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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Melissa Miller; Randall Reynolds

withpeers and a time for a discussion with the class about career opportunities in engineering andcomputer programming. It is a treasured opportunity when eighth graders are receptive to aconversation about the future and that was a very positive result of this activity. While theactivity was in progress, the students involved also became more focused on their regular mathclass, which was a welcome surprise.Overall, both projects were well received by the students and provided worthwhile instruction.References1. Foreman, J., July/August 2003, Next Generation Educational Technology Versus the Lecture. EDUCAUSEReview [On-line], http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0340.pdf , 12 July 2004. "Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Pat Ackerman; Kathy Brockway; Raju Dandu; Pedro Leite; Jimmy Splichal

. • Planned and designed a moving vehicle using the Mindstorms construction set. • Wrote a computer program to test the vehicle design and construction.Students met at the high school’s library to plan, design, construct, and write the computerprogram. Throughout the process, testing was conducted on the gym floor. Data was collectedfor later analysis and design modification.AeronauticsIn the third seminar, the KSU Department of Aviation offered a seminar in aeronautics. Theworkshop objective was to expose students to the historical background of flight andaerodynamics and to provide information about careers in aviation. The workshop includedwork with flight simulators and culminated in each student experiencing an actual airplane ride.A summary

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kaylea Dunn

outcomes of the introductory leadership course (entailing allobjectives of the professional skills) offered at the Midwestern university were used as a form ofmeasurement within the survey through a ranking system of importance and satisfaction amongthose being surveyed.Solicitation for survey participants was made via e-mail to more than 200 employer contactsprovided by university Career Services offices. These employers have active relationships withthe university through career fairs and campus visits. Employer representatives contacted forthis survey include human resource professionals, project engineers, chief executive officers,managers, and engineering alumni from the university. Of those surveyed, 85 opened the linkand 53 submitted

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert D. Homolka

goes back several years and continuestoday.Ernest Quigley, a National League veteran umpire of 22 years lived in Concordia, Kansas,owned a hog ranch in Kansas and taught mathematics at St. Mary’s College in Kansas8. Quigleyofficiated over 5400 major league baseball games including six World Series. He also officiated40 football games including Rose Bowl, Cotton Bowl and five Harvard-Yale games.9 QuigleyField, the University of Kansas’ first baseball stadium was named after him.10Today, Oklahoma math professor Chris Oehrein calls between 50 and 55 games per season as anumpire. Oehrein’s career started at the request of his department head when he taught at theUniversity of Marshall in West Virginia11.Finally, the author, a mathematics professor

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Crystal A. Powers; Donald M. Edwards; Dennis D. Schulte

to Biological Systems Engineering (BSEN) and Agricultural Engineering (AGEN)100 is a one-credit course required of all BSEN and AGEN majors at the University ofNebraska-Lincoln. This course is designed to introduce students to careers in biomedical,environmental, water resources, food and bioproduct, and agricultural engineering. It also coversthe human, economic, and environmental impacts of engineering in society; as well ascommunication, design, teamwork, and the role of ethics and professionalism in engineeringwork.The course objectives are to prepare students to: 1. Demonstrate understanding of the functions and societal impacts of engineering, and the defining characteristics of the biological systems and agricultural

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Alexey Yamilov

. This presented a technical challenge because only studentsproperly registered at the S&T are given access to the campus Blackboard system. Thislimitation was overcome with the help from S&T’s EdTech team who enabled proper guestaccess for all external students and their supervisors, see below.Course Scope and Target AudienceGoals of the course were defined as: • To overview field of nanotechnology with an emphasis on physical phenomena involved • Lay a foundation for a research career in the rapidly growing area of nanotechnology • Enhance students competitiveness on job marketTarget audience was chosen carefully to allow participation by the students from institutionswithout rigorous graduate programs. Upper-level undergraduate

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lin Wang; Si Ma; Haifeng Yan

knowledge of civilengineering and transportation engineering, leaving the practicing skills training aspart of the career for students after their graduation. The equipment used for theoperation is quite old and almost non-automated at that time, and it usually took littletime for the graduates to learn how to use them skillfully. There was few computeraided design or operation software employed in the industry as well. With thedevelopment of railway industry in recent years, however, the employers of therailway administrations and design institutions were faced up with the urgent needthat the graduates must be familiar with the conventional and updated knowledge ofrailway operation and design in university, become skillful in utilizing the

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Muhammet Ceylan; Aybala Usta; Fatma Barut; Ramazan Asmatulu

career counseling. It is also imperative to have a means of tracking studentsthrough school and of monitoring a program’s success so that the institution may identify whichmethods are effective and those that need improvement [2].Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering EducationIn this project, we tried to address some of the factors affecting freshmen student retention andsuccess rates, and also provide a laboratory option to increase these rates while utilizing thenewly developed Nanotechnology Teaching Laboratory (Nanolab) in the College of Engineering(CoE) at WSU. Students in this laboratory mainly engaged in goal-setting activities and learnedabout techniques that allow successful students

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Brandon W. Olson

student’s perspective it can often lead toa seemingly disconnected group of concepts and tools with no clear link to real-worldexperiences. This is especially confusing for students whose learning mechanisms aremore physically oriented. In an environment of nearly exclusive lecture-style learning, students are conditionedto absorb material in this fashion, in spite of the fact that most of the learning in theirfuture careers will not occur in this learning mode. In addition, there exist a substantialgroup of students (and instructors) whose learning processes are rooted in physicalexample and in having the opportunity to experiment with concepts, rather than throughan oral “download”. The present work is a step towards a method of instruction

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christopher C. Ibeh; Monika Bubacz; Andrey Beyle; Stefano Bietto; Stan Scoville; Dilip Paul; Charles Blatchley

” program, and5. provision for adequate faculty level to staff the graduate “materials science andtechnology” program,2008-101. implementation of the “materials science and technology” program,2. sustainability of efforts for funding of the Center for Nanocomposites andMultifunctional Materials (CNCMM), and the graduate “materials science andtechnology” program, and3. development of a strategy for enhancing career opportunities for graduates of the“materials science and technology” program.Results and Discussion of ResultsConcurrently, CNCMM is implementing several research and education programsinvolving students at various levels of academia. The REACH-RS [Research andEducation Academy for Coaching/Mentoring High School – Rising Stars

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jessica L. Buck; Bertiel Harris; Elizabeth Y. McInnis

service-learning.However, it is a well established fact that we learn through combinations of thought andaction, reflection and practice, theory and application (Kendall, 1988). Effective learningcan be achieved while discussing intellectual, civic, ethical, moral, cross-cultural, career, orpersonal goals (Kendall, 1990; Lisman, 1998). “Students from middle schools are mastering 149academic content standards while immersed in hands-on, technology-integrated projectsthat provide learning experiences that are not usually possible within the confines of thetraditional classroom” (Bradford, 2005, p.1). This emphasized that service learning isintegral in school learning process. This process becomes more

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Fani Zlatarova; Pavel Azalov

formulated as: “Collect,analyze, and interpret data”. Obviously, this statement implies possessing computing knowledge andskills. Current engineering students are future operational employees, supervisors and team leaders,middle managers and knowledge workers, and also top managers. Obtaining an appropriate backgroundin Computing during the years of undergraduate studies is important for their successful career. Theauthors of this paper try to answer the question if the currently offered undergraduate computing coursesfor engineering students provide the needed preparation for taking advantage of Information Technologywhen developing a variety of projects in the everyday professional activity. After analyzing academicprograms for engineering majors

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Neal A. Lewis

. Methods of obtainingbusiness experience are also offered.IntroductionMany university instructors have long careers in academia. Some of these instructors have had contactwith industrial companies in the form of research projects, grants, internships, and various other forms ofwork. All of these can be beneficial to the quality of teaching in the engineering classroom. Manyadjuncts and a few full time faculty members bring significant experience to the classroom. Someuniversities find value in this experience and seek out experienced professionals for their faculty. Manyuniversities find little value in “real world” experience, preferring people who focus almost exclusivelyon academic research. I happen to be one of those people who changed

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci; Pathickal Polouse

)that may be used with diverse student populations and for which no prerequisite science ormathematics background is required.An integral aspect of each experiment is to illustrate the importance of fundamental science andmathematics as “tools” necessary to solve engineering problems before the student has mastered thescience and mathematics. It is the opinion of the authors that the mystique associated withmathematics and science is often a deterrent to students selecting a career in engineering ortechnology. By demonstrating the final results of engineering and technical applications and showinghow the necessary math and science relate to the solution, it is expected that the students willappreciate the importance of math and science and

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

design work as well as observations of theongoing group performance in the design and construction of the capstone projects.Biographical Information MAJ Brian J. Novoselich graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1996 with aBachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. He earned a Master of Science degree inmechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006. He has served in variouscommand and staff positions during his Army career and is currently the course director for theautomotive sub-discipline courses at USMA. In addition he is the head faculty advisor for the Baja SAEdesign teams. MAJ Justin Highley graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1995 with a Bachelorof Science

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Laurent Simon; Piero Armenante; Rajesh Dave

Research Center funded by the National ScienceFoundation, and comprising four partner universities, i.e., Rutgers University, New Jersey Institute ofTechnology (NJIT), Purdue University, and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.The Camp Pharma program consists of working with both high school science teachers and students inorder to (1) increase their knowledge in pharmaceutical manufacturing, with an emphasis on particulatesystems, which constitute most pharmaceutical drug products (e.g., tablets), and (2) to create an interest inthe pharmaceutical industry as a career option.During the summer, the high school students attending the program will work with NJIT undergraduateand graduate students to learn basic methodologies and lab protocols

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Suzanne Keilson

)diversity.ConclusionMost engineers will spend their careers in the process of slow modifications within a given toolset ofknown solutions, which make reference books such as “The Art of Electronics” by Horowitz invaluable[33]. Students can be taught to go to the reference and to not reinvent the wheel, but rather to use atoolbox of ready-made solutions and components. This does package complexity and reduce the time ofproduct development, but it can also lead to poor design solutions. Many engineering students are nottaught to explicitly understand the design process even as they may go through a senior design capstonecourse. In their technical careers many will work in teams on projects that were well defined before themand will continue after them and wherein

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

L. Kuczynski; C. McGuinness; S. Farrell; B. G. Lefebvre; C. S. Slater

interactionbetween industry and academia and prepares undergraduate students for careers in regionallyand globally important industries. Through the Engineering Clinic program industriallysponsored research or design projects are performed in an academic environment. The abundance of pharmaceutical companies in New Jersey demands a steady pipeline ofwell-prepared engineering graduates. Undergraduate Rowan Engineering students have workedon a variety of research projects sponsored by pharmaceutical companies such as Brystol-MyersSquibb, Johnson Matthey Pharmaceuticals, and Novartis. This paper presents case studieswhich examine successful synergistic interaction between pharmaceutical industry andacademia through the Rowan Engineering Clinic Program. The

Conference Session

Breaking barriers, building futures: Narratives of equity and inclusion in STEM education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Funk, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Leilani Marie Pai, Denison University; Johan Benedict Cristobal, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

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

changes. Since these stories were potentially sensitive or identifying innature, we explicitly invited participants to share any discomfort they felt, so that we couldremove or aggregate stories as needed.Preliminary FindingsDeveloping an Interest in ComputingRecognition from instructors was a key factor in spurring participants’ interest and identificationwith computing. For Diana, a high school Photoshop instructor first recognized her potentialaffinity for computing and encouraged her to take computing courses. For Kalani and Leyla,community college instructors were pivotal in developing their initial interest. Kalani’s highschool did not offer many computing courses—when she asked about majors and careers inSTEM, she was encouraged to “just

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

onorganizations and society, and to expose students to educational and career opportunitiesin IT-related fields. Active and collaborative learning, teamwork, and communicationskills are expected components of the course. During the spring of 2006, a section of IST110 was delivered in a problem-based format based on podcast technology. The coursechallenge presented to the students was to explore and develop podcast content andtechnology and to deliver recommendations and podcast prototypes on the effective useof podcasting for the Penn State Abington campus in the areas of marketing, recruitment,student life, and education support. This project theme was integrated throughout theentire course and the podcast theme provided the context for the treatment of

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

fellgenerally in the 2 to 4 person per team range. Many of the key lessons learned in thecontests were related to working in a group. This result is significant in that teamwork isan educational goal of the participating courses, and an important experience for thestudents in preparation for internships, co-op experiences, and full-time careers. This isespecially important in that these students are lower division students in their freshmanand sophomore years. These experiences provide a level of confidence and set afoundation for future project work. Both the Robo-Hoops and Firefighting competitions successfully support a widerange of engineering courses, educational objectives, and equipment (hardware andsoftware). Survey results do not

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

engineering companies, the need for marketing and business development, project procurement, and project financing b. Legal aspects of engineering: contracts and agreements, terms and conditions of engineering services, legal adjudication including Alternate Dispute Resolution c. Professional risk management techniques: insurance requirements for design professionals, peer review processes, and product quality management d. Personnel/career management including professional licensure and society participation Additionally, the course presented an overview of future trends and challenges to theengineering profession, focusing mainly on

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Vicki V. May

-driven. A more learner-center, objective-driven approach is easier today given theavailability of digital resources and collaborative tools.As an alternative to requiring a textbook for a senior-level mechanics course, the studentsare creating a set of notes as a class using the wiki function in Blackboard. Through thisprocess the students will:• Synthesize information from different texts and resources, and• Collaboratively create a set of notes that they can use for quizzes and the final exam (and later in their careers).The students are working in groups. Each group is responsible for a separate section (thesections include: General Discussion, Theory and Equations, Definitions, Concept Map, andExample) of the class notes for each of five

Conference Session

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Case Studies in Construction Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Eduardo Abril; Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ; Sixto Duran Ballen

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

availableinformation. Artificial intelligence programs were later created around the 1960s to developvarious tasks with more efficiency. Recently artificial intelligence has become a highly relevant field of study and application,which is why it has found a wide range of applications in various fields, including education. Thisis where intelligence enters as an important tool for civil engineering, architecture, or ininterdisciplinary work involving all construction field careers [13,14]. That is the key point oftransition where artificial intelligence left the programming field and started to approach otherfields. Using AI in education (AIED) has created new opportunities for designing productivelearning activities and developing better technology

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 1: Student Experiences and Support

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorna Treffert, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Courtney June Faber, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Isabel Anne Boyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Student Division (STDT)

methods that allow for deep investigations of constructs such as epistemic thinking, identity, and agency. Dr. Faber has a B.S. in Bioengineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education from Clemson University and a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University. Among other awards for her research, she was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2022 to study epistemic negotiations on interdisciplinary engineering education research teams.Ms. Isabel Anne Boyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Isabel recently graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville earning her Bachelor’s of Science in Biomedical Engineering with Honors. She has assisted with several qualitative and mixed

Conference Session

Best of Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

thinking about sustainability in myfuture career, making sure the products I design will have a sustainable life cycle andwill not negatively impact society. I learned a lot from both my peers and the Brazilianstudents.Two students who participated in the program in 2022 wrote a paper discussing theirlearning experience in this program [7].Project example 2:In 2020, the students worked with Brazilian engineering students to perform a project incollaboration with Suzano, a sustainable paper pulp company located in Brazil. Suzanoprovided five areas the company would like to improve their sustainable practices. Thestudents were split into five teams, each focused on a certain sector of their business:(1) Inlet raw material transportation, (2) Outlet

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 13: Technological Advancements and Applications

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simon Njoroge, University of Washington; Arwen Elizabeth Pearson, University of Washington; Heather Dillon, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

computational problems. Thesemethods are instrumental in modeling mechanical systems, optimizing algorithms, and addressingcomputational challenges such as solving complex differential equations, which govern our day to daylife. Engineers encounter numerical methods first as students and continue to use these methodsthroughout their school and careers. 1It’s common for students to find mastering numerical methods difficult. This may be due in part to theabstract nature of the subject, complexity of the steps involved, and knowledge of when to apply specifictechniques. Instructors on the other hand face a hard time in the effective ways to break

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Effective Teaching 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

extent to which students have a healthy balancebetween work (school work, jobs, co-curricular activities) and life (leisure activities, personalneeds) [6]. Work-life balance (WLB) considerations were found to be very important to currentU.S. civil engineering students (e.g., “I don’t want to spend an excessive number of hours at myjob”) [7]. Concerns about WLB impact STEM students’ planned career trajectories, includingthoughts about leaving STEM [8]. Thus, engineering’s common reputation for being “all workand no rest” [9] should be of concern to faculty.Mental Health ModuleDuring the COVID pandemic in fall 2020 the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) required thatall incoming first-year students learn about mental health issues in a course

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Daniela Galatro; Ya-Huei Chin; Bradley Saville

linked to a vertically integrated framework of our curriculum, which combines core engineering concepts andprocess design around biodiesel plants in different courses of our program. Finally, the teams submit a “strategiesreport” (engineering logbook), where all engineering strategies to achieve the process engineering goals aresummarized and discussed. With this revamped version, we expect to guide students to assume responsibility fordesigning sustainable chemical processes while enhancing students’ career readiness.Keywords: Curriculum integration, chemical process design, sustainability.IntroductionThe integration of sustainability-related topics in the chemical engineering curriculum has beenstrategized in different teaching approaches and

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gabriel Parmer; Rahul Simha; Chris Toombs; Poorvi Vora; Timothy Wood

challenging software development experience that will prepare students for theirfuture careers. Our relatively small class sizes ranging from twenty to forty students give us theopportunity to run a course where faculty are deeply engaged with students working onindependent projects. In addition to requiring projects with a deep algorithmic component, thecourse has a strong focus on verbal and written presentation skills. While many students initiallyscoff at such soft skills, our alumni report the course as being one of the most valuable andmemorable experiences of their undergraduate careers precisely for that reason.AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank Emeritus Professor Arnold Meltzer for his long and inspirationalcommitment to senior design