Conference Session

Encouraging Students to Think Critically

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebekah Oulton PE, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

California. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Stimulating Critical Thinking in Engineering StudentsIntroductionFostering critical thinking is a goal that is found in almost all university programs at all levels,from outcomes and objectives in individual courses to University learning objectives and missionstatements. However, helping students develop their critical thinking skills can be one of thegreatest challenges instructors face, in any discipline.In engineering instruction, this challenge presents itself clearly when students move beyond theirfundamental classes in math and science to their engineering design classes, where – perhaps forthe first time in their educational

Conference Session

Power Engineering & Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valentina Cecchi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Courtney S Smith-Orr, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Paras Mandal, University of Texas at El Paso; Sukumar Kamalasadan

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

inclusion of the topics of interestdescribed in the previous section, but also on incorporating situative pedagogy strategies in aneffort to help students place topics into context and equip them to grasp effects of the emergingtechnologies. Over the last decade there has been an awareness of the need to incorporate morelearning sciences into engineering education as pointed out by [8]. One of the perspectives that theauthors suggest is situative learning for its meaningful participatory nature [9]. For this work, weaim to encourage students to engage with the field of power and energy in a way that enables themto make connections beyond theory to practical applications of its utilization and impacts withintheir communities. Rather than students

Conference Session

Ethics Instruction in Context: Civil and Construction Engineering and Engineering Technology

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hossein Ataei P.E., Syracuse University; Ossama M. Salem, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

the nation for developing ethical decision-making frameworks and to place an emphasison theories and canons of professional ethics and the stakeholder models in conjunction or oftenbeyond the technical teachings and competency development objectives. This paper presentsfurther the three courses in the Construction Engineering and Management program at SyracuseUniversity where the professional engineering ethics is pursued through their incorporation intothe Civil Engineering curriculum: (1) “CIE 401 – Construction Engineering” – a senior/junior-level core course through which students are introduced to the ethical obligations and principlesin professional engineering practice and learn about unethical issues particularly within thecontext of

Conference Session

Best of Computers in Education Division

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xin Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Adithya Raghavan; Ji Soo Yi, Purdue University; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

first year serves as a starting point of their later research career. Theparticipants attended a 30-minute training session on how to use iKNEER. At the time theyattended the training session, they had finished the first draft of the literature review. After thetraining session, they went back and used iKNEER for revising their own literature review or onany other topics they are interested in.Our data collection and data analysis went through three phases. The first phase happened twoweeks after the training session. We interviewed the first two participants with open-endedquestions on their research interests, what difficulties they have in their research, and how theyhave used iKNEER (see Appendix 1 for interview questions). These two

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine G. Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

welldocumented in recent years. Using industry and academic input, ABET, Inc. firstpublished the “a-k” list of skills a decade ago, outlining the skills that undergraduatesshould attain in order to become effective engineers.4 In similar gestures, otherorganizations and publications emphasized communication, business acumen,interdisciplinary teamwork, creativity, life-long learning, and technical problem solving,and other non-technical skills as keys to career success. The National Academy ofEngineering, in The Engineer of 2020, described just such skills that education shouldemphasize, with a focus on the changing nature of engineering work.5 At theprofessional society level, The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)Corporate Membership

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Barnes; Ian Pashby; Anne Gibbons

technologically, at lower cost and with less inherent risk 3, 4 .Collaboration also provides access to a greater breadth and depth of knowledge andtechnologies than would normally be possible through internal development. For universitiesthe benefits of university-industry collaboration include additional public and privatefunding, opportunities to up-date teaching and case study material and a valuable source ofindustrially relevant as well as academically challenging research projects for researchstudents 5-7.However, these considerable potential benefits are often not realised in practice 3. The majorreason is that collaborations between, often diverse, organisations, need considerablemanagement effort in order to be successful. Given the substantial

Conference Session

New Models for Teaching and Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Morozov, University of Washington; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Cynthia Atman, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

novices offered a greater proportion of factors from thenatural and social frames of reference, versus technical and logistical frames, which indicated arather broad approach the problem. We argue that this may reflect the novices’ relativeinexperience with engineering concepts. While the four experts’ responses differed in terms oftheir representations through a “breadth of problem scoping” coding scheme, two of theresponses echoed a characteristic top-down, breadth-first approach to design. The difference inprotocols presents challenges in comparing expert and novice behavior, and methodologicalissues of collecting less information from a greater number of subjects versus collecting moreinformation from fewer subjects were addressed. Because

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa Larkin, American University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

university requirement, may well be categorized as students in the second tier. It is preciselythese students that one wants to be reach in order to provide them with a wider array of optionsas they move through the academic ladder. While traditional teaching methods can work wellfor some students depending upon their individual learning styles; they can present roadblocks tolearning for others. The active process of writing may provide one mechanism through whichthese barriers to learning can be reduced and possibly even removed. Tobias [19] also indicatesthat writing can serve as a means to help students relieve their anxiety as well as help themunlearn models and techniques that have been shown to be scientifically unsound. This paper

Collection

2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

Daniel Ewert; Ron Ulseth; Bart Johnson; Andrew McNally

planning and development by a smallteam of engineering educators from across the country. This group sought to use the newknowledge on how people learn to empower students to take ownership of their education andgain their knowledge and competencies, with special emphasis on the professional competenciesas they are articulated in ABET a-k and Engineer 2020, in the context of learning engineering bypracticing engineering side-by-side with engineers.Iron Range Engineering is an extension of Itasca Community College Engineering in GrandRapids, Minnesota. The ICC Engineering program, under the direction of Ron Ulseth, reachednational prominence in engineering education through building learning communities, andproviding an outstanding foundation in

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Beverly Woolf; Enid Sichel; Mark Floryan

(CCLI) and REU #1324166. Any opinions, findings, experiments in a senior-level chemical engineering course [6].conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of theauthors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies. They found that the computer-simulated experiments led to Enid K. Sichel is a consulting physicist. (e-mail: better learning for some students, while others got more out ofEnid_Sichel@verizon.net) a traditional lab experiment. The authors caution against using Beverly Park Woolf is a Research Professor in the School of ComputerScience, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 1: Critical Reflections on Teaching and Learning

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna Tonn, Boston College; Brit Shields, University of Pennsylvania; Ryan Hearty, The Johns Hopkins University; Adelheid Voskuhl, University of Pennsylvania

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

they encounter our choices and those of their peers; and that through thisprocess we hope to inform students how to make their own choices regarding social andtechnological change.IntroductionWe, four engineering educators trained in science and technology studies (STS) and employed atengineering and engineering-adjacent programs, offer in this paper a multi-institutional survey ofpedagogical choices that we have made in the service of sociotechnical integration. Bypedagogical choices we mean an array of decisions in the context of our institutional homes,courses we teach, and student bodies enrolled. We reflect on the commonalities and differencesof introducing sociotechnical material in our disparate contexts, ranging from humanities

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne-marie Nickel, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jennifer Kelso Farrell, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Alicia Domack, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Gina Elizabeth Mazzone, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, Experiential-Learning Activity Years Interdisciplinary Activity 1 and 2 Asynchronistic on-line discussions on common reading assignments 3 and 4 Asynchronistic presentations to community organizations 5 through 8 Synchronistic presentations to other class As the authors’ collaboration evolved, so did the goals of the collaboration. The maingoal was always to strengthen each course by providing students with a broader experience thatwould impact their learning. The secondary goals stemmed from that main goal. If the broader,interdisciplinary experience did strengthen the course, then student learning would be impactedso that there would be a measureable difference on the mastery of learning outcomes by

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Aidsa I. Santiago-Román, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Genock Portela-Gauthier, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Rosaurelis Marín Ramírez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Paola Pacheco Roldan, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

projects that connected Statics and Mechanics of Materials, often through developing combined Statics-Mechanics of Materials courses;  while reported assessment results were generally positive, only 3 projects included assessment beyond student evaluations/surveys or faculty observation [Esche & Hadim, 2002; Woods et al., 2002; Guarino & Cahill, 1998]; only 1 developed a controlled experiment to demonstrate learning gains [Wood et al., 2002];  none of the projects attempted to measure skills transferred beyond the immediate course in which the project was undertaken.In summary, although there have been several prior efforts to cultivate “open-ended” problem-solving ability in mechanics (under

Conference Session

Social Dialogue on Diversity and Inclusion

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nelson S. Pearson, University of Nevada, Reno; Justin Charles Major, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Pamela, “Toward equity through participation in Modeling Instruction in introductory university physics,” Phys. Rev. Spec. Top. - Phys. Educ. Res., vol. 6, no. 1, 2010.[13] S. Wasserman and K. Faust, Social network analysis : methods and applications, vol. 24. 1994.[14] D. Z. Grunspan, B. L. Wiggins, and S. M. Goodreau, “Understanding classrooms through social network analysis: A primer for social network analysis in education research,” CBE Life Sci. Educ., vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 167–178, 2014.[15] B. B. Potts, “Book Review: Social Network Analysis,” Acta Sociolgica, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 419–423, 2015.[16] Army, FM 3-24 MCWP 3-33.5 Insurgencies and Countering Insurgencies, 1st ed. Washington .D.C.: Department of the Army

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division - Innovating New Ways to Teach

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Scott Hamilton, York College of Pennsylvania; Camilla Saviz, University of the Pacific; Tanya Kunberger, Florida Gulf Coast University

in STEM topics in K-12 students.David A Saftner (Associate Professor) Dr. David Saftner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. He earned a BS from the United States Military Academy and an MS and PhD from the University of Michigan. Prior to pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Saftner spent five years as an engineer officer in the US Army and serving in Missouri, Colorado, Kuwait, and Iraq. His areas of research include beneficial reuse of waste soil material, geotechnical site investigation and characterization, and teaching and learning in engineering education. He currently serves as his Department's Head, an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Excellence in Civil Engineering

Conference Session

Faculty Unite! Effective Ways for Educators to Collaborate Successfully

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gouranga Banik, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

E and ET faculty is a facilitator and mentor guiding students through the rigorous educational process that transforms them into engineers and engineering technologists. Likewise, the E and ET manager is a director that steers teams of technically-trained individuals through the imaginative process of creating new and innovative devices and procedures. The common thread is a knowledge base that can be applied to many diverse circumstances. After all, many of the problems encountered in the academic arena are similar to those found in industry but the circumstances are different. The educational goal is to successfully transfer knowledge that converts students into professionals while the industrial objective is to utilize engineering

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lucie Guertault, North Carolina State University; Tamecia R. Jones, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Eric Steven Hall, North Carolina State University; Praveen Kolar, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Paper ID #33317Investigating Impact of Disruption to Biological and AgriculturalEngineering Senior Design Capstone Courses Due to Covid-19Dr. Lucie Guertault, North Carolina State UniversityDr. Tamecia R. Jones, North Carolina State University at Raleigh Tamecia Jones is an assistant professor in the STEM Education Department at North Carolina State Uni- versity College of Education with a research focus on K-12 engineering education, assessment, and in- formal and formal learning environments. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and Purdue University. Originally trained as a biomedical engineer, she spent years in

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division: Retention

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ordel Brown, Northwestern University; Robin A.M. Hensel Ed.D., West Virginia University; Melissa Lynn Morris, West Virginia University; Joseph Dygert, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

underrepresented students to engineeringand supporting them through graduation and beyond [2]. Even though many gains have been 1made, a significant disparity in STEM degree attainment among the URM and non-URMpopulations remains. Poor retention rates have been attributed to academic and institutionalisolation [3], [4], exclusion from social networks [5], unsupportive peer and family communities[6], a lack of knowledge about the academic community [7] and financial obstacles [8] and lackof interest in engineering [9], [10].At a large land-grant university in the mid-Atlantic region, between 2003 and 2012, an averagethirty percent of first-year engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Career Attitudes

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University; Hiroko Kawaguchi Warshauer, Texas State University; Sara Garcia Torres M.Ed., Texas State University; Laura Rodríguez Amaya

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

director of the LBJ Institute for STEM Education and Research, she collaborates on various state and national STEM education programs and is PI on major grant initiatives through NASA MUREP and NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education and NSF DUE . Araceli holds Engineering degrees from The University of Michigan and Kettering University. She holds a Masters degree in Education from Michigan State and a PhD in Engineering Education from Tufts University.Dr. Hiroko Kawaguchi Warshauer, Texas State University Dr. Hiroko Kawaguchi Warshauer is a faculty member in the mathematics department at Texas State University. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics education from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. Her

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Michael Khoo, University of Southern California; Ellis Meng, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

America’s Potentials,” Report 03-69, Arlington, VA, National Science Foundation, Available online at http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/documents/2003/nsb0369/nsb0369.pdf, Accessed July 8, 2005. 5. Wankat, P. C., R. M. Felder, K. A. Smith and F. S. Oreowicz, 2002, “The Engineering Approach to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” pp. 217-237 in Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground, M. T. Huber and S. Morreales, eds., Washington, D.C., American Association for Higher Education, Available online at http://www.ncsu.edu/fielder~public/papers/Scholarship_chapter.pdf, Accessed July 8, 2005. 6. Arreola, R., M. Theall, and L. Aleamoni, 2003, “Beyond Scholarship: Recognizing the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

about the project and methods. Thus we decided to share ourmethods more broadly by preparing a manuscript about our innovative methods for a journal onmethods. 25 We are currently determining the best venue for this work. The manuscript focuseson two graphic elicitation methods that we developed and used in our in-depth interviews ofstudent veterans in the US: the key event timeline and the identity circle. The resulting dataoffers rich and deep description beyond what could be captured through traditional in-depthinterviews. These methods allowed participants to construct their own narratives about theirexperiences and helped elicit counter-narratives that challenge prevailing assumptions aboutwhat it means to be a veteran in higher education

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Renee M. Desing, The Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student

in Q methodology is based on concourse theory where “the flow ofcommunicability surrounding any topic is referred to as a concourse” [2, p. 94]. A concourse isdefined as a universe of statements which exists for any situation or context when viewedsubjectively as both conversational and informational statements [24]. Simply, it is the collectionof all possible statements about a topic [26], where the number of items is infinite [4]. Thesestatements are not limited to words and may include paintings, photographs, cartoons, or musicselections [2]. However, the focus of this study was a verbal concourse.A verbal concourse may be obtained through means such as interviewing or observingparticipants, scientific literature, or popular literature

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Retention and Bridge Programs #1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kamau Wright, University of Hartford

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

levelversions of the program to help ensure success of our students through graduation. These ideasmay compete for resources. If a first year program is enough in of itself, then no need to extendthe number of years that a Cohort of students are actively engaged in the program. Focus caninstead be put on impacting a larger number of incoming students. Ultimately, doing somecombination of booth seems like it will have the best impact.REFERENCES[1] T. P. Scott, H. Tolson, and T.-Y. Huang, "Predicting Retention of Mathematics and Science Majors at a Research One Institution and Suggested Advising Tools," Journal of College Admission, vol. 204, pp. 20-24, 2009.[2] J. L. Zheng, K. P. Saunders, I. Shelley, C. Mack, and D. F. Whalen

Conference Session

Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Coso, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

practical aspects of the labs,rather than the theoretical concepts, which served as the basis of the labs.15,16 Both of thesestudies are indicate students’ perceptions of disciplines, specifically their own discipline, canaffect students’ learning outcomes.10A 2009 study, which aimed to identify the barriers to interdisciplinarity, found, in many cases,students struggled to think beyond their own discipline.17 The researchers coined “disciplinaryegocentrism” to describe this phenomenon.17 This finding, along with the previous examples,indicates a strong need to examine how disciplinary affiliation will affect students in an IUEprogram and whether a disciplinary affiliation will affect engineering students’ perceptions asearly as the first semester

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Holling

focuses on developing new technologies. However, this view may be toosimplistic as it is a stationary definition, whereas the world of Engineering and Engineering Technology aredynamic environments.First of all, the Engineer must also be a Technologist to be true to the definition of his/her profession and theTechnologist must also be an Engineer with the fundamental skills and understanding of the discipline.12,13 Astechnology changes both, the Engineer and the Technologist, must adapt through learning and practice of thesenewly emerging technologies. This can only be accomplished if both, the Engineer and the Technologist, have asolid understanding of the underlying scientific principles of the discipline, although admittedly this

Collection

2024 ASEE North East Section

Authors

ZANNATUN NAYEEM, University of Bridgeport; Dan Tenney, University of Bridgeport; Tauhid Uddin Mahmood, University of Bridgeport

growth and development of the University. My interest deeply lies in the intricacies of supply chain mechanics and their optimization. Beyond the theoretical knowledge, I have a hands-on approach to data. I am proficient in using advanced analytical tools such as Microsoft Office, Tableau, Python, Power BI and SAS to dive deep into data, analyze it, and present it visually. This skill set not only broadens my understanding of supply chain dynamics but also enables me to propose innovative solutions to enhance their efficiency. My dedication to my field is reflected in my continuous quest for knowledge and my desire to make a meaningful contribution to the improvement of supply chain systems. The combination of my

Conference Session

Postgraduate Pathways and Experiences

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jacqueline Rohde, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jared France, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brianna Benedict, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, Purdue UniversityMs. Brianna Benedict, Purdue University Brianna Benedict is a Graduate Research Assistant in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. Her research interest focuses on interdisci- plinary students’ identity development, belongingness in engineering, and agency.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their

Conference Session

Motivation and Engagement

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan C. Hilpert, Georgia Southern University; Gwen C. Marchand, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305004100009580Fried, E. I., Bockting, C., Arjadi, R., Borsboom, D., Amshoff, M., Cramer, A. O. & Stroebe, M. (2015). From loss to loneliness: The relationship between bereavement and depressive symptoms. Journal of abnormal psychology, 124(2), 256. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/abn0000028Gao, J., Cao, Y., Tung, W. W., & Hu, J. (2007). Multiscale analysis of complex time series: integration of chaos and random fractal theory, and beyond. John Wiley & Sons. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470191651Gebbie, K. M., Mason Meier, B., Bakken, S., Carrasquillo, O., Formicola, A., Aboelela, S. W., ... & Larson, E. (2008). Training for Interdisciplinary Health Research Defining the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Reed Campbell, Robert Morris University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

engineering team. Keeping sizedown allowed everyone to get hands-on (Figure 3). At the most basic level they would comparethe assembled circuit to their designed layout or original circuit diagram. At a higher level theywould follow voltages/signals through the circuit with a multimeter or oscilloscope. Each of thefour oscillator circuits needed for pitch and volume heterodyning should produce a highfrequency output and many Theremin designs specify the typical frequency and voltage of thissignal. An oscilloscope was used to visualize the high frequency heterodyning process thatcreated the oscillation in the audible range. The voltage regulator could be checked for thecorrect DC voltage output. The students also planned the Theremin enclosure and the

Conference Session

ABET, PE, and CEBOK

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shenghua Wu, University of South Alabama; Min-Wook Kang, University of South Alabama; John Cleary, University of South Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

project.A field trip module extended the learning experience beyond campus through a field trip to theTraffic Management Center (TMC) at the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) andGeorge Wallace Tunnel in Mobile, Alabama shown in Figures 3(a) and 3(b). During the visit,students observed real-world applications of civil engineering principles, including traffic flowmanagement, tunnel design, ventilation systems, and emergency response protocols. Thisexperiential learning was supplemented by a group assignment in which students collected data,conducted research, and delivered presentations on topics such as tunnel dimensions, ventilationspecifications, and traffic management statistics. (a