Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven C. Zemke, Gonzaga University; Diane L. Zemke

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

students used the term cross-section whendescribing the shape in the middle of a part. Presumably, the students did not know the terms andhence didn’t use them. It seems that adding a brief list of technical terms into a curriculum andthen using them may remedy this shortcoming.Another technical way to describe parts is leveraging how the part is manufactured or modeled.The students used the occasional modeling or machining term; however, they frequently andeffectively used the manufacturing term bend while describing the electrical boxes. Thisparticular term allowed them to describe the flat surfaces as they progressed from one point toanother. It should be noted that all participants were currently enrolled in a design class whereevery prototype

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Kevin C Bower P.E., The Citadel; Robert J Barsanti Jr., The Citadel; Ronald W. Welch P.E., The Citadel

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Military and Veterans

through these non-traditional students.This paper discusses some of the professional skills recognized in veterans. It then providesexamples of veterans in leadership roles in three different programs and activities. Oneexperience will be a project leader in the ASCE concrete canoe, another is the role of veteranleaders in a senior design project in electrical engineering. Finally, the last experience describesthe veterans assuming leadership roles in the student chapter of ASME. Based upon thefeedback and peer assessments, these veterans played significant roles in their organizations’ andteams’ activities and eventual success.IntroductionThe Citadel has a well-known and highly-ranked engineering program. Most recently, it has beenrated as one

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention Matters in Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian P. DeJong, Central Michigan University; Dru M. Wilson Wilson, Central Michigan University

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Engineering Technology

Engineering (EGR120)in their first semester of freshman year. EGR120 is offered both semesters and currently has nopre- or co-requisite. Its syllabus covers introductory engineering material such as theengineering profession, disciplines, courses, problem solving, basic electrical and mechanicalconcepts, as well as two team-based design projects. For the first three years (2005-2006 to2007-2008 school years), the course was taught as one section; starting in the fourth year it wasbroken into smaller multiple sections to enhance professor-student interaction and studentlearning.EGR120 consistently draws relatively high enrollment (currently around 170 students per year),with 76% of the students taking the course in the fall. However, only 40-45 of

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hank D Voss, Taylor University; Jeff F Dailey; William A Bauson, Taylor University; Bill Chapman, Taylor University

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Aerospace

Paper ID #13398Nano-satellites and HARP for Student Learning and ResearchDr. Hank D Voss, Taylor University Dr. Hank D. Voss, Taylor University Dr. Hank D. Voss received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois in 1977. He then worked for Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratories prior to coming to Taylor University in 1994. He is currently a Professor of Engineering and Physics at Taylor University. Some of the courses that he regularly has taught include Principles of Engineering, Intro to Electronics, Statics, Advanced Electronics, Jr. Engineering Projects, FE Review, Control Systems

Collection

2021 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

Chemical Engineers, 14,35-42.Gaynor, G.H., “The Engineer as A Professional: What Does It Mean, What Does It Take?”Innovation Management Institute, 1997 Professional Activities Conference Proceedings,Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1997.Gronlund,N.E., How to write and Use Instructional Objectives, 6 th ed, Englewood Cliffs, NJ,Prentice- Hall, 1999.Holley, K. 2017, “Interdisciplinary curriculum and learning in higher education”, OxfordResearch Encyclopedia of Education.Huutoniemi, K., J.T. Klein, H. Bruun, J. Hukkinen, Analyzing interdisciplinarity: Typology andindicators, Elsevier, 2009.Kuldell, N. 2007, “Authentic teaching and learning through synthetic biology”, Journal ofBiological Engineering, 1, 8.Lattuca, L. R., Knight

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 2: AI, Computation, and Electronics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Azizi Penn, Purdue University ; Kerrie A. Douglas, Purdue University ; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

students' motivation topursue a career in microelectronics differ after this limited curriculum intervention?Literature ReviewThe Role of Interest in Career DevelopmentSocial Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) [9] is an overarching conceptual framework that guidesall of the decisions of the Scalable Asymmetric Lifecycle Engagement (SCALE) project. SCCTemphasizes the role of relevant interests in career development. Within SCCT's Choice Modeland Interest Model, interest directly links self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and career-relatedchoices [9]. Because of this, many studies seeking to affect student's interest in engineeringcareers focus on increasing student self-efficacy and outcome expectations. In SCCT, interestsdirectly relate to choice

Conference Session

Division for Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emine Celik Foust, York College of Pennsylvania

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

-based approach in whichstudents propose an idea for the project, design and develop their own experiments. Their findingssuggest that each method has its own advantages and disadvantages. All three methods should beused during the semester for a junior/senior level laboratory class (Habibi, et al. 2016). The classactivities assigned during the instrumentation laboratory class at York College of Pennsylvaniacan be categorized as: In-class exercises: cookbook approach and design-based approach Hands-on laboratory exercises: cookbook approach and design-based approach Team Projects: proposal-based approachTeam Projects: Students work in groups on a final project of their choice which utilizes the principles ofdata

Conference Session

WIED: Analysis, Challenges, Success, and Impacts

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth DaMaren, University of Toronto; Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto

-personal skills [17]. Though thesestudies were not directly focused on CAD software, they do provide insight into how, in general, societalstandards and socialization of individuals based on gender has the potential to pre-dispose an individualtowards or away from technical software like CAD tools.Looking more specifically at CAD itself, research shows that gendering and gender stereotypes of theexamples and projects used in CAD training can have an influence on recruitment and success of women.A study published by Günay et al. investigated the effects of gender orientation, amongst other factors, onstudent performance in projects which included the use of computer-aided drafting drawings [18]. Theyfound that when the project topic was skewed

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2011-215: ENHANCING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET OFFRESHMAN ENGINEERSKenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University Ken Reid is the Director of Freshman Engineering and an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio Northern University. He was the seventh person in the U.S. to receive a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. He is active in engineering within K-12, serving on the JETS Board of Directors and 10 years on the IEEE-USA Precollege Education Committee. He co-developed ”The Tsunami Model Eliciting Activity” which was awarded Best Middle School Curriculum by the Engineering Education Service Center in 2009, and was named the Herbert F. Alter Chair of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Gordon W Skelton, Jackson State University; Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

about the efficiency of their strategies, and guide learners’ reflection at a level that they donot generally consider 12, 13. Well-designed and embedded prompts direct learners to perform aspecific desired activity which is contextualized within a particular learning and problem-solvingsituation12,13. Educational researchers had consistently demonstrated success in using self-assessment andprompts for improving students’ learning. White et al.14 adopted the reflective assessment intheir mechanics curriculum for junior high school students, and showed that students whoroutinely answered the reflective assessment prompts developed a better understanding of boththe subject matter and the inquiry process. Tien et al15 demonstrated students who

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Alexéi García Sheridan, Virginia Tech; Kenneth Reid, Virginia Tech

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Pre-College Engineering Education

evokes are proposed by P21 in theirFramework for 21st Century Learning [2], including collaboration, social/cross-cultural skills,productivity, accountability, leadership, and responsibility. Multiple pre-packaged curriculasuch as TeachEngineering, Engineering by Design and Project Lead the Way [3-5] addressteaming as a major professional skill. Such curricula are typically built upon frameworkssuch as NGSS [6] or the Common Core English Language Standards [7]. Attempts toeffectively integrate such content can be constrained for teachers lacking time and funding toconsider major revisions or additions to their curriculum implementations. Suchconsiderations inform this study’s premise to investigate teaching in pre-college classroomson a limited

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Management

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Czuchry, East Tennessee State University; Michael Parker, Bristol Tennessee Essential Services; Robert Bridges, B&W Y-12 Technical Services, LLC

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Engineering Management

jumps in the business system might allow the system to evolve andimprove over time without incurring the penalty of anarchy in the process. With this guideline inmind we move from the iterative loop to Step 12. Promising non-linear jumps in the SIPOCmodel can be fleshed out with detailed commercialization and return on investment analyses andplans. Then appropriate pilot projects are implemented in Step 13. During this step assumptionsare evaluated and appropriate adjustments are made. At this point another Baldrige assessmentis suggested to evaluate the risk-reward equation. Values for each parameter are generated andplotted on the innovation radar chart with forecasted and actual results for each pilot project. SeeSawhney et al. for a

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 12

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Dunham, Purdue University; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Nrupaja Bhide, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

LED curriculum, which isthe importance of using engineering tools to create community-specific solutions. Onepotential idea the teachers suggested to further develop this characteristic in the designnotebook was having prompts within the notebook that were specific to a community-relatedproject students are working on. This section of the interview is shown below.Teacher 2: “Yeah, what I was saying [is] that the design notebook... They should have thatdesign notebook the way it has been designed, but they have to create some of the project,which are some of the challenges within the camp. … So for them, they should have differentprojects apart from the design notebooks. So they will continue learning the design notebookbut they have different

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuwei Deng, King's College London; Wei Liu, King's College London

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

on the application ofdesign thinking in tourism education. Both studies demonstrate how educators in diversedisciplines often make disciplinary adjustments to adapt to the unique requirements of innovationand design.A comprehensive review of the literature on the topic of design thinking in engineeringeducation was conducted. Here we present four representative reviews of the literature. Theseliterature reviews emphasize the advantages of integrating design thinking into engineeringeducation and the significance and superiority of such an approach. Dym [11] conducted areview of the history of design in the engineering curriculum and highlighted the most usededucational model for design thinking, Project-Based Learning (PBL). Lor's research

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 7

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Watkins-Lewis, Morgan State University; Heather Dillon, University of Washington; Rebecca N. Sliger, Tacoma Community College; Bonnie J. Becker; Erica Cline; Cheryl Greengrove; Petronella A. James, Morgan State University; Angela Edes Kitali; Adrienne Scarcella

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

the project, we have limited the results shared to the studentsurveys to protect the identity of the student participants. We plan to continue data collection in futureyears and report on the qualitative data in the future.To assess in part how students experienced our new CURE and M-CURE courses we asked them tocomplete pre and post surveys. The survey content included basic demographic information, studentmindset, and research identity based on the work of Corwin et al. [31]. We shared the surveys with all thestudents participating in the pilot course offerings. Since we had only 5 students in our pilot CURE courseand 2 students in our pilot M-CURE course we do not have statistically significant results, but we havehelpful comments from

Collection

2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Xingwu Wang; Bruce B. Rosenthal; Casey J. Busch; Jeff Porter; John L. Cusack

renewable energy engineering is fully functional, and anadditional masters’ program with emphasis on sustainability is being considered.Accompanying the new initiatives, the investigators conducted surveys to assist planningin course alignments and research projects. This article summarizes the lessons learnedand offers suggestions for future activities. I. IntroductionSustainability on a university campus typically involves curriculum, research, andoperations.1-2 Before introducing sustainability into curricula, a survey was conducted togauge the faculty’s willingness.3 Faculty development was considered a key componentduring curriculum revisions.4 Integrated curriculum models were proposed and tested.5Additionally, it is important to strengthen

Conference Session

ERM: Design!

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh; William Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Justin Hess, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

Paper ID #36951Empathy Development in Community-Engagement CourseNusaybah Abu-Mulaweh Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh is a Lecturer in the EPICS Program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She received her BS in Computer Engineering from Purdue University Fort Wayne, and received her MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. After working as a software engineer in industry, she returned to academia as a lecturer and she is currently pursuing her PhD in Engineering Education at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.William C. Oakes (Director and

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Browder, Bristol Tennessee Essential Services; Andrew J. Czuchry, East Tennessee State University; April Eads

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

Paper ID #11810Building a Broadband Community with a Baldrige Based ApproachDr. Michael Browder, Bristol Tennessee Essential Services Michael Browder, a past chairman of American Public Power Association’s Board, has served as CEO of Bristol Tennessee Essential Services (BTES) since 1977. He earned his doctorate of Educational Lead- ership and Policy Analysis from ETSU, his Master of Administrative Science from the University of Alabama Huntsville and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Auburn University. He is a registered Professional Engineer. Dr. Browder is the 2010 recipient of the Tennessee Center for Performance

Conference Session

International Study Abroad Programs & Student Engagements

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Grayson, University of Pretoria

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International

program. The level 200 mathematics courses are common to all programs.Table 3 gives an example of how the detailed curriculum and credit values for the first two yearsof the ENGAGE program compare with the 4-year engineering program for one of the programs,electrical engineering. The table shows that from Year 1 to Year 2 the total number of credits Page 15.465.9taken in the ENGAGE program increases, while both the number and the proportion ofdevelopmental modules decreases. In Year 3 the number of credits taken per semester is 64, allof which are mainstream modules. By the time ENGAGE students join mainstream students inYear 4 they should be ready

Conference Session

Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) in Construction Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abigael Olatoyosi Oluniyi; Svetlana Olbina, Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

that AR can promote student-centered learning byempowering students to autonomously explore information and solve problems [19]. Diegmannet al. [20] stated that AR has the potential to empower students, fostering proactivity andcultivating the willpower to sustain knowledge beyond class lectures. Wu et al. [21] found thatthrough the organization, search, and evaluation of data and information, AR mobile gameshelped learners strengthen their navigational skills for both primary and secondary data. AR aidsstudents in visualizing and comprehending intricate project design and construction ideas [9],[12], [22]. With its distinctive user interface, AR is useful for finishing projects, presentations,and reports that use both real building models and

Conference Session

Accreditation and Continuous Quality Improvement -- What the Experts Are Saying!

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

(subject areas, but not credit hours) and faculty qualifications. Page 15.209.2 ≠ Criteria should include a core, consisting of both knowledge and skills. This core should uniformly define what it takes to become an engineer and what constitutes the minimum content of an engineering curriculum. It should also ensure a broad education that emphasizes the basics, encourages lifelong learning, and inculcates desirable experiences and capabilities.These recommendations served as the basis for the development of ABET Engineering Criteria2000 (commonly abbreviated as EC2000). These criteria were formally adopted by

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 8: Lab Module Development

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy K. Firth, University of Utah; Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah; Mason John

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Paper ID #39156Development and Use of an Adaptable Arduino-Based Control System forBench-Top Process Control ExperimentsDr. Stacy K. Firth, University of Utah Stacy K. Firth is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah. In her role, she focuses on Engineering education in grades K-12 and undergradu- ate education. She has developed an inclusive curriculum for a year-long Engineering exploration and projects course that is now taught in 57 Utah high schools. She also developed and provides professional development workshops for Elementary and Secondary science

Conference Session

Best Practices in IE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Industrial Engineering

educational objectives to reflectcurrent needs of industry. Using current job descriptions focuses these conversations and helpsmaintain currency of the program.IntroductionTo design a curriculum based on ABET-EAC criteria, one works backward, as shown in Figure1. Program Courses Program Program educational outcomes objectives Figure 1: Flowchart for curriculum designProgram educational objectives (PEOs), which are “broad statements that describe the career andprofessional accomplishments that the program is preparing graduates to

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division - Is This Real? Reaching Students with Virtual and Augmented Reality

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ayatollah Yehia, University of Virginia; Jacqueline Chao, University of Virginia; Connor Lyons, University of Virginia; Mehrdad Shafiei Dizaji, University of Virginia; Devin Harris, University of Virginia

] built an AR haptictraining simulator for spinal needle procedures intended for medical students and residents. Aphysical mannequin linked to the virtual environment projected a video of the procedure andprovided feedback if bone or tissue was struck by the needle. Buchau et. al [13] utilizedfinite-element analysis (FEA) combined with a 3D meshing tool to display electromagnetic fieldsin AR for teaching purposes. Y¨uz¨uak and Yi˘git [14] created an AR app to teach N-TypeMOSFET, a field-effect transistor made of metal oxide, to undergraduate electrical engineeringstudents. The marker-based AR would begin animations and display how the transistor wouldreact under various voltage conditions. Dinis et al. [15] presented a virtual reality (VR

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rohit Kandakatla, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Angela Goldenstein, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David Allen Evenhouse, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeffrey F. Rhoads, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Engineering and Public Policy

Paper ID #21969MEERCat: A Case Study of How Faculty-led Research Initiatives Gave Riseto a Cross-departmental Research Center with Potential to Inform Local Pol-icyMr. Rohit Kandakatla, Purdue University, West Lafayette Rohit Kandakatla is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity. He has his bachelors and masters in Electrical Engineering from India. He currently serves as the Chair-elect of the ASEE Student Division as has been an active member of the international engineering education community while serving as the President of Student Platform for Engineering Education De

Conference Session

Intercollegiate and Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Burks Fasse PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; James William Schwoebel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ethan James Craig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Anish Joseph, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ajit Vakharia, Georgia Institute of Technology; Steve M. Potter PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kim Dooley, Texas A&M University; James DUPE Linder, Texas A&M University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

following ten years in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing where she was a member of the NSF-funded Learning By DesignTM Problem-Based Learning curriculum de- velopment and research project. She also conducted an NSF-funded ethnographic study of learning in a problem-driven, project-based bio-robotics research lab at Georgia Tech. In addition to her duties in BME, she is an advisor to the interdisciplinaryScience Learning: Integrating Design, Engineering, and Robotics (SLIDER) project.Mr. James William Schwoebel, Georgia Institute of TechnologyMr. Ethan James Craig, Georgia Institute of TechnologyMr. Anish Joseph, Georgia Institute of TechnologyAjit Vakharia, Georgia Institute of TechnologyProf. Steve M. Potter PhD, Georgia

Conference Session

Contextual Competencies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christel Heylen, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven; Jos Vander Sloten, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven

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Educational Research and Methods

second semester. A checklist of desired writing abilities makes it easier to grade the large number of papers. Furthermore this ensures that all staff involved in the evaluation process uses the same criteria to grade and for providing feedback. This paper describes the implementation of the writing program and how it was evaluated by collecting survey-data. Keywords: technical writing skills; peer review; interactive lecture; project-based learning; first year engineering course1. Introduction and Course DescriptionThe KU Leuven is a Catholic University situated in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium. Theengineering curriculum at KU Leuven consists of a three year Bachelor’s program thatprepares the students for a

Collection

2020 ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference

Authors

Gül E. Kremer, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

environments and promotes creative need-based designs (Crain & Tull, 2004).Reissman et al. (2017) also proposed a new capstone course for Mechanical Engineering studentsat the University of Dayton, which emphasizes the application of physics-based and data miningtoward open-ended project prompts. Peter Idowu (2004) presented a study about the pre-capstonecourse at Penn State Harrisburg to solve the lack of clarity students have in developing projectideas. In this study, researchers concluded that a pre-capstone course enabled students tocommunicate effectively. Elvin Shields (2007) studied the effect of capstone engineering designexperience in fostering creativity. Various methods and techniques can assess students’ creativity. For example

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa McNair, Virginia Tech; Tamara Knott, Virginia Tech; Mary Leigh Wolfe, Virginia Tech; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

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Educational Research and Methods

classificatory schemes of how people learn. We willprovide examples of how selected faculty in our College of Engineering are developing ways tointegrate ePortfolio into undergraduate curricula as a device that (1) guides students tounderstand and take ownership of their education, (2) helps faculty define and teach the ABETprogram outcomes (both technical and professional), and (3) enables departments to assessspecific programs and archive materials for outside assessment.Rationale: E-Portfolio Tools for Assessing Professional SkillsAs part of a larger NSF-funded Department-Level Reform (DLR) grant, we are developingmechanisms for using electronic portfolios to document and assess engineering outcomes. Thispaper reports the first phases of this project

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip du Plessix, University of Calgary; Graham Armitage, University of Calgary; Kara Chomistek, University of Calgary; Clifton Johnston, University of Calgary; Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Mohamed Nazir, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Diane Douglas, University of Calgary; Brigit Knecht, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

University ofCalgary, Schulich School of Engineering for the first year design and communication courses.These courses promote a hands-on, inquiry based learning environment where students build andtest a variety of projects in a dynamic, open-ended curriculum. To allow for a truly hands-ondesign experience, the laboratories are equipped with tool chests containing various hand andpower tools, available for student use during the construction and testing of their projects.Despite the fact that there have been few injuries in the design laboratories, it became clearthrough observations of students and instructors that many of the tools were being usedincorrectly. Allowing for student use of hand tools in the laboratory comes with inherent