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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Bell, Stanford University; Mark Horowitz, Stanford University

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Electrical and Computer

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Rethinking non-major circuits pedagogy for improved motivation1 IntroductionIt is no secret that student motivation is critical to learning. Put succinctly, students will onlyapply effort to learn if they see value in learning the material or skill at hand. This value maycome from a combination of one or more sources, such as the pleasure of attaining mastery of askill, the enjoyment of the material itself, the potential for better job prospects, or simply the needto earn a particular grade to keep a scholarship [1]. Many of these value factors are influenced bythe structure of our courses and the way we teach, and electrical engineering is

Conference Session

Student Division Development of Professional Skills Technical Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zahra Shahbazi, Manhattan College; Mary Ann Jacobs Ed.D., Manhattan College; Alexandra Emma Lehnes, Manhattan College; Kathleen Christal Mancuso, Manhattan College; Anthony Scotti, Manhattan College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student

, personality types and learning styles. Students not only receive professionaltrainings on these topics they also have the opportunity to practice and reinforce these skillsthrough the program. They work in a team of diverse students and prepare the lesson plan,practice their presentation and receive peer and faculty feedback and present to local middle andhigh school students and receive their feedback as well.In this paper, different aspect of the Engineering Ambassadors Program from the EngineeringSTAR Center, and the professional development workshops are discussed. The effectiveness ofthe program is evaluated. Results of the students self-assessment shows that students’ teamwork,presentation and communication skills have improved. These skills in

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Burrows, The University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, The University of Cincinnati; Mike Borowczak, The University of Cincinnati; Amr Safwat, The University of Cincinnati

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Graduate Studies

program between 2006and 2009. Lastly, Project STEP focuses on the sustainability of the program itself. The universityfaculty participants, six primary investigators and four coordinators, play a large role infacilitating the promotion of community partnerships with teachers, K-12 students, and Fellows.Training of the FellowsLong term goals for our project include: 1)To train, energize, and sustain graduate engineering,math and science Fellows to effectively teach STEM skills to secondary school students;professional development of each Fellow that involves lesson observations, lesson plandocumentation, and course mastery of instructional planning and practicum; 2) Develophierarchical and expandable STEM lesson plans that explicitly connect key

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2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Kevin Lear; Victoria Palmer

, diode regions. BJT & FET transients clipper circuits operation.*Topic abbreviations, initialisms, and symbols: C = capacitor, D = diode, L = inductor, R =resistor, KCL = Kirchoff’s current law, KVL = Kirchoff’s voltage law, BJT = bipolar junctiontransistor, FET = field effect transistor, RMS = root mean square (conversion to or from amplitude)PREMIE TEST STRUCTURE AND PHILOSOPHYThe instructional goals for PREMIE tests include mastery of fundamentals, improved studyhabits, fostering personal connections to the instructor or course assistants, and familiarizationwith testing formats and expectations. Early and spaced study of fundamental concepts enhancesstudents

Conference Session

Community Building and Student Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Richard Compeau Jr., Texas State University; Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University; Austin Talley, Texas State University

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Classicle Sticks: An Activity to Improve Student EngagementAbstractA game played in some middle-school classrooms has been adapted for engineering lecture courses with 15-45 students inthe classroom and is described in detail. It has been implemented previously in Electrical Engineering at Texas StateUniversity in Electronics 1 & 2, Electromagnetics, and Linear Control Systems and those experiences served to improveand fine-tune the activity to its present form. It was measured in Electronics-1 in Electrical Engineering, and in Staticsand Strength of Materials and Structural Analysis courses in Engineering Technology. The activity is designed to improvestudent

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt J. Colella; Vincent Wilczynski

forced the faculty members to review each exercise, document how the work met itsgoal, and identify improvements. Again, without the portfolio, such self critiques by the faculty often were notperformed in their rush to complete for the “next” project (whether that be a course, experiment, or paper). B yassembling and displaying the portfolio, the program itself maintains a focus on design, and the designinitiative is kept fresh as new exercises replace old examples in the portfolio. Similar to teaching portfolio experiences, benefits of the institutional design portfolio result from theactual process of building the portfolio and from the completed portfolio. By assembling the design portfolio,the faculty must examine their teaching to

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Schultz; Marc Smith; Marc Perlin; John Foss

Session 1155 Improving Undergraduate Fluid Mechanics across the Curriculum Marc Perlin, William W. Schultz, Marc K. Smith, John F. Foss University of Michigan/University of Michigan/Georgia Institute of Technology/Michigan State UniversityAbstractWe initiated an NSF-sponsored workshop of Faculty and a few representatives from industry toinvestigate methods to increase student expectations and performance in the fundamentals ofundergraduate fluid mechanics education. We originally planned to build a pool of fluidmechanics exam problems and a consortium to provide feedback on evaluation of these

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Todd Easton

on Excellence in College Teaching, 9(2), 3-24.8 Hillyard, C., Gillespie, D., and Littig, P. (2010). University students’ attitudes about learning in small groups after frequent participation. Active Learning in Higher Education, 11(1), 9- 20.9 Deslauriers, L., Schelew, E., and Wieman, C. (2011). Improved learning in a large- enrollment physics class. Science, 332(6031), 862-864.10 Wood, W. B., & Tanner, K. D. (2012). The role of the lecturer as tutor: doing what effective tutors do in a large lecture class. CBE-Life Sciences Education,11(1), 3-9.11 The IDEA Evaluation Website http://www.k-state.edu/tlc/course-evaluation/idea-1.html.Todd EastonTodd Easton received a B.S. in Mathematics Brigham Young University (1993

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology; David E. Perkins, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Theodore Greene, Wentworth Institute of Technology; John Peter Voccio, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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First-Year Programs

, S.K. Esche, and C. Chassapis, "A Model for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Remote Engineering Laboratories and Simulations in Education", Computers & Education, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 708-725, 2007.[6] Z. Lustigova and V. Novotna, "The role of virtual and remote labs in promoting conceptual understanding of students", International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning (IMCL), Amman, Jordan. November 6-8, 2012.[7] M.A. Marques, M.C. Viegas, and M. C., Costa-Lobo, "How Remote Labs Impact on Course Outcomes: Various Practices using VISIR", IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 151-159, 2013.[8] J.E. Corter, J.V. Nickerson, S.K. Esche, C. Chassapis, S.IM, and J. Ma, "Constructing

Conference Session

Student Recruitment and Retention in ET Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralph Sprang, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Stephen A. Strom, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

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Engineering Technology

from Carnegie Mellon University. His career includes over thirty years experience in designing and programming embedded systems and has multiple patents for both hardware designs and software algorithms Page 26.918.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Improving Freshman Retention in an Engineering Technology ProgramAbstract - High freshman attrition in engineering programs is a significant and growing concern. In 2010 and 2011, less than41% of first year freshmen received a grade of C or better in first semester technical major courses at Penn State Erie, theBehrend College

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Simms; Jane M. Fraser

believethat displaying one student’s progress through required math courses as an event listingand then adding other students in one listing may help us detect patterns.Emphasizing that “people are meaning-finders,” but also that researchers must avoidbias, Miles and Huberman19 recommend methods for extracting meaning and thenverifying it. They recommend using the patterns that “jump out” during the study, butseeking out and remaining open to disconfirming evidence. For example, “do we find itelsewhere in the data where predicted?”Clustering involves sorting acts, people, events, etc., into similar classes.19 For example,in the school improvement study, the researchers sorted teachers into categories andseparately sorted implementation strategies

Conference Session

International Research Experiences

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin B. Wheatley, Colorado State University; Kristine Marie Fischencih, Colorado Sate University ; Lisa Abrams P.E., Ohio State University; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University; Harlal Singh Mali, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur; Anil Kumar Jain MD DNB MNAMS, Dr. P.K. Sethi Rehabilitation Center, Santokba Durlabhji Memorial Hospital, Jaipur, India; Tammy Lynn Haut Donahue, Colorado State University

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International

and Autodesk 3D CAD Design Challenge. An active member of IUCEE (Indo US Collaboration for En- gineering Education), has taken many initiatives through Active Learning, PBL(Project Based Learning) and IOHC(Industry Oriented Hands on Courses) for effectiveness teaching-learning process.Dr. Anil Kumar Jain MD DNB MNAMS, Dr. P.K. Sethi Rehabilitation Center, Santokba Durlabhji MemorialHospital, Jaipur, India Dr. Anil Kumar Jain Anil Kumar Jain graduate (1988), Post graduate (1993) in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation from SMS Medical College, Jaipur, India. Worked with Dr. P.K. Sethi, Magsaysay 1981 and Rotary International Award winner 2001 (Jaipur foot innovator) in Research projects for Jaipur foot modification

Conference Session

MET Papers 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Dupen, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

recommendations to update the textbook everysemester. Now in its 11th edition,1 the textbook is significantly easier to read, has far fewertypographical errors, and includes new material the students requested. This paper discusses theprocess of continual improvement and the effects the textbook has had on student success overthe 5 years of its use.IntroductionWithin the last half century, Continual Improvement Processes (CIP) have become part of theculture in manufacturing and service industries. A key part of Kaizen and other CIP methods isto solicit and implement ideas from the employees, rather than from costly outside consultants.2Involving and empowering employees can reinforce a sense of teamwork and improve employeemorale, leading to higher

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W. Brocato, Mississippi State University; Amy Barton, Mississippi State University; Kelly Agee, Mississippi State University; Ed Dechert, Mississippi State University; Greg Carlisle, Morehead State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

University) is an instructor in the Technical Commu- nication Program in MSU’s Bagley College of Engineering. She teaches Technical Writing, a junior-level writing course required of all undergraduate engineering students. She focuses on implementing writing- to-learn strategies in engineering courses to keep students engaged and improve critical thinking skills. She has presented on writing-to-learn topics at the ASEE Southeastern Section Conference and led writing workshops for faculty who are interested in adding writing assignments to their courses.Kelly Agee, Mississippi State University Kelly Agee serves as an instructor in the Shackouls Technical Communication Program in the James Worth Bagley College of

Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Curriculum Development, Improvements, and Partnerships

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jian Yu, Auburn University and Tsinghua University, China; Chetan S. Sankar, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

International

studies doimprove HOCS, also proved that they did improve the participants’ perceived HOCS andtheir self-reported learning, learning interest, challenges to their thought processes, andlearning from others were improved. Several universities in the U.S. have adopted instructional materials developed by LITEEincluding the Electrical Technology Program in Alabama A&M University, Introduction toEngineering Course in University of Virginia and Illinois Institute of Technology, IndianaUniversity, Purdue University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Louisiana StateUniversity. The feedback from the faculties and students from these universities have beenextremely positive. The case study method was one of the most effective way found by

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter W. de Graaf; Cameron Wright; Thad Welch

the observed benefits to the students are described, with recommendationsfor faculty who wish to try these methods.2 Impromptu PresentationsConcepts presented in engineering courses are often better understood by the students throughexamining case studies and example problems. An effective implementation of this technique isto require the students to work on in-class examples in small groups. The following proceduredescribes how such an in-class exercise might be administered.After covering an engineering concept, the class is presented with an example problem. Theexercise is designed to touch on the main points of the material and illustrate how theparticular concept may be applied to a “real world” situation. If the concept is

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melinda Seevers, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; William Knowlton, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; John Gardner, Boise State University

thepreliminary design stage in which students who have interned and employers could meet andshare work experiences. Mandatory enrollment in the Introduction to Engineering course priorto an industry internship is being considered. The course introduces basic engineering concepts,and discusses resumes, internships, professionalism, and engineering ethics. Students do nottake the Technical Communication course, which covers resume writing in depth, until late in thesophomore year, so all lower division students are advised to meet with the internshipcoordinator for resume assistance.Evaluation and AssessmentTo assess program effectiveness, students both in the College of Engineering researchlaboratories and industry internships will be asked to fill out a

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic

, studentsworking in groups implement some of the ideation methods while creating a solution to anengineering design problem.In the Senior Seminar course, as a part of the brainwriting exercise students are asked to createsolutions to some interesting problems. In this work, senior students in two consecutive yearswere asked to generate ideas leading to the improvements of the engineering programs at ourinstitution. This exercise was influenced by the two engineering programs’ ABET accreditationcycle. In general, after an ABET team visits the campus, and the accreditation decision is made,the department faculty discuss and implement program and curricular changes. This allowsenough time to test and validate the changes before the next ABET visit. In the

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Jacqueline Faith Sullivan, University of Central Florida; Mark Easley, Texas Instruments, Inc.

generation of makers and creators. Supporting universities with electrical and computer engineering curriculum enhancements, courseware support, and electronics workshops to improve student engagement and outcomes. Enhancing industry partnerships and semiconductor / IoT research activities. Accelerating the trend of online and accessible technical education through Massive Open Online Classes (MOOCs). Focus on improving TI support at United States engineering schools and assisting faculty with preparing students to enter industry with effective knowledge in Design, System, Power, and Connectivity. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Nick J. Kok

Session 3148 CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF TEACHING TO PROMOTE STUDENT LEARNING Nick J Kok Cape Technikon, South AfricaAbstractThe Cape Technikon is an institution offering educational programmes up to the doctoratelevel. The engineering programmes offered are characterised by a system of co-operativeeducation, i.e. work-integrated learning.The Cape Technikon is committed to providing and facilitating quality career and technologyeducation. To fulfill its mission the Technikon introduced a comprehensive quality assurancemodel some years ago whereby the outcomes of its

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 3 - Spatial Visualization Topics

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Delson, University of California, San Diego; Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego; Elizabeth Rose Cowan, eGrove Education Inc.; Bob Mihelich, McHenry County College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

[15] administered at the beginning and end of the class.Adding gamification had a significant impact on student behavior and performance. Amongstudents who entered the class with low PSVT:R scores (less than or equal to 70%), the numberof students who were able to increase their PSVT:R post-test scores to above the 70% thresholdincreased from 46% to 82% once gamification was added. The average score improvement in thePSVT:R rose from 18% to 39% [10]. Accordingly, gamification has a significant positive effecton student learning, but as described below, it resulted in other effects as well.Mini-Hints for Improved Spatial Visualization TrainingThe purpose of a hint is to provide some guidance to the student without showing them thesolution. For

Conference Session

Faculty Development Research

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Dartmouth College; Christopher Miller, Dartmouth College

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division

departments rely on group work. Group work can promotecollaborative learning, improve information retention, and provide students with valuable team skills whichare vital for the modern workplace [Hansen (2006)]. However, groups can also suffer from issues suchas lack of shared scheduling availability, lack of diverse skill sets, or marginalization of at-risk students[Bacon et al. (1999) and Dasgupta et al. (2015)]. This means that forming effective groups—which wedefine as groups characterized by sufficient diversity of experience and knowledge, shared schedulingavailability, lack of isolation of at-risk students, and fulfilled student preferences—is an important task.The three primary methods of group assignment are self-selected (students choose

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2003 GSW

Authors

James M. Gregory; Xuepeng Xie; Susan Mengel

development oftools to improve engineering education and student success in college. Dr. Gregory is a registeredProfessional Engineer in Texas.XUEPENG XIEMr Xie is currently a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at Texas Tech University.He has obtained a M.Sc. in Chemistry from Zhejiang University, P.R.China and a M.E. in MaterialsEngineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.SUSAN MENGELDr. Mengel is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Texas Tech University. She is active insoftware engineering education research having developed a software process for students to use in theundergraduate and graduate software engineering courses. She is active professionally serving on the IEEEComputer Society Board of

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 11

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology ; Margaret B. Bailey, P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology ; Caroline Solomon; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Sara Schley, Rochester Institute of Technology ; Iris V. Rivero; Gloria L. Blackwell; Jessica Bennett

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

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

varying effectiveness, and workshopfacilitators struggled to attend to requests regarding interpreting in real time.Formative assessment based on observations of the project evaluation team and open feedbackchannels with participants from our partner universities allowed us to quickly identify theseproblems and collaboratively determine ways to improve. Thus, revisions were made to theworkshop design and “run of show” support documentation, including a backchannelcommunication method among the presentation team, reminders to enable auto-transcription as abackup for interpreting, and real-time checking on quality of ASL interpretation. These changesimproved the workshop experience for all participants, not only those who are DHH. Ensuringthat

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaughn Whisker; Sai Yerrapathruni; John Messner; Anthony Baratta

ability limits their understanding of topicsdiscussed in classes and presented through course assignments.The results of the experiments presented in this paper suggest that 4D CAD modeling and the useof immersive virtual reality display systems can improve the education of constructionengineering students. There are many challenges that need to be addressed by educatorsinterested in using these tools including the development of lower cost immersive displaysystems, the development of tools that allow students to create and present construction plans forvirtual projects, and the creation of good educational modules. Even though we face manyimplementation challenges, advanced visualization technologies present an opportunity foreducators to

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Mario G. Beruvides

advance is an intellectual one. . ..— These rapidly moving fields are fields where a particulw method of doing scientific research is systematically used and taught, an accumulative method of inductive inference that is so effective that I think it should be given the name of “strong inference,” (p. 347). Strong inference is just the simple old-fashion method of inductive inference (devising alternativehypothesis, devising a crucial experimen~ carrying out the experiment to get clean results, and recycling theprocedure). Do we as professionals have strong inference in our research? Do we have a detailed research agendathat continuously improves our knowledge in our specific areas of research

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Taggart Smith

proves counterproductive to performance improvement is thatof applying sports analogies to business practices. People in business, especially men, draw onanalogies from physical competitions to guide thinking about how work should be organized andrewarded. It is true that in physical tasks, people perform better when racing an opponent.However, business involves complex intellectual tasks rather than physical ones. Racing is finefor routine tasks done over and over again, but tasks that require learning and inventing newways of doing things require different treatment. The social facilitation effect allows thatworking around others , especially outsiders who are thought to be judging the work, enhancesperformance for tasks that are well known

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi

weight of 10% on the final grade.Several studies have been conducted by the author and his colleagues (2-14) to examine the factorsinfluencing student success and experimenting with new teaching techniques to enhance studentacademic success. One study showed2 that by implementing a mandatory attendance policy studentsuccess can be improved somewhat, but not significantly if students attend classes, but do not dotheir homework assignments. In fall 2000, the ME program added one hour of recitation sessionsper week to some of the program’s gateway courses (Statics, Dynamics, Thermodynamic-I) withthe goal of increasing student success. The enrollment limit in recitation sessions were set at 25students. In the recitation sessions, the instructor or

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ramazan Asmatulu; Waseem Khan; Humphrey Wamocha; Adebayo Adeniji

Improving the Nanotechnology Education for Future Engineers R. Asmatulu, W. Kahn, H. Wamocha, and A. Adeniji Department of Mechanical Engineering Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount Wichita, KS 67260-0133 Abstract Nanotechnology education offered by many universities in the USA involvesinterdisciplinary and multidisciplinary education with courses in nanotechnology, engineering,chemistry, physics, mathematics and biology. The challenge of nanotechnology education is toprovide advanced technologies to the students in a wide verity of fields. In the presentcommunication, we

Conference Session

Assessment and Continuous Improvement in Engineering Technology: Part I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Braun, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

VRI program offers two Bachelor of Science degrees,either in Industrial Technology – Vehicle Design or in Plastics Engineering Technology/VehicleEngineering Technology (PETVET), and a post-baccalaureate certificate in vehicle design. Allstudents in the program take Advanced Emission Control as a requirement for graduation. Priorto 2008, the content of this course focused mainly on the history of government regulationsimposing emissions controls on vehicles, the effect of automotive emissions on our environmentand health, and the strategies employed starting in the 1960s to reduce the amount of harmfulemissions from vehicles.In order to successfully assume responsibility for this class for the first time and to drivecontinuous improvement in