Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tonya Peeples; Julie Jessop

that help the teams in studying the issues of housing designinclude a guest lecture by the CEO of PEER Consultants, P.C. (an international civil andenvironmental engineering consultancy), brainstorming sessions to generate ideas for the design,a virtual building assignment using Energy-10 software to evaluate the energy efficiency of avariety of building materials, and lectures on oral and written communications of technicalmaterial. Teams of four first-year students write a proposal for the design of a low-cost shelterand then build and test a prototype of the structure using a basic kit provided to them. Thedesigns are demonstrated during the final week of classes in a poster session where students,faculty and staff are invited to view the

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

change the docu-ment? What happens if somebody changes a homework problem after it was assigned? Etc.Assuming that the future of the electronic book is on-line there are currently two popular models.In the Distribution model there are a small number of authors and editors who control and distrib-ute a fixed or editable format for the book. This model most closely resembles the current publish-ing model. In the open model the book would be on a Wiki or Content Management System(CMS) where multiple editors and contributors could freely change it. The open model has greatpotential to generate excellent electronic books, but it adds some new considerations not previ-ously encountered. The paper discusses some of the anticipated issues such as

Conference Session

Learning Needs and Educational Success

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Lin, North Dakota State University; G. Padmanabhan, North Dakota State University; Robert Pieri, North Dakota State University; Floyd Patterson, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

passive and they are afraid of making mistakes. 2. Native American students enjoy learning the topics more through hands-on activities, discovery learning, role playing and/or scenarios. However, they need more directions from the advisors. Establishing such an approach is time intensive for instructors and advisors and requires a more creative approach to traditional topics. Nonetheless, it is important to accommodate this need in the instructional activities. 3. Personal relationship between faculty and students played an important role.These are factors that can be accommodated in designing the instructional activities. Forexample, the first concern relates to understanding the culture and style of learning of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shirley Fleischmann

can weave his technology into the fabric of society can claim to have aliberal education; a student who cannot weave his technology into the fabric of societycannot claim even to be a good technologist.” (Lord Ashby, Technology and the Academics)IntroductionWhy is service work important for engineering students? One needs only to scan thestatements of codes of ethics and/or canons for the various professional engineeringsocieties to note that concern for “the public welfare” is a major issue. In some casesprofessional societies were formed partly to fill the need to protect the public. Forexample, one of the earliest activities of ASME was to produce the boiler code in answerto the enormous loss of

Conference Session

Project-based and Cooperative Learning in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Ann Rursch, Iowa State University; Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University; Matthew Edward Sullivan, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

not get any formal report. The company was alsoasked to donate the prize money to the student group if no student was able to break into thesystems. During the two month long testing period the company reported thousands of attackattempts launched against the target computers. While the students were unsuccessful in theirattacks they had fun being part of a product test and also now have another experience to cite ontheir resumes. The faculty member and the IASG are currently formalizing this testingmethodology to offer it to other companies. The companies involved see this as a way to getthere name in front of potential employees, as well as a way to have their products examined byyoung and resourceful individuals.Funding for IASGAny new

Conference Session

Pre-College: Organizing Instruction Around a Theme

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University; Jesse S. Jur, North Carolina State University; Hannah Kimrey Elliott; James Edward Lamberth III, William G. Enloe Magnet High School

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

todecide which will work best in their classroom.The model most teachers chose to use largelylooked like the Massachusetts Department ofEducation Engineering Design Process Model7(Fig. 2). Some teachers preferred to furthercondense this model into easier acronyms suchas D.E.A.L (determine the problem, evaluatepossible solutions, apply the best solution, lookback and reflect). Figure 2: Massachusetts Department of Education Engineering Design Process Model (MassachusettsTeachers work through the EDP to design and DOE 2006, p. 84)build their own wearable device to address a OneHealth issue. With guidance from Center faculty experienced in

Collection

2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Michael A. Rother

, since they have already been given ample opportunity. Their otheroption is to do an academic project with at least one reactor and two separation steps. In the firstfive years, no group chose an academic project, although the Verso/NRRI project in 2006-7 (seeTable 1) amounted to an academic project when the group and company made the mutual Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section Conferencedecision to stop the originally suggested work on bleach-water treatment. In the last two years,two groups did academic projects, both of which worked out very well. The issue of why it is difficult to get new industrial sponsors remains and whether abetter solicitation method exists. As discussed above, the difficulty

Collection

2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Michael A. Rother

to their choices. However, I give them a limited amount of time to make theircontacts after November, since they have already been given ample opportunity. Their otheroption is to do an academic project with at least one reactor and two separation steps. In the lastthree years, no group has chosen an academic project, although the Verso/NRRI project in 2006-7 (see Table 1) amounted to an academic project when the group and company made the mutualdecision to stop the originally suggested work on bleach-water treatment. The issue of why it is difficult to get new industrial sponsors remains – and whether abetter solicitation method exists. As discussed above, the difficulty seems to reflect an attitudeon the part of industry that the

Conference Session

Curriculum and Facility Developments for Innovative Energy Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University; Clifford R. Mirman, Northern Illinois University; Avinash Varma Gadiraju; Chester D. Kolodziej, Freedom Field Renewable Energy, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

major was inplace. From the university standpoint, it was widely agreed that environmental issues, fromclimate change to land and water usage, to alternative energy, represent critical challenges forsociety [1]. Thus, NIU Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, and Energy –the ESE Institute – was developed. In addition, the University administration made fundingavailable for development, hiring faculty members and supporting students. The academicprograms developed through the ESE Institute are cross-disciplinary, with the overall goal toaddress societal and scientific needs for a greater understanding of environmental issues [2].Recognizing the complexity of environmental issues, a holistic approach was taken whichconnects

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Gene Moriarty

consideration. There was much politicalwrangling about the decision not to delay the flight because it would proveto be an embarrassment to President Reagan. Environmental concern aroseabout damage to the ozone layer that shuttle flights produced. Social justiceconcerns were voiced about all the millions spent on shuttles that could feedthe starving people of the world. Yet, as the Challenger incident recededinto history, so did the contextual turmoil it engendered.Breakdowns are fortunately sporadic but breakthroughs seem to be almostcontinuous. In particular, cyber-world breakthroughs have become everydayoccurrences. The rise of net life has been raising eyebrows around the globefor several years now. What to make of this new virtuality and what is

Conference Session

Novel Classrooms

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie L. P. Jessop, University of Iowa; Anna L. Flaming, University of Iowa

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Brookfield puts it, “think[ing] deeply about whatwe do and how best to introduce students to complex new knowledge or skillsets.”8 This guideis intended to help faculty members overcome concerns and potential difficulties cited in theliterature, including “workload for faculty, student resistance, lack of opportunities for just-in-time questions, technical issues, decreased interest and neglected material” (see p. 7 in Ref. 5).This paper will address strategies for making the most of these benefits and for overcoming thesechallenges.Julie – My decision to flip was based on a disconnect between my reality and my vision for myMEB class. Students tended to sit passively in my lectures (sometimes) taking notes, but Iwanted (and tried) to engage them in

Conference Session

ECCD Technical Session 5: Energy and Wind and Design

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Alya Abd Aziz, Northeastern University; Evan Alexander, Northeastern University; Laura Brigandi, Northeastern University; Cole Branagan, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

basics of engineering as well as the importance of renewable resources. In addition, thiswork educates students on various skills such as research, persistence, design, construction, andtechnical writing.IntroductionAn innovative teaching approach was developed for the newly designed eight credit hourcornerstone course for the first-year engineering students. This method was very effective andwell-suited to educate students. Rather than just studying for exams to gain good grades, this skill-and knowledge-integrated approaches help highly motivated students to interact with otherstudents and faculties from various institutions and take further strides towards real worldsituations.This paper shares a sample project illustrating a new teaching

Conference Session

Capstone Courses in Construction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vivek Sharma, Texas State University, San Marcos; Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University, San Marcos

Tagged Divisions

Construction

/safetyconsiderations this course underwent a modification whereby students were engaged in physicalconstruction of a small scale mock-up of residential units on campus in the constructionlaboratory. This modification obviated some of the critical issues. There was minimal industrialinvolvement with the capstone course. The modification notwithstanding, both the students andthe industrial advisory board (IAB) felt that more could be done by way of preparing students forthe construction industry. During summer 2011 the process of reengineering the capstone coursebegan. The following sections detail the planning and design of a “new” capstone course, withsignificant industrial participation, for the purpose of better preparing CSM majors for theconstruction

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Burian, University of Utah; Edward Barbanell, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

multi-disciplinarystudent population and to be co-taught by a professor from civil engineering and a professor Page 15.660.4from humanities. According to the course learning objectives, after completing the coursestudents should be able to: 1. Explain complex water resources issues and concepts to non-technical people 2. Describe the multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary elements of a water resources system or engineering project 3. Identify social concerns related to water resources projects 4. Analyze from a systems perspective the broader impacts of water resources planning, management, and engineering projects 5

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

contacts, and various design tricks. This knowledge needed to be shared withother teams using the same tools. Then the expertise needed to be migrated to new teamspicking up a legacy design in the next semester.Managing the SPECTRE ProjectsAn undergraduate project leader manages the project, working closely with the faculty and staffadvisors. The student manager helps coordinate the multiple ECE design, fabrication, andtesting efforts, provides liaison with the mechanical team building the payload hardware, andwith instrument calibration and data analysis efforts at Wellesley College. He has no designrole.SPECTRE’s scale and duration accentuate many aspects of teaming and project managementthat are less critical in smaller student design groups

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Baillie

1793 Engineering Knowledge Building: The bridge between research, practice and teaching Caroline Baillie Integrated learning centre, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Queens University, OntarioIntroductionAcademic engineers appear to me to have parallel lives. They spend much of their waking hoursmeasuring, modelling, discovering, theorising and debating their ideas with colleagues. This, theycall research. They are learning new knowledge about the world they live in. The other part oftheir job involves teaching the students what they know about that part of the knowledge in theircharge. They are helping the students to learn knowledge which is new for them. Learning is infact the space in which these two

Conference Session

Int. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, and Implementations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Joshua Jacobs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Julio A. Pertuze, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Daniel T. Roos P.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dava J. Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

International

” can have apositive, lasting impact on the economy by addressing key societal issues through qualityeducation and research in the emerging field of engineering systems.”MPP operates a consortium that links a single high-profile U.S. research university – MIT – witha whole segment of the Portuguese HE and research system, including 8 schools of engineering,science and technology and 20 research centers, as well as government and industry fromPortugal (cf. Fig. 2-6). The program gathers 236 Portuguese faculty and over 50 faculty fromMIT (plus administrative staff), and led to the creation of 23 new faculty positions and 8 newpost-doc positions in Portugal. With a budget of 59 M€ (80 M$), the program enrolls or hasgraduated at total 425 graduate

Conference Session

ChE: Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Robert Ofoli, Michigan State University; Dennis Miller, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

curriculum design, rather than be confined by rigidcriteria. This paper offers preliminary evidence that the regular assessment of the ABET-designated outcomes has opened the eyes of our faculty to issues in student learning thatmay not have been considered before. While initial assessment was conducted at thedisciplinary course level, improvement actions have been more far-reaching includingnon-trivial course and program improvements, interdepartmental faculty collaboration,redesign of course content, and renewal of faculty interest in improved classroompedagogy. This paper reports on the assessment-based approaches used to implementcurricular change and the benefits that have resulted to date. In a broader sense, this paperproposes a model process

Conference Session

Engineering Mechanics Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Christian J. Schwartz P.E., Texas A&M University; Kumbakonam Ramamani Rajagopal, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He has authored or co-authored over 50 papers on engineer- ing education in areas ranging from curricular change to faculty development. He is currently an ABET Program Evaluator and a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal on Engineering Education.Dr. Christian J Schwartz P.E., Texas A&M University Cris Schwartz is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Texas A&M since 2006, with a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He currently leads the INNOMAT research group which focuses on issues that link biology, tribology, and design. This includes extensive work with the friction and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

faculty status, e.g., the URL of a list of faculty in your department, or of theon-line directory of your university. You will then be given an account that will permityou to view all of the questions and answers, modify questions that you have authored,and insert new questions into the database.2. Logging in to the Course DatabaseOnce you’ve obtained a user-ID and password, you can then proceed to access thedatabase. Do so by following these steps:• Browse to http://cd.csc.ncsu.edu. You will be presented with the screen below. Page 8.39.2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University; Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

design and electromagneticsrequired for all electrical engineers, and the introductory engineering economics courserequired for all engineering students. Other participants included a faculty member fromthe OSU library and a colleague in education. A total of eight faculty participated.During the first semester, faculty learned the teaching techniques used in the project:case studies, team learning, and project-based learning. Biweekly meetings let facultydiscuss problems and concerns they felt in transitioning away from lecture. Facultybeliefs about teaching were deeply rooted in personal experience, some of which werecompatible with the assumptions inherent to this project and others that were not. Themajor, unanticipated problem encountered

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russ Pimmel, University of Alabama; Roger K. Seals, Louisiana State University; Stephanie M. Beard, Louisiana State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

years,DUE engineering Program Directors have had concerns about the cost-effectiveness andreach of these faculty development efforts, and they have urged the community to explorethe use of Internet technology to create more cost-effective implementations that rely onthe rapidly developing Internet conferencing and social networking tools for bothsynchronous and asynchronous interactions. After promoting these ideas for a number ofyears, DUE engineering Program Directors realized that their own outreach facultydevelopment program aimed at increasing participation and improving the responsivenessof submitted proposals, had similar issues with cost and reach. They undertook an effortto convert their interactive workshops to a web-based approach to

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mia Markey; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

made during the semester and after each visit, the instructorand the reviewer discussed how to adapt the course to meet students’ needs and how to modifyinstructional strategies. For the second half of the semester, the teaching assistants wrote asynopsis of each lab session, which was sent to the instructor and FIC director so that they werecurrent on lab activities and student concerns. After the responses to the midcourse evaluationwere organized, the director of the FIC conducted a focus group with the students. During thissession, students were able to openly discuss course concerns and issues.2.3 Access and Assessment Data Use of BlackBoard was tracked by using its’ course statistics tool. We were able to seewhich sections of

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

William H. Tranter; Theodore S. Rappaport; Jeffrey H. Reed; Donna M. Krizman; Brian D. Woerner

an unprecedented demand for trainedelectrical engineers with the expertise to design and deploy new wireless communications services,encompassing the high growth areas of cellular telephone, personal communications, paging services, andwireless local area networks. The project described in this paper teams electrical engineering faculty fromVirginia Tech’s Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) and from the University of Missouri-Rolla to develop an innovative communications curriculum which draws from current research on radiosignal propagation modeling, computer-aided design and simulation of wireless communication systems, anddigital signal processing techniques to improve the performance and spectral efficiency of wireless

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Yates; Maura Borrego

was probably some expectation on behalf of the instructors andadministration that the other would articulate the course goals to students. As a result ofthis survey, Orientation materials will be updated and seminar staff and faculty will workmore closely to send a consistent message. Page 10.444.8A related issue is the inevitable variation in focus of the various faculty members, whooften brought current events related to their engineering sub-discipline into the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Program Criteria, Assessment, and Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mikhail Gershfeld, S.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Judith Ellen Sheine, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Gary LeMarr McGavin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Department of Architecture

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

remains, however, a great chal-lenge. Page 22.148.3AE CollaborationThe idea of a collaborative relationship between architectural and civil engineering programs isby no means a new concept, but its implementation in undergraduate education is certainly nottrivial. It requires engineering faculty with a level of expertise different from that of a traditionalacademically trained faculty member, an educational methodology that works for both discip-lines and the selection of projects that are responsive to the educational objectives. Cal Poly Po-mona University presently offers civil engineering degrees within the College of Engineeringand

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - College Courses and Minors

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Doyle, Penn State University; Richard Devon, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

. Page 15.1184.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Teaching Process for Technological Literacy: The Case of Nanotechnology and Global Open Source PedagogyAbstractIn this paper we propose approaching the concern addressed by the technology literacymovement by using process design rather than product design. Rather than requiring people toknow an impossible amount about technology, we suggest that we can teach process forunderstanding and making decisions about any technology. This process can be applied to newproblems and new contexts that emerge from the continuous innovation and transformation oftechnology markets. Such a process offers a strategy for planning for and abiding the

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Projects

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University; William F. Resh, Michigan State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

timeline (Figure 1) provided to the students, have turned out to have the appropriate amountof uncertainty in them to provide sufficient guidance while challenging the students to deal withthe uncertainties present in trying to design a new product. The fact the virtually all of thestudents participating have personal experience with riding bicycles appears to have helped thembe comfortable with this project description without the involved faculty having to define whatthe product is and provide extensive background on its use and issues.Figure 1 – ISD Electric Commuter Bicycle Project Timeline. The first ISD project is designedto last 3-4 years. This project timeline is discussed with students in the orientation meeting eachsemester.4. Project

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan C. Campbell, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

,engineering educators seek ways to emphasize and develop broad thinking. The work presentedin this paper provides insight into how engineering education might broaden its coverage tobetter address such modern challenges as globalization, climate change, and issues of socialjustice. In this paper, we present new findings from a recent analysis of semi-structuredinterviews that were conducted during the spring of 2006 as part of the Center for theAdvancement of Engineering Education’s (CAEE) Academic Pathways Study (APS). Theseinterviews of third-year engineering students at a large, public research university in the westernU.S. took place immediately following a short design-scoping task (the analysis of which isreported elsewhere [1, 2]) that asked

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

determined by the faculty assigned to teach the coursewith the Office for Service Learning and the Center for Social Concerns at our University.Funding is provided to each team for their bill of materials. Student teams are organized andproject selections are made within the first two weeks of the term. The student teams areexpected to follow clearly defined phases of project development.During the first half of the term, the students (a) identify the issues in the project (b) develop thespecifications (c) prepare the conceptual design (d) provide the detailed design (e) develop andsubmit a proposal for evaluation and assessment by the stakeholders. The stakeholders evaluatethe proposals submitted by the student teams based on well-defined criteria