Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seth Bates; Patricia Backer

design and manufacturing for students in Mechanical Engineering, ManufacturingTechnology, and Industrial Design. The prototype work for this project was funded by a San JoseState University (SJSU) curriculum grant, a seed grant of $20,000 from Hewlett Packard forcomputer equipment, and Unigraphics software donated by UGS. The project team developed athree-course sequence using solid modeling as a medium to teach design, materials andmanufacturing technology constraints through innovative design case studies. Students learn byfacing design challenges while being instructed about the constraints of manufacturabilityincluding properties of materials and modern manufacturing methods. In each course, studentsdevelop three to four products. All

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics

technology.Prof. Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West LafayetteProf. William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette William (Bill) Oakes is the director of the EPICS Program and one of the founding faculty members of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has held courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering as well as Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. He is a registered professional engineer and on the NSPE board for Professional Engineers in Higher Education. He has been active in ASEE serving in the FYP, CIP and ERM. He is the past chair of the IN/IL section. He is a fellow of the Teaching Academy and listed in the Book of Great

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

F.T. Fisher; R.S. Besser; K. Sheppard; C.H. Choi; E.H. Yang

1 An Approach for Introducing Concepts of Nanotechnology within the Undergraduate Curriculum F.T. Fisher, R. S. Besser, K. Sheppard, C.-H. Choi, and E.H. Yang Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030 Abstract - While developing countries such as India and China than 20% from 1983 to 1999, and according to the Scienceare producing unprecedented numbers of engineers and and Engineering Indicators this

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

William Michalson; Robert Labonté

Session 1232 Capstone Design in the ECE Curriculum: Assessing the Quality of Undergraduate Projects at WPI William Michalson, Robert Labont6 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Worcester Polytechnic Institute AbstractSince adopting the WPI-Plan in 1972 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, one of the degree requirements forundergraduates has been the completion of a Major Qualifying Project. Although this project

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fitra Khan, University of Texas-Brownsville; Mahmoud Quweider, University of Texas-Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, University of Texas-Brownsville; Amjad Zaim, University of Texas-Brownsville

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Electrical and Computer

during the implementation of the project; each one was scheduled toteach two different courses per semester for which the corresponding laboratory modules (LM)were developed. A total of eight courses were selected for utilizing B-CEIL in the first year forthis project: COSC 3330 Networking and Database Management Systems, COSC 3310 SystemsProgramming and Concurrent Processes, COSC 3325 Digital Logic and Computer Organization,COSC 4310 Operating Systems, COSC 3355 Principles of Programming Languages, COSC4342 Database Management Systems, COSC 4360 Numerical Methods, and COSC 4380 ImageProcessing.Two levels of student laboratory projects were developed for curriculum enrichment. AppendixA presents a finer LM´s breakdown including the subject areas

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer T. Ross

" were developed which reinforce course material, whilemaintaining the illusion of company products. Students work with the theory, simulation andactual measurements for all major concepts. This paper reports on the industrial panel's input, thecourse format, the integration of software and measurement tools, the "Project-chips", and how thefaçade of corporate life is emulated in the classroom. This project was made possible throughfunding from a Hewlett Packard Education Grant and two NSF grants. An Instrument andLaboratory Improvement (ILI) Grant provided much of the software and equipment for thisproject, and a Course and Curriculum Development (CCD) grant helped shape the content of themicroelectronics curriculum through forming the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Cully Hession; Marty D. Matlock; G. Scott Osborn; Daniel E. Storm; Ann L. Kenimer

prior to being certified.Need for Standardized CurriculumMany universities offer degree programs in ecological engineering, some morecomprehensive than others. Even within the several competent graduate programs inecological engineering there are varying degrees of emphasis on engineering design. Thegraduate programs in Engineering Ecology at the University of California at Berkeley andEcological Engineering at the University of Maryland represent two competent yetdifferent approaches to curriculum development in ecological engineering.The University of California at Berkeley offers graduate degrees (M.S. and Ph.D.) inEngineering Ecology with a focus on aquatic ecosystems. The graduate program isdesigned to “provide the quantitative information

Conference Session

Building BIM into Construction Curricula

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcel Maghiar, Georgia Southern University; Sunitha Jain, Hill International ; James G Sullivan, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Paper ID #7858Strategy to incorporate BIM curriculum in Planning and Scheduling classesDr. Marcel Maghiar, Georgia Southern University Marcel Maghiar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Georgia Southern University teaches Construction Manage- ment courses at junior and senior level in the department. His research experience includes development of computer syntaxes to unequivocally describe construction activities and development of a consistent methodology to explicitly classify and quantify construction methods (emerging taxonomy of construc- tion methods). Marcel’s main expertise is in computer modeling of construction

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jin-Lee Kim

Framework for Sustainability Practices in Construction Education Curriculum using BIM Jin-Lee Kim, Ph.D., P.E., LEED AP BD+C Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management, California State University Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840 - U.S.A Email: jinlee.kim@csulb.eduAbstractThis paper presents a framework to develop a unique and innovative virtual approach in order todeliver sustainability practices using Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology forundergraduate students and implement it as a new hands-on laboratory- and project-based coursein the

Conference Session

Design Throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Lulay, University of Portland; Heather Dillon, University of Portland; Timothy A. Doughty, University of Portland; Deborah S. Munro, University of Portland; Shazib Z. Vijlee, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

Engineering CurriculumAbstract  This paper explains the approach taken to develop a “design spine” within our mechanicalengineering curriculum. Developing a design spine started as a discussion about the ASMEVision 2030 document, which encourages programs to provide design experience throughout allfour years of the curriculum. Towards this end, the mechanical engineering faculty reviewed ourcurriculum and identified where and how we do teach engineering design in lecture courses,laboratories, and in the capstone design courses. We recognized that many design elements arealready incorporated throughout the curriculum but we needed to approach design in a moresystematic manner. The very meaning of “engineering design” does not enjoy universaldefinition

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

T. Taylor; T. Egolf; R. Klenke; M. Salinas; J. Stinson; H. Carter; Vijay K. Madisetti; James H. Aylor; Anthony J. Gadient

Institute of Technology, University of Virginia, University of Cincinnati, Raytheon, andArthur D. Little has developed a new digital system design curriculum and supporting courseinfrastructure in the form of an electronic archive of instructional material – course modules,labs, projects, and interactive educational CD-ROMs. Included in this electronic archive ordigital library are over 200 hours of instructional material suitable for immediate insertion atthe undergraduate and graduate levels. To date, over 80 educational institutions have obtainededucational material developed by the RASSP E&F team. In this paper, we present the technicalgoals and rationale, including an Educational Maturity Model (EMM), motivating our efforts.Additional

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael R. Kozak

Session 3647 Partner With Industry to Increase Enrollment and Update Curriculum Michael R. Kozak University of North TexasWhat may be surprising to many nonscientists is the fact that the vast majority of products madetoday are being produced with traditional methods developed between forty and fifty years ago. 1Technology Vision 20201 is a call to action, innovation, and change - a study stimulated by arequest from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In 2020, manufacturingand operations will be agile, reliable

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah H. Jamieson; Henry G. Dietz; Edward J. Coyle

Session 3232 Long-Term Community Service Projects in the Purdue Engineering Curriculum 1 Edward J. Coyle, Henry G. Dietz, Leah H. Jamieson School of Electrical & Computer Engineering Purdue University {coyle, hankd, lhj}@ecn.purdue.edu AbstractPurdue University's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Linda Head, Rowan University; Ravi Ramachandran, Rowan University; Lawrence Chatman, Camden County College

course not only teaches students basic ECEprinciples and facilitates their transition to major in ECE at a 4-year college/university, but also givesstudents skills and tools necessary to advance their knowledge in SoC.CONCLUSIONThree series of experiments with the focus on different aspects of SoC products are under developmentand being implemented in the all-level of the ECE and ES curricula at Rowan and CCC, respectively. Inaddition, a summer bridge course is being developed at CCC to help ES students develop the knowledgeand skills necessary to seamlessly transfer concepts into an ECE curriculum at a 4-year university. Thelearning materials as well as their organization optimize student learning and help them develop a strongfoundation to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, National Science Foundation ATE Centers (FLATE); Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Mori Toosi

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Engineer in Florida.Dr. Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida Richard Gilbert is a Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Florida’s College of Engineering . Richard is the Co-PI for the grant that supports the NSF designated Center of Excellence for Advanced Technological Education in Florida, FLATE. FLATE, now in its 10 year of op- eration, addresses curriculum, professional development, and outreach issues to support the creation of Florida’s technical workforce. Richard has over 30 years of experience working with the K-14 education community. Other funded efforts include projects for the NIH and the US Department of Education. The latter was for the development of an

Conference Session

Star Tech: Bringing Data Science and Technologies into the Classroom

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Edwin R. Schmeckpeper P.E., Norwich University

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Civil Engineering

design. The University Curriculum Committee approved the request to change thecontact hours for Structural Analysis from 3 hours of lecture per week to 2 hours of lecture plus2 hours of laboratory per week to accommodate the experiential aspects of these proposedchanges. After assessing the changes to the Structural Analysis course, we will decide whether tomake similar changes in the class meeting times for the Structural Design courses.The Structural Analysis course syllabus lists the following broad goals for the course: a) Students will develop technical skills in classical methods for analysis of determinate and indeterminate structures. b) Students will gain proficiency in analysis structures comprised of trusses, beams, frames

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahbub Uddin

of Six Sigma into Undergraduate Engineering & Technology CurriculumFigure 3. Strategies for Integration of Six Sigma into the Undergraduate Engineering/Technology Curriculum.Step 1: Development of Strategy and Culture: The very first step towards integrating Six Sigma into undergraduate engineering/technology curriculum is to develop strategies and culture to promote and integrate quality controls, reliability and productivity management concepts in the undergraduate engineering/technology

Conference Session

Manufacturing Capstone and Design Projects

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chin-Zue Chen, Austin Peay State University; Adel Salama., Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

theelectrical curriculum includes electronics and electrical with robotics concentrations. Themajority of students in the department are nontraditional students, primarily from the militaryand local industries; therefore, the department offers evening classes. Although AM technology Page 22.673.2is currently not popularly known in local industries, it has been implemented in some companiesin the nearby cities of Tennessee and Kentucky, and its impact will increase in this region. Inorder to expose the students to AM technology, the Engineering Technology Departmentacquired a 3D printer in 2009 to develop an introductory course. Before the course was

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Klaus Weinmann; Michele Miller

Session 1566 Improving the Relevance of Manufacturing in a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Michele H. Miller, Klaus J. Weinmann Michigan Technological University Houghton, MIAbstractIn the 2000-01 academic year, Michigan Tech University implemented a new mechanicalengineering curriculum (coincident with a change from quarters to semesters). To improve therelevance of manufacturing in that curriculum, faculty and staff developed a new sophomorelevel course Integrated Design and Manufacturing. The course is part of a

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gouranga Banik, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Construction

opportunitiesto reengineer their curriculum to achieve specific objectives, goals, and outcomes. Criterion 3addresses eleven attributes that engineering programs must demonstrate their graduates possess(Appendix A). Each institution may draw upon its unique capabilities to design educationalexperiences to achieve these outcomes, but is accountable for a processto measure results and validate that outcomes are achieved.The emphasis of ACCE (2004) criteria is to provide an education that will lead to a leadershiprole in construction and to prepare the student to become a responsible member of society. Thecurriculum should be responsive to social, economic, and technical developments and shouldreflect the application of evolving knowledge in construction

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division (IND) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bopaya Bidanda, University of Pittsburgh; Gajanan Hegde

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Industrial Engineering Division (IND)

hegde@pitt.eduABSTRACTThis paper presents the development and teaching of a university level course for college seniors andgraduate students on Frugal Engineering and Value Analysis. We developed and offered the course toboth business and engineering students. Here, we present the need for teaching frugal engineering in anengineering curriculum. Value Methodology or Value Engineering, along with Quality Engineering, arekey components of frugal engineering. “Wicked” problems and their challenges are also presented inthis course, along with wicked problem-solving strategies. While the concepts behind Value Engineeringwere developed in the 1940s and frequently applied in industrial, manufacturing, construction, anddefense projects, they are rarely

Conference Session

New Information ET Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordon Goodman; Edith A. Lawson; C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

Associates (CRA) formed a board of “IT” deans in 2000 [3] that meets twice a yearProceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationworking to define the underlying principles and relevant body of research, and that same yearPeter Denning led a team that developed a model curriculum for an IT college [2]. The time waspropitious for programs teaching IT to participate in developing the criteria that defined thediscipline.The usual approach to developing a new academic program in an established discipline is toreview the existing body of knowledge and practice to establish the content and boundaries ofthe curriculum; but

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur B. Sacks

serve society, particularly through stewardship 7 of the environment.With the CSM mission and the “Graduate Profile” in mind, the Humanities and Social Science(HSS) Curriculum Reform Subcommittee, established to consider the HSS curriculum,developed a set of objectives and a coherent theme for a three-course, ten-credit required corecurriculum: The objectives of the HSS core curriculum are to offer a coherent sequence in the humanities and social sciences appropriate to a Mines education and to develop writing proficiency throughout the CSM curriculum. The focus of the core is human-environment interactions, including knowledge of how engineering responsibilities extend to

Conference Session

Integrating Sustainability and Social Responsibility into the Curriculum

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

pillars of sustainable design in theircurriculum to better equip civil engineering students in their decision making to considersustainability issues. The three pillars of sustainable development are social development,economic development and environmental restoration. A major challenge to this integration isadding to the workload of the existing curriculum. In some cases, introducing the new conceptsrequires the loss of essential course material. Consequently, many civil engineering departmentshave successfully integrated sustainable design principles through course modules, and projectbased learning3. A recent study by Litchfield and Javernick-Will compared the career interestsand experiences of students and practicing engineers who

Conference Session

Course Design, Course Projects, and Student Perceptions in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicolas Hudon, Queen's University; Louise Meunier P.Eng., Queen's University

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Chemical Engineering

, in chemical engineeringstudents, long-lasting and effective problem-solving habits.Using the Concept Map in Curriculum Alignment The problem-solving methodology is systematically applied in all aspects of Courses A andB, in which the authors of this contribution are involved (in-class examples, tutorials,assignments, online interactive exercises, and video examples). During the second year ofimplementation, special emphasis was placed on student awareness of the process of accessingacquired knowledge to solve each problem. Survey results from the first year of the projectclearly demonstrated that “developing mathematical equations” is perceived by students as themost difficult step in problem solving. In the present section, we focus

Conference Session

WIP: Student Success and Sustainability

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher V.H.-H. Chen, Columbia University; Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

University Dr. Courtney Pfluger is an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University. In 2011, began as an Assistant Teaching Professor in First-year Engineering Program where she redesigned the curriculum and developed courses with sustainability and clean water themes. In 2017, she moved to ChE Department where she has taught core courses and redesigned the Capstone design course with inclusion pedagogy practices. She has also developed and ran 9 faculty-led, international programs to Brazil focused on Sustainable Energy. She has won several teaching awards including ChE Sioui Award for Excellence in Teaching, COE Essigmann Outstanding Teaching Award, and AIChE Innovation in ChE Education Award. She also

Conference Session

"Modular" Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qinghua He, Tuskegee University; Rong Zhang, Auburn University; Jin Wang, Auburn University; Frank Leonard Armstead III, Tuskegee University; Rong Zhu Walburn; Donald Ray Johnson Jr; Julius Lenard Taylor II, Tuskegee University Research Assistant

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

achieve critical mass for a visible impacton students’ understanding of the biofuel technology when they graduate.Over the years chemical engineering curricula have primarily focused on traditional chemicaland petrochemical industry. In other words, most examples, homework problems, exams anddesign problems are developed based on the traditional chemical and petrochemical processes.As fundamental principles and concepts that involved in chemical processes (which are the samefor biofuel processes) are introduced gradually and cumulatively throughout the chemicalengineering curriculum, we believe that a better approach of teaching chemical engineeringstudents biofuel technology is to adopt a piecemeal approach by creating a set of comprehensiveyet

Conference Session

Techniques in Improving Mathematics Education in STEM Curricula

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Shaw, University of Southern California; Zachary Boehm, University of Southern California; Hussain Badruddin Penwala, University of Southern California; Jihie Kim, University of Southern California

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Mathematics

engage students and to provide a grounding context for the mathematics. The efforthas exposed the challenge of teaching math across the curriculum and led to the development ofnew strategies to embed mathematics in authentic contexts. The curriculum is being developedand implemented for the first time during the 2011-12 school year. Fifty ninth-gradeunderrepresented minority students from east LA are participating.MotivationTeaching secondary mathematics as an isolated subject is not working for a large segment of thepopulation, and may be holding back large numbers of students who might otherwise contributeScience, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) talent to both work and defenseforces. In Los Angles, in particular, with its low

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Burian, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. Sustainable development concepts have alsobeen introduced into international university curricula11,12. And very recently implementation ofsustainability has been highlighted as a means to realize an important element of the ASCE Bodyof Knowledge13.Although the introduction of sustainability concepts into engineering in general and civilengineering in particular is rapidly occurring, the most effective way to implement it into civilengineering courses and the civil engineering curriculum remains uncertain. For example, theeffectiveness of frequently referencing sustainability in civil engineering courses andincorporating lessons or modules into existing courses is largely unknown. Also unknown is howwell students retain sustainability concepts and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Huiping Guo, California State University, Los Angeles

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

labsequence offers projects of three different scopes to progressively build up the students’ designand implementation skills. Small scope projects can be incorporated into lectures to expose thestudents to basic design and simulation process. The knowledge and skills acquired throughsmall scope projects allow the students to work collaboratively on median scope projects afterclass remotely. The large scope projects require the students to apply what they have learned tosolve some open-ended problems. The developed projects cover all five layers in TCP/IP modelto reinforce the students’ understanding of various protocols. Furthermore, the current effort torevise the computer networking curriculum using collaborative project-based and inquiry