Paper ID #43292Board 20: Work in Progress: Understanding Student Perceptions and Use ofGenerative Artificial Intelligence for Technical WritingDr. Amy N Adkins, North Carolina State University Amy N. Adkins is a n Assistant Teaching Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of North Carolina (UNC) and North Carolina State University (NCSU). She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University and her B.S. in Engineering Science from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. Her technical research which relates to her PhD Dissertation is focused on utilizing
Paper ID #35939Guiding First-year Students through the Design Process in LinkedComputer Aided Design and Technical Writing CoursesDr. Matthew J Haslam, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott Department Chair, Humanities and Communication American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 1Guiding First-year Students through the Design Process in Linked Computer Aided Design and Technical Writing CoursesAt the recommendation of the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board
Paper ID #37827Thinking Beyond the Service Course Model: IntentionalIntegration of Technical Communication Courses in a BMEUndergraduate CurriculumJulie Stella Julie Stella is a Visiting Lecturer in the Technology Leadership and Communication de- partment of the IUPUI School of Engineering and Technology. She teaches writing and communication to undergraduate engineering students at IUPUI. She has also taught courses at the graduate level in education technology, usable interface design, and ed- ucation public policy. Her background is fairly diverse, though it centers on writing and teaching. Ms. Stella spent 11
Paper ID #33672A Comparative Analysis of Challenges Encountered in Achieving StudentOutcomes When Teaching a Senior Engineering Technical Core Course On-lineand Face-to-FaceDr. Riem Rostom, Indiana State University Riem Rostom is an Assistant Professor in the Applied Engineering and Technology Management Depart- ment at Indiana State University. She received her doctorate degree in Energy and Environmental Systems from North Carolina A&T State University, M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University, and B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering from Alexandria University. She teaches mechanical en
Paper ID #11739Impacts of Service-Learning Projects on the Technical and Professional En-gineering Confidence of First Year Engineering StudentsDr. Matthew Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University Dr. Matthew T. Siniawski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Loyola Marymount University. He has advised over 40 different senior capstone project design teams since 2004, and is particularly interested in the design of assistive devices for children with disabilities. He is a an active proponent of service-learning and is interested in understanding how such experiences impact the technical
Paper ID #30004If engineers solve problems, why are there still so many problems tosolve? : Getting beyond technical ”solutions” in the classroomDr. Cynthia Helen Carlson PE, Merrimack College Dr. Carlson worked as a water resources engineer for 10 years prior to earning her doctorate, contributing to improved water management in communities within the United States, Middle East, and Singapore. She has been a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) since 2002. Dr. Carlson’s research interests are broadly characterized as ’how civil engineering impacts public health’, and include storm water man- agement, modeling environment
Paper ID #29398An emancipatory teaching practice in a technical course: A layeredaccount of designing circuits laboratory instructions for a diversity oflearnersDr. Linda Vanasupa, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Linda Vanasupa has been a professor of materials engineering at the California Polytechnic State Univer- sity since 1991. She is a professor of materials engineering at Olin College. Her life’s work is focused on creating ways of learning, living and being that are alternatives to the industrial era solutions–alternatives that nourish ourselves, one another and the places in which we live. Her Ph.D. and
Paper ID #37878Using online learning modules to improve students’ use of technicalstandards in additive manufacturing courses and projectsDr. Hannah D Budinoff, The University of Arizona Hannah Budinoff is an Assistant Professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include additive manufacturing, geometric manufacturability analysis, design for manufacturing, and engineering education.Andrew WessmanKargi Chauhan ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Using online learning modules to improve students’ use of technical standards
Florida Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Ted also manages the GatorNest program where students work in teams to get hands-on experience solving real business problems. Since 2004, Ted has been the primary business team faculty mentor for the Integrated Technology Ventures program. Ted is a graduate of the University of Florida MBA program. Page 12.853.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Paper 2007-2797 Improving Entrepreneurship Team Performancethrough Market Feasibility Analysis, Early Identification
Session 3432 Improving Technical Writing through Published Standards: The University of Texas at Tyler Electrical Engineering Laboratory Style Guide David M. Beams Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Tyler Lucas P. Niiler Department of English and Writing Center Director, University of Texas at TylerAbstractThe writing of technical reports is an integral part of the duties of practicing engineers. Theaccreditation criteria of EC2000 recognize this by placing emphasis on "soft skills
AC 2011-2213: T-CUP: TWO + THREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO UNI-VERSITY PROGRAMS PROJECT: AN INNOVATIVE PILOT MODEL FORBROADENED PATHWAYS INTO TECHNICAL CAREERSPatricia F Mead, Norfolk State University Patricia F. Mead, Ph.D., earned the doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Electrophysics from University of Maryland, College Park, in 1994. She joined the faculty of Norfolk State University (NSU) as Professor of Optical Engineering in summer 2004. Since her appointment, Dr. Mead has been active in the development of innovative curricula for Optical Engineering courses, and she serves as Education Director for the NSF funded Nano- and Bio-Inspired Materials and Devices Center for Research
technical display along with a verbal technicalpresentation from each team in the competition. All three of these become requiredparts of the course. Students are tasked with writing papers that describe the designrationale behind their product. Each student writes about the sub-system theydesigned and/or built. Those reports are then used as the starting point for thetechnical report and display for the competition. The students are also required tomake a five-minute oral presentation to the class about their sub-system as a precursorto the competition technical presentation. In the fall semester, students are asked topresent their designs to the class as part of the design review process, opening up thestudent to comments and questions from their
Paper ID #47825Expanding AI Ethics in Higher Education Technical Curricula: A Study onPerceptions and Learning Outcomes of College StudentsMiss Indu Varshini Jayapal, University of Colorado BoulderJames KL HammermanDr. Theodora Chaspari, University of Colorado Boulder Theodora Chaspari is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and the Institute of Cognitive Science at University of Colorado Boulder. She has received a B.S. (2010) in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and M.S. (2012) and Ph.D. (2017) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern
Paper ID #39170Surveying the Importance of Integrating Technical Interviews intoComputer Science Curriculums and Increasing Awareness in the AcademyMs. Rachel Field, Morgan State University Ms. Field is currently working on her Master’s in Advanced Computing at Morgan State where she received her Bachelor’s in Computer Science. She has interned at the REU MagLab as a software engineer during her undergraduate studies at Morgan State. Currently she is working under Dr. Edward Dillon as a graduate research assistant to educate and increase awareness of the interview process, specifically for computer science
Paper ID #39225Exposing Early CS Majors to Technical Interview Practices in the Form ofGroup-Based Whiteboard Problem Solving ActivitiesDr. Edward Dillon, Morgan State University Dr. Dillon received his B.A. in Computer and Informational Science from the University of Mississippi in 2007. He would go on to obtain his Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Alabama in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Dr. Dillon is a newly tenured Associate Professor in the Depart- ment of Computer Science at Morgan State University. Prior to his arrival to Morgan State, Dr. Dillon served as a Computer Science Instructor at
Paper ID #47712MNT-CURN and START: Successful Nationwide Programs for ConnectingCommunity College and Technical Education Students to Research OpportunitiesSophia Isabela Salter, Micro Nano Technology Education Center Sophia Salter graduated with a BS in Neurobiology from UC San Diego in June 2023. She has been a mentor within the Micro Nano Technology Education Center for the past four years and will be starting medical school at the University of Chicago in August 2025.Dr. Jared Ashcroft, Pasadena City College Jared Ashcroft graduated with a BS in Chemistry from Long Beach State in California and subsequently attended
. The session paper summarized the quantifiableresults of the team-taught section. In addition, these reflections, the personal observationsof a technical instructor of a Team 112 teaching-team, can provide some qualitativeassessment as well.The first and the most important task for a technical faculty member team-teachingTeam 112 was to overcome the traditional mentality of content-based teaching and tofocus more on the non-content learning aspects. Indeed, this shift has been the source ofmuch of the resistance to change from technical faculty. In the beginning of thesemester, many Team 112 students commented that not only would the course be a “funcourse” for them, but that it would also provide them an opportunity to observe theinteractions
industry as well.This paper will describe the scope and layout of this class, student projects, and the equipmentused, associated costs of running a laboratory and lessons learned as well as the impact on otherfaculty, departments and local industry.Course OverviewMETBD 410 (Rapid Prototyping, a technical elective) has the following Goals/Objectives:1. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of different additive processes currently on the market.2. Reverse engineer a product by digitizing geometry, importing the data into Pro/ENGINEER and creating a solid model from surfaces.3. Build the model (Objective 2) on the Z-402 3-D printer and re-digitize the prototype using a non-contact scanner to verify the geometry
Paper ID #37880Work in Progress: Facilitating a year-long research coursesequence for undergraduate transfer students within a NSFS-STEM scholarship programJiayun Shen (RA) PhD candidate from Clemson UniversityLaToya McDonald I am a Bioengineering PhD major. I work as the instructor on record for introductory engineering courses and I conduct research in data mining and natural language. I'm hoping to meet people from various backgrounds to expand my network and career.Marian S. Kennedy (Associate Professor) Marian Kennedy is an Associate Professor within the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at
Paper ID #36604Work-in-Progress: A Complementary Training Program inControl and Automation Engineering and its Role inUndergraduate / Master's Program IntegrationKarl Heinz Kienitz (Dr.) Karl Heinz Kienitz graduated as Electronics Engineer from Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA) in 1983 and earned a Master's Degree, also from ITA, in 1985. In 1990 he completed a doctorate in Electrical Engineering at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ). For over a decade, he served as an Engineering Officer of the Brazilian Air Force. He is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Systems and Control, ITA
Paper ID #37544Experiences of students supported by an NSF S-STEM grantin a Robotics and Mechatronic Systems Engineering programShuvra Das (Professor) Dr. Shuvra Das started working at University of Detroit Mercy in January 1994 and is currently Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Over this time, he served in a variety of administrative roles such as Mechanical Engineering Department Chair, Associate Dean for Research and Outreach, and Director of International Programs in the college of Engineering and Science. He has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
. Some of the modules didn't really apply to my situation but some were very helpful and informative. First, the courses that covered lab procedures and etiquette will help greatly once I begin my research. Also I have a much better idea of how to properly perform online research.’ ‘I also learned what to expect from undergrad research and got a ton of good advice on finding a professor to work with.’Many comments also highlighted ‘skill and methods used to conduct effective research’ such as ‘lab safety protocol’ to ‘writing technical papers’ and ‘keeping research notebooks’. Their commentsalso showed that the students were building their mastery of the common terminology utilized by thelarger research
Paper ID #29301Using Student-Faculty Collaborative Lectures to Teach High LevelHydrodynamics ConceptsDr. Laura K Alford, University of Michigan Laura K. Alford is a Lecturer and Research Investigator at the University of Michigan. She researches ways to use data-informed analysis of students’ performance and perceptions of classroom environment to support DEI-based curricula improvements.Mr. James A. Coller, University of Michigan James Coller is an engineering PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan focusing on the development of a novel multi-layer network approach to understanding design complexity in unmanned maritime
Paper ID #28786An Open-Source Autonomous Vessel for Maritime ResearchDr. Robert Kidd, State University of New York, Maritime College Dr. Kidd completed his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Florida in 2011, 2013, and 2015 respectively. He worked at the Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics at UF from 2009 to 2015 researching the use autonomous ground vehicles including ATVs, a Toyota Highlander, and a tracked loader. He has taught at SUNY Maritime College since 2015 running the capstone design sequence for mechanical engineers. His research interests include additive manufacturing, fault-tolerant control
Paper ID #48910High Altitude Robotic MonkeyMr. Huy Trung Huong, University of Bridgeport Huy Huong is a current undergraduate student at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Huong is receiving his BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics, with an expected matriculation date of May 2025. He currently serves as an undergraduate researcher at the Extreme Environments Laboratory for the School of Engineering under the direction of Dr.Jani M Pallis.Miss Sushma Gudi, University of Bridgeport Sushma Gudi is a Computer Science Engineering Assistant at University of Bridgeport, where she also earned her
Paper ID #47687Design and fabrication of Bioinspired UAS by Junior Engineering StudentsDr. Adeel Khalid, Kennesaw State University Adeel Khalid, Ph.D. Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering Office: 470-578-7241 ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Design and fabrication of Bioinspired UAS by Junior Engineering StudentsAbstractThis study involves a high school student, a sophomore, and a junior-level engineering student inthe design, development, fabrication, and integration of a bioinspired Unmanned Aerial System(UAS) that mimics the shape and features of a bat. The UAS, still under
Paper ID #47926Design of Access Platforms for Assembly Tooling on the Payload AttachmentFitting (PAF) for NASA’s Space Launch SystemLeila Noelle Smalls, Prairie View A&M UniversityEthan Bisgaard, NASADr. Jianren Zhou, Prairie View A&M University Professor, Department of Mechanical EngineeringMinghui Xu, Clemson University Minghui Xu is currently a Ph.D. student at Clemson University. His research focuses on droplet combustion science and image analysis.Dr. Yuhao Xu, Clemson University Yuhao Xu received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department
professional network within the branch by seeking insights fromcolleagues, applying technical knowledge of mechanical properties learned in school, gaininghands-on experience with instrumentation installation, and producing documentation alignedwith NASA standards. This paper outlines what the student learned during this internship andhow the experience provided the student with an invaluable opportunity to bridge the gapbetween academic knowledge and the professional competence required in their career field.What is ET30?The overall branch of Test Lab is referred to as ET at MSFC, and test lab facilities accommodatetest articles at any technology readiness level [1]. Specifically, the ET30- Structural StrengthTest Laboratory is unique to MSFC. The
Engineering Education, 2025 Student Paper Work in Progress: Creation of a Macroethics Case Study Integrated into an Aerospace Systems Design Course Sabrina Olson, Dr. Oliver Jia-Richards, Dr. Aaron W. JohnsonAbstractEthics and social responsibility education within aerospace engineering remains limited, witheducation on the subject often disconnected from technical course content and led by guestlecturers. While still valuable, this approach inadvertently signals to students that such topics arean addendum to their work as engineers, and reinforces the misconception of engineering as anapolitical field. Furthermore, existing ethical discussions place focus on
aviation industry is transitioning toward sustainable energy sources, with hydrogenemerging as a viable alternative to conventional fuels. As advancements in hydrogen propulsion,safety, and infrastructure accelerate, aviation education must evolve to equip future professionalswith the necessary competencies to operate and maintain hydrogen-powered aircraft. However,current aviation curricula predominantly focus on conventional propulsion systems and lackstructured training on hydrogen-specific technologies. This paper presents a literature-basedanalysis of the critical skills required for hydrogen-powered aviation, focusing on three keyareas: technical skills, safety and risk management, and environmental sustainability.The study highlights key