Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

, as appropriate. Of course, retrospectives can also uncover issues that students (or instructors) had not been, or did not want to be, aware of. David remembers a retrospective session that pointed out a flaw in the initial course design; while he no longer recalls the specific flaw, he does remember the inner conflict this provoked in him.7. On-learning StrategiesIn order to create a sense of closure and new understanding at the end of what turned out to be anintensive course for some students, we used several on-learning strategies:1. Customer presentation. In order to focus the students on the “whole product,” (not just the coding), they were required to give a customer presentation to our surrogate customer in the last week of

Conference Session

Innovatiive Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College; Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico College

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

AC 2012-3975: AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL FOR COMPUTER NETWORKSEDUCATION IN COMPUTING DISCIPLINESDr. Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College Jorge Crichigno received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Catholic University of Asun- cion, Paraguay, in 2004, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 2008 and 2009, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Department at Northern New Mexico College, Espanola, N.M. His current research inter- ests include wireless and optical networks, graph theory, mathematical optimization, and undergraduate STEM education. He has served as reviewer and TPC member of journals and

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Student-Centered Approaches in Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

multiple years of collaboration withstudents as teachers. This template generates a high-structure course with transparent learningobjectives while leaving room for ownership of topics covered, specific learning outcomes andequipment checkoffs, activities employed in the classroom, and the culminating project artifact.First Year Design offerings are open to all students and satisfy a General Education (GE)requirement; learners enroll based on their interests and ambitions while gaining needed GEcourse credit. Since the initial deployment of this model, undergraduate student-teachers havedesigned, developed, and taught* the First Year Design courses presented in Table 1).We designed First Year Design to support any learner in developing a toolkit

Conference Session

ME Division 7: Making it Matter: Projects and Communication

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Fleming, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Prabhakar Venkateswaran, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

demonstratesthe effectiveness of project-based learning in developing practical engineering solutions andenhancing student engagement in energy systems design.We have some initial, generally positive, anecdotal data about students’ perceptions of theproject. However, we are planning on constructing a more formal and detailed survey to obtainmore detailed information from students. In addition, we are also looking to investigate theimpact of the project on students’ satisfaction of the course learning outcomes.BackgroundThere is considerable evidence to the benefits of students working through open-ended complexprojects in engineering education [1]. Projects allow students to engage with real-worldproblems, work collaboratively in teams, synthesize

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stefan Christov, Quinnipiac University; James Walker, Michigan Technological University; Mark Hoffman, Quinnipiac University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division

current research interests include improving the quality of human-intensive processes (HIPs), such as medical processes, with a focus on detecting human errors before harm is done and preventing such errors. He has used software engineering tech- niques to formally represent and analyze models of complex HIPs and industrial engineering techniques to elicit and validate models of such processes. He is also interested in educational approaches for peda- gogical collaboration between different courses in the curriculum. His work has resulted in publications in international journals and conferences.Dr. James Walker, Michigan Technological UniversityDr. Mark Hoffman, Quinnipiac University Mark Hoffman is a professor of

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Motion LLC. With grants fundedby the Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program (MIPS), which is associated with a technologyenterprise unit within the school of engineering at College Park, researchers in the University’sSchool of Public Health had been studying the health effects of Fifth Quarter Fresh (a chocolatemilk beverage produced by Fluid Motion) on high school football players. Unfortunately, inDecember 2015 the University issued a press release touting the health benefits of Fifth QuarterFresh on high school football players recovering from concussions without the study resultspassing through peer review.21 As several news stories highlighted, the press release timingcoincided with the debut of a major motion picture in the United

Conference Session

Using a Real-Options Analysis Tutorial in Teaching Undergraduate Students

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John A. White Jr., University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

) = 0.43007, and C = 55(0.59796) - 58.50(0.43007)/e2(0.0392207) = $9.633. In Problem 1, suppose the price of the stock will either increase 10% or decrease 10% during the year. What is the maximum amount you would be willing to pay for the option? (Use the binomial option pricing model described in class in arriving at your answer.) Answer: $3.65 S = $57.00, K = $58.50, u = 1.1, d = 0.9, rf = 4%, T = 2. Therefore, q = (1.04 - 0.90)/(1.1 - 0.9) = 0.7.4. A company is considering making an initial investment [CF(1)] to test the market for a new product. Depending on how well the product sells, it can expand the production capacity with a $350M investment [CF(2)] in year 5 and enter the market in year 6 with a full-scale marketing effort

Conference Session

Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Our Classrooms

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

an external client [31]. Results presented from the above study showed thatthough students recognized the importance of technical communication, their performance didnot improve much during the semester. Because this study was done only for one semesterduring the pandemic, the authors conclude further research is needed.      In Texas A&M University Qatar campus, the Engineering Enrichment Program partneredwith a writing professor to introduce entrepreneurial and improve communication skills ofstudents in a sophomore level English course. In 2017, the students were assigned the task ofdeveloping a prototype of a healthcare related

Conference Session

Digital Circuits, Architecture, Embedded Systems

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Bell, Tufts University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

-majors, and CS enrollment remained strong even after ES 4 was removed asa CS degree requirement in 2021.so perhaps we still have a ways to go!Lessons learned and future directionsThe UPduino hardware itself has performed very well. Version 3.0 fixed silkscreen and signalintegrity issues with the 2.0 version, and the UPduino 3.1 includes a built-in PTC resettable fuseon the power supply in response to our students burning up boards by shorting power and ground.Failures are now very rare; we generally only experience one or two genuine FPGA failures out of50-80 students.Supporting Macbooks continues to be a challenge. Our initial solution was to provide a Linuxvirtual machine which every student could run with VirtualBox or VMWare, regardless of

Conference Session

MASS: Mastery, Assessment and Success of Students

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amie Baisley, University of Florida; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Paper ID #34022What do Students Know After Statics? Using Mastery-based Grading toCreate a Student PortfolioDr. Amie Baisley, University of Florida I have a M.S. in structural engineering from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. in engineering education from Utah State University. My teaching and research interests are centered around the sophomore level courses that engineering students take and how changes in those courses can impact student learning and retention.Prof. Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University Keith D. Hjelmstad is President’s Professor of Civil Engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering

Conference Session

Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

globalization ofeconomic activity [8], and c) provide design opportunities in international settings via"engineering to help" (ETH) activities at the end of the 20th century [9].By the end of the 1990s the circumstances were set for engineering students, seekinginternational experiences in ETH projects, to begin working with NGOs. Yet most ETHprojects, initiatives, and programs continued to work through their own universities’international programs, service learning offices and/or courses, or through the growingnumber of EWB student chapters rather than through NGOs. ETH projects present manyproblems, including being motivated by engineers’ desire to help which blinds engineers tosocial injustices [10], reinforcing a deficiency model where communities

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies for Integrating Sustainability

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abbie B Liel P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Sarah J. Welsh-Huggins, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

This project has tour focused on the focused on recent where they conduct involved adaptive reuse urban growth of the flooding events in our green building research of a historic building. city, and architectural community, and the (Figure 8b). The visit also focused developments. OEM’s response on the challenges of (Figure 8a). development in a former industrial area (Figure

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Wise Barnicki, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Anne-marie Nickel, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Materials

overall rate of the transformation. The students can be given a copy of thetime/temperature profile for each method and asked to 1) describe the structure of the cocoabutter for each step in the process, 2) explain from a nucleation and growth perspective what ishappening when the liquid chocolate is seeded, and 3) explain why the undercooling step in thetempering recipe can produce a properly seeded chocolate mixture in less time than without theundercooling step. This works well as an in-class exercise in which the students work in smallgroups initially with a wrap-up general discussion with the entire class.Fat Bloom in ChocolateThe importance of the tempering process in making chocolate products is to ensure the finalform of the cocoa butter

Collection

2019 CIEC

Authors

Ryan Howe; Stanley Rader; Matthew Snyder

Session ETD 455in 2015-16 and featured construction of a trail bridge in the Maroon Bells Wilderness Area ofcentral Colorado. The project featured in this paper took place in the White River National Foreston the McCullough Gulch Trail near Breckenridge, CO. This site was chosen for a variety ofreasons; the trail sees traffic of more than 30,000 hikers annually and the existing bridge did notmeet Forest Service standards. The existing bridge, in fact, was a marina boat dock rampborrowed from the local county! These factors, along with the aesthetic preferences of the ForestService, created a legitimate design and construction challenge for USAFA Civil EngineeringStudents. Air Force Academy Civil Engineering cadets all go through initial

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Non-Engineers

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Blake, Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

expect that to be the case.At my institution, the best hope for attracting students to a technological literacy course is tofocus initially on specific majors where an understanding of technology and of engineeringwould be directly applicable in the major itself. Here, one could seek assistance in reachingstudents from faculty advisors in these areas. A business major seeking eventual employmentwith a company that also hires engineers should see the wisdom of learning something aboutengineering and technology while in college. An English major specializing in technical writingshould be interested for the same reasons. In reading works to prepare to teach a technologicalliteracy course, one is struck by the number of scholars in history and

Conference Session

Redefining the Boundaries of Engineering and Liberal Education: Contributions to the Year of Dialogue

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Grimson, Dublin Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

withresources for understanding and addressing ethically significant problems that arise in theirwork, and to serve those who are promoting learning and advancing the understanding ofresponsible research and practice in science and engineering”7. Regarding Aesthetics, one mightrefer to the straightforward and very readable text by Alastair Macdonald, or to the deeper,“Engineering Aesthetics and Ergo-Aesthetics: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations” 8,9 .These and others not included here certainly support the notion that these branches of philosophyare considered to have strong relevance to engineering. Page 12.1453.7As the essence of

Conference Session

Direct Measures of Student Performance

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

revenues even though they cost more initially? McDonough advocates modeling a site as an ecosystem. What are some of the green design features of the Ford Rouge Plant?The students are also assigned to read and turn in a reflective memo on several articles posted onBlackboard20 21. The articles include examples of Leadership in Energy Efficient Design(LEED) construction projects, information about the LEED certification process and the USGreen Building Council (USGBC) website22, and booklet published by the Nature Conservancyon conservation site design23. All readings are posted in Blackboard and the students are askedto write either reflective essays or professional executive memos on the topics and submit themvia digital dropbox.The

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zarjon Baha, Purdue University; Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

for attaining individualachievements and development of the country. Education through high school wasbecoming more common throughout the country.Several institutions of Technical Vocational Education (TVE) were established in Kabuland other provinces. Due to the lack of technical facilities in the country, the developmentof Technical Vocational Education was slow compared to the general education of firstthrough twelfth grades. Most of the TVE institutions, especially the successful ones, wereestablished with the help of other countries such as the USA, the USSR, Germany, theUnited Kingdom, and others. Technical Education in Afghanistan was initiated at theuniversity level with the establishment of the Faculty of Agriculture and Engineering

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rudolph Eggert, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-1888: ACHIEVING TEAM WORK IN DESIGN PROJECTS:DEVELOPMENT AND RESULTS OF A SPREADSHEET TOOLRudolph Eggert, Boise State University RUDY J. EGGERT is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at Boise State University. His research interests include Engineering Design, Optimization, Design Theory and Methodology, Vehicle Design, Machine Design, and Probabilistic Analysis. In addition to conference papers and journal articles he authored Engineering Design, published by Prentice Hall in 2004. Page 13.141.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008

Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

Amir Karimi

the course.Course Transfer Audit: Transfer credits from community colleges and other universitiesare reviewed and approved by the engineering advisors and department chair for quality andtopic coverage. When students want to apply course work completed at other institutions fortransfer to UTSA, the student files are initially processed through the Transfer Evaluation Unit inthe Office of Admissions and Registrar. Typically, courses designated by Texas CommonCourse Numbers (TCCN) are automatically accepted. These include the 42 SCH of CoreCurriculum requirements and lower division courses such as calculus, physics, and introductoryengineering courses. For upper division courses, students requesting transfer credit must providesufficient

Conference Session

Project-Based Student Learning: Part I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Everly, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2009-1048: FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF RF TRANSCEIVER FILTERS USINGLOW-COST VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERJames Everly, University of Cincinnati James Everly, University of Cincinnati James O. Everly is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at the University of Cincinnati. He received a BSEE and MSEE from The Ohio State University in 1969 and 1970, respectively. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a registered professional engineer in the state of Ohio. He is currently Chair of the IEEE Cincinnati Section, and in 1997 he received the IEEE Professional Achievement Award. He has held several research and management

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Techniques

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salamah Salamah, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Steve Roach, University of Texas, El Paso; Omar Ochoa, University of Texas, El Paso; Veronica Medina, University of Texas, El Paso; Ann Gates, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

number of correct properties in LTL as those who are introduced to LTL using the traditional approach. The research hypotheses were defined as: • Students who are introduced to LTL using the new approach identify, on the average, larger Page 14.192.9 number of correct mapping between an LTL formula and a set of traces of computations and 8 the truth value of running each of these traces against the LTL formula as those who are introduced to LTL using the traditional approach. • Students who are introduced to LTL using the new approach define, on the average, larger

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

William Messner; Dawn M. Tilbury

. (Northwestern) • I’m currently taking a controls course and I was confused on how the zeros and poles effected the root-locus - your tutorial was very helpful. Thanks... (Virginia Tech) • This is a very nice initiative and I hope you will be able to expand it. (University of Texas) • Very good idea to teach using WWW. I hope more people will use your concept. I think the whole course or other courses could be taught in that way. (Quebec) Industrial representatives to whom we have shown the tutorials have also been veryimpressed; they see the tutorials as an excellent way to bring their employees up to speed onthe latest software tools. For retraining purposes, the Web-based tutorials are much moreattractive than books with the

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dietmar Tatzl, FH JOANNEUM, University of Applied Sciences

Tagged Divisions

International

originated during my English as aForeign Language (EFL) classes in the Bachelor and Master of Science Programme inAviation at the FH JOANNEUM, University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria. Even thoughthey were initially created for non-native speakers of English, they may be equally employedwith native-speaking students in subject-specific tertiary education and experiencedprofessionals preparing for a work assignment abroad. Raising the cross-cultural awareness ofstudents means introducing and sensitizing them to such issues through which interculturaldifferences and similarities may be perceived, discussed and acknowledged. The four topicsselected are work, national stereotypes, food and gender because these ideally fit in with ourpurpose and are

Conference Session

International Exchange/Joint Programs in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masakatsu Matsuishi, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Wayne Sanders, Rose Hulman Institute Of Technology; Kazuya Takamata, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Tetsuro Furukawa, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Loo Ching Nong, Singapore Polytechnic

Tagged Divisions

International

sites are to be created. With thecreation of these, the need to provide more modern public transportation will arise.Based on the information obtained from survey and research, the following DesignSpecification was derived: 1) The overall design of bus stop should be handicap-friendly with all necessary features. 2) The safety of commuters should not be compromised at bus stop. 3) Commuters should have a clear view of arriving buses at bus stop. 4) POB should be handicap-friendly with all the necessary features. 5) Bollards should be aesthetically pleasing and be able to act as a warning sign.The design team generated many design concepts, evaluated them, and selected themost promising one by using the Decision Matrix method shown in

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven VanderLeest, Calvin College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

2006-85: JUSTICE AND HUMILITY IN TECHNOLOGY DESIGNSteven VanderLeest, Calvin College Steven H. VanderLeest is a Professor of Engineering at Calvin College. He has an M.S.E.E. from Michigan Tech. U. (1992) and Ph.D. from the U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995). He received a “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers” Award in 2004 and 2005 and was director of a FIPSE grant “Building IT Fluency into a Liberal Arts Core Curriculum.” His research includes responsible technology and software partitioned OS. Page 11.851.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Justice and

Conference Session

What's New in Mechanics of Materials?

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hartley T. Grandin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

1955 and an M.S. in 1960 in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from the Department of Metallurgy, Mechanics and Materials Science at Michigan State University in 1972. E-mail: hgrandin@rcn.com and hgrandin@wpi.edu.Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas Joseph J. Rencis is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. From 1985 to 2004 he was in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research focuses on the development of boundary and finite element methods for analyzing solid, heat transfer and fluid mechanics problems

Conference Session

Electrical ET Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Hsiung, Old Dominion University; Jeff Willis, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

2006-386: A NEW APPROACH IN MICROPROCESSOR/MICROCONTROLLERCOURSES/LABORATORIES MATERIAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENTSteve Hsiung, Old Dominion University STEVE C. HSIUNG Steve Hsiung is an associate professor of electrical engineering technology at Old Dominion University. Prior to his current position, Dr. Hsiung had worked for Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., Seagate Technology, Inc., and Lam Research Corp., all in Silicon Valley, CA. Dr. Hsiung also taught at Utah State University and California University of Pennsylvania. He earned his BS degree from National Kauhsiung Normal University in 1980, MS degrees from University of North Dakota in 1986 and Kansas State University in 1988, and a PhD

Conference Session

Progress on Raising the Bar

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

,environmental, and economic constraints are fundamentally changing the practice of civilengineering today. Yet many academic institutions are ill-equipped to respond to thesechallenges, because of severe credit hour limitations that have been imposed on the four-yearbachelor’s degree in recent years. Consequently, the bachelor’s degree is becoming increasinglyinadequate as formal academic preparation for the professional practice of civil engineering.In response to this situation, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Board ofDirection adopted Policy Statement 465 in October 1998. This initial version of the policy statedthat the Society “supports the concept of the master’s degree as the First Professional Degree for

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cesar Luongo, Florida A&M/Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M/Florida State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

further significance is the growth in industrial participation. When the course was started in1999 we had only 2 projects (12%) sponsored by an outside industrial partner. We have Page 11.1116.5consistently increased that percentage and today we are running close to all projects with anindustrial sponsor (close to 90%). We feel this is the limit and will not try to achieve 100% ofindustrial sponsorship. There are many instances of valuable projects that we would like topursue with the class that do not involve industry, such instances include service-orientedprojects (community-based), projects involving spin-offs from research activity by our