internationally recognized research program focuses on transforming education with AI-driven learning games and technologies, and research on equity and broadening participation. Her current research ranges from investigations of intelligent tutoring systems and teacher professional development to foundational work on educational data mining, computational models of interactive problem-solving, and design of computational thinking curricula. Her personalized learning technologies and broadening participation programs have impacted thousands of K-20 students throughout the United States.Shuchi Grover ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 CS Frontiers: Module 4 - A Software Engineering
Session 2649 Use of Web-Based Testing Software for Problem-Based Learning in Hydraulics and Hydrology Carmine C. Balascio, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Bioresources Engineering University of Delaware Newark, DEAbstractLON-CAPA is web-based course management software supported by Michigan State University.It includes a testing component that allows for coding a variety of sophisticated problems that arecomputer-graded and submitted by students on-line. Each student can be given problems
Paper ID #37397Lessons Learned: Developing Homebrew Software Tools toEnhance and Combine Grading, Assessment, and ResearchBenjamin Daniel Chambers (Associate Professor of Practice) Dr. Ben Chambers is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, and Director of the Frith First Year Makers program and of the Minecraft Museum of Engineering. His research focuses include creativity-based pedagogy, the interactions of non-humans with the built environment, and the built environment as a tool for teaching at the nexus of biology and engineering. He earned his graduate
Finite Element Learning Module for Improving Knowledge of Fatigue using Commercial Software Josh Coffman1, Jiancheng Liu2, Ashland O. Brown2, Sachin S. Terdalkar1, Joseph J. Rencis1 1 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; 2University of the PacificAbstractFinite element (FE) active learning modules have been developed for various undergraduateengineering courses. These FE learning modules are used to introduce basic and complexengineering problems to enhance student learning of the theory and fundamentals of the finiteelement method. A review of educational literature reveals that fatigue and finite elements arenot addressed
Finite Element Learning Module for Improving Knowledge of Fatigue using Commercial Software Josh Coffman1, Jiancheng Liu2, Ashland O. Brown2, Sachin S. Terdalkar1, Joseph J. Rencis1 1 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; 2University of the PacificAbstractFinite element (FE) active learning modules have been developed for various undergraduateengineering courses. These FE learning modules are used to introduce basic and complexengineering problems to enhance student learning of the theory and fundamentals of the finiteelement method. A review of educational literature reveals that fatigue and finite elements arenot addressed
Paper ID #18212An Active Learning Environment to Improve First-Year Mechanical Engi-neering Retention Rates and Software SkillsBenjamin B. Wheatley, Colarado State University Benjamin Brandt Wheatley was awarded a B.Sc. degree in Engineering from Trinity College (Hartford, CT, USA) in 2011. He spent one year in industry at a biomedical device company before returning to graduate school. He is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO, USA). His engineering education areas of interest include cultural competency, active learning approaches as they
Student Affairs. He has more than 120 refereed publications in solid state electronics and is active in freshman retention, computer-aided instruction, curriculum, and academic integrity activities, as well as teaching and research. Page 25.242.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Automated Problem and Solution Generation Software for Computer-Aided Instruction in Elementary Linear Circuit AnalysisAbstractInitial progress is described on the development of a software engine capable of generating andsolving textbook-like
softwarepackage Ansys Fluent provides academic license to students free of cost but the functionalitiesavailable in the free version are restricted. The cost of license for different commercial software © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conferencepackages can vary from one to another; however, in general, the license cost of commercialsoftware for installation in a single PC roughly amounts to about $10,000 per year. Such highprices make the commercial software packages almost unaffordable to purchase an individuallicense.The goal of engineering programs in the nation is to train students with necessary knowledge andskills enabling them to apply those
Paper ID #27052Intersections of Design Thinking and Perceptions of Success for Electrical,Computer, and Software Engineering StudentsDr. Sarah Rodriguez, Iowa State University Sarah Rodriguez, PhD, is an assistant professor of Higher Education at Iowa State University. Dr. Ro- driguez’s research addresses issues of equity, access, and retention for Latina/o students in the higher education pipeline, with a focus on the intersections of gender and race/ethnicity for Latinas in STEM. She has experience coordinating large-scale interdisciplinary research projects focused on engineering and other STEM disciplines which have
: Page 7.160.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education- The learning process requires minimal efforts from students and is almost independent of their technical backgrounds;- Exercises provided in the training often require hours and sometimes days, even for basic tasks;- This approach requires enormous amounts of documentation and data to cover a complete product and these have to be continuously updated;- Students are typically each assigned a computer and classes generally feature a high instructor to student ratio;- Understanding of the software structure and general
Director at St. Mary’s Engineering Department. He joined St. Mary’s University in August 2009. Dr. Aktunc received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2007. He also received his M.S.E.E. from UAB in 2002. He came to United States from Istanbul, Turkey where he received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. Dr. Aktunc’s main research area is Software Engineering with an emphasis on component-based software development. In particular his research relates to software analysis, testing of web applications, software metrics, and Software Engineering education. He also performs outreach activities to improve computing education in
registered in the State of Wisconsin. Dr. Kelnhofer teaches courses in circuits, communication systems, signal processing, and information and coding theory. Page 24.1283.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Ultra Low-Cost Software-Defined Radio: A Mobile Studio for Teaching Digital Signal ProcessingAbstractSoftware-defined radio (SDR) is being used by many institutions as a teaching tool to illustrateand explore concepts presented in signal processing and communication courses. The inherentflexibility of SDR coupled with the ability to capture, visualize
software) over the past 20 years, most engineeringdesign documentation began and ended with the pencil. Education in design documentation was referred to as engineering graphics ormechanical drawing. Students were instructed in the fundamentals of projections, dimensioning and the accepted standards. While sometime was allocated to the use of drawing instruments, this typically represented only a small portion of total instructional time. After all,the principal tools of mechanical drawing were the pencil and the straightedge and students had been using those in some fashion sincetheir education had begun. With appearance of PC-based 2D CAD packages, many instructors felt it necessary to integrate thistechnology into their engineering graphics
free time she can find in her garden, and travels the world. Page 22.63.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A Model for Enhancing Project Lead The Way Teacher Knowledge in Software ApplicationsAbstract A Maryland model for providing ongoing professional development training to ProjectLead The Way (PLTW) teachers is being replicated in other states. The model was developed byThe Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) in response to requests by PLTWteachers and school administrators for additional training. Professional development
American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 An Introductory Communication Systems Course with MATLAB/Simulink-Based Software-Defined Radio LaboratoryAbstractIn recent years, software-defined radio (SDR) has become increasingly popular in electrical andcomputer engineering education as a tool for teaching communication systems, networking, anddigital signal processing. Adoption of SDR has been enabled through decreasing hardware costs,mature and widely available software development tools, and educational resources aimed ateffectively utilizing SDR in undergraduate education. A survey of the current engineeringeducation literature shows that SDR technology has been widely adopted in advanced digitalcommunications and
AC 2010-903: EVALUATION OF A STUDENT TEAM PROJECT IN ANINTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COURSE FOR AEROSPACEENGINEERSMary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University Mary Lynn Brannon, Instructional Support Specialist at the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at the Pennsylvania State University, has a Master of Arts Degree in Education and Human Development specializing in Educational Technology Leadership. Her work focuses on projects that measure and assess student perceptions of learning related to their experiences with engineering course innovations. She is a faculty development consultant with previous experience in instructional design, and instructor of the
requiredstudents to use QGIS to investigate a real-world scenario (Table 1). Figure 2. Alignment of Geomatics course topics and summative assessments with the mid- semester shift to online learning caused by COVID-19 in the Spring 2020 semester.Table 1. Project topics selected by students to analyze using open-source QGIS software. Crime and law Arrests, electronic citations, and field contact (Charleston, SC) enforcement Drug crimes compared to poverty (Boston, MA) Gun deaths, unemployment, education, and income (IL) Wildlife and Shellfish classification, pollution, and population (Charleston, SC) Species Deer harvest, hog harvest, and population (SC) Wildlife Management Area (WMA
Paper ID #24769Undergraduate Industrial Engineering Majors’ Software Preferences for Solv-ing Statistical Process Control and Operations Research QuestionsDr. Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University Emre Tokgoz is currently the Director and an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Quinnipiac University. He completed a Ph.D. in Mathematics and another Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineer- ing at the University of Oklahoma. His pedagogical research interest includes technology and calculus education of STEM majors. He worked on several IRB approved pedagogical studies to observe under- graduate and graduate
engineering and new product business development. Dimitri is currently an Assistant Professor with Queensborough Community College (CUNY) and has in- terests in Optical Devices, 3D additive manufacturing, and technology based pedagogy instruction meth- ods. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 APPLYING AUTHENTIC INDUSTRY CPM PROJECT MANAGEMENT TO AN HONORS R&D PROJECT (SOFTWARE AUDIO EQUALIZER) Dimitrios Stroumbakis, PE Queensborough Community College, CUNYAbstract In any engineering technology curriculum, students must gain mastery in applying engineeringdesign skills, as this is a basic
Operations Research from the same university in 1997. His research interests include object-oriented methodologies, design patterns, software safety, and genetic and optimization algorithms. He teaches graduate courses in Computer Information Systems at Florida Institute of Technology’s University College. Mr. Shaykhian is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) and is the Vice-Chair (2005-2007), Education Chair (2003-2007) and Awards Chair of the IEEE Canaveral section. He is a professional member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), serving as the Program Chair and Web Master for the Minorities in Engineering Division of ASEE (2006-2008
department of Electrical, Computer, Software and System Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. His teaching interests include artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and software engineering with emphasis on software quality assurance and testing. He has been involved in research activities in the areas of software engineering, software quality assurance and testing, autonomous systems, and human factors. Page 22.1643.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using the EcoCAR Challenge as a Non-Traditional Domain for Software and Computer
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
AC 2010-2267: INCORPORATING VERY POWERFUL STRUCTURAL ANALYSISAND DESIGN SOFTWARE PACKAGES INTO CIVIL ENGINEERING COURSESMohammad Alhassan, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort WayneJames Welch, Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Page 15.717.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Incorporating Very Powerful Structural Analysis and Design Software Packages into Civil Engineering CoursesAbstractExtensively used in the continuous series of undergraduate structural analysis and designcourses, SAP2000 and ETABS have helped the civil engineering students gain real worldexperience with some of the most powerful software
AC 2012-3554: CONTINUED ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION TECH-NOLOGY SOFTWARE INTEGRATION IN A CIVIL ENGINEERING PRO-GRAMMajor Jason Allen Toth, U.S. Military Academy Jason Toth is an Instructor in the Civil Engineering Department at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. He received his B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy; M.S. from University of Missouri, Rolla, MO and M.S. from Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. He is an active member of ASEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in Missouri. His research interests include engineering education, development of social responsibility in engineers through Learning Through Service opportunities, and developing world infrastructure assessment and design
Paper ID #36558A Software Application Teaching Aid for Understanding theSizing and Constraints of Energy Storage TechnologiesJoseph M Elio (Graduate Student) Joseph (Joe) Elio is a mechanical engineering Ph.D. student at Arizona State UniversityRyan James Milcarek (Assistant Professor) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Work-in-Progress: A Software Application Teaching Aid for Understanding the Sizing and Constraints of Energy Storage Technologies Joseph Elio* and Ryan J. Milcarek
University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Canney taught in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Seattle University for four years and now works in private consulting.Elizabeth O’Brien, Seattle UniversityTeddi Callahan c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engagement in Practice: Using community engagement to teach drafting software to civil engineering studentsAbstract This paper explores a course design that uses a software drafting program, Revit, as thefoundation for community engagement (CE) projects in a required course for civil engineeringstudents. Over four terms, this course has used seven CE projects with three different partners.Local community
2006-2233: DO SPATIAL ABILITIES IMPACT THE LEARNING OF 3-D SOLIDMODELING SOFTWARE?Amy Hamlin, Michigan Technological University Amy Hamlin is a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Technological University where she earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering. She is currently teaching a Spatial Visualization course as well as first year engineering courses.Norma Boersma, Michigan Technological University Norma L. Boersma is a Lecturer in the Engineering Fundamentals Department at Michigan Technological University. Boersma is an active member in the American Society for Engineering Education and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Her research interests include
issued and one patent pending.Dr. Bhaskar Raj Sinha, National UniversityDr. Mohammad N Amin, National University Professor, School of Engineering, Technology, and MediaMr. Arthur Strum Davis Page 23.757.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Innovations in Remote Laboratories and Simulation Software for Online and On-Site Engineering StudentsAbstractLaboratories are an essential component in engineering classes to bring together theory andhands-on experimentation to help students learn complex concepts. This is very challenging todo, especially with on-line
Brook University, and SUNY Office of Provost. He received A.T. Yang award for the best paper in Theoretical Kinematics at the 2017 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference and the MSC Software Simulation award for the best paper at the 2009 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) . He is the recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching by Stony Brook University and the winner of the 2018 FACT2 award for Excellence in Instruction given to one professor from the entire SUNY system. He also received the 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Mid-Atlantic Division. He has been twice elected as a member of the ASME
Plattner Institute for IT Systems Engineering c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Teaching Agile the Agile Way — Employing Self-Organizing Teams in a University Software Engineering CourseIntroductionTeaching agile software methodologies in university courses has become the norm, as thesemethods have gained support in professional software development. There are differentapproaches of how to teach these methods in university courses. Traditional lectures andseminars are proven, effective tools for teaching factual knowledge and technical skills.However, as Bruegge et al.5 point out, in order to “really assimilate and internalize the agilevalues, a theoretical lecture is not enough”. In