Conference Session

Engineering Ethics III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Birmingham, Grove City College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

AC 2008-1665: TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE AND ITS APPLICATION TO ETHICSWilliam Birmingham, Grove City College Page 13.1294.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Towards an Understanding of Artificial Intelligence and Its Application to Ethics1. IntroductionArtificial intelligence (AI) is a broadly defined discipline involving computer science,engineering, philosophy, psychology, political science, and a host of other disciplines. BecauseAI is so broad, it is hard to succinctly define; for the sake of brevity, we will use the handle of“thinking machines,” without commitment to depths of this thinking.The

Conference Session

Socio-Technical Issues in Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Catalano, Binghamton University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

that enables and enhances personalintrospection and contemplation leads to the realization of our inextricable connection to eachother, opening the heart and mind to true community, deeper insight, sustainable living, and amore just society.”The approach is implemented in a senior level capstone design two course sequence which isheld concurrently with a course in engineering ethics. Projects undertaken by student designteams are primarily suggested by members of local and regional non-profit and not for profitagencies that focus on meeting the needs of residents with various physical, mental andemotional challenges. The engineering ethics is course is held during the fall semester while thecapstone design course sequence begins in the fall

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Don E. Malzahn, Wichita State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2012-3349: TEAM DECISION SKILLS DEVELOPMENT WITH MBTISTEP IIDr. Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University Lawrence E. Whitman is the Director of Engineering Education for the College of Engineering and Pro- fessor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering at Wichita State University. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Oklahoma State University. His Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Arlington, is in indus- trial engineering. He also has 10 years’ experience in the aerospace industry. His research interests are in enterprise engineering, engineering education, and lean manufacturing.Dr. Don E. Malzahn, Wichita State University Don E. Malzahn is professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Dr. Mihir K. Das

Session 2668 THE CHANGING ROLE OF MECHANICS IN ENGINEERING CURRICULA Dr. Mihir K. Das Associate Dean of Engineering California State University, Long Beach Abstract Mechanics is the corner stone of the engineering curriculum because it helps to develop essential designskills in engineering students. In the past, the mechanics curriculum was too inflexible with too much attentionpaid to solving classical problems

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noelle K. Comolli, Villanova University; Jacob James Elmer, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Engineering CoursesAbstract Traditional chemical engineering curriculum focus on the math, science and engineeringfundamentals culminating in a senior year process design course. These courses are excellentpreparation for most chemical engineering jobs, but they typically omit very practical skills suchas curiosity, connections and creating value. The lack of these fundamentals of the entrepreneurialmindset puts chemical engineers at a disadvantage in today’s workplace. The faculty at VillanovaUniversity have made the effort to focus on EML (entrepreneurial minded learning) by creatingmodules that can be implemented in already existing courses. These modules all vary in time,scale, and application, but have the same goal: to introduce chemical

Conference Session

Research and Assessment

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; David Pistrui, Acumen Dynamics, LLC

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

our thinking. Instead of permitting engineering educationto lag technology and society, “Should the engineering profession anticipate needed advancesand prepare for a future where it will provide more benefit to humankind?”[3]So the question becomes, how do we train engineers to be more entrepreneurially minded?What is an Entrepreneurially Minded Engineer? Page 22.244.2According to Dawn Tabat, Chief Operating Officer of Generac Power Systems (and a group ofthe company‟s engineering executives), Entrepreneurially Minded Engineers (EMEs) “act like aproduct manager within their engineering discipline”. In other words, “EMEs are not justworking on

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Wentzheimer; Jennifer VanAntwerp; Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

aware of the things they may need to learn in depth in the future. It is this breadth that isnot so easily picked up on the job, where the work may in fact be quite narrow for a time. Itshould be the role of the entire undergraduate education to open a student’s mind, as NationalAcademy of Engineers’ president Bill Wulf puts it, “to appreciate the human dimensions oftechnology, understand global issues, be sensitive to cultural diversity, and know how tocommunicate effectively.”2 Once a sense of wonder and respect for these issues is well plantedthrough a variety of undergraduate courses, then a lifetime of experiences can truly lead to alifetime of growth

Conference Session

Engineering Identity 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadia L. Frye, Washington State University; Devlin Montfort, Washington State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

important for engineering educators torecognize students’ limited abilities to perform or recognize the need for critical evaluation.Curricula should be designed with this framework in mind to scaffold learning so that studentsare encouraged to progress through these stages of personal epistemology and so that studentsare explicitly taught the criteria for evaluation of knowledge that are used in their engineeringdisciplines.Future Research Based on these findings, it appears that that engineering students’ personalepistemologies will continue to evolve in major ways throughout their pursuit of an engineeringdegree. This is consistent with previous researchers’ theories of personal epistemologydevelopment in students1, 2, 3. These results

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexa Rihana-Abdallah, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

2006-2544: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING,CHEMISTRY, AND BIOLOGYAlexa Rihana-Abdallah, University of Detroit Mercy The Author has written a number of articles published in the ASEE Annual Conference proceedings over the years. The Author teaches at the University of Detroit Mercy in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Page 11.285.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Bridging the Gap between Environmental Engineering, Chemistry, and BiologyAbstractRecognizing the intellectual merit of interdisciplinary studies to

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Farmer, UTeachEngineering; David T. Allen, University of Texas, Austin; Leema Kuhn Berland, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Lisa Guerra, NASA

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

research in the learning sciences, couched in thecontext of a rigorous engineering design process, and scaffolded to build engineering skills andhabits of mind. This paper describes the creation and piloting of such a course: Engineer YourWorld, a product of the UTeachEngineering project at The University of Texas at Austin.The UTeachEngineering project was launched in 2008 with a Math and Science Partnership(MSP) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Originally focused on preparing in-service and pre-service high school teachers to teach engineering, the project was agnostic onwhich course materials those teachers should use with their students. However, an NSF site visit

Conference Session

Biology in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Coppinger, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon Sexton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

my perceptions about the 3.88 3.39 importance of genetics in approaching biological problems”Most biomedical engineering students found the placement of this course in the curriculumappropriate (Table 2). However, several biomedical engineering students reported that theywould have preferred that this course occur earlier in the curriculum, as evidenced by thefollowing selected comments: “[Genetics] should be taken closer to when biology is required in the curriculum.” “[Genetics] might be beneficial to be after biology, so our minds are still on that track…” “I think that [genetics] would have been more beneficial if it was

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah; Steven J. Burian, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

AC 2012-4337: ANALYSIS OF THE SUSTAINABILITY CULTURE IN CIVILAND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND MECHANICAL ENGI-NEERING PROGRAMSMs. Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah Maria Blevins is a Ph.D. student in the Communication Studies program at the University of Utah.Dr. Steven J. Burian, University of Utah Page 25.189.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Analysis of the Sustainability Culture in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering ProgramsAbstractThis paper describes a study of the sustainability culture of 390 students in civil

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Poetry writing for those interested individuals has provided an avenue forcommunication.When an earlier paper began with the following quotation, “Variety's the spice of life, that givesit its flavor,” it echoed a feeling that stifling the creativity of any group of individuals is notproductive. Allowing these individuals to range across various types of communication is notonly good for engineers expressing themselves but for the production they produce in theirengineering activities. These lines in "The Task, I" by William Cowper (English poet 1731-1800) still reflect an attitude over two hundred later that must he fostered in the minds ofengineers. No man is an island, and no field of study can divorce itself from the activities,interests

Conference Session

Design Methodology and Evaluation 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamecia R. Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #7733The Design of Language for Engineering Education: Recycling IM and TextMessaging to Capture Engineering ProcessesTamecia R Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette Tamecia received a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering with a concentration in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University, a M.A. in Learning, Design, and Technology from Stanford University, and a M.Div. from Boston University School of Theology. She taught middle school math and science for three years, consulted with pre-college programs, and nonprofits and museums. The focus of her doctoral research is assessment in K-12

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Danny Bee

Session 1533 Back to the Future Manufacturing Engineering at Stout Danny J. Bee University of Wisconsin-StoutAbstractManufacturing engineering education at the University of Wisconsin-Stout has gone back to thefuture. Today’s undergraduate manufacturing engineering program utilizes laboratory- andindustrial project-based instruction throughout the professional component of the curriculum.The century old Stout tradition of hands-on, minds-on instruction emphasizes engineering andindustrial applications balanced with a strong basis of engineering sciences. In

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha Lagoudas Wilkerson, Texas A&M University; Joanne K Olson, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

%); 67% were tenure-track, and 23% were in an instructional or clinicalrole. Respondents were 61% male and predominately White/Caucasian (73%).ResultsThis work-in-progress paper presents preliminary results for RQ2, which includes a ranking taskwhere participants were asked to consider the importance of various engineering topics for a highschool curriculum. Respondents were asked to identify the engineering topics as "essential,""nice to have," or "not important" (given a score of 3, 2, and 1, respectively) for two groups ofstudents: high school students intending to major in engineering and all high school students.The selected topics were derived from the FPEL [5], which defines K-12 engineering learning asincluding habits of mind

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William E. Lee III P.E., University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #25271Board 46: Multiple intelligences and undergraduate engineering educationDr. William E. Lee III P.E., University of South Florida Dr. Lee is a professor in the Dept. of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering and has a strong interest in philosophy of mind and epistemology and how these influence engineering education. Recent research has included investigations of problem solving, the creative process, and how engineering/science education can be informed by the visual and performing arts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Multiple Intelligences and

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and the Educated Person

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

cognitive and affective dimensions of student development asthey are understood today.11 He argues that while, at the time, it was a much-usedphrase, it nevertheless required elucidation for its proper understanding. A similarargument applies at the present time, as for example when the phrase “educate thewhole person” is used. Without further clarification this phrase can mean what anindividual wants it to mean. Be that as it may, the question for engineering educationis whether or not it contributes to that enlargement of mind that society wouldassociate with a liberally educated person irrespective of what that person brings withthem to their study? It is not the purpose of this paper to discuss this issue, but toargue that a person who has no

Conference Session

Design and the Liberal Arts

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Patton; Richard Bannerot

Session 2661Synthesizing Creative Processing in Engineering Curricula through Art Angela H. Patton, Richard B. Bannerot University of HoustonIntroductionEngineering stands poised between mind and matter. It is a discipline that gives shape tounseen forces and application to scientific query. Translating ideas and phenomena intoaccessible forms requires ingenuity. Engineers imagine and invent. In the context ofengineering education, creativity is recognized as a valuable attribute. And yet, mostengineering programs lack an effective means of synthesizing creative processing into thecore values of

Collection

2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Yumin Zhang; David Probst

mental functioning, and they canbe of great help in engineering education, as well as in other areas. A salient feature of thehuman brain is the lateralization, where the two hemispheres have different functionality.Traditional education methods overemphasize the left brain skills. Now is the time to have amore balanced approach. This can be done in two different levels: curriculum design and courseinstruction.    Bibliography[1] P. F. MacNeilage, L. J. Rogers and G. Vallortigara, “Evolutionary Origins of Your Right and Left Brain”,Scientific American, July 2009, pp. 60.[2] Linda Williams, Teaching for the Two-Sided Mind, Touchstone, 1986.[3] Eric P. Jensen, Brain-Based Learning: The New Paradigm of Teaching, 2nd edition, Corwin Press, 2008.[4

Conference Session

Flexible Engineering Curricula

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leland Giovannelli, University of Colorado, Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

encounters with the Other. (This is most obvious in her latest new course, A Global State of Mind.) Whatever the subject, her courses are grounded in accountability–to the text, to oneself, and to one’s fellows.Ms. Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder Robyn Sandekian is the Managing Director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Com- munities (MCEDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder). She joined the Engineering for Developing Communities Program (now known as the Mortenson Center) in spring 2004, just as the first EDC graduate track was approved. With MCEDC, her main duties have included student advising and academic program development. Recently, she co-developed the

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

Education Research Colloquies, "The Research Agenda for the New Discipline of Engineering Education," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 95, pp. 259-261, 2006.[2] J. S. Bruner, Actual Minds, Possible Worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986.[3] K. W. Fischer, "A Theory of Cognitive Development: The Control and Construction of Hierarchies of Skills," Psychological Review, vol. 87, 1980.[4] L. Vygotsky, Thought and Language (translation newly revised and edited by Alex Kozulin). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1986.[5] T. S. Kuhn, The structure of scientific revolutions, 3rd ed.. ed. Chicago

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Niewoehner, U.S. Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

responsibility? Does environmental responsibility extend beyond simple pragmatism? A case can surely be made that environmental responsibility can be posed as an expression of extended self interest. Why should one care about environmental impact of one’s work, particularly if the environmental impact is delayed many years beyond the engineer’s life? Why would it trump the engineer’s financial interests or those of their clients? Is the environment invested with inherent value? If so, how and why? • Why be civically minded? • If these duties are genuine, and transcendent, how can they be known? • Some would assert that the engineer bears an aesthetic responsibility of ethical import. What’s the

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E. Kilduff, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jong-In Han, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

. Page 11.592.5ProjectStudents enrolling in the present course will be divided into teams with each teamworking on a different project. Even though two or three students will be encouraged as ateam, students, in particular graduate students and/or undergraduates with researchexperiences, can also do individual projects. Teams will be provided with a list ofpossible project topics. Since hands-on experiences encourage development of curiosity,analytical proficiency, and manual dexterity, which are three desirable characteristics ofan engineer, students are encouraged to take apart and explore each of the experimentalprojects as deeply as desired, keeping in mind any safety considerations appropriate forthese activities (i.e., safety glasses worn

Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Avitabile; Tracy Van Zandt

EducationDivision Grant EEC-0314875 entitled “Multi-Semester Interwoven Project for Teaching BasicCore STEM Material Critical for Solving Dynamic Systems Problems”. Any opinions, findings,and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and donot necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation The authors are gratefulfor the support obtained from NSF to further engineering education.VII References1 Davis,B.G., “Tools for Teaching”, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1993, p100.2 Piaget,J., “To Understand is to Invent”, Grossman, New York, 1973.3 Vygotsky,L., “Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes”, Harvard University Press, MA, 1978.4 Avitabile,P., Hodgkins,J

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Turk; David Gattie

Session 1408 Introducing a Service-Learning Component to a Freshman Engineering Graphics Course David K. Gattie and H. Jeff Turk Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering The University of GeorgiaAbstractENGR 1120 serves as an introductory course in engineering graphics for freshmen in Biologicaland Agricultural Engineering at The University of Georgia. The prevailing emphasis in thecourse has traditionally been to develop 2-D and 3-D graphics communication skills, heavilyweighted in the enhancement of visual skills and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tolga Kaya, Central Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2012-3943: RECRUITMENT AND ENGAGEMENT OF UNDERGRAD-UATE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS IN INTERDIS-CIPLINARY RESEARCH PROJECTSDr. Tolga Kaya, Central Michigan University Tolga Kaya currently holds a joint Assistant Professor position in the School of Engineering and Tech- nology and the Science of Advanced Materials program at Central Michigan University (CMU). Prior to joining CMU, Kaya was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University (2007-2010), a Research and Teach- ing Assistant at Istanbul Technical University (1999-2007), a consultant at Brightwell Corp., Istanbul (2007), a senior VLSI analog Design Engineer and Project Coordinator at Microelectronics R&D Com- pany, Istanbul (2000-2006), and a

Conference Session

Making Professionals: Methods to Build Success Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Action Research [36], whereresearchers work with community to address community goals, empowering communitymembers, and promoting social justice and equity. However, engineers feel there is sometimes a“disconnect between engineers and the public” where “engineers don’t listen” [37 p. 15]. Thisrepresents motivation for improved education of engineers.Listening has been classified into a variety of types, such as active, accurate, contextual, critical,empathetic, and mindful [4, 13, 38]. Mindful listening has been encouraged for project managers[13] and healthcare professionals [39], focusing on being fully present, an awareness of bothoneself and others, engaging with the speaker, avoiding judgement of the speaker, and carefullyobserving and

Collection

2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; John Glime, Granite School District (UT)

inferencesabout populations (CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.SP.B.3), developing compelling arguments andrecommended solutions using clear reasoning and relevant evidence (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1.C), and using systems thinking skills to develop solutions to societal problems(EALR 1: SYS). Educators will leave the workshop feeling comfortable with the knowledge thatan implementation of these strategies in the classroom will also maintain a fidelity to the CommonCore.Authentic Engineering Connection. Identify and describe how you will explicitly address theways in which your lesson or activity is representative of the processes, habits of mind andpractices used by engineers, or is demonstrative of work in specific engineering fields.i At leastone of those must be

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Theis, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; patricia watkins, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Library; Mary Angela Beck, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

collect information that supports the topic of sustainability in the library? 2. Has the topic of sustainability, climate change, or other environmental topics been included as a topic for research in instruction classes for students? 3. What kinds of media, books or other materials are actively being collected on the topic of sustainability across the curriculum in the university?Staff 1. What does the word “Sustainability” mean to you? 2. What other words or ideas come to mind when I say “sustainability” or “engineering sustainability”? 3. How has the issue of sustainability or other environmental factors been addressed at ERAU? 4. What experiences have you been involved in on campus that have incorporated