Conference Session

Pedagogical Advancements in Engineering Management

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralph Ocon, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

AC 2012-4441: TEACHING CREATIVE THINKING USING PROBLEM-BASED LEARNINGProf. Ralph Ocon, Purdue University, Calumet Page 25.1245.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Teaching Creative Thinking Using Problem-Based LearningAbstractAs global competition and technological innovation continue to challenge businessorganizations, the ability to solve diverse and complex problems has become essential forstudents in every academic discipline. While pursuing their careers, technology andengineering students will soon realize that the development of creative problem solvingskills is fundamental for success in today’s

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Don E. Malzahn, Wichita State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

/innovative non-repetitive activity, • Complexity – no single individual is capable of understanding the system being designed, • Unique knowledge – each engineer brings a unique mix of technical and procedural knowledge, • Collaboration – Integration multiple disciplines, and • Continuous obsolescence of knowledge.There are a variety of definitions for engineering. Below are just two as examples. • ENGINEERING is the profession in which knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience, and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize economically the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind2. • Engineering is “the application of science and

Conference Session

Engineering and Technological Literacy: Past and Future

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W. Blake P.E., Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Engineering Thermodynamics, 6 th Ed., Wiley, 2008, ISBN-13 978-0471-78735-8.29. Billington, David P., The Innovators: the Engineering Pioneers Who Made America Modern, Wiley, 1996, ISBN-13: 978-0471140269.30. Billington, David P. and David P. Billington Jr., Power, Speed, and Form – Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century, Princeton University Press, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-0-691-10292-4.31. Manoharan, Ashok K., P.K. Raju, Chetan Sankar, Use Of Multimedia Case Studies In An Introductory Course In Mechanical Engineering, AC 2010-1369, Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.32. Fogler, H. Scott, and Steven E. LeBlanc, Strategies for Creative Problem Solving, 2 nd Ed

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy J. Anderson; Sarah A. Rajala; Matthew Ohland

engineering for otherreasons. While a number of isolated innovations have been studied and have demonstrated posi-tive benefit, this study looks at each freshman cohort from 1987 through 1998 to evaluatechanges in retention in engineering during that period. Eleven cohorts were studied; five (1987-1991) experienced no influence from SUCCEED-sponsored innovations, three (1992-1994) hadsubsets of the cohort involved in various pilot programs, and four (1995-1998) were more thor-oughly affected by SUCCEED-sponsored curriculum changes. Aligned with these cohort group-ings, the data indicate three different patterns of attrition. The pre-implementation cohorts arecharacterized by rapid attrition to a retention of 60-65% by the first semester of the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Berry; Robert Lingard

asense of order and plans ahead. The Quick start individual innovates, takes risks, improvises, andplays hunches. When asked to give a presentation, the Quick Start comfortably ad libs. TheImplementor uses space and materials, builds, constructs, and uses hands-on equipment with ease.This person creates handcrafted models and insists on quality materials. Everyone has each ofthese abilities to some degree.However, people are most productivewhen they are able to utilize theirstrongest conative talents.The picture to the right graphicallydepicts the degree to which each ofthese abilities is present. The fourstriving instincts are expressedthrough three possible operatingzones, indicating how the individualwill make use these talents. A scoreof 7

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Harms; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

thelarger community of the university. By sharing classes and/or living space, students form closefriendships as part of an innovative program in cooperative learning” (p. 1). Initially created inan effort to increase student retention and improve student learning, learning communitiescontinue to gain popularity as college administrations and faculty become aware of the benefitsto students and to universities. Student involvement in learning communities at Iowa StateUniversity (ISU) has steadily increased since they “began…as a grass roots effort in 1994, withthe first learning community implemented in the fall of 1995. Within the past three years, studentparticipation in learning communities has grown from 1,114 [students] in 1998 to 1,779 in

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Lewis; Renate Fruchter

Switzerland, Strathclyde University in Glasgow UK, and TU Delft inNetherlands. Teams of A/E/C students are involved in a multi-disciplinary buildingproject in which they model, refine and document the design product, the process, and itsimplementation. The project is based on a real-world building project that has beenscoped down to address the academic time frame of two Quarters. The project progressesfrom conceptual design to a computer model of the building and a final report. As in thereal world, the teams have tight deadlines, engage in design reviews, and negotiatemodifications.P5BL employs innovative technologies to bridge these distances in time and space. TheP5BL challenges and thrusts students into an unfamiliar technologically rich

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Walter; Paul Stiebitz

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe MPD program has been influenced in varying degrees through RIT’s association with theEducational Consortium for Product Development Leadership in the 21st Century (PD21), andwith the Center for Innovation in Product Development (CIPD). PD21 currently consists of RIT,the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Detroit Mercy and the Naval PostGraduate School. CIPD is an industrial consortium currently consisting of CVC, Inc., FordMotor Company, General Motors Corporation, IBM Corporation, Ide, Inc., ITT Industries, TheNational Science Foundation, Polaroid, Product Genesis, Inc., U.S. Navy, and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Mack; James Wood

.• Problem-based learning process.• Lessons learned. Page 6.806.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationFinally, student outcomes and how the SC ATE approach may fit with new proposedaccreditation criteria are discussed.II. Faculty PreparationFaculty members are constantly refining their courses to improve the student learning outcomes.Their refinements are the result of applying new and innovative instructional methods and mayor may not encourage change among fellow faculty members. However

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Nigel Middleton; Debra Lasich; Barbara Moskal

Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 1392that are the products of the decomposition of plant and animal debris. As a result of beingpresent in all aquatic and terrestrial systems, humic materials pose a wide variety of problems.The impact humics have on membrane performance becomes an important factor in municipaland commercial water treatment plants and systems.The purpose of this project is to correlate fouling resistance with chemical, physical and fluxproperties of different membranes. By using the field-flow fractionation, an analyticalseparation method, in an innovative manner the following

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard N. Smith; Michael K. Jensen; Deborah A. Kaminski; Amir Hirsa

integrated courses and an integrated laboratory coursein which the three disciplines are taught simultaneously. The approach is intended to showinterconnections and transferability of concepts and ideas, with an emphasis on the way they occurin engineering practice. Both courses are being taught in a new multimedia studio classroom,permitting student-student interactions, the use of in-class computer tools and examples, as well asindividual desktop experiments and demonstration experiments. Our experiences in teachingthrough this innovative format, in using case studies to motivate student learning of introductorymaterial, and in integrating the laboratory course experience to that of the studio classroom, arerecounted.IntroductionFundamental

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Regan; Katherine Sanders; Donald Evans; Chris Carlson-Dakes; Cesar Malave; Ardie Walser; Jack McGourty; Richard Felder

national and regional conferences and workshops such as the ASEE Annual Conference, the Frontiers in Education Conference, or the National Effective Teaching Institute.• Identification and support is given to campus teaching leaders in engineering. Teaching leaders might be winners of past teaching awards and/or faculty effectively developing or importing innovative instructional techniques. They might be provided with a salary supplement or release time to take a leadership role in faculty development activities on campus, lead a workshop for new faculty, facilitate a monthly teaching circle, or mentor new faculty.• A clear administrative message is presented that a commitment to effective teaching is a requirement for

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Valana Baxter; Mark R Henderson; Jim Baxter; Alan de Pennington

fact, the same companies are sponsoring anotherteam this year and are already selecting a project for 2000-01. The universities learned severallessons, covered at the end of this paper and will use them to continuously improve thisexperience for the students. And, lastly, the faculties at the two universities have become betteracquainted both with each other and with the sometimes-diverse cultural issues that help globalunderstanding.II. MotivationAcademic innovations such as this don’t happen overnight nor are they self-starting. Therefore,it makes sense to explain a bit about the environments at both UofL and ASU that generatedinterest in such a programThe GEDT program had its beginnings during the Conference "Excellence in

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Merredith D Portsmore; Martha N. Cyr; Chris B. Rogers

, expands upon the earlierversion of ROBOLAB to meet these goals. This paper will present some of the issues associatedwith developing the software, a detailed description of the final solution, as well as assessment ofhow it has initially worked, both at the elementary school and college level.II. Background In 1995 and 1996 grants from NASA and NSF funded the development of a K-12aeronautics program and the development of an innovative undergraduate engineering curriculumat Tufts University.1-5 Each program needed tools that were flexible, powerful, and affordable toimplement their respective goals. Moreover, developers were looking for a software environmentthat would allow for easy simultaneous development of tools for the PC and

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne E. Keilson; Randall Jones; Lester Coyle; Elliot King; Duane Shelton

-science classes. The results are described in a paper submitted to the 1999 Frontiers in Educationconference, sponsored by the IEEE and ASEE, held in November 1999 7. In addition to the obviousanalysis of student lab notebooks and survey instruments, social science students were used asobservers as others experimented, to capture detailed information on the fits and starts of progressthrough the modules.C. The Interactive Web BoardPhysics education research in the past decade has demonstrated that the learning of physics isgreatly enhanced by "hands-on" activities 8. Two of the most successful innovations in physicsteaching have been laboratory-based 9,10, foregoing the traditional lecture completely to allowstudents time to construct their

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Marty Bowe; John Feland; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

Session 2268 When Multimedia Doesn’t Work: An Assessment of Visualization Modules for Learning Enhancement in Mechanics Martin Bowe , Dan Jensen, John Feland, Brian Self Department of Engineering Mechanics USAF Academy, CO 80840AbstractEngineering mechanics education is currently undergoing a transformation from strictly lecture-based education to a format where a variety of innovative learning techniques are used.Techniques for enhancing student learning as well as concrete data establishing the effectivenessof

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Hager; Jacques Lesenne; Dominique Saintive; Richard Devon

together whileoverseas.Of course, most engineering students are not in the Honors College, so new models forincorporating international experiences will be required to increase the number of international Page 3.13.2experiences for all students. Our experience indicates that new instructional technologies,especially those involving electronic media, have the potential to change many of thesetraditional exchange program paradigms. They present new opportunities to internationalize thecurriculum in innovative ways, often without leaving the home institution.The d’Artois-Penn State Connection: the Institutions. The Université d’Artois is a

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

changes will most likely to be the fastest in theUnited States which for the past 6 to 8 decades leads the world in innovation and basic research [4]. It has been observed in the past three years that young people enter college with lower manualskills (but higher computer skills) than their predecessors. Is that only because of more time spent infront of a computer and less in physical contact (both manual and visual) with real 3-dimensionalobjects? The answer seems to be a simple ‘yes’, but the reality is more complex. Each generation ofyoung people acquires skills that are demanded by the surrounding environment and the society theyfunction in. Successful people adopt easily to the surrounding world that was created by

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Y. Amaya; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Cynthia Atman

only demonstrate that their students have achievedeleven specific outcomes upon graduation, but it also encourages them to continuously improve,in innovative ways, the learning experience. To accomplish this, engineering educators will needevaluation protocols and measurement instruments that will facilitate feedback and the resultantimprovements.Statistical process control (SPC) and control charting, in particular, can be used as a feedbackmechanism. Industry has commonly used SPC techniques to assure that production remains “incontrol” according to pre-determined specifications and process capability. Recently, severalauthors have proposed applying these concepts to engineering education; i.e., to assure thateducational processes and

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)

well with the class’s innovative use of technology. The strong performance ofTeam B in Laboratory 3 may be a result of a motivated group (Group B2) that provided strongleadership and flourished in the DEE environment. The spontaneous and independentcharacteristics of Group B1 may have been inconsequential when Group B1 served as the fieldteam in Laboratory 3. However, the same characteristics may have led to a lack of leadershipwhen they served as the home team in Laboratory 5. This lack of leadership, combined with apossible lack of motivation of Group B2, may explain Team B’s reduced grade in this laboratory.In all cases, the motivation and leadership success in a distance engineering environment wereessential ingredients for project

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Shivakumar Raman; P. Simin Pulat; Hank Grant; Bob L. Foote; Adedeji B. Badiru

grant funded by the Division of Design,Manufacture and Industrial Innovation at the NSF to conduct research towards the developmentof an integrated production management environment. The research entails a multi-disciplinaryapproach for CIM in the modern factory. Instead of focusing on the fragments of the CIMstructure, this research concentrates on the integration itself. Page 2.122.2The main aim of this research is to develop a 'maximal' production management methodology.This methodology takes advantage of the major sources of flexibility and response available to amanager such as selecting lot sizes, process plans, processes to create features

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas R Phillips

for anumber of institutions, which may explain the structure of many Mexican programs and courses.Some Mexican educators disagree with the UNAM model, so you will find programs that vary inemphasis, length, occupational objectives, and the industries they serve. It is said that the privatesector has been more innovative in recent years.University policies discourage part-time study and restrict the number of times that a student canattempt a course. Students are expected to make up any missing courses, incompletes, or failuresbefore attempting new courses. The demand for seats is intense, so students are under pressure tomaintain progress. Mexican universities use both descriptive and numerical grading, but in eithercase, the lowest passing

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Doepker

delivered by a faculty memberbut require a problem from industry that has a mentor. “Industry must be committed tothe problem; it must matter to them and they must want and expect it to be solved.” It isalso emphasized that these problems combine “substantial and continuous industryinteraction (including weekly on-site activities by the students), formalized instruction indesign methodology, and intensive faculty oversight”.Terry Shoup states in the publication “Innovations in Engineering Design Education” (1)that “Improving design methodology has been recognized as the single most essentialstep in industrial excellence and national competitiveness of U.S. products”. With thisbackground it is “evident that engineers in both industry and academia

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Ware; Charles F. Yokomoto

through sixteen and eighteen through thirty-two. Some of the 14 15 16, 18, 19, 25 26applications include problem solving , writing , retention , ethics , and attitudes 29toward innovation and creativity .2.3. FoundationsWhat makes the MBTI stand out from the crowd of learning styles assessment instruments isthat it is backed with a considerable range of resources for use in the academic community, thebusiness community, and the counseling community. Not only is it used in research, but it is ahighly researched instrument with reliability and validity studies being continuously conducted 2and reported . Here are several points

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William Durfee

Rochester.) The task was to make a can tip over,but sometime after students set it upright on a table at the front of the lecture hall and return to theirseats, but before the end of lecture. It must also tip without anyone touching the can. Onegenerally sees a wide range of innovative and not-so-innovative solutions to this problem. Mostcans were designed using “found” materials and fabricated at home without needing a shop.Another quick and inexpensive hands-on project is to have teams of four students construct towersfrom 100 index cards using only staples for assembly. This project is assigned the first day ofclass and is due at the second class. It immediately forces students to think about designing to adeadline and to experience working in a

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred J., Jr. Bedard

a well-designed product can uncovera wealth of subtle innovations, which can lead to a lasting respect and wonder about“simple” objects around us. Often a superficial simplicity keeps us from appreciatingdesign elegance.1.0 Reverse Engineering Project Learning GoalsResponding to the project challenges will provide a range of valuable experiences. Thefact that the objects usually represent evolutionary designs means that students can notonly analyze an object in its’ present form, but also can study the dynamics causingdesign changes with time. Also, the needs for testing and analyzing will confront teamswith the challenge of inventing methods for study, within constraints of time andavailable resources. Reverse engineering brings to bear

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

James A. Houdeshell; Robert Mott

Manufacturing EducationThe National Center Of Excellence For Advanced Manufacturing Education (NCE/AME) wasestablished in Dayton, Ohio in January, 1995 with support from the National Science Foundation(NSF).* The center is based in the Advanced Integrated Manufacturing Center (AIM Center) thatis jointly operated by Sinclair Community College and the University of Dayton.The NCE/AME was one of the first three centers funded by the NSF under the AdvancedTechnological Education Program (ATE). The center’s objectives are to develop anddisseminate novel manufacturing education approaches that prepare BS and associate degreegraduates to contribute to the long-term improvement of manufacturing capability in the UnitedStates. Innovations in curriculum design

Conference Session

NEE Technical Session 3 - Courses: development, logistics, and impact

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mott, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

comments areabout how quickly lectures are delivered and how much they dislike the flipped classroommodel. The majority of students did appear to be aware of the course's resources and wereappreciative of the ease of using the resources on a tablet.ConclusionsThe complexities of teaching thermodynamics in three different ways—in person, hybrid, andentirely online—were examined in this study. This investigation is predicated on the basic ideathat a course's effectiveness is largely determined by its careful design, with the modality ofchoice acting as a supporting element. Innovative models such as the hybrid approach areemerging as the educational environment moves beyond the conventional online versus face-to-face dichotomy to include hybrid

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Teamwork

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeong Hin Chin, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Christopher Brooks, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

inequities. In addition, she is interested in technology and how specific affordances can change the ways we collaborate, learn, read, and write. Teaching engineering communication allows her to apply this work as she coaches students through collaboration, design thinking, and design communication. She is part of a team of faculty innovators who originated Tandem (tandem.ai.umich.edu), a tool designed to help facilitate equitable and inclusive teamwork environments.Christopher Brooks, University of Michigan ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Analyzing Patterns of Pre-Semester Concerns in First-Year Engineering StudentsAbstractThis complete research

Conference Session

Hands-On Learning in ET II

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paniz Khanmohammadi Hazaveh, Michigan Technological University; Nathir Rawashdeh, Michigan Technological University; Dunsten Michael Xavier Dsouza; Joshua Olusola, Michigan Technological University; Joshua Albrecht, Michigan Technological University; Eric Houck

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

, and the European Commission.Dunsten Michael Xavier DsouzaJoshua OlusolaJoshua Albrecht, Michigan Technological UniversityEric Houck ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024AUTOMATING AN INDUSTRIAL DISHWASHING SYSTEM USINGHARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP PLC SIMULATION WITH FACTORY I/O…AbstractWhile industrial automation is growing in many industries, the hospitality industry has not seenmuch technological innovation recently. This leaves a wealth of potential for the implementationof automated solutions, especially at large-scale operations, like university dining halls or cruiseship restaurants. This paper details a student project developed in the advanced programmablelogic controllers class. It is part of the