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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

equip their facilities with state of the arttechnologies available on the market. Other reason is the lack of trained faculty and staff whocan deliver these new technologies to others in a reasonable amount of time in the form ofteaching and training.To remedy the problems mentioned above institutions have started to look at options such asfostering university-industry cooperation in technology training through structured networking,university-personnel exchange, and joint training projects 2. Also, the federal ManufacturingExtension Partnership with university-based technology transfer initiatives has been fostered toassist small and medium-sized enterprises in modernizing production 1.This article looks at two examples. First, fostering

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Dr. Phil Kazemersky; Dr. Neslihan Alp

the course. Therefore, the techniques that will be used to deliver the coursesare different from each other. The followings are the different types of delivery methods Page 5.87.3that might be used to offer the on-line courses (Novak, 1999): • Highly web-based courses • Limited web-based courses • Supplement web-based coursesIn the highly web-based courses, there will be no need to come on campus to take thecourse, so all the course materials including the exam questions, homework assignments,project, etc. will be done through the web.In the limited web-based courses, there will be a need to meet once, twice, or three timesper month to

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Wood; M. Becker; L. Meekisho; J. F. Holmes

third is the ability to adapt segments fordelivery as short courses to engineers from industry.One of the original motivations behind initiating segmentation was indeed to provide aconvenient mechanism for delivery of educational materials to industrial students. Courses inMaterials Science and Engineering (MSE) were decomposed into segments. Simultaneously, theMSE faculty was developing a new joint master's program in Electronics Packaging withElectrical and Computer Engineering faculty. The potential benefits of course segmentation oncurriculum development soon became apparent.A seed project has been initiated at the Oregon Graduate Institute with the support of theNational Science Foundation. The focus has been on curriculum development in

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor B. Davey; Ngo Dinh Thinh

exchanges,assistance in purchasing equipment's and supplies and presentation of technical papers. InNovember 1996, under the sponsorship of the Division of South Asia Programs of the NationalScience Foundation, a workshop was convened at CSU, Sacramento to bring togetherengineering and science educators from the principle colleges and universities in Vietnam withsome of their counterparts in the United States. The purpose of these meetings was to exchangeinformation on science and technology curriculums, discuss educational objectives of the twocountries and to investigate the possibilities of joint research projects and exchange programs forfaculty and students.The participants from Vietnam included the Vice President and senior academic

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

T. Al Austin; Steve Wells

5Four of the five courses listed above included students from 2 provinces in Canada. These pilotcourses have been so successful that further courses are being developed and active recruitmentis planned for the Fall 97 semester. Method of Delivery At present five courses have been developed that are suitable for study at home orindustry. The following methods of delivery have been implemented.1. Course Packs. Each course is accompanied by a text book, computer software (whereapplicable) and the following written material: a. Syllabus b. Course outline c. Instructors notes and special questions d. Sample problems with solutions e. Practical assignments f. Projects (where

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

John M. Dorosz; Ester B. Johnson

are exposed to hands-on design projects. Throughout the course,the facilitators stress the importance of regular contact with academic or faculty advisorsthroughout the students academic career. In addition, the coordinators offer many helpful hintsfor maximizing use of a system which is efficient but rather dependent on student initiative andself-responsibility.The class carries one degree credit and is graded on an "A through F" basis. Attendance ismandatory, although one unexcused absence is allowed. Students are required to submit regularhomework from the text, "Studying Engineering", by Ray Landis, as well as two design projects,a spaghetti tower and a model car made of newspaper, designed to specific criteria. The towerproject is an

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray Adams; Paul Duesing; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

and technology. The implementation plan, which involves introducingstudents to the use of this equipment in fundamentals courses and then reinforcing its use inadvanced courses and a capstone senior projects course sequence, moves the student from thebasic to advanced levels of cognitive learning.Modern instrumentation equipment was therefore added to several laboratories so that thestudents would use it in both fundamental and advanced courses. The process of upgrading theinstrumentation capability of these laboratories was supported by an Instrumentation andLaboratory Improvement (ILI) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and grantsfrom the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation. The followingsections

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim J. Nasr

providedwithin the Electronic Book. Students normally spend the first week of the course going throughthe tutorial and getting familiar with the software contents. At the end of the first week, studentswere asked to provide their initial feedback (impression) on the software and document what theyhave learned. Generally, students were impressed by the front end of the software which exhibitsthe tool bar, the various buttons and commands, and the palettes. However, the tutorial wasperceived as lacking in applying the commands to the field of thermodynamics. In a typical term,students were normally assigned a total of fourteen computer problems (seven Mathcadassignments) and a design project, in addition to their usual weekly homework assignmentsextracted

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Sr., Buck F. Brown; Jr., Buck F. Brown

to this “knowledge explosion” has been to pack more “essential facts” into thecurricula. Careful consideration of this issue suggests that an information-laden society requiresresourceful skills, insights, and abilities; hence, educational innovation must focus less on factsand more on problem-solving and inquiry-based learning. The Wabash Valley EducationalAlliance1, supported by the National Science Foundation (DUE-9553705), has implemented animportant educational vision and established a permanent cooperative effort within the WabashValley (west central Indiana) to meet this need. This paper describes how this project addresses instructional methods that impact theeducation of students of technology, science, mathematics, and

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Aleta White; Stephanie L. Blaisdell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

participates in an 8-week research experience. Each research assistant works roughly 200 hours with local facultyand receives a $1500 stipend. Faculty working with Scholars are required to attend a diversityseminar that includes information on creating a gender-inclusive classroom and lab atmosphere.Twenty faculty with ongoing research projects agreed to attend such a workshop and include aScholar in their summer research activities. In fact, there are more slots than are required toplace all of the Scholars, however, this ensures that Scholars are matched with a research projectof their interest. Through the diversity training and increased exposure to these talentedengineering women students and mentors, participating faculty have a heightened

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Hisham Alnajjar

Session 2532 Digital Signal Processing/Image Processing: Freshman to Senior Year Hisham Alnajjar Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering College of Engineering University of Hartford alnajjar@mail.hartford.eduAbstractA hands-on project course, which focuses on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) hardwareand applications through the use of standard kits, is introduced at the senior level. Sincethese DSP kits are important and relatively easy to interface, they can be used tointroduce first year students to the design and

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald L. Buchwald

* Edge Detection and Binary Effects Using Back Lighting * Investigate & Design Lighting Configurations for Industrial Parts & Tasks * Use of Strobe Lighting to Image Features on Moving Parts * Laser and Fiber Optic LightingDue to the interdisciplinary nature of vision systems, these laboratory experiences include basicconcepts in related fields such as: electronics, computers, production control, axis transformation,algorithms, pattern recognition, optics, lighting, and much more.A final project for the first course is to develop a robotics program to incorporate the robot arm,sensors, and/or vision sensor to perform tasks with subroutines and decisions. Machine visionsystems are used to let the robots identify

Conference Session

Innovating Inclusivity: Rethinking Access and Empowerment in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Udayan Das, Saint Mary's College of California; Christopher Isaac Fulton

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

that most students are prepared to study programming at a CS 1 levelright away provided there are appropriate teaching and learning methodologies applied. At Loyolaand Saint Mary’s College the change to the prerequisite is coupled with peer tutoring; activelearning; project-based learning; and strong student support through academic advising, coursetouchpoints, and student success coaches. Evolution. There is an evolution in progress as far as what prerequisites are required tobegin a CS 1 programming course. As In a survey scan, we found that 30% of institutions havelimited or no prerequisites 1 required for students starting a CS 1. This no prerequisite approach isconsistent with our experience and the purpose of this experience report

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 29

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sakhi Aggrawal, Purdue University ; Lisa Bosman, Purdue University; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #41053Exploring Teamwork Experiences in Collaborative Undergraduate Research(REU) Programs through Tuckman’s Group Development TheorySakhi Aggrawal, Purdue University Sakhi Aggrawal is a Graduate Research Fellow in Computer and Information Technology department at Purdue University. She completed her master’s degree in Business Analytics from Imperial College London and bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Technology and Organizational Leadership from Purdue University. She worked in industry for several years with her latest jobs being as project manager at Google and Microsoft. Her current research

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Choi Ausman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

ResearchIn order to get a baseline and rough draft of developing a research design for a larger project, thegraduate student, first author, developed a pilot study. Pilot studies have been useful forqualitative researchers to develop and refine a study’s research design, conceptualize theresearch topic, and interpret the findings and results [2,9]. Researchers have discussed theunderutilized nature of pilot studies and how they can help foreshadow research gaps andproblems [2]. Creswell and Creswell suggest utilizing pilot testing to refine questions andprocedures during the interview process [10]. Ismail et al. identify two major reasons as to whyquantitative research utilizes pilot studies more than qualitative research [11]. First, pilot

Conference Session

Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Royce A Francis, The George Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

afterthe internship was completed. The overall objective of the larger project in which this work issituated is to expose Black and under-represented high school students to the exciting,interdisciplinary field of environmental engineering and science through the lens ofenvironmental justice. It is clear that pre-college out-of-school experiences with engineeringincrease students’ likelihood of entry to engineering majors (Godwin et al., 2016). However,many Black and underrepresented students do not obtain exposure to these fields in meaningfulout-of-classroom experiences.The representation challenges for Black and underrepresented students in STEM fields has beenwell-documented and will not be recited here. Suffice it to say that programs similar

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Garrett Powell Lee, South Florida State College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #44361Board 253: Emerge Scholars Program: Increasing Enrollment in EngineeringTechnologyMr. Garrett Powell Lee, South Florida State College Instructor of Engineering Technology at South Florida State College in Avon Park, FL ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Emerge Scholars Program: Increasing Enrollment in Engineering TechnologyOverviewIn 2022, an S-STEM project, titled Emerge: Preparing Students for an Innovative Future(Emerge Scholars Program) was proposed to NSF to try to answer one of the highest nationalpriorities in STEM education, namely, to increase

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Effective Teaching 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Tymvios, Bucknell University; Claudia Mara Dias Wilson, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Corrie Walton-Macaulay, Saint Martin's University; Moses Tefe, Norwich University; Scott R Hamilton P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Xiaomei Wang, Brigham Young University; Gloria Faraone; Thais Alves, San Diego State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

opportunity is contained in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill which containsfunding for projects focused on previously underserved communities, and reconnecting andrebuilding communities that were divided by transportation infrastructure decades ago and havelong been overlooked. Repairing inequities in infrastructure can allow affected communitiesbetter access to transportation, clean water, economic and community development, and resilientinfrastructure. As civil engineering educators, it is our responsibility to apprise students of thesepast inequities, instruct them in recognizing and understanding their impacts and improving thelives of all individuals that infrastructure projects affect.This paper aims to outline a framework developed as part

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julian M Lippmann, University of Miami

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

. The video hosting site also auto generated captions.Figure 2. Example of drawing from assignment. Students replicated the model and instructor gave VF on the submitted model.Data Collection and MetricsThis is a retrospective study, using data from four semesters taught by the same instructor (theUniversity of Miami IRB has determined that this study is exempt from review.) The traditionalcohort (Fall 2019 n=9 students) was taught using written feedback, while the VF cohort consistsof three classes (Fall 2021/Spring 2022/ Fall 2022/ n=4/11/20 = 35 total). Two sets of data werecollected from each cohort: analysis of student final projects and video file data.The final project in each class was similar, asking the students to create a model or

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University; Kelly Simmons-Potter, The University of Arizona; Steven J. Zuiker, Arizona State University; Greg Barron-Gafford, The University of Arizona

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

projects that interconnect classrooms and campus, schools and communities, and, ultimately, educational research and educational practice.Greg Barron-Gafford, The University of Arizona ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Plants, Power, and People: Using Agrivoltaics Engineering toCreate a Network of K-12 Teachers and Students Contributing toSustainable Energy TransitionsThe Sonoran Desert Photovoltaics Laboratory (SPV Lab) is an NSF-funded ResearchExperience for Teachers (RET) program that aims to organize a regional approach topursuing an interconnected set of site-specific agrivoltaics engineering researchprojects for K-12th grade STEM teachers along the corridor between two metropolitancities co

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Preparing Students for the Real World

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John B. Napp, University of Toledo

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Engineering Libraries

applied to their project Page 22.1676.4home. A report listing the devices found along with any standards, patents, etc. was turned in fora project grade.Survey Results Once the students turned in a report for their team, a survey was given to assess theirfeeling about the assignment and their sources (see Appendix for the survey instrument). Ninetystudents filled out and returned a survey. Eighty percent of those responding indicated that theassignment simulated a real-world situation. The first question in the survey asked “Whichinformation types did you use in this assignment? (check all that apply). ” The item “articles”was selected by

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University; Dimitra Lynette Jackson, Iowa State University; Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

years. She currently works on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects such as Path2STEM degree and the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) project as well as additional projects that focus on the experiences of community college students and community college transfer student success. Dr. Jackson’s dissertation is entitled ”Transfer students in STEM majors: Gender differences in the socialization factors that influence academic and social adjustment.” She is passionate about students, more specifically community college transfer students and women pursuing advanced degrees in STEM areas.Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University Diane T. Rover received the B.S. degree in computer science in 1984, and the M.S

Conference Session

FPD 3: Research on First-year Programs and Students, Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana Quinn, University of South Australia; Elizabeth J. Smith, University of South Australia; Syed Mahfuzul Aziz, University of South Australia

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Australia (UniSA) and, since 2007, the inaugural academic director of UniSA’s common first year engineering program. In this capacity he leads the first year teaching and learning team, which involves staff from five schools across the Division of IT, Engineering and the Environment, staff from the Learning and Teaching Unit and the Library. He oversees initiatives to provide active forms of orienta- tion, to identify and support students at risk, and to continuously evaluate and improve student experience. In the last ten years Mahfuz has developed and refined innovative project-based learning strategies and assessment schemes to assist diverse students with their learning. Engaging students in lectures, tutorials and

Conference Session

Certifying Teachers in Engineering or Integrated STEM

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

AnnMarie Thomas, University of Saint Thomas; Jan B Hansen, University of Saint Thomas; Sarah H. Cohn, Science Museum of Minnesota; Brian Phillip Jensen, University of St. Thomas

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

outreach through the nonprofit ”Educate Tanzania” of which she is president and CEO.Sarah H Cohn, Science Museum of Minnesota Sarah Cohn is The Science Museum of Minnesota’s Evaluation and Research in Learning Department’s coordinator and evaluation associate. Sarah’s thesis was focused on the impacts of museum theatre out- reach. Through various evaluation projects, Sarah has focused on the educational impacts of programs, classes, and other products. She has presented at numerous conferences including AAM, ACM and VSA. Sarah is currently the lead evaluator on SMM evaluations of the Collectors’ Corner Nature Trading Posts, the Science Live Theater productions, the Warner Nature Center, and the programs created through

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell C. Schroder; Charles D. Turner

work and interpret data c. Ability to design a system, component, or 3 2 design project, text problems process to meet desired needs d. Ability to function on multi disciplinary 2 1 class open to science majors, informal and teams formal team assignments, class exercises e. Ability to identify, formulate, and solve 3 2 textbook problems, local applications, special engineering problems assignments, f. Understanding of professional and ethical 2 2 current events, speaker, design problem responsibility situations, g. Ability to communicate

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan M. Montgomery

fromWankat and Oreovicz’ book was assigned for each class period to ensure this preparation,although the assignment was not turned in. The rest of the class time was spent in small groupdiscussions or projects based on the assignment. Material from the National Effective Institute4was used liberally for class discussions. For the first class, for example, students completed theIndex of Learning Styles Questionnaire5 , based on Felder and Silverman’s Learning Stylesmodel, to start the discussion on learning styles.For many class periods a discussant with expertise in the area would also make a briefpresentation. Some examples: staff from the University’s Center for Research on Learning andTeaching discussed the Teaching Portfolio; the president of

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra K. Gupta

. Historical PerspectiveBy the early 1980s, almost all mechanical engineering programs required their freshmen orsophomores to take a course in higher-level programming language (primarily Fortran, C orBasic). Most programs required students to take an additional course in Numerical Methods1,2.With skills students developed in these two courses, they were able to write programs forengineering design and analysis projects, and to develop data acquisition and analysis softwarefor experimental projects in their upper division courses.By the late 1980s, with the personal computer (PC) revolution underway, many upper-division Page 2.383.1technical courses

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy C. Morse; Jack Selter

operations in the manufacturing, sales, service andconstruction industries. Through the selection of the upper-level technical concentration, studentscan tailor their program, based on previous knowledge, to assist them in launching a career thatbest meets their needs and aspirations. Projects in cooperation with local industry, solving real-world problems, are required of all students in the BSET program.Since the fall of 1990 Engineering Technology has offered courses utilizing the videotape lecturesuccessfully demonstrated by the FEEDS system. Primarily using UCF campus and communitycollege locations, this system allows for maximum viewing freedom of the course material viatape without geographic or work schedule constraints. Emerging

Conference Session

Energy Education and Industry Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David McDonald, Lake Superior State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

electricity.16 Ford anticipates that future plug-in hybrids will “talk” to a Smart Grid.Ford is investing $14 billion in the project, and has worked with 10 different utilities.Significant development efforts are focused on vehicle batteries in an ongoing effort to improvecost and weight. The battery for the Chevrolet Volt is a 16 KWh T-shaped Lithium-ion batterythat is roughly 6 feet long and weighs nearly 400 pounds1 or twice the weight of an averageperson. Current batteries represent about one third of the vehicle weight, and that weight is threeto five times what would be desired. Lithium-iron-sulfide batteries are now being studied undera partly government funded Reduced Cost Li-ion (Red Lion) project.17

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

substantive works mirroring and foreshadowingtechnical developments and ethical issues. This paper describes a course examining theconnections between fiction and technology in the field of AI, which meets undergraduatewriting, literature and ethics requirements while giving students a solid base in the AI state-of-the-art. The course can also be taught as a project-based graduate class.IntroductionEngaging students and helping them develop creativity in engineering and science is a challengeand a goal for many faculty. Our students often come to college with extra-curricular passionsthat may be used to build connections with technical material. Video gaming is a commonpassion, but for many, the connection is to the story of the game more than to the