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First-Year Programs: Tuesday Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean S. Larson, Arizona State University; Medha Dalal, Arizona State University; Wilhelmina C. Savenye, Arizona State University; Claudia Elena Zapata, Arizona State University; Nasser Hamdan, Center for Bio-mediated & Bio-inspired Geotechnics; Edward Kavazanjian Jr., Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

session for introductory engineering courses. Organization and timeline: 1. Pre-survey 6 to 8 minutes 2. Instructional time with in-class student activities 50 to 75 minutes 3. Post-survey 8 to 10 minutes Assessments: Links to the online assessment instruments are provided within the presentation. Participants may use their laptops, tablets, or smartphones to take the surveys; however, it is suggested to keep some paper copies of the assessments for backup. Supplies needed for the instructional delivery of the module • Classroom

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Shelley, United States Air Force; Mickey Bowen, United States Air Force

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Minorities in Engineering

impressive, that statistic is dropping rapidly with increasednumber of course offerings. The capture rate of female students is low, but stillsignificantly above the near 10% enrollment rate of females in some engineeringprograms. A non-attributed general information gathering instrument was distributed thesecond class session to generate statistics on the level of math preparation students had inhigh school, their computer usage, and family history of college attendance. The courseadmission criteria for math achievement ensured that a high percentage of the coursepopulation was enrolled in Advanced Placement Math courses in high school. Thirty-eight percent of the students were in calculus. The same percentage were in algebra 1 or2, with the

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Kim LaScola Needy

I .— - Session 1639 ..-. — -.. . Lessons from Teaching a Cost Management Course via Interactive Television Kim LaScola Needy University of Pittsburgh Abstract Interactive television (ITV) is being used at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Engineering toincrease the number of course offerings available to its graduate students located at branch

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ciezki; Thomas Salem

application and use of powerelectronics. Meanwhile, the utility industry itself has undergone tremendous upheaval with theimpact of deregulation bringing about a paradigm shift in the operational analysis, forecasting,and pricing structures of energy transfer. In fact, this change in energy management “representsthe largest global industry ever to move from regulation to competition. Numbers in the UnitedStates range from $250 billion to $300 billion annually of economic impact or about 3% of theU.S. GNP.”1 These numbers are not stagnant either, due to the overwhelming reliance of theworld economies on electric power. Growth within the utility sector has been projected at morethan 750 GW of new generation capacity within the next ten years to be

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International Engineering Education II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

3 Fundamental Chemistry 3 CHM 2045L General Chemistry Lab 1 Fundamental Chemistry 1 Mathematics I 5 Geometry and Trigonometry 5 Term 2 PHY 2048 Physics with Calculus A 3 Physics I 4 PHY 2048L Physics Lab 1 Physics I 1 ENC2210 Technical Writing or ENC3254) 3 Spanish II

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

John Regnier; Bogdan M. Wilamowski; Aleksander Malinowski

Session 2520 SPICE based Circuit Analysis using Web Pages Bogdan Wilamowski, Aleksander Malinowski, John Regnier University of Wyoming / Bradley University / Micron TechnologyAbstractAn application called the Spice Internet Package (SIP) has been developed for use through theInternet and intranet networks. The SIP provides an interface that is operating independent,which allows Spice simulation and analysis to be performed from any computer that has a webbrowser on the Internet or intranet. One can access the Spice Internet Package and try someexamples with the password “sip” at the following URL: http

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

Session 1346 An Undergraduate Research Experience in New Technology Commercialization of PEM Fuel Cells Doug Ramers University of North Carolina, CharlotteIn 1997, I was asked as a faculty member of Gonzaga University to participate on a project todevelop a commercializable polymer exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) technology forpower plants in the 1-10kw range. The project was managed, sponsored, and funded jointly byWashington Water Power (WWP) and the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and TechnologyInstitute (SIRTI). Our Gonzaga engineering team, which

Conference Session

Issues in Physics and Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Probst

Session 1380 A Proposed Interdisciplinary Senior Capstone Course David K. Probst Southeast Missouri State UniversityAbstractThe Engineering Physics Program at Southeast Missouri State University recently receivedaccreditation from the EAC of ABET. One lingering concern from that process was that studentsdid not get sufficient experience on multidisciplinary teams. The concern arises because theprogram has low enrollment and primarily an electrical engineering flavor. Another lingeringconcern was that the Engineering Physics degree requires about thirteen more

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

George Karady; Khaled Nigim

1 Session 10 Improve Learning Efficiency by Using Computers For Junior Level Electrical Engineering Courses George G Karady, Fellow member IEEE K. A. Nigim*, Senior member IEEE Arizona State University Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine Tempe AZ 85287 Knigim@imap3.asu.edu Karady@asu.edu *Fullbright Fellowship leave at Arizona State

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt C. Gramoll; Karthik Ranga

Session 2625 Design Education over the Internet using VRML Karthik Ranga, Kurt Gramoll University of OklahomaAbstractOver the past few years the World Wide Web or the Internet has made its impact onalmost all fields of human life, from business and entertainment to shopping andcommunicating with people all over the globe. Virtual Reality Modeling Language orVRML for short is a tool specifically designed for creating 3D virtual worlds on theWorld Wide Web. These synthetic worlds give us the ability to visualize objects on thecomputer screen almost as if they were in the real world and also

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Deborah M. Mechtel; K.A. Korzeniowski

, Alternating Current (AC) analysis using phasors, transient analysis, three phase power andtransformers. The second semester covers applications including motors and generators, diodes,filters, operational amplifiers, AM/FM communications systems and digital logic. Textbooks usedin the course are listed in the References section 1, 2, 3, 4. III. First Semester Preparation The majority of topics covered in the first semester are similar to those presented in anintroductory circuits course for electrical engineering majors. Topics are presented in a simplifiedformat, with some concepts eliminated entirely. The goal of the first semester of the class is to givestudents the tools to comprehend the wide variety of

Conference Session

CE Projects: International Perspective

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

Freshman HRS SEM HRS SEMENG 1302 Composition II 3 ALL ENGR 1400 PC Applications in Engineering 4 F,SENGR 1401 Engineering Graphics 4 F,S PHYS 1307 General Physics I 3 ALLHIST 1305 US History to 1877 3 ALL PHYS 1107 General Physics Lab I 1 ALLPSY 1303 General Psychology 3 ALL HIST 1306 US History after 1877 3 ALLMATH 2401 Calculus I 4 ALL EET 1411 Circuits 4 F 17

Conference Session

K-12 Activities

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Aslam, Michigan State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

directed through the lowest resistance path, REACTION MONITOR IN FALL’02.which is the forward biased diode and not the capacitor. Finally, forcommercialization, the capacitor can be packaged in a secure housing.Field Testing and Tracking Figure 15 TASEM learning modules The K-12 students who used MSU's MANTL Lab prepared using RIS or microcontrollers willhave been very successful as seen in Table 1. The the subject of subsequent publications.TASEM modules have been field-tested in SummerCamps, in- and after-schools sessions, sessions offeredto home-schooling groups and science teacherworkshops in Ingham and Oakland counties inMichigan during 2000-2005. For remote locations, livevideo

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Research Related to Learning and Teaching Engineering in Elementary Classrooms

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John C. Bedward, North Carolina State University; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

atomic- molecular theory. Measurement 14(1&2): 1-98.8. Schmucker, D. G. (1998). Models, models, models: The use of physical models to enhance the structural Engineering Experience. in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, Session 3615.9. Johnson, A. & Coyne, K. (2006). Teaching physiology of exercise to bioengineering students. in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, Session 1627.10. Adhikari, S. (2010). Concept of Virtual testing lab of asphalt mixture using discrete element modeling. in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2010, Session 727.11. Mosterman, P., Rucinski, A. & Bouldin, D.(2008). A peer reviewed online

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fadi Kurdahi, University of California, Irvine; Judy Shoemaker, University of California, Irvine; John LaRue, University of California-Irvine

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Electrical and Computer

described in this paper: (1)course-embedded assessment which makes use of assessment results already being collected aspart of regular coursework, and (2) a scoring rubric for assessing program outcomes related tothe required senior design project. Assessment results from 2004-05 indicated that a relativelysmall percentage of students achieve some of the program outcomes. After making adjustmentsto the curriculum, assessment results from 2005-06 indicated that the vast majority of studentsachieved all the program outcomes.BackgroundThe Computer Engineering program resides in the department of Electrical Engineering andComputer Science (EECS) in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine. As of Fall Quarter 2005

Conference Session

Learning as a Community

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sondra Miller, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Amy Moll, Boise State University; Melissa Wintrow, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

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First-Year Programs

students with opportunities to make positive and meaningful connections with faculty.The RC program was implemented, in part, to support these recommendations. Since 2004,Boise State University has experienced an overall increase in FTFTF retention. Specifically, a2005 study showed that freshman retention at Boise State University was related (statisticalsignificance) to living on campus and other also intangibles that added to the students’experience.11 Stress, physical illness, and a sensed lack of support contribute to a student’schoice in not returning to Boise State University after their first year.12In general, students living in on-campus housing, regardless of declared major (1) exhibitedhigher percentage of retention from the fall 2007

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Integrating Math, Science, & Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Keiser, University of Tulsa; William Hamill, University of Tulsa; Bryan Tapp, University of Tulsa; William Potter, University of Tulsa; Jerry McCoy, University of Tulsa; Peter LoPresti, University of Tulsa; Donna Farrior, University of Tulsa; Shirley Pomeranz, University of Tulsa

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Mathematics

Question 4 – Generally, four-person groups were used. Question Strongly Disagree Slightly Slightly Agree Strongly Disagree Disagree Agree Agree 3. The class introduction helped me understand the project better than if I had just read through the project description. 1 2 3 4 5 6 4. I was satisfied with how my group worked together on this project. 1 2 3 4 5 6 5. This project helped me make a connection between calculus and the real world. 1 2

Conference Session

Teamwork and Student Learning in Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikolaos E. Vitoroulis Jr, Stevens Institute of Technology; Changhong Zhang; Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

that there is not just one right answer to a problem. It also encourages the students toidentify many problems, evaluate the solutions, work in a group, and apply concepts directly [3]-[5].The class is held across fourteen, three-hour, sessions within a semester, and is comprised of amaximum of 24 students and 1 instructor. Nine out of the fourteen sessions are dedicated to theprimary activities listed below, while the remaining comprise of days for hands-on clinics,presentation, and an open-ended design scenario activity. Based on each student’s background,skill-set, and major, the instructor places the students in carefully selected groups of 3 to helppromote a better learning experience [6]. This method of group formation is also carried

Conference Session

Learning Needs and Educational Success

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Skurla, Baylor University; Steven Eisenbarth, Baylor University; Richard Campbell, Baylor University

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Minorities in Engineering

interests include aircraft combat survivability and observational astronomy. Page 12.500.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Development and Beta-Testing of a Distance-Learning Freshman Engineering Course SeriesAbstractThe projected shortage of engineers in the United States and the need to attract a more diverseengineering workforce remains a challenge for engineering programs across the nation. Recentcourt rulings prohibit our university from considering gender, race, or ethnicity in all activities ofthe university. However, one method for increasing diversity of the technical workforce

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

for growth and development of oil-related industries,has been pivotal in the start up of higher education in general and engineering in particular.There are today eight public colleges of engineering in the Region (Table 1) in addition toseveral, recently founded, private and semi private colleges and/or universities that offerengineering degrees. These eight public colleges have, since their inception, been guided byadvisory boards made up largely from faculty members drawn from US colleges. Previously, theGrinter’s Report 5 and the Goals Report 6 have been used to guide the educational process.Recently, ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 7 has been the subject of seminars and workshops,intended to shed light and assist engineering colleges in

Conference Session

Virtual & Distance Experiments

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jucain Butler; Jay Brockman

twoencoded messages of different length and density by the end of the semester. Studentslearn to expect the unexpected as they are faced with a myriad of challenges inimplementing their ideas, including interactions between the mechanical, electrical, timing,and software sub-systems of their robots. Students leave the course with a greaterappreciation of the complexity of the real world, and with pride at their accomplishmentsas designers.The Simulator and Tutorial It is generally uncommon to teach introduction to computer architecture in anintroduction to engineering course. It is our intention to use this module on computerarchitecture in the context of the introduction to engineering course for two purposes: (1)the computer as a system

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Migri Prucz

2000-2001 academic year. Extensive orientation sessions are organized every summer on campus by WVUfor incoming freshmen and their parents. During this event, the attendees are asked to fillout questionnaires about the various factors that played a role in their decision to chooseWVU in general, and CEMR in particular, for engineering education. These surveys arevaluable tools of outcome assessments, since they point towards the most effectiveaspects of the recruiting program, from the viewpoints of both students and parents. Ingeneral, they indicate that geographic location and visits to the campus often play adominant role in the college selection process, though the other activities also bringsignificant contributions in numerous

Conference Session

Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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College Industry Partnerships

Region have been affected (positively and/or negatively) by events inneighboring Middle East countries - the fact that the Region has always had strong ties to somewestern countries, and in particular the USA- has helped enormously in setting up, manning, andproviding needed guidance to these fledgling institutions during their early years.The dramatic increase in oil revenues during the 70s, and 80s, coupled with lack of skilledprofessionals in areas deemed necessary for growth and development of oil-related industries,has been pivotal in the start up of higher education in general and engineering in particular.There are today eight main public colleges of engineering in the Region (Table 1) in addition toseveral, recently founded, private and

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Yellamraju Vikas; Tony Ramanello; Kurt Gramoll

realistic homeworkproblems, homework sessions, tutorial sessions, project labs, and the like. The result is havingengineering graduates with impressive analytical skills, but with little or no understanding ofhow to apply these skills in an effective manner to solve problems. Multimedia and networkbased media technologies have the potential of providing a mean for dealing with these issues ina dynamic, provocative and likely cost-effective manner that not only will increase theeffectiveness of the educational program but will also increase the quality of the resultingstudents [1, 2].However, electronic media has it own set of problems and difficulties. First, the structure of thesystem must be determined. In the case of this course, if server-based

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

Ava Madeline Bellizzi; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego; Elizabeth A. Reddy, University of San Diego

, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teach- ing and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student autonomy. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Lord is a fellow of the ASEE and IEEE and is active in the engineering education community including serving as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, on the FIE Steering Committee

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

adetail design phase, and connect them with one or more intermediate phases. Figure 1 displays atypical process, adapted from Dym and Little.3In our review of design texts, we were unable to identify any models that had been empiricallyvalidated or that had explicitly correlated design process to outcome. Most authors seemed to beeither expert designers writing from their work experience, or academics writing from theirteaching experience. Our intention, then, was to devise a study to explicitly relate process tooutcome and empirically validate a general design process model derived from the literature. Wehoped to gain insight into how engineering educators can better prepare their students forprofessional design responsibilities. The next

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

Session 2533 Teaching Design for Energy Sustainability Doanh Van, PhD., PE., CEM Union UniversityAbstract“Increasingly, investors are diversifying their portfolios by investing in companies that set industry-wide best practices with regard to sustainability”1. Sustainability has become yet anotheruniversal trend, besides total quality management, six sigma and total customer satisfaction, thatbusinesses and industries must adapt to remain competitive in the global market. Industries areadapting to Corporate Sustainability and, as a result, engineers

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Blekhman; Jason Keith; Ahmad Sleiti; Eileen Cashman; Peter Lehman; Richard Engel; Michael Mann; Hossein Salehfar

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

assessments include: 1) overall the studentsare improving both their comprehension of the learning objectives and their confidence about thesubject matter; 2) parallel and series circuits remain confusing for the students; 3) there is alsoconfusion about the system components and terminology, specifically the boundary between gasproduction (i.e. the electrolyzer) and gas storage, and 4) the introduction of material prior to the Page 15.908.10lab session will facilitate greater understanding of the exercise and allow for more time for theexperiment and efficiency calculations.We are currently in the process of further analyzing results to determine

Conference Session

Engineering in a Societal Context

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Reddy, University of San Diego; Gordon D Hoople, University of San Diego; Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, University of San Diego; Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

number of experimental pedagogical interventions toteach the kinds of teamwork that could become interdisciplinary, involving writing and dramaticperformance [12], research experience [13], and workshops on crucial team work skills [14].Thecourse we describe here is part of a robust movement in the field that seeks to help preparestudents for their careers as holistic engineers, with interest in the socio-technical context of theirknowledge.MethodsStudent PopulationDr. Gordon Hoople, an Assistant Professor in the General Engineering Department of Universityof San Diego’s Shiley Marcos School of Engineering partnered with Dr. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick,an Assistant Professor in the Kroc School of Peace Studies and an Associate Professor at

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Social Dialogue on Diversity and Inclusion

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Ella Lee Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University; James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University; Thomas Martin, Virginia Tech; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeremi S. London, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Noah Salzman, Boise State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

approaches with technical engineering skills. This requires anenhanced curriculum with a focus on student teamwork, a greater consideration of social context,improved communication with diverse constituents, and reflection on an ethical understanding oftheir decisions and solutions. Effective faculty members need to mirror these values and skills intheir instruction and mentoring. Efforts have begun to reimagine the “engineering canon” whichrequires a shift from positioning engineering as a purely technical endeavor to framing it associo-technical. We are developing a new General Engineering program that incorporates thisperspective [30]. In addition, we are developing modules that emphasize the sociotechnicalnature of engineering for traditional