Conference Session

Effective & Efficient Teaching Skills

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

observations extrapolated from the findings of on a two-yearresearch project that the author feels have general applicability. The author suggests thatalthough faculty members see many variables dealing with student behavior as unalterable, mostare probably not. Common behaviors that are accepted include: coming to class unprepared, notdoing the reading, not engaging in classroom discussion, not answering questions, turning insloppy work, and turning in late assignments, to name but a few. The author does not accept thepremise that such behaviors are unalterable. In the case of the specific research project theauthor conducted, the problem observed was that students seemed to regard their homeworksubmissions as simply a product to be handed in, and

Conference Session

First Year Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene B Mena, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

- sponsible for supporting curricular assessment and developing instructional support programs for faculty in the College of Engineering. In her research role, Dr. Zappe is interested in the integration of creativity into the engineering curriculum, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Dr. Zappe holds a doctorate in edu- cational psychology specializing in applied testing and measurement. Her measurement interests include the development of instruments to measure the engineering professional skills and using qualitative data to enhance the response process validity of tests and instruments.Dr. Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Conference Session

Bringing Industrial Applications into the Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maddalena Fanelli, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Dennis J. Miller, Michigan State University; Martin C Hawley, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #8170Integrating Risk Assessment in the Unit Operations LaboratoryDr. Maddalena Fanelli, Michigan State University Dr. Maddalena Fanelli is a Teaching Specialist in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University. Dr. Fanelli teaches or coordinates a number of undergraduate lab- oratory courses, helping students gain hands-on experience that is critical to making theoretical learning more understandable and concrete. Before joining the department, she worked in the research and devel- opment groups in a number of industrial sectors, developing chemical processes for bio

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

draw the linebetween the need of qualified personnel from the private sector reflected in our curriculumdesign and the need to develop pure critical thinking skills and general abilities in engineeringand technology. More than that, there is no study of how the corporate demands might affect theacademic freedom of our instructors. At what point does teaching based on specific corporatedemands compromise the need to teach general skills that can be used at any company withproper training? How do we know if the skills we are teaching based on corporate demands are Page 23.294.3the set of skills these students will need if they move out of the

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chi N. Thai, University of Georgia; Yan-Fu Kuo, National Taiwan University; Ping-Lang Yen, National Taiwan University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

) IntroductionAt the ASEE Inaugural International Forum in 2012, many authors called for internationalcollaboration in curriculum and laboratory innovations, and also in faculty development1 citingthe need for balancing demands and capacities between the developed and developing countries,and showing that information and instructional technologies had risen to levels that enabled thesecollaboration opportunities. Even on a local and daily level, there is no doubt that we all livewithin social networks, even within the microcosm of instructors and students, and the age-oldquestion had always been about which practice, between competition and collaboration, worksthe best (whatever “best” means) for any individual or group? In his book “Collaborate!”,Sanker2

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa Larkin, American University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

AC 2010-1274: THE "WRITE" PATH TO EFFECTIVE STUDENTUNDERSTANDING IN PHYSICSTeresa Larkin, American University Teresa L. Larkin is an Associate Professor of Physics Education and Faculty Liaison to the Pre-engineering Program at American University. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with special emphasis in Physics and Science Education from Kansas State University. Dr. Larkin has published widely on the assessment of student learning in introductory physics and engineering courses. She has been an active member of ASEE for 25 years. Dr. Larkin served on the Board of Directors for ASEE from 1997-1999 as Chair of Professional Interest Council III (PIC III) and as Vice

Conference Session

Robotics in Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlotta Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

. Page 15.877.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 “Mobile Robotics: A tool for application-based integration of multidisciplinary undergraduate concepts and research”AbstractThis paper presents the development of a mobile robotics course at the primarily undergraduateengineering school, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. This course is one of the finalcourses in the multidisciplinary educational robotics certificate program. The purpose of thiscourse is to use the robot to provide the students with an appreciation of their discipline and howit applies to other disciplines. It is hypothesized that students will gain a more realistic model oftheir future workplace demographic while also learning about

Conference Session

Engagement in Formal and Informal Learning Environments

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering. Page 23.21.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A Better Mousetrap: Why Did They Come?AbstractAn Academic Success and Professional Development Class, FSE 394, has been offered for over10 years for engineering and computer science students at Arizona State University (ASU).Seminars were first held for 22 students with scholarships from one NSF S-STEM program, withan emphasis on females and underrepresented minority students and both transfer and non-transfer students. The seminars have now grown to a

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Krueger; Theodore Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

fundamental principles while adding excitement and relevanceto the experience. The “Engineering Design and Graphics” course at the University of Texas isan integral part of PROCEED. This freshman course emphasizes the development of a 3-Dgeometric computer model and application of this digital database to all phases of the designprocess. The students make freehand sketches, build computer models, mate assemblies of parts,perform various analyses, create kinematics simulations, build rapid prototypes, and generatefinal design drawings. An assessment of student outcomes in the course was conducted in theFall 2002 semester using a series of self-reported learning surveys. This paper depicts examplesof class work that support these graphics learning

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Milo Koretsky

Society for Engineering Education Session 3513Figure 2. Correlation of heat transfer coefficients in senior lab.3. ChE 302: Chemical Process Statistics3.1 Course overviewChemical Process Statistics (ChE 302) was developed to provide students exposure to statistics,in the context of the educational challenges discussed in Section 2. It especially focuses on thosetopics that will be useful for work in industry. The Course Goals and Course LearningObjectives are presented in Figures 3 and 4, respectively. An outline of the topics is presented inTable 1.The course content reflects, for the most part, topics covered in many engineering

Conference Session

Understanding Our Students I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna F. DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Kathryn W. Jablokow, Penn State University; Sven G. Bilen, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Andras Gordon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

computational dynamics. In addition to her membership in ASEE, she is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of ASME. Jablokow is the architect of a unique four-course graduate module focused on problem solving leadership and is currently developing a new methodology for cognition-based design. She founded and directs the Problem Solving Research Group, whose 50+ collaborating members include faculty and students from several universities, as well as industrial representatives, military leaders, and corporate consultants.Dr. Sven G. Bilen, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Sven G. Bilen is an Associate Professor of engineering design, electrical engineering, and aerospace engineering at Penn State and Head of the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain; Soon-Seng Tang; Louay Chamra

Society LOUAY M CHAMRA Dr. Chamra received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, his MS at University of Portland, and his Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University. He has worked as a Research Associate at Penn State University. Currently, he is an assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the thermal sciences and conducts related research. Since joining the faculty, Dr. Chamra has developed two new courses. STEPHEN T. MCCLAIN Stephen T. McClain is a Lecturer and Undergraduate Laboratory Manager at Mississippi State University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Memphis in 1995, and he

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Garen Gregorian; Francis Di Bella

Belmont, Ma.ABSTRACTThe development of advanced building materials seems to be progressing as fast as thecreativeness of architects who demand them for use in their latest creations. Architectsoften spur onward the development of building materials in order to “push the envelope”of building size, height and form. In 1956, the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wrightonce envisioned a skyscraper that would be 5,280-ft. tall (500 stories). Wright’scontemporaries are still looking to build the Grand Design Skyscraper- some with asmany as 210 stories or approximately 3,000 ft. tall. Many contemporary architects seethe research for stronger, lighter, corrosive free building materials as the Holy Grail thatpromises that their modern buildings will live, not

Conference Session

Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University; Lisa Stapley Randall, Arizona State University; Johnny Thieken, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

). The project team members were: a secondary educationcertified science educator, a secondary education certified mathematics educator, and theproject’s principal investigator, an engineering education faculty who had a special focus on k-12engineering education. This team was integral to developing the project curricula, designprinciples, and instructional strategies for the ITEST project. The project team members’intention was to design novel teaching and learning experiences that utilize the engineeringdesign process, field test them with middle school students, and make improvements to thecurricular unit which was one of the important deliverables of the ITEST project.The Bio Remediation Unit – Bioengineering our WaterThe Bio Remediation

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald James; Janet L. Gooder; Charles Wisniewski; Brenda Haven; A. George Havener

course.Background- USAFA is a military professional service school with the singular mission ofproducing Air Force Officers. The four-year program at USAFA is based on four elements:academics, officer development, physical conditioning, character development. In the academicelement, cadets select a major area of study from 23 separate programs grouped into fourdivisions: basic sciences, engineering, humanities, social sciences. Regardless of the major fieldof study, however, all cadets must complete a core of courses (USAFA Core) that provide thebackground and foundation of their undergraduate degree.The USAFA Core - USAFA graduates earn one degree, the Bachelor of Science degree. Thecore consists of 31 courses comprising about 65 percent of the academic

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Chi N. Thai, University of Georgia; Yan-Fu Kuo; Ping-Lang Yen, National Taiwan University

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

software components.I) IntroductionAt the ASEE Inaugural International Forum in 2012, many authors called for internationalcollaboration in curriculum and laboratory innovations, and also in faculty development1 citingthe need for balancing demands and capacities between the developed and developing countries,and showing that information and instructional technologies had risen to levels that enabled thesecollaboration opportunities. Even on a local and daily level, there is no doubt that we all livewithin social networks, even within the microcosm of instructors and students, and the age-oldquestion had always been about which practice, between competition and collaboration, worksthe best (whatever “best” means) for any individual or group

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Hartley T. Grandin, Hartley T. Grandin,; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

InstituteAbstract This paper presents a description of a first undergraduate course in mechanics ofmaterials. Although many of the features of this course have been used by other faculty andpresented formally in textbooks, the authors believe they have united them in a way thatproduces a course that is unique and innovative. The paper is titled “Mechanics of Materials: anIntroductory Course with Integration of Theory, Analysis, Verification and Design”. Thesubtitle has been included to emphasize the unification of four strategic elements: Theory,Analysis, Verification and Design. The course leads the student through a traditional exposure totheory, but a non-traditional progressive approach to analysis that uses a modern engineeringtool

Conference Session

Exploration of Written and Team Communication

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D'Arcy Randall, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin; Hyesun You, The University of Iowa; Daniel S. Puperi, The University of Texas at Austin; Thomas E. Lindsay, The University of Texas at Austin; Rhya Moffitt Brooke, The University of Texas at Austin

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #37908Write from the Start in Engineering: Mixed-Methods Results of aCollaboration between a First-Year Biomedical Engineering Class and aUniversity Writing CenterDr. D’Arcy Randall, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin Until 2022, D’Arcy Randall was a Professor of Instruction in the Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Now retired, she teaches part-time in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. She collaborated with other Cockrell School of Engineering faculty, the College of Liberal Arts’ University Writing Center, and Undergraduate Studies to train

Conference Session

ME Curriculum and Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher E. Larsen, University of Missouri; Rose M. Marra Ph.D, University of Missouri, Columbia; Nai-En Tang; David H. Jonassen, University of Missouri, Columbia; Robert Andrew Winholtz

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

problem solving, and developing models and methods for supporting those processes during learning, culminating in the book, Learning to Solve Problems: A Handbook for Designing Problem-Solving Learning Environments.Prof. Robert Andrew Winholtz Page 24.1220.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 The Goldilocks Continuum: Seeking an optimal balance of instructional scaffold in mechanical engineering collaborative learningIntroduction The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) mandatescollaborative competency as a learning outcome for mechanical

Conference Session

The Civil Engineering Technologist and the Civil Engineer – What’s the Difference?

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry G Cooke P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Todd Dunn, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Scott B. Wolcott P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

engineering technology baccalaureate program to pursue design careers and professionalengineering licensure compared to their civil engineering counterparts. An assessment of thisissue is made by using a survey to obtain the impressions of employers/supervisors at local civilengineering design firms who have experience with both groups of graduates. The survey isdesigned to ascertain the employers/supervisors impressions of the differences between the civilengineering technology and civil engineering graduates in terms of their (1) positions andresponsibilities within the company, (2) technical skills and knowledge when they are first hired,(3) overall engineering design abilities, (4) ability to develop the skill sets needed to become aprofessional

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia Spencer, University of Virginia; Megan Ryals, University of Virginia; Gianluca Guadagni, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics Division (MATH)

?MethodsContextThe first and second authors each taught two in-person sections of Ordinary DifferentialEquations in Fall 2019 and Fall 2021. The course was taught traditionally in Fall 2019 and fullyimplemented as an IODE course for the first time in Fall 2021. We began developing draft lessonplans in Fall 2019, starting with materials provided by NSF Project Award #1431641: TeachingInquiry-Oriented Mathematics: Establishing Supports. The same semester, we held conversationswith faculty who teach courses for which ODE is a prerequisite to identify content that is mostessential, and who recommended problems and activities that are more specific to engineering.In Spring 2020, we held mock lessons with previous ODE students to implement and thenmodify drafts

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

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

community. He also has an interest in engineering education research, particularly in student motivation and future faculty development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference 1 An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Group Work in a Mechanical 2 Engineering Program 3 Elizabeth N. Whitehurst1, Nathaniel A. Hyams2, Morgan K. Green1, and Matthew W. Priddy1 4 5 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 6 2 Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 7 Abstract 8 Group work has

Conference Session

Student Feedback and Assessment in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitch Cieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Alexandra Coso Strong, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #18662An Exploratory Study of Power Dynamics and Feedback in Design ReviewsMr. Mitchell James Cieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Mitchell J. Cieminski was born in Fontana, CA in 1995 and grew up in Greeley, CO. He received a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA in May 2017, and currently studies science and technology studies at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2014, he worked at Insper University in S˜ao Paulo, Brazil as a Junior Partner and visiting student to their developing engineering program. His research interests

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Focused on Female Students

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary B. Isaac, HEDGE Co.

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

. Mentoring is oneof the most ubiquitous interventions focused on influencing females in regard to STEM-relatedcareer decisions, particularly with respect to engineering occupations. Mertz [8] does a good jobof explaining the many roles that mentors play in society and why the term mentoring may beconfusing. The term “mentor” means “teacher” in Greek and from the time a child first askswhen, where, who, what, why, and how, he or she is being mentored by someone informally orformally, knowingly or unconsciously. Through coaching, teaching, modeling, and otheractivities, mentorship should provide a safe environment in which one or more protégés cantypically grow and develop cognitively and experientially under the tutelage of one or morementors over

Conference Session

Tree-huggers, Diggers, and Queers--Oh my!

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Cech, University of California, San Diego; Tom Waidzunas, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

who indicatedthat they were engineering students and were interested in same-gender relationships.viiWe conducted formal semi-structured interviews with each of our respondents (see AppendixTable 2 for interview schedule), lasting between 45-90 minutes each, at the on-campus locationof the respondent’s choosing. In our interviews, we asked students about their identities, theirinteractions with faculty, interactions with other students, their views on the climate in theengineering program of Gold University, and their coping strategies. Due to the sensitive natureof the topic, we offered respondents the option of conducting the interview in our offices oranonymously over online instant-messaging programs. All respondents elected to have face

Conference Session

Learning as a Community

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Ricks, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Loen Graceson-Martin, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Lalit Gupta, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; James Mathias, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Jale Tezcan, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Kathy Pericak-Spector, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

identify the most and least effective componentsof the first year of the ERC.MethodologyA mixed-methods, single group evaluation design was used for data collection and analysis. Inthe cases where repeated measures data were collected, only data from students completing bothsurveys were included for this evaluation. Additionally, student grades for targeted courses in thefall 2007 and spring 2008 semesters and overall retention status were used to identify theobjective outcome of the first-year ERC program. Because of the focus of this initiative, all datacollected and analyzed were restricted to those students meeting the above-mentioned definitionof a freshman engineering student for the 2007-2008 academic year.Several surveys were developed to

Conference Session

Computers in Education 11 - Modulus 3

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Inesmar Briceno Rivero, Universidad Andres Bello; Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello

the engineering faculty in terms of how digitaltransformation may be applied in their work as teachers and in applying all available technologyresources to the different learning management systems (LMS) used when teaching subjects.Thus, the need is clear to identify this gap, shedding light on possible weaknesses in thecurricular innovation process, enabling the creation of improvement guidelines for betterpreparation of teachers involved. A hand-on-hand exercise will then be made with professorsfrom degrees that have been innovated within the School of Engineering, who will provide theirinput regarding changes that have been taking place in their working environment. The followingsections include a literary review, the methodology applied

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session: Student Success

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MacKenzie Reber, Grove City College; Yun Dong, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Subhanwit Roy, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Benjamin Ahn, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

-hired engineers' practices and experience in the socialization process and engineering education.Subhanwit RoyBenjamin Ahn (Associate Professor) Benjamin Ahn is an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University. His research interests include (1) engineering workforce development, (2) student mentoring and diversity, and (3) teaching and learning mechanisms. Benjamin received a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University, an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University, and a B.E. in Aerospace Engineering with first class honors from the University of New South Wales (Australia). Prior to joining Iowa State University, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

Vanessa Svihla; Ronald Barr; Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino

biomechanicslearning modules developed as part of the VaNTH educational coalition. The pedagogicalframework for these modules is based on the widely publicized book “How People Learn”(HPL). The HPL teaching framework presents the learning material as a series of challenges thatare posed through a “Legacy Cycle.” The VANTH biomechanics modules were presented in anundergraduate Mechanical Engineering course, titled “Biomechanics of Human Movement,” inFall 2004. The class (N=18) was divided into six, three-member teams. All challenges wereperformed by the teams as computer homework assignments using a CD that was supplied by theinstructor. Pre-tests, post-tests, and affect rankings were administered for each module. Thestudents were also surveyed on the learning

Conference Session

Engineering Education Culture: Mental Health, Inclusion, and the Soul of Our Community

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lucy Elizabeth Hargis, University of Kentucky; Courtney Janaye Wright, University of Kentucky; Ellen L. Usher, University of Kentucky; Joseph H. Hammer, University of Kentucky; Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky; Melanie E. Miller, University of Kentucky

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

bachelor’s degree at Rowan University in New Jersey before attending graduate school for her PhD at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. Her research interests in- clude engineering communication, process safety, and undergraduate student mental health. Recently, she was awarded an NSF RIEF grant to student mental health-related help-seeking in undergraduate engineer- ing students. She is completing this project in collaboration with faculty members from educational and counseling psychology. With this work, they aim to better understand the help-seeking beliefs of under- graduate engineering students and develop interventions to improve mental health-related help-seeking. Other research interests include