Collection

2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey Ashworth; William Crisler

caused by this revolution. Several crucial battles have already been lost, and some ofthe trends may be irreversible. One issue is regarding the topical content and quantity of contentin an engineering degree program. Apart from the extra training in math and computerprogramming required for teaching computational methods, a whole new discipline of grid-making (or meshing) came into being. Furthermore, classical engineering principles had to beextended to computational methods. This was easily more than a year’s worth of extra contentbeing added to an already rigorous and challenging degree program. Engineering educators wereconcerned that our most talented and promising students might opt for the less-demanding 4-yearprograms in other

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry L Wear, University of Washington, Tacoma; Orlando R. Baiocchi, University of Washington, Tacoma; Matthew Alden, University of Washington, Tacoma; Robert Gutmann, University of Washington, Tacoma; Jie Sheng, University of Washington, Tacoma

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

 visit  with  any  safety  concerns  or  accessibility  issues  properly  addressed.        An  advisory  board  should  be  established  well  before  starting  an  accreditation  process.  Their  participation  in  all  stages  of  the  accreditation  process,  including  in  the  evaluation  visit,  is  highly  recommended.  Under  the  current  budget  shortages  across  the  universities,  it  is  important  show  that  there  are  solid  plans  for  maintaining  the  laboratories  current  and  for  providing  the  junior  faculty  with  adequate  develop  opportunities.    Our  final  observation  is  that  it  is  much  easier  to  succeed  when  all  involved  in  accreditation

Conference Session

Mentoring First Year Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Goodwin, Iowa State University; Amy Brandau, Iowa State University; Deb DeWall, Iowa State University; Bing Du, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

hoped that the instructors would modify the messageto encourage students to come in and see them (and some did). However, it was also understoodthat for some students who had not been attending class, a meeting with the instructor may nothave been appropriate. In this case, meeting with the advisor may be more helpful as the studentmight have personal or nonacademic issues that need to be addressed.A common denominator in struggling students, especially the first semester, is an unwillingnessto meet with instructors or advisors to ask for assistance. Therefore, all emails were copied to theadvisor. This provided awareness to the advisor of a possible problem, thereby encouraging theadvisors to communicate with the advisee concerning academic

Conference Session

Developing International Engineering Research, Course Enhancement, Leadership of, and Online Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zsuzsa Balogh, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Richard Pozzi, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Jeno Balogh, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Peter Ivanyi, University of Pecs; Richard Matthew Gutkowski, Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

International

budgets, a strategyadopted by many universities is to increase the minimum student enrolment required for aclass to be offered. While the new minimum enrolment numbers aid in reducing operatingcosts and assists with balancing the budget, they may negatively impact a student‟s educationopportunities because senior level specialized courses will be cancelled due to minimum classenrollment requirements or will only be offered sporadically. This paper describes howutilization of existing academic cooperation nationally and internationally, and the use oftechnology could allow universities to offer such courses while reducing operating expense.Many institutions have built extensive partnerships for student and faculty exchanges orresearch

Conference Session

Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Megan Elizabeth Sharp, IUPUI School of Engineering and Technology; Alison L. Stevenson, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Topics

Student and Curriculum Development

the problems of our society”.26 This curriculum directlyaddresses that concern, and is even co-taught by a female faculty member. In the second andthird courses in this series, students have the opportunity to practice real-life scenarios andwitness their impact first-hand.This curriculum can be directly integrated into undergraduate coursework to fulfill electiverequirements; furthering the potential impact of engineering education and careers. Whenintroduced to these issues and ideas as a student, the potential for impact can be long standingand far reaching. Page 21.18.9Resources 1. Abu-Ghaida, D. and Klasen, S. The Costs of Missing the

Collection

2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Chirag Variawa

issues and some(as in the case of the Rowing Club) are actually resolved because of the approaches outlined inthe student CDS reports. Furthermore, since ESP II is a first year course, it also acts to retain asmany engineering students due to the nature of the course. Professor McCahan also notes that,“due to these ESP courses, many departments in the faculty have elected to remove upper yeardesign courses… and this is a source of concern.” (3) The students, in fact, echo this opinion as80% of the participants say that they have few-to-none PBL-based courses in their undergraduatecurriculum, except for ESP II. Although this proves that PBL courses are in high demand amongmany students, having them relate to real-world issues is also very

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Youssef Shatilla; Adnan Zahed

exceededexpectations and whole faculty felt elated with the outcome of the evaluation. It is certain thatthe process will have many positive impacts on the quality of education for the college ofengineering. A number of tangible advantages from acquiring the substantial equivalencystatus are outlined below: The new curricula for all the 12 programs of the College have recently been revamped in the light of the ABET recommendations. In the new curricula, the total number of credit hours has been reduced from 165 to 155, thereby reducing time spent for the B.Sc. degree in engineering. In financial terms, this change alone will have enormous advantages on individual as well as national level. The new curricula have been

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cyrus Hagigat

resolve problems. Scholarship information is available on the financial aid website. 7• Students are instructed to contact the distance learning office immediately if they experience technical problems with their course. Faculty members communicate with students regarding their grade. The distance learning director contacts faculty and chairs as needed regarding Page 8.832.9 students’ issues and concerns. 7Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education• There is a link to the career services website from the

Conference Session

Notable Topics in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Camilla M. Saviz P.E., University of the Pacific; Luke S. Lee P.E., University of the Pacific; Gary M. Litton, University of the Pacific

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

scores or reinforce the use of effectiveinstructional techniques. Lack of student feedback is of particular concern for new faculty whomay not have prior experience and may lack student input from previous semesters.Low participation levels in evaluations have led to some negative perceptions on the part of faculty,particularly when the feedback provided was largely negative. Based on our own experiences,faculty perceptions of low response rates or negative student feedback have included the following: - only the students who really liked or disliked the course or instructor provide feedback, and that students who are ambivalent or neutral do not participate, - only the students who have negative input or expect low

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Lynn Alpert; Jacqueline Isaacs

plan tooffer a new course focusing on worker health, safety, and regulatory issues to undergraduates inthe physical sciences and engineering; faculty teaching a course on engineering ethics havestarted to incorporate nanotechnology cases; a faculty member in English has even added acritical review of nanotech science fiction dystopias to his popular course, "Monsters, Apes, andNightmares.”Secondary School Education in an Emerging Nanotech World"We must educate people on what nobody knew yesterday and prepare people in our schools forwhat no one knows yet, but what some people must know tomorrow." - Margaret MeadThe crunch in university engineering curricula would be relieved of course if students werebetter prepared going in. We have already

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Jayson F. Clifford; Michael P. Dop, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

, and publicdisplay of major design features, the students could share information much more concisely thancontinuously reviewing a monolithic design documents.One of the major disadvantages of Crystal Clear was a diminishing quality in documentation. Asinstructors, a well written design document represents an artifact for both grading and programassessment. Unfortunately, the agile mentality that “busy work” should be avoided often resultsin less attention being drawn toward documentation. Furthermore, since design occurrediteratively, it was necessary for students to write and re-write documentation, which is somewhatonerous. This concern was discussed in a Software Engineering Institute study regarding agilemethodologies9. This issue was

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University; John Harb, Brigham Young University; Spencer Magleby, Brigham Young University; Chelita Pate, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

International

numerous places.Extension The home university operates a pseudo-extension campus in the abroad country at some sort of permanent facility. Courses are usually taught in English by faculty from the home university.Internship or Coop Students work abroad at a foreign company or at an international branch of a U.S. company. Often less structured than coursework, an internship can include a lot of informal learning regarding business issues, teamwork, communication, design, manufacturing, etc.Mentored Travel Under the guidance of a faculty

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mingle; Tom Roberts

solving of new and different technical problems during the 21st Century. However,knowledging is reversible – knowledge decays first to informatics then to routine information asinformation overload floods communication.Undergraduate engineering must begin knowledging by stressing insight, leading to new and im-proved problem solving throughout the curriculum, culminating with more diversified capstonedesign courses. However, knowledging needs to occur all through the undergraduate curriculum,and such a responsibility will definitely challenge department and college administrators.The teaching design as explained in this paper represents a reversal of conventional professorialassignments, for the younger faculty, the X Generation, will teach the

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 2 Slot 2 Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech ; Shernita Lee, Virginia Tech; Justin Grimes, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

collectively develop viable research agendas that not only illuminate narrativessituated in the HBCU experience, but also engage those stakeholders in empoweringopportunities that promote their voices (p. 31)”.There have been some initiatives concerned with broadening participation of underrepresentedgroups. One such effort is the partnership between Vanderbilt University and Fisk University,the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program (Stassun et al. 2010). Students accepted inthis program have access to additional coursework and/or research experience and instructionalopportunities at both institutions. They also interact with faculty and receive deliberate supportand mentorship. The program focuses on preparing students for Ph.D. studies

Conference Session

Division Experimentation and Lab-Oriented Studies - Best of DELOS

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University; Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. One small dedicated lab connectedto a specific classlab was added to the initial design to address issues of safety andaccommodation of specialized equipment space needs.Potential concerns with the temporary metal shell building include 1) a less open floor planwhich will result in less flexibility in how space is used, 2) an increase in the number of cabinetswhich are stationary which will decrease our ability to rearrange space to follow actual usage insubsequent semesters, 3) less dedicated collaboration space than in the first-year building, and 4)a significant distance between the temporary sophomore through senior year building and thefirst-year building which may decrease opportunities for faculty and student interaction (sincefaculty

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 10

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University; Joseph Zambreno, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Phillip H. Jones III, Iowa State University; Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University; Seda McKilligan, Iowa State University; Ashfaq A Khokhar, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

technologies have evolved into dynamic, complex systemsthat profoundly change the world we live in. Designing these systems requires not only technicalknowledge and skills but also new ways of thinking and the development of social, professionaland ethical responsibility. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) atIowa State University was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in 2016 aimed attransforming curricula and practices to better respond to student, industry and society needs. Thisis being done through new structures for faculty collaboration and facilitated throughdepartmental change processes. Ironically, an impetus behind this effort was a failed attempt atdepartment-wide curricular reform. This failure led

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Lancaster; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

also showed that student motivation correlated positively with the length of office visitswith faculty.Office hours provide students with the opportunity to get to know the professor more personally.The act of advising a student, for example, represents an opportunity for a significant personalrelationship between faculty and students to develop.13 Since the most positive factor in studentretention in certain college settings is the caring attitude of faculty and staff,14 office hours cancontribute to student retention. A good way to communicate caring and concern is to givestudents the opportunity to be heard, and to know that their ideas are important to theirprofessors. It makes the students feel worthwhile.15 Thus caring contact with

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Duesing; Morrie Walworth; Jim Devaprasad; Ray Adams; David McDonald

subjective measures, the team and the individual team members will be evaluated on their technical and soft skills performances.x The faculty need to treat the students as professionals involved as project engineers in a company.x Completion and presentation of the minimum requirements of the project without considering what-if conditions, safety issues, ethical concerns, reliability, efficient methodology, and optimization issues would result in an average performance evaluation (a C grade).x Projects should be completed by the due date. If delays for project completion cannot be validated (such as equipment failure) then it affects the team’s performance evaluation in both the objective and subjective measures.x The teams

Conference Session

Student Division Technical 4: Student Experience & Competencies

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Camila Olivero Araya, The Ohio State University; Julie Martin, The Ohio State University

students when they ask for personal advice or when studentstalk about personal issues. If engineering researchers, faculty and administration realize theeducational power of teacher empathy, it could improve students’ success, increase diversity,equity, and inclusion, the relationship between faculty and students, and develop a better culturein the engineering field.Lastly, many different methods have been used to enhance empathy in teachers and in students,and it remains for systematic research and analysis to determine which interventions and whichcomponents of an intervention are most effective. In consequence, there is a need for additionalresearch concerning the empathy training of teachers and its effects on student behavior

Conference Session

Opportunities and Challenges in Developing International Engineering Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josef Rojter, Victoria University of Technology

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International

’ peers; Beliefs concerning the nature of professional engineering work; The social status of the engineering profession. This has a wider dimension which embeds the social as well as industry evaluation of engineering as an occupational group and touches upon issues of professional autonomy, social orientation and inclusion of ethics in the course of professional practice; Knowledge base and intellectual abilities required prior to undertaking studies in engineering; and Teaching and Learning in schools and faculties of engineering. Prospective students often rely on indirect information from their peers, friends and siblings who are or have studied engineering. These opinions are influenced by engineering academic beliefs and perceptions of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh M. Sbenaty

five different teams across Tennessee. Each team includes multi-disciplinary faculties from two-year technical college, industry partners, four-year engineeringtechnology university partners, and high school tech-prep teachers. A brief account of the grant’sactivities is described here and a sample case targeted for introductory courses in electricalcircuit analysis is presented.I. IntroductionThe fast introduction of new technology in the workplace has greatly affected the daily operationof most industrial institutions. Automation, telecommunication, and computer applications haveresulted in higher efficiency, reliability, and/or lower production cost. In face of this fact,however, companies currently encounter the new challenge of staying

Collection

2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference

Authors

Seth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines; Emily Bongiovanni, Carnegie Mellon University ; Brianna B Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Alexander Luis Odicino, Claremont Colleges Library

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Educational Resources (OER). The ACE curriculum includes anintroduction to accessibility, best practices for designing various types of resources, and learningactivities that help participants begin using their new skills. As a STEM institution, the courseheavily focuses on accessibility related issues in STEM disciplines, such as mathematicalequations, tables, graphs, and diagrams. This paper discusses the development of the ACE coursecurriculum and lessons learned while supporting accessible OER development in STEMdisciplines. The paper concludes with areas for future development of the course, includingexpansion of STEM related content and incorporation of participant feedback to continueimproving the course.IntroductionMines has been funded by

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jitendra S. Tate, Texas State University, San Marcos; Dominick Esperanza Fazarro, University of Texas at Tyler; J. Craig Hanks, Texas State University, San Marcos; Walt Trybula, Texas State University & Trybula Foundation, Inc.; Satyajit Dutta, Texas State University; Robert McLean, Texas State University; Fritz Allhoff, Western Michigan University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

arebringing down the cost of nanomaterials. As the cost of nanomaterials decreases, more productsusing nanomaterials are being developed. Due to this explosive growth in nanotechnology, adramatically increasing number of engineers and technologists will be involved in themanufacturing of nanomaterials and in the design, development, and manufacturing of products/devices/systems that use nanomaterials.With this new role, tomorrow’s engineers and technologists will also need to assumeresponsibility for establishing safe practices for working with nanomaterials and for safeguardingthe environment. In the absence of specialized training in issues related to health, safety, andenvironmental impacts of nanotechnology, the tendency will be either to focus

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Mayes; John Bennett

programs (objectives).One interesting answer was that “outcomes are what we expect the student to learn, whileobjectives are what the faculty wants to teach.” Another interesting spin was that objectives tella recruiter whether they could use your students in their organization, while outcomes would bewhat the recruiter would use to assess your students’ skills.Several respondents expressed ongoing confusion on this issue; one expressed that theirdefinitions don’t match ABET’s definition any longer (given ABET’s recent clarifications onthis subject), but they are sticking with their definitions because they have been using them forseveral years. Another respondent expressed concern that ABET would ask academicinstitutions to somehow guarantee what

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Leslie Light, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

andappropriate for students completely new to these areas.Interacting and making the most of encounters with humans is one important but difficultcomponent of this project-based design learning. Social research is complicated by studentanxieties, the vicissitudes of schedules, communication challenges, and analytical work ofmaking whatever they learn from someone relevant to their project.Helping students develop effective research and engagement strategies, enact them, and thenintegrate what they learn into their technical work is a matter for practical concern, as indicatedby, for example, the development of such multi-year, cross-disciplinary NSF “TransformingUndergraduate Engineering Education” (TUEE) initiative [6]. Further, if we understand

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Yogesh Potdar; Patricia Spencer; Kathryn Hollar

• the program administrators1The on-going involvement of college and university-level administration and both new andreturning TA Fellows has ensured that ideas from the latest articles on the issues ofmulticulturalism in engineering education and corporate America are brought to the table fordiscussion and inclusion.Through multi-layered assessment, we have developed a highly adaptable and interactiveworkshop. The co-facilitators can choose from a variety of activities and tailor the workshop to bestsuit their particular presentation style. Workshop content can include data on the currentdemographics at Cornell, exercises to investigate personal biases, discussion material for creatingand maintaining an equitable classroom, and supporting

Conference Session

Modeling Student Data

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Technology Universities & Programs: Benchmarking,Quality Reviews and AccreditationBut, of the preceding, or other ranking/comparative systems out there, which are applicable to orhave specifically focused on or dealt with the issues of engineering and technology specialties?U.S. News & World Report, the THES, ARWU, HEEACT, Newsweek, QS, SciVal and theStudentReview have all attempted to provide engineering specific feedback to their readers.Notably, none of these have addressed distinctions between engineering and engineeringtechnology programs and the authors suspect, in the absence of any literature identified facts tothe contrary, that none of the rating systems have made any cogent attempt to systematicallyinclude engineering technology

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

four-year technology degrees. Most if not all two-year degree programswill be phased out. Faculty in each school will thus be a mix of faculty who up to nowwere more focused on research and faculty who up to now were more focused onteaching. This new structure can offer many advantages for both faculty and students,but there are many issues still to be resolved to achieve benefits for all concerned. Forthe PFF program, there will be the opportunity for participants to interact more directlywith faculty who are focused on research and with faculty who are more focused onteaching. In addition, a new department, the Department of Engineering Education, isbeing created in the Engineering College, and this department's programs and researchcan be a

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ajay Agrawal; Zahed Siddique

the desiredobjectives for both faculty and students. The first phase includes project solicitation, projectassignment, and articulating goals and strategies. The second phase involves team organizationand developing a comprehensive plan of action. The third phase involves plan execution assistedwith meetings and conferences, record keeping, and evaluation. The end-result of these efforts isa product that meaningfully adds value to the participants including students, sponsor, andfaculty. In this paper we provide details and issues concerning each of the above phases,implemented in a Senior Capstone Course sequence in Mechanical Engineering at the Universityof Oklahoma. The paper presents our experiences from developing a structured

Conference Session

Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed B. Trabia, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Julie A. Longo, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Longo joined UNLV’s Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering as their Technical Writer in Oc- tober 2010. Her primary responsibilities include helping faculty prepare papers for publication as well as technical reports to funding agencies, and presenting workshops on technical writing as well as ethics in engineering. She has a B.S. in Biology from Rutgers University and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Longo has worked in Technical Communications for most of her career. In 1976, she was a Senior Editor in Life Sciences on the first editorial board for an Elsevier subsidiary, Academic American En- cyclopedia, known today as New Grolier. For almost 15 years, she worked at