Conference Session

Engineering in High School

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Sheryl Burgstahler, University of Washington; Richard Ladner, University of Washington; Annemarie Poginy, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

full of hundreds of cellular automata that can be made into interesting behaviors. As mentioned earlier, to actually program a behavior it takes an understanding of Wolfram’s numbering system for two state automata. There are many beautiful designs that can be created from very simple rules. • Tactile Maps: One of the more interesting projects in recent years is taking color maps of the university campus and processing them for printing on an embosser so that they can used by blind students and visitors to the campus. This is actually a very large research project, but pieces of it were done in the Game of Life workshop. Types of processing that had to be done include replacing one color by

Conference Session

LEES 3: Assessing/Addressing Mental Health

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey Beddoes, San Jose State University; Andrew Danowitz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

have to explain to them, ‘Oh hey remember how we thought that I was going to graduate in four years? Guess what? No, no longer.’Given that the average national four-year graduation rate for engineering majors is just 33% [14],this phenomenon of curriculum decisions undermining mental health is likely not limited to theone mechanical engineering program this student spoke about.5. Ties to the military and government contracting prevent help-seekingStudents worried that having a record of being diagnosed with a mental health condition or havingsought treatment for mental health would negatively impact their ability to get a job in industriesthat require security clearance or are tied to the military or defense sectors. This prevented

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Jackson; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Bruce Oestreich; Cheryl Bodnar, Rowan University; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh

entrepreneurially based projects: Sustainable Engineering andUniversal Design. The Sustainable Engineering project, referred to as Product Archaeologybefore the 2019-2020 academic year, was centered around the life cycle of a specific product.Students were instructed to perform background research to develop their curiosity. Theyconducted experiments and data analysis to develop their ability to draw connections betweentheir data and its potential interpretations. Meanwhile the students drew conclusions about theproduct in the contexts of design, economics, impacts, and sustainability to understand how theirproduct creates value for society [12, 35-37]. The second project, Universal Design, wascentered around the seven elements of the engineering design

Conference Session

The Role of Engineering in Integrated STEM--uh STEAM--uh Education!

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bettina J. Casad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Mariappan Jawaharlal, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

committee report notes inefficiencyin preparing students for the workplace and higher education.2 Of particular concern is the lownumbers of college graduates in STEM fields who will help the U.S. retain its global lead inscience and technology.2 In response to these concerns, educators have been developinginnovative strategies to introduce STEM education earlier in the education timeline.3-4The objective of this research is to test the effectiveness of a guided discovery approach inpromoting STEM education through the use of robotics among students who are nationallyunderrepresented in STEM. The research question driving this investigation is whether a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Field

positions with superior performance over thecourse of a semester. Faculty members—one each from the Colleges of Business, Education, andEngineering—provide support to students during their work in the Laboratory. The faculty alsoteam-teach an undergraduate Business Administration course (BusAd 392) associated with theBusiness Lab experience. The course is offered in seminar format and is comprised ofinstructional components (see Table 1) designed to provide students with some of the skills theyrequire for technological problem solving, innovation, and integration. Table 1: Instructional components Team Skills Faculty Marketing Research Methodology

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff

the learning process master thematerial. Students who are not engaged generally do not succeed. The best way to engagestudents is to create an exciting active learning environment.Life for students today is different than it was twenty years ago. Today there are manyconcurrent distractions competing for their attention. Television, cell phones, relationships,Internet, and world events impact them simultaneously. To compete with this constant barrageof information and distraction, we need to create a learning environment that speaks to studentswhere they are and how they are listening. One-dimensional, lecture classes have a very hardtime competing for the attention of today’s student. A multidimensional approach is called for.One that

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert G. Batson P.E., University of Alabama

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

Paper ID #21065How to Make Engineering Statistics More Appealing to Millennial StudentsDr. Robert G. Batson P.E., University of Alabama Bob Batson is a professor of construction engineering at The University of Alabama. His Ph.D. train- ing was in operations research, and he has developed expertise in applied statistics over the past thirty years. He currently teaches the required courses in project management, safety engineering, engineering management, and engineering statistics within the undergraduate programs of the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department, and graduate courses in operations

Conference Session

Computer ET Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Honchell, Purdue University; Gregory Palmier, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

amount of material for implementation of complexhardware/software systems, however the use of performance modeling to analyzecomputer design alternatives has not made its way into the undergraduate curriculum [3].The literature review process involves four methods of finding literature relevant to theproblem, purpose, significance and methodology for the study. The first goal of thisliterature review is to find resources that are relevant to the understanding of computersystem benchmarking, modeling, and analysis as a tool. While there are many resourcesavailable to computer architecture design, resources applicable to the understanding ofthe computer benchmark, modeling and analysis topics themselves are researched. Thetopics of these resources

Conference Session

ERM: Engineering Identity: (Identity Part 1)

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno; Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Derrick Satterfield, University of Nevada, Reno; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno; Jeffrey Lacombe, University of Nevada, Reno; Mackenzie Parker, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

a doctoral candidate in Engineering Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on engineering graduate students' experiences and motivation centered on career planning and preparation.Ann-Marie Vollstedt (Teaching Assistant Professor) Ann-Marie Vollstedt is a teaching assistant professor for the College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). Dr. Vollstedt completed her dissertation at UNR, which focused on exploring the use of statistical process control methods to assess course changes in order to increase student learning in engineering. Dr. Vollstedt teaches courses in engineering design as well as statics and runs the Engineering Freshmen Intensive Training Program. She is the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Assessment

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenell Wilmot, University of Texas, Austin; Nina Kamath Telang, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

SI.Qualitative data was used to answer research questions regarding trends in student attendanceand grade performance, DFQW percentages, and background for the fall 2015 and spring 2016.This information provided course and SI administrators with a better understanding of whichstudent populations were attending the study sessions, qualitative data helped to identify specificfactors that may have influenced both their choice to attend and their grade performance. Thenext sections will answer our research questions by further outlining the impact of SI on studentperformance, what specific aspects of the SI program may have facilitated change, andrecommendations for future practice and study of SI for this course.Findings and discussionThis study uses a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rodger Dalton; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

are also discussed.StructureTechtronics is currently designed as a two-year program for sixth and seventh grade students.Each section of Techtronics meets once per week for 2 hours after school. The classes are led bysix Techtronics Fellows from Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. Each section iscomposed of approximately twenty students, five undergraduate teaching Fellows and onegraduate student coordinator. The graduate student coordinator is also responsible forcommunicating with parents and with middle school faculty. The most common classroomstructure involves splitting the class into small groups of four to five students, each facilitated byan undergraduate teaching Fellow. The high Fellow-to-student ratio ensures that

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Christensen; R. M. Seymour; Kim McKeage; Deborah Skinner; Darrell Donahue

the various pertinent perspectives as the designprocess is carried out. Members of the multidisciplinary design team also need to have a sense ofresponsibility for success of all components of the product. The team members should see thevalue of and be capable of creating a explicit documentation of the design, testing and productevaluation. Management must allow teams to be empowered and provide a reward structure thatemphasizes success of the team over individual success.3While team skills are critical to an engineer’s effectiveness, another consideration for theengineering graduates of today must be preparation for numerous employer changes and flexibilityto move within a company. Today’s graduate is more likely to have several employers

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

uncertainty, and the willingness to make decisions when data is incomplete arekey features in the make-up of successful engineers. Thus, teaching laboratories should hold thesame enchantment and exhilaration for our students as research and applications laboratorieshold for our graduates. Applied researchers go to the laboratory to coax truth from aninexpressive natural world, their aim is to sense, to evaluate, and, eventually, to progress. Wemust send our students to the instructional laboratory to accomplish these same goals.Furthermore, instructional laboratories that stress the learning involved in doing enable faculty topander to many different learning styles. They are customizable vectors to student perception.They provide real connections

Conference Session

Student Division Technical 2: Instruction & Learning Delivery

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibukun Osunbunmi, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Ning Fang, Utah State University

design to gain a comprehensive understanding of engineering students experiences. In recent time, He was recognized as the outstanding doctoral researcher by the department of engineering education, USU. He and his colleagues received the Russel Sage grant to explore factors influencing the retention of Black immigrants with PhDs in the United States. Also, in April 2022. He won the best graduate poster presentation for the college of engineering in the student research symposium at Utah State University. Ibukun has a rich research experience in collaboration with his advisor and faculty in and outside of the United State. As an independent researcher, He is undertaking a systematic literature review and metanalysis on

Collection

2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Seri Park

industryfeatures that are continually advancing. This paper presentsmodification of the current engineering economics core coursethat is offered to junior-level civil and environmental engineeringstudents and its corresponding impact on students’ performance. I. INTRODUCTIONE NGINEERING economics represents a branch of economics applied by engineers to achieve the optimalproject design and ultimately the optimal decision makingthrough various alternative analyses. At the same time, thereare several aspects of engineering economics that depend oncutting-edge technology because it is an area that integratesfundamental economic knowledge and various industryfeatures that are continually advancing. Thus, the onus is on

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aeronautics Technological Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

GroupsWhen asked about the main impacts of their grassroots engineering practices, all the threeextension centers described in this work (Soltec, ITCP/Unicamp, Pegadas, and Alter-Nativas)agree that students’ formation is (much) better served than the supported groups themselves. Thisusually does not mean that there was no impact or change on the assisted groups’ reality. Instead,it seems to indicate that what might last longer to these groups or their members are not the(socio-)technical solutions co-constructed, but things like the abilities they developed throughoutthe supporting process.Actually, it is not unusual for a GE team to support an enterprise, either a waste pickercooperative, a company recovered by workers or a Landless Rural Worker

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: S-STEM 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado Denver; Stephanie S. Ivey, University of Memphis; Craig O. Stewart, University of Memphis; Shani O'Brien, University of Colorado Denver; Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver; William Schupbach, University of Colorado Denver; Karen D. Alfrey, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

originalproject/cohort design. Thus, the remainder of the 2018-19 academic year was used for planningand program development purposes.The Urban STEM Collaboratory project goals are to: 1. Increase at each institution the recruitment, retention, student success, and graduation rates of academically talented and financially needy undergraduate mathematical sciences and engineering majors; 2. Implement ambitious but feasible strategies contributing to student academic success, development of STEM identity, and workforce readiness; 3. Implement mechanisms to ensure substantial student participation in project activities through a special badge system, incentivizing participation; 4. Implement activities for mathematics and

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Rodriguez-Devora, University of Georgia; Tyler Harvey, Clemson University; Maegan Hinson, Clemson University; Kristin Frady, Clemson University; Bradley Putman, Clemson University; William Ferriell, Clemson University

through targeted K- 12 STEM outreach experiences.William Davis Ferriell W. Davis Ferriell is a doctoral student in Biomechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Davis graduated from Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. His discipline-specific research focuses on computational design methods. His engineering education-based research focuses on methods for increasing participation in engineering and the assessment of instructional approaches.Kristin Frady Kristin Frady is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University jointly appointed between the Educational and Organizational Leadership Development and Engineering and Science Education Departments. Her research focuses on

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice Technical Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Scanlon, University of Connecticut; Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut; Arash Esmaili Zaghi, P.E., University of Connecticut; Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut; Rachael Gabriel, University of Connecticut

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

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

beach.Ms. Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut Constance M. Syharat is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut as a part of two neurodiversity-centered NSF-funded projects, Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF:RED) ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation” and In- novations in Graduate Education (NSF:IGE) Encouraging the Participation of Neurodiverse Students in STEM Graduate Programs to Radically Enhance the Creativity of the Professional Workforce”. In her time at the University of Connecticut she has also has served as Program Assistant for an summer pro- gram in engineering for middle school students with ADHD. Previously, she spent

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Engineering Courses of 2020

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Melissa Zaczek, Rochester Institute of Technology; Cory Hoffman, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Materials

failure mechanisms based on fracture surfaceanalysis, microstructural analysis, and a basic stress analysis of the incident that caused failure.Students are responsible for sectioning, hardness testing, metallographic sample prep, andbackground research on the component and/or material. All project deliverables, including thefinal summary report, consist of presentations made to their peers in lab.Feedback from students indicates that they find the project to be a valuable part of the course.The students make noticeable improvements in their presentation skills over the course of thequarter. In some cases, the in-lab presentations lead to discussions of different failure modes orloading scenarios among the students. Interviews with graduating

Conference Session

An International Perspective

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen Maldonado, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Tatiana Ramirez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Idalis Vazques, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Alexandra Medina-Borja, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

. These statistics translate in that at theUPRM only the top tier of high school graduates is granted admission in engineering every year.Regarding economic status of students, around twenty percent of the student body in the collegeof engineering reported family income in the highest bracket while no less than forty five percent(45%) could be categorized by income in the low brackets of society9, 10.II. MethodologyFocus groups have been used in the past to evaluate engineering programs and to elicit studentcharacteristics [e.g. 11,]. The design of the study was based in the seminal work of RichardKrueger’s book, Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research12. Design, execution,and analysis of the study took place over one academic (fall

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Engineering Alignment with Core Curriculum (Physics)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luke D. Conlin, Stanford University; Doris B. Chin, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics, Pre-College Engineering Education Division

areprepared to learn science principles from a new learning resource.In what follows, we present the design and analysis of a preliminary study with 76 sixth-graderson the impact of tinkering for learning. In a research design blending both informal and formallearning, students participated in one of two tinkering activities on a museum field trip, MarbleMachines or Wind Tubes, for approximately 45 minutes. Back at school, two weeks later, bothgroups had the opportunity to learn from a 20-minute instructional video, which containedsegments that explained scientific concepts relevant to both activities. We seek to answer thequestion of whether a relatively short experience with tinkering prepares students to better learnscience content from an

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

has become a much more critical course forengineering schools. Since high school graduates generally do not have much knowledge about orcontact with the engineering profession, the first course in engineering should prepare them forfuture challenges. After an extensive research of many different approaches to the introductoryengineering course [1-4,7-13], we decided on an approach that is best fitted to our students,institution and community.Introduction to engineering courses have been taught in many institutions in ways that students aregiven opportunities to tackle real engineering problems [14,15]. The centerpiece of our course ishands-on projects that inspire student interests in engineering and offer positive experience inteamwork. They

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Janet Schmidt; Gary Pertmer

established ofrepresentatives of the Dean’s staff and each program. This committee determined that while therewere unique programmatic aspects that required unique assessment, there were other outcomesthat “cut across” programmatic specialties. So to that end, the Director of St udent Research wascharged with creating and coordinating assessment for the college (as described below).Individual departments also assessed their majors as they wished. The work of one ABETaccredited program (Mechanical Engineering) will be described in Section III. Assessment surveys were designed for entering freshmen, graduating seniors, and Schoolalumni (one year and five years after graduation). The freshman and senior surveys were designedwith input from a

Conference Session

Mechanics Classroom Demonstrations

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Alejandro Mejia, Angelo State University; Wade H Goodridge, Utah State University; Benjamin James Call, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Steven David Wood, Utah State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

-305. 11. Sanchez, K., Magana, A. J., Sederberg, D., Richards, G., Jones, G., & Tan, H. (2013). Investigating the Impact of Visuohaptic Simulations for Conceptual Understanding in Electricity and Magnetism. Paper presented at the 120th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, GA. 12. Moyer-Packenham, P. S., Salkind, G. W., Bolyard, J., & Suh, J. M. (2013). Effective choices and practices: Knowledgeable and experienced teachers' uses of manipulatives to teach mathematics. Online Journal of Education Research, 2(2), 18-3313. Olympiou, G., & Zacharia, Z. C. (2012). Blending physical and virtual manipulatives: An effort to improve students' conceptual understanding through science laboratory

Conference Session

ABET: Reflections on Accreditation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Fries, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Sree Kalyani Lakkaraju, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Brad Cross, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Susan M. Morgan, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Andrea L. Welker, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

environmental systems engineering from Clemson University.Dr. Andrea L. Welker, Villanova University Andrea L. Welker, P.E., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engi- neering at Villanova University. Welker teaches a variety of geotechnical undergraduate and graduate classes, including foundation design and geosynthetics. Her research focuses on the geotechnical aspects of stormwater control measures. In addition to teaching and performing research, she is the assessment chair and study abroad advisor for her department. Page 25.1217.1 c American Society

Conference Session

Undergraduate Recruitment

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Shapcott, Arizona State University; Katherine G. Nelson, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Abstract The low recruitment and high attrition rate of women in engineering is well documented.Women account for only twenty percent of the entering class cohort, and drop out at a rate tenpercent higher than their male counterparts.1 Although in the past twenty years women havemade inroads into many fields that were male-dominated, women have made little or no progressin engineering.1 This paper has three goals. First, this paper will review existing literature that identifiescurrent and alternative theories about why engineering programs do not retain female students.Second, this paper will synthesize motivational psychology research into a best-practice modelfor engineering programs. Last, we hypothesize that photovoltaic

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anne Spence

. Anothermathematics related project, Adventure Engineering, uses engineering-based curricula in middlegrade science and mathematics classes.2 The Adventure Engineering project focuses on problemsolving and the engineering design experience. A third project saw engineering graduate studentsassisting high school mathematics teachers in developing hands on approaches for algebra andtrigonometry classes.3 These laboratory activities were incorporated into the normal lesson plan.Both high school students and teachers benefited from using laboratory activities to demonstratespecific principles such as linearity and trigonometric functions.Adding new engineering courses to the curriculum is a luxury that most school systems can notafford. With the addition of so

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James C. Curry, Lamar University; Brian Craig P.E., Lamar University; Weihang Zhu, Lamar University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

student is employed andthe other student is developing a home health medical record system based on a voice-onlyinterface in an exploratory research project. A traditional (not online) student is taking seniordesign via distance education is exploring developing a software tool for analysis of inventoriesbased on experiences at a major technology company. These projects are similar in scope totraditional senior design projects. The department requires that the projects be separate from thedaily job responsibilities and academic in nature, but allows the student to use corporate data.For instances, if a student examined adding a new material handling system where they work, thedepartment project would require an academic risk assessment, an

Collection

2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Dave Sly; Daniel Bumblauskas; Frank Peters

within the Industrial and ManufacturingSystems Engineering department (IMSE).Review of Sales and Marketing Positions for EngineersThe committee conducted a review of sales and marketing postings within the COE, on thenumber of advertised positions that had Sales or Marketing in their title or description, as well asthe number of graduates with Sales or Marketing in their job title. It was interesting to find thatwhile nearly 15% of job postings indicated Sales or Marketing functions, that only around 1% ofpost-graduation job titles included Sales or Marketing. This difference is attributed, in part, tothe fact that many students are not reporting their job title to career services, and also that it islikely that a sales or marketing position