Collection

2013 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Aiman S. Kuzmar

MINI-SESSION COMPARED TO NORMAL-LENGTH COURSES IN THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AT SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY Aiman Said. Kuzmar, Ph. D., P. E. Associate Professor of Construction Management and Engineering Technology ask008@shsu.edu Sam Houston State University Box 2088, Huntsville, Texas 77342 Abstract: Several drafting and design courses are being offered in the Construction Management Program at Sam Houston State University using an intense two week format. The classes meet every day for four hours on each day

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; William M. Jordan P.E., Baylor University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

company andembracing change would be seen as positive attributes. Being flexible and ready for changewould help with career progression. At Baylor University, business models have beenincorporated into capstone design projects and elective projects involving teams [26]. Operatingteams as companies and exposing students to industry procedures gives them a setting in whichto experience the work environment before graduation. Wisler of GE Aircraft Enginesrecognized this weakness and wrote about it in a paper “Engineering – What You Don’tNecessarily Learn in School [27].” He has 12 suggestions to be a successful engineer whichincludes business understanding as number one: 1. Learn to be business oriented 2. Expect

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Cain; Julia McLees; Jason Bara; Gary Wnek; Bradford Crosby; Gary Huvard

curriculum give students valuable and marketable engineering skillsafter only two years in the program. Our students, with some faculty guidance, are running anengineering consulting practice and working on a myriad of interesting and educational projects.Appropriate projects for student consultants are generally of the following types: diagnostic,development, or design. Diagnostic problems address questions such as “What is the oilymaterial that is contaminating this filter?” or “Why is the flooring material in our factoryfailing?” or “Why does our fiberglass preform process produce scrap during the summer monthsbut not during the winter?” Almost any phenomenon that needs an explanation fits thisChemEngine project profile. Development projects

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Nischal Adhikari; Sima Noghanian

abstract field, due to difficulty ofintegrating tangible and realistic experiments into electrical engineering curriculum. Sometimessetting up a laboratory for these experiments could be very expensive. Therefore, a lot of timeusing simulation tools is a good alternative to examine and visualize the realistic problems.However, the available simulation software may require vast technical proficiency, whichsometime impedes the inclination of students towards this area of study.In this paper we introduce a ray-tracing simulation tool that can be beneficial in teaching wavepropagation and wireless communication. Wireless InSite®, from Remcom®, is a site-specificwireless channel simulation tool based on ray-tracing method. This paper introduces

Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu F Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International Division (INTL)

innovative strategies educatorsemploy to foster inclusive, effective, and culturally enriching learning experiences. The studyreviews issues related to language proficiency, academic writing, cultural differences, differenteducation backgrounds, unique learning habits, course delivery, teaching methodology, academicdiscipline, acculturation, pedagogical adaptations, and support services, shedding light on theevolving role of American universities in shaping the global education landscape. Addressing thesechallenges and leveraging the diverse perspectives international students bring to the classroomcan enrich the educational experience for all students and prepare them for a globallyinterconnected world.IntroductionAs the globalization of higher

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

to the current members ofWomen in Technology. Of the 81 students involved in the group, 51 responded to the survey, fora 63% response rate.The survey questions were modified from the WEPAN Pilot Climate Survey, designed to assessengineering students’ perceptions of the educational climate at their universities 26. One studyidentified those factors as isolation, the perceived irrelevance of theoretical preparatory courses,negative experiences in laboratory courses, classroom climate, and lack of role models 27. Otherstudies have suggested that the different learning styles of women may influence their desire toenter engineering or technology fields. Finally, Santovec contends that the problem is the imagethat engineering and technology is not

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Kepner, Hillsborough Community College; Mel Cossette, Edmonds College

has a MEd in Higher Education Leadership from Iowa State University, a BA Degree from Buena Vista University and an AA and AAS Degree in Electronics from IHCC. Greg is past President of the Iowa ACTE and IITEA and serves on the ACTE Region III Policy Committee and is a member of the ACTE IAED (Inclusion, Access, Equity, and Diversity) Advisory Group. He is a journeyman electrician with an FCC license and industry experience in semiconductor manufacturing. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Program

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Dylan John, Georgia Southern University; Yunfeng Chen, Georgia Southern University; Shahnam Navaee, Georgia Southern University; Weinan Gao, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

qualitative interviews with industrypractitioners’ and college students. The list of skill indicators were then validated with literaturereviews and grouped into 4 factors: Soft skills, Technical skills, and Experience and Managerialskills. The skills and groupings were presented for industry practitioner feedback at a researchsymposium prior to conducting the quantitative approach of this study. A survey was developedand tested with a pilot group of industry practitioners. The survey was improved in alignmentwith the feedback received during the pilot study and deployed for data collection. Eachidentified skill indicator was presented with a Likert scale, for industry feedback on theperceived importance in STEM related industries. The mean value was

Conference Session

FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pat Pyke; John Gardner; Marcia Belcheir; Janet Callahan; Amy Moll; Cheryl Schrader

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

(Any 2) Completed (Any 2) Completed (Any 2) Completed (Any 2) (Mechanical) (Materials Science) (Civil) (Electrical) Heat Transfer MSE Laboratory Engr. Properties of Signals & Systems Construction Materials Applied Mechanics Mech. Behavior of Transportation Engr. System Modeling of Materials Materials Fundamentals and Control Kinematics and Thermodynamics of Reinforced Concrete Microelectronic Machine Dynamics Materials Design Circuits

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Browder, Bristol Tennessee Essential Services; Andrew J. Czuchry, East Tennessee State University; April Eads

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

Ex- cellences’ Ned Ray McWherter Leadership Award. Under his leadership, BTES has been awarded the prestigious TNCPE Level 4 Excellence Award both in 1993 and 2012.Dr. Andrew J. Czuchry, East Tennessee State University Andrew Czuchry received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 1969 with a concentration in guidance and control systems engineering. He has more than twenty years experience as a professional manager in technical innovation and the electronics manufacturing industry. Dr. Czuchry has been the holder of the AFG Industries Chair of Excellence in Business and Technology since joining East Ten- nessee State University in 1992. He has published extensively in refereed journals and proceedings of

Conference Session

COED: Grading Systems

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos Rojas, San Jose State University; Gina M. Quan, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

ofengineering courses, the work by Schlemr and Vanasupa [5] is a prime example. Mastery gradingcan also be adapted to benefit hybrid courses [2]. In our work, we were inspired by previousstudy designs, but the implementation details were inspired by examples in Nilson [3].Course ContextIn Spring 2022, Rojas was the instructor of record for two sections of Software Engineering Iusing mastery grading (specifications grading). The sections had 83 students (34 and 49,respectively). The class was mostly Computer Engineers (CE) and Software Engineers (SE) withnon-majors making up 10% and 30% in each section. The course took place Tuesday andThursday for seventy-five minutes each session in the semester. This is one of the first upperdivision courses that

Conference Session

What Else do Environmental Engineers Need to Know

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Powers, Clarkson University; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Suresh Dhaniyala, Clarkson University; Mary Margaret Monica Small, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

b, d, i, k HW, project assess the effects of climate change processes on earth systems To enable students to understand the current global policies as related to HW, h, j climate change discussion To prepare students to present their work professionally g project *(a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering; (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data; (d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams; (e) an ability to identify

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akbar M. Eslami, Elizabeth City State University; Graham Harrison, EIT, Elizabeth City State University; Mark Vincent Long, Elizabeth City State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Paper ID #14808Real-Time Data Acquisition and Structural Health Monitoring SystemDr. Akbar M. Eslami, Elizabeth City State University Dr. Akbar Eslami is a professor and Engineering Technology coordinator in the Department of Tech- nology at Elizabeth City State University. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Old Dominion University. His research interests are in Computer Aided Manufacturing and Design, Reverse Engineering, Finite Element Analysis, and Data Acquisition.Mr. Graham Harrison, EIT, Elizabeth City State University Graham graduated from Elizabeth City State University with a Bachelor’s of

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Uma Kannan; Rajendran Swamidurai, Alabama State University

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

the need for developing skills inCybersecurity. Though many Universities offer a master’s degree in Cybersecurity, it isimpractical to fill this huge demand for Cybersecurity through only graduate degree holders.After careful analysis, it has become evident that there is a gap in the curriculum as it relates totraining for Cybersecurity concepts in foundational computing courses for students. To be morespecific, there is relatively less focus on the infusion of Cybersecurity concepts in undergraduatecomputing courses and its impact on classroom practices. This paper serves to address this gapby providing an experience in infusing, teaching, and assessing Cybersecurity modules in variousundergraduate computing courses that immerse students in

Conference Session

New Ideas

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Tebbe

has four governing goals which theseactivities seek to address:· encouragement and preparation of engineers entering the energy field· introduction of engineering students to energy issues and relationships· support the local energy/power industry· educate the pubic to increase energy awarenessThe activities are also selected with certain guiding principles. Namely that the scope of anyitem should be such that it violates the stealth approach and activities are cost free or self-funding. In addition, there is a strong desire to emphasize items that promote real worldinteraction and learning through personal experience. Page

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

experience at a major university, was hired on a five-year contract at an annualsalary exceeding that of the previous coach. After the worst record[3-8] in over 20 years in hisfirst year, his contract was extended an additional year. In the second year, the record wasimproved[9-3] and a bowl bid obtained. In spite of the severe financial crisis in higher educationand in the state, his salary was increased more than 50 percent and contract extended to 7 years.The administration stated that this was due to market conditions and the monies would comefrom the athletic department, not from state funding. This situation is not unique to WVU as thecoach’s salary package is still under 1 million dollars. This validates the perception thatsuccessful athletic

Conference Session

Big Picture Questions in BME

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexis Ortiz-Rosario, Ohio State University; Amena Shermadou, Ohio State University; David A. Delaine, Ohio State University; Tanya M. Nocera Ph.D., Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

State University (OSU), before joining the OSU BME Department as an Assistant Professor of Practice in 2014. Her roles include designing and teaching undergraduate BME laboratory courses, and mentoring multidisciplinary senior capstone teams on rehabilitation engineering and medical device design projects. She also leads K-12 engineering outreach events, and is pursuing scholarship in student technical communication skills and preparing BME students for careers in industry. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 To What Extent Does Gender and Ethnicity Impact Engineering Students’ Career Outcomes? An exploratory analysis comparing biomedical to three other undergraduate

Conference Session

Signal Processing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Wright; Thad Welch; Michael Morrow

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Using Inexpensive Hardware and Software Tools to Teach Software Defined Radio Abstract Signal processing topics such as software defined radio are more easily taught by using demonstra- tions and laboratory experiences that pique the students’ interest. This paper describes a new, inexpensive software defined radio educational platform based upon M ATLAB and the Texas Instruments C6713 dig- ital signal processing starter kit. We describe the various hardware and software issues and discuss how such a platform can be used in the classroom.1 INTRODUCTIONSoftware defined radio (SDR) is a topic that is becoming

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to ME Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jakob Bruhl, United States Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky; Elizabeth Bristow, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

for engineering. During the 2004 Duke study, onlytwo science or engineering courses used iPods and in both instances the iPods were used tocapture and/or playback audio for a laboratory experiment. At Bryn Mawr, iPods have beenused to record lectures and pre-lab information in science courses.To date, many of the uses of vodcasts, which include both sound and video, in higher educationsimply add an instructor’s face to what can be heard on a podcast. In many cases, a slide show isnarrated. Over half of the videos found on Merlot.org are lectures and range in length from 30-minutes to one hour. Some instructors17,18,19 have used video cameras and document cameras tocreate shorter (5 to 10 minutes) videos focused on specific topics or example

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 5

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Luthy, Wake Forest University; Jessica Koehler, Wake Forest University; William N. Crowe, Wake Forest University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #44411Enhancing Knowledge Surveys with an Intellectual Humility ScaleDr. Kyle Luthy, Wake Forest University Dr. Kyle Luthy is an Assistant Professor and founding faculty member in the Department of Engineering at Wake Forest University. Kyle has taught across the engineering curriculum and placed intentional focus on the virtue of humility. Kyle holds a Ph.D. and a MS in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University, as well as BS degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science from Louisiana State University. As an educator, he brings professional experience as an engineer

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Sara E. Wilson; Emma Grob-French; Patsy Maddy; Nancy Noyes

withoutexternal value, just assignments required by instructors that quickly fade once the semester iscompleted. Service learning provides an opportunity to create teamwork projects that haveexternal value. In this paper we will examine using a service-learning team project to promoteteamwork skills.CourseIntroduction to Computational Methods in Mechanical Engineering, ME 208, is a required first-year course for mechanical engineering majors at the University of Kansas. The course coversprogramming skills in MATLAB and C++ on the Arduino platform. The requirements of thecourse include an active-learning lecture within class exercises, weekly individual laboratories,weekly individual homework assignments, three exams, and two team projects. The

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Grimes; Caroline Baillie

objectivesand a detailed timetable so that before tutorials they would know what had been covered andits relationship to the remaining parts of the course. In addition, the new “Matter” softwarecrystallography module12 , which has been designed as a self help programme, was constantlyavailable in the computer laboratory. Tutors were introduced to the computer based teachingenvironment during the training weekend although their use of the facility was left openended. A separate evaluation will be carried out with a view to providing more guidance insubsequent years.The continuing evaluation of the peer tutoring scheme was carried out in three areas: studentperceptions by open ended questionnaires, peer tutors perceptions by focus group and

Conference Session

Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Cunningham; D. Joseph Mook

ten ERAUstudents have studied at EPF as of this writing, only three have followed through with thedouble diploma option. Of seventeen EPF students in the program, six have earned all threedegrees; to achieve that, students must complete a minimum of 33 undergraduate and 27graduate engineering credits taken at ERAU, on top of the five-year French EngineeringDiploma. A flow chart of the ERAU-EPF Double Diploma program is displayed in Figure 1.Accreditation concerns are addressed through course-by-course comparisons between thedouble degree participants. Professors from each institution cross the Atlantic to examine thecurricula, laboratories and design projects. EPF engineering and computer science(infomatique) department chairs spent a week at

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Crowley; Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle; Bruce Litchfield

among engineering undergraduate students, EEI aims to assist students tobegin consciously developing their emotional intelligence, and to be more fully prepared for theirprofessional and personal lives. One of our main goals is to help students to bring awareness oftheir own emotions to their life experiences, and to develop the skills to recognize and work withthe emotions of others.As current research on emotional intelligence (EI) has demonstrated, EI is a significant indicatorof personal and professional success. Further, both industry and academia recognize that the bestengineering students will have well-developed inter- and intrapersonal skills in addition to theirtechnical skills. This paper provides a brief outline of the concept of

Conference Session

Engaging Upper Level Classes

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch

Educationlearning. If a professor desires to conduct in-class small group exercises, an auditorium probablyis not the best choice. Either individual student desks or large tables with multiple chairs may bemore suitable. The equipment in the room to include the amount of black board space,projection systems, etc. may limit how course material is presented. Is the classroom close to alaboratory or is there classroom space in the laboratory if experiments are part of the lessonobjectives? Is there space in the classroom for large models or demonstrations? Is the coursecovering design or is it a seminar?33 All of these (and many more) issues affect the learningenvironment for the course. Do not forget things like climate control, external noise or built

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

currently serving on the following National Academies panels: Survivability and Lethality Analysis, Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Au- tonomous Systems. Dr. Rodriguez received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990.Ms. Anita Grierson, Arizona State University Anita Grierson is the Director of the METS Center in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She guides the activities of the METS Center and oversees its staff of engineering Page 23.1052.1 transfer students. Ms. Grierson has over twelve years corporate experience in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Denise H. Bauer, Methodist University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #30706Work in Progress: Integrating Writing throughout the EngineeringCurriculumDr. Denise H Bauer, Methodist University Dr. Denise H. Bauer is an Associate Professor, Chair, and founding Director of the Department of Engi- neering at Methodist University. Dr. Bauer has worked on several initiatives to increase enrollment and retention of underrepresented groups including development of first-year engineering courses for students under-prepared for college-level math. Her main research area is Human Factors and Ergonomics, which she uses to help design classroom environments considering both student and instructor

Conference Session

New Course Development Concepts in ET I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Michael Lobaugh, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

two-dimensional problems with a variety ofboundary conditions using a simple spreadsheet.This paper presents information on how this method is used at Penn State Erie, TheBehrend College in a first course in heat transfer for MET students. The method is usedto aid in presenting the theory, as well as for a laboratory exercise. The basic equationsfor a variety of node types are included, as well as equation modifications that are used toaccount for several thermal loading and boundary conditions. The lectures are reinforcedwith homework practice problems before the more involved lab exercise. Finally, the labexercise is included. The exercise is designed to give the students practice using themethod.Introduction:The first course in heat

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins; Ambrose Barry; Nan Byars

this class for the first time. All sections of thecourse were team taught by two faculty members, one with a mechanical background, the otherelectrical. Both had prior experience teaching freshmen at other institutions, and were chosenbased on their positive record of teaching and mentoring students. Retention of new students inthe program was an additional goal with the choice of these faculty members.The Initial SurveyDuring the first class meeting of ETGR 1100, Engineering Technology Computer Applications,students were given an informal survey. They were asked to rank their level of proficiency invarious computer applications on a scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being the most proficient. Thepurpose of the survey was to determine the

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Wild; Constance Holden; Karen Horton

Service Learning in the U. S. Virgin Islands National Park: A Virtual Preservation Project Karen J. Horton, Constance Holden, Ken Wild University of Maine/National Park ServiceAbstractIn the spring term of 2004 twelve students and two faculty members at the University of Maine(UM) participated in a service learning project for the U. S. Virgin Islands National Park (thePark) on St. John. The Park archeologist sought to virtually preserve decaying sugar plantationbuildings using three dimensional computer-aided design (3D CAD) models with photographicskins. The challenges included fast turn-around time, student project management, andunforeseen technical