Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

difficult, but well defined problems because this is a majordeficiency in the students we see.To develop problem solving skills, it is important for students to solve problems in which theymust select the mathematical tools to solve the problem11. The use of cumulative reviewproblems, drawing on all previous material, resulted in increased problem solving ability9. Incontrast, typical textbook exercises rely mainly on recent content, and give students sufficientclues to select solution techniques without understanding the concepts well enough to apply themin new contexts.Problem solving courses for engineers exist at many universities. Specific instruction about theproblem solving process has had positive effects, but often did not transfer to

Conference Session

New Directions for ET

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue University; Shelly Tan, Purdue University; Liza Ann Russell, Purdue University; Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

existing research on engineering technology graduates from specific countries, such asMalaysia [6]; however, most of these focus on employability [7] and the general availability ofresources to these graduates within their industry (such as the state of their labs) rather thanbeing directly about perception. In general, perception is discussed as a factor that affects thetopic being researched, rather than being the subject of any studies itself, which often leads tomost material centering on the perspectives of employers rather than the general public; thisemphasis continues even outside those countries [8] [9].In terms of pre-graduate perception, research has been done concerning how the field isperceived among people from a certain subgroup

Collection

2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Marcos Chu; Ruth-Miriam Garnett

hole of different size is a problem that will require the implementationof a Reuleuaux auger on a robot is a new problem. Global engineer with a good background:engineering history will be required to “find” the pieces and put the pieces together. Curriculum for global engineering education need not only to include textbooks whichshow the process to be used, but also needs to include, hands-on activities where engineers areable to interact with the environment and generate ideas. An opportunity for exchange of ideasbegun in 2010, providing a marketplace where ideas seekers get to meet with idea implementers.The largest state faire is State Fair of Texas, first held in 1886. In 2010, the first USA Science &Engineering Festival was

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Bertozzi

, “The CDIO Initiative offers an education stressing engineeringfundamentals, set in the context of the Conceiving - Designing - Implementing - Operatingprocess, which engineers use to create systems and products.”With respect to teaching and learning reform CDIO states, “We know some interesting factsabout how experiences affect learning. Engineering students tend to learn by experiencing theconcrete and then applying the experience it to the abstract. Unlike their counterparts of yearspast, many engineering students today don’t arrive at college armed with hands-on experienceslike tinkering with cars or building radios. Yet, hands-on experience is a vital foundation onwhich to base theory and science.”In the paper, Lessons Learned from Design

Conference Session

Assessing Perceptions of Engineers and Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leroy Cox, University of Missouri-Rolla; Cassandra Elrod, University of Missouri-Rolla

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

also familiar to the students. Students showed little familiarity withdisciplines related to materials science, energy, or to the discipline of Engineering Management.Bivariate Pearson correlations were performed to understand whether or not students knew of theengineering profession by virtue of being exposed to someone close at hand (family member orfriend) who was an engineer. There was a positive, significant, but weak correlation betweenthese two variables (r = 0.287, p < .01). This finding supports our hypothesis, suggesting thatthere is an influence, albeit slight, on students’ knowledge of the profession.Given the relatively small number of women who specified an interest in the engineeringprofession as compared to men in the Noeth4

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Niewoehner, U.S. Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

touchingmetaphysics, though the result may not find universal accord. He insists that the Christianscholar not summarily dismiss or ignore what they know from their metaphysic, andshould not be concerned that their contribution isn’t accepted simply because of itspresuppositional commitments. The absence of universal acceptance does not imply thatthe result is not true knowledge, and that knowledge might only be attained reasonably byworking from that metaphysical base. For the engineering educator, this distinction is particularly valuable because ourscholarship is mostly in domains where the Duhemian is most appropriate. Theconclusions I might reach in materials science or fluid mechanics are hardly influencedby my view of humanity. I’d expect to find

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conrad, Portland State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

revising and reviewing all written work. Time constraints, laziness, and pride are the three components of failure in my technical writing skills. The information that made the biggest impression on me was that engineering writing is different from literature writing and can cost me a job.Given comments like these, the workshop seems well worth thirty minutes of class time. Moreinformation is available on the project website (http://www.cewriting.ling.pdx.edu/), and theworkshop powerpoint slides can be obtained by writing the project principal investigator, aslisted on the website contact page.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantsNo. DUE

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 7: Innovative Pedagogy

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiamin Zhang, University of California, Riverside; John Ellington Byars, Auburn University; Eric Burkholder, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

education literature, most prior research onsensemaking has focused on mathematical sensemaking [3], [4] or building connections betweena concept in science and a scenario in the real world [5]. Very few studies have focused onsensemaking in engineering.In science and engineering, visual diagrams are often used for presenting and engaging withcomplex scientific concepts. Experimental studies and case studies have reported positive effectsof various types of scientific representations [6]. Multiple representations can complement eachother because they differ either in the processes each supports or in the information each contains.For example, Tabachneck et al. examined the representations that learners created to solvealgebra word problems and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

AnnMarie Thomas, University of Saint Thomas; Jan B Hansen, University of Saint Thomas

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

. Page 22.315.4 ENGR 130: Fundamentals of Engineering for Educators (4 undergraduate credits) This is a one-semester survey of engineering topics. Topics will span machine design, manufacturing, thermodynamics, electronics, computer programming, and chemical engineering. The course will have weekly lab sessions which will allow students to apply what they are learning from lectures in a hands-on setting. Emphasis will be placed on how the material is used by practitioners. Numerous examples will be given of how this material can be presented in a way that meets Minnesota education standards. Each topic unit will include a

Conference Session

Cultural Issues in Engineering: International Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jayanta K. Banerjee, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

together and talk.”Unlike during the 1960s and 70s, words like ‘underdeveloped’ or ‘Third World’ were not used toofrequently in academic conversations, even though they exist openly or insipiently in our societies. Moreoften the old Mississippi folksong, “We are on the same boat, brothers!” vibrates in technology transfer.The wind has no more any directional preference: neither from North to South, nor from West to East. Aprofessor of engineering materials would probably call it, “No anisotropy!”In engineering education and in engineering practice, graduate students and senior undergraduatestudents can contribute enormously to technology transfer within a country or internationally. Thisprecious source of technical and humanistic resources of the

Conference Session

Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda E. Craugh Ph.D., United States Naval Academy; Ethan E. Lust, United States Naval Academy

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

entertaining. This class alone shifted my potential major from computer science to mechanical engineering. This workshop was not like the others I participated in. The mechanical engineering workshop was hands on and very informative. In addition I was also educated on the mechanics of a lawn mower. Page 26.1055.5 This was the only workshop that was “hands on.” Though all the other workshops were interesting in their own way relative to the subject, mechanical engineering was the only workshop in which I was given the opportunity to be an active participant whereas the other workshops were more passive

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 2 - Beliefs, Motivation, and Pedagogy

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deeksha Seth, Villanova University; Robert P. Loweth, Purdue University ; James C. O'Brien, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

projects, reflect on their social identities, and consider the broader societal contexts of their engineering work. The goals of his research are 1) to develop tools and pedagogies that support engineers in achieving the positive societal changes that they envision and 2) to address systems of oppression that exist within and are reproduced by engineering education and work environments. He earned his B.S. in Engineering Sciences from Yale University, with a double major in East Asian Studies, and earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Chinese and American Studies, jointly awarded by Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University in China.Prof

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; George Korfiatis, Stevens Institute of Technology; Nikhil Sanghavi, Stevens Institute of Technology

described inmore detail below. A diverse selection of events is offered. Each engineering department is expected toprovide orientations to their programs and organize a variety of events relevant to their field.These can include workshops, lectures; visits to research centers and laboratories; external trips;visiting speakers, including corporate events with a career focus. Where possible, departmentsare strongly encouraged to offer hands-on or active approaches. The events can range fromlectures suitable for a large attendance to small group activities. Some interesting examplesinclude: walking tours of new construction as well as a 150-year old ferry terminal by the CivilEngineering Department; a workshop on medical devices by the

Conference Session

Faculty and Course Evolution: Teaching With Technology, Online Delivery, and Addressing Emerging Student & Industry Needs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Bird, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

This has paralleled the call for a transformational change in thebroader science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education community3 and hasresulted in significant resources by both government and corporate entities to improve teachingand learning in the STEM disciplines.4 Since focusing on developing evidence-based teachinginnovations has not been enough to affect pervasive change in teaching practices in engineeringschools, the emphasis by organizations including the National Science Foundation and theNational Academy of Engineering has shifted to developing an understanding of the extent of theadoption of innovations5-12.In university engineering departments, individual faculty members are typically responsible forclassroom

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael B. Kelley; Joseph D. Myers; John H. Grubbs

majoring in environmental engineering learn firsthandof the linkage between mathematical concepts and engineering problem solving. Thelinkage established in the mathematics course is strengthened in design scenariospresented during their environmental engineering course in hydrogeology. Improvedstudent success and increased communication between mathematics and engineeringfaculty are the products of the ‘ILAP’. As part of a National Science Foundationinitiative known as Project Intermath, a consortium of schools has been formed to exportboth the ‘ILAP’ and the associated cultural change in mathematics education on anational scale.A History of Interdisciplinary Lively Application ProjectsAn initiative of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at

Conference Session

Curriculum and New Course Development in ET

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mihaela Radu, State University of New York - Farmingdale; Mircea Alexandru Dabacan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Department at The Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, In and R@D engineer for The Institute of Scientific Research for Automation and Telecommunications, Bucharest, Romania. Over the past ten years she taught several undergraduate and graduate courses on Electronic Components and Circuits, Digital Design, Design of Fault Tolerant Systems and Testing of Digital Systems. Her current research interest includes Reliability and Fault Tolerance of Electronic Systems, Programmable Logic De- vices and new educational methods teaching digital design and analog electronics, emphasizing ”hands- on” experiences and project-based

Conference Session

Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinay Kumar Domal, University of Western AustraliaUWA; James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

Tagged Divisions

International

the premiums go rocketing sky high... we try to keep them down by making theworkplace safe. It is the duty of care of employers to provide and maintain safe systems ofwork. On the other hand it is the duty of care of employees to take care and protect the safetyand health of themselves and others and to report unsafe working practices."Many would argue that none of these issues fall within the agenda of ‘real engineering’ whichis based on science-based mathematical models of physical behavior. They are managementissues, covered at an introductory level in industrial engineering courses. Human behavior isthe domain of psychologists and sociologists after all, not engineers. This argument is refutedsimply by referring to the results of this and

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Mary Lidstrom; Kjell Nelson; Jeffrey Bonadio; David Stahl; Cynthia Atman

. This paper describes thecontent, implementation, and assessment strategies of the first two course offerings, anddescribes the key initial findings.IntroductionScientific and technological advances during the 20th century have shifted the emphasis of theUS economy from manufacturing to information, communication, and high technology.Continuing US economic and technological leadership will rely in part on engineers who canrecognize, understand, and integrate new developments in information technology,nanotechnology, and the life sciences. Engineering education programs must be responsive tothese trends and adapt existing curricula to train new generations of engineers who are able tofulfill the changing needs of our society.A significant growth

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Fathi Finaish

businessknowledge. Further, since engineering curricula moved away from a design and hands-onemphasis to a more "engineering science" orientation in recent decades, universities are nowencouraged to move back to curriculum relevant to applications. With this focus, mostuniversities are incorporating new courses aimed at 1) Teaching applied as opposed to purelytheoretical sciences where design, not analysis, is emphasized, 2) Providing opportunities forhands-on, testing, and experimentation with different design concepts, 3) Giving studentsopportunities to use intuitive thinking as a basis for concept development, and 4) Enhancingengineering process skills such as teamwork and technical writing skills. What is beingemphasized in these courses is product

Collection

2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt; Daniel Godrick; Joan Tisdale; Melissa Davis

sometimes a barrier to student progression and persistence in engineering and naturalscience majors [1]. A variety of models have been tried to help with student math success incollege including: summer math preparation [2], [3], placing students into appropriate mathcourses (sometime pre-calculus, for example [4]), enrolling students in extra math help tutorials(may be pass/fail, 1 credit courses taken with calculus 1 [5]), and learning assistants to serve aspeer mentors [6]. One model that has proven very effective was developed at Wright StateUniversity and focuses on application-driven, hands-on, and just-in-time learning [7], [8]. Otherinstitutions have also adopted and/or adapted some of the Wright State model (e.g., [9]). It mayalso be

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ida B Ngambeki, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Dennis R. Depew, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Melissa Jane Dark, Purdue University; Rylan C. Chong, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

effective in the public policy arena,engineers need more than a brief exposure to social science material. They need to: have arudimentary understanding of related topics in other fields; be able to communicate tostakeholders at different levels of government, industry, etc; be able to effectively engage withand educate (and be educated by) the public; be able to communicate and integrate effectivelyacross disciplinary boundaries; have knowledge of policymaking process and motivation toengage in it; be able to maintain credibility and ethical standards; be able to recognize andextrapolate social, environmental, etc consequences; and be able to work at both micro andmacro scales16. However, there is very little guidance on how to integrate policy

Conference Session

Four Pillars of Manufacturing Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Mott, University of Dayton; Ronald J. Bennett Ph.D., Univeristy of Saint Thomas; Hugh Jack P.Eng., Grand Valley State University; Steve Wendel, Sinclair Community College; Mark J. Stratton, Society of Manufacturing Engineers; V. Raju, VIT University; Winston F. Erevelles, St.Mary's University; Phil Waldrop, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

using the metaphor of a building whose roof structure is supportedby four pillars that rest on a foundation (Figure 1). The foundation shows the educational fundamentals on which the manufacturing engineeringfield is based, including mathematics and science, communications, and the many aspects ofpersonal effectiveness. The four pillars are capped with the titles shown above for the four major competenciesexpected of manufacturing engineers and technologists. Within the four pillars, ten major subjectareas are arrayed to give more detail to the content included in baccalaureate degree programs:Engineering Sciences, Materials, Manufacturing Processes, Product Design, Process Design,Equipment/Tool Design, Production System Design, Automated

Conference Session

BME Laboratory Courses and Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Conrad Zapanta, Carnegie Mellon University; Warren Ruder, Carnegie Mellon University; Justin Newberg, Carnegie Mellon University; Paul Glass, Carnegie Mellon University; Davneet Minhas; Elvira Garcia Osuna, Carnegie Mellon University; Liang Tso Sun, Carnegie Mellon University; Alyssa Siefert, Carnegie Mellon University; Judy Shum, Carnegie Mellon University; Portia Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University; Arielle Drummond, Carnegie Mellon University; Bur Chu, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University uses a track systemto provide in-depth exposure to an area of biomedical engineering that complements the secondmajor (Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & ComputerEngineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering). Four tracks are Page 14.200.4offered: 1. Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology: This track emphasizes fundamental applications of biochemistry, biophysics, and cell biology. Special emphasis is placed on processes and structures occurring on the nanometer to micrometer size scale range. 2. Bioimaging: This

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cassandra M. Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Mark David Bedillion, Carnegie Mellon University; Marsha Lovett, Carnegie Mellon University; Clifford Whitcomb, Naval Postgraduate School

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

Computational Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Product Design and Develop- ment, and STEM Education. He has taught several different courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, has over 60 publications, is co-author of one book, and has done consulting for industry in Mexico and the US. He can be reached at Karim.Muci@sdsmt.edu.Dr. Cassandra M Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Cassandra Birrenkott received her B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 2007. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2012 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying mechanochemical reactions of a spiropyran mechanophore in

Conference Session

Graduate Education in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bimal Nepal, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (Eng); Jihad Albayyari, Indiana-Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Page 13.170.2major course in advance quality engineering such as design of experiments.An introductory course in quality technology or statistical process control is typically found inany manufacturing technology program2, 7. The Indiana University Purdue University FortWayne’s Master of Science in Technology has a core course on quality and productivity thatcovers basic concepts of quality management framework and statistical process control. Asmentioned earlier, in order to deal with global competition, manufacturing companies are undertremendous pressure to increase product variety. Creating variety also creates challenges in termsof producing consistently high quality products due to introductions of new variability into thesystem

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessing Sustainability and Life Long Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey C. Evans P.E., Bucknell University; Michelle Oswald Beiler P.E., Bucknell University; Akmal S Daniyarov; Christopher Adam Kulish

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

areas as a way to attract and engage high quality, diversestudents in civil engineering. While traditional civil engineering topics, such as bridges, havebeen used in the past with secondary school students, adapting the current and ever-developingtopics to specific hands-on, real world, problem-based lessons specifically for secondary schoolstudents, ultimately can increase awareness of and interest in the field of civil engineering.Currently, Bucknell University offers a week-long summer engineering camp targeting Page 23.1320.2secondary school students. The camp participants are exposed to engineering through a series oflessons and hands-on

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne McClain, University of Alabama-Birmingham; Dale Feldman, University of Alabama-Birmingham; Lee Meadows, University of Alabama Birmingham

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

interests, math-science connections and careers, and hands on experiencesextended with computer activities. Teachers also included activities like: collecting data,measuring, graphing, designing, and building. Teachers were also interested in usingmanipulatives with the applications, a mapping of grade-level standards from the AlabamaCourse of Study [7], and opportunities to build a student-selected menu of tasks.Also as part of this, it was revealed that they already had access to the traditional types of“building” projects commonly associated with engineering applications (ramps and levers). Itwas felt, however, that these types of projects were better incorporated in science classes and/orrequired a significant amount of class time when compared

Conference Session

Public Engineering of Engineering, K12 Standards, and Overview

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Welty, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Linda Katehi, University of Illinois; Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering; Michael Feder, National Research Council

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

ofscience and engineering to design, create, and improve solutions.” Design and Discovery“engages students in hands-on engineering and design activities intended to foster knowledge,skill development, and problem solving in the areas of science and engineering.”In many cases, the primary reason for including engineering was to enhance the study of scienceand mathematics. For example, the mission of the Materials World Modules was to improvescience education by engaging students in the intellectual processes of inquiry and design.Consistent with this mission, the modules were designed to enhance the teaching of traditionalscience curricula by facilitating greater student awareness of the relationships between scientificand technological concepts and

Conference Session

Computer Engineering Topics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald J. Hayne, The Citadel

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

the multi-tasking capabilities of the expanded system. Hardwareprototyping using an FPGA provides hands-on experience that can’t be obtained by simulationalone.Student feedback was collected from the Student Evaluation of Learning survey, using a five-point Likert scale: 1. Strongly Disagree (SD), 2. Disagree (D), 3. Undecided (U), 4. Agree (A),5. Strongly Agree (SA), Number of Responses (N). The results are very positive and shown inFigure 8. Student Evaluation of Learning SD D U A SA N Mean My ability to identify, formulate, and 0 0 0 0 4 4 5.0 solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics has

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Hill, Weber State University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

include that“associate degree graduates will communicate effectively on well-defined engineering activities,will comprehend the work of others, will document their own work, and will give and receiveclear instructions.” On the other hand, “baccalaureate graduates will communicate effectively onbroadly-defined engineering activities, will comprehend and write effective reports and designdocumentation, will make effective presentations, and will give and receive clear instructions.”While this may be a workable solution, it appears to unnecessarily compliccate this Criterion.Alternate Proposal for Differentiated CriteriaThe author would like to propose an alternate set of criteria that takes into account the majordifferences between associate degree