Conference Session

Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeline Polmear, King's College London

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

pertaining to personal experiences withintegrating liberal arts and engineering to overcome the artificial boundary between socialand technical. Although the need for sociotechnical integration and frameworks for relatedskills are established in the LEES community, IDG provides a novel conceptualization, linkto sustainability and other macroethical responsibilities, and affective component that cancontribute to a holistic understanding of what is means to be an engineer.Introduction and BackgroundThis section is organized to briefly synthesize relevant literature related to engineeringidentity development, macroethics in engineering education, and the experiences ofinternational students in the UK. Throughout the paper, the term ‘module’ is used

Conference Session

Visualization

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe

evaluatedtheir knowledge of the material, you’ve probably asked yourself the question: “Did they evenlook at that material that I gave them?” It is a perennial question educators ask and one thattypically has only been answered indirectly through polling the students or testing their recall ofthe material. There are times, though, where it would be very helpful to know, truly, did they seewhat you intended them to see? For this purpose, you need eye tracking technology.Eye tracking can be particularly useful for two broad areas of application: 1) general researchunderstanding of how different types of students in different learning situations make use of textand graphics, and 2) applied usability research of instructional materials that will be going

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

Session 1121 Basic Elements of the 21st Century Body of Knowledge for a Construction Professional: Challenges for Construction Educators Virendra K. Varma, Ph.D., P.E. Missouri Western State CollegeAbstractThe American Society of Civil Engineers has recently released a report, “CivilEngineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century: Preparing the Civil Engineer forthe Future.” It calls for sweeping changes in the way we will teach and train our futurecivil engineers. Since civil engineering and construction are closely related, and go handin hand, it is important to review our

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

Session 3280 Assessments and Transfer of Knowledge in Case-Based Instruction — Promising Results! Saleh M. Sbenaty Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractThe current paper outlines the results of an assessment study made over a two-year period of anintroductory course entitled “Introduction to Electricity and Electronics.” The students in thiscourse were introduced to real-life case-based instruction using an industry-based case studymodel entitled “I Want My Pizza Hot.” The assessment tools were developed in cooperation withthe Learning Technology

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Nadel; Daniel Walsh

Session 3120 Enhancement to Student Learning by Employing Advanced Computing in a Project Oriented Environment Jeff Nadel, Dan Walsh College of Engineering California Polytechnic State UniversityAbstractA partnership between an individual donor, industry and academia has been formed to develop acrucible where the hypothesis that advanced computing can enhance student learning in a projectoriented environment will be tested. We have developed a facility that provides a location,previously lacking, for teams of students to

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Chau M. Tran, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7910

graduation path when unforeseen events occur, forexample, a failure to satisfy pre-requisite classes for senior design, or a last-minute decision tojoin the Cooperative Education Program in their senior year. The two-semester format loses thisflexibility and also takes away the available credit hours for a technical elective course; however,it provides the students with an opportunity to solve a more complicated project and produce aproduct of proven quality. With the two-semester format, the conceptual design phase increasesfrom three to five weeks; the embodiment design phase increases from four to eight weeks andthe prototype construction phase increases from five to eleven weeks. Besides additional designconcepts, the two-semester format

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott R. Short

Session 2526 Development of an Undergraduate Materials Laboratory in a Mechanical Engineering Department Scott R. Short Northern Illinois UniversityAbstract In the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Illinois University (NIU), in DeKalb, IL,undergraduate mechanical engineering students are required to take two courses focusing specifically onmaterials: MEE 330- Materials Science and MEE 331 - Manufacturing Processes. Previously, these coursesconsisted only of lectures. However, with the

Conference Session

Multimedia and Distance Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford; Ramin Sadeghi, Power & Water University of Technology; Jonathan Hill, University of Hartford; Akram Abu-aisheh, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

mentioned above. The system consists of two general sections: 1. Procedure of education affairs (registration, schedule, tests….) 2. Education section (simulation of class environment, mass media via aggregated synchronized multi-media)The mentioned software has vast facilities in providing educational courses, particularlyholding specialized courses for on-the-job-training for employees, and being analyzed andinitially designed based on the SCORM electronic education standards. A- To lower need to establish educational spaces and at the same time, to obtain quantity development in education facilities B- Better use of professors and specialists in each profession C- Decrease in the education per capita costs with respect to the

Conference Session

Computer Science-related Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ning Fang, Utah State University; Karen Nielson, Utah State University; Stephanie M. Kawamura, InTech Collegiate High School

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

computer simulation module: Computer User Interface #3 Figure 5. The developed computer simulation module: Computer User Interface #4Students were asked to do the following tasks:1. Change ts (the time for the spindle to rotate from rest to the max rotational speed) five or more times while keeping both n (the spindle's max rotational speed) and D (the diameter of the workpiece) constant.2. Write down the values of θ, S, ω, v, α, and at for each ts tested in step 1.3. Generate Excel graphs for θ vs S, ω vs v, α at s at for particle A, particle B, and particle O, respectively.4. Answer the question: What observations do you make from the Excel graphs you made in step 3?5. Answer the questions: AFTER the spindle

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Elisabeth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Bernard Gallois, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Council of Sections

include masters and doctoral degrees. The faculty and scope of the Page 14.994.2programs has grown rapidly leading to the recent formation of a School of Systems & Enterprises  1(http://www.stevens.edu/sse) with a significant national and international impact in the systemsengineering field.The presence of a strong graduate-level activity in the systems engineering discipline on campus leadnaturally to discussion with those responsible for the undergraduate engineering core curriculum of howsystems concepts could be addressed at the undergraduate level for all engineers. The surging

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zdzislaw Pawlowski; Krzysztof Zaremba; Roman Morawski

Session 2109 Undergraduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology Roman Z. Morawski, Zdzislaw Pawlowski, Krzysztof Zaremba Warsaw University of TechnologyAbstract: The current version of the undergraduate program of study in biomedical engineering– offered at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University ofTechnology, since 1951 – is presented. First, a general context of studies at the Faculty isoutlined, next the system of study is

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Satinderpaul Devgan

, 11]. Aconcept model for such a graduate level program is shown in figure 1.This program should provide a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms and softwareengineering along with a clear understanding of computer architecture and operating systemrelationships. It should provide a solid background in systems engineering approach to systemdevelopment from need analysis, through identification of system functional and operationalrequirements, technical performance measures, preliminary and detailed design, construction andoperation, and system retirement with coordination of all the activities through a systemengineering management plan (SEMP). The program should also provide a strong understandingof the communication and network

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Davis; Jr., James Caffery; Jr., Fred Beyette

portions of the courseand describes the relationship between this course and ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 outcomes. Finally, the paper presents preliminary course assessment results. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.57.1 Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII. Lecture Topics/ActivitiesStudents meet twice a week for two one-hour lecture sessions with a maximum section size of 24students. About 5 weeks of the lecture portion of the course are devoted to technical, discipline-specific material, and the other 5 weeks

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

transition from general design topics into their design teams and begin working ontheir selected capstone projects. Each team is assigned an advisor from the specific subdiscpline(aero/auto), which generally are the ME492/ME481 instructors. The current model releases the studentsfrom ME404 to begin work on LSN 18 of a 40 lesson semester, which limits the time allotted to thedesign teams and can induce a tight timeline. For example, during term 08-1 capstone design teams didnot begin working on their specific design until October 8th, 2007. The aeronautical capstone thisacademic year is the SAE Design, Build, Fly competition, which begins Apr 18, 2008. This leaves justover six months to design, fabricate, and test a remotely piloted airplane. Because

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Matthews; James Ritter; James Mc Intyre; James Becnel; Chuck Holland

the model and the data. Students should be able to explain that the disagreement is due to the presence of mass transfer and heat effects, which are assumed negligible in the local equilibrium model. At higher concentrations, there are lager concentration gradients and more mass is adsorbed, which implies greater mass transfer effects and more heat generation in the adsorbent. · Model vs. Mass Balance A primary point of assessment for this laboratory is between the two methods used to fit the equilibrium isotherm. Students are instructed to construct isotherms based on 1) adsorption breakthrough data and 2) desorption elution data. These two approaches lead to isotherms which differ. The

Conference Session

Improving Visualization Skills

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaomin Dong, Kettering University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, Marygrove College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

Visualization Leader. It includes fivephases starting from Spring semester 2010. Currently at Kettering, “Technical Graphical Page 22.567.2Communications (MECH-100)” is a core course for Mechanical Engineering (ME) students atfreshman level. It is an elective or capstone course for students in other programs such asIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECS),etc.According to the studies by Sorby [1, 2], well-developed spatial skills have been shown to lead tosuccess in many disciplines such as engineering, computer science, chemistry, and computeraided design. Significant studies on the relationship between

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Amparo Gotes; Barry McNeill; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Page 4.380.1materials, and academic scholarships.The program focuses on community building and utilizes undergraduate student role models,while the curriculum focuses on engineering design, technical communication, and includes avery unique design project. The program content and curriculum are designed to prepare thestudents for success in the CEAS’s engineering program. This overall objective is accomplishedby implementing five curriculum goals, which are:1. Build community among the participants and current engineering students.2. Introduce participants to computing at ASU.3. Introduce participants to engineering and more specifically incorporate: • engineering documentation and design projects • team building and team competition

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Amparo Gotes; Dr. Barry McNeill; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Page 4.381.1materials, and academic scholarships.The program focuses on community building and utilizes undergraduate student role models,while the curriculum focuses on engineering design, technical communication, and includes avery unique design project. The program content and curriculum are designed to prepare thestudents for success in the CEAS’s engineering program. This overall objective is accomplishedby implementing five curriculum goals, which are:1. Build community among the participants and current engineering students.2. Introduce participants to computing at ASU.3. Introduce participants to engineering and more specifically incorporate: • engineering documentation and design projects • team building and team competition

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Vijay Kanabar; Robert Schudy

international students. This model permits students tocomplete their education at a time that is most convenient to them. The model also benefits workingstudents who generally devote late evenings or weekend hours to coursework. There are no requirementsfor participating in “same time” sessions—even though many professors offer recorded video or audiosessions that are attended by as much as 20% of the students. However, one important aspect thatremains missing in our pure online model is the immediacy and dynamics of live communication. Figure 1: Blended ModelBlended Format Boston University has used a blended format which we term eLive to teach courses. AsFigure 1 illustrates, this model is a blend of Pure

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

transition from general design topics into their design teams and begin working ontheir selected capstone projects. Each team is assigned an advisor from the specific subdiscpline(aero/auto), which generally are the ME492/ME481 instructors. The current model releases the studentsfrom ME404 to begin work on LSN 18 of a 40 lesson semester, which limits the time allotted to thedesign teams and can induce a tight timeline. For example, during term 08-1 capstone design teams didnot begin working on their specific design until October 8th, 2007. The aeronautical capstone thisacademic year is the SAE Design, Build, Fly competition, which begins Apr 18, 2008. This leaves justover six months to design, fabricate, and test a remotely piloted airplane. Because

Conference Session

Engaging Faculty Across Disciplines, Colleges, and Institutions

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Cecilia Santa Cruz, PUCP; Graciela del Carmen Fernández de Córdova, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Marta Vilela Vilela, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

the communication of informationabout the locality, and the elaboration of projects to contribute to local development. Besidesplacing value on local actors’ rights, they also seek to generate commitments andaccountability in them to achieve sustainable solutions [11].There are three stages for the development of projects with participatory methodologies: 1.Reconnaissance of the space, its problems and possibilities; 2. Dialogues, agreements,consensuses and commitments; and 3. Development of an urban project. These stages are notsequential and can be revisited during the process.2.- A baseline assessment of the Civil Engineering students ability for multidisciplinaryand participatory workIn order to create a baseline, an exit survey was

Conference Session

Capstone and International Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby G. Crawford, U.S. Military Academy; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Elizabeth Bristow P.E., U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Lieutenant General Dawran (center left) with NMAA Departmentvarious aircraft and technical information aided in the Headsformulation of realistic aircraft performance models andexample problems for use in the course.The development of the aeronautics course consumed nearly all of two months in planning, writing thetext, translation, development of course problems, preparation of PowerPoint materials, acquisition ofphysical models for the course, and preparation of a new classroom (Figure 5). The text had to bepresented in English and Dari and the Afghan instructor had to be prepared and ready to begin instructionin the fall of 2009. As the team left NMAA at

Conference Session

Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eli Patten, University of California at Berkeley; Sara Atwood, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

required to attend a“professional skills” lab for two hours once a week covering a limited review of mechanics,learning styles, group dynamics, outreach teaching, Bloom’s taxonomy10, assessment rubrics,library skills, technical writing and editing, and oral presentations (Table 1). Students wereassessed based on two midterm exams and a final group project comprising a written report, anoral presentation, and an outreach teaching activity at a local children’s science museum. Therewas one professor in change of presenting lectures and two graduate students in charge of thelab, with no extra graders. Table 1: Descriptions of the main skills labsMechanics review: Refresher for basic mechanics of materials, covering free

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Preston McCrary; Chip Ferguson; Aaron Ball; Wesley Stone

, faculty benefit by strengthening technical competencies and by keeping abreast ofemerging trends and problems facing industry and our Nation. In turn, industry benefits bygaining a competitive edge and by fostering the professional development of future employees intheir perspective fields of work; government agencies benefit from the solutions offered to solvethe ever-increasing problems facing our Nation. The authors believe that engagement projectsoffer a unique win-win situation for all who are involved.Bibliography[1] Society of Manufacturing Engineers. 2004 SME Global Manufacturing Fact Booklet. Dearborn, Michigan, 2004[2] The Rural Center. The North Carolina Rural Economy. Volume 2, Number 2. Retrieved November 30

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Orabi

methodology elective. The course introduces future engineers as well as non-engineeringstudents to various disciplines of engineering, the fundamental concepts of design, representationof technical data and theoretical concepts. This course is conducted as a lecture course withseveral computer simulations as well as virtual and hands-on projects assigned throughout thesemester.ABET’s new assessment criteria require faculty to demonstrate that the graduates are Page 4.409.1acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills, and, where deficiencies exist, they are beingcorrected [1-5]. This led the faculty to assess the course and to measure the knowledge

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

generate/evaluate/specify systems, components, or processes.  Form and function of design to achieve defined objectives and satisfy constraints.  Design includes aspects of creativity, complexity, and iterative decision-making to optimize solutions, and compromise between multiple, sometimes conflicting, needs.Elements of design, such as synthesis, analysis, construction and testing were incorporated,and Features of Design referenced by ABET (creativity, open-ended, formulation ofspecifications, alternative solutions, realistic, written/oral reporting, among others) proveduseful in creating an assessment framework to be used throughout the curriculum (shown inTable 1). Engineering Design Courses

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Reel; Christine Allard; Deborah Kaminski; Linda McCloskey

Page 8.687.10include: How did you generate solutions? Did one or several individuals make decisions?On a scale of 1-10, how committed were you to executing the plan? What are some of theexamples of when you received feedback during the session? This exercise is very popular and induces students to open up in ways that theywill not as members of the design team. A student might complain, “You started bossingpeople around” or “you are a mechanical engineer, you should know about this.” Thetoxic waste exercise occurs early in the semester, and allows the instructor to learn aboutteam issues and work on resolving them.5. Conflict A structure within which to understand team conflicts is presented. Several levelsof conflict are defined

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

Engineering”, we now seekto address the questions: "What more needs to be done to improve female students’ interest andpersistence in engineering?" and "How can we better understand the reasons that female studentsleave engineering despite good academic performance?" Our aim is to (1) incorporateinnovations into engineering education that may be more supportive of women students and (2)research the implementation of these innovations in the education environment that is present infoundational undergraduate engineering courses. This dual focus has provided a unique way ofapproaching issues of gender inequity for female students in the Purdue Engineering program.The innovation that we are implementing consists of small technical team, realistic

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Stephanie Laughton, The Citadel; Timothy A Wood, The Citadel

content foraccuracy due to the lack of the peer review standard typical for textbooks.Case Study – Active Learning MethodologyIn the CIVL103 course at The Citadel, three of the course learning objectives are “Demonstratesknowledge of:” 1) The civil engineering profession, specialty areas, and career opportunities 2) The ethical canons of the engineering profession, requirements for professional licensure, and what is expected in a civil engineering degree program. 3) Lifelong learning and how it is important to civil engineers.Ahead of the Fall 2022 session of the course, the faculty instructional team decided to update theinstructional method to achieve these objectives. The course is arranged around the sixsubdisciplines as taught in

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships, Teaching Strategies & Collaborative Networks (IUCEE, IFEES, LACCEI.... )

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Jose Carlos Quadrado, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa; Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Hans Hoyer, American Society for Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

International

Innovation in Knowledge Economies.Panels highlighting engineering education initiatives were grouped into 3 sessions organized bythe IFEES focus area: Engineering Education Infrastructure; Student Attraction and Success; andResearch, Development, Entrepreneurship and Innovation.When asked how the Summit met these 6 objectives the participants responded as shown inTable 1 and Figure 2. According to the evaluation 79% of the respondents were either VerySatisfied (28%) or Satisfied (52%) that they had gained a deeper understanding of therelationship between engineering education and knowledge economies, and 75% of the Page 14.168.6respondents being