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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 4 - Innovating Engineering Education through Industry and Community Partnerships, Maker Spaces, Competitions, Research Initiatives, and Experiential Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education

together.Once students arrived at a topic, they were then asked to perform a literature search and identifyrelevant prior work. In particular, they were asked to determine whether their research questionhad already been answered (and, if so, how conclusively). They were also asked to identify themost relevant reference material from the prior work that is most closely related to their area ofresearch.Once the topic was refined through the literature search, student participants were asked todevelop a project plan, working with their faculty mentor. In most cases, these plans involvedthe development of a software system and its use for data collection to answer a researchquestion. A few relied upon existing systems and presented configuration and data

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kelli R. Kopocis-Herstein, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Terry L. Stentz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Construction Engineering

. Students write about their experience during the last ten (10) minutes of class. Students wrote they felt “refreshed” after the meditation experience and were going to try to add reflective time to focus on stress management into their schedules. Many students were very concerned about their Life Stressors Index and wrote about coping mechanisms they plan to employ in order to improve their own lives. They also wrote about how they will look for signs of distress in their construction crews and work to improve work-life balance for themselves and their subordinates.Week 4 – Leadership, Personality, and Learning Styles The module begins by juxtaposing the definitions of leadership and management. For this first class in the

Conference Session

Creating a Technology Incubator and Creating a Seed Fund

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Duening, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

“realistic” than that offered within the business school. The term “realistic”will undoubtedly mean different things to different people. Still, there are a few elements of areality oriented engineering entrepreneurship curriculum that seem non-controversial, including: • An enhanced focus on intellectual property development and protection • A focus on real technology development and commercialization (as opposed to mere business plan development offered by most business school based programs) • Internships or practicum experiences that include placement within an entrepreneurial environment • Basic knowledge of business principles that enable identification of knowledge gaps and how to fill them with relevant

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Patti Culley, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

their first year of engineering. Most students have a highschool resume complete with all of their awards, music and athletic accomplishments, but nowthey need an “engineering” resume for an internship, a scholarship, or a research position inengineering. The resume can also serve as an excellent career-planning tool, establishing aframework on which to build and a guideline for gap analysis. Creating this new resume isdifficult for most students. They need help translating and prioritizing their previous experiencesinto “skills” that are useful in engineering. With the help of a Career Services representative,who is in close contact with what industry wants on a resume, and the director/mentor ofacademic scholarship programs, who follows

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 1

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Chen, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

place,where the learning is not necessarily at the forefront for the students and is effectivelycovert. Chick’s great enthusiasm for the wonders of science spreads to the kids and theirparents by means of the museum. The school science teachers may also use the place toillustrate science principles as part of their lesson plans. The SciTechatorium alsoseemed like a wonderful place to highlight Materials Science & Engineering (MS&E) toyoung people.The student coordinator of our outreach program was persuaded to write a proposal to theASM Foundation Student Chapter Grants program3 “to excite young people in materials,science, and engineering careers.” Our grant was funded to purchase demos and builddisplays that highlighted MS&E for

Conference Session

Industry Collaborations in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Landis, The Technology Collaborative; Stan Komacek, California University of Pennsylvania; Carol Adukaitis, PA State System of Higher Education; Robin Shoop, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

associate and bachelor degrees. The steps along this path are chronicled through thedescription of the meta-steps of creating a project partnership, developing a program,implementing a curriculum, determining industry workforce requirements, and adjusting theproject plan and expectations in order to stay aligned with evolving industry needs.First Step: a need identifiedThe US robotics industry, which has a strong presence in Pennsylvania (PA), is experiencingmarket growth from healthcare to manufacturing, with large growth in defense and homelandsecurity. Industrial automation is an important robotics market segment; however, significantregional growth is occurring in service robots or “agile robotics” applications. These are theemerging generation

Conference Session

Graphics and Visualization

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon Duff, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

Instrumentation Grant) thenacademic faculty was unlikely to have been involved in planning its acquisition orimplementation. • If interested representatives were not involved in the planning of visualization facilities,what have been the ramifications? The generalization can be made that the less a broad representation of interested academicprograms were involved in the planning, the more isolated and less embedded the technologies. • If organized as a center, is there an established mission statement? Are there identifiedoutcomes and methods established to assess them? Several centers had established mission statements. However, outcomes assessment wasunheard of among visualization personnel. All centers were required to participate in

Conference Session

Outreach Projects and General Energy Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valentina Cecchi, Drexel University; Michael Kleinberg, Drexel University; Milo Tong, Drexel University; Bridget Kleinberg, Drexel University; Karen Miu, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

powerengineering students will be highlighted. Lastly, plans for the implementation of the powersystem outreach experiments for larger groups of non-engineers and high school students will bepresented.II. Power Distribution Laboratory Facilities The electric power distribution system experiments targeted for power engineering studentswere developed and embedded within the RDAC laboratory. RDAC has four identicaldistribution stations, each of which has: 1. a power station providing three-phase 208V ac / 120V dc with 1 three-phase 1:1 autotransformer – this serves as the source of power (the substation); 2. a nine-bus distribution feeder box containing two feeders including four three-phase power distribution lines and four three

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment Concerns in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Jeffrey Russell

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Extrapolation3.0 Application 4.1 Analysis of Elements4.0 Analysis 4.2 Analysis of Relationships 4.3 Analysis of Organizational Principles 5.1 Production of a Unique Communication5.0 Synthesis 5.2 Production of a Plan, or Proposed Set of Operations 5.3 Derivation of a Set of Abstract Relations 6.1 Judgment in Terms of Internal Evidence6.0 Evaluation 6.2 Judgment in Terms of External Criteria Table 2. Affective Domain Categories and Sub-Categories 23. 1.1 Awareness 1.2 Willingness to Receive1.0 Receiving

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Phy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Jonassen, University of Missouri; Young Hoan Cho, University of Missouri; Carlos Wexler, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

components that guide human reasoning 28. The threads of coherent reasoning are built around questions that humans ask and the answers they receive. Answering deep-reasoning questions articulates causal chains; goals, plans, and actions; and logical justification 28. The question-answer rhetorical structure is the most common dialogue pattern in naturalistic conversation 29. Question-driven explanatory reasoning predicts that learning improves to the extent that learners generate and answer questions requiring explanatory reasoning 29. Questioning is grounded in discourse theories of informal reasoning, and it is an essential process involved in problem solving, especially design problems 30. Questions arise in reciprocal

Conference Session

Improving Technical Understanding of All Americans

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Rose, Ball State University; Jim Flowers, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

: 1. Develop inquiry skills which support technological decision-making and policy development, including planning, collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting empirical data. 2. Analyze product usability and perform usability research. 3. Develop proficiencies in planning, implementing, and reporting a technology assessment. 4. Identify and forecast the risks and impacts of technological decisions upon society and the environment. 5. Make informed, sound decisions regarding technology based upon empirical evidence and sustainability principles.Essentially, the course is organized around two themes with approximately six weeks of the 16-week course dedicated to a

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Schimmels, Marquette University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

engineering skills associated with design andcommunication and on personal characteristics associated with good teamwork and effectiveleadership. Small group discussion related to course readings are used to increase studentunderstanding of abstract engineering concepts. Design projects are used to facilitate studenttransfer of their understanding to new contexts.The course sequence has been piloted in the Mechanical Engineering program and was shown tobe quite successful with regard to student achievement and student satisfaction. Plans are beingmade for college-wide implementation of a similar freshman experience emphasizing skill andpersonal characteristic development.1.0 IntroductionThe issues of engineering student engagement and persistence and

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Schwartz, Cornell University; Catherine Norton, Cornell University; Sue Schwartz, The Learning Web

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

technical courses.1.2 Game Design and DevelopmentEntertainment technology splits roughly into two categories: hardware and software. Whereashardware might range from toys to amusement rides, software involves virtual and interactiveexperiences, i.e., games. Some programs, like ETC, often bridge both areas. The process ofmaking a game closely relates to the engineering process, in which designers plan an environmentcomposed of physical and/or virtual constructs that interact according to a set of rules. Thedevelopers employ technology to implement the plans, working in an iterative fashion incollaboration with the designers4, 5. Page 12.1137.21.3

Conference Session

Engineering in Elementary Schools

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Euridice Oware, Purdue University; Brenda Capobianco, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

) program for P-4th grade studentsand a Summer Residential Program for students in grades 5-12. 12 GERI courses are taught byinstructors, predominantly graduate and undergraduate students, who develop curriculum, designlesson plans, and teach the courses.Participants. Participants in this study are 3rd and 4th grade students in the week-long SummerSession II, which was held on June 12 - June 16, 2006. There were a total of 49 studentsenrolled in the 3rd and 4th grade classes in this summer session. Participants for this study wererecruited by mailing an invitation letter and consent form to parents of the 3rd and 4th grade GERIstudents. Students who returned signed parental forms were eligible to volunteer for this study;these students signed an

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hillary Hart, University of Texas-Austin; Christy Moore, University of Texas-Austin

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

: Gathering the DataIntroductionFor the past several years, faculty at the University of Texas at Austin have been developingweb-based educational modules designed to help Engineering faculty integrate the teaching ofethics into their existing courses. These undergraduate educational modules, known collectivelyas PRiME (Professional Responsibility Modules in Engineering), cover topics such asProfessional Ethics, Ethical Leadership, and Credibility of Sources and are already being used byfaculty at UT and elsewhere: http://www.engr.utexas.edu/ethics/primeModules.cfm. Inspired bythe success of these undergraduate modules, several faculty have outlined a plan to expand theeducational offerings by creating, with the help of a grant from the National

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University; Ronald Earley, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

? (Nursing, Paper Science, Computer Science for example in the School of Engineering and Applied Science). Will such an inter- disciplinary approach be beneficial to the success of the project ? Do we need different equipment or instrumentation facilities? Do we need experts from industry or commercial establishments? 3. Conduct an extensive background search that focuses on salient features of the main project and address the key issues that may arise as the project unfolds. Always have a “Plan B.” Be prepared to handle contingencies. You may be very diligent in your design, planning and implementation; regardless, things may go wrong. (Example: Bridge Building Service Learning

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Design – General Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Christopher Cotting, Virginia Tech; Leigh McCue, Virginia Tech; Wayne Durham, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

requirements. • Requiring students to plan their own flight tests, and then conduct them exposes the students to a part of flight test engineering that normally is not addressed in a classroom setting. Further, by requiring students to plan a test, the criteria that define a given test such as risk level are given meaning. • Giving students a list of requirements to fulfill for a test instead of specifying exact calculations fulfills two objectives. First it exposes students to the real-life processes that would be required of a flight test organization. Second, it gives a moderately defined assignment that requires students to use creativity to fulfill their assignments

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Bower, The Citadel; Kenneth Brannan, The Citadel; William Davis, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

Page 11.1119.3The expectation set forth by the ASCE-BOK is that civil engineering graduates with aB+M/30 program demonstrate a level of competency consistent with a prescribedstandard for each of the 15 program outcomes. How to implement, document andprovide evidence that graduates are meeting these expectations is left up to individualdepartments, with little more than philosophical guidance provided by ASCE’s publishedreports addressing these topics.Many Academic institutions have started the process of addressing how ASCE-BOKoutcomes and assessment criteria can be integrated into the civil engineering curriculumby conducting internal investigations, creating detailed assessment plans and maps, anddeveloping on-line assessment tools. The

Conference Session

Topics in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leonard Bond, Idaho National Laboratory; Robert Wharton, Idaho State University; Andrew Kadak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kevin Kostelnik, Idaho National Laboratory

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

faced by the energycommunity, introduces the Center, and outlines a 5-year plan during which time CAES willprogress from its current status as an “Initiative” of the INL to that of an independent, nonprofitjoint institute. This institute will be a partnership which integrates government, industry anduniversity resources and it will engage a wide network of other national and internationalorganizations.The Energy ChallengeWorld energy demands are at an all time high. The world’s population- currently over 6 billionpeople - uses almost 400 quadrillion BTU of energy annually. This is roughly equivalent to180 million barrels of crude oil per day. These energy demands are expected to triple by 2050 asa result of several factors and could increase by

Conference Session

Meeting ABET Requirements

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Freeman, Tufts University; Douglas Matson, Tufts University; Grant Sharpe, Tufts University; Chris Swan, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

be significantly complicated by the language barrier but thisexperience only enhanced the student appreciation for pre-trip planning with an emphasis onadaptability and design flexibility. All students who are involved with this project, traveling or not, have the opportunity toexpand their knowledge of a foreign culture and build global awareness as international citizens.All technologies implemented were to be sustainable, re-creatable, and acceptable within thesocial, political, and economic contexts of the community. The students worked towardsimproving the standard of living without being culturally intrusive. In the process the teamempowered both the community and the individual students involved.Implementation The

Conference Session

Biology in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark McConkie, Utah State University; Timothy Taylor, Utah State University; David Britt, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

2006-2342: REDEFINING A BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATECURRICULUM: PROFITS, PITFALLS, AND PRACTICALITYDavid Britt, Utah State University David Britt is an Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering. His research interests focus on renewable polymers, molecular imprinting, and biofilm formation. He is currently the Principle Investigator for an NSF Planning Grant in the Department Level Reform Division.Mark McConkie, Utah State University Mark is currently a doctoral student in the department of Instructional Technology at Utah State University specializing in the representation of declarative knowledge for systems that improve recall of textual material, and also the field of open

Conference Session

Improving ME education: Broad Topics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renuka Thota, University of Louisiana-Lafayette; Suren Dwivedi, University of Louisiana-Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

; • To develop a learning laboratory at each partner institution, integrated with the curriculum, to provide facilities for hands-on experience in design, manufacturing and product realization; • To understand and experience selected elements of the product realization process; • To develop a complete business plan for the introduction of a new product; • To bring virtual designs into reality; • To prepare students for the shift to industry by boosting their confidence, and by strengthening their engineering and soft skills; and • To develop strong collaboration with industry.Product RealizationA rapid product development approach is intended to encourage students, from the outset, toconsider all elements of

Conference Session

Intersdisciplinary Courses and Environmental Undergraduate Research

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Braun, California Polytechnic State University; Emmit B. Evans, California Polytechnic State University; Randall Knight, California Polytechnic State University; Thomas Ruehr, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

ecology; • Earth science; • Energy and pollution; • Social, political, and ethical issues; • Environmental planning, management, and sustainability.When utilized in this manner, the course could form a valuable capstone experience building onthe varied skills and multidisciplinary interests of the students. More typically, students take TheGlobal Environment course to fulfill a general education requirement, where few have completedcourses in all of the areas required by the Environmental Studies Minor. Having a large fraction ofgeneral education students in the course may increase the number of different majors the studentsrepresent (more than 20 different majors in each of the last two offerings of the course to classsizes of 59 and

Conference Session

Teaching Design in Manufacturing Curriculum I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University; Ronald Earley, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Project Report and Portfolio is also examined in detail andgraded by the instructor. The instructor assigns different weights for eachcomponent of the project (Group Dynamics, Member participation, Maintenance ofLog Book, Mathematical rigor, Conforming to the principles of Liberal Education,Miami Plan Component, Technical expertise, English composition, etc.) anddetermines the overall grade based on these data.This capstone course is taken by the student groups in their senior year. They areexpected to incorporate their four-year college learning experience in a productivemanner. As such, the senior design project provides the instructors with variousassessment data. Over a period of time, it is possible to consolidate these in a systematicmanner

Conference Session

Issues in Advising and Mentoring

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gillian M. Nicholls, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

economic difficulties have led state governments to pressfor a lowered rate of increase in funding for state-supported universities. Private donors whohave often generously supported colleges and universities are also feeling financial strain as theycontemplate their plans for charitable donations9. On the other side, Dunbar et al.10 and Logue11found students are under increasing pressure to complete their degrees, find gainful employmentin a very tough economic climate, and begin repaying student loans that are approaching acrushing level of burden. Both sides have a vested interest in increasing the efficiency andeffectiveness of undergraduate engineering education.Bell12 discussed the similarities that universities have to a manufacturing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, National Science Foundation ATE Centers; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Marie A. Boyette, FLATE

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

regarding time, rules, and regulations. Schools also have constraints for days and times and even “better” or preferred months during the school year and even times of day for students to leave a school. Listening to these stakeholders and honoring their constraints and limitations is one step in organizing a good and effective tour. The Tour Process (before, during, after) Generally, a tour process has three stages: pre-tour planning, the tour event day, and post tour follow up and activities. All of these are equally important to provide good experiences for all participants (industry hosts, students, parents, and teachers, and third party organizers or

Conference Session

The D/M/A of CE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Kremer, Ohio University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

connected-capstone, along term process of developing more and more relational modes of learning was undertaken,with the goal of putting the students in a variety of roles within learning relationships, spanningfrom learner to peer coach to mentor.The decision to apply a relational approach to the DMAD community engagement experience issupported by the study of Program Planning in Service Learning by Sandmann et. al. 8 Theycharacterized traditional program planning approaches on a scale from technical rational throughrelational, and summarized the characteristics and the faculty role in each approach (see Figure3). Their study “emphasizes the key role of relationship building for program planning inservice-learning contexts” and provides some

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria Teresa Napoli, UC Santa Barbara; Arica Lubin, Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships, University of California, Santa Barbara; Liu-Yen Kramer, Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships, University of California Santa Barbara; Jens-Uwe Kuhn, Santa Barbara City College; Nicholas Arnold, Santa Barbara City College; Ofelia Aguirre, Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships; Megan T. Valentine, University of California, Santa Barbara

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

faculty with astrong interest in promoting student success in all aspects of program planning and execution; 2)the design of activities that provide an encouraging peer group, as well as the level of supportthat students might need because of lack of confidence and/or unfamiliarity with a universityenvironment, while setting clear goals and high performance expectations. At our campus, theINSET program has been the inspiration for the creation of other CC-university partnerships. Weanticipate that INSET might also serve as a successful model for other institutions, who want toencourage and support the advancement of CC students in STEM fields as they transfer to 4-yearinstitutions.INSET Program Design and ActivitiesEntering its twelfth year

Conference Session

Online Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Petronella A James-Okeke, Morgan State University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Jumoke Oluwakemi Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University; LaDawn E. Partlow M. Eng., Morgan State University; Kofi Nyarko, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

through the software by aggregating formative assessments at the course level in order toimprove activities and processes that ensure attainment of program goals. Data collected eachyear are used for annual reports and to guide long term planning. Summative evaluations also aidin the achievement of program goals and objectives.SearchLight™ also offers the means to perform program assessments through both direct andindirect means. Direct assessments are appropriate for determining the effectiveness of in-classteaching practices and course outcomes. Indirect assessments through various surveyinstruments are appropriate for determining best-practices for STEM pedagogy and courseoutcomes. Both direct and indirect methods can be mapped to program

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Friedman; Durgamadhab Misra; Fadi Deek; Kamal Joshi; Vladimir Briller

4.06 3.78 4.00Mean Score 3.00 2.00 1.00 0.00 Research experience helped student develop problem solving skills Research experience helped student to develop own ideas Research experience improved students' analytic skills Research experience helped develop planning skills Overall average score Page 8.161.11 Proceedings of