Conference Session

International Aspects of Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Lambert, Arup; Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Craig Baltimore, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

.V. Project ScopeThe initial step in the architectural design process was the development of a list of the types offacilities required to support the functions of the school and provide the necessaryaccommodations for the student body. Once this list was compiled, a required size needed to beassigned to each category of building. The size was determined from the requirements of thespecific task the particular building needed to support and the number of individuals intended touse the building.The technical college is intended to provide training in computer science, auto mechanics,construction, and hotel management. Each of these areas requires space for classrooms,shops/laboratories, a library, storage, and faculty offices totaling

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

independent equations and the number of unknowns. The authors emphasize that the student should not proceed until the number of unknowns equals the number of independent equations. The solution may be obtained by hand, and this generally requires algebraic manipulation. Alternatively, the solution of any number of equations, linear or non- linear, can be obtained with a modern engineering tool. With intelligent application of verification (Step 8), the computer program is a much more reliable calculation device than a calculator. (ABET52 criterion 3(k) states that engineering programs must demonstrate that their students have the “ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools

Conference Session

Assessing K - 12 Engineering Education Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gordon Kingsley, Georgia Institute of Technology; Monica Gaughan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

2006-352: RICH NETWORKS: EVALUATING UNIVERSITY-HIGH SCHOOLSPARTNERSHIPS USING GRAPH ANALYSISDonna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Donna C. Llewellyn is the Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at the Georgia Institute of Technolgy. Donna received her doctorate from Cornell University in Operations Research and spent ten years on the faculty in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her primary research interests now are in the educational domain, specifically improving access and equity in STEM disciplines for underrepresented groups. Donna is the PI of the NSF GK-12 grant, STEP.Gordon Kingsley, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renee M. Desing, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

betweenentrepreneurial self-efficacy and counterfactual thinking, the findings show that the morepositive affect of the counterfactual, the more entrepreneurial self-efficacy increases whileengaging in counterfactual thinking, but an entrepreneur’s disposition may be a mediating effect[35]. In the case of negotiators, it was found that additive counterfactual thoughts regarding pastnegotiations increased the performance of negotiators in future negotiations, demonstrating howthey learned from past experiences [36].In an editorial in the Journal of Vocational Behavior, Tinsley [37] remarked that there is a lackof, and therefore a need for, studying early career professionals and their transition from schoolto the workplace. Feij, Whitely, Peiró and Taris [38

Conference Session

Engaging Ethics, Internationally

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prakash G Bapat, Business Ethics Foundation; Aravind Joshi, Business Ethics Foundation; Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Guruji Education Foundation; Nupur Kulkarni

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

journals. He has translated 2 management books for the benefit of vernacular readers in Marathi. He has co-edited a book Business Ethics Today and Tomorrowpublished by Business Ethics Foundation Pune, India.Dr. Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Guruji Education Foundation Dr Pradeep Waychal is a founder trustee of Guruji Education Foundation that provides holistic support to the higher education of underprivileged students and a visiting professor of Engineering Education at CRICPE of Western Michigan University, US. Earlier, Dr Waychal has worked at Patni Computer Systems for 20 years in various positions including the head of innovations, NMIMS as the director Shirpur campus, and at College of Engineering Pune (COEP) as the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Pre-college Student Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynsey Mitchell Kissane, Ryerson University; Liping Fang, Ryerson University ; Ruth Jean Silver, Groundswell Projects

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

vital for the future of the world; 2. Sheltered – they have been protected by their parents, government, and teachers; 3. Confident – they have high levels of trust and optimism towards themselves and the future; 4. Team-oriented – they have high team-oriented skills due to learning and community service; 5. Conventional – they seek out norms and structure; 6. Pressured – due to influence from parents, they feel pressure to excel at everything they do; and 7. Achieving – they have become a generation focused on achievement.11According to Schreiner and Sjoberg, “The spirit of the age and the predominant zeitgeist, ideasand values in society have major influences on young people’s thinking about and understandingof the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

attempting to conceive a child. Andguests to the class highlight the experiences of professional practitioners: a doula, a nursemidwife, and a high-risk obstetrician have been speakers. The analytical tools of ethicaltheory, such as the concept of “generalized procreative non-maleficence” [3] givestudents a language by which to discuss the various course materials. And because of J-term’s extended daily meeting time, the opportunity exists for learning activities beyondthe physical classroom.After meeting Dr. Thomas at a social event, the author invited him to visit the class,believing that as an IVF laboratory director, his expertise would support the students’learning about ART, and aid in their discernments over the ethics of thereof. On

Conference Session

Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Beyond the Undergraduate Years

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Francesca Dupuy, University of Florida; Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida; Paul G. Richardson, Independent Consultant/Engineer

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

analysis was conducted through critical narrative analysis tounderstand the meaning behind the engineers’ life experiences. The engineers discussed severalissues in their narratives including lack of diversity and support for minorities in the workplace.Through this project we would like to help others gain a better understanding of the experiencesof Black engineers in the technology industry. The results gained from this project will be usedto make diversity issues in the workplace more apparent to senior officials in companies so thatthey can reconsider the way they approach diversity.IntroductionIn recent years there has been increasing scrutiny on diversity within the computer andinformation technology industry. Popular press articles about

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

H. Paige Brown, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Allison Godwin, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

career, Paige enjoys working with students and has developed and imple- mented K-12 STEM outreach programs and informal learning experiences. She has conducted engineer- ing workshops, spoken on STEM panels, taught engineering at summer camps, and served as a tutor and mentor to K-12 and undergraduate students. Paige chartered a NSBE Jr. chapter, NSBE’s pre-college membership category for K-12 students. For her work with NSBE Jr., she was awarded the NSBE Golden Torch Award for Pre-College Initiative Director of the Year and the Black Engineer of the Year Commu- nity Service Award. Paige has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.Ed. in Teaching and Learning.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University-Main Campus, West

Conference Session

ECCD - Technical Session 2 - Solar Energy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Saeed Sean Monemi, California State Polytechnic University Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #31473Prototype Automated Solar Tracking with Power Generation SystemDr. Saeed Sean Monemi, California State Polytechnic University Pomona Dr. Sean Monemi is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Director of Smart Grid Laboratory at Cal Poly Pomona. He has many years of industrial experience and practiced engineering profession as an electrical engineer for Litton Industries. His professional experience includes working as a senior engineer and supervisor in one of the largest power company, Tennessee Valley Authority, in the areas of Substation Deign and Metering

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Patricia R Backer, San Jose State University; Cindy Kato, San Jose State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

learning community. This effort began in Fall 2015 and the first four-year graduatesreceived their degrees in 2019. Overall, the percent of engineering students graduating in fouryears has increased from 7.3% for Fall 2013 freshmen to 17.4% for Fall 2015 freshmen, our firstcohort in this project. We surveyed all the engineering students scheduled to graduate either inSpring or Summer 2019 and asked them about their experiences at SJSU. This paper will discussthe results of a survey of the engineering students who graduated in four years and what helpedthem graduate in a timely manner. In addition, we will analyze the differences in four-yearcompletion rates among different groups of students.Review of the LiteratureThere has been extensive

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

inthe center of the pile and by capturing this heat it may be possible to operate agreenhouse during winter months. The goal of the project is to demonstrate thefeasibility of an agricultural heating system that could be used in various climatesthroughout the United States.The 2006 – 07 student team designed and began the installation of a water piping systemto capture and deliver energy to a root-zone heating system in a 30’ x 60’ greenhouseinstalled on the Agriculture Department campus farm. The 2007 – 08 team is verifyingthe analytical and computational techniques used in the initial design and conductingexperiments to determine the actual performance of the system. Through construction ofthe system, the students have experienced team work

Conference Session

Innovative Instruction Strategies in Calculus

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; Ruth Ellen Hanna, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

that course via the internetfrom any computer 24 hours a day for the entire term. After completing the initial log-onprocess, students are required to take an initial assessment in ALEKS to determine their level ofconcept mastery. All work in ALEKS requires that the student work the problem and enter theresulting solutions. There are no multiple-choice or true-false questions. This initial assessmentmeasures both mastery of prerequisite material and course content for the course in which thestudent is enrolled. Based on the student’s performance on the initial assessment, ALEKSprovides online tutorial instruction and associated practice problems (called Learning Mode) thatstart “where the student is” and work toward student mastery of the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University; Patrick lee Kirby, Drexel University; Bailu Xu

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

transfer, phenomenon that can be explored further by students extendingthe experiments into small team projects8-12. The fabrication of these micro-devices is fairly Page 25.843.2inexpensive and can be produced in our lab facility.Introduction and BackgroundEngineering Technology programs, in contrast to traditional engineering programs, place greateremphasis on practical applications, hands-on learning, and engineering theory related to energyand energy conversion, manufacturability, maintainability, reliability, and quality assurance.Engineering Technology graduates often specialize in prototyping, instrumentation, statisticalprocess control

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hartmann

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Newberry; James Farison

math/science, general education by approval of distribution) 67 or 137 hrs (specific math/sci/Eng comp/comp, elect in math, lit/history,HSS, Bible) 68 of 134 hrs (29 general studies, 19 math, 17 science, 3 computer) 70.5 of 133.5 hrs (specific areas in gen educ; specific courses in math, sci, engr) 73 of 138 hrs (mix of math/science, general education and distribution) 80 of 128 hrs (40 hrs math/sci explicitly required courses, 32 hrs HSS specific, 8 elective)A8. What is the minimum number of hours that must be taken in engineering ? How explicitlyare these hours in engineering specified (specific courses, specific areas, distribution, etc.)? 12 of 32 credits (6 specific courses, 6 elective courses

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patsy Brackin; Clark Merkel

Required: An error filled working drawing.Goal: to learn to recognize poor drawing techniques or other drawing errors.Description: Break the class down groups of teams 6 to 8 people. Provide all groupswith copies of the same error filled drawing. The error filled drawing should have 30 to 50different items that could be corrected. Ask each team to put together a list of each weakor incorrect element on the drawing. After they have compiled their list, have each groupexchange their list with another group. Each group should go through the other's list anddetermine how the listed item should be improved or corrected, or else decide it didn'tneed correction. After completing this exercise, hold a short class discussion wherequestions about specifics

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Joan Gosink

engineering groups. Second, the development of internship guidelines and handbooks willensure that interns meet the learning and service objectives of the program, especially theobjective that calls for continuously seeking and making explicit the relationship betweenengineering practice and humanitarian engineering. Students will be able to recognize thisrelationship, and hopefully act on it, later in their careers. Third, we will develop a trainingseminar and materials for internship advisors, who might come from CSM graduate students inInternational Political Economy and/or CSM faculty, to ensure that advisors provide studentswith high quality advising after the grant expires. Fourth, we will develop a handbook for hostorganizations to help them

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

much less rigidly than previously. Taking advantage of this opportunity, thefaculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University ofIowa has developed a new undergraduate curriculum that permits students exceptionalflexibility, consistent with their career goals as well as their possible additional aspirationsfor learning while at university.The process began in 1997, when the College of Engineering Faculty redesigned the corecurriculum. Math and science classes were modified, the engineering core courses werestreamlined, and the College Faculty introduced the notion of “Elective Focus Areas,” orEFAs. The concept of EFAs is that students should have between 15 and 21 semesterhours (out of 128 s.h. for graduation

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Losaw; Ann Anderson

distribution on the surface of the model racecars anduse Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to quantitatively measure the flow field around the car thatcontributes to the lift, drag and pressure measurements. By comparing the data from different cartypes students learn about lift and drag. This paper describes the experiments, explains how toinstrument the cars, and presents a set of typical results for five different model car types.IntroductionAn automobile is one of the most basic mechanical engineering systems. Cars, and in particularracecars, are one of the things that attract students to the study of mechanical engineering, and thestudy of automobiles has entered the undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum in a varietyof ways. Many schools

Conference Session

Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

22.1104.7with the products of engineering, the interests of many non-expert communities are set largelyout of view in the very formulation of the fourteen Grand Challenges. They are simply not partof the "story line" of engineering here.30 For example, consider the recommendation thatengineering fields make it a priority to "Engineer New Medicines." We learn in the NAEdocument that personalized medicine, building on genetic and genomic techniques, canincreasingly base patient treatment on individual biology. This implies an unprecedentedprecision in medical practice, but in declaring that precision and customization to be the primarygoals of bioengineering, this Grand Challenge also empowers researchers' inattention to thecollective social conditions

Conference Session

A Systems-Thinking Approach to Solving Problems

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University; Scott C. Banks, Georgia Tech Research Institute

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

and perceptions7. First, the technologiesbeing developed for military applications to solve their tactical interoperability needsoffer promising applications for first responder use. This research found two viabletechnology candidates in the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program and theunderlying Software Communications Architecture (SCA) that supports SoftwareDefined Radios (SDR)8. JTRS is a military program to develop a standard set of radiosfor handheld, land mobile and aircraft applications. The goal of JTRS is to developcommon radio hardware and software that allows each radio unit to function as a radio,computer and router on the battlefield. The SCA is a standard by which compliantcommon hardware can be loaded with software

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

David E. Goldberg; W. Brenton Hall; Lindsay Krussow; Eunice Lee; Aaron Walker

, some of which are then evaluated and used to rank the teams in three categories: 1. academics 2. service and design 3. placementAdditional details of the scoring mechanism are available in the handbook. Some of the keymeasures and activities used in the competition are reviewed brie y below.Academics. Teams are encouraged to organize themselves to help their members achieveacademically. Although there are no required activities in this area, the team gradepointaverage is computed at the end of the semester and used to rank each team, and this measureis weighted in the overall team score.Service and design. Teams are encouraged to learn to work together and serve the univer-sity, the community, or local businesses in the service and

Conference Session

FPD VI: Presenting "All the Best" of the First-Year Programs Division

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shelley Lorimer, Grant MacEwan University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

focus on many of the educational activities that have been developed over thelast fifteen years at our institution, and how we tried to measure their success. In some cases wehave continued and enhanced many of the activities, and in some cases we have discontinued ormodified them. These activities include a one week bootcamp, extra engineering tutorials,development of an engineering club to facilitate tours, engineering/math student assessmentexams, and a Student Night as well as a variety of other additional activities that go towardsenhancing the student experience. All of these activities constitute what might be called the“engineering educational experience”, which is paramount to learning improvement.In addition, there will be some

Conference Session

ETD Design IV: Construction and Civil Engineering Technology

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Feldhaus, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Eric Nesbitt

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2011-2597: FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE USE OF SUSTAIN-ABLE TECHNOLOGY IN STRUCTURAL DESIGNCharles Feldhaus, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Dr. Feldhaus is an Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership with the Purdue School of Engi- neering and Technology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. He also serves as Chair of Gradaute Technology programs and recently developed the STEM Education track for the MS in Technol- ogy degree program. This partnership with the Indiana University School of Education allows students to receive the Indiana Teaching License in Engineering Technology Education and/or Computer Education as part of the MS in Technology degree. Dr. Feldhaus

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University; Chyna Kristin Vaughn

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

systems engineering graduate levelcurriculum. This helps students understand and embed the efficient processes and proceduresinto real world problems. Students are tasked to pick a few tools and use them to address a reallife problem. The tools used in this study include requirements analysis, conformance,architecture development, and standards identification, use case analysis, analysis of alternativesand others. This process encourages learning the implementation of systems engineering in aneducational environment. This technique of educating students not only helps them learn andretain the material, but it also helps address important issues. It provides a broad systemsperspective to domain specific problems. Problem

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Short

Microsystems, Dell Computer, Intel, and Cisco Systems arenotable firms using similar methods to reduce employee numbers [17].The literature does not report the ranking system to be in wide use for the evaluation ofscientists, engineers, and technologists; however, many engineers have informally reported theuse of such a system in the face of budget constraints, reductions in force, or limited promotionavailability. This would seem credible, since approximately one-fourth of Fortune 100companies queried as part of a Cornell University research study stated the main performanceappraisal system for professionals was supplemented by forced ranking. This supplement wasprimarily done in conjunction with salary decisions [14]. Professional staff was defined

Collection

2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Bruce Dvorak; Dennis Schulte; Mary Garbacz; Shari Aldrich; David Admiraal; Julia Soulakova

senior classesmid-semester in both the fall and spring, as appropriate. Basic information such as ACT scoreand high school class rank was obtained for each student, when available, and used for thesubsequent data analysis.Basic Writing Skills TestBased on the College of Journalism’s student writing skills assessment, the Basic Writing Skills(BWS) test was created and administered to engineering students to determine their ability torecognize correct vs. incorrect grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation. The assessmentconsists of a combination of multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions and was administeredthrough the University’s EDU system, which is managed by UNL’s Center for Mathematics,Science, and Computer Education. EDU is a

Collection

2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

complete analysis. Proceedings of the 2009 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 7. Solve. The independent equations developed in Steps 3 through 6 solve the problem. The students compare the number of independent equations and the number of unknowns. The authors emphasize that the student should not proceed until the number of unknowns equals the number of independent equations. The solution may be obtained by hand, and this generally requires algebraic manipulation. Alternatively, the solution of any number of equations, linear or non- linear, can be obtained with a modern engineering tool. With intelligent application of verification (Step 8), the computer

Conference Session

Lisa's Legacy: Guiding Students Toward Engineering Careers, Excellent!

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

V. Sanchez Padilla, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Universidad ECOTEC, Ecuador; Lisa Schibelius, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

for rural students to enroll incollege for engineering. For engineering to become a reality for some students, key organizationsin a community play a critical role in supporting engineering as a college choice. The future ofengineering also lies in improving opportunities for students to learn about engineering careerscoupled with community partnerships. Likewise, studies highlight inequities in engineeringenrollment based on various factors. Knight el al. [21] and authors depict geographic variation inthe relationships between high school attendance and engineering enrollment by demographicssuch as gender, race, and socioeconomic status. This quantitative approach is powerful inhighlighting trends which only allude to the deeper inequities