Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ralph C. Tillinghast; Edward A. Petersen

and Mathematics (STEM)outreach is well documented. The methods by which this is accomplished vary and depend onthe specific needs of the student or STEM stakeholder being supported. Further the outreachprovider can vary in size from single high school students doing experiments with youngerstudents, to scientists and engineers (S&E’s) visiting classrooms, and to fortune 500 companiesdonating vast sums of money to build STEM infrastructure.1 Each of these has the potential toinfluence students and impact STEM careers. This paper looks to document what the authorsconsider a large STEM organization. The STEM outreach provider being described is one of theU. S. Army’s research centers, the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Conference Session

PreK-12 Track -. Technical Session III

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Bhumi Mevawala, Engineers on Wheels; Angelique Tucker, Engineers on Wheels; Amanda Rose Basantis, Engineers on Wheels; Elizabeth Beatty, Engineers on Wheels; Joseph Egan, Engineers on Wheels; Kauser Jahan, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

Pre K-12 Education

. Engineering is a very big part of my life and I would like to share my experiences and knowledge with younger students to spark their interest in this topic.Ms. Angelique Tucker, Engineers on Wheels Ms. Angelique Tucker is a senior civil engineering major at Rowan University and has been involved with the EOW program for two years. She has been to many different schools where she met many different students that she has enjoyed working with throughout her time on the team.Ms. Amanda Rose Basantis, EOW I am a junior Civil Engineering major at Rowan University. I have recently been focusing on the studies of middle school students and engineering in the public schools nearby. The students complete an initial survey to

Conference Session

Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

. Faculty members often expose students to standards in laboratory exercisesthroughout their college careers. These subtle opportunities are documented in the paper.ABET criterion and outcomes used to evaluate engineering and engineering technologyprograms now emphasize the use of standards, especially in the design process. This is a newchallenge for the engineering educator. Given that new engineering educators teach theirstudents about standards, it is necessary to become familiar with available information that mayhelp students as well as typical best practices for academic libraries. Acquiring access tostandards is the first step in using standards. The next step is to acquire skill and learn how tocritically read and apply them.The literature

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #13502Motivated Engineering Transfer Students/STEP after Six YearsDr. Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University MARY R.ANDERSON-ROWLAND is the PI of an NSF STEP grant to work with five non-metropolitan community colleges to produce more engineers, especially female and underrepresented minority engineers. She also directs an Academic Success and Professional Development program, with an emphasis on transfer students. An Associate Professor in Computing, Informatics, and Systems Design Engineering, she was the Associate Dean of Student Af- fairs in the

Conference Session

Learn About Assessment

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

William W. Tsai, California State University Maritime Academy; Amber Janssen, California State University Maritime Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, performance indicators couldbe derived from the AACU Foundations and Skills for Lifelong Learning VALUE rubric, whichmeasures students’ curiosity, initiative, independence, transfer, and reflection [4]. However,engineering programs could interpret Student Outcome 7 as relating to the acquisition ofknowledge within the engineering profession. For example, a performance indicator could be tomeasure students’ ability to research and acquire engineering standards. In addition, thisperformance indicator would support the requirement for the implementation of engineeringstandards as a part of the curriculum’s design experience. Estes et al. [5] approached thisoutcome as the demonstration of knowledge acquisition without assistance. “Examples mightinclude a

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; John-David S. Yoder, Ohio Northern University; Briana B. Morrison, Southern Polytechnic State University; Fong K. Mak, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He is professor and Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio. He has previously served as Proposal Engineer and Proposal Engineer- ing Supervisor at Grob System, Inc., and Software Engineer at Shaum Manufacturing, Inc. He has held a number of leadership and advisory positions in various entrepreneurial ventures. He is currently a KEEN (Kern Entrepreneurial Education Network) Fellow, and has served as a Faculty Fellow at the Jet Propul- sion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and an Invited Professor at INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Monbonnot, France. Research interests include computer vision, mobile robotics, intelligent vehicles, entrepreneurship

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard LaRoche; R. Muralikrishnan; Barbara Hutchings

to customize the exercises or create their own to tie directly into theexisting curriculum. Fluent is working with university professors worldwide to develop a libraryof FlowLab exercises which would be available freely through the Internet. Below are theoverall educational goals for the FlowLab framework:• Reinforce basic concepts of fluid mechanics and heat/mass transfer using computer simulation• Use computing exercises to augment and complement existing laboratory-based curriculum• Expand the learning experience with real-world applications of fluid flow and heat/mass transfer• Expose students to CFD and CFD concepts – an increasingly important skill in the job marketCustomizing FlowLabFlowLab is designed to fit easily

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Collaborations and Interactions

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shi (Stan) Lan, DeVry University-Chicago; Yaqing Mao, Beijing Normal University, China

Tagged Divisions

International

that electronics students sampled in China spent significantly more time onattending classroom lectures/scheduled laboratories and on studying outside the classroom thantheir counterparts in the United States.The researchers also reported that there was a substantial difference in unversity expendituresbetween the two countries. In addition to this subtantial difference, historically in China collegestudents and their families were paying a small percentage of the total educational expenditure.2Although in recent years university tuition and fees are increasing drastically, culturally moststudents in China consider that they do not share the responsibility of paying the cost of theiruniversity education, and that this responsibility either

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Arora; Lorenzo Faraone

conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data.✔ design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs.✔ function on multi-disciplinary teams.✔ identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems.✔ understand professional and ethical responsibility.✔ communicate effectively. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.1.6 Copyright©2001, American Society for Engineering Education✔ be educated broadly in order to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global/ societal context.✔ recognize and engage in life

Conference Session

Installation, Integration, and Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James W. Jones, Ball State University; Janet Fick, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

and is predicated on howthe building is actually performing, not just its designed or expected performance. The USGBC’sLEED Lab initiative is supporting universities to simultaneously “green” their campuses andoffer students the experience of leading the certification process. Different institutions haveadopted different models for implementation and another institution just completed the firstbuilding certification through the program.The LEED Lab initiative benefits both institutions and students. As stated by the USGBC: Existing buildings hold incredible promise for higher education institutions, offering tremendous opportunities to connect academics with operations. The implementation of LEED for Building Operations and

Conference Session

Moral Development, Engineering Pedagogy and Ethics Instruction

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christan Whysong, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

. One of the strategies used toteach themes of sustainability, design, systems, and ethics is the use of active learning in theform of hands-on activities. In the proposed reformulation, sustainability is the overall themewith ethics as one of the supporting themes for the spiral approach.Figure 1. Schematic of a spiral theme based curriculum. Ethics, systems approach andengineering design will be revisited with increasing difficulty at each level or run.In support of this approach, the two departments have started to compile a library of ethics casestudies related to Biological Systems Engineering, particularly Bioprocess Engineering, alongwith proposed methods of implementing these ethics case studies. The preliminary work wasperformed as

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Virtual Instruction in the First Year III

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rui Li, New York University; Jack Bringardner, New York University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

-based learning such as collaborative and group 1 learning [26-28]. While these types of team-based learning experiences are believed to have 2 positive impacts on improving students' motivation, team-based lab objectives do not seem 3 necessary to interactive activities and may be completed via allocated individual tasks, 4 eliminating chances for building relatedness. For example, many engineering projects encourage 5 students to work on individual tasks and document the progress as a team-based final report. 6 Because of that, there are very limited interactions between the students. In order to truly foster a 7 sense of relatedness within a team, the lab design would ideally support "feeling connected to 8 others, to caring

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Barham, New Caney ISD; Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

a Professor in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Technology and the De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 MAKER: Smart

Conference Session

ENT Division Technical Session: Assessment Tools and Practices

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

tenuous associations or tortured logic. ONU Extended KEEN Student Outcomes: Connections ABET Student Outcomes (Performance Indicators) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 a. Understand ramifications (technical and non-technical) of design decisions. b. Identify and evaluate sources of information. c. Connect life experiences with class content. d. Connect content from multiple courses to solve a problem. e. Integrates/synthesizes different kinds of knowledge f. Consider a problem from multiple viewpoints. g. Persuades why a discovery adds value from multiple perspectives h

Conference Session

Uses for MATLAB in Mechancial Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Frederick Larsen P.E., Eastern Washington University; N.M. A. Hossain, Eastern Washington University; Martin William Weiser, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #16496Teaching an Undergraduate Introductory MATLAB Course: Successful Im-plementation for Student LearningDr. Kyle Frederick Larsen, Eastern Washington University Dr. Larsen currently teaches mechanical engineering at Eastern Washington University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from California State University Sacramento and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University.Dr. N.M. A. Hossain, Eastern Washington University Dr. Hossain is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Design at Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA. His research

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen R. Fleeman

questions to the AEA and EIA projects.The questions and the project responses are summarized in Table 1.The EIA skill standards are structured to permit their incorporation into EET curricula to developentry-level electronics technicians. The AEA standards were designed to define the standardsrequired for workers already in the workplace.The AEA approach does not lend itself to direct incorporation in a classical EET program. However, theEIA project offers more of a balance between the hard and soft skills. The project is geared towardincorporation of the recommended skill standards within academia. Its stated (and demonstrated) concerntoward evaluation and certification from the onset of the project ensures concrete evaluation methods canbe

Conference Session

Hands-On in the Online Classroom

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Matthew Parsons Fuentes, Everett Community College

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

conclusion is that implementation matters. Implementing hands-on models in thisonline modality requires some fundamental rethinking about how the learning is structured andscaffolded. Activities designed to create productive struggle in the classroom (with peers andinstructor close by to work through confusion) can just lead to struggle and frustration for somestudents working individually at home.Based on this experience, we have the following recommendations for continued development ofonline activities that use take-home models.  Integrate the modeling activities into other aspects of the course design by referencing them in lectures and other activities and assignments.  Make videos demonstrating for students how they can use the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Said Shakerin

at lower division courses, to engage studentsin estimation exercises and to lunch them on a path to develop this skill.IntroductionEstimation is an integral activity of our daily lives – from determining how much cash to takealong during our upcoming vacation to purchasing enough paint to add some color to our home.Considering the latter, if our estimate is way off, we either end up with a lot of extra paint orneed to make another trip to the paint shop to purchase more. Being able to properly estimatevarious quantities that one encounters is a useful skill. People use experience and common senseand read labels and instructions to perform these estimations, which usually require simplearithmetic.Engineers also make use of estimation in their

Conference Session

Integrating Math and Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Szaroletta

textbooks1,2,3,4,5,6,7 carry a plethora of analysis and design problemsthat can also serve as good optimization problems and a sampling of these excellent texts isincluded in the Bibliography of this paper. A typical optimization will require a design to have aconstant stress, minimum weight, and/or minimum cost, though there are many optimizationfitness functions that can be envisioned. All four methods mentioned above have applicability tothese classes of optimization problems with a single objective function, f(x), and one or moreconstraints, where x is a member the constraint set.Very few mechanical elements experience a constant stress state throughout the entire element,though this condition would better utilize the element’s material. Parts are typically

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

delivered in the classroom, theonline faculty member must lay out a presentation sequence for delivering the coursetopics. It is best to design the course sequence so as to produce a range of outputs.Arrange the course around a skeleton of right and wrong knowledge learning driven bytextbook reading assignments. Then supplement this foundation with applied,experience-based, instructor led exercises which examine the gray areas which existwithin the body of knowledge. This places the responsibility for learning where itbelongs – squarely on the student’s shoulders. Sufficient time must be allowed forpresentation, learning and testing of each topic.The “forced” participation strategy lessens the emphasis on testing. As studentsparticipate in the

Collection

2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

essentiallycomprise a stand-alone computer. This leaves the instructor with the choice of either using asimpler trainer or using the students’ laptop or desktop itself as the trainer and teaching anextremely complex instruction set. In either case, the microprocessor’s internal architecture andexternal interconnects are reduced to abstractions and the study of microprocessors to a study ofassembler instructions and interfacing. A third approach, intended to give the students a more“hands-on” experience, involves the students constructing a complete system from discretebuilding blocks or programmable components such as FPGAs. In 2000, Jeon described a coursein which each student constructed and programmed an 8086-based microcomputer.2 Thisapproach eliminates

Collection

2012 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Warren Rosen

essentiallycomprise a stand-alone computer. This leaves the instructor with the choice of either using asimpler trainer or using the students’ laptop or desktop itself as the trainer and teaching anextremely complex instruction set. In either case, the microprocessor’s internal architecture andexternal interconnects are reduced to abstractions and the study of microprocessors to a study ofassembler instructions and interfacing. A third approach, intended to give the students a more“hands-on” experience, involves the students constructing a complete system from discretebuilding blocks or programmable components such as FPGAs. In 2000, Jeon described a coursein which each student constructed and programmed an 8086-based microcomputer.2 Thisapproach eliminates

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew J. Strubhar; Dennis Kroll

direction for the project. The IE student’s assignment was also very open-ended, but theytook the initiative and devised a direction for the project.” Page 5.392.4More useful learning was reported when lack of communication and planning was compared tothe ADA project. “These two different group experiences showed the importance ofcommunication and planning ahead.”The ProjectsEarly in the Spring semester, usually the first week of February, the IMET students invite the PTstudents to lunch in the Work Methods/Ergonomics Laboratory. The local IIE chapter providespizza and soda. Given various schedules, not everyone can attend. However, both groups

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa L. Larkin, American University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics

Inquiry, Habits of Mind (HOM) course.The Natural-Scientific Inquiry learning outcomes specify that students will cultivate thefollowing Habits of Mind: 1. Describe, evaluate, and communicate experimental results using appropriate technical, qualitative, and quantitative skills. 2. Analyze and interpret data or theories about natural phenomena, using pertinent scientific terminology, principles, and theories. 3. Synthesize theory, observation, and experimentation to understand the natural world through laboratory, simulation, or field experience. 4. Assess science-related content in popular discourse, daily life, or scholarly research.Throughout the course, the students are provided with a number of activities in the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech; Jacob Preston Moore, Virginia Tech; Aditya Johri, Virginia Tech; Robert Scott Pierce, Sweet Briar College; Chris North, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering statics isstored as an XML document, and the content pages associated with each of the nodes are writtenin XHTML (though the software can link to any type of document on the web). Thesedocuments are read by the visualization software, so content developers have complete control ofthe content through the XML and XHTML documents. Both of the content document types aresimple to create and maintain, so little programming experience is needed to create and maintainthe content for the adaptive map tool.To implement the adaptive map tool, the researchers chose ZVTM (Zoomable VisualizationTransformation Machine) [30]. ZVTM is a freely available user interface design toolkitimplemented in Java. The toolkit was chosen because it offered a number of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oleksandr Kravchenko, Old Dominion University; Konstantin Cigularov, Old Dominion University; Phillip Dillulio

VPN connections and by shipping materials andsupplies directly to the student’s residence. The combination of these approaches and strategiesallowed students involved in the undergraduate research and Senior Design projects to stillbenefit from experiential learning by engaging in hands-on activities in a laboratory setting,while ensuring their safety.Future Work This short paper provides a preliminary assessment of student perceptions of Engineeringfaculty effectiveness and support during the outbreak of COVID-19 and describes severalinstructional strategies and approaches adopted to address challenges in online learning. Thestudent feedback provides directions to how to build academic support networks to mitigate theadverse effects

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael H. Gregg; Dr. Deidre Hirschfeld; Dr. Bevlee Watford

as their professors faculty members who have attended trainingsessions on minority issues. This paper deals with Virginia Tech’s experiences with this first year of gender clustering,including enrollment issues, faculty attitudes, acceptance by students, and preliminary results.INTRODUCTION Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will award bachelor degrees to roughly 4300students this academic year. Of these degrees, about 42% or 1800 will be awarded to women.Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering will award 950 bachelor degrees along with 450 Masters andover 100 Doctorates. Of these Bachelor of Science Degrees in various engineering disciplines, only160, or roughly 16% will be awarded to women.1 Nationwide, more than

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Henry W. Kraebber

" serving several courses with information about the companies that support the CIMT program and laboratories.• Linking to files containing weekly editions of course handouts, assignments and lecture notes.• Posting of the current grade spreadsheet.• Posting of additional information, papers and pictures that supplement the content of the lectures and labs.The procedures used to create "no frills" web pages and links to other files are not difficult tocopy. My first pages were in fact copies of another instructor's source code in hypertext markuplanguage (.html) for a page with titles, pictures, text and links to other sites. A sample of the.html code and the simple page it produces can be found in figures 1 and 2 at the end of thispaper. New

Conference Session

MIND - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Shaykhian, NASA; Gholam Ali Shaykhian, NASA

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

AC 2007-456: IMPROVING PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS THROUGHADAPTING PROGRAMMING TOOLSLinda Shaykhian, NASA Linda H. Shaykhian Linda Shaykhian is a computer engineer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Kennedy Space Center (KSC). She is currently co-lead of the Information Architecture team for the Constellation Program’s Launch Site Command and Control System Proof of Concept project. She was lead of the Core Technical Capability Laboratory Management System project, which is currently used for resource management and funding of KSC Core Technical Capability laboratories. She was the Software Design Lead and Software Integrated Product Team Lead for the Hazardous Warning

Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Technical Session #3: Student Perspectives

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chaney E. Dietz, Northeastern University; Aidan J. Kane, Northeastern University; Courtney A. Pfluger, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

International Division (INTL)

developed and ran 8 Faculty-led Dialogue of Civilization programs to Brazil focused on Sustainable En- ergy. She has won several teaching awards including ChE Sioui Award for Excellence in Teaching, North- eastern COE Outstanding Teaching Award, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Innovation in ChE Education Award. She also won best paper at the Annual 2022 ASEE conference in both Design in Engineering Education Division and the Professional Interest Council 5 (PIC V) for her research in Inclusive Team-based learning. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Reflections on an Immersive International Engineering Program Focused on Sustainable Energy in Brazil