Conference Session

Design Communications

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University; Monika Lumsdaine, E&M Lumsdaine Solar Consultants, Inc.

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Design in Engineering Education

part of project teams with classmates and thus were anticipated to generate 126 additional reports—a logistics nightmare.• Unfamiliar thinking skills: The thinking styles assessment of the entire class showed they had a low average in the thinking preferences required for communication and teamwork. Thus learning how to write good reports would require extra effort by the students.• Expectations: Many of the enterprise students did not see the need for having to take this class, since they had already been involved in their enterprises for two or three years and believed they knew how to write reports. Other students expected this to be an easy course. Both sets of expectations affected their attitude towards learning

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Kasprzak, Milliken Research Associates; Kevin Hulme, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Deborah Moore-Russo, Suny - Buffalo; Kenneth English, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Kemper Lewis, University at Buffalo - SUNY

reality was easier to make since the students had experienced the variousvehicle behaviors. Lectures frequently referred back to the experiments, reminding students ofcertain things they experienced and connecting those experiences with the mathematics. All theinformation discussed by the instructor during the course of the experiments was presented againin the lectures so that it could be reinforced and make its way into student notebooks.Results, Assessment, and ImpactA survey was administered to the students in the RVD1 class at the beginning (pre-test) and thenagain at the end (post-test) of the semester. The survey contained the open-ended question: Howcould engineering education be improved? An outside evaluator read and coded the student

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Travis Rieder, University of South Carolina

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Engineering Ethics

begin an engineering ethics class with a brief lecture on theimportance of theory. While I won’t transcribe an entire lecture here, the main point Iwant to make is as follows. Page 13.569.6One interesting aspect of persons is our ability to give and assess reasons for ouractions.19 When interacting with others, people have the tendency to justify their actions,and we find some justifications better than others. One of the goals of pursuing ethicaltheory is in an effort to make the reasons we offer in defense of ethical verdicts stronger.While it may be unclear exactly what the strongest ethical system would look like, we dogenerally recognize a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dominic Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Nicholas Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Robert Johnson, Oral Roberts University; James Wanjiku, Oral Roberts University

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Design in Engineering Education

start. Today’s engineers must be educated to think broadly in fundamental and integrative ways about the basic tenets of engineering. If we define engineering as the application of math and science in service to humanity, these tenets must include study of the human condition, the human experience, the human record.4When the engineering mindset is complemented with a broader education in the humanities, itbecomes a valuable asset for assessing various views of the world, and greatly informs problemsolving activities. In his book, The Introspective Engineer, Sam Florman writes that the universepresents itself to us as a mystery to be studied and acted upon. Later he adds that “…althoughengineering relies upon science and

Conference Session

First-Year Advising and Transition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

Excellence: Toward the Best in the Academy, accessed http://programs.weber.edu/tlf/POD/packet7/v6n7.html on 1/28/2009.18. Erickson, B.L. & Strommer, D.W., Teaching college freshmen, San Franciso: Jossey-Bass, 1991.19. Angelo, T.A. and Cross, K.P., Classroom assessment techniques: A handbook for college teachers, (2nd. Ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.20. Donaldson, K., The Engineering Student Survival Guide, Third Edition. Mc Graw Hill Higher Education, 2005.21. Stiller, A., Venable, W., and McConnell, R., “Incorporating Study skills in a Freshman Engineering Course”, ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 1995.23. Arco, J.L., Fernandez, F.D., Espin, A., and Castro, M.,”A Cross-Age Peer

Conference Session

History of Aerospace Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Eberhardt, Boeing Company; Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Jeffrey Anderson, University of Wyoming; Jerry Hamann, University of Wyoming; Robert Kubichek, University of Wyoming; Suresh Muknahallipatna, University of Wyoming; John Pierre, University of Wyoming; David Whitman, University of Wyoming; Cameron Wright, University of Wyoming

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Computers in Education

capstonedesign experience within the curriculum. ABET Criterion 4. Professional Component guidelinesstate, “Students must be prepared for engineering practice through the curriculum culminating ina major design experience based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work andincorporating engineering standards and multiple realistic constraints.” These constraints arefurther defined in Criterion 3. Program Outcomes and Assessment which states, “Engineeringprograms must demonstrate that their students attain: (c) an ability to design a system,component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic,environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, andsustainability[10, adapted

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Foor, University of Oklahoma; randa shehab, University of Oklahoma

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Minorities in Engineering

and do not meet the narrow criteria of success as definedin the larger project. Their narratives are not included here.Each interview was transcribed, coded for analysis, and then assessed using an interpretiveanalytic approach.9 The quotations have been edited for clarity and brevity. Digressions, restarts,and fillers such as “you know,” “uhh,” and “like” have been removed. These edits arerepresented by ellipses (…) in the quotation. Square brackets [ ] indicate the addition of a wordor words to help with contextualization. Text within a quote that is enclosed in parentheses ( )indicates a verbal cue (pause, laugh, chuckle). In most cases, individuals are identified as studentor participant only. Tribe and state of origin are not given to

Conference Session

Integrative Projects in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Weinstein, Northeastern University; Randy August, Northeastern University; Len Dow, Northeastern University; Jerome Tapper, Northeastern University; Francis Di Bella, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

pedagogicalcoverage of most if not all of the ‘a through k’ ABET student criteria. Often the CapstoneDesign course requires that teams of students in a single academic discipline worktogether to produce and an engineering analysis and design of a product or project. Amore “real-world” approach to the Capstone Design course has been introduced atNortheastern University’s School of Engineering Technology and has been provensuccessful, according to student and industrial advisor/judges assessments. The NU SETCapstone course is conducted by interdisciplinary teams of mechanical, electrical andcomputer engineering technology students (with an occasional integration of a team ofbusiness students), all working together as a team to complete a project. This paper

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Janet Davis, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

teaching-oriented schools actually read and assess your cover letter. Thecover letter provides you the opportunity to express why you are a qualified candidate for theposition and why you want to teach at that school. Our advice is to write this letter after you havecompleted the other materials, so you can briefly summarize the entire package in your coverletter.The Teaching Statement:Hopefully, you have been working on this statement for some time now and it is close to beingpolished. You should explain how you approach teaching and learning. Take time on thisdocument. The teaching statement is one of the most important pieces of the job applicationpackage for a teaching-oriented school. In terms of length, you probably want to keep it undertwo

Conference Session

Changing the Engineering Classroom

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Social Justice, Social Responsibility, and Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Lachney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; David Adam Banks, University at Albany - SUNY

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Vicki Stieha, Boise State University; Ann E. Delaney, Boise State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

complex environments (italics in the original).3Our motivation is to conduct formative assessment about the program so that we can continue toimprove upon the e-Girls Program results. We have not achieved parity–women remainunderrepresented in engineering. Boise State University’s service region still has a very lowcollege-going rate and an opportunity to positively impact future generations.Thus, this study had three primary goals – to learn about what kinds of pathways these girls havetraveled, to learn more about what programs and interventions (ours included) did have impacton those pathways (from the girls’ perspectives), and to hear a bit about where they see theirfuture pathways going. These goals and the framework that developmental

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs II

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vetria L. Byrd Ph.D., Purdue University; Camilo Vieira, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

2015 12 42% 67% 25/33/8 8/25/42/25AA: African American, HS: Hispanic/Latino, NA: Native American/American Indian Project descriptions, and desired skills, provided by the researcher and visualizationmentor, were posted on the program website. During the application process student were askedto select and rank, in order of preference, three projects that interest them, and that they felt theirskill sets would enable them to successfully complete project milestones. Students were alsoasked to list their skills and provide a self-assessment in regards to their level of experiencevisualizing data. Using this information as a guide, students were matched with research projectsbased on

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leroy L. Long III, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Trevion S. Henderson, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Yates, National Society of Black Engineers; Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology; James R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Durga Suresh, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

, providing insight into the best practices from anindustry and/or collegiate perspective. For example, the University of Hartford’s Ward College ofTechnology and New Horizons described the importance of identifying industry-specific needs,developing an appropriate plan, establishing a mutual agreement, and assessing the model in orderto make continuous improvement to the partnership and project 1 . This process created a projectthat could make mutually beneficial progress. In another example, Gannon University’s graduateprogram incorporates the academic program with application-based training of key real-worldindustry problems 2 . In explaining their success, the authors describe communication as the key tosuccess, and an annual review meeting

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad L. Hutchings, Brigham Young University; Stephen Schultz, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

380 concepts: convolution, decimation, FIR filters, bandpass filters, MatLab functions, etc? (77% responded yes). 3. Have you gained a better understanding of 340 concepts: building and debugging multistage amplifiers, BJTs, transistor biasing, etc? (34.6% responded yes). 4. Do you have better understanding of how complex embedded software can be organized and tested? (96% responded yes). 5. Did you have some fun along the way? (100% responded yes).This rough assessment is preliminary; in the future a more rigourous

Conference Session

Energy Conservation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher J. Damm, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Wesley A. Zloza, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Samuel Jaroslav Stafl, Milwaukee School of Engineering ; Brent Radlinger

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University; Noemi V. Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University; Tanya Dugat Wickliff, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Conference Session

Pre-College: Working with Teachers to Improve K-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beau Vezino, University of Arizona

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Wednesday Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha Perova-Mello, Oregon State University; Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogical Techniques I: Online, Electronic, and Apps!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas E. Marlin, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

and willingness to share theirthoughts in the survey and evaluation.7. ReferencesAnderson, L. W., & Krathwohl, D. (Eds.). (2001). A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. New York: Longman.Audacity (2016) http://www.audacityteam.org/ .Bishop, J. and M. Verleger (2013) The Flipped Classroom: A Survey of the Research, ASEE Annual Conference, Paper ID #6219, June 23-26, 2013, accessed July 2016, http://www.studiesuccesho.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/flipped-classroom- artikel.pdfBland, L. (2006) Apply flip/inverted classroom model in electrical engineering to establish life- long learning, in Proc. ASEE Annual. Conf., Chicago, IL

Conference Session

Institutionalizing Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Nilsen, Purdue University; Edward F. Morrison, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Raquel Asencio, Purdue University; Scott Hutcheson, Purdue University, School of Engineering Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

offerings may be of very highquality and benefit a small number of students, but transformation requires a multi-prongedecosystem approach. In the same vein, we did not attempt to determine the degree to whichlearning outcomes were achieved by individual students – although many of the teams haveembedded assessment in projects they undertook, especially where the project involved course orcurriculum development.All of the teams experienced at least some success in introducing new I&E offerings at theirinstitution, and none of the team leaders participating in the research felt that their project hadbeen unsuccessful. However, in order to shed some light on whether the factors that the researchteam had hypothesized might be associated with team

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kath Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dawn Wendell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Andrea S. Walsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

assess one’s biases in topicsranging from race to religion to gender. According to the project’s website, “the ImplicitAssociation Test (IAT) measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable toreport” (“Project Implicit”). The gender-science one “often reveals a relative link between liberalarts and females and between science and males.” After taking the test, survey participants areasked for demographic information to help inform research.In a 2009 paper published in the ​Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA(PNAS), researchers analyzed this data and found that “women who find it easier to associatemen with science (and women with liberal arts) report less liking for math and science domains,less

Conference Session

Student Division Early Introduction to Engineering Technical Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamison Taylor Bair, Colorado State University; Thomas H. Bradley, Colorado State University

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Student

and documentationtransfer between teams.The results from the pre and post surveys and students’ self-rankings of their understanding werecompared to assess the effectiveness of the lecture in teaching lean fundamentals. The secondsurvey showing an average correct answer rate of 71% compared to 20.7% in the preliminarysurvey. Figure 3 shows each question topic and the improvement from the pre to the post survey. Figure 3: Comparison of Correct Responses between Pre and Post SurveyA second comparison made was between students’ ranking of their own understanding of leanmanufacturing before and after the lecture and can be seen in Figure 4. In the preliminarysurvey, 33% of student responses ranked their understanding at 1

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development: Theories, Models, Frameworks, and Tools

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Klassen, University of Toronto; Serhiy Kovalchuk, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

assessment by instructorsand teaching assistants. Early career engineers who appeared more effective at making thetransition to work were able to build relationships, had the confidence to ask the right questionsof the right people at the right time, and took initiative to build a network across the companybeyond their immediate work group.An unexpected finding is that there were limited examples of interviewees talking aboutteamwork. Given the importance placed on learning from others, and the fact that early careerengineers are navigating the social structures of knowledge and expertise, perhaps they are notyet experiencing “teamwork” in the same way they did in university. As documented in theengineering education literature, many of the hands-on

Conference Session

Graduate Student Writing and Communication

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy M. Clobes, University of Virginia; Lindsay Wheeler, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

and open-ended questions to explore participants’ communication confidence,understanding of STEM careers, and perceptions of the SciComm program (Supplemental A). Toassess participants’ confidence, we used the Self-Perceived Communication Competence Scale(SPCC) [8]. To assess communication skills, the two authors developed a series of threescenarios that asked for participants’ description for strategizing and communicating theirresearch to different audiences. Participants also indicated familiarity with STEM careers afterthe program and retrospectively before the program to explore changes in understanding. Finally,a series of open-ended questions were developed by the two authors to obtain feedback on theSciComm program. Focus group

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Efrain O'Neill-Carrillo P.E., University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez ; James D. McCalley, Iowa State University; Anne Kimber, Iowa State University; Robert Haug, Public Power Services

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

differentlevels of cost and achieve different levels of infrastructure integrity (II) for redeveloping thelocal electric infrastructure. A conceptual framework has been developed, together with metricsand computational methods for assessing infrastructure integrity [1-4]. II is the ability of aninfrastructure system to exhibit reliability, flexibility, resilience, and adaptability. Although II isuseful for application to any infrastructure system, it is particularly applicable to electricsystems, and it provides a foundation on which to build in considering the future development ofelectric grids. For each vision, strengths and weaknesses, and in so doing, we intend to providestrong rationale regarding the best path forward for re-developing the local

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Michael Schearer, Cleveland State University; M. Ann Reinthal, Cleveland State University; Debbie K. Jackson, Cleveland State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

specific challenges these studentsfaced and assess the impact of the program on these students with disabilities.MethodsThis study was a qualitative, interpretive study. Qualitative research is used to guide inunderstanding a situation [9]. In this case, the goal was to understand the experiences of threeundergraduate students with disabilities in a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)summer program and to understand the impact of the program on these students. In addition tobeing qualitative, this research is specifically a case study. A case study is “employed to gain anin-depth understanding of the situation and meaning for those involved” [10]. A case study is alsodefined as a research study that is a single unit or bounded by