Conference Session

Statics and Dynamics Topics

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen Muller-Karger, Florida International University

program that displaychallenges facing our students. The diverse population in our classrooms demands a broaderspectrum in instructional approaches. This project focuses on creating assorted resources toengage all students regardless of background in different ways of learning to create a solid baseunderstanding of the material and increase success in future courses as well as in the students'future engineering careers. Our approaches include a granular course structure, differentinstructional technologies, support of learning assistants in the classroom, tutoring outside theclassroom, and different forms of assessment and accessibility. The author has used mixedqualitative and quantitative approaches to measure the success of the statics and

Conference Session

Focus on the First Year

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angel Ari Perez-Mejia, Quinnipiac University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

strategies.Objectives and HypothesisTo address the lack of interest engineering students in the general education curriculum and toreinforce ABET student outcomes by leveraging the large amount of credits invested in thegeneral education curriculum, an introductory course to Civil Engineering inspired on the workat Seattle Pacific University[13] was created. This course was designed to meet the goals ofgeneral education and to serve as both a first-year introductory course to the major as well as ageneral education course for non-engineering students. This course was developed and taught ina small engineering program in a medium sized college traditionally centered around the liberalarts. The class has three aims: 1.) to introduce students to the work and

Collection

2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Peter Mark Jansson

devising methods for modifying,improving and optimizing an experimental device and protocol and determining for oneself thenext appropriate steps in continuing the progress of the research program is a significant shift.The impacts of this summer research experience seem to have been far greater than producingsome very important and significant scientific results.ConclusionsThe tools in the toolkit employed by scientific discovery are many. The roles engineers will playin developing and using those tools in both big scientific endeavors (such as LIGO) and smallscience experiments (like those described here) will be diverse and significant. A recent article inin the Harvard Business Review describes the dominance of large research teams in how

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tracy Thatcher, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

principles of environmental engineering intoother aspects of engineering practice. The activity worksheets are designed not only to guide thelearning process, but also to provide an assessment of learning outcomes. Grades were assignedfor completeness and effort, but not for correctness, with the intention of promoting the exerciseas a learning process. These grades counted for about 10% of the final grade. The impact of thisenhanced program is analyzed by comparing concept understanding between students taking thecourse before and after the changes and via survey results. Student understanding is alsoassessed by more traditional methods, such as homework and exam problems. This is the firstcourse in our department to incorporate this teaching

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven H. Billis, New York Institute of Technology; Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology; Marta A Panero, New York Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

International

competence has inspired a large number ofassessment instruments. These instruments generally address a variety of needs includingoutcomes assessment and program evaluation.The survey questions in Table 1 below were generated from our examination of the list of some ofthe most frequently used assessment tools7,8,9,10, and were administered during the first week ofthe semester as a pretest and were intended to measure their global competency with respect to: 1. tolerance of ambiguity, 2. behavioral flexibility, 3. respect for otherness and 4. capacity for empathy. The same survey was administered at the end of the semester. Table 1: Global Competency Self-evaluation 0

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benedict M. Uzochukwu, Virginia State University; Coray Davis, Virginia State University ; Ben U. Nwoke, Virginia State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

government has taken a leadingrole in promoting entrepreneurship education. This development has been largely driven by thegovernment’s desire to address the structural unemployment of university graduates, a problemwhich has arisen from mass higher education (Zhou and Xu, 2012) One of the noticeable trends in universities and colleges is the growth of entrepreneurshipeducation programs. A big challenge is how to sustain these initiatives. For example,entrepreneurship programs in the engineering schools and colleges may be constrained by physicalspace to design and build project prototypes. Assuming the spaces are available, the need to freeup existing tools and technologies in ways that students can use them more flexibly on

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valerie Young, Ohio University-Athens

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

article in ASEE’s Prism magazine (Loftus, 2005) featuredretention-enhancement programs at a number of universities, and quoted a national average of52% of engineering freshmen eventually graduating with engineering degrees. The article’smessage was that this was an improvement over the prior decade, but still unsatisfactory.Various authors have reported assessments of the effectiveness of individual retention programs.For example, Baxter and Yates (2008) report an increase in retention of engineering freshmen atthe University of Southern California following centralization of freshman advising in theengineering Student Affairs office and implementation of a freshman seminar course forengineers. Morning and Fleming (1994) report on higher-than

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin; Charles James Larkin, Trinity College Dublin; Shaen Corbet, Dublin City University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

are faced. It has been argued that this difficulty arises from the fact that college courses focus on embedding knowledge which is assessed by narrowly designed questions. An alternative which is said to get over this difficulty is the cooperative course. One or two institutions have set out to design problem based cooperative courses with the purpose of better integrating the needs of industry and academia. However, the perception of such a gap continues to present serious issues for both academia and industry in that some large organizations are now proposing to establish their own universities, and in one or two instances, as for example Dyson in England, are now taking students. Given that the values of industry and universities differ

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) - ASCE Collaborations

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carly Woelfel, United States Military Academy; Brett Rocha P.E., United States Military Academy; Kevin Francis McMullen, United States Military Academy; Kevin Taylor Scruggs, United States Military Academy; Talal Salem, United States Military Academy; Aaron T Hill Jr. P.E., United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

civilengineering programs is individually assessing each student’s performance for each outcome.Typically, the students’ performance in their senior capstone project is a primary metric. Thisproject details the multiyear evolution of offering the ASCE Concrete Canoe andASCE/American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Steel Bridge Competitions as seniorcapstone experience to individually assess student outcomes. This paper aims to summarize theadvantages of using the student competitions as senior capstone design projects as previousresearch has shown. It specifically outlines the organization and assignments used to assess bothindividual and group performance. It will detail how instructors can use various aspects of thestudent competitions to assess

Conference Session

Green and Sustainable Manufacturing Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Aditya Akundi, University of Texas, El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Arturo Olivarez Jr., University of Texas, El Paso; Eric D. Smith, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

. His tremendous re- search experience in manufacturing includes environmentally conscious manufacturing, Internet based robotics, and Web based quality. In the past years, he has been involved in sustainable manufacturing for maximizing energy and material recovery while minimizing environmental impact.Dr. Arturo Olivarez Jr., University of Texas, El Paso Arturo Oliv´arez, Jr., Professor. He is a professor of educational research with emphasis on quantitative methods and the application of univariate and multivariate statistics, measurement issues across diverse populations, educational assessment, and evaluation of educational programs. He holds the Patricia Daw Yetter Professorship in quantitative methodology and

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Shepard, University of St. Thomas

-learning, communication, collaboration and ethics education. With aclear motivation for increasing engineering student empathic thinking and a multitude ofcontexts where its inclusion in the curriculum would be appropriate it is a wonder that the topicis not identified more broadly as something undergraduate programs might advocate.This paper presents the details from a small empathy lesson and assignment that was delivered tofirst-year students and senior students in an undergraduate engineering program. The lesson wasfocused on the need for mode-switching and practicing empathic responses in an engineeringcontext. The impact of the lesson and assignment were assessed using a survey and analysis ofstudent responses in the assignment.Study

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Najwa Hanel, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

International

dispersed each year for financial aid and scholarships. A large proportion ofthis comes from the US. A large number of donations come from alumni, corporatesponsors, and foundations. Page 13.520.7Khaled Noubani, the Engineering Librarian, just graduated with a master’s degree inLibrary & Information Science from Indiana University. Upon his return to AUB this pastsummer, he appealed for additional funding in support of resuming the Ph.D. program incertain engineering areas. In a recent email communiqué, Mr. Noubani transmitted to methe following information regarding the new Ph.D. programs, which have been resumed: Ph. D. in Civil Engineering

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Reza Fazel-Rezai; Sima Noghanian; Ahmed Rabbi

camp was to introduce basic math and engineeringconcepts through MATLAB programming and hands-on experiences to high schoolstudents. This camp was meant to be a good introduction to engineering and a tool forrecruiting students to the engineering programs. Activities such as MAT-ME can helpstudents to expand their understanding of math to its applications. Such a program hasbeen introduced in other states such as a program at Georgia Institute of Technology andthe Infinity Project sponsored by different US universities and high schools. This campwas a small step towards establishing a set of courses promoting math and engineeringamong high school students in the state of North Dakota.The objectives of the MAT-ME camp were to: a) Expose

Conference Session

Factors Affecting Student Performance

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maddumage Karunaratne, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

based design flow, and how the graphical viewing of the final circuits thatstudents designed at a higher textual level excited and incentivized students in the undergraduateEET program at this university.Part I: introduction:Until recent years, if not still, student assignments in digital design courses at undergraduate levelconsisted primarily of paper designs, or at best such as in senior design projects they were a large Page 22.511.2morass of SSI and MSI (Small and Medium Scale Integration) silicon devices plugged on to circuitwiring (bread) boards. A higher percentage of time and effort were devoted on debugging theconnections and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); M. Eric Carr, Drexel University; Justin Bryan Gillander; Joshua C. Newton; Kelly R. Reid

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

blood. They provide fast, easily-interpreted test resultsin a low-cost format and do not require highly skilled operators. This technology is expected to play aprominent role in future healthcare, especially in resource-limited regions of the developing world.We believe point of care diagnostics devices are excellent topics for student projects. The projectsinvolve microfluidics, cell phone applications, image processing, optics, CAD/CAM and rapid prototyping,microcontrollers, sensors, C programming, instrumentation and process control, product development;and give engineering students exposure to important medical and biotechnology applications. Forexample, students have designed, constructed, and validated portable devices to test for viruses

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget Ogwezi, Ansys Inc.; Kaitlin Tyler, Ph.D., Ansys, Inc.; Navid Manai; Christopher Lee Penny

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

resolution.Additional SupportThere are other ways through which we try to support student teams in their design process.Some of our regional partners organize and deliver day-long in-person training workshops forattending student teams, where they create a friendly (pizza and barbecue served) butcompetitive (awarding small prizes to winners of small competitions on the day) environment toincentivize teams to improve their simulation capabilities. And, finally, on a case-by-case basis,Ansys application engineers can also be available to provide technical guidance to individualteams.Future Support PlansAs with all programs, we are continually looking for ways to expand our student team support.One such example of our support is the ongoing efforts to develop

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Morteza Nagahi, Mississippi State University; Raed Jaradat, Mississippi State University; Samaneh Davarzani, Mississippi State University; Mohammad Nagahisarchoghaei, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Simon R. Goerger, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

have consistent prediction accuracy results, which shows the validity and reliability of classification results. Additionally, the prediction accuracy results of SGPA classification were greater than the CGPA classification. The relatively small sample size is one of the study limitations. To enhance the study results, in the future, more emphasis should be placed on gathering a large sample size. In this study, we believe that small sample size is relatively normal in pilot testing studies. Future studies can focus on including participants from various majors of engineering studies and delve into how other factors, such as the Big five personality instrument, motivation, self-efficacy, time management

Conference Session

Reassessing Your Teaching Through Turmoil

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Charles Riley P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Sharon L. Beaudry, Oregon Institute of Technology; Jesse M. Kinder, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Engineering Education, 2021 Evolution of a Traditional Classroom Teaching Workshop to Support Remote and Online DeliveryAbstractMost of the published best practices in teaching are independent of the mode of instruction;however remote instruction, whether asynchronous or synchronous, and in-person instructionhave long employed their own unique professional development activities. The ASCE ExCEEdteaching model has been used as the basis for an in-person teaching workshop that has beendelivered annually for five years at a small public polytechnic university. As the coronaviruspandemic hit in spring 2020, the workshop coordinators redesigned the institutional workshop tosupport best practices in remote delivery and

Collection

2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Matthew Levi Giles, University of Southern California; Joy Uehara, University of Southern California; Haylee Mota, University of Southern California; Emma Katharine Singer, USC Viterbi School of Engineering; Matthew R Gilpin, University of Southern California; Akshay Potnuru; Jessica Aftosmis, University of Southern California

areexpected to implement the technical skills they developed in the previous semester to integratehardware and software and create automated experimental platforms. The core equipment used forthese experiments remains largely the same as the first semester, and accessibility techniquespreviously applied may be carried over. However, the mechatronics portion of the coursecurriculum relies on National Instruments LabView software and National Instruments hardware.Students write programs in NI LabView that send and receive digital and analog signals to a varietyof sensors and actuators. NI LabView is inherently a visual programming language without anaccessible command-line option. Thus, an alternative control method is necessary to adapt theexisting

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Crowe; Kris Wood; Richard Crawford; Daniel Jensen

laboratory portions received highratings, the laboratories ratings were somewhat higher than those for the instruction. Althoughthe differences in responses seem relatively minor (3.86 for the instruction and 3.92 for thelaboratory) due to the large number of data points (>2000) and the small standard deviations, Page 10.165.2these differences in ranking lead to significant percentile ranking for these two different contentareas. These percentile rankings assume a Gaussian distribution of the data. The average “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kurt McMullin; Thalia Anagnos; Jan Hustler; Nancy Thomas

led by trained K-8 professional developers in partnership with engineering faculty from theInstitution of Higher Education partner. While working with the K-8 teachers, engineeringfaculty members also enhanced their pedagogical methods. Positive changes in teaching ofengineering courses by the university faculty members were observed, including increasedstudent-led inquiry, use of pre-assessment techniques, student-learning assessment, enhancedstudent probing, development of a university study-group to explore teaching of experimentaldesign, and development of pedagogical content knowledge for basic engineering courses.Findings include identifying key elements of successful professional development programs,examples of the enhanced teaching

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 9 - Design Across the Curriculum

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Rennick, University of Waterloo; Michael Lenover, University of Waterloo; Eugene Li, University of Waterloo; Sanjeev Bedi, University of Waterloo

student, forgiving of inexperience, and provide opportunities for the student to make important contributions within the organization. Sufficient resources (equipment, space, supervision, team members) and a role which matches the student’s capabilities are necessary for a positive experience 3. Assessment – Assessment of learning outcomes which relate to relevant workplace skills and attributes are present 4. Reflection – Quality WIL programs support critical self-reflective practices for each experienceThe work environment for coop students in the Ideas Clinic aligns well with these fourcharacteristics. The coop students are developing academic activities for their fellow students.This ensures that the work is

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hillary Hart, University of Texas-Austin; Christy Moore, University of Texas-Austin

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Science Foundation(NSF), web-based educational materials that prepare graduate students for the ethical issues theywill encounter as academic and professional researchers. This paper describes the first stage ofthis project:1. assessing the need for graduate education in research ethics2. determining the appropriate issues to address and pedagogical techniques to employ inteaching graduate rather than undergraduate students.Gathering the data to proceed with this project entailed reviewing the literature on teachinggraduate engineering research ethics (especially our four focus topics), working with our multi-disciplinary team to identify appropriate issues and pedagogical techniques for graduate students,and reviewing the assessment we performed

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vivian Chang; Sonya Havens; Kathryn Clifton; John Lendvay; Eliot Metzger

protocols necessary to conduct a detailedwater quality assessment of the slough. The students examine the impact of sewage treatmentplant outflow, good urban water quality practices, and sources of impervious surface runoff.Additionally, the students take part in enrichment programs and a local wildlife census. Datafrom this water quality assessment and wildlife census will be incorporated into a community-wide effort to influence redevelopment decisions to minimize environmental impacts. Throughthe community-involved environmental assessment, this project will lay a foundation forcommunity empowerment so that decisions regarding future redevelopment projects will bescientifically sound and informed.Background:Yosemite Slough (Yosemite Watershed

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Gafar Abbas Elamin P.E., The Citadel; Nathan John Washuta P.E., The Citadel; James Righter, The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel

Capstone ProjectAbstractIn undergraduate engineering programs, ABET criteria requires a capstone or integratingexperience to allow students to develop competencies in technical and non-technical problemsolving. These capstone experiences typically take the form of a year-long or semester-longproject that requires a group of senior students to work as a team to identify, define, design,prototype, and test their final product to solve an engineering problem. Ideally the students onthese teams contribute fairly and equitably to the project so that each individual can develop theirskills, but it is not unusual to see students on the team who do not contribute their fair share.Often, graded assessments in these capstone courses are team submissions and

Conference Session

ERM: Problem Solving and Conceptual Understanding

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Aaron Johnson, University of Michigan; Max Magee; Melissa Caserto, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

inGainsburg’s work but similar thoughts at the level of a novice or beginning designer [16]. Wealso marked utterances with descriptive notes about the judgment the student was participatingin. When researchers coding the data disagreed with how to characterize an utterance, we met todiscuss and come to a consensus. This process led to a number of new codes. We groupedutterances with similar notes creating categories and subcategories. To reach saturation in theframework we made iterative passes through the data with the constant comparative procedure,where we continually checked data against the emerging theory and modified the theory.Our final PBJ Framework (Table 1) is based on a data set that includes a large public university,a small private

Conference Session

ECCD Technical Session 5: Energy and Wind and Design

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michael F. MacCarthy, Mercer University; Michelle E. Graham, Mercer University; Gabriel Xavier Ramirez, Mercer University; Alviez Aziz Chagan, Mercer University; Kyla T. Semmendinger, Cornell University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #29986Sustainable Low-Cost Household Energy Systems: Solar Photovoltaic andShallow Geothermal SystemsDr. Michael F MacCarthy, Mercer University Michael MacCarthy is an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Civil Engineering at Mercer Univer- sity, where he directs the Engineering for Development program (e4d.mercer.edu). He has 20+ years of experience in water resources engineering, international development, and project management, including nearly a decade living and working in less-developed countries (as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon, an infrastructure and community development engineer in the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Trethewey; John Gardner; Thomas Litzinger

State, Dr. Trethewey completed his Ph. D. in MechanicalEngineering at Michigan Technological University.JOHN GARDNERJohn Gardner is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boise State University, where he has been on the facultysince Fall of 2000. Prior to joining Boise State, he was on the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Penn State from1987 until Spring of 2000. At Penn State, he was the Professor in Charge of the Mechanical Engineeringundergraduate program and led departmental efforts to put in place assessment and improvement processes. He wasinvolved in creation of several innovative first-year seminars including one on Toy Engineering. Prior to joiningPenn State, Dr. Gardner completed his Ph.D. studies at the Ohio State University

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Scott Gerald Shall, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

projects, and to create new ones.IMAGE 02: In extra-legal settlements acts of design, construction and occupation are notcompleted in a carefully-choreographed and largely segmented design and construction process,but in fluid manner wherein the work gradually achieves massive scale due to the propagation ofmany small, tested efforts over years – a situation quite foreign to the professionals legallycharged with the development of built environments. (Image courtesy of the International DesignClinic)Part 01 _On the difference between top-down, patronage-based patterns of professionalpractice and the practices found within extra-legal settlementsIn order to execute this work, within the strict confines of the given conditions outlined earlier,the

Conference Session

Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Santarelli, Cal State Fresno

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, Page 15.381.3 Engineering students need to be better trained in entrepreneurship and innovation management, to expand their vision of career opportunities, to introduce non-technical skills needed and to enhance their performance in small, focused companies. For instance, engineers are expected to have a broader range of skills, a greater sense of teamwork, more eclectic interests, and an awareness of information from sources outside of their field of interest.The Problem and the Purpose of the Assessment The problem that this study addresses is that there is a lack of affiliation with and informationfrom industry and the communities related to the public university engineering programs. Thepurpose of this study was to