Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Assessment

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Grant A Fore, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Brandon H Sorge, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; M A Coleman, Indiana U Purdue U Indianapolis; Mary F. Price; Thomas William Hahn, IUPUI

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Engineering Ethics

students' ethical and professional formation.IntroductionThe engineering curriculum is overcrowded. Hence, ethics is seldom the core focus ofdepartmental instruction. Nonetheless, an emphasis on cultivating students’ ethical reasoningskills and relational dispositions continues to be a core component of engineering accreditation[1]. Yet, the engineering curriculum in the United States has been found to decrease engineeringstudents’ concern for issues of public welfare [2]. Therefore, it seems that engineeringcurriculum needs radical redesign if engineering programs aspire to reverse this trend.While, holistically, the engineering education curriculum seems to have a negative impact onstudents’ social and public concerns, numerous individual

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Luegenbiehl; Kathryn Neeley; Jerry Gravander

tidy, reductionist realm that is modeled in engineeringtextbooks, laboratories, and problem sets. The real world is, interestingly, both more and lessconstrained than the tidy, reductionist realm. It is more constrained in the sense that economics,concerns about environmental damage or manufacturability, or issues of ethics, unions, and useracceptability make themselves felt as powerful influences on the design and implementationprocess. In other words, they are palpable concerns that are directly experienced and need not beimagined. On the other hand, the real world is less constrained in the sense that the problem oropportunity being addressed through engineering analysis and design does not present itself as

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Sheyman; Mulchand Rathod

are integraland necessary parts of a system. A more detail information about the courses (required andtechnical electives) for the degree program is given in the Table 2 and on the Division ofEngineering Technology web site [49].GENERAL PHILOSOPHY AND CONCERNS Even though the emerging issue of preparing the workforce for alternative energydiscipline continues to hold promise, the short term future of employing those graduates poses adifficult challenge to higher education. That is the primary reason community colleges anduniversities are cautious about offering such programs. Based on this philosophy, a limitednumber of courses focusing on the local business needs were included in this proposedspecialized program. New courses proposed

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robert L. Potter, University of South Florida; Gerry G. Meisels, University of South Florida; Peter Stiling, University of South Florida; Kevin Yee, University of South Florida; Ruthmae Sears, University of South Florida ; Catherine A. Beneteau, University of South Florida; Kelley G. Schuler, University of South Florida; Alberto Danny Camacho, Hillsborough Community College; Scott W. Campbell, University of South Florida

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

faculty from different disciplines into small groups where each member observes aclass taught by the others and also a class taught by a separate faculty member versed in one ormore EBT approaches. Teaching assistants for STEM laboratory courses are provided trainingin EBT methods. A new program developed during COVID solicited STEM faculty to producevideos in which they illustrate one or more methods useful in online teaching.(2) Retreats: STEER facilitates departmental retreats in which faculty are guided to fine- tunetheir curricula and align departmental courses. These retreats include an introduction to EBTmethods. STEER also hosts interdisciplinary retreats, in which STEM faculty from variousdisciplines are grouped and encouraged to explore

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Enger; Sudhir Mehta

development workshopsthat focus on the new integrated approach and its effects on students. These workshops will beorganized through the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching & Learning, aregional organization that supports and promotes outstanding college teaching at public, private,and tribally-affiliated colleges and universities. The project coordinators will also present papersat regional and national conferences and submit papers for publication to refereed highereducation journals.Three main issues that will be addressed during the presentation are1. The need for transforming college education that integrates development of leadership,communication, problem-solving skills, and service learning in a caring environment.2. Our

Conference Session

The Big Picture in Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Quiles-Ramos, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Donna M. Riley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

waste of time for faculty, particularly atelite institutions where meeting those minimum standards was unlikely to be an issue.35-37 Allthis occurred among rising concerns about national competitiveness, and later, economicglobalization. This translated into a neoliberal and unabashedly nationalistic project to transformU.S. engineering professional identities. The hope, at least as far as the public face of thisinitiative went, was to place them above the engineers trained, in ever greater number numbers,from other, primarily ascendant Asian economies.Change in this instance began at the top, but also as distributed across multiple organizations.Joseph Bordogna, the Assistant Director for Engineering at the National Science Foundation,was

Conference Session

MET Student Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

R.L. Alan Jordan

workplace. University and industry policies are often far reaching and may requireassignment of rights even if the invention was conceived without the use of the employer’sfacilities or resources, as long as the invention is related to the subject area of the individual’semployment.22 Though patent law is exclusively federal, the issue of whether a faculty memberor employee must assign his rights in an invention to his employer is an issue of stateemployment contract law.23 When a faculty member is hired, they most likely signed anemployment contract or received an appointment letter which included a provision referring touniversity policies, one of which may specify an obligation to transfer certain intellectualproperty rights to the university

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonard Perry

important tool for the evaluation of a course. It helps instructorsdetermine what tasks work well in class and concepts students learn. A course assessment bystudents and faculty both prove useful in the development and refining of future courses.Student AssessmentThe students had several methods to communicate their assessment of the course. The studentsprovided feedback of the course project via weekly status reports, in-class presentations, andproject evaluations. The Community Service Learning department provided a student evaluationof the project. The students also evaluated the course project on anonymous midterm and finalcourse evaluations.The weekly status reports provided more immediate concerns of the students with regard to theproject

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division (TYCD) Technical Session 4: Curriculum and Assessment

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University; Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic University

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

the rapid technological advancements within the curriculum and ensurefaculty possess the necessary technical expertise, as well as how to integrate AI directly intoFlorida’s existing curriculum. Another concern is how to modernize infrastructure to support AIadoption while managing budgetary constraints. Additionally, faculty must be engaged inprofessional development to enhance their readiness for AI integration, while teacher resistanceand autonomy concerns must also be addressed. Finally, new policies must be developed toensure responsible AI implementation and compliance [40],[41]. Further, there are issuesassociated with AI itself, including its vastly expanding iterations, increased potential, expandedapplicability, and potential

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 5 - Nurturing Well-Being and Promoting Awareness

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Engineering Technology Education. Her areas of expertise are innovative STEM curricula and DEI issues in STEM education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Engagement in Practice: Lessons Learned from Offering in Department Wellness ProgramsAbstractDuring the pandemic, reports from academic-focused sources emphasized the importance ofproviding services that address student well-being. A need to help students in the area ofmental health and wellness within an undergraduate only department of engineering wasrecognized. Wellness Wednesday programming for students, faculty, and staff was started atJames Madison University, a mid

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

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Two Year College Division

. Toreduce the communication component between faculty and students to linear time, we proposedto prepare a Majors Portfolio for each student in our program which directly benefits the studentby individually tracking and assessing their progress annually, and yet offloads the task of datacollection to each student. To reduce the communication time between faculties, the task ofentering the student data is being moved to the student advisor, again reducing the complexity tolinear time. Overall, we significantly reduced the amount of work for the instructor, the facultyadvisor and even the student while concurrently collecting the relevant data and providing thestudent with a new level of overall performance evaluation annually. Because

Conference Session

Assessing the Efficacy of Non-traditional Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lanny Griffin; Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Szlavik, California Polytechnic State University

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Continuing Professional Development

partner to seethe program through to success. There will be enough technical problems to kill a project. Manyinstitutions are accredited through WASC or similar accreditation organizations2 and it may benecessary to apply for substantive program changes when establishing distance learningprograms.Some of our industrial partners have expressed an interest in developing distance learningprograms, but also express concerns, such as curricular flexibility, number of faculty teaching theclasses, and ensuring adequate access to resources. As previously indicated, public institutionsare generally unable to charge sufficient fees to cover costs, of operation of the distance learningprogram. Synchronous experiences involve numerous fees such as connection

Collection

2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Leonard Hernandez, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Jacqueline G Radding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Taufik Taufik, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Darrick Baker; Jason Poon, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Ali Dehghan-Banadaki, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

desire to increaseautomation in factories, especially in the automotive industry to ramp up production to meetgrowing demand. Various industries including electric utility companies also have a need formore complex control solutions which the PLCs could facilitate with their processing power,greater memory size and functionality4. However, despite the increasing use of PLCs in electricalsystems and PLCs being a large part of many career paths in electrical engineering, the electricalengineering program at Cal Poly State University did not have any course that focuses on thetopic. To address this issue, a new course focusing on PLCs has recently been developed. Thedevelopment of a new PLC laboratory for the course was made possible by the recent

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qiong Zhang, University of South Florida; Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Julie Zimmerman, Yale University; James Mihelcic, University of South Florida

thegrand challenges in Table 1 suggests the complex technological nature of the individual andcombined challenges as well as the importance of considering sustainability issues. The reactionby many engineering educators to solve such problems in the classroom would be to immersestudents in traditional methods of developing new technology or application of existingtechnology to the problem. In this process students would not typically integrate issues ofsociety, economy, and environment into their solution.Table 1. Grand Challenges for Engineering (NAE, www.engineeringchallenges.org)Make solar energy economical Engineer better medicinesProvide energy from fusion Reverse-engineer the brainDevelop carbon

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; David Kazmer, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; John Ting, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Xiaoqi Zhang, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Donn Clark, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Alan Rux, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

faculty new to S-L. The authors of this paper providedadditional help voluntarily. A motto for the faculty has been: “Start small rather than not atall.” Courses were offered in the academic year 2004-05 by twenty-five different facultymembers. The courses and their S-L projects are listed in Table A1 in Appendix A. The Page 12.1275.4majority of the projects represent about 10-15% of the course, while some like capstone designwere 100% S-L driven, and others provided S-L extra credit worth only a few percent.Most of the same courses were offered in the fall of 2005 with some additions, as shown in TableA2, also in Appendix A. Five faculty members

Collection

2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Monica Palomo P.E.

forpublic use or recreation 1. Water availability issues have prompted lawsuits and policydevelopment to ensure that water quality is sustained and that water is equitably distributedamong all users.Literature is rich in studies that attempt to analyze public perception regarding water issues andwater education 7,8,9,10,11. Water experts have realized that community perceptions, attitudes,values and behaviors concerning water vary from region to region 12. People’s attitudes andbehavior regarding water issues are complex responses that incorporate regional characteristics,family background, public education, and the influence of the media. Southern California watercompanies (MWD, Orange County Water District, Golden State Water Company, etc

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire L. A. Dancz, Clemson University; Elizabeth A Adams P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Nihal Orfi, Fresno City College; Emily Evans, Magnolia Consulting

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

from engineering,mathematics, and physics faculty members. Engineering Scholar mentors had access to onlinetraining and resources throughout the year to support them in mentoring scholars. All respondentsstrongly agreed their faculty mentor provided tips and strategies to help them be successful, keptpersonal information confidential, and was concerned about their academic success. Allrespondents strongly agreed that they felt supported academically, with the majority of respondentsstrongly agreeing they felt more motivated to complete their degree at FCC and felt moremotivated to transfer to a four-year university and they are gaining a better sense of how to besuccessful at FCC. Additionally, half of the respondents strongly agreed they have

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norb Delatte

Page 8.1250.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”have practicing forensic engineers on the faculty1. Clearly, this approach depends on theavailability of qualified and interested faculty.Another method is to use case studies in capstone (Senior) design projects1. This is alsodependent on interested and qualified faculty, as well as on the availability of appropriateprojects (which must be sufficiently free of liability concerns).These two approaches offer great depth in the topic, but due to their inherent limitations theirapplication is likely to remain limited. As a result, even at colleges and universities

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Yusuf Ozturk; Emrah Orhun; Chris Bowerman

of curriculumdevelopment (student responses to the curriculum and new courses, faculty responses tonew needs, institutional responses to the project) and student experiences withinternational mobility.4. Status of the projectThe project has completed its first year, finalising agreements between partners,developing databases of modules, examining curricula and looking at gaps which need tobe filled. These completed sets of modules wil be turned into trajectories of moduleswhich allow degrees to be awarded for study at different EU/US partners.Student mobility has so far been limited in comparison to the anticipated levels, but weexpect to see increased mobility in the second year. One major issue concerning studentmobility is the requirement

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Baum; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

entrepreneursand capital providers. It also facilitates practitioner participation in academic programs andstudent/faculty participation in practitioner programs.New partnerships have been formed with other on-campus departments that are responsible forvarious areas of campus infrastructure, intellectual property and housing. These partnerships,detailed below, have resulted in open lines of communication for handling the unique issues thatthis special program raises.The Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) is the campus unit that is responsible formanaging intellectual property. The OTC mission is to facilitate the transfer of intellectualproperty to business and industry through the development and management of a high qualityportfolio of diverse

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Kellogg

Session A Cooperative Delivery System for Distance Education in Mongolia Stuart D. Kellogg , Oyuntsetseg Luvsandondov South Dakota School of Mines & Technology / Mongolian University of Science & TechnologyAbstract:The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (Tech) has offered an MS degree inTechnology Management (TM) since 1990. With its early involvement in distance education,the TM faculty has experienced a wide array of technologies and issues surrounding distanceeducation. The program is now one of the

Conference Session

Equity in Engineering: Uncovering Challenges and Championing Change in STEM Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel J Bullard, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Keisha Varma, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

of socialjustice concerns in organ transplantation. This work will be based on two primary domainsrelevant to science teaching and learning: socioscientific issues and the scaffolded knowledgeintegration framework.Socioscientific issuesA growing segment of educational practitioners have amplified research focused on expandinglearners’ sociopolitical consciousness in relation to the material they are learning within theirscience classes [1], [2]. As a consequence, socioscientific issues have become a focal point forresearch attention by experts in argumentation, ethics, and science education more broadly; anunsurprising development given the area’s potential to not only improve the conceptualunderstanding but also transform learners

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Paying Attention to Retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Adams, Chandler Gilbert Community College; Mary Beth Burgoyne

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

drainage assessment and redesign.Engineer Better Medicines Students are tasked with addressing issues related to heart disease and ethical responsibilities specific to biomedical engineering.Make Solar Energy Economical The project focuses on solar energy applications on campus including cost benefit and GHG payback analyses of a new 1.4MW photovoltaic array.Provide Access to Clean Water Students are tasked with development and preparation of a proposal to the Bill

Collection

2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Darrin S. Muggli; Brian M. Tande

concerned about the risksinvolved in starting new engineering programs. With modest costs and little risk, this flexiblemodel can be replicated at many of the 86% of U.S. colleges that do not now offer engineeringdegrees. BC is serving as the proving ground for the model’s full implementation and evaluation.After implementing the BC Engineering Model in Fall 2009, the new BC EngineeringDepartment has established five-year dual-degree programs in each of the four major engineeringdisciplines (chemical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering) through a partnership withthe University of North Dakota’s Distance Engineering Degree Program (UND DEDP). Overthe past 3 years, the BC Engineering Department has grown rapidly to 130 students and has

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally J. Steadman; Bruce R. Dewey; David Whitman

scheduling also includesCalculus I (or higher level math), Chemistry, English Composition, and Orientation toEngineering. The cooperation of the Mathematics, Chemistry, and English departments, whichwas essential in developing the clustered scheduling, was obtained through joint meetings toaddress issues and perceived problems. In response to concerns from the English department thatthe sections should represent heterogeneous groups of students, no more that 10 students areclustered together in the English classes; hence each Power Group is assigned to two differentComposition sections.Most of the students who enroll in the Power Groups do so during New Student Orientation,conducted during the summer. These students are given information on the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Judith Grimes; Huiming Wang; Virendra Varma

hour elective course.• Intensive Freshman Advising Program – It joins all freshman students with specially trained faculty and staff advisors specifically concerned with increasing communication with the students, easing the transition into higher education and helping students develop sound planning skills.• The “Griffon Edge” – It intensively introduces students to college life through workshops and seminars on a wide range of information including computer instruction, campus safety, personal finance, academic etiquette, cultural diversity, and grading procedures. “Griffon Edge” is held prior to each academic year.• College 101: Freshman Seminar – It offers students a three-credit course which provides the

Conference Session

Two-year Institutions Help Fill the STEM Pipeline

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine P. Scott, Seattle Pacific University; Hannah F. Azevedo, Seattle Pacific University

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Two Year College Division

performance has been a good incentive for our students to improve theirstudy habits.Each student was reviewed by a review committee each spring on an annual basis to determine ifthey qualified for the award the following year. After the review, the Program Director met witheach student individually to discuss the outcome of the review. This worked quite well, as itprovided an opportunity for the students to voice any problems and concerns. However, by onlymeeting in the spring, issues with new students can be overlooked; therefore it is recommendedthat new students have the opportunity to meet with the Director during their first year.While not a distinct part of our ECASE program, our departments requirement that all studentscomplete an internship

Collection

Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Briana Lowe Wellman, University of the District of Columbia; Ludwig C. Nitsche, University of the District of Columbia; Dong Hyun Jeong, University of the District of Columbia

Online Course and Program Assessment Strategies Leading to Effective Continuous ImprovementAbstractDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, many universities quickly adapted by switching learning,teaching, and assessment activities from face-to-face to an online environment to enforce socialdistancing. Faculty had to develop new ways of presenting course content, engaging withstudents, and providing academic support. Concurrently, administrators had to ensure thataccredited programs remain in compliance with their accreditation criteria and policies while inan online teaching/learning environment. As faculty adapted their mode of instruction, they weretasked with ensuring that course learning activities and assessments remain

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin A Grady, The George Washington University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

tothese problems. Furthermore, this pedagogy is predicated on moving beyond traditional ethicstraining which often adopts some form of procedural ethics, that which refers to bad behavior inresearch or the workplace, and incorporates extrinsic ethics and intrinsic ethical thought [3]. Insummary, traditional case-based pedagogy in engineering ethics often presents students withpredefined scenarios and solutions, encouraging them to identify ethical issues but frequentlylimiting deeper exploration of how ethical and technical considerations interact. In contrast,ethical-epistemic analysis engages students in actively examining how knowledge productionand ethical concerns are intertwined, fostering a more integrated and reflective approach toproblem

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ECET: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane LeClair, Excelsior College; Li-Fang Shih, Excelsior College

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Engineering Technology

is currently the Director of Program Development and Assessment in the School of Business and Technology at Excelsior College. She received her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with specialization in online instruction and curriculum development from the State University of New York at Albany. Her research has focused on issues related to quality online instruction, online communication, and the development of online community and outcome assessment. Page 15.674.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Implementation of a Systematic Outcomes Assessment Plan to Ensure Accountability