Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division

Teaching, Research, and Practice AbstractWe often compartmentalize our academic life into the areas of teaching, research, and practice.In fact, there are many synergies to be realized by treating a course as a completeecosystem. This means enlisting students in the course to work on projects to improve thecourse, and projects to help the instructor in research. Managing these projects can even giveinstructors a taste of what it is like to manage projects in industry, giving them experienceapplying course concepts in the field. Projects within the course can lead to independent-studyprojects, or even theses. With a little bit of ingenuity, this strategy can be employed in coursesfrom the introductory to

Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean Paradis

Session 3421 A simulation laboratory for teaching construction management Jean Paradis, Eng. Department of Construction Engineering École de technologie supérieure Montréal, QuébecIntroductionStudents in our construction engineering program have often a tendency to perceive all theircourses as separate entities. To prevent this we conceived a course-project where the studentshave to use the knowledge acquired in all the different courses. This course simulates theexecution of a construction project

Conference Session

Meeting ABET Requirements

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Biney, Prairie View A&M University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-1556: ASSESSING ABET OUTCOMES USING CAPSTONE DESIGNCOURSESPaul Biney, Prairie View A&M University Page 12.261.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Assessing ABET Outcomes Using Capstone Design CoursesAbstractThis paper presents a methodology fo r using capstone design project courses for assessing anumber of ABET outcomes. In the advent of EC 2000, Engineering programs have grappledwith methods for assessing some of the ABET outcomes, especially those skills which are nottaught in the traditional engineering programs.Senior Design and Professionalism I and II are two capstone design courses taken by seniors inthe College of Engineering over a

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Andy Pardue, Tennessee Technological University; Sally J. Pardue, Tennessee Technological University

for the Filtration Business Unit. Dr. Pardue then spent 7 years as a consultant for several companies working on new product development. The final 6 years of his industrial experience was serving as VP of Research for IEM in the area of power distribution in data centers. In his role in the ME department, he has overseen 139 student projects. He has also been working with the other Senior Design instructors to have joint projects with ME, ECE, and CS teams working together, which would more closely resemble the industrial product development process.Dr. Sally J. Pardue, Tennessee Technological University Sally Pardue, Ph.D., is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Tennessee Tech University, and

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Controls Laboratories

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oscar Ortiz, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTouneau University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Page 14.1364.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 What does my car AM radio have to do with learning Electronics?IntroductionDuring the past two years a one semester long electronics project have been added to theElectronics’ Lab curriculum to enhance students learning of basic electronic components.Students who enroll in the electronics’ lab, simultaneously enroll into the analogelectronics lecture which is a three credit hour course combined with the two-credit-hourlab. Both courses are required for students majoring in the electrical and computerengineering concentrations. Our expectation is that after taking both courses students hadlearned the theory and application of such components as diodes, Zener diodes, NPN andPNP

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division (IND) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Hammond, University of Indianapolis; Joan Martinez, University of Indianapolis; Joseph B. Herzog, University of Indianapolis

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Diversity

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Industrial Engineering Division (IND)

-optics, including plasmonics, nanofabrication, computational modeling, photonic crystals, and engineering education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: An optimization model for assigning students to multidisciplinary teams by considering preferences and skillsAbstractProject-based learning has become popular and prevalent across higher education. Additionally,the Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology also emphasizes the ability to function inmultidisciplinary teams. These educational practices have resulted in the implementation ofteam-based projects throughout engineering curriculums. Team formation, however, is not atrivial process and occasionally

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in Student Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Christensen, Texas A&M University; Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University; Janie Stratton Haney, Texas A&M University; Mahmoud El-Halwagi, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Froyd, Texas A&M University; Charles Glover, Texas A&M University

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2007-984: ENHANCEMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERINGINTRODUCTORY CURRICULUM THROUGH SERVICE LEARNINGIMPLEMENTATIONLale Yurttas, Texas A&M University Lale Yurttas is a Senior Lecturer and Assistant Department Head in Chemical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. She chairs Departmental ABET Committee. She also participates in Engineers Without Borders-USA, especially in TAMU Chapter and coordinates service learning activities for the current NSF project. She has 10 years of experience in engineering education and curriculum development.Jennifer Christensen, Texas A&M University Jennifer Christensen is a junior in Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering. She is an

Conference Session

Professional Papers

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2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida; Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; Sofia M Vidalis, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; Ashish Sunny Abraham

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Professional Papers

construction management, transportation planning, and operations. She has had industry experience as a Transportation Engineer at Florida Design Consultants and as a consultant for Applied Research Associates.Ashish Sunny Abraham ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Application of Primavera P6 for Construction Scheduling and ManagementAbstract: Construction project management has become more complicated because of changingcustomer demands, unforeseen circumstances, and the inherent uncertainty of project completion. Inaddition to the copious amounts of paperwork associated with scheduling and planning, these difficultieshave made software solutions necessary to optimize the process. The

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2020 ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference

Authors

Ann M Gansemer-Topf, Iowa State University; Qing Li, Iowa State University; Shan Jiang, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Gül E. Kremer, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Nigel Forest Reuel, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Rebecca Mort

Langer lab as a postdoc. He then worked at the Dow Chemical Company Coating Materials as a research scien- tist. He was the Dow Certified Green Belt Project Leader and worked on binder platform development for different commercial products. Dr. Jiang edited the first book on Janus particles and has published more than 50 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Jiang was awarded with the Racheff-Intel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research. The technology he participated in developing at Dow received the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award and the R&D 100 Award. He recently received the ACS Younger Chemists Committee Leadership Development Award, the 3M non-tenured faculty award, ACS-PRF

Conference Session

Design with External Clients

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

Carolina; and at BPM Technology in Greenville, South Carolina. Dr. Conrad is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He is also a member of ASEE, Eta Kappa Nu, the Project Management Institute, and the IEEE Computer Society. He is the author of numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers in the areas of robotics, parallel processing, artificial intelligence, and engineering education. Page 15.903.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 NASA Senior Design: Systems Engineering and Reusable AvionicsAbstractOne

Collection

2014 ERC

Authors

Lisa Camp

Strategies for SeekingFoundation Funding:Engaging Faculty ASEE Engineering Research Council, March 19, 2014 Lisa Camp Foundation Funding and the Case School of Engineering• Never discourage pursuit of foundation funding.• Only actively encourage in some areas. Date Presenter’s Name Strategic Projects: Active Encouragement Strategic Initiatives 1. Faculty Focus AreaTitle ofInterests Presentation -Budget Allocations -Travel Allocations -CSE Time Allocations 3. 2

Conference Session

Professional Skills and Teaming in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark W. Steiner, University of Central Florida; Kurt Stephen Stresau, University of Central Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

hundreds of new and experienced engineers. His research interests include; design education, product architecture, mechanical reliability, design for manufacture and quality. Mark graduated from Rensselaer with a B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1987.Mr. Kurt Stephen Stresau, University of Central Florida c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Case Study Approach for Understanding the Impact of Team Selection on the Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Capstone TeamsAn important ingredient for capstone project success is teamwork. Most, if not all, capstoneteams will deal with issues such as poor communication, social

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

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International

comprehensivecourse framework. The modifications to existing software engineering project managementcourse contents are made mainly to develop student’s communication skills. Another task is toconduct an experiment on feasibility of integrating communication training into the projectmanagement course. The research develops a plan to test whether or not the new methods andactivities are effective to develop Chinese student’s soft skills in general and particularlyimprove their practical communication skills in the course. Students are required to go through avariety of new team activities and complete newly designed team oriented project assignmentswith the new focus on developing student’s communication skills. Throughout the course studentsurvey and other

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilfrid Nixon

opportunity to demonstratethat their education has brought them to a point at which they can begin to contributeeffectively in the workplace. However, finding a project that is sufficiently challengingpresents a perennial challenge.To address this issue, the class was changed in 1997 to allow local civil engineers toprovide projects for the students. These local civil engineers served as “superclients” forthe students, who worked on their projects in groups of five or six. Students were able tovisit project sites and “kick the tires,” which substantially reduced student complaints thatprojects were not realistic. They also had the experience of interacting with clients whowere not faculty.While the approach creates some logistic difficulties, the

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ryan Edward Lake, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jessica Brooke Altenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Arin Rzonca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kariem Hashem, University of Illinois; Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Student

. Jessica is a member of the Special projects team for ASME, working on projects for Engineering Open House and other events throughout the school year. As a member of TAMID, she also works on consulting projects for Israeli startup companies. Jessica’s research focuses on the application of Contextual Engineering in the realm of entrepreneurship. Specifically, she is looking at how entrepreneurs interpret and apply contextual thinking to their respective projects, as well as the effects of the use of contextual engineering principles.Arin Rzonca, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMr. Kariem Hashem, University of Illinois Junior in Civil and Environmental Engineering and member of the Contextual Engineering

Conference Session

Trends and Applications in Curricula and the Capstone Experience

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Dulaski PE, Northeastern University

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Civil Engineering

“real-world” project, others continue to offer a traditional project that falls under therubric of “textbook” problems. Although there may be sound, legitimate support for offering a“textbook” capstone, including the magnitude of work involved for instructors, using a real-world project offers tremendous benefit.In order to ensure that the students’ capstone experience is true-to-life, and emulates consultingfirms, the transportation capstone program in the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering (CEE) at Northeastern University (NU) has created a program that benefits thestudents and the surrounding communities. The 14 week semester emulates a major project in aconsulting firm with project requirements, deliverables, and community

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Y. Omurtag; T. Ioi; S. Enomoto; M. Matsunaga

Session 2263 Collaborative Manufacturing Engineering Education and Research in Japan T. Ioi, S. Enomoto, K. Kato, M. Matsunaga, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan, Research Committee of MOT, Japan , Y. Omurtag, University of Missouri-Rolla, USAAbstractThis paper describes an emerging engineering education system for manufacturing professionalsat Chiba Institute of Technology (CIT) in Japan, based on the principles of industry academiacollaboration and case study methodology in teaching and research.First, the Department of Project Management (DPM

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Ferguson; Lisa Anneberg

, with two student design projects. The first design project is introduced inthe second week of the course. The students design, develop, and present a small webpage. The students must also write up a project description to document and accompanythe web page.In particular, a semester of PSP data for the first and second freshmen projects in fall1998 was collected. The first project is Design Project in HTML for presentation to theclass. The freshmen estimate their time for the three phases: planning, implementation,and testing. The freshmen use these results in the prior design project -- which is notsoftware based. The second project is a three person engineering project. The threestudents design, build, and test an egg drop and transportation

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Shamamy

animals (wild, domesticated or composite), transport vehicles (to transport people orgoods over land or water), people (two figures representing humans involved in some task), and,most recently, models of interplanetary vehicles. M.E. faculty judge the projects and prizes areawarded in different categories, among them, Most Original, Easiest to Manufacture, and MostPotential for Commercial Product.I. IntroductionStudents enrolled in our Mechanical Engineering curriculum are required to complete a seniordesign project. The project is intended to require the student to apply his/her engineeringknowledge to design, build, and test an actual product. These products vary from componentsfor SAE competition projects such as the Formula Car, Mini-Baja

Conference Session

Patenting & IP Issues for Commercializing University-Developed Technology and Launching Innovative Technical Entrepreneurship Ventures in Universities

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Baker, Michigan Technological University; Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Richard Berkey, Michigan Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

agreements, and other related agreements with industrial partners. Jim is a registered Patent Agent and holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering, an M.S. in Civil Engineering and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Michigan Technological University.Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University Ms. Mary Raber is the director of the Enterprise Program at MTU. In this role, she secures funding and projects from external sources, oversees day-to-day operation of the program and teaches various instructional modules in the curriculum. Prior to Michigan Tech, Ms. Raber worked in the automotive industry for 14 years, holding various positions in engineering and management. Mary holds a B.S.M.E

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 11: Program Descriptions and Learning Analytics

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Aurand, Dunwoody College of Technology; Peter Walls

Introduction to Engineering courses. At Dunwoody College of Technology, the coursetitled “Introduction to Engineering” is taken by electrical, mechanical, and software engineeringfirst-year students. The team-based project involves designing, building, programming, andcalibrating an electromechanical balance. This project makes use of the skills and interests ofeach represented discipline.In the prior work (“Balancing the Engineering Disciplines!: An Interdisciplinary First-YearDesign Project”), the authors laid out the project in detail and proposed changes to furtherimprove the flow and educational value of the work. Many of these changes were incorporatedfor the fall 2021 course offering. This paper addresses those changes and compares

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priyadarshan A. Manohar, Robert Morris University; Fahad Saad Almutairi, King Fahd Security College

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Engineering Economy

College, SA Project Manager Master of Engi- neering Management, USA Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, SA c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Work In Progress: A Thesis Based Option for Enhancing Pedagogy in Engineering Economyat the Graduate LevelAbstractEngineering students typically learn the basics of engineering economics through an introductoryEngineering Economics course. Such courses do cover the basic financial modeling and analysistechniques, however they don’t provide an understanding of the complexity of economic analysisof real life situations. In particular, the financial analysis of public sector projects necessitatesfinancial modeling based on incomplete data and multiple selection

Conference Session

Potpourri of First-Year Issues

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

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First-Year Programs

partners,develop professional skills and team work, participate in community building, improveleadership abilities, and learn project management.This paper provides a brief description of a service-learning component that wasintegrated into the Introduction to Engineering course. Through this pilot project,engineering students were assigned to design a simple electro-mechanical throwingmachine that can assist children with physical disabilities participating in the Sidekicksprogram. The Sidekicks program at Sonoma State University assists adolescents andchildren with autism and developmental disabilities to participate in recreationalactivities. Many of these individuals are not capable of fully participating in groupactivities. Existing studies

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather E Dillon, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

ArtsAbstractThermodynamics is a difficult course for many undergraduate students due in part to the complexnature of the concepts learned. Pedagogical literature has suggested that students learn difficultconcepts better when they are presented in different formats that address different learning styles(verbal, visual, etc). During the last two years a new student project called “thermodynamicsin the arts” has challenged students in an introductory thermodynamics course to represent onethermodynamic concept in an art project. Each team of students selected a thermodynamic conceptand a different art medium including poetry, sculpture, music, painting, drawing, photography,and creative essays. Concepts the students visualized included entropy, enthalpy

Conference Session

Publicity Elements of Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Staggers; Lynne Slivovsky

professional writing students into the EngineeringProjects In Community Service (EPICS) curriculum. This program is running on three EPICSteams in conjunction with the Writing For the Computer Industry course in the Englishdepartment at Purdue University. EPICS is a multidisciplinary vertically integrated design class inwhich teams of students work on open-ended technical problems in partnerships with local not-for-profit organizations. They design, build, test and deploy projects into the community that meettheir partners' specific needs. Our model for integrating professional writing students into EPICSteams allows EPICS students to draw on the expertise of professional writings students in humanfactors and information design. It gives professional

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

with2,200 students from three different schools. It is the newest university in Denmark of the 6universities and institutions of higher learning and now has more than 13,000 students. It wasestablished to use the project-based educational approach to overcome some of the problems ofthe traditional course-based educational system. Discussions with Poul H.K. Hansen (one of the two faculty members on the AalborgUniversity Senate), Sven Hvid Nielsen and Erik Pedersen who have been with AalborgUniversity since it started and are active advocates of the project -based system, and with theRector, Sven Caspersen, have been essential in gathering information about the AalborgUniversity System. These leaders have contributed greatly (and are still

Conference Session

Focus on Capstone Experiences in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip H. Harding, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

Engineering Education, 2011 Design of a Senior Laboratory Sequence to Guide Students in Multiple Academic Programs Towards Workforce PreparednessAbstractThis paper describes the integration of upper division experiential laboratory and project coursesin the chemical engineering, biological engineering, and environmental engineering programs atOregon State University. Student enrollment has doubled during this 5 year process. The year-long integrated curriculum is built around a theme of “college to career” transition and targets awide array of learning objectives. This paper focuses on three: experimental methodology,communication, and project management. It is demonstrated that the dramatic changes havebeen implemented while successfully

Conference Session

Session/Panel 4: Cost-sharing & Seed Funding

Collection

2017 ERC

Authors

Jennifer Bernhard

Seed Funding Opportunities and Challenges Many colleges and universities have seed funding in support of the development of research projects – Often focused on grand challenges or interdisciplinary projects – Usually last one-two years, dollar amounts and configurations vary, e.g., M-Cubed – Goals are development/submission of proposals, external funding, growth toward center proposals, etc. Challenge: Ensuring desired impact – Balancing opportunity costs – managing selection and priorities – Holding faculty accountable – Establishing expectations, reporting, and metrics – Measuring

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James A. Mynderse, Lawrence Technological University; Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University; Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University; Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Selin Arslan; Kingman E. Yee, Lawrence Technological University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

engineering and the program director for the Master of Science in Automotive Engineering. In addition, he is faculty co-advisor for the Collegiate Chapter of SAE and the Blue Devil Motorsports Organization. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Three Semester Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Sequence Based on SAE Collegiate Design SeriesAbstractMechanical engineering students at Lawrence Technological University complete a five-credithour capstone project: either an SAE collegiate design series (CDS) vehicle or an industry-sponsored project (ISP). Students who select the SAE CDS option enroll in a three semester, threecourse sequence. Each team of seniors designs

Conference Session

EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Neslihan Alp

Session 2003-2140 Roadblocks in the Six-Sigma Process Neslihan Alp, Ph.D. and Mike Yaworsky University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaAbstractSix-Sigma is a quality improvement program used by many major companies with varying degreesof success. This paper shows the Process Map for the Six-Sigma Process and identifies the mostdifficult steps. A survey is conducted to collect data from several companies to develop the Six-Sigma Process Map and determine the most critical steps. The results show that the followingsteps are the most difficult steps throughout the whole process: q Develop project