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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

course. Specific deliverytechniques will be discussed, along with homework assignments and the semester-long courseproject. Student outcomes and feedback will be reported as well. While the present audience forthis course is composed of working adults, it is highly suitable as an elective in theundergraduate curriculum of any engineering program.1.0 IntroductionEngineers are trained to solve problems and get results. In today’s world of fast paced innovationand change, those results must often be very different from anything that currently exists. Thispaper describes a course that focuses on moving beyond the normal ways of thinking and doing,into the world of different thinking for different results. The course centers on the in

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy John Vaillant, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Christopher Hansen, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Jonathan D. Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Stephen Johnston, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Sammy G. Shina, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; David Joe Willis, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

share a multi-socket electrical receptacle and a small shop vacuum for light duty chip/material removal andenclosure cleanup. Several images of the laboratory are shown in Figure 7. Figure 7: Two photographs of the CNC laboratory. The enclosures shown are 27” x 27” x 27”.3.0 Curriculum IntegrationIn this first phase of project deployment (Spring 2014), the desktop CNC milling machines areintegrated into the general Introduction to Mechanical Engineering for the first year engineeringstudents and two core design courses in the UML Mechanical Engineering curriculum (secondand fourth year engineering students). The preliminary deployment is limited to three courses to

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Introduction to Engineering and More

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

boards, and/or in faculty research projects); developing a freshman curriculum that embodies some or most of the above features, and Page 9.1000.7 that takes full advantage of modern technology, particularly personal computers, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education multimedia materials, digital libraries, hypertext documents, and access to vast networked resources, including databases and activities on other campuses; improving ancillary skills (communication skills

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Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffery L. Loo, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa T. Ngo, University of California, Berkeley; Cody K. Hennesy, University of California, Berkeley; Brian D. Quigley, University of California, Berkeley; Jean McKenzie, University of California, Berkeley

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Engineering Libraries

UC Berkeley School of Information.Brian D. Quigley, University of California, Berkeley Brian Quigley is Acting Director of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Division of the UC Berke- ley Library. He is also the librarian for electrical engineering and computer science, mathematics, and statistics.Jean McKenzie, University of California, Berkeley Jean McKenzie is Acting Associate University Librarian & Director for Collections at the UC Berkeley Library. Formerly, she was Head Librarian of the Kresge Engineering Library and managed its staff, collections budget, and services. Page 24.473.1

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International Engineering Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

semesters of non-credit Mathematics and Science 30 credit hours Engineering Core (Fundamentals) 23 credit hours Departmental (including capstone and project) 65 credit hours Humanities and Social Sciences (including Arabic, English 20 credit hours and Islamic Studies) Total 138 credit hoursTable 2. The Engineering Curriculum at the University of Qatar: Major Components and CreditHoursIt is difficult, in the absence of relevant data, to asses how well have the “status quo” engineeringcurricula in the Region served the interest of graduates, industry and the profession in general.There is a growing

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 28

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Youla Ali, University of Oklahoma; Javeed Kittur, University of Oklahoma

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

–student interaction data, where the frequency of online interactions proved to betterindicate student persistence and success than did the length of interactions. And the study by Aguiaret al. (2014) [14] predicted persistence using first‐year engineering students' electronic portfolios,extracting information about their course engagement through their reflections about engineeringadvising, project updates, and engineering exploration throughout the course. Using attributesrelated to student activities such as assignment skips, assessment performance, and video skips andlags to predict student dropout in online courses, while the study by Halawa et al. (2014) [15] wasable to successfully flag 40%–50% of students who dropped out of the course

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1553 FPD3 - Computer & Programming Tools in First Year Instruction

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Sarah Roux, Arizona State University; Vivek Ramanathan, Arizona State University; Mark Rager, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

Perspectives on a Freshman Treatment of Electronic SystemsAbstract.The conventional approach to curriculum design is that students start with the basics of scienceand math and gradually progress towards a realistic integration of all their engineering skills in asenior capstone project. That approach is now challenged by changes in the assumed boundaryconditions. Students no longer progress through the program in lock-step. Electronicsapplications have evolved far beyond the components level and many cross-disciplinary skillsare needed. Finally, all students require a level of communications, team-working, trouble-shooting and representational skills that take a long time to mature so it is too late to wait till thesenior year to introduce them. The

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Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan McNeill, University of Florida, Gainesville; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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ASEE Global Programs

should look beyond current assessment strategiesand find ways to engage participants in active reflection while abroad in order to support adiverse array of possible learning outcomes.Introduction Engineers in both industry and academia recognize that engineering is a global profession(Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century, 2007; Continental AG,2006; National Academy of Engineering, 2004) and that engineers of today must be able tocollaborate with colleagues and clients from cultures that differ from their own on projects of Page 22.749.2global impact (Downey et al., 2006). Engineering educators have also come to

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Faculty Development for Distance Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Donohue, The College of New Jersey; Christine Schnittka, University of Kentucky; Larry Richards, University of Virginia

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Continuing Professional Development

theyseemed to be the most logical candidates for recruitment. However, many students were notacademically prepared to enroll in college STEM courses without remediation, often becauseprevious curriculum choices resulted in limited exposure to math and science in these students’programs of study. Other obstacles include students’ lack of awareness of engineering as apossible career because of unfamiliarity with the profession.1 One natural extension, then, wasto focus projects at the middle school level, where timely interventions would ideally lead toenrollment in classes that would better prepare students for the rigors of college STEM studies.Research, however, is increasingly indicating that that intervention efforts must begin as early

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Communication - Needs and Methods

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Thomas McGlamery, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Liberal Education

. Several large themes of effectivecommunication emerged from this grouping, along with some associated sub-themes that will bediscussed.Theme #1: “Big Picture” AwarenessA consistent theme mentioned by the engineers was the importance of developing broaderawareness of the context in which they, their teams, and their work functioned. Indeed, thistheme aligns well with several of the Proposed Desired Attributes of a Global Engineer (2009)and shows promise that, if curriculum were developed to assist undergraduates in thinking morebroadly about the context of their work as it functions in their organizations and society, theywill be better prepared for their future work roles10.This theme also supports, in a way, the claim that Sheppard, et al made

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Diffusion and Adoption of Teaching Practices

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

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Educational Research and Methods

more positive attitudes aboutscience18,19. In summary, STSE has been shown to provide many benefits to the learner in the K-12 context.Despite the positive outcomes, research has demonstrated numerous challenges in theimplementation of STSE. A study by Pedretti et al20 suggested that pre-service teachersexpressed concern about STSE through five themes: concerns about losing control in theclassroom, the necessity for support and belonging with a group of colleagues, lack of expertise Page 26.650.3in negotiating the curriculum, concern about whether politicization and action is part of theteacher’s role, and concern about exposing bias and

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Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex C. Szatmary, King's College

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Mechanical Engineering

curriculum fit the FE.Second, the FE Exam Specifications are vague, ill-posed, and developed by an opaque processthat does not involve industry. Therefore, it is hard to argue that the FE Exam Specifications aregood guidance regarding what engineers should know. It is unclear why this problem has not beenpreviously reported but one possibility is that others have analyzed the FE at too high of a level.For example, Sullivan et al. [9] describe aligning curriculum with the FE but this alignment wasdone at the level of FE subjects and course objectives, not FE topics and learning objectives.Learning objectives based on the FE Exam Specifications, the FE Reference Handbook, and theFE Practice Exam could, in principle, be used as guidance for developing

Conference Session

Mechanics and the Internet

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Calvin Ashmore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bo Yeon Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Geoff Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology; Daniel Upton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sneha Harrell, UC Berkeley; Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wendy Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Janet Murray, Georgia Institute of Technology; Laurence Jacobs, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sue Rosser, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Mechanics

Project Report to the Faculty. 2003, Virginia Polytechnic Institution.15. Smith, K.A., et al., Pedagogies of Engagement: Class-room-Based Practices. Journal of Enginering Education, 2005. 94(1 Special Issue: The Art and Science of Engineering Education Research): p. 87-102.16. Harding, J. Values, cognitive style and the curriculum. in Contributions to the Third Girls and Science and Technology Conference. 1985. Chelsea College: University of London.17. Sheppard, S.D. and B.H. Tongue, Statics: Analysis and Design of Systems in Equilibrium. 2005, Danvers MA: John Wiley.18. Papert, S., Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas. 1980, New York: Basic Books.19. Hanson, S.R., N.H. Narayanan

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - Empathy, Metacognitive Skills, and Perceptions of Success

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Latorre, University of Florida; Elizabeth Meier, University of Florida

task-oriented roles and from the perspective of the students, the first phaseof the study uses student surveys to explore how students choose suggested roles, how theseopportunities affect their course satisfaction, engagement, and perception of team success, and ifthere are limitations towards assuming desired roles. This WIP paper presents preliminary resultsfrom one course. This work aims to promote strategies that increase student team engagementwithin a collaborative and inclusive environment and identify indicators for early intervention.IntroductionIn multidisciplinary engineering capstone courses, students of a variety of disciplines work inteams to complete design projects. The importance of working in teams throughout theengineering

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Magdalini Z Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Rodney Boehm, Engineering Academic and Student Affairs; James L Wilson, Texas A&M University - College of Engineering

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

where she was responsible for the structural and thermal analysis of payloads. She served as Director of the Space Engi- neering Institute and in 2010 she accepted a position with the Academic Affairs office of the Dwight Look College of Engineering where she oversaw outreach, recruiting, retention and enrichment programs for the college. Since 2013, she serves as the Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships with responsibilities to increase opportunities for undergraduates engineering students to engage in experiential learning multidisciplinary team projects. These include promoting capstone design projects sponsored by industry, developing and teaching the Engineering Projects in Community

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Developing the Design Skillset

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claes Fredriksson, Granta Design, Cambridge (UK); Mats Eriksson, Univeristy West; Hannah Melia, Granta Design, Ltd.

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Design in Engineering Education

components),where materials selection was a key factor. The use of the software for this group was observedand documented during the project. The other groups chose not to use the software to the sameextent.The examination of the project and assessment of the results by the instructor is carried out underan Outcome-Based Curriculum Framework, as specified by the Bologna process7. In this context,particular emphasis is put on constructive alignment8 between intended learning outcomes, asspecified by the course syllabus; the teaching and learning activities within and outside of theclassroom; and appropriate assessment of students at the end of the course, see Figure 4. The useof the software relates closely to Teaching and learning activities in this

Conference Session

Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

of thecommunity partner to viewing it more as something that significantly benefited them as studentparticipants. This suggests a need for additional focus on the reciprocal nature of partnershipswithin community engagement programs such as EWB-USA. We recommend more explicitlyaddressing the benefits across professional career paths of working on real design projects withreal people within community engagement programs. This may include facilitating structuredreflection activities and bringing alums back to the students to provide their reflections,perspectives, and experiences.Such a push to focus more on the dual and reciprocal nature of the experiences that benefit multiplestakeholders aligns with the recent finding from Delaine et al

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karl Schubert, University of Arkansas; Xochitl Delgado Solorzano, University of Arkansas; Leslie Massey, University of Arkansas; Carol Gattis, University of Arkansas; Jennie Popp; Chunhua Cao, The University of Alabama; Thomas Carter, University of Arkansas; Divya Muralidhara, University of Arkansas

. Raviv et al. [2] furtherdefine these skill sets where problems solving skills include critical thinking, intuition, estimation,imagination, and the ability to act on ideas. “Big picture” skills include observation of problemsthrough different contexts and considerations from different disciplines. Personal skills includepersistence, curiosity, risk taking, teamwork, and communication, among others, and social skillsinclude economic, political, cultural, and environmental awareness. While hands-on and project-based learning have been successfully incorporated into many programs and shown to have apositive effect on students’ academic achievement [3], it is becoming more evident that studentsneed skills beyond solving prescribed problems and need

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Supporting Biomedical Engineering Students in Holistic Development

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cassandra Sue Ellen Jamison, University of Michigan; Annie AnMeng Wang, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan

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Biomedical Engineering

Industry: a Case Study,” in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2018, pp. 1–7.[6] R. A. Linsenmeier and A. Saterbak, “Fifty Years of Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Education,” Ann. Biomed. Eng., vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 1590–1615, 2020.[7] S. K. Gilmartin et al., “Chapter 2: Career Plans of Undergraduate Engineering Students: Characteristics and Contexts,” in U. S. Engineering in the Global Economy, no. April, 2015, pp. 1–69.[8] A. Huang-Saad, J. Stegemann, and L. Shea, “Developing a Model for Integrating Professional Practice and Evidence-Based Teaching Practices into BME Curriculum,” Ann. Biomed. Eng., vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 881–892, 2020.[9] Z. O. Abu-Faraj, “Bioengineering

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Cook-Chennault, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Idalis Villanueva, University of Florida

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award for her NSF CAREER project on hidden curriculum in engineering. Dr. Idalis Villanueva has a B.S. degree is in Chemical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and a M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Soon after, she completed her postdoctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health in Analytical Cell Biology in Bethesda, Maryland and worked as a lecturer for 2 years before transitioning to a tenure-track in engineering education. Her experiences as a first-generation engineer, Latinx, woman of color, introvert, and mother has shaped the lens and research

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wynn Tranfield, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

students, transfer studentchallenges, approaches to classroom accessibility, and greater curriculum awareness. This datahas helped the library identify challenges unique to each discipline within the division, as well aspotential gaps in undergraduate and graduate student support prior to initiating service.Introduction The foundation of this case study rests in user-centered research with the primary goal oflearning more about the needs of engineering students at a R1 research institution. The studybegan during the Spring of 2022 when this researcher began working as a library liaison to theSchool of Engineering, filling a position that had been vacant for several years. During thoseyears, the School of Engineering (SoE) had grown and

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TIME 4: Pedagogy

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gad-el-hak; Judy Richardson; John Speich; James McLeskey

constraints ofthe typical mechanical engineering curriculum. In order to meet this challenge, the VCUMechanical Engineering Department has begun development of an NSF-sponsored “ExperientialEngineering Library” that will provide an easily accessible environment for hands-on learningexperiences beyond the traditional Mechanical Engineering curriculum. The library will fostercritical thinking by encouraging students to apply fundamental mechanical engineeringprinciples to interdisciplinary research in emerging fields such as microelectromechanicalsystems (MEMS), bioengineering, and nanotechnology. The present article describes the libraryconcept, elaborates on its contents, and describes its impact on student interest and performancein a pilot course

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Teamwork: Priming, Empathy, and Metacognition

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea L. Schuman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David Gray, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Desen Sevi Özkan, Tufts University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

of the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. David Gray, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Gray receieved his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2000. He then earned a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech in

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wil Clouse; Terry Goodin

freedto innovate and to think creatively about future ventures. The course is targeted atstudents who would like to create their own business and they are given the opportunityto develop a business plan from one of their own ideas. Students from entirely differentprograms, like Human and Organizational Development and Engineering, areencouraged to work collaboratively on joint projects. Opportunities to share their ideaswith other entrepreneurs are made possible. The course is meant to teach students howto dream about new ideas and how to take new business ventures to the marketplace. Inpart, entrepreneurship is defined as a "state of mind -- artful, insightful and innovativementality rather than a business management or administration concept

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Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aminul Islam Khan, Washington State University; Kitana Kaiphanliam, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Olusola Olalekan Adesope, Washington State University; Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University; Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D., Campbell University; Olivia Reynolds, Washington State University; Negar Beheshti Pour, Washington State University

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Mechanical Engineering

in chemical and mechanical engineering. Campbell University started the engineering program in 2016, and she is leading the design and imple- mentation of the chemical engineering curriculum at Campbell’s innovative, project based pedagogical approach. She has a PhD in chemical engineering from Washington State University, where she special- ized in miniaturizing industrial systems for applications in the undergraduate engineering classroom.Mrs. Olivia Reynolds, Washington State University First year Chemical Engineering doctoral student pursuing research on the development and dissemi- nation of low-cost, hands-on learning modules displaying heat and mass transfer concepts in a highly visual, interactive format

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Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Birmingham, Grove City College; Blair Allison, Grove City College; James Dupree, Grove City College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

have strongentrepreneurial interests. These students want to develop their design projects into commercialproducts. One venue for commercializing design at our institution, Grove City College (GCC), isthe annual on-campus business plan competition. For the last four years, business andentrepreneurship students often partner in writing a business plan. Students received writtenfeedback from practicing technology entrepreneurs on their plans. That students report thecompetition as a favorable experience fostered the idea for what we called the High TechVenture Start-up course.The business plan competition, however, lacked several essential elements to be a fullyintegrated and maximally valuable educational experience. As important as business

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Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Minnie Patel, San Jose State University; Anuradha Basu, San Jose State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

nation.While many engineering schools now recognize the need to incorporate entrepreneurship intotheir curriculum, they debate about how best to teach entrepreneurship to engineering students3.This involves evaluating curricular issues like the quality and number of entrepreneurshipcourses, the value of using entrepreneurs as guest lecturers, finding suitable faculty to teach thecourses, and developing programs that promote experiential learning6 (Standish et al 2002). Afew schools have experimented with courses that combine classroom learning with industryinternships7 (Creed et al 2002). The development of material for undergraduateentrepreneurship-engineering courses is still in its infancy.A more unconventional route for introducing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremiah J. Neubert, University of North Dakota; Deborah Worley, University of North Dakota; Naima Kaabouch, University of North Dakota; Mohammad Khavanin, University of North Dakota

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

students who leave, do so in their first year4. Students leave for a variety ofreasons, but those most cited include a lack of quantitative skills (both perceived and real), poorstudy habits, and feelings of isolation/lack of connection to engineering2,3,5,6. Engineeringeducators have been working to address these and other issues by introducing mentoringprograms6,9, living/learning communities10, and methods for improving student experiences incalculus8,11. The problem with many of these programs is the difficulty and expense ofimplementation.Neubert et al.11 presented a novel, low-cost program for augmenting calculus with engineeringcontent in order to improve student learning. The program utilizes a set of engineering modules,delivered by peer

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Shamamy

selectengineering materials with certain properties. Students are required to complete all theseassignments and submit a hard copy of their work. These assignments are all begun in class,with the instructor starting the assignment and projecting the work on a screen for all to seewhile the students work on their individual laptops. The assignments are too long to becompleted in class so the students must finish them outside of class. In spite of the increasedcomputer literacy of our students, it has been observed that all of these exercises introducestudents to new computer skills.I. IntroductionThere is heavy demand today for college graduates to possess a high level of computer literacy.Graduates are expected to understand the traditional programs found

Conference Session

Design of Laboratory Experiments

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai, Howard University; James Johnson, Howard University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

2006-391: DSP-BASED REAL-TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS DESIGN, ANALYSIS,AND IMPLEMENTATION FOR REINFORCEMENT OF CONTROLS EDUCATIONAhmed Rubaai, Howard University Ahmed Rubaai received the M.S.E.E degree from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1983, and the Dr. Eng. degree from Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1988. In the same year, he joined Howard University, Washington, D.C., as a faculty member, where he is presently a Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include high performance motor drives, research and development of intelligent applications for manufacturing systems, engineering hardware testing in laboratory, and computer-aided design for