Conference Session

FPD 5: Transitions and Student Success, Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Skurla, Baylor University; Steven R. Eisenbarth, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

community college to university life11; conflict resolution8; money management with the focus on obtaining financial aid and avoiding student debt7,9; and dealing with issues of social life within the university community7. work to improve career skills, including resume writing7,9; interviewing skills7; and business etiquette11. increase participation in student organizations1. encourage undergraduate participation in research programs1. seek feedback from students and faculty1. increase student interaction/mentoring by peers, faculty, and industry professionals1.Participants in these programs tended to achieve better grades and graduation rates amongunderrepresented minorities.Encourage intellectual development

Conference Session

Meeting ABET Requirements

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

for the course. The information obtained from these surveys can beimmediately fed back into the system and corrective measures instituted even before the nextsemester begins, e.g., remind a new faculty member or lecturer to follow the syllabus, expand orimprove course material in some areas, or request changes or better monitoring in prerequisitecourses. Students are also asked to provide any other information or to make comments. Thesurveys are anonymous and do not replace the college administered teaching evaluations givenevery semester in every course. This paper contains details on the process, example surveyinstruments, examples of results, and examples of how actions could be implemented as well assuggestions for how the responses can

Conference Session

PSW Section Meeting Papers - Disregard start and end time - for online paper access only

Collection

2019 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Harly Ramsey, University of Southern California

Tagged Topics

Pacific Southwest Section Meeting Paper Submissions

research for, and an ability to engage apply new knowledge as abilities, including in life-long learning needed, using appropriate interviewing skills learning strategies 3) to identify and analyze (f) an understanding of 4. an ability to recognize pressing ethical issues within professional and ethical ethical and professional your discipline responsibility responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed 5) articulate the impact their (h) the broad education judgments, which must discipline has on everyday necessary to

Conference Session

GSD 2: Identity and Motivation

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Hadley Perkins, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

. By the way, my background is in engineering." (Design Empathy Interview)Here is another example of how Miss pulls from her past general identity experiences to informher present task, citing her engineering identity as guidance for her teaching. Here, she displays aCritical disposition that is probing, concerned with quality and deep understanding [21]. Thisparticular teaching disposition correlates strongly with her past experiences, specifically inquality engineering. A diagnostic approach is also motivating in and of itself in the followingquote. "I feel very motivated to be ahead of the game, and because everything's new, … I'm very effectively engaged with figuring things out. Again, engineer. Problem solver. So if I have a

Conference Session

FPD9 - First Year Learning & Assessment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Susan Freeman, Northeastern University; Beverly Jaeger, Susan Freeman and Beverly Jaeger are members of Northeastern University's

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

-year period, undergoing incremental changeswith positive results5. It was then time to take a new look at the course. Subsequent research was conductedand presented at ASEE, in which the same team of faculty investigated whether or not high classroomengagement with a variety of learning activities equated to a significant amount of learning for the student.On the survey, the engagement element was defined for the students as follows: “The Interest portion is notmerely about how fun the activity is compared to entertainment, but how engaging or interesting it iscompared to other classroom teaching options.” Similarly the concept of learning value was described asfollows: “The learning rating [of a particular mode or activity] is not merely

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Gilbert, Iowa State University; Pam Shill, Iowa State University; Kevin Saunders, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

interns, helping the faculty and graduatestudents with ongoing projects. This approach is valuable, but can lead to a sense of isolation ifthe participants cannot easily reflect with each other on their new experience. Other programsassign small groups of students to labs in order to decrease the potential for isolation. Thisresearch reports on the structure of a highly-successful REU site with a relatively rareconfiguration: 15 participants are co-located in a single lab but grouped in teams of three, andeach team works on an existing research project. This approach attempts to establish a intenselearning community1,2 within the REU, as discussed by other REU Site principle investigators3 inwhich students learn not only the relevant research

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn R. Gosselin, San Jose State University; Nicole Okamoto, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Although the assignment description distributed to students was a bit moredetailed, the assessment process was relatively holistic, with only three criteria represented onthe rubric: professionalism, quality of sources, and quality of arguments. This leaves significantroom for interpretation and variation. Although only one instructor was grading the students(N=39), the lack of detail on the rubric is concerning for the reasons mentioned previously,including potentially low student performance and inconsistency in assessment from student tostudent. Figure 1: Rubric used to evaluate student performance on position memo on contemporary thermodynamics issues in Fall 2015.The following year, the same instructor developed

Conference Session

MET Papers 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shoji Nakayama, Purdue University Northwest (College of Technology); Ali Alavizadeh, Purdue University Northwest

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

safety in a formal manner.Figure 1. The red arrows show a plastic cover on the cylinders and the motor.In this paper, the authors report the result of their investigation on identifying a gap between thecurrent safety related issues that are being taught in a fluid power course and what should betaught. This gap can then be fulfilled by creating new components to enhance MET laboratoryexperience. The core item in this paper will be to use of survey to identity this gap and processtaken to reduce the margin of this gap. This process can be applied to ET related disciplines aswell as other disciplines in the higher education, where program improvements are needed.Goals and ScopeThe present project has two phases. The first phase is a preliminary

Conference Session

Studies of Shifting In-person Courses to Online and Students' Online Behavior

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bradley J. Sottile, Pennsylvania State University; Laura E. Cruz, Pennsylvania State University; Yi-An Lo Burleson, Pennsylvania State University; Kris McLain, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

the new pedagogical (and broader global) conditions. Our findings areintended to inform human-centered course design, to optimize student well-being, and – byextension – learning under the conditions of remote/multi-modal learning and beyond.Introduction It is fair to say that COVID-19 has upended higher education, causing numerousdisruptions and leading to uncertain futures for institutions and individuals. The higher educationpress, as well as emerging research, has placed a great deal of emphasis on the challenges facedby faculty and students through the shift to remote teaching. Numerous surveys, both internaland external to institutions, have indicated that many students are struggling with timemanagement under these conditions

Conference Session

Community Engagement in Engineering Education: Program Models

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shoba Krishnan, Santa Clara University; Tonya Lynn Nilsson P.E., Santa Clara University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

crunching numbers and designing. Engineering is more of a process, especially in this situation. There are ethical issues with every engineering project, and many aspects of community building that I overlooked until now. Page 25.554.8 Personally I benefited from simply beginning to understand this culture. Student members benefit from working on this project by being exposed to new engineering fields, being able to work with other engineering students and mentors, and being able to able to apply engineering theory from courses to the tangible. Students improve engineering skills through seeing how

Conference Session

EMD Curriculum Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

particularly well Page 12.1381.3understood. While many continue to believe it is simply a matter of curricular rigor, the researchevidence begins to provide a more comprehensive view of a fairly complex issue. In a landmarkcomprehensive study of student engagement, Astin5 suggests social communities, student-student interaction, and faculty-student interaction may have a stronger implication for studentsleaving than does academic rigor. In her studies, Sheila Tobias12 suggests that students oftenleave because of a mismatch in learning needs and instructional delivery. Seymour and Hewitt13,suggest career advising, limited communication, and faculty

Conference Session

Computer Science-related Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech University; G.B. Cazes, Cyber Innovation Center; JoAnn M. Marshall, Cyber Innovation Center

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Locally, we face the challenge of preparing a workforce versed in cyber issues aswell as math, science, and engineering to fulfill the needs of the region. The problem over thelast decade is that there has been a 50% decline in the students’ interest in engineering and a 14%decrease in engineering degrees with only 2.1% of high school graduates likely to earn anengineering degree. This project cultivates an interest in cyber, computer programming, math,science, and engineering by exposing middle school teachers and their students to the newtechnology.The Cyber Discovery model was developed through a collaboration of mathematics, science,engineering, and liberal arts faculty from Louisiana Tech University and by staff from CyberInnovation Center

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Nelson; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

Session 1531 Using a Delphi Study to Identify the Most Difficult Concepts for Students to Master in Thermal and Transport Science Ruth A. Streveler, Barbara M. Olds, Ronald L. Miller1 Colorado School of Mines Mary A. Nelson University of Colorado, BoulderAbstractIn this paper, we describe the use of Delphi methodology to reach consensus among a group ofexperienced engineering faculty about the difficulty and importance of fundamental concepts inthe thermal and transport sciences. Our

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Danyang Li; Qiao Zhen; Albert Gordon; Bhaskar Raj Sinha; Marcos Turquetti; Mohammad N. Amin

is almost standard now to use sensors of many types to collectinformation and to send it to a patient’s phone. Multiple instances of such data collection canoccur via the Bluetooth standard, the Healthcare Device Profile (HDP), etc. This project utilizessome of these sensors, together with Bluetooth communication standards, to create a remotemedical monitoring station. A new mobile app was developed using the Android platform tocollect, display, and store biometric data on a mobile phone, and integrate it with WiFi andcellular networks. Relevant information is forwarded to a relational database developed forstorage, or can also be directed to the first responders in case of emergency. Elderly patients,who are at home, or perhaps live far

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joan Walker

designas a noun from design as a verb. Design as a noun related to market concerns. The nounconcept of design led to two categories of design as a verb (i.e., “processes” and“devices”) involving issues of human factors, safety, materials, testing, and liability.These concepts in turn, fed back into issues of manufacturing and marketing. Theseconnections created small feedback loops among various BME design concepts.Finally, differences between Pair 1 and Pair 2 at both time points demonstrate the widevariability often observed among concept mappings, even among students who are at thesame level of professional development. For example, Pair 1 pointed out that relative totheir own mappings, Pair 2’s maps gave greater consideration to the needs of

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

David Pistrui, University of Detroit Mercy; Darrell K. Kleinke P.E., University of Detroit Mercy; Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy; Ronald Bonnstetter, Target Training International; Eric T. Gehrig, Target Training International

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

Minded Engineers,” The Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship,Vol. 2, No 2, Special Issue, December 2011, pp. 1-14.[23] S. McChrystal, T. Collins, D. Silverman and C. Fussell, Team of Teams, PenguinPublishing, New York, NY: 2015.

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

global and technically interconnected workplace is pressuring engineeringcolleges in the Arab Gulf States (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar,and the Sultanate of Oman) to take bold steps towards “reforming” engineering education in theRegion, so that it keeps pace with new developments and meets industries’ demands for qualifiedgraduates for potential insertion into a highly competitive international market.Many engineering educators and concerned individuals (including the author) have recognizedthis challenge; and recommendations to reform the existing educational systems have become Page 9.709.1wide-spread across

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael P. Hennessey; Allen C. Jaedike; Peter S. Rhode

, (7)ribs, (8) part configurations, (9) sweeping & lofting, (10) basic assembly modeling, (11) assembly configurations,(12) traditional drawings, and (13) viewing and use of color. Aside from the demonstration of specific CADconcepts, perhaps the most important issue concerns the range of projects considered, which is consistent with theubiquitous nature of CAD in industry today. From a pedagogy point of view this is one the most important conceptslearned in the course; the entire class benefits from seeing other projects developed and presented. As a follow-on,during Fall semester 2001 students went well beyond the mere creation of static CAD images. Using the animation4 Note: filleting can be sort of notorious in this regard (across

Collection

2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Chirag Variawa; Susan McCahan

Evaluation of the Accessibility of Engineering Vocabulary Chirag Variawa and Susan McCahan University of TorontoAbstract:Do engineering instructional materials at the university level contain identifiable barriers tosuccess unrelated to course objectives? This is a growing concern as the population of studentsbecomes more diverse. And if there are barriers, how prevalent is this issue and can thesebarriers be characterized in a way that allows the instructor to easily identify and remove ormitigate them? In response to these questions, a research study is being conducted to at theUniversity of Toronto to look at the accessibility of the language used on

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 1: Adapting to COVID and other Design Challenges

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Rennick, University of Waterloo; Eugene Li, University of Waterloo; Michael Lenover, University of Waterloo; Wesley Blankespoor; Sanjeev Bedi, University of Waterloo

of – or to build mindshare with students so thatwhen they go out to industry, they continue using the tools they are familiar with [17]. Foracademia, the benefits are obvious: these investments result in new/updated facilities, equipment,and/or labs.While there are many different models for partnerships between industry and academia, theserelationships need to be built with some care. In discussing ways to address the shortcomings ofindustry-academic partnerships, Hughes [1] gives a piece of advice that has proven especiallyhelpful in interactions between the Ideas Clinic and industry: make sure the focus of thepartnership is on the needs of the students, not on the needs of the faculty. Wohlin et al. [28]from a study in both Sweden and

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Robert Chan; Elizabeth Kathleen Bucholz, Duke University; Cameron Michael Kim, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and serves as the Associate Director for Undergraduate Education. He is researching the role of ethics-guided design frameworks in the classroom for emergent biotechnologies, including gene and cell-based therapies. His education development in molecular engineering and biotechnology results from 10 years in developing protein and RNA-based control systems for mammalian synthetic biology applications. He also serves as the faculty advisor for the Duke International Genetically Engineered Machine undergraduate research group. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work-in-Progress: Integrating ethics education across thebiomedical engineering

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum and Practices in Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hsi-Hsun Tsai, Ming-Chi University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, the practiced students maybe become low-cost labors. Therefore, “how tograde the student’s achievements and discriminate the qualification of factories” is the Page 15.314.2principal concern of the faculty administering the sandwich program. Ming Chi University ofTechnology, funded by the Formosa Plastic Group, has been demonstrating her sandwichprogram more than forty years in Taiwan. The students graduated from the school mustcomplete a one-year factory practical training. During the year, the faculty guide and gradethe students by students’ reports. However, it is not easy to assess the students’ achievementsonly by the seasonal reports because

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Steffen; Iskandar Hack

course of the collaboration and other issues mutually agreed to by both Institutions.4.3 Any researchers, lecturers and faculty of UniKL BMI and IPFW may initiate discussions on collaborative projects but only those persons authorized by the UniKL BMI and IPFW shall have authority to execute agreements committing their participation in particular collaborative projects.Article 5 - Personnel5.1 Each party shall be responsible for the selection and appointment of administrative and academic personnels it uses in support of this MOU and all cost associated therewith unless the parties enter into a written agreement for the joint appointment and support of such personnel on an equitable cost assignment

Conference Session

Global Competency and What Makes a Successful Engineer

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Tagged Divisions

International

, but relatively little has been done to address this particulartopic within engineering education. This paper discusses a new study abroad program developedand implemented at the University of Alabama at Birmingham which aims to increase globalcompetency in engineering students by focusing on world history from a technical perspectiveand by using experiential learning to engage students with the connection between historicalcontext and modern cultural and social differences. The three weeks of faculty-led travelthrough Germany gave the students first-hand exposure to historical and cultural sites, inaddition to university and industry visits and introductory language lessons. Work is underwayto create a complimentary semester-long, on-campus

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division (IND) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khalid Bello, University of Louisville; Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville; Danielle Wood, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering Division (IND)

Paper ID #41086A Utility-based Optimization Model for Allocating Student Teams to CommunityProjectsKhalid Bello, University of Louisville Khalid Bello is an Industrial Engineering PhD student at University of Louisville.Dr. Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville Dr. Faisal Aqlan is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at The University of Louisville. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering form The State University of New York at Binghamton.Danielle Wood, University of Notre Dame Associate Professor of the Practice, Environmental Change Initiative Dr. Wood received her M.S.and Ph.D

Conference Session

Research and Graduate Studies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Coso Strong, Georgia Institute of Technology; Rachel A. Louis, Virginia Tech; Jeremi S. London, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ida B. Ngambeki, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brook Sattler, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

collaborative research, they largely did not do sobecause of a lack of time, support, and concerns regarding conflict with potential collaborators.Suggestions to promote collaborative research among graduate students include providingspecific venues online and at conferences to encourage inter-student interaction and facilitatecollaborative work.IntroductionResearchers participate in collaborative projects to promote innovation,1 share resources andknowledge,2,3 and develop new products.4 Collaborations also provide researchers with theopportunity to learn through cooperation.2,5 For a given project, the collaboration may becomposed of researchers within the same discipline at the same institution, researchers acrossdisciplines at the same institutions

Conference Session

Visualization

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer; Madara Ogot

faster than icons that are visually arbitrary oftheir function14. User knowledge or experience also plays an important role in determining theability to correctly identify iconic representations15.These findings are important factors to take into consideration when designing icons and are alsopotentially important when evaluating user performance and transfer of learning. However,earlier studies of transfer of learning between solid modelers did not focus on these issues. Forexample, Wiebe’s4 experiment related to transfer of learning between Pro/ENGINEER andSolidWorks, and AutoCAD and SolidWorks focused on how successfully users can take higher-level (semantic) task strategies developed using one solid modeler and apply them to a new one.This

Conference Session

Rethinking Aerospace Curricula and Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

covered,relative to the situation in 1984. Computational techniques account for most of the new breadth.Table 1: Time Compression in the Fluid Dynamics/Aerodynamics Curriculum Period Credit hours (Q/S) Eq. Sem Hrs Breadth index 1984 21 (Q) 14 100 1988 14 (Q) 9.3 110 2000 9 (S) 9 115Table 2 summarizes major developments that drove substantial changes. The early 1980scurriculum was considered to be too packed to contemplate large integrative assignments inundergraduate courses, and there was stubborn resistance from some faculty, passed on tostudents, against computer programming requirements. The ABET-approved U.S. aerospaceengineering curriculum of the late

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Harper

fromcontemporaneous or recent news items. The principle of the Systems Engineering and Society series workshops is not to teachstudents a “right” or “wrong” approach to resolving conflicts between requirements andconstraints, but rather to teach them that design and its consequences form a continuous processof thinking and questioning in an environment favorable to open discussion. Values issues inresearch are complex and open-ended. The purpose in showing students the connection betweenresearch (design) and social values is to guide students in learning to think about these issues asan integral part of what engineers do, so they will have the clarity and courage to engage ethicalissues. We suggested that nearly all questions engineers, in the lab and

Conference Session

Understanding Our Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Nicki Wendy Sochacka, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Educational Research Methods Division’s ”Appren- tice Faculty Award”, was selected as a 2010 Frontiers in Education ”New Faculty Fellow”, and is currently a UGA ”Lilly Teaching Fellow”. His teaching focuses on innovative approaches to introducing systems thinking and creativity into the en- vironmental engineering program. In this context, he is involved in the development and implementation of the Synthesis and Design Studio series at UGA.Nicki Wendy Sochacka, University of Georgia Nicki Sochacka is completing her doctorate at the University of Queensland. Her research interests span socio-technical transitions, with a particular focus on sustainable urban water management, and integrat- ing socio-technical methods of