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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Yale N. Patt; Kevin J. Compton

questionaire. Although we are still working with the rawdata, several inferences can already be drawn. Page 2.6.3EECS 100 as a proseltyzing toolTable 1 shows the number of students who changed their mind as to their intended major as aresult of taking EECS 100. There has been some concern that if freshmen were allowed to takeEECS 100 before being exposed to other engineering disciplines, they would all switch tocomputer engineering. The data suggests that this is not the case. Most students were not swayedone way or the other by the brilliant teaching performance in EECS 100. Of those who were, 30students (of the 247 total who responded to the

Conference Session

Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Serhiy Kovalchuk, University of Toronto; Mona Ghali, University of Toronto; Mike Klassen, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

study were able to secure a full-time employment with their co-opplacements.was only remotely relevant to his current job, which was partly due to the nature of the work: “Wespec products. All the heavy engineering … the calculations, the circuits … is done by the vendor ormanufacturer … [I] take disparate pieces and put them together.” He also criticized his courses fortheir emphasis on linear, simple problems that failed to prepare him for dealing with the complex,open-ended, multiple-solution technical problems he has encountered on the job: “In school, everymath problem has one answer. Here, there are no right answers … the right answer is what youdesign … you design [something] but then the client changes their mind. It is constantly a

Conference Session

Making Mechanics Courses Fun and More Effective

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Anuja Kamat, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Hadi Kazemiroodsari, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Leonard Anderson, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

eager mind teaches itself. The learning happens through play, and theresult is that the child learns in a way that cannot be forgotten at the end of the semester. Thismethod was developed by Dr. Maria Montessori to teach preschool age children and is a popularmethod of education in younger children. In this paper, the authors try to bring some aspects ofthe Maria Montessori method to Engineering Education and call this the MBE (MontessoriBased Engineering) Model.Literature review:While developing the MBE model, the authors looked at existing models popular in engineeringeducation. This included the active learning model, the flipped classroom model and theExCEEd model.Active learning model: In this model, students are active participants in

Conference Session

Assessing Learning Outcomes for Flipped Classrooms, Recruitment and Research Internships, and Alternate Assessments for Online Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ritushree Chatterjee, Iowa State University; Ahmed E. Kamal, Iowa State University; Zhengdao Wang, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

of theassessments employed in the course. Results will be reported back to the community. This willexpand the knowledge base on the use and efficacy of such alternative assessment techniques inasynchronous online learning environments in engineering education.Bibliography[1] I. E. Allen and J. Seaman, "Grade level: Tracking online education in the United States," Babson Survey Research Group., Babson Park, MA, 2015.[2] J. Larreamendy-Joerns and G. Leinhardt, "Going the distance with online education.," Review of educational research, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 567-605, 2006.[3] J. D. Bransford, A. L. Brown and R. R. Cocking, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001.[4] J. Biggs

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Brakoniecki, Boston University; Michael Ward, Boston University; Gretchen Fougere, Boston University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

Paper ID #16670Using the Engineering Design Process to Complement the Teaching and Learn-ing of MathematicsDr. Aaron Brakoniecki, Boston University Dr. Aaron Brakoniecki is a Lecturer at Boston University. His research focuses on preservice teachers’ uses of technology (specifically, the Internet) to support their learning of mathematics. He is also involved with the Noyce BEST project at BU, which focuses on training engineers to become mathematics teachers in high needs classrooms.Mr. Michael Ward, Boston University Michael Ward is currently entering his senior year of Mechanical Engineering while simultaneously earn

Conference Session

Works in Progress II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chao-Yang Cheng, National Chiao Tung University; Yu-Lun Huang, National Chiao Tung University; Bing-Fei Wu, National Chiao Tung University; Yon-Ping Chen, National Chiao Tung university; Sunny S. J. Lin, National Chiao Tung University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #22404WIP: Curricular Renewal for System Engineering: Project-based CapstoneFramework to Hatch Autonomy and CreativityDr. Chao-Yang Cheng, National Chiao Tung University Chao-Yang Cheng is a postdoctoral researcher from the Institute of Electrical and Control Engineering of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. He majored in educational psychology and minor in multi- level linear models. Flow theory, daily reconstruction method, classroom experience, immediate process feedback module, capstone teaching and learning, and engineering education are central to his area of study.Prof. Yu-Lun Huang, National Chiao

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Part 1

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Brittany Claar, Regis University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Hewitt (1997).12 Furthermore, students identifythemselves and their peers according to these attributes. Kids who go here are willing to work harder; [those] who go here are in college to work, not to party, and that’s so true with this school. I can’t really say engineering students versus other students because there’s not other students running around here that I see and stuff. I don’t know how the engineering students at other state schools are but the kids who go here go to school to work and, the kids I see on the weekend [elsewhere] go to school to party….And then you could say that the kids who go here, their minds are logic based, and other people’s aren’t, but I don’t know. ((laughs)) MaxNot

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Teams and Teamwork in Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibibia Dabipi, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Bryan Burrows-McElwain, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Anthony Stockus, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Christopher Hartman, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

to learning to steer theairplane.This paper addresses the experiences of engineering and aviation science students toachieve these objectives.I. Introduction:The need for multidisciplinary cooperation in a global economy necessitates the need tointroduce projects that increasingly engage students early in their freshman engineeringyear in college. With a dynamic market place, graduates need to be able to interacteffectively in diverse fields. One important goal of multidisciplinary design is to identifythe many solutions needed to solve a single problem while keeping in mind the manydiffering objectives of the overall project [4]. A multidisciplinary approach toengineering design is valuable in that it asks that students make certain that

Conference Session

Two year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

desired into any two year curriculum, pre or post.Knowledge alone does little to motivate and prepare students to become true engineers,regardless of the specific field. This is an area where the two-year colleges could have atremendous impact with a clearly defined mission. At this level, they could be shaping broaderhabits of mind to prepare students to think like engineers without forcing them to select aspecialty at the beginning of their academic studies. This would be similar to other professionslike medicine, architecture, or law. The two-year engineering science programs should introducestudents to engineering principles and analysis, the engineering design process, and the variety ofengineering disciplines while covering the basic math

Conference Session

Service as an Element of Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Rippon, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

could trainthe teacher candidates to facilitate one activity per month throughout the school year.After choosing the activities, the coordinator then set out to develop the curriculum for teachingthe activities to the teacher candidates keeping in mind that the activity must support the mathand science standards, demonstrate the engineering design process, and provide a fun learningenvironment for the teacher candidates that reflected the fun that they could have with their ownstudents. The curriculum had also to take into account that that the teacher candidates had to, inturn, modify the activity in order for it to be appropriate for any one of first through eighth grade.Teacher candidate trainingThe iTeach “hub” approach to delivering the

Conference Session

Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Creativity

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #9397Billy Vaughn Koen and the Personalized System of Instruction in Engineer-ing EducationDr. Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Atsushi Akera is Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Sci- ence, University of Pennsylvania, and currently serves as the Chair Elect of ASEE’s Liberal Education / Engineering and Society Division; an elected member of Society for the History of Technology’s Ex- ecutive Council; as Associate Editor of the international journal

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #6584Assessment and repair of critical misconceptions in engineering heat transferand thermodynamicsDr. Michael J. Prince, Bucknell UniversityDr. Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University Dr. Margot Vigeant is an associate professor of chemical engineering and associate dean of engineering. She is interested in chemical engineering pedagogy, first-year programs, and international education.Dr. Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University Dr. Nottis is an educational psychologist and professor of education at Bucknell University. Her research has focused on meaningful learning in science and engineering education

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Tammy VanDeGrift; Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering Teaching Portfolio Program DescriptionWe designed the ETPP with engineering graduate students in mind. The objectives listed belowguided all aspects of the program. 1. Create a draft of a teaching portfolio (teaching philosophy statement, diversity statement, 2-3 supporting artifacts). 2. Develop a network of fellow graduate students, early career postdocs, and other people on campus that share an interest in teaching and the scholarship of teaching. 3. Discuss teaching issues with colleagues. Research suggests that making this a habit helps new faculty succeed17. 4. Develop the practice of

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Olds

the results of the assessment data. Our finalstep in this project is to disseminate the designed instructional materials in K12 and highereducation.AcknowledgmentThis work is supported by the National Science Foundation EEC-9876363Bibliographic Information1 Bransford, J., Brown, A., & Cocking, R. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, andSchool. Washington, DC,: National Academy Press, 1999.2 S.A. Olds, D.E. Kanter, A. Knudson, and S.B. Mehta “Designing an Outreach Project thatTrains Both Future Faculty and Future Engineers”. Proceedings of the American Society for Page 9.400.5Engineering Education (CD-ROM DEStech Publications

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shruti Mehta; Amanda Knudson; David Kanter; Suzanne Olds

knowledge outside of the classroom. Priorto instituting the bioengineering outreach module, most of the middle school students wereunaware of engineering as a career and the impacts that engineers have on the world. However,after the completion of the project, it was apparent through homework assignments and pre- andpost-survey survey responses that their eyes and minds had been opened to math, science andengineering. In addition, the students showed an understanding of the design process, an aspectunfamiliar to them prior to the module.VI. Future DirectionsAt Northwestern, we bring this module to one Chicago Public School classroom each academicquarter (3 classrooms total per academic year). However, we realize that for this project to havea

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez

Session 1722 Wireless Technology as a Tool for Interactive Learning in Electrical Engineering Courses Fernando Rios-Gutiérrez, Rocio Alba-Flores Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Minnesota Duluth friosgut@d.umn.edu, ralbaflo@d.umn.eduAbstractThis paper describes the educational experience gained by the introduction of wireless computertechnology that is used as a learning tool in the Digital System Design and MicroprocessorSystem Design courses in the Electrical and Computer Engineering

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Storch; Catherine Scott; Cynthia Atman

Session 2557 Using Focus Groups to Identify Industrial Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Selected ABET Outcomes Cathie Scott, Cynthia J. Atman, and Richard Storch University of WashingtonAbstractAs we began to review and revise the objectives for our Industrial Engineering program at theUniversity of Washington, we decided to include students in the process. It is the students whoare expected to meet program objectives before graduation, yet they may not understand therationale behind the objectives or may not interpret them in the same way as faculty and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Bunnell; Bill Knowlton; Amy Moll

Session 2793 Designing and Implementing a Materials Science and Engineering Program with Limited Resources David Bunnell,William Knowlton, Amy Moll Boise State UniversityBoise State University (BSU) is located in Boise, Idaho, the state capital, the largestmetropolitan area in Idaho, one of the fastest growing high-tech cities in the U.S., and home ofMicron Technology, SCP Global Technologies, HP Printer Division, and other high techcompanies. The state recognized a need for an university program to educate engineers in Boiseand in 1995, it authorized BSU to offer a

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jamie Workman

, critical thinking, creativity, problemsolving, and communication skills. Although these concepts were not introduced formally, someof the activities were constructed with these principles in mind. As an example, for the EggDrop Vehicles, students were given one sheet of paper, scissors, straws, and tape and given theobjective of creating a vehicle able to protect a raw egg from breaking when dropped from morethan twenty feet in the air.Instructional Approach Page 6.369.3 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Olson; Georgia Ehlers; David Lovelock; Ali Mehrabian

The Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND)- Division 70Encourage Students with Physical Disabilities to Study Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology: Program ACCESS Ali Mehrabian, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Arizona John T. Olson, IBM Georgia Ehlers, Graduate College, The University of Arizona David Lovelock, Department of Mathematics, The University of ArizonaI. IntroductionStudents with physical disabilities are underrepresented in science, mathematics, engineering,and technology (SMET). According to the National Science Foundation

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Burger

programs -- What EAC and TAChave in common for the baccalaureate degree is an emphasis on goals and outcomes. It shouldbe just as acceptable to have as a goal, professional or practical readiness as it is to have graduateor research readiness. As a way of promoting a broad-minded approach, we want to bringengineering technology baccalaureates together with other baccalaureates for the purposes ofaccreditation. At the same time, it is desired to avoid judgments about the goals of otherinstitutions.TAC addresses quite well the 2-year AS degree. Many educators are unaware of differencesbetween current baccalaureate criteria, so Table 1 provides the main differences in the wordingof the criteria for computer engineering programs (as an example) as

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

S. K. Khanna; David Roylance; C. H. Jenkins

elementary to relatively advancedmathematical formalisms, and moves along the stress-strain curve from linear elastic and viscoelastic response, torubbery elasticity, to yield and finally to fracture.III. Web-based InstructionThe remarkable growth of web and other computer network technologies has added a large number of potential toolsto the engineering educator’s arsenal. This community is not of one mind regarding how best to use these new tools,and we are currently in a period of exciting experimentation. It is undeniable that the web provides an efficientmeans of administering subjects, for instance in publishing the syllabus and keeping the class grade list (coded topreserve confidentiality) up to date. It can also provide links to supporting

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Horan

explore other job opportunities in engineering.2. Learned! Had a blast!3. We had a new and wonderful experience. We had fun, made a few friends, and experienced something we built work.4. To all the participants in this program ... hope that you take this info back to your school for everyone to see.5. Open my mind to a new career in engineering. Learned new and interesting things. Found out that a lot of failure goes into creating new things.Given that we have returning teacher applicants each year, we take that as an indication that theprogram is reaching the target audience and helping the teachers in their mission.The program also interacts with the regular undergraduate curriculum in the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Meyers; John Demel; Frank Croft

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe test was then given to groups of students both as a pre-test and a post-test for collegephysics. What the researchers found was that the misconceptions were pretty well established inthe students’ minds based on their life experiences and that beginning physics courses did not domuch to change the misconceptions. In other words, students were leaving introductory physicsas non-Newtonian thinkers.Additional research by Hestenes2,3 established that there are concepts or misconceptionsestablished early that can be measured by the type of test described above. There are also aseries of topics that can be measured only

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Jacoby; Jean Le Mee

empathy for their fellow men and the environment. The rest of this article discussessome of the ways in which Cooper Union has addressed this need.2. The Global Perspectives in Technology Management Course (EID-372):With the goal of educating future engineers-leaders in mind, the Nerken School of Engineering atCooper Union has, since 1994, developed an elective interdisciplinary engineering managementcourse entitled Global Perspectives in Technology Management (EID-372). The course is open tojuniors, seniors and graduate students.The aim in developing this course was to use as much as possible relevant current internationalissues and technological and managerial developments as course material. We chose to address thefollowing main themes:a

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Henry W. Kraebber

Session 2247 Using the World Wide Web to Support Teaching in Manufacturing Engineering Technology Henry W. Kraebber Purdue University, Mechanical Engineering TechnologyAbstract: The Internet is a modern wonder of the computer age. The number of people usingthe Internet is doubling every few months. The growth is remarkable, unlike anything seenbefore in the computer age. It has tremendous power to provide students with a wealth ofinformation and communications opportunities. The question for engineering educators seems tobe one of how to harness the power of the Internet

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Zickel; Russell A. Aubrey

Session 2249 Application Specific Troubleshooting and Problem Solving Tools for the Electrical Engineering Technology Laboratory Russell A. Aubrey, Thomas A. Zickel Purdue University School of Technology, Anderson, IndianaAbstractSeveral application specific circuit boards and techniques have been designed for use asinstructional tools in the Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) laboratory. The primary useof these boards is to serve as an efficient, productive and user friendly platform to introduceelectronic circuit problem solving concepts to EET students. Two application specific boardsare

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

Session 3365 How Students React to Formulations of the Straight Line Used in Engineering Courses Josué Njock Libii* Mechanical Engineering Department Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York, 14623-5604 e-mail: jxneme@rit.eduAbstractStraight lines are used to model and illustrate a variety of concepts in engineering courses. Theformulations that are used depend upon the model or the concept that is being presented.However

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eileen Johnson, University of Michigan; Sara Rose Vohra, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jeanne Sanders, University of Michigan; Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Michigan; Andrea J Kunze, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Karin Jensen, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #41608Board 278: Faculty and Staff Ideas and Expectations for a Culture of Wellnessin EngineeringMs. Eileen Johnson, University of Michigan Eileen Johnson received her BS and MS in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She previously worked in tissue engineering and genetic engineering throughout her education. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. After teaching an online laboratory class, she became interested in engineering education research. Her current research interests are in engineering student mental health & wellness

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Besser, University of Saint Thomas; AnnMarie Thomas, University of Saint Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

for the problems they deal with.” A mechanicalengineering professor believed, “Engineers approach design logically, whether it works or notand that designers approach design aesthetically, whether it looks good or not and how userfriendly it is. But they both should have both in mind.”On the topic of selecting a solution one product/industrial design professor stated that,“engineers explore a few varieties to find an acceptable solution that is dependable. They like toknow for sure something will work.” Additionally, this professor felt that, “Industrial designersare trained to find the problems and then to find the solutions that are „plausible‟ based oncurrent and emerging technologies.” Likewise it was also stated by one participant, “In