Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Jarosz; Ilene Busch-Vishniac

, replete with required classes and heavy loads, leaves littleroom for experimentation by students. As the profession progresses, faculty see new material thatmust be included, but it is rarely politically expedient to remove material from a curriculum. Thenet result is that crowded curricula get still more crowded as faculty seek to improve the qualityof the educational offerings. Breaking this cycle is likely a key component to making theengineering degree more attractive. It will require a cultural change in which the merits ofmaterial are debated in the context of priorities, lifelong learning, and quality of experience ratherthan historical biases.Kulacki and Vlachos addressed the issue of ardor in their article Downsizing the Curriculum

Conference Session

Assessment I: Developing Assessment Tools

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wajid Hussain, The Islamic University in Madinah; Fong K. Mak P.E., Gannon University; Mohammad Faroug Addas, The Islamic University in Madinah

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

vector for this specific PI_5_3 is 2.86, which is obtained as per Equation(1). Table 2: Calculation of aggregated EAMU† for a PI†Excellent: 90%-100%; Adequate: 75%-89.99%; Minimal: 60%-74.99%; Unsatisfactory: 0-59.99%IX. Program Term Review and CQIProgram faculty report failing COs, their associated PIs, ABET SOs, comments on student indirectassessments and other general issues of concern in the respective course reflections section of theFCAR. Based upon these course reflections, new action items are proposed by the faculty. Oldaction items status details are electronically carried over into the current FCAR from previousofferings of this course [37]. Modifications and proposals to a course are made with considerationof

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Mark E. Walter, University of California, Irvine

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

years.After the mid-quarter feedback survey, we also offered to hold a focus-group meeting so thatinterested students could speak with the instructional team directly. Four students attended thefocus group meeting, and reiterated many of the complaints and concerns identified in thesurvey. The two major issues that were discussed at the focus group were: 1) the studentswanted a way to communicate more openly with the instructional staff and suggested Piazza asa platform, and 2) the students wanted more interaction with their faculty project advisors.At the end of the quarter, we again conducted an anonymous survey, however, this survey hadmore of a focus on the project teams and sought to identify if students were satisfied with theirteam leadership

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Durward Sobek, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

our goal would be to include disciplines outside the Collegein our multi-disciplinary experiences for students; however, we would begin withengineering, engineering technology, and computer science programs.Generating Design AlternativesAlso from the initial groundwork, in collaboration with the advisory team, we generatedseven alternative approaches to accomplish the above objectives. The seven alternatives aredescribed briefly in Table 1.Convergence to a Final SolutionThe advisory team evaluated the set of alternatives against the following criteria, developedfrom concerns raised in interviews with College design faculty: • Ability to meet multi-disciplinary objectives • Complementary to curricular objectives of participating

Conference Session

ME Curriculum and Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Howard N. Shapiro, Iowa State University; Gloria Starns, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

that have been developed through decades ofresearch are based on how people learn and are not unique to traditional face-to-face instruction.Effective teaching, both face-to-face and on line, requires that the teacher is knowledgeable aboutbest practice and is skilled in delivery. As noted by Watwood, et.al. [1], the advent of onlineinstruction is “serving to disrupt teaching as we previously knew it.” This provides uniqueopportunities for faculty to learn about effective teaching and provides a new context for applyingthis learning. It also provides significant challenges as many faculty must learn about pedagogy aswell as the technological tools available for both online and face-to-face instruction.In this paper, we discuss both the

Conference Session

Student Attitudes and Perceptions

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin Micomonaco, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

issues. Fredspoke to one of his professors regarding his career interests and was pleased to have “just acommon conversation” regarding his career interests. This interaction was an exception in thesample because the rest of the participants did not interact with faculty about non-course relatedmatters. The reports of the quality of faculty interactions are inconsistent – some are positive;some are negative. However it is clear that few participants expect faculty to be accessible tofirst-year students. Overall, the data suggests that students do not view faculty as resources andthe few who interact with faculty tend to focus primarily on assistance with coursework.Connectivity to the College of Engineering A final theme emerged

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sunil Dehipawala; George Tremberger; Wenli Guo; Eva Hampton; Todd Holden; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

(NYPIRG) as a community client isdiscussed in this report. NYPIRG is an organization with concerns on social issues. Theirwebsite has a clear description of its mission. The New York State's largest student-directedresearch and advocacy organization is NYPIRG 2. The current focuses are on environmentalprotection, consumer rights, higher education, government reform, voter registration, masstransit and public health. NYPIRG is a nonpartisan and not-for-profit group with the aim oftraining students and other New Yorkers to be advocates.NYPIRG conducts student meetings and student generated quantitative reports would promoteconversations with substantial evidence in social learning and enhance informal STEM (ScienceTechnology Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2009 GSW

Authors

Charles Baylis; Randall Jean

: design, construction, and measurement [2]. Dedicatedlaboratory courses have been the successful vehicle to provide the hands-on experiences at someuniversities, such as the University of South Florida (USF) [3], with tremendous success. Whilethe idea of a dedicated laboratory course in microwave engineering is attractive, it is difficult tointegrate such a course into an emerging curriculum with limited resources. The BaylorElectrical and Computer Engineering Department is in a period of significant growth, but atpresent, the department faculty numbers a mere eleven, with only two members presentlyteaching RF/microwave and electromagnetics courses. A second issue that must be tackled ishow to teach both passive and active circuit design

Collection

2009 GSW

Authors

Tzu-Liang (Bill) Tseng; Richard Chou; Yongjin Kwon

: design, construction, and measurement [2]. Dedicatedlaboratory courses have been the successful vehicle to provide the hands-on experiences at someuniversities, such as the University of South Florida (USF) [3], with tremendous success. Whilethe idea of a dedicated laboratory course in microwave engineering is attractive, it is difficult tointegrate such a course into an emerging curriculum with limited resources. The BaylorElectrical and Computer Engineering Department is in a period of significant growth, but atpresent, the department faculty numbers a mere eleven, with only two members presentlyteaching RF/microwave and electromagnetics courses. A second issue that must be tackled ishow to teach both passive and active circuit design

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Radcliffe

the graduate outcomes. A parallel process occurredin Australia from 1995-96 through the national Review of Engineering Education. This reviewwas initiated by the Australian Council of Engineering Deans, the Academy of TechnologicalSciences and Engineering and the Institution of Engineers, Australia (the accrediting body) andfunded by DETYA. The resultant report entitled Changing the Culture (IE Aust, 1996) lead to achange in the accreditation of Australian engineering programs. The focus is now more onoutcomes with a particular emphasis on the demonstration of broader graduate attributes.Engineering programs are now being accredited against this new standard.In parallel the minerals industry has been concerned with the state of education for

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Marybeth Camerer

influences of these concepts are amixed blessing, both helping and hindering the formation of an entrepreneurship and managementprogram.The research emphasis at Hopkins provides considerable flexibility to faculty members anddepartments, which allows them to adapt quickly to pursue new research opportunities. This is avery entrepreneurial atmosphere, in which each faculty member is essentially building his or herown business, with revenues from grants and contracts and with graduate students as employees.The research emphasis also means that most faculty members are focused on their researchactivities, showing little interest in campus politics, so there is relatively weak faculty involvementin campus governance. Similarly, there is less oversight

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session: Methods in Graduate Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Boni Frances Yraguen, Penn State; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, The Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

website delayed theirengagement in the process stating, "Even within the [department] website when I was looking forthings just by myself, it was hard to tell what their research was…So, I guess just without anyinformation, it's hard to know where to start." Furthermore, the relocation of faculty andadministration to a different building apart from where students worked compounded the issue byreducing accessibility, as Earnest did not want to bother the program coordinator, a valuableresource for facilitating advisor matching in that department, via email. The physical andinformational barriers contributed to Earnest's difficulty engaging with departmental resources thatmight have aided the advisor matching process and contributed to negative

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations and Applications

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence Wolf, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

doing their senior projects on the job at their places ofemployment. Up to this time, seventy-three projects have been completed and more than fortyemployers have been involved in these projects. This approach has proven to be of great value toall concerned. Much experience that has been gained is shared in this paper.The topics addressed are: The characteristics of the students and the employers who haveparticipated; types and examples of projects performed; faculty visitations and supervision; thedevelopment of the relationship between the student, the industrial supervisor, and the facultyadvisor; the project proposal-acceptance process; funding of the projects; the final visit; issuesand assurances relating to proprietary information and

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

Session 3230 A Collaborative Work-Embedded Approach to Professional Development in Engineering Education. Monique Osborn, Dilip Nag Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Australia1.IntroductionAn ever increasingly diverse age, cultural and socio-economic student population has createda need for Australian Universities to reassess the educational processes that become part andparcel of the daily internal concern of the university. These processes can be summed up asteaching and learning effectiveness. Until the late eighties professional development foracademics remained as a low priority, the

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Davis

remaining differences in outcomesare not as significant. Several new writing assignments were added to the senior designproject course in 2003, including one that required students to write essays about currentnews events related to their discipline and to the ABET capstone concerns(environmental, health and safety, ethical, etc.) Additional oral reports were added to theclass, including a design review in the winter quarter. The design reviews and the finalproject presentation in the spring were both peer-assessed as well.Outcome achievements continue to be rated above “average” (not statistical average) byseniors at the time of program completion. Modifications to the senior design class

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Woodruff; Farhad Reza

deliverable.The Schoonover Observatory project was felt to be a positive experience by all parties involved.The students provided positive feedback on course evaluations. The student design team receivedrecognition by being selected to make a presentation to the Engineering Advisory Board of OhioNorthern University. In addition, articles about the project were published in the Lima News,Stargazer Magazine, ONU Alumni Magazine and the ONU website.Since the project extended into a second quarter, the assignment of grades posed a dilemma. Itwas decided not to issue a grade of Incomplete since this would appear on the permanenttranscript of the students. Rather, a grade was assigned based on the quality of the workperformed up till the end of the first

Collection

2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Waddah Akili

new facts with existing knowledge). It issaid that traditional teaching engages only the first level of learning as students down loadinformation from a traditional lecture and upload it back on an examination and or a report. Notonly does traditional teaching fail to take students through all five levels of learning, it also failsto engage students in the teaching-learning process. (3, 4, 5).In civil engineering education today, there is a growing need to replace traditional approaches ofteaching by utilizing pedagogies of engagement (5), and simultaneously bringing practical Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section Conferenceproblems and issues that practitioners usually face, into the classroom.(6

Conference Session

History of Aerospace Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Eberhardt, Boeing Company; Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

at the University of Washington were offered in an agreement with WilliamBoeing in exchange for donating a wind tunnel to the University.vi At New York Page 14.1218.2University in 1923, two mechanical engineering faculty, Prof. Collins Bliss and Prof.Alexander Klemin, who studied under Hunsaker at MIT, began offering students anelementary aerodynamics class. In 1924 an experimental program was approved by theUniversity. The program was a success and it was decided to make it permanent.However, to do so, external funding estimated at $500,000 was required. Harry workedwith NYU Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown to locate funds. Harry took a letter

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

withenthusiasm to burn. SUMMARYEffective teaching is supported by proper classroom management. This requires the instructordevelop and communicate policies for global course issues and parochial concerns. The policiesshould be consistent with instructor expectations, student responsibilities and performanceevaluation.In summary, global course parameters deal with specific items or actions that can easily influencethe way a course is conducted. Management of a course requires a clear understanding of how todeal with each of these global issues. An instructor must realize that a course is much more thanthe one way transfer of technical information from a text to a student. In fact, the technologytransfer is only a fraction of the course's function

Conference Session

Computing Technology Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

A Gavrin, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Rebecca Susan Lindell

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

fewer assignments. This clearly implies thatwe can treat participation in CN as a form of engagement with the class. Although students’ useof CN deserves further study, we conclude that our research question has an affirmative answer:our students’ use of CN is positively correlated with measures of effort and outcomes onhomework that faculty view as positive. At one level, this may not be surprising, as the mostdedicated students will generally take the greatest advantage of new opportunities. On the otherhand, the concerns regarding use of social media outlined in the introduction are real, anddeserved consideration. In light of our results, we believe instructors who are interested inadopting course-focused social media (either on CN or a

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

acquiredskill and differs vastly from management of things, although many feel that people can bemanaged. From selecting the right team members – to giving them the correct assignments, it isthe leader who must carefully weigh the skills of the team member and the proper position forthose skills. Time management becomes an issue early on and must be watched or time willbecome the enemy of the team. The leader must set priorities and must be clearly visible intaking the team to the next level. Effective and efficient teams win and so do their leaders. Thispaper will address the methods for building a team and the way to take a new group ofresearchers and make them operate at high speed.IntroductionAs an administrator, it is frustrating watching a new

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John G. Nee

Session 3538 Assessment Strategies for Engineering Design Graphics (EDG) Related Programs and Courses John G. Nee Central Michigan UniversityAbstractFew education issues have received more scrutiny over the last decade than how to measurestudent achievement. Pressures from all levels of policy making - from local school boards toCongress - for higher academic and skill standards, more accountability and better certification ofwhat students know have led to a flurry of activity in the realm of assessment. Faculty areexperimenting with a variety of

Conference Session

Sustainable Construction Practice

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyuksoo Kwon, Virginia Tech; Yong Han Ahn, East Carolina University; Hyun IK Shin, Kumoh National Instute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Construction

toward sustainability and five potentialfactors such as class (r = 0.813, p < 0.001), integration (r = 0.769, p < 0.001), prior experience (r= 0.735, p < 0.001), facility or campaign (r = 0.658, p < 0.001), and faculty (r = 0.757, p < 0.001)are significantly high (all coefficient values are significant in the significance level of 0.001).Thus, construction student’s attitude toward sustainability can be affected by taking their classrelated to sustainable construction and/or environmental issues, integrated effort for learning theconcept of sustainability, prior experience associated with the sustainable construction, facility orcampaign for sustainability, and faculty teaching and researching the sustainability.A regression model

Collection

2013 GSW

Authors

Amir Karimi; Randall D. Manteufel

shown in Fig. 1 more than once. One student repeatedMAT 1214-Calculus-I five times.Fig. 1. Number of students repeating courses required for the BS degree in mechanical engineering SurveyA survey was conducted to assess the perception of students on graduation rate issues. It isrelatively well-known that faculty have ideas about retention. These ideas are reflected in thecurriculum and in the assignment of instructors to particular classes. There is less information Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for

Conference Session

TC2K Methods and Models

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

to represent an official ABET position.IntroductionWith the adoption of TC2K for accreditation the Technology Accreditation Commission (TAC)of ABET requires accredited programs to define objectives and outcomes and to prove to thevisitor that they are being met and that the program is being continually improved. The TC2Kwas reorganized and modified for 2004.1 The new TC2K includes eight criteria: 1. Program Educational Objectives 2. Program Outcomes 3. Assessment and Evaluation 4. Program Characteristics 5. Faculty 6. Facilities 7. Institutional and External Support 8. Program CriteriaThe Self-Study instructions2 provide guidance as to what must be

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mellinger Margaret

those concerning the mix of print and electronic resources. New library services mightbe tested as pilot projects in the smaller entrepreneurship community before implementing themacross the university.There are also possibilities for OSU Libraries to partner with the Austin EntrepreneurshipProgram to build a digital library of entrepreneurial research. OSU Libraries has had successwith digital content creation in projects such as the Linus Pauling research notebooks and aphotographic collection of Braceros workers in Oregon, and has the capacity in place to expandthe range of digital content.25 Using collaborative tools for information sharing and research,such as MIT/Hewlett-Packard’s DSpaceTM or proprietary content management software, a

Collection

2004 GSW

Authors

Jim Farison

recognition as a ConstituentCommittee, the MECC now has additional resources available, including its listing on the ASEEwebsite and eligibility to host technical sessions at the annual conference. A call for papers waspublished in the September 2003 issue (page 55) of ASEE Prism. MECC also distributed itsCFP to its own informal mailing list and posted it on its new website.A full program with four technical sessions and a business meeting is scheduled for the 2004Annual ASEE Conference in Salt Lake City. The MECC schedule for that conference is: Monday, June 21 1171 7:00 - 8:15 am Multidisciplinary Courses and Assessment 1471 12:30 - 2:00 pm Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs 1671 4:30 - 6

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Perry Fizzano, Western Washington University; David Hartenstine, Western Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

issues that came up in the climate assessment. • Get the female students in your department organized into a club. A faculty member can initiate this but the getting students interested and instilling in them a sense of ownership can really help create a positive climate in the department. Encourage club officers to turn over leadership of the club before they graduate so new students can lean on experienced students while they are learning the ropes. This approach helps keep the club active and engaged.• Bring in female alumnae and professionals. Many departments bring in external speakers. Commit to bringing in women more regularly. Further, if those women are alumnae they have a unique capability of relating to current

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2023 Fall Mid Atlantic Conference: Meeting our students where they are and getting them where they need to be

Authors

Gang Liu, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford

instead by students’ learning habits [18].Concern about the quality of OER materialsSince OERs are created and published by educators rather than commercial publishing companieswith many experts in this field, the quality and depth of content vary vastly. Finding high-qualityOERs is a challenging job for most faculties even though they have the intention to switch to OERsfrom traditional teaching ways. It’s a reality that most of the existing OER materials do not havethe same quality in compared to that of commercial companies such as Pearson and Wiley. Withoutprofessionals in multiple fields, the OER materials have issues with the quality of text and images,font sizes, tables and figures, lack of transcripts available for videos, etc. Research

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mani Mina, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

more hands-on activities. This concerned the faculty followingthe transformational power of technological literacy programs. It seemed that the enduringsuccess had ended. As a result of this decline sparked by the lack of support from engineeringtraditionalists, faculty faced double-barreled existential questions of interdisciplinary mutualismand reciprocity.A New Class: Imagining More For Technological LiteracyThe need for technological literacy’s continuum of knowledge reappeared on its own in 2021,which resulted in the creation of a course titled “Design, Technology, Society, Philosophy, andEquity: How Things Work,” the subject of this paper’s methodological case study analysis. Thesyllabus for this new class is in Appendix A, and is in