Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark A. Chapman, University of San Diego; Gordon D Hoople, University of San Diego; G. Bryan Cornwall PhD P.E., Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, University of San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

to provide for rich classroom discussions and allow students to reflect onimportant topics they will likely face in their careers with the advent of new biomedicaltechnologies. Topics such as equal access to healthcare, ethical issues surrounding gene editing,and understanding how a user’s background or culture can affect their healthcare needs/desireswill all be discussed and considered throughout our curriculum directly alongside technicaltopics. This approach will allow us to more specifically address the new ABET outcomes(particularly Outcome 2) that call for more integration between social and technical elements.Our first students will not officially begin the BME track until the fall of 2020, but we arepiloting our biomechanics and

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Natalie D. Segal

asummary of their proposal in front of the class and invited guests, including other,technical faculty members.The students approach the project with some doubts about the possibility of developingtruly new objects. The fact is, more than six million patents2 have been issued in theUnited States so the odds of coming up with something truly novel in this class are notstrong. Although the teams did and still do occasionally develop a truly new object (forinstance, a tool for electricians to use in junction boxes to accommodate cabling), mostoften they discover that their ideas are improvements on already existing objects. By the Page 5.47.1terms of the

Conference Session

Novel Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James V. Green, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

students and faculty (Arbaugh, Desai, Rau, & Sridhar, 2010). The next question is how bestto create and deliver online courses at the collegiate level. This brings to question what coursesand learning objectives are best aligned with an online delivery format; in addition to questionsof technology and faculty training in online delivery.Consequently, this study focuses on two critical questions from the student perspective, and twoimportant issues from the faculty and administration perspective. The questions are focused ontechnology entrepreneurship courses as this is the interest area and expertise of the authors.  What are the benefits for the students in online technology entrepreneurship courses versus face-to-face courses

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft

. Striking a powerful chord for the integration of liberallearning into engineering education, CSM’s new mission statement says that its graduates “should, through familiarity with humanities and social sciences, learn the world’s com- plexities beyond their own set of givens, gain an appreciation of other people’s values and ways of doing things, think effectively about ethical and social issues, and make con- scious choices based on positive values.”In other words, the “freedom” at the root of liberal education implies liberation from the givensof one’s conventional, accustomed cultural habits. A student’s hoary argument that “I didn’tcome to an engineering school to study English and humanities!” no longer holds water

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Progress Reports: Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Stier, Illinois State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

models and embedding them into thedepartmental culture to maintain effectiveness and sustainability3. This is especially true forthose technology programs that have undergone accreditation review under the TC2K criteria bythe Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET and the engineering programs that havebeen reviewed using the Engineering Criteria (EC 2000)4,5,6.Outcomes-based assessment requires ongoing program-level assessment. Most often this is theresponsibility of the faculty in the program being accredited. The planning and documentationrequirements can require significant investment of time on the part of faculty if not carefullymanaged. This can cause issues with faculty which can place the outcomes assessment plan injeopardy7.Even

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 3

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Robinson, Saint Vincent College; Brian E Faulkner, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE)

research funding had profound effects on undergraduate education in two primary ways.First, the demands of these new research projects changed the dynamics of faculty searches. Before thisresearch paradigm, faculty qualifications would be primarily based on motivation and aptitude forteaching as is recommended in the Grinter Report. After the era identified by Seely, the focus shiftedtowards securing grants and performing scientific research. Faculty with the scientific background neededto compete for these grants would likely tend to favor a more theoretical approach to courses. In additionto changing faculty motivation, research duties competed with teaching for faculty time, and theory isoften more efficient to teach and assess than

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Renee Rogge; Loren Sumner

material. An infrastructure of learningmodules complements the general analysis thread in engineering education while imposingcontrolled exposure to CAE software. Learning modules expose students to state-of-the-art CAEtools without requiring a specialized CAE course. Encouraging the development of CAE skills,the project aims to facilitate and enhance undergraduate scholarship such as capstone seniordesign projects. This paper discusses the project strategies, concerns, plans for assessment, andsome formative assessment results. The project reveals a practical means for faculty to begindeveloping and implementing active learning techniques.IntroductionThe Mercer University School of Engineering (MUSE) strives to prepare graduates to serve

Conference Session

Course Structuring for Effective Student Engagement

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conrad, Portland State University; Kenneth Lamb, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

workplace. This need has been acknowledged for decades[1], [2], and numerous articles discuss ways of addressing writing, such as improved assignmenttypes and assessment rubrics [3]-[5]. However, most engineering faculty continue to believe thatgrammar skills are the responsibility of English departments or writing centers. As a previousASEE paper put it, issues related to sentence structure, grammar, and syntax are part of the "rule-based" component of writing that others can address: "Students usually have access to goodtutoring services and they should be encouraged to use them" [5].In this paper, we argue that civil engineering programs do a disservice to students if they viewgrammar only as rules that others should teach. Using the example of

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lifang Shih, Excelsior College; Jane A LeClair, Excelsior College

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Paper ID #6195Use of Sustainable and Systematic Plan to Assess Student Learning Outcomesfor Non-Traditional IT StudentsDr. Lifang Shih, Excelsior College Li-Fang Shih received her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with specialization in online instruction from the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Shih is current the Associate Dean for the School of Business and Technology at Excelsior College. Her researches have focused on issues related to quality online instruction, outcome assessments, online communication, and the development of online commu- nity, etc. Her papers have been presented in national

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

International

classroom practices today (dominated by traditionallecture-based methods) must be mandated and supported by the university administration. Whatis necessary to create a change, is, to have a comprehensive and integrated set of components:clearly articulated expectations, opportunities for faculty to learn about new pedagogies, and anequitable reward system.Introduction“To teach is to engage students in learning.” This quote, from Education for Judgment byChristenson et al, (1) captures the meaning of the art and practice of pedagogies of engagement.The theme advocated here is that student involvement is an essential aspect of meaningfullearning. Also, engaging students in learning is principally the responsibility of the instructor,who should become

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division: Approaches to Ethics Education (Part 2)

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Brown, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Leroy Long, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Taylor Mitchell, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Chad Rohrbacher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

doctorate— arecommitted to developing students’ values around ethics and professional responsibility (seeAppendix for Positionality Statement). This is an important first step in addressing professionalformation. Engaging with critical narratives can help students better address issues of globalsignificance related to overall community health and well-being, including sustainability andresiliency.PurposeThe following research questions serve as the starting point for a larger, multi-year NSF-fundedstudy: 1. How might strategic integration and critical thinking concerning critical narrative enhance engineering students’ development of ethics and professional responsibility (E&PR)? 2. As a pedagogical tool, how effective is critical

Conference Session

Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Birmingham, Grove City College; Blair Allison, Grove City College; James Dupree, Grove City College

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, the line managers of Pine Instrument. These presentations and discussions concerned the product content. The managers set the climate by their demeanor and interactions. These initial presentations were supplemented by subgroup meetings with student teams and numerous phone and email exchanges. ‚ The remainder of the lectures were spent on the project, typically in the lab or meeting with staff from the sponsoring company.An important instructional element was the engagement of the line managers. From formalmeetings to informal phone and email exchanges they brought the “real world” element of thecourse home. While the faculty all had worked in industry and are active consultants, theinvolvement of the line

Collection

2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Abolfazl Amin; Israd Jaafar; Abdennour Seibi; Sean Tolman P.E.; Matthew Ballard

much as possible, utilize 3D printing and prototyping, performnecessary testing, and implement logical number of iterations as needed prior to making the finalproduct. Some challenges such as lack of space to meet the growing demand and the necessaryfunding have been encountered. Fortunately, the Engineering College and the University havequickly solved these issues. Students have competed in national ASME and ASE competitions.It has been determined by the faculty that it would be more effective to create a few full-time staffdedicated to determining and coordinating projects and seeking the support of industry.INTRODUCTION Capstone projects continue to be a significant part of the undergraduate engineeringprogram. The purpose of the

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenzell Huggins, University of Chicago; Asha Barnes; Susan D. Blum, The University of Notre Dame; Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Gary Allen Gilot P.E., University of Notre Dame

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

- gagement. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and previ- ously worked for Intel Corporation. He is also a founder of Emu Solutions, Inc., a startup company that is commercializing research in the area of high-performance computing.Mr. Gary Allen Gilot P.E., University of Notre Dame Gary A. Gilot is the Director of Engineering Leadership and Community Engagement at the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Gary is a Fellow at the University Center for Social Concerns. Gary earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Clarkson Uni- versity in Upstate New York (1978), and Masters in Business Administration from Indiana

Collection

2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Douglas R. Carroll

new students. This recession is going to force universities to lookcarefully at the cost effectiveness of their approaches to teaching and research.IntroductionIn the next few years, public universities in the Midwest are likely to face a periodof declining state funding and declining undergraduate enrollment. A decline inenrollment, with the accompanying decline in tuition income, will cause afinancial hardship on the universities. With the recession, state tax receipts aredown, and it is likely that state funding for education will decrease. Universityadministrators have become increasingly concerned about student retention andrecruitment because they see the impact of enrollment on the university budget.Faculty must think about the

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley C. Huderson, ASME; Aisha Kenya Lawrey, ASME; Thomas Perry P.E.; Kenneth R. Balkey P.E., ASME

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #26862Industry Standards Infusion throughout Mechanical Engineering and Me-chanical Engineering Technology Degree ProgramsDr. Ashley C. Huderson, ASME Dr. Ashley Huderson is a native of New Orleans, LA, and completed her undergraduate training at Spel- man College (2006), a certificate in Health Policy (2012) and doctoral work at Meharry Medical College (2013). A culmination of personal and academic interest in health policy, prompted her to seek out and accept a post-doctoral fellowship position at Georgetown University Lombardi Cancer Center’s Office of Health Disparities and Minority Research (2015). During her

Conference Session

Computing Research

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mariangely Iglesias Pena, Iowa State University; Stephen B. Gilbert, Iowa State University; Jamie Payton, Temple University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

. But there are multiple secondarystakeholders whose needs the PI must consider, including: program coordinators who may assistthe PI, faculty project mentors, graduate student mentors, the REU interns themselves, and NSFprogram directors. The REU PI Guide design effort focused on providing PIs with resourcesneeded to satisfy the needs of all stakeholders satisfactorily.Goals of the REU PI GuideA primary goal of the REU PI Guide was to significantly smooth the process of running REUsites for new PIs. Sometimes due to federal budget delays, PIs receive their new REU site awardwith very short notice, and the first REU summer may be organized with a more ad hoc approachthan desired. Ideally the REU PI Guide would help avoid this situation and

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir I. Prodanov, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; John Greene, Maxim Integrated

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

Sponsored Course DevelopmentAbstractThis paper demonstrates the importance of alumni voluntarism in creating experiential learningopportunities for future students while also facilitating the professional development of a facultymember. Specifically, the collaboration between two recent graduates and their former collegeprofessor resulted in the development of a new 400-level elective class containing both a lecturecomponent and a lab component. Because of alumni efforts, the lab will use state-of-art hardwareallowing students’ exploration of various concepts related to sensing and IoT (Internet ofThings). The generous support of the employer effectively eliminates the financial burden tostudents and enables faculty professional development. Also

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald W. Garrett; Paul L. Stephenson III

statistical process quality control procedures, drawconclusions from these procedures, and communicate these findings to a non-mathematicalaudience. Our students have been able to grasp important practical issues in manufacturinginvolving communications, information accuracy, measurement, raw material variability,manufacturing process fluctuations, tool condition and human behavior. Page 5.351.4V. Expectations for StudentsIn the new course in Statistical Quality Methods, students were expected to:1. understand how a physical product characteristic is affected by process variables,2. gain an appreciation for the impact of undetected raw material flaws on

Conference Session

FPD XI: Assessing First-Year Programs, Experiences, and Communities

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Kelly J. Cross, Virginia Tech University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

satisfactionreports coupled with final course grades or retention rates or student-reported learning gainscoupled with faculty perceptions.Implications and ConclusionsThe preceding review of approaches to assessment point to two significant issues facingengineering educators concerned with first year programs.1. Outcomes surrounding retention and support for success currently dominate theliterature.The dominance of these issues suggests that they represent one clear point of consensus amongfirst year educators with respect to course goals and desired outcomes. Retention itself is oneclearly identifiable metric, though approaches to measurement (self-reports versus institutionaldata) vary slightly. Approaches to satisfaction and motivation, however, are more

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan; Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

considering the legal, environmental,and spiritual implications of these efforts. In our experience teaching undergraduate students atmultiple universities, we have learned that a number of engineering students personally rejectthis apolitical orientation [6], [7]. They understand how engineering can uphold oppression, andthey long to discuss critical issues with their peers and their instructors. In aerospaceengineering, the discipline on which this research focuses, we have seen students personallywrestle with concerns about their future engineering careers, such as not wanting to developweapons or work for companies with exploitative labor practices [8], [9].Our project consists of two thrusts—in research and in curriculum development—designed

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Reisel, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

well-versed in technical matters, concerns havebeen expressed by some in the engineering education community that students are not gaining anappreciation for non-technical topics that would improve their responsiveness as engineers with abroader view of the world and the role of their profession in that world. When faced with tryingto create space in their undergraduate curriculum for new topics, engineering educators often useABET accreditation requirements as a roadblock. But careful reading and consideration of theABET criteria indicate that the criteria are not actually a roadblock to such changes for mostschools.This paper describes the approach taken by the Mechanical Engineering program in one publicresearch university to open credits

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 7

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Faraz Sajawal, University of Oklahoma; Javeed Kittur, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

learning processes that support ChatGPT's operation. Beyondtechnical details, additional research examined ChatGPT's useful applications in a variety of fields.Research has demonstrated its ability to support tasks related to content generation, enhancecustomer service, and facilitate human-computer interaction. In their investigation of ChatGPT'sapplication in customer service contexts, Kung et al. (2023) brought up clinical decision-makingin particular, highlighting the technology's capacity to improve user satisfaction and expeditecommunication. Investigations into ChatGPT's social implications have also brought upsociocultural and ethical issues. Academics have examined concerns about fairness, bias, andprivacy in content generated by ChatGPT

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernadette Longo

the February 1998 issue of TechnicalCommunication, George Hayhoe called for the same type of collaboration that Paynerecommended in an engineering context: “Technical communicators in the academy and industryneed to explore a new model of education for the next millennium, one that fosters, promotes,and actively pursues learning—and learning to learn.”2 It seems that at our current moment ineducational history, we find a meeting of minds from engineering schools, professionalcommunication programs, and industry on at least one issue: to effectively teach engineering andcommunication, schools and industry need to collaborate on ends and means.This increasing interest in industry/academy collaboration positions teachers as mediators in

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering 1

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Sally J. Pardue, Tennessee Technological University; Byron A Pardue, Tennessee Technological University; Taylor Chesson, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

overwhelmed with too much information toprocess in a 15-week semester, both instructors have created a working set of notes for the first course inmachine design that simplifies the major concepts into five main categories: loads analysis, stressanalysis, design for deflection, design for static yield, and design for dynamic fatigue.Student comments received by both faculty instructors of numerous semesters of teaching via students’end-of-course assessment of course delivery, such as the IDEA tool our campus uses, have included.  A desire for more timely feedback on student work; waiting one to two weeks to discover whether or not they know something as measured by a Q or E limits their confidence to move on to new

Conference Session

Diffusion and Adoption of Teaching Practices

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

and spokespeople for science7. In return,these teachers often experience a higher status than some of their counterparts. Affiliation tosubject matter is critical to a science teacher’s formation of their professional identity20, and thisneeds to be taken into consideration when training teachers or faculty members for STSE.Although engineering is absent from the discussion of STSE in the literature, the themes arehighly relevant to engineering education, particularly given calls for engineering curricula thatare relevant to the lives and careers of students and connected to the needs and issues of thebroader community, and education that includes the use of experiential activities;interdisciplinary perspectives; focus on problem-solving

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Venubabu Vulasa; David Grieve; Chetan Sankar; Bob Bulfin; Paul Swamidass

continent. The challenge, assumed by program at AuburnUniversity, addressed the issue of giving engineering and business undergraduates a hands-onexperience in new product design in teams spread across two continents (North American andEurope). During the spring semester, 2004, Auburn University, USA and the University ofPlymouth, UK, engaged in a pioneering experiment to give student teams in the respectiveuniversities an experience in product design in a team composed of undergraduate in bothuniversities campuses. A team of four students from the Auburn University’s Business-Engineering-Technology (B-E-T) program (a lock-step, two-year minor for selected engineeringand business students), and four students from the University of Plymouth

Conference Session

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Penny Knoll; Lisa Bullard; Ann Saterbak

Session 3475Choosing The Road Less Traveled: Alternatives to the Tenure Track Lisa Bullard, Penny Knoll, Ann Saterbak North Carolina State University / Montana State University / Rice UniversityAbstractTenure has been traditionally held up as the “Holy Grail” for those in academia -- however, somenew faculty make a conscious choice to pursue non-traditional academic roles. In this paper,three new engineering educators relate how their interests, priorities, and family situations ledthem to seek out non-tenure track faculty positions and candidly discuss the benefits as well asthe drawbacks of the paths they have taken

Conference Session

CIP Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Danielson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Chell A. Roberts, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

be delivered by the program’s faculty,the latter issue should not be significant. However, the use of company engineers to overseeprojects and the intellectual property issues that may prohibit project technical content frombeing revealed to the program’s regular faculty has sparked discussion. Fortunately, by theprogram’s assessment and continuous improvement plan, the significant course outcomes thatneed to be assessed in the project courses do not rest on the technical specifics but on theprofessional skills demonstrated by the students. Thus the intellectual property of the technicalwork can be protected. This realization seems to have addressed initial concerns about this issue.RecommendationsBased on this experience, the following

Collection

2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Day Radebaugh; Kurt A. Soschinske; Glyn Rimmington; Mara Alagic

Globalization has affected the very fabric of business and engineering activities.Increasingly, new products are now designed, developed and manufactured through acollaboration of engineering, business, and manufacturing personnel from different parts of theworld, many of whom significantly differ from each other in their cultural backgrounds and 2perspectives. This diversity entails differences in recognition and awareness of ethical issues,which must be addressed within the additional context of the increasing complexity of newtechnology development. A main challenge is how to address the educational requirements forengineering students and current