woulddecline. The increase in productivity was accounted for by the fact that the workers wished to please the observers.This effect was given the name ‘Hawthorne’ after the name of the works in which it was found.students for the subsequent years. However if the reality is a tension between studentwillingness to commit to a degree program and the perceived effort obtaining the degreerequires, then adding more requirements might negatively impact how willing students are tostay in the program.Framing issues in engineering education as tensions rather than problems has some support in thelarger literature. In education Kezar [11] has reviewed models and processes of change in highereducation. Higher education organizations differ from government and
collapse that reverberated in form of massivelayoffs in the technology sector in Finland in 2002. After a few years, the global financialcrisis worsened the tainted reputation of the higher engineering education associated withrelatively limited job security. In order to face these problems looming ahead we are in a needof the most eligible candidates from both sexes in our degree programs. The long term viewof our university statistics reveals that the proportion of accepted female applicants had aslight positive curve from 1990 (17,5 %) to 2001 (25 %), whereas the 2002 collapse caused atemporary downturn in the figures.2 However, since 2005 the number of accepted femaleapplicants has not increased and has been established at 24,5 %. The role of
Paper ID #46200Reverse Engineering as a Tool for Enhancing Sustainability Understandingin a First-Year Design CourseDr. Kathryn Hasz Dr. Hasz is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Carthage College. She is involved in the development of the new Engineering BA and BS programs at the college.Jessica Lavorata, Carthage College ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Reverse Engineering as a Tool for Enhancing Sustainability Understanding in a First-Year Design CourseAbstractThis Complete Evidence-Based Practice paper presents the implementation of a reverseengineering
engineering education has not yet happened at a systemic level.Research to Practice CycleThe research to practice cycles tend to look like that used in the CCLI program description7,Figure 1, or the “Innovation Cycle of Educational Practice and Research” adapted from Booth,Colomb, and Williams8 and proposed by the American Society for Engineering Education9,Figure 2. These cycles share several aspects important to the continued transformation ofengineering education, including: one of the (often unspoken) goals of research in engineering education is to improve practice in engineering education; and engineering education practice is a key course of questions to be answered through engineering education research
Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Program Director of the Master of Software Engineering (MSE) program at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. His research interests are in Software Specifications, Requirements Engineering, Software Testing and Verification. He has published a lot of papers in Software Engineering area, and is the co-author of the book "Specification of Software Systems" published by Springer-Verlag, 1998. He is a member of the Association of the Computing Machinery (ACM). Page 11.61.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Light Weight Tool
Paper ID #36643Professional Development Outcomes for Rural Teachersparticipating in a Research Experience for Teachers Programin Innovative Transportation Systems (Evaluation)Susan Gallagher Susan Gallagher is the Education and Workforce Program Manager at the Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University. She currently serves as co-PI on the NSF-funded Research Experience for Teachers in Innovative Transportation Systems site grant and Project Coordinator for the Sustainable Transformation of Environmental Engineering Education for Modern Society grant, funded by the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering
digital hardware design methodologies currently usedin industry.In summary, integrating HDL and FPGA into digital circuit design courses will bring manyinnovative effects on digital hardware design education in EET programs. Meanwhile, with thedevelopment of semiconductor and CAD technologies, not only the FPGA development kits, butalso the CAD systems supporting VHDL synthesis become economically available. For example,through Xilinx’s University program, any university can apply for a donation from Xilinx to getits CAD systems for digital circuit design for free 9. So it is right time for EET programs in USuniversities to move from the traditional digital hardware design education to a VHDL andFPGA integrated one.References[1] J. F. Wakerly
Paper ID #39544Work in Progress: Measuring Authentic Diversity, Equity, and InclusionEfforts in a Multiscale Sustainable-Food System Research NetworkWinifred Opoku, The Ohio State University Winifred Opoku is a doctoral student in the Department of Engineering Education, College of Engineering (CoE). She worked in the energy industry as a mechanical design engineer and a corporate trainer before returning to the Academy pursue her PhD. She has a wealth of teaching and training experience in various settings: first-year engineering classrooms, academic mentorship programs, K-12 events, nonprofits, and in corporate spaces
curriculum was being developed (reshaped), the company President helped theDean of the School of Technology form the ―Dean’s Executive Council (DEC)‖ which wouldultimately serve as the advocacy group to support the development and approval of the programby the commission of higher education. The DEC also helps sustain the program through gift-in-kind for laboratories, cash for student scholarship, and experiential learning opportunities for thestudents in the Mechatronics program. Furthermore, the company president provided significantfinancial backing and technical support on a regular basis and personally funded an endowmentto support the program. The initiative to develop and implement the Mechatronics Engineering Technologyprogram was a
Paper ID #14573Professional Science Graduate Program Revolutionizes the Educational Ex-perience of EngineersDr. Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University Dr. Saeed Foroudastan is the Associate Dean for the College of Basic and Applied Sciences (CBAS). The CBAS oversees 10 departments at Middle Tennessee State University. He is also the current Director for the Masters of Science in Professional Science program and a professor of engineering technology at MTSU. Foroudastan received his B.S. in civil engineering, his M.S. in civil engineering, and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Tennessee
AC 2011-602: CIVIL ENGINEERING MASTER’S PROGRAMS: A COM-PREHENSIVE REVIEW OF TYPES AND REQUIREMENTSJeffrey S. Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison Jeffrey S. Russell, Ph.D., P.E. is a Professor and Chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2205 Engineering Hall, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706 Over the past 22 years, Professor Jeffrey S. Russell has established himself as a leader in education, research, and service to the civil engineering profession through championing diversity, leadership, inno- vation, and enhanced education for future civil engineers. He is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. He received a BS degree
, systems and control and design of mechanical and mechatronic systems. Dr. Nagchaudhuri received his bachelors degree from Jadavpur University in Calcutta, India with a honors in Mechanical Engineering in 1983, thereafter, he worked in a multinational industry for 4 years before joining Tulane University as a graduate student in the fall of 1987. He received his M.S. degree from Tulane University in 1989 and Ph.D. degree from Duke University in 1992. Page 13.769.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Integration of Image Analysis Projects in an Introductory Computational Methods
bridge and aca- demic program for new engineering students, preparing them with research, communication and leader- ship skills. Her research interests are in computational and data-driven modeling of physical systems in acoustics and communication networks, model-based systems engineering, user-centric design of emerg- ing technology and engineering education.Dr. Susan Thomson Tripathy, University of Massachusetts Lowell Dr. Susan Thomson Tripathy received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1989. Her doctoral research was funded by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation grant, and utilized ethnographic fieldwork in rural Bihar, India, to analyze the politiTiana Robinson, University of Massachusetts
. Page 3.559.12For future programs such as EESP, the following tips can help ensure a successful collaborativeeffort: 1. Establish and maintain connections with national agencies such as NSF and educational institutions throughout the U.S. 2. Establish and maintain local support of your Graduate School and respective schools and colleges, including the College of Engineering. 3. Involve local faculty, staff, and graduate students in planning and implementing workshops and associated activities. 4. Rely on electronic communication for application processes, interactions among participants, and networking after the program. 5. Listen to the participants through day-to-day conversations and a formal qualitative
2017 Pacific Southwest SectionMeeting: Tempe, Arizona Apr 20 Paper ID #20693Introduction to Engineering Using Interactive Video in Support of a FullyOnline Flipped Classroom ApproachProf. John M Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University Professor John Santiago has been a technical engineer, manager, and executive with more than 26 years of leadership positions in technical program management, acquisition development and operation research support while in the United States Air Force. He currently has over 16 years of teaching experience at the university level and taught over 40
program not only supports the success of individual students, butalso builds the participating institutions’ capability to improve their minority enrollment anddegree-completion rates.2 In 2003, Arizona State University, through its Ira A. Fulton School ofEngineering (which includes computer science and construction), became one of the first 13 new“Block Grant” program schools, selected from over 110 applicants. ASU was very pleased withthis distinction since we are not yet a minority institution, although we are nearing 20% URMstudents at ASU and have 19.5% URM students in the Fulton School of Engineering.3 NACMEnow has a total of 44 institutional partners in this program.4The NACME grants are helping the institutions recruit, admit, educate and
, Behrend College Stephen Strom is a lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology department of Penn State Behrend, and holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. His career includes over thirty years experience in designing and programming embedded systems and has multiple patents for both hardware designs and software algorithms c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Programmable System-On-Chip (PSoC) Usage in Embedded Programming CoursesAbstractPart of the requirements for an Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) programincludes the ability for students to design and implement
(1994) • The Telecommunications Fact Book and Illustrated Dictionary (1992) Dr. Khan is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), and a member of American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), and has been listed in Who’s Who among America’s Teachers. Dr. Khan also serves as a program evaluator for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Page 26.581.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Effectiveness of Scaffolding in Simulated IT Training and Education
and writing, can easily provide an additionalsupport vehicle for all engineering curriculum. While engineering is the central theme for themagnet program, the school wide program is supported with research-based curricula in coresubjects like reading and writing. Reading instruction is aligned with the principles of the NoChild Left Behind (NCLB), Florida’s Reading First initiative and utilizes the Harcourt Trophiescore reading program.Classroom teachers use the district’s pacing guide based on this reading program for identifyingthe focus skills and strategies. These skills and strategies are incorporated into integrated Page
) - Semester IIIn fall 2017, the Engineering and Technology department submitted an application for thiscertificate program, with all supporting documents, to the NY State Education Department(NYSED), and in mid-November 2017, NYSED approved College to offer this certificateprogram. The department will begin to offer courses within this certificate program aftercompleting composite laboratory renovation and purchasing all supporting equipment. Thecontents of this certificate program will be discussed in detail at the ASEE AnnualConference.3.2 Computer Aided Design for Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing CertificateThis certificate program will cover manufacturing systems utilized in the additive andsubtractive manufacturing fields. Students will
Paper ID #40652Workshop on Engineering First-Year Holistic Support to Succeed ModelDr. Lisa Lampe, University of Virginia Lisa Lampe is the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Affairs in the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, joining UVA in January 2014. Prior to that, she served in many roles, bridging student affairs and academic affairs including Residence Dean at Stanford University, Hall Di- rector and Interim Area Coordinator for residential programs at the University of Colorado-Boulder. She earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education at the University of Virginia in 2022 and B.S. in Applied Math
writing in the disciplines.Bibliography1. W. Zhu, “Faculty Views on the Importance of Writing, the Nature of Academic Writing, and Teaching andResponding to Writing in the Disciplines,” Journal of Second Language Writing, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 29-48, March2004.2. S. Lord. Effective “Writing to Communicate” Experiences in Electrical Engineering Courses. Presented at the2007 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, Honolulu, HI, June 2007.3. S. Manuel-Dupont, “Writing-Across-the-Curriculum in an Engineering Program,” Journal of EngineeringEducation, vol. 85, no.1, pp. 35-40, January 1996.4. E.D. Wheeler, G.G. Balazs, and R.L. McDonald, “Writing as a Teaching and Learning Tool in EngineeringCourses,” Proceedings, 1997 ASEE
in a junior-level electronics course. Computers in Education Journal 11:1 (Jan–Mar 2001), 28-33.3. R. Pallas-Areny and J. G. Webster, Analog signal processing. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1999, 259– 264.4 Anonymous. How to test basic operational amplifier parameters. Application note published by Analog DevicesInc., Norwood, MA. No date given.5. D. M. Beams, Developing Computer-Based Laboratory Instruments in a New Undergraduate ElectricalEngineering Program. Presented at the 2001 Annual Conference of the American Society for EngineeringEducation, Albuquerque, NM, June 24– 27, 2001.DAVID M. BEAMSDavid Beams is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler. He receivedthe B.S. degree in Electrical
to make educational and career choicesbased on opportunities for service to their communities [24]. Finally, although ethics anddiversity are critical components of engineering training and practice, mostundergraduate engineering programs do not address these issues in-depth [25-26].We launched “Science and Engineering for Social Justice” as a 5-credit course selected ina competitive process through the University Honors Program. We chose to offer thecourse through the honors program to reach a diverse audience of students who wereaccustomed to high-level engagement with course material.By offering the course through the honors program was that we wanted the class to becomposed of both STEM and non-STEM students to cultivate a more rich
new situations utilizing the processes of generalization, abstraction andassociation with inspirations from nature31-36. There is a need to expose engineering students tothe areas of Mechatronics, Robotics and Intelligent Systems for better understanding of the real-life complex systems and their future development37-50. It is also important to introduce thesesystems and their applications in the K-12 education through avenues of federal programs andinitiatives for encouraging school students to join STEM disciplines. The development of Page 25.452.2“Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems” in the Mechanical Engineering Department at
Paper ID #16513An Overview and Preliminary Assessment of a Summer Transportation En-gineering Education Program (STEEP) for Ninth GradersDr. Shashi S. Nambisan P.E., University of Tennessee - Knoxville Shashi Nambisan is a Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT). Since 1989, he has led efforts on more than 165 research, education, and outreach projects that have addressed local, statewide, regional and national issues in transportation and infrastructure systems management related to policy, planning, operations, safety, and risk analysis. He has authored or co-authored more than 125 peer
Paper ID #45871WIP: Creating a Framework for Upper-Level Project-Based Courses in Electricaland Computer EngineeringDr. Rohit Dua, Missouri University of Science and Technology ROHIT DUA, Ph.D is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and Missouri State University’s Cooperative Engineering Program. His research interests include engineering education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 WIP: Creating a Framework for Upper-Level Project-Based Courses in Electrical
Paper ID #25625Education for Sustainable Civil Engineering: A Case Study of Affective Out-comes among StudentsDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, En- vironmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the Associate Chair for Under- graduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students
AC 2011-27: CHALLENGES IN ASSESSING INTERDISCIPLINARY EN-GINEERING PROGRAMSMeg Krudysz, City College of New YorkDr. Ann Wittig, City College of the City University of New York Page 22.318.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Challenges in Assessing Multidisciplinary Programs between Engineering and Non-Engineering SchoolsAbstractProgram accreditation by ABET requires that faculty assess and evaluate student performance todemonstrate that a program achieves its outcomes. For a conventional single-disciplinaryprogram, these assessments are challenging to conduct because they require a substantial
education, assessment, accreditation, instructional technology, and active learning.Dr. Eric M. Wetzel, Auburn University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Delivering Multi-Disciplinary Experiences in Education: A Study of Construction Program Practices to Meet Accreditation RequirementsAbstractConstruction education is seeing an increased emphasis in demonstrating student achievement oflearning outcomes. The recent move to outcomes-based accreditation by the American Councilfor Construction Education (ACCE) requires programs to utilize assessments to demonstratestudent achievement of specific student learning outcomes. The standard dictates that at least oneof these must be a direct