Conference Session

Design Across the Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aruna Shekar, Massey University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

are integrated with fundamental and technical knowledge of the disciplines. There aretwo PBL courses (15 credits each) in each year (one in each semester) of the new Bachelor ofEngineering degrees. Each PBL course runs for fourteen weeks and has a minimum of sixcontact hours per week. The PBL courses are integrated with the fundamental knowledgecourses, and staff from all the courses in each year get together to plan and discuss theprojects and the assessment schedules. Page 24.1016.4 Figure 1: The new re-designed engineering curriculumThe central focus of each PBL course is a project based around a theme such as

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Jennifer Vernengo, Rowan University; Mary Staehle, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Tom Merrill, Rowan University; Robi Polikar, Rowan University; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

. This project introduces hands-on, biomedically-relatedexperiments and course materials into the engineering curriculum, with a focus on artificial organs. Sev-eral modules are being developed and integrated throughout Rowan’s engineering curriculum, into themultidisciplinary freshman engineering course, core engineering courses, and senior electives. The mod-ules will be highly transferrable to other traditional engineering programs such as chemical, mechanicaland electrical as well as biomedical engineering programs. Our evaluation plan will examine specificlearning outcomes in core engineering areas as well as effect on retention, student attitudes, and careerchoices.INTRODUCTION The relatively new discipline of biomedical engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leyla F Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gary S. May, Georgia Institute of Technology; JillL L Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

as adirect consequence, interest them in opportunities available through graduate study. Students inthe program receive subsidized on-campus housing for the duration of the program, a meal plan,a $600 travel allowance, and full access to institutional facilities, including computer accounts,health care, recreational facilities, and the library. In addition, the participants are awarded a$5,000 stipend. The financial incentives offered by SURE are designed to enable the recruitmentof some of the best available students, many of whom choose to participate despite lucrativesummer employment opportunities in industry.SURE has assembled a dedicated and supportive cadre of faculty advisors who regularly involveundergraduate students in their

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Virginia Tech; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Student

,thereby decreasing or even removing their attention to your lecture. This is especiallyproblematic in large lectures since students are able to “hide”. This type of student behavior wasconsistently observed during multiple courses with multiple instructors. One way to combat thisissue is to save announcements for the end of lecture, but this requires strong time managementskills and lesson planning. Another way to combat this issue is to make general announcementsand then immediately follow the announcements with an active learning activity to reengage thestudents.To illustrate the problem and solution, we present the case of an instructor who asked students tosubmit a survey during the middle of class. Figure 1 is a graph of the percentage of

Conference Session

S1A: Workshop I

Collection

14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference

Authors

Lisa Lampe, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Workshops

, and veteran barriers. We willbreak audience members up and give them 20 minutes to read, discuss and form an action plan basedon their institutional resources. They will report back an example of how a student facing these barrierswould get support at their institution, imagine if a growing population of engineering first yearsexperienced the barrier and how their institution might respond, and think through whose expertisethey could include within their school to systemically address that barrier. We will provide examples ofhow our team typically triage these case studies to demonstrate the value of our partnership and weeklymeetings.Important Logistical and Financial ConsiderationsOur model has required us to financially invest in people

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jeremy Abbott; Eric Nguyen; Lin Zhang

’ experience. While the current configuration has already offeredplenty of opportunities for students to practice AI and robotics, upgraded technologies havepotential to further improve the robot’s autonomous driving performance.In the 2024 - 2025 academic year, we plan to upgrade BearCart’s hardware configurations toinclude more advanced sensing and actuating components. While keeping behavioral cloning asthe backbone algorithm, we plan to update the software to adapt to physical changes in thesystem. Stay tuned for more details. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceMethods 1. Behavioral CloningThe behavioral cloning approach [3] will serve

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; Deirdre D. Ragan, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

indexes data, socioeconomic indicators data, and health disparities data. • Create extraordinary value for a community. • Compose a persuasive poster that proposes potential redevelopment solutions to brownfield site. • Communicate the solution to non-expert stakeholders.Once desired outcomes were identified, attention turned to developing acceptable evidence andlearning plan. Signature assignments—including a site cleanup report, position paper, projectproposal, and reflective assignments—were created to assess learning outcomes. The followingparagraphs briefly describe each signature assignment.Site Cleanup Report- The Site Cleanup Report assignment encouraged curiosity. Studentsselected a site in active cleanup stages and

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 1 - Sustainability & Environmental Justice

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mueller, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Samuel Thomas Walsh, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

were addressing sustainability in education. Having examined thebaseline of sustainability education at RHIT and reviewed the availability of sustainabilityeducation at other peer institutions, this assessment provides an initial understanding of thecurrent opportunities at RHIT. To complement the value of this baseline assessment, commonpractices and comprehensive guides of integration of sustainability pillars and the UnitedNation’s Sustainable Development Goals in education are summarized to recognize other areasof potential. By acknowledging the existing efforts and identifying areas for improvement,further advancements in sustainability education are proposed that align with the localinstitutional strategic planning goals to enhance

Collection

15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Kurt Ryan Rhoads, Case Western Reserve University; Kathleen A Harper, Case Western Reserve University; Michael William Butler, Case Western Reserve University

came to visit, I was able to laser cuthim a cool design in about 10 minutes because of my newfound experience”.A final benefit was strengthening the collaboration between the first-year experience and themakerspace staff. Throughout the process of developing and evaluating this module, wediscovered that we have similar attitudes and values. Both groups treat every activity as a workin progress and believe that every aspect of the project could possibly be modified and improved.Future WorkTo further increase makerspace utilization and student identity, we will consider using class timeto visit our maker space as demonstrated in [1]. We also plan to analyze card access data fromour maker space to see if students participating in this module were

Collection

2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John L. Krohn

is responsible for specifying the experiment to be performed including all details. The course instructor acts only as an advisor for these labs.The intention of this methodology is to move the students from participating in the experimentspurely at a “technician” level; following provided procedures, taking specified number and typeof data, to a more involved “engineer” level in which they participate in the experiment planning,study the background theory, and have input into the conduct of the experiment. When carriedout in this manner, there would seem to be little question that this lab course was giving students“the ability to design and conduct experiments”. In order to successfully achieve the goals of

Collection

2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas Feldhausen; Bruce Babin

have precisely measured the location of each hole on a part, each part mustproperly align during assembly for the hole to function properly. This iteration process forcesstudents to think critically about what they are doing as well as emphasizes the importance oftaking proper measurements. Once the assembly is properly aligned, students are required tocreate a professional portfolio that contains not only a dimensioned drawing of each component,but also a description of how they measured and assembled the drawing. This project was first implemented during the Fall 2016 semester. In the Spring 2017semester it was tweaked to optimize the effectiveness. Now that the project has been fullydeveloped and matured, a formal assessment plan will

Collection

2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jessica Barnett; Erin Ogle; Kevin Garman; Kayla Wehkamp; Chris Shultz; Breanna Stout; Eric Spurgeon; Chloe Boudreaux; Philip Barnes; Phil Mahoney; Alison Cioffi

design.INTRODUCTIONThe Fountain Wars Design Team from Kansas State University utilized the experience gainedfrom previous competitions, particularly from the 2012 campaign, and applied that to this year’stasks. However, especially the aesthetics display, the team planned to introduce a new set ofideas that will keep the competition as exciting as ever. This year, the Kansas State team choseto work with a unique theme in hopes to set them apart from the rest: “Pirates of the Prairie.”DESIGN OBJECTIVESThroughout the design process, the team has invested a significant amount of time planning thedesign, especially the pair of technical tasks. While there were several minor design objectives,the major goals were to make the design efficient to build, technical tasks

Collection

2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David Domermuth

determine the effect on the foam and bubble size. 3) Install pressure and vacuum gauges to measure the system performance along with a flow meter to determine the potential power. 4) Optimize the cold water spray to condense the foam. This includes a ring header and nozzle arrangement. 5) Build a complete but scaled down system. 6) Determine how to start and regulate the system. 7) Characterize the system performance and redesign for optimal head and flow. 8) Build a full scale unit and test with a micro-hydro generator set. Obstacles and unknowns Beck’s patent calls for a conical steel rise tube which would be cost prohibitive. This plan will have to use inexpensive PVC, straight pipe. The patent also calls for a complex and

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 1: Student Experiences and Support

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffany Chan, University of California, Davis; Tate L Chatfield, University of California, Davis; Xianglong Wang, University of California, Davis

Tagged Divisions

Student Division (STDT)

student-faculty micro-interactions but also offer a scalable and cost-effective approach that may beapplicable across diverse academic settings. The introduction of such initiatives becomesincreasingly crucial in ensuring that students, especially those at risk of disengagement, find asupportive and inclusive environment that enhances their sense of belonging and contributes totheir overall academic success [20] and well-being in BME.MethodsTwenty-three (23) non-graduating BME undergraduate students that have at least one year left intheir academic plan, recruited during April to December 2023, in groups of 3-5, participated indepartment-sponsored lunches with faculty members based on shared interests. Recruitment ofthe students was based on an

Conference Session

Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jin Ho Jo, Illinois State University; Gabrielle Grace Hershey, Illinois State University; Daniel Patrick Gibson

Tagged Divisions

Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE), Energy Conversion

Paper ID #42107Board 99: Utilizing the Solar District Cup Competition as a Case Study for aRenewable Energy Capstone to Enhance Students’ Learning ExperienceDr. Jin Ho Jo, Illinois State University Dr. Jin Ho Jo is a Professor of Technology at Illinois State University, teaching in the Sustainable and Renewable Energy program. Dr. Jo also leads the Sustainable Energy Consortium at the university. Dr. Jo is an honors graduate of Purdue University, where he earned a B.S. in Building Construction Management. He earned his M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University, where he investigated critical environmental

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 8: Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leah Mendelson, Harvey Mudd College; Drew Price, Harvey Mudd College

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

(3) examining resultsdisaggregated by different curricular and project contexts.IntroductionThis work in progress (WIP) paper describes preliminary survey instruments, initial results, andfuture implementation plans for a study of instructor practices and student experiences in upper-division mechanical design courses. For this work, we define upper-division mechanical designcourses as courses focused on the analysis, detailed design, and implementation ofpredominantly mechanical systems, mechanisms, and machine components. These coursesgenerally build on both topics learned in foundational mechanical engineering subjects (e.g.,mechanics of materials, dynamics) and earlier exposure to the engineering design processthrough cornerstone design

Collection

2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

J. Brighter; W. Childs; D. Mobbs; Z. Ross

allows a small group to clearly view the pump impeller. The device also gives a truerepresentation of cavitation with cavitation noticeable by hearing as well as seeing. This willallow students to recognize the sound when cavitation cannot be seen, which could be valuablein their future endeavors. With cavitation being a problem encountered in many engineeringworkplaces, this project will give students the knowledge necessary to understand, recognize,and correct the problem before it becomes a major problem.Lessons Learned While the design and implementation of our team’s pump cavitation demonstrationdevice was accomplished mostly according to plan, some valuable lessons were learned by theteam members. The team especially struggled with

Collection

2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sean Pratt; Yapah Berry; Olivia Reed; Gaffar Gailani

RGS, Youths between the agesof 8 and 18 average seven-and-a-half hours a day in front of video games, television andcomputers. The report also stated that 93% of students in 5th through 8th grades are taught thephysical sciences by a teacher without a degree or certificate in the physical sciences.The department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design Technology at New YorkCity College of Technology is currently focusing on aerospace industry. Receiving fundingfrom NASA was one of the main factors motivating this focus. The plan is to involveundergraduate students in desiging and teaching a curriculum in aerospace for high schooland middle school students who will attend the Proyectoaccess summer program in HostosCommunity College in

Collection

2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Rebecca E. Burnett

communicating to learn. ß Expert-like behaviors. Students should be developing expert-like behaviors related to communication: attitudes, actions, and performance. Assessment should consider the quantity and quality of students’ expert-like behaviors in communication. ß Rhetorical focus. A well-established body of research indicates that workplace experts attend to rhetorical elements when they plan, draft, and revise; non-experts focus largely on content and may virtually ignore rhetorical elements. Assessment should consider these widely accepted rhetorical elements that typically include content, context, purpose, audience, organization, visuals, document design, usability

Collection

2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Julia Apple-Smith; Dave Holger; Shannon Miner

IMPACT team visits: - The number of students participating in an international experience is up 90% since receiving IMPACT funds in fall 2000; nearly doubling student participation. - Five new 6-week summer programs have been developed, with more in the planning process. This is in comparison to having one summer program available to Chemical Engr. students since 1990. - New research collaborations have been initiated in: o Civil Engineering - Construction Engineering o VRAC - Materials Science & Engineering o Industrial & Mfg. Systems Engineering - Chemical

Collection

2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Cristian Craciun

lowest level it includes the actuators, sensors, and other lower devices. 2. Machine level, the hardware from device level is assembled into individual machines. Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  3. Cell or system level, a group of machines or workstations connected and supported by a material handling system, computer, and other equipments needed for a manufacturing process. 4. Plant level, it receives instructions from the corporate information system and translate them into operation plan for production. 5. Enterprise level, the highest

Collection

2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Brian Kosobudzki; Bill Grove; Sam Aguilar; Vince Sabella

phase ofimplementation began with tedious planning and purchasing of building material/parts.Two DC electric motors were obtained and tested. It soon became apparent we needed to 3purchase an external directional control circuitry which could provide 24 volts and up to1 amp of drive current to the steering motor. Meanwhile, the measurements for a motorsupport bracket were taken and programming was being performed. The last 3 weeks wasthe most intensive with all parts coming together at the same time. The motor to hubadapter was machined and fitted to the test vehicle right as the motor bracket was beingassembled. The last couple weeks of the semester the adapter and motor support bracketwere

Conference Session

Track 3: Technical Session 4: Engaging Two-Year Students in STEM: A Professional STEM Society's Efforts to Support Community College Students

Collection

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers; Beth C McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College; Sohn Paul Cook, Society of Women Engineers

Tagged Topics

2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

. in Educational Policy and Planning from UT Austin.Prof. Beth C McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh is a professor at Springfield Technical Community College, where she teaches courses in physics, engineering mechanics, and structures. A graduate of the engineering transfer program at STCC, McGinnis-Cavanaugh holds a B.S. and M.Sohn Paul Cook, Society of Women Engineers ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Title: Engaging Two-Year Students in STEM: A Professional STEM Society’s Efforts to SupportCommunity College StudentsKEYWORDS: 2 Year Institution, Engineering, Computer Science, TransferCommunity college is a popular pathway for

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bhaskar R. Sinha; Pradip P. Dey; Gordon W. Romney; Mohammad N. Amin; Debra A. Bowen

courses and Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 79multiple perspectives. Structuring these projects, especially in accelerated ITM programs,requires methodical planning and management in an agile process. At National University (NU)School of Engineering and Computing (SOEC) the Bachelor of Science in InformationTechnology Management (BS-ITM) degree is designed for professionals and IT managers toadvance their abilities and proficiencies in this field and to apply learned skills in their

Conference Session

GIFTS I

Collection

FYEE 2025 Conference

Authors

Kurt Ryan Rhoads, Case Western Reserve University; Kathleen A Harper, Case Western Reserve University; Heidi B. Martin, Case Western Reserve University; Michael William Butler, Case Western Reserve University

Tagged Topics

FYEE 2025

60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Water Knock Whegs & Engineering Light[box] Filtration sensor/ spy Adventurer Coffee gadgetFigure 4. Student responses to end-of-semester survey question “What was your favoritelab project?”.Future ImprovementsIn the future, we plan to improve this module by teaching the students more about the chemistryof extraction in connection with coffee brewing methods. We also plan

Conference Session

Track 1: Technical Session 1: Supporting Engineering Graduate Students to Create Inclusive Learning Environments: A Professional Development Program at a Hispanic-Serving Institution

Collection

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Katherine R. McCance, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Tagged Topics

2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

towardinclusive teaching. Finally, this paper will discuss future plans and considerations for expandingand sustaining the program for STEM TAs at the university. MethodsContextThe pilot PD program for engineering graduate students was modeled off an existing facultycommunity of practice program at the university, that is part of a national, multi-institutionalprogram [14]. During 2023-2024, 52 faculty at the university participated in the program,including 12 engineering and science faculty. The faculty program yielded positiveundergraduate student outcomes within one semester of faculty’s participation, such as anaverage 3% decrease in drop-fail-withdrawal (DFW) rates across all faculty participants’courses

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2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Hopkinson, West Virginia University; Lynette Michaluk, West Virginia University; Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University

-interactionsupport, iii) extra-curricular support, iv) peer-interaction support, v) professional developmentsupport, and vi) additional support. Lee et al. [3] then developed the STEM Student Perspectivesof Support Instrument (STEM-SPSI) to measure the perceptions of a student population inSTEM. The instrument includes twelve factors of student support (academic advising support,academic peer support, faculty support, STEM faculty connections, student affairs support, out-of-class engagement, STEM peer connections, general career development, cost-of-attendancesupport and planning, and diversity and inclusion).This work-in-progress paper describes the development of a survey to examine the connectionsbetween engineering identity and engineering student

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Shruti Brahma, University of New Haven; Siddhant Alhat Rajendra, University of New Haven; Ardiana Sula, University of New Haven

decision making tool is an interactive Powerprovides policymakers and universities with the ability to plan BI dashboard that allows policymakers and institutions to usefor anticipated enrollments, react to shifting patterns, and make their data and simulate different scenarios. Users can browseinformed, data-based decisions. three scenarios: baseline scenario, optimistic scenario, and Keywords—Admission Enrollment, Forecasting, ARIMA, pessimistic scenario, and see the influence of each scenarioPowerBI, Scenario Analysis on international students’ enrollment. This architecture gives

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2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Hua Li, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Ricardo Miguel Garcia Pineda, Texas A&M University Kingsville; Kai Jin, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Jaya S. Goswami, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Tagged Topics

Diversity

experience of senior students, who share their learning experiences withfreshman students in a university success course. It also enhances TAMUK engineering and sciencestudents’ interests and performance in their curriculum and prepare them for future careers throughstreamlined education. This will also improve TAMUK engineering and science students’professional and personal skills to help them become responsible and productive citizens.On the other hand, The Financial Literacy and Education Commission's plan for financial literacycalls on postsecondary institutions “to consider ways to raise the financial literacy levels of theirstudents to help them avoid financial hardship due to mismanagement of credit and money” [3].Subsequently, in addition to

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2023 IL-IN Section Conference

Authors

Brandon Fulk; Kyubyung Kang

literature review provides detail of the ENE recommended practices that the author81 used in the CEM Capstone course redesign. Each recommended practice blended to82 ground and inform the author so the course redesign would align with the call for reform.8384 Accreditation for Construction Education: Felder & Brent (2003) identified that85 engineering educational programs are required for accreditation to meet ABET Criteria86 relative to curriculum and instruction. Their paper outlined the challenge in doing this but87 was guided by subscribing to three principles: (1) planning, (2) instruction, and (3)88 assessment. Planning is merely defining the content and what objectives will be89 measured. Instruction is simply the pedagogy