Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny

because thosestudents are likely to be interested in the professoriate as a career or in the practicing of design atan advanced level. In addition to the preparation of engineering design educators andpractitioners, the course provides three important opportunities for participants, including:1) Community Outreach Students served as mentors to 4th/5th grade teams at a nearby elementary school participating in the FIRST LEGO® League design competition10. This link with the community has helped students understand the challenges of teaming and mentoring and promotes a personal bond that has given students a sense of purpose and pride, and cultivates professionalism and social responsibility.2) Interdisciplinary Education Engineering

Conference Session

Topics Related To Engineering Design Graphics Division

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary A. Sadowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

Inventory. A concept inventory is an instrument that can helpfaculty identify the concepts that their students do not understand and decide whichmisconceptions are the most prevalent. It can be used to help define important fundamentaltopics for instruction and learning. The Delphi technique typically encourages panelists toinclude comments as they make their ratings resulting in a rich written conversation aboutchoices made, possible options, and changes that might be made in future rounds. Theconversation, which is shared with all the participants, can help shape decisions made by otherparticipants. This paper will focus on the results of the engineering graphics Delphi study thatincluded graphic experts from universities, community colleges

Conference Session

Design Teamwork

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Mark Anderson, Rensselaer

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Page 23.1028.55. ImplementationIn this section, we shall share some best practices and observations from our application of theRedmine package. It is the authors' hope that these will be helpful to those looking to implementtheir own collaboration systems using Redmine or similar tools.We introduce the features of Redmine and some best practices, which are presented in thefollowing sections, to the students at the beginning of each semester. It takes approximately 20minutes and, in general, is sufficient for students to get started. Students, who had difficulty inusing Redmine, typically needed the following refresher instructions in basic skills taught in theintroductory engineering design course:  Understanding of maintaining a good

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jamie Gravell, University of Texas at Dallas; Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas at Dallas; Todd W. Polk, University of Texas at Dallas

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #32559The Benefits of Internal Design Reviews in an Engineering Capstone CourseMs. Jamie Gravell, University of Texas at Dallas Jamie D Gravell received her B.S. in mechanical engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas in 2017, and is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student at The University of Texas at Dallas. She has served as the teaching assistant for the engineering capstone course for two years. To assist in creating new course content, she completed the requirements to earn both levels of the Graduate Teaching Certificate offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning at her university. Her PhD

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Kline

allowing grading and evaluation.However, these rubrics can be very time consuming to utilize, should be made available to thelearner in advance so that the learner understands expectations for the performance activity, andneed to be returned to the learner in a timely manner to provide useful feedback.Building a Performance Measure for the Engineering Design ProcessAs part of a two-day workshop at Western Michigan University in July 2002, a diverse group of Page 8.336.2faculty and administrators created a performance measure or rubric for the engineering designprocess. The measure consists of three parts, which are found as Tables 1, 2, and 3: (1

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard W. Crain; Michael S. Trevisan; Kenneth L. Gentili; Dale E. Calkins; D. C. Davis

. Page 1.108.2 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Implementation of the TIDEE project has engaged faculty throughout the state ofWashington in discussions of engineering design, basic design competencies needed by studentsat various stages in their education, and strategies for achieving competence. The projectleaders have employed collaborative learning successfully in activities with faculty,undergraduate students, and pre-college students, and they have focused activities in each caseon increasing participants’ understanding of competencies and enhancing their achievement ofdesign competencies. Although specific competencies defined for the first two years are not relevant to thispaper, the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Wallace Fowler

Session 2230 Teaming in Engineering Design Courses Wallace Fowler The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe ability of new engineering graduates to work in teams is a skill that is highly valuedby industry. It is reported by campus interviewers and engineers at NASA and inindustry that students who have had experience in working in teams as undergraduatesmore readily adapt to the industry environment and usually advance faster than studentswho have no teaming experience. Teamwork exercises can be integrated into all levelsof the undergraduate experience, but the primary

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard L. Marcellus

never use this stuff ever again. • Problem solving techniques which can be applied to my future work interests. • A better understanding for operations research and a grade. Page 2.247.3 • I hope to learn more about modeling and solving all kinds of real world problems. • A broader understanding of Industrial Engineering. To learn new techniques for problem solving. • Accumulation of information on how to research into a problem and then how to relate this into design of a simple system to solve. • I hope to gain insight on stochastic models and eventually use this information when I'm actually working

Conference Session

Capstone and Online Courses in Construction Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron J. Turner P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Susan Michelle Reynolds P.E., Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Construction

world entities. This paper discussesthe differences in design perspective between the disciplines and how these differences, both realand sometimes imagined, can be bridged by understanding how they arise from a commonengineering core of design. As examples, we will draw upon a set of construction engineeringdesign projects that engaged the breadth of our student population. Furthermore, we will describethe model for the program we have developed, the metrics by which it has been an assessed andhow those assessments were received during our recent Accreditation Board of Engineering andTechnology (ABET) visit in 2013. The purpose of this paper is to stimulate discussion inmultidisciplinary engineering and design collaborations and to demonstrate

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions: Mechanical Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick W. Pace, University of Texas, Austin; Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin; John J. Wood, U.S. Air Force Academy; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Brian K Skibba, Air Force Research Laboratory

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Mechanical Engineering

transformation principals in order toachieve greater innovation [7-30]. These mentioned studies cover important topics and areshown to assist designers achieve improved innovation. The engineering education research presented here seeks to develop a tool and methodologyintended to strengthen a designer’s or design team’s understanding of a field and relevanttechnologies in order to foster creative and innovative solutions. A relevant finding in thepsychological literature is that individuals who acquire experience with classes of informationand procedures tend to represent them in relatively large, holistic “chunks” in memory,organized by deep functional and relational principles [31-33]. Many researchers have arguedthat this ability to “chunk

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Medoff; Stephen Stace; Janice Margle

Session 3425 Incorporating Musical Instrument Design Into A Freshmen Engineering Course Howard Medoff, Janice M. Margle, and Stephen Stace Engineering/Engineering/Music & Integrative Arts Penn State Abington College Abington, Pennsylvania 19001Abstract Technical interests and achievements of freshmen engineering students need to beencouraged. Developing strategies to increase the participation and enjoyment of these studentsin understanding and experiencing the design process is the basis for this

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jagannathan Sankar; Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

Session 2425 Integration of Materials Science into an Industrially-Sponsored Engineering Design Course D. M. Pai, G. J. Filatovs and J. Sankar NSF Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures Department of Mechanical Engineering NC A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411AbstractAn industrially-sponsored aluminum product design elective course offered over the past six yearshas dealt with a range of design projects principally chosen from the transportation and structuralfield. Engineers from industry present the

Conference Session

Design Spine

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey L. Schiano, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Design in Engineering Education

. Page 25.51.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012A Four-Year Vertically Integrated Design Sequence in Electrical EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes the creation of a four-year vertically integrated design sequence in theDepartment of Electrical Engineering at the University Park campus of The Pennsylvania StateUniversity. We describe the motivation behind the curriculum revisions, the integration ofmaterial among the four design courses, and the strategy for obtaining the approval and supportof the Electrical Engineering faculty for implementing the new design sequence.IntroductionPresently, the Department of Electrical Engineering has forty-one faculty members who holdtenured, tenure track, or

Conference Session

Design Spine

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Trivett, University of Prince Edward Island; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Pemberton Cyrus, Dalhousie University

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Design in Engineering Education

. She is currently investigating the use of Oral Discourse Method for con- ceptual development in engineering, the impact of a four-year hands-on design curriculum in engineering, the effects of service learning in engineering education, and informal learning in engineering.J. Pemberton Cyrus, Dalhousie University Dr. Pemberton Cyrus, P.Eng., FEC, is Associate Dean of Engineering at Dalhousie University. Prior to this, he served as the Head of Industrial Engineering. His research areas include routing and schedul- ing algorithms, and resource allocation problems. He recently led a redesign of the core engineering curriculum at Dalhousie and its Associated Universities

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2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Nathan Johnson

Assessing Experimental Design in Civil Engineering Nathan Johnson University of Minnesota DuluthAbstractOne requirement for ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accreditationfor undergraduate Civil Engineering is related to experimental design. Determining andimplementing an appropriate assessment metric for this requirement presents challenges in thelaboratory setting due to the inexperience of students and interrelated experimental variables tobe modified within the constraints of equipment capabilities. A straightforward implementationof an experimental design assessment is presented for a junior-level CE course, Hydraulics

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2014 EDI

Authors

Keith Buffinton

. Experience (K-WIDE)• We are inviting other institutions, particularly those in the KEEN program, to participate in a review K-WIDE was piloted in January 2012 to 23 first and second year engineering students who worked for 130 hours over 10 of the objectives, content, and structure of introductory engineering courses to identify and further days to address the NAE Grand Challenge to Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure. The program forces students out develop best practices. of their comfort zones to understand the complexity of design in a large global context. Participants worked their way• Bucknell will participate in professional

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Kurtanich, Youngstown State University; William Wood, Youngstown State University; Edward Garchar, Youngstown State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

willrequire a holistic understanding of economic growth and development in terms of the principlesof sustainability. The solutions to societal problems will require that technologies be applied notonly in innovative ways but with consideration of cultural differences, historical perspectives, aswell as legal and economical constraints [1]. Preparing today’s students for the qualities that thefuture engineering professionals will need to possess, further emphasizes the need for multi-disciplinary design experience in undergraduate education. Students completing an engineering technology degree in Youngstown State University’sCollege Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (CSTEM) in Civil & ConstructionEngineering Technology (CCET

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry G. Richards, University of Virginia; Susan K. Donohue, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

their cars and test again. After these experiments, thestudents reflected on the results and explained their understanding of the concepts of force andmotion. Figure 9: An Example of More Elaborate Car DesignsThese young students have very limited math skills, yet they intuitively understand the relationbetween the slope of the ramp and the distance their car travels. In subsequent trials, theyincorporate a series of other variables such as weights into their designs. We believe theseinteractions with physical systems help prepare the students for developing a sense of numbersand relationships between variables.The Bridge to Engineering 7At a local all-girl’s middle school, student teams designed and built bridges to

Conference Session

Research on Design Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jackson Lyall Autrey, University of Oklahoma; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

plan of action for the design project in the capstone course in Spring 2016. 4. Transition from being a student to a junior engineer in a company. In this paper, we outline a particular instrument for student self-assessment, namely thelearning statement, and explore its utility as a tool for understanding student outcomes andlearning in a project-based design course. We outline the use of learning statements in studentassignments and their utility in assessing internalization of the principles of design and,consequently, the degree to which students are meeting, or failing to meet, the learningobjectives for the course. In particular, we focus on the use of learning statements to fill in gapsthat arise from typical methods of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Srinand Karuppoor; Ravinder Chona; Christian Burger

Session 2525 A Way of Doing Engineering Design Srinand S. Karuppoor, Christian P. Burger, Ravinder Chona Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityAbstractThe ability to design is the distinguishing characteristic of an engineer. Yet, the process bywhich a design can be created most efficiently and with the highest degree of innovation isseldom taught at American Universities. Recent research at several universities and industriesare increasing our understanding of both the engineering design process as well as effectivemeans for teaching that process. These research

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 7: Student Evaluation and Grading

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samantha Splendido, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Andrea Gregg, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

undergraduate research [30], and job placement rates). Thefourth dimension of success is considering success over time across career stages. This project isfunded via a seed grant from Pennsylvania State University with the goal of understanding andtranslating findings for departmental initiatives and pursuing research into metrics of success.Research Design and Timeline: Overall, this research project is designed as through aphenomenographic [31,32] multimethod single case study methodology [33], which is appropriatefor deeply understanding multiple stakeholder perspectives within a bounded environment, in ourcase, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Formal casestudy methodology must incorporate multiple streams

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Instructional Technology 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamecia R. Jones, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Kevin Han, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

, Boston University, and Purdue University.Prof. Kevin Han, North Carolina State University at Raleigh ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Cyber-Physical Systems and Pedagogical Strategies for Improving Student Understanding of Structural Analysis and Dynamics (Works in Progress)IntroductionCivil and structural engineering students often have challenges with conceptual understanding ofstructural analysis and dynamics. Historically, students have done problem sets with images ofscenarios until they had an opportunity to visit sites where models and structures have been builtfor testing. That is a rare occasion due to cost and space requirements unless universities

Conference Session

Research Methods and Studies on Engineering Education Research

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Johanna Naukkarinen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology; Marja Talikka, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

was introduced already in the 1990s, and adecade later a vivid discussion continued regarding the role and added value of designexperiments, design research, and design-based research for educational research [6], [7], [8],[9].Both in the management science and learning sciences, the need for design science is justifiedwith bridging of practice to theory, thereby advancing practices alongside theories. Inlearning sciences, the design experiments are seen as a means of studying learningphenomena in the real world instead of the laboratory, thus arriving at better understanding ofthe contextual aspects or learning and enabling the establishment of better learningconditions. Like educational research in other disciplines, also engineering

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Canino, Trine University; Kendall B. Teichert, Trine University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #24651A Frankenstein-inspired Engineering Design ProjectDr. James ”Jamie” Canino, Trine University Jamie Canino is currently an associate professor at Trine University where he focuses on undergraduate education research. He teaches in the thermal-fluids and aerospace engineering fields and can be reached at caninoj@trine.edu.Dr. Kendall B. Teichert, Trine University Dr. Teichert received his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University. His Masters research studied behavior of microelectromechanical sensors/actuators. He worked for a small engineering firm in Salt Lake City, Utah

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Potter; Brian Knight; Antoine Ataya

Session Number 2225 Enhancing the Capstone Design Experience in An Undergraduate Engineering Program Antoine L. Ataya, Brian M. Knight, Robert A. Potter, Jr. Roger Williams University/Rhode Island Center for Performance Excellence/ Roger Williams UniversityAbstract:Senior engineering students in the School of Engineering, Computing and ConstructionManagement at Roger Williams University are required to take a two-semester senior capstonedesign-course sequence. Not unlike the experience offered in many engineering programs, thecapstone design experience is meant to be an

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Klegka; Robert Rabb

and objectives to meet and support theAcademic Program Goals stated above2. 1) Learn the philosophical basis for the practice of engineering that applies an engineering thought process and uses design to solve problems of the Army and the nation. 2) Develop an understanding of, and appreciation for, the natural physical laws and technology, particularly as they apply to mechanical engineering. 3) Internalize the design process and develop creativity in problem solving. 4) Demonstrate the necessary leadership and teamwork skills to work in multidisciplinary team environments. 5) Demonstrate those elements of engineering practice that prepare graduates for advanced study in mechanical engineering or other technical

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Thomas Haas, University of Cincinnati

theengineering design process to find a solution to the challenge. The goal is to time the stuntperfectly so that the free falling object nearly misses the CO2 car. Videos of students’ success andfailure will be shown at the end as well as student testimonials of the project. The testimonialswill show a higher level of student engagement and a deeper understanding of quadraticfunctions as a result of the challenge. The engineering design process is stressed during thechallenge to show students a proven method that is used by professionals to tackle challenges orsocietal issues. Students are encouraged at the end of the project to use the process to solve otherreal life problems. Hard copies of lesson plans will be provided to attendees.Authentic

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Riley

Session # 2408 New designs on teaching biological engineering Mark R. Riley Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, The University of Arizona Tucson AZ, 85721, riley@ag.Arizona.eduAbstractThe field of biological engineering has evolved tremendously in recent years due to advances inboth fundamental understanding of biological systems and in application of engineering methodsto utilize this information. To be competitive in the field, graduates of biological engineeringprograms must have a diverse background which not only is grounded in

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Micah Lande; Larry Leifer

the spring and includes the design problem, requirements, design development andspecifications for the end solution. It is prototyped by precursors in the fall and winter.Student teams have project funds of at least $15,000 and oftentimes outsource part of thefabrication or finish of their final system. The expectation is that their engineered deliverable bea pre-production prototype – a proof of concept that functions as desired with a lot ofconsideration as to how it would be manufactured.Types of ProjectsFor a mechanical engineering course, understandably, much of what is produced is a physical,tangible artifact. There are oftentimes components or whole sub-systems that are not mechanicaldesigned but rather include software or

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 2 Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Julia D. Thompson, University of San Francisco; Amalia Kokkinaki, University of San Francisco; Jes Parker, University of California, Berkeley; Hana M. Böttger, University of San Francisco; N. Jeremy Kasdin, University of San Francisco

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

engineering design and testing.Slide 10 Summer ZeroTo ensure students have a smooth transition from high school to their engineering education, wehave created Summer Zero. Summer Zero is a six-week summer program that prepares studentsfor life as an engineering student, and helps them transition successfully to college. In summerzero, students engage in math, programming, writing and project classes. The program is led bykey faculty members from engineering and related departments who teach the courses and serveas mentors. Activities are designed to help students understand each other’s individual talentsand assets, and prepare for success as they enter the program. They take math, programming andwriting courses, and participate in an overarching