Conference Session

Industry and Engineering Technology Partnerships

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Fuehne, Purdue University-Columbus

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Determine the slope, intercept, and linearity of data sets. 9. Read tables and graphs to determine intermediate and extrapolated values. 10. Classify data distributions as being normal, rectangular, triangular or U-shaped. 11. Calculate the variance, root mean square, root sum square and standard error of the mean Page 13.742.4 for a data set. 12. Identify various methods and tools used in the development, validation, improvement and review of a quality system. 13. Select and apply the basic quality tools: cause and effect diagrams, flowcharts/process maps, check sheets, Pareto diagrams, scatter diagrams, control/run

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rob Henry Kinzel; Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Winston Sealy, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rachel E Cohen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Jennifer Veltsos, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

each of the four categories and are described below.Results & Associated Next StepsIn this section, we address the first three research questions. Research question 4 (What nextsteps can the program take in the continuous improvement process?) is addressed at the end ofthe discussion for each of questions 1-3.Group Project Effectiveness: Did the group project (structural component) support programgoals?Our main goals for having the students work on group projects during the semester was toexpose them to working in multidisciplinary groups and help them gain leadership experiencesthat could be applied to their future careers. Emerging from the student responses was anawareness of the benefit of working in multidisciplinary teams and how

Conference Session

Using Communication and Writing Techniques to Improve Student Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Sean Poust, University of California-Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

with the formallaboratory report format. All students worked with the same simulation, but collected dataindividually.Evaluation of Midterm and Final Course Feedback: Page 23.234.7During each offering of the course, students were solicited for course feedback via midtermsurveys and final surveys. Each of these surveys included open-ended questions about aspects ofthe course that were specifically effective or ineffective, and prompted students to makesuggestions for course improvement. None of these surveys specifically asked students to rate orcomment on the laboratory report assignments.The open-ended responses for each survey were analyzed

Conference Session

Assessment II: Learning Gains and Conceptual Understanding

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin James Call, Utah State University; Wade H Goodridge, Utah State University; Thayne L Sweeten Ph.D., Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

range of questionsand depth (i.e. difficulty) within the existing question set in order to appropriately assessengineering students’ spatial ability improvements. At least not within a measurement constructusing pre- and post-testing to bracket spatial instructional interventions. Literature indicatesstudents entering and pursuing engineering degrees often have higher native spatial ability, butsome work also points to potential ceiling effects that may exist using certain spatial metrics11.There are a number of relatively young engineering students achieving top scores on spatialability instruments. This creates a dilemma in that we are unable to measure how much theycontinue to improve over the course of their academic career when they may

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Benneyan, Northeastern University; Corey Balint, Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute at Northeastern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

. (2008) explains how the different dimensions of the Triple Aimare interrelated and why all three must be coordinated into an improvement project’sapproach: “Changes pursuing any one goal can affect the other two, sometimes negatively and sometimes positively. For example, improving care for individuals can raise costs if the improvements are associated with new, effective, but costly technologies or drugs. Conversely, eliminating overuse or misuse of therapies or diagnostic tests can lead to Page 26.919.2 both reduced costs and improved outcomes. The situation is made more complex by time delays among the

Conference Session

Student Teams and Design Skills

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Durward Sobek, Montana State University; Joshua Ruder, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

=0 Group Mouse )p Golf (+ B (+) p = 0.004 Figure 2: Graphical Summary of the Comparison ResultsWhile the results seem to support the hypothesis that use of the system-level morphologicalanalysis improves design performance, the experiment is not without potential biases. Oneconcern is that participants could have learned something in the first run that helped themimprove performance in the second. To counter this potential bias, we included a materialsfamiliarization exercise at the beginning of the first run to minimize the effects of

Conference Session

STEM and ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khosrow Ghadiri, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

San Jose State University Page 24.391.2 Developing and Implementing Effective Instructional Stratagems in STEMAbstractA student passage rate from 65% to above 90% requires student grade improvement of two-sigma. The different components of active learning techniques and the percentage of theiradditive standard deviations were considered over the past four semesters in an “Introduction toCircuit Analysis” course at San José State University (SJSU) to achieve such a result. A blendedmodel of learning by merging content from an online MOOC with in-class, team-basedinstruction as part of a required undergraduate circuit theory course

Conference Session

The D/M/A of CE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Dulaski, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

coursealthough the depth and breadth of community participation is often unknown. Students at theUniversity of Missouri-Kansas worked with the public works department to redesign a bridgeand an adjacent intersection (1). Students at the University of Colorado worked on water andwastewater municipal projects as part of their capstone experience (2). In some instances, thecommunity is engaged. North Dakota State University addressed a neighborhood’s drainageissues through a capstone course that culminated with a presentation to communityrepresentatives at the end of the semester (3). Although there are ample opportunities for civilengineering programs to improve the community as well as student experience through capstone,experiences appear to be

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Scmidt; Jeffrey Siegel

Session 2531 INTICE - Interactive Technology to Improve the Classroom Experience Jeffrey A. Siegel, Department of Civil Engineering, Kathy J. Schmidt, College of Engineering Faculty Innovation Center, Justin Cone, College of Engineering, Faculty Innovation Center The University of Texas at AustinAbstractInteraction in the classroom is essential to improving student learning and using ClassroomPerformance System (CPS) technology is one way to promote interactions. CPS consists ofstudent-operated remote controls and a receiver

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 2470 Learning from our Minority Engineering Students: Improving Retention Maria A. Reyes, Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Mary Ann McCartney Arizona State UniversityAbstractSince the summer of 1996, the Minority Engineering Program (MEP) at Arizona State University(ASU) has directed an MEP Summer Bridge Program for students entering the College ofEngineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) in the fall semester. Participating students competein teams for scholarships as they learn how to cope with the difficult introduction to engineeringcourse. A requirement for the scholarship is attendance in the fall Academic

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Best Papers

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick A. Tebbe, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Nazli Aslican Yilmaz Wodzinski, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Namyong Lee, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

studyingplacement and flow fields involve the use of complicated and costly computational fluiddynamics (CFD) software. Second, wind resource maps typically represent values at 30 m orhigher. Small scale VAWT installations are typically at a lower elevation where the influence ofground effects can dominate.2. Project DescriptionThe creation and validation of an accessible VAWT flow field model and the generation of awind resource map tailored for small-scale VAWTs has the potential to improve VAWT Figure 1: VAWT concept by Windtech, Roseville MN (left) and VAWT model sold by Minnesota Wind Technology, St. Paul MN (right). Photos are from company websites.Figure 2: Caltech Field Laboratory for Optimized Wind Energy demonstrating an array of VAWTS (http

Conference Session

Problem Solving and Misconceptions

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Jackman, Iowa State University; Sarah Ryan, Iowa State University; Craig Ogilvie, Iowa State University; Dale Niederhauser, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2008-1699: SCAFFOLDING TO IMPROVE REASONING SKILLS INPROBLEM FORMULATIONJohn Jackman, Iowa State University Dr. John Jackman is an Associate Professor in the department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University His work in engineering problem solving has appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education and the International Journal of Engineering Education. His research focuses on how engineers use and create information during the development process in order to improve their productivity and reduce development time.Sarah Ryan, Iowa State University Dr. Sarah Ryan is an Associate Professor in the department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division 1: The Practice of EMD

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lawrence M. Strenger, CATME; Behzad Beigpourian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

].References:[1] ABET, “ABET engineering accreditation commission: criteria for accrediting engineering programs,” pp. 1–43, 2017.[2] K. A. Jehn, “A Qualitative Analysis of Conflict Types and Dimensions in Organizational Groups,” vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 530–557, 1997.[3] B. Beigpourian and W. Lafayette, “Using CATME to Document and Improve the Effectiveness of Teamwork in Capstone Courses,” 2019.[4] K. A. Jehn and C. Bendersky, “Intragroup Conflict in Organizations: a Contingency Perspective on the Conflict-Outcome Relationship,” Res. Organ. Behav., vol. 25, no. 03, pp. 187–242, 2003.[5] K. A. Jehn, “A Multimethod Examination of the Benefits and Detriments of Intragroup Conflict,” vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 256–282, 1995

Conference Session

Visualization

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe

Program. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 2000. 64(1): p. 4-9.16. Branoff, T., The effects of adding coordinate axes to a mental rotations task in measuring spatial visualization ability in introductory undergraduate technical graphics courses. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 1998. 62(2): p. 16-34.17. Bertoline, G.R. and E.N. Wiebe, Fundamentals of graphics communication. 4th ed. 2004, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.BiographyERIC N. WIEBE, Ph.D.Dr. Wiebe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and TechnologyEducation at NC State University. During the past nine years, he has worked on the integrationof scientific visualization concepts and techniques into both secondary and post

Conference Session

NEE - 3: Improving Homework and Problem-solving Performance

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek Breid, Saint Vincent College

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Interventions,” Am. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 9, no. 1, 2018.[4] R. Goulet, “Individualized Homework : An Effective Learning Strategy,” ASEE Conf. Proc., 2010.[5] C. S. Ryan and N. S. Hemmes, “Effects of the contingency for homework submission on homework submission and quiz performance in a college course,” vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 79– 88, 2005.[6] A. Fernandez, C. Saviz, and J. S. Burmeister, “Homework as an outcome assessment : relationships between homework and test performance,” ASEE Conf. Proc., 2006.[7] A. Kaw and A. Yalcin, “Does collecting homework improve examination performance?,” ASEE Conf. Proc., 2010.[8] T. Shepard and D. Law, “A Comparison of Student Learning Between Graded Homework and Suggested

Conference Session

Engineering in Middle Schools

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Crips, Laramie Middle School; William Parker, Laramie County School District 1; Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Jerry Hamann, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

year (2007- Page 13.441.11 2008).• Claim: The project represented a significant cost effective and interdisciplinary effort that successfully engaged district professionals and paraprofessionals, along with experienced IHE partners. Over the course of the project synergy grew among the team members, with the resulting Discovery Boxes reflected a level of passion and commitment that was second to none. The Discovery Boxes employed state-of-art technology and resulted in high quality documentation which reflected credit both on the participants and on the grant, in general. o Recommendation: Similar teams should be

Conference Session

Computing Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Kowalkowski, Knowledge Consultants; Gilbert Laware, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

for the DAMA Foundation. Gil specializes in developing business and application solutions, metadata (business and technical) to support enterprise application integration, knowledge management, and data warehousing. He has developed and teaches courses in Enterprise Architecture, Systems Analysis and Design, System Architecture, Data Management and SQL. He consults in both the public and private industry sectors. Gil holds Master degrees in Management and Management Science. Page 11.1200.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Teaching Business Process Improvements – Making the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Richardson

Session Number 1896 A Simple and Effective Curriculum Assessment Procedure Jim Richardson Civil Engineering Dept., University of AlabamaAbstract This paper describes a curriculum assessment procedure that is easy to use and providesmeaningful results. The core of the procedure is a review by a department committee of studentwork from each civil engineering course. The author proposed the idea of a peer-reviewassessment procedure to the faculty during a departmental retreat and the faculty developed theimplementation plan. Our department has completed two cycles of the assessment

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Autar Kaw

already developed about thecourse and its pre-requisites. He answers statements like “I am never going to use this course”carefully and passionately, but without unnecessary emotion.3. Efed uses teaching tools effectively No matter how many times Efed teaches the same course, he keeps on improving histeaching methods to make him more effective. Efed continually learns new ways of teaching vianew textbooks, continuing education classes, education articles, and new multimedia resources. Nowadays, there are many tools available to Efed to make teaching effective. Theseinclude multimedia presentation software, videos, Internet, mathematical packages, andinteractive educational software. He uses these tools only when it improves the

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Sreedevi Ande P.E.

subsequent courses, namely Dynamics and However, a recommendation and an opportunity was givenMechanics of materials. Hence it becomes critical for any to them to change teams after two quizzes. It was observedengineering student to understand and grasp the concepts of that the students were reluctant to change their teams asStatics course as it gives the students an ability to master some students did not seem to be concerned about theirfollow-up material in upper level engineering courses. team members, and the remaining students already formedTherefore, improving learning in the subject of Engineering teams with their friend(s) on day one. They were fourStatics deserves significant attention

Collection

2009 GSW

Authors

John H. Ristroph

Session FA4-2 Advanced Spreadsheet Use to Improve Engineering Education John H. Ristroph, Ph.D., P.E. Professor Emeritus, University of Louisiana at Lafayette AbstractThis paper illustrates methods that can be used across disciplines by applying Excel to engineer-ing economics. It first discusses intrinsic functions, and then it shows how to use VBA to createcustom functions that use notation familiar to a student. Next it covers how to produce diagramsand graphics via the drawing toolbar and custom cut-and-paste libraries, as well as how to showall

Conference Session

Improving the BME Classroom on the Ground and Virtually

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Abhishek Bhattacharjee, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Mona Jawad, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Eileen M. Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Anna M. Busza, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Riley John Lehmann; Benjamin M. David, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Pablo Perez-Pinera, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

accomplishing the learning objectives. Survey itemsincluded 5-point Likert scale questions and open-ended questions. The questions covered topicssuch as perceived effectiveness (e.g. “The remote lab was effective at helping me meet the courseobjects”) and areas for course improvement (e.g. “What course resources or activities did you findleast useful in learning how to perform the lab techniques covered in this class?”). No incentiveswere offered for participation in the surveys. In the initial survey 8 of 29 students responded andin the second end-of-semester survey 3 of 29 students responded (27.5% and 10% response rate,respectively).ResultsThough the low response rates make generalization difficult, the student feedback about the onlinelabs and lab

Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

AC 2012-3787: EFFECTIVE ACTIVE LEARNING APPROACHES TO TEACH-ING SOFTWARE VERIFICATIONDr. Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University Sushil Acharya, D.Eng., Associate Professor of software engineering, joined Robert Morris University in the spring of 2005 after serving 15 years in the Software Industry. With U.S. Airways, Acharya was responsible for creating a data warehouse and using advance data mining tools for performance improve- ment. With i2 Technologies, he worked on i2’s Data Mining product ”Knowledge Discover Framework” and at CEERD (Thailand), he was the Product Manager of three energy software products (MEDEE- S/ENV, EFOM/ENV and DBA-VOID), which are in use in 26 Asian and seven European countries by

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Pyrtle III P.E., University of South Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

a practicing, licensed State of Florida Professional Engineer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Effects of Homework Policy on Student PerformanceAbstractHomework and exam assignments are essential instructional tools used in multiple disciplinesand for all course levels. With the development and adoption of online learning environments forproblem creation and assignment, some issues associated with paper submission of homeworkassignments have been alleviated. Online, web-based homework has become necessary for thefacilitation of learning in large classes, particularly those that require frequent feedback tostudents. The use of online homework allows a greater number and variety

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gustavo Molina; George Clark; Aniruddha Mitra

would be helpful if conducted before the new concepts of thecourse are introduced.The effects of making these small changes seem well worth the effort. Students’ comprehension intechnical courses would not be clouded by confusion over unfamiliar variables. Better and fastercomprehension, improved test scores, and increased student confidence could be expected.References1 Klebanoff, A.D. and Winkel, B.J., Technology-based problems in calculus from science and engineering, Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Conference , June 1996, Session 1265.2 Conway Link, W., The definition of a function – Do post college algebra students know it and can they apply it?, Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Conference, June 1996, Session 2465.3

Conference Session

Changing the Classroom Environment in Mathematics Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Bourn, Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy; Sarah C. Baxter, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

, technologyand applied science applications.EFFECTs was developed by a team of researchers at the University of South Carolina underfunding from the National Science Foundation. It has been disseminated via the web and hasover a dozen practitioners who have applied the framework to concepts such as geotechnicalengineering, thermodynamics, mechanics, numerical methods, and scientific visualization,working with students at all stages of their engineering education [1]. The central learning goalsof engineering EFFECTs are to (i) improve the understanding and retention of a specific set ofconcepts that provide core knowledge and (ii) encourage students to recognize and developcritical thinking skills that lead to earlier growth in engineering judgment. The

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Fathizadeh P.E., Purdue University Northwest; Anan Ismail Ayyad

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Paper ID #21597Students’ Participation to Improve Formula SAE CarDr. Masoud Fathizadeh P.E., Purdue University Northwest Masoud Fathizadeh – PhD, PE Professor Fathizadeh has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University Northwest since 2001. He has worked over 15 years both for private industries and national research laboratories such as NASA, Argonne and Fermi National Laboratories. Dr. Fathizadeh has established his own consulting and engineering company in 1995 specializing in power system, energy management and automation systems. During last twenty years the company

Conference Session

Improving the BME Classroom on the Ground and Virtually

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rucha Joshi, University of California, Davis; Jennifer H. Choi, University of California, Davis

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

and enhance conceptualunderstanding, and as a result, improve overall student performance in the class. Metacognitiveskills can have enormous benefits for students within this course, and help students whenpursuing higher levels of education, and perform complex tasks in professional life requiring oneto take greater responsibility for one’s learning. Unfortunately, these metacognitive skills tend tofall outside the content area of most courses, and consequently, they can be often neglected ininstruction. In a large Biomedical Engineering class focused on solving mass and energy transferproblems, promoting metacognitive skills was a challenge that was met with two specificinterventions – 1) introduction of exam wrappers and class-wide

Collection

2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

Efficient and Effective Strategies for Collecting Assessment Data Kevin Dahm, Rowan UniversityAbstractThe accreditation process for engineering programs was substantially changed ten yearsago when the ABET EC2000 criteria were implemented. (The moniker EC2000 is nolonger in use; they are now simply the ABET criteria.) Programs must define specificgoals and objectives, collect sufficient data to make an objective determination ofwhether graduates are or are not meeting these objectives, and demonstrate evidence ofusing the data to effect continuous programmatic improvement. These accreditationcriteria present programs with significant challenges. Departments must determine whatdata are needed and collect it

Conference Session

Faculty Tools

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher P. Pung, Grand Valley State University; John Farris, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

students to modify theirbehavior to improve their effectiveness on teams. This paper describes an attempt to measureprogress towards the goal of leveraging peer and self-evaluations to change student behavior.The Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME)1 was developedusing extensive university research. A web-based survey at www.catme.org makes it possible tocollect data on team-member effectiveness in five areas that research has shown to be important. 1. Contributing to the team’s work 2. Interacting with teammates 3. Keeping the team on track 4. Expecting quality work 5. Having relevant knowledge, skills and abilitiesThis tool was implemented in a junior level product design class. The