Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Wild; Michael Ryan

assessment of these sessions, individuals are then routed to follow-on services/programs that address those needs. · Individual Diagnosis and Strategy meetings with Engineering Student Services Office. At the end of the Fall semester, progress is reviewed, issues identified, and new strategies and adjustments for the Spring semester are explored. At the end of the Spring, the year’s experience is brought to closure and the student’s continuance in engineering is discussed.This process aims to help students reach similar conclusions as SEAS regarding theircontinuance, so that those who need to be “counseled out” have come to terms with theirsituation, and personal contacts have already been established with other

Collection

2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Pradip Peter Dey; Gordon W. Romney; Amir Rezaei; Amelito G. Enriquez; Bhaskar Raj Sinha; Mohammad Amin

20180). Like Crouch, the authors of this panel discussion paper are also concerned about generaleducational environments and more specifically about engineering and science education. Theauthors openly discussed the pros and cons between the major traditional educational paradigmsand the new emerging paradigms without reaching any consensus. It is realized that it would beappropriate to raise some of the important issues and differences here in order to more openlydiscuss them with the audience during the panel discussion session. Differences of opinionbetween the authors may lead to passionate debates during the panel discussion session with newperspectives.The U.S. is losing its leadership in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

conference was the decision to create anew Humanistic-Social Division (the precursor to the present Liberal Education Division) asdistinct from the English Division already in existence. (SPEE also became the AmericanSociety for Engineering Education in 1946.) Indicative of the strong support given to thisdevelopment by engineering educators from the technical disciplines, a majority of thecommittee that was assembled to establish this new division were prominent engineering facultyand engineering deans, as opposed to liberal arts faculty. Meanwhile, one of the first actionstaken by the new Division was to organize a study on “the characteristics of the humanistic-social studies in engineering education.” This was carried out by Robert M. Boarts and

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Leybourne

Session 2275 ASPIRATION, INSPIRATION AND PERSPIRATION Allen E. Leybourne The University of Southern MississippiAbstractHuman activities, other than biological ones, occur primarily as a result of the conscious andunconscious, moment by moment, actions within our minds. In order to guide those actions,some internalized model, guiding the ricocheting of ideas and emotions in the brain wouldappear to be useful. An approach to developing such a model, based upon the conceptsembodied in the title is developed. New faculty seeking tenure and ultimately promotionthrough the academic ranks

Conference Session

Engineering Accreditation Around the World

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Wolfe, Engineers Canada; Phil Alexander, University of Windsor

Tagged Divisions

International

involveaccreditation issues, or are they adequately addressed ad-hoc by the licensing bodies throughtheir Boards of Examiners?New disciplines commonly emerge as options that have matured under the more traditionaldisciplines, - e.g. electrical engineering to computer engineering to software engineering - or asnew extensions of a science, e.g. forest engineering, or biomedical engineering. Specializationsseem to have emerged driven by perceived market demand or in response to a need for advancedcapability perceived by some level of government, perhaps due to a local condition rather than anational one. What are the issues arising from the accreditation of a building engineering degreeon the one hand and a “building engineer” specialization required to perform

Conference Session

Instructional technologies - Simulations, VR, Remote Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yi-hsiang Isaac Chang, Illinois State University; Kevin L. Devine, Illinois State University; Gunnar Keith Klitzing, Illinois State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

only on minor issues but overlook the big picture. Yet another method for industrial robot programming is through programming bydemonstration (PbD) [5]. By tracing the programmer’s trajectory, the robot controller can furtheranalyze and reduce the noise from human demonstration [6] to improve the robustness of theresulting path. Although this method is intuitive, it is not as popular as the aforementionedmethods due to its need of special hardware to detect human movement through camera or forcesensors and optimize the robot path. Additionally, the safety of the programmer or the operatorin such a closed-range, collaborative environment has been a concern of the manufacturingindustry [7]. Recent breakthroughs in visual computing

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramakanth Mandalika; Enno Koehn

, Material Science/Structureof Matter (0.91 / 0.90) does not meet the goal for 2001-2003. A new faculty member has beenhired in the materials area which should solve this problem. Overall, the findings of thisinvestigation indicate that the use of the FE exam to measure student performance yieldsconsiderable data for comparison purposes which may be utilized to assess and improve anengineering program.Bibliography:1. Criteria for accreditating engineering programs. (2004). Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET ). Baltimore, Maryland.2. “Engineering Licensure: A path of opportunity.” (2004), National Council of Examiners for Engineering andSurveying, Clemson, South Carolina.3. Exam Pass Rates. (2004). http://www.ncees.org4

Conference Session

Potpourri Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Davids, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott; Heidi Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

contactinformation of all first year female engineering students. This increased the chances ofearly contact with the new students. All of our first year students received a personalletter from two female faculty members and the freshmen engineering departmentwelcoming them to campus and informing them of the coaching program. The letteralso contained information about the two faculty members and encouraged the studentsto call or email if they had any questions or concerns. Emails containing the sameinformation were also sent. Student response was immediate, they began to call andemail within days. All respondents were able to RSVP for the coaching program andask questions about Embry Riddle and its College of Engineering.FYP also stressed the importance

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrence Freeman; Jessica du Maine

; recognize outstanding contributions of individuals and organizations; encourage youth to pursue studies and careers in engineering and engineering technology; and influence the recruitment and retention of young faculty and underrepresented groups. One of the central issues of an effective affinity group is the degree to which it is well-supported, integrated and actively involved with the larger organization, and free to address theissues and concerns that it has identified as priorities for the group. These organizations offermany of the advantages offered by student chapters of professional societies such asconventions/conferences, publications, networking, internships, and professional development.They also

Conference Session

Potpourri - A Mix of All Topics

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sean Michael Quallen, University of Idaho; John Crepeau P.E., University of Idaho; Barry Willis, University of Idaho; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho; JJ Petersen, University of Idaho

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

website. The Surface alsoprovided a digital pen which our team promotes as a combination of digital and hand-writtennotes. An adjustable height desk is included to accommodate the heights of various facultymembers and a 50” TV monitor presents the live recording output. The original faculty studiocan be seen live in action in Figure 1 (left).Over a dozen faculty members used the studio in the summer and fall of 2019. This led to amplefeedback for improvements. Audio quality of the recordings was identified as a concern—especially for faculty with non-native accents—with early recordings containing muffled vocalsand substantial echo from the studio walls and high ceiling. The original lapel microphone wasupgraded to reduce echoing and improve

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tobi West, Dakota State University

of the course and fit the intended skill level of students. Thedelay has a bright side which is the opportunity to offer more of the DFIR courses prior to theend of the grant performance period, which was originally requested by the NSF Program Officebefore the award was issued.7. Short-term outcomesRecent outcomes are abundant, starting with the establishment of a team of experiencedprofessionals with common goals to develop the talent pipeline and increase diversity in thecybersecurity workforce. One of the additions to the team retired from law enforcement and tookon a new role as part-time faculty teaching digital forensics. The new curriculum offerings forcollege credit in the asynchronous online learning format are already being

Conference Session

Humanitarian and Sustainability in a Global Engineering Context

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina Kay White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Rovani Sigamoney, UNESCO

Tagged Divisions

International

associated with learning in the environments created by educatorsunequipped with knowledge of topics covered by the GCs, and the SDGs. The students werefurther concerned that their faculty and mentors would not be able to create educationalenvironments that allow for development of intentional learning and conscientious projectsassociated the GCs and SDGs.To this end, this report discusses ways that the GCs and SDGs are driving internationalconversations about engineering curricula, diversity and inclusion, and partnerships for the goalsand proposes new venues that may offer opportunities for further explicit integration of GCs andSDGs into engineering education worldwide.2. GCs and SDGs: Considerations for Integrating Liberal Arts and EngineeringAs

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qiang Le, Hampton University; Eric Sheppard, Hampton University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Page 14.85.5provided the students with the key content to assist in their study. Team final reports consideredboth technical and economic factors in making a recommendation, and energy issues were beincluded in the workshop discussions. Since one of the crossings, the Hampton Roads BridgeTunnel is in sight of the Olin Engineering Building, students were able to make some trafficobservations of their own.Students were presented with background materials. The Hampton Roads Metropolitan Areaconsists of seven cities, many separated by water. North of the Hampton Roads waterway areHampton and Newport News and south of the waterway are Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth,Suffolk, and Virginia Beach. Daily commuting between the north and south sides is

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

backgrounds.Workforce studies have shown that the number of students being educated in STEM (science,technology, engineering, and math) cannot meet projected demands [1]. Also, the currentenrollments in engineering are not diverse, especially among women, blacks, and Hispanics [2].On a related issue, a recent survey of engineers in industry indicates a compelling need forengineers to have strong communication skills [3]. To address these challenges, Pennsylvania State University created the EngineeringAmbassador Program: a professional development program for undergraduate engineeringstudents with an outreach mission to middle and high schools. The development mission is toenrich the communication and leadership skills of engineering undergraduates

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas W. Graver; Leon F. McGinnis; David W. Rosen

state-supported institutions, like Georgia Tech, another keyhurdle is the extreme difficulty of finding new resources to create and sustain new initiatives, likelaboratories.4. A Strategy to Engage IndustryWe began talking about a new approach to laboratory development more than two years ago.That was in August 1994, when Georgia Tech faculty members from ME, ISyE, and EEcollaborated to win a TRP grant from the National Science Foundation. The $1 million awardwas to be used over three years to start educational laboratories in control systems, virtualmanufacturing, and rapid prototyping. But how could we ensure that the students' activities inthe labs were aligned with industry needs? How would we support the labs in the long run? Theanswer

Conference Session

Focus on ETAC Accreditation

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Qudsia Tahmina, Ohio State University; Kathryn Kelley, Ohio State University; Aimee T. Ulstad, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

then determined performance indicators that align well with thestudent outcomes and curriculum of the program. The performance indicators serve to assess thecompetencies. In order to assess the performance indicators, the assessment team solicitedrecommendations from faculty for mapping performance indicators to their course assessments.Based on the recommendations, the performance indicators were mapped to the courseassessments including homework assignments, exams, projects, lab assignments and finalpresentations.Since the program is new, the assessment team was concerned about the progress of the studentsand retention in the second year. Therefore, the rationale to begin assessment of studentoutcomes in the first semester was to ensure

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Eisenbarth; Kenneth Van Treuren

preserves their own engineering design experiences and viewpoints. To counterthis tendency, the engineering faculty must generate opportunities to engage their liberal arts andsocial science colleagues in cross-cultural dialogs and, where possible, to involve them asinstructional resources when teaching element of design.Bibliography 1. Suh, Nam P., 1990, The Principles of Design, Oxford University Press, New York, NY. 2. Dym, Clive I., and Little, Patrick, 2004, Engineering Design: A Project-based Introduction, 2nd Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY. 3. Eggert, Rudolph J., 2005, Engineering Design, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 4. Voland, Gerard, 2004, Engineering by Design, 2nd Ed., Pearson

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

Engineers (2004), highlights this issue and states “blind devotionto ethical codes will not address the ethical concerns of the engineering profession. Thefinal burden is upon the individual’s conscience and values.” The question then remains,how do Engineering curriculums develop appropriate learning experiences to facilitatethe development of personal codes that will positively impact the professional code?Whitbeck’s (2004, Undergraduate Education in Practical Ethics) agrees that “rather than Page 10.622.1simply studying a code, a more engaging active learning approach” is needed. The“Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science” promotes addressing

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Alexandre Cabral; Rolland Viau; Denis Bédard

make a distinct impact on higher education programs,specially in the field of engineering.2. Academic context of the present researchOver the past five years, the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke(Quebec, Canada), has been quite concerned with how well its students were prepared to face thedemands and challenges that most engineering professions are now requiring. In the Departmentof Civil Engineering, a major effort is being made to ameliorate learning activities andassessment modes. The Department is also engaged in the development of new case studies thatwill be used throughout the program in order to help illustrate specific issues of the profession, aswell as motivate team work, initiative and critique.The

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Michael Aucoin P.E., Texas A&M University; Zhendi Zhang, Texas A&M University; Miles O. Dodd, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS), Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

fulfill this role and forestall abuse,many faculty members have understandably limited and scrutinized student use of Gen AI. Perhapsthis stance comes across as curmudgeonly. How best to make use of this technology in the academywill be an important and evolving process that may significantly impact our paradigms on curriculardelivery and student assessment.Notwithstanding real concerns over abuse, the proverbial genie will not return to the bottle. The issuefor students who will practice engineering leadership is how to apply it effectively and in a way thatdoes not promote abuse. Similarly, the issue for faculty is how to welcome this technology in teachingwhile upholding high ethical standards.Leadership is fundamentally an intervention

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; Andrew Biaglow, United States Military Academy; David Chang, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

engineering curriculum necessitated incorporation of controls engineeringcoursework in their program of study. An existing dynamic modeling and controls courseexisted between two departments: electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. With theintroduction of chemical engineers in the course, the chemical engineering specific lessons aretaught by a chemical engineering instructor. This organizational structure is important, allowingthe multidisciplinary faculty team to synchronize their efforts, bringing their individual strengthsand resources together for the course to promote student learning. The instructors engage inmeaningful dialogue concerning their assignments, lesson preparations, laboratory exercises, andtheir results. The

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexa Rihana-Abdallah, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

thiscourse is two-fold: a significant opportunity to promote environmental engineeringstudies to a diverse student body, and a more in-depth understanding of chemicalsanalysis and underlying biological concepts to our engineering undergraduates.Considering the approximate physical locations of all three departments and the genuineinterest in environmental issues of the involved faculty, this interdisciplinary course waswell suited for application at a small university such as ours.With the increasing awareness of the potential hazards associated with the consumption Page 11.285.3of water or fish contaminated with harmful metal concentrations associated with

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Mechatronics & Simulation

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Anthony William Duva P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

FEA software and then ask students to conduct a team-design project with an FEAsimulation. The commercial FEA software typically has a user-friendly interface. Students cansuccessfully follow the lecturing and demonstration of the main skills, and implement skills tocomplete homework. However, we found that most of the students had difficulty initiating andcarrying through such FEA simulations on a design project. To solve this issue in our FEA-related course, we created a faculty-guided team design project (a minor design project) beforethe major design project on a real product. The main objective of this faculty-guided teamdesign project is to support the development of student’s FEA simulation skills through thisproject. The faculty

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Birmingham, Grove City College; David Adams, Grove City College

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

systems, and high-quality sound.By re-implementing games from previous classes, the students do not have to be concerned withdesign issues and can concentrate more on programming and exploring what the console canoffer. This sets them up well to write their final game.4. Programming EnvironmentAll students at GCC get the latest HP Tablet PCs when they are freshmen. For this year’sfreshmen, the CPU and GPU are fairly powerful and can easily handle anything for Comp 441and portions of Comp 446. Thus, computer hardware is not a major concern, except as we notedearlier (and even in those cases, the student machines are fine with reduced frame rate).Developing games for PC requires DirectX, and that requires Visual Studio (VS). We have used

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnold F. Johnson

medium, and “3” for high. These questionnaires corresponded to the objectives and topic areas covered in the introductory classes that may be fulfilled in the “Professional Development” course. In addition, the student submitted examples of previous work, including technical drawings, computer programs, logic diagrams, etc. Describe your experience and training with respect to environmental issues, social considerations, economic concerns, safety issues, multicultural working environment, statistical quality control, and statistical process control. This assignment was used to assess some of the issues mentioned in Criteria 2000 and other ABET documentation. Read “The Virtual Staff” 7 and submit a

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies II

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushma Sanga, Bosch Inc; Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Paper ID #19812Factors Affecting Identity Theft Anxiety Level in College StudentsDr. Sushma Sanga, Bosch IncDr. Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University Ali Eydgahi started his career in higher education as a faculty member at the Rensselaer Polytechnic In- stitute in 1985. Since then, he has been with the State University of New York, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Eastern Michigan University. During 2006-2010, he was Chair of the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences, Founder and Director of the Center for 3-D Visualization and Virtual Reality Applications, and Technical Director of the NASA funded

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

. Universities have worked—with more or lesssuccess—to solve this problem by developing industrial partnerships for their courses to solve theproblems of audience, of reporting requirements, and of standards of clarity. Industriallysponsored courses may well help to narrow the disconnect which concerns us, although thissolution to the problem comes at a high cost in terms of the logistics of establishing therelationships between companies and classes and of maintaining a flow of projects for new groupsof students. Perhaps the best and most genuine of these industry-academic interactions forcommunication purposes takes place in the engineering capstone design courses, where studentstypically work for an extended period with corporate sponsors and faculty

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

T. D. Moustakas; M. S. Unlu; M. F. Ruane; M. C. Teich; B. E. A. Saleh; B. B. Goldberg

why do our curricula still lack any significant photonics component? Thereare several contributing factors. Transitions to new technological areas take time as faculty and facilitiesmust be assembled. Students must be convinced that new areas will be productive and offer attractiveprofessional opportunities. Funding sources, in both government and industry, must become convincedthat action is needed, and then implement programs to support new initiatives. Finally, cross-disciplinaryconcentrations like photonics have been poorly served by traditional, compartmentalized curricular struc-t ures. There have been significant recent institutional initiatives in response to the need in photonics. NSFcenters of excellence related to photonics

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Pradeep K. Agrawal

writing and oral presentations throughtheir English departments. While these courses can provide useful instruction, they inevitablysuffer from certain drawbacks. First, these courses teach students one, optimal approach totechnical writing and speaking, overlooking the significant differences that exist in the ways thatengineers in various domains communicate technical information. Second, the courses seldomprovide students with adequate, targeted training (or exercises). Third, the courses do notaddress critical thinking concepts or apply critical thinking to discipline-specific issues and/orexamples.The concept of critical thinking is sorely lacking in the contemporary education of technicalcommunication. The technical communication courses

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; John-David S. Yoder, Ohio Northern University; Briana B. Morrison, Southern Polytechnic State University; Fong K. Mak, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

ithas been adopted and modified by other programs and institutions, and recommendationsregarding its future use.1. Origins of the Faculty Course Assessment ReportIt is often said that necessity is the mother of invention; the Faculty Course Assessment Reportdocument was developed under such circumstances. During the 2001-2002 academic year, boththe computer engineering and electrical engineering programs housed within the Electrical &Computer Engineering and Computer Science (ECCS) Department at Ohio Northern University(ONU) were preparing for an ABET accreditation visit under the then-new “EC 2000” guidelines Page 25.755.2requiring programs