Conference Session

Integrating Curriculum and Labs in ET Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ciaran McGoldrick, Trinity College, Dublin; Smita Shivaram, Trinity College, Dublin; Meriel Huggard, Bucknell Univeristy and Trinity, College Dublin

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Engineering Technology

awards. She is widely experienced in curriculum development at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and she has served on curriculum development committees at a national level. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Experiences of Integrating UAVs into the Curriculum through Multidisciplinary Engineering ProjectsAbstractThe content and means of delivery of many electronic and computer engineering courses hasevolved radically over the past decade due to the rise in the availability of affordable, open-sourceprogrammable microcontrollers and accessible wireless communication devices. Manyengineering modules have been extended to more closely integrate the underlying

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gassert

improvement has also been reported by thefaculty at other universities.4,5The Curriculum and the Design Process at MSOE The BE design program at MSOE is the eleven-quarter course sequence. Beginning inthe winter quarter of the freshman year and continuing over the subsequent eleven quarters, theBE student is required to demonstrate that he or she possess the design skills necessary tosucceed. As with the development of any skill, practice is the key to success. The objective ofthis engineering design experience is to prepare the MSOE BE student to practice the professionof engineering after graduation. This is accomplished simulating a “real-world” industrialsituation. To simulate a “real-world” industrial situation, students are

Conference Session

TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jonathan Wickert; Jack Beuth

bending, torsional and shear loadings. The roughly rectangular shape of the crank makes it anexcellent platform for introducing the torsion of non-circular cross sections in the elective course. Figure 3: Screen shot of the stress analysis tutorial for a bicycle pedal crank.SummaryWeb-based tutorials and short courses have been developed to expose mechanical engineeringstudents to various computer-aided engineering packages, and these have been implemented incourses across the curriculum from the freshmen through senior years. Because the tutorials areself-paced and can be completed with little or no supervision by instructors or teaching assistants,they generally encroach little on classroom time and a course’s emphasis on

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Thiede; James Hereford

graduates to apply experimental methods in the development of newprocesses and products. In a larger, research-oriented engineering university, this change inemphasis may simply result in collaborative efforts between the physics and engineeringdepartments, and local industry. In a more isolated regional university the supportingengineering college structure often does not exist. This paper discusses the evolution oflaboratory experiences in the Engineering Physics program at Murray State University (MSU)involving applications from both mechanical and electrical engineering.Refinement of the MSU Engineering Physics curriculum and subsequent ABET accreditationilluminated the students’ need for applied mechanical and electrical laboratory experiences

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Sterrett; Richard Helgeson; Robert LeMaster

design project. Lovas1 developed workshops that focused on integrating design intothe engineering curriculum. Fronczak and Webster2 and Thompkins3 describe a sequence of sixdesign courses that biomedical engineering students start taking during their first semestersophomore year and finish in their last semester senior year. This design course sequence isintended to provide the students a sustained opportunity to develop their creativity and judgment.Sheppard and Gallois4 describe a “design spine” of eight design courses that run through all eightsemesters of a student’s education. The goal of these eight courses is to achieve greaterintegration of design with the science and engineering science courses. Brousseau, etal5,describes a similar

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

James C. Wood

needs of industry in this changingsituation. It is important that the educational programs model the workplace environment andnot just teach about it.Educational research provides guidelines for curriculum reform. Gardner1, in his concepts ofmultiple intelligences, indicates that students have seven different intelligences with each havingvarious degrees of development. Felder2 has stated that the learning styles of students vary andthat each style requires a different instructional strategy for effective learning to occur. Redich3 Page 2.175.1states that in the physics class "we will have to shift our emphasis from the physical content weenjoy

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Taylor; Jacqueline Mozrall

Session #2457 An Integrated First Year Curriculum in Industrial and Systems Engineering James B. Taylor and Jacqueline R. Mozrall Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623AbstractA new, integrated first year curriculum has been developed in Industrial & Systems Engineering(ISE) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) that possesses increased practical content,additional active learning opportunities, and a stronger sense of identity among first yearIndustrial Engineering

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

John I. Hochstein; Deborah Hochstein

curriculum and industry’s need for a well-trainedworkforce.Overview of the DACUM ProcessDACUM is an acronym for Designing A CurriculUM and as such represents a process ormethodology that can be followed in performing an occupational analysis; in this project, anengineer in a manufacturing environment. It has proven to be an effective method of efficientlydetermining the competencies needed for tasks that must be performed by persons employed in agiven occupation. Specifically, “What must an engineer in a manufacturing environment know?What must a manufacturing engineer be able to do?” It is an innovative approach that facilitatesindustrial input into curriculum development and helps to define what students must know andbe able to do to be successful

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

S. A. Tennyson; R. J. Eggert; D. Bunnell

Across the CurriculumBSU’s ME program was recently chartered by the state of Idaho (1995). During the Spring of1996 the faculty designed the 131 semester credit hour, four year curriculum. A variety ofconsiderations included the proportion of courses in mathematics, sciences, humanities, arts, andsocial sciences. The existing and future demand for engineers in Boise, Southwest Idaho, and theNorthwest region was deliberated as well as the quality of education to be delivered.While ABET specifies minimum criteria for four year engineering programs, it is the desire ofMechanical Engineering faculty to meet and exceed these requirements. Namely, to develop &deliver appropriate, high quality and comprehensive course work and at the same time

Conference Session

ECCD Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaime Ramos, University of Texas, Pan American; Leonel Aguilera, University of Texas, Pan American; Elizardo Garcia, Universidad TecMilenio; Sanjeev Kumar, University of Texas, Pan American, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Roman Garcia, IEEE; Jose Sanchez, University of Texas, Pan American

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

range of 5 Volts, which are suitablyhandled by the data acquisition system.Students will design voltage divider circuits and make experiments for their calibration, as wellas Hall effect current sensors.5- Integration to curriculumThe Energy studies option at the EE Dept in UTPA is formed with the following set of courses:a. ELEE 4333 Renewable Energyb. ELEE 4372 Electric Machinery & Power Systems Fundamentals.c. ELEE 3371 Electric Power Systems Design & Applications (Buildings)d. ELEE 3370 Power ElectronicsThe equipment and systems developed in this project will enable UTPA to support this string ofcourses, and make a better course curriculum for ELEE 3370 Power Electronics. The DC powersource from the ENGR PV array will

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

Session 2557 A “Portfolio” Approach to Assessing the Industrial Engineering Curriculum at WPI Sharon A. Johnson, Arthur Gerstenfeld, and Amy Z. Zeng Worcester Polytechnic InstituteIntroductionOne challenge in assessing the outcomes of engineering programs is to develop mechanisms thatprovide effective measurement and feedback, with reasonable effort. We describe a frameworkthat we are piloting in the Industrial Engineering (IE) program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI) to evaluate student proficiency with respect to all of our program outcomes.A number of

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Davis; Melissa Dark

describe a community effort to identify the common body of knowledge (CBK)for computer security curricula. Academicians and practitioners have been engaged in targetedworkshops for the past two years, producing the results given here. The long-term objective forthe project is to develop a curriculum framework for undergraduate and graduate programs inInformation Assurance (IA). The framework includes: identification of broad areas of knowledgeconsidered important for practicing professionals in information assurance, identification of keylearning objectives for each of these areas, identification of a body of core knowledge and skillsthat all programs should contain, and a model curriculum including scope and sequence. Theframework's development

Conference Session

Research Methods and Studies on Engineering Education Research

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Javeed Kittur, Arizona State University; George K. Karway, Arizona State University; Mohammad Zaid Alrajhi, Arizona State University; King Saud University; Brian Carl Nelson, Arizona State University; Seungki Shin, Seoul National University of Education

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Educational Research and Methods

, educational programming language, physical computing education, and artificial intelligence ed- ucation. He has published articles on curriculum development for computer science education and studies on instructional design and model development for computational thinking. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Georgia in 2017. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Curriculum Design: Using the Five Discourses of Design ThinkingAbstractUnlike in the past, curriculum is currently dynamic and demands continuous improvisations atdifferent levels such as classroom, teacher expertise, and standards within a curriculum, amongothers. The dynamism in

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramanitharan Kandiah, Central State University; Krishnakumar V. Nedunuri, Central State University

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

).This situation necessitates environmental engineers who understand transportation engineeringand transportation engineers who are familiar with the solutions for environmental engineeringissues. In this background, an undergraduate environmental engineering program can incorporatecomponents in its curriculum and research to address transportation-related environmentalproblems. This inclusion can be done in two ways: 1. Developing a transportation engineeringminor in an environmental engineering program; 2. Enhancing the existing environmentalengineering curriculum with transportation components. In addition, an EnvironmentalEngineering for Transportation certificate program can also be developed for practicingenvironmental and transportation

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Bower, The Citadel; William Davis, The Citadel

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Environmental Engineering

Institute of Transportation Engineers – District 5. Page 13.333.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Continuous Improvement of Environmental Engineering Curriculum in a CE Accredited ProgramAbstractThe development of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Body ofKnowledge (BOK) guidelines for assessment of program outcomes provides an excellentbackdrop for monitoring and improving environmental engineering curriculum in a CEaccredited program. A department wide process has been developed which allowsfaculty to monitor individual student learning as well as tracking changes made to courseand

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emad W. Jassim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

empowers students to do hands-on learning. Additional service interests include teaching and leadership training for grad- uate students, enhancing communication education for undergraduate engineering students, developing evidence-based design project team formation strategies, and improving engineering design curricula. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 An Integrated Four-year Hands-on Design Curriculum: A Case StudyAbstractA review of the literature supports a hands-on curricular approach as a means to improvelearning of engineering concepts and increase student retention. Many institutionsincorporate hands-on design courses in their

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Zenaida Otero Keil

Academic/Industrial Partnerships to Enhance Learning and Strengthen Curriculumand ResearchZ. Otero Keil, Chemical Engineering Program, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028Abstract: Industrial partnerships have been a hallmark of Rowan Engineering Programsfrom the onset. The development of the Rowan Engineering Curricula began in 1994 andincluded the input of an advisory committee of technology industry leaders. Thecoursework and laboratories were planned and are being implemented with a strongcomponent of industrial partnerships and industrial experiences for students and faculty. Rowan has taken a multi-faceted approach to academic/industrial partnerships.Rowan faculty teaches courses on company sites. Many of these courses

Conference Session

BME Research and Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ka-yiu San

Session Integration of undergraduate research in the BIOE curriculum at Rice University Ka-Yiu San Department of Bioengineering, Rice University Houston, Texas 77005AbstractOne of the special features of the Bioengineering Undergraduate program at Rice University isthe ample opportunity for undergraduate students to participate in independent research projectsunder the supervision of faculty members. Various mechanisms have been developed tomaximize such opportunities. Most students take advantage of these opportunities by

Conference Session

Software and e-learning in the ME curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

within the curriculum.Covering such software tools in this manner has a number of potential learning benefits. Inparticular, such an exposure can help students put into context the types of idealized problemstypically covered early in the curriculum, and demonstrate for students the relevance of theseillustrative, and often simplified, examples to the types of complex problems which they willencounter in real-world engineering practice. Others have also recognized the importance ofexposing students to more complex systems and problems earlier within the curriculum.4This motivation has led to an ongoing program to develop a series of guided learning modules toincorporate standard CAE software tools within and throughout the individual

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

developed for computer networking curriculum,the strategies can be adapted to many different engineering classroom environments. We hopeour experience can benefit colleagues who are interested in incorporating inquiry-based learningstrategy in their teaching practice.The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents the CPBL model beyond the classrooms.Effective strategies to develop and conduct CPBL are described in Section 3, along with the casestudies. Section 4 shares the project assessment results in the past two years to demonstrate theimpact of CPBL, and Section 5 concludes the paper.CPBL Model Beyond ClassroomCollaborative Project-based Learning is a specific PBL model developed by the project PI andher colleague to enhance the learning

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning through Laboratory Experiences

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry Courtney Powell, University of Virginia; Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of Virginia

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

learned more in this class than most every other class at UVA. This class teaches a skill that I'm going to use in most projects I do from now on.Future workWe are currently working on an adapter to allow our custom header boards to also interface withthe National Instruments myRIO11. We envision that this will facilitate development of follow-on course which would examine embedded computing concepts with a higher level ofabstraction using LabVIEW programming12.Summary and conclusionsWe have outlined our approach to teaching embedded computing, and view this as a first step ina much needed curriculum reform process at our university. We address concerns, not only fromembedded computing, but across the spectrum of ECE topics

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Amarnath Banerjee, Texas A&M University; Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Rutwik Dehade, Texas A&M University; Glen Miller

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

an ABET Program Evaluator for Industrial Engineering.Dr. Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University Dr. Bimal Nepal is a Don A Rice Professor and Interim Department Head of the Department of Engineering Technology at Texas A&M University. His research interests include the integration of supply chain management with new product development decisions, distributor service portfolio optimization, and engineering education.Rutwik Dehade, Texas A&M UniversityGlen Miller ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Bringing Engineering Ethics Education into the High School Curriculum Rutwik Dehade, Michael Johnson, Amarnath Banerjee, Bimal Nepal, and Glen Miller

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Gorka; Reza Kamali; Jacob Miller; Han Reichgelt; Eydie Lawson; Barry Lunt; Joseph Ekstrom

representatives from 15 undergraduate informationtechnology (IT) programs from colleges/universities across the country gathered together inAspen Grove, Utah, to develop a community and begin to establish academic standards for thisrapidly growing discipline. The first Conference on Information Technology Curriculum (CITC-1) was also attended by representatives from two professional societies, the Association forComputing Machine (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.(IEEE), and also the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET). This Page 9.370.1invitational conference was the culmination of an

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos; Kyongbum Lee; Howard Saltsburg; Gregory Botsaris; David Kaplan

Session 2613 Seamless Integration of Chemical and Biological Engineering In The Undergraduate Curriculum Howard Saltsburg, Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, David Kaplan, Gregory Botsaris, Kyongbum Lee Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering Tufts University Medford MAIntroductionChemical engineering has evolved over the past one hundred years from a combination ofchemistry and mechanical engineering into a discipline that has developed its own unique andpowerful paradigm. The essential features of the modern

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Macy Reynolds; Joseph Untener

technical reports in a few courses simply did not meetthe expectations of employers. This led to a new approach to integrate writing exercises andevaluation throughout the curriculum. One basic premise from the outset was that writing cannotbe limited to a few courses, but requires a thoughtful integration over a student’s entire educationin Engineering Technology. Blending writing formats with each course was achieved by aconstructing a matrix with courses on one axis and forms of writing on the other. The matrixensures that students will develop the writing abilities desired by the base of employers duringtheir tenure in the department.BackgroundIn 1998 the University of Dayton Department of Engineering Technology was re-evaluating andre

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Faham; Ibrahim El-Mohr; Asser Zaky

“session 2532” A NEW UNDERGRADUATE ELECTRICAL POWER AND CONTROL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM Asser Zaky, Ibrahim El-Mohr and Mohamed El-Faham Arab Academy for Science and Technology Alexandria, EgyptAbstractBecause of the increasing complexity and advancements in all areas of the electricalpower industry (generation, transmission, distribution, control, protection, reliability,economics, etc), there is a growing need for graduates to be specialists in the powerfield. To meet such needs the Arab Academy for Science and Technology (AAST)has developed a new department of Electrical and Control

Conference Session

Assessment in Construction Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ihab Mohammad Hamdi Saad P.E., Northern Kentucky University

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Construction

not always beclearly understood. A Study conducted at the University of Connecticut (2000) by Huba and Freedconcluded that developing a plan for designing and delivering learning outcomes flows from the topdown, i.e. from the overall institution outcomes, to the academic program outcomes, to the courseoutcomes, to the unit (within the course) outcome and concluding with the lesson outcome, whereasstudents experience the system in reverse, i.e. from the bottom up. It has been advocated as a method ofaligning the written and taught curriculum since the early 1970s. More recent advances in technologyhave expanded the use of curriculum mapping as a tool for improving communication among instructorsabout the content, skills, and assessments that

Conference Session

Embedded Systems and Cybersecurity in ECE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Asmit De, Pennsylvania State University; Mohammad Nasim Imtiaz Khan, Pennsylvania State University; Karthikeyan Nagarajan, Pennsylvania State University; Abdullah Ash Saki, Pennsylvania State University; Mahabubul Alam, Pennsylvania State University; Taylor Steven Wood, Pennsylvania State University; Matthew Johnson, Pennsylvania State University; Manoj Varma Saripalli, Pennsylvania State University; Yu Xia, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Swaroop Ghosh, Pennsylvania State University; Kathleen M. Hill, Pennsylvania State University; Annmarie Ward

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #31471Hands-On Cybersecurity Curriculum using a Modular Training KitMr. Asmit De, The Pennsylvania State University Asmit De is a PhD Candidate in Computer Engineering at PennState. His research interest is in developing secure hardware and architectures for mitigating system vulnerabilities. Asmit received his B. Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India in 2014. He worked as a Software Engineer in the enterprise mobile security team at Samsung R&D Institute, India from 2014 to 2015. He has also worked as a Design Engineer Intern in the SoC Template

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Ladesic

Curriculum TechnologyEnhancement Program (CTEP) at Embry Riddle is a University program createdby faculty for faculty who teach engineering and science. CTEP is designed toprovide engineering faculty at both ERAU campuses with incentives andopportunities to advance their skills in the use of professional-grade engineeringsoftware as well as in the use of other contemporary educational technologies. Itis hoped that this project will foster and encourage enthusiasm among theengineering faculty for the implementation of technology within the courses theyteach. It should also help them identify opportunities within the curriculum for theapplication of modern engineering technologies that could enrich course delivery,enhance student-developed design

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Curricula and Pathways

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alma H. Rosales, Colorado State University; Andrea M. Leland, Colorado State University; Olivera Notaros, Colorado State University, ECE Department; Richard F. Toftness, IEEE High Plains Section; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; Michael A. De Miranda Ph.D., Colorado State University; Alistair Cook, Colorado State University; Melissa D. Reese, Colorado State University; Zinta S. Byrne, Colorado State University; James Warren Weston, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University

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Educational Research and Methods

collaboration with industry, their work is reshapingprofessional formation to ensure that ECE students develop critical skills for the 21st century.The team is implementing a new pedagogical model in the ECE department that builds on theconcept of “nanocourses”4,10 and emphasizes knowledge integration – a learning model well-grounded in education pedagogy and supported by research. 5 The approach combines rigor andflexibility to improve student understanding and efficacy through learning studio modules thatcross traditional course boundaries. While area-specific learning modules have been in existencefor years, such modules are usually supplements to the core curriculum and do not typicallycover fundamental subjects vital to comprehending abstract