Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 10

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Ware, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Turnipseed, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; John R. Gallagher, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John S. Popovics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Paul Prior, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julie L. Zilles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

) courses. Despite the emphasis placed by theAccreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) on developing engineeringstudents’ mastery of communication skills [1], we found a number of obstacles to teaching theseskills in our engineering courses, including large class sizes, lack of faculty and teaching-assistant (TA) training in teaching or grading writing, widely varying opinions about whatconstitutes “good” writing, and already crowded individual course content and departmentalcurricula [2]. Similar obstacles have been reported at other institutions [3].To address these issues, our team implemented a voluntary “Writing Across Engineering”(WAE) program for interested faculty that integrated concepts of “community of practice”models [4

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

P. David Fisher

asee98.doc 2513 Activities and Progress—Fall of 1996During the 1996-97 academic year, I chaired the department's undergraduate curriculumcommittee; so, I was in a natural position to lead the discussion at the department level. At thedepartment's fall faculty retreat, I introduced the faculty to ABET 2000, explained our option,and laid out what I saw to be the opportunities and risks for transitioning to ABET 2000 for the1998-99 accreditation cycle. I also informed them of the Employer Stakeholder Focus Group,and its recommendation that we move forward with ABET 2000. At the close of the discussion, Iindicated that this issue

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

the interior of the Department of CivilEngineering. So far only the self-evaluation process has been finished and the final report isbeing evaluated by the CNAP. The formal self-evaluation process started in 2000 and it was aslow process not exempt of difficulties. As a totally new experience for all the faculties membersinvolved, this process meant the starting point in the long process of accrediting the civilengineering undergraduate program [5].Three stages can be distinguished in the entire process of the self evaluation:1st Stage: Data collection and analysisThis stage demanded the most of the time due mainly to the lack of available data for analysis.Even though the information existed, it was stored in incompatible formats. That issue

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Wyrick

visits sites of great historical and cultural significance.Students learn that they can successfully approach any project. Living in a foreign countrywhere day-to-day living can be challenging at times because of communication issues teachesindividuals that they can overcome many challenges. They develop a good ability to work inuncertain conditions and they understand that moving outside of one’s comfort zone can providesignificant rewards.Benefits to Faculty. Faculty members can take advantage of several aspects of this exchange: • Temporary reassignment. • Sabbatical leaves. • Learning from exchange students and students returning from exchange

Conference Session

Increasing Engagement in Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Udayan Das, Saint Mary's College of California

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

ethics requirements inundergraduate CS and engineering programs. The past couple of years has also seen the coming together of CS educators around the issue ofthinking about and developing guidelines for the Teaching of Responsible Computing [2]. While theseare welcome developments the style of teaching ethics tends to stay at one of two extremes. A courseheavily focused on the philosophy of ethics and a course that spends a great deal of time consideringthe impacts and harms of technology, particularly for speci�ic application areas such as AI [1]. Bothapproaches are valuable in their own way, but a concern for me has been that neither of theseapproaches equips students with how to actively engage in ethics throughout their future

Conference Session

ChE: Curriculum Reform & Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Froyd; Jean Layne, Texas A&M University; Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University; David Ford, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

is tensionbetween the perspective of a curriculum as a unified whole that is intended to shape thecharacteristics of its graduates and the perspective of the curriculum as a collection of individualcourses for which individual faculty members accept responsibility. Fisher, Fairweather, andAmey described this as “the tension between collective responsibility and the boundaries ofacademic freedom”2. Understandably, faculty concern regarding curriculum tends to focus moststrongly on courses related to their area of professional expertise that they teach. Secondly,faculty members focus on courses that are prerequisite to courses of interest (specifically thedegree to which students emerging from these courses are prepared for the next course in

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Zaharee; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

visitor who will be filling out the T4 to evaluate the program.Seeing exactly what questions are of concern to TAC of ABET also helps to eliminatemisunderstandings surrounding requirements of the Criteria for Accrediting Programs inEngineering Technology.TAC of ABET is revolutionizing the accreditation process in engineering technology (ET) withthe new “TC2K” criteria. Instead of only “taking a snapshot” of where a program is at one pointin time, TAC of ABET wants assurance that a program will not get worse but will improvebetween visits. In the past, the accreditation process primarily looked at inputs to studenteducation. The Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET replaced its “beancounting” approach in EC2000 with requirements that

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Ian Gravagne, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

faculty capabilitiesduring the 4th-semester laboratory research phase. The original ELG proposal was ambitiousboth in its curricular and extra-curricular scope however, a new paradigm is proposed with thesecond cycle of the ELG, a “just-in-time” approach to learning.Just-in-time delivery is unusual in engineering education (for good reasons), but seemsappropriate to the present educational task. In essence, students will begin with directed readingsthat concentrate on objective three, examining the social, political, environmental and ethicalproblems of an energy-dependent civilization. The social issues in objective three are familiar tothe students. These students are naturally motivated by their concern for the environment, ortheir knowledge

Collection

2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Pinar Omur-Ozbek

to tackle the potential resistance that may arise due to the diverseperspectives and experiences of students. Creating class norms collaboratively with students andensuring that the voices of underrepresented students are heard can create an inclusive andequitable environment for fruitful discussions. A good way to start coverage of social justice,environmental justice, and ethics would be getting the conversation going by asking the studentsto define what these terms mean to them and continually involving the students through classdiscussions as environmental and social justice concerns are presented. The student interest couldbe maintained through reviewing of impactful video clips and news articles. Another way toprovide practical skills

Conference Session

Outreach to K-12 Females

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jani M Pallis, Cislunar Aerospace, Inc.; Jill L McNitt-Gray, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

organizations received orcoordinated funding through other corporations and donors. In particular the New Fundand SDSA (both advocacy organizations – New Fund for women in sports and SDSA forscience education) partnered with our faculty team to organize and administrate GetSSET.As the developers of the academy the intent was that each young woman be funded by ascholarship. This ensured that students were not discouraged from applying due to thecost. However, for the 2012 program the organization that the faculty collaborated withrequired a $300 fee per student, although scholarships were easily provided on request.Other LogisticsFor the residential academies all female teaching assistants/resident advisors who are alsoSTEM students and athletes were

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Wallace B. Whiting; Joseph A. Shaeiwitz; Ph.D., Richard H. Turpin; Richard C. Bailie

that company.Now, students say that they would have no problems accepting the better offer. The most oftencited justification is lack of corporate loyalty to workers (“They would not hesitate to fire me ifthey had to.”), and that it is now rare for someone to spend their entire career with one employer(“People quit jobs all of the time.”). In the discussion, the faculty resist giving their opinions ofright and wrong, unless there are clear legal issues. The goal is for the students to confront theirown values and learn to solve their own ethical dilemmas. An added benefit from thesediscussions is that faculty learn more about their students’ values and concerns. Videos and movies are also a rich source of material for class discussion

Collection

2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Jun Zhang; Peter Cavanaugh; Dan Tenney

the guidance of NIST AI Risk Management Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) [1], or many years,Framework, an AI security management strategy and Vygotsky’s students have contended with invasive technologies in schools.sociocultural theory, a transformative pedagogy, this study These have included student monitoring software, remoteexplores how AIOEP can mitigate the risks and concerns proctoring tools, learning management systems, cameras, facialintroduced by GenAI in academia while cultivating both students recognition, and biometric systems. AI detection software is aand educators the effective and ethical use of GenAI. new, dangerous tool added to this list. Tools like

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Programs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aimee T. Ulstad, Ohio State University; Kathryn Kelley, Ohio State University; Teresa A. Johnson, Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

incumbent workers, this will be a relatively new foray for a large research university. Internal exceptions are an existing master’s program in engineering leadership and a few business and engineering courses that may be completed online.• Develop methods to achieve consistency across multiple campuses. Even though five full-time clinical faculty are estimated for each regional campus with an annual teaching load of 21 credit hours per year, the goal of consistency in the course quality will also need to be monitored.• Effectively use joint lab space with community colleges. Even though lab space and instruction may be shared with community colleges, these will require constant communication and collaboration in order to

Conference Session

Assessment, Course, and Curricular Development

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan L. Falkenstein-Smith, Syracuse University; Ryan James Milcarek, Syracuse University; Michael J. Garrett, Syracuse University; Jeongmin Ahn, Syracuse University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

currently works as a Research Assistant in the Combustion and Energy Research Laboratory (COMER). His current research is focused on new catalyst development, ceramic materials for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), combustion, energy conversion, fuel cell modeling, fuel cell technology applications and system design. Ryan is a Syracuse University Graduate Fellow and an Astronaut Scholar.Mr. Michael J. Garrett, Syracuse University Michael Garrett is an incoming graduate student at Syracuse University. Throughout his undergraduate career he developed an interest in energy systems which encouraged him to pursue energy related research. During the summer of 2015, Michael began working as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Barrie Jackson

Session 2793 The Integrated Learning Initiative An Evolution of a Pedagogical Paradigm Barrie W. Jackson Chemical Engineering Department Queen’s UniversityAbstractQueen’s University, Kingston, Ontario has embarked on a new approach to engineeringeducation in the faculty of Applied Science, known as the Integrated Learning Initiative. Thisnew approach is to a large extent a result of two successful undergraduate programs. One courseAPSC100 is a first year engineering initiative, which introduces

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Instructional Technology 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific; Luke S. Lee P.E., University of the Pacific; Ciara Swan MFA-W, University of the Pacific

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

among educators. Some faculty have completely banned AI use in theircourses, while others embrace AI as a new learning tool [6].The emergence of AI is prompting civil engineering faculty to reflect on whether we shouldadjust our educational approaches. For civil engineering faculty at accredited institutions, wemust look to ABET for guidance [9]. While the current guidelines do not address specific toolsand methodologies, it seems reasonable to expect that AI may become part of standard practiceused to solve engineering problems (addressing ABET Student Outcome 1). The application ofAI may also be useful in developing engineering designs that are holistic and meet a variety ofpublic needs (addressing ABET Student Outcome 2). Communication

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

students through discussions with colleagues.The sources of information mentioned least were campus teaching resources (e.g., teachingworkshops and faculty developers) and educational literature.BackgroundA concern with how engineering educators can and should take learners into account in theirteaching is growing increasingly salient because of the mismatch in scope between the growingbody of information available about engineering students and the extent to which the educators’should be using such information. Asking educators to report on teaching decisions represents away to explore how these issues map to teaching practice.Visions of studentsIn the past two decades, the engineering education research community has begun to accumulatea

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Stan Napper; Melvin Corley

process significantly different from that of most other schools whohave had to adapt to the new way ABET accreditation is being done. During the last 6 six years, fourdramatic changes occurred within our college. We would have made these changes without theimpetus of the ABET process, but these changes made the assessment process much more challengingthat it would have been otherwise. In some ways the challenge helped facilitate our assessment.The first change was the moving of the math, physics, and chemistry programs (and faculty) into ourcollege making it the College of Engineering and Science. The second major change was the adoptionin 1996 of a nontraditional, but more streamlined organizational structure. For example, we no longerhave

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ana T. Torres-Ayala, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

future faculty members plan to use to motivatestudents? How do teaching assistants or new faculty members respond to unmotivated students?What are the most frequent student motivation problems new faculty face? How can motivationtheories help future or new faculty find effective ways to motivate students?Finally, findings from this research have implications for the preparation of future and newengineering faculty. Dealing with unmotivated students is clearly a concern for these futureeducators and a source of frustration. Motivating students is central to their job as a teacher buttheir understanding of how to do this is limited by their lack of formal preparation for teachingand limited opportunities to think and talk about these issues

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

difficult, often short-lived, and appears at the outset, not to be rewarding to either side.Among the many factors contributing to this failure, is the tremendous inertia of the educationalsystems of the Region.2, 3The paper sheds light on the seemingly complex issues that have curtailed proper “connectivity”between academia and industry in the Arab Gulf States, and argues for the urgent need to worktogether towards developing mutually beneficial and long-lasting relations, at the grass rootlevel, so that the interests of people on both sides (students, graduates, faculty members,industrial staff, industry managers, research proponents, etc) will be properly served. Perhaps thegreatest achievement in such an endeavor is to improve the “relevancy

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Erekson

actions will be required to reverse these workforce trends. K-12 studentsneed access to high quality programs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) toprovide the requisite educational foundation and to expose them to the possibilities of scientificand engineering careers. Likewise, university students also need high quality STEM education,especially those who are pursuing an engineering or engineering technology program. In addition to the concerns regarding the future science and engineering workforce, thereis apprehension concerning the levels of scientific and technological literacy of the generalpopulation. This issue was confirmed by the Committee on Technological Literacy (CTL), agroup of experts convened by the

Conference Session

The Teacher as Manager: Best Practices for Culminating Design Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James B Guthrie P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Jill Nelson P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Brent Nuttall P.E., California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

all professors. Traditionally professors workas individuals and team teaching of this magnitude is a paradigm shift that requiressignificant time, a flexible mindset and a commitment to collaborate.This paper reports on the progress of this course using survey assessment data and directperformance indicators. These same data provide valuable support to the 3 a-k ABETprogram criteria. The variety of projects undertaken to date illustrates the flexibility ofthis course. The paper describes how the challenges listed above have been overcomeparticularly concerning the role of the faculty in the course and the merging of verydifferent department cultures. Finally, the future of the course and the suggestedimprovements are

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Weissbach, Pennsylvania State University-Erie; Jana Goodrich, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Page 11.445.2 Developing Positive Teaming in a Product Development and Entrepreneurship Course Using an Off-Campus Weekend SeminarOverviewOne of the most important concerns in teaching a product development and entrepreneurshipcourse with multidisciplinary teams is to ensure that the teams function effectively. This can bedifficult when the course contains a significant workload for each team, such as the developmentof a new product idea along with a complete business plan for the product in a single semester.Experience with four semesters of classes shows that more cohesive, process driven teams arestronger and experience greater success on a variety of levels than less cohesive teams. Toaddress these important team issues, the

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ill prepared to implement theethics-related criteria in particular. Bruce Seely10 among others pointed out the cyclical history ofengineering education reform efforts and an ongoing struggle around the role of liberal educationof engineers. The sense that this issue is revisited through time suggests that it will not be solvedonce and for all with this most recent round of reform.Now most of our institutions have gone through two cycles of ABET accreditation under EC2000. What has changed? For those of us concerned about the liberal education of engineers, hasstudent achievement of non-technical outcomes increased? Have their professional andinterpersonal skills improved? Or their ability to engage in social and ethical analysis

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Carter; John Feland

studentscapable of generating world-class user centered products that are closer to crossing theInnovation Fence than other programs. This program is currently undergoing a renaissance underthe leadership of Prof David Kelley based on his years of experience with his company IDEOProduct Development. Prof Kelley is using a programmatic framework that harkens back toAsimow’s guidance that effective design “requires a synthesis of technical, human, and economicfactors.”4 IDEO integrates these concepts into what it calls the Innovation Engine concerned withTechnical (feasibility), Human (usability), and Business (viability) Factors. A working group ofStanford Design Division students and faculty have extended the Innovation Engine to create anew academic

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

in bringing freshmen into the departments of engineering much sooner than in the past.An overview of the ROSES program and specifically the required engineering course will be addressed.Introduction Moving from life as a high school student into the arena of the university where there may be 6,000other freshmen preparing for positions in the future may be traumatic and career threatening. Concern withthe environment that is created for these students has become one of the most important topics ofconversation among individuals and departments where the student really does have significance. It isvitally important that all schools of higher learning make an effort to create a smooth transition for studentsentering the new experience

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Enno Koehn

. C.5. Hampton, D. (2000). “More Education is Needed for Civil Engineers.” ASCE News, ASCE 25 (1), 6.6. Koehn, E. (1999). “Professional Design Component for Civil Engineering Curriculums.” Journal ofProfessional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, ASCE, 125 (2), 35 – 39. Page 6.216.6 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”7. Koehn, E. (1997). “Engineering Perceptions of ABET Accreditation Criteria.” Journal of Professional Issues inEngineering Education and Practice, ASCE

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 2

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prarthona Paul, University of Toronto; Chirag Variawa, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

engineering education [2], [3]. Despite thewidespread use of GenAI tools, they are still relatively new in engineering education. Thisintroduces uncertainties, including issues regarding ethics, accessibility, and algorithmic bias [2],[4]. There are also concerns around the lag between the rapidly growing uses of GenAI tools andthe current policies regarding their uses in engineering education [5], [6].In addition to ChatGPT, there have been other GenAI and large language model (LLMs) basedtools, with widespread uses for students, educators, and researchers in engineering education [2],[3]. This has created opportunities for innovation within engineering education along withchallenges of using them in learning environments [3]. Due to the recent

Conference Session

Track 8: Technical Session 7: Designing an open course to highlight the work of underrepresented STEM scholars

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Brianna B Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Seth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines; Madison Schaefer

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

presently includes nine topics: facultydevelopment, cultural capital and cultural relevance, inclusive teaching, persistence, field work,laboratories, patents, funding and research, gender inclusive standards, and STEM librarianship.Each page in the disciplinary and special topics modules contains readings, videos, and websitesto explore as well as reflection questions. When adopted, the content can be used as is by faculty,or edited to meet their specific learning outcomes and course topics. Content was selected toprovoke discussion and introduce students to issues and resources. For example, the ElectricalEngineering page contains readings on gendered interests in computer engineering [11], andengineering identity in electrical engineering [12

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Razi Nalim, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Nirmala Priyanka Manthripragada, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; CLIFF CAMPBELL, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Sabya Mishra, The University of Memphis; Clayton Nicholas, Indiana University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

createincentives for such work. The work of creating a consortium thus requires patient and prolongedeffort until sufficient resources and a critical mass of participants are assembled.It is also important to engage many stakeholders, especially underserved communities, and bringtheir needs to the forefront in the deployment of new technologies. Student and faculty groupshave been effective in brainstorming ideas for research projects to be proposed to theconsortium. As exemplified by the food pantry project, such community engaged efforts canbring many issues to light for industry consideration for future research.AcknowledgementThe work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation under two IUCRCplanning grants: award number EEC-2209899 to