Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bean; Aparajita Mazumder

, Melbourne, and Puerto Rico.• University of Illinois’ International Minor in Engineering Program.3The University of Illinois’ International Minor in Engineering Program is a flexible frameworkthat enables all engineering disciplines to participate in the 21 credit hour requirement. Only 12of the 21 credit hours can be used towards language studies and at least one 300 level politicalscience or economic course must be included. There is also a required study/work abroadexperience in the selected region of focus as a fulfillment of the International Minor. Coursestaken for the International Minor can be used to fulfill social science and humanitiesrequirements. Regions for focus include Africa, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan,Latin

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

component and a projected incorporation of senior designaspects into the freshmen program.The Residential Option for Science and Engineering Students (ROSES)The ROSES program was created to provide students with not only close proximity to fellowengineers through centralized housing but to classes that group these students together in math,physics, and chemistry. The students are required to enroll in a customized engineering coursehoused in the College of Engineering. This course addresses issues that are commonlyexperienced by most freshmen, but it also focuses on highly specialized topics involvingengineering in particular. Topics range from introductory material on their chosen majors toethics. It is also an important time in which to make

Conference Session

Innovative Approaches to Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed B. Trabia, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Julie A. Longo, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Longo joined UNLV’s Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering as their Technical Writer in Oc- tober 2010. Her primary responsibilities include helping faculty prepare papers for publication as well as technical reports to funding agencies, and presenting workshops on technical writing as well as ethics in engineering. She has a B.S. in Biology from Rutgers University and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Longo has worked in Technical Communications for most of her career. In 1976, she was a Senior Editor in Life Sciences on the first editorial board for an Elsevier subsidiary, Academic American En- cyclopedia, known today as New Grolier. For almost 15 years, she worked at

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Graciela Munoz Padilla; Francisco J. Gonzalez

ofeducation) that almost no effort is made to emphasize at the university level the training of futurepedagogues"4. Page 5.91.3Joining all this, managerial criteria are applied to the teaching activities, where the students areconsidered as “the raw material” to be transformed, and the teachers as “the workers” ofeducation. This “blue-collar” view has transformed the creative teaching activities intomechanized and repetitive actions with immeasurable consequences.Since its creation, as implied before, one main preoccupation of the Continuing EducationDepartment of this Faculty of Engineering, has been the search for alternatives to the solution

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Mahler; Jon Szafranski; Dawn Werner; Karl Smith

listed as essential for engineering students. ABET definesengineering design as “the process of devising a system, component or process to meet a desiredneed.” A 1986 NSF Workshop Committee described the importance more emphatically: “Designin a major sense is the essence of engineering; it begins with the identification of a need and endswith a product or system in the hands of a user. It is primarily concerned with synthesis ratherthan the analysis which is central to engineering science. Design, above all else, distinguishesengineering from science” (Hancock, 1986).Design is often presented as a rational, algorithmic process whereby students follow a series ofprescribed steps to reach an end product. Recent work on engineering design

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Barlow, Utah State University; Max L. Longhurst, Utah State University; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University - Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

to workon engineering-related lesson plans that would then be implemented in the following school year.The participating STEM teachers were also given materials including simple ROV (RemotelyOperated Vehicles) submarines they had assembled on the first day of the camp and quadrotordrones that they could then use in their own science or math classes to do the same or similaractivities that were done at the camp with their own students. The embedded workshops alongwith the student-centered engineering activities from the camp served as an integratedprofessional learning experience for the STEM teachers. The goal of the professional learningexperience was to help the teachers incorporate engineering standards from NGSS and theframework for K-12

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

academicOctober 2009. In this role, he is focused on programs in the College of Engineering at Penndriving net productivity to achieve stepchange State. A member of the Penn State faculty sinceimprovement to Air Products’ bottom line in 1990, she is professor of engineering design andsupport of the company’s margin goals. engineering science and mechanics, and she Masetti joined Air Products in 1981 has served as executive director of the Schreyeras a participant in the company’s Career Institute for Teaching Excellence. Engel earnedDevelopment Program with engineering a B.S. in Engineering Science from Penn Stateassignments in Applied Research and

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

role, he is focused on programs in the College of Engineering at Penndriving net productivity to achieve stepchange State. A member of the Penn State faculty sinceimprovement to Air Products’ bottom line in 1990, she is professor of engineering design andsupport of the company’s margin goals. engineering science and mechanics, and she Masetti joined Air Products in 1981 has served as executive director of the Schreyeras a participant in the company’s Career Institute for Teaching Excellence. Engel earnedDevelopment Program with engineering a B.S. in Engineering Science from Penn Stateassignments in Applied Research and and

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Agnes Galambosi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Ertunga C. Ozelkan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

details of selected examples ofsustainability classes incorporated into the SE curriculum can be found in Appendix 2.A general conclusion from this analysis is that sustainability is not widely covered in systemsengineering curriculum, which is in agreement with the literature review reported earlier. On theother hand, in many universities sustainability-related courses exist in other departments such asCivil and Environmental Engineering, which may be available to systems engineering studentsas electives. It also seems senior design projects present a good opportunity to expose thesystems engineering students to sustainability-related design concepts. We would like to cautionthe reader here that the above research has limitations as it relies on

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

JIM SHIH-JIUN CHEN; ALANI INTINTOLO

its application (PO A, E, n)The corresponding Program Outcomes or Student Outcomes are:A. Ability to apply current knowledge and applications of mathematics, science,engineering and technology.E. Ability to identify, formulate, analyze and solve technical and engineering problems.n. Knowledge of chemistry, or biology, and calculus-based physics.Traditional methods of lectures, homework assignments, and exams only work formature and motivated students in the class. Yet, most instructors still adopt the oldgeneration's study-anddrill approach, which is outdated and ineffective for long termlearning. Today’s students grow up in the digital age, and prefer approaches involvingreal senses of touch (hands-on) and sight (graphs and demonstrations

Conference Session

ET Leadership, Administration, and Articulation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; Gerry Marekova, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

schoolscience teachers and students were introduced to the AET laboratories and participated in hands-on, real-time laboratory experiments (Figure 2). Page 13.210.4 Figure 2. Students and teachers from the local high schools during the Shadow Day.AET faculty members participate in the Delaware Valley Science Fair as judges in the areas ofphysics and engineering. Students from regional high schools presented projects that weredeveloped without constant supervision of their teachers. A significant number of students werecomprised of women, minorities and underrepresented groups. During the competition, localcompanies, universities, and community

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Meade

opportunities such as lectures, labs, field trips, case studies, and projects are organized topermit the student schooled in the basics of science and technology to develop into an apprenticeengineer. This paper focuses on incorporation of the teacher’s engineering experience intohis/her teaching style. The teaching style that is infused with lessons drawn from experience inengineering practice is called experience-based instruction (EBI).All engineering instruction is to some degree experience-based. Experienced engineers know theskills needed by entry-level engineers. The engineering community influences the content ofengineering curricula to ensure that necessary topics are addressed. The presentation of theinstruction provides an opportunity to

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tracy Thatcher, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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Environmental Engineering

and about $500 in supplies.Project OverviewIntroduction to Environmental Engineering was redesigned to incorporate in-class activities andco-operative learning into the traditional lecture only format. The course is required for all civiland environmental engineering majors and is typically taken during the junior year. The originalformat of the class was two - 2 hour lectures a week. This course is taught by the ENVE facultyon a rotating basis. Therefore, one important aspect of the course redevelopment was to providea format and materials that could be implemented by any of the faculty in the department, as wellas outside lecturers. The concepts presented in the course help these future engineers torecognize, evaluate, and mitigate the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

trademark for “aspirin” in Bayer Co. v.United Drug Co. (1921); the trademark had lost its distinctive meaning and became synonymouswith the product itself. Band-Aid™, on the other hand, keeps its trademark by enforcing it.Every commercial or material that uses the term Band-Aid™ always states "Band-Aid Brand" Page 8.686.3which keeps its trademark active. “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2793The

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Knight

7.872.3Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Educationeach for the midterm and the final exam), the laboratory portion counting 55% (42% for reports,5% for oral presentation(s), and 8% instructor's evaluation), and design project 15%.Design Project BenefitsThe five week long design project is typically an incubator for developing similar modern labsystems for other programs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at UTC. Fluidmechanics and strength of materials lab systems along with other mechanical engineering labsystems have been renovated-upgraded through the student design projects. Generally speaking

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert M. Henry

drawings component. By1975 the engineering graphics requirement was dropped entirely so that additional emphasiscould be placed on engineering related computer applications.In the past two decades UNH, like many other schools, have added courses covering systemsanalysis and computer applications to the curriculum while courses related to engineeringgraphics and engineering drawing interpretation have been eliminated. The result is that the civilengineering students at UNH have become quite proficient at using application software asengineering tools for their upper level courses and as part of their professional engineeringcareers. On the other hand, most students lack the ability to read, interpret and create areasonable engineering construction

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leann Yoder; Stephen Kuyath

(STEM) careers to become interested inengineering and engineering technology to address the problem. The focus of the project is toestablish engineering and engineering technology clubs at public high schools in the Charlotte,North Carolina region and then to support the clubs through engaging, hands-on activities.Competitions are one of the activities used to encourage and challenge young people from ourregion to participate in the clubs.JETS Competitions:The Tests of Engineering Aptitude Mathematics and Science (TEAM+S) challenges highschool students in ways that no other program does. TEAM+S is a rigorous competition inwhich a group of four to eight high school students learn team development and problem-solvingskills, and then participate

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Dantzler; James Richardson; Tan-Yu Lee; Robert Leland

, Hahn began aprogram that has become known as Outward Bound. This program builds self-confidence andability by confronting young people with challenging tasks, such as climbing a mountain11. Weface a similar situation in engineering education. Students arrive at universities frequentlylacking the mathematics and problem solving skills needed to succeed as engineering students.These deficiencies are often not remedied as the students pass through the curriculum, leading tolow retention rates and shortages of US educated engineers.In response, we are developing a course and materials in mathematical problem solving for first-year engineering students who are either Calculus-ready or one semester away from Calculus.Only pre-calculus mathematics is

Conference Session

Design Communications

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech University; Innocent Afuh, Texas Tech University; Peter Orono, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

synthesis i: A model of information behaviors of scientists in medicine and public health. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2006;57(13):1740-9.2. Zimmerman DE, Muraski ML. The elements of information gathering : A guide for technical communicators, scientists, and engineers. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press; 1995.3. Foster AL. Information navigation 101. Chronicle of Higher Education 2007;53(27):A38-A40.4. Arnold J, Kackley R, Fortune S. Hands-on learning for freshman engineering students. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. 2003 [Online]. Available: http://www.istl.org/03-spring/article2.html [Febraury 29

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Loshbaugh

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationopportunities for educationWhile on campus, EPICS II students routinely have contact with their clients 3 or 4 times in a16-week semester. If the project is locally based, students go into the field to examine thesituation first hand. Contact with the client and seeing the problem personally help to getstudents involved in their work; nevertheless, some students still insist on seeing EPICS assimply a classroom exercise. In St. Kitts, students have immediate and often daily contact withtheir clients and see that local residents have immediate and daily contact with the problems inneed of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary First Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University; Amanda Idema, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Carmellia Davis-King, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

career at Michigan State University in 1996. Dr. Buch teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in concrete materials and pavement engineering. He is also involved in teaching short courses on pavement design and rehabilitation and pavement materials for practicing engineers in Michigan. He is a co-PI on two National Science Foundation grants in the areas of integration of computation in engineering curricula and in the area of retention of early engineering students.Amanda Idema, Michigan State University AMANDA G. IDEMA is the Director of Academic Advising for the College of Engineering at Michigan State University. She oversees the academic advising of 2500 undergraduate

Conference Session

Engineering Education Culture: Mental Health, Inclusion, and the Soul of Our Community

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica R. Deters, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

hispassion for the material. As a result, he took on the mindset that the ‘hardness’ of the course wasgood for him. While talking about a separate course, participant 1001M talked about taking on asimilar mindset of “continuous improvement” in order to avoid getting overwhelmed by“monstrous assignments.”On the other hand, participant 1009W reported missing out on experiences she felt she needed inorder to grow as an engineer. She was counting on practice-based courses in her third-year tohelp her decide what kind of mechanical engineering work she wants to do. But, with virtuallearning and the shifting format of many laboratory courses, she felt she was “missing out” onthat opportunity to explore her interests in mechanical engineering.Participant

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Libanos Redda, SPEED; Fabian Reichl, SPEED (Student Platform for Engineering Education Development); Agustin Ferrario, National Technological University, Resistencia Faculty, Argentina; Rohit Kandakatla, SPEED; Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Student Platform for Engineering Education Development

Tagged Topics

Diversity, International Forum

university ”Escuela Colombiana de Ingenier´ıa Julio Garavito” in Bogota, Colombia. A year later I did an internship on micro hydro power in rural regions of Central America in Le´on, Nicaragua, 2015, which is part of the area I am focussing on in my studies. I served as Relations Officer 2013-2014, International Chair 2014-2015 and Vice President for Member Relations 2015-2016 at SPEED (Student Platform for Engineering Education Develpoment). I am now aspiring my graduation as B.Sc. in July, 2016 and after that a Master of Science in the area of water ressource management and environment.Mr. Agustin Ferrario, National Technological University, Resistencia Faculty, Argentina Chemical Engineering student in the National

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David McStravick; Marcia O'Malley

, but also, in non lab environments: as homework/classassignments in lecture courses as well. This proposal was accepted and the development of thesevirtual labs is being conducted under a grant from Rice University’s Brown School ofEngineering Teaching Grants Program.Need - Visual LearnersThe value of demonstration and laboratory experience has long been recognized in education.The engineering curriculum relies heavily on laboratory programs to provide the student with a Page 9.1403.1real life experience to augment lectures. These classes provide a necessary “hands on” experience Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roli Varma

freedom.Academic freedom is likely to be utilized differently in engineering than in humanitiesand social sciences. Dewey9 argued long ago that scholars in humanities and socialsciences needed academic “freedom of investigation” because they addressed “theproblems of life”, and thus faced “deep-rooted prejudice and intense emotional reaction”.Historically, advancement of knowledge in humanities and social sciences has dependedon academic freedom.21 Engineering, on the other hand, is concerned with what Dewey9would call “problems of technical theory”. The Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology1 (ABET) defines engineering as: “The profession in which knowledge of themathematical and natural sciences, gained by study, experience, and practice, is

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Michael Heiman; Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Jordan also founded and led teams to two collegiate National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest cham- pionships, and has co-developed the STEAM LabsTM program to engage middle and high school students in learning science, technology, engineering, arts, and math concepts through designing and building chain reaction machines. He has appeared on many TV shows (including Modern Marvels on The His- tory Channel and Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC) and a movie with his Rube Goldberg machines, and worked as a behind-the scenes engineer for season 3 of the PBS engineering design reality TV show, De- sign Squad. He also held the Guinness World Record for the largest number of steps – 125 – in a working Rube Goldberg machine

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha C. Wilson

liberal educationcourses, and the level of importance ABET will place on these criterion compared to the othercriteria which reflect disciplinary competence.If an institution has a strong liberal arts component, then the ABET criteria will support thisstrength and perhaps help to lend balance between the liberal and engineering studies. On theother hand, if an institution simply follows the “old” ABET criteria of a half a year of humanitiesand social science courses, with the minimum depth and breadth requirements, these criteriacould serve to maintain the status quo, guiding students to take courses (5 or 6 total) whichspecifically address each criterion. This latter possibility would undermine the liberal educationcomponent of engineering, and

Conference Session

Rethinking Culture and Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana Dabby

the remaining classes. I turned thepaintings over to the students. Each claimed one or two. Encouraged to convey their research tothe class in any way that got the material across, they showed great energy and creative flair withtheir Slide Show. They then voted on what topics to cover next, choosing to focus the remainingclasses on Leonardo’s anatomical studies, LdV as military engineer, and his inventions. Basedon their enthusiasm for individual research, as displayed in the Slide Show, I then turned theinventions over to them. Each claimed one and we declared our last class “Invention Day”,featuring the student’s presentations on Leonardo’s machines

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John E. Shea; Thomas M. West

production scheduling, quality assurance,workplace and facility design, mathematical optimization, and manufacturing processes. Sincethe formation of the department in 1972, these courses have been taught using conventionalinstruction methods as summarized in the left-hand column in Table 1. One consequence of this traditional evolution has been an engineering culture whereengineers are characterized as being vertical (in-depth) thinkers who work individually, and whoreduce problems to small, manageable and predictable pieces in order to apply their knowledgeof science and technology2. The result has been the evolution of a self-selection process where

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle

Work Stations or constructing a web page. In an effortto better acquaint students with their own department, several ELAs facilitating sections of aparticular major will typically organize at least one "joint" class where faculty and staff from thatdepartment can come and introduce themselves and some of the opportunities specifically gearedtowards that major. For a comprehensive list of major topics covered in Engineering 100, seeTable 1.First hand advice about the best and most active student organizations, what classes to registerfor, or where to see a movie are just a few of the topics informally discussed in Engineering 100classes on a regular basis. Because most students have questions about internships, jobs, andresearch opportunities