Conference Session

Sustainability & Environmental Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Richter, Virginia Tech; Sean McGinnis, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

sentences why product design is a critical phase in the life cycle of a product Page 12.263.17ENGR 3134 – Environmental Life Cycle Analysis2007 Pre-Class Survey:1. Why you are taking this class? (check all that apply) [] required for the Green Engineering concentration [] fulfills an Engineering Science elective [] co-op/internship revealed industry movement towards Green Engineering [] interest in the course from the course description [] concern about the environment and/or environmental issues [] possibly pursuing Green Engineering in/as a career [] foresee value beyond graduation [] résumé builder

Conference Session

Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession and ASCE II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Decker B. Hains, Western Michigan University; Michael O'Connor P.E., New York University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

knowledge framework, specifically, ASCE’s Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge(BOK) as it undergoes revision for a Third Edition in 2018.The roots of this change go back into the last century when ASCE organized the Task Committeefor the First Professional Degree in 1999 and instructed it to develop an implementation strategyfor ASCE's new vision and policy. [12] It had identified the fundamental issue as the increasinginadequacy of the four year bachelor's degree as "formal academic preparation for the practice ofcivil engineering at the professional level in the 21st century." [12]The Task Committee for the First Professional Degree report cited examples of this wereinadequate communication skills, inability to manage projects profitably and

Conference Session

Sustainability & Environmental Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger Hadgraft, The University of Melbourne; Jenni Goricanec, RMIT University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2007-1561: ENGINEERING SUSTAINABILITY?!Roger Hadgraft, The University of Melbourne ROGER HADGRAFT is Director of the Engineering Learning Unit in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He has been working on problem-based learning issues since 1991 and has implemented significant curriculum change using project-based learning at both Monash and RMIT Universities. He is a civil engineer with interests in hydrologic modelling, knowledge management and engineering education. He has recently moved to the University of Melbourne to assist in the implementation of the Melbourne Model.Jenni Goricanec, RMIT University Jenni Goricanec has 25+ years of experience in

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyler Cummings-Bond; Robin Adams

education community is well aware of the challenges of such a pursuit1. Ofmajor concern are hiring, tenure, and promotion policies for the collection of graduate students,post-doctoral students and tenure-track faculty who are actively contributing to the scholarship ofengineering education.A critical element in the design of the Institutes is identifying the challenges and necessaryresources for supporting future leaders in engineering education. There is a broad research baseto draw from on faculty issues in higher education [1] and a growing number of studies on thecareer paths of Ph.D.’s [2]. As an example, there is a special issue of New Directions forInstitutional Research devoted to issues of evaluating faculty performance and the promotion

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Allen; Teri Reed Rhoads; Teri Murphy; Andrea Stone

the question’s alpha-if-deleted is only slightly above the overall alpha (i.e., onlyslightly bad), it is one of just 8 of 32 questions to be unreliable by this measure. Thediscriminatory index was 0.30, which falls between the low and high ranges.Aside from choice C (chosen by 2% of respondents), the answer distribution is indicative ofguessing (36% A, 28% B, 35% D). The question fits only loosely into the AP Statistics category“Exploring Data” and the faculty survey category “Methods of Displaying Data.” This impliesthat the question does not conform to content validity. This item was not discussed in focusgroups because the above considerations had already rendered it inappropriate.Major Revisions – Totally new question under the same

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technolog Programs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian R. King, Bucknell University; Ashwin Satyanarayana, New York City College of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

. Recent studies have noted the rise of data mining as acareer path with increasing opportunities for graduates. These opportunities are not onlyavailable in the private sector; the U.S. government has recently invested $200 million in “bigdata” research. These suggest the importance for us to teach the tools and techniques that areused in this field.Data mining introduces new challenges for faculty in universities who teach courses in this area.Some of these challenges include: providing access to large real world data for students,selection of tools and languages used to learn data mining tasks, and reducing the vast pool oftopics in data mining to those that are critical for success in a one-semester undergraduatecourse.In this paper, we

Conference Session

Sustainability & Environmental Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Gaughran, University of Limerick; Stephen Burke, University of Limerick; Sonya Quinn, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

programme in the University of Limerick and is a consultant tutor in the technology learning centre. Page 12.685.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Environmental Sustainability in Undergraduate Engineering EducationAbstractThere is hardly any industry sector in which the management of environmental sustainabilityis not of significant relevance. It is unfortunate that engineering and cognate areas ofeducation has, for the most part ignored these vital issues. It is therefore, essential that allfacets of engineering, design and manufacturing education take action on environmentalsustainability concerns through

Conference Session

Current Environmental Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ishrat Mirzana; Ali Ansari

city of five million have resulted in a concrete jungle of overheated homes andsuffocating interiors. Trees have been cut down to make space for building construction andresidents of the town squeezed into closely spaced rectangular boxes of brick and concrete, cut-off from nature and isolated from their human surroundings. Physically and psychologically, thequality of life has suffered. Since our region lies in a temperate zone with day temperatures in thehigh 30’s to around 40C a good part of the year, people who have air-conditioners use them quiteheavily, causing considerable electrical load. Other people experience much thermal discomfortand tend to live with it.These observation led us to think on new lines concerning “climate responsive

Conference Session

Issues of Diversity

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fonda Swimmer, Northern Arizona University; Karen Jarratt-Ziemski, Ft. Lewis College

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

STEM disciplines. Her other interests include, Native American Self-Determination, Native Peoples, and Native Americans and Higher Education. Ms. Swimmer is a member of the Navajo Nation.Karen Jarratt-Ziemski, Ft. Lewis College Karen Jarratt-Ziemski received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Arizona University. She is currently a visiting faculty member of the American Indian Studies Program at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Dr. Jarratt-Ziemski is also the advisor to the Fort Lewis Chapter of AISES, and writes and works on many American Indian issues, including American Indian Self-Determination and Environmental Justice and Native Peoples. Dr. Jarratt-Ziemski is also

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Houdeshell

activities inorder to reflect macrocontexts found in their own learning communities. While the instructionalsystem design model/template specifies the task complexity through the specified competencies,it currently does not provide guidelines for the problem abstractness or problem structuredness.A second issue is that the instructional design does not provide for a specific scaffoldingtechnique to enhance the transfer of the student’s problem solving skills to a new context. Inorder to improve the quality of the NCME instructional materials and to aid in the adoption ofthe materials by potential customers, these questions and concerns were addressed in the study.Purpose of the StudyThis research investigation answers the primary question: What

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey

Session 2630 A Theoretical Model of the Engineering Education Culture: A Tool for Change Elizabeth Godfrey The University of AucklandIntroductionThe call for “a culture change in engineering education, ultimately to extend throughout theprofession” in the Australian Review of Engineering Education: Changing the Culture1 threw aspotlight not only on the need for change but the need for change in the culture. Inrecommending a “more outward looking culture attuned to the real concerns of communities”,better communication skills, and

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary A. Nelson; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

distracters. These new distracters will appear in questions where a highpercentage of students chose the correct answer or will replace distracters which werechosen by virtually no one during the alpha testing. In addition, we are including twonew questions for each concept and plan to conduct rigorous statistical analysis(described below) once we have completed the beta testing. The new questions havebeen reviewed by a focus group of five students and revised to eliminate concerns raisedby the group.Our analysis of results of the Fall 2003 alpha testing yielded the following preliminaryconclusions:1. Testing overall scores by group, we found: A. by gender, there was no significant difference. B. by major, the chemical engineering

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Eliot; Angela Linse; Jennifer Turns

continuallycharting new territory as it seeks to optimize student learning in these changing times. Ourpreliminary attempts have been focused on grounding our research in the explicit concerns ofengineering educators and instructional developers.Currently we are holding informal, semi-structured discussions with CELT’s instructionaldeveloper. These discussions have concentrated on the themes that reappear in her work withengineering faculty. These themes are quickly becoming a lens by which we will be able to narrowour field of inquiry. We are also beginning to differentiate levels of engineering faculty concerns,including concerns about the institutional context (how engineering educators can best interactwith their administration and staff), the classroom

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

students can tackle open-ended problems proficiently.Much faculty effort is devoted to improving student skills in this area. The basic process modelused for these kinds of problems starts with identification of need, then goes through informationgathering, idea generation, evaluation and selection steps—in other words, a basic design processmodel. Our three-year study of student design processes suggests that the general model forengineering problem-solving may require some tweaking to make it a more effective model forengineering students.Over the decades, numerous models have been proposed to describe “the engineering designprocess.” However, few of these have been empirically validated or experimentally verified.Most have been developed

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mara Wasburn

Changing the Continuing Chilly Campus Climate for Faculty Women: Recommendations Based on a Case Study Mara H. Wasburn Purdue UniversityAbstractA vast body of research conducted in the 1970’s and 1980’s documented a host of problemsconfronted by women faculty at colleges and universities nationwide: their small number, a“chilly campus climate,” low salaries, slow progress toward promotion and tenure, little power orinfluence, and a number of worklife issues. Subsequently, many institutions established policiesto address these inequities. This qualitative case study compares the concerns expressed in 1988by women faculty at “Sycamore

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Yellamaraju; Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

well suited for repetitive processes and for numericcalculations, computer-based games focused on specific calculation processes offer greatpotential as a new (or perhaps updated) type of learning tool for engineering mechanics courses.Therefore, a number of interactive games were developed as part of this project [17], and threeexperiments were conducted to examine the impact of this software within the context ofongoing classes. Two specific game modules, The Centroids Game – Learning the Ropes andThe Moment of Inertia Game – Starting from Square One, were evaluated.6.2 Experimental ProceduresIn the 2002 academic year, the effectiveness of two games as teaching tools was assessed withtwo undergraduate Statics classes at UMR. In lieu of

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida; Thuriya Rajkumar, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

the result of new technical or resource challenges discovered by the project team, due toa mismatch between the team's skill set and the refined project goals, an underestimated originalproject scope, or other reasons.Regardless of the root cause, your concern should be addressed as soon as possible with theproject's faculty coach. The Preliminary Design Review, held in mid October, is an excellentopportunity to change the project scope--after this review it is generally only possible to narrowthe scope.How do I get to learn more about the individuals on my project team?Prior to the first visit to your facility, it is recommended that you and the student project teamexchange brief biographical sketches. You may also request resumes. You may

Conference Session

Bridging Content and Context in the Classroom

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University; Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University; Paul Taele, Texas A&M University; Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University; Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University; Christine A. Stanley, Texas A&M University; Seth Polsley, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

about discussing such issues in the classroom, feeling ill-equipped to discuss it at all orunsure of how effective they would be in a virtual classroom. They were not against thediscussion inherently but were instead anxious about their abilities and impact on the students.Many of the faculty voiced their desire to create inclusive classrooms and a desire to support thestudents in these anxiety-inducing times, but their concerns of mishandling these issuesoverpowered this goal.We also performed Chi-Square (χ2) analysis on aligned categories that arose from the groundedtheory. We found that students were more interested in having such topics discussed in theclassroom than expected and that faculty are highly aware of their impact on the students

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

for goodteachers needed. Faculty stress was ranked fourth which clearly demonstrates that the topadministration recognized this fact and provide remedies toward reducing faculty stress. It seemsthat the SUCCEED group of the NSF and other organization concerned with the new curriculafocus on these issues in conjunction with future curriculum renewal. It seems that these issuesare linked in the successful implementation of future curricula. References 1) Coleman, Robert J., “The Engineering Education Coalition, the Promise, Programs, Accomplishments, and Problems of a Wide-Scale Effort to Reform Engineering Education.” American Society For engineering Education (ASEE), PRIM

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan Rinehart, Rice University; Sherry Woods, University of Texas at Austin; Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

mentoring relationships.Bringing together a large group of female attendees also helped to develop a network of peers,many of whom share similar concerns. The large number of female faculty presenters offered anintroduction to women who had negotiated these issues in their own careers. The participation ofmale faculty expanded the mentoring network and demonstrated broad-based support fordiversifying the academic ranks. Several other institutions have recently hosted workshops withsimilar goals, including the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Virginia Tech, andGeorge Washington University.The workshop planners did not anticipate the extent to which planning and executing the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Chesler; Leslyn Hall; Mark Chesler

theaterexercises built and strengthened a caring community for the participants, helped the participantsrecognize shared struggles and concerns, and had obvious immediate and potential longer-termpositive impacts on participants. Thus, participatory theater may be a novel and useful strategyfor women in engineering to discuss personal and professional concerns, find community supportaround and develop new ways of working through those concerns.I. IntroductionIn 2001, 17.5% of assistant professors, 11.1% of associate professors and 4.4% of full professorsin engineering disciplines were women [1]. Despite much progress toward provisions for equalopportunities for women, subtleties such as cognitive differences that affect professional choices,socialization

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

as well as a technical education.The Colorado School of Mines (CSM) Engineering Division with funding from the HewlettFoundation has undertaken a new initiative that will prepare engineering students for careers thatwill benefit the international community. Specifically, the Engineering Division is collaboratingwith the Liberal Arts and International Studies Division at CSM to create courses that will helpengineering students to understand their obligations as engineers to the well-being of the U.S.and other societies. One of the primary goals of this effort is to create a culture of acceptance andvalue of community and international service activities throughout CSM faculty and students.The efforts of the “Humanitarian Engineering” program

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University; Kayleigh Millerick, Texas Tech University; Kay J. Tindle, Texas Tech University; Lesley Cremeans, Texas Tech University; Stephanie J. Jones, Texas Tech University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

become allies. An alternativeapproach to advocating for STEM faculty diversity may be achieved by connecting to the need toimprove student performance. Leveraging the female stereotype of nurturing, collaborative, fair,caring, etc. to connect to students in the classroom can increasing the student’s self-efficacy.Female faculty stereotypes are directly reflected in the IR Dimension, specifically addressingEffective Motivation and Interpersonal Concern. Lowman’s 2-D Model of Effective Teaching isa new justification for increasing STEM faculty diversity.

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quincy Brown, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lourdes A. Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Michelle Beadle Holder, University of Maryland, College Park; Yarazeth Medina, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

STEMStudies have identified three issues that are significant to the building of a critical mass ofwomen faculty in STEM. The first includes concerns related to recruitment. A second includesthe issue of retention. Finally, studies have examined the factors that may impede or support theadvancement of women faculty in STEM. These three factors are important to consider ininternational collaboration, research and engagement in the field.RecruitmentThe recruitment of females in STEM has been investigated so that we can understand the factorsthat influence career choices and career awareness. If we start with the selection of anundergraduate education in a STEM field, studies show that females are influenced by family,mentors and role models.2, 18

Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Hoffmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Inez Hua, Purdue University; Ernest Blatchley, Purdue University; Loring Nies, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

material, energy, and natural resource constraints, and all have an impact onthe interactions between the human and natural worlds. To help students understand these needs,faculty at Purdue University have begun to incorporate the concept of “normalizedsustainability”: the idea that sustainability concerns are normal engineering design criteria, onthe same level as more traditional constraints, such as cost, reliability, and performance.This approach requires a cross-cutting coverage of sustainability and environmental issues. Theycan not simply be presented in one “specialized” course, but instead need to permeate coursesthroughout the curriculum and at all levels. To facilitate the incorporation of environmental andsustainability concepts into a

Conference Session

Statics and Dynamics in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Maria J. Gerschutz, Trine University; David A. Evenhouse, Purdue University; Nimit Patel, National Science Foundation; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nick Stites, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Craig Zywicki, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David B. Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Charles Morton Krousgrill, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeffrey F. Rhoads, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

come to depend on proved to be inadequate whentransitioning to an entirely new instructional environment.We noted a sense of tension and uncertainty around exams, as mentioned earlier, but also aroundquizzes: “Since I typically do not give quizzes in my courses, I am working through this issue tofind a balance.” (Week 8), again emphasizing the instructor’s concern over assessment. Thisimposition seems to have led to feelings of uncertainty about what areas or aspects of the courseshe had the freedom to modify. However, it should be acknowledged that this lack of autonomymay have been exacerbated by the presence of this research study, as the instructor may have feltadditional pressure to adhere to the Freeform framework in order to avoid

Conference Session

Stakeholder Perspectives on Community Engagement in Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Nathan E. Canney, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

scale]. Lack of courserelevance was particularly a concern for math, engineering, and computer science faculty.The data about what concerns faculty about LTS provides an incentive to develop strategies tohelp faculty address these issues. Therefore, a summit was held to gather advice fromexperienced faculty and staff on how to most effectively design, manage, and assess LTS inengineering. This information should be helpful both to faculty who are considering engagementwith LTS and faculty who currently practice LTS and are interested in improving their programsand/or being more efficient. Page 25.546.4SummitIndividuals with a background

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Salehpour; Vijay Subramanian

up by thecommittee was the selection of students for certain award nominations. Budget concerns andother managerial issues were also discussed here. The other item that was discussed was thesenior design project, its evaluation, presentation dates, extensions asked for, and other issues onthis topic. More details of the senior design project are discussed below.The department of MET requires each senior student to undertake a Senior Design Project beforethey can apply for graduation. These involve the designing of new equipment or a component,and then making the prototype. Each faculty member advised four to five students on theseprojects. One of Mr. Salehpour's students was working on a project sponsored by Proctor &Gamble (P&G

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Assessment and Accreditation: Making the Grade!

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Vallorie Peridier, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgement to draw conclusions. 7. An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.Engineering students who gain genuine facility in the above seven competencies will likely haveimpactful subsequent careers. Consequently a Program’s commitment to systematically fosterstudent attainment in SO 1-7 is a worthy enterprise.2. Create seven SO oversight committees, one for each ABET SO.The foundational component of our Program’s CI regimen is its seven standing SO 1-7 oversightcommittees (SO-1, SO-2,…SO-7). Each committee consists of three or four faculty members,and each committee has oversight responsibility for the SO in its purview

Conference Session

Professional Development and Scholarship

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan, DeVry University; Gene Gloeckner, Colorado State University; George Morgan, Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

project answers the following questions: 1. How do students perceive the importance of faculty commitment to student success, for their learning and success? 2. Are there associations between students’ perception of the importance of faculty commitment to student success [in terms of dedication to students, high expectations of students, being approachable by students, encouraging student accomplishment, and concern for student success] and student’s self- Page 12.1325.2 reported success/learning (expressed in terms of self-reported technical competency, and GPA), as perceived by seniors