Conference Session

Panel: AI and Engineering Technology Education: What, Why, How?

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meenakshi Narayan, Miami University; Lokesh Kumar Saharan, Gannon University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

multiple research articles published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, as well as a book chapter. In addition to his research work, he has actively participated as a reviewer for various peer-reviewed conferences and journals. Before joining Gannon University, Dr. Saharan held the position of Assistant Professor and Department Coordinator for Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas Permian Basin. During this time, he established and managed the Advanced Manufacturing Center, which received substantial funding of $1.1 million from the Odessa Development Corporation. He also served as a co-principal Investigator for a Department of Education EM-Step grant valued at $750,000. Further enriching his

Conference Session

Issues of Concern to New Faculty

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

quantitative measure of the closeness of theapproach to the various goals.Group FormationSome design educators think that team membership should be determined randomly,while others argue that an effort should be made to create teams of equal capability.Some believe that students could be teamed with peers on their own academic level inorder to minimize frustration and keep the workload in balance, or with peers ofcompatible personality using the results of psychological testing such as the Myers-Briggs test (more on Myers-Briggs later). Some believe that students should be free toselect their co-workers. Most of our students work either full or part time and do not livenear the University. In a city as spread out as Houston, relative geographic

Conference Session

Assessing Perceptions of Engineers and Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon Kurpius-Robinson, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

18%Factor 2: Familiarity with DET 2.19 0.58 10.9%Factor 3: Stereotypical Characteristics of Engineers 2.71 0.62 7.4%Factor 4: Characteristics of Engineers and Engineering 3.60 0.36 7.3%Importance of DET. As a whole, the teachers thought that DET was important. As indicated byitem means of three or higher, teachers were more interested in learning more about DETthrough workshops than through in-service, peer training, or college courses and believed thatpre-service education was important for preparing them to teach DET. The teachers’ mainmotivations for teaching science were: to promote an enjoyment of learning, to promote an understanding of the natural and technological world

Conference Session

Design Methodologies 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University; Ali H. Al-Marzouqi, United Arab Emirates University; Essam K. Zaneldin P.E., United Arab Emirates University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

approach to build competence. A workshop method was designed andused for the students to gain competence in more than ten conceptual design methods. Thestudents produced the designs in two steps: first as small groups producing the design andpresenting to the peers and a panel of judges for critiquing and in the second rectifying theshortcomings identified from the presentations and feedback from judges. In the subsequentexamination, majority of the students performed well in the question relating to the activitiessurrounding the workshop. The results obtained from this study suggest that Workshopmethod can be an effective method to teach large number of conceptual design methods to aheterogeneous group of students.Key words: Conceptual Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

Authors

Margarita Otero-Diaz, Humboldt State University; Melissa Salazar, ESCALA Educational Services

Tagged Topics

Diversity

HSI faculty are now employed by ESCALA to provide culturally responsive coaching in their programs. ESCALA proudly operates out of Espa˜nola, New Mexico, a small town in northern New Mexico that has been home to Melissa’s family for more than 400 years. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Impact of MESH teaching strategies on Latinx and URM students’ self-reported engagement in online Environmental Engineering courses in a Hispanic Serving InstitutionIntroductionLatinx undergraduate students enter STEM majors at the same rate as their peers but leave at ahigher rate due to lower academic achievement in early STEM

Conference Session

Undergraduate Space Design and Project Courses

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debbie Mullins, Texas Space Grant Consortium; Wallace Fowler, University of Texas at Austin

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

; offers peer-reviewsof paper submissions; proposal writing guidelines and instruction; and affords undergraduatestudent team members of any level with the opportunity to engage in relevant scientific research,hands-on discipline-related design, career information, opportunities in meeting presentation andeducational outreach.IntroductionSponsored as part of a NASA Workforce Development initiative since 2002, the TSGC DesignChallenge [TDC] has continued to deliver a unique academic experience to the undergraduatestudent teams that participate: the opportunity to propose, design and fabricate a mission-relevant design solution for NASA. Design Challenge project topics are submitted to TSGC fordesign team consideration by engineers and scientists

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 10: Understanding Student Experiences

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris C. Martin, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

increase the inclusiveness of our department, hypothesizing thatmarginalized students feel too much uniqueness and too little similarity with peers. ODT positsthat people prefer groups that provide sufficient inclusiveness within the group and sufficientdifferentiation between the in-group and the out-group. We wondered if ODT could also beapplied to individual identity, such that individuals seek out an identity that is neither too similarto nor too distinct from their peers. We conducted two studies in our R1 university department totest if high and low levels of uniqueness and similarity were indeed associated with negativefeelings. We found that the average student was not necessarily averse to high or low levels ofthese two factors. In Study

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Chronopoulou, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kelly J. Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Douglas M. King, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ehsan Salimi, University of Southern California

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

(e.g.independence, expectation, variance), identify and analyze discrete and continuous randomvariables, and formulate and conduct statistical analyses of observed data.One key innovation that we implemented is the introduction of real-world data-driven casestudies. We wish to expose our students to engineering problems that will help them relate thematerial taught in class with their own major. The primary enabling technology is statisticalprogramming with Python. The case studies are introduced as group assignments and aremotivated in class or discussion sessions. Students select their own groups and in the end of eachcase study, they do a peer-evaluation in order to assess the degree of in-group collaboration. Inthis way, students build valuable

Conference Session

Introducing Active Learning into ME Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Al-Bahi, King Abdulaziz University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

presentations?45. Are written communication skills enhanced through report writing?46. Are reading assignments frequently used in and out of class?47. Is the use of computers and modern engineering tools encouraged?48. Are both information gathering skills and modern on line search techniques encouraged?Instructional Methods to Address the 5th Pillar of Active/ CooperativeLearning: “Group Processing”49. Are the students encouraged to reflect on their learning experience (using journals, portfolios, etc)?50. Are the teams encouraged to self-assess their own work before being assessed by the instructor?51. Is the student-student peer assessment used to evaluate some written or oral assignments?52. Are the students encouraged to give positive

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 18

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Navarun Gupta, University of Bridgeport; Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport; Ioana A. Badara, Post University; Buket D. Barkana, The University of Akron; Deana A. DiLuggo, University of Bridgeport

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

afriendly and encouraging environment for female undergraduate students. Some of the reasons are:(1) Female students are not invited to join a team of male students.(2) Female students feel shy or discouraged from joining a team.(3) Female students are assigned note-taking or report-writing tasks, while male students work inteams on computing and project development.(4) The team members may not consider Female students' ideas or suggestions.(5) Teams schedule their meetings on days/times at a location that female students do not prefer.(6) Course instructors do not observe the team dynamics, so they are unaware of female students'struggles and challenges in teams and fitting into the profession.(7) The course instructor/male students are biased

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theresa Green, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University; Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

). Research has shown that implementing DLI inother subjects, such as history, has led to students showing greater mastery of historical thinking,increased ability to transfer historical knowledge to other contexts, and improved readingcomprehension compared to peers that did not receive DLI [5], cf. [6], [7]. Similar studies havebeen conducted in science [8].Research on disciplinary literacy suggests that use of DLI in engineering may increase students’abilities to engage in engineering thinking as well as lessen literacy-based barriers that preventwomen and underrepresented students from pursuing STEM pathways. To accomplish this goal,a robust model of DLI in engineering must be developed and disseminated into K-16 classroompractice.BackgroundThis

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Matthew Alexander

challenges in these areas because of (a) languagerequires significant written communication exercises, barrier (English is not their primary language) for someparticularly in the second course which is a writing students; (b) unfamiliarity with professional workingintensive course. The overall performance of those environment and culture; and (c) student maturity andstudents with English as a second language is reasonably experience. The assessment of student performance in eachstrong once the instructor’s grading expectations are of these skill areas described herein are related back torealized and the students avail themselves of outside these challenges.assistance, such as provided by

Conference Session

Measurement Tools

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Alfrey, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Elaine Cooney, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

themselves enoughtime to write up all of their observations and conclusions. In addition, slightly loweraverage scores on “Proposing Methods of Solution” (average 2.2) and “Applying Methodto Generate Results” (average 2.2) reinforced observations from instructors of ourprogram’s Senior students that our students do not understand the process of writingrequirements and using them to guide the design and testing process. Both of theseweaknesses are being addressed in the Spring 2009 session of this course: students willgo through a separate exercise in requirements-writing before confronting thisassignment, and the assignment itself will be due earlier in the semester, with anopportunity for re-writing and re-submitting after peer feedback. The

Conference Session

Novel Classroom Environments

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Jessop

Proposal Writing” graduate course this past summer. Our goals duringthis three-day class period were: - To define the creative process - To identify techniques that enhance creativity - To practice idea generation and critical thinking skills in controlled settingsThis segment helps smooth the transition between the undergraduate mentality of “teach me” tothe desired graduate student mentality of “enable me”. It attempts to demystify the creativeprocess, which most people associate with inspired moments and geniuses, so that students candeliberately foster an atmosphere that will help them generate new research ideas.Course History“Introduction to Literature Review and Proposal Writing” was first developed two years ago as

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Pete Tschumi

70 General writing skills 63 Leadership (interactions with peers, servant leadership) 58 Technical writing 51 Presentation skills 34 Diversification (different cultures) 34In the category of business concepts, the upper half of the competencies are listed. Business Concepts Be the customer mentality 78 Investigative skills (probing questions

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Waters; Jim Greer; James P. Solti

attempts to motivate faculty to examine their efforts for achieving the prescribedgoals outlined for their course. The paper itself is written as a diagnostic model in which readerscan discover for themselves, through active exercises within a small discussion group, thenecessity for developing, writing, and implementing a sound teaching philosophy rooted inactive learning. Faculty members are encouraged to develop a schematic model (flowchart)illustrating how their philosophy manifests itself in the classroom. The model is beingdeveloped primarily for new faculty members in the Engineering Mechanics Department at theUnited States Air Force Academy in hopes that it will accelerate their professional developmentand classroom improvement efforts.I

Conference Session

Increasing Engagement in Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajani Muraleedharan, Saginaw Valley State University; Thomas Wedge, Saginaw Valley State University; Erik Trump, Saginaw Valley State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

professional and ethical responsibilities. Thisportrayal can lead students to perceive ethical behavior as exceptional rather than expected. Afinal limitation is the passive nature of the learning process in this approach. Students engagewith these cases by writing analyses or taking tests, rather than by actively grappling with theethical dilemmas presented. This passive engagement reduces opportunities for personalreflection and the development of critical thinking skills required in the students’ future careers.In recognition of the limitations described above, educators have recommended several strategiesfor increasing student engagement in engineering ethics: Some recommend electronic bulletinboards and chat rooms, which encourage students to

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Uri Feldman, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Callie Cherry, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

– for students, researchers, educators, andhigher education in general.The Challenge of AI in Higher Education In higher education, students are expected to learn how to conduct research in theirchosen field and communicate it effectively. However, students are increasingly preferring AIchatbots to perform essential parts of the research process, from information seeking to dataanalysis to even writing research papers. A 2023 study indicates that 49% of higher educationstudents have adopted language AI tools to write assignments and answer homework questions[6]. This indicates that students are automating essential parts of the research and learningprocesses, which could, potentially, impact their readiness for the workforce after

Conference Session

Computing & Information Technology Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kylan Stewart; Bruce Debruhl; Zoe Wood

studying computing when in a room with neutrally coded ob-jects like nature paintings and dictionaries rather than objects that were traditionally associatedwith computer science [2]. This work on ambient belonging will be classified with the Garvin-Doxas paper as Environmental Belonging, or the effect of peers or the learning environment onbelonging outcomes of students. This is more difficult to measure as our results overlap with a 2019 2019 2020 2020 Variable Number % Number % Gender Male 103 70.0% 79 66.3% Female 44 30.0

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Part 1

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Brittany Claar, Regis University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

12.775.9Calculus I and II, Differential Equations, Physics I and II, Chemistry I and II, Earth andEnvironmental Systems, Engineering Design, Statics, Thermodynamics, technical writing, andbegin early-level disciplinary courses in the second semester of the sophomore year.Among their challenges: adapting to the intensity of a pre-engineering curriculum and learning toadjust their expectations of themselves in relation to their peers. Because they have previouslyidentified themselves by their high grade point averages and high class standings among highschool peers, a common adjustment MT students must make is recognizing that not everyone canremain at the top of this new environment. Because all students on this campus are high-achieving, sometimes

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brenda Read-Daily, Elizabethtown College; Tomas Estrada, Elizabethtown College; Kurt Degoede, Elizabethtown College; Jean Batista Abreu, Elizabethtown College

junioryear, students apply the engineering design process to explore a problem of their interest. Overthis semester, each team crafts a problem statement, conducts market research, creates detailedspecifications, performs a feasibility study, evaluates alternative approaches, and pitches theiridea to a panel of peers and faculty advisors. The teams also write a series of project reports, anda panel of faculty advisors evaluates and provides detailed feedback on these reports. Thecapstone sequence is inspired by an entrepreneurial funding model, so student teams areguaranteed a set minimum amount of funds and compete for shares of a finite pool of additionalfunds.Occasionally, teams determine that their proposal is not feasible within the constraints

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meiqin Li, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics Division (MATH)

distribute one week to teach a simpleintroduction. The detailed topics about GVS usually are taught for math majors in a secondor an advanced version of a linear algebra course. Considering our audience are engineeringstudents, it is evident that numerical applications are preferred. The discoveries from thementioned peer institutes also validated such revision. Secondly, we add numerical compo-nents, which are not included in PTC . There are four parts for the newly added numericalcomponent: MATLAB live script for instructors to teach, MATLAB practice problems ingroup worksheet during each class meeting, coding basic concepts in MATLAB Grader, andMATLAB application projects in MATLAB Grader. By writing MATLAB programs, stu-dents have to imagine the

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Julie Trenor, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

undergraduate research, the students as the newcomers workunder the direction of faculty mentors and graduate students as the old-timers. The old-timersprovide expertise and resources to enable the student newcomer to engage in the practice ofresearch. Peer undergraduate researchers being a part of the research laboratory community alsoplay a key role in fostering a successful experience. Figure 1 illustrates the data collected duringthis effort in the context of the CoP theoretical framework. The two main tools utilized were theNational Engineering Students’ Learning Outcomes Survey (NESLOS) and weekly self-reflective journal entries. The figure illustrates that pre-NESLOS was administered at thebeginning of the REU experience (during the first day

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan T. Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey S. Bryan, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

published and presented work on a variety of topics, including assessment instruments and methodologies, using technology in the classroom, faculty development in instructional design, teaching diversity, and peer coaching. Utschig completed his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he worked on safety issues for fusion reactor designs.Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology Judith Shaul Norback received her B.A. from Cornell magna cum laude and her master’s and Ph.D. from Princeton. She has worked in the area of workplace communication skills for 25 years, starting at Edu- cational Testing Service in 1987, then founding and directing the Center for Skills Enhancement

Collection

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Randy Kelley; Brandon Dooley

to do better in their coursework than their younger, moretraditionally-aged peers. While it may be enticing to attribute such observationsto the older students merely being more mature, experienced, and focused, couldthere also be other drivers contributing to these trends?Background Many researchers have studied brain development in humans. Untilrecently, the physiology of brain development was not known. It was thoughtthat beyond the prenatal stage, there were no large-scale changes and thatdevelopment continued along a straight-line trajectory. (C., 2009). It turns out,however, that this is not the case. Certain brain regions are now known todevelop faster than others. The emotional capacity of the brain develops anddominates when

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech; Scott T. Huxtable, Virginia Tech; Sathyanarayanan Subramanian, Virginia Tech; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

objects.Dr. Scott T. Huxtable, Virginia TechMr. Sathyanarayanan Subramanian, Virginia Tech I am a Graduate Mechanical Engineer at Virginia Tech, specializing in Thermal-Fluid Sciences.Prof. Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma Zahed Siddique is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering of University of Oklahoma. His research interest include product family design, advanced material and engineering education. He is interested in motivation of engineering students, peer-to-peer learning, flat learning environments, technology assisted engineering education and experiential learning. He is the coordinator of the industry sponsored capstone from at his school and is the advisor

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Cheryl Carrico P.E., Cheryl Carrico Consulting, LLC; Karen J. Gilbert, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

underrepresented students develop the skills and writing habits to complete doctorate degrees in engineering. Across all of her research avenues, Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 12 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award with her share of funding be ingnearly $2.3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 21 journal publications and more than 70 conference papers. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty, an Outstanding Teacher Award and a Faculty Fellow Award. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in Materials Science from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Design and Entrepreneurship

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Tadd, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan; Elaine Wisniewski, University of Michigan; Leena N Lalwani, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

skills, with light coverage of actual problem solving anddesign strategies or heuristics. As the first truly comprehensive chemical engineering course, thecurrent content is a blend of a review of principles and some concepts of integration of skills. Itis still delivered in a lecture-driven, teacher-centered format, and the communications componentis heavily reliant on rather lengthy written reports. Our student teams do benefit from beingmentored by program alumni working in industry, which provides an element of exposure to thereal world, but overall the course may be summarized as a bit of creative effort followed by agreat deal of computation and technical writing. Therefore, we revitalized the course with thegoal to   ● focus more

Conference Session

Collaboration and Communication in Problem-based Learning

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicole Barclay, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

and communication with technical and non-technical peers. Students worked in teamsof three and four to solve ill-defined problems presented by the instructor. Topics coveredConstruction Waste, Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Recycling Education, PublicTransportation, and Campus Transit. Deliverables, including a technical report, an oralpresentation, and an analytical reflection, were used as data for this project. Students weresurveyed to assess their perceptions of problem-based learning. There were seventy-twoparticipants over three semesters. One preliminary result from both the survey and qualitativedata is that students felt confident about working with others from different disciplines. Studentsmostly commented positively about their

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shweta Chopra, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Chad M. Laux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

other support services havefemales received to make the decision to study in the STEM discipline? All necessary procedurefor investigation/survey of human subject will be followed throughout the study. Before startingassessment and evaluation studies approval from internal Human Subject Review Boards atXXX University will be obtained. All necessary written consents will be obtained.Confidentiality throughout the study will be maintained.Study will be conducted in three phases- phase I will be pilot survey for further study. Phase IIwill be interviewing participant from the phase I and conducting workshops and field trip. PhaseIII will be post-survey and using the finding from study to recruit more graduate students inSTEM discipline. Also write