Conference Session

Focus on Capstone Experiences in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Lepek, The Cooper Union; Richard J. Stock, Cooper Union

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

AC 2011-1915: ALTERNATIVE LAB REPORTS - ENGINEERING EFFEC-TIVE COMMUNICATIONDaniel Lepek, The Cooper Union Daniel Lepek is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advance- ment of Science and Art. He received his Ph.D. from New Jersey Institute of Technology and B.E. from The Cooper Union. Since joining The Cooper Union in 2009, he has taught more than half the courses in the chemical engineering curriculum. Currently, he teaches the undergraduate laboratory course se- quence and the graduate transport phenomena sequence. Recently, he has developed and introduced new elective courses on particle technology and pharmaceutical engineering. His research interests include particle

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Riley

engineeringfundamentals, but also mindful of biological advances. Such requirements of new professionalsbring continuing demands on how biological engineering should be taught.At The University of Arizona, the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) Departmenthas revised its course offerings in the biological engineering area. This presentation will discusshow two courses have been revised to integrate: use of the internet, discussions of recenttechnological advances, design projects, and laboratory exercises. After several years of poorly-received use of the internet, an improved approach was developed resulting in nearly all studentsmaking use of the information on a more than weekly basis. Students respo nded positively tothese changes and performed

Collection

2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lin Zhang

2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Introducing Deep Learning to Undergraduate Engineering Majors Lin Zhang University of Central ArkansasAbstractArtificial intelligence (AI) is one of the fastest growing technologies. The undergraduatestudents, especially those majoring in engineering, are demanding more encounters with AI.Deep learning (as one of the most popular and fundamental subcategories of the AI) isintroduced to the undergraduates through a 4-course education. The students will acquireintuitions on the concepts, the theoretical/mathematical backgrounds and practical

Collection

2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Day W. Radebaugh

1 Complexity in Engineering: The Silent Killer Day W. Radebaugh Assistant Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas 67260AbstractA review of the list of recent technological disasters suggests that the risk to society oflarge-scale engineering projects has grown in proportion to the complexity of thedesigned system. Illustrative cases include the Challenger explosion, the power gridblackouts of

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Harvey Lyons

Engineering Technology Program Development for Industry Harvey Lyons, Ph.D., P.E. Professor Mechanical Engineering Technology School of Engineering Technology Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48197 734-487-2040 hlyons@emich.edu 472 ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY Program Development for IndustryIn the mid-eighties at Alfred University and in the early nineties at the Indiana Institute ofTechnology 9, the writer implemented freshmen programs in the curriculum to address the lackof connectivity between the topics in basic science

Collection

2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Christopher J. Lowrance

An Efficient Teaching Technique for Engineering Major Christopher J. Lowrance Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 Christopher.Lowrance@usma.eduAbstractAlmost every professor has experimented with various teaching techniques in order to find aneffective way to reach their students. As a new instructor to engineering trying to find my ownpreferred teaching style, I found a particular technique to be extremely effective in terms itsbenefits and the positive feedback I receive from my students. According to numerous educationexperts, just purely lecturing

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Micah Lande; Larry Leifer

13 Classifying Student Engineering Design Project Types Micah Lande and Larry Leifer Center for Design Research Stanford UniversityAbstractMechanical Engineering 310 is a graduate-level product-learning-based mechanical engineeringdesign course at Stanford University that takes its project prompts from sponsoring companies inindustry. In the past 30 years, over 325 projects have been presented and worked on by studentsteams. The nature of these projects has shifted over time from Manufacturing

Collection

2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Christopher J. Lowrance

An Efficient Teaching Technique for Engineering Major Christopher J. Lowrance Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 Christopher.Lowrance@usma.eduAbstractAlmost every professor has experimented with various teaching techniques in order to find aneffective way to reach their students. As a new instructor to engineering trying to find my ownpreferred teaching style, I found a particular technique to be extremely effective in terms itsbenefits and the positive feedback I receive from my students. According to numerous educationexperts, just purely lecturing

Conference Session

Classroom Methodologies

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Susan C. Brooks, Western Illinois University - Quad Cities

Tagged Topics

Classroom methodologies

to continuously develop and apply knowledgeof mathematics while in school and throughout professional practice.IntroductionEngineering analysis depends on mathematical models of the physical world; however, inengineering practice, the models are often already developed, the solutions derived, and acomputer program written to carry out the calculations. Practicing engineers are engaged inapplying the answers; the model development and computer programming required to generatethose answers is purchased and usually ignored. Practicing engineers, doing work for hire, can’tafford to reinvent published solutions. With this in mind, some might conclude that engineeringanalysis is simply an I/O process where engineers match the task to a known

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

AC 2009-84: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN ENGINEERING FOR NONENGINEERSJohn Krupczak, Hope College Page 14.905.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 New Developments in Engineering for Non-Engineers: Functional Analysis as a Framework for Understanding TechnologyAbstractThe National Academy of Engineering recently published: “Changing the Conversation:Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering.” The NAE states that capable andconfident participants in our technologically dependent society must know something aboutengineering. However the means by which engineers can explain engineering to non

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 16: That Important Decision - Which Engineering Major?

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey Kiassat, Quinnipiac University; Nebil Buyurgan, Quinnipiac University; Julia Leeds

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

significant improvements in students’ learning when the instructors use computersimulations in fluid mechanics.With this theory in mind, we developed a spreadsheet-based simulation model as the IEchallenge activity in an introduction-to-engineering course. The purpose of this user-friendlysimulation tool was to raise students’ understanding of IE and introduce a few common IE tools.This challenge allowed the students to directly apply the Operations Research and HumanFactors concepts learned in the IE lessons of the course. The scenario behind the challenge wasthe realistic case of designing a commercial passenger airplane and scheduling its operations.Rather than a traditional test on the IE material presented during the three IE lessons

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Kristine Louise Guzak, Michigan Technological University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

possible in class) and external (e.g. theworld is getting better). It is not yet clear if LTS is an influencing agent, or simply a benefactorof attracting such-minded people28. Interestingly, like knowledge, there are no differences in mindset between LTS and NoLTS. Mindset is thought to be central to learning outcomes. Growth mindset people tend to relishchallenges, fixed mindset people get easily discouraged by challenges. It appears engineeringbenefits from having a healthy majority of growth mindset students, this maybe a prerequisite innavigating the academic obstacles to becoming an engineering student in the first place. Futureevaluation will begin to map this mindset with dialogue about engineering experiences from theinterviews

Conference Session

Innovation in Continuing Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Modesitt

Universities: Carnegie-Mellon, Southern Methodist University, Stanford, MIT, Colorado State University and Purdue come to mind immediately. They have long been in the business of providing distributed learning to engineers (and others) in the U.S.A. and in some cases, across the world via video tape, microwave, TV, satellite, and more recently with CD-ROM and DVD, and of course the Internet. The Open University in the UK has been a paradigm for many of us, and there are undoubtedly others throughout the world. Please contact the author if your favorite was left out. The former institution of the author has just initiated an on-line interdisciplinary M.S. SE program in which 18 students are enrolled, as of January 2004. This is part of

Conference Session

Capstone Experiences in OME Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Consi

.S36). In it the students learn aboutocean engineering by building a small battery powered remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs). TheROV is a vehicle in both the conventional sense of a submarine and, importantly, in the sense ofa vehicle for learning in which concepts are introduced as the little machine is built. Course13.S36 is in the tradition of hands-on type courses that have long been recognized as animportant part of engineering education1. Hands-on courses connect theory with practice and bydoing so help to clarify the theory in the students’ minds. These courses also give the studentssolid practice in problem solving of the type they will probably encounter on the job. Finally,hands-on courses give the students technical skills (e.g

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Graciela Munoz Padilla; Francisco J. Gonzalez

ofdetected real problems in engineering professionals. And, obviously, its first goal would be tohelp the professors of the Faculty itself to get a better preparation for their teaching activities bygiving them a different and better sense to their occupation, and a new way of understanding it:that it is not the same thing to mold an inert raw material, as submitting a live, thinking humanbeing, to a transforming process.From these ideas, by 1991 the Department took a first step to “professionalize” these teachingactivities, and the content of a course began to take shape expecting that the participatingteachers, now as students, would open their minds beyond the subject they taught, so that theybegan to look for analogies among different areas of

Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan C. Campbell, University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

number of other problems with traditionalengineering education for HE. One of these problems is the existence of pervasive valuehierarchies in the minds of engineers, such as valuing: 1) science over design, 2) high-tech over low-tech solutions, and 3) engineering over non-engineering (e.g., humanities and social sciences) work.Another problem given in [4] is the pervasive use of the engineering problem solving method,which begins by presenting the students with the necessary information to solve the problem andthen having them: 1) extract the relevant technical information, 2) create idealized abstractions (e.g., free-body diagrams), 3) make simplifying assumptions so the problems can be solved more efficiently, 4

Conference Session

Technical Sessions 5

Collection

2024 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bryan James Higgs, University of the District of Columbia; Ujwalkumar Dashrath Patil, Department of Civil Engineering at the University of the District of Columbia.

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

climate change. Theintroduction of new courses in risk and resilience and Game Theory at the graduate level isproducing engineers with the capabilities to address the challenges of climate change in newways.IntroductionClimate change is one of the greatest societal challenges of the 21st Century, the impacts ofwhich extend throughout the critical infrastructure systems that society depends on for daily life.It is the responsibility of engineers to design, maintain, and protect critical infrastructure systemssuch that the quality-of-life of at-risk communities can be preserved. With this in mind, thefuture engineers that are being produced through universities and colleges must be prepared forchallenges that are unlike what has been historically

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Norman D. Dennis

1 2 3 Engaging Engineering Students through 4 Improved Teaching 5 6 7 Norman D. Dennis 8 University of Arkansas 910111213 Abstract1415 National enrollment statistics show that engineering programs historically lose more than 55% of16 their entering students to attrition of some form1. Whether this attrition is to other academic17 programs or from college altogether it is clearly a problem that must be reversed if we are to18 attract and retain the best and brightest minds to the engineering profession for the future. While19 there are a wide variety of reasons for the poor retention of

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

Engineering Education OR Just Education Keith M. Gardiner Lehigh UniversityCenter for Manufacturing Systems Engineering200 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015 kg03@lehigh.edu 1-610-758-5070 298 Engineering Education OR Just Education KEITH M. GARDINER Lehigh University Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering 200 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015 kg03@lehigh.edu 1-610-758-5070Abstract“Engineering Education for the Next Decade,” but let’s stretch and think farther out.Various national and international projections address

Conference Session

ERM: Conceptualizations of Engineering and Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theresa Green, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello, Utah State University; Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University - Engineering Education

engineers. Byteaching students the problem-solving strategies that are used by their professional counterparts,the gap between what students are taught in school and what is expected of them in theworkplace may be lessened.The purpose of this paper is to describe how agile ethnography [4], [5] was successfully used inour research project to examine workplace literacy practices and habits of mind employed byeight engineers in their workplaces over a period of three years. The overarching purpose of theproject was to develop models of disciplinary literacy instruction [6] and habits of mind [7] inengineering, both of which are potential methods for teaching students the knowledge, skills, andstrategies that may prepare them for an engineering career

Conference Session

Pre-College: Robotics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. M. Mizanoor Rahman, New York University; Sonia Mary Chacko, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Paper ID #18477Building Trust in Robots in Robotics-Focused STEM Education under TPACKFramework in Middle SchoolsDr. S. M. Mizanoor Rahman, New York University Mizanoor Rahman received Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mie University at Tsu, Japan in 2011. He then worked as a research fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS), a re- searcher at Vrije University of Brussels (Belgium) and a postdoctoral associate at Clemson University, USA. He is currently working as a postdoctoral associate at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, NY, USA. His research

Conference Session

Reflections on the “Raise the Bar” Initiative (Part II) - Using a Decade of Experience to Chart the Future

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon D. Nelson P.E., Tetra Tech, Inc; Monte L. Phillips P.E., Americal Society of Civil Engineers; Craig N. Musselman, CMA Engineers, Inc.; Michael J. Conzett, HDR, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

AC 2012-3876: THE ”RAISE THE BAR” INITIATIVE: CHARTING THEFUTURE BY UNDERSTANDING THE PATH TO THE PRESENT - MOD-IFYING THE MODEL LAWS AND RULES FOR ENGINEERING LICEN-SUREMr. Jon D. Nelson P.E., Tetra Tech, Inc Jon D. Nelson, P.E. is Senior Vice President of the central region of the Engineering and Architectural Services group of Tetra Tech, Inc. in Tulsa, Okla. He has been a consulting engineer for 34 years, focusing on municipal water and wastewater projects. He has been with Tetra Tech for 27 years. He holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering from Kansas State University and a M.S. degree in environmental engineering from Oklahoma State University. Nelson is licensed as a professional engineer in four states and

Conference Session

Innovation in Laboratory Studies and Outreach Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Sugg, United States Navy; Bruce Galloway, United States Navy; John Fishell, STEP

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

degrees in science, engineering andmathematics allowed leveraging of resources across the partnership to achieve impacts that nosingle partner could afford or achieve individually. NSWC, Corona Division utilizes the STEPProgram as it’s dominate outreach activity regarding the 3rd to 12th grade focused developmentof the earliest stages of the engineering pipeline. With this in mind, a discussion of theformation, development and activities of STEP will be addressed in a general sense with theunderstanding that NSWC, Corona Division remains an instrumental, active partner in theseSTEP activities.The Science and Technology Education Partnership (STEP) Program:The Beginning:The beginning of STEP involves California Congressman Ken Calvert who

Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Laura A. Robinson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John M. Sullivan Jr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John Bergendahl, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Leslie Dodson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, educators havetried to design curricula that foster this associative learning —which, we know from our ownexperiences, is how we learn best outside of the classroom. Twenty-first century engineeringeducators have been mindful of ABET’s EC2000 student outcomes a-k, including ethicalunderstanding, the ability to communicate effectively, and “the broad education necessary tounderstand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, andsocietal context.”2 Engineering educators who struggle to help students achieve these ABETlearning outcomes might consider working together with liberal arts faculty to integrateengineering with humanities understanding. What the environmental historian William Crononwished for liberal arts

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdel Mazher

equations and constraints, the controlvariables must be specified. Also, initial and boundary conditions are required. The controlvariables are computed to maximize or minimize an assigned performance index. The initial andboundary conditions are taken from the physics of the problem20-26.5.2 Step II: Transition from Engineering to Social EngineeringGoing from an engineering system to a social system is the most difficult step. The socialsciences study many social phenomena where the human beings, as individuals or groups, are themain active elements. Structure and function of social institutions, history and evolution of socialstructure and functions, mind, intelligence, learning, social behavior, beliefs, religions, economicsystems, marriage

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 2: Community Retrospectives

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo D. Koretsky, Tufts University; Lisa G. Bullard, P.E., North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Vanessa Svihla, University of Texas, Austin; Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Paper ID #37015Community Perspectives on Chemical Engineering EducationMilo D. Koretsky, Tufts University Milo Koretsky is the McDonnell Family Bridge Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and in the Department of Education at Tufts University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in chemical engineering.Dr. Lisa G. Bullard, P.E., North Carolina State University, Raleigh Dr. Lisa Bullard is an Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. She

Conference Session

LEES Session 8: Care and Commitments

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Ausman; Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines; Qin Zhu, Colorado School of Mines; Stephen Rea; Kylee Shiekh, Colorado School of Mines; Beck Corby, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

skills. Yetthe social skills become vital for becoming a hirable engineer [27]. The hierarchy of knowledgebecomes a secondary factor where engineering ethics becomes important. Faulkner’sethnography of programmers found that engineering profession identities pervade a strongdualism that favors the technical while diminishing the social [28], [29].One of the more jarring aspects of the above quote, from the electrical engineering student,comes from the student’s uncertainty about whether ethics come about, which they doubt insome sense. The perception that the university’s focus is to produce technically-trainedengineers, not necessarily socially-minded engineers, comes through in the quote. Similarly,another student notes the aspect of their

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Catherine Spence, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Darcie Christensen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rob Sleezer, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Jodi Nelson, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Ryan Walerius, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rachael Johnson, Minnesota State University, Mankato

students areadvised in their early transition into their careers. These theoretical foundations will be discussedin the next sections.Whole Student ModelIn IE, everything is designed with the whole student in mind, which includes the “Trilogy ofStudent Success” as defined by Jolly et al. [1] as Engagement, Capacity, and Continuity. Thefocus on the whole student arises from understanding that improvements to simply improvestandards, curriculum, and teaching practices are not going to be sufficient in recruiting,retaining, and developing a diverse population of engineers [1]. The Institute for BroadeningParticipation [2] emphasizes the need for intentional design in various aspects of education tohelp students participate and succeed in engineering

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Blair J. McDonald P.E., Western Illinois University; Susan C. Brooks, Western Illinois University - Quad Cities

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

. Engineers, whetherstudents or professionals, need to remember that problem solving involves understanding theentire process; a black box solver should never be trusted! It is shameful that students andgraduates alike pick up a calculator to work simple sums, products, and functions that theyshould be exercising their minds to determine. Calculators, spreadsheet templates, computerprograms, and other technological devices save a great deal of time. They aren’t bad -- they justshouldn’t be used blindly. Users need to understand the basis and limitations of any technologybefore relying on it.Within any STEM field, a skill that requires careful development is that of effectivelycommunicating solutions. In high school math and science courses, the work

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 18

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Krista Schumacher, University of St. Thomas; Molly Roche, University of St. Thomas; Esmée Julia Verschoor, Playful Learning Lab; Hannah French; Alyssa Marie Eggersgluss, Playful Learning Lab; MiKyla Jean Harjamaki, Playful Learning Lab; Mary Fagot; Jeff Jalkio, University of St. Thomas; Annmarie Thomas, University of St. Thomas; Collin John Goldbach, Playful Learning Lab; Deborah Besser P.E., University of St. Thomas; Abby Bensen, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

engineering education standards: What are the opportunities? Whatare the barriers? He argues that “students should learn concepts such as systems, optimization,and feedback; they should develop the abilities of engineering design and habits of mind [1],”which is exactly what OK Go Sandbox strives to support by connecting learning to theengineering of OK Go’s music videos. The rise of engineering education stemmed fromstandards-based reform; however, common standards across the United States for technology andengineering have not yet been adopted like the Common Core State Standards (mathematics andEnglish language arts) that are used throughout the OK Go Sandbox resources. He adds that “thepower of national standards lies in their potential capacity