Conference Session

Engineering Education in the Mid-East / Asia

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Stanton, United States Military Academy

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International

technical and non-technical audiences - Design effective and usable IT-based solutions and integrate them into the current environment - Recognize the need for, and engage in, continuing professional development - Develop proficiency, both oral and written, in the English languageThese should evolve over time as the CS department continues to implement its curriculum andthe faculty collectively develops a better understanding of what it actually wants from graduates,but establishing a foundation and teaching the faculty an appropriate model for the developmentprocess is essential to the mentor’s role. The mentor must ensure that the faculty will continue toask, answer, and

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Davis; Melissa Dark

spectrum.Students need to understand the notion of “no such thing as absolutely secure”.There are also personal characteristics associated with being an IA professional that studentsshould understand so they can self-assess whether or not they will be satisfied with a career in IA.Such characteristics include: detail-oriented, high level of self-discipline, voluntary paranoia. Toaddress how to integrate detail-orientation into the undergraduate curriculum, we can look atother disciplines where attention to detail is also paramount. Finally, at the undergraduate level, itwas assumed that students graduating from programs that include these topics are expected to gointo the following types of careers: Low Level IT Engineer, System Administrator with

Conference Session

Mechanical/Manufacturing ET Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dugan Um, Southwest Texas State University

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Engineering Technology

2006-77: INTRODUCTORY MEMS TECHNOLOGY USING BULKMICROMACHINING IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURINGCURRICULUMDugan Um, Southwest Texas State University Page 11.844.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Introductory MEMS technology using Bulk Micromachining in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Curriculum I. Introduction Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are small, integrated devices or systems thatcombine electrical and mechanical components. They range in size from sub micrometer (or submicron) to millimeter. MEMS extends the fabrication techniques developed for integrated circuitindustry to micromachining and manufacturing by adding

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Petersen; Richard Hughey; David Meek; Alexandra Carey

. The manual unifies the curriculum and makes the course easier to teach andadminister, especially for new instructors. It was recently modified to reflect changes in thecourse as we moved to an open-source assembler.Laboratory programming assignments are given electronically, typically once per week, over thecourse of ten weeks. Students spend four hours in scheduled sessions per week, but are given theoption of working in the laboratory during other times as well. Assignments vary in difficultyand complexity, from basic exercises in efficiency in MIPS to programming intricate routines tohandle external and internal interrupts with the Microkits. Each assignment also presentsstudents with opportunities to excel by electively choosing to

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Focus on Student Success 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University; Abigail T. Stephan, Clemson University; Baker A. Martin, Clemson University; Matthew K. Miller, Clemson University

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #33016Exploring Engineering: Peer-sharing Presentations in First-yearEngineering CurriculumDr. Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University Dr. Elizabeth Stephan is the Director of Academics for the General Engineering Program at Clemson University. She holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Akron. Since 2002, she has taught, developed, and now coordinates the first-year curriculum. She is the lead author of the ”Thinking Like an Engineer” textbook, currently in its 4th edition.Ms. Abigail T. Stephan, Clemson University Abigail Stephan is a doctoral candidate in the Learning

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 2: Community Retrospectives

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Nichole Ingram, University of Kentucky; Malgorzata Chwatko, University of Kentucky

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Paper ID #38164Graduate Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Curriculum: Progress in Twenty YearsMrs. Emily Nichole Ingram, University of Kentucky 2nd Year Ph.D. Graduate CandidateDr. Malgorzata Chwatko, University of Kentucky Malgorzata (Gosia) Chwatko is an assistant professor in chemical engineering. She has gotten her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Graduate Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Curriculum: Progress in 20 yearsEmily Ingram, Malgorzata ChwatkoChemical and Materials Engineering Department, University

Conference Session

Aerospace Curriculum and Collaborations

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leigh S McCue, Virginia Tech; Joseph A. Schetz, Virginia Tech

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Aerospace

students and an even larger number of MS students have completed their degrees under his supervision. These former students now hold a wide variety of important positions in industry, government and academia both in the US and overseas. He is a frequent and active member of the PhD committees of graduate students not only in aerospace, but also civil and mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech and foreign universities. Page 22.22.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A combined curriculum in aerospace and ocean engineering—38 years later This paper is

Conference Session

Engineering Without Borders Programs Involving Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Johnson, Valparaiso University; Sarah DeMaris, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

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International

2006-2020: PROVIDING AN INTEGRATED INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCEFOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS AT A SMALLINSTITUTIONEric Johnson, Valparaiso University Eric Johnson is the Paul and Cleo Brandt Professor of Engineering and an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Valparaiso University. His area of scientific research is design process methodologies and his teaching interests include introductory computer design courses and the development of international experiences for engineering students.Sarah DeMaris, Valparaiso University Sarah DeMaris is Professor of German and Director of the Kade-Duesenberg German House and Cultural Center at Valparaiso

Conference Session

Assessment and Research Tools

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Leslie Dodson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John Bergendahl, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John M. Sullivan Jr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Glenn R. Gaudette, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Curtis Abel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Laura A. Robinson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sarah Wodin-Schwartz P.E., Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Educational Research and Methods

experiences for students. Indeed, althoughmost institutions have not yet found a way of integrating STEM and humanities learning within asingle course, a surprising number of these experiments have been tried [26, 16, 11, 12, 3, 4, 27],including in the first-year curriculum [28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33]. In spite of the richly varied examplesof integrative learning, assessments have been much more scarce. It is not a difficult matter toassess disciplinary content within an integrative course; in our case, we had disciplinary expertsassess the discipline-specific student work within disciplinary and interdisciplinary assignments. It1 One intriguing exception [5] considers the inherently integrative “problem-based learning” in amedical program, controlling

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Pasha Antonenko, Oklahoma State University; Rebecca Damron, Oklahoma State University; Susan Stansberry, Oklahoma State University; Gayla Hudson, Oklahoma State University; Jean Dockers, Oklahoma State University; Alonzo Peterson, Langston University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2009-1747: THE EFFECT OF A TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTINTEGRATED CURRICULUM WORKSHOP ON PERCEPTIONS OF DESIGN,ENGINEERING, AND TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCESKaren High, Oklahoma State University KAREN HIGH earned her B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1985 and her M.S. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991 from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. High is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University where she has been since 1991. Her main technical research interests are Sustainable Process Design, Industrial Catalysis, and Multicriteria Decision Making. Her engineering education activities include enhancing mathematics, communication skills, critical

Conference Session

Potpouri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen B. Coletti, Northeastern University; Melinda Covert, Northeastern University; Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University; Lauren Gianino, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University

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Women in Engineering

essential course in their freshman engineering curriculum, CHEM 1151 - GeneralChemistry for Engineers. Northeastern University students intending to major in an engineeringdiscipline typically take this course during the fall of their freshman year. The course meets threetimes a week in sections of approximately 100 students in a large lecture hall and once weekly inrecitations of approximately 30 students. Lectures are taught by multiple instructors, whocoordinate to cover common material that consists of both introduction of new concepts as wellas one or two active-learning exercises. Students also participate in lectures using “clickers” toaddress questions posed by the instructor. These clickers provide both the individual student andthe

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dimitra Michalaka P.E., The Citadel; William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel

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New Engineering Educators

Paper ID #12271Application of Active Learning Techniques in Undergraduate Civil Engineer-ing CurriculumDr. Dimitra Michalaka, The Citadel Dr. Dimitra Michalaka is an Assistant Professor at the department of civil and environmental engineering at The Citadel. Dr. Michalaka received her undergraduate diploma in civil engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), after which she entered into the transportation engineering grad- uate program at UF. She graduated with a Master’s of Science in May 2009 and with a Ph.D. in August 2012. Her research is primarily focused on traffic operations, congestion

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Maggio; Sandra Yost

particular, this program is modeled on a highly successfulresidential summer camp for high school girls.Mechatronics Curriculum DevelopmentIn 1999, the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) was awarded an NSF-CCLI grant forcomprehensive curriculum development in mechatronics1,2. The project included thedevelopment of a new upper-division undergraduate course that incorporates team-oriented,project-based learning3. The incorporation of mechatronics in some existing courses was also agoal of the project4,5. Finally, the development of a pre-college outreach component wasintended to address future engineering workforce considerations6. The project specificallytargeted women and underrepresented minorities, especially in regards to the pre-collegecomponent

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

Java Virtual Machine, Proceedings of the thirty second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education, 2001, pp. 194–198.[2] Tanenbaum, A. Structured Computer Organization, 1999. Prentice-Hall, pp. 483-488.[3] Computing Curricula 1991, Report of the CM/IEEE-CS Joint Curriculum Task Force (1991) Available WWW. http://www.computer.org/education/cc1991/.[4] Computing Curricula 2001, Report of the Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula (2000). Available WWW. http://www.computer.org/education/cc2001/report/index.html .[5] Than, Soe, Development and Use of an Assembler in Computer Systems Course, JCSC, May 2001, pp 145- 152.[6] The Case for and Against Assembly Language, http://wheelie.tees.ac.uk/users/a.clements/CaseFor.htm[7

Collection

2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kaylea Dunn

1 The Case for Leadership Skills Courses in the Engineering Curriculum Kaylea Dunn Olsson Associates, Lincoln, NEAbstractLeadership courses are often encouraged, but not mandatory for an undergraduate engineeringdegree. The research presented here focuses on implementing specific undergraduate leadershipcourses as part of an American Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditedprogram at a Midwestern University.The purpose of this study is to identify what professional skills engineering companies expectstudents to develop through coursework before

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Roman Stemprok

implement the World Bank funded MalaysiaPolytechnic Development (MPD) Project in 1994. This six-year-old project has been verysuccessful and now enters a new phase of development with an anticipated extension of thefunding. This project focuses on extensive in-service training and development involvingexchange of personnel for both short and long term consultancies. This paper discusses teachingand curriculum development for a new university in South Malaysia where the consultantworked with local students on a daily basis for one year. The consultant's work was performed atthe Institute of Technology Tunn Hussein Onn (ITTHO), Malaysia. Lecturing covered the areasof Automation & Control Systems and Real Time Systems. Supporting curricula were

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth Tadepalli, University of Texas, Austin; Cameron Booth, University of Texas, Austin; Mitchell Pryor

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New Engineering Educators

AC 2009-2050: EVALUATING ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION IN APERSONALIZED SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTION-BASED CURRICULUMSrikanth Tadepalli, University of Texas, Austin Srikanth Tadepalli is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas. After recieving his BS in Mechanical Engineering from India, he moved to UT where obtained his MSE in Manufacturing Systems Engineering specializing in Design for Manufacturing. He has worked as a Teaching Assistant and as an Assistant Instructor for the Computers and Programming course over a period of 3 years at The University of Texas at Austin and was awarded "The H. Grady Rylander Longhorn Mechanical Engineering Club Excellence in Teaching

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Frances S. Johnson; Carlos C. Sun; Anthony J. Marchese; Heidi L. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Roberta Harvey; Ravi Ramachandran; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm

Page 5.347.1Glassboro State College to establish a high-quality engineering school in southern NewJersey. This gift has enabled the university to create an innovative and forward-lookingengineering program. The College of Engineering at what is now Rowan University iscomprised of four programs: Chemical, Civil and Environmental, Electrical andComputer, and Mechanical. Each program serves 15 to 35 students per year, resulting in60 to 140 students per year in the College. The size of the College has been optimizedsuch that it is large enough to provide specialization in separate and credible programs,yet small enough to permit a truly multidisciplinary curriculum in whichlaboratory/design courses are offered simultaneously to all engineering

Conference Session

Tree-huggers, Diggers, and Queers--Oh my!

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education

accreditation rules (especially criterion h) and professional societies’ pronouncements tojustify and orient innovations around sustainability. 17 One specific example is the use ofASCE’s “Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge,” which has “embraced sustainability as anindependent technical outcome,” to guide integration of sustainability criteria into a civilengineering program. 18 Finally, others have reached beyond “engineering” to develop graduateprograms in “Sustainability” more broadly, but which extend out of engineering perspectives andare targeted to include, but not be limited to, graduates of engineering programs. One such effortextends the project-based engineering curriculum approach to an interdisciplinary, professional“Masters of

Conference Session

Student and Other Views on Engineering Leadership

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yazmin Montoya, LEAD; Aaron Eduardo Pacheco Rimada, University of Texas, El Paso; Erwin Ignacio Delgado, Univerity of Texas, El Paso ; Isaiah Nathaniel Webb; Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas, El Paso

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

Paper ID #11725Developing Leaders by Putting Students in the Curriculum Development DriverSeatMiss Yazmin Montoya, LEADMr. Aaron Eduardo Pacheco Rimada, University of Texas at El PasoErwin Delgado, Univerity of Texas at El PasoIsaiah Nathaniel Webb,Dr. Meagan R. Vaughan, University of Texas, El Paso Dr. Meagan R. Vaughan received her PhD from The University of Texas at Austin where her research focused on the design of a low-cost, volume adjustable prosthetic socket. Now an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, she is helping develop a new Engineering Leadership Program to help students to bridge the gap

Conference Session

Starting the Last Day with New Ideas

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shengyong Wang, State University of New York, Binghamton; Mohammad Khasawneh, State University of New York, Binghamton; Krishnaswami Srihari, State University of New York, Binghamton

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Industrial Engineering

recognition in the healthcare sector. The strategic use ofthese tools, such as statistical quality control, supply chain management, modeling andsimulation, failure-mode effects analysis, lean thinking, and human factors and ergonomics, canbe readily used to measure, characterize, and optimize performance at various levels in ahealthcare system. Even though there is currently a shortage of health systems engineers at theMS and PhD levels, very few universities have an established health systems curriculum in theirindustrial and systems engineering departments.The Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering at the State University of NewYork (SUNY) at Binghamton (a.k.a. Binghamton University) has been actively involved inteaching and

Conference Session

Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo

. Lastly, the student will studysample modified materials such as alloys, composites and woods to determine theirdifference in behavior. A typical modified material will have “desired characteristics”that justifies the investment. Software integration would enrich this study with itsenormous bank of materials structure that can be easily accessed. The investigation inthis phase will provide an understanding about the basiccomposition and arrangement of a material and will aid inintelligent selection of materials.Example: Exercise # 1. Viewing materialsmicrostructure cross-section. A Microscope with at leastx100 magnification as shown in Figure 1 is a worthinvesting. The microscope is easily hooked up to a TVmonitor (to accommodate larger audiences

Conference Session

Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Gerhart, University of Evansville; Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Bruce Cain, Mississippi State University

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Mechanical Engineering

when students design their own experiments andmeasurement systems, or the focus can be on the documents themselves, via a “read and report”exercise. Students have responded favorably to such an exercise at one university.In addition to what the Codes can teach about performance testing and measurement technology,they provide a valuable introduction to the use of Codes and Standards in engineering practice,the importance of voluntary standards development, the premier position that ASME occupies inthis endeavor, and the contributions of “ordinary” practicing engineers to the Codes andStandards process.A major obstacle to the widespread use of Performance Test Codes, indeed all Codes andStandards, in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum is the

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Brown, Virginia Tech; Owen Hughes, Virginia Tech; Leigh McCue, Virginia Tech; Wayne Neu, Virginia Tech; Betsy Tretola, Teaching and Learning,

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Ocean and Marine

the assessment, design, development, delivery and evaluation of large nationwide curricula. Page 12.554.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Distance learning in the graduate-level ocean engineering curriculumAbstractVirginia Tech is an established leader in distance learning with 85% of departments offeringsome form of electronic courses 1 . The graduate level Ocean Engineering curriculum is fullyavailable to off-campus students, thus allowing professionals anywhere in the world to earn anMS degree. The MS in Ocean Engineering was the first program in engineering at

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Doris Yacoub; Robert Pfeffer; Rajesh N. Dave; Jonathan Luke; Ian S. Fischer; Anthony D. Rosato

Session 1526 On Laboratory Development for a Curriculum in Particle Technology Rajesh N. Dave, Jonathan Luke, Robert Pfeffer, Doris Yacoub, Ian S. Fischer, Anthony D. Rosato New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102AbstractThis paper discusses the development of laboratory facilities for use with an on going NSF-CRCD project that will establish a three-course concentration in particle technology at NJIT,offered across the engineering curriculum. The main objective of the NSF funded project is toaddress the urgent need for undergraduate and graduate education in this vital field

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josef Rojter, Victoria University of Tech.

topics of chemical sciences andtechnology. This course was eventually extended and also became an integral part ofarchitectural, building and civil engineering curricula. Though all undergraduate engineeringstudents at VUT had sound fundamental science background in disciplines of mathematicsand physics, more than half of these students had no exposure to chemical sciences beyondthat offered as part of general science curriculum at junior levels in secondary schools andcolleges. This paper deals with the development of chemical syllabus and its refinementsince its introduction in 1995 and is outlined in this paper.The students’ lack of previous background in chemistry combined with the lack oflaboratory resources and constrained by that this

Conference Session

First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University; Edward Randolph Collins Jr. P.E., Clemson University; Chris Porter, Clemson University

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First-Year Programs

cohort graduation rate in an engineering major after (a) fouryears; (b) five years; and (c) six years.Future WorkThe current format of integration of recruiting and first-year choice of major activities has had astrong, positive correlation on retention and graduation rates. Future work will include trackingstudents from original choice of tour during the prospective student phase through their ultimatechoice of major upon graduation. For students who do not attend any class required tours duringthe first-semester course, an intervention program will be developed to attempt to increase theretention of this at-risk group.Bibliographic Information1. www.clemson.edu.2. http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/TotalGroup-2012.pdf

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley A. Striebig, James Madison University; Maria Papadakis, James Madison University; Adebayo Ogundipe, James Madison University; Samuel Albert Morton III, James Madison University

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Environmental Engineering

addition to Dr’ Striebig’s engineering work, he is also a published freelance photographer who has works with local and international NGOs. Dr. Striebig was the founding editor of the Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Development and an assistant editor for the Journal of Green Building.Dr. Maria Papadakis, James Madison UniversityDr. Adebayo Ogundipe, James Madison University Adebayo Ogundipe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison Uni- versity (JMU). His research is on developing tools and protocols for assessing sustainable engineering designs using life-cycle assessment and industrial ecology methods. Dr. Ogundipe’s prior work includes DOD funded research on assessing the

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Rathika Rajaravivarma

are enrolled in the Electromechanical Engineering Technology program. In this paper, we step through the process to employ LEGO as a tool in the Logic and Problem Solving course. We will also discuss the students’ experience with LEGO as part of enriched learning. Finally, we conclude with the observations and recommendations of the efficient use of LEGO mindstorms in the curriculum. 1Intr oductionActive learning approach to engage students has been an area of study in multipledisciplinary areas [1-3]. Using LEGO Mindstorms as a tool to induce activelearning in introductory and advanced courses has proved successful in the pastdecade [4-5]. Programming with

Conference Session

FPD X: First-Year Design with Projects, Modeling, and Simulation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ani Ural, Villanova University; Joseph Robert Yost, Villanova University; David W Dinehart, Villanova University; Shawn P. Gross, Villanova University

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First-Year Programs

. Page 22.184.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 An Integrated Freshman Project Course Combining Finite Element Modeling, Engineering Analysis and Experimental InvestigationAbstractThe freshman engineering curriculum at Villanova University is in a state of transition. In fall2009 the College of Engineering introduced a new two semester course sequence that is requiredfor all freshman students. An integral part of this new course is an interdisciplinary project-based experience. Six projects are offered and students must choose two; one in the second halfof the fall semester, and a second in the first half of the spring semester. This paper