Collection

2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Chandika Annasiwatta, Muskingum University; Sandra Soto-Caban, Muskingum University

environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.ABET outcome 6: an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.ABET outcome 7: an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.Results from the survey indicate that students agreed that the course/project met the programoutcomes 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 while strongly agree on outcomes 5, 6, 7. Table 1 summarizes assessmentresults. Table 1: Student feedback for ABET outcomes ABET outcome # Assessment Avg. 2 4.2

Collection

2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas; Aysa Galbraith, University of Arkansas; Heath Aren Schluterman, University of Arkansas; Brandon Crisel; Candace Auburn Rainwater, University of Arkansas

create a plan for becoming an engineer.As with any course, SES evolved over the years to try to better serve our students. In the secondyear, the writings during the semester were modified to be incorporated as parts of the finalproject. Lessons were added which used engineering concepts to reinforce the skills they werelearning in their College Algebra classes. A catapult competition was also added at the end of thesemester to give students a hands-on team experience. In 2017, the math skills assignments werephased out in favor of some Microsoft Excel lessons. In 2018, the course was redesigned usingTeach Yourself How to Learn (Yancy McGuire and McGuire, 2018). The course shifted focus todeveloping study skills that would be used in future

Collection

2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Kenneth Leitch; Erick Benjamin Butler

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright  2020, American Society for Engineering EducationUS states has seen the university grow its population by about 28% from 2010 to 2018 [3] in ametropolitan area where population growth was only about +0.37% [4].There are two civil engineering and two environmental engineering faculty in WTAMU’sCollege of Engineering. These faculty members are responsible for planning and teaching allcivil and environmental engineering courses in the college. The objectives of this paper willdiscuss how these faculty members have developed and aligned their engineering programs withthe ultimate aim of synergizing efforts and growing both programs in both enrollment andacademic quality. Civil and

Collection

2020 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Patricia Muisener, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Gail P Baxter, Stevens Institute of Technology; Guillermo D. Ibarrola Recalde, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

students then specified the Chemistrytopics they would focus on and created a study plan to do so. Casselman and Atwood [11] noted aslight increase in performance (about 4% higher on summative assessment exams and the ACSfinal) for those students who received this “metacognitive training” when compared to the controlgroup [11]. Cook et al. [12] presented a seminar on metacognitive learning strategies after exam 1to General Chemistry students and found performance improved on subsequent exams.ApproachTo facilitate increased student engagement and interaction with the content, the General ChemistryI and II curriculum was redesigned beginning Fall 2017. Large lectures and recitation werereplaced with sections of approximately 55 to 60 students each

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 4 Slot 1 Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Kristina Rigden, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

, whichincludes 6,521 undergraduate and graduate students. Within the demographics,international students are identified as Non-Resident Aliens according to the Cal PolyPomona Institutional Research, Planning, and Analytics office. Twenty point eightpercent of students are female, 79.154% are male and 0.046% identify as nonbinary. 11The pie chart (figure 3) above reflects engineering undergraduate and graduatestudents and their first-generation status. The pie chart reflects students that identifyas first in their family to attend college in pursuit of a degree, no response and notfirst-generation status

Conference Session

Student Engagement, Socioemotional Needs, and Social Support During Pandemic

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Sam Spiegel, Colorado School of Mines; Deb Jordan, Colorado School of Mines; Ariana C. Vasquez, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

: Self-Efficacy for Advanced Manufacturing Competencies. The competencies that wereincluded in this scale, as well as the Implicit Theories of Advanced Manufacturing CompetenciesScale, stemmed from prior grant-related work of industry professionals (described in the followingsection).Current Progress on Research StudyBecause of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the research tasks were delayed as the researchersinvolved had to focus on helping faculty at their respective institutions shift to remote teaching.The development plan was refined at the program launch and again after the impact of COVID-19to readjust the timeline and working parameters (i.e., working fully-remotely). We are on track toaccomplish all goals by the end of the project.As of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mike Borowczak, University of Wyoming; Andrea Carneal Burrows Borowczak, University of Wyoming; Mason Johnson, University of Wyoming

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

applied and participated in the year-long PD engagement. Theeducators, made up of seven (7) librarians and 17 classroom teachers, self-selected to participatein a week-long summer experience that was supplemented with academic-year supports.The educators participating in this activity provided researchers invaluable mixed-methods data,insights and feedback which developed future CS engagements. Ultimately, the 24 educatorparticipants provided group leaders with over 49 lesson plans and another 30 implementationplans.MethodsIn order to address the research questions the researchers employed a mixed methods study tocollect, and address open questions within the field of CS education. A formative evaluation ofthe WySLICE project, conducted annually

Collection

2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

Authors

Heather Marriott, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott

. After realizing that they had missed the exam, some emailed to ask to schedule amakeup exam. Students that missed the midterm were offered a chance to take the makeup examwith the students that had valid health related excused absences. Several students kept the 0% onthe exam because they realized they did not understand the material and planned to drop thecourse. The students that dropped the course are not shown in section 3.2 of the paper where thefinal exam results are discussed. Many of the students choosing to attend online did not appear tohave struggled on the midterm. Some even scored slightly higher grades than the studentsattending in person (see the bars with a large blue component and high exam scores). I do notattribute this to

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

Authors

John Y Oliver, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Chance Hoellwarth, California Polytechnic State University; Daniel Almeida, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth L Thompson P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Montana Epps, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; Jamie Bettencourt

Tagged Topics

Diversity

inout-of-class activities. Figure 2. Factors that hinder involvement with out-of-class activities.Figures 3 and 4 summarize the positive and negative outcomes perceived by students fromout-of-class activities. Again, there is remarkable similarity in the survey results. From Figure 3,we can see that PosSE university students are more likely to appreciate the intellectual, academicor professional gains from their out-of class activities whereas Cal Poly students derive a largersense of belonging to their college.Perhaps troubling for Cal Poly, as seen in Figure 4, students were more likely to cite negativeoutcomes to their GPA and health than PosSE university students.Discussion, Limitation and Future WorkWe plan to issue a modified

Collection

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Leslie B. Massey; Aysa L. Galbraith

sequence), since students who are prepared mathematically for the rigors ofthe engineering curriculum typically have higher retention rates than those who are not prepared.However, it is important to provide enough mental stimulation during the first year for theseprepared (or over-prepared) students to keep them interested and engaged in the engineeringcurriculum. Some of these advanced students are ready to move beyond what is typicallycovered in the introductory course and are eager to engage in research or innovation problemsolving during this first year. The Honors Experience (HE) was implemented to engage studentswho start their first year ahead of the eight-semester degree plan in math (starting in calculus IIor higher), by involving them

Collection

2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; Emilia Mediavilla, Western Washington University ; Asaki Nelson, Western Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

being featured. The SEL’s also used the departmentsocial media to share and promote events hosted by the department and associated studentorganizations. The department Instagram page saw a steady increase in engagement and thenumber of followers doubled over the course of the year.Focus Groups: During spring quarter, the SEL team organized and facilitated a focus group inresponse to student request with the goal of gaining insight to the non-dominant experience inthe engineering disciplines. The first focus group aimed to learn about the non-male experiencewith the goal of finding ways to better support non-male students (note: results of this focusgroup not yet available). The SEL’s plan to continue this effort in the future. Future focus

Collection

2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Carolyn Skurla, Baylor University; Joseph Anthony Donndelinger, Baylor University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

the design experience and recognition of the winning team.Recently, we began providing some teams with tools (i.e., tape measures and scissors) to useduring the design challenge. Anecdotally we observed during the January 2019 event that someteams spent excessive amounts of time using the tools to measure and cut straws while failing tocomplete their structures. Out of curiosity we planned the November 2019 and January 2020 I2Eevents to explore this phenomenon by using half of our ME breakout sessions as Control groups(No Tools) and the other half as Test groups (Tools). Our reported findings include analysis ofdifferences between Control and Test groups in both load bearing capacity and variety of designconcepts. Our null hypothesis was that

Collection

2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Richard Smith

information security uses, policies, models – Sec 1, Sec 2 • Specific communications systems and policies – Net, Sec 2 • Planning and designing for security – Sec1, OS, Net, Sec 2 • Specific vulnerabilities; technical and policy solutions – Sec 1, OS, Net, Sec 2In June, 2007, our department participated in a workshop for information securitycurriculum development hosted by the University of Minnesota and sponsored by theNational Science Foundation. During that workshop we compared curricula acrossexisting and proposed programs at the 2-year, 4-year, and graduate level. The onlyconsensus standard identified for information security curricula were the IACEPrequirements. Participants noted that the demand was so high for graduates

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Audrey LaVallie; Eakalak Khan; G. Padmanabhan

: Students are asked to do literature searches; most students state they have rarely done this previously, and they accomplish this with some supervision. As a group, students and mentors look at various sources and select articles by the relevance to the study. Student researchers quickly learn that eliminating sources is more of a problem than finding information and that website credentials are important. The mentor at the college usually outlines the proposal and assigns students to various tasks- often the students and the mentor meet as a group and plan the most efficient way to accomplish tasks and rough out a time-line of the study. Most students later state that these studies were much longer

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bob Fourney; Jason Sternhagen; George Hamer; Cory Mettler

dramatically improved and students appear to be better motivated. Thispaper discusses the motivation for the freshman experience, the design and implementation ofthe freshman experience, the increased retention numbers, the results of student surveys (afterthe freshman year and at the conclusion of the sophomore year), as well as future plans for thissequence.Background and Motivation:The Electrical Engineering (EE) program (in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science(EECS) Department) at South Dakota State University (SDSU) has been concerned about lowretention rates for several years. When interviewing qualified students who the faculty feel arecapable of succeeding in electrical engineering and who are either changing out of the major

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bakr M. Aly Ahmed; Mike Christenson; David A. Crutchfield

functions.With student participation, the project team decided to provide a minimal and clean look to theinterface, avoiding unnecessary content or graphics. For example, the team decided thatsimplified graphic floor plans would best contextualize the building performance data. Suchplans are characteristic of architectural communications and are a simple but effective way todisplay information for people to recognize and understand the buildings they inhabit. Given thescope and content of the data, the team further decided that cycling display pages were required.As designed, the on-screen graphical interface currently consists of six separate pages whichcycle and update every few seconds. The first page consists of a summary of the building’senergy use

Collection

Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Dennis A. Silage, Temple University

programs [1], [7]. These names,often used by EE and ME departments for a minor, would not have promoted the requisitecooperation for the genesis of the BSE program.The BSE EME and EPE academic concentrations were deemed not to be majors per se sincethey result in a degree without such a designation, unlike a major in EE or ME resulting in theBSEE or BSME degree. In addition to these academic concentrations, which appear as such onthe transcript, the BSE degree program also provides less restrictive study plans in ComputerHardware and Software Engineering with computer science and Engineering Fundamentalsacross all departments of the College of Engineering.Interdisciplinary Program AdministrationThe interdisciplinary BSE program was initially

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2021 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Carmen Cioc, The University of Toledo; Noela A. Haughton, The University of Toledo; John B. Napp, The University of Toledo; Sorin Cioc, University of Toledo

four, for a total of 10 groups. This enabled studentsto derive benefits of team work include improving technical communication, peer to peerlearning, and leadership. 2. Project Description:The subject of this paper is part of the Learning Module #10: Flow of Air Through Ducts. Thestudents were required to design a heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system tosatisfy the heating load requirements for one of the MET laboratories rooms in the ETDepartment. Other than access to the laboratory for floor plan measurements, no additionalinformation was given to the students.This HVAC project was specifically created and implemented for three important reasons. First,as an example of an inquiry-based approach, this PBL is associated

Conference Session

Mid Atlantic Papers

Collection

2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

Authors

Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

Tagged Topics

Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

: - Focus on the Customer - Communicate with the customer, understand, and negotiate the customer’s needs, conduct interim demonstrations, and deliver on-time. - “Do what you say you will do” – Teamwork, division of labor, project planning, task execution, leadership, and responsibility. - Engineering Prototyping – Idea generation, start simple then improve, face high-risk problems first, think through each step in-detail to reduce risk - Grit– Never ever give up, ever.Voice-of-the-CustomerThe Authentic Engineering Experience Team of three engineering and one computer sciencestudent Sophomores was not informed of any of the details of the project until they sat in front ofthe Customer to learn

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Sharri Lee Kornblum, CSULA engineering department; Zanj Kano Avery El; Gustavo B Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles; Deborah Won, California State University, Los Angeles; Emily L. Allen, California State University, Los Angeles

Tagged Topics

Diversity, FYEE Division - Paper Submission

Helmsley Foundation with a number of interventions that focused onthese success variables. FYrE@ECST interventions included (i) a redesigned introduction toengineering course with focus on design and hands-on learning (Tufenkjian et al., 2017); (ii)Mathemagics (Sharif, Menezes, Schlemer, & Won, 2016), a series of workshops integratingphysical processes and phenomena to math; (iii) a new comprehensive advisement tool calledGolden-Eagle Flight Plan (GEFP) (Sun, Won, Allen, & Gadhia, 2016); and (iv) SupplementInstruction (SI) workshops for physics and calculus for a freshman cohort. This paper reports onthe implementation and assessment results of the Supplemental Instruction workshops as part ofthe FYrE@ECST program in a student population

Conference Session

WIP: Enrollment, Instruction and Pedagogy - Focus on Design-Based Projects

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Kevin Kit, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Christopher D. Pionke P.E., University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Tagged Topics

FYEE Conference - Works in Progress Submission

an invaluable skill within engineering and everyday life. Writing up the assignment to submit 4.00 In terms of the assignment, we plan to incorporate class time to discuss assessing the validity of information Students were also asked to describe the easiest and online and the reasonableness of an answer. We also plan tomost challenging aspect of the assignment in an open-ended make this assignment required for all students in the course.format. Both writing up the assignment and identifying the We will continue to collect data to gain a better understandingphenomenon had

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Chemical Engineering Education

Authors

Dorothy Skaf

which students are asked to departments. Students also select two advanced science andall classes since 1951. White Hall also houses offices for 2012 50 37 address open-ended problems and plan their investigations. four chemical engineering electives. The curriculum flexibil-13 full-time chemical engineering faculty with a broad The unit operations lab reinforces concepts on distillation, ity enables students to tailor their educational experiences

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Marcia Ford, Murray State University; Kevin T Perry AIA, Murray State University; Brian Giltner, Murray State University; Melanie McCallon Seib, Murray State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

students focused on their project: due to theirinexperience, some students cannot visualize their final product and become overwhelmed withproject uncertainties, while some students find critical thinking difficult, such as ‘how do I apply 2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Spring Conference, April 6-7, 2018 – University of the District of Columbiawhat I know to the customer needs?’ To help students overcome pre-program hurdles, recruitmentstrategies should include: introducing yourself and your program at student organizations, onlineand on-campus classes, and study abroad fairs. During these sessions, PBL program objectives,extracurricular and academic activities, should be discussed along with, how this course fits intotheir graduation plan. Faculty can

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Yasser Salem, Cal Poly Pomona; Felipe J. Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Building using Fiber Composite Jacketing Yasser S. Salem1 and Felipe J. Perez2 1 Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Cal Poly Pomona 2 Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Cal Poly PomonaAbstractAs a senior capstone project, students worked on the vulnerability assessment and seismic retrofitof a six-story non-ductile reinforced concrete dual system building comprised of perimeter non-ductile reinforced concrete moment frames and non-ductile core shear walls. Students were giventhe as-built plans and specification of an existing building in Southern California that is consideredto be at risk, from an earthquake resistant standpoint. Students performed

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Felipe J. Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Yasser Salem, Cal Poly Pomona

Shear Wall Building Felipe J. Perez1, Yasser S. Salem1, Brittany J. Myers1, Cristian Aguilar1, Garrett Jones1, Daniella Ginocchio1, Edwin Medina1, and Kevin Chin1 1 California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractThis paper presents results of a capstone senior project at California State Polytechnic University,Pomona. Students conducted a vulnerability assessment of a five-story building constructed inSouthern California. The structure has non-ductile concrete shear walls at the core and gravityframes at the perimeter. Partial infilled walls exist within the perimeter frames, creating captivecolumns. Students studied as-built plans for the structure and conducted an assessment of

Collection

2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

course is introductory, no room in the curriculumpresently exists for a sequence allowing further advanced specialization. Further, the course hasno official lab component assigned with it, meaning that any hands-on lab or project activity mustbe planned within the limits of expected student time spent outside of class and/or compensatedby reduced lecture time in-class. Besides these constraints for coms, the instructor has other upperdivisional EE courses to teach, including undergraduate project supervision, and typicalrequirements regarding educational scholarship and institutional service.As a unique solution satisfying these constraints, and a work in progress, this paper reports on atelemetry/SDR project implemented in an introductory coms

Conference Session

Disability Track - Technical Session IV

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University; Yvette E. Pearson P.E., Rice University

Tagged Topics

Disability

regulationthat protects people with disabilities from discriminatory employment practices (OFCCP). Theupdated compliance measures dictate that companies adopt new employment practices such ascreating plans to have a workforce where all job groups have at least 7% representation of peoplewith disabilities, documenting and updating the number of people with disabilities who haveapplied for jobs, and inviting employees to self-identify as people with disabilities (OFCCP).There have been instances when the OFCCP has been involved in legal actions to enforce thenew Section 503 mandate, demonstrating the importance of the new regulation in creatingdiversity in the workplace. For instance, in March 2017, American Ordnance was fined 50,000USD for failure to

Conference Session

Corporate Engagement Track - Technical Session V

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Olga Maria Stavridis, Ohio State University; Aimee T. Ulstad, Ohio State University; Lisa A. Barclay, The Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Corporate Engagement, Diversity

about the experience at the event center: “Disney in our town… The guy was really cool who met Presidents, and rocks stars, not a stereotypical engineer.” “Interesting to learn more about the (event center) and to be able to use engineering with planning. It shows me that we can use our degree for more than just engineering.” “I would love that job - Take away. Gave me a new side to what my degree can do.” “It is a new experience to consider. Yes! It allowed me to experience more in an engineering career field so I would know what I would potentially be doing.”  When classes began, student availability was more limited, which posed some challenges. The next tour was a short walk by the students to the

Collection

2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

Katherine Mavrommati, California Polytechnic State University; Eileen W. Rossman, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Jay Tyler Davis II

students determine the best way to set up their experiment. The students planned marker placement, orientation oftheir object in the calibrated space, and recorded any other information such as mass or dimensions of their object beforestarting the trials. Allowing the students to plan marker placement helped them understand the dynamic problem they choseto analyze since they had to decide what kinematic information was important for their analysis. Students usually spent 12minutes on planning, 7 minutes on recording data and the rest of the time was spent showing the students how their data waspost-processed using the Cortex 7.0 system along with the final output of their kinematic data. Any remaining time wasallocated to talking about research

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; Richard Douglas Stock; Vanisa Turney

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

STEM design project. The lessons included a reading andwriting component based on the science concept. This component required instructors to preparea reading and writing lesson not only based on the science concept aligned to the challenge butalso tailored to the ability level of each reading group. Students were frequently tasked withusing manipulatives during this time to encourage them to find evidence to support what theyread in the text and to also encourage them to read the text carefully and to ask and answerquestions on the topic.On the second day of the activity, the students engaged in a guided research activity focused onOhio Revised Science Standards for online research of the science concept. This plan wasformulated to ensure