Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent Jesiek, Purdue University; Deepika Sangam, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Juila Thompson, Purdue University; Yating Chang, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University

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International

the international labor market and workplace imperatives; • Understanding of the international business, economy and world market; • Competency in applying engineering solutions/applications in a global context.16The authors have used surveys to identify gaps between employer perceptions of the importanceof attributes as compared to their satisfaction with the actual performance of recent graduates.In the more specific context of global engineering education, Lohmann et al. have noted acontinued dearth of research on student learning, career impacts, and intercultural proficiency:“Largely absent are rigorous methods for assessing foreign language ability or competenciesspecifically related to professional practice within the academic

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Progress Reports: Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Stier, Illinois State University

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Engineering Technology

ObjectivesProgram educational objectives need to be developed that are consistent with the mission of theinstitution16. Rogers defines objectives as “the broad statements that describe the career andprofessional accomplishments that the program is preparing graduates to achieve”17. Other termsthat are sometimes used in place of the word objectives are goals or standards18. Whendeveloping program educational objectives the emphasis is placed on what the graduates of theprogram will be doing three to five years after graduation. Careful assessment needs to be madeof what the curriculum and program prepares the students achieve in the early stages of theircareer.The Engineering Technology faculty at MU developed their educational objectives to align withthe

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheryl Custer, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Harriet Lamm, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; David Ramirez, Texas A&M University; Kuruvilla John, University of North Texas

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Two Year College Division

successful. Not only does the data reveal this with the increase in the numbers oftransfer students to TAMUK, but also through the participants themselves. These students returnto their community colleges where they share their May-mester experiences with others whomay also be apprehensive about pursing a career in one of the STEM disciplines.AcknowledgementThe authors would like to thank the STEP project team Dr. John Chisholm, Dr. Greg Moehring,Dr. Ali Pilehvari, Dr. Larry Lee, Martie De La Paz, Rose Rodriguez, Idolina Cortez, and LauraParr for their support in the May-mester Research Program. This paper is based on worksupported by the National Science Foundation under DUE grant No. 0525496. Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum and Practices in Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Walk, Old Dominion University; Roland Lawrence, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

TransitionsAcademic Transition ChallengesThe transition from 2-year to 4-year (2+2) engineering or engineering technology curricula, ortransitions from another „non-traditional‟ starting point, such as military background, career Page 15.415.3displacement, etc., can be a challenge for students for a variety of factors.Weak skills proficiency is one kind of challenge. A student might have been exposed to somecritical skill area, such as a mathematics skill (e.g., L‟Hospital‟s Rule), an engineering problem-solving technique (e.g., free-body diagrams), or equipment use proficiency (e.g., operating anoscilloscope), but not had extensive practice or not been

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Gattis, University of Arkansas; Shannon Davis, University of Arkansas; Bryan Hill, University of Arkansas; Edgar Clausen, University of Arkansas; Christa Hestekin, University of Arkansas; Bradley Dearing, Illinois State University

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Council of Sections

need to introduce engineering and scienceto students at an early age in order to increase the number of students entering engineeringdisciplines. However, most students in the middle level grades (6th, 7th and 8th) are unaware ofopportunities in engineering and do not recognize engineering as a rewarding career option.Furthermore, research tells us that women and minority students are drastically underrepresentedin the engineering fields.1 To more effectively prepare students for engineering and sciencedegrees, K-12 students should be engaged in activities which develop the critical thinking skillsnecessary for solving problems in the real world. It is universally accepted that all studentbenefit from hands-on learning activities in the

Collection

2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

K. P. Isaac, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)

of Kerala and rose to the position of Director of Technical Education. Most of his career, he has served at College of Engineering, Trivandrum as a faculty member in the Department of Civil Engineering. He specializes in Transportation Engineering and is instrumental in establishing a Transportation Engi- neering Division at College of Engineering, Trivandrum. He is a leading consultant and researcher in this area of specialization. He has been active with his involvement with industries. He developed the process of Manufacturing Manufactured Sand ’M Sand’ an alternative to river sand. He was the coordinator of State Technical Agency for PMGSY scheme in Kerala. He has coordinated a large number of training

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University

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International Forum

internationally-recognized accredited programs are beingasked to join the MercoSur Treaty to expand mobility to countries outside of MercoSur(Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela; and associate countries: Chile, Bolivia,Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru).Strategy #3: Professional societies assist national accreditation agencies to align theirprocess to comply with the IEA AccordsThe IEEE (Insittute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) is working with the Peruvianaccrediting agency, ICACIT (for its acronym in Spanish, meaning: Institute of Quality andAccreditation of Engineering Career and Technology Education), which was founded in 2001. Page

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Arnold Neville Pears, Uppsala University; Mats Daniels, Uppsala University; Åsa Sofia Cajander

Tagged Topics

Student Development

 of  engineering  education.  These  skill  sets  and  competences  are  described  in  the  ABET  accreditation  criteria  (see  www.ABET.org),  as  well  as  in  the  newly  established  ACM/IEEE  Computer  Science  Curricula  2013  (www.computer.org),  and  similar  criteria  can  be  found  in  the  national  educational  goals  of  many  countries.  Swedish  engineers  are  increasingly  pursuing  careers  abroad,  this  is  a  direct  consequence  of  the  size  of  the  Swedish  economy  and  industry  base.  Consequently  it  is  vital  that  engineering  education  in  Sweden  should  foster  global  engineering  skills.What  is  then  required  of  the  “global  engineer”?  What  competencies  are  needed  and  how  can  they  be

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Megan Mercedes Echevarria, International Engineering Program, University of Rhode Island; Sigrid -- Berka, University of Rhode Island

Tagged Topics

Student Development

those experiences and impressions, and analyze the relevance of their project in a largercontext of global challenges. Subsequently, we will hold public presentations on campus so thatthose students may share their insights and conclusions with our campus community.This sustainability project serves as a way to engage students early in their academic careers notonly with complex technical content relating to anaerobic energy systems in a practical, hands-onsetting, but also gives them the invaluable opportunity to work as part of a multicultural team asthey complete the project and to view and reflect on their work from a vantage point that makesthe larger, highly relevant sustainability, social and economic issues quite salient. We project

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session II - Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Imin Kao, Stony Brook University (SUNY); Yacov A. Shamash, Stony Brook University; ChoonHo Kim, SUNY Korea

Tagged Topics

Curriculum Development

strengths of Asian education inscience and math, while cultivating the ingenuity and imagination of students through liberal artsgeneral education, as well as the core curricula in various concentrations within each discipline.Undergraduate students at SUNY Korea are required to be resident students on the Stony Brookcampus for one academic year (2 semesters) to fulfill the general education requirements inliberal arts, selected from the rich and diverse curriculum and courses that SBU, acomprehensive university, offers. SUNY Korea undergraduate students are expected to be anintegral part of the general student body while at Stony Brook and to interact with peer studentsand advance their careers as proud students of SBU. This obligation for a one

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session I - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Robyne Bowering, Monash University

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Invited - Student Development

only serveas a foundation for career development, but can also be applied to transform local andinternational communities’.[19]At the start of the semester, the STP students participate in a series of workshops on:understanding how we construct and retain knowledge, different learning styles, effectivecommunication and presentation skills, motivation, goal setting, lesson planning, leadershipand reflection. They are then placed into a suitably matched school to plan, organise andteach a STEM-based unit of work. The STP students specifically design their unit of work(project) around the brief given to them by their supervising teacher and the interests andcapabilities of the children that they work with. The projects are typically 12+ hours

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

career, orconsidering the option, who were previously intimidated by the stereotypical image ofengineering as nothing more than a burdensome drudgery of equations.”ConclusionsBased on the assessment data presented above, we draw the following conclusions: • The concept of a wholly Internet-based engineering design competition is viable. • The format of the West Point Bridge Design Contest—a simulation-based design experience coupled with web-based judging and feedback—can potentially attract large numbers of student participants and can stimulate a high level of engagement. • By leveraging information technology, a small project staff can deliver high-quality, accessible engineering outreach at a reasonable cost. • The

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Drummer; James Frendewey; Sheryl Sorby; Kris Mattila; John Sutherland; Leonard Bohmann

better serve society and students for work in the21st century, we believe that it is essential to provide them with an engineering career pathaimed at the service sector.In response to the need for a service systems engineering curriculum, the authors received aplanning grant from the Department Level Reform program of the National Science Foundationin September 2003. Through this grant we conducted a Delphi Study to define a newengineering discipline – Service Systems Engineering. The remainder of this paper outlines theDelphi technique as we applied it to this project and presents our results obtained to date.Delphi Technique for Curricular DesignA Delphi Study is a consensus-building forecasting technique that has been used byorganizations

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganapathy Narayanan

Page 10.1101.6of learning the MATLAB control commands is with regard to his increased ability todesign any control system in his professional career, without getting bogged down with Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationmany numerical calculations. Of course, the use of MATLAB commands did boost hisability to perform numerical calculations needed in other areas of his engineering study.References 1) Bateson, R. N., “Introduction to Control System Technology”, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002 2) Dorf, R. C., “Modern Control Systems”, Ninth edition, Prentice Hall, 2001 3) Kuo, B. C. and

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Cook; Jim Lyons; Kenneth Gentili

critical thinking. He has won numerous teaching and service awards.JIM LYONSJim Lyons worked for the Boeing Company for seven years and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation for thirty-one years as an engineer and engineering manager before retiring in 1999. In 2001 he began a second career as anengineering instructor at Green River Community College and Tacoma Community College. He is an activeparticipant in developing and testing curriculum and assessment tools in engineering design.MARY COOK Page 10.527.7Mary Cook is the Course Manager for the Introduction to Engineering Design at the University of Washington, atruly

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Nutter

10.1455.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationProgram BackgroundOhio Northern University (ONU) is a private, comprehensive, United Methodist affiliated, liberalarts university with approximately 3300 students. The ONU Department of TechnologicalStudies is in the College of Arts and Sciences, and prepares students for careers in professional,technical fields throughout industry and education. Graduates of this program are ideally suitedfor advancement into management and leadership positions in industrial organizations.Technology BS degree concentrations include advanced manufacturing, construction

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela Dautenhahn

careers because of the small classsizes in engineering at McNeese; therefore, the selection of team members does not seem toaffect the performance of the team.To help the students learn more about effective teamwork, advantages and disadvantages ofteams are developed by the students. The students also develop what they feel are importantqualities for teams to be successful. The students are required to buy The Team MemoryJogger A Pocket Guide to Team Members 1. Different aspects of the guide are discussed inclass and each team develops specific goals for their team.Before each team receives its project, the professor emphasizes that the information provided bythe companies may be confidential and each student needs to treat all of it as

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wiesner; Karen Miu

the very top is the standard IEEE menu bar. Version 1 of thePathfinder includes 350 sites organized under eleven categories: • International Perspectives (33) • Major Resources on energy and Power (31) • Associations (48) • Regulation and Deregulation (21) • Education and Careers (20) • Publishers and Databases (27) • Conferences (30) • Environmental Issues, Conservation, and Sustainability (41) • Glossaries (28) • Sites for Students and Teachers (36) • Sites with Links (31) • Communities and Discussion Groups (12) Page 9.1266.6 • Power Quality and Reliability (12

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Raju has received many awards throughouthis career including NSF Novel and Expedited Research Award (1989), NASA InnovativeResearch award (1991), Auburn University Outstanding Faculty Award (1993), United NationsExpert Assignment (1995-1996), Birdsong Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching (1996), theThomas C. Evans Instructional Award for the Outstanding paper in Engineering Education fromthe ASEE Southeastern Section (1997), the ASME Distinguished Service award (1997), PremierAward for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware (1998), and the Birdsong SuperiorTeaching Award for Innovation in Classroom Teaching (1999). He is a member of the ASME,ASEE, INCE, ASA, ASNT, INCE. He served on the executive

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Lambert; Aaron Robinson; Charles Camp; Jeff Marchetta; Laura Lackey; Stephanie Ivey

science, mathematics, and engineering.” Report of the Wingspread Conference. Racine: WI, 1989. 9. Kolb, D. Learning Style Inventory. Boston, MA: McBer & Co., 1985. 10. Kolb, D. A. Learning style inventory technical manual. Boston, MA: McBer and Co., 1976. 11. Perry, W.G. Forms of Ethical and Intellectual Development in the College Years: A Scheme. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999. 12. Cross, P.A., and Faulkner, P. The Learning Style Inventory: Convergent validity study in an applied career setting. Public Service Commission of Canada: PPC, 2004. 13. Kolb, D. A. Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984. 14. Philbin

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Jacquelyn Sullivan

Teaching and Learning Program andLaboratory. She received her Ph.D. in environmental health physics and toxicology from Purdue University. Shespent the first 13 years of her career in leadership positions in the energy and software industries, and served nineyears as the director of a CU water resources engineering simulation and optimization research center.MALINDA SCHAEFER ZARSKE is the curriculum outreach coordinator for the Integrated Teaching and LearningProgram’s K-12 Engineering Initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A former middle and high schoolmath and science teacher, she received her MAT in secondary science from Johns Hopkins University and her MS incivil engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Lancaster; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

and faculty busy withnon-student work during prescribed office hours. In one case, a negative interaction with afaculty member during office hours had shaped a female student's career path. She changed hermajor to IE because a faculty member in her former major offended her by suggesting that she"wouldn’t want to work [and that she] would maybe want to stay home and have kids".In contrast, several participants compared the student-centered attitude of the IE faculty to their Page 10.1268.6experiences with faculty in other departments. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Student Learning and Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Macy Reynolds

for their learning problems inaddition to the content instruction they so often receive. Finally, gifted students with learningdisabilities must understand their unique pattern of academic and learning strengths as well asweaknesses in order to learn to compensate for these discrepancies.” Page 10.145.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Can these students perform in engineering careers?It is not uncommon for faculty to look at students with learning problems and wonder if theyreally

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

design, open-ended problem solving, development ofmanagement and communications skills, professional development, and career-long learning areall included in this call for change. This response was in reaction to a perceived need to correct adecade’s long emphasis on engineering science that occurred post-World War II tilting theengineering education field away from engineering practice and the new realities of a globaleconomy that demands skill sets not emphasized at the time. In a similar manner, the technicaleducation community at the two-year college level has, in a synergistic manner, started toembrace similar elements of the Scans report [3] (usually, problem solving skills and life-longlearning) with efforts to infuse these so-called

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Joslyn

Space” experience while at the Air Force Academy. Theexposure to solving ill defined problems in the FalconLAUNCH program prepares themfor the challenges of a professional military career. The lessons learned and pride ofownership in the program are the finishing touches on officers joining the cadre of spaceprofessionals who make the United States Air Force the world’s preeminent air and spacepower. That being said, there is no reason why a similar program at a civilian universitycouldn’t provide the same systems engineering capstone experience to theirundergraduate or graduate programs so valuable to young engineers embarking on theircareers.VII. AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge the contributions to the success of this

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Thompson

value they found in thethesis, it had become a major barrier to graduation. Many students who had satisfied the courserequirements did not have the degree because of the thesis. This problem was converted to acrisis in the 1990's by two decisions. The first was a campaign to model thesis requirements onthose typical of programs aimed at preparing their students for a career in academic research andteaching. The second was a policy prohibiting academic credit for paid work, eliminating thesesbased on issues at the student’s employer. Students came to regard the thesis as an unscalablebarrier. The employer of the largest number of students threatened to stop supporting theprogram upon discovering that none of its employees had graduated in the

Conference Session

New Learning Models

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

. Demographic information about the engineers and their workplace contexts arepresented in Table 1. The interview focused on a single job or project that had beencompleted by the engineer during their career. We made no attempt to influence the nature ofthe story that was recalled. We asked questions regarding the engineers’ academicpreparation, the organizational context in which they worked, the nature of the project, howthey analyzed and represented the problem, how they generated solutions, and howsuccessfully the job was completed. A total of 98 interviews were transcribed (technicaldifficulties affected the remainder).Engineering education: civil (39), electrical (18), chemical (10), mechanical (13), structural(5), industrial, nuclear (1), other

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Cornwell; Richard Layton

Cognitive Domain,” New York: McKay, 1956.PHILLIP CORNWELLPhillip Cornwell is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received hisPh.D. from Princeton University in 1989 and his present interests include structural dynamics, structural healthmonitoring, and undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Cornwell has received an SAE Ralph R. TeetorEducational Award in 1992, and the Dean’s Outstanding Teacher award at Rose-Hulman in 2000.RICHARD LAYTONRichard Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995 and is currently an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Layton worked for twelveyears in consulting engineering, culminating as a group

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Evensen; Paula Zenner; Edward Lumsdaine

in terms of tenure-track teaching and for promotion and tenure. Unfortunately, these constraints would most likelyexclude young faculty trying to build their careers in research. On the other hand, engineeringexperience is a valuable asset. This type of teaching is a great opportunity for faculty who arenot ready to retire and want to try something new—an enterprise that leaves room for new waysof doing things—in other words, an application of creative problem solving.References1 W.R. Shapton, P.F. Zenner, W.W. Predebon, J.W. Sutherland, M.A. Banks-Sikarskie, L.A. Artman and P.A. Lins, “From the Classroom to the Boardroom: Distance Learning Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Programs— A Global Partnership of Industry and

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theo Brower; Meredith Knight; Chris Rogers

at Purdue University by having ashorter project duration (2 vs. 4 years) and a smaller, more intimate team (5-10 vs. 8-20)where there is limited vertical integration. The creation of the Robotics Academy was motivated by the desire to help juniorsand seniors develop personal and interpersonal skills, which are essential for successfulprofessional careers. To this end, we want to answer three main questions: First, doessolving a “real world problem” help motivate students learning? Second, does engagingin an interdisciplinary, student-led project allow students to develop personal andinterpersonal skills more effectively than traditional coursework? Third, what are theimpacts of participation in the Robotics Academy? These