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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

are required to develop an electronic portfolio that includessamples of their most important learning experiences, which may be projects, term papers,extracurricular experiences, and internship reports. The electronic portfolio is reviewed andassessed by faculty members on a regular basis to monitor student progress. During their finalsemester, students finalize their electronic portfolio and present their achievements to a facultypanel. The electronic portfolios allow students to document and reflect on their learningexperiences. Integrating learning outcomes into the curriculum provides a mean for faculty toassess the effectiveness of the academic programs.1. IntroductionUniversities in the USA and worldwide are taking a critical look at

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn J. Smith; Bethany Bodo

beginning learner is at the periphery of the knowledge base, and theresearcher/expert is at the center, delving ever deeper into the veins of knowledge. In mostengineering curricula, synthesis is left to the "senior capstone design course". Various "freshmenexperiences" try to provide perspective and enable synthesis, but cross-disciplinary thinkingoften stalls there. A primary obstacle is that undergraduates are the only people who are expectedto integrate knowledge and have perspective; professors and graduate students are "specialists".ADL inverts this model, as seen in Figure 2. A design-centered introduction (DCI)7, is the centralgateway, set at the freshman level. Immersed in the design process unique to the school, thelearner visits each of

Conference Session

Student Division (STDT) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tahlia Altgold, The Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student Division (STDT)

. 11, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/story-driven-learning-in-biomedical-engineering-quantifying-empathy-in-the- context-of-prompts-and-perceptions[14] K. L. Morgan, C. L. Bell-Huff, J. Shaffer, and J. M. LeDoux, “Story-Driven Learning: A Pedagogical Approach for Promoting Students’ Self-Awareness and Empathy for Others,” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Jul. 2021. Accessed: Oct. 19, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/story-driven-learning-a-pedagogical-approach-for- promoting-students-self-awareness-and-empathy-for-others[15] G. Guanes, L. Wang, D. A. Delaine, and E. Dringenberg, “Empathic approaches in engineering capstone design projects: student

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Track 1 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Shankar Muthu Krishnan, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

Page 20.12.3including biomedical electronics, biomechanics and biomaterials, BME capstone projects, design,and BME elective courses as well as courses in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Mechanical Engineering, Math and Physical and Life Sciences. These are often complimented byan array of courses in Humanities and Social Sciences.Students may be offered a choice of tracks, depending on the emphasis to be placed in the BMEprogram. These tracks include biomechanics, bioelectronics, biomaterials, etc. The selectedspecialization will determine which courses are appropriate for students to gain relevant expertise.In order to ensure a well-rounded training, related programs have generally begun to increase thelaboratory, design, and

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

industry can provide substantial direct experience in the types of work that mightbe assigned. A prominent example would be serving on selection committees, where theindustry experienced faculty member has likely screened, interviewed, and hired morecandidates than most departments might work with in a decade or longer. Additionally, it isimportant that industry experience candidates look for ways to leverage service into the otheraspects of their appointment. For example serving on an internal research grant or NSF selectionreview panel can provide insight into how decisions are made to fund proposals, while servingon a group to solicit industry capstone projects can potentially lead to research activities andfuture publications.26 Finally

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Courtney S Smith-Orr, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Paper ID #6759Negotiating Masculine Spaces: Attitudes and Strategies of First-Year Womenin EngineeringDr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communica- tion and teamwork in engineering, design education, and engineering identity. She was awarded a CA- REER grant from NSF to study expert teaching practices in capstone design courses nationwide, and is co-PI on NSF . Her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference to more advanced courses, i.e., machine design, structural design, etc., projects become lengthier, open-ended and difficult, leading to the capstone design experience. The implementation of this approach carries with it the following significant challenges:1. Symbolic Equations. The difficulty in requiring a symbolic approach with sophomore and junior engineering students is motivating them to write a complete set of governing equations in symbolic form before substituting numerical values. They just are not familiar with formulating problems this way. Their training in high school and college has primarily involved sequential solutions of the applicable formulas. The good news is that

Conference Session

Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brendan Egan, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Dechant, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Christopher Damm, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2007-1342: BUILDING AS A POWER PLANT: MODELING AND SELECTIONOF A COMBINED HEAT AND POWER SYSTEM FOR AN ADVANCEDCOMMERCIAL BUILDINGBrendan Egan, Milwaukee School of EngineeringStephen Dechant, Milwaukee School of EngineeringChristopher Damm, Milwaukee School of Engineering Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Page 12.330.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Building as a Power Plant: Modeling and Selection of a Combined Heat and Power System for an Advanced Commercial BuildingAbstractIn this Mechanical Engineering senior project, combined heat and power (CHP) systems wereevaluated based on their effectiveness in supplying the

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

research includes in-depth case studies of three programs that seek to educateengineers as liberal learners: the engineering program at Harvey Mudd College (“HMC” Page 24.1374.2hereafter), a liberal arts college for engineers, scientists, and mathematicians; the PickerEngineering Program (“Picker” hereafter) at Smith College, the only ABET accreditedengineering program in a women’s liberal arts college; and the program of Design, Innovation,and Society (“DIS” hereafter) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a program that blendsengineering, arts, and critical social studies in design learning.Data for the dissertation research project was collected

Conference Session

Making Professionals: Methods to Build Success Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

regards to the Tampa Bay Interstate Express project andelements of equitable transportation. Her narrative provided concrete examples of elements fromthe ASCE Code of Ethics Canon 1 and Canon 8. Students’ written comments provided evidenceof effectiveness and impact. In a senior professional issues course, shorter clips from multiplemembers of the ASEE community panel were shown during class as part of both the ethicsmodule and sustainability module. However, it was unclear that the seniors gained any insightsor abilities from these activities. In an elective/graduate level course focused on site remediation,clips from Sydney Brown discussing Tonawanda Coke and from a community meetingdiscussing a proposed remedy at a Superfund site were

Conference Session

LEES 4: Understanding and Disrupting Engineering Cultures

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chandra Turpen, University of Maryland College Park; Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland College Park; Keeron Rahman, University of Maryland College Park; Paul Adkins, University of Maryland College Park; Harkirat Sangha; Samshritha Bikki

second year of the program, students enroll in STS ‘practicum’ courses that are designedto provide students with service-learning and field experiences focused on communityengagement. The STS program experience concludes with a capstone course where studentssynthesize their STS learning to pursue sustainability projects with global partners. See [1] formore information about key foothold ideas that students are introduced to in this program and theorganizing principles behind this program. The STS program, through its directors, instructors,and other support partners, embodies certain values, goals, practices, and knowledge bases thatlaid the foundation for our study and for the collaborative work we sought to accomplish in ourresearch

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 10: Identity & Belonging 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olgha Bassam Qaqish, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Chloe Grace Hincher, North Carolina State University; Ton Nguyen; Nicholas Goodwin

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

is required to tackle the engineering grand challenges that ourworld faces. They must complete a Capstone experience and utilize one or more of the followingopportunities provided by our institution: 1. Engage in undergraduate research experience in an approved team or individual research or design project with a university faculty member, focusing on one of the fourteen NAE grand challenges. 2. Complete an Entrepreneurial Initiative project approved by the instructor and the scholar’s grand challenges mentor, focusing on one of the grand challenges. 3. Complete an approved independent study project focusing on one of the four grand challenges’ themes (sustainability, security, health, and joy of living).As

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Entrepreneurship Education in New Contexts

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Paula Gangopadhyay, The Henry Ford (museums)

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 26.422.3introduce techniques for learning innovation piecemeal over multiple courses. Consequently,teaching the processes of creative problem solving and innovation becomes disjointed amongmultiple courses. Alternately, the content could be integrated into an existing course (e.g.,capstone/senior project). Unfortunately with this approach, the students will all be from thesame institution and potentially all from the same major. A multi-institution, multi-disciplinaryexperience is highly conducive to learning creativity and innovation. More details are availablein reference 9, but in particular, one camp student noted, “Having all of us work as groups fromdifferent schools made it so that we were able to solve the problems given to us

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vigyan Jackson Chandra, Eastern Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

comprehend. This paper provides suggestions regarding the use of graphical design inspiredmethods for communicating these and similar ideas.As suggested in [4] a central theme can be used to "glue together" disparate topics as part of alarger puzzle in an advanced networking course. In a similar vein, as part of the Solution-BasedLearning (SBL) framework proposed by [5], students are encouraged to develop expandingfunctionality diagrams for their advanced capstone projects. Students provide a "back-of-the-napkin" sketch as part of the initial project proposal, depicting the proposed specifications whichconstitute the core and extension phases of their project. The development of theserepresentations require opportunity for practice across multiple

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Meyer; Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

experience in the four sub-disciplines of Structures, Geotechnical, Hydrologyand Hydraulics, and Construction Management. A depth component in Structures is providedthrough required courses in Structural Analysis, Steel Design, and Reinforced Concrete Design.Additionally, there is a mandatory Capstone design course as well as a widely subscribedprogram of Independent Study projects. The three elective offerings are mostly in the area ofstructural or environmental engineering. Thermodynamics and Electrical Engineering provideengineering breadth outside the civil discipline.A key difference from other institutions in that all students have a full scholarship and are fullyexpected to graduate in four years. The summers are filled with military training

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Laughton, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

Francis (which could arguably be in anothercategory) all courses are taught by other departments. Such major requirements in anotherdepartment allow the EnvE department to increase enrollment in the program without needing tohire additional faculty, an efficiency for smaller PUIs. All programs require some sort of seniordesign capstone course per ABET requirements. Saint Francis does this through a two-coursesequence (ENVE 497 and 498) while Cal Poly Humboldt and UW-Platteville each have a onecourse capstone. Cal Poly Humboldt, however, offers an additional elective design projectcourse for seniors. At another institution this could be called an independent design project basedon the course description in the catalog.Regarding water management

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg M. Warnick, Brigham Young University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Global Programs

AC 2011-350: GLOBAL COMPETENCE: ITS IMPORTANCE FOR ENGI-NEERS WORKING IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTGregg M. Warnick, Brigham Young University Gregg M. Warnick is the External Relations and Intern Coordinator for the Mechanical Engineering de- partment in the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at BYU. He works directly with industry each year to recruit more than 30 funded Capstone projects and provides project management, team development, and coaching support to each of these project teams and faculty coaches. In ad- dition, he continues to focus on increasing international project opportunities for students and faculty. His research and teaching interests include globalization, project management

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mia Minnes, University of California, San Diego; Sheena Ghanbari Serslev, University of California, San Diego ; Madison Edwards

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

are grounded in John Dewey’s theory ofLearning by Doing and are defined by learning a concept through experiencing it or working directly withsaid concept [25]. Several projects evaluate the extent to which each experience prepares students. AtOhio State University [21], students who participated in an internship, a real-world project, or capstoneclasses were surveyed on their perceived improvement in various technical and non-technical categoriessuch as integrating multiple technologies, analyzing cost/benefit tradeoffs, leadership skills, teamwork,communication, and personal growth. This survey indicated that compared to capstone classes and real-world projects, internships resulted in the greatest improvement in all categories except for

Conference Session

Technical Session 8 - Paper 5: Cultivating Inclusivity: A Systematic Literature Review on Developing Empathy for Students in STEM Fields

Collection

2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Stephanie Jill Lunn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

how others haveapproached empathy in curricula, projects, and practice. We applied Zaki’s model of empathy —which triangulates “sharing,” “thinking about” and “caring about,” as the theoretical frameworkguiding the inquiry — and performed a systematic literature review. We sought answers to thefollowing research questions: 1) How have educators integrated empathy development intolearning activities in STEM?; 2) What pedagogical approaches have been shown to promoteempathy of students in STEM?; and 3) How have scholars approached the development ofdifferent kinds of empathy in classrooms? After querying Google Scholar, analyzing more than10,000 publications, and applying the inclusion/exclusion criteria, we identified 63 articles thatcentered

Conference Session

ERM: Self-Efficacy, Motivation, and MORE!

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Nagel, James Madison University; Bethany Popelish, James Madison University; Melissa Aleman, James Madison University; Tobias Reynolds-Tylus, James Madison University

autoethnographic, ethnographic, and qualitative interview projects on a wide- range of topics, has taught research methods at the introductory, advanced, and graduate levels, and has trained research assistants in diverse forms of data collection and analysis.Robert L. Nagel © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Student competency, autonomy, and relatedness in a practice-oriented engineering program: An application of self-determination theoryAbstractFor engineering students, how might three basic needs—competency, autonomy, andrelatedness—promote intrinsic motivation among students? In this

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Research to Practice: K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 1)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeremy A. Lingle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sunni Haag Newton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey H Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

engineering design projects26. The rubric iscurrently used as the end-of-course assessment for the capstone Engineering Design andDevelopment (EDD) course from Project Lead the Way27. Additional details about the history ofthe original EDPPSR instrument are provided by Goldberg28.The EDPPSR was revised in order to obtain an instrument that is aligned with the AMP-IT-UPhigh school curriculum and is appropriate for describing student achievement at the high schoollevel. Whereas the original EDPPSR included 14 individual scoring elements, the rubric for theEDP log includes eight elements that correspond to the stages of the design process used in thecourse: A) Identify the Problem; B) Understand; C) Ideate; D) Evaluate; E) Prototype and Test; F

Conference Session

Student Assessments and Tests

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kai Jun Chew, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

the Hokie Supervisor Spotlight Award in 2014, received the College of Engineering Graduate Student Mentor Award in 2018, and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Faculty Leadership in 2020. Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 19 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award, with her share of funding being nearly $3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 34 journal publications, and more than 80 conference papers. She is recognized for her research and teaching, including Dean’s Awards for Outstanding New Faculty, Outstanding Teacher Award, and a Faculty Fellow. Dr. Matusovich has served the Educational Research and Methods (ERM) division of ASEE in many capacities over the past 10

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MC Forelle, University of Virginia; Kent A. Wayland, University of Virginia; Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Conferenceengineering school. Others incorporate STS material into traditional engineering courses, e.g., bymaking ethical or societal impact assessments part of a capstone project.”2 While theinterdisciplinary nature of STS makes it difficult to define, the foundational concepts draw onrelated fields such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, history, cultural studies, and feministstudies. Bringing this interdisciplinary approach to educating engineering students allows themto approach their profession in ways that enhance their problem-solving skills and professionalcommunication skills. Given these benefits, the problem engineering programs face is how tointegrate these skills within the curriculum as opposed to outsourcing these course offerings toother

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 2: Assessing the Entrepreneurial Mindset, Curiosity, and Workplace Preparedness

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fatemeh Mozaffar; Cheng Chen, University of Georgia; Beshoy Morkos, University of Georgia; Jianfeng Ma

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

, and L. Benson, “Work in progress: How differences in student motivation characterize differences between engineering disciplines,” in Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE, 2012.[33] D. Shah, E. Kames, C. C. McKenzie, and B. Morkos, “Examining the differences in student motivation for industry projects and non-industry projects in senior capstone design,” in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2019.[34] L. Bosman, N. Duval-Couetil, and K. Jarr, “Mentoring Engineering Educators with an Entrepreneurial Mindset – Focused SOTL Professional Development Experience.” ASEE Conferences, Minneapolis, MN.

Conference Session

TS3: Working with Students

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jodi A. Bolognese, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Evie Dee Cordell, Northeastern University; Alissa P. Link Cilfone, Northeastern University; Brooke D. Williams, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

Engineering, all first-year students follow a commoncurriculum, as part of a “Cornerstone to Capstone” curriculum design adopted in 2015. TheCornerstone course is taken in the students’ first year, and uses projects to emphasize the ways inwhich engineering can develop practical problem-solving applications. The course was carefullydesigned to help first-year students achieve success in the program regardless of the specificengineering major they select in their second year. The program has been continually reevaluatedand redesigned over the past several years, and the addition of the information literacy workshophas been one step in Cornerstone’s evolution. Prior to the workshops, instructors noted limiteduse of citations and academic references in

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics V

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Donald Chinn, University of Washington, Tacoma

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

were, she said that she wanted to be a part of acompany that contributes to society, either as a developer or as a manager. When asked by the developers technical questions, she demonstrated that she could design andwrite simple code (design of a tic-tac-toe game, and how to determine whether some has won in a gameof tic-tac-toe). When asked to write Quicksort, she had trouble at first, but she eventually got it right.Had trouble remembering when it might be more appropriate to use a hash table than a binary searchtree. When asked what courses she took for electives, she said she took the database course, thenetworks course, the digital media course, the entrepreneurial course, and a capstone project where sheimplemented a

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ferris Pfeiffer, University of Missouri; Johannes Strobel, University of Missouri; Suzanne Burgoyne, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

with graduate and undergraduate students) and directed large scale projects in engineering education research. He is the founding editor for the Journal of Pre- College Engineering Education, co-editor of the book ”Engineering in Pre-College Settings: Synthesizing Research, Policy, and Practices” and ”Technology Education Today: International Perspectives” and co- lead author of Hands-on Standards STEM in Action, an award winning internationally available set of learning modules for grades preK - 5th grade published by ETA hand2mind and LearningResourcesUK.Prof. Suzanne – Burgoyne, University of Missouri Suzanne Burgoyne, Ph.D., is a Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of Theatre, and Director of MU’s Center

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Evaluating and Measuring Recruiting and Major Selection Strategies

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bethany B. Smith, Arizona State University; Yong Seok Park, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Ying-Chih Chen, Arizona State University; James A Middleton, Arizona State University; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Robert J. Culbertson; Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Claire Y. Yan, University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

program.Prof. Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause is professor in the Materials Science Program in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wolter J. Fabrycky PE, Virginia Tech and AAII

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

undergraduate capstone projects) and the project or thesis research required for a graduate SE degree.6) Graduate study in SE should focus on preparing candidates for service as engineering interdisciplinarians, who think always about “the end before the beginning”.7)) The overarching goal should be to promulgate systems thinking focused on the human - made world; that is, the world emerging from system design by humans.10Entirely too much engineering time and talent is being expended addressing operationaldeficiencies plaguing the human-made world. Operational problem mitigation will always beneeded, but the dramatic payoff for humankind lies in operational problem avoidance throughsystem thinking, as recommended for addressing pervasive

Conference Session

Improving and Understanding Engineering Collections and Publication

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Susan B. Wainscott, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Richard J. Zwiercan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

textstandards documents. Faculty may also need standards to respond to grant applications, completeresearch projects, or design course materials. The accreditation body for U.S. engineeringcolleges’ undergraduate degrees requires a capstone design course that incorporates use ofconstraints, such as standards, in the design process [3]. While the engineering college is themost likely to need standards documents due to the nature of their design and research projects,standards exist for a wide variety of topics, including documentation (e.g. ISO 21127), education(e.g. CAS standards), and engineering (e.g. ASME B18.2.8). Additional institutional users ofstandards include those who design, build, maintain, and operate the physical plant (facilities