Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Jayant Rajgopal; Bryan Norman; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

Session 1657 A Conceptual Model for Integrating and Synthesizing the Industrial Engineering Curriculum Bryan A. Norman, Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Bopaya Bidanda, Kim LaScola Needy, Jayant Rajgopal University of PittsburghAbstractThe Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh is addressing animportant issue in IE education – how to develop a comprehensive, integrated curriculum that (1)thoroughly prepares graduating engineering students for industrial practice and graduate school,(2) is pedagogically sound, and (3) trains students to

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Research Investigations in the Context of Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University ; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University ; Wei Zakharov, Purdue University ; Joreen Arigye, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

design project report to demonstrate how this framework guides educators towardsdelineating and integrating data reasoning, ethical reasoning, and design reasoning in settingswhere ethical issues (e.g., AI solutions) are commonly experienced. The framework can beimplemented to design courses through design review conversations that seamlessly integrateethical reasoning into the technical and data decision-making processes. 1. IntroductionWhat does conscientious design and innovation mean for engineers today and in the near future?Engineers are continuously utilizing ever-expanding datasets and sophisticated artificialintelligence algorithms. These algorithms are used to generate design alternatives and optimizeexisting designs and systems [1

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division - Innovative Changes to the Typical Civil Engineering Coursework.

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jakob Bruhl, United States Military Academy; Andrea Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; James Klosky, United States Military Academy

engineering education does an excellentjob of educating students to apply important principles but has room for improvement indeveloping the necessary creativity skills required to solve complex problems. Figure 1 Creative and Routine Problem Solving [9]Barriers to EntryThere are understandable reasons why engineering curricula historically neglects developing andassessing creativity as a learning outcome. First, there is an increasingly large body of technicalknowledge that is important for engineering students to master and an ever-decreasing number ofstate mandated credit hours in which to address them. We may be concerned that adding non-technical elements to the curriculum will necessarily reduce the technical content

Conference Session

Energy Resources, Efficiency, and Conservation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Riddell, Rowan University; Peter Mark Jansson; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; Harriett Benavidez, Rowan University; Julie Haynes, Rowan University; Dan Schowalter, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

the technical communication aspect of the course.A project that causes design teams to go through several cycles of divergent thought –where they are generating new ideas, and convergent thought – where they are evaluatingand optimizing ideas, is essential to the revised clinic model for teaching design. It isanticipated that the students’ ability to cycle between the two distinct phases of thoughthas been enhanced by the previous two projects, where the divergent and convergentthought processes were more carefully defined by the scope of those projects.An appropriate project will require the students to operate at all levels of the well-knownBlooms taxonomy of educational objectives.This paper will describe a specific Spring semester design

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

education of engineers of the 21st centurywho are called to play a critical role in contributing to peace and security in an increasinglychallenged world.The EDC program is interdisciplinary and involves engineering and non-engineering disciplines(business, sociology, history, etc.). It is being developed in partnership with a wide range ofacademic and non-academic groups including: (1) universities, technical, vocational schools, andindividuals in the US and in developing communities; (2) engineering companies; (3)humanitarian organizations; (4) NGOs; and (5) interested individuals. The program is beingdesigned to address a wide range of issues such as water provisioning and purification,sanitation, health, power production, shelter, site planning

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Predecki; Albert Rosa; George Edwards

Session 1661 Technology 21 – A Course on Technology for Non-Technologists Albert J. Rosa, Paul K. Predecki, George Edwards University of Denver, Department of EngineeringAbstractThere is a need to prepare non-technologists to assume senior management, political and otherleadership roles in a highly technological world. Many non-technical college students have afear and distrust of learning things mathematical, scientific or technical. At the University ofDenver we have created a successful three-quarter long course called Technology 21 that hasbeen offered for fourteen years to non-engineering and non-science students as a means to meettheir

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

promising project results.The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department of Florida Tech has structured itssenior design course sequence to replicate many of the activities that would be appropriate for astart-up venture, or a corporate product line introducing a new suite of products. In addition tothe traditional preliminary and critical design reviews and a demonstration of the completedproject, students learn about the industrial new product pipeline and generate feasibility studies,business plans, prototyping, validation reviews, and launch collateral to support a “marketintroduction” of their product, all in a “whole product” context. Senior Design culminates with apublic “trade show” held as a feature of the University’s spring

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert A. Hall; Mark W. McK. Bannatyne

1 Session 3260 Facing The Future of Engineering Education In Russia: The Cost of Change Dr. Mark W. McK. Bannatyne, Professor Robert A. Hall Purdue University/State Dept. of Corrections, New HampshireIntroductionChange, more often than not, is a painful thing. The citizens of Russia have within the last 10years had their share of pain; the only life that most Russians have ever known has been violentlystripped away and slowly replaced with an uncertain future. The social structure

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Marchese, Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

developed and delivered by the Colleges of Engineering, Business and AgriculturalSciences at Colorado State University. The overarching goals of the STESE course were two-fold: (1) to instill an entrepreneurial mindset and global/sustainable perspective amongengineering and science students and (2) to provide technical expertise and rapid productrealization resources to student teams within the Global Social Sustainable Enterprise (GSSE)program housed in the College of Business. The motivation behind the first goal was to addressa deficiency of adequate entrepreneurship training opportunities for graduate students withinengineering and agricultural sciences at CSU. The motivation behind the second goal was toaddress a critical shortage of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

Session 2793 Integrating Computer Tools into Sophomore-Level Engineering Mechanics Courses William Haering The Pennsylvania State University – DuBois CampusAbstractComputer tools have been integrated into two sophomore-level Engineering Mechanics coursesat The Pennsylvania State University DuBois Campus. Those two courses are strength ofmaterials and dynamics. In the prerequisite statics course, computer tools are not used becausethe author believes that doing so could compromise the students’ understanding of basicengineering concepts. In strength of

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kip Coonley, Duke University; Lisa Huettel, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

the samefacility. The most recent purchase of a stereozoom microscope with CCD camera allowsstudents to better visually inspect components for accurate placement as well as check solderjoints immediately after reflow.Laboratory supportDue to the specialized nature of the SMT/PCB facility, both instructional and technical supportfor students using the laboratory is needed. A one hour introduction to the laboratory, requiredof all students enrolled in courses that will use the space, is offered once every semester. Inaddition, several practical sessions to familiarize students with the facility are offered. A Page 15.518.6qualified staff member

Conference Session

Past and Future of Manufacturing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Wells, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

university hierarchy of the need for investment has always been akin tomastering an arcane foreign language. Likewise, the connectivity of campus and factory hasbeen discussed and debated in more or less constant terminology for several decades. Almostunchanged for thirty years, industry observers focus on their short-term needs and chide theacademy for not having better technical foresight than their industrial counterparts. Conversely,while striving to be responsive to changing skill-set needs, educators wonder at the inconsistencyand superficiality of industry support for the grooming of next generations of manufacturingengineers. %$.'08'0*&

Conference Session

Pedagogy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Shapiro

particular expertise and experiencein energy systems and energy policy. They volunteered considerable time to review andcomment on the group efforts and on the project over all. Each reviewer was asked toreview 3-4 projects, including the presentations, reports, and executive summaries. Theirinput was solicited through evaluation of the presentations and reports and throughparticipation in a two-hour web-assisted telephone conference in which the projects werediscussed. The session involved a conference call and an on-line component in which thecomputer was used as a “flip chart” to record the important ideas in a way that allparticipants could see instantly. The first hour was spent on general discussion of projectquality and sharing what the

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Adams

the existing/baseline exhaust system 2. Characterization of basic helicopter performance parameters 3. Exhaust system performance sensitivities 4. Definition of design goals• Phase 2 1. Ejector performance characterization 2. Exhaust system ejector (jet pump) performance model• Phase 3 1. Exhaust system fluid mechanics characterization 2. Identification of exhaust system performance loss generators Page 8.702.2 3. Exhaust system performance loss calculations Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn J. Smith

, and School, Committee on Dev. in the Science of Learning, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, NRC, http://bob.nap.edu/books/0309065577pre/html/, 1999.4. General Catalog 1997-1999, Georgia Institute of Technology.5. Komerath, N.M., "Experimental Curriculum in Diagnostics and Control of Unsteady Flows", Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 85, No. 3, July 1996, p. 263-268.6. Komerath, N.M., Smith, M.J., Bodo, B., “Learning Across Disciplines: The Aerospace Digital Library”, Session 2793, ASEE 2000 Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, June 2000.7. McKeachie , W. J., Teaching Tips, D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, MA, 1994

Conference Session

Communication and Professional Skills in BME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Ebenstein, Bucknell University; Joe Tranquillo; Daniel Cavanagh

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

formal engineering design process, students are also required to interactprofessionally with an external project mentor, complete extensive professional communicationassignments, and bring all relevant design and professional skills together to complete theirspecific project. Each course will be described in detail below. The ABET requirementsaddressed in each course are summarized in Table 1.Course 1: Research Methods I (soft skills), spring of junior yearBefore introducing students to more rigorous technical and hands-on professional skills, they arefirst exposed to a wide variety of ‘soft’ professional skills relevant to the biomedical engineeringfield in their Research Methods I course. In addition to providing the opportunity for students

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Recruiting Women

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann Beheler, Collin County Community College

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

instruction for the influencers of thosegirls through existing professors. Each young woman begins her hour with the girls by sharing photographs of herworkplace and statistics about the salaries, job characteristics, and advancement possibilitiesavailable in her chosen career. She also talks about why she chose her career and what she did toprepare for it. She then conducts a short, hands-on lab to highlight what a girl might do if shewere in a similar career. Finally, she facilitates a discussion after the lab to allow the girls andtheir adult influencers to share questions, experience, and the general excitement. Aligning with the best practice of providing enjoyable technical experience for womenhighlighted by Nicolletti (2004) and

Conference Session

Remote and Flipped Instruction in Mechanics

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Holte, University of St. Thomas

include: difficulties getting classmates to engage in discussions in remote formats,difficulties staying alert and attentive in remote formats, frustrations with learning new softwarefor remote instruction, and the fun of engaging with physical devices in the in-person format.While in general remote instruction lowered students’ self-determination, one remoted sessionfrom the study was particularly motivating. Attributes from various remote sessions arecompared to identify successful strategies to motivate students during online synchronousclasses.I. BackgroundEngineering education has been slow to enter the realm of online instruction [1] especially incomparison to other educational disciplines [2]. The pandemic of 2020 pushed all disciplines

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Balik; Nachiappan Nagappan; Laurie Williams; Julie Petlick; Carol Miller; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe

to measure general attitudes towards computer programming andcomputer science. This instrument was derived from the Fennema-Sherman mathematicsattitudes scales 9, modified to reflect programming and computer science rather thanmathematics. The survey consists of a series of positive and negative statements. Participantsrespond to these statements on a five-point scale, ranging from strongly agree to stronglydisagree. The negative statements are reverse coded prior to summing the subscale scores. Thesurvey uses five of the seven subscale categories used in the Fennema-Sherman instrument: 1)Confidence in learning computer science and programming, 2) Attitude toward success incomputer science, 3) Computer science as a male domain, 4) Usefulness

Conference Session

Best of Computers in Education Division

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xin Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Adithya Raghavan; Ji Soo Yi, Purdue University; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

first year serves as a starting point of their later research career. Theparticipants attended a 30-minute training session on how to use iKNEER. At the time theyattended the training session, they had finished the first draft of the literature review. After thetraining session, they went back and used iKNEER for revising their own literature review or onany other topics they are interested in.Our data collection and data analysis went through three phases. The first phase happened twoweeks after the training session. We interviewed the first two participants with open-endedquestions on their research interests, what difficulties they have in their research, and how theyhave used iKNEER (see Appendix 1 for interview questions). These two

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Devon

Session 1442 Informal Graphics for Conceptual Design Richard Devon, Sven Bilén, Andras Gordon, and Hien Nguyen Engineering Design Program School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs Penn State UniversityAbstractEngineers who work in innovative design spaces have very different CAD and graphics needsthan those who work in more conventional design spaces. We propose to develop ideas aboutthe graphical communication needs for conceptual design. This paper will illustrate what wemean by describing a few new methods such as

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching and Assessment Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Judith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

conducting engineering designprojects that involve student presentations, and additional faculty from a variety of backgrounds.The two major instances where feedback was collected occurred in workshop presentationsettings at national conferences. At the Process Education Conference in July of 2009, a draftcopy of the initial rubric was presented in a 1-hour workshop session.20 During the session theauthors first explained the purpose of the scoring system along with the process used to createthe rubric and introduced the content of the rubric to the audience. Feedback was then gathered Page 15.1021.4from the approximately 16 workshop participants

Conference Session

Tablet and Portable PCs for Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sabina Jeschke, University of Stuttgart; Lars Knipping, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Nicole Natho, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Erhard Zorn, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Olivier Pfeiffer, Technische Universitaet Berlin

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

communication, coordination and cooperation as nowadays’important factors in education, collaborative software applications possess a high potential tosupport the learning, teaching and research processes at university by the means of the newmedia and new technologies4, 5. As a part of the GALILEA project, introduced at the TechnischeUniversität Berlin, the new gender sensitive Bachelor of Science program “Natural Sciences inthe Information Society”6, 7, 8 provides two new innovative lectures, which started in winter term07/08 and summer term 2008, respectively: 1. Scientific Information Management (freshmen lecture) and 2. New Media in Education and Research (sophomore lecture)This innovative program is designed to be very interdisciplinary while

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University; Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

design review each team created a PowerPoint presentation as anarrated slide show. The choice to have teams produce a narrated presentation rather than give a“live” talk was to separate effects of performance anxiety, not having English as the studentsprimary language, and public speaking skills from the technical content of the presentation. Pre-recorded presentations also prevented the common phenomena of running over the allotted classtime. The presentations were played during class on a computer projector and were followed byan open question-and-answer session. All three participating faculty evaluated design reviewusing a rubric (appendix B). Verbal feedback was provided to teams about weaknesses andstrengths of their design.Once teams

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Sozen, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #8094Use of Various Software Tools in an Alternative Energy Systems CourseDr. Mehmet Sozen, Grand Valley State University Dr. Mehmet S¨ozen is a professor of mechanical engineering at Grand Valley State University. His general area of interest is thermo/fluid sciences with specialty in transport phenomena in porous media, thermal management of high heat flux systems and applications of alternative energy systems. Page 23.1300.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013

Conference Session

Engineering for Nonengineers: Ideas & Results

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Zieren, Austin Peay State University; John Blake, Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

who specialize in other fields can point tocases where a technological innovation was a critical element in the course of history. The paperwill also explore areas where the engineer’s ability to understand how technology works isneeded, and how the expertise of the engineer and the historian can complement each other.IntroductionIn the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) publication “Technically Speaking,”technological literacy is described as giving people the knowledge necessary to understand, thinkcritically about, and make informed decisions about technology.1 The report describes this ashaving the dimensions of knowledge, ways of thinking and acting, and capabilities. In thisdescription, knowledge includes understanding of how a

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Town Hall Meeting: Supporting University Priorities

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

contributes to technical research efforts which are governed not only by the scientificquestions but also more directly from a product and innovation oriented perspective. Theinnovation climate in participating companies is developed through research, development anddirected activities such as creative sessions and the building of networks. See also5, 6, 7, 8.PIEp EducationThe PIEp program is organized in five activity fields; two with a focus on process andorganization oriented research (Innovation Knowledge and Innovation Management)9, tworelated to product- and business oriented development (Innovation Experience and InnovationBusiness) and one related to education (PIEp Education)10, 11. All five fields generate knowledgeand feeds back knowledge

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

leadership skills, is creative, and hasthe skills and knowledge to bring about innovation.[10,11] Traditional engineering programs andcourses frequently struggle to address outcomes related to these skills, often working with theassumption that students either enter their programs with the abilities, or will acquire the skillswith little explicit instruction or assessment. Others, such as that described in this paper, haverecognized a need to include process oriented, project-based engineering courses in theirprograms as a means to address the calls of accreditation boards and industry for engineers withboth technical and professional skills. For example, in design courses students work together inteams to solve open ended problems through the

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Parker; Lawrence Burton

in one form or another than receive training in management. These findings suggest that life-long learning needs to be thought of as more thankeeping current in one’s technical field. The more management is a part of an individual’s job,the more he or she would likely benefit from specific skill development and related learning Page 3.369.15about managing, be it through a course, a degree program, or a minor degree or certificateprogram. The range of curricular options displayed in this session is equally relevant for those 15preparing for careers as for those whose management

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Reese Jr., Johns Hopkins University; Peter H. Froehlich, Johns Hopkins University; Joan Freedman, Johns Hopkins University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

section and course project.  Tim Train, President of Big Huge Games (now Studio General Manager of Zynga East), helped coordinate input from gaming industry leaders during the needs assessment phase, provided feedback on curriculum design, and assisted with recruiting guest lecturers and team mentors.The group defined the course objectives and designed a semester-long video game developmentproject that would define the structure and topics of the course. The students would: 1. Develop a software system in small teams. 2. Design and implement a complete video game. 3. Plan, manage, and document a software development project. 4. Present status updates, project overviews, and technical topics