Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Stephen Strain, University of Memphis; Andrew Blass Watson, The University of Memphis; Matthew Hale, The University of Memphis

Tagged Topics

Diversity

suspicious, but I did not judge this fact sufficient evidence an academicintegrity referral. I had a full plate for the summer, and it was not until late August that I becamedisturbed by the absence of any guidance from my institution with respect to what I regard as anapproaching tidal wave.I began reaching out to faculty, students, and staff inside and outside of my institution. Manyseemed to be focused on threats to academic integrity. I do not minimize these concerns, but Iconsider examining them in isolation from other aspects of the technology to be a seriousdistortion. It seems clear to me that students will need to acquire AI skills in order to competesuccessfully in the job market once they graduate. I judge institutional readiness vital to

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathi Cahill; Joe C. Guarino

their DBEE projects. The DBEE assignment formrequires the students to identify the concepts that are reinforced, provide rationale for their designdecisions, and mathematically verify their results. The DBEE web site hosts a discussion page in addition to the DBEE modules. Studentsare encouraged to post comments and insights on the discussion page throughout the semester. The grant director, and a researcher in the I&PT department, conducted site visits at theUniversity of Idaho and Idaho State University before the Fall 1997 semester. The site visitsaddressed last-minute concerns of participating faculty, and verified that adequate resources werein place for implementing the DBEE project.Evaluation A unique evaluation

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Ethics

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Luan Minh Nguyen, Iowa State University ; Cristina Poleacovschi, Iowa State University; Kasey M. Faust, University of Texas at Austin; Kate Padgett Walsh, Iowa State University; Scott Grant Feinstein; Cassandra Rutherford, Iowa State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

and is good for exposing students to a more general background of ethics; however,this sacrifices the disciplinary context covered by the within-the-discipline method [30]. Theacross-the-curriculum method presents students with ethical dilemmas repetitively in multiplecourses during their engineering education; while effective, this method calls for a commitmentamong faculty members to conduct ethics discussions in their courses [30]. Lastly, an effectiveapproach of bridging engineering with societal concerns involves the use of a curriculum modelwith a range of required courses that have ethics components which highly emphasize engineeringethics and the role of engineers in society [11], [30].However, despite such efforts, it continues to be

Conference Session

CANCELLED: Track 5: Technical Session 5: Hiring Practices to Build a Diverse Team at Wakr Forest Engineering: Transforming Engineering Education and Broadening Participation in Engineering is Possible!

Collection

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University

Tagged Topics

2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

present a tested model ofhiring practices that can be leveraged by other engineering programs and other higher educationdepartments seeking to transform their faculty recruitment processes and build more inclusiveacademic environments that better serve an increasingly diverse student population. Thesestrategies can benefit not only new departments but also existing ones. Recruiting, hiring, anddeveloping diverse faculty teams is possible and essential to supporting a diverse studentpopulation. There is urgency in this work for the betterment of higher education and engineeringeducation.I. INTRODUCTIONThe lack of diversity within the engineering profession, including engineering academicenvironments, is well known. The challenges that higher

Conference Session

Investigating Instructional Strategies

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Andrew Simon Scott, Western Carolina University; Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Frederick C. Berry, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, West Lafayette

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

in meetings.  Lack of input from teammates on each other’s performance hinders improvement and makes moving forward difficult.Grading  Single student’s share they did most of the work and should be recognized for that effort.  Students accused others of copying from them.  Faculty mentor is grading differently from other faculty mentors – example given was a D was given when their project was clearly better than another that got a B.Personal Issues  Personal emotional issues of student affect the team.  One member tries to make up for their shortcomings by bringing the team baked goods.  Student felt as if they were an unwanted member of the group.  While students felt

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

A.K.M. Abdul Quader; Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

and wastewater treatment, food processing,techno-economic feasibility of chemical process industries, and technology policy issues. 4-11 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe faculty members from BUET who provided support to this activity are listed in Table 1. Dr.Quader was the linkage coordinator for BUET. Table 1: Team Members of BUET in the BUET-NCATSU Linkage Program Name Gender Department/Rank Dr. Iqbal Mahmud Male ChE/Prof. Emer. Dr. Nooruddin Ahmed

Conference Session

Assessment Instruments

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Martin Trenor, Clemson University; Matthew K. Miller, Clemson University; Kyle G. Gipson, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

education domain. By presenting results andexamples from our own experience suing this protocol, we aim to provide a cognitive validationmodel which may be useful to engineering education researchers designing their own surveyinstruments.By following the model outlined in this paper, participants in our study verbalized several issuesof concern when interacting with our web-based survey. These issues ranged from minorgrammatical errors to serious cognitive mismatches which caused participants to interpret and/orrespond to items differently than we intended. Participants were asked for suggestions to correctthese issues, and changes were made to the survey based on this feedback. The survey was re-tested in two additional iterations of think-aloud

Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and testing new ideas mentally or physically.  Observing: Carefully and critically examining the everyday world to understand how objects and systems function and are used.Interpersonal Reactivity Index Scales  Fantasy: The tendency to imagine oneself in another’s position, in particular, fictional characters featured in books or movies.  Perspective-Taking: A tendency to imagine how another is thinking or feeling.  Empathic Concern: A tendency to have other-oriented feelings of concern, or sympathy.  Personal Distress: A tendency to have self-oriented emotive feelings as a result of tense interpersonal situations.Data CollectionAs a data collection strategy, we invited students at a large Mid-Western

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Reilly; Surya Mallapragada; Mary Huba; Jacqueline Shanks; Kevin Saunders; Charles Glatz; Balaji Narasimhan

learning a new topic.”Teamwork. In early reflections, students expressed confidence in the team’s ability to solve theproblem. The team worked together to gather information about the problem and then divided upbasic tasks. The team relied on one student’s expertise in project management to identify issues,set goals, and define the problem. One team member expressed concerns regarding the group’sefforts, “Our team is pretty adept at identifying issues and setting goals. Defining problems isalso a strength, but I feel like we don’t map a path to get to the goals very well. I think I wouldlike a little more structure to our approach at this point, but I don’t have a very good idea on howto implement this.” It seems that with time, it becomes

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

KENNETH WADE JACKSON

the prospect for exciting engineering work such as thespace program provided. The nation’s new problems will require undergraduateengineers to acquire complementary skills and perspectives of multiple disciplinesthat more explicitly recognize the practical importance of the human element andtechnical innovation. Engineers in the 21st century will face unprecedented globalchange and rate of change in technology, economics and social institutions. To meetthese challenges, recently referred to by the NAE as a gathering storm, engineeringeducation will need to embed more technology and soft skills into traditionalscience-based engineering courses without reducing practical STEM content andrigor. Engineering faculty will need also to create and

Conference Session

Students' Abilities and Attitudes

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristi J Shryock, Texas A&M University; arun r srinivasa, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

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Mathematics

paragraph may have contributed to the motivationfor the Neal Report6, which emphasized the need for postsecondary institutions to reformundergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. In a recentstudy by the Mathematics Association of America (MAA), mathematicians, who led the study,brought together groups of engineering and computer faculty members as well as otherdownstream consumers, students who took mathematics courses, to explore the evolution or insome cases lack thereof of new instructional practices7. Summarizing conversations of thedifferent disciplinary faculty, Ganter and Barker7 reported concerns about the mathematicspreparation of undergraduate students for their disciplinary courses.Stimulated by the

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James G. Ladesic P.E., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Robert R. Wolz, Gulfstream Aerospace; Frank Simmons III P.E., Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation; Timothy D. Farley

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College Industry Partnerships

citizens but not practitioners. They have writtentextbooks, have helped define the curricula content evolution, and also currently deicide theprofiles befitting junior faculty as new hires – and the trend perpetuates. Page 25.25.12Impact of widespread outsourcing on overseas suppliers,Of late this tendency has changed a bit with many non-citizens upon graduation choosing toreturn to their home countries adding to the capabilities of those nations and contributing tooverseas outsourcing issues now faced in the U.S. job market. Meanwhile U.S. manufacturersmove their sub-assembly manufacturing dependence to overseas sites in hope of

Conference Session

MVCC Technical Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith A. Landry PE, Georgia Southern University; Mike Jackson, Georgia Southern University

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Military and Veterans Constituent Committee

0AbstractDrawing upon recent published studies concerning veteran students and the Post 9/11 GI Bill, theauthors extract the top issues military veterans face during their transition into an academicenvironment and pursuit of higher-level education. Building upon models proposed by Malone(2009) related to military individual training, Lowman (1995) related to student learning andAmbrose (2013) concerning student motivation, the authors adapt an ecological model used byPackard (2016) in her targeted STEM mentoring programs to develop a mentoring programfocused on improving the efficacy of veteran students pursuing STEM majors as a means ofmitigating those issues and improving graduation rates. The authors describe the longitudinal studyof veteran student

Conference Session

Civil Engineering in the Age of AI

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina Cercone, Manhattan University; Konstantine Aristomenis Mendrinos, Manhattan College; Matthew Volovski, Manhattan College; JUNESEOK LEE, Manhattan University; Medya Fathi, Manhattan University; Mehdi Omidvar, Manhattan University; Shahriar Quayyum, Manhattan College

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

primarily undergraduate focused institution. Survey data focused onstudent satisfaction ratings and reactions to traditionally created vs AI generated content as wellas feedback on faculty perception and comfort level around utilizing AI as an educational tool ispresented.IntroductionOne of the greatest challenges and opportunities facing higher education today is the use ofartificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on education. The excessive use of AI technology bystudents has raised concerns regarding the impact on students’ academic and real-lifeperformance [1]. This coupled with academic integrity issues associated with AI has created anegative stigma for many educators [2]-[5]. Despite the negative perceptions surroundingstudents’ use of AI

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - GIFTS

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey W. Fergus P.E., Auburn University; Jessica Bowers, Auburn University - Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

, understanding the consequence oftechnology, understanding how people use machines and social consciousness, as they proceededthrough their engineering programs and found that the level of interest in these issues declined.The decline was attributed to attitudes that non-technical concerns were not relevant to “real”engineering and similarly social competencies were valued less than technical skills. In addition,an emphasis on meritocracy leads to the view that social structures are fair and just, such thatthey need not be of concern for engineers.Niles et al. [3] found that even students in programs that had well-established engagement inpublic welfare had difficulty appreciating the value of non-technical skills as part of their identityas engineers

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

purposes. First,and most notably for this discussion, they provide a defined measure of student performancewith respect to those outcomes targeted for ABET assessment. Second, they provide a clearcontract between faculty and students to help students understand both the expectations for theassignment at hand and, when linked to a-k, the role of that assignment in achieving and/orreflecting the broader educational goals of the program. Finally, such rubrics also greatlystreamline the grading process itself by codifying comments and concerns.Implementation: Managing WorkloadsOne of the most pressing issues raised by this portfolio approach is the work involved inteaching, gathering, and evaluating a complete document cycle. Several strategies

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron C. Clark; Eric Wiebe

prepared for a possible move away from the current one-on-one instruction they are receiving. This article outlines current trends in campus computing,the current state of computer literacy of students taking engineering graphics courses, andcurricular issues impacted by these findings.II. Current trends in academic computingThe new millennium closes a decade that has seen a rapid expansion of the use of networkedcomputers on college and university campuses. By the Fall of 1995, half of all college studentsand faculty had recurring instructional experience with information technology while more thanhalf of all college students and three-fourths of faculty had access to the Internet and WWW 1.More recent surveys show a continuing upward trend in

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Riha, Iowa State University; Diane Rover, Iowa State University; Julia Apple-Smith, Iowa State University; James Melsa, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

International

when it comes tointernational experiences: “Universities and engineering programs need to develop more flexibleapproaches to their educational programs.” The University at Buffalo acknowledges that inaddition to faculty and financial support, encouragement has come from the ability to create andoperate flexible programs.In summary, about 15% of the schools rely completely on university-wide internationalprograms and have no engineering specific programs. It is also clear from the responses that inmany cases the engineering international programs are new and/or rapidly expanding.4.3 Question 3.a – What was the motivation for creating them?In addition to the general concepts discussed above in the section on Globalization inEngineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

about their specific major so thatthey can make an informed decision. Thus, a new freshman program is being established toaddress these concerns both in and out of the classroom. These efforts are being implemented inconjunction with the redesign of the introductory engineering course (ES 130) offered atVanderbilt University from a skills-based approach to a problem-solving approach. An integral part of the introductory engineering course is a semester long project. In order to(a) familiarize the freshman with the different engineering majors and (b) incorporate theengineering design process into the curriculum, discipline-specific engineering design projectshave been implemented into the freshman Engineering course. The discipline-specific

Conference Session

Capstone Courses I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Sanders, Kettering University; Mark Thompson, Kettering University; Mohamed El-Sayed, Kettering University; Lucy King, Kettering University; Michael Lindquist, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

improvedbecause of this interdisciplinary concept. Some students, however, were concerned or uncertainabout the role of some of the other disciplines. There were some concerns and commentsregarding organization, cohesion, having different syllabi, requirements, milestones, gradingscales for each discipline, and having common time for work on the project. Although majorityof these issues were addressed – for example, a common time slot was put aside by the involveddepartments for each group to meet with the professors and the time line and milestones weregiven at the beginning of the project – the participating faculty sincerely valued the commentsand considered them as “lessons learned.” Meetings are suggested to discuss what actions arenecessary to

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael T. Hertz; Luna P. Magpilli; Michael E. Gorman

2Monsanto and Genetically-Modified Organisms 3environmental sustainability are incompatible are right. And if we grow by using more stuff, I’m afraidwe’d better start looking for a new planet. But sustainability and development might be compatible if youcould create value and satisfy people’s needs by increasing the information component of what’s producedand diminishing the amount of stuff” (Margretta 1997). He also noted that “The market is going to wantsustainable systems and if Monsanto provides them, we will do well for ourselves and our shareholders”(Kilman & Burton, 1999, A10). A case study of Monsanto would therefore confront students with ethical issues on the

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

P. James Moser; Biswajit Ray

Page 7.496.7 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationwill be visited to ensure that the designed program exceeds ABET -TAC requirements for asuccessful accreditation.Consistency with the Mission, Priorities, and Goals of the UniversityA real concern among our liberal arts colleagues was whether the new program would benefitand be consistent with our strong liberal arts traditions. Some faculty members fretted overwhether engineering technology would be the first step in transforming a respected liberal artsuniversity into a vocational trade school. We reminded the faculty that the general

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Abdullah Azzouni, Oregon State University; Jennifer Parham-Mocello, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

accreditation use thecurriculum portion of the accreditation report to improve their curriculum [23]. CI of curriculumalso generates data that benefit other CI components. Changes and improvements in a curriculumhighlight both required and outdated faculty skills [24], [32]. A computing program can helptheir faculty acquire those skills or hire new faculty members who already have them. Reviewingand improving the curriculum can also alter required course objectives [13], [25], [31], [36].Courses are potentially eliminated, or their expected outcomes are modified. There is also thepotential of program or department goal modification recommendations based on the curriculumCI process [36]. A curriculum is how a computing department implements its vision

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

John T. Berry; Gregory L. Ferguson

consequence, many engineering schools dismantled theirmanufacturing process laboratories. Attempting to rebuild the labs is prohibitively expensive, especially in lightof budget concerns and the explosion in new equipment technologies. Another complaint about traditionalmanufacturing courses having a “hands-on” lab was that it only trained students to be “shade tree mechanics”and not “real engineers”. Simply reimplementing the traditional course can not overcome these deficiencies.Several curriculums have implemented a lecture based survey course to make students aware of manufacturingtopics. Lecture courses, by their very nature, are incapable of conveying an appreciation for manufacturingissues that the hands-on labs can achieve in a limited

Conference Session

2-Year College Division: Workforce Pathways and ATE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; David M. Hata, Portland Community College; Emery DeWitt, Mentor-Connect/FDTC; Liesel Ritchie, Oklahoma State University; Nnenia Campbell, Collaborative for the Social Dimensions of Disasters ; Jamie Vickery, Center for the Study of Disasters and Extreme Events, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

noted what they perceived to be as “tension”between teaching obligations and the attention needed to devote toward the grant. As someparticipants explained, faculty overload and time commitment issues were a direct reflection ofthe lack of familiarity and experience with the grant-writing process. A key issue for them waslearning how to budget the appropriate amount of time to ensure the successful implementationof project components.Lack of familiarity with grant-writing and grant administration: People interviewed at amajority of the 11 colleges in Cohort 1 expressed concerns and constraints relating to a lack offamiliarity with grant writing and grant administration, including the need for more directionaround grant budgeting, creating an

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan A. Burtner

Drop ball gameTable 1. Spring 1992 Page 2.307.2 By Spring, 1993, it was getting harder to find new projects as well as faculty willing tovolunteer to be a client. Many faculty members wanted to work with only one or two teams.Since there were over forty teams, it was necessary to develop a large number of differentprojects. In addition, some projects were significantly more difficult than others. This causedsome concern among the students. Table 2 includes a list of the projects we used in the Spring1993 term. PROJECT DESCRIPTION RATING COMMENTS Desk drawer organizer Good

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Pease; Edward Mastascusa; Dan Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Bill Snyder; Maurice F. Aburdene; Michael Prince; Margot Vigeant

group consensus in the timeavailable in class. An open-door office hour policy, frequent use of e-mail and Blackboard, andallowing students to call the instructor at home helped to address this issue. Despite this, somestudents resented having to assume more responsibility in the learning process and had a hardtime adjusting to the new role of the instructor. The homework problems were used to drive the learning that occurred in the classroom.While problem-based learning and cooperative learning are distinct educational methods, it wasfound that there were natural synergies between the two for engineering courses. Specifically,several faculty adopted elements of problem-based learning as a vehicle to promote more activestudent

Conference Session

Focus on Emerging Topics Around the World

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Bursic, University of Pittsburgh; Kim Needy, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

in any department at the school. The IEDepartment is leading an effort to ensure that all of its graduates have an internationalexperience.Discussion amongst the IE faculty at Pitt regarding implementing the international requirementhas been ongoing for well over two years. We wanted to go beyond simply requiring students totake international or global coursework. We believe that the best way to ensure that ourgraduates are prepared for the global market, have a basic understanding of global and culturalissues, and can utilize this understanding in an engineering context is to require an internationaltravel experience. However, there were clearly some serious issues and obstacles to considerbefore proceeding with such a requirement.A survey

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Vuksanovich, Youngstown State University; Darrell Wallace, Youngstown State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

to the student’s understanding of current methods andequipment used in industry at the time.It was noticed that a larger percentage of faculty had little or no industrial experience whencompared to previous years. More faculty were hired directly out of university programs, and theones that were from industry had less experience and far less responsible roles. This isparticularly bad for a discipline that is primarily concerned with the application of the conceptstaught in class.Academia, as a whole, has shifted towards research oriented programs. Many believe thatworking on basic research will help bring about innovation. The issue here is that in the majorityof the cases, the research revolves around many premises that are not practical or

Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Burian, University of Utah; Pedro Romero, University of Utah; Steven Bartlett, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

discussed in the context of writing.We also continue to identify problems with using teams and team leaders in undergraduatecourses. After identification we discuss at first through email and then in meetings ideas forsolutions. Our recent consideration has been the encouragement of equitable participation,especially in out-of-class activities. In class, the TA or instructor is there to see that all areparticipating; but out-of-class issues in the past have shown that some groups becomedysfunctional as tension develops or due to schedule conflicts. We have resolved some of thesein the past by talking with those concerned and mediating the issues. We have also tried to allowteam members the capability of giving poor participation grades; but this is