Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ernest Smerdon

in technical skills based on mathematics and science. Those professional skills(sometimes referred to as soft skills) are integrated with the technical skills in ABET/EACCriterion 3 – Program Outcomes and Assessment. At least half of the items listed in Criterion 3refer to these professional skills – skills that any practicing professional must have whether ornot he/she be an engineer. It is anticipated that the foundation for these professional skills areplaced as part of the educational process. Words that were seldom mentioned in engineeringeducation a decade or two ago – multidisciplinary team skills, professional and ethicalresponsibility, effective communication, global and social context, lifelong learning, andknowledge of

Conference Session

Green and Sustainable Manufacturing Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Y. Chiou, Drexel University; Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University; Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Regina Ruane Ph.d., Drexel University ; Chetana R. Bayas; Abhishek Raja, Drexel University; Carlos Michael Ruiz, Drexel University

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Manufacturing

Efficiency Lab 10 Thermal energy imagining Energy audit Energy Management Lab 11 Final ExamThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) is charged with the task of“Quality assurance in higher education” for programs in applied science, computing, engineering,and technology. Institutions pursuing accreditation must demonstrate that the program meets a setof general criteria. Of particular interest are the requirements of Criteria #2, #3, and #5, which arefocused on Program Educational Objectives, Program Outcomes and Assessment, and Faculty11-12 . These

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division - Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Borenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert J Butera, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

their own “in-house” approach. These challenges will be discussed in further detail below.(1) The number of course offeringsWith over 580 new doctoral students per year, a key challenge is scheduling a sufficientnumber of courses to accommodate the students and still having a small enough class sizeto provide them with a meaningful educational experience. At the present time, there isone main instructor for the campus-wide RCR course. This certainly raises questionsabout the sustainability of the RCR program. For example, overlapping open time slotsneed to be found in the schedule of the instructor and the students for the collection ofRCR courses. To address some of the relevant issues here, a group of faculty membershave been offered summer

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session on Solar

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Hutzel, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jan T. Lugowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

. Achieving these skills requires modernized teaching methodsthat engage students in open-ended assignments where students encounter uncertain data thatforces them to question the results of technical computations. These are some of the key reasonsfor a large energy transformation project underway in an Engineering Technology program. Thetransformation project crosses traditional course boundaries by highlighting similar energyconversion processes that occur in many different disciplines. As one example of the progress sofar, undergraduate students in a thermodynamics course assisted with the installation of an 8 kWsolar photovoltaic array on the roof of a campus building. More importantly, a web-basedgraphic interface was created so that future

Conference Session

Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yvonne Ng, College of St. Catherine; Lori Maxfield, College of St. Catherine

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

believe that students need to engage in interdisciplinary projects more often or for longerperiods of time. This might cause concern for engineering professors either because theseprojects might “take away” time from required instruction or because the projects are open-ended and unpredictable in nature which makes the task difficult to schedule and assess.To avoid throwing the “baby out with the bathwater,” engineering educators need a frameworkor model to ensure that revisions to projects, courses, curriculum or programs both satisfy theABET objectives and educate (rather than train) students. A good model would provide theeducator with a way to assess success, tune instructional activities, and stay focused on the mainobjectives. It would

Conference Session

Bringing Industrial Applications into the Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

/ volunteer teams in-class.Notes on initial / final reports:For this problem, your audience is the “boss” of the sauce company. So while taste is veryimportant, process aspects are also important and you may assume they can be explained atan engineering-level of understanding.With your team, make sauce and create an initial report (see “initial report” formatdocument). You may use a recipe, and please work at a small scale, but specifically observethe aspects of the process that are likely to be “expensive” at large scale. That is, the sauceyou make may either be a model for “traditional” process sauce (base case, you need toobserve opportunities for saving money) or it may be a less-expensive model (trial forsolution, you need to point out how this

Conference Session

DSAI Technical Session 5: Educational Technology and Innovative Tools

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University; Lukas Allen Bostick, Clemson University; Ibrahim Demir, The University of Iowa; Bijaya Adhikari; Krishna Panthi, Clemson University; Vidya Samadi, Clemson University; Mostafa Saberian, Clemson University; Carlos Erazo Ramirez, The University of Iowa

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Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) Constituent Committee

surveys and interviews offers a robust framework for evaluating program outcomes.Surveys provide quantitative metrics, such as participant satisfaction and confidence levels,while interviews deliver rich, qualitative insights into individual experiences. Creswell, PlanoClark, and others [7] advocate for a mixed-methods approach to program evaluation to capturegeneral trends and nuanced feedback. In the WaterSoftHack program, pre- and post-workshopsurveys, complemented by follow-up interviews, enable a comprehensive assessment ofparticipant outcomes and areas for improvement.Hackathon-Style Training MethodsHackathons have emerged as innovative platforms for skill development, fostering collaboration,problem-solving, and rapid prototyping [6

Conference Session

Capstone and Design Projects

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emad Y. Tanbour, Central Michigan University; Molu O. Olumolade, Central Michigan University; Oumar Rafiou Barry, Central Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

), Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flow Through Small Gage Gas Appliance Orifice, Proceedings of IMECE 2009, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA • Emad Y. Tanbour and Ramin K. Rahmani, (2009), Enhancement of Temperature Blending in Convective Heat Transfer by Motionless Inserts with Variable Segment Length, IMECE 2009, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA • Emad Y. Tanbour and Ramin K. Rahmani, (2009), A Numerical Study of the Thermal Performance of Two Stationary Insert Design in Internal Compressible Flow, ASME Sum- mer HT2009, San Francisco, CA, USA Awards and Honors • Arch T. Colwell Merit Award, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) USA, 2001 • Ph.D. Scholarship Award, JUST, 1992-1997 Synergistic Activities

Collection

2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Pritpal Singh, Villanova University

clearly addressed in the modified version of the project description.If the as-received form did not effectively cover some of the dimensions of the student outcome,the course instructor would work with the faculty member/student/industry sponsor to addressany shortcomings to get the project proposal approved.Reassessment of Student Outcome 4The new project approval form was first used in the project proposal course offered in Spring2020. At the end of the senior design project course in Fall 2020, student outcome 4 wasreassessed. The assessment was performed by the course coordinator for the senior projectsdesign course using a rubric developed by the Continuous Program Improvement Committee.There was found to be significant improvement in the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Experiential Learning

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Jack V. Matson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Darrell Velegol, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

actually completed the exercise. 10For the projects, we elected to use the discussion forums as the primary mechanism for peerfeedback, rather than the peer assessment process defined by Coursera, in which students rate asmall number of projects using an instructor-defined rubric, in exchange for which their projectsare rated by other peers. We made this decision based on our desire to encourage peer-to-peerinteraction on a large scale and to avoid some of the problematic features of the formal peerassessment process (e.g., biased feedback, cursory feedback), which we hypothesized might bemore likely due to the self-defined projects featured in our

Conference Session

Graphics and Visualization

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon Duff, Arizona State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

developed in conjunction with the EVL. A major thrust is to build the applications for the technology. The EVL enjoys a close relationship with the NCSA at the University of Illinois/Urbana. Interdisciplinary teams are assembled to address research and public service projects. There is no demonstration theater. The EVL is a working laboratory.Funding Model The EVL, including its staff, is largely supported though soft money. Some support comes through information technology technicians. All capital equipment is secured through external grants. This equipment is distributed to programs as it is upgraded and replaced.Curricular Integration Four computer science and two art professors are attached

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

our classes,but more especially the reasons why we do them and how we believe that they will help the students tolearn and achieve the objectives for our courses. Although cooperative projects are becomingincreasingly common in technical programs, there may be situations in which faculty members prefer toassign individual projects to balance student exposure to different types of work. These situations shouldalso be analyzed in the teaching statement as it reflects the faculty member philosophy on balancingcollaborative and individual work.Faculty members do not have control over the size of the classes they teach. However, we have controlover how to approach differently a large class than a small class, by choosing the techniques that best

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy; Darrell K. Kleinke P.E., University of Detroit Mercy; David Pistrui, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

college degree.In college, particularly in engineering, students primarily follow a prescribed curriculum in aformat that is largely traditional, classroom-based instruction. The curriculum is prescribed byexternal entities such as universities, programs, accreditation agencies such as ABET, andprofessors; this means the students are required to learn materials that “others” prescribe. It hasto be done as per a set schedule, i.e. in prescribed time blocks, semesters or quarters, andfollowing a prescribed prerequisite structure. After finishing four years of curriculum studentsgraduate and join the workforce. Current education paradigm uses the “Empty ContainerParadigm.” It is assumed students will start a given course knowing nothing about the

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John Spinelli; Cherrice Traver

team, and three days for the competition.The E=M6 robotics competition was the highlight of the project, and is unlike any U.S.competition that we have seen. Each team is given a small work area in a large fieldhouse. Teams bring everything from small tools to a portable machine shop and redesignand rebuild their robots on sight. Many teams, including ours, worked through the nightin attempting to pass the qualifying round in which the robot had to gather a ball anddeposit it in the opposing goal. With a strict time pressure over them, our team workedwith amazing stamina, but narrowly missed advancing beyond the qualifying round.Over 100 teams competed, representing nearly every engineering school in France.There was a tremendous educational

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 9: Advanced Mechanical Engineering Topics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Mok, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cong Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Benita Comeau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Emily Welsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nicholas Xuanlai Fang, University of Hong Kong; John Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

meet the increasing demand for STEM skills in tomorrow’s workforce. He is a Lecturer in MIT’s Mechanical Engineering department and MITx Digital Learning Lab Scientist. He leads education and workforce development efforts for MIT’s new initiative: Manufacturing@MIT. He was the Director of the Principles of Manufacturing MicroMasters program, an online certificate program that has now enrolled over 180,000 learners across the globe. Dr. Liu’s work includes engineering education, mixed reality and haptic experiences, workforce solutions to address the nation-wide manufacturing skills need, open-ended assessments for scalable education settings, and instructional design theory for massively open online courses. He

Collection

ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Aashitha Srinivas, Raritan Valley Community College; Thomas Gerard Hayes, Raritan Valley Community College; Agustin Osses-Falco; Darren McManus, Raritan Valley Community College; Peter Raymond Stupak, Main Engine Start a NJ Non-Profit Corporation; Joseph A DeNisco, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Lavern Ronoh, Raritan Valley Community College

Paper ID #44876Authentic Engineering Experience: An Electromagnetic Induction PoweredIlluminated Fine Art SculptureMs. Aashitha Srinivas, Raritan Valley Community College I’m currently a sophomore at a Community College, working towards a degree in mechanical engineering.Thomas Gerard Hayes, Raritan Valley Community College I was apart of the first group to began working on the Electromagnetic Induction Powered Illuminated Fine Art Sculpture. Through many long hours, countless fails, and many small victories along the way, our project has evolved into a successful product with a happy client. I have taken many classes at

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ella L. Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Cory Hixson, Colorado Christian University; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

we interviewed, because we are not testing hypotheses about the program (e.g.,who applies and who does not; which program had more communication successes; potentialapplicants’ family status). Consistent with the failure analysis approach, we are identifying anyfactors—large or small, common or rare, detailed or general—that help us understand the failureoutcome of lower applications than desired.Each information source was examined by a different author using their own fishbone diagram(summarized in the appendix) to identify any explanations relevant to our failure indicator. Weexplored all aspects of the system, not just those specifically related to the application process,consistent with the goal of failure analysis to explore all

Collection

2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Alexander John De Rosa, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Frank T Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Ashley Lytle

Tagged Topics

Diversity

of AE assessed through their program of study.IntroductionSTEM graduates are increasingly asked to work in broader, interdisciplinary fields that requireapplication of their technical expertise across ever more diverse contexts. The ASEE, NAE, andvarious other organizations have all cited the need for engineers and STEM professionals of thefuture to be “T-shaped professionals” who have deep understanding of their discipline but anability to apply their knowledge and skills more broadly [1]–[3]. As such, STEM educationprograms are increasingly interested in not only producing subject matter experts, but alsograduates who can apply this knowledge. In this context, the term “adaptive expertise” (AE) hasbeen used to describe certain dispositions

Conference Session

Learnin' Lessons about Faculty Development

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; Jill K Nelson, George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division

might have learned or tried based on other resources (e.g., conferences,university-level workshops). In either case, they faced translating a general strategy into theirown teaching context, e.g., taking a suggestion from a book to do more formative assessment andthen consider how that would logistically happen in a large class, or how to both support studentdiscussion in small groups (e.g., a think-pair-share question) while maintaining some controlover the discussion that might be happening in a large lecture-style classroom. As stated by oneparticipant describing what they learned, “Fresh ideas. Getting other people’s perspectives onwhat I was doing, and then also just hearing people’s ideas. And, having them – it was, so I reada bunch of

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gianluca Guadagni, University of Virginia; Hui Ma, University of Virginia; Lindsay Wheeler, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

(UVA), she worked as an assistant professor at Black Hills State University for two years. In her current role as an APMA faculty member at UVA, she teaches applied math courses to engineering students. Her goals in teaching are to help students develop the confidence in their own ability to do mathematics and to make mathematics a joyful and successful experience.Prof. Lindsay Wheeler, University of Virginia c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 The benefit of training Undergraduate Teaching AssistantsAbstractWe report on a new program to train Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs) that we areimplementing at our institution, the University of Virginia. The mixed methods

Conference Session

Sustainability and Environmental Issues

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Skokan, Colorado School of Mines

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2009-945: AN INTRODUCTION TO ENERGY CHOICES: AMULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHCatherine Skokan, Colorado School of Mines Page 14.206.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 An Introduction to Energy Choices: A Multidisciplinary ApproachAbstractThe Indian Affairs Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development (IEED) was establishedto assist in economic development on Indian lands, in part by assisting development ofworkforce capacity through education and facilitating partnerships between tribes and theprivate sector. Colorado School of Mines received a grant from IEED to develop an energyengineering program of study to be used by Tribal

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

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

), typically in large arrays or “windfarms” that produce utility scale amounts of power. However, small-scale systems have also seenlarge growth, 35% in 2012, with particular attractiveness for rural and agricultural areas [2]. TheNational Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) suggests that greater use of small wind turbinesin the built environment can positively affect the public perception of wind energy [3].An alternative to the HAWT design is the vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). A VAWT spinsaround a vertical axis with the wind moving perpendicular to the axis. Blades can take differentforms (Figure 1) and are based on lift or drag principles. VAWTs are not as prevalent as HAWTsand can suffer from lower efficiencies and height limitations. However

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

technical knowledge anddevelop solutions to both large- and small-scale problems. Many of these problems and theirassociated contexts necessitate innovative, novel ideas in order to make a meaningful and lastingimpact. Because of this, creativity is an essential skill for engineering students to enhancethrough understanding theoretical underpinnings and developing skills and experience throughdeliberate practice. The creative process begins with the cultivation of curiosity and includesproblem and opportunity identification, ideation, taking initiative to build and test an idea, andimplementation, and there are a multitude of specific techniques that can be utilized in each ofthese phases. Existing creativity techniques and tools assist individuals

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Thornton, University of Maryland-College Park; Anik Singal, Affiliate Classroom, Inc.; David Barbe, University of Maryland-College Park; James Green, University of Maryland-College Park

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, D.F., and Thornton, K. S. (2002, June). Components of a comprehensive engineering entrepreneurship program. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Canada.Barbe, D.F., and Thornton, K.S. (2001, June). Campus entrepreneurship opportunities. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Albuquerque, NM.Barkman, R.. (1994). Entrepreneurial characteristics and the size of the new firm: a model and an econometric test. Small Business Economics, No. 6: 117–125.Baron, R. (1998). Cognitive mechanisms in entrepreneurship: Why and when entrepreneurs think differently than other people. Journal of Business Venturing, Vol

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

 interdisciplinary  goal  of  developing  professional  identities  as  both  educators  and  engineers.  As  the  majority  of  the  future  professoriate,  engineering  graduate  students  should  be  reflective  practitioners  who  can  leverage  scholarly  teaching  approaches  to  contribute  to  the  cycle  of  experience,  learning  and  practice.      ePortfolios  are  digital  collections  of  work  that  are  tied  together  by  reflective  text.  In  various  fields,  ePortfolios  are  used  extensively  to  enact  meta-­‐cognitive  practices  of  learning  development,  professional  career  preparation,  and  program  assessment.  This  project  takes  these  uses  to  a  new  level  by  exploring  how  ePortfolios  can  be  used  to  integrate

Collection

2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Shauna A. Morimoto; Anna M. Zajicek; Valerie H. Hunt; Joseph J. Rencis

national average, 2001–2009.In terms of the net gain in women graduates, with the exception of Michigan, all of theADVANCE schools showed improvement, with the University of Washington, UC Irvine,Wisconsin, and NMSU showing particularly impressive increases in the percentage of doctoratesawarded to women. With respect to overall performance, NMSU’s small program (fewer than20 students overall) went from graduating no women in 2001, to having 37.5% female Ph.D.recipients in 2009. Accordingly, among all ADVANCE schools, not only did NMSU have thegreatest increase in women matriculating, by 2009, they also had the highest percentage ofwomen graduating. Conversely, in 2001, Michigan’s large program had the highest percentageof women graduates (19.6

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

, West Lafayette William (Bill) Oakes is the Director of the EPICS Program and one of the founding faculty members of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has held courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering as well as Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. He is a registered professional engineer and on the NSPE board for Professional Engineers in Higher Education. He has been active in ASEE serving in the FPD, CIP and ERM. He is the past chair of the IN/IL section. He is a fellow of the Teaching Academy and listed in the Book of Great Teachers at Purdue University./ He was the first engineering faculty member to receive the national

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eli Tilevich, Virginia Tech; Simin Hall, Virginia Tech; Peeratham Techapalokul, Virginia Tech

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Software Engineering Division

assessment methods.Mr. Peeratham Techapalokul, Virginia Tech Peeratham Techapalokul is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. His research interests lie on visual programming languages and computer science education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Teaching the Culture of Quality from the Ground Up: Novice-Tailored Quality Improvement for Scratch ProgrammersAbstractAs quality problems plague the modern society’s software infrastructure, a fundamental learningobjective of computing education has become developing students’ attitudes, knowledge, and prac-tices centered around software quality. Teaching

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Pedagogy and Innovation

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Butler Velegol, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

attitude toward the assessment when re-grades are introduced. Page 26.1298.3Methods and MaterialsThis study took place within a large (~80 students) Introduction to Environmental Engineeringclass at Penn State University. The course is taught in a flipped format where students watch aseries of short videos and come to class to review, work on homework problems and take miniclicker quizzes. This course is required for all Civil Engineering students who usually take it intheir third year. However, there are a number of students from other majors who take the courseeither to fulfill a technical elective or because they are obtaining a minor in

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Fuja; Stephen Batill; Jay Brockman

disciplines. This paper describes how these new courses weredeveloped and outlines the learning objectives for the courses. It includes details on theimplementation of the courses and the four projects that are central to these two courses. Thepaper details the ongoing assessment activities and the progress toward achieving the variousdesired outcomes set-forth for the courses.I. IntroductionIn 1998, the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame embarked on an intensiveself-study of its undergraduate engineering programs. This was done in response to thechallenges and opportunities resulting from ongoing changes in both engineering education andthe engineering profession. This self-assessment led to a strategic plan that identified those