Conference Session

Reaching Students: Innovations to Curriculum in ET

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abu SARWAR, Austin Peay State University; John Blake, Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

technology department to control scheduling and beresponsible for staffing at the satellite campus. The department would determine the coursecontent, and the courses would be focused on topics needed in our courses and in later practice.Two new department courses were developed to cover topics from algebra, trigonometry andcalculus, and the courses were first offered in 2007. The paper will discuss development of thecourses, initial offerings, a discussion of the effects this change has had on other courses, andplans for future changes.Course DevelopmentThe issue of mathematics requirements was an important part of the curriculum review. Allmembers of the faculty were aware of the issues with the math department courses and with theresulting

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and Technological Policy

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Heard, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

ecological footprint toolwas chosen as it is an easily visualized concept and with web-based programs, it can be a simpletool to illustrate current lifestyle issues and the gaps between current conditions on the planetand sustainability goals. As the timing of this section works out to be when students are returninghome for a semester break, an assignment is given to use the web-based ecological footprintprogram to evaluate their families lifestyle and collect information concerning accuracy andpossible errors in evaluations. The discussion in class usually turns out to be a very interestingexercise due to the global nature of our student body. The intent of this exercise is to connect thestudent to the human issues of our chosen lifestyle and

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ward; Tonya Emerson

teaching by STEM faculty directly contributed to 41% of students’ decisions toleave, while inadequate advising or help with academic problems was a factor for 26%. Inaddition, 25% of non-persistors were also motivated to leave due to lost confidence caused bylow grades in early classes. While some may attribute poor student performance to lack ofstudent preparation, Seymour and Hewitt limited their sample to students with SAT math scoresover 650. This was on the advice of STEM faculty to insure students surveyed had adequatepreparation to succeed in STEM degrees. [2]In addition to determining those issues that students felt were factors directly contributing totheir decision to switch fields of study, Seymour and Hewitt also reported issues that

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Osama Ettouney; James Stenger; Karen E. Schmahl; James Moller; Christine Noble

purpose of the Student Advisory Council is to provide amechanism for students to give constructive feedback on their educational experience. Thispartnership helps the department to communicate closely with the student body and learn first-hand their needs, concerns, and insight into their perception of the program. The chair meetsregularly (at least three times a semester) with the student advisory council. At each meeting,issues are discussed to improve student learning and assess progress in achieving the desiredstudent outcome characteristics and process characteristics. The chair shares and discussesstudent input with faculty, and collectively we address ways to implement studentrecommendations where appropriate. These meetings provide

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Ronald Rosenberg, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

educational experience but that top level goal is not met.The New AES ProgramThe AES program architecture is capable of rapid change where rapid change is most likely - inthe areas of specialization. The foundational science/mathematics/business and themultidisciplinary Engineering Commons evolve more slowly; the AES architecture canaccommodate slow change in these areas through a standard if laborious faculty process ofcurricular review and modification. But for AES to mature and to more fully reach its potential,the concerns pointed out in the preceding section must be addressed. Once addressed, the AESprogram and its underlying program architecture may act as an exemplary engineering programarchitecture that could be generalized and implemented in

Conference Session

Developments in BME Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington; Kelli Jayn Nichols, University of Washington, Seattle, Department of Bioengineering; Laura Wright, University of Washington; Christopher Neils, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

methodsdescribed in this paper identified recurring issues not readily addressed by course-level changes.Hence, consideration of the results from these approaches led to an entire revision of theundergraduate BIOEN curriculum by UW faculty and staff. Subsequent feedback from industry,non-UW academic colleagues, student alumni, and current students serves as a method to assessthe levels of satisfaction regarding our new curriculum plan from the perspectives of ourconstituents, as well as to identify any potential refinements needed.Student AlumniWe considered obtaining feedback from student alumni to be extremely important in the effort tomake informed decisions about changes needed in the undergraduate curriculum. Alumni havehad a chance to reflect upon

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

completes and submits this form via e-mail during final exam week. The departmentadministrative assistant files all completed forms on a server. All faculty have access to thisserver. It has become an excellent resource of institutional history for faculty who are preparingto teach a course, who are modifying a course, and who are creating new courses.For completed forms that indicate program director or course coordinator notification is needed,the department administrative assistant forwards those forms to the appropriate person. It is theresponsibility of the course coordinator and/or the program director to develop and execute anaction plan that addresses the concerns expressed on the form. The action plans are presented,discussed, and, if

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

need to do more to foster faculty-student interaction. Student forums are useful to gather ideas, details, new insights, and can behelpful in designing surveys and questionnaires. They can be used in conjunction withquantitative studies to confirm the validity of an issue or concern. Student forums are veryuseful as a supplementary tool to other established methods and are not to replace the rigor of thetraditional assessment methods.While it is sometimes difficult to assemble the students, faculty, and administrators, student’sorganizations can play a role in arranging these forums. This will allow the students to assumeownership and feel they are part of the assessment process, not by just doing the surveys.Therefore, the forum can be held

Collection

2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

everyday life and career choices of engineers. Key words: Engineering ethics, ethics and technology, first year students.IntroductionEthics, often viewed as a boring and fusty topic abounding with arcane phrases and eye-rollingphilosophy, has become a matter of almost daily concern and public interest. From Enron toVioxx with skewed or mis-reported data, to insulation breakdowns in defibrillators [1], NewOrleans levee failures, and with microelectronics manufacturers and plastics processesexperiencing difficult solvent choices [2][3], there are many issues for engineering decisionmakers. Ethics are also closely associated with the “rules and standards governing the conductof members of a profession.” [4]Ethics embraces more than the “Golden Rule

Conference Session

Approaches to Mathematics Curriculum to Include Projects and Technologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville; Patricia A Ralston, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

was Thomas’ Calculus, 11th edition. Student response was generallypositive as was the faculty experience, and the department decided to adopt MyMathLab in allthree courses: Engineering Analysis I, II and III.Use of MyMathLab has gradually increased over the course of several years, beginning with allsections of Engineering Analysis I, II and III using MyMathLab for some of the assignedhomework problems in each unit. Not all desired problems were available in MyMathLab, andfor this reason, the initial adoption of MyMathLab, which started in the spring of 2011, moved50%-75% of the assigned homework problems from written assignments to MyMathLabassignments to be completed and graded on-line. To address the issue of missing problems, twofaculty

Conference Session

Internet Computing and Networking

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shelton Houston; Christopher Herrod; Steven Blesse

approved interdisciplinaryprogram to develop the new degree program. As a subcontract of NSF grant number DUE-9950085, the university received funds to develop a four-year articulated curriculum in computernetworking. This funding provided the justification to acquire laboratory space, faculty, andequipment that would not have been available otherwise.Program DevelopmentTo articulate the community college curriculum, a faculty committee compared published courseoutcomes to develop equivalent courses offered by the university. Table 1 shows the original listof courses identified as transferable into the four-year degree. Of the 15 courses identified, ninehad academic equivalents already in place leaving six courses to be created. The content

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Barr, University of Michigan; Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan; H. Scott Fogler, University of Michigan

functioning properly, assisting students with both experiment-based and theory-based questions, and assisting faculty of the development of new experiments to incorporate in the undergraduate labs. In addition to the labs, Chris focuses on safety within the labs as part of the departmental safety committee, managing a safety demonstration lab for training new graduate students, and leading the SAFEChE initiative (safeche.engin.umich.edu) and Visual Encyclopedia of Chemical Engineering Equipment (https://encyclopedia.che.engin.umich.edu/)Laura Hirshfield (Lecturer) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com SAFEChE

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg M. Warnick, Brigham Young University; Robert H. Todd, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

most companies require employees to signdocumentation indicating that intellectual property developed within the scope of employment orcreated using company resources is owned by the company4.Engineers typically have a primary role to design or create on behalf of their employer and assuch any developed IP is retained by the employer. Capstone utilizes a similar approachpertaining to IP ownership to provide educational experiences for students to better prepare themto work successfully within industry. There may be some individuals, particularly withinacademia, concerned that we are taking advantage of the students and faculty coaches, by notproviding any intellectual property that may be developed as part of the project directly to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beena Ajmera, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Sarah Crary, North Dakota State University; Christi McGeorge, North Dakota State University

California. Engineering.Sarah L CraryChristi Mcgeorge © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Lessons Learned from Year 1 of NSF Research Experience for Teachers Site at North Dakota State UniversityAbstractA new Research Experience for Teachers (RET) site was established in the Department of Civil,Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Dakota State University (NDSU) withfunding from the National Science Foundation Division of Engineering Education and Centers(NSF Award #1953102). The site focused on civil engineering instruction around the theme ofmitigating natural disasters for secondary education (6th

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Artigue; Mark Anklam; David Miller; Dan Coronell; Atanas Serbezov; Sharon Sauer; Alfred Carlson

properly addressed. The faculty evaluation of students willbe repeated after the third quarter of the laboratory course and again this summer for the nextgroup of students.For the next offering of the new course, more examples will be used to demonstrate theapplication of statistical techniques. Also, some of the issues relating to error and uncertainty willbe linked with the discussions of instrumentation.Technical communicationThe ChE Laboratory course sequence has an extensive writing component. Each student isrequired to write an individual report for the first four projects. The final project report duringwinter quarter is a group formal report. In addition, following each laboratory period, the groupis required to submit a one page memo

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Lisa K Davids, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

the instruction to discuss the goals of the course and identifyencourage both reflection and shared-vision of any feedback for which they are specifically looking. Theinstruction that can lead to lasting institutional change colleague will then attend the class, taking notes throughout,within the cohort and the adoption of evidence-based and then meeting afterwards to review the notes. A primaryinstructional practices. This workshop illustrates the use limitation to this approach is that issues or recommendationsof a video-annotated peer review (VAPR) process that made can be vague or misunderstood due to a lack ofcan help facilitate any faculty cohort to implement the

Collection

2021 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec, Baldwin Wallace University; Melanie Amadoro, Rowan University; Anu Osta, Rowan University

address entrepreneurialmindset are that teams must research and compare two different wind turbines in terms of costsand economic viability, discuss social and environmental benefits and concerns, policy andregulation issues, and then make a recommendation to the family (and instructor) communicatedin a written report. The project is carried out in stages, where teams first research and choosetwo turbines, collect specification, and complete the statics or dynamics analysis, which ischecked by the instructor. The second stage involves the comparison, report/recommendation.In the paper, the project and implementation and some improvements to the project will bediscussed. Results of students meeting engineering skillset and entrepreneurial mindset

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Carr

emphasizes communication skills with the doing of design (as ahallmark activity of engineers) is now being implemented in senior level capstoneexperiences. Consequences of Engineering First on attracting incoming students aswell as on post-graduation careers will be presented.IntroductionEngineering First is the McCormick School's response to the many calls for curricularchange coming from the profession and from external concerns, such as the NationalAcademy of Engineering and the National Science Foundation. Engineering Firstchallenges its students to develop new ways of thinking, by converting them fromlearning academic topics in isolation to learning engineering topics in an integrativefashion. Given that engineering at its very essence is "the

Collection

2021 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference

Authors

Gerald Tembrevilla, McMaster University; Andre Phillion P.Eng., McMaster University; Thomas E. Doyle, McMaster University; Shelir Ebrahimi, McMaster University; Colin McDonald P.Eng., McMaster University; Melec Zeadin, McMaster University; Bosco Yu, McMaster University

simulate solidification across multiple length scales in order to develop new relationships linking heat transfer and fluid flow at the macro-scale with microstructure and defects. Dr. Phillion received his PhD from The University of British Columbia in 2007, where he combined high temperature experimental methods with multi-scale modelling to investigate casting defects in Al alloys. After completing his stud- ies, Dr. Phillion was a post-doctoral fellow at the Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne, and a faculty member at UBC’s Okanagan campus, before joining McMaster in 2016.Dr. Thomas E. Doyle, McMaster University Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Conference Session

Leadership and Administration in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tim Brower, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

latter comments are notaddressed herein.II. DiscussionThe two issues identified above, i.e., faculty credentials and separation in programs, will bediscussed in the context of applicable ABET criteria, and then in the way in which OIT isaddressing these issues.Faculty Credentials –As “Conventional Wisdom” might say, “engineering programs require a Ph.D. and engineeringtechnology programs require a minimum of a M.S. degree with a Ph.D. preferred.” Here is whatABET has to say concerning this issue, taken from the EAC and TAC Criterion 5, Faculty. BothEAC and TAC criteria state that there must be sufficient numbers of faculty to offer the program Page

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

Session 3155 Guidelines for the Industry-Academic Transition Sigurd L. Lillevik Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Portland Portland, OR 97223AbstractRecently, practicing professionals with several years of industry experience have joined theacademic ranks. This experienced, but new faculty member faces many of the same challenges asthe recent Ph.D. hire plus one additional issue: his colleagues assume that he knows what he isdoing and how to teach. This may or may not be

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Eliot; Jennifer Turns

that engineering educators face. While multiple websites have been developed tohelp engineering educators, little evidence exists confirming their effectiveness, while evaluationusing inspection methods suggests that these websites have room for improvement13.The bulk of our work has constituted not only an early focus on users, but also a sustained andrelatively unprecedented focus on users. To this end, we have been conducting a qualitativestudy of the teaching challenge and concerns of the engineering education community. Thecatalyst for the grant was a unique opportunity to work with an instructional consultant tounderstand, through her interactions with faculty, the challenges that engineering educators face.As a result, debriefing

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

) faculty research projects. The team will research the needs ofsmart cities related to the technical issues outlined in the Report to the President “Technologyand the Future of Cities.” New York University was recently awarded the lead role on theUniversity Transportation Center (UTC): Connected Cities for Smart Mobility and ResilientTransportation (C2SMART). UTCs, as designated by the United States Department ofTransportation (USDOT), are supported by a multimillion dollar grant for a five year period. Dueto the development of the new UTC, the VIP will have an emphasis on transportation including:cities, vehicles, infrastructure, and transportation users.The goal of this new course is aligned with the mission of the VIP consortium – to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

E. Bernard White, George Mason University

thanprogramming, in spite of all of the new knowledge and exciting high technology developments.In addition to programming, the computer science professional must be able to present its fieldmore broadly as the discipline concerned with important areas of design, development, testingdebugging, documentation, and maintenance of software. For example, the computer scienceprofessionals have failed to convey to prospective students and counselors the fact thatcomputer science provides the capabilities that enable information technology applications usedby the IT professional. Other factors that have contributed to the decline of interest in thetraditional computer science major include the following: • The misperception of severe job loss in the IT

Conference Session

Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arnold Lumsdaine, University of Tennessee; Frank Speckhart, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Geoff Robson, Technology 2020; Kenneth Kahn, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Majid Keyhani, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Dan Fant, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Rapinder Sawhney, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

by theindustry partners (described below under “Entrepreneurial Board”) and by engineeringprofessors within UT. Also, students are encouraged to present their own concepts for reviewand evaluation purposes. As a part of a new grant from the National Science Foundation, an“Idea Bank” is being developed which will contain ideas from these multiple sources, as well asany maturity that has been added to these ideas from past teams.By way of guidance and instructional support from the professors and industrial partners, eachstudent team must perform an engineering assessment on the product’s feasibility to meet certainperformance constraints and development requirements. This assessment includes issues such asrisk of development and prototype

Conference Session

The Global and Cultural Dimensions of Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh; Andrea Gammon, Delft University of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

shortcomingsThe results of this study indicate that foreign language affects ethical reasoning and moralintuitions in different ways. It affects ethical reasoning in the manner hypothesized, but notmoral intuitions. To an extent, previous research can help to make sense of these findings.As was mentioned, research has found that people are more likely to endorse ostensiblydisgusting [15] and sacrificial behaviors in a foreign than a native language [16]. Since disgustjudgements concern issues of sanctity and denigration [10], it would make sense that participantswould score higher on measures of sanctity in a native than a foreign language. Similarly, sinceethical reasoning – understood as the application of ethical principles to resolve issues

Conference Session

Track 1 - Student Development

Collection

2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

D. N. Reddy, Indian Society for Technical Education

Tagged Topics

Track 1 - Student Development

Fellow of A.P. Academy of Sciences and Member of Executive Committee of the Academy. World wide exposure is his experience which consists of visiting countries like USA, UK, China, Thailand, Ireland, Malaysia, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Italy, Spain, Australia, South Africa and Sweden. During his tenure as Vice Chancellor of JNT University, Hyderabad has introduced many reforms in curriculum evaluation new Education Models and Foreign collaborations for improving the Quality of Engineering Education. He is well known in the academic circles as straight forward and known for objective assessment of issues. Page 17.23.1

Conference Session

Model Eliciting Activities

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; John Anthony Christ, U.S. Air Force Academy; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Tamara J. Moore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2012-4220: MODELS AND MODELING IN UPPER DIVISION CLASS-ROOMS: IMPACTING CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND THE PRO-FESSIONAL SKILLSDr. Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh Mary Besterfield-Sacre is an Associate Professor and Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow in industrial engi- neering. She is the Director for the new Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering, and serves as a Center Associate for the Learning Research and Development Cen- ter at the University of Pittsburgh. Her principal research is in engineering assessment, which has been funded by the NSF, Department of Education, Sloan Foundation, Engineering Information Foundation, and the NCIIA

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

certainly willinvolve significant dialogic interactions between engineering educators and educators in severaldisciplines in the humanities. While some engineering educators are focusing the emphasis oftheir work on these issues, the terminology, discourse communities, and educational practicesassociated with the topics of social impact such as autonomy and justice, for example, most oftencome from disciplines outside engineering and are not readily ascertainable by engineeringstudents or even faculty members. As complex social and ethical issues are growing in emphasisin engineering contexts, engineering professionals as well struggle to frame their thinking andfind effective language for necessary engagement with diverse perspectives. A

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education; Kacey Beddoes

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

negativeexperiences that range from exclusionary behavior to overt discrimination [16-21]. A landmarkstudy involving over 5,100 students, faculty and administrators from all 50 states was conductedto explore how LGBTQ people experience campus climate and to examine behavioral andinstitutional responses to LGBTQ issues [22]. The following examples illustrate severaldisturbing trends that emerge from the study: • Within the last year, 29% of LGBTQ students and faculty experienced harassment and discrimination; one-third of respondents believed the university’s response to incidents of LGBTQ harassment was inadequate. • 13% of LGBQ, 22% of transmasculine, 17.9% of transfeminine, and 17.3% of gender nonconforming respondents feared