Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alhaji Cherif, Cornell University; Gary Fleming, University of Maryland; Siaka Kroma, Cornell University

, pictures, varied font types and evencartoons to illustrate and facilitate explanations. Understanding mathematical and scientific textsdepends on decoding these elements. Most technical texts are either written in NarrativeParadigm (which is similar to a plain writing with little or no symbolic expression) or LabelParadigms (which is structured around labeling each section and/or subsection of the text).2Narrative Paradigm as shown in figure 2A is often seen in upper undergraduate and graduatelevel texts. Prose in Narrative Paradigm is characterized by running in sentences and paragraphs.This narrative paradigm is used to describe a sequence of events. Ideas and concepts inmathematical and scientific registers are written in a natural language

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Sutterer

Session 2615 Integrating Sustainability into Civil Engineering Curricula Michael Robinson, P.E., Kevin Sutterer, P.E. Department of Civil Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyIntroductionAs U.S. civil engineers debate the body of knowledge that should be a part of civil engineeringeducation under American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Policy 4652 or within currentundergraduate curricula, one component not commonly included in current curricula butabsolutely fundamental to our graduates is sustainability. Sustainable development is defined

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan M. Bolton; Scott D. Bergen; James L. Fridley

ecological principles that integrate human society with its naturalenvironment for the benefit of both. In a previous paper we discussed in detail our concept ofecological engineering, its potential scope of application, and a broad outline of an undergraduatecurriculum (Bergen et al., 1997a). In this paper we present a specific curriculum designed as atrack in a proposed natural resources engineering degree program.We believe ecological engineering is a distinct discipline with ecology as its fundamental sciencebase. Students will learn to practice design with an appreciation for the relationship of organisms(including humans) with their environment and the constraints on design imposed by thecomplexity, variability and uncertainty inherent to

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 2

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamal Rojiani

on theInternet is that it is platform and operating system independent - both at the source and the binarylevel. In addition to its platform independent features, Java has several other features that enhanceportability. Unlike C++, in which the sizes of the fundamental data types are implementationdependent, Java specifies the same standard sizes for the fundamental data types regardless ofhardware. Thus, it is not necessary to produce multiple versions of an application. The same code canbe downloaded over the network and executed on any machine that has a Java capable browser. Javaalso has a powerful set of class libraries with provide much of the functionality needed to developapplications. Java applications can be embedded in HTML (web

Conference Session

Laboratories and Computer Simulation in BME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Allen, University of Virginia; Brett Blackman, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

electrical techniques and systems as it applies to biomedical engineering practices; 2. To promote integration of knowledge from biomedical engineering courses in a practical, hands-on laboratory experience. This is done by exposing students to traditional and state-of-the-art equipment and techniques, and by relating concepts in individual and multiple lab modules to those encountered in medical, biomedical science, and engineering disciplines; 3. To introduce students to the process of scientific writing, including reporting of data, data analysis, and relevant discussion based on relevance to the biomedical field. This is conducted through group laboratory reports; and 4. To promote group teamwork and

Collection

15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Atheer Almasri, West Virginia University; Akua B. Oppong-Anane, West Virginia University; Carter Hulcher, West Virginia University; Todd R Hamrick, West Virginia University; Xinyu Zhang, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University

Paper ID #45104Full Paper: The Professional and Technical skills that engineering studentsfind most important for success in their majorDr. Atheer Almasri, West Virginia University Dr. Almasri is currently a teaching assistant professor in the Fundamentals of Engineering Program (FEP) at the Statler College of Engineering, West Virginia University. He has been serving in this position since 2020. Before joining West Virginia University, he worked as an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at Imam University for 10 years. Dr. Almasri holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, as well as master’s and Ph.D

Conference Session

Outreach Projects: Promoting Energy Efficiency and Education in General

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

of IEEE and is a member of ASME, SIAM, ASEE and AGU. He is actively involved in CELT activities and regularly participates and presents at the Lilly Conference. He has been the recipient of several Faculty Learning Community awards. He is also very active in assessment activities and has presented dozens of papers at various Assessment Institutes. His posters in the areas of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Socratic Inquisition have received widespread acclaim from several scholars in the area of Cognitive Science and Educational Methodologies. He has received the Assessment of Critical Thinking Award twice and is currently working towards incorporating writing assignments that enhance students’ critical thinking

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Cindi Mason, Wichita State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

responded and commented on thesereports. Butcher claims the reports call for, ―ingenious leaders — ingenious engineers‖ and callsthese engineers, ―well-rounded Renaissance Engineer[s]‖5. Turns, Atman, et al.,6 use thesereports as a gage of what an engineer needs to know. Dym, et al. present how engineeringeducation is being challenged to require students to consider additional design constraintsrequired as part of a ―new fundamentals‖7. In response to this challenge, the CoE hopes toestablish its leadership in reshaping the undergraduate experience to prepare the engineer of2020: making the educational experience more meaningful to the student and the student moredesirable to local and national industries. As such, the CoE proposes that to fulfill

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd R. Hamrick, West Virginia University; Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University; Kristin Brewster, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

engineering and has postdoctoral training in neural tissue engineering and molecular neurosciences. She teaches freshman engineering courses and supports the outreach and recruiting activities of the college. Her research interests include neural tissue engineering, stem cell research, absorption of air pollutants in human upper airways, attrition and university retention, increasing student awareness and interest in research and engineering, STEM education, and recruitment and retention of women and minorities.Mrs. Kristin Brewster, West Virginia University Kristin Brewster is currently the Curricular Outreach Program Coordinator for the Fundamentals of En- gineering Program in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Argrow

andjunior courses.Introduction The ProActive Philosophy for Teaching and Learning was introduced with the AerospaceCurriculum 2000 (AE 2000), in the fall of 1997. The new curriculum for the Department ofAerospace Engineering Sciences (AES) was reformed in content and a new teaching andlearning paradigm was introduced. Course content reform primarily focused on horizontalintegration of the engineering sciences, hands-on experiments, and design in a teamingenvironment. There is a renewed emphasis on the implicitness of computing andcommunications. The MATLAB programming environment is incorporated into most coursesand writing and presentation skills are emphasized. The Integrated Teaching and LearningLaboratory* (ITLL) made the reforms realizable

Conference Session

Statics and Finite Element Analysis

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah C. Baxter, University of St. Thomas; Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina; Bethany S. Fralick, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

pedagogical technique in engineering and architecture programs untilthe 1990's when, with the accessibility of desktop computing and relatively inexpensivesoftware, computer-aided drawing began to dominate and manual drafting classes disappearedfrom the engineering curriculum. Visualization and analysis can now be done more quickly andaccurately using CAD programs. In addition, CAD addresses a more diverse range of problems,including those in three-dimensions. As a result, returning to hand drawing in order to solvestatics problems is not a choice anyone would make for efficiency.Visualization skills are thought to be fundamental to spatial thinking, as it is used to representand manipulate information, and as it contributes to the reflective

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Feodor Vainstein; Mark Rajai

between computer engineering andabstract mathematics. The existence of such a “bridge” is hard to overestimate. It is especiallyinteresting when engineers present better proofs than those obtained by using traditionalmathematical approach. For instance an identity A Ι ( B Υ C ) = A Ι B Υ A Ι C can be provednaively by Venn’s diagrams or by reasoning like: Let x ∈ A Ι ( B Υ C ) , then… An engineeringapproach would be to write expressions for switching functions for both parts: A ⋅ ( B + C ) andAB + AC and compare their truth tables.Boolean algebras are traditionally taught in courses in Discrete Mathematics1 or Digital Design2.Many years of teaching experience show that switching (Boolean) functions can effectivelyreplace Boolean algebras. This is

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design, Part 1 of 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Hahler, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal S. Corbett, Cyber Innovation Center

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AMES evolved from a variety of reasons. Initial discussion andresearch led the developers to believe that a need for high school students to be fluent in specificmathematic concepts directly connected to engineering and science existed. Beyond the desire toimprove student’s grasp of the material, the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS)necessitated a curriculum that assisted teachers in executing these standards, primarilymathematical ones but also touching on language arts.The curriculum itself contains four major threads: Coordinate Systems; Vectors and Matrices;Fundamentals of Mathematics; and Conic Sections. Within each thread, a variety of units areincluded. For each unit, the outline is as follows: introductory activity/background

Conference Session

SE Tools and Techniques

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane Markstrum, Bucknell University; Gary M. Haggard, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

learningobjectives. The course is structured around the implementation of a visualization tool for use inexplaining and demonstrating fundamental concepts and classical results of graph theory. Possiblegraph theory topics to be included in the tool are search techniques, Euler circuits, and minimalcost spanning trees. Many of the decisions about the project’s design and the topics covered are de-pendent on the students. As a result, the resulting tool can appear quite different from one offeringto the next. The project is intended to be developed by one or more student groups with all groups usingthe same interface for the graphs and visualizations. Strict enforcement of interface usage allowsthe opportunity to teach many design patterns that will aid in

Collection

2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Richard E. Smith

cycle within a centralprocessing unit (CPU). The behavior of a cycle establishes a CPU’s cycle speed, whichis often an important discriminator when selecting a computer. Teaching the concept of aCPU cycle has become more difficult as the course has moved away from simpleprogramming languages, like BASIC, towards problem-solving applications likespreadsheets and desktop databases. SimpleCPU is a macro package that uses aspreadsheet to provide an inside view of CPU operation, and it has been used tointroduce CPU fundamentals in the computer literacy course. The instructor uses thepackage interactively to illustrate CPU operation to the class on a large screen. Studentsuse the package individually to write and trace the execution of their own

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Klegka; Robert Rabb

to communicateorally and in writing, and the highest rating was a 4.27 for understanding the engineer thoughtprocess. The mechanical engineering students rated each category slightly higher. It is at thispoint in the mechanical engineering major’s curriculum that the student is engaged in variouslaboratory courses and has started to take courses in an area of interest (automotive or aeronauticcourses). Their motivation to learn is quite high since the material in ME401 is relevant to theirother courses. Once more, the non-engineering major takes many courses that exercise writingand communication skills. It is understandable that this engineering course emphasized thedesign process and engineering fundamentals rather than communication

Conference Session

Statics and Dynamics in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer E. Holte, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Materials, Dynamics, and Machine Design for the University of St. Thomas, and in 2014 she developed a Math Fundamentals course for the Minnesota Literacy Council which paired immigrant English Language Learners with American-born students struggling with basic math. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Forming Connections between Theory and Real Devices in a General Statics CourseIntroductionMost engineering instructors have witnessed their students’ struggle to connect what they arelearning in their classes to the engineering profession. Comments like “I’ll never use any of thison the job” or “My uncle is an engineer, and he says he’s never once used

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Design TypologyThe use of technology is driving fundamental change in the design process and is creating theneed for a design typology based on the level of automation. This typology is organized along anaxis where at one end design can be completely automated and at the other it cannot (see Figure1). Design that can be completely automated is termed an applied science and defined as aprocess that is linear and causal with a fixed philosophical base that produces a measurable andrepeatable outcome.9 Both design acts create something new.10 An example would be thestructural steel design and detailing process or the design of a hip roof plan; both highlyautomated processes. Design that

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Thompson

ofsatisfaction. As with any educational program, improvements could be made. For example, a sessionof industry representatives focusing on continuous improvement came up with a number ofsuggestions. One was making project management required for all students. Another was tomake sure that fundamental management skills were taught and practice throughout the program.But survey results do not suggest that any change to the program would have a measurable effecton enrollment. Members of the marketing committee also developed a short publication that talked aboutthe benefits of the MSEM for students. This piece has since been used as a model by otherprograms at MSOE. The committee is currently exploring ways to identify employers of

Conference Session

The New ABET CE Criteria - Program Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Brett Borup, Brigham Young University; Jessica Hanson, Brigham Young University; Gabriel Smith, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

such as Blackboard allows efficient evaluation of and communicationwith the students enrolled in the class. It easily allows the department to have differentrequirements for students enrolled in different sections even though they all meet together. Forexample, freshmen can be required to visit with an advisor during their first semester whileseniors may be required to write a paper about their experience in the department.A large portion of the course is managed by elected officers of the department’s student chapterof ASCE, under the direction of the course instructor, who is also the faculty advisor of theASCE student chapter. The six officers are elected by members of the class. All officers serveone year terms. Four officers are elected

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ricco, Gonzaga University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

the word phenomenology.Whereas within our subfield of engineering, authors toss around phenomenology and, of course,phenomenography, as research paradigms primarily influencing coding frameworks, withinclassical philosophy, the two words have radically different meanings and understanding themcan help tease out novel tools and uses for them. To Husserl, phenomenology is the study ofconsciousness divorced from the existence of the objects involved. In other words, consciousnessin Husserl’s philosophy is directed at an object. This of course presents an interesting threat toour field’s current understanding of phenomenology as a research paradigm – imagine how sillyit would be for a qualitative research coding interviews to write in the margins

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehran Massoumi

from the contents of this paper that statictools can be readily integrated into HDL-based courses to complement simulation. LearningPSL and property formulation will structure the verification efforts in that it will promote adiscipline for exhaustive functional coverage. This discipline is equally applicable toformulating simulation test bench models.Property Formulation:The most fundamental difference between the static and dynamic approaches is that the latteruses a set of stimulus input vectors to drive a design and produces a set of corresponding outputvalues. Subsequently, these output values would have to be inspected for expected behavior.Clearly, the completeness of functional coverage is dependent upon the quality and completenessof

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

senior member of IEEE and is a member of ASME, SIAM, ASEE and AGU. He is actively involved in CELT activities and regularly participates and presents at the Lilly Conference. He has been the recipient of several Faculty Learning Community awards. He is also very active in assessment activities and has presented more than a dozen papers at various Assessment Institutes. His posters in the areas of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Socratic Inquisition have received widespread acclaim from several scholars in the area of Cognitive Science and Educational Methodologies. He has received the Assessment of Critical Thinking Award twice and is currently working towards incorporating writing assessments that

Conference Session

Technical Session 4a

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Elizabeth Fife, University of Southern California

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section

research skills that are aligned with the objective to increase understandingof how engineering interacts with societal forces and how to communicate to the multipleaudience that take part in the decision-making, assessment and research, and implementation oftechnological solutions.The use of real world problems in the classroom to underscore societal and ethical concernspredates the NAE Grand Challenges, as many instructors in the past have used specific examplesto excite students and guide them to the social, ethical and legal implications (Etter,1994).Researching and writing about important problems that are at the global level and thus havebroad impact is thought to improve communication skills, understanding of interdisciplinary

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Roy R., Jr. Craig; Edward McConnell

course occurred that was centered around the shift to digital dataacquisition through the use of virtual instruments (VI’s) based on the LabVIEW™ software.1This paper discusses the development of the VI’s used in the course, the laboratory exercisesthat comprise the course, and the improvements in student morale and report-writing skills thathave resulted from the restructuring of the course.1. Introduction Measurements and Instrumentation (M&I) is a 3-hour, required, junior-level course inthe Aerospace Engineering curriculum at The University of Texas at Austin. A confluence ofcircumstances occurred in the early 1990’s that led to a major restructuring of the course: theearly medical retirement of the principal course instructor; the

Conference Session

Broad Perspectives on the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Watson L. Vargas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá; Oscar Alvarez P.E., Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá; Jorge Mario Gomez, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

referencing, and the consultation of resources.Critical discussion and thinking is encouraged during these courses and students write essays onthese different topics.Math and science courses: These courses provide students with a strong foundation in basicareas and provide the necessary background for the engineering courses to be taken later in thecurriculum. These courses constitute the enabling subjects of any curriculum, in the layout byArmstrong 6 in his proposal for a new Chemical Engineering curriculum for the futureEngineering fundamentals courses: This curricular component provides both a strong foundationof scientific and technical knowledge, as well as tools and methods applicable in actualengineering practice. Currently, this component

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 5: Work-in-Progress Part 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gaurav Giri, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Paper ID #39741Work in Progress: Studying Loss of Long-Term Knowledge Retention inChemical Engineering Undergraduate CoursesDr. Gaurav Giri, University of Virginia Prof. Giri has been a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia since 2016, where his research group is focused on studying the fundamental processes behind organic molecule and metal-organic framework thin-film crystallization, and related applications. His current work focuses on the use of MOFs for air filters, separation membranes, and for drug delivery applications, and on the crystallization of pharmaceutical

Conference Session

Best in 5 Minutes: Demonstrating Interactive Teaching Activities

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Timothy Aaron Wood, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering

shootinghoops knows the feeling of the ball leaving their hands only to immediately know that the shothas missed both hoop and backboard. Embarrassment sets in, even as reality is still working outthe implications of a badly missed shot.A strong mental model is not directly teachable. Instructors cannot simply hand the student theirown internal understanding of the world. The instructor can help, with words, equations anddiagrams; but fundamentally, developing a strong mental model and the engineering judgementthat goes with it requires careful observation of the first model, reality [5]. By seeing andconsidering the behavior of the world, daily and continually, the engineering student can becomea competent practicing engineer. Where the engineering

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Julia Ziyatdinova; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Artem Bezrukov, Kazan National Research Technologcal University, Russia

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

their colleagues and subordinates. A general outcome of scientific activities in universities is the submission of papers tohigh-impact international journals. Publications in top scientific journals (all of them arepublished in English) are the main indications of a successful scientist. Native Russianspeaking scientists often have trouble writing in English for journals and conferences becauseof structural differences between the English and Russian languages as described previously.Furthermore many Russians with “unpolished” English” have a strange confidence that thescientific value of their submission will outweigh its linguistic incompetence and a nativespeaker in editorial board will ultimately “polish” it. The goal of this

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

specializations are computerscience, software engineering, networking, and computer engineering. In this curriculum, thestudents matriculate into the CNS department after successfully completing the requirements of30 hours of core courses common to all computer science students. The students continue takingcore courses until the first semester of their junior year, when they begin choosing their electivesfrom different specialization areas.Digital logic design courses are fundamental core requirements in both computer engineering aswell as computer science departments, in which students get their first exposure to hardwaredesign. It is important that the content of such courses reflect the current design styles used inindustry.This paper describes a