Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Applications

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Scales, North Carolina State University; Aaron Clark, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

with. This nationalconference could be in conjunction with the newly formed K-12 Outreach Division of the ASEE and could lead toan annual event. A final thought would be that if pre-engineering curricula is going use our discipline as one of themain stays in secondary education, that the EDGD division develop a theme session at it’s annual mid-yearconference that particularly addresses k-12 outreach issues. This session could be for research in the growing fieldof pre-engineering education as it relates to our field, or just graphics education in general, either way, our field ofstudy is as popular as ever in the public schools, as it is in higher education, but no formal mechanism is in place forcommunications between the two groups. If we

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Litzinger

Session Number 2630 An Integrated Approach to Developing Professional and Technical Skills in Engineering Undergraduates Thomas A. Litzinger, Professor Mechanical Engineering, Penn State, University Park, PA 16802AbstractThe general consensus in industry, government, and academia is that engineers will need morehighly developed professional skills to succeed in the new millenium. Of the ABET EC2000eleven basic outcomes, six relate to professional skills such as communication, teamwork, andunderstanding broader issues related to engineering. Thus, engineering programs must find waysto more effectively

Conference Session

Promoting Technical Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kristine Horvat, University of New Haven; Judy Randi, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ability tocommunicate effectively with a range of audiences has been emphasized as a critical skill forengineering professionals [1]. Given this emphasis, different approaches to building students’professional communication skills have been implemented but with mixed results. For example,when engineering students take technical communication courses, they tend to rememberinformation about format, but fail to apply knowledge about audience and purpose when theywrite engineering reports [2]. Some research has pointed out short comings in technicalcommunication textbooks, which neglect important engineering communication skills such asdata visualization and emphasize stylistic features used in the humanities [3]. Other research hasfound some

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Niemi

Session No. 1478 Development of an Ocean Engineering Course As a Technical Elective for Mechanical Engineers Eugene E. Niemi, Jr. Professor University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell, MA 01854Abstract This paper outlines the development of a course in Ocean Engineering to be used as atechnical elective for mechanical engineering students. With some modifications, the course isalso being offered as a technology elective for graduate students in a marine science program.The

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

Session # Integrated Technical Writing Instruction in Freshman Engineering Elisa Linsky, Gunter Georgi. Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York.Convincing freshman engineering students that acquiring technical writing expertise is critical totheir success is central to the mission of the writing program in General Engineering. Bydeploying writing consultants to each section of our benchmark introductory course, EG 1004,we teach the fundamentals of good writing within the context of regular engineering coursework.EG 1004 is a survey course designed to introduce various engineering disciplines to ourincoming freshmen. Teamwork

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John E. Nydahl; Colin K. Keeney; Ann Peck

Session 3530 Effective Strategies to Motivate Engineering Students to Develop Their Technical Writing Skills Ann Peck, John E. Nydahl, Colin K. Keeney Department of Mechanical Engineering/ Department of Mechanical Engineering/ Department of English University of WyomingAbstractMany engineering students have a real aversion to writing-intensive assignments. This paperdiscusses several curriculum changes incorporated in a mechanical engineering program todemonstrate just how vital communication skills are in an engineering environment

Conference Session

Instructional Methods and Tools in BME

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann Saterbak, Rice University; Tracy Volz, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

. Instructor, peer,and self evaluations were compared. There was a strong linear correlation between instructorevaluation and peer evaluation (r = 0.60, regression model ANOVA P<0.0002). In contrast,there were poor linear correlations between instructor and self evaluations and between peer andself evaluations (r < 0.25, regression model ANOVA P>0.2). These results suggest that studentsmay be better able to technically evaluate others’ work, rather than their own. Studentsperceived the peer evaluation process as generally helpful, although they noted that their peers’comments were less specific and occasionally inconsistent with their instructor’s feedback.Students reported on surveys that peer evaluation was effective in helping them to

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Strategies in Engineering Graphics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Ernst, North Carolina State University; Aaron Clark, North Carolina State University; Alice Scales, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

studies:The Attitudes and Opinions of Students Toward Technical Graphics: Preliminary SurveyResults17 and Motivation and Strategies for Learning in a Fundamentals of Graphics EducationCourse18. This analysis combines results from the NCLAGES and MSLQ instruments to assistin the identification of underlying processes of the samples. Page 14.16.5Summary statistics (Table 1) of the NCLAGES and MSLQ were calculated to provide a synopsisof the instrument results. The variance (0.28) and standard deviation (0.53) of the MSLQ resultsare minimal in comparison to the variance (1.10) and standard deviation (1.05) of the NCLAGESresults indicating a smaller

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Stephen Bitar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Robert Labonté, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

course had three main components: a one hourlecture held four times per week, a supervised three hour laboratory session held once per week,and unsupervised open laboratory access. Unlike a typical Electrical Engineering course, thelectures originally contained rather little technical content, instead focusing on explaining theprocess of engineering design. The supervised laboratory was a hybrid of technical and non-technical issues, while the unsupervised laboratory is primarily technical and consisted largely ofstudents working on their projects. It was simply expected that students would rely on thebackground they received in their earlier core courses to develop the circuits needed to completetheir project. The centerpiece of this

Conference Session

Capstone/ET Projects I: Electrical and Computer Focus

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Xiaoxia Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

currently serving as the Interim Chair for the Industrial Management and Technology De- partment. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Introduce Virtual Reality to College Technical Training Program — Intensified VR Training for Safety and Economic EfficiencyIntroductionWith the advancement of technologies in many fields, educational technologies are becoming morediversified nowadays. Especially with the development of immersive learning and educationgamification [1], both the learner and educators are seeking innovative, effective, and cost-efficientways for education today. As educational institutions that offer technical training in colleges, theavailability of the educational technology in

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

James E. Fuller

Session 2606 History, Theory and Criticism in Technical Courses of Architectural Engineering Technology: A Necessary and Didactic Relationship James E. Fuller, AIA Ward College of Technology University of Hartford West Hartford, ConnecticutAbstractTraditionally technical courses in architecture focused on the then current methodologies,standards and procedures and did not consider the evolution of thought which brought us to aparticular point

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard A. Smolleck; Nadipuram Prasad; Barbara Powell; Bhargava Jayanti; Shakir Manshad; Sashadry Divakaria; Paul Arellanes

Session 1620 A SOFTWARE LEARNING TOOL FOR VECTOR AND COMPLEX-NUMBER FUNDAMENTALS: TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT Howard A. Smolleck, Nadipuram R. Prasad, Barbara Powell, Bhargava Jayanti, Shakir Manshad, Sashadry Divakarla, Paul Arellanes Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering New Mexico State UniversityAbstractWorking under a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (NSF/ATE)grant, the authors have been involved for two years in the development of graphical, interactivesoftware for use by students in Engineering and Technology

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques in Graphics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Sherwood, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Peter Avitabile, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

andacts as visual map to reinforce the connection of the course topics to one another. The Ganttchart also is an introduction to how to manage a project by planning tasks that need to becompleted in serial and what tasks can be done in parallel to have a distributed workload over thetime period while finishing the project on time.Tasks #1 and #2 are done as individual technical reports. Students do not necessarily come tothe course knowing any of the students in the class. Thus, the first two weeks is a time for thestudents to begin to meet others during the two-hour lab sessions and to force each student to beinvolved in all aspects of writing a technical memo report. Any weaknesses in technical reportwriting and formatting in MS Word are to be

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Ross, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

*TC Comp/FIG: writing; project management; research; oral presentations*Figure 2. The FIG (Freshman Interest Group) Technical Communication course contributes to all thebenefits listed for general program enrichment previously enumerated in Figure 1. (Dorm life, however, isessentially an out-of-class factor!)Community: A large element of first year program work has been to help establish both thesocial and the professional sense of community. For this course, the “technical theme” has beenused to build a community within the larger community of students who are starting to think likeengineers as

Conference Session

Engineering Communication II: Curricular Practices, Integrations, and Collaborations

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mary M. McCall, University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif E. Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

strongertechnical communication skills. In the early 2000s, engineering professional societies reportedunderdeveloped writing and presentation skills in entry-level job candidates while, at the sametime, stressing the time spent in a typical engineer’s day on communication tasks [1, 2]. At thesame time, ABET adopted new criteria for evaluating and accrediting engineering programs [3].The criteria focused on developing “soft skills” including teamwork, ethics, and effectivecommunication, among others. The importance of soft skills has only grown in the interveningyears. Among ABET’s student outcomes as listed in 2019-2020 is “an ability to apply written,oral, and graphical communication in broadly-defined technical and non-technical environments;and an

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell; Kevin Dahm

ASEE Session 1339 Baseball Stadium Design: Teaching Engineering Economics and Technical Communication in a Multi-Disciplinary Setting Kevin Dahm and James Newell Rowan University, Glassboro, NJAbstract: Rowan University's Sophomore Engineering Clinic provides students with anintroduction to engineering design and formal training in technical communication. The courseis team taught by faculty from the College of Communications and the College of Engineering.During the past two years, a very successful Sophomore Clinic module on economic design of abaseball stadium has

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thompson; Craig Gunn; Craig Somerton

Session 2425 The Role of the Faculty Advisor in the Capstone Design Experience: The Importance of Technical Expertise Craig W. Somerton, Brian S. Thompson, and Craig Gunn Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State UniversityIntroductionThe capstone design experience in the mechanical engineering program at Michigan StateUniversity is achieved through the Mechanical Engineering Design Projects course: ME 481.This course utilizes industrially sponsored design projects for which the company makes both afinancial investment ($3500) and a personnel investment (a staff engineer is

Conference Session

Technical Session 2b

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

John M Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section

will summarize the results of the flipped classroom and its implementationusing Google Docs and interactive video for EE110.Grading results and course surveys were used to assess and improve the effectiveness of theflipped classroom over several course offerings. Various technologies include: (1) using worddocument with links to YouTube videos followed by with quiz questions in the first offering; (2)adding Google Docs (or Google Forms) with embedded YouTube Videos and quizzes in the nextclass session; and (3) including both Google Docs and interactive videos in the third. End-of-Course Surveys consistently show that the students enjoyed the weekly hands-on labs. After thethird class offering, an additional survey of student experience with

Conference Session

Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rose M. Marra Ph.D., University of Missouri; So Mi Kim, University of Missouri; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Douglas J. Hacker, University of Utah; Shann Bossaller, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

andill-structured industry problems in mining, milling, and manufacturing. There are no courses inthe IRE curriculum; rather, every semester students generate (with the help of faculty) a series ofsyllabi that describe how they will meet the required technical and design competencies thatcomprise the IRE curriculum. A majority of IRE learning and assessment activities are organizedand indexed by the aforementioned team-based, semester-long industry projects. For example, anIRE team designed and implemented a condenser performance test to be applied to a powerplant’s power generation condenser. To solve the problem, students learned cycle analysis,conduction heat transfer, convection heat transfer, heat exchanger design, engineeringeconomics, and

Conference Session

Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Our Classrooms

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

-focused laboratory report writing.Introduction Engineers need to have strong communication skills to carry out their day-to-day workand to advance in their careers. Engineers spend almost two thirds of their overall work time onsome form of written or oral communication [1]. Of that, half the time is spent on writtencommunication – preparing proposals, reports, memos, feasibility studies, white papers,operating manuals, engineering specifications, business letters and responding to emails. Rhodes[2] summarizes it well in his paper that “Long after most professional engineers have ceased tointegrate a differential equation, they are still required to write technical reports”. Despite the importance and the amount of time engineers

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Petlick; Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

our profession. Overall, one can easily see that the future of ourdiscipline looks bright and that we are stronger than ever as we move forward in a centurythat can be termed as the “visual age.”V. ReferencesBraverman, M.T., & Slater, J.K. (Eds.). (1996). Advances in survey research. San Francisco;Jossey-Bass.Clark, A. C., & Scales, A. Y. (2000). A study of current trends and issues related totechnical/ engineering design graphics. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 63 (1), 24-34.Clark, A. C., & Scales, A. Y. (1999). A barometer for engineering and technical graphicseducation. Published Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering EducationAnnual Conference and Exposition, Charlotte, NC, Session 2438.Kearns, C. (Ed

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

general elective. Here it should also be noted that someengineering departments and advisors at Purdue are relatively open about what courses can countas technical electives, while others are much more restrictive. Still another constraint centered onour attempt at a “2+1” model for the course, which required students to enroll in 2 credits for thecourse itself and another 1 credit of service learning or undergraduate research, which weimagined as a way to relate the course content to other kinds of learning. But this provedproblematic since it meant the course did not fit into the mold of a typical 3-credit elective.After cancellation of the course in Fall 2012, pursuing a permanent course number seemed like agood – and perhaps overdue

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Anthony English; Monica Schmidt

Session 2209 Involvement of Clinical Medical Professionals as Technical Advisors in Biomedical Engineering Design Projects Monica A. Schmidt, Richard Jendrucko, and Anthony E. English Biomedical Engineering Program, The University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleIntroductionA new two-semester senior design course sequence has been developed as part of the under-graduate Biomedical Engineering (BME) degree program begun in 2000. These design coursessatisfy much of the ABET 2000 Criterion 4 for the Professional Component—specifically themajor design experience. The course format involves multiple student teams

Conference Session

Project-Based and Experiential Learning in Manufacturing

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javaid S Siddiqi; Alan S Gandy; Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing Division (MFG)

Picker application was a methodical process thatbegan with the creation of the JellyBelly5 computer vision model. This endeavor involves asequence of steps: 1. Data Collection and Preparation: A diverse set of 50 Jelly Belly flavors were collected and photographed from various angles using an iPhone 12 and a USB webcam to ensure a comprehensive dataset. 2. Dataset Annotation and Augmentation: The initial set of 539 images was annotated and then augmented to a total of 1,291 images using Roboflow.com, enhancing the dataset's diversity and the model's ability to generalize. 3. Model Training and Evaluation: JellyBelly5 was trained using Roboflow 3.0 Object Detection (Fast), balancing the needs for speed and accuracy

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rex Ramsier; H Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

Session 2625 Focusing on Teamwork Versus Technical Skills in the Evaluation of an Integrated Design Project Helen K. Qammar, H. Michael Cheung, Edward A. Evans, Department of Chemical Engineering Francis S. Broadway, Department of Curricular and Instructional Studies Rex D. Ramsier Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering The University of Akron Akron, Ohio 44325Engineering educators

Conference Session

Computer ET Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Lin, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne; Melissa Lin, Exactech

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

draws the conclusion.II. Technical Problem Solving ProcessIt is observed that the problem solving models developed in the 1960s and 70s that are still usedwith many general problem solving courses found in academic are to teach math problem solvingas a thinking skill, not integrated with the rest of the curriculum or work environment.Through this course, students will learn about the computer-based problem solving on individualand team-based technical problems, by experiencing several independent and overlapping stages,including: 1) Problem statement 2) Analyze the problem statement and Plan inputs and outputs 3) Design solution or algorithm 4) Implement the solution (programming) 5) Verifying the

Conference Session

Faculty and Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations and Interactions

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Imre Rudas, Budapest Polytechnical Institution; Peter Toth, Budapest Tech.

Tagged Divisions

International

AC 2009-2533: UTILIZATION OF COOPERATIVE AND COLLABORATIVELEARNING IN TECHNICAL TEACHER TRAINING AND ENGINEERINGEDUCATION OVER NATIONAL BOARDERSImre Rudas, Budapest Polytechnical Institution Director, Budapest TechPeter Toth, Budapest Tech. Director, Centre for Teacher Training and Engineering Education, Budapest Tech Page 14.1339.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Utilization of Cooperative and Collaborative Learning in Technical Teacher Training and Engineering Education over National BoarderAbstractThe Masters level Opportunities and Technological Innovation in

Conference Session

Empowering Change: Cultivating Inclusive and Sustainable Futures in STEM Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaylla Cantilina, Tufts University; Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University; Fatima Rahman, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

Paper ID #42075Characterizing First-Year Engineering Students’ Priorities and Language Usein Socio-technical Written ReflectionsDr. Kaylla Cantilina, Tufts University Kaylla is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Tufts University where her work is motivated by design as a means for social justice. Her research explores the ways that students and practitioners seek to achieve equity in their design practicesDr. Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University Chelsea Andrews is a Research Assistant Professor at Tufts University, at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO).Fatima Rahman, Tufts Center for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Technical Courses and Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

presentation skills in an Introduction to TechnicalCommunication course. In this initial study, we aim to: (1) provide a set of curricular materialsthat engineering educators can use to integrate reflection in any presentation assignment and (2)discuss self-reported student data regarding development of presentation skills. Students reportedthat viewing their recorded presentation and reflecting on their performance helped them gainconfidence and improve their presentation skills for future use.Although effective communication skills are required for success in all engineering disciplines,many programs do not teach technical communication for a variety of reasons, including lack ofinstructor experience or buy-in regarding the value of teaching

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Figliola; Beth Daniell; Art Young; David Moline

Session 1141 Learning To Write: Experiences with Technical Writing Pedagogy Within a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Beth Daniell1, Richard Figliola2, David Moline2, and Art Young1 1 Department of English 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29631AbstractThis case study draws from a recent experience in which we critically reviewed our efforts ofteaching technical writing within our undergraduate