Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division - Integration of Engineering and/or Technical Rigor with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ)

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Sanford, Lafayette College; Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin - Platteville; Frederick Paige, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez, Colorado State University; Elizabeth Diacik, Lafayette College; Timothy Larsen, Lafayette College; Peter Canevari, Lafayette College

andSocial Change; TR News Magazine; U. Maryland Research Report; UrbanEducation 9Total 107 31* The Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice became the Journal of CivilEngineering Education in 2020. If we combine these, there are 8 total articles.Figure 1. Articles published by yearParadoxically, the academic literature reviewed in this paper can lag years [23] behind theaccomplishments of the scholars who are doing great work at institutions across the nation. Atthe same time, this literature foreshadows translatable blueprints for a more equitable

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Petrulis; Sona Gholizadeh, University of South Carolina; Ed P Gatzke, University of South Carolina

Tagged Topics

Diversity

responses) Non-SPUR Engineering Frosh/Soph (116 responses) Non-SPUR Engineering JR/SR (151 responses)For all groups, academic and financial issues were at the forefront of concerns that caused themstress. For juniors and seniors, perhaps not surprisingly, their future career path was also ofgreater concern. Social issues (negotiating college life and living away from home) were of lessconcern among all students.Future AnalysisHaving completed the initial descriptive analysis of the data, the research and evaluation teamplan to conduct additional quantitative analysis. An analysis which compares students reportinghigh levels of stress with those experiencing lower levels has already begun. Other potentialapproaches may include data

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Poster Session & Unit Operations Lab Bazaar

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Landon Mott, University of Kentucky; Jeffrey R Seay, University of Kentucky; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. Education, 95(2), 123-138 (2006). 6. Wankat, Phillip C., Separation Process Engineering, Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2011. 7. Diwekar, Urmila, Batch Distillation: Simulation, Optimal Design, and Control, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2012. 8. Armfield, “Instruction Manual for Continuous Distillation Column UPO3CC”, Issue 12, January 1998. 9. Laws, P., D. Sokoloff, & R. Thornton, “Promoting Active Learning Using the Results of Physics Education Research”, UniServe Science News, 13 (1999). Page 23.1252.9 Inquiry‐BasedActivity1SeparationProcesses CME 415 Due DayOfWeek, Month Day, Year Pressure

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert P Hesketh; Kauser Jahan; Stephanie Farrell; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

experiments funded through DUE-9850535. This paper describes some initial thrustareas that are part of our multi-year / multi-investigator project. The effective teaching of membraneprocesses is an important issue to be addressed by the academic community. Leading-edge industries areusing membrane technology for new gains in processing. Students need training in this rapidly growingfield. Educational initiatives are crucial to the continued technical growth and wide-scalecommercialization of membrane processes. The development plan involves the innovative use ofmembrane technology, integrating it both vertically and horizontally throughout the engineeringcurriculum and exposing students to it through the use of team-oriented experimental projects

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conrad, Portland State University; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.; Tom Szymoniak, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

civilengineering courses, analyze differences in the organization and language used by thepractitioners and students, and design materials targeted at teaching students writing skills thatare particularly useful for the practice of civil engineering.Analyses conducted for the project have revealed specific writing features that differ between thepractitioners and students. These features reflect a fundamentally different view of writing heldby practitioners and students. At all levels – whether small word choice concerns or globalcontent and organization issues – practitioners see writing as integrated with engineering, whilestudents see writing as separate from engineering. In this paper we summarize findings for threelanguage features, offering them as

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

David A. Sabatini

seventh year their fields should be left untilled, debts were to be forgiven, etc.More recently, an academic sabbatical year is defined as “a year, usually every seventh year,of freedom from teaching, granted to a professor, as for study or travel”. In both cases, thesabbatical year is intended to be a year of renewal and rejuvenation.II. BackgroundTo quote from the OU Faculty Handbook “Sabbatical leaves of absence are among the mostimportant means by which an institution’s academic program is strengthened, a facultymember’s teaching effectiveness enhanced, and scholarly usefulness enlarged. The majorpurpose is to provide opportunity for continued professional growth and new or renewedintellectual achievement through study, research, writing, and

Conference Session

Distance Learning in ET

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meral Anitsal, Tennessee Tech University; Ismet Anitsal, Tennessee Tech University; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University; Bonita Barger, Tennessee Tech University; Michael Allen, Tennessee Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

formallyenrolled in a university but receives instruction at some remote site. It is not merely a geographicseparation of learner and teacher. Rather, there are pedagogical concepts that lead to specialpatterns of learner and teacher behaviors. Traditionally, correspondence has been the primarydelivery medium, but the delivery systems most common today are web-based utilizingwebcams, Internet technologies, audio, and computer technologies.There are various publications on the advantages and disadvantages of distance and face-to-facelearning3, 4, 5, 6. Several key considerations emerge that contribute to the success of distancelearning programs — student and faculty/administrative issues

Collection

2021 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Courtney D. Giles

2019, the College finalized the 2019 Strategic Plan with input from faculty, staff, andstudents. A key goal of the resulting strategic agenda was to “transform undergraduateeducation”, including the expansion of active and project-based learning, the development of acore curriculum for all undergraduate programs, and more support for faculty professionaldevelopment focused on teaching and learning. In Fall 2019, the College began a two-yearprocess to define new college-wide curricular goals and learning outcomes that would be sharedacross undergraduate programs.The new CEMS Core Curriculum was designed in two stages. The first stage (Fall 2019)included the establishment of minimum credit hours in the following areas: 20 credits ofMathematics

Collection

2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Jason Zapka, Youngstown State University; John Martin, Youngstown State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

factors that enableongoing success and advice on overcoming inevitable challenges will be provided. Topics willinclude university support, leadership, funding, faculty engagement, community networking,student recruitment, project selection criteria, and student assessment. The collaborative studentproject work has benefited students by increasing both their problem solving and communicationskills. One of the overarching issues is the continuous need for a catalyst in order to initiate theinterdisciplinary work each term. In the future, the stimulus for these projects needs to be bothsustainable and somewhat automatic if real growth is to take hold. The consensus of thoseinvolved feel that the Launch Lab organization is an important and valuable

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hedrick

continually evaluating and revising the course. In planningfor the fall 2001 freshman engineering course it became obvious that we needed to address twospecific issues: course content and the problem of different faculty teaching the course each year.This paper includes the details and evaluation of changes implemented in the fall 2001 freshmanengineering course.We have continued to reevaluate the course using student and faculty feedback. In the feedbacklast fall some students and some faculty expressed concern about whether the course containedsufficient content while other students and faculty expressed concern that we were trying toinclude too much information. The task of “balancing” course content to provide a challengingcourse with a desire to

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

a desirable one. Butseen from the inside, U.S. engineering education appears to have significant problems –such as declining enrollments, and the utilization of its graduates as a ‘commodity’ byemployers. It also appears that new quasi-engineering academic programs have opened orare being developed to allow students to take more palatable paths to entry to lucrativetechnology careers. What are foreign countries getting when they adapt our engineeringcurricula, and is that approach appropriate to their needs?IntroductionThere was nothing unusual about the circumstances: two American university professorseach received an invitation to share their knowledge of U.S. higher education with fellowacademics and some government and industry types in

Collection

2016 ERC

Authors

Douglas Friedman

faculty, students, environmental health and safety staff, and administrative stakeholders and ensure that other university leaders, including provosts, vice presidents for research, deans, chief administrative officers, and department chairs, do so as well. BOARD ON CHEMICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY Research Group Dynamics Conclusions• [C3] Contribution and engagement by both principal investigators and by researchers through an open and ongoing dialogue are critical to creating a strong, positive safety culture. Safety culture is more likely to be sustained when safety issues are discussed broadly and frequently as an integral part of the research training and development

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 4: Mentoring Programs in Graduate Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nahndi Tirrell Kirk-Bradley, Texas A&M University; Cara London, Texas A&M University; Eldridge Raymond Jr., Texas A&M University; Janie M. Moore, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

treatment in stored grains and 2) innovate instructional strategies for Biologicaland Agricultural Engineering students. She is also a Member of the Engineering Education Faculty, In-stitute for Engineering Education and Innovation, Food Science Graduate Faculty, and MultidisciplinaryEngineering Graduate Faculty groups at Texas A&M University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Abstract Effective mentoring is critical to the success of graduate students; however, manymentors lack the skills and resources necessary to provide comprehensive support. To addressthis issue, the STAND model offers a framework for faculty mentors to guide and support theirstudents through five main actions: setting

Conference Session

Engagement In Practice: Integrating Community Engagement into Engineering Curricula

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ines Basalo, University of Miami; Jonathon Anthony Toft-Nielsen, University of Miami; Scotney D. Evans, University of Miami

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

-learning, and work with the support of the staff to modify their courses.Additional requirements added to this project were: (1) project topic must relate to aproblem/issue on campus, (2) students must reach out and communicate with the relevant officeat the university (i.e. facilities, classroom management, etc.), and (3) report must includerecommendations and action items based on the analysis of collected data.The new learning outcomes of the project are that, upon completion of the project, studentsshould be able to: 1.   Design an experiment with the purpose to test a hypothesis 2.   Apply the knowledge learned in class to a situation outside of the classroom 3.   Offer recommendations based on the analysis of the data gathered

Conference Session

Innovation in Continuing Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Modesitt

have enrolled in such courses, but not via ISEUC. Until studentsactually use ISEUC to enroll in the course of a university member, ISEUC cannot “exist” in anoperational sense. Here we look at some underlying reasons for this lack. The author has hadseveral issues that have arisen in the last year. Author took another position: A seemingly major one is that the author took a new position at another university in early 2002. However, the structure of ISEUC was developed to account for such a contingency – there is no requirement for the developer to reside at a specific location. To be sure, the files had to be ported to a new server, but that was a minor issue. The learning curve required in the new position did take time away from

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome J. Connor; Emma Shepherdson

encourages informative and continual feedback. These ideas areimplemented through a developed module within the teaching context of Structural Behavior.This paper also presents the important design issues to consider for efficient production of thisinteractive a learning experience.1. IntroductionStructural Engineering is a discipline concerned with the design of buildings, bridges, and othertypes of structures whose primary function is to carry loadings. Like all engineering disciplines,it requires a balance of skills; mixing art and science. Strong analytical capabilities are essential,but so is a good intuitive sense of how structures behave. These skills are becoming particularlymore crucial with the increasing use of computers that is now

Conference Session

Preparing Engr Students for International Practice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Gary Downey, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

International

competency feasible? In the mid 1990s, the engineering education community identified the NSF EngineeringEducation Coalitions and ABET 2000 as the mechanisms for leading systemic reform inengineering education.[14] However, according to a review of the Coalitions conducted by aconsulting firm, the goal of systemic reform remains largely unfulfilled: The Coalitions program has had many important impacts during the first five years but these cannot be said to be ‘the comprehensive and systematic new models for engineering education reform’ anticipated. Most impacts had been intra-institutional, indeed, intra- disciplinary. Participating institutions cover less than 1/3 of engineering faculty and ¼ of engineering students in the Unites

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Prissovsky; Edwin R. Carney; David B. Oglesby; Dave Crites

-lectures and other supplementary material directly to the studentover the Internet on a “just in time” basis. By combining the two projects into Statics On-Line,the result has been a product that better addresses the needs of both teacher and learner. Portionsof the software are currently in use by on-campus students and instructors at the University ofMissouri-Rolla.Introduction: The faculty of the Basic Engineering Department at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) are actively engaged in the development and use of technology in the classroom.Two software tutorial projects, funded in part by the Instructional Software Development Centerat UMR, have emerged under the BEST™ series of products banner. The first and most matureBEST™ (Basic

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Peter Shull; Heather Nachtmann; Joseph Hartman; Robert Martinazzi; Kim Needy

currently available to help him develop and teach hiscourse. Professor Shull exhibits the need for a resource to guide the development of a course inwhich the faculty member may not have formal training, which is a large motivating factor forthis research.This need for a resource to guide teachers has been highlighted in a number of papers and studieshighlighting how doctoral graduates are unprepared for teaching. As Wankat and Oreovicz13glumly note, "new faculty are … almost totally at sea when it comes to the day-to-dayrequirements of teaching." This may be because it can be difficult for new faculty members toget the information they need on a range of issues, including teaching10.ASEE recently surveyed engineering assistant professors in the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marianna Savoca, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University; Diana Voss, Stony Brook University; Urszula Zalewski, Stony Brook University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

employers are looking for on graduates’ resumes," NationalAssociation of Colleges and Employers (NACE), Jan. 16, 2024. [Online].[3] J. L. Graves Jr., M. Kearney, G. Barabino, and S. Malcom, "Inequality in science and the casefor a new agenda," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 119, no. 10, articlee2117831119, 2022.[4] V. Tiberius, "In defense of reflection," Philosophical Issues, vol. 23, pp. 223-243, 2013.[5] B. Jacoby, Service-Learning Essentials: Questions, Answers, and Lessons Learned. SanFrancisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons, 2015.[6] B. Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts. New York:Random House, 2018.[7] R. Jarvis, K. Dempsey, G. Gutierrez, D. Lewis, K. Rouleau, and B. J. Stone, Peer

Collection

2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth R. Leitch P.E., West Texas A&M University; Colton Atkins, West Texas A&M University; Benton Allen, West Texas A&M University

, testing, and implementation ofdesigns. Through the ET-AG Program, WTAMU will create a pipeline of skilled graduates readyto lead in agriculture technology and contribute to a more resilient and sustainable agriculturalsector, both regionally and beyond.Developing a multidisciplinary program for undergraduates and graduates presents severalchallenges in terms of integrating concepts from multiple fields, creating relevantinterdisciplinary material, and meeting the needs of diverse learners. Institutions need to ensureprovision of reliable infrastructure in concerns to programs that have online, and blendedlearning communities embedded into their curriculum [1, 2]. Significant investment is alsoneeded to incorporate new tools, such as generative

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christian Hipp, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

concerns? Is there a cleardistinction between the moral and legal nature of the issue? What does it do to people as personswho have dignity, rights, and hopes for a better life together? Are there conflicts of interests,justifications, duties, rights, virtues?B2. Morally Relevant Facts. What individuals or groups have an important stake in theoutcome? What is at stake for each? Do some have a greater stake because they have a specialneed or because we have special obligations to them? Are there other important indirectstakeholders in addition to those directly involved? Have all the relevant persons and groupsbeen consulted and is there a need to do so? Is there any information that is morally relevant butunavailable? Do ‘interested’ parties skew

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcos Esterman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Dorin Patru, Rochester Institute of Technology; Vincent Amuso, Rochester Institute of Technology; Edward Hensel, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

often waited untilthe start of the fall quarter to propose projects, leading to project start-up issues and delays.Project Definition ProcessIn order to give the MSD program team more strategic control over the interaction betweenprojects and faculty research, to spread the effort more evenly throughout the academic year andto get an immediate start on the project once the quarter began, a new process was defined. Thisprocess will be discussed below.A. Project Definition ParadigmIt is useful to preface the discussion on project definition by drawing analogies to fishing,hunting, and farming to describe the various means by which projects are identified. In thefishing scenario, some bait is put in the water (projects are solicited); we wait for

Conference Session

Physical Models and Other Interactive Tools

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Miller, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

2006-1697: AN INTEGRATED MODELING, ANALYSIS, AND AUTHORINGENVIRONMENT FOR STRUCTURAL/MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGEDUCATIONGregory Miller, University of Washington Gregory R. Miller is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. He received his B.S.C.E. from the University of Washington (1980), and M.S.C.E (1981) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees from Northwestern University in Chicago. He has been a faculty member at the University of Washington since 1984, working primarily in the areas of structural mechanics and computational modeling. He received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1987, and has received numerous awards for his educational

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Paul M. Jones; J. Richard Phillips

Initiatives at CSULA, Arizona State Polytechnic University, and U. C. SantaCruz that feature adaptations of the Harvey Mudd (HMC) Clinic model. The goal of aprofessional practice program should be to prepare students for engineering practice in allits aspects: technical and social. Resistance to incorporating professional practice into anexisting curriculum takes many forms. This includes a natural resistance to change andinadequate rewards to faculty for teaching and advising team-based projects, especiallysponsored senior design (capstone) projects. For those institutions interested in aprofessional practice program, there are a number of other academic issues to beovercome. For example, there may be concerns about teaching credit for project

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael E. Gorman; Matthew M. Mehalik; Julie M. Stocker

ethical considerations in the early stages of the invention anddesign process, rather than as aftermath of a completed design. Because of the growing use ofcases in engineering courses, and because it is difficult to separate out design issues from thosein ethics and in the environment, we are developing cases that encourage students to thinkimaginatively about design in light of the increasing concern for the environment and otherissues that will be challenging to them in their work as engineers. We hope to produce engineerswho will be better able to make ethical decisions about creating and marketing new technologies(Mehalik & Stocker, 1996).The first set of cases we are developing illustrate organizations which make sound engineeringdesign

Conference Session

Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Design Projects

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine M. Cooney, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis; Paul Robert Yearling, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis; Jacob Allen Smith, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

trusting the work that Ross and I had put into the project to keep the new group up to date and move the project forward. We in turn kept the leads fully up to date on any developments or problems the project seemed to be facing, and these problems started amounting quickly. First came the issue with the designs from Phase one; the issue being that the first group of METs had apparently done a very poor job with the design and the new group had to redesign nearly every aspect of the printer to fit the design requirements. These designs included correcting multiple issues with the base holding a heated print bed, fixing the axis that would move the hot end of the printer in a housing, multiple issues

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Interdisciplinary Course Design Opportunities for Chemical Engineers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph J. Biernacki, Tennessee Technological University; Christopher D. Wilson, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. Page 22.958.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Introducing Interdisciplinary Content through ElectivesAbstractThe introduction of true interdisciplinary content into the engineering curriculum has beenamong the most debated and difficult to implement requirements of the current ABETaccreditation criteria. While most programs use soft activities such as role playing scenarios incapstone courses and similar interdisciplinary simulations, it is possible to design effectivecoursework with true interdisciplinary interaction. For over ten years the authors, faculty ofChemical (CHE), Electrical and Computer (ECE) and Mechanical Engineering (ME), have beenteaching various courses including

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Autumn Marie Reed, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; David A. Delaine, Universidade de São Paulo; Darryl N Williams, Tufts University; Rovani Sigamoney, UNESCO

Tagged Topics

Diversity, International Forum

Paper ID #17519Building Global Infrastructure for Diversity and Inclusion in EngineeringEducationDr. Autumn Marie Reed, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Dr. Reed coordinates campus-wide initiatives designed to enhance and support faculty diversity at UMBC. Working collaboratively with the Leadership Team in the Office of the Provost, the Deans, and Faculty Leaders from the Executive Committee on the Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement of URM Fac- ulty, the ADVANCE Executive Committee, the STRIDE Committee, and the faculty leaders of UMBC’s Community-Based Faculty Groups, Dr. Reed develops, implements, and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen M. Batill; Natalie Gedde

, andsafety. Though it was anticipated that the Learning Center would be open for at least 12 hoursper day, issues related to access to equipment, equipment security, and student safety whileoperating equipment in the Center were considered in its design. Certain areas in the facilitywere designated as open access while others were restricted. It was decided to try to providecertain types of spaces that would allow the faculty the greatest flexibility as they attempted tointegrate the student’s use of the Center into their courses.III. Engineering Learning Center – Description of the FacilityThe new Engineering Learning Center is shown in Figure 2. The Learning Center is a 4000 ft2facility dedicated to hands-on multidisciplinary undergraduate