Conference Session

Teaching Tools for Humanities and Ethics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

minds into new, more lasting techno-bodies, took ona whole new perspective in light of more global issues of access and need. It was overthis concern that the intergenerational encounter became so rich. As the following excerpts from SEAS student essays reveal, profound learninghad taken place in the intergenerational exchange; learning which may never havehappened otherwise. “Should we use our existing technology to address humanitarian issues before we try toimprove it? Can technology help close the gap between the have and the have-nots? Alarge part of our class with the senior citizens was spent addressing these two questions.What made this particularly interesting to me was the fact that none of the questions havecome up in our own

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

III, John J. Bausch; Fredric M. Gold

by acquainting students with new processes and tools. It requires students tounderstand not only the fundamentals of engineering science but also to be able to apply what they knowto “real” problems and issues. Most undergraduates attend the university for four or five years, and it isnot possible to teach the students everything that they might need to know in that time period. Thefundamentals of tool and fixture design is an area that has not been emphasized in undergraduateeducation. Fixturing is one of the least understood and yet most fundamental of manufacturing processes.Undergraduate and graduate students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI) have been on site atPratt and Whitney Aircraft (PWA) in North Haven, CT., working on

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey L. Newcomer

reinforcing or practicing skills intro-duced in other courses, and limited or no new instruction on the skill. The highest levels includelarger, longer assignments, frequently more than one, and significant instruction and feedbackregarding the skill. Just as not every skill can be integrated into every class, not every skill thatis part of the class can be addressed to the same extent. Selecting the learning objectives to beaddressed and the extent to which they will be addressed will help determine both the scale andscope of assignments that one will use in the course, and the amount of class time that one mustdevote to instruction on the subject. Before creating a syllabus, however, the course developermust address the issue of student

Conference Session

Case Studies & Engineering Education Around the Globe

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

International

(dominated by traditional lecture-based methods) must be mandated and supported by the university administration. What isnecessary to create a change, is for the department or college, to have a comprehensive andintegrated set of components: clearly articulated expectations, opportunities for faculty to learnabout new pedagogies, and an equitable 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

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

. The paper alsoargues that any meaningful change in Region’s classroom practices today (dominated bytraditional lecture-based methods) must be mandated and supported by the universityadministration. What is necessary to create a change, is for the department or college, to have acomprehensive and integrated set of components: clearly articulated expectations, opportunitiesfor faculty to learn about new pedagogies, and an equitable 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

Conference Session

Impact of COVID-19 on Design Education 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Eastern Michigan University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, American Society for Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

the faculty at Kettering University for 18 years, eventually earning the position of Associate Provost. In addition to her work in academia she has served in industry and government. She is a four-time gubernatorial appointee to the Michigan Truck Safety Commission and, as commissioner, served as chair for two terms. She also chaired the Driver’s Education Advisory Committee and the Motorcycle Safety Advisory Committee for the Michigan Depart- ment of State—work that resulted in new legislation for Michigan. She began her career as an engineer for General Motors Truck Group and has been nationally recognized in higher education as both an Ameri- can Council on Education Fellow and a New Leadership Academy Fellow

Conference Session

Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eunjeong Ma, Pohang University of Science and Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

, with a particular focus on the relationship between humanities andsocial sciences and core engineering subjects. The overarching goal of the engineeringeducation program was to foster creativity, innovation, collaboration, student-centeredlearning, problem-based learning, and hybrid approaches. This was reflected in the diversearray of faculty members, representing various fields including computer engineering,biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, humanities and social sciences,industrial engineering, and business administration. Since its inception, the new engineering department's identity has been a contentiousissue, particularly in relation to existing engineering disciplines and in relation to

Conference Session

Research Infrastructure in STEM Disciplines

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

NSF funding will also be assessed with the above metrics. Asbefore, they will be adapted to gather information about the institution itself, rather than theindividual faculty or staff.The fifth topic to be addressed concerns the assessment of instructional professionals at all levelsof education (K through higher education) from populations underrepresented in STEM. Thisinvolves questions for school districts along with all STEM departments as well as their collegesand institutions, with questions aimed at the two broad topics of professional development andacademic progression. Concerning the professional development of these individuals,departments should discuss how many and what kinds of professional development opportunitiesare offered

Conference Session

Track: Graduate - Technical Session 9

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Eunsil Lee, Arizona State University; Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Graduate Education

for addressing different types of academicchallenges. Academic support through interactions describes a group of incidents that relate to the academicsupport the students received through interactions with different groups of people (e.g., peers, faculty, orstaff in their academic unit). This theme consists of three sub-themes based on the people with whom thestudents interacted: 1) institutional support for academic transitions, 2) faculty availability and advisor’sresearch guidance, and 3) academic peer support.Sub-theme 2.1. Institutional support for academic transitions Included under institutional support for academic transition were a number of incidents thatenabled the students to cope with the issues related to their academic

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

submissions. Once the students are required to use electronic submission, most find it preferable, but there is an initial resistance to be overcome.Some of these issues may seem trivial, but they were sources of aggravation early on.E-Mail is heavily used as a communication channel between the faculty and students in all of thecourses. This can often save office visits, particularly when the student has a fairly simplequestion. Even with more difficult problems, a few E-mails back and forth are often sufficient tocover the issue to the student’s satisfaction. E-mail collaboration has also made it possible in afew instances for Co-op students at their work site to take courses along with the students oncampus.Some students who will not ask

Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Technical Session: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Sebastián Sánchez-Gómez, Universidad de los Andes; Laura Eugenia Romero Robles, Tecnológico de Monterrey; Maria Catalina Ramirez; Libis Valdez Cervantes; Luis Alberto Cruz Salazar, Universidad Antonio Nariño,Colombia; Technical University of Munich, School of Engineering and Design, Germany

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International Division (INTL)

in them, howSTEM teachers perceive their involvement, and what level of support is appropriate.Educators are also concerned that DEI work is disproportionately shouldered byunderrepresented racial and ethnic groups, which exacerbates what is known as the minoritytax [15]. It is important to acknowledge that while there are some teacher developmentinitiatives in DEI, they may not be adequate and may not address all of the fundamental needsof the environment. A DEI Model of Faculty Development in Engineering is shown in Figure1. Figure 1. DEI Model of Faculty Development in Engineering Edited figure for reference [14].The implications of all the above lead us to the urgent need for faculty development programsand initiatives on issues of

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergrad Eng Ed

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannette Neal

administration of network -basedcomputing content and resources. The primary target population for the new Web-Net TechProgram includes industry personnel in need of IT skills training or upgrading, students inacademia, and persons desiring to join the IT workforce. In addition, this project will provideprofessional development and collaboration opportunities for college/university faculty, industryrepresentatives, and high school teachers to enhance their own IT knowledge and skills.Outreach to high school students and other industrial organizations will further serve to informand attract new students and faculty into IT programs and training opportunities.This project is supported in part by the NSF ATE Program Grant DUE 0101419. Additional in -kind

Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., Univerity of Illinois College of Engineering; Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

community day camp taught by university students. Faculty associated with thatsummer program, after becoming familiar with the College of Engineering’s multi-disciplinary,water-system design course, learned while talking with Lumbisi community leaders that thecommunity was struggling with drought conditions in recent years, which was suppressing cropyields for indigenous farmers. This need was brought to the authors’ attention, and discussionsbegan about whether UIUC could initiate a new type of program to assist the community withirrigation design. A partner in the Global Studies program, non-government organizationFundacion Para la Educacion y el Voluntariado Internacional (FEVI), offered to act as facilitatorbetween USFQ and the community

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Goldberg

with other departments shall be made in advance to reserve the required seatingfor these students to insure that they take their required courses together. Preliminary contactswith other departments indicate overall support for the project. Individual professors will beencouraged to support the efforts especially in regard to their office hour with the group. Variousreading materials will be given to these professors regarding issues in the technical education ofwomen. If funding permits, these faculty members will be compensated for their additionaloffice hour. Hopefully they will look positively at the experience of the recitation. It will besomething new for them as well.The heart of the plan is the daily recitation period where the group

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

concerns, neither contractors nor the company construction managerwould allow students to do any actual physical labor. They were only allowed to participatein preconstruction meetings, damage evaluations, planning, permit application procedures,site inspections, work reviews, and verification of site specifications. The liability issue alsoseemed to have an adverse impact on initial student engagement in the project. Participatingstudents were required to sign a waiver form to satisfy institutional and agency legalrequirements. Statements in the form with wording like “I, M. A. Student, understand thatthere are risks involved in my participation in this volunteer Service-Learning Program

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division (EMD) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kumar Yelamarthi, Tennessee Technological University; Elizabeth A. Powell, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management Division (EMD)

CoE established regular brainstorming sessions where academic advisors can surface pressing student issues to college leadership. This platform for candid dialogue has driven positive transformations college-wide. In the year since its inception in 2021, the monthly discussions have already catalyzed key policy and curriculum enhancements. Advisors highlighted mounting concerns around academic stress and gaps in peer support, spurring new on-ramp programs for struggling learners. They also relayed course-specific bottlenecks in required sequences, prompting redesigns to ease progression. Through these brainstorming sessions, the Associate Dean actively engaged with department chairs and faculty, utilizing the insights

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Across Contexts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute; Horst Hohberger, University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Engineering Ethics. His research and teaching interests include engineering ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of technology, Chinese philosophy, political philosophy, and contempo- rary European philosophy. Rockwell completed his PhD at Purdue University, West Lafayette, MA at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, and BA at Fordham University, New York.Dr. Horst Hohberger, University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute Dr. Horst Hohberger is an Associate Teaching Professor for Mathematics at the UM-SJTU Joint Insti- tute (JI) and also serves as the Faculty Advisor for International Programs. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Potsdam, Germany in 2006. His research interests include

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura R. Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christina Matta, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Technical Communication Program

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

began to climb, resulting in larger classsizes for many faculty teaching senior design. With even more students, design faculty reallybegan to become more concerned about the increased time that they were investing in readingand grading lengthy team-written reports, especially when those reports were poorly written.This confluence of events eventually meant greater faculty interest in collaborating with theTechnical Communication Program to develop strategies that would produce better studentwriting.As we have pursued these collaborations, the depth of the split between “writing” and “content”courses has become clearer. Some of this split comes from a lack of consistent discourse about

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Study Abroad Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Paul M Yanik, Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University; Chip W Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University; Wes Stone, Western Carolina University; Hugh Jack, Western Carolina University; Jeffrey L. Ray, Western Carolina University

Tagged Topics

International Forum

worked in the Department of Orthopaedics performing skeletal biodynamics research.Before beginning engineering school he completed an apprenticeship and was awarded the title of Jour-neyman Industrial Electrician. These professional experiences have provided Ray the opportunity toexperience the full spectrum of engineering careers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016The Challenges and Lessons Learned in Establishing a Travel CourseAbstract: A travel course takes a significant amount of effort in its planning andexecution. The logistics are even more challenging when a travel course is introduced forthe first time. In the Engineering and Technology department at Western CarolinaUniversity (WCU), a faculty-led

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

the efforts of faculty embracing the use of new technologies in theclassroom, a university-wide Teaching and Learning Technology Roundtable (TLTR) has beenformed as an advisory body to the Provost on issues pertaining to the use of new technologies ininstruction. Among other things, the TLTR organizes an annual conference highlighting theaccomplishments of faculty in this endeavor.2. Course DescriptionThe course that is the subject of this paper is a typical semester-long course in EngineeringEconomic Analysis. The sole pre-requisite is a course in college algebra. The textbook we usefor the course is ‘Engineering Economy’ by Leland Blank and Anthony Tarquin; published byMcGraw-Hill. The topical coverage is summarized in Table 1

Conference Session

International Study Abroad Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati, Kettering University; Butsch Michael, FH-Konstanz, Germany

Tagged Divisions

International

opportunities in other parts of Europe and in Asia. Such study abroad programsprovide an opportunity and promote understanding across technical programs and othernations.This paper will discuss the continued efforts that include setting up of study abroad programpolicies, course mapping and course equivalency, students’ advisement, grading differences,student expectations, role of the faculty advisors, program assessment and finally, the lessonslearned for continuous improvements of such programs. Technical Universities that wish tostart new study abroad programs and those who already have study exchange in place wouldbenefit from the experiences, findings and recommendations presented in this paper.It is now well understood that engineering students

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Decision Making, Problem-Based Projects, Role-Play, and a Nontraditional Project Theme

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashish Hingle, George Mason University; Aditya Johri, George Mason University; Cory Brozina, Youngstown State University - Rayen School of Engineering

actionable consensus. We designed arole-play scenario that places students on a university task force that is evaluating the adoption orrejection of facial recognition technologies (FRT) to track and identify the COVID-19 reportingstatus of students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Students were asked to prepare and then participatein role-play discussions which were then assessed for learning. The data supporting this researchcomes from the role-play discussion transcripts of 86 first-year engineering students whoparticipated in four sections of an undergraduate engineering concepts class during Fall 2020.Our findings show that students successfully identified a breadth of ethical issues, dilemmas, andtopics related to the use of FRT on campus. In

Conference Session

Evaluation of Ethical Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University; Megan Kenny Feister, Purdue University; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University; Alan D. Mead, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

as issues of safety, design standards, and constraints of cultural norms.In these scenarios, students are situated in ethical decision-making environments and givenethical dilemmas that are very close to the issues what they may encounter in their designprojects. Different from Kohlberg’s approach using an interview that asks participants to solvemoral dilemmas and explain their choices,9 our instrument instructs students to indicateexplicitly what action they would like to take in the given situations. In the following example,the scenario “Soap Box Derby” is presented with the follow-up question, “would you lie to thechild?”, requiring a specific ethical decision by research participants: Your student design team has designed a new

Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

Khosrow Behbehani; Kevin D. Nelson; Robert C. Eberhart

collaboration between the industrial partner and the intern’s faculty advisor. Forinstance, the project that an intern has worked on may generate new opportunities that can bepursued, after the intern has completed his/her internship with the firm. In such cases, theindustry may sponsor the faculty advisor to continue the research on the project in his/herlaboratory. As an example, a collaboration concerning further development of biocompatiblematerial that an intern had worked on was established between one of the industrial partners anda faculty advisor. Another example of such sponsored research was the development of a controlalgorithm for temperature regulation of an organ bath used during cardiac surgery.The distribution of the M.S. and Ph.D

Conference Session

Software Engineering Curriculum Components

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Lutz, Rochester Institute of Technology; Gregory Hislop, Drexel University; Mark Sebern, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

intended to foster discussion within the software engineeringcommunity about developing and maintaining shared curriculum resources on an on-going basis.The paper approaches this topic by summarizing the experience of the SWENET project increating shared curriculum materials for software engineering. SWENET, The NetworkCommunity for Software Engineering Education, was an NSF funded project to developcurriculum modules for faculty members wanting to incorporate software engineering conceptsin new or existing courses. The paper discusses the project results, focusing on lessons learned.Although the benefit of sharing course materials is obvious, the practice is not particularly widespread in higher education. Reasons for this low level of sharing

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ABET.Calls for advocacy may seem out of place to some in the engineering education researchcommunity, or inappropriate (lacking rigor) for a conference paper such as this. We are acommunity focused on improving engineering education, producing widespread and systemicchange. We are not interested in change for change’s sake, but rather concerned with theparticularities of how and what engineering education should be. At this moment, new ABETcriteria are poised to re-set norms for the profession and for the practice of engineeringformation. We must engage the process on those terms. It must be the work of engineeringeducation research to speak directly to the situation, absolutely in a scholarly manner, vigorouslyinformed by the literature, as I seek

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Merl Baker

public interest question often asked is, “whether or not to deny the public the benefits of anattractive product or design while its safety is being proven beyond a reasonable doubt”. Engineers and scientists don’thave all the technical answers, but their expert know-how qualifies them to make fair and ethical decisions in the publicinterest. In fact, they have the professional responsibility to be assertive when technology is a predominate factor. Ajustifiable lingering public concern is that engineers and scientist, especially Ph.D.s, may not be highly sensitive toethical, policy, and other societal issues. The author holds the viewpoint that this essential sensitivity can be catalyzed byintroducing courses in ethics and public policy in all

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffery McDowell; Sandra Yost

majors. Common sense supports this finding.Students in the sciences, mathematics and engineering simply have higher work loads than dostudents in other majors. They need more study time. The distractions of students who havemore spare time can interfere with study time and can have a negative impact upon academicperformance.Once assigned to the floor, the University will provide dedicated support that will address theadjustment issues of women students in these majors. Clearly one of the things students in thesemajors need are mentors who are aware of the rules of the game and have succeeded. Thesementors can come in the form of older students and in the form of faculty and alumnae of theseprograms. The provision of mentors and opportunities to

Conference Session

EMD Curriculum Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

in a videoconference at the time this paper was prepared. However, the ECU-CTU initial conference wasconducted and the principle lecturers were able to “see” one another over a web-link. A phoneconversation was conducted simultaneously between ECU and SUST. ECU faculty includes agraduate of SUST who has been instrumental in leading the SUST involvement.Logistical RequirementsDuring the initial video test conference, ECU, CTU and SUST laid out some fundamentallogistical issues for proceedings. The students of all three universities would be exposed to aninternational lecturer via a web-streamed video conference. The class room exchange wouldtake place with a 45 day period in the Spring, 2007 (exact dates are pending at that time ofwriting

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert LaFarge; Chaouki Abdallah

, were veryappreciative. One student said it was one of the best experiences of his life. Others said it madegraduate school a new priority in their lives. An additional benefit of the program is that theparticipating faculty are now very cognizant of the need to recruit minority graduate students.There was at least one recruitment of a non-UNM for the EECE department.An anecdotal conclusion is that undergraduates are not very familiar with the research beingconducted in their schools. When asked, the students mostly requested more technicalpresentations. They were very concerned about getting a true picture of the research beingconducted by the faculty presenters.A second two-week bridge program is being conducted as this paper is being written