Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Adams; William Manion

and implementation of this assignment regimen and use examples for illustration. Manion and Adams also discuss some of the issues encountered and present initial assessments of the effort.Intr oductionThe University of Maine has begun a multi-year effort to redesign the way it teaches technicalcommunication to students in the College of Engineering. This effort is called the EngineeringCommunication Project (ECP). At its core, this new design will mean replacing the existingrequirement of a stand alone course in technical communication (3 credits) with a sequence ofthree communication-intensive engineering courses. This sequence will be followed by a year

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 4 - Hands-on Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudia Paz Gwynn, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Carolina Elizabeth Jerez, Universidad de Chile

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

integrating gender equality issues within highereducation. In Chile, Ministry of Education Law No. 21.369 promotes the establishment of safeand inclusive environments for all members of higher education academic communities,irrespective of their sex, gender, identity, or sexual orientation. Numerous studies have revealedthat non-cognitive and affective factors significantly influence students' academic progress andsuccess. Therefore, it is essential to explore the perceptions and perspectives of students andfaculty in the School of Engineering regarding gender, equality, and roles. This pilot researchaims to delve into the views held by students and faculty members of a prominent EngineeringSchool in Chile concerning gender-related topics. The

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering Ethics into the Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Culver, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Ishwar Puri, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

) No (3) Q3: Do you think ethics should be integrated across the curriculum? If yes, do you have any suggestions? What’re the impediments? [Six responses] Yes (5) No (1) Impediments: Resistance to replacing technical content, What to cut out? How should faculty teach it? How are they “qualified” to teach ethical issues? How do we assess students’ knowledge in this area? Unclear, how to do this effectively? Faculty reluctant to impose ethical judgments in the classIt is apparent from this survey that ethics instruction in not widespread in the CoE. Inorder to formally assess the status of ethics instruction in both graduate andundergraduate curricula, a survey instrument was developed and implemented in theentire CoE for the first

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Cutler, Virginia Tech; Walter Curtis Lee Jr., Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Student

a. Material: camera, which will be returned after the activity is completed C. Include CS in group D. Lunch E. Allow students to ask an questions that result from the scavenger hunt V. Round Table discussion with CS: will last approximately 45 minutes A. Professional Organization presentation B. NS questions Page 25.485.9 C. Questions concerning working with a specific faculty member/advisor D. Offices and keys distributed and discussed VI. Faculty Speed Dating: will last approximately an hour A. Each faculty will meet with each new student for about 4 minutes

Conference Session

Improving ME education: Broad Topics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University; Andrew Davol, California Polytechnic State University; Joseph Mello, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

' experience with FormulaSAE, SAE Mini Baja, and ASME's Human Powered Vehicle competitions.Responsibility for making the most effective educational use of a design competition is sharedbetween the students, the faculty advisor, and the competition organizers. Design competitionsbuild student enthusiasm; however, there are some things they learn that we may not want to beteaching. Some of the educational shortcomings of these activities are highlighted, withsuggestions on how to manage them. In particular, this article focuses on the risks of (a)distraction from classes, (b) a build-and-test approach, (c) advisor co-opted designs, and (d)design changes for their own sake. The influence of the advisor and the competition rules oneach of these concerns

Conference Session

TC2K Methods and Models

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cottrell, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Anthony Brizendine, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

continuous improvement guidance team composed of faculty and faculty associates; SPART is the college-wide continuous improvement guidance team composed of a faculty representative from each department/unit and College of Engineering faculty associates from the Office of Student Development and Success (OSDS). This body is charged with development, refinement, and implementation of College of Engineering planning and assessment tools. SPART is involved with the interpretation of data from these assessment tools and providing suggestions to departments/units and/or the college on areas of concern with respect to continuous improvement of program objectives, student learning

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A Connor, Inclusive Engineering Consortium & Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Prairie View A&M University; John C. Kelly Jr., North Carolina A&T State University; Pamela Leigh-Mack, Virginia State University; Barry J. Sullivan, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Heads Assn; Stephen M Goodnick, Arizona State University; Miguel Velez-Reyes, University of Texas at El Paso; Michelle Klein, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Heads Assoc. ; Truong Nguyen, University of California, San Diego; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University; Florida State University; Shayla Sawyer; Esther T. Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; David Zubia, University of Texas at El Paso; Milford Muskett

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

City College of New York and was interim director of the UTEP Regional Cyber for Energy Security Center. He was a member of the faculty at the Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) from 1992 to 2012. He was the Founding Director of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) Institute for Research in Integrative Systems and Engineering (IRISE) and was Associate Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) led by Northeastern University. He was also UPRM campus coordinator for the Center for Power Electronic Systems (CPES) a NSF ERC led by Virginia Tech. He was director of the UPRM Tropical Center for Earth

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael S. Leonard; Donald E. Beasley; D. Jack Elzinga

different from campus to campus. In this paper, we present a framework for continuous improvement concepts that can be applied toengineering curriculum innovation and renewal. While it is neither possible nor desirable to develop a universalengineering curriculum, a systematic means of assessing and continuously improving an existing curriculum as awhole should be valuable to department chairs and engineering faculty. This methodology has been developed to enhance efforts by a department's faculty, led by its chair, toanalyze and understand an existing curriculum, to measure and assess input from a variety of informed sources,and to design an improved curriculum in response to the input received. This method delivers a new

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terrance Boult, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Jeremy Haefner, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

students will bemore employable, and that the new degrees will be accepted by industry. And if there is acompany that does not know what a BI is, it is still a formal “Bachelor” degree in eitherengineering or business, as we did not change the name of the major, just the name of the family.3.4 Challenge #4: Convincing faculty that the BI would not be a drain on resources. This is acommon concern among faculty; they are worried that resources will be diverted from thetraditional programs to fund the new programs. To a certain extent, this is true since some facultywill now be teaching courses that support these programs. Our models, however, suggest the BIis critical to increasing enrollments, which will in turn increase resources. The budget that

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kenneth E. Dudeck; Joseph A. Ranalli

127 credits, 38 of which are trackfocused and are particular to one of the three options. According to ABET’s procedurefor program evaluation, despite multiple locations, the options were all evaluated togetheras a single program in the fall of 2014. This sort of merged multi-campus/multi-optionreview is unique. The inaugural review of this new program, however, concluded with asuccessful accreditation of the program siting some concerns which are presently beingaddressed.This paper outlines the procedure followed to collect and demonstrate that the ABETcriteria were successfully met across the multiple locations. Details of the reportedconcerns and actions to address these will also be outlined in this paper as well as theemployment

Conference Session

Educating the Whole Engineer - Building Life Skills

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate Thomes, University of Pittsburgh; Beth Bateman Newborg, University of Pittsburgh; Kate Joranson, University of Pittsburgh; Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh; Steven Abramowitch, University of Pittsburgh; Carol Washburn, University of Pittsburgh; Carol Baker, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

curriculum.As the engineering librarians have continued with their research into effective informationliteracy initiatives that could be utilized throughout the school of engineering, they havesupported and informed the goals of the E/FEWP in many ways. Rachel Callison’s research andwriting on literacy learning taking place most effectively in a “real-life need to know”9 contexthas continued to shape and support E/FEWP assignments. E/FEWP and engineering faculty hadalways emphasized the value of creating assignments that directly addressed engineering topicsand issues. Callison’s research and findings will continue to inform the modeling of “real-life”situations—whether in the form of a professional letter, a paper on a current engineering product,a

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Justice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William M. Jordan, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

substantial emaildiscussions about how or whether to put topics such as justice in a society policy. No one arguedfor an unjust society. However, there was disagreement over whether or not engineers, asengineers, should have this as part of their task. Some proposed that engineers, as citizens,should be concerned with justice, but that it was not part of their task as engineers.Even among engineers who are in agreement that promoting justice is part of their task, theremay be very big disagreements as to how to define justice. Some engineers would support a top-down approach, whereby they seek to change government policy on justice issues. Many ofthose who would use the term “social justice” may fall into this camp. Another approach is abottom up

Conference Session

Hands-on Laboratory and Design Experiences in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sudarshan T. Kurwadkar, Tarleton State University; Daniel K. Marble, Tarleton State University; Jennifer T. Edwards, Tarleton State University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

. EnvironmentalProtection Agency (USEPA)3 “Environmental education enhances critical thinking, problem-solving, and effective decision-making skills, and teaches individuals to weigh various sides ofan environmental issue to make informed and responsible decisions. Environmental educationdoes not advocate a particular viewpoint or course of action”. This approach towardsenvironmental education is much more holistic and devoid of any political or personalprejudices. According to the USEPA, the essential components of environmental education areawareness, sensitivity, knowledge and understanding of environmental challenges withcommensurating skills and attitude of concern and participation in activities that are protective ofenvironment or activities that

Conference Session

Best Practices for Campus Representatives

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles McIntyre, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Campus Representatives

III).This paper describes some to the items and activities that the author has employed at both thecampus level and the Section level related to the following key items: Recruitment of New Faculty. Retention of ASEE Members. Campus Rep Survey. Campus Rep Incentives Teaching Award Survey.The ultimate goals of the above items are to increase “active” membership in ASEE, to improvethe lines of communication between the Campus Reps and the local (institutional) ASEEmembers, and to solicit response from Section members related to ASEE activities.RecruitmentOne of the fundamental duties of any Campus Rep is to recruit new faculty (not restricted to onlyengineering faculty) for ASEE membership. The primary vehicle

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

disciplines that are projected to bein demand among the industries. Consultancy was sought to explore the feasibility of startingand sustaining an engineering program in a university rich with liberal arts educational heritage.An internal study was conducted to explore the fit between a new engineering curriculum and therest of the campus academically. An internal study was also commissioned to identify thesupport for this new professional program among the faculty of the university at large.4. Understand the ConstraintsCertain constraints were determined during the study of the feasibility of starting an engineeringeducation at Union.  The new engineering program must be designed on a liberal arts educational foundation.  It must not

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gabriel Alungbe, Morehead State University; Jaby Mohammed, Morehead State University; Yuqiu You, Morehead State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

time required”, “inadequatecompensation”, “ownership issues”, “more work to develop and teach online”, “technicaldifficulties”, and “inadequate training, support and the addition of new roles.”2Teaching Engineering Economy Face-to-FaceIn general, engineering economy does not require rigorous mathematical background which iswelcome news in the construction management program. Most daily real-world engineeringeconomy problems can be solved with knowledge of algebra. In spite of the relatively simplemathematics knowledge requirement, students “sweat” in engineering economy course(Vajpayee 2001, v)3 which has been addressed in previous ASEE Annual Conferencepresentation.4 The reasons students sweat, I imagine, are as varied as respondents. In

Conference Session

Research Methods and Studies on Engineering Education Research

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University; Luke A. Duncan, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

-person researchgroup within the project team, we had been concerned about our ability to collect and analyze theamount of data we might potentially have available. That is not the current situation. Althoughplans were to support up to twenty students in year 1, 52 students in year 2, 70 students in year 3,88 students in year 4, and 113 students in year 5, our first cohort had only six studentparticipants.Highlighted by this emergent issue with recruitment, we were concerned about how our researchdesigns would fare on implementation. Participant numbers are intended to continue to groweach year of the project, placing additional demands on our small research team and our chosenmethods, so we piloted initial tools and procedures that we felt would

Conference Session

Revitalizing Cooperative Education and Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Stwalley, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

the working environment; 4) Facilitate new and continuing research within the field of Practice that initially emphasizes the outcomes-based learning portion of the experience; 5) Facilitate and improve the contact between the Purdue professional schools and their industrial partners; and 6) Improve the marketing and promotion of the program to students, faculty, and industrial partners.These initiatives were specifically designed to enhance and protect the existing positive aspectsof the Purdue program, while minimizing and correcting the present deficiencies. The currentadministration was well aware of the many concerns created by this broadening of focus andfairly sweeping

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

environments and discusses the lessons learnedabout faculty and student satisfaction and student performance.BackgroundBlended learning programs combine the best aspects of the classroom based format andthe asynchronous learning network (ALN) format for course presentation (1). Researchconducted at a number of leading higher education schools (2), (3), (4) has reportedpositive results with respect to faculty and student preferences for more flexible learning.One of the often stated benefits is the increased opportunity for students to reflect onwhat they are learning. In the blended environment, there is time to think and rethinkindividual responses. Topic discussions can continue over extended times allowingstudents to consider and prepare their

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Marla E. Hacker; Thomas M. West

of qualityproducts. Economic survival in this environment requires the education of professionals whocan integrate all the engineering and production functions required to manufacture a constantlychanging array of new products.II. Introduction to the ProgramThe Manufacturing Engineering Masters Program was established in response to industry inputrequesting continuing education opportunities for engineers working in manufacturingenvironments. Manufacturing Engineering is concerned with the application of specializedengineering and managerial knowledge applied to the development of productive systems ofpeople and machines. Primary emphasis is on the design, operation and control of integratedsystems for the production of high quality

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

experience. While I have team-taught in the past, that has been limited to working withonly one other instructor from my own department, not seven from a technical department. I amamazed at the creativity, energy, and enthusiasm displayed in our faculty meetings and impressedby our ability to agree on key issues. Even when the rare moment of conflict occurs, we are ableto discuss the problem professionally and dispassionately and find a workable solution.Beyond the personal benefits to participating faculty, we are impressed by our students: by theirwillingness to embark on a new curriculum venture, by their ability to meet deadlines, and by theirrelatively cheerful attitude towards group work: not one group has reported a "social loafer,"someone

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Norman D. Dennis

math , science and engineering20 students, Seymour and Hewitt, in their seminal work, “Talking about Leaving: Why21 Undergraduates Leave the Sciences”2, discovered that the number one concern of students at22 institutions across the country; was the quality of instruction they received. Of the numerous23 reasons cited for leaving Mathematics Science and Engineering, (MSE), programs, pedagogical24 concerns dominated the top ten categories.25 In an effort to improve the teaching of faculty in civil engineering programs across the US, the26 American Society of Civil Engineers has funded and promoted a teaching effectiveness27 workshop called the ExCEEd Teaching Workshop for the past six years. Ostensibly for new28 faculty, this

Conference Session

First-year Programs Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Rippon, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University; Robin R. Hammond, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

. Page 25.16.2The logistics of the event, including strategies for recruiting company participation, are alsodiscussed. The paper also analyzes the feedback received from students, faculty, and industrypartners and how that feedback informed the lessons learned from this second annual event.BackgroundEducators and industry alike have well documented their concerns about the future ofengineering in the United States due to a decline of engineering graduates.1 Increasing thenumber of engineering graduates requires both an increase in the number of students choosing tostudy engineering as well as an increase in engineering student retention. Engineering programshave struggled with retention issues for decades with many programs reporting that 30-40

Conference Session

Technical Session 2: Improving Information Literacy Programs

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff McAdams, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Julia Glauberman, Binghamton University Libraries

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

sciencestudents offered an opportunity for the engineering librarian to explore a potential solution to thisproblem by developing a portfolio of IL assignments to be deployed in accordance with insightsgained from creating a detailed curriculum map.Literature reviewThe literature exploring faculty perceptions of IL and factors affecting collaborations betweenfaculty and librarians is quite abundant.1 Much of this research examines these matters inmultidisciplinary or discipline-agnostic contexts rather than in the specific context ofundergraduate engineering programs. However, several of these broader studies do offer a viewof how these issues play out in engineering programs. McGuinness conducted semi-structuredinterviews with faculty from sociology and

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Houdeshell

learner to create, invent, or explore new and personal ways to use his or her new knowledge or skill? Co-Principal Investigator Giguere has led the development of faculty training using web-based slides and voice recordings. Additional support is provided from a question-and answer-format Webinar using Interwise and a supportive discussion board. The discussion boardsupports a faculty “community of practice” related to implementation issues. Theimplementation and pilot testing of the faculty development training will be completed by April2005. The defined pilot testing steps include: (1) solicit faculty volunteers, (2) registration andpre-test, (3) orientation Webinar focusing on the use of the web-based materials, (4

Conference Session

General Topics in Graduate Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Basha, University of the Pacific; Luke S. Lee, University of the Pacific

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

needed to translate existingknowledge into an area outside their discipline nor accepting that they would have some level ofdiscomfort with material from outside their discipline. Overall, the faculty found that dealingwith these student skill and perception issues while providing breadth to all students introducedchallenges to maintaining course flow and interest while providing sufficient depth tosuccessfully complete projects.Faculty also discovered challenges collaborating with each other in a new, multidisciplinarystructure. Both had difficulties translating knowledge and terminology outside of their disciplineas neither had background in the other’s research area. This suggests that perhaps students arenot the only ones requiring regular

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

anational challenge. At the University of Cincinnati, the author has begun to address thischallenge by developing a new course entitled, “Molecular Methods in EnvironmentalEngineering.” The objective of the course is to teach students to adapt techniques from molecularbiology to address important issues in environmental engineering. A hands-on laboratory formatencourages students to develop scientific questions, learn appropriate methodology, conductcareful experimentation, analyze data, and draw conclusions worthy of presentation to peers.Although the initial offering of this course to well prepared graduate students was considered asuccess, future offerings must continue to address the daunting challenge of providing asupportive, yet independent

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil D. Opfer; John Gambatese

consideration of graduate construction coursework, faculty course loads andcapabilities, student and local industry needs and limitations, and departmental resources.Setbacks to commencing the graduate program occurred due to limited initial course enrollmentand the need for additional marketing of the program. Based on the local constructionindustry’s interest in the program and level of construction activity, it is expected that theprogram will eventually provide graduate education meeting the demand for a higher level ofconstruction knowledge.I. IntroductionGraduate construction programs are certainly not new, having been started at some institutionssuch as Stanford University in the mid-1950’s.1 Since that time more than 40 similar programsin

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Chesler; Mark Chesler

mentoring relationships are effective inpromoting protégé advancement and compensation. 3,4Mentoring is traditionally a developmental relationship in which an experienced person providessupport to a less experienced person. In return, the mentor gains personal satisfaction, respectfrom colleagues for successfully developing the younger talent, and in the best case growsintellectually as well. Mentoring has multiple aspects and functions, and has variously beendescribed as fulfilling either or both the technical and psychosocial needs of the less experiencedperson. Examples of the technical knowledge-based or career development issues include how tosolve a particular technical problem, continue intellectual growth, approach a new internship, jobor

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

John D. Enderle

the practice of continuousimprovement with input from constituencies, process focus, and outcome and assessment linkedto objectives. The overall emphasis, as before, is to set the minimum knowledge level for entryinto the engineering profession. The evaluation is based on student, faculty, facilities, 1institutional support and financial resources linked to the program. An accompanying paper inthis session describes the preparation in response to an EC2000 site visit, the EC2000 Self-StudyReport. This paper focuses on a general reaction to the new review process from the standpointof the evaluator/visitor of the biomedical engineering program