Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Visser; Carrie Steinlicht; Teresa Hall

industry jobs has been in response to wage differentials,valuation of the dollar, and a shortage of engineering and technology program graduates.1 Thetraditional career path sought by engineering technology program graduates was to seekemployment at a mid-to-large size corporation with the implied opportunity to climb thetechnical/managerial ladder during a lifetime of commitment to that single employer. Thisscenario is a thing of the past as multinational corporations downsize, outsource, and streamlinemanagement hierarchies and thin the ranks of technical professionals.At the same time, the growth in small businesses by entrepreneurs and small start-ups providingcomponents to larger companies has provided an alternative career path for newly

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Robin Guill Liles, North Carolina A&T State University; Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State University; Prashant N. Kumta, University of Pittsburgh; Harvey S. Borovetz, University of Pittsburgh; Sarah K. Pixley, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine; Partha Roy, University of Pittsburgh; Jangannathan Sankar, North Carolina A&T State University

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Graduate Studies, New Engineering Educators, Student

students registeredacross the three campuses. Classes were held in distance learning classrooms at each school.Course broadcasting and web-archiving facilities were enabled through resources provided byPitt’s Bioengineering Department. The course met once a week for three hours. NCAT, whoseengineering graduate students did not have any prior biology knowledge, were providedadditional biology orientation by organizing a weekly recitation session staffed by qualifiedgraduate students recruited from NCAT’s Department of Biology. This course was led by one of this paper’s authors (Roy), a professor in thebioengineering department at Pitt with an established track record of research in this field. It alsohad technical input from another author

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

Session 2660 Working with Projects in Engineering Education Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. C. T. da Rocha Brito Catholic University of SantosAbstractPresently there is a general assent that for the future the new professional has to have some extraabilities to be able to compete in the new global work market. The world has started a new era,the era of global economy where technology and scientific knowledge are moving the worlddevelopment in a very fast way. Now the professional competence is measured not only by thework that a man can realize but also by the results that he gets. And so

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter A. Koen; Pankaj Kohli

Session 3257 ABET 2000: What are the most important criteria to the supervisors of new engineering undergraduates? Peter A. Koen, Pankaj Kohli ASEE/ Stevens Institute of Technology and Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey AbstractEngineering curricula in the next millennium will be guided by outcome assessments. ABETEngineering criteria 2000 establishes 11 proficiencies. Which attributes are more important? Thisstudy focuses on determining the critical attributes from supervisors of Stevens Institute

Conference Session

High-School Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Susan Powers, Clarkson University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

actions. Page 14.1309.2A number of surveys have shown generally low levels of energy knowledge and awarenessamong U.S. students and the general public.1-7 For example, the National EnvironmentalEducation & Training Foundation (NEETF) found in a 2001 survey that, while many Americanstended to overestimate their energy knowledge, just 12% could pass a basic quiz on energyknowledge.3 More recent surveys indicate that consumers are becoming more aware ofrenewable energy resources, but remain confused about many other issues such as the main areasof energy consumption within their homes and communities.4, 7Effective educational programs will make

Conference Session

Innovations in Computing Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javad Shakib, DeVry University, Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

, field I/O,and/or remote I/O. Normally, hardware access regarding memory allocation, access to local I/O,and similar things are also necessary. Figure 1 gives an overview of the strengths and problemsof Java against the background of these requirements. In general, Java provides advantages fortasks such as user interaction over an HMI or communication with other applications/remoteI/Os over different protocols. The close relation of Java to the Internet world makes it easy tosupport communication via protocols such as http, ftp, or SMTP.Unfortunately, other features of Java make it difficult to use it in control engineering withoutmodifications or enhancements. This concerns the resource consumption of Java as well as thereal-time capabilities

Conference Session

Topics of Interest-Nuclear Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Barbara; Shripad Revankar

. Technical evaluation of UT-3 thermochemical hydrogen production process for an industrial scale plant. Int J Hydrogen Energy, 1997;22(1):49-56.22. Brown LC, Besenbruch GE, Schultz KR, Showalter SK, Marshall AC, Pickard PS, Funk JF. High Efficiency Generation Of Hydrogen Fuels Using Thermochemical Cycles And Nuclear Power. AIChE 2002 Spring National Meeting, Topical TH - Nuclear Engineering, Session THa01 139 New Orleans, LA, March 11-15, 2002.23. Nifenecker H, David S, Loiseaux JM, Giorni A. Hybrid Nuclear Reactors. Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 1999:43(1):683-827.24. Southworth F. Very-High-Temperature Reactor. Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. http://energy.inel.gov/gen

Conference Session

Development of Undergraduate Distance Education Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology; Hamid Hadim, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Robert Ubell, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

particular importance is to identify and addresscritical elements of such a program, including: potential student populations, facultyrequirements, discipline selection, curriculum requirements, admissions criteria, accreditationrequirements, implementation resources (faculty, technical equipment, financial), collaborationwith other institutions, laboratory requirements, etc.As discussed in more detail in two recent review articles,2,3 undergraduate engineering educationhas lagged behind other fields in generating online degree programs. Thus, while there exist asignificant number of online engineering programs leading to Master’s degrees,4 very few onlineprograms leading to Bachelors degrees in engineering have been developed to date (see Table 1

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Purdy; Christine Buckley; Don L. Dekker; Phillip J. Cornwell

Session Number 1566 The Development of the Procedures for Our ABET Visit in Mechanical Engineering Don Dekker, David Purdy, Phil Cornwell, Christine Buckley Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyThe Mechanical Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology was visitedBy ABET the last two days of October 2000. A description of the steps that led to our ABETvisit will be described in the paper. The paper has the following areas that describe the differentparts of the ABET accreditation process that was developed at Rose-Hulman. 1 Establish Goals and Objectives 2

Collection

2020 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Samuel C Lieber PE, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

technical report.The course is designed such that the lectures precede hands-on labs on PLC units. The PetruzellaProgrammable Logic Controllers textbook from McGraw Hill [12] has been implemented in thecourse. The accompanying Petruzella lab manual provides students with homework utilizing theLogixPro Allen Bradley RSLogix Simulator software (LogixPro). This software is also utilizedby the students to conduct their course automation project. The course’s hands-on labs utilize theRobotics and Automatic Controls laboratory (Figure 1). Figure 1. Representative image of NJIT’s Robotics and Automatic Control Laboratory.This facility contains five Amatrol Siemen’s PLC mechatronic stations (990-PS712) and

Conference Session

Diversity and Global Experiences

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Leslie Dodson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Curtis Abel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

accident would be physically devastating but would also result in a significant loss of faceand fear in the eyes of their neighboring countries and probably throughout the world. Hence they can’treally afford to suffer an accident or easily recover from the result of one.End of project survey. We implemented an open-ended survey near the end of the course. The surveyhad four prompts: 1. Describe, in general, your thoughts/opinions about the connections among the Titan accident, your chemical process incident and current NK-US politics. 2. Did the project cause you to think differently or want to learn more about chemical process safety and nuclear weapons issues? Why/why not? 3. Engineers frequently focus on creating value

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering in the First-Year

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven P. Marra, Johns Hopkins University; Jenna Adele Frye, Maryland Institute College of Art; Edon Muhaxheri, Maryland Institute College of Art; Laure Drogoul, Maryland Institute College of Art

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs, Multidisciplinary Engineering

were determined by the quality ofthe final work, the quality of the students’ individual preliminary sketches, and the quality oftheir individual documentation of the final project.Expected ObstaclesWe anticipated two major logistical challenges for the students: 1) lack of convenienttransportation between JHU and MICA, and 2) scheduling conflicts with two of the JHUsections.JHU and MICA each provide several free, local transportation services for their students.However, no free service was available to transport the students from one campus to the other.We scheduled several combined in-class work sessions for the students throughout the semesterand arranged for special shuttle services to drive the students back and forth on these

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Dimensions of Community Engagement

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aimee S Navickis-Brasch P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow; Anne Liu Kern, University of Idaho; Jillian Rae Cadwell, University of Idaho ; Laura Laumatia Laumatia; Fritz Fiedler, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Community Engagement Division

the project scope while also elucidating the values of the Tribe.Process of Developing BTTE Integrated CurriculumThe integrated curriculum development for BTTE was a seven-part process that focuses ontopics relating to a place of tribal significance as shown in Figure 2 and with specific details inTable 1. While shown sequentially, the first four parts should be approached in the order thatsupports community priorities and values. In addition, the first four parts will likely requireiterative brainstorming sessions with the community and partners to determine potential placesand topics that best align to support a holistic STEM-culture curriculum. During and aftercommunity brainstorming sessions, the fields in the Curriculum Framework Flow

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technolog Programs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Camilo Vieira, Eafit; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

sooner and often into the K-6curriculum.KeywordsComputing science, education, lesson plan, backwards designIntroductionAdvances in computing contribute to science and engineering discovery, innovation, andeducation by facilitating representations, processing, storage, analysis, simulation, andvisualization of unprecedented amounts of experimental and observational data to addressproblems that affect health, energy, environment, security, and quality of life. Computing, asboth fundamental knowledge and a technical skill, is therefore required to contribute and tocompete in our fast-changing and global society1-3.For instance, in the United States, CS10K effort, aiming to have 10,000 high school teacherscapable of teaching some AP-level computer

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Stockman

web. We all need tomaintain some fundamental knowledge and procedures on which to build future knowledge. Aninstructor of an IT course should always be ready to switch to research mode and use IT itself toresearch issues and technology [9]. So should students.References[1] www.informatics.indiana.edu website for informatics at Indiana University[2] www.rpi.edu/dept/IT/index.html website for IT at Renssalaer[3] B.M. Lunt, J. Ekstrom, E. Lawson, R. Kamali, J. Miller, S. Gorka, and H. Reichelt, Defining Page 10.333.8 the IT Curriculum: The Results of the Past 2 ½ Years, Session 2558, Proc. ASEE National Conference, (17-21 June 2004) Salt

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Joseph Morgan

Figure 1 shows a block diagram of the LIVE system as developed through the initialbrainstorming sessions. The overall system is made up of three separate pieces: the classroom Page 9.1023.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationencoding systems, the streaming and archiving server, and the remote viewing systems. Theclassroom encoding systems are placed in all of the classrooms and laboratories where remotelecture delivery is needed. These systems are used by the lecturer for in-class

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vera Galishnikova; Thomas Maleck; Paul Streng; Jason Merrill; David Prestel; Darren Mason; Ronald Harichandran

as ensuring the financial solvency of theprogram. Finally, we describe the benefit of multi-institution collaboration andtechnology exchange in student/faculty research and teaching, both within the Michigan Page 9.735.1region and with partner Russian academic institutions. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionAlthough the number of U.S. college students studying abroad increased to a record ofover 160,000 in 2001-2002, this number amounts to only approximately 1% of thenation’s

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Page 5.411.3rotated and students regularly assess the “teamsmanship” of themselves and theirteammates. We have also incorporated a “group bonus” that adds a few points to eachteam members exam score when the group average is above a specified minimum. Thishas worked very well to encourage involvement by the better students, who otherwisemight feel “dragged down” by others in their group. Readers interested in more detailsare referred to the paper “Promoting collaborative groups in large enrollment courses”associated with poster session 1526.3. Experiment with classroom layoutAfter trying rectangular tables and three different diameters of round tables, we havechosen tables with a diameter of 6 feet. (See Figures 1 and 2.) Tables that are much

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy J. Anderson; Sarah A. Rajala; Matthew Ohland

uninterestedand unqualified students from the population.I. IntroductionThe NSF funded SUCCEED Engineering Education Coalition is a collaboration of eight Col-leges of Engineering in the southeastern U.S.1 with a shared mission of creating sustainable en-gineering education reform on each of our campuses. SUCCEED has a vision of a curriculumthat will educate our students for success throughout their career by nurturing technical confi-dence, developing a skill base for success, and instilling a positive attitude in its graduates.While these schools are all publicly funded, there is great diversity in their size, mission, studentbody, experience, and academic strengths. This diverse “educational research laboratory” has 1 Clemson University, Florida

Conference Session

Computer Engineering Topics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Sellers, Mississippi State University; Tingjun Lei, Mississippi State University; Chaomin Luo, Mississippi State University; Gene Eu Jan; Zhuming Bi, Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

interests include Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and Control and Automation. Dr. Luo is an IEEE senior member, INFORMS, and ASEE member. Dr. Luo is active nationally and internationally in his research field. He was the Program Co-Chair in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (IEEE-ICIA’2018). He was the Plenary Session Co-Chair in the 2021 and 2019 International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, and he was the Invited Session Co-Chair in the 2017 International Conference on Swarm Intelligence. He was the General Co-Chair of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Smart Technologies (IEEE-CIST 2015), and Journal Special Issues Chair, IEEE 2016 International

Conference Session

Miscellaneous Mechanics: Covid and Free Body Diagrams

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University; Bryan MacGavin, Saint Louis University; Raja Shekar P. V.

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics Division (MECHS)

consequences. On the other hand,some devices use instability for their functioning.While this concept is essential, it is usually given limited attention in traditional statics books andlectures. It is generally discussed as just a short section on the equilibrium of a rigid body. Thecurrent treatment of this topic in statics books needs to be revised. Thus, this paper recommendsa more in-depth examination of this topic and provides insights into the pedagogy, potentialactivities, and practical examples to help faculty better integrate the concept of tipping. Theexperimental results highlight the benefits of integrating the footprint concept in the tippingmodule.1. IntroductionThe Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) report [1] estimates an

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; James Samuel Carter III, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

groups,” Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 45, no. 4, p. 90, 2016.[18] T. E. Murphy, M. Gaughan, R. Hume, and S. G. Moore, Jr., “College graduation rates for minority students in a selective technical university: Will participation in a summer bridge program contribute to success?” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 70–83, 2010.[19] Raubenheimer, D. (2008). Analysis of Freshmen Cohorts in the College of Engineering, NCSU 1996-2006.

Conference Session

Cool Ideas

Collection

2017 EDI

Authors

Scott A Ashford; Gregory Washington; Molly M. Gribb P.E.; Bob Kolvoord; Jim Garrett; John English; Ronald Harichandran

ENGINEERING DEANS INSTITUTE 2017 Cool Ideas Session April 3, 20171. Change Team for Diversity,Equity, and InclusionScott Ashford, Kearney Professor and Dean Goal 1 in our strategic plan is to become a model of an inclusive and collaborative community • Disrupted faculty hiring process for diversity • Last three years over half new hires women and minorities • Added Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement • Primarily to guide recruitment and P&T process • Unexpected benefit as resource for faculty in need • Established the “Change Team” in Fall 2016 • 25 faculty and staff across the college • Did not turn out as expected3 Change Team for College of Engineering as

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Its Impact on Faculty and Students

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati; Thomas Richard Huston, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

of course surveys for every course taught each semester. Thesesurveys ask for students’ responses to questions regarding ABET student outcome criteria(ABET, 2015) and general questions regarding student satisfaction. Students used a modifiedLikert scale with 1 representing strongly disagree or very poor; 3 representing neutral; and 5representing strongly agree or excellent. Responses from this survey are provided in Table 1 forboth the half semester course and the full semester course. Table 1 College-wide Student Evaluation of Course Half Full n=13 n=21 The course

Conference Session

Computing Research I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chaomin Luo, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

were assigned to students to cover various previous topics in thiscourse, which assist in student learning enhancement of hardware and programming skills inComputer Architecture course. Satisfactory performance was evaluated by various milestonereview sessions, assignments, in-class exercises, exams and other activities. Results of learningoutcomes and assessment indicate that this integrated learning pedagogy is effective and efficientin student learning and improving the quality of computer design and organization.1. IntroductionIn higher education, especially, in engineering education, all the effort of educators is focused oneducating students to be qualified for their future professionals. To achieve these learningoutcomes in engineering

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University; Christopher Bosso, Northeastern University; Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

in each of the other two locations during class time to handle studentquestions.Course AssessmentA web survey was conducted at the end of the course to gather student feedback on variousaspects of the course, including 1) the logistical aspects of distance learning for each session, 2)the level of difficulty of the content presented by each lecturer, 3) level of difficulty of readingsand homework and exams. Standard course evaluation forms were also used for collectingstudent comments. Based on initial student feedback from the first policy lecture, the policy andethics lectures later in the term were adapted to accommodate student learning. In general,assessment indicated that students are interested in learning about the related policy and

Conference Session

Use of Technology for Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

. Page 24.175.4 Figure 3. E1 drawing of carousel layout. Figure 4. E1 writing in cost information.In general, E1 seemed to know exactly what to do and what questions to ask, but he haddifficulty expressing his ideas in the web conferencing environment, which slowed him downsomewhat. Even so, he spent less time on design than any of the other engineer participants(Table 1 shows comparative times). In discussing the environment afterwards, E1 noted that hiscompany does use web conferencing tools, such as WebEx and GoToMeeting, to discussrequirements with customers, but mainly so that customers can show pictures, specifications, andother documents to the engineers. Conversations are

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Leake

structure is consequently similar to that of AutoCAD.2 Althoughrelatively inexpensive, Rhinoceros has proved to be an invaluable teaching tool when calledupon to help explain the mathematical complexities of NURBS. It is extremely well supported,with training sessions (free to educators) offered throughout the country on a regular basis. Aneducational lab license includes a vast array of training materials, including training manuals,books, and CD’s. As an additional benefit, Rhinoceros is capable of both reading and writing to agreat many graphics file formats, and consequently is useful for file translation purposes.Rhinoceros files saved in a neutral file format (e.g., SAT, STEP, IGES) can be imported intoAutodesk Inventor (see Figure 1).1

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

% 0.599Family or friends actively encouraged me. 78% 82% 0.500Starting salaries in these fields are relatively high. 90% 96% 0.147I felt pressure to pursue a technical degree. 16% 14% 0.709The job market in these fields is generally healthy. 85% 81% 0.408I excelled in math and science in high school. 95% 88% 0.021I wanted to make a difference in people’s lives. 73% 81% 0.183Two items stand out to us. Students in the ICEE sections were more apt to list starting salaries asa reason for pursuing engineering. This finding, combined with ICEE

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

“Galileo Project” seeks to: 1) make collegeengineering programs accessible to the widest possible range of students, including those fromunderrepresented groups, 2) instill a strong sense of commitment to and appreciation foreducation among participating Fellows, and 3) expose teachers to the tremendous challenges,rewards and opportunities that are implicit in engineering education and practice. The proposedprogram builds upon years of highly successful outreach activities to K-12 teachers and studentsundertaken by UCONN.History of Commitment to Engineering EducationUCONN is one of over 75 institutions receiving funding under the three-year-old NSF GK-12program to promote and improve education in science, math and engineering. The UCONNprogram