Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies I

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Parameswari Ramanathan, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Eugenia Fernandez, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

positively predicted enrollment, graduation, andcumulative college grade point average while ACT significantly predicted graduation andcumulative college grade point average" (p.iii). Within a related area, House (2000) studied theimpact of students' self-beliefs and academic background on grade performance in Science,Engineering, and Mathematics (SEM) disciplines. He found these two factors to be significantlyrelated to the grade performance of students in SEM majors.Hunt (2011) studied potential predictors that impact student’s developmental Math at publiccommunity and technical colleges. She categorized 13 potential predictors into three categories -student characteristics, instructor characteristics and classroom characteristics. She found

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Uwakweh Benjamin; Richard Miller; Bryan Dansberry; Kettil Cedercreutz; Cheryl Cates

setting typicallyundergoes radical shifts between the time when any program is planned and the time the first student graduates. Thesignificance of the project described in this paper converges upon further bridging the gap between academia andindustry, which is increasingly important in today’s rapidly changing industrial environment. The University ofCincinnati is one of very few institutions to combine high impact research with a strong professional profile. With aresearch budget that exceeds $300 million and the largest and most diverse population of cooperative educationstudents at any public institution in the United States, UC is in a unique position to provide an original solution tothis national and international problem

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Jo Cartwright; Allie Knowlton; Donald Falkenburg

FastTrack. These four and seven week programs usecomputer-based learning to build fundamental skills in mathematics and English. When thestudent graduates from FastTrack, they have skills certified at the ninth and tenth grade level inreading and math. This provides the appropriate prerequisite skills for entering the MachinistTraining Institute (MTI). MTI is a thirty-one week program in which students earn certificationin the operation of material processing equipment (machining), metrology, computer-aideddesign, computer numerical control, and the associated math, computer, and communicationskills. Alternatively, students may also choose to pursue a career pathway through Focus:HOPE's Information Technologies Center.Greenfield presents an

Collection

2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Sudipta Chowdhury, Marshall University; Ammar Alzarrad, Marshall University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

’ politicalidentity while designing such activities has not been well-addressed. The lack of scientific literacycoupled with the distrust that a wide range of people has with scientific efforts of any kind that goagainst their worldviews, values, and beliefs can potentially have a significant impact on STEMeducational activities’ effectiveness. This research is grounded in the idea that both socioculturaland sociopolitical realities of learners’ lives and the interplay between those realities need to beexhaustively investigated to better communicate science via STEM activities. STEM activitiesshould be designed that should guide people to discern among evidence, opinion, misinformation,and disinformation regardless of their cultural and political identities

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Ochs, Lehigh University; Gerard Lennon, Lehigh University; Todd Watkins, Lehigh University; Graham Mitchell, Lehigh University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams e) an ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility g) an ability to communicate effectively h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global economic, environmental, and social context i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning j) a knowledge of contemporary issues k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice”Our approach is to overlay these skills techniques, tools and knowledge on the newproduct development process as described above

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Esteban Maya Muñoz, Universidad del Valle; Ronald Sterkenburg, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jairo Antonio Valdes Ortiz, Universidad del Valle; Guillermo Andrés Jaramillo Pizarro P.E., Universidad del Valle

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

GoogleHangouts to discuss the progress of the project. Estimated completion time is set for August 20,2019. If this project is a success, a larger full scale wing for a glider will be designed, built, andtested. Ultimately, resulting in the manufacture of a fully operational glider aircraft.Development of a carbon fiber wing sectionOnce the visit of the Purdue professor ended, Purdue and IDEXA (Univalle) will team up to workon a Purdue “hands-on experience” class project. The idea is that a group of students from eachuniversity starts to communicate with each other to manufacture a wing section of a simpleaircraft. This aircraft will be designed by the IDEXA team within a higher-term project called AVEwhich stands for educational flight aircraft

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Alexis P. Nordin, Mississippi State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Papers

creating a good writing process for themselves—one termed this as “white-page phobia,” e.g.: • “I struggle to start with an empty page. [….] In short, I am not great at the planning stage of writing when it [the topic] doesn’t just automatically click for me.” • “I need a good writing routine.” • “I will sometimes fall down research holes while writing, which can delay or derail the writing process.”8. Students also said page requirements had negative impacts on their writing: • “I end up having difficulty expressing my thoughts over a long format, and it makes me struggle to meet requirements for length of assignments.” • “I think ‘wordy’ writing is [a] habit formed by many of us having word minimums for essays in

Collection

2014 ERC

Authors

Pramod Khargonekar

10ENG will support advances in Communications andCyberinfrastructure• Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum (EARS) $8M for ENG will prioritize research on more efficient radio spectrum EARS use and energy-conserving device technologies• Cyberinfrastructure for the 21st Century (CIF21) The ENG investment will focus on research platforms, $10M for engineering modeling and simulation, smart networks, and CIF21 sensors• Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) ENG support will focus on the engineering aspects of the $3M for Networking and Information Technology Research and SaTC Development

Conference Session

What Else do Environmental Engineers Need to Know

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Powers, Clarkson University; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Suresh Dhaniyala, Clarkson University; Mary Margaret Monica Small, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

orengineering that would contribute to solving global climate problems. Qualitative assessmentresults indicated that students felt more confident in their ability to contribute to climate changemitigation through both their personal knowledge and professional career options.IntroductionThe scientific community now recognizes with a very high level of confidence that recentindustrial and agricultural activities are having a profound impact on Earth’s climate. 1 Therelease of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from these activities is causing a discerniblewarming and general instability of our planet’s climate. It is now time to help the broadercommunity understand the science of climate change, its potential implications, and the actionsrequired to

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Technical Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

-efficacyinfluenced a person’s coping behavior, effort expended, and the length of sustaining obstaclesand averse experiences [6]. Consequently, persons with low self-efficacy harbor pessimisticthoughts about their personal development and accomplishments and this affects their decision-making and impedes their motivation and academic achievement [6]. Consequently, parent andteacher stereotypes of female inferiority in STEM disciplines has an extended negative impact onthe choices, performance, and persistence of females in STEM. This should not be taken lightlyas it has already significantly retarded female interest, engagement, and progress in STEMcareers, as evidenced by large datasets on females in STEM.Girls have reached parity with boys in mathematics

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 8

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Stewart Thomas, Bucknell University; Stu Thompson, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

the start of this intervention. Thesepreliminary results also raise several questions that input from the larger design community canhelp address. Among the usual confounds to such observational studies, there is one additionalfactor that complicates the results presented. Several years ago the program made significantchanges to the curriculum, more than doubling the number of academic credits devoted to design[16]. This year was the first cohort of students to complete the revised design sequence whichcomplicates comparisons with past years. However since the symptoms of ‘stuckness’ were stillpresent during the course, the effect of the tiger team on addressing this issue can be reasonablywell understood within these limitations.Preliminary

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle Vegas Lewis, SUNY Fredonia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

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

particular are distinctly positioned to serve as allies forundergraduate women in STEM disciplines. Informal relationships with faculty have a positiveeffect on students’ academic performance. Over 40 years ago, Pascarella and Terenzini [12]found that undergraduates in their first year of college who frequently interacted with professorsinformally around course-related issues saw strong academic performance and intellectualgrowth. The body of literature on the impact of faculty/student relationships on academicoutcomes and retention has grown, with more recent scholarship focusing on the experiences ofspecific populations in particular disciplines, including on the relationships between womenundergraduates with STEM faculty and the degree to which

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John V. Tocco, Lawrence Technological University; Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

5 Apply principles of technical and professional communication in preparing and organizing various written reports and oral presentations, 7. by effectively integrating verbal, written, virtual and graphical 16. Communication information for the purpose of communicating observations and solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.The pre-revision version of CE Project 1 required several deliverables: Project Concept: A single-page “pre-proposal” submitted to the coordinator that included the project name, a list of the team members and a short project description. Its main purpose was to impel students to focus on forming teams and commence discussions on potential projects as

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Rabb; David Chang, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

resources together forthe course to promote student learning. The instructors engage in meaningful dialogueconcerning their assignments, lesson preparations, laboratory exercises, and their results. Theinformation flow between instructors from different departments encourages faculty learning bypushing the instructors beyond their own discipline. This paper illustrates some of the coursedetails employed between two engineering departments to advance and enrich aninterdisciplinary controls engineering course. Advantages to empowering an interdisciplinaryfaculty are also described. The techniques described allow the students to benefit from the workof an interdisciplinary faculty team and enrich the students’ understanding by bringing in realworld

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Sanchez; Alejandro Lozano; Victor Mucino

, courses that can stand on their own with or without thisProgram in place.IV. Industrial Projects In this program, it is intended for the industrial projects to involve industriesthat maintain some technical relation (commercial or corporate) with companies in theUSA, and the project will deal with some aspects related to technology adaptation,transfer and development. Engineering projects that involve trade issues and/orlanguage adaptation would be ideal in terms of exposing students first hand to someglobalization issues in engineering. Representatives from each participating company will add the realisticperspective while engaging themselves in the process of communication across culturesand disciplines. A student seminar is the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

communication. 13. Drawing a 3-viewThis certainly does not imply that the students at this level learned everything there is to belearned about these concepts in this course. However, they did learn enough to be able to askintelligent questions, and solve problems on tests and homework assignments where thequestions were asked in words, not equations. These comments apply in general. Particularstudents went far beyond these objectives, such as the student who came to the instructor's officeasking for a physical explanation of how the thrust of a jet engine varied with altitude and Machnumber. This prompted the instructor to distill such an explanation from senior-level material,present it at this student's level, and realize that it could

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

La Verne Harris; Mary Sadowski

original research.” Scholars engaged in integration seek to find out whatthe findings mean through the power of critical analysis and interpretation. Boyer8 furtherargues that “today, interdisciplinary and integrative studies, only on the edges of academic life,are moving toward the center, responding both to new intellectual questions and to pressinghuman problems.” Scholarship of Application provides the opportunity to bridge the gap between theory andpractice. It involves practical problem identification and resolution through research and action.Many technology professors are particularly suited for this aspect of scholarship that within theacademic community has sometimes been analogous with service, which has previously beenrejected as

Collection

2018 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Mike Molnar

; national network of Development of custom on-site or certifications. community colleges. Engagement at all off-site training educational levels. programs.October 23, 2017 - New Facility Groundbreaking (opening Jan 2020) Funded by the UniversityGroundbreaking: of Delaware & private philanthropy Oct. 2017 NIIMBL willOpening: Jan.lease 2020space for headquarters and shared laboratory space Facility will also be home to synergistic research activities at University of Delaware

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

that notonly facilitate the accomplishment of a communication task but also help the learner tointernalize strategies for later performance of the same or similar tasks, without the presence ofthe technology. These four structured workspaces perform in tandem to create a series ofactivities that reflect modern pedagogical procedures for using writing in the learning process.Separate instructor and student interfaces provide reports on performance for individualassignments. TABLE A: FOUR STRUCTURED WORKSPACES OF CPR SEGMENT ACTIVITY 1 Writing/Thinking (Assignment and Text Entry): Students are

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Classroom and Online Innovations

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Attitudes To evaluate the pedagogical success of lab activities utilizing recycled materials for 3Dprinting, an assessment tool (short questionnaire) measuring students’ attitudes is administeredand analyzed. Also, student perceptions and attitudes are further explored using informalinterviews. Some unsolicited statements from community events participants are recorded toillustrate the impact of the engineering 3D printing laboratory on the local community.All undergraduate engineering students are required to use 3D printers in many of their courses.All students are asked to recycle their failed prints or unsuccessful designs. Since all engineeringstudents have already been evaluated on sustainability topics in their courses, their

Collection

2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Clinton Martin; Peter Rogers; Salar Kamari

in theircourses. All three instructors used the same PowerPoint but created their own unique recordedlectures. Following the introductory lecture, the instructors used a questionnaire to assess thestudents’ opinions regarding the use of micro-lectures and how it might impact their learning.The following shows a representative sample of the student comments taken directly from thequestionnaire. 1. Are there any advantages using micro-lectures in the course? • I feel that an advantage of this, especially from an online student standpoint, is there wouldn't be a lot of fluff or side conversation when presenting lessons. • People learn better when information is provided in small chunks, easier to focus on the entire lesson and

Conference Session

Design: Content and Context

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Melnyk, United States Military Academy; Daisie Boettner, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

workplace while other teams addressed design needs for soldiers engaged in theGlobal War on Terror. There were two issues associated with placing a large portion of the grading responsibility onthe faculty advisor. First, there was a lack of consistency among advisors. In a typical capstonedesign course offering, there were roughly 15 design teams with 15 different advisors. Eachadvisor naturally had a predisposition as either an ‘easy’ or ‘tough’ grader. Therefore, the teamswith advisors who graded their students more leniently benefitted from their association with thatadvisor. Normalizing techniques were insufficient to alleviate the inconsistency in the gradesbecause the advisors did not grade all of the teams. Therefore, there was no way to

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Christe, Drexel University; Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University; Christopher Michael Sales, Drexel University; Yaghoob Farnam, Drexel University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

because the former seemed to be morecuriosity-driven, while the older students were more task-oriented and became more easilydistracted. When working with older audiences, the facilitators can design challenges that giveeach member in a group individualized tasks or specific roles (e.g., note-taker, presenter) thatkeeps them engaged throughout. 10Figure 3: Graphical abstracts produced by the (top row) middle school and (bottom) high school studentsThe requirement to produce a drawing on a large canvas or whiteboard enables the facilitatorsnonverbally assess a group’s progress and intervene if deemed necessary. The injection ofdrawing as a communication mode also allowed less talkative students a

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

K Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; Dee Fink; Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Carolyn Ahern; Kurt Gramoll

-time learning (students gain skills asneeded). Thus, students learn technical material using the latest hardware and software, while atthe same time learning how to communicate (design reports/presentations), how to functioneffectively on a team, how to balance the political/social/ethical aspects of engineering projects,how to teach themselves (researching design solutions/new analysis skills), how to engage inhigher level thinking skills (critical analysis of multiple design alternatives), how to self-assess(learning portfolios9), and how to be effective leaders on projects.Sooner City's web-based nature facilitates distance learning and outside-of-class activities.31Included in the development are content-rich multimedia modules that

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Orthlieb

is what you do whenever the answer’s not in the back of thebook: solve your problem using an appropriate and hopefully effective combination of all the knowledge and toolsat your disposal. But from a curricular standpoint, much of what student research involves can be summarized bythe subset of EC2000 Criteria 3a-k quoted earlier: "(b) design and conduct experiments... analyze and interpretdata; (d) function on multi-disciplinary teams; (f) understand professional and ethical responsibility; (g)communicate effectively; (h) understand the impact of your solution in a global/societal context; (i) recognize the 1need for and engage in life-long learning; (j) know

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Claire Lynne McCullough PE, High Point University; Mike Dalton, High Point University

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

facets dedicated to thetask, so students perceived the task as easier. However, these students “demonstrated lower-quality reasoning and argumentation in their recommendations” compared to those of thestudents in the control group. This led researchers to conclude that for this type of assignment,“while the information was easier to process, it might not have engaged the deep learningprocesses as effectively as the more challenging traditional search tasks [24].” Othershypothesize a variety of cognitive risks from dependence on GAI, including reduced mentalengagement, neglect of cognitive skills, loss of memory capacity, attention and focus issues, lackof transferrable knowledge and mental health impacts. While the research on potential

Conference Session

Materials Selection & Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Olshefsky, ASTM International

Tagged Divisions

Materials

in a contract between abuyer and seller. Showing students regulations, codes or specifications requiring the standardsthey are applying, will help to make the connection to actual industry practice. (see section on“Application and Use of Technical Standards” for more information on code development)There are two primary standards development processes where groups of people with knowledgeand experience in a given technical area, also known as a technical committee, can do their work.In one process, a country, in the form of an official delegation, is the participant on the technicalcommittee. In the other process, individual interests or individual companies are the participantson the technical committee.The World Trade Organization’s

Conference Session

Vendor Partnerships with Engineering Libraries

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Paulsen; Amy Van Epps; Lisa Dunn; Jay Bhatt

/Vendor Partnerships and a New Reference Book ParadigmAchieving a productive and valuable partnership requires input and responses from the partiesinvolved. Typically, in the management of an online information product those parties consist ofthe library and the online vendor. In some cases, the scope of the relationship is much largerthan just an interface between librarian and vendor; the relationship includes many liaison roles,such as communicating with faculty, graduate students and undergraduates 9. In 2002 a surveywas conducted by the Working Group on Liaison Relationships, a task force that focused onfinding answers about what services were most valuable at the Rutgers University Library. Thestudy revealed the community’s preferred

Collection

2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Vance Poteat

COLLEGE CHEATING – A SIX YEAR FOLLOW-UP Vance Poteat Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Merrimack College vance.poteat@merrimack.edu Abstract According to various researchers, between 25% up to and in excess of 90% of all college students engage in some form of cheating. Traditionally, cheating includes inappropriate collaborations on a homework assignment, a cheat sheet hidden up a student’s sleeve or more recently on the back of a water bottle label, as well as those wondering eyes during an exam

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekhar Sharad, National Instruments

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

minds resonate with these kinds of platforms and help to getthem engaged in engineering which forms a good base to introduce other forms ofinstrumentation later on in their careerAnother key reason for educators is the cost involved. The cost of buying traditionalinstrumentation is very high. With the introduction of Virtual Instrumentation[2], this has beenaddressed to a large extent, and embedded devices are the lowest cost devices today. Hence,embedded devices form one of the best platforms to introduce early in engineering because oftheir cost benefits and their ability to resonate with what the students see in their daily life. Thisdoes pose a problem – with the complexity of programming these devices, how do we raise thelevel of