Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin M Fitzgerald, Museum of Science; Christine M Cunningham, Museum of Science

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

’ perceptions of and confidence in teaching STEM in theelementary classroom in Massachusetts. Massachusetts’ curriculum frameworks state that“approximately one-quarter of PreK-5 science time should be devoted totechnology/engineering”10, and elementary students are assessed on technology and engineeringstandards through a state-wide exam in fifth grade. The BEST grant works with faculty from fourMassachusetts community colleges and their 4-year transfer partners to implement engagingengineering and technology content in preservice teacher preparation courses. Thirty-five facultymembers from these Massachusetts colleges are currently involved in the BEST grant, impactingapproximately 750 students each year.Our work on an earlier NSF-funded grant called

Conference Session

Mentoring Practices and Project Teams

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane Paul Lorona, Oregon State University; Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

of higher-level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 The Two Worlds of Engineering Student TeamsIntroductionOne common critique of the engineering curriculum is that students leave unprepared to connectthe knowledge they learned in the classroom to the messy, open

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Dennis

will require a diversion from many universities’ current definition ofscholarship. The end result of all these alternatives is that university administrators must buy-into this process of integrating practitioners, development of cross campus curriculums andredefining scholarship to insure the necessary faculty and programs are in place to insure successin delivering the BOK.The Ideal Faculty Member The heart of any institution and indeed any effort to implement the BOK is the faculty. Asa result, the CAP3 also saw a need to define the attributes of the teacher of the BOK. The whosection of the BOK, which is the real subject of this article attempted to define the principalcharacteristics of the ideal educator. The focus of CAP3 was on

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanislaw Maj; Anuradha Sutharshan; D Veal

Technology (IT) profession [15]. The alignment of an organisation’sinformation technology to its business strategies is a recurrent theme in IS research[6]. The increasing complexity of today’s business and IT environments makes itmore difficult for organisations to design an Enterprise architecture that supports thecompany’s business objectives and enables the IT staff to deliver applications thatalign with business goals.Enterprise Architecture is about understanding all of the different elements that go tomake up the Enterprise and how those elements interrelate. The InformationTechnology Management Reform Act of 1996, better known as the Clinger-CohenAct, refers to Enterprise architecture as "an integrated framework for evolving ormaintaining

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bungo Shiotani, University of Florida; Dante Augustus Buckley, University of Florida; Amy Elizabeth Bumbaco, University of Florida; Norman G. Fitz-Coy, University of Florida

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Systems Engineering

Aerospace Engineering from UF where his thesis, Reliability Analysis of SwampSat, focused on performing reliability analyses on SwampSat, UF’s first CubeSat. His experiences and as the project manager with SwampSat lead to an internship at NESTRA (Japan) where he worked on developing system diagrams and test procedures as well as assembly integration and testing of their three microsatellites that were in development. In addition to his Ph.D. work, Bungo is the project coordinator for Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) program on multiphase fluid science and technologies at the UF’s Chemical Engineering Department funded by the National Science Foundation. As the PIRE project coordinator, he

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gordon Hoople, University of San Diego; Diana Chen, University of San Diego; Susan Lord, University of San Diego; Joel Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio

interested in approaches that contribute to a more expansive understanding of engineering in sociocultural contexts, the impact of critical consciousness in engineering practice, and the development and implementation of culturally responsive pedagogies in engineering education. He received the NSF CAREER Award for his work on conocimiento in engineering spaces. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Reimagining Energy Year 4: Lessons LearnedOverviewThis National Science Foundation (NSF) project focuses on the development of a new, requiredenergy course, “An Integrated Approach to Energy,” for second-year

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Controls Laboratories

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oscar Ortiz, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTouneau University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

transistors, MOSFETs, SCR’s Diacs, Triacs, and optoelectronic devices.Project-based learning develops the ability of the students to work in interdisciplinaryteams. Projects carried out by interdisciplinary teams are not only an expectation ofindustry but also have become a required outcome of the ABET engineering criteria. Aseries of curriculum tools have been developed at our school to ensure that students willhave a measure of success in project team work [1] Project-based learning is aninstructional method that demands from the student acquisition of critical knowledge,problem solving proficiency, self-directed learning strategies, and team participationskills [2]During the 2007 fall semester the students studied and implemented FM transmitters

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Dusseau; Carlos C. Sun; Kauser Jahan

uniquemulti-disciplinary engineering education. One hallmark of the college is the integration of real-world experiences into the curriculum. Therefore, the college is constantly seeking both industrialand public partnerships in developing projects for engineering clinics. The Junior/SeniorEngineering Clinics provide students the opportunity to experience a real world project and themedium to apply and refine their engineering abilities as well as communication skills. Typicalclinic teams are composed of students with different abilities. Thus, each team possessesstudents with different skills such as surveying, drafting, transportation engineering

Conference Session

Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Youssef, California State University, Northridge; J. Michael Kabo, California State University, Northridge

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

an intensive writing and presentation experience with criticalfeedback engages students in a continuous reflection on the elements of the complete designprocess throughout the entire semester. It was found that this approach produces students whoare better prepared for their senior design projects and engineering practice. Students noted anincrease in their understanding of machine design concepts as an integration of all their priorpreparatory training. The effectiveness of the revised course structure was evaluated through asurvey of previous and current students.Introduction and backgroundPrior to 2011, one of the common concerns of the Mechanical Engineering department’s seniorstudents was the inability to “engineer” or practice “design

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Measurement: Innovative Courses

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Instrumentation

insight into the “laboratory based problem solvinglearning environment” that has been developed with financial and technical assistancefrom local industries. The discussion will also identify how the “need” for this type ofproject based curriculum became obvious. Four prerequisite courses are briefly describedbefore focusing on the project based capstone course. These four courses provide thestudents with the technical skill sets needed to succeed in the senior level capstonecourse. Accomplishments and outcomes from the student perspective, the Universityperspective, and the industry perspective will also be shared.Our advancing world of computer integration, process control, industrial automation, andtelecommunications requires technical problem

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics & Structural Modeling Courses

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport; Linfeng Zhang, University of Bridgeport; Xingguo Xiong, University of Bridgeport

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Mechanical Engineering

., “Combining Experiments with Numerical Simulations in the Teaching of Computational Fluid Dynamics,” Proc. 2003 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June, Nashville, Tennessee, 2003.7 K. Aung, “Design and Implementation of an Undergraduate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Course,” Proc. 2003 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June, Nashville, Tennessee, 2003.8 D. Pines, “Using Computational Fluid Dynamics to Excite Undergraduate Students about Fluid Mechanics”, Proc. 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June, Lake City, Utah, 2004.9 R. Bhaskaran, L. Collins, “Integration of Simulation into the Undergraduate Fluid Mechanics Curriculum using FLUENT”, Proc. 2003 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez, Colorado State University; MaryEllen C Nobe, Colorado State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Construction

to (a) begin to acquire an understanding ofconstruction hazards grasp difficult technical concepts and; (b) understand how safety sciencechanges over time as a project is observed and lessons are learned; (c) analyze the impacts oftechnical decisions on the execution of the project; and (d) appreciate the importance of ethicalconsiderations in the design and construction decision-making process. Case studies are alsouseful in the education of the engineer and construction manager since they provide anopportunity for students to appreciate the problems of stakeholders to the construction process[21]. Other researchers have integrated case studies into engineering curriculum for differentpurposes [4, 16]. These include:  Introductions to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Mark Bradley Kinney, Bay de Noc Community College; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, where he taught courses on Embedded Systems. Ad- ditionally, Dr. Alaraje is a recipient of an NSF award for a digital logic design curriculum revision in collaboration with the College of Lake County in Illinois, and a NSF award in collaboration with the University of New Mexico, Drake State Technical College, and Chandler-Gilbert Community College. The award focused on expanding outreach activities to increase the awareness of potential college stu- dents about career opportunities in electronics technologies. Dr. Alaraje is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), a member of the ASEE Electrical and Computer Engineer- ing Division, a member of the ASEE Engineering Technology Division, a

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Choate

outlined at the 2003 National Effectiveness Teaching Institute Workshop,course deployment in fall 2003 was altered slightly from the fall 2002 approach, and the courseoutcomes assessment indicated a more effective learning environment. Alternative deploymentconsisted of incorporating visual and higher-level overview of thermodynamic systems andfluids phenomena, and of actively engaging students through worked example problems byinstructor, individual students and student groups.Bibliography1. C. Shih and F. Alvi, “An Integrated Thermal and Fluids Curriculum,” Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.2. R.N. Smith, D.A. Kaminski, M.K. Jensen and A. Hirsa, “Development of an Integrated

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

) Steering The program received good ratings and was in heavy demand.Council accepted a proposal submitted by Asbjørn Rolstadås A parallel program was launched in Belgium. The hypothesisin 2002, “GEM - Global Education in Manufacturing [6].” that formed the basis of the MTI curriculum was that a2002 also saw a paper presented to the International Council manufacturing system needed to be understood and managedfor Production Research (CIRP) on “Education for Future as a totally integrated operation from the initial productManufacturing [7].” It was notable that the general focus and concept out to delivery to the revenue customer and eventualtenor among the academic and professional

Conference Session

Teaching College Algebra and Using Mathematics Tutoring Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyounkyun Oh, Savannah State University; Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Sujin Kim, Savannah State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

an impact on student attitudes toward mathematics • reduces the FWD rate so that more students pursue their degrees by being released from the math fetter • educates them with more hands-on knowledge in their professional or working areas • and helps the diversity of learning methodologies of mathematics,it is very valuable enough to be adopted as a part of the school education system. However, inorder to expect better results and to be set as a regular program for College Algebra at ourschool, there are a few things to be improved, such as • smaller size of class • curriculum change for target students • reorganized contents fitting the students’ needs in the school • securing enthusiastic

Collection

2013 GSW

Authors

Christina K. White; Richard H. Crawford

) interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates engineering, public policy, business,and ethics, and more; (3) entrepreneurship to turn creative ideas into inventions andinnovations; (4) global dimensions necessary to navigate our modern economy; and (5) service-learning to deepen the social consciousness of the Scholars. The GCSPs are in part, a responseto national innovation-focused policies such as Educate to Innovate and Innovation Strategy forEconomic Development, which have inspired new ideas and research in engineering education.Throughout human history, imagination has come to fruition in many ways, notably throughengineering which drives immense advances in civilization. These advances can be seen withsignificant engineering feats that drastically

Conference Session

LabVIEW and Mindstorms Based Experiments

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Dawn Spencer, Colorado State University-Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

? 421 Did your participation on the team help or hinder your performance and the end 3.75 result of the project?22 Do you understand the importance of having a planning/design phase before an 4.25 implementation phase?23 Do you feel that expectations were too high? 3.7524 Do you feel like there was too much work? 3.525 Was the course relevant to your interests? 4.7526 Did the course stimulate your interest in engineering/CIS/robotics? 527 Understand various aspects of hardware/software integration 3.7528 Able to develop criteria for the selection

Collection

ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Brandon Bakka, University of Texas at Austin; Henry Grady Rylander III P.E., The University of Texas at Austin; Mia K. Markey, University of Texas at Austin; Julia N Savoy, University of Wisconsin - Madison

accessible to a large number of Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Baylor University, Waco, TX Copyright © 2021, American Society for Engineering Education 2engineering students at all educational levels (bachelor’s, integrated bachelor’s/master’s, master’s,and doctoral). IntroductionIn order to excel in their future careers, engineering students not only need a strong technicalbackground, but also an understanding of the design process in order to adequately address thephysical and social constraints of real-world problem solving. While the

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Powell; Michael Kwinn

-based learning,2) work-based learning, and 3) connecting activities.This paper explores the uniqueness and nature of the Academy’s work-based education program,its’ purpose, the process for matching cadets with a participating agency, and follow-up feedbackfrom students. The feedback is used to assess the viability of the program for future students andincrease the value gained from the program for participating organizations. This paper providespractical guidelines for implementing such a program in any engineering curriculum to enhancea student’s engineering education and learning.An Integrating ExperienceThe academic program at West Point has evolved in response to the needs of the Army andtrends in higher education. The balanced offering of

Conference Session

Making Professionals: Methods to Build Success Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

William D Lawson P.E., Ph.D., Texas Tech University; Theodore G. Cleveland, Texas Tech University; Ken Rainwater, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

to offerrecommended guidance on preparing for and taking the FE Exam. Not surprisingly, the purpose of CE 4200 was to integrate technical and social issues tohelp prepare senior CE students to enter professional practice. Course content focused on theimportance of licensure, an introduction to the FE Exam, and also awareness of leadership,management, public policy, and business issues in civil engineering. The course also providedtechnical instruction for selected general and CE discipline-specific topics from the FE Exam.BackgroundEarly CE 4200 Course Design (2012-2018) As originally created, CE 4200 devoted about half of its instructional lectures to selectedCEBOK outcomes, and half to FE review (technical) topics. This

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Huff, Harding University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kavitha Durga Ramane; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

human andcontextual factors are integrated into the system, the limits of prior views of ‘good practice’ or‘good science’ are revealed and enable new ways of thinking about system performance” (p.602)23. Essentially, according to these perspectives, engineering practice comprises an integratedform of social and technical types of problem solving.Such a sociotechnical perspective of engineering can also be related to sociological theories oftechnology and society (e.g., Social Construction of Technology24; Affordance Theory25; ANT26,27 ; Sociotechnical Imaginaries28). While there is considerable variety in this body of theory,together they help reveal the ways in which technical and social worlds are frequentlyintertwined, as well as the

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sindee Simon; Theodore Wiesner; Lloyd Heinze

, coupled with the course survey results, was the documentation of poorinstruction by a particular instructor. In this case, the instructor was temporarily removed fromthe classroom and from teaching required chemical engineering courses. Upon makingimprovements in his or her teaching, as documented by course surveys of the elective coursestaught, the instructor was re-integrated into the teaching of required chemical engineeringcourses.Significant changes in the Chemical Engineering curriculum have also resulted fromimplementation of our assessment/improvement/assessment cycle. For example, we recentlycombined three junior-year transport laboratories, associated with fluid mechanics, heat transfer,and mass transfer, into a single two-credit

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiahui Song, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Douglas E. Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

done biomedical research during post doctorate research positions at the Uni- versity of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan), and Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). He has taught classes for and been an advisor on capstone senior design projects for Wentworth students in the programs of electrical engineering, computer engineering, electromechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Project-based Learning for Electrical Engineering Lower Level CoursesAbstract:Project-based learning (PBL) is applied as an attempt to increase both understanding and senseof inspiration for a field. PBL works to integrate and apply 1

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arash Jamshidi, University of California, Berkeley; Elisa Stone, University of California, Berkeley

also supporting teachers through professional learning. While with SCALE, Arash co-developed the NGSS-aligned middle school science curriculum for the San Francisco Unified School District, and reviewed and contributed to the Stanford NGSS Integrated Curriculum: An Exploration of a Multidimensional World.Elisa Stone (CalTeach Berkeley Program Director) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Digging Deeper with Data: Engineering Research Experiences for STEM Undergraduates and TeachersAbstract:It has become increasingly important for K-12 students to learn how to investigate patterns

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eduardo Montanez, Freescale Semiconductor; Michael Norman, Freescale Semiconductor

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

trendcontinues, the learning curve for tomorrows’ engineers grows steeper and the gap betweendesigning embedded systems in industry and teaching embedded systems development at auniversity widens. Educators are therefore challenged to adapt to advances in embedded systemswhile maintaining courseware that is broken into simple building blocks capable of maintainingcontinuity along the growth path. This requires a rich hands-on curriculum that encapsulatesmodular hardware, software, and courseware that can scale from fundamental concepts to moreadvanced topics.This paper introduces a modular demonstration, development and learning hardware platformand an example set of progressive laboratory exercises that help to meet this challenge. Theplatform includes

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Nored; David Compton

students signed a licenseagreement with the university that provides a means for profits to be shared with the engineeringdepartment. Along with the university, the State of Oklahoma helped these young engineers.They benefited from established technology commercialization centers, grants, and cooperativelegislation created to keep technologies and skilled workers in the state.The success of this project can serve as an example for universities wishing to try an informalprogram. With a flexible curriculum and a supportive environment, entrepreneurship can flourisheven without a fully dedicated academic program.I. BackgroundOklahoma Christian is a fully accredited private university offering standard degrees in liberalarts subjects, education, music

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Professional Practice 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebekah Oulton, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

engagement in social topicsmore than a traditional approach [20]. This outcome shows how new design methods can helpengineers build better products and systems. Similarly, they can also help engineers to buildpersonal confidence. A study at Lafayette College found through emphasizing morals in theengineering classroom, students were more confident in their abilities to develop solutions insocially complex situations [21]. In another study at Loyola University in Chicago, it was seenthat by including social justice topics across the engineering curriculum, retention rates ofminority engineering students increased [17]..Students who have been negatively affected orseen their community impacted by an engineering project, may feel left out and

Conference Session

Government Policy, Manufacturing Education, and Certification

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Simoneau, Keene State College; Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology; Diane Dostie, Central Maine Community College; Lisa C. Hix, Keene State College; David J. Tuttle, Platt Technical High School

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

training and classesin advanced manufacturing areas for faculty from any college or secondary program. Forexample, training on additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping is available at RapidTech, anATE Center in Irvine, CA. The staff at RapidTech is versed in all aspects of additivemanufacturing and in industry trends and provides an annual summer workshop that assistsparticipants with curriculum development as well as purchasing equipment for their respectivelaboratories. The team at RapidTech also provides innovative models for student recruitment,which have been helpful to the manufacturing community.The loss of feeder programs such as technology education at the high school level, as well asrecently proposed reductions in Perkins funding

Conference Session

Two-year College Potpourri

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College; Jenny Ngoc Le, Skyline College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

, and Pacific Islander students.2. Program ComponentsOver the past several years, Skyline College has made large strides toward reaching aninstitutional goal of a robust and accessible transfer pathway to 4-year and graduate degrees inEngineering. As a leading partner in the Silicon Valley Engineering Tech Pathways (SVETP)initiative, the college is contributing to an integrated and accelerated system of K-14 STEMcareer pathways to increase the number and diversity of students succeeding in high-demandpost-secondary education and careers in computer science, engineering, and other STEMdisciplines. Through this initiative, the Engineering and Computer Science Departmentdeveloped the Engineering and Technology Scholars (ETS) Program which included