Conference Session

Strategies and/or Approaches to Engage Students in Agricultural, Biological, or Similarly Named Programs

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University ; Roger L. Tormoehlen, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

includeelements of the information revolution.Figure 1 – Purdue University students using a physical hitching simulator to check hand calculations for implement coupling[15] (Knoll, 1963). The global learning standards or educational outcomes for the vehicle balance module arepresented in Table 1. These were developed from a general discussion by the lesson researcherswith the other members of the Agricultural Systems Management (ASM) and AgriculturalMachinery and Systems Engineering (AMSE) faculty about the general ideas and concepts thatshould be included in any vehicle balance module. They do not necessarily conform to the‘approved’ Bloom vocabulary, so much as they simply convey the general areas of material to becovered for a beginning level of

Conference Session

Assessment Instruments

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gerlick, Pittsburg State University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Michael S. Trevisan, Washington State University; Shane A. Brown, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

outcomes to be measured for program and ABETaccreditation documentation. Fifteen TIDEE assessments have been developed to address fourcritical performance areas in engineering design: teamwork, professional development, designprocesses, and solution assets. Table 1 presents a brief overview of these performance areasalong with corresponding assessment instruments and the general performance criteria of each(adapted from Davis et al.2).The TIDEE assessments typically incorporate multiple response methods including checklist,short answer, and essay. The Team Member Citizenship assessment, for example, asks studentsto assess themselves and their teammates with respect to important attributes of teamwork, aslisted in Table 2. Students then assess the

Conference Session

Engineering Collaboration: Faculty & Student in K-12 Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly Anthony, Tennessee Technological University; Melissa Geist, Tennessee Tech University; Sally Pardue, Tennessee Tech University; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Tennessee Technological University; Evangelynn Thurber, Cookeville High School

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

as far as using it in my classroom. I have actually taken what I learned this summer and have shared that with my students. The grant provided equipment specific to my legacy cycle instead of giving all the participants a generic set of equipment and as a result, I was able to easily implement the legacy cycle” (RET teacher reflection).In Summer 2009, two mathematics teachers and seven science teachers from six local highschools participated in a six-week Research Experience for Teachers (RET project) funded bythe National Science Foundation (NSF). The teachers designed and conducted engineeringresearch with technical mentorship from Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,Materials Science, and Industrial

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M Robertson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; Robert John Bowman, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Douglas A Mercer, Analog Devices Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

. Initially, the oscilloscope functions were derived from a sound Page 23.576.3card9. The frequency range (roughly 50-5000 Hz) and maximum voltage (1 V) were limited bythe specifications of the sound card. It was replaced by the Velleman PCSGU 250, a twochannel oscilloscope with an arbitrary function generator to eliminate the continual issues withincompatible sound cards as a result of Windows operating system upgrades. This drove the costunder $200.In parallel with these ground-breaking educational platforms, there have been a number ofcommercial products aimed at the same market. They face three challenging requirements: lowcost, software that

Conference Session

Assessing Student Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E. Bluman, U.S. Military Academy; Kathryn Purchase, U.S. Military Academy; Christopher Thomas Duling, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

22.415.8corresponds with “strongly agree” and 1 denotes “strongly disagree.” The data presented are themean of all responses to each question. Although not technically rigorous, this method ofpresentation was chosen as the clearest way to present the data concisely. In general, thestudents had a favorable response to the review quizzes. Specifically, the students thought thequizzes were a good way to reinforce the material (average of 4.1 out of 5), they voted tocontinue the practice (3.9 out of 5), their anxiety about class did not increase (1.96 out of 5), andthey preferred going over the answers together in class (4.1 out of 5).Table 2. Normalized Performance on Conceptual Exam Questions Exper. Control differ- p

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

Session 3513 Designing a Statistics Course for Chemical Engineers V.L. Young Department of Chemical Engineering, Ohio UniversityAbstractThe Department of Chemical Engineering at Ohio University redesigned an existing course inexperimental design and statistics. The revision was motivated by assessment information froma variety of sources: course-based assessment in our senior Unit Operations laboratory, exitsurveys of seniors, surveys of alumni 2 years after graduation and input from our departmentaladvisory board. The consensus of faculty, students, alumni, and the advisory

Conference Session

Remote Physical Laboratories: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University; Jumoke 'Kemi' Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University; Mehdi Shokouhian, Morgan State University; Oludayo Samuel Alamu, Morgan State University; Seong W. Lee, Morgan State University; Gbekeloluwa B. Oguntimein P.E., Morgan State University; Adedayo Ariyibi, Morgan State University; Hye Jeong Lee, Morgan State University; Krishna Bista, Morgan State University; Mulugeta T. Dugda, Morgan State University; Sotonye Ikiriko, Morgan State University; Celeste Chavis P.E., Morgan State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

atdepartmental level and institution-wide scales. According to the authors, the faculty at both theUniversity of British Columbia (UBC) and the University of Maine (UMaine) created classroomobservation programs to collect information about the nature of STEM teaching practices. Theresults of such observations were needed to: (1) characterize the general state of STEMclassroom teaching at both institutions, (2) provide feedback to instructors who desiredinformation about how they and their students were spending time in class, (3) identify facultyprofessional development needs, and (4) check the accuracy of the faculty reporting on theteaching practices survey that is now in use at UBC. The classroom observation contains 25codes in only two categories

Conference Session

Philosophy of Engineering Education: Epistemology and Ethics

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

of the essay “TheRhythm of Education.” He distinguishes between three stages of mental growth – romance,precision and generalization. “Education should consist in a continual repetition of suchcycles.”53 They may be of a long duration or of a short duration. Thus in the long term thestages shown in exhibit 1 can be related to primary, post-primary and higher education. ButWhitehead would argue that we approach problems however simple or complex in this way. Sounderstanding the stages leads to particular types of curriculum and instruction. There is animmediate lesson for those promoting the teaching of engineering in elementary and post-elementary schooling: that is, that the emphasis should be on the stage of romance. This is notto say that

Conference Session

Equity and Belonging

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aubrey Wigner, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines; Catherine Chase Corry, Colorado School of Mines; Julianne Stevens, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

of “academic rigor” that does not allow forfailure or iterative learning. Below, we discuss groupings of quotes to dive deeper into thesethemes.Several students linked DEI efforts and the engineering discipline, with one saying, “There’s alarge history of depoliticization in college universities and technical universities in general. AndI think that because of that there’s become this idea that people are stuck in that we’re here to,like, collect equations and, like, technical skills and we can do MATLAB and Python and then wewalk out with this, like, armful of diverse skills and that’s it… that’s the reason why people areresistant to DEI because it requires them to acknowledge that they have an impact on society andother people even though

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Max Raisor; C. Greg Jensen

hands-on applications.Valuable insights gained (and lessons learned) from a two-semester teaching and skillsdevelopment experiment in distance learning are reported in this paper. The experiment includedbasic instruction in the fundamentals of engineering graphics, coordinate and geometric tolerancecontrols (GD&T), and CAD. The primary objectives of the experiment was to develop aphilosophy which would help to (1) ascertain the effectiveness of using the Internet as aneffective means of course delivery, and (2) satisfy student interaction requirements in hands-onlaboratory practice, using third-generation CAD systems. The authors developed a digital courseextension that accomplishes both tasks. An engineering graphics course, taught on the

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg L. Fiegel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Ben Mason, University of California, Berkeley; Nicholas W. Trombetta, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

graduate students to better understand their roles as mentors.The principal learning outcomes for the undergraduate researchers fit into three broad categories: ► Conduct and document a research experiment; ► Function effectively on a multi-disciplinary research team; and ► Summarize both the technical and experiential aspects of the research experience.These learning outcomes are summarized in Table 1 along with performance metrics andlearning opportunities. We defined performance metrics as specific skills or abilities that weexpected our students to demonstrate by the end of the research appointment. Learningopportunities represented tasks or activities completed by the undergraduate students, whichhelped them to achieve the learning

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cherrice Traver, Union College; Douglass Klein, Union College; Borjana Mikic, Smith College; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Ari W. Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Gillette, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

compelled to pack ever more scientific and technical content into an already over-fullcurriculum. Although new criteria for breadth have been set,1 and holistic solutions proposed,21,31, 44, 47, 109, 118 transformation has been slow at best. Page 22.725.4We must stop thinking of engineering education as a zero-sum game. By that change inperspective, solutions follow. Engineering students can learn technical engineering contentsimultaneously – and more effectively – with other skills and content. Broadening the context inwhich technical content is learned can enhance the potential for innovation and

Collection

2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

V. Dimitra Pyrialakou, West Virginia University; Kakan C Dey P.E., West Virginia University; David Martinelli, West Virginia University; John Deskins, West Virginia University; Julia Daisy Fraustino, West Virginia University ; L Christopher Plein, West Virginia University; Md Tawhidur Rahman, West Virginia University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, Texas A&M University; Abhik Roy, West Virginia University

methods and models toidentify, understand, and persuade key target audiences. This process is nuanced and particularlytricky for generating education and positive engagement surrounding public interest projects thatare based on new ideas and/or involve substantial costs, offering learning opportunities not onlyfor the engineering students at the focus of this study but also for the economics and strategiccommunication students working alongside them.In sum, the unique structure of the HEPC offers the following features, which facilitates studentslearning: 1. Students work in teams 2. Students work across disciplines 3. Students work on an open-ended problem 4. Students have access to professors and TAs from multiple disciplines

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Joseph Balz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ashley Bernal, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jessica Livingston, Rose-Hulman Institute of technology; Stephen Michael Misak, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

challenging their initialassumptions.Figure 1: Thermoelectric generator CAD model using a stack of Peltier tilesMIH projects also enable students to use their technical skills to benefit the community and todevelop a humanitarian mindset. Projects that would not otherwise be developed because theyare not profitable for the market are realized by students. The first MIH team successfully createda custom gait trainer for a child with cerebral palsy in Moldova, where he has access to limitedmedical equipment. The gait trainer has helped rehabilitate him to the point where he can walkalmost entirely on his own shown in Fig. 2.Figure 2: Moldova gait trainer project stages: (left) project team after completing the gait trainer,(middle) delivering the

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Empathy, Psychological Safety, and Leadership in Engineering Design

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Howcroft, University of Waterloo; Kate Mercer, University of Waterloo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

Design and Arts, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 5–18, 2005.[29] D. G. Johnson, N. Genco, M. N. Saunders, P. Williams, C. C. Seepersad, and K. Hölttä- Otto, “An Experimental Investigation of the Effectiveness of Empathic Experience Design for Innovative Concept Generation,” Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 136, no. 5, pp. 052009, 12 pages, Mar. 2014, doi: 10.1115/1.4026951.[30] N. Genco, D. Johnson, K. Ho¨ltta¨-Otto, and C. C. Seepersad, “A Study of the Effectiveness of Empathic Experience Design as a Creativity Technique,” presented at the ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell

of Java Game Assignments," SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 4 (December 2002), pp. 94-98.[2] K. Bruce, A. Danyluk, and T. Murtagh, "Event-driven Programming is Simple Enough for CS1," Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, pp. 1-4, 2001, Canterbury, United Kingdom.[3] K. Walrath and M. Campione, The JFC Swing Tutorial: A Guide to Constructing GUIs, Addison-Wesley, 1999.[4] J. Estell, "The Card Game Assignment," Nifty Assignments 2004 Special Session, 35th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Online: http://nifty.stanford.edu[5] Online: http://www.waste.org/~oxymoron/cards/[6] Card Games Rules Archive. Online: http://www.usplayingcard.com

Conference Session

Course Transformation in ECE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rabih Younes, Duke University; Cecilé Sadler, Duke University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

advisor, Dr. Rabih Younes, on his research in engineering education. Her research interests involve the development and overall effectiveness of education technology. She also serves as a tutor and mentor, providing academic support to children in local elementary and middle schools. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Simple Steps to Lower Student Stress in a Digital Systems Course While Maintaining High Standards and Expectations Rabih Younes1 and Cecil´e Sadler2 1 rabih.younes@duke.edu, 2 ces120@duke.edu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Conference Session

Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Carnahan; Bruce Vojak; Raymond Price

Session 2255 The Relative Contribution of Department Ranking to College Ranking in Engineering Graduate Program Rankings Conducted by U.S. News and World Report Bruce A. Vojak, James V. Carnahan, and Raymond L. Price Department of General Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAbstractCollege rankings conducted by various popular magazines have generated both considerableinterest and controversy, with concerns focused both on the formulas used by the magazines andthe data supplied by the ranked schools. The

Conference Session

Pedagogy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Pezeshki

Session 2566 Managing a Capstone Design Clinic—Strategies for Pedagogic and Financial Success Dr. Charles Pezeshki School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2920 pezeshki@wsu.eduMany ABET-certified programs in mechanical engineering have a team-orientedpracticum involving projects generated by outside industrial sponsors that are supportersof the university. A smaller subset of these programs are financially successful, andgenerate

Conference Session

Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

and robotic systems for diverse applications. Page 23.1049.5  Have the imagination to see how robotics can be used to improve society and the entrepreneurial background and spirit to make their ideas become reality.  Demonstrate the ethical behavior and standards expected of responsible professionals functioning in a diverse society.2.3. OUTCOMESAlthough Robotics Engineering is not recognized as a distinct engineering field by ABET, theprogram was designed to be accreditable under the “General Engineering” criteria, thus, thegroup adopted the standard ABET program outcomes (a-k) [1]. As applied to RoboticsEngineering

Conference Session

Studies in Engineering Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, Southern Methodist University, Lyle School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

and value, for industry, for youngengineers to be both creative thinkers and innovators, and increasing agreement that suchstrategic skills must be taught in engineering schools [1], [2], there remain reservations andlimits to the practical process of integrating such unwieldy content into the already over-scheduled requirements of the engineering undergraduate [2]–[4].Supportive teaching structures have been developed for first or final year design courses inwhich students are introduced to idea generation and evaluation, idea sharing, team-work andconcept critique based on user-needs, all of which are tied to creative design processes [3], [5].But the specific teaching and practice of idea-generation techniques, while common in

Conference Session

ME Demonstrations and Laboratories

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey C. Hayen, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

without formally solving thisequation. Taken together, these properties constitute Rayleigh’s energy method [1, 2].The results for simple harmonic motion presented above are completely general, but it should beacknowledged that θ o will be precisely zero for the laboratory activity considered in this article,especially since it would be very difficult with the apparatus utilized to intentionally produce oraccurately measure a specific value for θ o . Thus, A = θo , D = ωn2 θ o2 , and ϕ = 0 for all casesencountered in this experiment. Also, it will be subsequently assumed that θ o > 0 , so A = θ o .Laboratory Activity Guide for the ExperimentThe laboratory activity guide developed for this experiment appears at the end of this article, andit is

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffery M. Saul; Rhett J. Allain; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

information, you realize that you can use the physics you have learned to answer your own question.Some relate to technical jobs: • You have a job with a semiconductor processing lab that uses MBE (molecular beam epitaxy) to make transistors and other multi-layer electronic devices. A quartz crystal oscillator is used to measure the thickness of a thin film being deposited on a sample in the vacuum chamber. The crystal monitor is vibrated by a frequency generator and operates essentially like a mass on a spring so that the 6 MHz characteristic resonant frequency of the crystal is reduced as more material is deposited on its surface, which is exposed to the same conditions as the sample. The crystal has

Conference Session

The Evolution of Engineering Economy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Thuesen, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

made available. The resulting development of these two fields asunique, highly technical disciplines with widespread applications can certainly be directlylinked to A.S.E.E. and its influence on engineering education.References 1. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 1 (1910-11), p. 380. 2. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 3 (1912-13), p. 14. 3. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 1 (1910-11), p. 556. 4. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 4 (1913-14), pgs. 35-49. 5. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 5 (1914-15), pgs. 14-15. 6. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 4 (1913-14), p. 91, p. 85, p. 88. 7. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 8 (1917-18), p. 357. 8. Journal of

Conference Session

Sustainability and engineering education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

howwell they agreed with the statements on a 1-5 scale (1 = strongly disagree; 5 = strongly agree).The mean rating for each item can be seen in Table 3 below. Overall, students agreed the courseincreased their awareness of sustainable engineering practices and how those practices relate tocivil engineering.Table 3: Mean Rating of Post-course Only Items (N=35)Question Mean RatingThe lessons in this course provided mewith an awareness of sustainable 4.40engineering practices.The class session helped me realize howsustainability relates to civil engineering 4.29disciplines.The EcoAudit exercise increased my

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julian Kang; Byeong-Cheol Lho

that the subject finished the task – Time that the subjct started the task) / Number of logical errors that the subject detected in the task)The results show that the students detected all logical errors when they used the 4D model. Whenthe students used the 3D model, four students either did not detect all logical errors or made amistake in detecting the logical errors. In general, those who used the 4D model took less time todetect the logical errors than those who used the 3D model. As shown in Figure 4, the studentsspent 1 minute 5 seconds to detect one logical error average when they used the 4D model in thefirst task. The students spent 2 minutes 36 seconds in average when they used the 3D model in thesame task. In the second test

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela S. Frinzi, Southern Polytechnic State University; Scott Larisch, Southern Polytechnic College of Engr and Engr Tech

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

instructional design staff in ASC. All courses must receive at leasta 4.0 on a 5 point scale, include no "Not Evident" ratings and include anInstructor’s Manual to successfully complete phase 1 of the Instructional DesignAssessment.The Content Assessment may be completed by the Department Chair, Dean, or byan outside content expert. The assessment is on a 5 point scale. All courses mustreceive at least a 4.0 to successfully complete the Content Assessment. Coursesmay not be scheduled to be taught until they meet the 4.0 minimum assessmentscore on both the Instructional Design and Content Assessment and completethrough phase 2 of the Instructional Design Assessment.Future PlansSPSU plans to continue assisting the technical colleges in improving their

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Jianhong Ren, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; David Ramirez, Texas A&M University; Sheryl Custer, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Joyce Coleman, Academy High School

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Registration-8:00 8:00 Competition 8:00 Competition 8:00 Competition Orientation9:15 Break 8:45 Break 8:45 Break 8:45 Break Department Technical 9:00 9:00 9:00 Field Trip Introductions Activities Technical Technical Field Trip9:30 9:30 11:00 Activity Activities Safety Training Lunch (Guest Lunch (Guest Lunch (Guest11:30 11:30 11:30 1:00

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Kosky

Session 1171 Frontiers of Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials P. G. Kosky, M. E. Hagerman, and S. Maleki, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308Abstract Union College’s student body combines about 15% engineering students with apredominately liberal arts campus of approximately 2,000 students. Recently the Collegeembraced an interdisciplinary program “Converging Technologies” that integrates crosscurricula material into existing core engineering and liberal arts programs. We have developed an undergraduate course “Frontiers of Nanotechnology andNanomaterials” aimed at

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Keilson

to the students.Texts The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman, Doubleday Invention by Design, Henry Petroski, Harvard University Press The Engines of Our Ingenuity, John Lienhard, Oxford University Press Taking Sides: Science, Technology and Society, Thomas Easton, McGraw-Hill Engineering Your Future, Oakes, et. al., Great Lakes Press (optional)Specific Educational Objectives of the CourseAt the completion of the course, the student will: 1. Be able to define engineering 2. Be able to describe steps in problem solving techniques 3. Be able to describe steps in engineering design 4. Be able to develop methods to evaluate designs 5. Be able to compare and contrast technical