Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Friedman; Jerri Drakes

problem solve, collaborateand deal with real life issues. Our software allows children to use portions of the programs thatattract their interest and address the issues that they are concerned with. When the software isused in a museum setting, previously visited exhibits can trigger curiosity and a sense ofinquisitiveness that sets the stage for investigation, collaboration and new questions to beanswered. Negro Leagues software has challenging problem-solving activities that incorporateauthentic real life questions and issues in a way that engage and encourage collaboration withother students, teachers and museum staff. For instance, the Play Ball module allows the visitorsto select any Negro League team to compete and test their knowledge of

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University; Steve Harrist, Oklahoma State University; Scott D. Gelfand, Oklahoma State University, Department of Philosophy

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

-Strategies Report – will be provide to the student, and they canbe used throughout the student’s career, especially when in a new professional situation.I. Introduction The number of incidents of ethical breaches and research misconduct is worrisome. Arecently released study reported that the frequency of research misconduct and under-reportingof research misconduct among those receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Health andHuman Services is three instances per year for every 100 researchers.1 In fact, the true annualrate of unethical behavior is greater than three incidents per 100 researchers (it may be fargreater), because this study did not take into account unethical behavior that does not constituteresearch misconduct, e.g

Conference Session

Sustainability and Environmental Issues

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS; Elif Kongar, University of Bridgeport

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

infuse undergraduate curricula with green engineeringconcepts, and the benefits are not only in terms of curricular augmentation alone, but they alsoprovide a chance for faculty to develop new, innovative teaching materials.It is true the green and sustainable concepts can be incorporated into an engineering ortechnology degree program via a full-semester, stand-alone course dedicated to this general area,and all of the topics this would entail. But, that is not what the authors are proposing. With allother programmatic requirements currently in place, few academic programs are able toaccommodate the addition of another course. Therefore, it is beneficial to examine othermechanisms for incorporating the three topics discussed in this paper

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Cottrell

), and the total numberof faculty (1). The U.S. News and World Report, in its annual rankings of graduate programs,considers reputation ranks by academics, engineers and recruiters, the average Graduate RecordExam (GRE) and Standard Aptitude Test (SAT) scores of admitted students, student acceptancerates, the number of Ph.D. students per faculty member, the percent of faculty in the NationalAcademy of Sciences, total research expenditures (total and per faculty member), and thenumber Ph.D.s granted (2). Angus et al. (3) evaluated chemical engineering programs using fourmeasures of quality: the number of publications by department faculty, the number of citations oftheir work, research funding, and faculty honors. This study, in contrast

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Eskicioglu

faculty, students, academicadministrators, publishers and representatives of the IT industry. The primary purposes of theworkshop were: 1. to identify examples of the “effective” uses of IT, 2. to consider their impact on various parts of the undergraduate enterprise, 3. to investigate dissemination and assessment/evaluation issues implied by the use of IT, 4. to speculate on and help NSF anticipate the impact of future developments. Page 8.1144.2 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”The President’s

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Segalewitz

which direction to follow. These students enroll in UndeclaredEngineering Technology (UET), allowing them to take classes in a variety of disciplineswithin the department. This growing population needs to be exposed to all of the possiblecareer paths available in order to make an educated decision about their future.To increase student retention in the Department of Engineering Technology, and to givestudents a better sense of the field, faculty developed the Engineering Technology FirstYear Seminar in the late 1950s2. All Engineering Technology students enroll in the courseduring their first semester at the University. Since it’s inception, the course has continuedto evolve taking into account the current tools and new educational paradigms

Conference Session

ETAC/ABET-Related Issues

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

program faculty have fully accepted and areimplementing the process described. A table illustrates the assessment data reporting processused by the program, showing some of the assessment data gathered and improvement decisionsmade as this process was used over a five-year period in a capstone course.KeywordsAssessment, Continuous Improvement, AccreditationIntroductionThe South Dakota State University Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) program receivedits initial ABET-ETAC Accreditation in 2006. In 2011, due to State of South Dakota fundingcuts, the program was phased out, and accreditation was ended. In 2012, with the help of localindustry support, the program was restarted, and is on track to have another “initial”accreditation visit in

Conference Session

Potpourri of First-Year Issues

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Scott Moor, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

main classroom setting.Often students and/or faculty resist the change to something other than traditional lecture.Traditional lectures were the way many of us faculty learned and they are still a comfortablemode that does not demand too much of the students. How can we encourage our students andfaculty to consider new and alternative modes of instruction? Buckmister Fuller noted “Reformthe environment; stop trying to reform the people. They will reform themselves if theenvironment is right.”4 One option for encouraging greater use of the seven principles is totransform our classrooms so that they more easily accommodate these differences. Ten yearsafter Chickering and Gamson published the Seven Principles, Chickering and Ehrmann2 notedthat we

Conference Session

Pedagogical Issues in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Marilyn Barger, University of South Florida; Bradley Jenkins, St. Petersburg College

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

curricular framework common technology core hasenabled the creation of a statewide articulation pathway from the secondary system, technicalschools and incumbent worker training programs into the new degree.The multi-year process through which FLATE worked to outline, analyze, evaluate, and changethe statewide system based on national standards and assessments, as well as students’ abilitiesand needs required engagement of essential stakeholders through out the state, including but notlimited to: Florida’s Community Colleges, Florida Department of Education, Manufacturers,Workforce Florida, State and Regional Manufacturers Associations, and Economic Developers.Presented herein is the process map for facilitating this reform via review of

Conference Session

Professional Issues in Ethics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather E. Canary, University of Utah; Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University; Karin Ellison, Arizona State University; Jameson M. Wetmore, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

macroethical topics: sustainability and military funding ofuniversity research. Discussion of real and hypothetical cases tied broad ethical considerations tocurrent concerns of scientists and helped students develop ethical reasoning skills.Students completed online modules, wrote brief case analyses prior to each classroom session,and actively participated in class discussions. In addition to the Collaborative InstitutionalTraining Initiative (CITI) Program online modules in the Responsible Conduct of Research forbiomedical researchers (https://www.citiprogram.org/), the students completed the SoutheastRegional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infections' Online Training inEthical and Legal Issues in Biological Research (http

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Davis; Craig Hoff

learning.This is addressed by example. The field of automotive engineering is constantlychanging (see next paragraph). The professors make clear that they are continuallyrequired to learn about new technologies, so that they can stay abreast of the current stateof the art in automotive engineering.Outcome (j): a knowledge of contemporary issues. The field of automotive engineeringis constantly changing. New engine technologies (such as gasoline direct injection) andpowertrain topologies (such as hybrid electric vehicles) are being developed andintroduced in production vehicles. An important part of this course (and a part that thestudents find most interesting) is the discussion of future automotive technologies.Outcome (k): an ability to use the

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Reynolds; Macy Reynolds

conference with students. Since many teach evening classes, bothstudents and the professor are reluctant to spend lots of time in individual meetings.“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Another issue is office space. It is difficult to offer individual office spaces to instructors whoare only on campus for a few hours a week. Without office space these faculty members usuallydo not have the use of a phone to receive messages nor do they have their own computer tied tothe campus network. Thus communicating with the students is often a problem for an adjunctinstructor.1One way to solve this problem is to incorporate student

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Sharma

engineeringpedagogy and curriculum. With a grant from the NSF, faculty at the University of Wyoming andTexas Tech University are implementing several innovative methods aimed at improving theintellectual/conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills of students in introductory Page 8.123.2“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education”thermodynamics engineering courses. The effort is focused on using new computer based learningtechnologies as a mechanism to integrate and emphasize the use of

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Newberry; James Farison

education, in contrast to the more specialized programs typically offered atlarger institutions, both on the grounds of its own inherent value and as an alternative to the morespecialized programs. Thus, it provided an alternative for students in a niche market. Yet, asalready indicated, from the beginning there was the flirtation with the terminology of the moretraditional designators.In late Spring 1999, with an accreditation visit coming in Fall 2000, the faculty beganconsideration of the question, “Should we seek separate program accreditation for our twooptions?” On the “con” side was the concern that we would lose the unique and positivecharacter of the program and its attributes that had served Baylor very well for over twenty years.As the

Conference Session

Current Issues in Construction Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Ilyas Bhatti, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Construction

weakness in construction educationIntroduction: Current educational curricula across the US generally lack an in-depth emphasison impacts caused by construction projects, and hence graduates are unprepared to deal with reallife issues confronting them when working on such projects. For the preparation of this paper,the author examined two public projects – one very large1, and another a smaller project6 thatimposed huge costs in mitigating these impacts.Although the focus of this paper is on the largest transportation project constructed in the heart ofa major US city, the Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/T) project popularly known as the “Big Dig”,the approaches discussed here are equally applicable to infrastructure construction projects ofalmost any

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Grommes

of a broad cross-section of industry leaders, including professors, CEOs,and presidents of major engineering organizations, the board has worked over the last two yearsto define five categories characteristics of the “World Class Engineer.” The descriptions are asfollows: Aware of the world Engineers need to be sensitive to cultural differences, environmental concerns, and ethical principles. They need to understand market needs in both high and low-tech solutions. Solidly Grounded Engineering students need to be trained in the fundamentals of their disciplines, while retaining a historical perspective and an awareness of new advances and technologies in the field. Life time learning is an important theme

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sadie Miller; Donna Riley

facultystipend provided by the College, and a staff member who has part-time responsibilities inestablishing service learning at Smith. This course, or a similar course, could easily be adapted toanother institution, but the logistics involved in setting up a community-based project are alwaystime-consuming.A second set of challenges relates to the ethical aspects of this work, which inevitably raises anumber of complex and important questions. Community-based projects create additionalchallenges with many very real ethical problems that students and faculty alike must confront Page 9.643.8and resolve. We have discussed some of the ethical concerns in

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Carlson; Renato Pacheco; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco; Walter Antonio Bazzo

promote unbalance in the budget of families, generation of false needs, increaseof waste accumulation, and even exhaustion of natural resources.The points that we bring up are especially related to the harmful effects of exaggeratedconsumption and its consequences. This issue is complex and polemic because it takes animportant part in the “economical equation”. And we believe that to consider several facetsof this matter is a first step to find out solutions. Frequently, engineering courses are taughtwith a non-critical view of technology and science and its implications in economy andsociety. Thus, here we propose to show some negative aspects concerning the relationbetween technology and consumerism, which have been highlighted by some authors

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

propel them to make even greater profits for their employers. Yes,there is a reference to the value-laden dimension of the engineering profession, its effectson the environment, society and the globe. These concerns are addressed in Criterion 3and 4 in the most recent Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology guidelines.2From my personal experience as an engineering educator, Criterion 3 and 4 are the mostdifficult to accomplish and document. Also from my experience, while every school mustpay attention in principle to these criteria, an adequate addressing of some of the issuesraised by the two criteria seems as an afterthought for many faculty members. Even moretroubling is the almost enthusiastic tone that many general engineering

Conference Session

Research in Minority Issues

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Angela Linse, Temple University; Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Matt Eliot, University of Washington; Jana Jones, Microsoft Corp.; Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

students to engineering, the nationmight realize the dire predictions of business and industry. The National Alliance of Businesspredicts that by 2028 an estimated 19 million jobs will go unfilled due to a lack of workers withappropriate training6. In testimony before the congressional Commission on the Advancement ofWomen and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology, Kenneth Disken, a Vice-President of Lockheed Martin, predicted critical shortages of workers because by the end of the[21st] century, “white males will constitute only 10 percent of new entries into the workplace”7.Despite these changes, engineering graduate students and faculty still have few opportunities todeliberate on the topic of diversity prior to making decisions

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Titus, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jill L. May, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

teamwork.William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette William Oakes is the Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue University, one of the founding faculty members of the School of Engineering Education and a courtesy faculty member in Mechanical Engi- neering and Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. He is an fellow of the ASEE and NSPE. .He was the first engineer to win the Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service- Learning. He was a co-recipient of the 2005 National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education for his work in EPICS

Conference Session

Socio-Technical Issues in Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Catalano, Binghamton University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

According to recent developments in neuroscience, the brain does not really dotasks simultaneously, as we thought (hoped) it might. In fact, we just switch tasks quickly. Eachtime we move from hearing music to writing a text or talking to someone, there is a stop/startprocess that goes on in the brain. That start/stop/start process is a difficult task: rather thansaving time, it costs time (even very small micro seconds), it is less efficient, we make moremistakes, and over time it can be energy sapping.  Good, bad and maybeA Zen Buddhist fable concerning good and bad goes like this: There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to

Conference Session

Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; HuiRu Shih, Jackson State University; Yi-Lung Mo, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

modules for NUE project and implemented some new course modules in his course at the Department of Technology at JSU.Yi-Lung Mo, University of Houston Dr. Yi-Lung Mo is a Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Houston (UH). He received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from University of Hannover, Germany. He has been a faculty member at UH since 2000. He is Co-Principle Investigator for Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) Project funded by NSF and has participated in developing new course modules for NUE project and implemented new course modules in his course at the Department of Civil Engineering at UH

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

reports the current efforts by the staff and faculty atPennsylvania State University at Harrisburg to integrate the new ABET accreditationcriteria for engineering technology (TC2K) into the Structural Design and ConstructionEngineering Technology Program within the School of Science, Engineering, andTechnology. This multi-year process has involved deliberate planning and execution of acomprehensive plan designed to successfully link established program outcomes,classroom instruction, assessment and evaluation processes, and process improvementinitiatives. Building on course assessment as a foundational linchpin, the methodologyeffectively integrates input from alumni, employers, industry advisory panels, faculty,and students. Iterative techniques

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Engineering Physics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Bougie, American University; Philip Johnson, American University; Nathan Harshman, American University; Teresa Larkin, American University; Michael Black, American University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

AC 2007-2555: REDESIGNING A MAJOR: A CASE STUDY OF A CHANGINGCURRICULUMJonathan Bougie, American UniversityPhilip Johnson, American UniversityNathan Harshman, American UniversityTeresa Larkin, American UniversityMichael Black, American University Page 12.1232.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Redesigning a Major: A Case Study of a Changing CurriculumAbstractThis paper presents a case study of a significant change and reorientation in the curriculum andcourse progression of a physics program at a national university. Faculty designed this newcurriculum based on comparative research of 22 undergraduate programs in physics. Data fromthis study includes

Conference Session

Issues Affecting Engineering Program Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ford, Western Carolina University; Aaron K. Ball, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

to support this statement. Well funded,“fat” programs will probably never again be the norm. Faculty of engineering and technologyprograms have an opportunity to steer their own destiny if administrators will create supportiveenvironments.Engineering and technology faculty should remain open-minded about the possibilities of afuture technology worker surplus in their fields. Administrators of these programs should becognizant of the job security concerns of their faculty should engineering and technologyprograms be eliminated. Additional study needs to be done of the jobs outlook in specificengineering and technology fields to provide data that will support sound decision making

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Alan Rudnitsky; Borjana Mikic

own perception of what we think the student is learning. Rarely, if ever, do we concern ourselves with the process of education, the long-term effectiveness of our efforts… (p. 213)2Much of the literature of cognitive science, particularly as it is applied to instructionalpsychology agree on the basic requirements for meaningful learning to take place. These arewell summarized by Novak (1998)3: 1. Relevant prior knowledge: That is, the learner must know some information that relates to the new information to be learned in some nontrivial way. 2. Meaningful material: That is, the knowledge to be learned must be relevant to other knowledge and must contain significant concepts and propositions. 3. The learner must

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

) architects. In additions,new buildings are being planned by Robert A.M. Stern and Frank Gehry.The University of Hartford’s adjacency to the state’s capital and legislative bodies provides opportunities for contact Page 8.733.1and interaction with legislators and others concerned with the issues facing the design and construction industry.For example the State of Connecticut Licensing Board is located in Hartford.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition  2003 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Pedagogical Issues in Computing

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Perry Samson, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

answered but critical to the debate as towhether and how to best integrate Internet technology into a classroom setting.2. Background LectureTools was built largely because of an interest to extend Mazur’s Peer Instructionapproach the field of climate studies. It began as an exploration of how clickers could be used toinvite student responses on issues of concern to global change. However, we quickly discoveredthat clickers, while an excellent first step, allowed for only a limited range of questions. The firststep in the evolution of the tools described here was to develop a simple web-based tool wherestudents could answer multiple choice questions, as has been done with clickers, but also withimage-based questions that were not possible with

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Technolgy Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Laura C Chezan, Old Dominion University; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Orlando M Ayala, Old Dominion University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

and access to the Turning PointSoftware to use with the clickers. Introducing clickers in the engineering technology departmentclasses was a new initiative supported by Center for Learning and Teaching which encouragesfaculty to explore the use of technology in teaching and learning issues that are targets forimprovement and innovation. As not all the students had a clicker from previous courses and thisbeing an exploratory study we did not want to impose the purchase of new clickers, we decidedto substitute the clickers with an electronic version of them offered on-line by Polleverywhere.At the end of the course, this choice proved to be an inspired one from both instructor andstudents point of view.The idea of using clickers or their web