Conference Session

Collaboration Provides the Best Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Cates, University of Cincinnati; Anita Todd, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

between the college courses thatstudents completed and the general learning that they demonstrate throughevaluation. Particularly in an institution with wide curricular offerings and apropensity to vary the curriculum from one year to the next, this type of analysiscan shed light on student development in the general education area however ithas not been as effective to demonstrate learning within the major. 3Assessment Centers in which students are given a set of simulations to assesstheir readiness to enter the profession have been used in teacher education byIndiana University of Pennsylvania, Millersville and Slippery Rock Colleges.Through Development Dimensions International these institutions designed andimplemented a diagnostic teacher

Conference Session

Project-Based Service Learning

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Swan, Tufts University; Mary McCormick, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

: theengineering curriculum must be expanded beyond technical skills to develop students’proficiencies in those skills traditionally considered “soft”; i.e. leadership, project management,teamwork, and communication (5).In chartering the Engineer of 2020 project, the NAE’s primary goal was to develop a curriculum Page 14.150.2framework that would provide engineers with the necessary skill set to “overcome futurechallenges” (15). This combination of skills will require engineers to integrate technicalknowledge with practical ingenuity to identify problems and develop solutions. ABETrecognized in the late 1980s that “effective preparation for engineers of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Salvatore Marsico

various packages and using them in an integratedfashion and not as stand alone individual pieces as they would in other classes. The onlynegative comment related to the amount of work to de done compared to the one creditcourse.RecommendationsThere are a number of ways to complete the educational objectives of the course withoutplacing additional burdens on students. Integrating multimedia into a curriculum requiresa vast amount of time and energy of both the students and faculty. Adding multimediaand other software packages in an incremental fashion throughout the semester wouldsurely minimize the burden. In addition, existing footage of various bridges and supportswould be extremely helpful because it would cut down on out of class time needed

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Paying Attention to Retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paige E. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park; Elizabeth R. Kurban, University of Maryland, College Park; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

, Virtusis aligned with the curriculum and structure of Flexus. For example first-year students arerequired to live in a common residence hall, participate in a one credit seminar each semester,and participate in various academic, social and professional development activities.Through various types of activities, programs, and services as living and learning communities,Flexus and Virtus facilitate both academic and social integration within the Clark School. All ofliving and learning students are required to participate in the peer mentoring program.SEEDS Peer MentoringThe SEEDS Peer Mentoring program was designed to be inclusive of all first-year engineeringstudents and new transfer students in the Clark School. The primary goal of the program is

Conference Session

Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

Quality Testing – San Diego, California Students are designing water quality monitoring systems and are taking data on water quality in local rivers and resevoirs. Students design the test systems and data acquisitions systems by integrating commercially technologies where appropriate. Students analyze the data from the findings and present their results to the community.Implementing EPICS High Three models have emerged for implementing EPICS into high schools. The first is as anafter school program or club. Students meet with teachers after school or during activitiesperiods during the school day. This model was the one that launched the pilot at Bedford,Indiana. A second model has been to integrate an

Conference Session

Mechanics, Music, Meaning, and Mohr

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jakob C Bruhl P.E., U.S. Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy; Joseph P. Hanus, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

solving problems, learning on their own, and comfortably navigatingthe information-rich environment we live and work in. There is also a growing body ofknowledge concerning how to most effectively teach modern students – highlighting the value ofstudent-centered learning, active learning experiences, and effective integration of technology.After an internal assessment, the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the USMilitary Academy determined that the initial sequence of mechanics courses provided thetechnical content our students needed but required updating in some important ways. First,mechanics was being taught isolated from the broader design process. Secondly, there was nointegration of computer programs to begin the education

Conference Session

Provocative Presentations & Lunch

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kleppe

topics, or even courses that would promote an understanding of these topics. • State science standards do not recognize invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship topics as something that should be taught by K-12 science and mathematics teachers. • There are few textbooks written that include information on the principles of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. In fact even at the college level, it is difficult to find a textbook that integrates these subjects into a traditional curriculum context. Some comments from the high school teachers do an excellent job of describing the currentsituation: • "Teaching innovation in the schools calls for an innovative teacher. Unfortunately, teachers

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robert L. Potter, University of South Florida; Gerry G. Meisels, University of South Florida; Peter Stiling, University of South Florida; Kevin Yee, University of South Florida; Ruthmae Sears, University of South Florida ; Catherine A. Beneteau, University of South Florida; Kelley G. Schuler, University of South Florida; Alberto Danny Camacho, Hillsborough Community College; Scott W. Campbell, University of South Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

increasing graduation rates and numbers in the STEM disciplinesProf. Peter Stiling, University of South Florida Dr. Stiling is currently a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of South FloridaDr. Kevin Yee, University of South Florida Dr. Yee is the director of the teaching center at USF.Dr. Ruthmae Sears, University of South Florida Ruthmae Sears, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on curriculum issues, the development of reasoning and proof skills, clinical experiences in secondary mathematics, and the integration of technology in the teaching and learning of mathematics.Dr. Catherine A. Beneteau, University of South Florida

Conference Session

Statics and Finite Element Analysis

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah C. Baxter, University of St. Thomas; Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina; Bethany S. Fralick, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

discussed.The paper concludes with a discussion of plans to continue the process of refining the modules,adapting their inclusion more seamlessly into the Statics curriculum, and investigatingassessment tools that could be used to evaluate the visualization or critical thinking skills thatmight result from including Graphical Statics.ApplicationsThere are three concepts, the understanding of, on which student success in Statics seem to rest.The first is that vectors are defined by two things, magnitude and direction. As a result, they canbe described with respect to any coordinate system without changing their meaning; specificcoordinates might change but magnitude and direction remain the same. Putting in an arbitrarycoordinate system, and moving

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ernest Smerdon

in technical skills based on mathematics and science. Those professional skills(sometimes referred to as soft skills) are integrated with the technical skills in ABET/EACCriterion 3 – Program Outcomes and Assessment. At least half of the items listed in Criterion 3refer to these professional skills – skills that any practicing professional must have whether ornot he/she be an engineer. It is anticipated that the foundation for these professional skills areplaced as part of the educational process. Words that were seldom mentioned in engineeringeducation a decade or two ago – multidisciplinary team skills, professional and ethicalresponsibility, effective communication, global and social context, lifelong learning, andknowledge of

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - Engaging Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

PowerPoint slidescontaining pictures and other forms of graphics can promote an atmosphere of active learning(University of Minnesota's Center for Teaching and Learning16, 2009). When used properly,PowerPoint is a beneficial learning tool. Unfortunately, PowerPoint is often overused andmisused, with too many slides offering too much detail and text.Initially this course was lecture and discussion based. However, describing a technology tosomeone that has never seen or experienced it is a difficult task. This is especially true for manyretro and ancient technologies. In order to overcome this dilemma, a variety of pictures andgraphic images depicting aspects of technology have been integrated into the lectures. By using anumber of pictures in

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Z. Carpenter; J. C. Diaz; G. R. Kane

rovers were integrated into theintroductory computer science class for engineers to involve students with practicalapplications of physics and math. The curriculum and projects were designed to provide ahands-on technical problem solving experience in a programming class in order toincrease the retention of the concepts taught. This paper provides an overview of therovers and our experiences when they are deployed in the classroom.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section ConferenceIntroduction:At the time that NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers walked around the surface ofMars, TU engineering students were programming the Tulsa rovers learning theintricacies of autonomous robotics.A fleet of rovers

Conference Session

Innovative Partnerships

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Shaw, Museum of Science, Boston; Michael Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

consider pursuing technical studies at college.The PowerUP! project also works directly with high school curriculum andinstructional practices to promote student preparation for the community collegeengineering and technology options. Through the summer seminar series, wehave provided hands on lab materials to over sixty high school educators. In ourkey partner schools programs are being established that will be able to articulateto the college degree programs by the end of this project. To date the followinghigh school programs are established:Tantasqua High School: Strong machine tech, engineering design andengineering technology program offered at both the individual course level for allstudents and as an intensive vocational training program

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Friedman; Jerri Drakes

learning environment and a springboard to the articulation and growth of learning inmore holistic senses as well. During the fall semester of 2003, the preliminary project team compiled the list andsequence of learning activities tied to the core curriculum standards for K-8 students in NewJersey in order to prepare building the four components to the software: Back in the Day, wherevisitors select a year between 1850 and 1950 to reveal the most prominent baseball facts andfigures of that year, juxtaposed to historical facts that set the activities of the Negro Leagues intoa broader context; Talking Baseball, which provides visitors with a roster of the Negro Leagues’Hall of Famers in which each name is hyperlinked to an original video

Collection

2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Jessica Dawn Ventura

their different cultural worldviews.Rather than taking on new beliefs and behaviors, the students will move in and out of a cultural worldview aswarranted by the situation. This is an experience familiar to many students who grew up in a household whoseculture differed from that of the country in which they resided. At home the students will experience one culture,whereas they will hold to another culture at school or work. Although placing integration as the last stage ofethnorelativism, Bennett does not suggest that cultural integration is preferable to adaptation on the spectrum ofintercultural sensitivity.Because the stages of ethnorelativism require a deeper experience of foreign cultures, they are not stages that caneasily be facilitated

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan F. Brennecke; Joseph A. Shaeiwitz; Mark A. Stadtherr; Ph.D., Richard H. Turpin; Mark J. McCready; Roger A. Schmitz; Wallace B. Whiting

ofexisting course material, development of new materials, and modification of the students'experiences. Continuing assessment and corrective action will ensure that the goals of thisproject are achieved. We will report on assessment results in a future publication.Summary In this paper, we have described two aspects of an overall project to integrate the ideas,strategies and technologies associated with minimizing the environmental impact of chemicalmanufacturing processes into the undergraduate chemical engineering and metallurgicalengineering curricula. In particular, we described a senior level elective course entitledEnvironmentally Conscious Chemical Process Design that emphasizes pollution prevention. Inaddition, we described a number

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nathalia De Souza, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Michaella Ochotorena, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Student

impacted their motivation,learning, and sense of community. This research specifically examines mechanical engineeringstudents’ experiences at a large public university in California. At the end of this university’sWinter Quarter, faculty were given two weeks of training and preparation during an extendedSpring Break to develop their online curriculum for the upcoming quarter. Courses were offeredin synchronous and asynchronous formats. Students were also given the choice to take anunlimited amount of class units with a “credit/no credit” grading system. For this new quarter,most course webpages were moved to Canvas, a course learning management system new to ourinstitution.Literature ReviewOver the course of the past few decades, some

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

forgreatest, and second greatest needs. It is recognized that asking for the top two priorities ignoresmany other subtle details. Moreover, any topic in the curriculum that is well taught, andessential, may not receive any votes. One alternative would be to rank the topics from top tobottom, but the added time to complete the survey would reduce the response rate. Anotheralternative used in the past was to assign an importance score on a scale. However, surveyrespondents normally list many topics as highly important and the differentiation is lost.Therefore, asking for the top two choices are used as a compromise for a fast survey response.And, the results cannot be used to identify topics for reduction, or elimination.Table 4 shows the number of

Conference Session

Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Welch, U.S. Military Academy; Allen Estes, U.S. Military Academy; Fred Meyer, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

pre-licensure and post-licensure periods.As volunteer pilot programs that comprise the Curriculum Committee of the Committee onAcademic Prerequisites for Professional Practice (CAP3) began to assess themselves against thenew BOK using the definitions for recognition, understanding, and ability, they quicklydetermined that it was very difficult to accurately measure whether an outcome was met or not.While “recognition, ability and understanding” were chosen because they aligned with theterminology used in ABET3 outcomes, a more measurable definition for each level was needed.After much debate and research into alternative methods by the newly formed CAP3Competency Committee, it was decided that Bloom’s Taxonomy4 for the cognitive domain

Conference Session

Research and Assessment

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

effectiveness of theassessment in measuring our abilities to teach and integrate the entrepreneurial mindset into ourdegree plans. This paper will document the selection of the assessment instrument, itsdeployment, and an initial analysis of the results in how they impact retention, professionaldevelopment, and the entrepreneurial mindset of the students at these institutions.IntroductionIn many engineering programs in the United States and around the world, it is no longersufficient to adequately train engineers with excellent left-brain skills – analysis, logicalthinking, and quantitative thought. According to Dean Julio M. Ottino of the Robert R.McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, solvingproblems is not

Collection

2022 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Markeya S. Peteranetz; Tareq A. Daher; David Jones; Lance C. Perez; Daniel G. Linzell

ethics were positively impacted [12].The third model for developing students’ non-technical skills is requiring stand-alone courses orworkshops that are integrated into the curriculum. For example, one study [13] demonstrated theeffectiveness of integrating teamwork and soft skill-focused workshops into a manufacturingsystems course. These students showed improved team performance after going through a “softskills” workshop. Another study investigated “soft-skill” focused single class sessions withinengineering courses and found an increased ability for students to utilize soft skills [14]. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceRooted in

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiliang Li, D.Eng., Ph.D., P.E., California Baptist University; Jinyuan Zhai, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

branches of mechanics. At CBU, MNSU and PNW, MSEand related courses have been designed not only on topics such as crystalline and non-crystalline materials, deformations, alloy types, ceramic types, composite types, etc., but alsoto use the information learned and apply it to materials used in real-world designs. Studentswho took this course were required to write term papers and deliver presentations over real-world design concepts and link the design concept to the course’s teachings. Artificial Organscompleted by Vavek et al (2018) [21] enriches their learning of materials science courses,provides the students with marketable skills, and integrates the use of the real-life engineeringproblems with curriculum. Our experience [9] finds that

Conference Session

Capstone & Senior Design Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Jay R. Porter, Texas A&M University; Kristina Rojdev, NASA; Daniel Carrejo, NASA; Anthony J. Colozza

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

integration of off-the-shelf current sensors into the 2010 [4] and 2011 DSH demonstration unit. For this initial applicationthe majority of the loads within the DSH were AC powered. Therefore, AC current monitors as shownin Figure 1 from Digikey, based on the ZigBee wireless networking protocol, were used. These sensorsprovided information of current draw from an outlet to the load, or loads, plugged into it. These sensorsalso allowed on/off control of the outlet. These sensors were connected to various outlets on the powerdistribution units within the DSH, as illustrated in Figure 2, and provided data wirelessly to the controlsystem. The sensors became an integral part of monitoring and controlling the operation of the loadswithin the DSH

Conference Session

Communications and Ethics

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Amy Renee Holdegraver, Mississippi State University ; Morgan Green, Mississippi State University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

learning in engineering students. She is the founder and Director of Project ENspire, an engineering outreach event for 4th and 5th grade girls now in its eighth year. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference Improving Engineering Student Professional Communication through Mini-Laboratory Reports Amy Holdegraver and Morgan Green Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State UniversityAbstractA junior/senior-level course in the mechanical engineering department at a regional universityhas a laboratory component, and a portion of the curriculum

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

K.A. Korzeniowski

samplesurrounding physical phenomenon such as light level, temperature and pressure. Electronic InstrumentationSystems are concerned with data acquisition, signal processing and computer control. In these systems, dataacquisition circuits use sensors and signal conditioning electronics in order to convert physical environmentalchanges into electric signals that can be processed with a computer. Gaining experience with practical electronic instrumentation is an important experience for anyengineering student and should be a part of a rounded engineering education. Design is a major component ofthe course described in this paper, therefore the course complies with the American Board for EngineeringTechnology (ABET) requirement that the design process

Conference Session

Introduction to the Field of Biomedical Engineering - June 25th

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Christine E. King, University of California, Irvine; Beth A. Lopour, University of California, Irvine

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

atimproving interest and literacy of BME and neuroengineering principles to high school students.The authors will also introduce the program into our current undergraduate curriculum as part ofa project that will be conducted alongside our current EEG experimental laboratory during thenext year, as it will reinforce principles learned during the existing course content and provide aBME application of the laboratory.Introduction:Advancing an interest and literacy in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)fields in high school students through summer and after school programs has been widelypopular since the 1990’s, and these programs are effective at improving retention and persistenceafter graduation [1]. These initiatives have been

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jasper L Steyn; Tobia Steyn

61.1 53.2 51.8 54.0 51.4 47.4 Second course in Calculus 64.7 60.6 53.7 53.1 58.7 45.0 Linear Algebra 63.6 58.3 48.5 56.6 57.9 47.7ConclusionActive learning and action research provide a suitable principle basis for structuring a supportcourse as it ensures that students and faculty are involved in a dynamic process of gainingexperience in learning and teaching. If this approach is applied more widely and pedagogicalstrategies that are beneficial to students on a support course are integrated into the curriculum ofother engineering first year courses it may aid the academic development of all first

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srujal Patel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Military and Veterans

CP4SMPVC+ grant – in which Georgia Tech is developing curriculum and project kits that will be used during the summer camps to be run at partnering Informal Education Institutes.Dr. Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven Maria-Isabel Carnasciali is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Tagliatela College of Engineering, University of New Haven, CT. She obtained her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2008. She received her Bachelors of Engineering from MIT in 2000. Her research focuses on the nontraditional engineering student – understanding their motivations, identity development, and impact of prior engineering-related experiences. Her work dwells into learning in informal

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qianlong Lan, Texas Southern University; Ning Wang; Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University; Gangbing Song, University of Houston (CoE); Hamid R. Parsaei, Texas A&M University at Qatar

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

moremobile applications are designed and developed for the M-Learning. In this paper, a novelmobile-optimized application architecture is proposed to integrate the remote laboratory intomobile environment for the M-Learning. With this mobile optimized application architecture, theremote experiment applications can use a common codebase to deploy native-like applications onmany different mobile platforms (such as, iOS, Android, Window Mobile, etc.). To demonstratethe effectiveness of proposed new architecture for M-Learning, an innovative remote networkedSmart Vibration Platform (SVP) experiment is successfully implemented based on this newapplication architecture. This remote SVP experiment has been used in several

Conference Session

Student Learning, Problem Solving, & Critical Thinking 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Moseley, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rachel McCord, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

engineering problems” 1.While many courses in different engineering curriculums have a focus on problem solving,statics is typically the first course in many students’ undergraduate engineering coursework thatrequires them to use an engineering problem solving process. Many researchers have spentsignificant resources investigating how students learn in statics and how to effectively teachproblem solving in statics courses. For instance, Steif, Lobue, Kara, and Fay developed anintervention where students where engaging in talk about salient features of the statics problem2.Steif and team found that students that were engaged in body centered talk were better atrepresenting unknown forces on free body diagrams than students that did not participate in