, science and math,engineering, and economics and summarize their learning. A list-based syllabus does not connectthe previous knowledge to the one pursued in the current course. The syllabus also does notenlighten the student about the holistic nature of transdisciplinary education in the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 1: Course Design

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rea Lavi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cong Cong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Yuan Lai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Justin A. Lavallee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Gregory L. Long Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nathan Melenbrink, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amitava 'Babi' Mitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

3 ended questions/items Questionnaire An online form for evaluating Out Individual 4 understanding of lesson contentAs Table 3 shows, the course introduced students to five tracks and five corresponding cases,each with its own challenge and centered on a problem-solving approach. The two-week casestaught during weeks 2-9 followed a similar pattern, with the first class introducing the case andthe last class involving student presentations and a reveal of the instructor’s solution to the casechallenge. The lead instructor taught Week 1 on their own, and the one-week case wasintroduced without academic background or context.Table 3. [Course] schedule for fall 2020. Week/s

Conference Session

Distance and Web-Based Learning in Engineering Technology: Part I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Sridhara, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

reorder them on D2L. There arenumerous tools available under the navigation toolbar which can be loaded as necessary andavoid overcrowding of the course site. Assignments, tests and other course-related materialsposted on the D2L can be edited online if they are saved in the html format. This featureprovides a greater flexibility for the instructor by eliminating the dependency on a particular PCor any portable media device. D2L’s better file management system allows students to resubmitfiles without the need for retrieving the old files. The system downloads student submissionswith the student’s full name along with assignment information and this feature is very helpful tothe instructor while grading. D2L allows the instructors to easily change

Conference Session

Division Experimentation and Lab-Oriented Studies - Pedagogy of Lab Courses

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tania Celli Machet, The University Of Sydney; David Lowe, The University of Sydney

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Engineering in the Fac- ulty of Engineering and Information Technologies at The University of Sydney. Before this he was a Director of the Centre for Real-Time Information Networks (CRIN) - a designated research strength at the University of Technology, Sydney focused on blending embedded systems and telecommunications in addressing real-world problems. He is also the CEO of the not-for-profit organisation The LabShare Institute, and past President of the Global Online Laboratory Consortium. Professor Lowe has published widely during his more than 20 year teaching career, including three textbooks. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Non-Expert Sensor Based Laboratory

Conference Session

Curriculum and Assessment I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University; Kailee Parkinson, Utah Valley University; Elham Vaziripour, Utah Valley University; Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

Sciencedegree. Also, there are many online teaching platforms dedicated to this subject. However, there is noclear consensus on what knowledge students need in order to be able to accomplish the tasks thatemployers are expecting. We are in the process of developing a comprehensive curriculum tailored toteaching students the necessary Data Mining theory and skills in our institution.Our proposed curriculum is influenced by data gathered from syllabi of courses taught in the area of DataMining at different institutions of higher education across the United States. Each syllabus was used togather information for the topics taught in the class, the textbook and reading materials, the primarylanguage used to teach students the concepts, and the frequency of

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Technical Session 7: Advanced CS courses

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zachary Michael Steudel, Baylor University; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

2-4 week iteration in a team’s software development process. Most agiledevelopment processes utilize sprints to develop software.2 All materials used in this course in the Fall 2019 semester can be found here:https://classnotes.ecs.baylor.edu/wiki/CSI_2334_Fry_Fall_2019 (username: CSI2334F19, password:FrySteudelASEE2020). This includes the CSI 2334 Course syllabus, the CSI 2334 Course calendar, and the CSI 2334Fall 2019 Project (among other items).The CompSys course is primarily focused around low-level design, architecture, and code. Thisproject plays into the goals of the course by mimicking the research and design process of smallagile teams in the software engineering industry while also developing the low-level computingskills of the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Garret Nicodemus, University of Colorado, Boulder; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado Boulder; Will Medlin, University of Colorado, Boulder; Janet L. de Grazia, University of Colorado, Boulder; Katherine Page McDanel, Dept Chemical & Biological Engineering University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

the techniques. In an effortto reduce these hurdles and encourage more faculty to use these methods, we have created adigital, open-access course package for two chemical engineering courses, thermodynamics andmaterial and energy balances. These course packages can also be used as templates for facultywho want to develop other courses that are student-centric and involve active learning. Many ofthe resources within the package stem from our online inventory of over 1,400 ConcepTests and1,000 screencasts. These encompass topics in core chemical engineering courses, but manytopics are also common to other engineering disciplines (i.e., fluid mechanics, heat transfer,thermodynamics, material science, and computing). The course packages use

Conference Session

Frameworks and Comparative Analyses in ECE Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yan Zhang, University of South Florida; Jing Wang, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

leader. So, four one-hour sessions are offered each week and students onlyneed to attend two out of four sessions.Weekly recitation topics are included in the course syllabus and posted to students at thebeginning of the semester, which ensures that the recitation topics match the progress of lectures.Moreover, peer leaders need to create an outline of each recitation session, prepare the practicequestions, and announce them the day before the session. Hence, the students have enough timeto complete these practice questions individually in advance to save more time for peerdiscussions during the recitation session.During the online recitation sessions, no new content will be discussed. Students have learned allthe topics in the lectures and have

Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing Courses for the Future

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gokhan Egilmez, University of New Haven; Ridvan Gedik, University of New Haven

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

StudentsFigures 8 and 9 demonstrate the assignment grades for graduate and undergraduate students,respectively. Histograms and the adjusted normal probability plots demonstrate that both cohortswere very successful in securing high grades. One student from each group did not turn in theassignment and therefore received zero.Table 5 summarizes evaluation results both the course and instructor received at the end of the Fall2017 and Fall 2016. In total, 23 students responded to the questions and filled out the online surveyout of 25 registered students in Fall 2017. On the other hand, 20 out of 27 students responded tothe questions at the end of Fall 2016 in which the IMSG was not offered as an activity to thestudents. The results indicate that the overall

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Issues in Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Schwartz; K-Y Daisy Fan

syllabus that teaches both MATLAB and Java with depth, our evaluationof this new course, and our plans for improving the programming course in a common first-yearengineering curriculum.IntroductionThe “Introduction to Programming” course is an essential part of the first-year engineeringcurriculum that helps students develop expertise in some programming language, beyondspreadsheet computation. This first programming course is a service course, teaching computingskills that students will need in upper division engineering courses. Given the wide-ranging needsof different engineering disciplines, some undergraduate programs offer introductoryprogramming courses within the different departments. Such a model allows the computing needsof the upper

Collection

2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Salah Badjou; Pierre-Richard Cornely; Richid Dahmani

student to monitor his/her progress throughout thesemester. A syllabus is included at the beginning in the general area along with a tutorial on howthe use the Moodle Course Management System (CMS).!As mentioned above, three student surveys were conducted anonymously, providing feedbackone, two, and three months into the semester. At the end of the semester a thorough assessmentof the experience was conducted, including feedback from all stakeholders; students, teachingassistant, instructor, department chair, and CMS administrator and consultant. This assessmentconcluded that the experience was highly successful and could therefore provide a proven modelfor the teaching of engineering online and through distance-learning and as hybrid programs

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

interdisciplinary subjectsneeded to be covered, the following reference texts are used and recommended to the students.Based on these and additional references the following course syllabus was developed19-23. It Page 23.602.4focuses on wind energy, wind power systems and solar/photovoltaic (PV) energy generation. Toa lesser extend it focuses on other renewable energy sources and related technologies. Wind andsolar energy conversion system make up about 80% of the course since wind and solar energyrepresent the fastest growing areas of renewable energy in the past decade. Therefore the keyareas that the course focuses are the wind and solar energy sources

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Technical Session 7: Advanced CS courses

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; Kevin Kulda, Baylor University; Gennie Mansi, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

grade becomes an individual component in the stu-dent’s overall course grade and an adjustment factor is determined from it. The individualadjustment factor is used as a multiplier in each student’s group project grade to dispense creditfairly among team members. All materials used in this course in the Spring 2019 semester can be found here:https://classnotes.ecs.baylor.edu/wiki/CSI 2334 Fry Spring 2019, (username: CSI2334S19, pass-word: FryMansiKuldaASEE2020). This includes the CSI 2334 Course syllabus, the CSI 2334Course calendar, and the CSI 2334 Spring 2019 Project (among other items).3 Students’ approach to the problem The students’ approach to the problem had three phases. The first entailed a preliminary ex-ploration of the

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan L. Miertschin; Carole E. Goodson

courses included thefollowing:1. A course syllabus provided a basic organizational framework. In most ways the syllabus was comparable to a traditional course syllabus, providing text book references, homework assignments and dates for course completion. An added feature was links to WEB references, keyed to each topic, that provided additional instruction in the topic.2. Solutions to selected problems were presented. This feature is probably particularly important for an on-line course where it is not feasible for students to obtain in person assistance every time.3. Course projects and assignments were developed using web resources Through the web, students have access to numerous government, business and educational data bases; in

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Trends and Tools

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanie N. Abdelmessih, Saint Martin's University; Irina Gendelman, Saint Martin's University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

distance learning. Distance learning appealsto mature working students and their employers as it does not disrupt the working day. Bourneet. al.1 discuss the impact of online learning on continuing education of graduate engineers anddegree seeking engineering students. They recommend that engineering colleges explore,implement, and extend blended learning and the collection of data and distribution of knowledgeabout successes and failures, as well as to continue to build-out the use of technologyimplementations that increase the quality of online courses. Mulligan et. al.2 describe case Page 25.1224.2studies for teaching online Manufacturing

Conference Session

ETD Design V: Classroom Delivery, Course Content, and Assessments

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terri L. Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, which became a phenomenon in the twentieth century, havealways employed part-time faculty. When most of these colleges were small, administratorshired secondary school instructors to teach courses such as physics, chemistry, and biologyrather than have a single instructor present all the college courses in the sciences13. Universityprofessors also taught at community colleges on a part-time basis. Part-time faculty also offeredspecialized courses in which current faculty and staff did not have subject matter expertise. In1969 approximately 27% of faculty at community colleges were part-time and that grew to 52%in 198714.The use of part-time faculty shows no signs of slowing. The number of part-time facultyincreased by 133% from 1971 to 1986

Conference Session

Computer and Informtion Technology-related Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Rosen, Drexel University; M. Eric Carr, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

describes the development of a new graduate engineering technology course inadvanced networks for industrial environments. The course is intended to provide an in-depthoverview of high-performance wired and wireless networks for industrial control,communications, and computing. The emphasis is on understanding current and newly emergingnetwork architectures, protocols, and technologies in terms of performance, network services,ease of implementation, maintenance, reliability, risk, and cost. The course is currently offeredentirely online. To address the challenge of providing hands-on experience with networkprotocols, experiments with two industry-standard modeling and evaluation tools, OPNET’s ITGuru and Wireshark, are used. In addition, Adobe

Conference Session

Assessing, Expanding, and Innovating Information Literacy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Pauline Melgoza, Texas A&M University; Ashlynn Kogut, Texas A&M University; Michael Ryan Golla, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

rich technical information. The students come to the coursewith a consumer mentality. The goal of the project is to push the students toward the industrialmindset that enables them to use and comprehend a higher level of engineering detail. There isnot a specific formula for the resource quantity or source material, but the students areencouraged to use patents, engineering design specifications of product drawings, governmentregulatory information and manufacturing or industrial sources that provide information onengineering design, performance, life cycle and sometimes cost. To select a project topic, students are encouraged to view the syllabus [1] and textbooksas well as talk with the course instructors. Then, search using the

Conference Session

Computing Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Al-Rawi, Zayed University; Azzedine Lansari, Zayed University; Faouzi Bouslama, Zayed University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

. Furthermore, there is a rising demand from industry for universityand college graduates who also have acquired information technology (IT) certification.Community Colleges are increasingly offering IT certification programs as a mean to providestudents with viable skills needed by the workforce. However, Universities are still reluctant toinclude IT certification into their curriculum. The IEEE and ACM recognize the importance ofIT certifications and currently provide their members with over 800 online courses to help themprepare for certifications exam. In networking, there are two important IT certifications: theCisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and the Computing Technology IndustryAssociation (CompTIA) Network+. While the CCNA certificate

Conference Session

Technology for Faculty Development and Classroom Management

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gillian M. Nicholls, Southeast Missouri State University; Neal A Lewis, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

technology has changed cheating in face to face classes, it has also affected the potential forcheating in online classes12, 13. Malesky, Baley, and Crow14 conducted an experiment todetermine if instructors could identify a student cheating by contracting out an online course to aringer supplied by a commercial cheating company. They created a pseudo-online course co-taught by two experienced online instructors and recruited students who had already taken thecourse to participate as students for research experience and/or honors credit. All the studentswere assigned aliases, false student ID numbers, and new email addresses by the university. Oneof the students was directed to contact a cheating company, provide the syllabus, and hire themto

Collection

Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Aaron P. Wemhoff, Villanova University

, specifically junior faculty, to learn pedagogical conceptsalongside the rest of the class when a different instructor was used for each course offering.Finally, the posted online materials provide an opportunity for other faculty to learn pedagogicalconcepts on their own time. Collaboration with experts in diversity, equity and inclusion enabledadditional materials for the course to promote the growth of underrepresented groups inengineering. Successes and lessons learned in the restructuring effort are outlined.IntroductionRichard Felder famously stated that traditionally “college teaching may be the only skilledprofession for which no preparation or training is provided or required.” [1]. As a result,universities have addressed this issue through

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut; Arash E. Zaghi, University of Connecticut; Connie Mosher Syharat, University of Connecticut; Sarira Motaref P.E., University of Connecticut; Shinae Jang P.E., University of Connecticut; Amvrossios Bagtzoglou, University of Connecticut; Caressa Adalia Wakeman, University of Connecticut

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

discussions. The course redesign process is further informed by the inclusion of studentstakeholders in the project, namely, undergraduate and graduate students who self-identify asneurodivergent. Student contributors share individual experiences and perspectives to identifybeneficial instructional practices and foster a personal connection with the faculty.Introduction of the I-StandardsThe I-Course Standards document resulted from the first stage of the I-Team process, emergingas a framework to guide the course redesign process throughout the life of the project. The I-Course Standards were inspired by the approach and format of Quality Matters, the certificationsystem for online courses, which is adopted at the university for all online classes

Conference Session

CPD - Engineering Education K - Life

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhili (Jerry) Gao; Virendra Varma, Missouri Western State University; Christiana Houck, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

students to experience the ease of use and the power of the technology. Figure 1shows the homepage of course WebCT. The navigation includes Start Here, Syllabus, CourseContent, Assignments, Communications, Quizzes and Exams as well as student grade tool.Start Here section provides students with the animations on how to view lecture notes and how touse discussion board as shown in Figure 2. This is extremely useful in the first two weeks.Syllabus section, shown in Figure 3, provides students two formats (Word and HTML) of coursesyllabus, tentative schedule of topics, and key academic dates. Tentative schedule of topicsserves as a pace tool for students self-study but students can make their own schedule. The keydeadline reminder is also dynamically