Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Virginia Sisiopiku, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Robert W. Peters, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Ossama E. M. Ramadan, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

assessment methodologies, etc.) to further enrich the learning experience infuture offerings.Summary and ConclusionsThis paper documented the need for introducing sustainability related courses in the CivilEngineering curricula and the steps taken at our institution to research, develop, and pilot testsuch a course in fall semester 2014. The new course demonstrated a successful integration ofsustainability concepts within a Civil Engineering curriculum. The pilot course combinedknowledge and expertise in transportation and environmental engineering disciplines andfostered a successful interaction between faculty members and students with interests in these

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Schnittka, Auburn University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #10198Curriculum Exchange: Studio STEM, Engineering After SchoolDr. Christine Schnittka, Auburn University Dr. Christine Schnittka is an assistant professor in the College of Education and the Department of Curriculum and Teaching with a joint appointment in the College of Engineering. Her current research involves developing and evaluating engineering design-based curriculum units that target key science con- cepts and environmental issues through the contextual lens of problem-based learning. Prior to receiving her Ph.D. in science education at the University of Virginia, Dr. Schnittka was a middle school teacher

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Amparo Gotes; Barry McNeill; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

designed to prepare underrepresented ethnic minority students forsuccess in the CEAS at ASU. The program focuses on community building and utilizesundergraduate student role models, while the curriculum focuses on engineering design,technical communications, and includes a very unique design project. Academic scholarshipsare awarded to all participants based on a team design project competition.The design project is a group project that the students complete by the tenth day of the program.The project consists of three elements: web page, design notebook, and an oral teampresentation. This unique design project consists of a web-based newspaper that the teams“publish”. The newspaper has certain requirements and specifications, but also allows

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Amparo Gotes; Dr. Barry McNeill; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

designed to prepare underrepresented ethnic minority students forsuccess in the CEAS at ASU. The program focuses on community building and utilizesundergraduate student role models, while the curriculum focuses on engineering design,technical communications, and includes a very unique design project. Academic scholarshipsare awarded to all participants based on a team design project competition.The design project is a group project that the students complete by the tenth day of the program.The project consists of three elements: web page, design notebook, and an oral teampresentation. This unique design project consists of a web-based newspaper that the teams“publish”. The newspaper has certain requirements and specifications, but also allows

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmad Fayed, Southeastern Louisiana University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

Paper ID #38896Supplementing Engineering Technology Curriculum through Space GrantsDr. Ahmad Fayed, Southeastern Louisiana University Ahmad Fayed is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology, an online instructional mentor, a former member of the Experiential Learning team, and the Teaching Excellence Team at Southeastern Louisiana University (SELU). Ahmad completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) and taught engineering classes at multiple schools including Al-Azhar Univer- sity, King Saud University, University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), University of Nevada Reno (UNR

Conference Session

Horizontal and Vertical Integration

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jack Bringardner, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Paper ID #19544Developing a Vertically Integrated Project Course to Connect Undergradu-ates to Graduate Research Projects on Smart Cities Transportation Technol-ogyDr. Jack Bringardner, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Jack Bringardner is an Assistant Professor in the First-Year Engineering Program at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He studied civil engineering and received his B.S. from the Ohio State University and his M.S and Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary focus is developing curriculum and pedagogical techniques for engineering education, particularly in the Introduction to Engineering and

Conference Session

Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

COPRS), and was one of the founders of Lehigh’s IPD Program, national winnerof the ASME Curriculum Innovation Award. Watkins also won the 1999 Outstanding Instructoraward from the National Technology University, for his teaching via distance learning.DREW SNYDERDrew Snyder is an adjunct professor of design arts in the Department of Art and Architecturewithin the College of Arts and Science at Lehigh University. Drew has training in industrialdesign, fine art, and computer graphics. He has been a visiting lecturer at Lehigh University forthe past 5 years. During his time at Lehigh, he has been a pivotal player in the incorporation ofergonomics and aesthetics into the Integrated Product Development (IPD) curriculum, serving asa lecturer, advisor

Conference Session

Design Across Curriculum 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Michael S. Thompson, Bucknell University; Stewart Thomas, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

first year, a course in the second year focusing on measurement andfabrication, a course in the third year to frame technical problems in societal challenges, andculminates with our two-semester, client-driven fourth-year capstone design sequence.The impetus to create a design thread arose from preparation for an ABET visit where weidentified a need for more “systems thinking” within the curriculum. Here systems thinkingrefers to understanding abstraction and its relation to system decomposition and modularity;students having difficulty making engineering evaluations of systems based on data; andstudents’ difficulty transferring skills in testing, measurement, and evaluation from in-class labscenarios to more independent work on projects. We

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert J. Voigt

Session 2632 Introducing Information Technology Fundamentals into the Undergraduate Curriculum Robert J. Voigt United States Naval AcademyAbstractWe have been challenged to introduce our students to “information technology” as part of theirundergraduate education. This is not an exercise in training people how to use a word processor,rather it is teaching the undergraduate student, from any discipline, the underlying fundamentalsof the technology which pervades our daily lives. The genesis of the course is a result from asurvey of senior people at

Conference Session

Integrating Math, Science, & Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Maor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; Igor Verner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

approaches to teaching mathematics in context are Realistic MathematicsEducation (RME) and Mathematics as a Service Subject (MSS). In RME, the mathematicscurriculum integrates various context problems which are experientially real to the student7,while the MSS approach considers mathematics as part of professional education and focuseson mathematical skills needed for professional practice8, p. 8.Our study utilizes the RME and MSS approaches to developing an applications-motivatedmathematics curriculum for colleges of architecture. At the first stage we developed a firstyear mathematics course, based on the RME approach9. The two-year follow-up indicated thepositive effect of integrating applications on motivation, understanding, creativity and

Conference Session

Design Projects across the Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold Henderson, United States Miliary Academy; Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-1327: WATER TURBINE: IMPROVING A PROJECT FORREINFORCING MACHINE COMPONENT DESIGNHarold Henderson, United States Miliary Academy MAJ Harold Henderson graduated as an Armor officer from the United States Military Academy in 1998. He has served in the U.S. Army in the United States and Iraq. He holds a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University. His research interests include unmanned ground vehicles, energy harvesting, instructional technology and distance education. He is currently serving as an Instructor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at West Point.Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy

Conference Session

Design Across the Curriculum 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michelle Maher, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Kathleen O'Shea, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Jacob M. Marszalek, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Darran Cairns, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

World Prosthetics, dedicated to creating low-cost prostheticand assistive devices [14]. It is an integral component of the recently implementeddevelopment engineering doctoral courses at UC-Berkeley [15]. Finally, the capstone course ofthe software engineering program at Lappeenranta University in Finland incorporates thedesign process structure [16]. In all cases, use of the design process has resulted in increasedstudent engagement. However, a closer look at these examples and others suggests that thedesign process is most commonly found in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses with asmall enrollment. Given this, we wondered to what extent the design process is transferable tointroductory courses that enroll close to two hundred students

Conference Session

Design Across the Curriculum 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Johnathon Garcia, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Ryan E. Harlow, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Estevan Andres Nunez, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; lorena Isabel Velasquez, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology ; Curtis John O'Malley, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

throughout the course and are always in the workspace to aidin learning.The combination of new project integration and an influx of resources has had a positive effecton not only the grades and retention rates of the department, but on the passion new engineeringstudents hold for their work.Goals of the CourseThe Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Course consists of a lab and lecture.The lecture focuses on preparing students for future classes while also giving them a wideexposure to the various subcategories of Mechanical Engineering. The lab focuses on learningthree skills: Solidworks, Arduino, and Engineering Design through a team-oriented designproject. The first week of lab students choose their project of interest and form teamsaccordingly

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy F. Wheeler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

) and a Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction from Penn State University (2010). He is course coordinator for the Senior Capstone Design program. He has directed project-based programs for undergraduates with an interest in space-related fields as well as service-learning programs for those interested in community service.Ms. Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Page 23.540.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Enhancing the quality of senior design projects: The introduction of a coordinated sequence of design courses to

Conference Session

Installation, Integration, and Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow; Saied Hemati, University of Idaho, Moscow

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

addresses issues of creating such an integrated photovoltaic / piezoelectric energycollection system with communications and display. The preceding discussion has addressedtechnical issues. There are pedagogical and administrative issues in a two-department seniordesign project.The university hosts a strong interdisciplinary senior design program within its College ofEngineering. The program dates back to 1999 when two Mechanical Engineering professors andone Electrical Engineering professor combined their efforts in teaching a two-semester seniordesign course sequence. Initially, there were only a few interdisciplinary projects. Emphasiswas on creating a unified curriculum that spanned the disciplines. Common elements wereidentified and a common

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Kristine Sheridan, University of Toronto; Robert Irish, University of Toronto; Jason A. Foster, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

a whole and the value of participating in each phase of an integrated engineering designproject. While many of the student designs were not developed in depth, introducing students toa complete design experience early on in their design curriculum allowed the students to betterunderstand the need for a clear problem definition, quality requirements, rigorous decisionmaking, and clear communication. As student buy-in at various stages was highly affected by thetype of product they were working on, changing the product types at each stage ensured that nostudent was forced to work in an area they did not enjoy for the entirety of the project. Studentperformance at all stages of the activity was not hindered by the timeline. Average student

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas F. Schubert Jr. P.E., University of San Diego; Frank G Jacobitz, University of San Diego; Michael S. Morse, University of San Diego; Truc T. Ngo, University of San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

process in the freshman year through theENGR 101 (Introduction to Engineering) and ENGR 102 (Engineering Design Practice) courses.A design experience is integrated into many sophomore, junior, and senior engineering scienceclasses and engineering design is an essential component in the senior capstone courses.The Introduction to Engineering (ENGR 101) course consists of two hours of lecture and twohours of laboratory meetings per week. An honors section of the course (ENGR 101H) meets foran additional hour each week. The course is part of the University of San Diego’s PreceptorialProgram and it combines a regular course with topics intended to ease the students’ transitioninto the college environment. Preceptorial courses are taught by

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Plett, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Rodger Ziemer, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Michael Ciletti, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; R. Dandapani, University of Colordo-Colorado Springs; T. S. Kalkur, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Mark Wickert, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Conceptualization (Thinking)Figure 1: Kolb elements of learning and learning styles with overlaid learning activities and 4MAT learning cycle (arrows); adapted from3.Vision for Curriculum EnhancementBased on ideas generated by the Kolb/4MAT system, and funded by an NSF curriculum plan-ning grant8, we have redesigned our systems area curriculum. Overall, we have identified 38credit hours of courses that will be affected: a two semester sequence in circuit theory, a two se-mester sequence in electronic circuit analysis and design; a linear systems theory course, theircompanion non-integrated laboratories, senior technical electives and their companion non-integrated laboratories, and the senior seminar/senior design courses. The old core and its

Collection

2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Andrzej Zarzycki

digitally native, with ways of accessing, interacting, and processing knowledge thatincreasingly conform to a digital media mindset. A successful curriculum should acknowledgethis asset and use it for further strengthening students’ knowledge. At the same time, it shouldcontinue to reference everyday experiences and provide students alternative ways to codify theirexperiences. In their first ever project done during architectural education, students are asked todevelop a cantilevered structure made of toothpick and glue that would be able to support abrick. [fig.1] Interestingly, there are hardly any questions asked regarding the project in theinitial stages of assignment. Students feel it is self-explanatory and expect it to be an

Collection

2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Andrzej Zarzycki

digitally native, with ways of accessing, interacting, and processing knowledge thatincreasingly conform to a digital media mindset. A successful curriculum should acknowledgethis asset and use it for further strengthening students’ knowledge. At the same time, it shouldcontinue to reference everyday experiences and provide students alternative ways to codify theirexperiences. In their first ever project done during architectural education, students are asked todevelop a cantilevered structure made of toothpick and glue that would be able to support abrick. [fig.1] Interestingly, there are hardly any questions asked regarding the project in theinitial stages of assignment. Students feel it is self-explanatory and expect it to be an

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University; Michael A. Swartwout, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

curriculum experience applying systemsengineering concepts in a two sequence senior capstone design course. Even though some programshave introduced systems engineering concepts in freshman or sophomore courses, there is noevidence of continuity in multiple courses in every year across the curriculum, with students gettingseldom systems engineering exposure in course during the first three years of their curriculum.The paper discusses the developed modules that will give students an initial exposure to the field ofsystems engineering as it applies to aerospace vehicles, while students in freshman year experiencenon-aerospace engineering projects as well. Students will learn key topics related to aircraft design,spacecraft and mission design

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering Economy into Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Wilck IV, East Carolina University; Paul C. Lynch, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

initiativesthroughout the country and to the growing technical demand of the country’s workforce.High School Initiatives and Inadequacy of the Common CoreMany states are looking closely at the specific learning outcomes of high school courses and anengineering economics course in college general education integrates well with these efforts.For example, Virginia has a policy for all public high school students to pass a Financial Literacycourse prior to high school graduation33. The topical coverage of this course links directly to acollege course in engineering economics due to an emphasis on decision making with the timevalue of money concept for individual decisions (e.g., obtaining a loan, developing a personalbudget, implications of a simple contract). The

Conference Session

Design Projects across the Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibibia Dabipi, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Christopher Hartman, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; James B. Burrows-Mcelwain, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

trends in lifelong learning (2001). International Conference of Lifelong Learning: Global Perspectives in Education. July 1-3, 2001; Beijing, China.[2] Henschke, John. Moving a university or college toward a lifetime learning orientation (2000). Prepared for presentation to the International Conference on Lifelong Learning October 16-18, 2000 in Beijing, China.[3] Northouse, P. Leadership: Theory and Practice. Sage Publications, London, 2007. Pp. 69-79, Page 15.355.11 151-159.[4] Weibel, Roland E. & Hansman, R. John. An Integrated Approach to Evaluating Risk Mitigation Measures for UAV Operational Concepts in the NAS (2005

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Dibble; Carrie Hernandez; Abbie Wells; Steven Barrett

microprocessor (Motorola 68HC11) that was approximately adecade old and being slowly phased out by its manufacturer. We believed infusion of the coursewith the concepts described above, a newer processor (68HC12), and using robot technologywould greatly improve the course and hence the educational experience of our computerengineering graduates.To integrate the concepts of competition, quality design, systems design, and interdisciplinaryprojects into the existing curriculum a dramatic change in the laboratory format was required.We planned on implementing the highly successful robot laboratory concept used by otherschools (Trinity College, MIT, and the US Air Force Academy (USAFA)) to provide a highlymotivational (fun) laboratory experience to

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Technical Session II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Leigh Wolfe, Virginia Tech; Nicholas M Holden, University College Dublin; Demetres Briassoulis, Agricultural University of Athens; Francisco Ayuga, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, BIPREE Research Group; Giacomo Scarascia Mugnozza, University of Bari, Italy

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Biological & Agricultural

environment. Biosystems Engineering is distinct from BiomedicalEngineering (also known as Bioengineering), which focuses on medical applications. While there are commonalities in BE curricula around the world, there are also differencesdue to the rate and manner in which programs are developing. Some of the differences inprogram development have hindered widespread recognition of the field. Internationalization ofBE curricula could play an important role in addressing the need for unification, future evolutionand development, and enhanced visibility of the discipline. A consortium of four European and two U.S. institutions received funding in 2009 throughthe EU-US Atlantis program for a four-year mobility and curriculum development

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Toni Doolen; Rungchat Chompu-inwai

represent “inputs” and “outputs”respectively. An input is something that is changed by the process. Outputs are what theinputs are transformed to. Functions transform inputs into outputs. Arrows entering from thetop of the boxes are “controls” and arrows entering from the bottom are “mechanisms”.Controls restrict or guide the way transformation occurs. Mechanisms are actors (humans,machines) that perform the function. Figure 2 shows general elements in an IDEF0 model. An IDEF0 model consists of an integrated set of diagrams. Each diagram containsmore detail about a function and is linked to more general diagrams. The process ofdescribing a function in more detail is called decomposing a function. The more generaldiagram is called the parent

Conference Session

Design Across the Curriculum 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Katelyn Stenger, University of Virginia; Jennifer L. Chiu, University of Virginia; Sarah Jennings Fick, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

models in a differentway when communicating with peers rather than with teachers and instructors, resulting inpotentially different forms of engagement and learning [11].The goal of this paper is to understand how peer comparison can influence the quality ofconceptual models within an engineering design task in elementary classroom contexts. Weinvestigate the effects of structured peer comparison to help students develop conceptual models.We explore the changes in quality of conceptual models and students’ thoughts about the peercomparison activities in a post-activity interview. By exploring how elementary students developconceptual models during a 4-week engineering design curriculum unit, we aim to inform thefield as to how to support

Conference Session

Classes in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Edwin Cawthorne Jr., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ruth Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #7975Designing an Introductory Entrepreneurial Thinking CourseMr. Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Daniel M. Ferguson is a graduate student in the Engineering Education Program at Purdue University and the recipient of NSF awards for research in engineering education. Prior to coming to Purdue he was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before assuming that position he was Associate Director of the Inter-professional Studies Program and Senior Lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology and involved in research in service learning, assessment processes

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

? Page 22.141.5The UT Tyler Civil Engineering Program solution: a course added to the curriculum toensure coverage of the professional topics in the title as well as integration of the otherprofessional skills. The course is CENG 4341 Leadership, Public Policy, BusinessPractices, and Asset Management (Figure 1, second semester, senior year) whichprovides coverage of the three new outcomes in the BOK I (represented by programoutcome 9) as well as demonstration of parts of Outcomes 6, 7, and 8.10,11,12 Formalassignment of embedded indicators to courses based on ability to demonstrate anoutcome as well as annual assessment of these embedded indicators collected not onlyprovided BOK compliance, but also accreditation through ABET.13 CENG

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brandon Field, University of Southern Indiana; David Ellert, University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

something for the assignments that were group work.Descriptions of the Three ProjectsWashington Avenue HouseThe Washington Avenue house project was the first of these projects to be run, and wasincorporated into the T-HX course in the fall semester of 2008. Developed in conjunction withthe Service Learning Institute on campus, the purpose of the project was to address energysavings in an older construction house located in a low-income neighborhood. Service Learningis a community-based pedagogy technique which integrates meaningful community service withinstruction. The Washington Avenue house was an abandoned (possibly due to a bankforeclosure), 1,950 square foot, two story residential house with no insulation in the exteriorwalls and single-pane