Conference Session

Programs in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Seth Orsborn, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

realize an innovation and a focus onthe value proposition. We helped them develop the necessary skills such as communication andteamwork. We promoted the importance of persistence through failure and regular criticalreflection. We helped prepare the students for success in their careers and personal lives so thatthey can make an Impact.AcknowledgmentsWe are grateful to all of the faculty, staff and outside guests who helped

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

students that they can use in all aspects of their careers. Onepartial measure of success is the ideation, or number of solutions that students can develop tosolve a given problem.This paper describes a study of ideation performed over the past four years. The college andhigh school students involved were evaluated before and after learning several techniques ofproblem solving, as well as many other activities and ideas. The results and analysis of theseevaluations are described in detail.Overview of CourseThe course “Inventive Problem Solving in Engineering” (EGN 4040) has been taught at FAU forthe past eight years. While most students who enroll are engineering majors, some studentsmajoring in the sciences, arts and humanities have participated

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Kathryn Neeley

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationResistance to the Alternative Design by Faculty and Students Both of us have spent most of our careers teaching undergraduate engineering students tocommunicate more effectively. We have also taught graduate students and practitioners andinteracted extensively with engineering faculty. In our attempts to get faculty, students, andprofessionals to think critically and adopt a more effective alternative design for slides, we haveencountered resistance that was both strong and surprising. Practical Reasons. For this strong resistance to using the alternative design, weprobably

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Shooter; Soundar Kumara; Robert Stone; Timothy Simpson; Janis Terpenny

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

social relevance or appear to have no conscience.(13) Therehave been laments about excellent students opting out of engineering, as they felt to be ill-prepared or incompetent because of the methods of teaching, the rigidity of the system, and theauthoritarian approach in the transmission of knowledge. Often, these negative aspects ofteaching, and the non-stimulating classroom environment, appears to impact the “second tier”students (i.e., those students who are serious about their learning and career goals, but who canbe intimidated for a variety of reasons, and chose not to pursue engineering). Unlike “first tier”students (i.e., those students that will learn no matter how the class is conducted, or the course istaught), “second tier” students

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt; Jeannie Brown Leonard; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

ahigh quality standard. The product quality was paramount and learning certainly wascompromised.The evidence of specialization was very strong, but students argued that the team projectsdemand it. To be successful in completing a strong project, everyone must contribute his or hertalents. One senior described himself as a “jack-of-all-trades,” yet he was performing afunctional role he had performed in a previous team. No one had performed only one rolethroughout their college career, but the recurring patterns were clear.Faculty InsightsWhat insights did the faculty have about the team project experience in their courses? Tables 4 –6 in the appendix capture faculty perspectives along the same three themes presented for thestudents: functional

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hjorth; Barb Eichler; John Morello; Ahmed Khan

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Engel; Peter Lehman; Charles Chamberlin; Angi Sorensen; Andy Sorter

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

structures subjected to earth quake loadings,and strategies to enhance their performance. The selection of the students was based on GPA, two recommendation letters, and an essayon why they would like to participate in this REU Site and how it relates to their career goals. Intotal 27 applications were received for the nine positions. All applicants had excellent scholasticqualifications, and satisfied the requirements for selection if resources permitted their support.An effort was made to recruit at least three under-represented and/or minority students. Theparticipants were paired such that a more experienced student interacted with a lesser-experienced student, as far as their scholastic standing was concerned. All students had indicatedthat

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; William Oakes

., Jones, J. D., Davies, P., Coyle., E. J. & Jamieson, L. H. (2000). Engineering education,beyond the books. 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, June 2000.Hissey, T. W. (2000) Education and Careers 2000. Proceedings of the IEEE, 88(8), 1367-1370, August.Hobson, R. S. (2000). Service-Learning as an Educational Tool in an Introduction to Engineering Course,Proceedings of the ASEE 2000 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, June 2000.Hughes, J. L. (2001). Incorporating Project Engineering And Professional Practice Into The MajorDesign Experience, Proceedings of the 2001 Frontiers in Education Conference.Jamieson, L. H., Coyle, E. J., Harper, M. P., Delp, E. J. & Davies, P. (1998). Integrating engineeringdesign, signal processing, and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Keith Clutter; Alberto Arroyo; Amir Karimi

practice (g) an ability to communicate effectivelyD “diverse career skills” (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teamsprepare students with the diverse skills needed to be (h) broad education necessary to understand the impactsuccessful engineers of engineering solutions in a global and societal context (i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Ameel; Ian Harvey; Bruce Gale

/physicalanalysis. Two lectures, one lab per week, plus 1/2 - hour lab lecture. Students will complete adesign/build/characterization project as part of a multidisciplinary team, outside of lab. Mustalso register for ME EN 6056 (lab).Course meets with MEEN 5055, BIO EN 6421, ECE 5225/6225, MetE 5055/6055, MSE 5055/6055, ChFE 5659/6659.Textbook: None required (lecture notes and miscellaneous readings on e-reserve)Structure: Lecture (1 hour – 2 times/week), lab (3 hours – 1 time/week), lab lecture (1/2 hour – 1time/week) Being the last course in the sequence, one of the objectives of this course is to transitionstudents from the academic environment to their professional career after degree completion.One aspect of this transition is to get students

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Froyd; Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson

and administrators described themselves as being part ofa community whose members were “talented” and “extremely creative.” Atypical ofmany academics, most professors come to Rose-Hulman and wind up staying for theduration of their careers. More than one interviewee described Rose as “a wonderfulplace to work.” An engineering professor remarked that faculty “wouldn't have remainedhere if they weren't good and they weren't dedicated to teaching. That has been thehallmark of how we hire and how we retain faculty.” So in addition to the organizationalsaga, the “other-regarding” interest” – the overriding dedication to the student – is alsopart of Rose-Hulman’s institutional culture. It is a commonly-held value held by bothfaculty and staff

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Spray; Lori Donath; Nancy Thompson; Theresa McGarry; Elisabeth Alford

Wednesday session on 9 Apr il 2002It must be noted that RCS students are self-selecting participants who must be nominated bytheir faculty advisors; they are generally highly motivated and capable students. However, asparticipant observers we have noted that student collaboration challenges students—as well asthe academic and professional fields in which they are fledgling members—in ways thatindividual study could not. We believe the interactive character of the session under study isreflective of students’ cognitive, social, and professional development.All of the students continue to excel in their engineering careers as RCS alumni. S2, a senior,worked on his Honors College thesis during 2003 and won an award for his poster presentationat the

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Long

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

disciplines, their interdependencies, and the various career opportunities forengineering graduates. In the past, VUSE has done little beyond standard coursework to activelyengage students in self-discovery of their own talents and how they mesh with a specificengineering discipline. What was needed was an intense, interactive program that allowsstudents to educate themselves with what the various fields of engineering are, their similaritiesand differences, and which of those areas are more closely aligned with their own interests. Theintroductory engineering course was selected as an ideal forum to implement this program.In 1989, VUSE launched an innovative introductory course that focused on exposing students tocomputing tools that many had never

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Storch; Catherine Scott; Cynthia Atman

, student advisory boards, exposure toundergraduate research, career fairs, informal talks with other students, research into howcompanies define IEs, talks with recruiters, speakers who come to classes, observations of seniorprojects, emails that describe jobs, postings outside of the IE office. The graduating studentmentions that some outside speakers are invited to classes, such as in the professional practiceand the user interface design courses, and that this is a good way to gain an understanding of thebroad nature of the discipline.At this point, the interview student does not know much about the options available to IEs. Thisstudent says that because IEs do not learn to design but rather they learn the tools they can use todesign, keeping

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William O. Jolley; Hartley T. Grandin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Phillips; Joseph Clair Batty; John Gershenson; Christine Hailey

the necessary fundamentals, and laboratory and work- etc. attributes to succeed in their based experiences to formulate and solve chosen career. engineering problems. B. Graduates will be encouraged II. Graduates will have proficiency in 2. Communication MAE 1050, to pursue advanced degrees in computer-based engineering, including MAE 3050, engineering or other fields and modern numerical methods, software design etc. they will have the necessary and development, and the use of attributes to succeed. computational tools

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Gates; Mary Lamont; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

naturally toanybody that is seeking a career in engineering. I think we could learn a lot more if we focused more on theconcepts and how they apply in every-day situations.And from another — I went to a talk about fractals recently, and the visual representations of them--forexample, Koch's snowflake and the Maltese Cross. I think it would be interesting to show an example of this to theengineers in [our class]. It's confusing to explain, but I imagine programming a computer to draw fractals is veryinvolved and applicable to our class--I'm sure there are for and do while loops, or such involved. Also, the finalresults are more interesting than a computer printout of the estimated values of sine between 0 and 90 degrees (nooffense!). Why don't we

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

world; how to give good presentations; and about the dynamics of human resource management.” · “Not only did I learn a lot of information about a wide variety of subjects, but I learned how to solve problems critically and completely.”The impact of the ILTM program on our students while they are at Bucknell is exceptional. Wehope that it is at least equally relevant to their future careers, preparing them to become leadersof institutions that can take advantage of the unprecedented technological, information, andenvironmental changes occurring in the world today, and that also understand the need to actethically and responsibly to sustain a healthy balance between man and his technologies and theglobal environment

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Pimpida Punnakanta; Craig D. Lewis; Cynthia Atman

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

Conference Session

Broadening Participation of Minority Students in and with K-12 Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhao Chad Kong; Angie Martiza Bautista-Chavez, Rice University; Andres J Goza, Rice University; Rachel Jackson, Rice University; Kurt Kienast, Rice University; Sam Oke; Juan A Castilleja, The Boeing Company; Brent C Houchens, Rice University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Minorities in Engineering

science tests6.Other programs have adopted similar approaches of creating kinesthetic learning programswithin the context of preexisting curricula. The Secondary Schools and Queensland Universityof Technology Engineering Activity Kits (SQUEAK) program was implemented in Australia toattract students of secondary schools to engineering careers. Like Project Lead the Way, theSQUEAK program designed hands-on projects to match to students’ coursework7. The VirginiaMiddle Schools Engineering Education Initiative (VMSEEI) created engineering testing kits(ETKs) to facilitate engineering instruction within science and mathematics courses and has built Page

Conference Session

Engaging Students in Engineering (ENGAGE)

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Staffin Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sheryl A. Sorby, Michigan Technological University; Tricia S. Berry, University of Texas, Austin; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin; Ana Maria Dison, University of Texas, Austin; Yosef S. Allam, The Ohio State University; John A. Merrill, Ohio State University; Wally Peters, University of South Carolina, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Erica Pfister-Altschul, University of South Carolina; Sarah C. Baxter, University of South Carolina; Guangming Zhang, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Mechanical Engineering; James A. Leach, University of Louisville

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Women in Engineering

encouraged by awarding two $125scholarships at the end of the semester, chosen randomly from the students who attended eachseminar and completed pre- and post-seminar administrations of the PSVT:R.Course StructureThe spatial visualization workshop consisted of a series of five interactive seminars, deliveredas a subset of the parent WEP FIG courses. All students in the WEP FIGs met weekly, insections of 20 to 25 students, for one hour seminars on topics such as study habits andengineering careers. The subset of FIG students who enrolled in the spatial visualizationworkshop replaced five of their weekly seminars with spatial visualization topics, for whichthey met as a separate group in a dedicated classroom. The spatial visualization workshop

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Mobrand, University of Washington; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

. Dannels16 draws parallels to the field ofcommunication, asserting that speaking is a contextually-motivated, cultural event. Withprofessional communication instruction becoming increasingly focused on cases and client-basedprojects, and with technology driving changes in workplace writing, writing curriculum ismoving away from formulaic responses to rhetorical situations in favor of providing studentswith some theoretical background in writing and rhetoric.17 Understanding students’ prior genreknowledge is believed to be helpful for designing educational experiences that assist students asthey acquire genre knowledge that will in turn give them strategies they can transfer to newcontexts, which will help them in their engineering careers.12, 18

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Santosh Devasia, University of Washington; Jim L. Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Jae-Hyun Chung, University of Washington; Jiangyu Li, University of Washington; Amy Shen, University of Washington; Nathan Sniadecki, University of Washington; Junlan Wang, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

from Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. His Ph.D was earned in 2004 from Northwestern University in the field of electric field guided assembly of carbon nanotubes. He has received awards including, the McMinn Endowed Professorship, an NSF Career Award, and a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Award.Jiangyu Li, University of WashingtonAmy Shen, University of Washington Professor Amy Shen is an Associate Professor at Mechanical Engineering department from University of Washington. She earned her Ph.D in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University and an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis from

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #8159”Doing Engineering in the School of Letters & Science: Adding a Manufac-turing Line Design Project to a Writing Program Class for Engineers”Mr. Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis Brad Henderson is a faculty in writing for the University Writing Program (UWP) at University of Cali- fornia, Davis. Henderson holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Cal Poly State University SLO and a Masters in Professional Writing (MPW) from USC. Currently focusing his career on engineer- ing writing and soft-skill education, he has worked as an engineer and engineering educator for Parker

Conference Session

Research in Engineering Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Nicola Wendy Sochacka, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

discipline of engineering education research.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.#7164397 (NSF CAREER). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation. Page 25.298.14Bibliography1. Sochacka, N., et al., Confronting the Methodological Challenges of Engineering Practice Research: A Three-Tiered Model of Reflexivity, in Research in Engineering Education Symposium2009: Palm Cove.2. Borrego, M. and L.K. Newswander, Definitions of

Conference Session

Ethical Issues II: Academic Integrity and Student Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela L. Minichiello, Utah State University; Laurie S. McNeill, Utah State University; Christine E. Hailey, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

improve the understanding of the learning and teaching of high school students and teachers as they apply engineering design processes to technological problems. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Influence of MESA Activities on Underrepresented Students, a program funded by the DRK-12 program at NSF. This exploratory study examines the influences that those MESA activities have on students’ perception of engineering and their self-efficacy and interest in engineering and their subsequent decisions to pursue careers in engineering. Page 25.330.1 c American Society for