Conference Session

Communications and Ethics

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Amy Renee Holdegraver, Mississippi State University ; Morgan Green, Mississippi State University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

, Experimental Measurements and Techniques(EMT). For multiple semesters previously, one or two full-length laboratory reports wereassigned during the course. Class time was not spent on the basics of writing full-lengthlaboratory reports as it is a topic covered in the pre-requisite course Technical Writing.Instructors and graduate teaching assistants of EMT have observed that students need additionalpractice and guidance in the nuances of writing this kind of technical document that can comefrom repetition and feedback on previous submissions.Mini-lab reports were introduced over two semesters as an intervention to help improve overallstudent performance and material comprehension on the full-length lab reports. Mini-lab reportswere post-lab

Conference Session

DEI and Other

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Leigh S McCue, George Mason University; Vanessa M Barth, George Mason University; Johnnie William Hall IV, Laboratory and Machine Shop Manager

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Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

Paper ID #36531SeaPerch and SeaGlide Camp ImplementationDr. Leigh S McCue, George Mason University Leigh McCue is an Associate Professor and Chair of George Mason University’s Department of Mechan- ical Engineering.Vanessa M Barth, George Mason University Vanessa Barth is a PhD Student in the Mechanical Engineering department at George Mason University.Mr. Johnnie William Hall IV, Laboratory and Machine Shop Manager My work with the Mechanical Engineering Department at George Mason University started August of 2018. One of my major rolls has been assisting senior ME students with the fabrication process of their

Conference Session

Thermodynamics

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Gafar Abbas Elamin P.E., The Citadel

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

Paper ID #36605Assessing the Teaching of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics as aBlended Course at The CitadelDr. Gafar Abbas Elamin P.E., The Citadel Dr. Gafar Elamin is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Citadel. He earned his PhD and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina A & T State University, and his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from University of Khartoum in Su- dan. Before his current position, Dr. Elamin has worked for the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia, and Bechtel Power Corporation in

Conference Session

DEI and Other

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Charles D Newhouse P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Matthew K Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

hours. Also, thenumber of actual hours spent in the lab at VMI varied from 25 to 42 hours with an average of36.4 hours during the period from 1936 to 2016 [2]. There has never been a period when labswere not viewed as essential to the VMI civil engineering program.Educational theory has supported the use of laboratories as effective teaching techniques [3].Laboratories promote active learning and reduce the probability that students will passivelyreceive knowledge. Images and activities are more easily remembered especially if they arevivid and appeal to the senses [4]. Most laboratories require interactions among students andprofessors and force them to actively work with the principles under investigation. Teachingassistants are also commonly

Conference Session

First Year and Cross-Disciplinary

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

George Prpich, University of Virginia; Natasha Smith, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

Disciplines George Prpich and Natasha Smith University of VirginiaAbstractEngineering Laboratory courses are used to teach many of the core professional developmentcompetencies that are required of engineering graduates. Safety is one competency that is highlyvalued by industries (e.g. petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, aeronautical) that hire from a varietyof engineering disciplines, but is not commonly taught across the disciplines. In this paper, wediscuss a work in progress to transfer safety pedagogy from a Chemical Engineeringundergraduate laboratory to a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate laboratory. First, wepresent results from a baseline safety culture survey that

Conference Session

Gamification

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

John David O’Brian III, Mississippi State University; Sara C. Vick, Mississippi State University; Nazanin tajik, Mississippi State University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

theimplementation of VLEs in all levels of undergraduate engineering education. This researchgauges student receptiveness and investigates how the integration of this technology cansuccessfully produce a highly inventive, cutting-edge environment for teaching engineering-related curriculum that has the potential to be widely used across many domains and subject areas.KeywordsVirtual learning environments, laboratory, gaming, augmented realityIntroductionAlthough the history of the first virtual reality machine, a 3D cinematic platform called Sensorama,dates to 1956,1 it has been less than a decade since students could first utilize technology likeFactory I/O2 to put themselves on a manufacturing floor to see all the moving parts of a conveyorbelt up close

Conference Session

Curriculum Development 1

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Scott Schultz, Mercer University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

of his years at Ford were as an Information Technology manager in areas of development, installation and support. His primary research and teaching interests are in scheduling, heuristics and process modeling. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference Introducing Production Concepts – A Hands On Learning Experience Scott Schultz and Sinjae Hyun Mercer UniversityAbstractIntroducing production concepts to engineering students can be quite challenging. The highresource cost of setting up and maintaining a production

Conference Session

DEI and Other

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Priya T Goeser, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

hand drafting andsketching, (ii) to learn the application of such standards to solid modeling and orthographicdrawings (iii) to understand the basic principle of product design, manufacturing process andinterpret the terminologies in job shop drawings and (iv) to participate in a group engineeringactivity, and understand what it takes to be a team playerAt Georgia Southern University, ENGR1133 is a semester long course (16 weeks) and meets twotimes a week for 50 minutes each meeting with a required 170-minute weekly laboratory. Mostinstructors teach the course using a mixture of short lectures and in-class exercises illustratingthe concepts and applications of the concepts. The laboratory time is primarily used for furtherpractice with free

Conference Session

Computer Science

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Xiang Zhao, Alabama A&M University; Showkat Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University; Tamara Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

face-to-faceopportunities for students to collaborate with others, such as peers and teaching assistants.Harris et al[27] also incorporated pedagogical practices to boost active and inclusive teachingconcepts that intended to be beneficial for all students, and especially those from minority orunderserved groups. Making online classes both active and inclusive will aid student learningand will also help students feel more connected to their learning, their peers, and their campus.This approach will likely help with performance, retention, and persistence of students.Habib et al[28] reported that the “limitations of online learning were also discovered andrecognized with laboratory and hands-on courses, many of which could not be taught with

Conference Session

Graduate School

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Ioulia Rytikova, George Mason University; Mihai Boicu, George Mason University; Harry J Foxwell, George Mason University; Duoduo Liao, George Mason University; Larisa Olesova, University of Florida

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

Mihai Boicu, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Information Technology at George Mason University, As- sociate Director of the Learning Agents Center (http://lac.gmu.edu), Directtor of Laboratory for Collec- tive Intelligence, Co-Director of Personalized Learning in Applied Information Technology Laboratory (http://plait.gmu.edu/).Harry J Foxwell, George Mason University Harry is currently Associate Professor at George Mason University’s Department of Information Sciences and Technology. He earned his doctorate in Information Technology in 2003 from George Mason Univer- sity’s Volgenau School of Engineering (Fairfax, VA), and has since taught graduate courses there in big data analytics and ethics, operating systems

Conference Session

Curriculum Development 1

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Chau M. Tran, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University

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Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

Paper ID #36578Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) in Undergraduate Vibration ClassDr. Chau M. Tran, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University Chau Tran is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at NC State University. He is currently the course coordinator for capstone senior design and previously was the course coordinator for Vibration, the director for undergraduate advising and the director for undergraduate laboratory. He teaches senior design and Vibration annually. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from NC State University in 1998

Conference Session

K-12 and Outreach

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Leigh S McCue, George Mason University; Stacey Rathbun, George Mason University Television; Ali Khalid Raz, George Mason University; Daigo Shishika, Department of Mechanical Engineering, George Mason University; Cynthia Smith PhD, George Mason University; Erin Hagarty, George Mason University; Richard Wood, George Mason University ; Cameron Nowzari, George Mason University; James Yang, George Mason University; Erin Williams, George Mason University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

Center. Dr. Raz research and teaching interests are in understanding collaborative autonomy and devel- oping systems engineering methodologies for integrating autonomous systems. Raz’s research brings a Systems Engineering perspective, particularly inspired by complex adaptive systems, to information fu- sion and artificial intelligence/machine learning technologies that form the foundations of collaborative and integrated autonomous systems. Prior to joining Mason, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics where he taught courses in aerospace systems design and led research projects for introducing machine learning techniques in high-speed aerospace systems. He

Conference Session

Capstones and Economics

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Felix Ewere, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

Paper ID #36614Students’ Preference for a Capstone Design Project: An Examination ofthe Impact of Accidental CompetenciesDr. Felix Ewere, North Carolina State University at Raleigh Dr. Felix Ewere is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engi- neering at North Carolina State University and Instructor of the Aerospace Engineering Capstone Senior Design courses. Engineering research interests are in the science and technology at the intersection of aerodynamics, structural mechanics, energy, and smart materials. Recent works have focused on exploit- ing aeroelastic instabilities on

Conference Session

Retention

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Mary Lynn Mederos; Jennie M. Daigler, Mississippi State University; Morgan Green, Mississippi State University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

ConferenceCSWA pass/fail data was collected starting in the Fall 2015 semester. Data was included from thetwo course sections on the main campus in Starkville, MS and the one section on the satelliteMSU engineering campus in Gautier, MS. Data was not available from the Fall 2018 and Spring2019 Semesters. A request was made for this data and will be included in future studies ifavailable. Multiple instructors conducted the course during the time of analysis, but thecurriculum and teaching methods were consistent between semesters and instructors.Additionally, semesters after Fall 2019 were not included in this study due to the number ofcontinuing students and pandemic anomalies. Students were mapped using a unique studentidentifier to the list of degrees

Conference Session

Curriculum Development 2

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

George A. Hazelrigg, Mechanical Engineering Department, George Mason University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

, while ABET recognizesdesign as a decision-making process, our current educational system treats engineers as problem-solvers and delivers a largely deterministic treatment of the sciences. Problem solving anddecision making involve significantly different considerations, not the least of which is that alldecision-making is done under uncertainty and risk. Secondly, effective choices among designalternatives demand an understanding of the mathematics of decision making, which rarely appearsin engineering curricula. Specifically, we teach the sciences but not how to use them. Decisionmakers typically earn 50-200 percent more than problem-solvers. The objective of this paper is tomake the case that this gap in engineering education lowers the

Conference Session

First Year and Cross-Disciplinary

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Gregory J. Mazzaro, The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel; Timothy Aaron Wood P.E., The Citadel

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

Paper ID #36545A Review of Multi-Disciplinary Introduction-to-Engineering Courses andUnified-First-Year Engineering ProgramsDr. Gregory J. Mazzaro, The Citadel Dr. Mazzaro earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in 2004, a Master of Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2006, and a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 2009. From 2009 to 2013, he worked as an Electronics Engineer for the United States Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland. For his technical research, Dr. Mazzaro studies the unintended behaviors of radio-frequency electronics

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering 2

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Whitehurst, Mississippi State University; Nathaniel Hyams, Clemson University; Morgan Green, Mississippi State University; Matthew William Priddy, Mississippi State University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

Green is an Instructor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Mississippi State409 University where she serves as Undergraduate Laboratory Coordinator and teaches lab courses and410 thermal fluids courses. She obtained her B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from411 Mississippi State University in 2017 and 2019, respectively and is a PhD candidate in Engineering412 Education. Her research is in the development and assessment of professional skills in engineering413 students, K-12 outreach, and hands-on learning.414415 Matthew Priddy416 Matthew W. Priddy is an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University in the Department of417 Mechanical Engineering. He has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia

Conference Session

Mathematics and Material Science

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Elizabeth A. Powell, Tennessee Technological University; Kumar Yelamarthi, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

Retention and Graduation,” Journal of STEM Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Laboratory for Innovative Technology in Engineering Education (LITEE), 2018.[9] N. Islam & Y. Zhou, “Improving Engineering Students’ College Math Readiness by MSEIP Summer Bridge Program,” Proceedings of the ASME 2018 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Volume 5: Engineering Education. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. November 9–15, 2018. V005T07A026. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2018-88685[10] S. Parsons, T. Croft, & M. Harrison, “Does students’ confidence in their ability in mathematics matter?” Teaching Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 28 no. 2, pp. 53

Conference Session

Communications and Ethics

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Brian Aufderheide, Hampton University; Otsebele E Nare, Hampton University; Garrick E. Louis, University of Virginia; Andres Clarens, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

dilemma; the additional focus is to provide them useful professionaltools.18 The professional skills included teamwork with 360 peer evaluations and group contracts,design safety with fault tree analysis and calculations of risk priority numbers, and quality controlcalculating moving average and range charts process capabilities. 18Methodology of Course DeliveryFrom the pains of the pandemic, where classes were taught online for both programs for over oneyear, tools like Zoom, Blackboard Ultra Collaborator, Canvas, etc. were used and relied on likenever before. Delivering material online and still involving students interactively using breakoutvirtual rooms, has opened the doors to teaching courses between campuses in a manner notpreviously