Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mullin; Gail Bornhorst

career-related issues (e.g., security of employment after graduation, etc.), advising andmentoring (e.g., opportunities to interact with faculty, etc.) as well as course offerings (e.g., knowing Ican graduate in four years, etc.). Students were asked to rate each factor on a 4-point Likert scale thatranged from not interested (= 0) to very interested (= 3). Weighted averages for each topic across allfour years (Fig. 8) highlighted the importance students placed on career concerns. Security of 11employment after graduation rated the highest (weighted average of 2.9 in 2020) along withopportunities for internship (2.8 in 2018 and 2019) along

Conference Session

Revitalizing Cooperative Education and Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

the above questions formed into a report can clearly indicatewhat the work experience has meant to them. Instead of just being comfortable with a goodpaycheck, students have some very tangible reasons to make intelligent judgments on the value ofthe experience.An additional issue that is discussed with the students before they begin work is the level of theirtechnical experience. Many faculty express concerns regarding the extent of the technicalexperience. Since the students coming from the College of Engineering at Michigan State Page 11.323.6University will ultimately graduate as engineers, it is important that the experiences that

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Arielle Marie Rainey, Colorado School of Mines; Dina Verdin, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

collegeinstructors to be less accessible and supportive of them, even if they are high-achieving students.These students also see in-class interactions with faculty as a potentially positive or negativeindicator of how that faculty will respond to them outside of class. Cole’s study was not focusedon engineering students, so it suggests that faculty accessibility could be a broad concern forminoritized students irrespective of major [41]. Future research could explore if and how particularfeatures of undergraduate engineering (such as a “weeding out” culture of competition) influencedstudents using classroom experiences to predict how a faculty would treat them outside of class.Finally, belongingness was also reinforced when minoritized students were able

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Schumack; Leo Hanifin

solutions: Policy makers, educators and industrialleaders need to better understand the issues of high school students’ understanding of, interest in andpreparation for engineering education. Only then can informed, effective action be defined and carriedforward.To this end, in 1999 the University of Detroit Mercy and the Detroit News undertook a comprehensivesurvey of those closest to these challenges, high school math and science teachers from acrossMichigan. The survey and the resulting whitepaper, Project Discovery, focused first on attitudes,understanding and preparation of high school students5. It then sought the advice of these teachers onpossible solutions, especially ways in which professionals and educators could encourage

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Thompson, Rowan University; Prince Atsu, Rowan University; Bob Patterson, Rowan University

of the issues in the industry. Despite having little ambition to become an entrepreneurwhen entering the New Venture Competition, I walked away with the title of second place, $2000, and anew desire to turn my venture – now named Elemeat – into a reality. Clinic Formation & Teamwork: At some point in the idea’s development, I realized that I would not get much further without a team and additional resources. The project was far too ambitious for just myself; I had no lab space, and given my schedule, I would have little time to make substantial progress. This is where the idea of creating my own

Conference Session

The Human Element of Librarianship

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bertha P. Chang, North Carolina State University; Honora N. Eskridge, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

library spaces, and many were notablyunaware of how students use study space. Many of them had not set foot in a library building inyears, so they did not personally observe students working in library spaces. It should be of nosurprise then that, in the 2009 focus groups, some engineering faculty questioned the need for alibrary building at all. Later, in the 2011 interviews, it was clear that most of those faculty whowere engaged with the library tended to do so in traditional and predictable ways that do notinvolve any use of space; i.e., to support teaching (e.g., putting books on reserve) and to discusscollections issues (e.g., to request a new journal subscription). However, two additionalcategories of potential library building use did

Conference Session

Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

at avery young age. In fact, on January 6, 2010, when President Obama launched his “Educate toInnovate” campaign, he said, “Teacher quality is the most important single factor influencingstudents’ success or failure in STEM subjects.” The Educate to Innovate initiative will train mathand science teachers so that they can support their students to excel in these subjects. For close to a decade, a team of engineering faculty, graduate researchers, andundergraduate students at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) havecollaborated to improve teacher preparation in STEM disciplines. With the support of variousfederal, state, and foundation grants, a variety of programs, from one-week to six-weeks induration, have

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Christos Christodoulatos, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Kate D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Leslie R Brunell, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Sandra V. Furnbach P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology; Vikki Hazelwood, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology (SSE); Bruce McNair, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Thomas G. Lechler, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

engineering capstone courserequirements. The important role of Professors of the Practice in making this work is noted.Porter & Morgan of Texas A&M8 have provided other examples in the literature of the types ofapproaches to incorporate entrepreneurship that will not be repeated here. The A&M initiative isspecific to certain programs and focuses on developing the capstone project at completion alongtwo routes to commercialization, either as a new venture or as a licensing opportunity, withbusiness school students participating to assist this focus.At Stevens Institute of Technology there has been for many years an institutional commitment tocreating a more entrepreneurial culture on campus for both faculty and students. This wasaddressed

Conference Session

Two-year College Potpourri

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Narketta Sparkman-Key, Old Dominion University; Konstantin P. Cigularov, Old Dominion University; Daniela Cigularova; Bonita G. Anthony, Old Dominion University; Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

face various issues whentransferring to different university settings. Some of these issues are related to embeddednessinto the university community while other issues are more personal in nature. Various academicsupport programs are focused on providing transfer students with information such as how toenroll in their classes, how to enable them to be successful in their academic program, and howto persist in the program. However, adapting to the new educational environment often meansthat they have to establish new mentoring relationships, develop a new social peer network, andsearch for internships or co-op opportunities. Majority of the transfer students enrolled in amidsize institution’s engineering technology program are “non-traditional

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Whalen; Chris Fernandes

© 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationstudent-pertinent and faculty-pertinent issues, including the original meeting schedulingproblem.SCOURThe SCOUR engine consists of a database created with the mySQL database managementsystem (DBMS) and a Java application to crawl through, extract, process, and store the rosterinformation. SCOUR works by taking advantage of the fact that each of the registrar’s webpages showing department course offerings has a uniform URL that can be dynamicallygenerated from the current term, year, and department. Thus, SCOUR automatically producesthe list of web pages from which it must extract information. The extraction moduleautomatically runs each night, after the registrar’s own database is updated. SCOUR

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Rick L. Homkes; Kevin D. Taylor

funding was denied.VISION 95, however, did receive a $36k Eisenhower grant. In addition, the business partners took on a share ofthe cost of the project and a donation was made by the local section of the American Society for Quality Control(ASQC). This alleviated some of the funding concerns that were present in the pilot 1994 project. VISION 95 gained three new industry hosts over the earlier program, bringing the total number of hoststo nine. The steering committee was increased in size to reflect this increase in industry partners. The numberof applicants accepted for the project also increased from nine in 1994 to thirteen in 1995. They includedscience, mathematics, and business teachers from grades four through twelve. The

Conference Session

Linking Engineering and Liberal Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert O. Grondin, Arizona State University, Polytechnic

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

affected by the eventsthat followed the recent Japanese tsunami. Other issues associated with compatibility withwidely used systems, e.g. the QWERTY keyboard often play key roles. More importantlythough, the type of historical contingencies considered by Kagan appears in engineering workduring the early phases of a project, where the issue of what it is that we wish of accomplish isthe central question of interest. In this regard engineering is more similar to social science than itis to natural science or the humanities.The fifth dimension is ethics, and it is impossible to have a field be strongly linked to humanintentions and concerns without having ethics play a major role. Here again it would seem thatengineering is more similar to social

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Baukal, John Zink Institute; Joseph Colannino, John Zink Co. LLC; Wes Bussman, John Zink Institute; Geoffrey Price, University of Tulsa

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

In that program, Boeingemployees acted as adjunct or visiting faculty at universities where Boeing recruitedengineering graduates. For those universities located at a distance, the Fellow actuallytemporarily lived on or near the campus during the course. However, that arrangementproved to be unsatisfactory for the employees and the program was eventuallydiscontinued.Industry can help provide new course content, for example for emerging technologies,which can be taught by academia.3 Adjunct instructors from industry can temporarilyreplace faculty on sabbatical or on leave,4 help handle temporary increases in studentcourse enrollments,5 relieve full-time faculty so they can do research,6 or co-teach withfull-time faculty to help bring

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Joseph Morgan

has progressed, more and more EET/TET students have learned of the projectand the plan to perform beta testing in up to three separate courses during the Spring 2004semester. All of the faculty involved in the LIVE System development have been pleased withthe acceptance of these new methodologies by the students and the enthusiasm they havedemonstrated in participating in the beta testing. Many more students have shown a real interestin having access to recorded lectures that will be available to them literally at anytime,anywhere. They have indicated that by having access to the classroom material in essentially itsoriginal format, they will be able to resolve questions and issues as they arise, rather that havingto resort to their notes

Conference Session

Mentoring

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Beth Holloway, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

statistically significanthowever it raised concern to the new Leadership Team which compelled them to develop newinitiatives with the goal of increasing participant satisfaction. Page 13.1049.4 5.00 4.80 4.60 4.40 Satification (Scale 1 - 5) 4.20 4.00 3.80 3.60 3.40 3.20 3.00

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lee; Charles Sampson; Ingrid St. Omer

Page 4.384.5and issues. The very existence of these individuals was a theme common to all participants andimpacted significantly the self-esteem of the students. An extension of this was the recognitionby the student of the value of a role model or peer mentor. Another theme observed concernedthe importance of academic coursework and its relevance to the engineering profession.Students were able to make connections between their studies and the wide range ofopportunities available. In many cases, the idea of a graduate education became more palatableto the student. The final recurring topic concerned the financial aspects of the trips. It isimportant to note that many students held some type of job to allow them to meet their financialneeds

Conference Session

Construction Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James G. Sullivan, University of Florida, Gainesville

Tagged Divisions

Construction

first United StatesGreen Building Chapter (USGBC) student chapter in 1998 and has continued to reviewcurriculum content and respond to industry support over the past 14 years i. Other constructionprograms continue to struggle to compare their efforts to other institutions and in definingsustainable goals ii,v. This paper provides a roadmap of a single institution with regards to pre-requisites, course integration, course creation, and faculty involvement.State Setting Page 25.792.2In 2007, Governor Charlie Crist signed an executive order that all state funded buildings must bein accordance with United States Green Building Council (USGBC

Conference Session

WIP: Classroom Innovations

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leah Granger, North Carolina State University; William Buren Parker, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

serve as a measureof need. These surveys will be administered each semester to monitor student needs over time sothe program may adapt accordingly.The faculty-focused assessment is conducted in the form of regularly scheduled meetings topromote continued collaboration and communication between the CTA and course instructors.This ensures that developed activities meet the needs and course learning objectives, fulfill theinstructor’s preferences for assignment format, and are adequately supported by the CTA. Theseactivities are made accessible to all instructors for continued use, feedback, and updates.To ensure the sustainability of the program, experienced CTAs will update training resources andhelp train new CTAs. A centralized repository of

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Syed Azmat; Snehamay Khasnabis; Richard Darin Ellis; Pratap Srinivasa Murthy; Frank Plonka; Diane M. Schuch-Miller

engineering programs, who can learn from the experiences of the CATcandidates. Presenting case studies from the CAT via the World Wide Web (WWW) seemed likean obvious choice. 2Identification of the CaseIn the Engineering Economics case, management at the Focus: HOPE CAT, a tier one supplier,identified an inability to meet shipping schedules for pulleys. They believe this is a result of poorproduction through the balancing process. This situation is discouraging, considering Focus:HOPE’s desire to expand their customer base. The concern is that if they cannot keep up withshipping requirements for current business, they will not be able to handle new businessrequirements. On average, 700 parts are produced daily. Although not all parts need to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Rocio C Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education; Alexandra Sharpe, American Society for Engineering Education; Rossen Tsanov, American Society for Engineering Education; Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan; Tom J Waidzunas, Temple University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

and programming for their student andprofessional community that aim specifically to promote understanding about LGBTQ issues andcreate more welcoming environments for LGBTQ students and colleagues. Safe Zone is a termcommonly used in schools and workplaces to describe both the learning experience (ally trainingworkshops) as well as the individuals who have completed the training. Safe Zone workshopscreate a visible network of LGBTQ-affirming faculty who commit to creating a positive andinclusive climate. While most Safe Zone initiatives are campus/workplace-wide, the workshopsdescribed in this paper were specifically designed for academic engineering departments.At its 2014 Annual Conference, the ASEE Diversity Committee launched the first

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

and manufacturing as the leading contributor to gross domesticproduct in the world today. As the global economy has become more integrated, and the demand for aworkforce required to run service-focused organizations in an efficient manner grows, the level andvariety of skills needed in this new service economy have also changed and grown. In particular, thegrowth rate of technology-driven service industries is significantly outpacing the growth in other service-oriented sectors. It has been argued that women in general possess many characteristics that make themoptimal candidates to fulfill this workforce gap. However, the percentage of women enrolled inengineering, technology and related programs have been dropping. This paper attempts to

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

and manufacturing as the leading contributor to gross domesticproduct in the world today. As the global economy has become more integrated, and the demand for aworkforce required to run service-focused organizations in an efficient manner grows, the level andvariety of skills needed in this new service economy have also changed and grown. In particular, thegrowth rate of technology-driven service industries is significantly outpacing the growth in other service-oriented sectors. It has been argued that women in general possess many characteristics that make themoptimal candidates to fulfill this workforce gap. However, the percentage of women enrolled inengineering, technology and related programs have been dropping. This paper attempts to

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

and manufacturing as the leading contributor to gross domesticproduct in the world today. As the global economy has become more integrated, and the demand for aworkforce required to run service-focused organizations in an efficient manner grows, the level andvariety of skills needed in this new service economy have also changed and grown. In particular, thegrowth rate of technology-driven service industries is significantly outpacing the growth in other service-oriented sectors. It has been argued that women in general possess many characteristics that make themoptimal candidates to fulfill this workforce gap. However, the percentage of women enrolled inengineering, technology and related programs have been dropping. This paper attempts to

Conference Session

Collaborations with Engineering Technology

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

PK Raju; Chetan Sankar; Glennelle Halpin; Gerald Halpin

Excellence inEngineering Education Courseware of NEEDS, and ASME Curriculum Innovation Award. Inorder to disseminate these materials to other faculty, we tried the normal ways such aspresentation in conferences, publication in journals, and marketing of these materials through atraditional publisher. We found that these methods were not that effective in reaching theengineering educators. This realization seems to corroborate the analysis reported in the NSFReport on the Evaluation of the Instructional Materials Development (IMD) Program. Thisreport states that large publishers and professors shy away from reform-oriented instructionalmaterials because they are new and controversial and that a major barrier faced by the developerswas the perceived

Conference Session

Topics in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Goldberg, Buffalo State College; Paul Siciliano, Buffalo State College; Clark Greene, Buffalo State College; Steve Macho, Buffalo State College

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Page 13.617.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Following up on Engineers of the Future (EoF) Workshop MomentumIntroductionBuffalo State College’s Technology Education faculty and Engineering Technology faculty werebrought together this summer through a New York State Engineers of the Future (EoF) grantawarded to the Technology Education program. The summer event gathered over 200 New Yorkmiddle and high school and middle school technology instructors at Buffalo State College (BSC)to participate in teacher-training workshops incorporating United Kingdom (UK) engineeringeducation strategies. Workshop participants were immersed a design and engineering curricula,based on the UK “Design

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

ZT DENG; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

class for the past five years.To make the evaluation a continuous improvement process, students will evaluate coursecontents in terms of learning difficulty and time allocation. Faculty teaching performance werealso evaluated based on the following criteria:“Appears to know subject; Clearly Explains concepts and ideas; Advise student concern; Advisestudent concern; Is concerned with student progress; Is concerned with student progress; Usesvarious assessment devices; Clearly explain the course requirements; Generate enthusiasm inthe class; Involving students in question/Answer; Is prepared for class discussion; Meet class atscheduled time; Develop positive working relationship; Is innovative in developing andPresenting materials;” During the

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matti Izora Ibrahim, Arkansas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #25876Board 91: Conceal Carry of Handguns and Students’ Risk Perception at aUniversity SettingMrs. Matti Izora Ibrahim, Arkansas Tech University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Conceal Carry of Handguns and Students’ Risk Perception at a University Setting Abstract With the growing number of states that have enacted legislation permitting the concealedcarrying of handguns on university campuses, there has been an ongoing and robust debatesurrounding the new laws, particularly among students, faculty, campus

Conference Session

Track 2: Technical Session 6: Minoritized Student Audio Narratives to Influence Faculty's Empathic Understanding: Learning from Sophie and Enola

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Stephen Secules, Florida International University; Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University; Cassandra J McCall, Utah State University; Gabriel Van Dyke, Utah State University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

pragmatic issues such as class size. Without required credentialingof engineering instructors around teaching, faculty development is a key mechanism for this training;however, we find that faculty development workshops tend to focus on pedagogical aspects such as activelearning rather than empathic understanding of minoritized students [6].As education researchers seeking innovation towards greater impact, we saw an opportunity to createbroadening participation research products that are accessible to faculty and useful for faculty developers.When we conduct qualitative broadening participation research (i.e., interviews with student participants),we tend to gain a rich empathic understanding of our student participants that can translate to

Collection

2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

AHMED HUSSAIN; Nizar Tayem; Jamal Nayfeh; Samir El-Nakla

” method that can be applied.This poses a significant challenge to new institutions/programs that have embarked on the process ofapplying for ABET accreditation. Each program/institution has to develop its own methodology orprocess8,9,10 for meeting the ABET requirements based on the resources available at its disposal.Successful ABET accreditation of an institution of higher learning requires several years of priorplanning and preparation11. It must have a strong up-to-date curriculum that meets internationalstandards, qualified faculty and staff in sufficient numbers, teaching and laboratory facilities, andstrong institutional support. It must also put in place a clear, well-defined, and implementableprocess for assessment and evaluation of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Kitts, Santa Clara University; Anne Mahacek, Santa Clara University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

mechanical engineering machine shop). This was due to anadmitted level of unfamiliarity with the subtleties of the new wave of low-cost commercialtechnology, being concerned about operation of such equipment in uncontrolled andunsupervised environments, being concerned about unattended operation and earthquake safety,etc. Since that time, the Maker Lab remains the single deployment point for the School ofEngineering (apart from more controlled shops); however, other entities in the University aremaking plans for small scale maker-like labs in their areas.Apart from these initial start-up and safety-related issues, it is interesting to note the potential tohave centralized vs. decentralized maker spaces. As maker technologies become even