Conference Session

Approaches to K -12 Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development Board

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

signatureevent of this initiative is an annual career day designed to expose local high school students to,and spark interest in, STEM courses and career opportunities.WIT analyzes enrollment statistics in the UH system and looks at levels of women majoring inchemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, astronomy and engineering. Since WIT ‘sinception in 1999, women have steadily been about 57% of the total students enrolled, but onlyabout 28% of the students are women in these majors. As of Fall 2004 this was still case. In itsplanning for the event, WIT emphasized recruitment of historically under-represented students,including females, Pacific Islanders, socio-economically challenged and academically at-riskstudents. Due to Department of

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Resource Exchange

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

William A. Kitch, Angelo State University; Andrea L. Robledo, Angelo State University; Wanda James Green

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

consensus was to redesign the camp asa hybrid learning program where participants worked their way through a daily online curriculumthat resulted in the design and build of a model rocket that was then launched as a part of theculminating experience for the camp. The camp was designed so that students logged into NicheAcademy, an online learning management system, to complete 4 days of sequenced curriculum thatincluded lessons on the physics of flight, engineering design, and model rocket building skills. Eachday included rocket design or building activities. On day 3, participants submitted their designsimulations for review and approval. Once the designs were reviewed for stability and approved,participants could complete their rocket builds for

Conference Session

Future Career and Professional Success for Graduate Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Qunqun Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Graduate Studies

beliefs. The development of self-authorship in the intrapersonal dimension wasaccompanied by a new relationship with their advisors/professors/peers. The implications of ourpreliminary results can be summarized as follows.First, through the focus upon engineering doctoral students, these findings allow for anoperationalization of self-authorship theory for engineering students’ diverse learning andresearch experiences in U.S. doctoral programs. By exploring students’ experiences in thesethree dimensions, it could potentially help researchers and educators to design and/or adjusteducational practices according to students’ needs to promote self-authorship in the

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radana Dvorak, Saint Martin's University; Farzin Bahadori, Saint Martin's University

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

Computing into CS CurriculaInstruction ModulesThe modules were designed to help students develop an entrepreneurial mindset [11]. Theentrepreneurial mindset is a broad term for how students grow and change into the computerscientists of the future, with a mindset focused on creating value for society in a broad way.Creating value includes helping students develop character traits that will make them ethicaldecision makers in the future [12]. To address this goal, the modules were designed to help thestudents build strong habits and skills about complex issues based on the following:1. Curiosity: This involves instilling a sense of inquisitiveness in students about the ever- evolving world of work, encouraging them to adopt a critical approach

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Stephen Ressler

men from colleges and universities as diverse as Cornell, LouisianaTech, U.C. Berkeley, and Virginia Military Institute attended the ETW 2000 at USMA.III. Workshop ContentThe grueling schedule for the five-day workshop is shown in Figure 1. The workshop activitiescan be sub-classified into seminars, demonstration classes, laboratory exercises, and socialevents.Seminars: The course schedule for the 2000 ETW contained 13 Seminars which varied incontent and were designed to provide theoretical background, teaching hints, organizationalstructure, and communication techniques. A brief description of the seminars is offered in Table1. The format for the seminars is lecture, small group activities, and collaborative discussionwith an ExCEEd faculty

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Branislav M. Notaros, Colorado State University; Ryan McCullough, Colorado State University; Pranav S. Athalye, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #19460Work in Progress: Using Conceptual Questions to Assess Class Pre-Work andEnhance Student Engagement in Electromagnetics Learning Studio ModulesProf. Branislav M. Notaros, Colorado State University Branislav M. Notaros is Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University, where he also is Director of Electro- magnetics Laboratory. His research publications in computational and applied electromagnetics include more than 180 journal and conference papers. He is the author of textbooks Electromagnetics (2010) and MATLAB

Conference Session

COED Modulus Topics

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afrin Naz, West Virginia University; Mingyu Lu, West Virginia University; Jordan Bowen, West Virginia University; Cody Ryan Zackoski

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Bei- jing, China, in 1995 and 1997 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. From 1997 to 2002, he was a research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2002 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Electromagnetics Laboratory in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an assistant professor with the Department of Elec- trical Engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington from 2005 to 2012. He joined the Department of Electrical and

Conference Session

Developing Communication/Teamwork Skills in ChEs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joan Alabart, University Rovira i Virgili; Sibel Özgen, University Rovira i Virgili; Magda Medir, University Rovira i Virgili; Hans-Joerg Witt, Witt & Partner

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

eventinterviews, and (e) focus groups with team members. Team effectiveness is measured by: (a) ateam climate survey, (b) the evaluation of project products (a design report and a poster or anoral presentation followed by a defense), and (c) focus groups with first-year instructors.IntroductionIn 1996, the fourth-year Project Management in Practice (PMP) course was created as an electivein the Chemical Engineering program at the University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). Thecreation of this course responded to two needs although, actually, one of them was much morecompelling than the other. Four instructors teaching three first-year chemical engineering courses- Transport Phenomena, Fluid Mechanics, and Transport Phenomena Laboratory - wanted

Conference Session

Materials Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Moises Hinojosa-Rivera, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; Martin Edgar Reyes-Melo, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; José Alejandro Cazares, Teacher

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Materials

each of these materials. Theprogram is designed to provide a balanced formation on materials in general, while being flexiblethrough elective courses so that the student can concentrate at his/her choice on Metals,Ceramics, Polymers and Nanotechnology, these concentrations are specialized in the fifth yearwhere the students are expected to develop a project on one of these fields under the direction ofone of our full time researchers. The professional internship is mandatory, it is included in theofficial transcripts and given credits.Faculty: In our experience, Mexican engineering programs in general, as it is probably the case inother countries in Latin America, are still far from integrating a faculty with international level12.One of the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh; Kevin Dahm

movement towards the vertical integrationof design throughout the curriculum. Some of these initiatives are driven by the new ABETcriteria. This integration could be highly enhanced by an early introduction to processsimulation.Process simulation can also be utilized in lower level courses as a pedagogical aid. Thethermodynamics and separations area have a lot to gain from simulation packages. One of theadvantages of process simulation software is that it enables the instructor to presentinformation in an inductive manner without the need for time-consuming experiments. Forexample, in a course on equilibrium staged operations, among the concepts a student mustlearn are the optimum feed location. Standard texts such as Wankat (1988)5 present

Collection

2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu; Rajan Chandra

settings. Laboratory exercises offer students an immersive experience which arespecifically designed to encourage problem solving skills in a real-world environment. Wenotice that many of our freshmen students are unprepared for basic courses in circuits and C++programming. Consequently, they are very frustrated in this kind of setting and thus this situationpushes them to change their majors. We also observed that our students are very much motivated Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 219by

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

P. Kelly Joyner; Teresa Larkin-Hein

college science courses and has argued that typicalclassrooms are "…competitive, selective, intimidating, and designed to winnow out all but the'top tier' … there is little attempt to create a sense of 'community' among average students ofscience" (p. 9). Hence, a traditional science classroom may present potential barriers that couldinhibit learning for some students. The active process of writing may provide one non-threatening mechanism through which students could reduce or even remove these barriers tolearning. Tobias 17 also indicates that writing can serve as a means to help students relieve theiranxiety and help them unlearn models and techniques that have proven scientifically unsound.This paper describes a novel technique for infusing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen L Kitto, Western Washington University; Debra S. Jusak, Western Washington University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

bedesigned to run on smart devices, as well as on laptops and desktop computers, thus,making them more widely available to others teaching basic materials engineeringcourses.While a great deal is now known about more effective teaching practices in STEMeducation, many barriers exist to implementing them within individual courses, especiallyfor those faculty within institutions with limited resources and having high teachingloads. The iCollaborate project was designed to lower many of these barriers. First, themulti-faceted approach outlined in this project is conceptually portable to otherdisciplines. Second, we designed the project so that only one device ($229) is needed percollaborative group to lower the overall ICT equipment cost needed to

Conference Session

Community Building and Student Engagement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl B. Schrader, Wright State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

on land that formerly belonged to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), home ofthe U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and five directorates. Technology companiessurround the university and base, creating a vibrant innovation hub. To this day, electricalengineering continues to play a large role in the workforce and in opportunity afforded thecitizenry, university and prospective and current students of all ages.In a proactive move to provide students more flexibility, electrical engineering faculty membersat Wright State University conducted an in-depth review of all course pre-requisites tostreamline the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) program and make it moreadaptable for students with diverse experiences to

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jordan Rosenthal; James McClellan

received the Signal Processing Society Award, and in 1987, the SP Technical AchievementAward for work on FIR filter design. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.JORDAN ROSENTHALJordan Rosenthal received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York atBuffalo in 1995, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technologyin 1997 and 2001, respectively. He is currently a research staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. His researchinterests include multidimensional signal processing, multirate and wavelet processing, and the use of non-standardsampling grids such as hexagonal lattices. Dr. Rosenthal is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Backer

A shift in teaching methodology: From Instructor Led to Student Driven Multimedia Instruction Patricia Ryaby Backer San Jose State UniversityAbstractMultimedia can be a powerful tool in exploring the nature of the world around us, including itstechnological systems. This paper describes the design, development, and evaluation of self-paced multimedia and web-based modules that are used in an advanced General Education (GE)course in the College of Engineering at San José State University. The design and developmentcycle of these modules began in 1994 and spanned nine years. The General Education course,Technology and Civilization (TECH 198

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Technology, Teaching and science education, engineering or Initiatives Learning Laboratory higher education Assistant or Ph.D. South Dakota School of Mines, Backgrounds in all areas of engineering Associate professor, First Year Experience and science will be considered STEM education research Associate Professor, Ph.D. Arizona State University, Ira A. Earned doctorate in engineering or Engineering Fulton School of Engineering closely related field Education* Assistant or Ph.D. Stony Brook University, Doctorate in science and technology Associate Professor

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kelly Torres; Aimee Mostella; Alexey L. Sadovski; Carl Steidley

validation timeseries for these two parameters. The standard deviation gives an overall measure of thevariability due to the differences between training sets as well as the differences resulting fromthe training process. The inputs to the model were selected as the previous12 hourly water leveland wind measurements based on experience gathered during the modeling for other locations 16.One model was trained without wind predictions while for the second case wind measurementswere used to simulate wind forecasts. These wind forecasts consisted of future windmeasurements at 3 hour intervals up to 36 hours. A database of wind forecasts is presently beingconstructed and models based on wind forecasts are expected to be more representative of futuremodel

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Blake Bath

, physical and social Science, and engineering course-work. It is sponsored by the Fund for Post Secondary Education of the United States Department of Education. The program is designed to address two areas: 1) poor integration of humanities and social science into technical curricula, and 2) freshman-level instruction that discourages students from pursuing careers in engineering and mathematics, By enhancing higher order thinking abilities, the hope is that the students will discover important connections among their various courses and that the learning will be deeper and more complete, The Connections program proposal promised that it will allow students to: . discover and develop significant connections among their freshmen

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Fred W. DePiero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AnalogDiscovery 2 module to power, source, and measure the output of their circuits. This lab provedto be the first experience many of the students ever had with breadboards and proved to be thefirst experience all students had with reading a datasheet, designing, simulating, building, andtesting a circuit.Weeks 6 - Eagle PCB TutorialDuring Week 6, we did not present any new material (as it was midterm week), but askedstudents to watch and follow along with an online Eagle PCB tutorial [12] to learn how to layouta printed circuit board (PCB). Other instructors had experimented with a PCB project for anintroductory circuits lab in the past [13] and thus we decided to try to conduct a PCB project inthe studio course, now with more modern PCB layout

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Froyd; Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson

Dartmouth (UMD), and the Universityof Wisconsin at Madison (UWM)2-11. The FC, one of six NSF “engineering educationcoalitions” received a ten-year grant to support the design, implementation and adoptionof new and innovative undergraduate curricula in their engineering colleges. Based onexperiences of these schools, we have learned that the process of curricular change is alsovery important and requires consideration before undertaking a change effort. As aresult, the FC initiated a study of the processes of curricular change as they occurredacross the six member institutions. In a recent paper12, we presented several issues thatappeared from a series of qualitative case studies. In that paper we stated thatassumptions held by faculty about how

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Yang; Andrew Bennett; Steve Warren

; Computer Engineering at Kansas StateUniversity. He teaches courses in linear systems, computer graphics, biomedical instrumentation,and scientific computing. Dr. Warren manages the KSU Medical Component Design Laboratory,and his research focuses on plug-and-play, wearable systems for telemedicine. Page 10.194.12 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

(focused) schools or are designated a STEM school. In SouthCarolina, a number of elementary and middle schools have been designated a STEM school.These schools seek out annual field trips to allow their students to have firsthand STEM Page 26.1395.2experiences such as laboratory experiences within college level courses, aquariums, architecturalfirms, research labs, and manufacturing companies to mention a few.Gifted and talented Fourth and Fifth Grade students from Richland School District 2 schoolshave been conducting a field study (ALERT)2 at The Citadel every other year. Recently, the offyear visit is with an architectural firm at the school and

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronny Veljanovski, Victoria University; Alex Stojcevski, Victoria University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-1416: ONLINE ROLE PLAYING IN A NEW PROBLEM BASEDLEARNING CURRICULUM IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGRonny Veljanovski, Victoria University Ronny Veljanovski received his Bachelor of Science in 2000 from Victoria University, Melbourne Australia. After completing his Bachelors, Ronny completed his PhD in electrical engineering (also at Victoria University). His thesis involved the design and implementation of low power reconfigurable architectures for wireless communications. His research was financially sponsored from Ericsson in Sweden and supported through the Heterogeneous Signal Processing Group which is a collaboration of universities and industries in Europe. Ronny has also recently

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 11

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, Merrimack College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division (FDD)

Year Engineering Experience committee, supervisor of the LTU Thermo-Fluids Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, and faculty advisor of the LTU SAE Aero Design Team. Dr. Gerhart conducts workshops on active, collaborative, and problem-based learning, entrepreneurial mindset education, creative problem solving, and innovation. He is an author of a fluid mechanics textbook.Dr. Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, Merrimack College Maria-Isabel Carnasciali is the new founding Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Computational Sciences at Merrimack College (MA). Previously, she spent 13 years at the University of New Haven (CT) where her last role included four years as Assistant

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University; Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

defined roles (Gantt chart). The second stage begins when a team’s proposal isaccepted and they are given access to the resources needed to implement their solution.This phase of evaluating understanding may involve building a solution or characterizingthe device they designed during the proposal phase. To make this experience as authenticas possible, teams choose the equipment they need from an on-line catalog common tothe entire electrical engineering program, and set it up on a bare laboratory bench. The Page 11.576.11price of all equipment is listed since teams assume ownership of, and responsibility for,the equipment and supplies they check out

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ben D Radhakrishnan, National University; S.R. Subramanya

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

as course supplementsThey facilitate ‘any-time’, ‘any-where’ learning due to their inherent mobility and Web access.Class times are structured and limited. There are demands on the teachers for the coverage oftopics. There are only certain amounts of content that could be delivered in a limited time. Themobile Apps supplements would be a boon for students by helping them catch up and understandthe course material at their pace. The mobile Apps also facilitate continuous learning experience,where in, a learner may go beyond the class room or course and learn additional related thingsbased on one’s interests.Thoughtfully designed Apps can support customization/personalization to cater to differentlearning styles. The well–designed Apps can

Conference Session

New Ideas

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Zietlow

practicalapplication. Sensitivity and breakeven analyses have been used to address the uncertainty thateconomic variables introduce into the problem. Students will want to add this tool to theirprofessional portfolio so they are able to make wise choices that meet customer needs.Introduction The educational experience for an undergraduate student is often compartmentalized. Inthermodynamics there is little time to present economics into an already full syllabus and inengineering economics the experience of the instructor limits the range of applications they canpresent. This case study is designed to integrate the information the students receive from thesetwo courses. The economics are simplified so it can be used in a course on thermodynamics.The

Conference Session

Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Willis; Duane Dunlap

nineteenth century however, the increasing complexity of technology,markets, and organizations required greater preparation than could be obtained throughthis informal system. “Shop culture” was being replaced by “scho ol culture. 2, 3One of the first of the new professional schools was the Rensselaer School (nowRensselaer Polytechnic Institute) established at Troy, New York in 1824. 4 From thebeginning, emphasis was on practical experience including field and laboratory work(referred to in the curriculum as “scholastic amusements”). 5 Close relations weremaintained with graduates and other practicing engineers. For example, graduates wereexpected to communicate at least once in three years the results of their investigationsand discoveries. 6By

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Batty; Joseph Clair Batty

engineering and those who hire our graduates are expanding everywhere.Now we must give greater attention to our suppliers. We can no longer afford to allow our K-12suppliers to "throw high school graduates over-the-wall" to colleges of engineering resulting inhigh rejection and dropout rates.Utah’s Governor has recently called for a doubling of graduates from Utah’s colleges ofengineering within five years and tripling in eight. This paper describes some of the initiativesunderway at Utah State University to motivate, guide, and help create a more seamlessexperience for students who could potentially do well in engineering.IntroductionHorror stories from the over-the-wall era of American industry are legion. These stories describeengineering designs