Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael R. Allen, Department of Mathematics; Dale A. Wilson, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

-author, describe and relate in this paper some ofthe pedagogical and curriculum discussions brought about by this adventure. In particular, someof the questions that arose during these discussions include questions about when vectors shouldbe introduced and the reasoning behind why mathematical proofs are taught. Finally, the authorstell of the changes they have seen in their own units and classrooms because of this interactionbetween the Mathematics and the Mechanical Engineering Departments.Introduction During the 2011 Spring Commencement at the local university, the presenter read the nextname on the list of graduates, “Dr. John Doe, Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering”.Actually, no prefix was attached when the name was read but

Conference Session

LEES Session 8: Care and Commitments

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren Kuryloski, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Amy Baird, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

computer science students. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Diverse Perspectives, Engineering in Context,and Experiential Learning in Engineering EducationIntroductionAcross engineering codes of ethics, accreditation standards, and field-defining missionstatements, one theme remains consistent: a commitment to promoting the public good andenhancing human welfare. Ideally, then, a robust engineering curriculum inculcates students tothe humanitarian aims of their technical work. And yet, how often are students trained in “doinggood”? In what ways are they given opportunities to practice enhancing “human welfare,” andwhose welfare are

Conference Session

Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jakob C. Bruhl, United States Military Academy; Win Gilbert Bruhl, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

material, or studying new topics even if those topicsseemingly are unrelated to the challenge at hand. Some visual arts practitioners call this “foolingaround.” While this may not sound particularly creative, it is vital to the process becausecreativity cannot occur without technical competence in the specific discipline as well as theaccumulation of diverse experiences (items 1 and 2 on Cropley’s list).Incubation requires both a conscious and subconscious mind experience. One may not even beaware that refinement is occurring. Albert Einstein described this experience: “As one growsolder, one sees the impossibility of imposing your will on the chaos with brute force. But if youare patient, there may come that moment when while eating an apple, the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

prepared class notes. The class is taught in amultimedia classroom with 24 IBM personal computers networked together to a campusserver. The monitors are 19” high-resolution monitors. The first topic covered is email.The students are each given an email account in web mail and are shown how to send andretrieve email massages. This skill will be vital to their success at the university as manyfaculty use email extensively to communicate to their students. Students are sometimesalso expected to hand in homework via email. Students are shown how to navigate theInternet and how to find information on the Internet with the use of a search engine. Thisactivity also develops the student’s design competencies in information gathering.Website design is also

Collection

2021 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Ryan C Cooper

practicingengineers, employers, and recent graduates are 1-problem solving and 2-communication 1,2 .Problem-solving comes in two main forms, rational design including: mathematical models,computer models, and propagation of error and empirical design including: measurements,curve-fitting, and statistical models. An upper-level engineering course is the ideal place tocombine these rational and empirical design approaches. As academics, we often favor rationaldesign e.g. Newton’s laws, differential equations, and thermodynamics. Students are often drawnto engineering for its empirical appeal e.g. learn by doing, hands-on creation, and create andmeasure approach. Rationalists and empiricists have fought for centuries, marked especially bythe conflict between

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 8

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University; Emily Spayde, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

therequired foundational math or science courses or in the theoretical engineering content.Engineering technology addresses these reasons for leaving by providing multiple opportunitiesfor hands-on, practical lab experience with industry scale equipment, such as mills, lathes, PLCs,robots, and material testing equipment, beginning in the first term and by requiring “applied”math and sciences courses that are more focused on engineering applications. The engineeringtechnology program is expected to improve both undergraduate education and student training byproviding unique opportunities for undergraduate students to gain practical experiences withindustry scale equipment and to work toward and earn industry certifications in SolidWorks®,NIMS®, and

Conference Session

Engagement In Practice: Integrating Community Engagement into Engineering Curricula

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria C. Sanchez, University of Maryland College Park; Dylan Anthony Hazelwood, University of Maryland, College Park; Dave K. Anand, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

and was involved in information technology infrastructure development and management, high performance computing cluster development and implementation as well as establish- ing distance learning and other educational technologies. He also worked with the Energetics Technology Center in Southern Maryland in the areas of informatics and IT management. Since joining CECD he has continued to work on energetics informatics, rare earth materials research and STEM program anal- ysis. He co-authored the 2012 book Rare Earth Materials: Insights and Concerns, the 2013 book S&T Revitalization: A New Look and the 2016 book Engineering for Social Change: Engineering is Not Just Engineering. He has been the course manager

Conference Session

iSTEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. David Burghardt, Hofstra University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the human-made world, engineers must use knowledge from science, mathematics and the social sciencesand humanities. Engineering, the verb, on the other hand, enriches and allows for informedinvestigation within each setting. In contrast to scientific inquiry and mathematical analysis,engineering design does not seek a unique or correct solution, but rather looks for the best oroptimum solution after a variety of factors (e.g., cost, materials, aesthetics, and marketability)have been weighed. An important feature of this design process is that it is iterative, creative,and nonlinear. Furthermore, the solutions are tempered by our societal values. As a result, theoptimal solution for one person may not be the optimum solution for another. In

Conference Session

Starting Them Early

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianna L Dorie, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, right?” Page 23.501.3 “We don't talk about engineering concepts but more fundamental things like ideas of convection and temperature.”Parents primarily reported helping their children learn about engineering throughinformal based discussions (spontaneous conversations, queries from children) andinteractions with media (books, computers, television, and toys). In addition, hands-onactivities, outreach opportunities and educational materials were mentioned (see Table 1).Table 1. Parental practices to introduce “engineering”.Informal Discussions § Work Visits Take kid to work/lab which generates questions to parents about

Conference Session

FPD IV: Innovative Curriculum Elements of Successful First-year Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin A.M. Hensel Ed.D., West Virginia University; Ordel Brown Ph.D., West Virginia University; Mary L. Strife, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

as locate information on a specific topic using library resources,such as Summon, Engineering Village and other STEM search engines and databases. Duringthe in-class activities, students were given real-time feedback and it was evident that they learnedthe material in an iterative pattern.Out-of-class assignments were focused on topics and themes related to and supportive of theirlarger class projects. Most of these activities were shortened activities designed to be combined Page 25.534.5with other assignments to comprise the background and literature review section of their projecttechnical report. The results of several of these

Collection

2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Gale Tenen Spak, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ronald H Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Linda S Hirsch

Tagged Topics

Diversity

, one member is a PhD in engineering/science and anationally recognized expert in K-12 STEM education; and the other, is a highly regardedcollegiate Professional, Continuing and Online (PCO) leader. One might ask, "Why this unusualpairing?" And indeed the two team members discussed this issue in detail. It was acknowledgedby both that simply exposing the campers to the selected materials through discussion andchallenging hands-on projects would not necessarily result in effective learning outcomes andultimately to increasing the pipeline of engineers. It was understood that at a deeper level, theprocess of learning at any age is complex even though it is often common in the engineeringdiscipline for professors to focus primarily on content [8

Collection

2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference

Authors

Wesley Carpenter, The University of Akron

. His teaching expertise is in the area of thermal-fluid sciences. His research expertise is in engineering education, with a focus on engineering pedagogy and curriculum design, creativity and divergent thinking. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Engineering Design Practices in a Freshman Mechanical Engineering Technology Course Wesley Carpenter Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Akron Akron, Ohio 44325 Email: wac1@uakron.eduAbstract

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs & Issues

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devlin Montfort, Washington State University; Shane Brown, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering unintelligible until they can besomehow reconciled. Students strongly associate engineering with academic math and science,and therefore may find the social, creative and hands-on elements of engineering implausible.ConclusionsStudents who wanted to be engineers (the Want-To group) often described engineering as limitedto the construction or maintenance of certain objects, while those less interested in engineeringbut confident in their ability to become engineers (the Don’t-Want-To group) had a morenuanced view of the field and seemed more able to communicate its diversity. The tendency ofstudents to define engineering as “building” matches Chacra’s research with college freshmen inengineering programs2, as well as findings from the

Conference Session

Pre-College: Fundamental Research in Engineering Education (1)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Hillary E. Merzdorf, Purdue University; Tingxuan Li, Purdue University; Amanda C. Johnston, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

studying these curricula, we noticed that studentscan be “hands on but not minds on”, in the process of solving the tasks. In particular, GuidedContent and Guided Practice tasks are lacking in the assessments. This implies that in realitystudents have limited opportunities to reflect or make inferences, given these items. In order tosolve problems in the context of applying engineering design in the science classroom, thestudents will need to have the opportunities to use the guided information to solve the problems,rather than being asked to simply record the observations or perform calculations. The intersection of TAGS and POD clearly demonstrated a lack of higher-level cognitivedemands in several important areas. For example, Evaluate

Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna G Burchfield, University of South Florida; April A. Kedrowicz, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

States.Communication in engineering continues to be an important element of engineering education,especially in terms of future employability. Universities are continually measured, ranked, andevaluated for performance-based funding based on their students’ employment numbersfollowing graduation. However, a divide exists between the level of communication competencyemployers expect from recent graduates versus their actual competency. Despite over twodecades of Communication (and English) faculty efforts, extensive research, and grantinvestment by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in engineering communication educationsince EC2000, the calls for universities to teach communication competence to engineeringundergraduates has only grown louder.At its core

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Vipin Kumar; Miguel Torres; Jens Jorgensen; John Lamancusa

where this course has been offered hasconfirmed the hypothesis that we started with: that engineering students desperately need exposure to actualdevices and tools in order to make the conceptual leap from theory to design. Theincreased exposure to realdevices has increased the students awareness of design and its relationship to engineering science andprovides us with a means for vertical integration in the curriculum sincewe can constantly refer back to theseexperiences in later engineering science courses (such as materials, systems dynamics, thermodynamics etc.). If our nations competitive position depends on improved productivity of the product realization cycle,then it is imperative that the engineering curriculum of the future

Conference Session

Self-efficacy and Emotion: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Jeremy M. Goodman, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

; 3D) Teamwork Figure 1. Overall proportion of time spent in activity clusters.Figure 2 shows how students spent their time in each of the mastery clusters. Students spent theleast amount of time on tasks in the academic self-confidence in math and science skills masterycluster (7.1%) and most of their time engaged in tasks in the engineering task cluster (57.6%)and tinkering task cluster (49.1%). It is important to note that there is considerable overlap in thetasks between these two clusters, as the engineering task cluster also includes hands-onengineering tasks

Conference Session

Issues in ET Education I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Joseph Michael PE, Gannon University; Fredrick A. Nitterright, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

problem. This is the second of two major semester capstone projects given in this senior levelmaterial science course. The emphasis of the first project, Design Optimization Problem in aMaterials Engineering Course1, is on design, material selection, and optimization while thisproject focuses more on analysis and requires the additional use of supplementary knowledge in Page 24.599.2the areas of thermodynamics, corrosion, and heat transfer.Problem Definition: Students are provided with a two-page executive summary containing details of theantique tractor explosion. The document summarizes operating conditions, bystander testimony

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington; Kathleen E. Cook, Seattle University; Gregory Mason P.E., Seattle University; Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #37343Board 225: Building a Culture of ”Engineering with Engineers”Prof. Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University Yen-Lin Han is an Associate Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Seattle University. Dr. Han received her BS degree in Material Science and Engineering from National Tsing-Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, her MS degree in Electrical Engineering and her PhD degree in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Her research interests include micro- scale molecular gas dynamics, micro fluidics, and heat transfer applications in Microelectromechanical

Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Technical Session #5: Best Practices

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyson Grace Eggleston, Pennsylvania State University; Robert J. Rabb P.E., Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

International Division (INTL)

Paper ID #40378Developing and Scaling Engineering Communication (EC) for NewEngineering EducationDr. Alyson Grace Eggleston, Pennsylvania State University Alyson Eggleston is an Associate Professor in the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Director of Evaluation for the Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Her research and teaching background focuses on program assessment, STEM technical communication, industry-informed curric- ula, and educational outcomes for veteran and active duty students.Dr. Robert J. Rabb P.E., Pennsylvania State University Robert Rabb is the associate dean for education

Collection

2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Cheryl Farmer, University of Texas, Austin

universityengineering programs, may be used across STEM disciplines. Participants will learn and practicethe techniques, consider examples of how teachers of the Engineer Your World high schoolengineering course have used these techniques in their non-engineering courses, and work insmall groups to identify opportunities to incorporate the techniques into their own STEMclassrooms.Workshop Description. Please provide a detailed description of the proposed workshop that, atminimum, explicitly addresses the following (maximum 4,000 characters): a. Learning objectives Page 18.7.3 b. Hands-on activities and interactive exercises c. Materials

Conference Session

Engineering Courses for Non-engineers

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Bishop, United States Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

weeks of the sixteen week semester. It is vital that theinstructor maintain appropriate focus during these discussions and keep the students on task byleading the Q&A session at the end of each group’s work and by correcting any misstatements orerrors in the presentation, as he/she has reviewed all of the materials in advance. Quizzes overthe material are also a part of the standard engagement methodology for the students.Students are also asked to write position papers on a wide variety of technological areas such asnational missile defense, germline genetic engineering and flight-based personal transportation.Weekly quizzes round out the grading instruments and force the students to stay up-to-date withthe discussion. The weekly quiz has

Conference Session

Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra Gupta

, and case studies) they could help educatethe statistics instructors about engineering applications; provide high-quality resources tostatistics instructors for easy integration into their statistics courses for engineers; begin acollaboration among statistics and engineering faculty that teach the same sets of students; andprovide engineering students the motivation to learn statistics well, and be able to apply theirstatistical skills to engineering data in a meaningful and productive way.The engineering modules proposed are based on concepts and laboratory experiments from twocourses: Materials Processing (a 1st year course) and Materials Science (a 2nd year course). Bothare mandatory courses for mechanical as well as industrial engineering

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 4 - Cultivating Engineering Excellence through Mentorship and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; Amelia Elizabeth Cook, Lipscomb University; Lewis Ngwenya, Lipscomb University; Hannah Grace Duke, Lipscomb University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

program for providing funding for thisresearch study. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundationunder grant number #2024525. The authors would also like to thank Emily Mofield in theCollege of Education at Lipscomb University for her time and effort providing training onstatistical analysis.References:[1] K. H. Dodson, C. Deckard, H. Duke, M. Cohn, N. Shaffer, and E. Buchanan, “Studying the Impact of Humanitarian Engineering Projects on Student Professional Formation and Views of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” 2021 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Virtual, July 26-29.[2] K. H. Dodson, H. G. Duke, J. B. White, and E. Buchanan, “Long-Term Impact of Humanitarian Engineering

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Glavinich; Patricia Brown

events where many participants are already present increases the likelihoodof a good turnout of volunteers to write questions. With the time pressures of today’s society,AEI has found that it is very difficult to send people home to complete questions or tasks. Theworkshops help to focus time and energy on the task at hand. Page 7.428.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã2002, American Society for Engineering Education Lesson #5: It Is A Never-Ending Process It does not end. As soon as one test is done, it is time to develop

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simon Pitts, Northeastern University; Steve McGonagle, Northeastern University; Steven W Klosterman, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

these best practices, while adapting them and testing concepts in interviews andfeedback sessions with industry stakeholders and advisors, GEL has identified 14 keycapabilities essential to becoming an effective engineering leader: 1. Initiative: Assess risk and take the initiative, to create a vision and course of action. 2. Decision Making: Make decisions with information at hand factoring in risk; maintain and take alternative action when necessary. 3. Responsibility and Urgency to Deliver: Determination to accomplish the mission in the face of constraints or obstacles; commitment to absolute responsibility to deliver on time, pursuing necessary follow-up. 4. Resourcefulness – Get it Done: Focus on the tasks at

Conference Session

First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gail D. Jefferson, University of South Alabama; Sally J. Steadman, University of South Alabama; Tom G Thomas, University of South Alabama; Kuang-Ting Hsiao, University of South Alabama

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

control using Lego Robots. They also used LabVIEW toinvestigate material properties and behavior for metals, polymers, and composites. A series ofshort lectures introduced the topics and were followed by hands-on interactive laboratorysessions, culminating in an open ended design project.A companion thread for the program was critical thinking which is fundamental to excelling inan engineering curriculum. Following a brief exposure to basic concepts, the students took anon-line test to evaluate their critical thinking skills before beginning the workshop activities.The same test was administered as a post test, with more than a 10 % increase in their skills. Themaximum increase was over 30%; interestingly, this was an underrepresented minority

Conference Session

Computing in the First Year

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sally J. Steadman, University of South Alabama; Gail D. Jefferson, University of South Alabama; Tom G. Thomas, University of South Alabama; Kuang-Ting Hsiao, University of South Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Exploring Engineering(E2) to improve the retention of high achieving incoming freshmen. E2 is designed to: • Enhance critical thinking and problem solving skills • Expose students to instrumentation and visual programming tools • Apply STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) knowledge to open ended problems • Build community • Introduce students to campus life • Increase retention in engineeringResults from the first two summer sessions are extremely encouraging and indicate that similarprograms can have a significant impact on graduation rates for engineering students.E2 introduces students to two main engineering disciplines: electrical and computer engineeringand mechanical and materials

Collection

2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Christopher J. Lowrance

each and every lesson is not the ideal method of instruction. As Idiscovered, engineering is perfectly suited for reflection pauses during the lesson in order to givestudents time to analyze and absorb the new material as they work on in-class problems relatedto the lesson material.IntroductionLast fall was my first semester as a college engineering educator, and I certainly learned moreabout teaching than I ever expected. After studying various teaching literature andexperimenting in the classroom, I quickly discovered that there are many variables thatcontribute to effective teaching and student learning. After experimenting with various methodsof instruction in the classroom, I found a particular teaching technique to be very effective, and

Collection

2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Christopher J. Lowrance

each and every lesson is not the ideal method of instruction. As Idiscovered, engineering is perfectly suited for reflection pauses during the lesson in order to givestudents time to analyze and absorb the new material as they work on in-class problems relatedto the lesson material.IntroductionLast fall was my first semester as a college engineering educator, and I certainly learned moreabout teaching than I ever expected. After studying various teaching literature andexperimenting in the classroom, I quickly discovered that there are many variables thatcontribute to effective teaching and student learning. After experimenting with various methodsof instruction in the classroom, I found a particular teaching technique to be very effective, and