Conference Session

Engagement In Practice: Integrating Community Engagement into Engineering Curricula

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theresa Anne Migler-VonDollen, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth T Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

future directions. Our evaluation of the program centers on the following defined goals for in-custody stu- dents: to be empowered in logical thinking and mathematical skills, to elevate technical literacy, to create a project to take home upon release, to be prepared for success at an intro- ductory computer programming course at our local community colleges upon their release. For undergraduate teaching assistants, we state the following expected outcomes: to have an expanded world-view and to improve their teaching and communication skills. We evaluate impact and outcomes of our program using interviews and surveys conducted upon completion of the course. Over half of students who complete the

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

Session 2547 Breaking the Code – How to get your ET Faculty Tenure Jerry W. Samples University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractJust like hiring practices, there are variations in the tenure and promotion practices at everycollege and university. The leaders in Engineering Technology programs must understand the“practices” that apply to tenure and promotion, and be able to guide their faculty such that theyare competitive when it is time for tenure and promotion. The “practices” and the rules thatguide them are often obscure, leaving many tenure stream faculty members to guess

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

Session 2131 CAN PEERS BE USED EFFECTIVELY TO ASSESS TEAMS: TASK/TEAM FUNCTION OBSERVATIONS DURING TEAM BUILDING EXERCISES Robert Knecht Colorado School of MinesAbstract – This presentation describes a model used to illustrate functions that team membersassume during teambuilding exercises. The Design (EPICS) program introduces teams ofengineering students to design, technical communications and teamwork processes through anopen-ended, client-based project. Teams conduct a series of exercises in which half perform theexercise

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thompson; Craig Somerton

Session 2625 Community Outreach for Capstone Design: The Cycle Projects Craig W. Somerton and Brian S. Thompson Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State UniversityIntroductionA current trend in engineering education is the incorporation of a service learning experience.One such example is the EPICS program at Purdue, which involves the volunteer work ofengineering students in the community [1]. Another approach, proposed herein, is to utilize thesenior capstone design experience in community outreach. This approach has been taken duringthe past three years in the mechanical engineering senior

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed Clausen; Carolyne E. Garcia

Session 3513 Student Portfolios — Assessing Criteria 2000 Carolyne E. García, Edgar C. Clausen University of ArkansasAbstractABET’s Criteria 2000 identifies 11 desired outcomes for engineering education. Engineeringprograms will be evaluated according to their success in producing students with the ability to:1) apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering; 2) design and conductexperiments and interpret data; 3) design a system, component, or process; 4) function on multi-disciplinary teams; 5) identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems; 6) understand

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Preparing Students for the Real World

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patsy Hulse, University of Auckland; Dahlia Dantang Han, University Auckland, Engineering Library; Emil Melnichenko, University of Auckland; Susan Brookes, University of Auckland, Engineering Library

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/civil/ 6. The University of Arizona University Libraries. (2011). Finding library materials. from http://www.library.arizona.edu/help/tutorials/index.html 7. Vaughan Memorial Library of Acadia University. (2008). You quote it, you note it! , from http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/Bibliography 1. Cardiff University. University Library Service. (2007). Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching. Retrieved 7 July 2008, 2008, from http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/insrv/educationandtraining/infolit/hilt/ 2. Drees, K. P., Ta, K.-D., & Clements, H. P. (2005). Creating a library instruction session for a technical writing course composed of engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Horton

Session 3248 Teaching Industrial Applications of Vibration Measurement and Analysis Techniques Karen J. Horton, P.E. University of MaineAbstractA new junior level technical elective titled Industrial Vibrations has been developed forMechanical Engineering Technology students at the University of Maine. The course addressesthe needs of local industries such as paper production and shipbuilding, but the concepts areapplicable to a wide range of industries. Course prerequisites include calculus, but notdifferential equations, and

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Martinazzi

Session 1639 IMPLEMENTING “STUDENT LEARNING TEAMS” IN ENGINEERING ECONOMICS Robert Martinazzi University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown ABSTRACTUniversities constantly strive to provide students with a solid education in their discipline. Thereal challenge in obtaining this goal is the creation of an educational environment thatstimulates and encourages student learning. The key to establishing this dynamic learningenvironment involves engendering in students a deep personal sense of ownership of

Conference Session

Problem- and Project-based Learning in Engineering Mechanics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaobin Le, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics Division (MECHS)

course offered in senior year in our mechanical engineering programhas 3-hour lectures per week without lab in a 15-week semester. It is typically arranged as two-80-minute lectures per week. The textbook used in this course is “Mechanical Vibrations, 6thedition” by S.S. Rao. The topics covered in this course and their sequence are: • Chapter 1 Fundamentals of Vibration • Chapter 2 Free Vibration of Single-degree-of-freedom Systems • Chapter 3 Harmonically excited vibration • Vibration isolators (Part of Chapter 9 Vibration controls) • Chapter 4 Vibration under General Forcing Conditions • Chapter 5 Two-Degree-of-Freedom systems 2 • Vibration absorbers (Part of Chapter

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Trev Harmon; C. Richard Helps; Michael Bailey

4 1.3198 Question 3 0 2 3 6 17 28 4.3571 5 0.9512 Question 1: I prefer to submit assignments electronically. Question 2: I prefer to receive graded assignments back electronically. Question 3: I was able to easily review my scored paper with the professor's markings. Figure 4. Assignment submission preferences dataSince these are IT students, they have considerable familiarity with electronic media. Futureresearch needs to address a much wider and more diverse group. This study, due to its small sizeand restricted participant pool, makes no attempt to establish a general conclusion in regard tostudents’ acceptance or

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

W Meador; Carlos Morales

Session 2538 Implementation of a Low Budget, Raster Based, 3D Motion Capture System Using Custom Software and Modern Video Tracking Technology W. Scott Meador, Carlos Morales Purdue UniversityAbstractThis paper details the implementation of a system developed to generate 3D motioncapture data through the analysis of raster based motion video. The system’s generalprocedure includes acquiring video, processing the raster data to raw motion data throughmotion tracking technology, formatting the raw data into various useable forms usingcustom software, importing

Collection

2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; John Misasi PhD, Western Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

opportunities to pre-major students. These efforts werespurred by an internal research study that found the following: 1. The percent of women-identifying, first-generation, Pell-eligible, and underserved students declines from pre-major to the major more significantly than their counterparts. 2. There has been a significant decrease in diversity as the programs have become more competitive. 3. Pre-majors, women-identifying, and underserved students report a statistically significant lower sense of belonging than their counterparts [17].Unfortunately, it has recently come to light that students’ experiences in the Engineering &Design department include feelings of exclusion, dismissal, and unease. There is a culture thatdoesn’t

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development Board; Diana Papini Warren, Maui Economic Development Board; Frank R De Rego Jr., Maui Economic Development Board, Inc.; Kanesa Duncan Seraphin, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

efficiency. Our state hasone of the most ambitious goals in the nation, and, if achieved, could provide an example for thenation and world. 1 Page 22.584.2 We are certainly part of a national and international movement to address energy securityand sustainability issues. At the 2011 Global Energy Summit, “global leaders from bothdeveloped and developing nations expressed their commitment towards developing clean,renewable energy for future generations.”2 There is much work to be done, and a skilledworkforce will be required to make it happen. Nationally, job growth in the energy sector isprojected to increase in correspondence with the increase

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernd S. W. Schroeder; Jenna Carpenter

. For the present structure of our integratedcurriculum, cf. Tables 1 and 2. It should be noted that while we consider the new alignmentof content an improvement, it is by no means perfect and will be refined over the next severalyears. Since the first two mathematics courses are presently in further reorganization (fromseparate precalculus-calculus to an integrated course) and since the key shifts discussed herehappen later in the sequence, we will focus more heavily on the last four mathematicscourses.The Situation at the Start. Teaching mathematics to engineers requires not only thecoverage of certain topics (generally single and multivariable calculus and differentialequations plus some linear algebra and statistics), but also, if one wants

Collection

2025 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Shadnaz Asgari, California State University, Long Beach; Ga Young Suh, California State University, Long Beach; Perla Ayala, California State University Long Beach

Tagged Topics

Diversity

the PIs for each SO, the selected courses, and evaluationmethods such as exams, projects, and rubrics. PIs were assessed using rubrics on a 1–4 scale(Novice to Exemplary), with a benchmark of 2.8 (70%) set for achieving each PI within its SO,ensuring alignment with ABET standards.The report provided a detailed breakdown of assessment results for each SO, including tablesand figures illustrating ratings across courses. It highlighted strengths, identified challenges, andoutlined targeted improvement plans, such as refining course content, enhancing teachingmethods, and incorporating more hands-on activities, analytical problem-solving approaches, andsupplemental sessions. Appendix H presents assessment benchmarks for each SO and

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Noellette Conway-Schempf; H. Scott Matthews; Francis C. McMichael; Chris Hendrickson

Session 2451 Green Design Educational Modules and Case Studies Chris Hendrickson, Noellette Conway-Schempf, H. Scott Matthews, and F.C. McMichael Green Design Initiative Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15206AbstractWe report on the content and use of a series of course modules, case studies, homeworkassignments, and software developed at Carnegie Mellon University. The coursematerials illustrate the principles of green design - the environmentally-conscious designof products and processes. The materials

Conference Session

Student Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University; Eric Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Chia-Lin Ho, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Page 15.302.21.0 IntroductionThe engineering workplace has been impacted by rapidly developing computational technologiesthat are radically reshaping the nature of the workplace.1 This and other immense changes inglobal political and economic dynamics means the 21st century engineer will look very differentthan their 20th century counterparts.2 While these changes can be seen as a real threat to theengineering job market, engineers who have learned how to harness computational capabilitiesfor advanced analysis and problem-solving will continue to be in great demand for decades tocome. However, while broad, general skills such as computational capabilities are recognized ascrucial to future careers, there is a dearth of understanding as to how

Collection

2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Aneesha Gogineni, Saginaw Valley State University

stage of college education. POPBL can be incorporated in teaching andlearning activities that can improve student’s technical knowledge, communication skills and higher orderthinking skills [1]. Hence, in the current study, the author conducted preliminary research on the followingthree modes of learning in mechanical engineering courses: problem-based learning”, “project-basedlearning” and “active learning”.Problem Based LearningAhmet G et al, investigated the effect of problem-based learning on students’ academic progress. Theauthors chose to introduce enthalpy concept through PrbBL and the results indicated higher scorescompared to traditional teaching. PrbBL also helped students improve their science process skills. However,this research is

Conference Session

Information Literacy Programs for First-Year Engineering Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Baratta, University of Toronto; Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Jason A. Foster, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

poorlyattended. Without the immediacy of an assignment and a specific topic to research, studentsoften fail to acknowledge the relevance of the activities, and are unable to develop transferableskills.To address these issues, engineering faculty and librarians associated with the University ofToronto, a large research-intensive Canadian university, have collaborated on the design of anactivity that integrates information literacy into the curriculum and provides a more rigorousprocess for instruction. Key principles that informed the activity include: 1. Introducing students to the physical library and encouraging alternatives to internet search engines for information discovery; 2. Integrating the library session into the curriculum and tying it to

Conference Session

Pedagogy in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Ford, The University of Tulsa; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Lucas Landherr, Northeastern University; Christy West, University of South Alabama; Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Stephen Thiel, University of Cincinnati; Bruce Vaughen, American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Marnie Jamieson, University of Alberta

previous course, such as CalculusII would require Calculus I, to require checking fewer boxes. First-year engineering courses –calculus, chemistry, and physics – are the prerequisites for over half of the schools. Generalchemistry is universally required, as the only school not marking it requires thermodynamics as aprerequisite, and general chemistry is usually a prerequisite for thermodynamics. Computerprogramming is not generally required. The “other” category includes one or two mentions eachof physical, organic, and analytical chemistries; materials science, linear algebra, introduction toengineering, and a lab for chemical engineering problems with computer applications. Calculus 1 (derivatives) Calculus

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

students the time, opportunityand motivation to gain a perspective of their chosen field, and try their hand at design, which isone of the strongest reasons why they come to engineering. The problem here is that to manyfaculty, a “design” experience for a student just entering school could not be imagined as beinganything other than a high-school level entertainment session. In a tightly packed curriculum, itwas hard to justify spending several leisurely hours on such a course. In writing this, the authoracknowledges that reality can be far better than this, as shown by many teachers in several formsof freshman design experiences 1-12. The difficulty, again, is that many faculty cannot imagine

Conference Session

Bring Your Own Experiment: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mark Trudgen, University of Georgia; Dominik May, University of Georgia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

solution for a chemical engineering application.Regardless of application, one of the defining characteristics is that the physical variablesmeasured are often continuous and analog. For most applications the general block diagramshown in Figure 1 can describe the necessary path to capture a measurement from a change ofphysical variable to a variable stored in computer memory (or used for feedback). Figure 1: Steps needed to build a sensor system.Sensors class is a natural choice for a course that has a hands-on laboratory component. Indesigning a laboratory setup there are many inherent challenges. A list is presented summarizingthe main challenges: • Building a coherent laboratory setup that students can use throughout

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Innovation and Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

cooling transformation - CCT and Time - Temperature – Transformation - TTT diagrams) that are difficult read, interpret and apply. • The spectrum of available materials broadens every day from well-established materials such as iron, copper, and aluminum alloys to hybrid, intelligent, bio, and nano materials. • The appropriate choice of material for a given application is becoming complex due to contemporary additional requirements of the total life-cycle costing approach, which includes the energy, environmental, and recycling considerations.Additionally, there are generic factors that add to the above-mentioned inherentchallenges in teaching materials science. These factors are depicted in Figure

Conference Session

Faculty Development Lightning Talks

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Vincent Huerta, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Daniel M. Aukes, Arizona State University; Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Julianne L. Holloway, Arizona State University; Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Constituent Committee

have more collegial relationships [1, 10, 11, 12]. Facultywho do not receive adequate mentoring are more likely to become isolated, stressed, andexperience burnout that can decrease morale and increase turnover [13]. Most facultydevelopment orientations and workshops can provide faculty with general best practices withinteaching, research, work-life balance, and more. Mentorship offers the additional value ofspecific advice tailored to an individual’s current situation and psychosocial support. There is a clear consensus that faculty development and mentorship are important, but trendshave largely not impacted faculty mentorship offerings. The majority of higher educationinstitutions in the United States do not have formal programs [14

Conference Session

Engagement In Practice: Integrating Community Engagement into Engineering Curricula

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan E Canney P.E.; Elizabeth O'Brien, Seattle University; Teddi Callahan

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

uses partnerships withcommunity partners to focus the course project on contextualized problems that align with themission or needs of the community partner. Community partners can be governmental or non-governmental agencies, communities, schools, or individuals. Generally these projects focus onaddressing issues that affect marginalized communities. PBSL is a subset of educationalapproaches often called service-learning, learning through service, or community engagement(CE); all focused on increasing student learning through partnerships with communities whilealso benefitting the community4. Similar to active learning, studies have shown that PBSL in engineering correlates withincreases in technical knowledge5, professional skills such

Collection

2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

John M Pavlina, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Brennan Gray

many different ways but the most basic layoutis shown in Figure 1. The activities may be run in a browser tab or integrated into a learningmanagement system (LMS). CANVAS is the LMS used at ERAU, and it supported the trackingand grading of the Codevolve student assignments.Figure 1: The layout of a generic lesson within the codevolve.com website.Various parts of the assignments layout are shown in figures 2 – 5. Commands can be typed inan editor window, Figure 2, exactly how they would be entered into an .m file. The editorwindow runs in the browser, no MATLAB software needed. The results display in the terminal,Figure 3. Figure 3: Command Terminal WindowFigure 4: Code Editor Window

Conference Session

Global and Intercultural Competency

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Daniel, Swinburne University of Technology; Nick John Brown, Engineers Without Borders Australia

Tagged Divisions

International

cross-culturally, and more generally about how engineering andtechnology can contribute towards creating positive change within communities. DesignSummits have predominantly been held in Cambodia and India, as well as Nepal, Malaysia,Timor-Leste, and Samoa, with community-based organisations that EWB Australia alreadyhas an existing relationship with.The Design Summit program has a number of aims, including ‘nurturing future developmentleaders’ and ‘embedding people-centred values and approaches in engineering education’. Toevaluate how well these aims are being met, a questionnaire was adapted from existinginstruments that purport to measure multi-cultural competence [1] and the perceived socialresponsibility of engineers [2, 3]. The results

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

john pickard, East Carolina University; Te-shun Chou, East Carolina University; Philip J Lunsford II P.E., East Carolina University; John Spence

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

and command logs under the student’s account; (2) resets all equipmentback to a pre-defined state; and (3) returns any unused time back to the Scheduler for another Page 23.834.5student to use. Instructors can also join a student lab session synchronously to provide real-timefeedback and assessment.Figure 1. IPv6 Security lab equipment.Lab topologyThe topology used for the labs is shown in Figure 2. The lab consists of three Cisco 1941 routersrunning an Advanced Enterprise K9 IOS release that are connected on point-to-point serial links,two Windows 7 virtual machines, and five Linux CentOS virtual machines running in VMWareESXi. The virtual

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hirak Patangia

the other hand, there exists a large pool of undeclared students who are searching for asuitable major at the university. Many of these students have the potential to succeed in anengineering/technology education. Generally they shy away from engineering or engineeringtechnology degree programs for their lack of a better understanding of the engineering field.Along with recruiting, retention is also of great interest to the department. In the past, the firstsemester in our curriculum was basically devoted to math and science courses to prepare thestudents for the technical courses to come later in the curriculum. Such an approach is often dryand leads to student attrition since they don’t see any application courses. Also, the students haveto

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Huong Vu; Dave Parent; Emily Allen

toprovide a variety of light-absorbing regions, and may be textured to improve light gatheringability, provided with anti-reflection coatings, or packaged with solar concentrators to gather lightfrom a wider area. Very inexpensive and wide area solar cells may use amorphous silicon thinfilms which are easily deposited over a large area but do not provide very high efficiency2,3.Solar cells are similar to batteries in that they provide a voltage to a load; but whereas a batteryprovides a constant voltage, a photovoltaic cell provides a voltage and current which varies withthe load resistance itself4. Figure 1 shows the power curve for an inexpensive “hobby” solar cellused in this lab activity. The general equation which describes solar cell