Conference Session

FPD and DEEDs Joint Postcard Sessions

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen A. Harper, Ohio State University; Richard J. Freuler, Ohio State University; Lauren Corrigan, Parker School Hawaii

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education, First-Year Programs

course. The first-year engineering program atThe Ohio State University provides honors students with the opportunity to engage in anintensive design-and-build robotics project. The primary educational objective of this course isto give students a realistic engineering experience, so that at the end of their first year, they canmake educated decisions about whether engineering is the profession they want for themselves,and, if so, what particular engineering discipline they want as a major. To that end, the projectincludes many aspects of real-world engineering, including teamwork, budgeting, planning aproject schedule, communicating orally and in writing, documenting, programming amicrocontroller, constructing and wiring a device, and, of course

Conference Session

Research in Faculty Development

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kristen Ferris, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Pil Kang, University of New Mexico

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division

Education / Spencer Post- doctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two-strand research program focused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Dr. Pil Kang, University of New Mexico Sung ”Pil” Kang is an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico. His academic interests include change management, change model validation, and mindset evolution. He may be reached at pilkang@unm.edu

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ahlgren, Trinity College; Igor Verner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

their knowledge and skills through challenging work.• Practice assessment that actively involves students in reflection on their learning.Olympiads in science, mathematics, and other subjects are popular events that offer studentsopportunities to demonstrate knowledge, abilities, and motivation through competitiveexaminations. Examples include the International Olympiads in Mathematics (IMO), Physics(IPhO), Chemistry (IChO), Biology (IBO) and Informatics (IOI) [10]. Several of these offerboth theoretical and experimental components. These Olympiads bring together the best high-school competitors from the around the world and bear considerable weight when inspiring in-depth understanding and aptitude development.In robotics education, many of

Conference Session

Preparing Engr Students for International Practice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalia Kapli, Pennsylvania State University; John Wise, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Wesley Donahue, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

International

engineering student’s ability to compete 2. The Advisory Board for theLeonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State recognizes thisglobal challenge and advocates that engineers truly become “world class” 3. The Board has maderecommendations to the College of Engineering regarding specific enhancements that arenecessary for our graduates to compete globally. As a result of those recommendations, PennState is offering a new course – Professional Skills and Core Leadership Competencies in theGlobal Environment – that is specifically designed to respond to the aforementioned globalengineering challenges. This paper will describe the design and execution of the class and theresults of the course assessment to date.Description

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to ME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Choate, Western Kentucky University; Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University; Stephen Howard, Western Kentucky University; Paul Graves, Western Kentucky University; Jonathan Martin, Western Kentucky University; Chris Kruckenberg, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

credit hours) and ME 412 – Mechanical Engineering Senior Project (Springsemester - 3 credit hours).The students on this project team effectively demonstrated engineering design principles in theselection of the flow meters (nozzles), sizing and selection of the air mover, design and selectionof the flow straighteners, design of the plenum and design of the Data Acquisition Systems andselection of associated instrumentation. The design and selection of these project componentswere constrained by both financial and time lines typical of a “real world” engineering projectsand were managed by two faculty acting as advisor and industrial contact, respectively, to furthergive the student a “real world” experience in highly dynamic environment with

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reid Bailey, University of Virginia; Michael C Smith, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

assignments was not done fairly. Faculty struggled to give meaningful feedback to allstudents in a way that helped students learn.In spite of these challenges, students and faculty viewed the class as being a “good” course. Thispaper is not about taking the worst class at university and turning it around. Instead, it is about afar more common topic: taking a “pretty darn good” class and striving to make it a“phenomenal” class. A phenomenal class where students are challenged and challengethemselves, where they learn process-oriented topics in a deep way and apply that knowledgebeyond the final day of class, where learning is relevant because it is connected to other classesand the “real world,” and where the entire community involved in the class

Conference Session

Engineering Education in India, the Far East, and Central Asia

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junqiu Wang, Purdue University; Nathan McNeill, Purdue University; Sensen Li, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

International

curricular structures.At the time, it was believed that the French were more experienced in the design andconstruction of ships, thus the curriculum in the Qian Xue Tang was based on a French militaryschool model. In this division the language of textbooks and instruction was French. Thus theQian Xue Tang was also called “the Navy Shipbuilding School,” or “French School”. Whereas,in the Hou Xue Tang, a British educational model was employed as the British were believed tobe the world navigation experts. Under the suggestion of Zuo Zongtang, Prosper Marie Giquelwas appointed as the first supervisor of the Foochow Shipbuilding School. Giquel, a Frenchmilitary officer who had fought in the Second Opium War, had also served as a commander ofthe “Franco

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University; David Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Patricia Brackin, Southeast Missouri State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

forboosting the confidence and creativity of freshman students while introducing them to theengineering disciplines. The core philosophy behind the LWTL concept is to create a learningenvironment that empowers students with a “can do” attitude. One of the essential ingredients tothis environment is transitioning students from their previous learning mode to a more self-reliant mode of study. The LWTL curriculum encourages this transition through the use of acommercially available “lab” and real-world projects.The LWTL curriculum was motivated through a combination of the following factors: 1. Our college vision of “being the best college in the world at integrating engineering and science in research and education” 2. A noticeable change in

Conference Session

Discipline Specific Topics and Techniques

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth J. Stewart, University of Michigan; John G. Younger, University of Michigan; Michael J. Solomon, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

segment focused on application of the material through group projectwork and real world examples of the material highlighted by external speakers. Throughout thecourse, students were encouraged to bring their own perspectives into discussions and relate thematerial across disciplinary boundaries.  To assess the impact of this course on graduate student interdisciplinary learning, we surveyedstudents at the beginning of the course, after the lectures, and at the end of the course. We alsocoded student responses to two course assignments. We evaluated how student perceptions ofinterdisciplinary learning outcomes varied from the beginning to the end of the course. Ofadditional interest was the extent that students applied information from another

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver

, which five would you choose?”These conversations can occur privately, and it should not take long to ascertain the student’s mastery of the contentcovered by the latest exam. The discussion features also allow professors to reply to a discussion item individually.Correction StrategiesOne reason that it is important to be honest is that the penalties for cheating can be quite severe. The web-basedcourse should have a link to the university’s academic honesty policy, and instructors need to make students awareof the penalties. A dishonorable discharge from the university is a very real barrier to degree completion at anyuniversity. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Koichi Iwasaki; Kazuo Morita; Chi Thai

 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3260 Description of Instructional FacilitiesFollowing a computer system engineering approach, there were 2 major aspects that need to beaddressed (Shi et al.3 ): 1) Development of a supporting platform (i.e. communication protocols) for real-time interactive distance learning between UGA and KU campuses. 2) Appropriate software development, showing the same view of the contents being delivered by teacher to local and remote students, capable of many interaction channels, along with facilities for event capturing and activities

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Amare; Charlotte Brammer

problem-solving.”2The biggest obstacle in an otherwise surprisingly cohesive effort was with the application of WACprinciples: Were our Composition 101F sections simply traditional English classes full ofengineering students, or were we designing them as writing classes where we encouragedengineering genres? The purpose of this paper is to share our “lessons learned” in creating this101F course. Some questions we addressed as we developed the “engineering English course”were: What were the students’ and faculty’s expectations of the course? How well were weteaching cognitive and writing skills that were hopefully transferable across academic disciplinesand eventually into the world of work?BackgroundThe engineering department’s perception of

Conference Session

Understanding Our Students I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle B. Reed, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

/. Page 25.232.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Assessment of Student’s Confidence of Learned KnowledgeAbstractAn important skill for students is to recognize how well they actually know the answers to real-world questions. Students may get the right answers on quiz questions, but may not be sure oftheir answers and may get similar questions wrong. Confidence in one’s answer or design is nottypically important during undergraduate schooling, but is vital in a job and in graduateeducation where the confidence students have in their solutions is nearly as important as thesolutions themselves. The method described here uses the concept of self-efficacy to helpstudents learn by making them

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Mack; James Wood

integrating these disciplines around an industrial-type problem can removeisolation between academic departments and better equip students to function successfully in theworkplace.Educational research provides guidelines for such a curriculum change. Gardner (1), inpresenting his concepts of multiple intelligences and Felder (2), in comments on students’learning styles, show that students require instructional strategies that differ from the traditionallecture format. Brown and Brown (3) describe how the use of problem-based learning strategieseffectively incorporate real-world problems, an interdisciplinary environment that models theworkplace (especially teamwork), and desired pedagogical techniques such as active learningand collaborative

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ernest W. Tollner

as the primary society-based ethic in public administration(Perman et al., 1996). Rule-based ethics (Number 8) are used extensively by the legal profession.Immanuel Kant articulated the rule of law for the sake of law. This idea lies at the heartof the concept of accountable standards. Rule based ethics lie at the heart of modernbureaucratic organizations and government. The scientific management approaches ofFrederick Taylor and management thinkers had a high rule orientation. “Spirit” or consciousness-based ethics (number 9) are applicable when seeking tounderstand and act on intents arising from the general will of society. The reappearanceof democracy in the 18th century was in large part stimulated by contributions

Conference Session

Impact of Information Technology on Engineering Education (3215)

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Tahar El-Korchi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paul P. Mathisen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Frederick L. Hart, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering (CE)

message after it is sent, and synchronoustechniques which accommodate real-time communication. Relevant asynchronous techniquesused in this project include fax, email, file transfer protocol (ftp), and the World Wide Web(WWW). Synchronous technologies of interest include telephone, chat, whiteboard, sharedfolder, and audio/visual communication techniques. Because of the growth in capabilities andapplications using the World Wide Web (WWW), WWW-based technologies were emphasizedin this project. Since no integrated products that incorporated a full range of remote WWW-based communication technologies could be identified at the time of this investigation, separatehardware and software components were selected to provide the capabilities noted above

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Fiona S. Crofton; Cynthia A. Mitchell

methods and approaches to facilitate learning -- yours, your students and your colleagues; * talk to others about what you and they are doing to integrate sustainability issues into courses and programs; * provide support to colleagues who are trying to walk the talk; let students, administrators and other colleagues know that you value their work; * bring “ real world” cases of SOTA projects into the classroom; * have a colleague visit your classroom and give you some feedback on your teaching and the observed learner responses; * take an honest and critical look at your curriculum; find ways to ensure that sustainability issues are addressed wherever

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston; Lisa Deane Morano, University of Houston

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

someone is comfortable with, can beincredibly useful when people in those disciplines later work collaboratively [6]. Our evaluationshowed that this co-curricular program is improving student knowledge and student confidence.We have also observed this shared knowledge acquisition about sustainability helped studentswork collaboratively on their shared projects.Experiential learning is at the heart of the SUSTAIN program. Experiential learning is defined aslearning that is accompanied by first-hand experience with real-world problem solving [7].Effective experiential learning follows an experiential learning cycle where there is abstractconceptualization, active experimentation, concrete experience and reflection or observation [7].Students in the

Conference Session

Community Building and Student Engagement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl B. Schrader, Wright State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

ability to work with others;term project communication across contexts and audiences; critical thinking and the ability to solve complex problems; and creativity and innovationTaking part in any internship or Build classroom connections to the workplace; providejob where students were applying opportunities to apply learning to real-world contexts; understandwhat they were learning in the importance of professional networks; broaden understanding ofclassroom career options; and introduce workplace norms and behaviorsBeing extremely active in Foster retention, persistence and academic

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Cullington, Sacred Heart University; Mary V Villani, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York; Nur Dean, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York; Moaath Alrajab, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York; Arthur Hoskey, Farmingdale State College SUNY, New York; Ilknur Aydin, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

to solve real-world problems. Aftercompleting this course, students will be prepared to apply computer concepts to other fields.Course Learning Outcomes:At the completion of this course, students will be able to 1. Identify the areas of a computer system: software, hardware, processes, storage, inputs, and outputs. 2. Identify and demonstrate computational thinking techniques. 3. Demonstrate a familiarity with basic concepts relating to the areas of computer architecture, operating systems, networking, and database. 4. Use and demonstrate correct computer-related terminology. 5. Design, implement and test simple computer programs to solve real-world problems.Topics covered include

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Student Growth & Professionalization

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory J. Mazzaro, The Citadel; Timothy Aaron Wood P.E., The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

fellowshipamongst students and local residents.On campus, inside the classroom, a sense of community amongst students may be cultivated withteam-based projects. Such projects can be discipline-specific and simple enough to be tackled bya team of incoming freshmen on their own [22], or projects can be multi-disciplinary andcarefully structured to guide students to a functional design [23]. A unique format bringstogether different class years: all students (freshmen through seniors) register for a 1-credit-hourcourse and work on a design project for about 6 weeks, on teams containing a mix of class years[24]. In all cases, by working on projects that have more than one possible solution, freshmenunderstand that (a) real-world problems are open-ended, and (b

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 1 - Sustainability & Environmental Justice

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexa Rihana Abdallah, University of Detroit, Mercy; Katherine C. Lanigan, University of Detroit, Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

on the community as afunction of government response time and the magnitude of resource allocations. Our studyshowed that after reading about and researching the environmental disasters and theirimplications, students showed an increase in their interest, curiosity, and awareness of themagnitude of resource disparity allocated to communities based on their affluence and socialstatus. Incorporating such topics into their courses is essential to guiding students in responsiblyusing the core principles of their fields for real-world applications. Such an addition to standardcurricula will produce future scientists and engineers who are better equipped to address societalissues through their work.References[1] D. Riley, "Engineering and

Collection

2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Jimmy Hulton; Matthew Hutchinson; Tyler Aitken; Tin Nguyen; Libby Osgood P.Eng.

curriculum curriculum Use of CSWA Videos Heavy Medium Little to none Asynchronous option Heavily encouraged As additional As requested resources Primary teaching tool CSWA videos Slides Exploratory replication of models from booklet Incorporation of Real None 3-D Printing & Modeling Based on Real- World Applications Reverse Modelling World Construction & tour of Machine Workshop

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paolo Tamayo; David Florida; Ramakrishna Gottipati; Janos Grantner

module that instantiates the Test Files and the Test Utilities. The actual tests created to start the stimuli from the models or from the DUT. The tests are written to emulate a real world scenario. They can vary from aTest Files simple test of a read or write sequence to an algorithmic test data that are fed into the inputs of the DUT by using the models or a complex sequence of events and scenarios. Utilities are created to aid testing and increase confidence in the design. Utilities can generate error messages, count the errors and point to the location of the error in time. Utilities can also be

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kara Bliley; Emily Mowry; Amy Gray; Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson; Sean Brophy

identify ethical issues from real world examplesand become aware of multiple perspective related to issues close to their profession.Although the number of participants is small (N=9), there are interesting trends thatillustrate both what the group and the individual can achieve during this mild learningintervention using movies. Prior to watching the movie “Miss Evers’ Boys” the group as a whole couldgenerate quite a long list of principles for protecting the rights of the human participantsin a research study. The students clearly recognized the importance of “do no harm”, andminimize the risk to the participants. Several other students included a discussion aboutthe importance of balancing the risk of the participants with the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo

effectively solving open-ended problems • Comprehensive design/design-and-build projects • Extending basic physics analysis to real-world engineering problems • Working productively in teams • Technical writing and presentationsIMD met for two 1-hour blocks and two 2-hour blocks each week. Three texts were chosen forthe class. The Mechanical Design Process (David G. Ullman) was used as a reference for thedesign process, Technical Sketching (Dale H. Besterfield and Robert E. O’Hagan) was used forclassroom and homework sketching exercises and teaching drafting conventions, and SolidModeling with I-DEAS (Sheryl A. Sorby) was used as an instruction reference when the classwas learning I-DEAS. IMD met in a lab/classroom, where the students

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Steiner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Richard Alben, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Lester Gerhardt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Cheng Hsu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

provides auseful calibration point for individual contributions.Characteristics of the ProgramThe program includes the following characteristics:  The program is situated at a private research university.  All projects are approached in an authentic “clinical” real world fashion. Page 15.42.4  A single semester multidisciplinary capstone involving electrical, mechanical, computer systems and industrial engineering students with a common syllabus across all participating departments.  A small percentage (less than 5%) of aerospace, biomedical, and materials engineering students also participate and also

Conference Session

Issues and Solutions in Mathematics Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Grossfield, Vaughn College of Aeronautics

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

anddeserves a place of honor in the study of mathematics along with numbers and shapes. Technicalcompetency in our modern world requires a thorough understanding of functions. CollegeAlgebra and Calculus comprise a study of a particular class of relationships between variables, inparticular, continuous, smooth (differentiable) functions.Suppose we are interested in the length, L, of a man’s shadow as he walks away from a lamppostat night. The variables that might influence his shadow length are: the height,hl , of the lamppost, the man’s height, hm, and his distance, dl , from the lamppost. Wouldincreasing the man’s height increase the length of his shadow? How would increasing the heightof the lamppost affect his shadow? He observes his shadow

Conference Session

Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Biomedical Engineering

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emma Farago, University of Calgary; Emily Ann Marasco, University of Calgary

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

Engineering since it was a last second decision for me.” “It played a significant role in pushing me out of my comfort zone” “These experiences gave me a glimpse of the real-world applications of engineering and reaffirmed that I was on the right path, even if I faced difficulties.”Negative Relevance and “My experience in the BSI program was that it tried to do way Depth of too much. If your goal is to be a replacement for high school Content physics, then do that well.” “Barely an actual focus on physics, more incoherent lectures

Conference Session

Civil Engineering & Leadership Division Joint Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan M Cruz, Rowan University; Michael Venuto, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL), Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

. Internship experience plays a role in shaping these attitudes. One industry professionalexplained, “Internships help students develop discipline, accountability, and problem-solvingskills in a real-world setting.” However, graduates without internships can still demonstrate theirreadiness through senior design projects, leadership roles, or extracurricular activities thatshowcase initiative and teamwork. Graduates can demonstrate their attitudes to convey their readiness to meet the demandsof the profession and stand out in a competitive job market. Multiple interviews shared that theyoften assess these characteristics during interviews or internships, as they are strong indicators ofa candidate’s potential for success in the long