Conference Session

Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University; Douglas E. Oppliger, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

flexible program to adapt to a mode that works best in the hostinstitution and serves the students as the educators of the school see fit. This flexibility isevident in the types of hosts presented in Tables 1 and 2. There are alternative high schools(institutions that often serve as a last resort in public education when traditional institutions donot work for a student), magnet schools, charter schools, traditional public high schools, anUpward Bound program (which serves low-income and first-generation students from manyschools), as well as schools that also employ Project Lead the Way (PLTW). So, HSE is flexibleenough to facilitate other STEM programs (e.g., PLTW) and to work in highly structuredinstitutions such as magnet and technical high

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Fetter; M.P. Sharma

. Pedagogically, the issue of effective teaching approaches (between Generalized approach versus Building block approach) needs to be decided, which will impact the design of online course content and delivery. Technically, special needs for course tools and techniques arise in implementing intensive features of complicated engineering graphics, mathematical equations, complex three-dimensional images, animations, and visualizations. Platforms like WebCT and eCollege have limited capabilities in these areas and more advanced development software such as Authorware, Flash, and Java need consideration. • The most successful students in the online thermodynamics

Conference Session

International Case Studies:Collaborations, Exchanges & Interactions

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alec Simcock, Victoria University; Robert ives, Victoria University; Paul Bronson, Victoria University; Charles Mphande, Victoria University; Juan SHI, Victoria University

Tagged Divisions

International

untilthe end of semester 2 of 2005. The following SEE email typifies the challenge presented to the Page 12.1452.4teaching staff 3:“ … By my reckoning we have approximately 18 weeks before our first PBL students are sat inthe room waiting for us to deliver our material. From this we need to subtract time taken byholidays, PBL training sessions, and of course completing our current semester’s assessmentsetc. (say 3+2+2=7 weeks?)We have a significant problem to have a satisfactory semester 1 program in place, let alone havematerial prepared for the semester 2 program (there being so little time between semesters).Despite our current workloads, and

Conference Session

Problem- and project-based learning in environmental engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Cardenas, Harvey Mudd College; David Wayne Kelley, Department of Geography, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN; Warren Roberts

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

Page 23.642.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 GIS and Introductory Environmental Engineering: A Way to Fold GIS into An Already-Existing CourseThe use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) was implemented in the upper-divisionundergraduate technical elective Introduction to Environmental Engineering at Harvey MuddCollege. Students integrated technical engineering skills, newly-learned geographicalinformation system (GIS) skills, and the engineering design process, all in the context of thedesign of a debris flow barrier for a wilderness land parcel acquired by a local conservancygroup.Junior and senior general engineering students, the majority of whom had no experience

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Menezes Oliveira, Michigan Technological University; Ivan T Lima Jr., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Global Programs

,knowledge, and behaviors that participants will acquire as they progress through this program areexpected: 1. Provide students with the language, culture, technical, and business skills to work for international companies; 2. Create course articulation agreements that transfer credit between participating institutions; 3. Develop a system for linguistic and cultural preparation for students participating in the foreign exchange; 4. Provide industry with culturally and technically proficient professionals qualified to work in several locations for multi-national companies; 5. Document results of successful relationships between program participants (students

Conference Session

The "Education" in Experiential Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nashwan Younis, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

the importance of sitevisits.IntroductionHigher education institutions (HEI) can no longer operate in isolation. The need for engineeringeducation change has led industry and constituents to question the relevancy of engineeringprograms. According to the analyses conducted by The American Society of MechanicalEngineers1, it is common for engineers to participate in or lead project management teams, whichrequire working knowledge of procurement, financial analysis, sales and marketing, and othernon-technical areas. As a result, updating the program educational objectives and the courseoutcomes is essential for every engineering program.Engineering programs utilize assessment methods that include both direct and indirect measures.Many articles

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

flowmeter readings.5. Efficiency: Consider the electrical energy calculated in plotting the polarization curve and the chemical energy calculated in the mass balance. Calculate the efficiencies of electric generation by the ratio of the two. Plot efficiency as a function of current density.6. Speculate on the causes of any mismatch between the chemical and electrical energy calculations, and any departure of the polarization curve from what is expected.7. Raw Experimental Data table.An example of a polarization curve obtained from this experiment is shown in Figure 14. InFigure 15 an example of electrical efficiency is shown for the fuel cell stack. Page 8.1024.16 1 0.9

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Use of Technology in Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Burcu Ozden, Pennsylvania State University; Muge Olgun Baytas, The Ministry of Education, Turkey

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

environmental, economic, and socialconsiderations. The evaluation process included a scoring rubric [27] (Appendix C Table 1) forcase study discussions and an assessment of LCA reports generated using SolidWorks. Thestudents' ability to conduct LCA assessments via SolidWorks was determined by their capacity toproduce reports, evaluated using the criteria in Appendix C Table 2. Additionally, understandingof LCA was assessed by examining their conclusions regarding the selection of environmentallyfriendly materials. Importantly, students, even in assignments not explicitly requiring LCAassessments or sustainability considerations, voluntarily incorporated sustainability discussions,as exemplified in the final design project report. This mixed methods

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Integration

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lobaugh

Session 3663 Lean Manufacturing A unique approach to educating students Michael Lobaugh Lecturer in Engineering Mechanical Engineering Technology Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractThis paper presents a recently developed method of teaching Lean Manufacturing. The LeanManufacturing course is structured as both a lecture and an open discussion class. The class ispresented as a 400 level course, which qualifies as a technical elective for all

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ernest Goeres; Elisabeth Sanchez; Alejandro Lozano; Victor Mucino

are indeed far reaching. The WestVirginia/Queretaro experience is a “customer-supplier” model between academia and industry,which can be expanded and replicated in other areas of professional endeavor in a shrinking globaland competitive professional context.INTRODUCTIONIt has been acknowledged that academia and industry in general possess very different cultures.Academia is by nature conservative, traditionalist and individualistic, while industry is progressive,1 Doctoral Student, Educational Leadership Studies, West Virginia University, USA2 Professor, Advance Educational Studies, West Virginia University, USA3 Proefssor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University, USA

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Xudong Yu; William White; Scott Smith; Keqin Gu; Jerry Weinberg; Cem Karacal; George L. Engel

the areas,demonstrations, and guest lecturing.Members of the group create robotics project modules that encompass concepts to be mastered instructured exercises for courses in their respective areas. These modules provide a basis ofconcepts and technical vocabulary for design discussions between the members. Through thesedesign sessions, the technical concepts of one discipline are translated into materials andexercises at a level that students in a complementary discipline can understand. Members worktogether to adapt and expand the modules in order to make the content accessible to studentsoutside of the specific area of expertise. Essentially, the instructors become students who gain afundamental understanding of the relevant aspects of

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Teaching Preparation in Graduate Programs

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kara Danielle Fong, University of California, Berkeley; Shannon Ciston, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

version of the survey given to the course students.Course ContentThe course was organized into six distinct modules, each covered by one to two class sessions. Inthis section, we describe the learning objectives and implementation of each of these modules.Aspects of the course which were newly introduced for this year’s modified offering areitalicized.Module 1: Course DesignThe first module of the course introduced students to student-centered, objectives-basedapproaches to course design. The module began with a whole-group discussion on the argumentsin favor of student-centered, rather than teacher-centered paradigms and also included the topicsof constructivism, student motivation, and student levels of development. This discussion wasguided by

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Teaching Preparation in Graduate Programs

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Locke Davenport Huyer, University of Toronto; Neal I. Callaghan, University of Toronto; Dawn M. Kilkenny, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

each session to collaborate with secondary school educators indiscerning a relevant global research theme of interest. The Director (Programming)subsequently works closely with the identified Stream Leads to generate discipline-specificresearch questions in the form of RFPs. The Director (Programming) further invests time witheach Stream Lead to create relevant skill development protocols and associated STEM theory forlaboratory and classroom discussion. During each on-campus session, the Directors monitor allactivity and are available to assist at all levels of activity.Instructor trainingAll Discovery instructors, once recruited and familiar with program expectations, are required tosign a written agreement signifying their commitment to

Conference Session

Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession and ASCE II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman D. Dennis Jr. P.E., University of Arkansas; Decker B. Hains, Western Michigan University; Horst Brandes P.E., University of Hawaii

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Demonstrated Ability Achievement Through 1 – Receive Acknowledge the importance of effective and Undergraduate (be aware of, be willing to receive, Education and be attentive to a particular persuasive communication to technical and phenomenon or behavior) nontechnical audiences. 2 – Respond Practice effective and persuasive communication Undergraduate (actively participate in an activity, Education attend to a task, and react to to technical and

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Velegol; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant

needs5. Develop technical communication skills c, k6. Provide knowledge and guidance allowing students to make an ginformed decision about choice of engineering majorThis course is taught by six engineering faculty representing all the majors in the EngineeringCollege. In the past, students would meet together three times a week for lectures on the variousdisciplines of engineering, problem solving, engineering as a profession, engineering ethics as wellas lectures given by guest speakers. Once a week the students would meet in a smaller setting,supervised by one faculty member, for labs done in teams.This previous format did fulfill the stated objectives in Table 1

Conference Session

Simulation and Programming

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek M Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

screen, the simulationexecute each command in a program. The single step feature in Vericut® allows the instructor toexplain how each block of code is executed before proceeding to the next. These examples arealso saved in the class directory so that they can be retrieved by students as they review materialpresented during a lecture.Evidence of Impact This evidence comes from observations by the instructors and technical staff and fromstudent feed back. It is divided into (1) impact on efficiency of use of laboratory time, (2)reduced damage to equipment and tooling, and (3) providing learning assistance for students.Efficiency of Use of Laboratory Time: Recent curriculum changes have resulted in both thereduction of scheduled CNC lab times in

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division ASCE Liaison Committee - Accreditation and Curriculums - What Changes Are Occurring?

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Aldrich, American Society of Civil Engineers; Norma Mattei, University of New Orleans; Kleio Avrithi, Mercer University; Jennifer Hofmann, American Society of Civil Engineers; Anthony Kulesa

, engineers, and others appropriate organizations to endorse, support, promote, and implement attainment of the CEBOK by individual civil engineers, as a means to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public. To promote attainment of the CEBOK, ASCE supports: (1) establishing accreditation criteria for the formal education process (2) promoting structured mentored experience guidelines for the workplace, (3) influencing regulatory bodies to adopt supportive education and experience standards in their laws and rules, (4) implementing board certification to validate attainment of the CEBOK, including technical depth in a civil engineering specialty, and (5) recognizing educational

Collection

2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Deanna H Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University; Shuchen Cong, Carnegie Mellon University

, requiringmulti-dimensional analysis, and of current importance. The general features of project topicsinclude: 1. Technical in nature, with social and economic ramifications. 2. "Hot issues" of current relevance to society or where issues are just beginning to surface. 3. Cannot be resolved by application of engineering principles alone but must be combined with social and economic analysis in order to provide a useful set of recommendations. 4. Size and effort are enough to be interesting for 20 to 30 students and a semester timeframe, while keeping it manageable. 5. Has facets that can be broken up and worked in parallel, while retaining connections. Since all groups are working on the entire problem at the same time, one part

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips; Jon Fricker; Paul Palazolo; Norman Dennis

thatprovides enough data to adequately characterize their site. "Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2001, American Society for Engineering Education"Figure 1. Screen image of the Sooner City Geotechnical Website, illustrating a virtual site plan with boring locations, schedule of tests and costs.Initially, the plan for the semester long-course project was to map the virtual information fromSooner City to the physical 100 acre site in Arkansas and require the students to generate all oftheir design parameters from the Sooner City website. Unfortunately, this plan proved to be anunworkable solution to the subsurface

Conference Session

Stimulating Broader Industrial Participation in Undergraduate Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Anna Traband, University of Toledo; Daniel Burklo, Northwest State Community College; Nadeane D. Howard, University of Toledo; Marcia A King-Blandford, University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

of advancedenergy products and systems, as well as the installation, operation and maintenance of thesesystems. The goal was to gain a national leadership role in advance energy research,manufacturing and technology. As Ohio began its expansion into renewable energy, thechallenge of providing a highly trained and technical workforce began receiving more attention.For Ohio to reach its goal of becoming a national leader in advance energy research,manufacturing and technology, the state’s postsecondary education institutions had to play a keyrole. See Table 1. Page 25.208.3Table 1. Renewable Energy Industry Employment and Revenue in a

Conference Session

Making an Impact: Building Support with Data and Design

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hilda Teresa Ayala-Gonzalez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez ; Cristina D. Pomales-Garcia, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Jaquelina Ester Alvarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

assessmentstrategies to identify services and infrastructure to meet the needs of graduate students andfaculty researchers. In general, results revealed the need for developing information literacyskills, technological infrastructure and physical facilities for collaboration. More specifically,assessment findings showed that researchers: (1) identified a need for assistance with technicalwriting, communication skills, search strategies, and ethical use of information; (2) expected newservices encompassing data management, authorship, copyright, and organizing, sharing, andpreserving information in the digital environment; and (3) needed a collaborative space whereteaching and research services coincided. A grant, awarded by the U.S. Department ofEducation

Conference Session

Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johanna Gretchen Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ASEE’s Board of Directors, and was ASEE President in 2010-2011. Page 23.499.1Dr. Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Engineering Ambassador Network: Professional Development Programs with an Outreach FocusIntroduction Among middle and high school students and teachers, many misconceptions existregarding the profession of engineering. According to a study done by the National Academy ofEngineers,1 the majority of students in

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Guidera

? Reflections on the use of computing in architecture. Automation in construction, 11 (2), (237 – 248). 8. Won, P. (2001). The comparison between visual thinking using computer and conventional media in the concept generation stages of design. Automation in construction, 10 (1), (25-35). 9. Suwa, M. and Tversky, B. (1997). What do architects and students perceive in their design sketches? A protocol analysis. Design studies, 18 (4), (385 – 403). 10. Goel, V. (1995). Sketches of thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 11. Lasseau, P. (2001). Graphic thinking for architects and designers. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 12. Bilda, Z. & Demirkan, H. (2003). An insight on designers’ sketching activities in traditional

Conference Session

Internet Delivery of Mechanics Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Boyle, Saint Mary's University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

mathematical challenge. Thestudent must have the ability to model the problem, generating the equations that constitute thesolution, and then declaring the equations in TK format. The software performs a black boxsearch for numerical values that satisfy the equations. The problem solver must keep control ofthe solution, ensuring that independent equations and unknowns are equal in number. Equationswith multiple roots must be identified, and an appropriate starting guess used for iterativesolutions must be chosen to ensure convergence to the desired root. The learner gains a new setof math skills, with some loss of practice in routine manual calculations.Desirable features of the computational software used in the ePAC included the following: 1) Low

Conference Session

A Focus on Non-Traditional Students and Non-Traditional Course Delivery Methods

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Connie Gomez, Galveston College; Leslie Braniger, Galveston College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

of how they would design their own websites. This assignment provedto be somewhat technically challenging due to learning how to create a website. The realdifficulty of this assignment laid in the number of options in formatting their page, the imagesused on their page, and the general layout of the page. A collage of their webpages is given inFigure 5. Again the overall quality of the pages was generally high. The course also developedits own website, depicted in Figure 6, which provides links to the students’ presentations, links totheir websites, and some background information concerning the students themselves. Figure 6. Images of the class website.4.0 Student Retention and Student ReactionAs the course

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian S Macherone; Jagdish T. Gajjar; Cherrice Traver

of1999 to replace the engineering science modules. It was then incorporated in the fall term coursein the fall of 1999. The single course is now run with a student faculty ratio of about 20:1.Further assessment will be needed to determine if this approach is successful in meeting theobjectives of the freshman year experience. Page 5.406.11ConclusionThe weather station project was an ambitious and successful freshman design project. Studentswere exposed to a realistic design problem and provided with both technical information andinstruction on how to communicate and work in teams. The emulation of an industrialenvironment forced students to rely on

Conference Session

Breaking barriers, building futures: Narratives of equity and inclusion in STEM education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bailey Bond-Trittipo, Florida International University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University; Jocelyn Garcia; Maria Oralia Tinoco Alegre, Florida International University; Malak Elaouinate, Florida International University; Andrew Green, Florida International University; Andres TREMANTE

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

methods (including interviews, observations, qualitativedata analysis, and quantitative data collection and analysis), educational design, and K-12outreach.Throughout the methods, design, and outreach training sessions, Secules and Bond-Trittipoencouraged JEDIs to continue reflecting on their own experiences and generating project ideas.Then, the training period concluded with a project matching session in which JEDIs rotatedthrough one-on-one discussions to share their ideas and explore the projects they might want tojoin. After the session, JEDIs were asked to submit their final project ideas and teammates to theJEDI mentors.The training structure for the second cohort of JEDIs deviated from the first primarily because offunding obligations

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis J. Hopcroft

. Page 5.657.7 ("Team Building”)5. Effective communication of ideas and concepts is a key ingredient of life, in general, and in participation in professional activities in particular. The professional who can effectively communicate ideas and thoughts verbally and in writing, to small groups and large audiences, to technically competent audiences and to non-technical audiences of all ages, will be the most successful. It has been said that a mediocre professional who communicates well will be perceived better than the brightest professional who communicates poorly. This criterion evaluates how well the student is learning effective communication skills and the variety of skills learned. (“Commo. Skills”)6

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Pedagogy 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mert Bal, Miami University; Farnaz Pakdel, Miami University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

significant improvements since its inception asthis process enables economical and rapid prototyping of various product designs within a veryshort time period. The recent technical advancement in 3-D printing managed to scale down thesize of 3-D printers and the complexity of process, where it is a more affordable technology foreducators, students, engineers, researchers and scientists [1].Through 3-D printing technology, complex geometric shapes, multi-material andmulti-functional parts can be additively manufactured in a single operation which is a bigadvantage over conventional manufacturing processes. Large portion of the manufacturingindustry has realized the benefits of the AM technology and started utilizing AM as an integralpart of their

Conference Session

FPD4 - Teaching Methods for First Year Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Brophy, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

First Year Engineering Students’ Initials Ideas for Solving Complex ProblemsAbstractThis study is part of a larger ongoing study to explore the use of mini authentic challenges asanchors for inquiry in large lecture sections of first year engineering students. Anchoredinquiry into authentic, complex problems continues to grow as an effective instructional methodfor developing engineering problem solving and technical skills. As a precursor to lecture,students log onto an online module that presents a challenge statement. The online moduleprovides a text field for students to generate initial ideas about how to solve the challenge andgenerate questions about what more they need to learn. Then they review multiple