Conference Session

Meeting ABET Requirements

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

2006-831: CONTENT ASSESSMENT AT THE COURSE LEVELRichard Bannerot, University of Houston Richard Bannerot is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. His research interests are in the thermal sciences and in engineering design education. For the past fifteen years he has taught the required "Introduction to Design" course at the sophomore level and has been involved in the teaching of the department's capstone design course. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas. Page 11.356.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 20062006-831: CONTENT

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amitabha Ghosh, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

significant contributor in teaching of the solid mechanics courses. For the past ten years, he has been involved heavily in educational research at RIT and has also served as the coordinator of the Engineering Sciences Core Curriculum (ESCC) in Mechanical Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Challenges in Teaching Ideal Flows to ME Students concurrently with Senior DesignAbstractStudents in mechanical engineering need to learn important analytical and mathematicalconcepts of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) if they wish to choose a career in fluidmechanics. However, these tools are challenging to learn and are not always interesting to moststudents

Conference Session

Innovative Assessment Techniques in Civil Engineering Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Shannon K Reynolds

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. Andthe new Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) was formed in 2011 to bring a newprofessional sustainability credentialing and project certification framework to the civilinfrastructure engineering profession.Paralleling the development of sustainability in civil engineering practice, approaches to teachsustainability concepts in the civil engineering curriculum also have been created. Initial interestwas partly driven by sustainability being added as part of the ABET accreditation criteria for allbaccalaureate level programs, specifically Criterion 3 (Program Outcomes). Criterion 3(c) statesthat programs must demonstrate their students attain: “an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet

Conference Session

FPD 7: Beyond Course Content

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Susan F. Freeman, Northeastern University; Daniel Allan Sullivan, Center for STEM Education, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

observations and from the first-year engineering students’ ownobservations and feedback about their experiences. As a result of faculty members’ experiences,observations and reflections, 15 success factors have been identified for first-year engineeringstudents and engineering faculty to consider before implementing meaningful service-learningengineering projects in an urban community. The purpose of this paper is to share these 15success factors with other engineering educators who may be considering STEM educationservice-learning projects in their curriculum, especially those who will be initially managing theprojects all by themselves. “What Sticks” refers to what has been successful and meaningful forboth the first-year engineering students and

Conference Session

Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

, and the demographics werediverse with respect to race/ethnicity but lacked female representation (Table 1). PROGRAM ACTIVITIESWithin the framework of the scholarship program, activities were initiated during the first yearand refined and expanded during years two and three. The overall goals of these programs wereto promote the success of the scholarship recipients and engage potential BRCC engineeringtransfer students. Given that all allotted scholarship were not filled during the 2012-2013 year,significant efforts were continued to recruit BRCC transfer students for the 2013-2014 year.These activities included outreach to BRCC, seminars, advising and promotion of employmentopportunities. The efforts were effective as 20 students applied

Collection

2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Elena Brewer; Anthony Dalessio; Sarah Giersch; Nancy Louwagie

Collaborative Course Delivery as a Strategy to Sustain Niche Technology Programs Elena Brewer1, Anthony Dalessio1, Sarah Giersch2, Nancy Louwagie2 1 SUNY-Erie Community College 2 Normandale Community CollegeAbstractVacuum technology is critical to research and advanced manufacturing industries such assemiconductor and nanotechnology. To meet rising industry demand for qualified techniciansworking with vacuum equipment, SUNY Erie Community College (SUNY Erie) considereddeveloping a Vacuum Technology program or adding vacuum courses to existing ElectricalEngineering Technology and Nanotechnology programs

Conference Session

Direct Measures of Student Performance

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

.” Similarly, if a program seeks to developsome additional ability in its graduates—say leadership, creativity, managerial skill, or ability toconduct research--the program is encouraged to create an associated program outcome. Suchadditional outcomes will also need to be assessed, but since they are unique to the program, they areunlikely to receive the same level of scrutiny as the Criterion 3 a-k outcomes.b. Document constituency input. There are a variety of ways to obtain input from constituents,which include advisory board meetings, surveys, interviews or industry visits. The means is not asimportant as documenting the process. Minutes of advisory board and faculty meetings, summaries of

Conference Session

Introducing Active Learning into ME Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim Olwi, King Abdulaziz University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Sometimes when we teach our courses, we tend to lose sight of the fact that each courseis but one element in a learning sequence defined as a curriculum. The closer therelationships are among courses, curriculum, and planned out of class activities, the moreeffective the learning experience will be for the students2. The paradigm shift initiated by theappearance of ABET engineering accreditation criteria EC 2000, see Ref. [3], imposed oncourse designers to keep in mind this relationship between these three educational aspects. Acourse has to be designed, taught and assisted to address program objectives and outcomes.2. Active LearningThe instructor can make the most of a classroom by turning it into active learning. The setupin the classroom would

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Shawn Addington, Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-245: SIX YEARS AND THOUSANDS OF ASSIGNMENTS LATER: WHATHAVE THEY LEARNED, AND WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?J. Shawn Addington, Virginia Military Institute J. Shawn Addington is the Jamison-Payne Institute Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Virginia Military Institute. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He teaches courses, laboratories, and undergraduate research projects in the microelectronics and semiconductor fabrication areas; and, he remains active in curriculum development and engineering assessment. He is a registered professional engineer in the

Conference Session

Creating and Maintaining Effective Communication Learning in the Curriculum

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg L. Fiegel, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

disciplines (i.e. environmental,geotechnical, structural, transportation, or water resources) during the research and design phasesof the project.In redesigning the capstone design experience to be more team focused, we recognized the needto provide the students with additional training and practice in teamwork and interpersonalcommunication. Faculty, employers, and alumni had historically assessed student abilities in theaforementioned non-technical areas as low, when compared with technical abilities such asproblem solving, designing, interpreting data, and conducting experiments. To prepare ourstudents for success, we therefore developed a three-part, month-long lesson on interpersonalcommunication. The lesson includes group activities

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer L.W. Carter, Case Western Reserve University; Brian Yuhnke Jr, Case Western Reserve University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

preparation for real-world applications of knowledge such as group collaboration.They also appreciated the focus on student and faculty dialog versus traditional lecturing. Thefacilitators of the Active Learning Faculty Fellowship are currently working on compiling data topresent a full assessment of the classroom space in the future.With regard to this particular MSE introductory course, the indirect assessment of the classroomindicates that the active learning space is both functional and exciting for student learning. Thisconclusion comes from instructor journaling, student interviews, and outsider shadowing duringteam-based learning activities. The initially planned course structure only included active-learningactivities every other Friday, but

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University, San Marcos

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

AC 2012-3343: HANDS-ON PROJECT-BASED LEARNING ON A SHOESTRINGBUDGET: YOU DON’T HAVE TO BUY A ROBOTICS KITDr. Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University, San Marcos Kimberly G. Talley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at Texas State University, San Marcos, and a licensed Professional Engineer. She received her Ph.D. and M.S.E. from the University of Texas, Austin, in structural engineering. Her undergraduate degrees in history and construction engineering and management are from North Carolina State University. Talley teaches courses in the construction science and management program, and her research focus is in active learning and project-based learning in engineering and

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg N Droge, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; JillL L. Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

-class portion of the experiment was quite easy and could be performed in a 50-minuteclass period. The students adjusted to the user-interface very quickly. There were only twoproblems encountered worthy of note. The first was that students had a difficult timeinterpreting the idea of sustained oscillations. Many of them initially ramped up the proportionalgain past the marginal stability point and hit a limit cycle due to the saturation. The otherdifficulty that we experienced was when we modified the LabVIEW VI to make it moreversatile, we added additional local variables. The memory management of additional variablesincreased the computation time, thereby changing the values of the Ziegler-Nichols gains.Purposeful changes in the delay can be

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yuko Hoshino; Masakatsu Matsuishi; Wayne Sanders

resulting student feedback indicates the program has reached a levelsuitable for quality pre-college engineering design education.We have reformed the structure of the EDE to suit Japanese context and are seeing if this modelwould work in other Asian contexts such as in Singapore. There might be another different set ofadjustment needed to suit its target culture. Contrary to these infrastructure parts, the humanhabits and behaviors are more difficult to change. Students and instructors’ attitudes, such asreservation, passivity, or resistance to new concepts are much slower to be reformed. Initially,EDE was brought by American professors and was foreign to Japanese students as well asJapanese professors. The students were used to finding one answer

Conference Session

STEM and ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kundan Nepal, University of St. Thomas; Andrew Tubesing, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #9901Development of a Fundamentals of Electrical and Computing Systems coursefor in-service K-12 Teachers.Prof. Kundan Nepal, University of St. Thomas Kundan Nepal is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of St.Thomas (MN). His research interests span the areas of reliable nanoscale digital systems, mobile robotics and recongurable computingMr. Andrew Tubesing, University of St. Thomas Andrew Tubesing is Laboratory Manager for the Electrical Engineering program at University of St Thomas in St. Paul, MN. He also serves on the faculty of the UST Center for Pre-Collegiate

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES)

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. His research interests have been in image and video processing, medical imaging, data analysis and pattern recognition. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical journal and conference papers on these topics. He is a senior member of IEEE and member of ASEE. Page 24.322.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Correlating Experience and Performance of On-Campus and On-Line Students Assisted by Computer Courseware: a Case StudyAbstractStudies on student surveys can reveal student learning experience, but the results are generallysubjective. In this paper

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University; Pavel M. Polunin, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

2013 from Michigan State University. Currently, he conducts research in the area of nonlinear dynamics of noise-driven microresonators. Page 24.682.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 I Should Not be Expected to Teach English!...ButAbstractThis paper addresses a widely ignored fact, “Engineering professors ARE English teachers!” Theydo not teach literature or the structure of the novel. They do not provide grammar quizzes everyFriday. And they certainly don’t give popular movie reviews of all the shows they watched on agiven weekend. On the other hand, they spend a

Conference Session

Global Competency and What Makes a Successful Engineer

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University; Miriam Regina Simon, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

International

Universities (AAC&U)conducted a study where results show that only “18 percent of employers rated graduates as verywell prepared in global knowledge; 46 percent felt that graduates were not well prepared.” [1]Based on this research, Hovland concludes that “college and university students will benefit froma careful and intentional alignment of global learning goals with the essential learning outcomesof a liberal education – what it means to be a well-educated citizen for the twenty-first century.”Similarly, Downey, et al. [2] state that global competency in engineering “[shows] that the often-stated goal of working effectively with different cultures is fundamentally about learning to workeffectively with people who define problems differently

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Matthews; Perry Heedley

applicants, two team leaders were selected by the faculty advisors.The role of the team lead is to coordinate the efforts of the team members and to be responsiblefor the system-level design. For example, the team lead develops specifications that each circuitblock must meet based on an analysis of the overall system performance. The team lead is alsoresponsible for connecting all of the blocks for the purpose of top-level circuit simulations, andfor assembling and connecting all of the block layouts into a top-level layout for fabrication.The team lead convenes team meetings and makes group announcements.At the initial team meeting, each team member expressed preferences regarding his or her blockassignment (first, second, and third choices were

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

development andeducational research have become important. Of the fifteen teaching departments, eleven have similar formal summer programsfor new faculty.1 These departments require all new civilian and military faculty toparticipate in the summer programs ranging from four to six weeks in length. Six ofthese departments call the program a “workshop” (Faculty Development Workshop-5,Instructor Summer Workshop-1), while four call the experience “training” (NewInstructor Training), and for one department it’s an orientation (New InstructorOrientation). Of the four remaining departments, three have programs for new instructors.These three programs are called New Instructor Training and differ from the programsabove in that they are shorter

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

, June 22 – 25, 2003 6) Scott Engineering Sciences, Thermal Conduction System, Pub. No. 9051, Pompano Beach, FL 7) Cengel, Yunus A., Heat Transfer, A Practical Approach, McGraw-Hill, 1998H. W. Shawn KimH. W. Shawn Kim is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chair of the Department of Mechanical andIndustrial Engineering at Youngstown State University. He has been teaching and developing the Thermal FluidApplications course and the companion laboratory course for the past few years. He is a registered ProfessionalEngineer in Ohio and is currently conducting applied research in fluid power. He helps the local industry with hisexpertise in heat transfer and thermal sciences. Dr. Kim received a B.S.E. degree from Seoul National

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

other instructors teaching the course should provide them with additionaltime for other areas: research, committee work, etc.Exam Development Examinations consist of a large percentage of course points and cause the greatestamount of stress in our students. If we can ensure they feel that the examinations are fair, thenwe can decrease stress levels and build positive rapport with them which usually will translateinto greater learning. The first step in creating an effective examination is to determine whatmaterial to test. The place to start is with the course objectives. The course objectives, asdiscussed above, should be relevant and important to the mastery of the course material, andshould be measurable or observable. Properly

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt DeGoede

minimal explanation. 7 The student(s) had a general explanation of the decisions, but no specifics. 8 The student(s) suggested how to determine the specifics of the design but did not actually make the calculations. 9 The design had one or more minor errors. 10 A complete and reasonable design was submitted.Table 1: Typical grading scheme for the design problems.Discussion: On this, the first graded problem, I used the grading scheme shown in Table 1. Noone actually did the full analysis. Doing the calculations is an important part of these problems,because it is in this part of the problem that the students really need to move into the judgmentlevel of Bloom. Their initial assumptions and design decisions

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Yellamraju; Kurt Gramoll

-choice increased the initial developing time for the problems, but made grading easier. It alsopaved the way for automated problem generation and grading. Wrong solutions were developedto closely match possible mistakes that the students would make. However, the correct answerwas always one of the choices listed, so that the student had the opportunity to work toward thecorrect answer. Over the course of three semesters, over 400 problems were electronicallydeveloped with the intent of being web-based.For developing the problems, all diagrams were drawn using Macromedia Freehand and thensaved as GIF files for posting to the web site. The graphics were generally simplified whencompared to typical textbook graphics due to the reduced ’dots-per

Conference Session

Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hoffman; Christopher Zappe; Steven Shooter; Michael O'Donnell

need for the University community. Therefore, psychologicalpressures may not have been as influential as intended. Moreover, the students alreadypossessed an inherent bias toward the University’s welfare and thus the decision-making processmay have been affected. Perhaps a more controversial topic that would minimize initial studentbias would yield more valid outcomes.Another area for project enhancement is restructuring the time allotment in the engineering andmanagement sessions. Several engineering students complained that the allotted time wasinsufficient to produce a quality presentation. Within the limits of course time and schedules, itis difficult to simulate a scenario that requires the subjects to absorb and retain knowledge

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana Dabby

. In clinical urinalysis, Borodin’s method is now known as Ambard’s method.18Clearly, all four of these artist/scientists possessed enormous capacity for work, fueled in part bythe stimulus of what they were creating, regardless of discipline. They profoundly cared abouttheir various intellectual pursuits; the perfectionism they embodied in one domain inevitablytransferred to the other. And they devised slants on their work which revealed their inventivenatures; specifically, Nabokov’s technique for recording butterfly wing markings, Leonardo’sjuxtaposition of human and animal anatomy (thus initiating comparative anatomy), Bach’s violapomposa, and Borodin’s method for urinalysis.V. Creative process illustrated in art, science, and their

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrance P. O’Connor; Nghia Le

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh; Kevin Dahm

movement towards the vertical integrationof design throughout the curriculum. Some of these initiatives are driven by the new ABETcriteria. This integration could be highly enhanced by an early introduction to processsimulation.Process simulation can also be utilized in lower level courses as a pedagogical aid. Thethermodynamics and separations area have a lot to gain from simulation packages. One of theadvantages of process simulation software is that it enables the instructor to presentinformation in an inductive manner without the need for time-consuming experiments. Forexample, in a course on equilibrium staged operations, among the concepts a student mustlearn are the optimum feed location. Standard texts such as Wankat (1988)5 present

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew A. Carr, U.S. Naval Academy; Michael V. Cristiano; Patrick Caton, U.S. Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

x 1 0 1 Affordable 0 0 0 X 0 0 Measureable 1 .5 1 1 X 3.5 Figure 7 – Piecewise Comparison Chart Page 25.1325.7The final tool used in the initial design process was the “house of quality” (HoQ), shown in Fig8. A HoQ combines all of the design tools previously shown. In the “who” column, the HoQranks the importance of the objectives with respect to the customers. The body and “roof” of thehouse of quality set metrics with units to determine

Conference Session

Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noel E. Bormann P.E., Gonzaga University; Mara London, Gonzaga University; Andrew Douglas Matsumoto, Gonzaga University; Melanie Ruth Walter; Spencer Joseph Fry

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

of working with students of other engineering majors while trying to develop innovative and sustainable solutions in a third world country had a challenging appeal along with being rewarding as well. I initially thought very little of the sustainability issues involved with the project, but almost immediately found sustainability to be one of the most important points. With the greatest ideas and designs, if they are not sustainable, there is little point in introducing them to the developing country in question. (Student 4- Male, Senior Mechanical Engineering) Sustainability interests me very much, because developing sustainable technology will provide health and security for generations