Conference Session

Distance Learning in Engineering Technology

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve C. Hsiung, Old Dominion University; John M. Ritz, Old Dominion University; Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University; Feng Jao, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

correctly forinstruction.Preparation for a Virtual Classroom Server storage and access issues need to be planned before the actual delivery of a course.Some choose to use campus servers, while others choose to use Blackboard or similar coursemanagement applications operated by their schools. This research team needed the capability tohave all project faculty capable of uploading content from their institutions, plus have plans for Page 24.358.4others who might want to post materials related to microcontroller technologies onto the server.University servers have firewalls to protect their servers from outside users. This project had tohave

Conference Session

Engineering Education in the Arab World / Mid-East Region

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne Scott, The Petroleum Institute; Jamal Ahmad, The Petroleum Institute

Tagged Divisions

International

, STEPS I presents students with a well-defined design-and-build problem, and then leads them through the process using the concepts of guided design.The students are also given extensive instruction in the application of soft skills that areimportant to successful design, namely teamwork, project planning, and professional oral andwritten communications. Faculty advisors from engineering and communications programsserve the role as mentors for this project. During the first three years of the program’sdevelopment, the STEPS II semester was characterized by a similar format to STEPS I, but withdiscipline specific design-and-build projects. After three years the program’s new Coordinator,Dr. Jamal Ahmad, and Co-mentor, Dr. Suzanne Scott, looked

Conference Session

Technical Session 4a

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Yongping Zhang P.E., Cal Poly Pomona; Xudong Jia, Cal Poly Pomona; Jon Bumps, Caltrans, District 8; Du Lu, Caltrans, District 8

Tagged Topics

Pacific Southwest Section

and senior design engineers take thestudent project team to the project site to collect all related information. Before Purpose andNeeds can be identified, the project team needs to contact local city for its general plan as well aslocal communities for their concerns, which often include severe traffic congestion and pooraccessibility. Throughout the whole year, the following topics are covered in various meetingsbetween faculty, senior design engineers, and the project team. 1) Caltrans Methods and Processes 2) How Caltrans Delivers Projects 5 3) Teamwork and Networking 4) Communication 5) Presentation Skills 6) Value Analysis and

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

strategies.Dr. Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University Thomas A. Litzinger is Director of the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State. His work in engineering education involves curricular reform, teaching and learning innovations, assessment, and faculty development. Dr. Litzinger has more than 50 publications related to engineering education including lead authorship of an invited article in the 100th Anniversary issue of JEE and for an invited chapter on translation of research to practice for the first edition of the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. He serves as an Associate Editor for Advances in Engineering

Collection

2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Hong Li; Ashwin Satyanarayana

courses CST 4710 Advanced Security Technologies 3with each module consisting of three sequential coursesfocusing on one specific area of computer systems. Studentsare required to complete three of the seven modules. The A. Concerns raised about the Current Curriculum:modular curriculum was innovative at the time of its inception, 1. Topics in the different modules are no longerand has served our students well in past years. The Computer independent and are more interrelatedSystems Technology department has been modifying the The topics in each module are no longer independent.curriculum by adding new modules, and by

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

complexities and resources neededto support good design education.Fortunately, more and more educators are becoming aware of the issues of design, and steps arebeing taken world wide, to address the concerns of industry at large. One approach has been to Page 15.999.2form “symbiotic” partnership between industry and academia through senior capstone projects.The capstone course has evolved over the years from “made up” projects devised by faculty toindustry-sponsored projects where companies provide “real” problems, along with expertise andfinancial support. In fact, design courses, in general, have emerged as a means for students to beexposed to some

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Bradley Norris

]. Research can have manydefinitions: “Systematic observation of phenomena for the purpose of learning new facts or testing the application of theories to known facts; -- also called scientific research. This is the research part of the phase [2].” “Research is a careful and detailed study into a specific problem, concern, or issue using the scientific method. ... This is best accomplished by turning the issue into a question, with the intent of the research to answer the question. [3]”Research can be further broken down to two branches, depending on the purpose. "AppliedResearch” answers specific questions that can be directly applied to the world around us. It willtypically solve a specific problem. This type of

Conference Session

Best Teaching Practices for ABET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

engineering program, this case study does provideexcellent examples of methods and techniques that can be used by engineering faculty asthey strive to comply with the new ABET standard by which they will eventually beevaluated. Character without knowledge is weak and feeble, but knowledge without character is dangerous and a potential menace to society. Character and knowledge together are the twin goals of true education. Boston Latin Grammar School, 17th centuryIntroductionPresent society places many demands upon classroom teachers. They are expected todeliver all areas of curriculum with mastery and ease. They are forever being called uponto incorporate one more essential piece needed for full student development

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Earl A. Evans; Susan L. Murray

Environment;Learned Information, Inc.; Medford, New Jersey; 19952. Mayadas, Frank; “Asynchronous Learning Networks: A Sloan Foundation Perspective”; Journal of AsynchronousLearning Networks; Volume 1, Issue 1 - March, 1997; (published electronically at http://www.aln.org/)EARL A. EVANS is a faculty member at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Civil Engineer and Services School.He received his M.S. in Engineering Management from The University of Missouri-Rolla and B.E. in MechanicalEngineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a registered Professional Engineer in California. Mr.Evans is currently a Captain in the U.S. Air Force with eight years of active duty experience.SUSAN L. MURRAY is an Assistant Professor of Engineering

Conference Session

Hands-on Activities and Student Learning in Aerospace Engineering - II - Student Papers

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yue Gu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

issued a statement on sustainable development education thatstates in part “Engineering students should learn about sustainable development andsustainability in the general education component of the curriculum as they are preparing for themajor design experience” and that “…faculty should ask their students to consider the impacts ofdesign upon U.S. society, and upon other nations and cultures” [3]. Some engineering programshave used a national airport design competition in their education programs [4, 5]. Between 2007and 2017, over 40% of winning teams in the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs were comprised of studentsenrolled in undergraduate and graduate level degree

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Winzer

high quality and competitive graduates. To ensure continued opportunitiesfor such counsel, a committee formed of industrial representatives is hereby chartered. Thiscommittee, known as the Advisory Committee for Electronics Engineering Technology atPittsburg State University, is charged with the task of advising the Electronics EngineeringTechnology faculty on such matters as the attributes of program graduates, curriculumcomposition, equipment inventory, changing industry expectations and technologies, programopportunities, and student opportunities. This committee is empowered to issue advocacystatements and opinions concerning Electronics Engineering Technology to the administration ofthe university.”To illustrate the type of productive

Conference Session

Innovative Project-based Learning Practices in Manufacturing

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Karen Kenyon, Grand Valley State University; John Paul Farris, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

actively sought to modelinterprofessional collaboration. The engineering faculty member often participated in thehands-on sessions with the children. For example, if the engineering students appeared reluctantto ask the DPT students in-depth questions concerning a child’s diagnosis and medical history,the engineering faculty member would initiate a line of questioning to help uncover thisinformation. The engineering faculty member would also interact with the child and family andhold the child during the session to model respectful exchanges with the child and family.During design meetings, if the DPT students were not asking the engineering students to fullyexplain engineering concepts (the merits of brushless versus brushed motors for example

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bin Cong, California State University at Fullerton; Christopher Ryu, California State University at Fullerton; Raman Menon Unnikrishnan, California State University at Fullerton

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

improvement transcended the strictcurricular boundaries. Many of the changes made were in the process of assessment andevaluation. The process initiated in 2016 and 2017 was improved in 2018 and 2019. The“One-Stop ABET website,” and our refined data collection and analysis tools helped thefront end of the assessment process. The efficiencies of these improvements provided moretime to the faculty to deliberate issues related to evaluation and implementation.The new assessment system defines key performance indicators (Table 2) that are related to theessential core of the computer science discipline. These indicators are used to demonstratecompliance with the SOs. A Traceability Matrix (Table 3) is used to show the relationship amongcourses

Conference Session

Design in the Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John P. Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amit Janardhan Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

, the department provided students with physical design notebooks, whichfacilitated uniformity, met the standards for design work, and were convenient for the students tocarry and quickly present design ideas and to take notes. Unfortunately, the students were all toooften more concerned about the course notebook grade than its true purpose. Thus, many did notcomplete their notebook in real-time, but rather kept notes and sketches separately and thencopied them neatly into the notebook just before the due dates. Additionally, during thesegrading times, the students would be without their notebooks while the faculty reviewed them,thus hindering their ability to keep them up-to-date. They were also unable to ‘share’ commonnotebook entries easily

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Vance; Michael Cornachione; Harriet Cornachione

Session 1725 A Capstone Design Approach in Civil Engineering Harriet S. Cornachione, Michael A. Cornachione, and Valerie. J. Vance Oregon Institute of TechnologyAbstract Assessing student outcomes from the civil engineering program at Oregon Institute ofTechnology (OIT) identified several areas of concern. Ineffective team skills, limitedmulti-disciplinary design experience and inadequate integration of technicalcommunications with the engineering curriculum were specifically targeted forimprovement. To strengthen student outcomes in these areas, technical communicationsfaculty and civil engineering faculty at OIT developed

Conference Session

Defining Technological Literacy

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglass Klein, Union College; Robert Balmer, Union College

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

bituneven in his assessment of the two sides of the issue, siding with the scientists as the bearers oftruth, but he was certainly correct in noting that there was a failure to communicate. The new generation of liberal arts and engineering faculty are more aware of the blurringof disciplines, especially in the sciences and engineering, and of the increased interest in theimpact of technology on society. As a consequence, faculty are more accepting of newdirections and collaborations. The new awareness is coming from directions as diverse as anNSF study on Converging Technologies6, to the Dalai Lama7, and many points in between.8Whatever undergraduate major a student chooses, and whatever job that student aspires to, theworld demands that

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea L. Welker, Villanova University; Kathleen Louise Nazar; Paul Bonfanti, Villanova University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

from department to university• Service opportunities • Service opportunities• Faculty • University has Augustinian roots Page 26.1315.8Results of Senior Exit SurveyThe Senior Survey is administered to all graduating seniors prior to commencement. Variousversions of senior surveys have been administered by Villanova University since 1993. Thissurvey is comprised of special issue questions for our university and some standardizedquestions from national surveys. The types of questions ask students to assess their experiencesregarding

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

remained a difficult change foran established college was significantly easier to accomplish in a school built from scratch. Italso helped that aviation firms, for technical reasons13 as well as for reasons of a desperate labormarket, were willing to hire any and all engineers and offer them specialized training at “fullpay” on company time, as stated in the Lockheed ad. There was also the explicit expectation thatBoelter would develop a program complementary to the one at Berkeley. Finally, Boelter had nochoice but to begin with a single, unified curriculum. With but a limited appropriation, whichprovided no money for new buildings, Boelter opened the doors to his college in August 1945with a small handful of faculty and but 25 students. During

Conference Session

Messaging, Motivations and Supports for Women Engineers

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Laursen, University of Colorado Boulder; Ann E. Austin, Michigan State University; Kris De Welde, College of Charleston; Diana Ribas Rodrigues Roque, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

where faculty womenof color told the team they were tired of being invited to participate, then ignored. This lightbulbmoment led the team to develop new strategies to gather data from faculty women of color, aneffort led by a senior woman of color. They reported to their campus on the issues theyuncovered and met with department heads and other leaders, directly involving some of theirinformants to give their reports gravitas, and eventually secured some positive outcomes forwomen faculty of color. Other projects likewise found that collecting and communicating dataabout the experiences of women of color—often through qualitative approaches that literallyelevated these women’s voices—was valuable in expanding the change team’s understanding

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Laursen, University of Colorado Boulder; Ann E. Austin, Michigan State University; Kris De Welde, College of Charleston; Diana Ribas Rodrigues Roque, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

where faculty womenof color told the team they were tired of being invited to participate, then ignored. This lightbulbmoment led the team to develop new strategies to gather data from faculty women of color, aneffort led by a senior woman of color. They reported to their campus on the issues theyuncovered and met with department heads and other leaders, directly involving some of theirinformants to give their reports gravitas, and eventually secured some positive outcomes forwomen faculty of color. Other projects likewise found that collecting and communicating dataabout the experiences of women of color—often through qualitative approaches that literallyelevated these women’s voices—was valuable in expanding the change team’s understanding

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

International

general, and to the use of modern pedagogicalskills in particular. The paper also argues that any meaningful change in Region’s classroompractices today (dominated by traditional lecture-based methods) must be mandated andsupported by the university administration. What is necessary to create a change, is for thedepartment or college, to have a comprehensive and integrated set of components: clearlyarticulated expectations, opportunities for faculty to learn about new pedagogies, and anequitable reward system.Introduction“To teach is to engage students in learning.” This quote, from Education for Judgment byChristenson et al, (1) captures the meaning of the art and practice of pedagogies ofengagement. The theme advocated here is that student

Conference Session

CEED Paper Session 2: Leveraging Internships and Experiential Learning in Higher Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

reformation in general, and to the use of modern pedagogicalskills in particular. The paper also argues that any meaningful change in Region’s classroompractices today (dominated by traditional lecture-based methods) must be mandated andsupported by the university administration. What is necessary to create a change, is for thedepartment or college, to have a comprehensive and integrated set of components: clearlyarticulated expectations, opportunities for faculty to learn about new pedagogies, and anequitable reward system.Introduction“To teach is to engage students in learning.” This quote, from Education for Judgment byChristenson et al, (1) captures the meaning of the art and practice of pedagogies ofengagement. The theme advocated here is that

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

reformation in general, and to the use of modern pedagogicalskills in particular. The paper also argues that any meaningful change in Region’s classroompractices today (dominated by traditional lecture-based methods) must be mandated andsupported by the university administration. What is necessary to create a change, is for thedepartment or college, to have a comprehensive and integrated set of components: clearlyarticulated expectations, opportunities for faculty to learn about new pedagogies, and anequitable reward system.Introduction“To teach is to engage students in learning.” This quote, from Education for Judgment byChristenson et al, (1) captures the meaning of the art and practice of pedagogies ofengagement. The theme advocated here is that

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Learning and Engagement

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vimal Kumar Viswanathan, Tuskegee University; John T. Solomon, Tuskegee University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, face many challenges that influence theirpersistence to engineering. Lack of student engagement in classrooms has been one of theserious concerns that cut across most of the engineering schools. This critical concern, oftenneglected in classrooms, results in serious attention problems among students, leading to theirincompetence and poor retention rates1. This issue is more relevant in HBCUs (HistoricallyBlack College or University) where the retention rates were reported less than 50%2.A vast amount of literature shows that students’ academic engagement is correlated to theiracademic outcomes such as their grades, critical thinking and social engagement3-6. Further,engaged students are highly motivated and develop stronger capacities for

Conference Session

Student Diversity: attracting and retaining a diverse population of students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Haden, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

-cultural factors [1, 5, 6], and issues of confidence [7-9]. It is essential to understandnot only what factors act as barriers to persistence for underrepresented students, but also whatessential elements support the persistence of these students who are crucial to ensuring a morediverse engineering work force.Research on student persistence in higher education has revealed that once a student enters aninstitution of higher learning, social and academic factors interplay with his or her level ofcommitment to completing a degree program [10, 11]. In other words, once enrolled, students haveacademic and social experiences, including interactions with faculty and peers, experiences inthe classroom, and experiences with the curriculum which interact

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy C. Bradshaw, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Patricia Lea Hardre, University of Oklahoma; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

performanceorientation, they tend not to take risks or try new things, because to do so might make them lookstupid or incompetent. People with a performance orientation tend to be much more concernedwith grades than with whether or not they learned anything. They may avoid seeking assistanceor working with a tutor, even if help is needed. Performance orientation can affect faculty as well Page 22.681.11as students. Faculty might be overly concerned that they not appear stupid or incompetent around 10  other faculty or administrators, and even their own students. There appears to be a connectionbetween performance orientation and lower order cognition

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Technical Session 1: Topics Related to Engineering - Part 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Conrad Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; John Jongho Park, Penn State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

curriculum and inadequatetraining of teachers.” A faculty member wrote, “We have a hard-enough time to teachfundamentals in our disciplines. I am concerned we may not have enough time to incorporate AIappropriately.” How to integrate AI into school settings and the curriculum is a concern. Onefaculty stated that it is “haphazard at the high school level, while overly focused on machinelearning in our universities.” Another offered more specifics by sharing “there is not enoughfocus on problem formation and epistemology.” Student preparedness for AI is an ongoingdilemma and is due to issues such as the “lack of sufficient mathematical education (foundation)to understand AI algorithms.” For faculty, there is some concern about “attempts to

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

Page 3.240.1outcomes assessment for demonstrating program success. This change primarily affects thecurriculum-related aspect of EC2000, replacing the lists of specific topics which had to becovered under earlier criteria. While completion of course requirements is likely to be thedominant method for ensuring that students achieve the expected outcomes, other elements alsomay be used. Other aspects of EC2000 related to students, faculty, facilities, institutionalsupport, and financial resources are similar to earlier criteria, although it must be shown thatthese resources are appropriate to the program’s objectives.Although the specific EC2000 requirements are new, most programs and institutions are alreadyengaged in some assessment activities

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

Page 3.241.1outcomes assessment for demonstrating program success. This change primarily affects thecurriculum-related aspect of EC2000, replacing the lists of specific topics which had to becovered under earlier criteria. While completion of course requirements is likely to be thedominant method for ensuring that students achieve the expected outcomes, other elements alsomay be used. Other aspects of EC2000 related to students, faculty, facilities, institutionalsupport, and financial resources are similar to earlier criteria, although it must be shown thatthese resources are appropriate to the program’s objectives.Although the specific EC2000 requirements are new, most programs and institutions are alreadyengaged in some assessment activities

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Junichi Kanai

coloration tool was available, faculty advisers heavily relied on face-to-face meetings inscheduled classes to assess students’ progress and problems. Implementing this on-line system allowedfaculty advisors to monitor the students’ thinking processes and progress made between classes. Thus, inclasses, the students and faculty advisor were able to focus their attention on important design issueswithout spending time on trivial housekeeping issues. On the other hand, the system was also helpful forfaculty advisors in identifying teams that might need guidance because of a lack of forum activity. 100 90