Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Ali Sanati-Mehrizy, Pennsylvania State University; Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, University of Pennsylvania; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Computer Engineering Capstone Projects in the Computer Science DepartmentAbstractAs with many computer science and engineering programs, students of the computer engineeringarea of specialization in the computer science program at Utah Valley University (UVU)conclude their degree programs with a semester capstone design experience. The intent is forstudents to utilize competencies developed in the first three years of the curriculum in thesolution of an embedded design problem. This paper presents the details of sample projects thatthe students have done in this capstone course.Background InformationUtah Valley University (UVU) is a state institution with more than 32,000 students. UVU islocated in Utah County which has

Conference Session

Special Topics: Conscious Considerations

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea Arce-Trigatti, Tennessee Technological University; Stephanie Jorgensen, Tennessee Technological University; Robby Sanders, Tennessee Technological University; Pedro E. Arce, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

assumptions regarding certain groups or communities” (p. 1). In addition to framing student underperformance as an individual or familial problem, deficit perspectives obscure how educators and systemic oppression undermine the success of minoritized student populations. (p. 6)In response, anti-deficit teaching practices center on the effective use of transformativeeducational pedagogies that aim to create equitable learner spaces that integrate the voices ofthose traditionally marginalized [2]. For example, Graham et al. [19] communicated a“persistence model” in which the acquisition of knowledge and professional skills (i.e., student’slearning) along with student identification of (connecting) what they are studying to

Conference Session

Issues and Solutions in Mathematics Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University; Hatice Ozturk, North Carolina State University; Alina Duca, NCSU

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

to asking them to evaluate an integral of a composite function with aunit step function in it, something they had not seen in the review materials. They were requiredto integrate information from topic 2 (piecewise defined function) and from topic 4 (improperintegrals), so by embedding topic two into question 4, this created a brand new problem, whichmost of them did not know how to tackle. This suggests that they needed to be given an exampleof how to creatively integrate these two topics in the review materials.The biggest gains were seen on questions 1 and 3. In these problems, they were asked to do thesame procedure they had seen in the review materials. In question 1, they were asked to graph asinusoidal signal with different amplitude

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Mills

engineering specialisation, but larger projects will be multi-disciplinary, not only involvingengineers from different specialisations, but other professional and non-professional personneland teams. It is expected that an engineer would progress during their career from involvementin the technical aspects of small projects or small components of large projects under supervisionafter graduation, to the eventual management of large projects with a limited personalinvolvement in the technical design components.Successful completion of projects in practice requires the integration of all areas of an engineer’sundergraduate training. It has therefore been proposed by many in industry that projects shouldbe a major component of student learning during

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Innovation Through Propagation

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Jeffrey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

IEEE Transactions on Education, and past chair of the Educational Research and Methods Division of ASEE.Dr. Jeffrey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University Dr. Jeffrey E. Froyd is a TEES Research Professor in the Office of Engineering Academic and Student Affairs at Texas A&M University, College Station. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He was an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. At Rose-Hulman, he co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

exposed to broad hands-onknowledge of the current DSP technologies. The purpose of this paper is to present our effortsin introducing DSP based experiments in a number of undergraduate courses in electricalengineering technology program at the State University of New York Institute of Technology,Utica/Rome. The paper will also review the material and resources available in digital signalprocessing education. It is expected that such an endeavor in our curriculum will update theprogram and make the students better prepared for the changing job market.I. IntroductionThe department of electrical engineering technology at the State University of New YorkInstitute of Technology (SUNY), Utica, New York, offers B.S. programs in electricalengineering

Conference Session

Business and Professional Literacy Within Chemical Engineering

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dayoung Kim, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Alison J. Kerr, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

introductory chemicalengineering course, the results seemed too “remote and unlikely to students” [7, p. 237].Curriculum models. Besides the pedagogical approach, various curriculum models forengineering ethics education have been discussed, including stand-alone ethics course and across-the-curriculum models [11]. Bielefeldt and her colleagues [3] showed that the most commonsetting where ethics is taught is senior capstone design classes, according to chemical engineeringfaculty members. However, even though the stand-alone ethics course is a common form ofteaching ethics, Ocone [21] argued that introduction of ethics throughout the whole curriculumwould be necessary, because an integration approach has the advantage of integrating ethical issuesinto

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Harkin; Pam Lowry

technology training program, theCAT offers a technology and engineering degree program in which candidates learn to useexpertly computer-integrated, flexible manufacturing equipment and systems. The innovativecurriculum, designed and conducted through five universities and six industry partners, alignsengineering instruction to the equipment and process challenges of actual production contracts.[1]The Greenfield Curriculum is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and it is a grantthat was awarded to the following: Five universities which include Wayne State University,Lawrence Technological University, The University of Detroit Mercy, The University ofMichigan and Lehigh University under the direction of Dr. Fred W. Beaufait, Director

Conference Session

Best Practices in Research & Assessment Tools for Pre-College Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cathy P. Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston; Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

fidelity ofimplementation (FOI).Generally speaking, lower FOI is thought of as reducing the potential effectiveness of acurriculum. However, not all changes and adaptations made by teachers will necessarily reducethe quality of implementation – some adaptations increase effectiveness and improve the qualityof curriculum, by adjusting the design of lessons to account for the needs, interests, andbackgrounds of particular students [3], or to better match district and state learning objectives [5]Such changes are often said to align with “integrity of implementation” [6].Why is it important to measure fidelity in an efficacy study?Key to measuring the true effect of an intervention like EiE is measurement of FOI to improveand assure internal validity

Conference Session

Transformative Learning in STEM: Accessibility, Social Impact, and Inclusivity in Higher Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudia Mara Dias Wilson, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Thais Alves, San Diego State University; Corrie Walton-Macaulay, Saint Martin's University; Xiaomei Wang, Brigham Young University; Scott R Hamilton P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Gloria Faraone; Nicholas Tymvios, Bucknell University; Moses Tefe, Norwich University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

integrated fashion in student knowledge development. The authors adopted thislearning taxonomy to form the foundation of the work presented in this paper: ● Foundational knowledge – includes the building blocks of the disciplines being studied. In the framework presented, this is addressed by using assignments that allow students to demonstrate a basic understanding of societal rights in terms of what is available in the built environment, to identify inequities in infrastructure, and how they are propagated. ● Application – students use the foundational knowledge acquired in the initial lessons of a course, or over the curriculum, to start designing solutions to address existing problems in infrastructure. As students work

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

are computer science, software engineering,networking, and computer engineering. In this curriculum, the students matriculate into the CNSdepartment after successfully completing the requirements of 30 hours of core courses commonto all computer science students. The students continue taking core courses until the firstsemester of their junior year, when they begin choosing their electives from differentspecialization areas.Since our school does not offer a stand alone engineering program, the computer sciencedepartment curriculum contains an area of specialization in computer engineering.In this paper, we elaborate the detail content of the curriculum for our computer engineering areaof specialization. In order to make our computer

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Crawley, MIT; Robert Niewoehner, United States Naval Academy; Jean Koster, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

. Theinnovation in this project is developing approaches to teaching Flight Test Engineering inuniversities without experienced test pilots. We have enabled this by producing syllabi,procedural guidance, instrumentation requirements, budget and faculty competencies (andqualifications), and implementation issues. The project summary is found in Appendix G. Three upper-class projects are being readied for publication and will be available in early2010. The project teams will then move to documenting 3 additional projects by the summer of2011.Developing integrated learning experiences CDIO standard 3 speaks to the development of an integrated curriculum, and standard 7addresses integrated learning experiences. The project plan for the Aerospace Project

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikram Cariapa; Joseph Domblesky; James Rice

paper discusses an approach being taken at Marquette University tohelp close competency gaps and incorporate a higher level of horizontal integration betweenmanufacturing courses using the Learning Factory approach. Rather than limiting usage of themanufacturing lab to one course, it instead forms an integrated environment for hands-onlearning across the manufacturing curriculum using a variety of manufacturing technologies. Asone means of assessing this approach, the impact of the methodology is being measured using aquantitative index (ν-function) which was developed at Marquette University for measuring thequality of soft indices.IntroductionOver the last decade, engineering education has undergone a number of significant reforms. Oneof the

Collection

2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

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

: Accelerated format, active learning, agile development, agile pedagogy, curricula,program learning outcomes, student learning.IntroductionInformation Technology Management (ITM) programs in most academic institutions integratefundamentals in networking, wireless, database, client-server, information security, ITmanagement techniques and tools, and hands-on experiences required to solve real-worldindustry problems1. The final capstone project, taken as the last two classes by the studentsbefore graduation, is a unique and valuable learning experience for students in many schools. Itis usually designed to expand their outlook and create an opportunity for real world problemsolving by means of integration of knowledge from multiple sources, multiple

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Engineering Design and First-Year Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, Bowling Green State University; Mohammad Mayyas, Bowling Green State University; Mohammed Abouheaf, Bowling Green State University; Gül E. Kremer, University of Dayton

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

variousactivities related to training and curriculum development.2. Industry Tour: We had an industry tour in the 4th week of the program at Kaufman EngineeredSystems in Waterville, Ohio. The tour was related to manufacturing activities being developed thatweek. Kaufman Engineered Systems is a premier integrator for FANUC robotics offering roboticpalletizers, stretch wrapping machinery, automated packing machines, food packaging machines,high-speed picking, and other robotic handling systems.3. Research Projects: 15 teachers were formed into three major research groups. The theme ofthese group research projects were advanced manufacturing, robotics, and autonomous systems.Within each group, two teachers were engaged in a particular research project. Each

Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 STEM Education with Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lydotta Taylor, EdVenture Group; Erika Shaffer, EdVenture Group; Gary Winn, West Virginia University; Robin Hensel, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

with education consultants, industry professionals, graduate students, and oneanother to gain knowledge and create units that focus on STEM careers and curriculum. Theunits, known as TIME (Tools for Integrating Math and Engineering) Kits, are storedelectronically on a free teacher resource site for use in classrooms across the country.www.thesolutionsite.comThe 12-hour units of instruction are developed during a week-long workshop that providesclassroom teachers with the opportunity to work with engineering faculty, graduate assistantsand industry experts. The model is based on providing time for teachers to learn, tools forteachers to use and strategies to assist them in focusing on and connecting engineering to STEMcourse work. By connecting

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mei-Mei Song, Tamkang University; Shang-Hsien (Patrick) Hsieh, National Taiwan University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

freshmancourse, Civil Engineering Concept Design Studio, for one of the three classes. The paper willbriefly describe the progress of trial teaching in the Fall semester of 2014 as well as that ofthe pilot curriculum in the Fall of 2015. Major elements of futures thinking and fundamentalcivil engineering design concepts extracted during the process of incorporation will bepresented along with an assessment of student learning. Suggestions for future curricularimplementation will also be made.Introduction This paper describes an experimental project that introduces futures thinking into afreshman cornerstone course in a civil engineering curriculum in response to calls for reformin engineering education. Through collaboration between civil

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Jane Parmentier; Rajeswari Sundararajan

foundation of the GTD curriculum. Together with theresearch sequence they are the common courses that all students take. Designed to integrate theprogram and provide a solid basis for approaching issues in development, these seminars are takenduring the first two semesters, in either order, to allow flexibility on when students may enter theprogram.GTD 501 Introduction to Global Technology and Development 2GTD 503 Technology and the International Political System 2The first seminar, GTD 501 Introduction to Global Technology and Development, introduces themajor approaches to economic, social and political development, seeking to expose students to thetheoretical heritage that integrates these aspects

Conference Session

Global Perspective and Experiential Learning in Civil Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea L. Welker, Villanova University; Seri Park, Villanova University; Susan B. Mackey-Kallis, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Delaware Valley Geo-Institute, and the Chair of the Continuing Education Committee for the Geo-Institute. Dr. Welker teaches a variety of geotechnical engineering courses and her research focuses on the geotechnical aspects of stormwater control measures.Dr. Seri Park, Villanova University Seri Park, PhD, P.T.P., is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Villanova University. She is serving as a member of Villanova’s International Students and Schol- ars as well as a member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee for the CEE Department. She is also the faculty advisor of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter at Villanova and member of Villanova’s

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

student's skills through laboratory and design experience,use of computers, oral and written communication, qualifications and teaching load of academicstaff, facilities and their availability, administration procedures, information system andcounseling, admission procedures, internationalization of the curriculum, student performance,competence of graduates, and internal quality assurance procedures.There are, however, some features of the system of study, namely, diversity and flexibility,which - in our opinion - have an essential impact on the quality of education, but are rather rarelybrought into discussions on quality assessment. In this paper, we define diversity and flexibilityof the system of study and show a strong relationship between

Conference Session

Issues Affecting Engineering Technology Program Development

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Howard Evans, National University; Shekar Viswanathan, National University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

activities requires close working coordination of EHSprofessionals with security professionals. This calls for unique academic training. Thenumber of available degree programs for associate degree professionals in this area isquite limited. In addition, there are fewer programs available for associated degreeprofessionals to transition to an engineering technology degree.This paper describes an innovative undergraduate engineering technology degreeprogram that has been developed in the Environmental, Health & Safety discipline. Keyattributes of this program include an effective curriculum transitioning from an associatetwo year degree offered through community colleges, problem based learning instruction,self-paced tutorial techniques, and

Conference Session

Engineering Management Applications

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Jimmy Gandhi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Alex Gorod, Visiting Fellow, University of Adelaide

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

currently included course. An example would be to discuss systemic risk concepts as a subsection of a course on risk management or as a section of a project management course. It could be further included as part of a systems integration course or as an introductory course to systems engineering or complex systems.d. The American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM) could consider making systemic risk a topic in the ASEM certification curriculum. Engineering Managers should be tested on the subject through especially identified scenarios/case studies of complex systems with a series of questions on how to manage the system and mitigate the overall risk associated with it.e. Systemic Risk could be included as a topic in the ASEM

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University; Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Ali Sanati-Mehrizy

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

(WSNs) are possibly one of the most important technologies of thiscentury and have the potential to make human life more comfortable. WSNs have emerged as aneffective solution applied to a wide array of problems. The increasing popularity of WSN hasmotivated computer engineering programs to provide students with a foundation in the area. Inorder to integrate wireless sensor networks concepts into our computer engineering curriculum,we have decided to integrate wireless sensor concepts in our Embedded Systems Design IIcourse. A requirement for this course is to write a research paper on the topic of Wireless SensorNetworks. As a result of this assignment, many students have started to do their senior designproject on this subject. This paper

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 8

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Komarek, University of Colorado Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder; Julie Elizabeth Steinbrenner, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

of integrating leadershipdevelopment into the engineering education curriculum [1].Research Questions 1. Does the development of behavioral complexity/leadership effectiveness differ for students in different roles? 2. To what extent do students’ beliefs in the benefits of having a role relate with their level of behavioral complexity/leadership effectiveness? a. For the team b. For the individualMethodsStudy contextThe research is situated within the mechanical engineering capstone design course at a large,mountain-region, flagship university. In this two-semester required class, a group of 6-7 seniorengineering students work together to complete an industry-sponsored or entrepreneuriallyfocused student

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - DEI and Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sebastian Dziallas, University of the Pacific; David Mueller, University of the Pacific; Shelly Gulati, University of the Pacific; Mary Kay Camarillo, University of the Pacific; Abel A. Fernandez P.E., University of the Pacific; Chi-Wook Lee, University of the Pacific; Vivek Pallipuram, University of the Pacific

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

skills, abilities, and interests. plan integrate, develop an individualized path • Demonstrate professional habits of engineers through the curriculum, at [the university], and and computer scientists. toward your profession. • Sustain a process of continuous improvement • Identify and implement techniques for college for adaptive learning, including a dynamic and career success including time understanding of individual strengths and management, study skills, peer-to-peer opportunities for continuous growth. learning, and professional habits.   • Effectively and equitably engage in diverse, • Create and implement a

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

incorporating writing assignments that enhance students’ critical thinking capabilities. Page 15.214.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010Assessment of Boussinesq Approximation in a Fluid Mechanics CourseAbstract There is an absolute need for an in-depth coverage of certain important topics in anundergraduate engineering curriculum especially in the area of Thermodynamics and FluidMechanics. This need arises basically from the feedback received from the alumni and alsofrom some members of the Industrial Advisory Board. A small group of employers has alsoindicated that there is a need for increasing the academic rigor

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Evans, Purdue University; Matthew Kirleis, Purdue University; Casey Smith, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

bycapitalizing on using the same volume of chemical distributed over a larger number of tests. To accomplish this goal, researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students wererequired to work as a team, from requirements generation to user documentation. Undergrad-uate technology students were required to develop requirements, characterize subsystems,implement solutions, and test and verify the integrated system working in an unfamiliar sci-entific domain. This combination of tasks and team interactions across disparate scientificdisciplines is not common in Technology curriculums. Thus a secondary goal was to observeand document teamwork experiences of this interdisciplinary group. The remainder of this paper is as follows. Section 2

Conference Session

FPD 6: Transitions and Student Success, Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Volcy, Spelman College; Carmen Sidbury, Spelman College

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

study major prior to the start of theirfreshman year. To satisfy this objective, the cross-disciplinary course that was developed isbased on completing a software-driven, electro-mechanical engineering project that, at varioustimes and to various extents, calls upon students to function in the capacity of an electricalengineer, a mechanical engineer, a technician, a mathematician, a computer scientist, aresearcher and a communicator of technical material. In so doing, the students gain insight abouthow engineers combine knowledge from these diverse disciplines to solve a real problem—inthis case, constructing and characterizing a 2-DOF, servoed laser system used to trace arbitrarypatterns against a wall. Using an "inverted curriculum" approach

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Ali Sanati-Mehrizy; Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

physiological functions in a hospital setting. Sensors today are effective for single measurements, however, are not integrated into a “complete body area network”, where many sensors are working simultaneously on an individual patient. Mobility is desired, but in many cases sensors have not yet become wireless. This creates the need for the implementation of new biomedical personal wireless networks with a common architecture and the capacity to handle multiple sensors, monitoring different body signals, with different requirements. The type and number of sensors must be configured according to monitoring needs related to different diseases, treatment, and the patient treatment life cycle12. WMSNs systems have several advantages over traditional wired

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Developments, Implementations

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmundo Tovar, Polytechnic University, Montegancedo; Paola Carina, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; Karen Castillo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Tagged Divisions

International

presents an approach based on "Maturity models" used to achieve the goal of reusingthe experiences of the pioneer Engineering Schools of the same technical university toimprove the processes they share and take that knowledge and apply it to other Schools.Maturity can be understood as the culmination point of a growth and development processthat is obtained through the integration of distinct qualities. From the viewpoint of anorganization, a maturity model offers a conceptual approach to improve the managementprocess in an orderly, referenced, evaluated and controlled way.Defining process maturity refers to expounding the development level they are in. Amaturity model allows one to determine a series of rules to evaluate the maturity level