Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills in ET

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene Ferrara, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona; Rebecca Maguda, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona; Andrew Vavreck, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona

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Engineering Technology

Engineering Education, 2007 A Course in Career Preparation and Business Skills in an Engineering Technology Baccalaureate Degree ProgramAbstractThis paper describes the planning and implementation of a one-credit Engineering BusinessSkills course intended for baccalaureate degree students in Electro-Mechanical EngineeringTechnology (EMET) at the Altoona College of The Pennsylvania State University. The electivecourse, developed cooperatively by the Director of Career Services and the EMET ProgramCoordinator during the spring 2006 semester, is designed to address career-oriented topics. Thepurpose of the class is threefold: to engage students in the job search process, to educatestudents regarding career planning activities

Conference Session

EMD Program Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yesim Sireli, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Martin Kane, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Frank Skinner, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Engineering Management

Engineering from Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) in 1995. He also earned his BS in Civil Engineering (1990) and MS in Civil Engineering (1991) from the College of Engineering at MSU. Dr. Kane is currently an associate professor and Undergraduate Director in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests include Highway Operations, Transportation and Urban Planning, Human Factors in Transportation, Public Transportation, Traffic Engineering, and Aviation infrastructure. Dr. Kane is an Eno Fellow, and is a member of ASEE, ASCE, ITE, Sigma Xi, and Chi Epsilon.Frank Skinner, University of North Carolina

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

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International

relationships,communications, and English proficiency regarding reading, writing, and speech. Projectmanagement, planning, team work, time and budget management are integrated intoprojects in American engineering curricula. Such an approach obviously makes goodsense to address issues like lack of training on problem solving skills, ability to deal withconflicts, team organization, and engineering way to organization, project development,finance awareness, and software for project management through a variety of academicactivities.The main goal of this enhancement is to help Chinese students to broaden their viewsfrom narrowly designed technical background, develop their critical thinking skills inproblem solving and prepare them for their future growth

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Daniel Blessner, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus; Dimitrios Bolkas, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus

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Diversity

planned implementation and dissemination. Furthermore, surveying is a professionwith a low public profile and only a few accredited programs exist in the US. Thus, as asecondary objective, engineering students of any major will learn about surveying and beexposed to real surveying problems. This can help students identify themselves as futuresurveyors and aid in recruitment and enrollment.IntroductionThis is a work in progress (WIP) paper that aims to enhance mathematics courses such as collegealgebra, trigonometry, and calculus with real life (RL) problems from surveying which, forinstance, incorporate area, volume, and slope calculations. Mathematics and statistics instructorsoften complain that students are less motivated in their classes as

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Baker, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mark Yoder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bruce Black, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Robert Throne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

? Good Poor Good Excellent2. How many hours were put in last week by the team? 32 0 32 403. How many team members participated last week? 3 2 3 44. When was the last team planning meeting? (Date) 9/7/2007 14 7 Progress Metrics1. Where is the project compared to the plan? On Sched Behind On Sched Ahead2. How focused is the development effort? Focused Scattered Typical Focused3. How similar is the development

Conference Session

Construction 2: Teaching Using Projects, Case Studies, and Service Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert B. Austin, Bowling Green State University

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Construction

his professional tenure he has received awards for construction innovation, superior project performances and one of the projects received indus- try recognition a project of the year. Dr. Austin recently earned his Doctorate in Construction Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology where his research focus was on accelerated project deliveries (i.e., faster, more predictable fast-track construction). His teaching and research interests cross the spectrum of the construction man- agement subjects, with a current focus on project management, construction equipment, planning and scheduling and research and teaching methodologies. c American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Design and the Capstone Experience

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shayne Kelly McConomy, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Ruturaj Soman; Nikhil Gupta, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Design in Engineering Education

, and Ph.D from Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, in 2014, all in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor teaching Engineering Design Methods in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also serving as Postdoctoral Research Associate at Center of Intelligent Systems, Control, and Robotics (CISCOR) at Florida State University. His research interests are primar- ily in the areas of dynamic system modeling, intelligent control, autonomous mobile wheeled and legged robotics, dynamic motion planning, and mechatronics.Dr. Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University Dr. Chiang Shih is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department, FAMU-FSU College of

Conference Session

Professional and Regulatory Issues in Ethics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan D Watts, Purdue University West Lafayette; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Engineering Ethics

published about this important area of engineering ethics either. As well,professional ethical codes in engineering typically ignore student engineering design projects(Foot 2006) and likewise engineering design projects planning rarely address Human SubjectsResearch (Healey et al., 2013; Diaz & Nathans-Kelly, 2016).This lack of clarity and lack of education for undergraduate engineers about testing humansubjects in their design projects has multiple negative consequences. The first is that theengineering students and faculty members lack understanding as to when to involve appropriateoversight by regulatory entities such as the Institutional Review Board (IRB). Lack of clarity hasconsequences of putting the subjects of the testing at potential

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech; John Ray Morelock, Virginia Tech; Deirdre-Annaliese Nicole Hunter, Virginia Tech

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

reach solutions more efficiently and effectively and to continuelearning from their experiences [5]. More specifically, metacognition improves ones awarenessand regulation of how they think – identifying and defining problems and sub-problems, howwell specific known strategies are matched to a particular problem, planning and monitoring asolution process, and evaluating the process and results. These same skills improve engineeringstudent learning in present educational contexts and are connected to lifelong learning. Inpreparing to become practicing engineers, i.e., messy problem solvers, engineering students willbenefit greatly from explicit development of their metacognitive skills – now and throughouttheir lives.The purpose of this project

Conference Session

Construction Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Caroline Hurtado, Arizona State University; Jake Smithwick, Arizona State University; Kenneth Timothy Sullivan, Arizona State University; John Savicky, Arizona State University

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Construction

can be applied in the workplace has been identifiedas a need by industry and accreditation bodies. Institutions are seeking to properly meet theseneeds, while also balancing decades of history with traditional courses. Courses that teachbusiness-type practices and fundamentals help fill key a necessity for the “engineer of thefuture.” In response, the researchers developed a new course over two semesters that providesinstruction on the owners’ role in developing request for proposals (RFP), evaluating proposals,conducting project pre-planning, and identifying project performance indicators. The researchersused applied instructional design concepts from the field of education in creating the course,focusing on the objectives and related

Conference Session

Data Analysis and Assessment

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cory Brozina, Virginia Tech; David B. Knight, Virginia Tech, Department of Engineering Education

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Computers in Education

engagement.We ground our work theoretically using the Academic Plan Model to understand how freshmanengineering students’ use of LMS tools relate to their performance in the class. The AcademicPlan Model details potential influences on curriculum design at the course, program, andinstitutional levels. As the Model suggests, faculty members may (or should) consider learners,instructional resources, and instructional processes when developing their curricular plans. Priorresearch within and outside engineering, however, has shown that faculty tend not to draw onavailable data when considering these components, if they even consider them at all. Our studypresents an idea for bringing data into those considerations by focusing on the course-levelactivities

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary J. Meixell, Quinnipiac University; Nebil Buyurgan, Quinnipiac University; Corey Kiassat, Quinnipiac University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

chain management. Dr. Meixell has extensive industry background in logistics management, production planning, supplier management and supply chain design in the automotive and telecommunications industries. Dr. Meix- ell’s current research interests include sustainable supply chain management, performance implications of outsourcing, and curriculum development in undergraduate programs.Dr. Nebil Buyurgan, Quinnipiac University Nebil Buyurgan, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Industrial Engineering Program at Quinnipiac University. Prior to joining QU, he served as Associate and Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engi- neering Department at the University of Arkansas. He received his doctorate in engineering

Conference Session

Connecting BME education to the "real world"

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony E. Felder, University of Illinois, Chicago; Miiri Kotche, University of Illinois, Chicago; Jennifer D. Olson, University of Illinois at Chicago; Janet Aderemi Omitoyin, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Biomedical Engineering

progresses through an individual research project, scoped collaboratively by both the Fellow and faculty mentor. The Friday of each week is dedicated to a full-day BEST program workshop, where Fellows share their experiences that week, discuss teaching methodology, learn about NGSS, and plan their own curricula. By the conclusion of the program, BEST Fellows developed new curriculum according to their laboratory experience. Each Fellow’s curriculum is developed according to the standards established by NGSS and is structured as a self-contained unit that fits within the larger scope of his/her classes. Moreover, each curriculum is connected to the context for learning at each individual

Conference Session

Track : Graduate - Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Marcia Gumpertz, North Carolina State University; Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc; C. Dean Campbell, North Carolina A&T State University ; Maureen Grasso, North Carolina State University; Yvette Maria Huet, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Keith A. Schimmel P.E., North Carolina A&T State University

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Diversity, Graduate Education

, at least 25 departments will designate faculty Fellows and participate inthe change process.Fellows serve as connectors between the AGEP-NC project and their department faculties. Theyare responsible for disseminating information to and collecting information from theirdepartments. For example, Fellows might share information they learned in project workshopsand their own individual studies, and they might gather departmental data on rates of doctoralprogram completion and attrition and career paths of recent doctoral graduates. They alsocoordinate faculty efforts to develop plans to increase URM doctoral candidate recruitment andretention. Figure 1 depicts arrows between the AGEP Fellows and the Project Team to show thetwo-way information

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Mayari I. Serrano, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

their own by supporting themselves, pursuing education, and planning theirown adventures 5 . She used the admiration of the public to spark discussion about femininity, equalopportunity regardless of gender, woman’s rights, and equality 4 .Edward Elliott, President of Purdue University, was impressed by Earhart and realized she wouldbe the perfect role model for the female students his institution. After much discussion and severalvisits to the institution, Earhart, in 1935, joined the staff as a Counselor in Careers for Women andtechnical advisor in the Department of Aeronautics. Before officially starting, Earhart created anddistributed a survey to measure female students’ interest in pursuing a career and how they wouldbalance that pursuit

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Entrepreneurship

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, University of Cincinnati; Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University; Samantha Asbell, Texas A&M University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

standardization) from 1990 through 1994. He has been active in SONET’s National and International Standardization since 1985. In addition, Rodney has published numerous papers and presentations on SONET. Rodney began his career with Fujitsu Network Communications in 1989 as the Director of Strategic Plan- ning. He also held the positions of Director of Transport Product Planning, Vice President of Business Management, Senior Vice President of Sales Management, Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, and Senior Vice President of Business Development. Before joining Fujitsu, Rodney worked for Bell Labora- tories, Bellcore (now Telcordia), and Rockwell International. He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in

Conference Session

Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart Walesh, S. G. Walesh Consulting; Michael Chajes, University of Delaware; David Mongan, Whitney, Bailey, Cox & Magnani

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Civil Engineering

shapingpublic policy.Summit organizers and participants intend that the vision will guide policies, plans, processes,and progress within the civil engineering community and beyond including around the globe.Individual civil engineers and leaders of civil engineering organizations should act to move thecivil engineering toward the vision.Keywords – change, civil engineering, global, leadership, summit, visionIntroductionCivil engineers are rightfully proud of their legacy. Over the past century, clean water supplieshave extended general life expectancies. Transportation systems serve as an economic and socialengine. New bridges, blending strength and beauty, speed transport and bring communitiescloser together. Public and private construction, for which

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to ME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Choate, Western Kentucky University; Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University; Stephen Howard, Western Kentucky University; Paul Graves, Western Kentucky University; Jonathan Martin, Western Kentucky University; Chris Kruckenberg, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

airflow test bench system was designed, built and tested for the undergraduate mechanicalengineering thermal fluids laboratory at Western Kentucky University. A two-semester seniorcapstone design sequence, ME 400 – Mechanical Engineering Design and ME 412 – MechanicalEngineering Senior Project, provided a four-member mechanical engineering student team withsufficient time to plan and execute this engineering process.The final airflow test system is primarily intended for instructional situations, but has thepotential for external industrial interaction as well. The system delivered by the project team isusable over a range of flows and system impedances. Primary benefactors of this test bed will befuture students in Mechanical Engineering Senior

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shahnaz J. Aly, Western Kentucky University; Laura Elizabeth Leach, Western Kentucky University

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Architectural

civic partnership [7].To build such a partnership, the AMS facultyapproached the City of Bowling Green to explore potential opportunities for involving studentsin projects that would be mutually beneficial.According to Schuman the history of service-learning in schools of architecture and planning canbe found in the late 1960s where schools emphasized engaging students in the social issues andsupplementing classroom learning with community contact. Due to different circumstancesthrough the years’ service-learning has been more broadly accepted in planning programs than inarchitecture departments. A resurgence of interest in social engagement in professional practiceof architecture and schools can be seen in the late 1990s early 2000. [8

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Grimm

poster byeach team. Page 8.57.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionMichigan Technological University changed from a quarter based system to semesterseffective the fall of 2000. Prior to making the change a considerable amount of workwent into planning and developing curricula in the different colleges and departmentsacross campus. During this period in the late twentieth century, 1998 and 1999, theMechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics (ME-EM) Department reviewed themechanical engineering programs at more than

Conference Session

Design Cognition I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Gerard Spillane, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick; Donal Canty, University of Limerick; Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick

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Design in Engineering Education

apparent as students progressed through the task. Web-capture software was used to trackeach student’s progress and monitor their decision making.A multidimensional problem-solving framework was employed when observing participantsattempts. The problem-solving framework looked at four key stages: Identifying, Planning,Implementing, and Evaluating. This was supported by the sub-cycle of conjecture, test, andevaluate (accept/reject) method presented by Carlson and Bloom [3] used to analyse mathematicalproblem-solving. Simultaneously audio responses were also captured, which gave researchers avaluable and rich data set to interpret individual heuristics, conceptual knowledge and decisionmaking.The findings presented in this paper illustrate a clear

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shumon Alam; Matthew Sadiku; Cajetan Akujuobi

premier telecommunication companies in the area of interoperability andreliability studies. It is also used for the training of our students in this emerging area oftechnology and for research, especially, the Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) modem technology.DSL is a new technology for providing higher data rates over the twisted telephone copper wire.The Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is one of the first derivatives of this DSLtechnology. The DSL Forum has defined an ADSL interoperability test specification, known asTR-048, which is supported by all key Service Providers, access IC manufacturers andIndependent Test Labs. This research project follows the test plan TR-048 to produce a completeautomated testing suit, which can be used in

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi-Cheng Chen, Meiho Institute of Technology; Yi-Chien Lin, Meiho Institute of Technology; Ron Chuen Yeh, Meiho Institute of Technology, Taiwan; Kuo-Hung Tseng, Meiho Institute of Technology

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Information Systems

each of the course in their formal education, are now familiar with aboutit as well as how practical the topic will be in their career. The research findings may beinstrumental for e-commerce training programs, licensing bodies, departments and curriculumdesigners in field of software engineering. The results of this study can provide usefulsuggestions to help software engineers for selecting the suitable and right learning courses aswell as to act as practicable guidelines for EC curriculum planning and development.Keywords: software engineer, e-commerce, EC education, curriculum development, knowledge topicIntroductionWith the invention of World Wide Web (WWW) by 1990, the global network is applied tovariety of domains. The digital

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacki Stewart; Peter Jansson

meet thischallenging goal. One effort to help reduce emissions includes a multi-disciplinary group ofengineers in the College of Engineering’s innovative Junior/Senior Clinic program2,3 who havecombined to site, design, permit, and install photovoltaic (PV) systems around campus. PVsystems are a clean, renewable energy resource that use energy from the sun and convert solarenergy to usable electricity. They have developed plans for installing these systems on roofsaround campus, as well as one system on the ground for educational purposes. Lucrativefinancial incentives from the State of New Jersey have made these systems economically feasiblefor the first time. To further reduce overall system costs, students working on the project, as wellas

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Koehnemann; Barbara Gannod

design document, a test plan, asoftware release, and a user’s manual are given specific due dates. For an example, seethe capstone course offered at Southwestern University.5 This common organizationfollows a very traditional (“waterfall”-like) approach to software development. In termsof software processes, described in the next section, a one or two semester approximationof a heavyweight process is used almost exclusively in software engineering capstonecourses.2.2 Software ProcessesEngineering disciplines recognize that in order to build quality products, qualityprocesses must be followed. This was the motivation for the Capability Maturity Model(CMM) defined by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).6 In general, a softwareprocess

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

integrated sequence of eight core courses in which manytopics to be developed “across the curriculum” are emphasized, an ongoing planning to integrateIT topics into a combination of new or reorganized required and elective courses, and a recently-implemented practice-oriented Masters of Engineering program.IntroductionThe work of the civil engineer will change dramatically as we move beyond the first few years ofthe 21st Century. The challenges of world’s expanding population and societal expectations, thechanging global marketplace, and the growing environmental concerns, when coupled with therapidly growing Information Technology (IT) resources, lead to the conclusion that civilengineering will grow as a vibrant, needed, and rewarding profession

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Deisenroth

wherespecific topics might be considered as appropriate for integration at a number of different pointswithin the curriculum. A plan for the creation of an Academic Thread will be discussed. Thepaper will then show how the thread can be woven into the learning objectives for specificcourses. A discussion of some of the strengths and weaknesses of this approach will then bepresented. An extension of the idea of academic threads into more technical areas will also bepresented.Learning ObjectivesIn the literature, learning objectives have been labeled many different ways. Such terms as,“educational objectives,” “instructional objectives,” “behavioral objectives,” and “performancegoals,” have been used to express the basic idea presented here as learning

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

and active in solving these problems.I. IntroductionThe central issue in this paper is how to get students involved in large interdisciplinary projectsat an early stage. In the past three years, enrollment in aerospace engineering at the author’sinstitution has risen sharply. This rise appears to be related to the expectation that there will be awealth of Space-related opportunities, resulting from the Mars Exploration plan 1 and the “GoldRush to Low Earth Orbit” 2 seen in the late 1990s. The rigorous courses on fundamentalmathematics and science in the first two years of college afford little occasion to remember whyone wanted to enter engineering in the first place. In the 1990s, we tried to address thisdemoralizing aspect by setting up a

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Darin Ridgway; Valerie Young; Michael Prudich

placed on the use of the senior-level unit operations laboratory experience as acapstone statistics usage and assessment tool. This course provides the students with anopportunity to break out of the “chapter box” which is often characteristic of stand-alonestatistical methods courses. The courses also emphasize the point that experimental planningand design includes not only the selection of the experimental parameters to be studied, but alsothe planning of the data analysis and statistical treatments to be utilized in the interpretation ofthe experimental data that is acquired. The proper assessment of statistics-related performancein the senior-level laboratory courses provides end-of-program assessment data on studentstatistical skills and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah A. Rajala, Mississippi State University; Robert A. Green, Mississippi State University; Rayford B. Vaughn, Mississippi State University

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NSF Grantees

institutions. Demographic data is being collected to betterunderstand exactly where these students would be transitioning out of military service and wherethey are likely to enroll in higher education. A consortium of geographically distributedindustrial and academic partners was developed to forge the necessary articulation agreementswith participating partners, conduct a needs assessment, develop head start curricula, andimplement pilot projects from which we can gain lessons learned in this overall effort. Thispaper describes the authors’ efforts to date in implementing these projects.IntroductionThe National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Engineering (Engineering Education andCenters) awarded an 18-month planning granti to the authors of